Playing With / Stalked by the Bell

• Basic Trope: If you take too long, something big and strong shows up as an incentive to hurry up.
• Straight: If the player takes too long to exit a dungeon in Tales of Troperia, a Minotaur will appear to chase them down. It has infinite health, cannot be killed, and is a One-Hit Kill if It catches up to you.
• Exaggerated:
  • If the player takes too long to exit a dungeon, Satan himself appears and sics Cerberus on you while attacking you himself.
  • If you take too long to complete the level, the Big Bad attacks YOU.
  • The time limit to complete the level before this happens is far too short, so it's almost impossible to complete without this trope happening.
  • Taking too long to complete the dungeon leads to a Non-Standard Game Over.
• Downplayed:
  • The Minotaur can be easily stunned, effectively turning him into an Invincible Minor Minion.
  • The Minotaur is strong, but not completely invincible. A very patient player can take them out, and there is an achievement for doing so.
  • Due to an Overly Generous Time Limit facing the Minotaur is an unlikely process.
• Justified:
  • The protagonist is in a building that is guarded by a Minotaur who is hunting them down. The Minotaur just has to find them.
  • Emperor Evulz had hired the Minotaur to search and kill the protagonist.
• Inverted: Advancing Wall of Doom / Advancing Boss of Doom: You're already being chased the moment you start the level/battle.
  • If you complete the level too quickly or otherwise flawlessly, a Minotaur will appear. If you're too slow, he doesn't appear.
• Subverted: The Minotaur is a normal enemy and dies very quickly.
• Double Subverted: If you kill him, however, a much larger Minotaur appears.
• Parodied: If you take too long to complete a level, the protagonist closes the game on you.
• Zig-Zagged: Whether or not the Minotaur appears depends on whether or not he is taking a nap at the time you enter the dungeon. If he is, he doesn't show up; if he's not...run.
• Averted: No particularly strong enemy shows up if the player takes too long.
• Enforced:
  • The developers want to add a sense of urgency or make the game more fast-paced.
  • The Gr'}<Asthf was the result of the level timer overflowing into the Creature Spawn List that the devs decided to canonize.
• Lampshaded:
  "Ah, it's nice to have a room where I can take my-"
  *GWOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAARRRRRR*
  ...Time?
• Invoked: The Big Bad places a Minotaur in the room and instructs him to terrorize any intruder who sticks around too long.
• Exploited: The Minotaur can be killed, and gives a huge amount of experience when defeated. Level Grinding ensues.
• Defied: "I think we should let our players take their time."
• Discussed:
• Conversed: "That Minotaur scared me half to death when it first appeared. I didn't know there was a time limit!"