Basic Trope: In the event of catastrophe, emergency responders arrive very quickly.
- Straight: After Bob gets into a severe car crash, a rescue team arrive within 1 minute.
- Exaggerated: A rescue team teleports to the scene 50 milliseconds after Bob crashes his car.
- Downplayed: A passing ambulance is there when there is a car crash, others getting there take much more time.
- Justified:
- A rescue team happened to be close by and witnessed the crash.
- The rescue team is equipped with Teleporters and Transporters.
- Bob got into the tail end of a pileup, the rescue team was already en route due to an earlier call.
- The rescue team had been informed of the catastrophe before the part where they would be needed happened. (EG: aircraft on crash course reporting its estimated crash location)
- Inverted: It takes hours or days for a rescue team to arrive on spot.
- Subverted: Bob expects an immediate response, but the dispatcher sets an ETA of 15 minutes.
- Double Subverted: But the rescue teams still arrive in less than 1 minute.
- Parodied:
- Bob is in the most remote, isolated place imaginable, and rescue teams still arrive about 30 seconds after the crash.
- Bob steps on the grass when there's a "Don't step on the grass" sign, and suddenly a dozen police officers tackle him.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Bob gets into car crash in suburbs and the rescue team arrives in 4 minutes.
- Enforced: "The audience doesn't have time to sit around waiting. Lets have the rescue team arrive quickly."
- Lampshaded: A character counts down the seconds until the rescue team arrives.
- Invoked: Bob crashes his car just outside a fire station.
- Exploited: Bob is being pursued by a shadowy conspiracy, but the regular cops aren't in on it and so utilizes Calling the Cops on the FBI and their instant response time to cause confusion and let him escape.
- Defied: Ralph, the archenemy of Bob, attempts to sabotage the rescue team to prolong their arrival to accident scene as long as possible.
- Discussed: "Wow, you're already here, well I guess I'm lucky."
- Conversed: Bob crashes his car. Alice, having seen this, points out to Carol how in films, the emergency services will be there within one minute or so.
- Deconstructed: The emergency responders know exactly when a crash occurs because of all-pervasive Sinister Surveillance. The quick response is due to rescue being prioritised for funding at the expense of other areas and rescuers being given carte blanche to do whatever it takes to get to the scene ASAP.
- Reconstructed: The story is set 20 Minutes into the Future, where teleporters are commonplace.
Back to Instant Emergency Response before the cops- too late...
