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Since Tropes Are Flexible, I think Year Inside, Hour Outside would still apply here.
Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one to be wrong with authority.^ IDK if it's that flexible, though. This seems like a separate concept; something similar happened in Doctor Who and it may be worth a TLP.
Edited by WarJay77 Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallGoing over the TLP guidelines (I'm not familiar with writing up drafts), it says it would require at least three examples, and I'm honestly not fully sure I can identify another example of this phenomenon if it isn't just something else, haha. I don't watch Doctor Who; if I can find a way to locate that example Warjay's talking about, I could write up a draft and potentially gather more info on if this trope is actually a "thing".
Thanks for playing Kings Quest V!I mean, I can always just PM you with the example so you can stick it on the draft.
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I'm reading The Human Target (2021), and there's an issue where the main character (Christopher Chance) and Martian Manhunter (the latter is psychic) are on the surface having a casual dinner, but the latter is invoking a Battle in the Center of the Mind that leads to Chance processing a lot of different thoughts. The comic is punctuated/book-ended by the image of Chance passing the salt, implying that the entire crazy psychic duel they experienced for the issue took place in less than a second in real time.
I remember seeing a similar thing in Knives Out, where when Benoit is interrogating Marta, the camera dramatically focuses in on him flipping a coin into the air before entering a long and important flashback from Marta's POV. When the flashback ends, the scene returns to the coin falling and Benoit finally catching it before Marta gives her answer, highlighting that she flashed back to the whole thing within the time of the single coin flip.
It's a neat trope, but I'm not sure if it's a thing or not. Closest I can think of is Year Inside, Hour Outside, and I'm not sure if that fully counts since that trope is usually about being in a different room or dimension, not necessarily someone's thought; plus I'm thinking about the object/action that gives the discrepancy context (in this case, the passing of the salt shaker and the coin flip).
Edited by number9robotic