Basic Trope: An adaptation of a work takes place over a different span of time than the original did.
- Straight: The novel Alice's Adventures takes place over the span of a few months. Alice's Adventures: the Movie takes place in a few days.
- Exaggerated: Alice's Adventures took place over the span of hundreds of years, while Alice's Adventures: the Movie has a timespan of a few hours.
- Downplayed: Alice's Adventures takes place in the span of about a month, but Alice's Adventures: the Movie takes place in the span of about two weeks.
- Justified: The characters had more resources to finish the conflict in a shorter amount of time (or, in cases where the timespan was longer, they didn't have these resources).
- Inverted: Not applicable; any change in the work's timespan across adaptations would count.
- Subverted: ???
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- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Alice's Adventures: the Movie takes place within the same timespan as the book it was based on.
- Enforced:
- Some events in the adaptation were either Adapted Out or added in, which would affect the timespan.
- It's a Pragmatic Adaptation, and the original timespan didn't make sense with this adaptation.
- Lampshaded: "You know, I thought this adventure was gonna take us a few months to complete!"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "I remember the original book taking place over the span of a few months, rather than a few days."
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