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[[File:warudo2 2691.png|link=JoJo's Bizarre Adventure|frame|If you had to bet, in which image has time stopped moving?]]
{{quote|''"Time stopped. Coates faded, in a world made up of shades of gray."''
It's hard for authors to make it clear that time has [[Time Stands Still|stopped moving]] or merely slowed down from the character's point of view, and that's because...well, because it doesn't happen in [[Real Life]], time being, in fact, famous for waiting for no man.
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Please note that this trope applies to any [[Color-Coded for Your Convenience|Colour-Coded]] [[Bullet Time]] as well
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== Grayscale Timestop ==
=== Anime and Manga ===
* In ''[[Shakugan no Shana]]'', this happens to all of the affected world and characters during the geographically limited time stops employed to limit damage to the [[Masquerade]].▼
=== Literature ===
* ''[[Night Watch (Discworld)|Night Watch]]'': Vimes sees the world as grey during a brief timestopped sequence.▼
=== Video Games ===
* ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'': The titular object, when activated.
* ''[[TimeShift]]'': Also added a white haze (stop time), red shift (reverse time), and blue shift (slow time).
* ''[[Devil May Cry]] 4'': Using the devices to slow down time results in a grayscale effect and goes frther by making it seem like you're watching an old-timey movie.
▲* ''[[Discworld|Night Watch]]'': Vimes sees the world as grey during a brief timestopped sequence.
* ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'': Slowing down time makes everything fade into greyscale, and the music matches it by changing into a tinny, flat-sounding version of the normal BGM.
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass|The Legend of Zelda Phantom Hourglass]]'' used the grayscale version.
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* In ''[[Rosenkreuzstilette]]'', this happens when Sichte Meister uses her [[Time Stands Still|Time Stop]] ability.
* Primarily used for the Chrono Samurai's power in ''[[Gotcha Force]]''. The projectiles were affected by the Negative Color version, however, to signal that the Chrono Samurai could still be hurt by colliding with them.
* [[Justice League]] episode ''Only A Dream'' part 2; the Flash's nightmare where he sped up too much, so that, to him, the world was frozen. Once he understands what is happening, the world changes to grayscale.▼
=== Western Animation ===
▲* In ''[[Shakugan no Shana]]'', this happens to all of the affected world and characters during the geographically limited time stops employed to limit damage to the [[Masquerade]].
▲* ''[[Justice League (animation)|Justice League]]'' second season, episode ''Only
== Negative Colour Timestop ==
=== Anime and Manga ===
* ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'': '''ZA WARUDO!!'''▼
* ''[[C the Money And Soul of Possibility]]'': Asset Q's "Economic Blockade" does the color shift and paralyzes Yoga and Mayu, but they still talk, somehow...despite their bodies not moving at all.▼
=== Video Games ===
* ''[[Super Smash Bros Brawl]]'': Luigi's [[Limit Break|Final Smash]] is a ball of negative colors, inside which time slows down. Also adds random status effects.
* ''[[Devil May Cry]] 3'': Quicksilver ability.
* ''[[Castlevania]] [[Aria of Sorrow]]'' and ''[[Dawn of Sorrow]]''.
▲* ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'': '''ZA WARUDO!!'''
▲* ''[[C the Money And Soul of Possibility]]'': Asset Q's "Economic Blockade" does the color shift and paralyzes Yoga and Mayu, but they still talk, somehow...despite their bodies not moving at all.
== Other Colors ==
=== Anime and Manga ===
* During Terry Pratchett's novel ''Thief Of Time'', the {{spoiler|title-inspiring}} apprentice Lobsang learns to slow time around him to an almost-standstill, with the sky and air becoming a deeper blue as he slices seconds even finer. {{spoiler|It even becomes a deep purple when he slices so finely that time starts to approach a full stop.}}▼
* In ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'', whenever the Time Card was used, all the things affected by it get covered in yellow.▼
* Guldo's time stopping powers in ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' turn the area purple until he has to breathe again.▼
=== Fan Works ===
* During a fight in a timestop in Chapter 1 of ''[[Drunkard's Walk|Drunkard's Walk V: Another Divine Mess You've Gotten Me Into]]'', protagonist Doug Sangnoir notes:
{{quote|Timestops are weird... Everything takes on a bluish cast -- in this case even deeper than the combination of my combat hype and the fading twilight had already given it.}}
=== Literature ===
▲* During Terry Pratchett's novel ''[[Thief
** Although this was not, strictly speaking, a direct result of Lobsang's slicing. He was just moving so fast that he blueshifted.
* In the John D. MacDonald story ''The Girl, The Gold Watch, And Everything'', the titular watch seems to stop time, but actually speeds the user up to the point where it ''seems'' that time has stopped. One of the side effects is that (to the user) everything appears red, due to some sort of effect on photon speeds.▼
** [[Spider Robinson]]'s ''[[Callahan's Crosstime Saloon|Callahan's]]''-universe novel ''Lady Slings the Booze'' features a very similar watch (with explicit reference to MacDonald's story) with the same effect.▼
* In Scott Westerfeld's ''[[Midnighters]]'', time stopping is signified by a blue haze.▼
=== Video Games ===
* In ''[[Blinx the Time Sweeper]]'', each Time Control tints the world a different colour: purple REW, orange FF, blue PAUSE, green REC, and yellow SLOW. RETRY has no colour, but Blinx 2's Retry is orange.
* Similarly, in ''[[Bunny Must Die]]'', the time powers are colour-coded blue for stopped, pink for rewinding, yellow for slowed and so on.
* Singularity pulses in ''[[Singularity]]'' wash over everything in blue-white. Then, time either stops, goes backwards, or [[Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory|goes crazy]].
* In ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'', [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=825 Coyote's time-freeze] causes the world to turn blue-gray.▼
▲* In ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'', whenever the Time Card was used, all the things affected by it get covered in yellow.
▲* In the John D. MacDonald story ''The Girl, The Gold Watch, And Everything'', the titular watch seems to stop time, but actually speeds the user up to the point where it ''seems'' that time has stopped. One of the side effects is that (to the user) everything appears red, due to some sort of effect on photon speeds.
▲** [[Spider Robinson]]'s ''[[Callahan's Crosstime Saloon|Callahan's]]''-universe novel ''Lady Slings the Booze'' features a very similar watch (with explicit reference to MacDonald's story) with the same effect.
▲* Guldo's time stopping powers in ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' turn the area purple until he has to breathe again.
* ''[[Max Payne (series)|Max Payne]] 2'' uses a slight sepia filter for [[Bullet Time]].
* [[Bullet Time|Witch Time]] in ''[[Bayonetta]]'' throws a purple/blue tint over everything, with a translucent clock covering the screen to show how much time you have left.▼
▲* In Scott Westerfeld's [[Midnighters]], time stopping is signified by a blue haze.
▲* [[Bullet Time|Witch Time]] in [[Bayonetta]] throws a purple/blue tint over everything, with a translucent clock covering the screen to show how much time you have left.
* The [[True Final Boss]] from ''[[Asura's Wrath]]'' uses a blue color with his timestop attack.
=== Web Comics ===
▲* In ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'', [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=825 Coyote's time-freeze] causes the world to turn blue-gray.
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