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== Anime and Manga ==
* Miki from ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' carries a pocket watch-like stopwatch and, during student council meetings, spontaneously clicks it. He seems to click it a lot before speaking himself, taking control of the conversation, and he also clicks it to note important narrative points about to be delivered (such as the first time Nemura Hall is explained). During the last episodes, while the whole of the student council sits around idly waiting for the revolution to occur, Miki is seen just gazing at the watch as it spins.
* The [[Enigmatic Empowering Entity|Enigmatic Empowering Entities]] of ''[[Digimon Xros Wars:
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[The Batman]]'' had a single-episode villain named Francis Grey, a clock repairman who (after spending 17 years repairing clocks in prison for stealing a watch to try to pay for his mounting bills) became so obsessed with time he eventually discovered he could see how time itself functioned and thus how to rewind it. He then embarks on a plan to get revenge on Gotham for all the time they took away from him, and thanks to his ability to rewind time by 20 seconds at will he actually ''succeeds'' in killing Batman and the rest of Gotham as well.
* [[Big Bad|Nox]] was originally a very mundane and amiable watchmaker, but by the time ''[[Wakfu]]'' starts he's [[Mad Scientist|fully into]] [[Time Master|this trope]].
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