History Main / CaffeineBulletTime

* From Wiki/SCPFoundation. [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/experiment-log-914 SCP-914's outputs]] when the input was a Red Bull. On "Fine" setting the output "Red Bull Ultra" let the subject be awake for 3 days straight with no ill effects. The "Very Fine" output? "Security on duty reported seeing 'some kind of gray blur'."

-->-- '''Tommy''', ''Machinima/HalfLifeButTheAIIsSelfAware''

* A modified version shows in the Rooster Teeth staff comics (featuring a fan drawing comics of the staff who brought us ''Machinima/RedVsBlue''). The mellow Matt Hullum is shown often drinking coffee, but laid back. Someone tries swapping in decaf. The next scene shows that were Matt any more mellowed out, he'd be dead.

Of course, despite caffeine being a GRatedDrug, [[PhlebotinumOverload caffeine overdose]] in the real world is not pretty. Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} claims it can cause "[[SideEffectsInclude dizziness, fast heartbeat, blurred vision, drowsiness, dry mouth, flushed dry skin, increased urination, loss of appetite, nausea and stomach aches]]". Consume "enough" at one time and it will kill you; for example, if you could drink about 154 cans of Mountain Dew in five minutes, you wouldn't be around to finish number 155. (Of course, your stomach would burst long before the caffeine did you in. However, this is a real hazard with caffeine pills; you ''can'' kill yourself by popping too many.) And, unlike more controlled stimulants, it has an obnoxiously narrow effective range, which commonly involves toeing the superthin line between still barely feeling it and side effects already present in force, even for a heavily dependent Caffeine Junkie (not an exaggeration in the least, as caffeine withdrawals have pronounced physical symptoms, and last far longer than most any "real" drug... As ubiquitous an ingredient as it is, most heavily dependent persons in modern societies just rarely experience going entirely without it long enough for full-force physical [=WDs=] to kick in, and would almost never end up in a situation where they could--much less actually would--ride them out cold turkey until they subside.)

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': In the Season 2 episode "The Plantars Check In", Sprig consumes five cups of caffeinated drinks and experiences everything in slow motion.

Usually used in cartoons. KlatchianCoffee is likely to have the effect. Contrast CaffeineFailure and CalmingTea.

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

* Amphetamine can have this sort of effect on people - for example, it can make it easier to swat flies with your bare hand, since it becomes possible to see them taking off as your hand approaches [[LeadTheTarget and correct your trajectory to compensate]]. Oddly enough, Amphetamine is frequently used to treat UsefulNotes/{ADHD} because it increases the levels of dopamine in the brain. Since people with ADHD have less dopamine than others, amphetamine merely brings it up to normal levels and seemingly calms them down instead of giving them the "high" that it gives people without ADHD.

* Amphetamine, which (to a first approximation) mimics adrenaline, can have the same sort of effect, for example making it easier to swat flies with your bare hand as it becomes possible to see them taking off as your hand approaches [[LeadTheTarget and correct your trajectory to compensate]].

Usually used in cartoons. KlatchianCoffee is likely to have the effect. Contrast CaffeineFailure.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', Mordecai and Rigby end up buying ''double-glazed'' fritter donuts. Pops eats one and starts experiencing a sugar rush. Skips says that the only way to calm him down is to make him crash, by consuming ''MORE SUGAR''. Mordecai, Rigby, and Skips each eat a fritter themselves just to put them on the same level as Pops, but then the world started slowing down around them. Skips recommended to consume even '''MORE''' sugar. Pops, Rigby, and Mordecai started moving so fast that the world around them started to break down. Physics, Time, ''Colors'', the world started looking like an EldritchLocation.

* The ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'' had the [[DesignatedVillain Technocracy]] bring out a little gem in the form of caffeine plus: "You'll be so wired, you'll see into other dimensions. Any more caffeine and you'll start vibrating off sound waves. Caffeine plus is dangerous to the human body, addictive to the mind, poisonous to the soul and sheer heaven with a pack of smokes."

* The nuclear powered "Bonk! Atomic Punch" Energy Drink Scout unlockable weapon in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''. Contains several hundred times the daily recommended allowance of sugar. [[SideEffectsInclude Side effects include a feeling of lethargy that can last for several seconds (since removed in one of the subsequent updates).]] It also comes in two delicious [[ColourCodedForYourConvenience team-colored]] flavors: Blutonium Berry and Cherry Fission. He doesn't move faster, but every attack at him "misses". This really means he can soak up anything and everything that hits him for the next five or so seconds. Sentry fire and explosions still launch him into the air and launched arrows and syringes still get stuck in his body, however.

* The coffee item in ''VideoGame/WanderingHamster'' serves the function of boosting character's speed during battle.

* ''VideoGame/PerfectDark'' features the Combat Boost, which is apparently some type of adrenaline pill that sends the action into BulletTime.
* The "Turbo" drug item in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' slows down everything except the player's movement. Properly perked out, it can last a whole minute.

* The "Reflex Enhancer" from ''VideoGame/SPV3'', a [[GameMod Custom Campaign]] re-imagining of the ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'' campaign, is a pickup that slows time around the Chief to half-speed for 30 seconds.

* Miner's Coffee in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' increases your speed by 25% per cup, but only for 3 minutes and only in your Garrison Mine. (Where it's found, conveniently.)

* In ''VideoGame/RetroCityRampage'', drinking coffee when you aren't DrunkOnMilk gives you SuperSpeed - enough to plow through pedestrians and outrun traffic.
* The "Reflex Reaction Aid" patch in ''VideoGame/SystemShock'' makes it look like time slows down, causing everything in-game to move slowly, from how fast an enemy fires at you, to your own movement speed. It also takes a while to wear off unless you kill the effect yourself with a Detox patch.
* The "Reflex Enhancer" from ''VideoGame/SPV3'', a [[GameMod Custom Campaign]] re-imagining of the ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'' campaign, is a pickup that slows time around the Chief to half-speed for 30 seconds.

* In ''VideoGame/ScottPilgrim'', coffee bought from shops or given by Knives gives you the same effect as being "In the Zone" (i.e. defeating several enemies in a row without getting hit): you glow yellow, move faster, and can wail on enemies by mashing the attack button.

* ''Videogame/TheOuterWorlds'': 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.

* Giorno in ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo'' 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 [[DefeatMeansFriendship future friend]] Bruno Bucciarati in the face, causing him to feel the pain drawn out over several seconds.)

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

* In one ''WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim'' episode, Psycrow develops this sort of power after drinking ridiculous amounts of espresso, becoming "Hyper Psycrow". Jim, in turn, counters him by becoming "super-mellow" through the use of an aromatherapy kit ([[LampshadeHanging one was hung on this]], as Peter questioned how a worm without a nose could use the kit). When they touch, [[AwesomenessIsVolatile the universe explodes.]]

* The infamous ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' VerySpecialEpisode where Jessie gets hooked on caffeine pills.

!!Examples

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]

[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
* Played straight in ''WesternAnimation/OverTheHedge.'' In the climactic fight between the woodland dwellers and the suburbanites, Verne and RJ give Hammy, the hyperactive squirrel, an energy drink. At first [[InvertedTrope it seems like the caffeine slowed him down]], since he starts acting a lot more relaxed than usual, but then we see how time has distorted around him: Hammy leisurely strolls past the exterminator, a crazy happy dog and the crazy HouseWife to activate the laser grid defense system, while getting the cookie he wanted earlier to boot. Not only that, when he activates the lasers, he casually walks past the slowly extending beams, which means ''[[FasterThanLightTravel he exceeded the speed of light]]''. [[spoiler:He had enough time left to forage for an empty log's worth of food.]]

-->'''Tripp:''' (...) He's hyper? Why would he be hyper all of a sudden?
-->'''Meredith:''' Wait... Gasoline is Oil, but with--
-->'''Tripp:''' [[OhCrap Added Chemicals]]!

-->"“Go with God, and—” Josh spun, jumped, came down with each hand on a stranger’s shoulder and shouted, “Yes! Double healing! Go with God, friends, two times!"
* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', one of the most potent forms of KlatchianCoffee beans is called the ''Klatchnikov'' - as in "a shot of coffee."

[[folder:Live Action TV]]

* In the "Wink of an Eye" episode of ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek]]'', [[GirlOfTheWeek Deela]] slips Kirk a drug which speeds him up to BulletTime, enabling him to see her and her compatriots who live in BulletTime permanently. But since she got the drug into him by ''slipping it into his coffee'', it ends up looking an awful lot like CaffeineBulletTime.

[[folder:Newspaper Comics]]
* ''{{ComicStrip/Dilbert}}''. Wally teaches Dilbert that "sadness is another word for not enough coffee". As a result of the massive coffee cup Dilbert begins carrying around, he completes all his projects in a day before developing ''X-ray vision, precognition, and telekinesis''. Unfortunately, just as he's telekinetically crushing the [[PointyHairedBoss PHB's]] throat a la [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]], [[AllJustADream he wakes up]].
* In ''Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet'', Helen and her friend are at a coffee shop, and Helen orders some sort of boosted, experimental coffee. After remarking that she doesn't seem to feel the supposed effects of all this extra caffeine, she stands up and notices that her friend is in the middle of a blink, and that she has gone into Caffeine Bullet Time.
* ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} has a rather hyper reaction [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/1996/ga960715.gif after eating Jon's bag of chocolate covered coffee beans.]]
* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' has a sugar-induced variant, brought on when Calvin eats too much ChocolateFrostedSugarBombs cereal. It starts to get to the point where he perceives the world around him as moving slower than normal, while he's so wired up that he can't even talk normally.
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* The unlockable Caffeine Mode in ''VideoGame/AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAAARecklessDisregardForGravity'' makes everything go significantly slower- which is helpful, in a base-jumping game.

[[folder:Webcomics]]
* Subverted 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 and foaming at the mouth.

* ''Webcomic/FurWillFly'':
-->'''Page:''' Brad, you wouldn't do a butt stupid thing like give a 5-year old squirrel sugar or caffeine, would you?
-->'''Brad:''' No! No without getting them drunk first!
** (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.]])

* This has never actually happened to hyperactive [[DitzyGenius ditzy genius]] Brian Fitzpatrick in ''Webcomic/{{Rhapsodies}}'' and there is a statewide [[BenevolentConspiracy conspiracy]] amongst all the baristas [[http://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/comic/11212004/ to make sure it never does.]]

--->'''Emily''': I I I IIII ICANSEEFOREVER
--->'''Hannelore''': Ohhh, this was a mistake.
** The same thing happens when fourteen year old Sam [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4083 has her first latte]].
* Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}: The [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Felt]] member Itchy is implied to be hopped up on caffeine in the brief moment he appears, and his power is SuperSpeed. It's possible he goes so fast because of this.

* [[WebOriginal/LOLCats D-decaff-f?]] [[http://icanhascheezburger.com/2010/11/07/funny-pictures-de-caff/ Wh-why would I want decaff-f?]]
* Strong Bad slips Strong Sad some caffeine in one of the ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' Strong Bad Emails. Strong Sad, normally a very sedate [[TheEeyore Eeyore]], starts twitching madly and yelling incoherently about "Wood-davers! Wood-davers! Sell 'em at the corner store, sell 'em at the five-and-dime!" and slapping Coach Z until the Coach protests "Stop it! I don't wanna die!"
** 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]]

* ''WebVideo/TheAnnoyingOrange'' epsiode "''ZOOM!!!''" After Orange accidentally drinks an energy drink of the episode's name, he winds up going through this. HilarityEnsues
** Happens again in an anniversary episode.
* In ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', the history professor Bartholomew Oobleck is in a constant state of this, as implied by his rapid dashing. His weapon even has a thermos mode to keep up his coffee supply.
** ''WebAnimation/RWBYChibi'' states that the [[GenkiGirl perpetually energetic]] Nora Valkyrie is not allowed to drink coffee (or any caffeinated drink). When she does, [[spoiler:she collapses on the floor, twitching, and experiencing hallucinations.]]

-->'''Sprig:''' ''(ExtremeCloseUp, with a deep and distorted voice)'' '''''I AM THE TIME-LORD NOW.'''''

* The ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' episode "Op: UNDERCOVER" had a [[MonsterOfTheWeek Villain of the Week]] that had SuperSpeed from consuming large amounts of coffee regularly. When Numbuh Five gets a coffee overdose of her own, she gets temporary SuperSpeed as well, but notably crashes pretty quickly and realistically.
-->'''Numbah 5:''' (''staggering to her feet, stuttering'') Coffee...is...SO '''GOOOOOD,''' '''''BABY!!!'''''

-->'''Aang''': "[=IsitworkingisitworkingIcan'ttellsomebodytellmeifI'mintheAvatarState'causeIdon'thaveagoodviewofmyselfamItalkingtooloud?=]"\\
'''[[DeadpanSnarker Sokka]]''': "I guess he could talk the Fire Lord to death."\\
'''Aang proceeds to crash face-first into a pillar'''

* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011'' episode "Berbils," TricksterTwins the Thunderkittens [[InvokedTrope induce this]] by deliberately eating [[FantasticDrug Candyfruit]] to achieve SuperSpeed, taunting and baiting a slow-moving [[OurGiantsAreBigger Giantor]] into a tripwire.
* ''{{WesternAnimation/Spliced}}'': Peri experiences this as a result of consuming huge amounts of sugar in "Sugar Low".

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' episode, "''Skorca!''": At the start of the episode, Private is assigned to overnight watching over the zoo. To keep himself awake, he sneaks along a box full of chocolate-flavored "Peanut Butter Winkies," despite Skipper forbidding him from eating anything sugary so as to maintain focus (believing that sugar will make Private see things). Private winds up eating all the winkies in the box, and while it doesn't make him see things [[spoiler:aside from the titular "Skorca" of the episode]], it does make him hyper, unfocused, and babbling like a motor-mouth.

* Chronosplicing ''FanFic/ChronomistressOutOfTime'', the secret technique taught to the sacred Order of Timekeepers. It speeds up thoughts, gives perfect awareness of time, as well as [[TheSpock turns off emotions]] and grants AwesomenessByAnalysis.

* ''FanFic/EscapeFromTheMoon'': Spliced gets ''very'' hyped up on coffee in chapter 6 of the sequel ''The Mare From the Moon'', to the point where she's [[MotorMouth talking a mile a minute]] and acting more than a little crazier than usual.

* Giorno in ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo'' 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.)

* Giorno in ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo'' 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.)