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* ''Fanfic/ForLoveOfMagic'': Harry's eventual plan for dealing with Voldemort is to force feed him Draught of Living Death then sealing him in a stone coffin where time passes one hundred times slower, figuring that even if they never found Voldemort's horcruxes, by the time he woke, they'd be long dead. [[spoiler:In the epilogue, Harry awakens him after six hundred years and while showing Voldemort the magic of destiny binding them together, Voldemort tries to destroy the bond, ripping everyone present out of the universe]].

* In "Literature/StarTrekExpandedUniverse novel The Buried Age, a group of aliens are trapped for over 250 million years in various structures around the galaxy but only a matter of minutes have passed for them since they got trapped inside.

* The Other Side (another dimension that ''appears'' to be the afterlife, accessed from a portal at the bottom of the Clyde) in the ''Literature/PastDoctorAdventures'' novel ''Empire of Death''. When Lt explores it in a diving suit, the soldiers running the airpump think he's been down for most of a day, but when they pull him up, he protests that he only made it through the rift for a moment. [[spoiler: The real James Lees]] has been there for ''years'', but for him it's only been a few days.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': {{Fairyland}} in ''Discworld/TheWeeFreeMen''; when Roland meets Tiffany he thinks he's only been there for a few days, but then worries that it's actually been a hundred years. When Tiff reassures him that it's only been a couple of years, he thinks that's ''worse'': "If it was a hundred years, my father wouldn't thrash me when I got home!"

* Similarly, being put under anesthesia can have the same effect. The time between being knocked out and waking up after it's all over feels like a split second, but anywhere from 30 minutes to several hours could have passed, depending on the specific surgery.

* During 5th Edition of ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', the [[MechanicalLifeform Necron]] [[MagicFromTechnology Cryptek]] Orikan the Diviner carried a Temporal Snare, a rare device of the [[TimeMaster Chronomancy school]] capable of warping space-time to trap the enemy in a bubble of slow-time. In-game terms this forced the entire opposition army to move at a far slower rate in their first turn. The device hasn't been mentioned in any subsequent editions however.

* ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'': As the page quote shows, Dr. Kleiner and his team developed a teleporter, but it seems to lag so significantly that its users ended up reappearing over a week later.

* ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'': Adam and Barbara don't realize they're dead yet when he goes to retrace their steps and walks out of the house - where he finds himself in a frightening alien landscape for a few seconds before Barbara yanks him back inside, claiming he'd been gone for two hours.

* ''In Film/TimeTrap'', the protags think it is a day outside, second inside, [[spoiler: but it was really a year outside, second inside.]]

** In ''The Lightning Thief'', Percy, Annabeth and Grover enter the Lotus Hotel and Casino, and seem to spend only a few hours in there, but by the time they leave, six days have passed.

* ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'': Adam and Barbara don't realize they're dead yet when he goes to retrace their steps and walks out of the house - where he finds himself in a frightening alien landscape for a few seconds before Barbara yanks him back inside, claiming he'd been gone for three hours.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'' called in a form of this trope and [[PlayedForLaughs used it as a punchline]]. The two newly-emancipated characters wish to stay up all night, but accidentally unplug the wall clock during their shenanigans. When this is finally discovered, the step outside to see what time it is. What greets them is a {{Zeerust}} city that was definitely NOT there when they started. [[RuleOfFunny No magical or technological time dilation is mentioned.]]