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* The [[FramingDevice modern day story]] of the first five ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreed'' games take place from September 2nd to [[MayanDoomsday December 21st, 2012]], but the games themselves were released over the course of five years between 2007 and 2012. After ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'', however, the story of the games begins progressing in real-time.

* ''Machinima/SmashKing'' started in 2008 not long after ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros.Brawl'' was released. In that time it's managed to cover about a month worth of content including a 25ish day time skip.

* 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.

* ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' came out in 1985, and its two sequels followed in 1989 and 1990. Since they are {{Immediate Sequel}}s, 1985 remains the present year in-universe. Incidentally, Marty is supposed to be 17 throughout the whole trilogy while Creator/MichaelJFox aged from 23 to 28 in real life.

* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' typically sets its major story arcs in the span of a year, while the first two stories, "Observer of the Timeless Temple" and "Epic of Remnant", were mostly able to avert any noticeable instance of it, the third story, 'Cosmos in the Lostbelt', took four years to reach the one-year mark in-universe.

* 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 Battle City arc in ''Anime/YuGiOh'' lasts 88 episodes (covering nearly all of seasons 2 and 3). Said arc encompasses the in-universe Battle City Tournament, which lasts a grand total of ''less than 72 hours'' from Kaiba's announcement on the evening before the the tournament's kickoff to the tournament contestants parting ways on the evening of Day 3. Even more extreme: within this arc, Day 2 of the Battle City tournament, which encompasses about 16 hours of onscreen in-universe time (starting with the first duels of the day to the characters going to bed that night on the Duel Disk Blimp) lasts 35 episodes and is packed with a back-to-back conga line of kidnapping, brainwashing, repeated attempted murder, near-drowning, fisticuffs, dinner, partying, scheming, extensive flashbacks and exposition, death matches, getting struck by lightning, nervous breakdowns and transformations, torture and mindrape, ghost apparitions, personal drama, and soul-stealing. Fans understandably nickname Day 2 of the Battle City tournament "The Day That Wouldn't End." Within this arc, there is also a 23-episode FillerArc at the beginning of Day 3 of the tournament that spans ''less than a single morning'' (the characters were trapped in virtual reality, making their perception of the passage of time not exactly in line with real time).

* 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. The Paranormal Liberation War arc also took about a year in real time to cover the events of a single day in-universe.

** While Act 1 and Act 2 of Wano Country Arc averted this with events of 3 weeks covered in more than a year, Act 3 plays this completely straight with events of one night taking nearly ''three years'' to complete, greater than than example of Dressrosa above.

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' employs ComicBookTime, but skirts with this trope every once in a while, via LampshadeHanging. For example, in 2019's ''Stan and Francine and Connie and Ted'', Barry mention events in 2006's ''With Friends Like Steve's'' as happening only months ago InUniverse, even though it "seems like" they may have happened ''years'' ago. Steve is confused that he would even make the distinction.

* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' typically sets its major story arcs in the span of a year, while the first two stories Observer of the Timeless Temple and Epic of Remanent were mostly able to avert any noticeable instance of it, the third story, Cosmos in the Lostbelt took four years to reach the one-year mark in universe.

* After each StoryArc, explicitly skipping forward over "boring" periods of time.

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* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':

** The entire story in general is subject to both WebcomicTime and ComicBookTime. It can be gathered that the Straw Hats spent less than 6 months together before the Timeskip despite about 13 years worth of publication at that point. However, even with the logical assumption that at least a few months must have passed, ComicBookTime takes over as they don't age in the slightest until the 2 year timeskip.

* The first 76 comics of ''Webcomic/TheWordWeary'' take place over the course of one day even though they took six months to update.

* VideoGame/FateGrandOrder typically sets its major story arcs in the span of a year, while the first two stories Observer of the Timeless Temple and Epic of Remanent were mostly able to avert any noticeable instance of it, the third story, Cosmos in the Lostbelt took four years to reach the one-year mark in universe.

* The first three seasons of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' all take place within the same school year, while they aired from 2013 to 2016.

* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' took several months to get through the Namek arc, which canonically only takes three days. Of course this is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]].

* ''Manga/ShonanJunaiGumi'' ran from 1990 to 1996, but takes place over about two years (1991 to 1993, going by the characters' canon birth dates). The sequel ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'' ran from 1997 to 2002, but covers less than one year in-universe. And then the {{Interquel}} ''GTO: 14 Days in Shonan'' supposedly takes place in 1998, but [[PresentDayPast has pop-culture trends more like those of the late 2000s-early 2010s]], when it was published. The sequel ''GTO: Paradise Lost'', despite taking place only one year after the original manga, is set in a world where social media and smartphones are the norm.

* The [[FramingDevice modern day story]] of the first five ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreed'' games take place from September 2, 2012 to [[MayanDoomsday December 21, 2012]], but the games themselves were released over the course of five years between 2007 and 2012. After ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'', however, the story of the games begins progressing in real-time.

* ''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. With the release of Ensemble Stars!!, this is no longer be the case as the entire cased aged by one year and moved on to Ensemble Square.
* ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' was released in 2004, whilst it's two episodic continuations were released in 2006 and 2007, but the in-universe time scale is much smaller than that. Whilst 3 years might have passed between the releases of the original game and Half-Life 2: Episode 2, only a matter of weeks, at most, passed between the beginning of the original title and the ending scenes of the second continuation.
* ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' from [[VideoGame/StreetFighterI the first game]] to [[VideoGame/StreetFighterIII the third]] were set in the year they were released, but with ''SFIII'' intended as the GrandFinale for the series, this necessitated {{Interquel}}s to keep the series going afterwards; by the release of ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'' the series has been going on for about thirty years, but their events are all set within eleven, from 1987 to 1998.

* Each season of ''Series/TwentyFour'', [[RunningTimeInTheTitle true to its name]], takes place over a single 24-hour period, aired over a span of 22 weeks. The series as a whole avoids this trope by having {{Time Skip}}s between seasons which are longer than the RealLife gaps; the first eight seasons took place over a course of 14 years.

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, Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad as this can sometimes benefit the story.

* The second season of ''Series/Farscape'' accidentally suffers from this. Most episodes are standalone enough that you could fit large gaps between them - but if you put statements made by several characters together, you're forced to conclude that everything from episode 3 until the following season's opener takes place in less than four months. This also implies that there is about an eight-month gap between episodes 1 and 2.