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* ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' is subject to this despite its rock-steady update schedule: the first story part was posted on June 11th, 2011, covering story events of April 8th, 2011; Chapter 16.7, posted on December 15th, 2012, covers the morning of June 19th.
* The plot of the ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' series takes place over 2 years in-universe; George R.R. Martin has been working on it for almost 25 years by now; with ever increasing pauses between individual installments.
* The ''Literature/AlexRider'' series currently spans 11 books, released over a period of 20 years, but the entire series chronologically takes place over a period of just over 18 months. The year the series is set in seems to update itself with each new book, which creates its fair share of continuity problems; the eponymous Stormbreaker computer of the first book isn't that impressive by current standards despite being meant to be cutting-edge technology, and is eclipsed by the [=iPhones=] that appear in later books set less than a year later.

* The ''Literature/YoungWizards'' series covers about four years of time over the ten books released over 33 years. While the series avoids actual dates and real-life events for the most part, technology changes significantly from the magic being conveyed via books to being used via a cutting edge Apple [=IIe=] clone to spells being stored in [=iPods=].

* ''Series/TeenWolf'' ran for seven years, ending with Scott's graduation, but he was already a high school student in the beginning. It took a few seasons to cover a year of school.

* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', The Fourth Shinobi World War takes about two years in real time and almost a hundred episodes, by far the longest arc of them all. The whole thing was a couple days long.

* ''Manga/{{Akagi}}'' has spent ''over a decade'' (200+ chapters) on the events of a mahjong game that's supposed to have taken place in the span of a ''single night''.

* In ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'', the raid on the Shie Hassaikai during the Internship arc took an hour and fifteen minutes in-universe, but lasted over the course of about 22 chapters; a few months in real-time.

* ''Roleplay/PuellaMagiAdfligoSystema'' began in 2014, taking place at the start of April 2011. As of 2020, it is not yet May. This is something of an occupational hazard for ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''-based stories, as the show's canon events happen over the course of a single month (between Homura's arrival and Walpurgisnacht's arrival), locking most fanworks into a fairly narrow band of time.

* Similarly, in ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'', the [[ThoseWackyNazis Millennium]] invasion of London and the following [[MeleeATrois battle]] between Hellsing, Iscariot, and Millennium lasts from chapter 35 until the deaths of the Major and the Doktor in chapter 94 -and it all takes place during ''a single night''.

* ''VideoGame/EnsembleStars'' has been running and putting out four stories per month since 2015, but almost all stories are set within the same school year, because if the game moved on it'd mess with the complex web of characters and relationships already set up, sending away all of the third years (the most plot-relevant and usually most popular characters) and requiring a whole new year of first-year students.

This doesn't (necessarily) apply to stories that are set outside of the present day, except for cases where it does, such as if an in-universe character decides to [[LampshadeHanging hang a lampshade]] on the relation to real time. This can overlap with ExtremelyShortTimeSpan, except in this case, the time passed seems much, much longer.

This doesn't (necessarily) apply to stories that are set outside of the present day, except for cases where it does, such as if an in-universe character decides to [[LampshadeHanging hang a lampshade]] on the relation to real time.

* The ''Literature/AlexRider'' series currently spans 10 books, released over a period of 17 years, but the entire series chronologically takes place over a period of just over 18 months. The year the series is set in seems to update itself with each new book, which creates its fair share of continuity problems; the eponymous Stormbreaker computer of the first book isn't that impressive by current standards despite being meant to be cutting-edge technology, and is eclipsed by the [=iPhones=] that appear in later books set less than a year later.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': The way the series airs roughly matches the time progression in the show. For example, Steven begins the series at age 12 and "Steven's Birthday", which premiered a little over two years later, has him turn 14. However, the show rarely has [[ItsAlwaysSpring episodes occur during winter]], and forty episodes (from "Catch and Release" in the middle of season two to "Onion Gang" near the middle of season four) take place over the course of two months. "Reunited" is apparently set eight months after "The Answer", which aired two-and-a-half years earlier. ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseTheMovie'' [[TimeSkip skips forward]] to when Steven is sixteen, and along with ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'' seems to cover about a year. By the end, the show covers around four years in a little over six years real time.

* Most fanfictions, if you think about it, are like this. Most of the stories take place over the span of a few days to a few months at most. With many of these stories, especially long ones, it takes the author over a year to fully complete it.

* The first three seasons of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' are heavily implied to take place over the course of a single year, which were about three years in real time.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' was on-air for about four years and takes place over the course of about two: the first two seasons take place during a single school year, "Battle for Mewni" takes place during the summer, the remainder of season three goes into spring, and the final season ends sometime during a second summer.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': The way the series airs roughly matches the time progression in the show. For example, Steven begins the series at age 12 and "Steven's Birthday", which premiered a little over two years later, has him turn 14. However, the show rarely has [[ItsAlwaysSpring episodes occur during winter]], and forty episodes (from "Catch and Release" in the middle of season two to "Onion Gang" near the middle of season four) take place over the course of two months. "Reunited" is apparently set eight months after "The Answer", which aired two-and-a-half years earlier. ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseTheMovie'' [[TimeSkip skips forward]] to when Steven is sixteen, and along with ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'' seems to cover about half a year. By the end, the show covers around four years in a little over six years real time.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': The way the series airs roughly matches the time progression in the show. For example, Steven begins the series at age 12 and "Steven's Birthday", which premiered a little over two years later, has him turn 14. However, the show rarely has [[ItsAlwaysSpring episodes occur during winter]], and forty episodes (from "Catch and Release" in the middle of season two to "Onion Gang" near the middle of season four) take place over the course of two months. "Reunited" is apparently set eight months after "The Answer", which aired two-and-a-half years earlier. ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseTheMovie'' [[TimeSkip skips forward two years]], so by the show's sixth anniversary, four years have passed. In an aversion, the movie and ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'' both air over and are set over about six months.

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* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': The way the series airs roughly matches the time progression in the show. For example, Steven begins the series at age 12 and "Steven's Birthday", which premiered a little over two years later, has him turn 14. However, the show rarely has [[ItsAlwaysSpring episodes occur during winter]], and forty episodes (from "Catch and Release" in the middle of season two to "Onion Gang" near the middle of season four) take place over the course of two months. "Reunited" is apparently set eight months after "The Answer", which aired two-and-a-half years earlier. ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseTheMovie'' [[TimeSkip skips forward two years]], so by the show's sixth anniversary, four years have passed. ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'' [[InvertedTrope accelerates things further]], covering an in-universe year in four months of air time.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': The way the series airs roughly matches the time progression in the show. For example, Steven begins the series at age 12 and "Steven's Birthday", which premiered a little over two years later, has him turn 14. However, the show rarely has [[ItsAlwaysSpring episodes occur during winter]], and forty episodes (from "Catch and Release" in the middle of season two to "Onion Gang" near the middle of season four) take place over the course of two months. "Reunited" is apparently set eight months after "The Answer", which aired two-and-a-half years earlier. ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseTheMovie'' [[TimeSkip skips forward two years]], so by the show's sixth anniversary, four years have passed. ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'' [[InvertedTrope accelerates things further]], with an in-universe year passing in just ten episodes (which all aired in the same month).

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': The way the series airs roughly matches the time progression in the show. For example, Steven begins the series at age 12 and "Steven's Birthday", which premiered a little over two years later, has him turn 14. However, the show rarely has [[ItsAlwaysSpring episodes occur during winter]], and forty episodes (from "Catch and Release" in the middle of season two to "Onion Gang" near the middle of season four) take place over the course of two months. "Reunited" is apparently set eight months after "The Answer", which aired two-and-a-half years earlier. ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseTheMovie'' [[TimeSkip skips forward two years]], so by the show's sixth anniversary, four years have passed.

Over time, this slippage can add up to years; topical references early on may become incredibly dated later, even if it was supposed to take place on the same day. This especially affects TwoGamersOnACouch series, since technological progress can quickly make references to new consoles and top-of-the-line gaming machines obsolete. If ExponentialPlotDelay gets involved, things can get really bad. Though remember, TropesAreNotBad as this can sometimes benefit the story.

In yet another example of TropesAreNotBad, Webcomic Time really isn't a problem, just a fun little thing to [[LampshadeHanging hang that lampshade on]].

* ''Series/HolbyCity'' appears to take place over the course of a single day, but in RealTime it would take a week to shoot the scenes for location filming. However, it's murky about what timescale the show follows, yet ComicBookTime ''does not'' apply here.