Plot Time

Albert Einstein amazed the world in 1905 when he published his paper on special relativity, which predicted - among other things - that time was, indeed, relative.

The writers, however, were left unimpressed, because they have been familiar with a similar principle for ages untold: for you see, it is a trivial matter to derive from the Theory of Narrative Causality that - just as things happen because the plot damn well needs them to - they also happen when it is convenient for the story.

This phenomenon is known as Plot Time, and it crops up in a lot of Tropes, such as:


 * Comic Book Time
 * Conversation Cut
 * Correlation-Causation Gag
 * Frozen in Time
 * Inaction Sequence
 * Just in Time
 * Plot Detour
 * Real Time
 * Refugee From Time
 * Ridiculously-Fast Construction
 * Sneeze Cut
 * Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome
 * Talking Is a Free Action
 * Time Skip
 * Transformation At the Speed of Plot
 * Transformation Is a Free Action
 * Traveling At the Speed of Plot
 * Video Game Time
 * Webcomic Time

Not to be confused with Time Travel Tropes, though the two do frequently cooperate. Compare 24-Hour Trope Clock, for how times are used in plots.