History Main / CaffeineBulletTime

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* ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} has a rather hyper reaction [[https://garfield.com/comic/1996-07-15 after eating Jon's bag of chocolate covered coffee beans.]]

* [[http://www.reallifecomics.com/archive/021231.html This strip]] of ''Webcomic/RealLifeComics''.

'''[[DeadpanSnarker Sokka]]''': "I guess he could talk the Fire Lord to death."

* Consuming a very high dose of caffeine in a short amount of time can produce a feeling of slowed passage of time and increased reaction speed. Unfortunately, the dosage necessary to produce this effect approaches, and in some cases overlaps, the dosage necessary to produce ''death'', and in any case it's much less like fictional portrayals of BulletTime and much more like just being really, really twitchy -- you can probably catch a fly in your hand without really trying, but three times out of four that "fly" you see in the corner of your eye is a hallucination. Then the caffeine wears off and you sleep for two days straight and wake up with a horrible headache and a craving for coffee.

* Giorno in Part 5 of ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'' can actually inflict a more serious version of this on others. By hitting somebody with Gold Experience (a Stand revolving around giving life to things,) he can speed up their thought processes to inhuman levels, forcing them into BulletTime. Unfortunately, their body doesn't move any faster, so it's used as an offensive measure to disorient people (and at one point Giorno then punches his friend Bruno Buccellati in the face, causing him to feel the pain drawn out over several seconds.)

[[caption-width-right:349:10 grams of sugar - great for reaction time, hell on your pancreas.]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/Amphibia'': The second episode segment "The Plantars Check In" has Sprig consume five cups of caffeinated drinks and experience everything in slow motion.

->''"Brooahhh! Coffeecoffeecoffee! Coffee! It's not as strong as methamphetamine, but it lets you keep your teeth!"''
-->-- '''Gordon Freeman''', ''Machinima/FreemansMind''

* The 2000 short film ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npkPnswSqE0 Sixty Cups of Coffee]]'' has the main character [[BreakingTheFourthWall explain to the audience]] that drinking sixty cups in a single sitting allows the drinker to "see the truth", although what that truth could be is left unclear. The short centers on this character slamming cup after cup, the diner patrons having varied reactions to his attempt: the waitress worries for his health, the mother tells her curious son to look away, the truckers betting increasing amounts of personal trinkets over his success or failure and so on. [[spoiler:Something happens after the 60th cup but the ending is left open to interpretation.]]

* From the ''Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'', Mister Excitement was a member of the Crimestoppers a team of [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway superhero wannabe's]]. Excitement had honest to God super-strength and SuperSpeed... except he gained the super-strength by way of adrenalin rushes, and there was never a guarantee he was going to have one. Mister Excitement was hyper-active, fidgeted, and his team instinctively knew that whatever they did, giving this man caffeine was a bad thing because who knew what would happen. But when the chips were down and they were captured by a real supervillain, they consciously invoked this trope, allowing Mister Excitement to save the day.

* ''Videogame/OuterWorlds'': Tactical Time Dilation, which is a direct side effect of your cryogenic resuscitation, lets you slow down your perception of time for a few seconds, making everything grind down to a crawl. Usually it also slows you down, but you can take perks that allows you to move and attack faster during the effect, among other things. It's also good for setting up head shots and the like.

* In ''Webcomic/{{PVP}}'', Francis tries to induce this so as to win at a video game competition. He believes he's succeeded when he sees time stop, but in reality he's hallucinating it and foaming at the mouth.

* The movie ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoodwinked}}'' also included [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3Lp0irIU3Q a hyperactive squirrel]] (named Twitchy) who, at the end, needed a caffeine boost to rocket down a mountain to warn the cops about the bad guy while the rest of the cast tried to stop his evil plot.[[note]]Ironically, earlier in the film, he states he doesn't really like coffee.[[/note]] Unfortunately, when the squirrel finds the cops, he spoke so fast that they couldn't understand a word he said. The cops then recorded him repeating his superspeed speech(four seconds), and played it back at about half-speed(ten seconds), which gave him a very *deep*, smooooooth voice resembling an automated phone recording. This is a parody of how most people sound awful on tape, but Twitchy sounds very cool and collected. He actively preens himself as he hears the recording. In the sequel, it's standard procedure to play back his recordings at a slower speed to understand him.

* In the Literature/HarryPotter / Franchise/{{Justice League|OfAmerica}} crossover ''Terminal Justice'', after drinking fourteen ''pots'' of iced mocha, Harry started skipping down the hallway singing and babbling a mile a minute and was described by the author as "greatly resembling Flash on a sugar high".
* In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6690487/1/Growing-Up-Kneazle Growing Up Kneazle,]]'' after spending nearly his entire pre-Hogwarts childhood in his Kneazle animagus form, Harry discovered that in human form, catnip had a stimulant/hallucinogen effect on him.

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** Hilariously, Strong Bad claims that he slipped Strong Sad caffeine by putting [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanka Sanka]] in his orange juice[[note]]For those who don't know, Sanka is one of the earliest brands of ''decaffeinated'' coffee. In the States, at least 97% of its caffeine must be removed in order to qualify as decaffeinated, meaning that either this was triggered by an extremely low amount of caffeine, or [[OnlySaneMan Strong Sad]] somehow missed the fact that most of his orange juice was now coffee mix[[/note]]

* In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6690487/1/Growing-Up-Kneazle Growing Up Kneazle]]'', after spending nearly his entire pre-Hogwarts childhood in his Kneazle animagus form, Harry discovered that in human form, catnip had a stimulant/hallucinogen effect on him.

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', one of the most potent forms of KlatchianCoffee beans is called the ''Klatchnikov'' - as in "a shot of coffee".

* One episode of ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' had [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh9iC9G_pHg#t=6m30s a Hoedown on the subject of coffee]]. Colin Mochrie proceeded to sing his 8 measures of lyrics in 4 measures of music, then did a fast hyperactive dance for the remaining four measures.

** {{Averted|Trope}} in an episode of [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]. Captain Janeway refuses a cup of coffee with the comment, "One more cup and I'll go to warp."

** (The arc is a bit scattered. Read [[http://www.jadephoenix.org/fwf/comics/index.php?date=furwillfly87.jpg this,]][[http://www.jadephoenix.org/fwf/comics/index.php?date=furwillfly88.jpg this,]] [[http://www.jadephoenix.org/fwf/comics/index.php?date=furwillfly20020405.jpg this,]] and [[http://www.jadephoenix.org/fwf/comics/index.php?date=furwillfly20020410.jpg this.]])

* The movie ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoodwinked}}'' also included [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3Lp0irIU3Q a hyperactive squirrel]] (named Twitchy) who, at the end, needed a caffeine boost to rocket down a mountain to warn the cops about the bad guy while the rest of the cast tried to stop his evil plot. Unfortunately, when the squirrel finds the cops, he spoke so fast that they couldn't understand a word he said. The cops then recorded him repeating his superspeed speech(four seconds), and played it back at about half-speed(ten seconds), which gave him a very *deep*, smooooooth voice resembling an automated phone recording. This is a parody of how most people sound awful on tape, but Twitchy sounds very cool and collected. He actively preens himself as he hears the recording. In the sequel, it's standard procedure to play back his recordings at a slower speed to understand him.

* There have been scientific experiments which indicate that when pumped on adrenalin, perception of the world slows down sufficiently to see numbers flashing between black on red and red on black too fast for normal human perception to read. Also, experiments done on mice indicate that their perception slows down sufficiently so that they're off by about four seconds too soon while on speed when trained to push a button after ten seconds.