History Main / TimeFreezeTrollingSpree

They say that [[Literature/TheRepublic rings that can turn you invisible]] can [[InvisibleJerkass turn men into monsters]], such a power easy to exploit for personal gain, whether it involves [[PowerPerversionPotential peeking in the girl's locker room]] or [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity assassinating the king and sleeping with his wife]]. Imagine what those kind of weak-willed maniacs could do if they could freeze time!

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E124AKindOfAStopwatch A Kind of a Stopwatch]]", after being fired from Cooper Corporation, Patrick Thomas [=McNulty=] returns to his former workplace with the stopwatch and uses it to pull pranks such as placing flowers in his former boss Mr. Cooper's shirt and breast pocket. He later uses it in Joe Palucci's bar to mess up Charlie's hair and finish off several patrons' beers. [=McNulty=] finally realizes that the stopwatch can make him extremely rich and robs the United Fidelity Bank. [[spoiler:However, as he is leaving the bank, he accidentally drops the watch, breaking it and leaving him trapped in the frozen time forever.]]
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E1ShatterdayALittlePeaceAndQuiet A Little Peace and Quiet]]", Penny just about resists the temptation to pull down a passerby's shorts when time is frozen. Later, she is annoyed by two anti-nuclear activists who call at her house. After she freezes time again, she drags them over to her lawn and lies them down. When time is resumed, they are too frightened to try talking to her again.

* ''Manga/TimeStopBrave'' focuses around Kuzuno Sekai, a teenager who is [[TrappedInAnotherWorld stuck in a video game fantasy world]] with an old NES-style controller capable of stopping time. While he does use it to solve whatever problems he and his group come up against, as every quest they undertake has a strict time limit that only he's aware of and he ''does not'' want to know what happens when it hits zero, he uses it even more frequently to quickly grope and strip every woman around him.

** [[spoiler: [=DIO's=]]] first on-screen usage of his Stand's ability (though the time stop itself isn't shown) is to repeatedly place Polnareff at the bottom of a set of stairs that the latter was climbing up to confront him.

* The ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' manga chapter which debuts the Stop Watch (which stops time, as the name states) have Nobita sneaking away with it and going around on a trolling spree, including [[FaceDoodling scribbling over Gian's and Suneo's faces]] as payback for making fun of him in school for "being slow", trespassing neighbours' houses as a shortcut and unwrapping manga issues in a bookstore, reading them right in front of the time-frozen shopkeeper. But the gadget unexpectedly malfunctions (as always) right before Nobita can unpause it, leading to Nobita realizing [[NiceJobBreakingItHero he might have permanently stopped time for the rest of the world]]. Nobita eventually made things work by travelling back to ''before'' his trolling spree to get Doraemon to fix the watch, using the TimeMachine in his drawer which can somehow function (probably because it's another time-related gadget and therefore immune to the Stop Watch).

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': The last segment of "Treehouse of Horror XIV" involves Bart and Milhouse using a magic stopwatch to pull pranks before they're found out. They end up breaking the watch and spend the next two decades repairing it to make time go forward again.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' episode "The Day the Earth Didn't Move Around Very Much", Johnny believes that time has frozen for everyone but him [[ApopheniaPlot because his alarm clock had been stopped at 12:00 due to a power outage. Every time he sees anybody, they have each decided to stay completely still for one reason or another, like Little Suzy attempting to balance an egg on her nose or a construction worker falling in wet cement and thinking he'd sink in if he moved around]]. Johnny takes the opportunity to commit crimes thinking he wouldn't get caught.

* Inverted and PlayedForLaughs in ''WesternAnimation/{{Spliced}}''. When Peri gets a [[CaffeineBulletTime sugar rush]] he starts moving at SuperSpeed so to him it look like everyone is frozen in time. He then spends this time doing good deeds for everyone, thinking they'll be appreciative and throw him a parade, except when he returns to normal time nobody believes he was the one who did everything.

* In the short sci-fi story [[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31663/31663-h/31663-h.htm "The Six Fingers of Time"]] by Creator/RALafferty, the protagonist can move sixty times faster than other people, to the same effect. He uses his skill for all kinds of pranks, including the creepy one of kissing and fondling a girl he likes.