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Sometimes, however, the plot demands time to freeze during a scene with no cops shooting bullets to stop in mid-air or falling debris that refuses to fall or clumsy waitresses who drop glasses of water and are comically frozen in an awkward pose trying to catch it. Movies can avoid this easily; they may just refrain filming a timestopped sequence without these visual aids, or perhaps zoom the camera in a bug that froze above the hero's head. Videogames that offer timestop as an ability have no such luxury; a player could try and stop time anywhere from a crowded street to a small empty room, and, as such, a new visual representation is needed.
One common solution for that is to simply colour the area affected by the timestop with a filter, and thus we have a convenient [[Colour
These usually come in two flavors: either the timestopped area changes from colourful to a grayscale or sepira-toned zone, or it may have all of its colours turned negative. These are ''not'' the only kind of [[Colour
Please note that this trope applies to any [[
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