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Author: Ardiente

May 12th 2011 at 1:06:42 PM

... Ah. Yeah, to an extent... Well, it'd be a very specific subtrope with the reaction time as the defining difference...

Oh, another example: Due to the extremely high speed at which some battles happen in Bleach, oftentimes characters won't get to curse or even react at all. Their faces simply freeze in WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises or a non-cute version of OpenTheIris to underline how riduclously small their pupils have gotten with fear.

In TengenToppaGurrenLagann... when [[spoiler:Kamina has ''just'' gotten in Gurren and is ready to move, he takes ''one'' step... and gets stabbed from beneath... [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSQww1GOSy8&feature=related this scene is repeated [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSQww1GOSy8&feature=related as many as five times]] just to emphasize how ''no one'' had any time to react ''at all'' besides wearing a horrified expression... or screaming in atrocious pain in the case of the victim... [[HolyShitQuotient I think they did it for the sake of the viewers, too]]]]