History Main / NarniaTime

* ''{{WebAnimation/RWBY}}'': It's implied that the flow of time between Remnant and the Ever After may not be like-for-like. [[spoiler:Although the last to fall from the Central Location, Jaune appears to be the first to land in the Ever After, before accidentally sending himself decades into the past. However, within his lifetime, he meets Alyx and Lewis, becomes The Rusted Knight of a beloved Remnant story about Alyx's experiences, and then years later reunites with Team RWBY. Despite this occurring within his lifetime, Professor Ozpin has previously described the tale as "a very old fairy tale", indicating time may move differently between the two worlds. The Blacksmith also makes it clear that she can control what time period she sends Remnant natives two, as she sends Team RWBY and Jaune into Remnat's future rather than the time period they're from.]]

* The mystical Ever After in ''{{WebAnimation/RWBY}}'' operates on this to an absurd degree. [[spoiler: Jaune fell into the Ever After at roughly the same time as Team RWBY, but ended up landing first. He then ended up being sent back in time ''decades'' before any of them fell, at around the same time that Alyx and Lewis fell into the Ever After, [[TheSlowPath forcing him to take the long way back to the present.]] However, Lewis is noted as being the author of a famous children's book implied to have been written ''centuries'' before Team RWBY's time, given how it's treated as being an incredibly old story. And by the end of Volume 9, after finishing their mission and meeting with the Blacksmith, she sends them back to Vacuo "when they are needed", with the world having gathered there seemingly only weeks to months after the Fall of Atlas.]]

The mystical Ever After in ''{{WebAnimation/RWBY}}'' operates on this to an absurd degree. [[spoiler: Jaune fell into the Ever After at roughly the same time as Team RWBY, but ended up landing first. He then ended up being sent back in time ''decades'' before any of them fell, at around the same time that Alyx and Lewis fell into the Ever After, [[TheSlowPath forcing him to take the long way back to the present.]] However, Lewis is noted as being the author of a famous children's book implied to have been written ''centuries'' before Team RWBY's time, given how it's treated as being an incredibly old story. And by the end of Volume 9, after finishing their mission and meeting with the Blacksmith, she sends them back to Vacuo "when they are needed", with the world having gathered there seemingly only weeks to months after the Fall of Atlas.]]

'''The Grandmaster:''' Time works real different around these parts. On any other world, I’d be like millions of years old. But here on Sakaar...

* ''Anime/DoraemonTheRecordOfNobitaSpaceblazer'' have Doraemon and Nobita spending several days on Planet Koya Koya after befriending Ropporu, a citizen of said planet, and meeting his family, with Nobita's bedroom becoming unintentionally connected to Ropporu's ship on Koya Koya thanks to a random hyperspace jump. But then Nobita reminds Doraemon they're several days away from their home, and quickly makes their way back through the same hyperspace portal, expecting their parents to be pissed off. But as Nobita tried apologizing to his mother, she instead questions what are they talking about, it's not even dinnertime yet... leading to Doraemon and Nobita realizing several days on Koya Koya equals to around four hours on earth.
* In ''Anime/VisionOfEscaflowne'', the relative flow of time between Gaia and Earth seemingly follows no logic whatsoever. At first, time seems to move at roughly the same speed in both worlds, and traveler Hitomi is even able to receive a page on Gaia at the exact same time it was sent on Earth. Then, time seems to be moving faster on Earth when it's revealed that Hitomi's grandmother traveled there as a girl at least 30 years ago Earth time, but only enough time had passed on Gaia for Allen to age from a youth to a young man (perhaps 10 years max). Then, when Hitomi returns to Earth, she is transported to a point before she even left, which is about where you stop worrying about it.

* ''ComicBook/TheUncannyXMen'': Illyana Rasputin is kidnapped by the demon Belasco as a seven-year-old, who spends seven years raising her in Limbo. When she escapes to her own dimension, she finds only seconds have passed. Stories confirm that thus isn't always the case, though - there is no set ratio for time in Limbo; in fact, time isn't even linear there.

* The animated ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'' and its sequel. Time moves slowly in Neverland, hence why Peter never grows old... but then how can a couple of Neverland days last [[FridgeLogic only a few hours in England?]]

'''The Grandmaster:''' Time works real different around these parts. On any other world, I’d be like millions of years old. But here on Sakaar ...

* This is how Madam Aisha's "Fairy Corridor" Authority works in ''{{LightNovel/Campione}}''. It opens a portal that sends her to some random place and time in the past where she can spend years to return only a few days or hours after she left, or spend only a handful of days and come back years after she left and everything in between. While she has no control over being sent into the past, she has some limited control over how long between when she left and arrives back in the "present" and deliberately lengthens the time to make her younger than her chronological age would suggest ([[TheDitz despite being an immortal god slayer]]).

** In ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', the movement of time in the quantum realm (first introduced in ''Film/AntMan'') is revealed to also be inconsistent relative to the main universe. Once [[spoiler:Scott Lang returns from being trapped in the quantum realm following the events of ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'', he learns that five years have passed since [[BigBad Thanos]] killed half the universe in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''. However, as Scott informs the surviving Avengers, he only experienced [[YearOutsideHourInside five hours]] in the quantum realm. Based on this, the Avengers discover that they can use the strange nature of time in quantum realm to travel to the past (by entering the quantum realm at one point in time and exiting at another), retrieve the Infinity Stones, and bring back everyone who Thanos killed]].

* ComicBook/{{Xmen}}: Illyana Rasputin is kidnapped by the demon Belasco as a seven-year-old, who spends seven years raising her in Limbo. When she escapes to her own dimension, she finds only seconds have passed.

* One of the legends told in the course of ''Literature/WatershipDown'' features the legendary rabbit hero El-ahrairah [[JourneyToTheUnderworld descending into Inle]] to seek the help of the Black Rabbit in rescuing El-ahrairah's warren from a besieging army. Although the journey home only takes three months, for some reason the warren is much larger, and no-one seems to know who he is [[ReturningWarVet or appreciate the sacrifices he made on their behalf]].

** In ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', the movement of time in the quantum realm (first introduced in ''Film/AntMan'') is revealed to also be inconsistent relative to the main universe. Once [[spoiler:Scott Lang returns from being trapped in the quantum realm following the events of ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'', he learns that five years have passed since [[BigBad Thanos]] killed half the universe in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''. However, as Scott informs the surviving Avengers, he only experienced [[YearOutsideHourInside five hours]] in the quantum realm. Based on this, the Avengers discover that they can use the strange nature of time in quantum realm to travel to the past (by entering the quantum realm at one point in time and exiting at another), retrieve the Infinity Stones, and bring back everyone who died in the Snap]].

* ''Series/TheFlash2014'' has had inconsistencies in how time works when traveling between universes. When traveling to Earth-2, they are able to a timer for how long they have to get back, but when traveling to Earth-38 (Supergirl's Earth) Barry's gone for a full day while seemingly no time has passed on his Earth. Later, when he and Cisco visit Earth-38 it "takes a few tries" to get into her Earth. Those tries happen back to back for Barry and Cisco, but days apart on Supergirl's Earth.

* In ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', portals between the Ghost Zone and the real world occur naturally, opening and closing at random, and are capable of leading to anywhere or any''when''. The only exceptions are the two artificial portals, which are generated and held open through technological means.

* ComicBook/Xmen: Illyana Rasputin is kidnapped by the demon Belasco as a seven-year-old, who spends seven years raising her in Limbo. When she escapes to her own dimension, she finds only seconds have passed.

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* In ''Anime/VisionOfEscaflowne'', the relative flow of time between Gaia and Earth seemingly follows no logic whatsoever. At first, time seems to move at roughly the same speed in both worlds, and traveler Hitomi is even able to receive a page on Gaia at the exact same time it was sent on Earth. Then, time seems to be moving faster on Earth when it's revealed that Hitomi's grandmother traveled there as a girl at least thirty years ago Earth time, but only enough time had passed on Gaia for Allen to age from a youth to a young man (perhaps ten years max). Then, when Hitomi returns to Earth, she is transported to a point before she even left, which is about where you stop worrying about it.
* Creator/YuuWatase has [[WordOfGod gone on record]] as saying the time difference between the real world and world of ''The Universe of the Four Gods'' in ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'' depends on the text in the book, meaning that time doesn't move at a fixed rate - a few paragraphs could cover minutes, days, or months. So if the sentence "And a year passed." appeared, people inside will have lived a year in less than a second outside.

* In ''Fanfic/AftermathOfTheGames'' this happens between the human world and Equestria. Whereas it's been twelve years in Equestria since Sunset first fled through the mirror, in the human world it hasn't even been a full two. Though now that the worlds are more permanently linked, time is syncing up.

* In the ''Fanfic/InfinityCrisis'' tie-in ''Generation Gaps'', 11-year old Cassie Lang is sucked through a portal into the Microverse. When she emerges, the now 17-year old Cassie is happy to finally be reunited with her father...only to discover that on Earth, she's only been gone for half an hour.

** After several months have passed in Canada, the portals to Anthropos' world open again. Venturing there in pursuit of their lost cousin, the children find thirty years have passed there.

* In ''Literature/TheBeyonders'' the relative rates of time between Earth and Lyrian are inconsistent. When Jason returns to Earth at the end of the first book he finds that a few more months have passed at home, and later an Oracle explains that it's hard to predict what time dimensional travelers will come out in, but thanks to her powers she knows that in five years the timelines will be synced. [[spoiler:Rachel takes that opportunity to go back, knowing that her parents won't have seen her for five years and vice-versa. And a prophecy indicates that she'll later go on another adventure with Jason's (who stayed) daughter.]]

** It was shown in ''Literature/TheLastBattle'' that things can work the other way round too; King Tirian sees a (two way) vision of our world, and the various heroes of the series, and minutes later Jill and Eustace appear to save him (he had been tied to a tree by the bad guys). In the "real" world, they had spent a few days formulating a plan to get back to Narnia and save him.

* In ''Literature/TheGirlWhoCircumnavigatedFairylandInAShipOfHerOwnMaking'', no time passes in the Human world for a Human in Fairyland, with occasionally cruel results like [[spoiler:growing to adulthood in Fairyland and then being thrust back into an abusive family as a twelve-year-old.]] Adds a serious element of FridgeHorror to the more famous example of the Pevensies returning to England and becoming young again.

* ''Series/TheOutpost'': Rebb explains that the reason she looks just the same despite last being in the normal world over three hundred years ago is because time works differently in the Plane of Ashes. There's no sun or moon, and thus no way to really measure it anyway for them.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'', time nominally passes at a fixed rate in the world, even between dimensions--for example, if you hop into a Nether portal at noon and return in ten minutes, it'll be midnight--but in practice, nothing will happen in any chunks that aren't loaded, meaning anywhere outside of the relatively small area around each player. Crops won't grow, iron won't smelt, mobs won't budge from their last known position, and--mercifully for anyone who died far from their spawn point--dropped items won't tick down to the time when they disappear. This also applies to players skipping the night by sleeping in a bed.

* ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' features this heavily once multiversal travel becomes an increasingly major part of the plot - some universes can have months path there with only a few hours passing in Linkara's, and vice versa. Conveniently, this is also used as an in-universe justification for the DevelopmentHell of the Tournament Of Champions arc: even though months passed between matches for Linkara, some of the competitors only experience a few hours in their respective universes.

* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': The Season 5 premiere namedrops the {{Trope Namer|s}} when Rick [[MundaneUtility ages some wine in a Narnia-esque dimension]]. Morty [[MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds inadvertently]] becomes TheDreaded to the peaceful inhabitants when he [[GenreBlindness carelessly]] lets one follow him through the portal - and return home to find a long-dead wife and a vengeful son. Morty's attempts to retrieve more wine [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom causes more trauma]] to [[GenerationalSaga future generations]], whose society evolves around the goal of destroying the "Dark Child".

** Time in Hekapoo's home dimension, the Neverzone, moves much faster than in any other. In "Running With Scissors," Marco spends sixteen years chasing Hekapoo, only for Star to show up and reveal that it's been ''eight minutes'' on Earth. When he returns to Earth, he reverts to his pre-Neverzone body, meaning he's fourteen years old again.

* The Room of Spirit and Time (aka the Hyperbolic Time Chamber) in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' runs on a different time scale than the rest of the universe, allowing it to be used for compressed training times. Interestingly enough the time dilation appears to be adjustable, as during the Buu arc, the outside world and inside the Time Chamber seem to run at nearly the same speed.

* The Room of Spirit and Time (aka the Hyperbolic Time Chamber) in DragonballZ runs on a different time scale than the rest of the universe, allowing it to be used for compressed training times. Interestingly enough the time dilation appears to be adjustable, as during the Buu arc, the outside world and inside the Time Chamber seem to run at nearly the same speed.
* In ''Literature/KyoKaraMoah'', time in the demon kingdom passes much slower than it does on Earth, so while Yuuri might be drowning on Earth for a few minutes, he can spend months there. This might explain why demons can live to be hundreds of years old there yet age the same as human on Earth.

** This is played [[TearJerker to its heartbreaking conclusion when]] [[spoiler:Lucien's entrapment in Bellezza for like, two days, translates into a three-week coma in England — coinciding with a resurgence of his brain cancer. His parents, having concluded he's never waking up, decide to cut off his life support.]]

* Inverted in the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS6E12BlinkOfAnEye Blink of an Eye]]"; a planet's time passes 58 times faster than time on Voyager, advancing their civilization from Stone Knives and Bearskins to an advanced space-faring society in a matter of days. One inhabitant of the planet survived his time on Voyager, but returned over a century later planet-time to find all his acquaintances long dead of old age.

* In ''Literature/{{Hours}}'', one hour of regular time can equal any amount of time in the Waving World, from tens of minutes up to many days. This is because the perception of time in the Waving World is based on events, not physics. Happenings of great import, such people dying, take up more real time than do mundane tasks.

* In ''Fanfic/AftermathOfTheGames'' this happens between the human world and Equestria. Whereas it's been twelve years in Equestria since Sunset first fled through the mirror, in the human world it hasn't even been a full two. Though now that the worlds are more permanently linked, time is synching up.

* This is how Madam Aisha's "Fairy Corridor" Authority works in ''{{LightNovel/Campione}}''. It opens a portal that sends her to some random place and time in the past where she can spend years to return only a few days or hours after she left, or spend only a handful of days and come back years after she left and everything in between. While she has no control over being sent into the past, she has some limited control over how long between when she left and arrives back in the "present" and deliberately legnthens the time to make her younger than her chronological age would suggest ([[TheDitz despite being an immortal god slayer]]).

* In ''Literature/TheDemonata'', time passes differently in each Demon Universe so characters from different times can interact and end up similiar ages. Also leads to odd events such as Kernel returning to his parents after being missing for a number of years but he hasnt aged at all.

* In ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', time originally passed very quickly in the Digital World meaning that the gang could spend several decades (or maybe centuries, Izzy calculated it in the last episode) in the Digital World while only a month or two would pass in our world. However, time in the two worlds were synchronized after the final boss was destroyed.

* ''Fanfic/AManOfIron'': It's eventually established that time travels much faster in the realm of the Children of the Forest than it does in the human world, as shown by [[spoiler: Rickon being sucked through a portal there as a child and returning months later as a fully-grown adult]].

* In ''Literature/TheBeyonders'' the relative rates of time between Earth and Lyrian are inconsistent. When Jason returns to Earth at the end of the first book he finds that a few more months have passed at home, and later an Oracle explains that it's hard to predict what time dimensional travelers will come out in, but thanks to her powers she knows that in five years the timelines will be synced. [[spoiler: Rachel takes that opportunity to go back, knowing that her parents won't have seen her for five years and vice-versa. And a prophecy indicates that she'll later go on another adventure with Jason's (who stayed) daughter.]]

** In ''Literature/SmallGods'', when Brutha [[spoiler: dies, and finds Vorbis, who died a century ago, still hasn't crossed the desert]]:

** Alice returns to her world mere hours after she left, but when the Hatter shows up the next day, the way he says "Finally!" implies that he's been waiting [[spoiler: [[YearInsideHourOutside much, much longer]]. On the flip side, Alice's father seems to have aged no more than he would have in their real world, so unless no one ages in Wonderland (or at least people from their real world don't)...]]

* The Bajoran wormhole in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' runs on Narnia Time. Usually characters have exited the wormhole to find that the same amount of time passed both inside and outside. The aliens who live in the wormhole are explicitly stated to not even understand what time is, however. As a result, they have caused a Bajoran poet to skip a hundred years of "real" time in the matter of subjective seconds. Additionally, one of the aliens left this realm to [[spoiler: directly cause the conception of the main protagonist, decades before they met him]].

* In ''Webcomic/TheDreamlandChronicles'', the DreamLand operates on Narnia Time. When Alex falls asleep he goes to Dreamland, and when he wakes up some time passes in Dreamland before he falls asleep again. However, the amount of time that passes in that time is explicitly declared as random. Sometimes nearly no time passes [[spoiler: like when he is falling with Felicity on his back]], whereas sometimes several hours passes. The general amount of time that passes must average out though, because at the beginning of the story when Alex hasn't been to Dreamland in years, a similar number of years have passed for the inhabitants.
%%* In ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' [[http://xkcd.com/821/ at the very bottom left.]]

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