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* Planet Namek during the Frieza Saga of ''[[Dragonball Z]]''; the planet was about to be destroyed, with "five minutes" mentioned at least once, for ''ten episodes''. Indeed, one episode had "two minutes" mentioned at the beginning, and "one minute" mentioned at the end.
* Subverted in ''[[My-HiME]]'': the time until Artemis the [[Kill Sat]] is ready to fire is announced, then it gets prepared earlier than expected, catching the protagonists (and the viewers) off guard. It is explained that "just because it's a satellite doesn't mean it moves at a constant rate".
* In later episodes of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
* In ''[[Saint Seiya]]'', some manner of contrived [[Heroic Sacrifice]] (or enemy deathtrap) will kill Saori Kido, reincarnation of the Goddess Athena, [[When the Clock Strikes Twelve]]. And it's always ''exactly'' twelve hours. To the ''second''.
* In ''[[Naruto|Naruto Shippuden]]'', in the battle between [[The Medic|Sakura]] and [[Marionette Master|Sasori]], Sakura takes an antidote that blocks Sasori's poison-based attacks for ''exactly'' three minutes, Sakura can tell exactly how much time has gone by, she even ''counts down the final seconds before the antidote wears off''
* In ''[[Sky Girls]]'', each pilot's nanoskin gel—which shields the girls' skin from extreme conditions—expires in exactly twenty-one minutes and thirty-two seconds. After the gel expires, operating the [[Mini-Mecha|Sonic Diver]] is equivalent to suicide: nothing protects their bodies when flying at hundreds of kilometres per hour at high altitude.
* Subverted in the ''[[Read or Die]]'' OVA, where, even though the
* In ''[[Summer Wars]]'', this is a double subversion with the counter stopping with 15 minutes left, only to continue again to stop at a dramatic three seconds.
* In the last couple of episodes of ''[[Science Ninja Team Gatchaman]]'', Leader X attempts to destroy Earth by dropping nuclear bombs into the mantle. The result is supposed to be equivalent to a black hole. Suffice it to say that every bomb
* In the second ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' movie, ''Our War Game'' (and the second part of ''Digimon The Movie''), Diablomon has launched a nuke at Japan from the United States and a five-minute countdown starts up, letting the Chosen Children know that they only have that long before they're wiped off the map. When Omegamon stabs Diablomon in the head, he stops the countdown with one second remaining and the nuke flops harmlessly into the water.
* Played realistically in ''[[Planetes]]'': when a ship is going to crash into a lunar colony, the countdown isn't until the collision, it's to when it will be too late to stop it. By that point, the ship is still a very good distance away.
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