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* ''Series/{{V 1983}}'': The miniseries ended with humanity sending out a call for help to the Visitors' enemy, another alien race. The implication was that humanity could only wait and hope that the enemies would hear the signal, and be willing to help humans.

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* ''Series/{{V 1983}}'': The miniseries ended with humanity sending out a call for help to the Visitors' enemy, another alien race. The implication was that humanity could only wait and hope that the enemies would hear the signal, and be willing to help humans. The 2008 novel ''V: The Second Generation'' (which ignores the second miniseries and following TV series) revolves around that help arriving some twenty years after the message was sent.
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* ''Film/TheSkeletonKey'': [[spoiler:From the villains' perspective, the whole story is this. They're waiting for Caroline to believe in the hoodoo so that they can possess her. She tries to deny it, but it happens at the end.]]
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* ''VideoGame/{{EarthBound}}'': You have to wait 3 minutes at the waterfall in Grapefruit Falls before you can [[spoiler:enter Master Belch's factory.]]

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* ''VideoGame/{{EarthBound}}'': ''VideoGame/{{EarthBound|1994}}'': You have to wait 3 minutes at the waterfall in Grapefruit Falls before you can [[spoiler:enter Master Belch's factory.]]
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-->'''Hitman:''' Both Spidey and Vulture's blibs are stationary. Looks like they've both settled in for the night. Only thing to do now is wait. ''[sits at a table and starts cleaning his guns]'' Waiting. That's something I could ''never'' teach them back in the old days. Either they were naturals who knew it instinctively, or they never learned... and died because of it. So simple. You wait. And then, you strike.

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-->'''Hitman:''' -->'''Hitman''': Both Spidey and Vulture's blibs are stationary. Looks like they've both settled in for the night. Only thing to do now is wait. ''[sits at a table and starts cleaning his guns]'' Waiting. That's something I could ''never'' teach them back in the old days. Either they were naturals who knew it instinctively, or they never learned... and died because of it. So simple. You wait. And then, you strike.
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* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'': In an early story, a character called the Hitman had been given a contract to kill Spidey. The Vulture gets involved, and the Hitman tags both Spider-Man and the Vulture with a tracer so he can track them down. Later, looking at a tracking screen in his hideout:
-->'''Hitman''': Both Spidey and Vulture's blibs are stationary. Looks like they've both settled in for the night. Only thing to do now is wait. (Sits at a table and starts cleaning his guns) Waiting. That's something I could ''never'' teach them back in the old days. Either they were naturals who knew it instinctively, or they never learned...and died because of it. So simple. You wait. And then, you strike.

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* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'': ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': In an early story, ''[[ComicBook/TheSpectacularSpiderMan Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man]] #4, a character called the Hitman had been was given a contract to kill Spidey. The Vulture gets involved, and the Hitman tags both Spider-Man and the Vulture with a tracer so he can track them down. Later, looking at a tracking screen in his hideout:
-->'''Hitman''': -->'''Hitman:''' Both Spidey and Vulture's blibs are stationary. Looks like they've both settled in for the night. Only thing to do now is wait. (Sits ''[sits at a table and starts cleaning his guns) guns]'' Waiting. That's something I could ''never'' teach them back in the old days. Either they were naturals who knew it instinctively, or they never learned... and died because of it. So simple. You wait. And then, you strike.

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