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== Anime and Manga ==
* Averted in ''[[Lucky Star (Anime)|Lucky Star]]'', where Konata is increasingly annoyed by the realistically fluctuating progress bar on her PC.
* ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'', which normally takes a tremendous amount of liberties with how computers and networks work, averts this at least once. Progress on a set of calculations is shown in the normal way a computer would display it...with a heavily chunked progress bar, the end segment blinking, and stuck at a certain percent. No estimated time is shown.
 
== Film ==
* In the ''[[Iron Man (Filmfilm)|Iron Man]]'' movie, during the final upload to the Mark I suit, the progress bar very visibly speeds up and jumps toward the end.
* Parodied in ''[[Office Space]]''. When Peter tries to leave before Lumbergh catches him, it appears that his progress bar will finish in time. Then it restarts... and restarts again... and again...
 
== Literature ==
* One of the ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]'' novels has Sydney trying to upload a virus to a computer while pretending to be one of the spies for the Russian organization. Most of the tension of the scene is caused by the progress bar jumping back and slowing down at random, while the biggest threat to her cover is on her way to check the computer.
 
== Live-Action TV ==
* in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Willow has to try doing research without magic after her brush with "addiction". When a progress bar stops about halfway, she reaches her hand up to speed it along with magic, but then it suddenly finishes loading.
* Used and averted on [[Caprica]]. Several times characters get frustrated because a progress bar sticks at 95% or so before resuming and completing.
* Apparently not even [[Higher-Tech Species]] are immune: at one point in ''[[Stargate SG -1]]'', an Asgard progress bar is shown at around 75% for a few minutes, then abruptly increases to 100% in a couple of seconds.
 
== Video Games ==
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* Used hilariously in ''[[Modern Warfare]] 2''. On one mission you're tasked with defending a computer system as it downloads files, but the 'time remaining' jumps all over the place as the transfer rate fluctuates. It flits between seven seconds and ''nine hours'' in one extreme example - this is clearly a humorous 'replication' of the Microsoft file transfer progress bar - the worst known example of an actual progress bar.
** It gets more ridiculous in harder difficulties. In "recruit" (Easy) it's pretty close to the real version. In "Veteran" (Expert) it can reach up to several days <ref>counted in hours</ref> and work slowly downward from there (just to make fighting off a full army of guys who can kill you in a few shots that much harder).
* [[Product Placement]] in [[Wipeout (Video Game)|Wipeout]] went overboard when the commercial videos introduced in a post-release update played during the loading screen...and the loading bar would ''stop'' near the end as the video finished, whereas the bar had been perfectly accurate beforehand. The ads were since removed because players noticed this detail and [[Internet Backdraft|felt anger about it.]] The game has was later updated to support new advertisements.
* The first ''[[Wario Ware (Video Game)|Wario Ware]]'' had menus modeled on a typical computer interface (the story being that Wario was programming the games, and you were working as a tester). When unlocking things, a progress bar would appear, and slow down and speed up while the new objects "loaded". The one for the title screen (if you don't skip the intro) moved at a constant rate, though.
 
== Web Comics ==
* Parodied in [http://xkcd.com/612/ this] ''[[Xkcd (Webcomic)|Xkcd]]''.
* Played straight and later lampshaded in ''[[Homestuck (Webcomic)|Homestuck]]''. When Terezi's lusus hatches (and proceeds to be killed in a [[Blatant Lies|totally surprising plot twist]]) the doomsday timer activates, and it doesn't occur to Terezi at all to think about whether it brings about the apocalypse, or is simply the precisely calibrated timer to the end.
 
== Web Original ==
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