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** The Hueco Mundo Arc took eight volumes to cover a single day.

** The two arcs after top the above with a single day covered in 11 volumes.

* The Piccolo Daimaoh and Boo arcs in ''[[~~Dragonball~~]]'' take 3 days each, the same days at that: May 7th to May 9th. One of many odd parallels across both arcs.

* The Piccolo Daimaoh and Boo arcs in ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' take 3 days each, the same days at that: May 7th to May 9th. One of many odd parallels across both arcs.

* [[Fullmetal Alchemist (~~Manga~~)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]. While the series as a whole covers a few years, the last sixteen or so episodes (minus the epilogue) seem to span only a couple days.

* [[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]. While the series as a whole covers a few years, the last sixteen or so episodes (minus the epilogue) seem to span only a couple days.

* The Festival [[Arc]] in ''[[Negima]]'' was exactly 3 days June 20-22, 2003 ([[Time Travel]] was involved) that covered half the manga up to that point (9 Volumes).

** Taken [[Up to Eleven]] in manga chapter 310, which spans ''several seconds''.

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* [[Disney]]'s [[Tangled]], except for the prologue back story, takes place in less than three days.

* A majority of ''[[The Polar Express]]'' takes place five minutes till midnight. Justified that Christmas Eve is a [[A Wizard Did It|magical night after all]].

* ''[[~~The Great Mouse Detective (Disney)|~~The Great Mouse Detective]]'', especially if you consider that the movie's events take place at night, and not once is the sun ever shown.

* ''[[The Great Mouse Detective]]'', especially if you consider that the movie's events take place at night, and not once is the sun ever shown.

* ''[[Monsters Inc.]]'' takes place over three very hectic days.

* ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]'' takes place over three very hectic days.

* [[Disney]]'s ''[[Snow White ~~and The Seven Dwarfs~~ (Disney)|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs]]'' takes 3-2 days to come to it's resolve.

* [[Disney]]'s ''[[Snow White (Disney film)|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs]]'' takes 3-2 days to come to it's resolve.

== Films -- Live-Action ==

* The screen adaption of ''[[The Crimson Rivers]]'' manages to pack ''a lot'' of plot into mere 24 hours. In fact, it is only confirmed by [[Word of God]] in a post-release commentary.

* The movie ''[[Clue (~~Film~~)|Clue]]'' takes place in a single evening, with no flash-backs.

* The movie ''[[Clue (film)|Clue]]'' takes place in a single evening, with no flash-backs.

** ''[[Murder By Death]]'' is similar, on many levels.

* The film ''[[Nine Queens]]'' is a caper thriller that takes place in a bit more than 24 hours, from the dawn of one day to mid-morning of the next one.

* ''[[~~Twelve~~ Angry Men]]'' in one afternoon

* ''[[12 Angry Men]]'' in one afternoon

** Also in [[Real Time]]

* ''[[Alien (~~Film~~)|Alien]]''

* ''[[Alien (franchise)|Alien]]''

* ''[[~~Die Hard (Film)|~~Die Hard]]''

* ''[[Die Hard]]''

* ''[[Reservoir Dogs]]''

* ''[[Bicycle Thieves]]''

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* ''[[Hard Candy]]''

* ''[[Cellular]]''

* ''[[Ferris Bueller's Day Off ~~(Film)~~|Ferris Buellers Day Off]]'' in less than 12 hours.

* ''[[Ferris Bueller's Day Off|Ferris Buellers Day Off]]'' in less than 12 hours.

* ''[[Dr. Strangelove]]''

* ''[[The Terminator]]''

* ''[[~~Eighty Eight Minutes|~~88 Minutes]]'' (actually a liitle more than 88 minutes)

* ''[[88 Minutes]]'' (actually a liitle more than 88 minutes)

* ''[[Eleven Fourteen|11:14]]'' is an extreme version. It's a full-length movie, but due to being [[The Rashomon]] with [[Loads and Loads of Characters]], the events of about a quarter of an hour (at most) covered in [[Real Time]], fills a feature-length film.

* A lot of movies are set over a single day (''[[Clerks]]'', ''[[The Breakfast Club]]'', ''[[Falling Down]]'') or a single night (''[[After Hours]]'', ''[[American Graffiti]]'') and a lot of others cover a roughly twenty four hour period (''[[Superbad]]'', ''[[I Love You Beth Cooper]]'').

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* ''[[Training Day]]'', as the name suggests, takes place over the course of a day.

* ''[[The House of Yes]]'' mostly takes place over a single, Thanksgiving night.

* So far in the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]] has three movies taking place at the same time. ''[[The Incredible Hulk (~~Film~~)|The Incredible Hulk]]'', ''[[Iron Man (~~Film~~)|Iron Man 2]]'', and ''[[Thor (~~Film~~)|Thor]]'' all take place roughly within the span of the same week.

* So far in the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]] has three movies taking place at the same time. ''[[The Incredible Hulk (film)|The Incredible Hulk]]'', ''[[Iron Man (film)|Iron Man 2]]'', and ''[[Thor (film)|Thor]]'' all take place roughly within the span of the same week.

** Well, sort of. ''Thor'' begins a day or so before the end of ''Iron Man 2'', shortly before Justin Hammer makes his debut at Stark Expo; Agent Coulson was with Tony up until shortly before that point, so he may have gone straight from California to New Mexico when he was done babysitting Stark. ''The Incredible Hulk'', however, could be taking place at any time during the six months between Tony Stark's press conference at the end of ''Iron Man'' and the senatorial hearing at the beginning of ''Iron Man 2''.

** The Marvel One-Shot ''The Consultant'' has Coulson still in New Mexico (after the events of ''Thor'') when Stark goes talking to Thunderbolt Ross in ''Hulk''.

* The first two ''[[Evil Dead]]'' movies take place over the course of one night a piece. ''[[Army of Darkness]]'' probably only takes place in the span of about three days (minus the epilogue), making the entire series happen in about a week.

* ''[[Can't Hardly Wait]]'' takes place over a 24-hour period, although there's a brief flashback or two.

* As the title suggests, ''[[Miss Pettigrew Lives for A Day]]'' takes place over one day.

* As the title suggests, ''[[Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day]]'' takes place over one day.

* With the possible exception of the final scene, most of ''[[Mystery Team]]'' takes place over the course of a few days.

* Also, it's maybe more like 36 hours, since there's some footage of the next day, but ''Shampoo'' pretty much takes place over the course of one day.

* The majority of ''[[Primer]]'' takes place over about three days. [[Timey-Wimey Ball|Multiple times]]. [[Mind Screw|Probably.]]

* If you exclude the first few opening scenes and the epilogue, ''[[Harry Potter (~~Film~~)|Harry Potter]] and the [[Deathly Hallows]]: Part 2'' takes place over the course of less than twenty-four hours. This is also true with the book, as noted below in literature.

* If you exclude the first few opening scenes and the epilogue, ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter]] and the [[Deathly Hallows]]: Part 2'' takes place over the course of less than twenty-four hours. This is also true with the book, as noted below in literature.

* ''[[Buffalo 66]]'' takes place over 24 hours, flashbacks notwithstanding.

* ''[[Buffalo '66]]'' takes place over 24 hours, flashbacks notwithstanding.

* ''[[~~Run Lola Run (Film)|~~Run Lola Run]]'' covers the "same" twenty minutes three times.

* ''[[Run Lola Run]]'' covers the "same" twenty minutes three times.

* ''[[Adventures in Babysitting]]'' takes place over a span of several hours at the end of one day.

* ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'' takes place over a span of about two days, though isn't told in chronological order.

** Although a popular theory claims that Butch's story takes place days or even weeks after the others.

* ''[[~~Its~~ a Mad Mad Mad Mad World]]'' takes place in a single day.

* ''[[It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World]]'' takes place in a single day.

** [[Spiritual Successor]] ''[[Rat Race]]'' too, though apparently it's a longer period (it even gets dark) and features one flashback.

* ''[[Rope]]'', which is also mostly in [[Real Time]].

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== Literature ==

* Each book in [[The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel]] series takes place with a timespan of two days. This is ''very'' ironic, since the plot involves supernatural Elders that had been waiting for thousands of years.

* Each of the ''[[~~Artemis Fowl (Literature)|~~Artemis Fowl]]'' books take place in three days, if not less. Although in the Lost Colony {{spoiler|three years pass for the rest of the world while the trip in Hybras only lasted minutes for Artemis. Also, time was flowing differently there so it passed differently for their minds and bodies. As Artemis figured out: An hour per second for a count of forty, followed by a deceleration to thirty minutes per second for a count of eighteen, then a slight jump backwards in time, one minute per second back for a count of two. Then it repeats.}}

* Each of the ''[[Artemis Fowl]]'' books take place in three days, if not less. Although in the Lost Colony {{spoiler|three years pass for the rest of the world while the trip in Hybras only lasted minutes for Artemis. Also, time was flowing differently there so it passed differently for their minds and bodies. As Artemis figured out: An hour per second for a count of forty, followed by a deceleration to thirty minutes per second for a count of eighteen, then a slight jump backwards in time, one minute per second back for a count of two. Then it repeats.}}

* Similar to the above, the book series ''[[Dreamhouse Kings]]'' have each of its books taking place in a timespan of usually no more than three days. [[The Scrappy|Blame Xander and his constant reckness]].

* The book ''[[After Dark]]'' by [[Haruki Murakami]] takes place over the course of one night.

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* ''[[The House of Night]]'' is a pretty big offender. While there are pretty big jumps in time between the books, the novels themselves pretty much take place over four or five days each, roughly.

* The ''[[Malazan Book of the Fallen|Malazan]]'' sidetrack novel ''Night of Knives'' takes place within 24 hours, which is unusual for a series known for taking huge and epic [[Up to Eleven]].

* [[Stephen King]]'s book ''[[~~The Regulators (Literature)|~~The Regulators]]'' takes place over the course of a single day, while ''[[The Running Man (~~Literature~~)|The Running Man]]'' (written under his Bachmann pen name) happens within three days or so.

* [[Stephen King]]'s book ''[[The Regulators]]'' takes place over the course of a single day, while ''[[The Running Man (novel)|The Running Man]]'' (written under his Bachmann pen name) happens within three days or so.

* Georges Perec's ''Life: A User's Manual'' technically takes place over the course of a few seconds on the evening of June 23rd, 1975, though largely told through flashbacks.

* While the trope's averted in the second book, [[Stuck]] uses this twice:

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== Live-Action TV ==

* ''[[~~Twenty Four|~~24]]'' is most likely the most well-known example of this trope, as each season takes place, wait for it, [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|in twenty-four hours]].

* ''[[24]]'' is most likely the most well-known example of this trope, as each season takes place, wait for it, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|in twenty-four hours]].

* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'', the first half of series 1, 3, 4 and 5 (from the companions introduction to the episode where they reunite them with their parents or fiancé) take place pretty much over three, maybe four days from the Doctor and companion's viewpoint with little or no off-screen adventuring.

** Prior to the [[Time Skip]], the Harold Saxon arc encompassing series 3 occurs over a couple of days (from Saxon and his cronies' viewpoint).

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== Theater ==

* Aristotle wrote in his ''[[~~Poetics (Literature)|~~Poetics]]'' that tragedy tends to take place over a short period of time (no more than a day), as contrasted with epic poetry which generally takes place over a much longer period. In the Renaissance, this was taken by many dramatists to be a hard-and-fast rule (the "[[wikipedia:Classical unities|classical unity of time]]") though Aristotle seems not to have intended it as such. As a result, virtually all Renaissance drama from continental Europe is an example of this trope; English drama developed independently, and as a result is less likely to follow the unities especially in its earlier forms.

* Aristotle wrote in his ''[[Poetics]]'' that tragedy tends to take place over a short period of time (no more than a day), as contrasted with epic poetry which generally takes place over a much longer period. In the Renaissance, this was taken by many dramatists to be a hard-and-fast rule (the "[[wikipedia:Classical unities|classical unity of time]]") though Aristotle seems not to have intended it as such. As a result, virtually all Renaissance drama from continental Europe is an example of this trope; English drama developed independently, and as a result is less likely to follow the unities especially in its earlier forms.

* [[Lampshaded]] and parodied in [[Niccolo Machiavelli]]'s satire ''Mandragola''. It takes place over the course of ''two'' days, so it apparently violates the classical Unity of Time rule; however, Machiavelli inserts a monologue in which he explains that none of the characters are actually going to sleep that night, so it doesn't ''really'' violate it.

* ''[[~~Whos~~ Afraid of Virginia Woolf]]?'' sets over a single night.

* ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]?'' sets over a single night.

* ''[[~~The Barber of Seville (Theatre)|~~The Barber of Seville]]'' takes place over a single day, starting at dawn and ending at midnight.

* ''[[The Barber of Seville]]'' takes place over a single day, starting at dawn and ending at midnight.

* The protagonists of ''[[On the Town]]'' have only twenty-four hours for their adventures.

* Euripides' ''[[~~Medea (Theatre)|~~Medea]]'' takes place over the course of one day

* Euripides' ''[[Medea]]'' takes place over the course of one day

* Jez Butterworth's new play ''[[Jerusalem (~~Theatre~~)|Jerusalem]]'' takes place over the course of a single day. It's still three hours long, mind you.

* Jez Butterworth's new play ''[[Jerusalem (theatre)|Jerusalem]]'' takes place over the course of a single day. It's still three hours long, mind you.

* Shakespeare's ''[[The Tempest]]'' is said to take place over the course of approximately 3 hours, which is barely longer than its running time.

== Videogames ==

* ''[[~~Luigis~~ Mansion ~~(Video Game)~~|Luigis Mansion]]'', which apparently took place over the course of just a single night according to the ending. The mansion itself vanishes as well.

* ''[[Luigi's Mansion|Luigis Mansion]]'', which apparently took place over the course of just a single night according to the ending. The mansion itself vanishes as well.

* ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' takes place over one helluva night.

** Same with the second game. The third game takes place over a week, not counting the few days rest the protagonist gets between the prologue and the main game.

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** Furthermore it also takes you a similar amount of time to complete the game.

* The ''[[Halo]]'' trilogy seems to be like this, but [[All There in the Manual|if you read the expanded material]] it's mentioned that the events of the games actually take place over the course of several months, rather than consecutively over the course of a few ''hours'' like it seems in the games.

* ''[[~~Half-Life 2 (Video Game)|~~Half-Life 2]]'' starts in the morning, going through sunset in the boat sequence, night-time in ravenholm, through to day in the car sequence, then night-time again by the time you get to Nova Prospekt. After that is a time-skip, which is instantaneous for Gordon, and the rest of the game takes place from sometime during the day to around sunset. So from Gordon's point of view, the action is over the course of at most about fiftyish hours.

* ''[[Half-Life 2]]'' starts in the morning, going through sunset in the boat sequence, night-time in ravenholm, through to day in the car sequence, then night-time again by the time you get to Nova Prospekt. After that is a time-skip, which is instantaneous for Gordon, and the rest of the game takes place from sometime during the day to around sunset. So from Gordon's point of view, the action is over the course of at most about fiftyish hours.

* ''[[Batman Arkham Asylum]]'' takes place over one night. You can see Batman gain stubble as the night wears on.

* ''[[Batman: Arkham Asylum]]'' takes place over one night. You can see Batman gain stubble as the night wears on.

** Its [[Batman Arkham City|sequel]] takes place over the course of about 12 hours, as announced over intercom by [[Big Bad]] Hugo Strange. If one plays through just the missions that drive the plot forward, this doesn't strain plausibility too much. If one [[Wide Open Sandbox|doesn't]], however...

** Its [[Batman: Arkham City|sequel]] takes place over the course of about 12 hours, as announced over intercom by [[Big Bad]] Hugo Strange. If one plays through just the missions that drive the plot forward, this doesn't strain plausibility too much. If one [[Wide Open Sandbox|doesn't]], however...

* ''[[Prince of Persia]] : Sands of Time'' takes place over one day. You can even see the light changing in each level, from night to morning to midday, finally ending in the evening.

* Everything in ''[[King's Quest IV]]'' takes place in 24 hours.

* ''[[~~Psychonauts (Video Game)|~~Psychonauts]]'' has the first cutscene at night, and the game starts the morning after. By the final cutscene, it's the ''next'' morning.

* ''[[Psychonauts]]'' has the first cutscene at night, and the game starts the morning after. By the final cutscene, it's the ''next'' morning.

* ''[[~~The Legend of Zelda Majoras Mask|~~The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask]]'' takes place over the course of 3 days, in the sense that you only have 3 days of game time to finish up before {{spoiler|the moon crashes down on Termina.}} Since it's not possible to do everything in that 3-day span (not that [http://www.gamefaqs.com/n64/197770-the-legend-of-zelda-majoras-mask/faqs/31495 it] [[Self-Imposed Challenge|hasn't been tried]]), the first iteration shows you how to reset time back to the beginning of day 1.

* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask]]'' takes place over the course of 3 days, in the sense that you only have 3 days of game time to finish up before {{spoiler|the moon crashes down on Termina.}} Since it's not possible to do everything in that 3-day span (not that [http://www.gamefaqs.com/n64/197770-the-legend-of-zelda-majoras-mask/faqs/31495 it] [[Self-Imposed Challenge|hasn't been tried]]), the first iteration shows you how to reset time back to the beginning of day 1.

* Both the ''[[When They Cry|When]] [[Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni|they]] [[Umineko no Naku Koro Ni|cry]]'' series uses this, combined with use of a [[Groundhog Day Loop]].

* Both the ''[[When They Cry|When]] [[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni|they]] [[Umineko no Naku Koro ni|cry]]'' series uses this, combined with use of a [[Groundhog Day Loop]].

* The first ''[[Max Payne (~~Video Game~~)|Max Payne]]'' game took place over the course of three nights (although it includes a flashback to three years prior to that). The sequel lasts about the same amount of time.

* The first ''[[Max Payne (series)|Max Payne]]'' game took place over the course of three nights (although it includes a flashback to three years prior to that). The sequel lasts about the same amount of time.

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