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This doesn't have to involve an actually displayed timer. Sometimes a character will just yell that "There's only ten seconds left!" and the heroes will prevent the calamity 25 seconds later.
A variation is the fuse or a trail of gasoline which burns slower or faster when the camera's not on it. Another common visual equivalent is the falling object or descending gate which is accelerating down at something.
This can be [[Hand Wave|handwaved]] by arguing that part of the fight scene (since rarely are there splitscreens showing the fight ''and'' the timer) started when or before the last shot of the timer was shown, thus, the fight and the countdown are happening at the same time chronologically but are shown separately to build tension and suspense (an editing technique known as [[wikipedia:Cross-cutting|"cross-cutting"]]).
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