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Often a result of [[Time Stands Still]]. Can overlap with [[Waking Non Sequitur]].
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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* Used extensively in ''[[Code Geass]]'', where {{spoiler|Rolo's Geass}} stops time (or close enough). Once unpaused, characters continue to fight in their mechas, monologue, or {{spoiler|beg intermittently for Rolo to stop using his Geass.}}
* A variation occurs in ''[[One Piece]]'' with Foxy's NoroNoro Beam, which allows him to slow down people/objects for 30 seconds. While slowed down, the target will appear to be doing the same thing, even if, say, a huge, powerful fist flies right into their face.
== Comic Books ==
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* In an issue of ''[[Excalibur (Comic Book)|Excalibur]]'', the team is fighting a team of interstellar mercenaries when two other characters show up and temporally freeze the mercenaries so they can conduct some unrelated business with Excalibur. The freeze wears off about five minutes later... by which point Excalibur has moved them around such that their unpaused attacks are aimed at each ''other''.
== Film ==
* In ''[[Rango]]'', Beans has occasional catatonic fits. When she snaps out of them, she continues with whatever she was saying as if nothing had happened. Sometimes it's entirely different topics, such as [[Alien Abduction]].
* ''[[Batman: The Movie]]''. The United World Security Council members are dehydrated while they're arguing with each other around a conference table. While dehydrated their molecules were mixed together, separated and thoroughly scrambled. When they're rehydrated they immediately pick up where they left off. Watch it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WwgUPYi794#t=7m50s here].
* ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]''. C-3PO is damaged by Imperial stormtrooper fire. When he's repaired and reactivated, he replays what he was saying and thinking when he was attacked.
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* In ''[[The Mask]]'' the titular superhero responds to a order to "Freeze!" by doing exactly that—stopping dead in midair, covered in icicles. When told by the exasperated cop to "Unfreeze" (because otherwise he can't obey a further order to put his hands up), he finishes his leap and gets tackled by the cops.
* This happens a few times in the [[X-Men (film)|X Men]] films, thanks to Professor X's ability to "pause" people with telepathy.
== Literature ==
* [[Older Than Radio]]: In the Brothers Grimm's "Briar Rose" (a.k.a. Sleeping Beauty), when the princess pricks her finger the entire castle falls asleep instantly; the cook in the palace kitchens falls asleep in the act of boxing the kitchen boy's ears, and finishes delivering the punishment one hundred years later when the castle wakes up.
* Near the end of ''[[
* [[Robert Heinlein]]'s ''[[Starship Troopers]]''. When Johnny Rico is put to sleep via post-hypnotic suggestion and then woken up again, he doesn't realize he's been asleep for more than an hour. He continues talking to the commanding officer who put him to sleep as if it hadn't happened.
* One trait of the aliens in [[Harry Harrison]]'s story "The Streets of Ashkelon" is that they resume interrupted conversations in mid-stream even if days have passed since the interruption. Obviously, they have better (or at least differently-wired) memories than humans.
== Live-Action TV ==
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** At the beginning of the episode "Urgo", the team is going through the Stargate while O'Neill is making some joking aside. When they emerge from the event horizon, O'Neill is pursuing his dialogue... except they're back at the SGC after a three-hour timelapse, and have no memory of visiting another planet.
** There is also the running gag of someone (usually O'Neill) being teleported mid-sentence by the Asgards. Upon arriving on the alien ship or back on Earth, they usually conclude whatever they were saying before looking around in annoyance.
== Music Videos ==
* In the clip for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68ugkg9RePc "Blue (Da Ba Dee)"] by Eiffel 65, the singer is abducted by aliens in a stasis sphere during a concert. When he's released on their planet, he immediately resumes singing, although his audience is now entirely composed of blue aliens.
▲== Pro Wrestling ==
* Player Uno of [[CHIKARA]] uses this as part of his gimmick, as shown in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P9qgbT1YwY these clips].
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Paranoia (game)|Paranoia]]'' supplement ''Acute Paranoia'', adventure "Me and My Shadow Mark IV". Markie (the Mark IV warbot) is talking to the [[PC]]'s when a piece falls off of him, sending him into a catatonic state. When the piece is re-attached, Markie continues talking right where he left off.
== Video Games ==
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* In ''[[Borderlands]]''' fourth DLC, the claptrapped version of {{spoiler|Commandant Steele}}, who died at the end of the main game finshes {{spoiler|the speech she was giving before being impaled by the [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]] [[Final Boss]].}}
* ''[[Sonic Generations]]'' opens with the villain apparently destroying time and space, banishing Sonic into a white limbo, kidnapping most of the extended cast, and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|blasting a chili-dog out of Sonic's hand]]. Upon restoring the world, Sonic's first action? Catch the falling chili-dog.
== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'', {{spoiler|Haley}} is petrified in [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0789.html mid-sentence], then [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0815.html finishes the sentence] when she's restored 30 strips later.
== Web Original ==
* [[Double Subverted]] in ''[[Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog|Doctor Horribles Sing Along Blog]]''. The title doctor freezes Captain Hammer right before his song's big finish. {{spoiler|When he's unfrozen, he punches the doctor in the face, and ''then'' finishes his line.}}
== Western Animation ==
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* During an episode of ''[[Voltron Force]]'', [[Big Bad|King Lotor]], hopped up on haggarium, declares that "This is the day that I-" and gets blasted by Voltron's new guns. When he is later revived back at his castle, the first thing he says is "-destroy Voltron!" ... and smacks face first into a wall.
* Played with in ''[[Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law]]''. In a spoof of the old Birdman cartoon, Phil is frozen mid-sentence: "A madman is freez--". When Birdman unfreezes him: "Ha ha ha, --ing!"
== Real Life ==
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