Basic Trope: Someone checks the time on a watch they weren't seen with beforehand.
- Straight: When Mary is bored, she glances at a wristwatch on her arm, which wasn't in any other scenes with her.
- Exaggerated: When Mary is bored, she looks at an entire grandfather clock that appeared out of nowhere to see what time it is.
- Downplayed: Mary has a smart watch, which turns on when she glances at it.
- Justified: Mary's wristwatch can disappear and reappear when she needs it.
- Inverted: Mary is always wearing a watch, but when she needs to check the time, it isn't there.
- Subverted: Mary glances at her wrist, where a wristwatch should be, but it isn't there.
- Double Subverted: It turns out it's on her other arm, and we've never seen that watch before, either.
- Parodied:
- Mary turns out to be holding an incredibly fancy clock when she wonders what time it is.
- Mary draws a watch on her wrist.
- Zig-Zagged: Sometimes we see Mary wearing a watch, and she'll either use it or not.
- Averted:
- Nobody in the work glances at a suddenly-appearing wristwatch.
- Mary often wears a wristwatch on her arm that she looks at when bored.
- Mary checks to see the time but there's no watch on her arm.
- Mary checks to see the time with her Smartphone.
- Enforced: Having Mary wear a watch for the entire episode when she normally doesn't would be distracting to the audience. Thus, it's only there when she needs to check it.
- Lampshaded:
- "Watches always seem to appear whenever I need them."Mary: (Glances at her watch) Where did this come from?
- Invoked: Mary puts a watch on her arm to tell the time.
- Exploited: Mary starts a watch-selling business with how many she can create.
- Defied:Mary: (Looks at something then glances at someone) THERE BETTER NOT BE A WATCH JUST AS SOON AS I RAISE MY HAND.
(The animator is terrified and edits out the watch and replaces it with a smartphone.)
Mary: (Raises Her Hand And there's her smartphone) Thank you~ - Discussed: "Wait, how long have you been wearing that watch?"
- Conversed: "I wish I could instantly have a wristwatch appear, like the characters in those cartoons."
Check the time with a wristwatch that appeared out of nowhere before going back to Instant Wristwatch.
