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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'' does it a lot. Who knew [[Mundane Made Awesome|eating potato chips]] could be so epic? Though it should be noted the original manga doesn't do nearly as much.
 
 
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* [[Trope Maker|Pioneered]] by Sam Peckinpah in films like ''[[The Wild Bunch]]''.
** And [[Trope Codifier|codified]] and then [[Egregious|egregiouslyegregious]]ly utilised by [[Guy Ritchie]].
* Another famous usage is in Scorsese's [[Raging Bull]].
* [[Zack Snyder]] <ref>[[Mark Kermode|"Zacksynierzacksynierzacksynier!"]]</ref>
** ''[[Three Hundred|300]]'' and all of its [[Satire, Parody, Pastiche|parodies and pastiches]]. Done to emulate a comic book panel into the movie.
** And from the same director, [[Watchmen (Filmfilm)|Watchmen]].
** And ''[[Sucker Punch]]'' too.
* The ''[[Charlies Angels|Charlie's Angels]]'' movies. Almost anything directed by McG would fall in here due to his background as a [[Music Video]] director.
* ''[[James Bond|Die Another Day]]''.
* Used during several action scenes in ''[[The Matrix]]'' movies. Examples include characters leaping high in the air and smashing down, and three fights between Neo and Agent Smith: in the subway station in ''[[The Matrix]]'', dozens of Agent Smiths in the "Burly Brawl" sequence in ''[[The Matrix]] Reloaded'', and the final battle in ''[[The Matrix]] Revolutions''.
* Used in ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'' during one of the later scenes, when the Heroes have finally broken out the big guns and firing off shotguns at the villagers.
* ''[[Wanted]]'': A heavily worked trope in the film version. The assassins of the story explicitly train in the use of Adrenaline Time and the director loves to explore the visuals.
** Yeah, Timur Bekmambetov is quite fond of this Trope. See [[Day Watch]] and [[Night Watch (Literaturenovel)|Night Watch]].
* ''[[Crank (Film)|Crank]]'', [[Incredibly Lame Pun|appropriately enough]].
* An example where the audience is not meant to interpret it as the result of editing, but rather as being "real" in the film's universe: At one point in the seventh ''[[Harry Potter (Filmfilm)|Harry Potter]]'' film, a [[Mook]] crashes through a window to attack Kingsley Shacklebolt, who hits him with a spell that causes him to slow down, momentarily freeze in the air, then fly back in fast-reverse, with the shards of glass re-forming the window.
 
== Live Action TV ==
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* ''[[CSI: Miami]]'' does this practically every episode with helicopter establishing shots.
* The TV show ''[[Legend of the Seeker]]'', based on the ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' novels, feature these kinds of scenes pretty extensively.
* ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'': The fight scenes started using this trope somewhere in the latter part of its third season.
* The series ''[[Spartacus Blood and Sand (TV)|Spartacus: Blood and Sand]]'' makes extensive use of this in every single fight scene.
* [[Keen Eddie]]
* ''[[Bitchin' Kitchen (TV)|Bitchin Kitchen]]'':Liberally applied to show the full prepwork and cooking process within seconds instead of minutes or hours.
 
== Video Games ==
 
* ''[[Achron]]'': A common tactic, since all players have the capability of modifying the rate they travel through time. This leads to players dropping into slow motion during pitch battles to better micromanage their forces, then jumping into fast forward after the battle is over to catch up to the present again.
* Played with in ''[[First Encounter Assault Recon|F.E.A.R.]]'' - when the player's "Reflex" ability is activated, everything slows down, but for a half-second after the "reflex" ability is turned off, everything speeds up faster than normal, before "snapping" back to regular speed.<br /><br />Very more obvious with certain [[Videogame Set Piece|Videogame Setpieces]], especially when Alma is involved. There is one case in ''Perseus Mandate'' where [[Player Character|the F.E.A.R. Sergeant]] is suddenly brought in front of a bloodied operation room: a patient is seen walking towards the Sergeant before stopping in front of a glass door that separates the two of them. The patient's movement was [[Under Crank|Undercranked]].
 
* In ''[[Final Fantasy XIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XIII]]'', [[The Hero|Lightning's]] [[Limit Break|Army of One]] uses this. Because you can still input commands while it's going, it also gives you a huge advantage in terms of speed and timing. Kind of an [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] [[Interface Screw]].▼
Very more obvious with certain [[Videogame Set Piece|Videogame Setpieces]], especially when Alma is involved. There is one case in ''Perseus Mandate'' where [[Player Character|the F.E.A.R. Sergeant]] is suddenly brought in front of a bloodied operation room: a patient is seen walking towards the Sergeant before stopping in front of a glass door that separates the two of them. The patient's movement was [[Under Crank|Undercranked]].
▲* In ''[[Final Fantasy XIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XIII]]'', [[The Hero|Lightning's]] [[Limit Break|Army of One]] uses this. Because you can still input commands while it's going, it also gives you a huge advantage in terms of speed and timing. Kind of an [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] [[Interface Screw]].
* ''[[Prototype]]'' uses this during charged attacks and targeting, as well as when you start getting your ass kicked. It's actually quite helpful in both cases.
 
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