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'''Obelix:''' Either that or these Romans have learnt to build very fast.|''The Twelve Tasks of [[Asterix]]''}}

 

* In ''[[The Dandy (comics)|The Dandy]]'' there was a Molly cartoon where she demanded she have her own award ceremony. So she managed to get a construction company to build a building (for the awards ceremony) by the evening.

* Like all Western tropes, it was parodied in [[Lucky Luke]], where the title character was more or less forcibly put into the law-enforcing position. A patch of desert one day becomes a little town the next, with various incidents: a man going to sleep on the ground and waking up to find the place has become an expensive hotel whose owner is urging him to pay; clients waiting impatiently at the bar in a saloon while the walls are being built around them; customers (including a ''robber'') waiting impatiently for the local bank to finish being built and open; and, of course, houses built any old how directly against each other.

'''Official''': Is that really necessary, Luke? The street is where accidents happen... }}

* In ''[[Tintin]] in America'', the discovery of oil in a piece of [[Injun Country]] leads to its overnight conversion into a bustling small city (the Indians are forced to leave within an hour).