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Merseyuser1 Since: Sep, 2011
#1: Aug 8th 2017 at 3:02:22 PM

I noticed this on The Tudors page:

  • Comic-Book Time: Season 1. The events in this season at a minimum cover the period from 1520-1530, including some events thay occurred before and after these years, but dates are never used and all adult characters avoid aging. This approach to time passing is likely to avoid the confusion of different storylines playing out of sync, and to avoid jarring time skips after almost every episode. Later seasons are much more centred around specific years.

I know the basics of Comic-Book Time are that it's about the illusion of time passing, but Canonical List of Subtle Trope Distinctions doesn't list the main differences between this trope, Webcomic Time and Frozen in Time.

What are the major differences between Comic-Book Time, Webcomic Time and Frozen in Time?

Also, can a setting (for example, New York in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, or even someone's Cool Car, like Walter White's Pontiac Aztek or Saul Goodman's Suzuki Esteem sedan have Comic-Book Time applied to it, or is it just for people?

Do Supergirl and The Flash 2014 use Comic-Book Time, or Webcomic Time or not? (this could be a trope for Arrowverse unless I'm wrong!)

How many works have both Comic-Book Time and Webcomic Time simultaneously, and as for Frozen in Time, isn't that an Omnipresent Trope in period dramas such as Outlander (although that's limited to 1945 and the 1700s, and is a Time Travel show).

I want to make sure that when these are on a work's page, people don't get confused by them.

edited 8th Aug '17 3:08:14 PM by Merseyuser1

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#2: Aug 8th 2017 at 3:22:48 PM

Weird. These three tropes were created on the same day in 2007. Probably a history-deletion error... But weird enough to mention. [EDIT: [down] I keep forgetting that happened.]

Frozen in Time is when the setting and everything needs to be in a particular era in order for the work to make sense or be accepted by audiences (e.g. having a slavery story set in present day America would have very different implications than having a slavery story set in the Antebellum South). That is, the era does not move forward at all; the story is set in one period of time and doesn't move forward. Comic-Book Time is when the setting starts in one era and moves forward like expected but the characters don't age. Webcomic Time is when the setting does not move forward like expected (and because of that the characters don't age).

edited 9th Aug '17 8:37:22 AM by WaterBlap

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#3: Aug 8th 2017 at 7:06:06 PM

Most likely the originals were lost in the Great Crash and they were all recreated at the same time during the recovery effort.

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