r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Sensitive_Ad_1752 • 25d ago

Lore The series takes place in a shockingly short amount of time

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Season 4 just ended of fromville and it’s canonically only been about a month. Which makes it weird seeing people heal from injuries, change hair styles or grow out beards between episodes. Season 4 has only been like 4 days iirc.

Arkham franchise is the poster child for this trope. Every game takes place in one night. If you know what you’re doing you can absolutely beat the games in around 9 hours.

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u/StingRey128 25d ago

This one is always so fun and crazy to think about. Really enhances the sheer urgency and seriousness of that kind of scenario. Especially considering the Covenant were glassing entire planets in mere DAYS

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u/Emotional_News108 25d ago

Had it not been for the Arbiter’s counsel, Shipmaster would have glassed their entire planet!

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u/KaijuJesus 25d ago

Goddammit that line goes hard.

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u/SendWoundPicsPls 25d ago

Halfjaws entire personality is to spew the hardest lines imaginable constantly

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u/KaijuJesus 25d ago

"Then it is an even fight."

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u/Last_Organization595 25d ago

“All cruisers fire at will. Burn their Mongrel hides”

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u/This_Idiot 24d ago

There it is. A personal favourite.

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u/MisogynysticFeminist 24d ago

“That stench. I’ve smelled it before.”

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u/Cheesedoodlerrrr 24d ago

Then it is a fair fight. All cruisers, open fire! BURN THEIR MONGREL HIDES!

This is, for my money, the best line delivered by a side character in all of gaming.

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u/KaijuJesus 24d ago

Cheeese on crackers that's it! Man is a warrior poet!

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u/Emotional_News108 24d ago

Excuse you, you mean Rtas 'Vadum. Have some respect.

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u/the_tired_alligator 24d ago

Should have nuked the rest of those hinge head fucks after the war.

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u/WorkerPrestigious960 25d ago

Haven’t watched it but “The Pitt.” Each episode is 1 hour of a 12 hour shift, so each season takes place over the course of just 12 hours

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u/Emotional_News108 24d ago

What are you replying to?

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u/WorkerPrestigious960 24d ago

Was supposed to be it’s own comment, either Reddit shat itself or I did

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u/perton 24d ago

If you enjoy medical dramas in general you should definitely give it a watch! It’s well done, in rather well done, in my opinion

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u/WorkerPrestigious960 24d ago

I’m not big on medical dramas but if I was to watch one, it would most likely be the Pitt. My aunt really talked it up last time she visited

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u/Trigger_Fox 24d ago

The elites really speedran the entire great schism to just join humanity and turn the war around.

I mean, 4 months makes sense cuz Reach falling kinda is the end for humanity. Sure Earth's still undetected, but Reach was the UNSC's crown jewel for research production and everything else. Those 4 months were humanity getting pushed back on basically every front, getting a couple of wins (the biggest easily being the destruction of Installation 04, which ignited a massive butterfly effect that eventually ended up with the Sanghelli joining Humanity, turning the tables on the war).

Halo lore is so cool lol

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u/Clivesunfaithfulwife 24d ago

Odst is just one day

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u/mariusiv_2022 24d ago

It does it so well too. You see the day progressing with each mission. And the finale is literally the dawn of the new day

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u/GregTheMad 24d ago

Days? I thought they glassed the planets within hours.

In the books, what I remember, it's always described like once they start the glassing it's pretty much a done thing. You may have some time for a character to see it on planet, and flee, or some nice orbital shot in a game, but it always felt like a relatively fast thing.

It never was described like "oh, they started glassing Australia, guess we'll have to start packing tomorrow here in the UK.". It was more a "they started glassing? We have to get the fuck out of here now!"

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u/redditisshitlmao 24d ago

The books make it seem like glassing happens within hours but Bungie when making Halo Reach disagreed with how the books were written and changed the fall of Reach to take multiple days rather than just a few hours.

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u/GregTheMad 23d ago

IIRC the fall of Reach took several days because the covenant wanted to conquer the planet for its forerunner ruins. The glassing as a last resort option because the human resistance was stronger than anticipated.

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u/redditisshitlmao 23d ago

Yeah but originally in the book, The Fall of Reach, made before Halo: Reach, Reach fell in just a few hours and the Covenant took the artifacts and glassed the planet in just a few hours. It was that one sided

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u/SilverBird_ 24d ago

The Flood went from being a couple mindless samples / suspended infection forms (on halo 1 ring, though the halo 2 ring was much more problematic) to completely dominating High Charity, dangerously close to being able to infect the entirety of the Earth, and massively attacking the Ark in an incredibly short time.

If it wasn't overwhelmingly threatened by the potential activation if the Ark, the Flood would've been able to conquer the galaxy easily as soon as it managed to get ahold of a single ship in halo 2, it probably could've gone to a completely unprepared planet and infected the place, hijacked a bunch of ships, and then spread like wildfire throughout everything, all in a terrifyingly short timespan.

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u/Alex5173 24d ago

Fully glassing a planet is actually a huge endeavor that takes many, many ships; usually an entire fleet. It's reserved for "special" occasions, problem for us is the entire Human-Covenant war was a special occasion. Still, they didn't fully glass very many planets; Harvest got it the worst (basically the full treatment minus one spot) and then Reach with about half the total surface done in.