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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The ''[[Trigun]]'' manga, in an interesting variation of this trope, showed a sign in one city counting the number of murders and serious injuries that had occurred that day.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Incredible Hulk]]'' has the occasional counter indicating number of days without incident (in this case, "incident" means "Bruce getting pissed off enough to Hulk Out and break lots of things").
** ''[[The Incredible Hulk (film)|The Incredible Hulk]]'' film did the same thing.
== [[Fan
* Somewhere in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series]]'' Little Kuriboh adds a sign to an establishing shot of the school "X days since last Godzilla attack."▼
* ''[[Transformers Film Series|Transformers]]'' had one of these inside the Hoover Dam.
* During a shooty shootout in a shooter factory in ''[[Shoot'Em Up (film)|Shoot
* Done in the movie ''[[Speed]]''. In the finale, as the subway train crashes out of control through the construction area, there's such a sign. The subway train crashes ''through'' it.
* [[Played for Drama]] in ''[[Super 8]]'', when an accident counter ([[Averted Trope|at a very]] [[No OSHA Compliance|high count]]) at the Lillian steel mill is seen reset to zero before it is revealed that the accident {{spoiler|caused the gruesome death of the protagonist's mother.}}
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* In ''[[Young Doctors In Love]]'' the sign is reset after [[The Chew Toy|the assassin]] smokes next to gas tanks, and explodes.
== [[Literature]] ==
* One of the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] stories mentions a sign in the lobby of the New Republic Senate reading "''x''Days Since The Last Shot Fired in Anger. Remember, Peace is No Accident!"
** When a new war breaks out, Chief of State Leia Organa Solo notices the sign and angrily orders that it be taken down.
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* On ''[[Countdown with Keith Olbermann]]'': "X days since the (previous) President declared Mission Accomplished in Iraq."
** Occasionally used to count other things, though none have lasted as long. 'Days since the start of the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster' is the most recent.{{when}}
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* An episode of ''[[Monk]]'' began within with a janitor being killed in an industrial trash compactor, with blood spattering onto the sign.
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* There was a ''[[Dilbert]]'' strip where somebody is putting up a sign that reads "8 days since the last accident", and then falls off the wheeled chair they're standing on.
{{quote|'''Dilbert:''' That's ironic.
'''Injured co-worker:''' No, it was ironic when it happened nine days ago. }}
==
* The former ride ''[[Lilo
* [[English Premier League]] club Everton FC are in the midst of serious financial problems that have left them unable to buy or sign any new players for the team for quite some time. Disgruntled fans have set up a web site called "[https://web.archive.org/web/20141018172227/http://www.evertontime.com/ Everton Time]" that tracks how many years, months, and days it's been since the club's most recent player purchases and signings.▼
▲== Theme Parks ==
▲* The ride ''[[Lilo and Stitch|Stitch's]] Great Escape'' at [[Disney Theme Parks|Walt Disney World]] has the Galactic Federation's "Days Since Last Escape" as you exit the ride. The very high number is, of course, resetting since Stitch just escaped.
== Video Games ==▼
▲== [[Video Games]] ==
* Inverted in the first ''[[Oddworld]]'' game: One of the scrolling information bars in Rupture Farms, a meat packing plant, reads "''Only'' 1,234 work related injuries this month! Keep up the good work"
* Several ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' maps have a sign that reads "This Job Has Worked [0] Days Without an Accident".
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** "Come aboard the asteroid coaster! Accident free for 45 minutes!"
* ''[[Dead Space (video game)|Dead Space]]'' has a "Days Since Last Accident" sign which predictably reads '0'. It shows up as a background image on its [[Steam]] library page.
* In [[Bethesda|Bethesda Games]]' ''[[Starfield]]'', there is a prominent sign in the Mars settlement that reads "XX hours since the last incident", usually with a fairly high number. If you start shooting civilians, it will almost immediately reset to zero.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Pictured: [[Walkyverse|SEMME]] experiences a [https://web.archive.org/web/20120309165749/http://www.itswalky.com/d/20010126.html security breach].
* ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' with [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/3/19/bedrock-concepts/ the following].
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* ''[[Dilbert]]'' has "[//dilbert.com/strip/1996-06-18 injury free days]" counter. Naturally, the injury happens in process of updating this very counter.
== [[Web Original]] ==
▲* Somewhere in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series]]'' Little Kuriboh adds a sign to an establishing shot of the school "X days since last Godzilla attack."
* In one of the ''[[Acts of Gord]]'' stories, he comes up with the idea of having an "[http://www.actsofgord.com/Wrath/chapter01.php X days since I've had to deal with an idiot]" sign. The idea being that while dealing with an idiot, he would sigh and flip it back to 0, right in front of them. He hoped they'd be offended enough to leave.
* ''[[Zero Punctuation
* There are numerous images of one office or another's version of an "It Has Been X Days Since Our Last [[Jurassic Park|Velociraptor]] Incident" sign. [https://iwastesomuchtime.com/78631 Like this one.] Or the one on our [[Raptor Attack]] page.
== [[Western Animation
* In ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'':▼
▲* In ''[[The Simpsons]]'':
** In the new opening: Lenny & Carl are changing the "days without an accident" one higher, then the quittingtime horn goes off and Homer runs out, knocking them over in the process.
** A prison holds a sign counting the number of days since the last break.
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* In the ''[[King of the Hill]]'' episode "The Accidental Terrorist", just after Bobby got a ride on a car lift in a car dealership, the camera zooms towards the background showing the sign "2 days since the last accident."
== [[Real Life]] ==
* From [https://web.archive.org/web/20131101153255/http://www.tshirthell.com/hell.shtml T-Shirt Hell] ([[NSFW]]): "03687 days since the last time I gave a shit."
* The road running from Fort Irwin (California) to Barstow, the nearest town, has a sign reading: "This road is deceptively dangerous. It has killed __ injured __ this year. Please drive carefully." For symbolic effect, the sign includes a "map" of the road—pictured as a rattlesnake with a lane divider running down its back.
** Several British roads have a similar but rather more understated sign, saying "__ killed, __ injured this year. Drive Carefully."
** Similarly, Route 9 (AKA "Killer 9") in New Jersey during the 1960s and 1970s, before it was rebuilt entirely, actually had warning signs (like the one in [http://943thepoint.com/you-know-youre-from-howell-when/ this article]); at least one kept a running tally of deaths and injuries for the current year.
▲* [[English Premier League]] club Everton FC are in the midst of serious financial problems that have left them unable to buy or sign any new players for the team for quite some time. Disgruntled fans have set up a web site called "[https://web.archive.org/web/20141018172227/http://www.evertontime.com/ Everton Time]" that tracks how many years, months, and days it's been since the club's most recent player purchases and signings.
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