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** The very first Superman story, in ''Action Comics #1'', featured this, as Superman had to deliver exonerating evidence to a state governor before an innocent prisoner was executed.
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* ''Literature/TheDarkTower2004'': Before laying siege to Algul Siento, Roland and his ka-tet are informed by the very thing the psychics who live there are trying to break that they've almost succeeded, anywhere between three days and a week at the most, and once it breaks, that's it for all existence.
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* R&B singer Avant sings about how he has "[[https://youtu.be/k-CPWyZCuMg?si=PC7w-tXRkttittZu 4 Minutes]]" to patch things up with the lead woman. Unfortunately, he didn't make it on time.
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* ''Literature/TheGoldenHamsterSaga'': In ''Freddy's Final Quest'', the protagonists are sent back in time to twelfth-century Assyria by Signor Goldoni in order to collect some of his ancestor's genetic material so he can [[FindTheCure cure his son's genetic blood disease]]. They are accompanied by the robotic hamster Tjark, who has a time machine built into him. His batteries only last 48 hours, so the protagonists need to finish their mission in that amount of time or they'll be stuck in the Middle Ages forever. In practice their time limit ends up being closer to one day because Tjark is forced to burn hours' worth of energy traveling and breaking his fall from a table, and because Tjark expends more energy under stress like any other animal. They finally complete their mission and make it back to the present with less than a second to spare.
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* The central gimmick of the old novel series ''Race Against Time'', although the actual reason for the title is a bit lame: a kid and his retired super spy-ish uncle are [[OneLastJob called to help some old friend of the uncle's]] who's gotten in trouble, and they have to solve the mystery/defeat the villain and then get home again before the kid's parents get home from a business trip and find out what they've been up to.
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* The central gimmick of the old novel series ''Race Against Time'', ''Literature/RaceAgainstTime'', although the actual reason for the title is a bit lame: a kid and his retired super spy-ish uncle are [[OneLastJob called to help some old friend of the uncle's]] who's gotten in trouble, and they have to solve the mystery/defeat the villain and then get home again before the kid's parents get home from a business trip and find out what they've been up to.
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** ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'' has a race against distance, in which the protagonists much reach a certain speed before their train topples off of a bridge.
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** ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'' has a race against distance, in which the protagonists much reach a certain speed before their train topples off of into a bridge.ravine.
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* In ''Manga/OtoXMaho'', Kanata imposes a race against the clock on HIMSELF, transforming to start fighting, then telling the student council president on the other side of the door to the roof to count to 10, then open the door. If he does not kill the enemy in 10 seconds, then transform back to his normal form, his job as a [[MagicalGirl Magical]] [[GenderBender Girl]] will be exposed.
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* ''Literature/OtoXMaho'': Kanata imposes a race against the clock on ''himself'', transforming to start fighting, then telling the student council president on the other side of the door to the roof to count to 10, then open the door. If he does not kill the enemy in ten seconds, then transform back to his normal form, his job as a MagicalGirl will be exposed.
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* In the Creator/HannaBarbera Superstars 10 movie ''WesternAnimation/TopCat and the Beverly Hills Cats'', Benny must wait for 48 hours before he can inherit a fortune. Should anything happen to him during that time, the evil butler and his dog would get it. Subverted in that the urgency doesn't start until 24 hours have passed.
** [[spoiler:Also that the original heiress returned and the benefactress [[FakingTheDead faked her death]] to trick the butler into revealing his true colors]].
** [[spoiler:Also that the original heiress returned and the benefactress [[FakingTheDead faked her death]] to trick the butler into revealing his true colors]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TopCatAndTheBeverlyHillsCats'': At the Creator/HannaBarbera Superstars 10 movie ''WesternAnimation/TopCat and the Beverly Hills Cats'', will reading, Benny learns he must wait for 48 hours before he can inherit a fortune. Should anything happen to him during that time, the evil butler and his dog would get it. Subverted in that the urgency doesn't start until 24 hours have passed.
**passed and Snerdly sets a plan into motion that nearly works. [[spoiler:Also subverted in that the original heiress returned and the benefactress [[FakingTheDead faked her death]] to trick the butler into revealing his true colors]].
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* In ''Film/TheHotChick'', Jessica stole a pair of earrings, misplaced one of them and ended up switching bodies with a man named Clive. Jessica was informed that if doesn’t find the missing earring before the full moon ended, then she would be permanently stuck in Clive’s body.
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* In ''Film/TheHotChick'', Jessica stole a pair of earrings, misplaced one of them and ended up switching bodies with a man named Clive. Jessica was informed that if she doesn’t find the missing earring before the full moon ended, then she would be permanently stuck in Clive’s body.
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* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'': In the episode "[[Recap/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteersS1E26HeatWave Heat Wave]]", [[MadScientist Dr. Blight]] sets up a small-scale greenhouse effect over Hope Island, where the Planeteers live in between their missions. Due to {{synchronization}}, as the greenhouse effect starts destroying the island, [[MotherNature Gaia]] gets increasingly sick and weak. Hence, the Planeteers must stop Blight and find a way to help Gaia before the air pollution kills her.
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** The ''Series/{{Pyramid}}'' series. 30 seconds to describe items in a subject with the winner getting 60 seconds to name six subjects.
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* ''Film/TheSwap'': After Ellie's mom assigns her a new phone, both she and Jack have until 12:00 noon on the day of Ellie's gymnastics show and Jack's hockey tournament to swap back their bodies before Ellie's old phone aka her totem loses its service, and the swap will become permanent.
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*** Before that, the entire Prison Island arc is centered around this. TheCaper only has 30 minutes to be pulled off to get three Chaos Emeralds in G.U.N.'s possession. When Tails and Amy unwittingly interfere, Eggman orders Shadow to set the timers on the bombs to 15 minutes with Rouge deciding that 5 minutes is enough time to find the Emeralds and escape from the Security Bed. Shadow has 10 minutes to race through White Jungle and Sonic, when he learns of the bombs, has eight minutes to escape.
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* In ''Anime/SonicTheHedgehogTheMovie'', the first half of the movie deals with Sonic and Tails racing to Eggman Land/Robotropolis to stop its core from exploding, which is on an ExactTimeToFailure timer. [[spoiler:Unbeknown to them, it's actually a trap for Hyper Metal Sonic to copy Sonic's life force data]].
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* In ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', Ross gives Tony 36 hours to bring in Cap.
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* A common plot element in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
** In ''Film/IronMan1'', Tony has a week to build a Jericho missile for the Ten Rings. He uses it instead to build his Mark 1 armor.
** In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', Cap and his allies have minutes in which to sabotage the Project Insight helicarriers before they reach operational altitude and begin their mission for HYDRA.
** In ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', Ross gives Tony 36 hours to bring in Cap, Falcon, and Barnes.
** In ''Film/IronMan1'', Tony has a week to build a Jericho missile for the Ten Rings. He uses it instead to build his Mark 1 armor.
** In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', Cap and his allies have minutes in which to sabotage the Project Insight helicarriers before they reach operational altitude and begin their mission for HYDRA.
** In ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', Ross gives Tony 36 hours to bring in Cap, Falcon, and Barnes.
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* ''Literature/NaughtyNineTalesOfChristmasCrime'': In "Special Delivery," Bass has to pick up a truckload of toys five hundred miles away and make it back to River City by ten a.m. Christmas morning, a task which he succeeds at despite the delay of a hijacking attempt.
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*In the ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' episode "Will Work For Ed," Rolf (as Ed's MeanBoss) demanded that Ed peel a shed full of potatoes in an hour while promising termination should Ed not peel the potatoes on time.
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* ''VideoGame/DisneysPocahontas'': In Stage 4, the player must race against the clock to reach John Smith before the sunrise (represented by a sun slowly rising above the horizon on the top of the screen). In terms of the actual amount of time, you have a little over five minutes; the sun will start blazing (with the rays and outermost part animating) with about 15 seconds to go. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] because in the film, Chief Powhatan sentences John Smith to die at sunrise following Kocoum's death, and Ratcliffe rallied the rest of the men to attack the village in retaliation, playing on their willingness to rescue John Smith. This also sets up a NonStandardGameOver: if you don't make it, Pocahontas's village gets burned down.
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* ''Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'': After Edmund has sneaked out of the Beavers' house to betray them to the White Witch, everybody else realises that they must hurry to get away before the Witch comes to find them. Mrs Beaver seems in no particular hurry, and packs slowly and methodically, to the frustration of everybody else. She even lightly berates them for it later when they are camping in an uncomfortable place, telling them that if they hadn't fussed so much, she would have brought some pillows. Later, it is a race between the Beavers' party and the White Witch to reach the Stone Table first. As the snow melts, the Beavers have an advantage, as they are walking, and the Witch is on a sledge.
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* In ''Literature/TheSilverChair'', when the Green Lady lures the trio to Harfang, she tells them that they close their doors a few hours after noon and open to none. This makes them hurry there all the more, and completely distracts them from their original mission set by Aslan.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'': In "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS2E6TheCommodeEpisodeTyingTheKlopKnot Tying the Klop-Knot]]", Bunny and Cecil's marriage is nullified. Squidina takes it upon herself to marry them again, lest Cecil return to his bachelor lifestyle and Bunny be taken back to Klopnod. She has to complete the wedding and all of its traditions before sundown.
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*** Subverted in ''The Last Olympian'': [[spoiler:the final battle does go down on Percy's DangerousSixteenthBirthday, as per the prophecy, but that's fate itself at work.]]
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*** Subverted in ''The Last Olympian'': [[spoiler:the final battle does go down on Percy's DangerousSixteenthBirthday, Dangerous16thBirthday, as per the prophecy, but that's fate itself at work.]]
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** In "Catch the Babies", Dora and her family have to catch the twins before they along with their baby carriage roles into the gooey geyser.
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** In "Catch the Babies", Dora and her family have to catch the twins before they along with riding in their baby carriage roles before they roll into the gooey geyser.Gooey Geyser.
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-->'''Michael:''' ''(being blamed for an obscene watermark on a paper order; making a video)'' If I could leave you with one thought, remember... it wasn't me. They're trying to make me an [[{{Malaproper}} escape goat]]. If I am fired, I swear to God, that every single piece of copier paper in this town is going to have [[PrecisionFStrike the F-word]] on it. The F-word. You have one day.\\
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-->'''Michael:''' ''(being blamed for an obscene watermark on a paper order; making a video)'' If I could leave you with one thought, remember... it wasn't me. They're trying to make me an [[{{Malaproper}} escape goat]]. If I am fired, I swear to God, that every single piece of copier paper in this town is going to have [[PrecisionFStrike the F-word]] F-word on it. The F-word. You have one day.\\
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* In ''VideoGame/ShaunWhiteSkateboarding'', the final missions are timed for 5 minutes to stop the Ministry before its propaganda signals flood the city.
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* ''Anime/ChildOfKamiariMonth'': Kanna and her friends ''have'' to collect all the offerings from across Japan and deliver them to Izumo-taisha Shrine before 7:00 PM or disaster -- revealed to be a massive hurricane -- will strike Japan.
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* In ''Film/TheFifthElement'', they had 48 hours before the BigBad could attack. Zorg also gives such an ultimatum to one of his underlings, and the President is even stricter, often stating a firm "You have ''twenty seconds'' to" explain/complete/whatever it is he's telling you to do.
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* In ''Film/TheFifthElement'', they had ''Film/TheFifthElement'': The main characters have 48 hours before the BigBad could attack.Great Evil clashes against the Earth. Zorg also gives such an ultimatum to one of his underlings, and the President is even stricter, often stating a firm "You have ''twenty seconds'' to" explain/complete/whatever it is he's telling you to do.
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* Similarly from the Nintendo stable is ''VideoGame/WarioLand4''. EVERY level has you rescue a key ghost, and once you trigger its freedom there's a bomb threatening to blow up the stage your in, forcing Wario to run back to the level entrance (In a RemixedLevel style) before it blows.
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* This is how YouTube is like when it comes to getting your channel monetized. A user has 12 months to obtain 1000 subscribers and 4000 watch hours with the risk of starting all over (either partially or entirely, depending on the amount of hours you rack up).
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** In [[WesternAnimation/HeyArnoldTheMovie the movie]], Arnold and Gerald have two days (48 hours) to stop the evil land developer [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Scheck]], who seeks [[EvilIsPetty to avenge his ancestors who suffered a humiliating defeat in the Revolutionary War]], from demolishing their neighborhood and putting up a shopping mall in its place.
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** In [[WesternAnimation/HeyArnoldTheMovie the movie]], Arnold and Gerald have two days (48 hours) to stop the evil land developer [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Scheck]], who seeks [[EvilIsPetty to avenge his ancestors who suffered a humiliating defeat in the Revolutionary War]], from demolishing their neighborhood and putting up a shopping mall in its place. Technically they originally had a month's worth of time at the very start of the movie, but by the time they hit on the [[LandmarkDeclarationGambit final and best chance]] they have, the timer's decreased to this point.
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** In the Enies Lobby Arc, Spandam accidentally triggers the Buster Call, an all-out bombardment by a fleet of giant warships on whatever location it's activated from, leaving no survivors. Since Enies Lobby is so close to the Marines' headquarters, they can arrive there in only half an hour, giving the Straw Hats that much time to defeat the remaining [=CP9=] agents, rescue Robin, and escape the island.
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** In the final act of the Dressrosa arc, [[spoiler:Doflamingo causes the Birdcage he has set over the country to shrink, leaving Luffy only one hour to kick his ass, or else the entire country will be slaughtered.]]
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** In the final act of the Dressrosa arc, Arc, [[spoiler:Doflamingo causes the Birdcage he has set over the country to shrink, leaving Luffy only one hour to kick his ass, or else the entire country will be slaughtered.]]]]
** In the climactic battle of the Wano Arc, Kaido uses his dragon powers to create clouds that lift up Onigashima and begin carrying it to Flower Capital, at which point he will drop the island onto the city, killing countless thousands of innocent civilians. This means Luffy has until the island reaches the capital to defeat Kaido, although Momo is able to extend this time by using his own dragon powers to pull on Kaido's clouds to keep the island from floating forward any further. Inversely, when Kaido is defeated, the clouds he generated will dissipate, which will also drop Onigashima, but far more violently, meaning Momo only has until Luffy defeats Kaido [[HowDoIShotWeb to learn how to generate his own clouds]] to replace them.
** In the climactic battle of the Wano Arc, Kaido uses his dragon powers to create clouds that lift up Onigashima and begin carrying it to Flower Capital, at which point he will drop the island onto the city, killing countless thousands of innocent civilians. This means Luffy has until the island reaches the capital to defeat Kaido, although Momo is able to extend this time by using his own dragon powers to pull on Kaido's clouds to keep the island from floating forward any further. Inversely, when Kaido is defeated, the clouds he generated will dissipate, which will also drop Onigashima, but far more violently, meaning Momo only has until Luffy defeats Kaido [[HowDoIShotWeb to learn how to generate his own clouds]] to replace them.
