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{{quote| ''"Beyond the Hole is a Moment from the past. The Holes you open must be closed, or time won't start up again. The holder of the Pen must have the Time to use it. Once you've gotten the hang of the Pen, come and rescue us..."''}}

[[Time Hollow]] is a point and-click [[Adventure Game]] for the Nintendo DS. The player takes the role of Ethan Kairos, an [[Ordinary High School Student]] living with his parents, starting on the evening before his seventeenth [[The ~~Heros~~ Birthday|birthday]]. However, during the night, Ethan dreams that his parents are caught in a fire, and upon waking discovers that he lives with his uncle and his parents disappeared twelve years ago. He then inherits a Hollow Pen: an [[Invisible to Normals|invisible]] pen that can create holes through time. With this, Ethan tries to find out what happened to his parents and stop it from occuring. However, a figure from the past is always one step ahead...

[[Time Hollow]] is a point and-click [[Adventure Game]] for the Nintendo DS. The player takes the role of Ethan Kairos, an [[Ordinary High School Student]] living with his parents, starting on the evening before his seventeenth [[The Hero's Birthday|birthday]]. However, during the night, Ethan dreams that his parents are caught in a fire, and upon waking discovers that he lives with his uncle and his parents disappeared twelve years ago. He then inherits a Hollow Pen: an [[Invisible to Normals|invisible]] pen that can create holes through time. With this, Ethan tries to find out what happened to his parents and stop it from occuring. However, a figure from the past is always one step ahead...

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=== The game provides examples of: ===

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** To be fair, it's mostly due to Sox [[Hates Baths|hating baths]] instead of him being truly malicious.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Irving with {{spoiler|the scars under his glove}}.

* [[Close Enough Timeline]]: Ethan doesn't bother to fix the timeline in which Morris has dropped out of school because he seems happier that way.

* [["Close Enough" Timeline]]: Ethan doesn't bother to fix the timeline in which Morris has dropped out of school because he seems happier that way.

* [[Colour-Coded Timestop]]: Everytime time stops, the world turns grey.

* [[Cute Shotaro Boy]]: Complete with cute dog!

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* [[Gainax Ending]]: {{spoiler|So is it Ethan's cousin, or a time duplicate, or what?}}

* [[The Glasses Gotta Go]]: You can make Ethan enforce this trope on Emily by [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|having him steal her glasses from through a Hole]]. You're given several opportunities to give them back, but [[Video Game Cruelty Punishment|if you don't...]]

* [[Hey It's That Voice]]: Ethan is [[Code Geass|Lelouch Lamperouge]]

* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Ethan is [[Code Geass|Lelouch Lamperouge]]

* [[Identical Grandson]]: The most common interpretation of a certain point in the ending.

* [[Idiot Hero]]: There are idiot heroes. And then there is Ethan Kairos. When his friend Morris tells him of a book about parallel universes that might greatly inform his current predicament, Ethan thinks about it for a moment - then decides he can't be bothered to retrieve it from their clubhouse and wants to go to a nearby antique shop instead. He routinely, [[Stupidity Is the Only Option|stubbornly refuses]] to acknowledge the blindingly obvious and just as often fails to do ''anything'' to follow the leads that are actively handed to him.

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* [[Neck Snap]]: This is how {{spoiler|Morris}} gets killed in one of the timelines you must fix.

* [[Never My Fault]]: {{spoiler|Irving, ''big time''.}}

* [[New Game ~~Plus~~]]: After a fashion... {{spoiler|I mean, it's about twenty seconds long and lets you skip the entire game. Does it really count?}}

* [[New Game+]]: After a fashion... {{spoiler|I mean, it's about twenty seconds long and lets you skip the entire game. Does it really count?}}

** There is a second one, which is nearly identical to the first except near the end.

* [[New Transfer Student]]: Kori

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* [[Not Quite Dead]]: {{spoiler|Irving, after falling from a cliff.}}

* [[Not Quite the Right Thing]]: Ethan prevents an accident where a woman he knows dies, but the accident instead injures a boy and kills his dog.

** He also saves someone else's life, but causes his friend to drop out of high school. Unlike with the previous example, [[Close Enough Timeline|Ethan doesn't bother to fix this]].

** He also saves someone else's life, but causes his friend to drop out of high school. Unlike with the previous example, [["Close Enough" Timeline|Ethan doesn't bother to fix this]].

* [[Numerical Theme Naming]]: Irving Onegin, Jack Twombly, Vin and Ashley Threeth, Ben Fourier, Morris Fivet, I can keep going...

* [[Offing the Offspring]]: {{spoiler|Mary Onegin keeps changing the past to cause her and her son's deaths when she realizes he's a [[Complete Monster]]. Unfortunately for her, he always ends up living and she always dies.}}

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* [[Power Perversion Potential]]: Ethan can have lots of fun coping a feel of Emily and Ashley in some flashbacks.

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: {{spoiler|Kori, due to being displaced from time.}}

* [[Ripple Effect Proof Memory]]: Anyone who is a holder of a Hollow Pen or does not experience time has this. Occasionally overlaps with [[Only Sane Man]], such as when {{spoiler|[[Complete Monster|Irving]] kills Ethan's homeroom teacher in the past and assumes his identity.}}

* [[Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory]]: Anyone who is a holder of a Hollow Pen or does not experience time has this. Occasionally overlaps with [[Only Sane Man]], such as when {{spoiler|[[Complete Monster|Irving]] kills Ethan's homeroom teacher in the past and assumes his identity.}}

* [[Save the Villain]]

* [[Scars Are Forever]]

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* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: {{spoiler|Irving}}, although not pretty, does have white hair and fulfills the role of main villain.

* [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?]]: Zig-zagged. {{spoiler|Irving}} switches between trying to stop Ethan by messing with the past and just plain trying to shank him with alarming frequency.

* [[You Can't Thwart Stage One]]: Averted in the extremely short [[New Game ~~Plus~~]].

* [[You Can't Thwart Stage One]]: Averted in the extremely short [[New Game+]].

* [[Younger Than They Look]]: Timothy Kairos, Irving and {{spoiler|Mary Onegin, all due to using Hollow Pens.}}