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Janitor: Pulled out...

Both of these examples can be handwaved with "it took longer to each the bomb/the character was thinking" or "The fight scene started before the clock reached the last number shown", since in nearly all cases, there is no countdown or timer shown at all times during these scenes to keep track of when exactly certain scenes start.

... because it was really hard to parse.

Ununnilium: Really? Makes sense to me, and I didn't write it. `.`

Darmok: The page says "There have been times, in fact, when literally no time passes at all while the countdown's out of shot." Are there any examples of this?

Tanto: Futurama, The Why of Fry. A one-minute countdown takes like five minutes.

rutheni: It looks to me like there are two different tropes in the examples section: one is described in the beginning, that of timers not matching screen-time. The other refers to "last-minute stops" or similar dramatic tomfoolery. Since there doesn't have to be the kind of cutting-away that is integral to the first trope, I think this is a separate thing that goes under some kind of Rule Of Suspense concept.

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