Talking Is a Free Action/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character monologues in a situation where, realistically, they wouldn't have enough time to say all that they are saying.

• Straight: "Oh no! That truck -- barrelling right at me!" cries Alice.
• Exaggerated: Alice also has time for a Sherlock Scan which tells her the make, model and license number of the oncoming truck.
• Justified: Alice is merely thinking, and we see/hear the words via Translation Convention. Although it takes the audience a moment to wade through the monologue, the thought actually goes through Alice's mind in an instant.
  • Alternatively, Alice is frozen in terror.
  • Alternatively, Alice talks really fast.
  • Alice has the power to slow down time, and uses this to comment on the situation.
• Inverted: Alice delivers a monologue after the danger has passed ("Gee, that Could Have Been Messy.")
  • Alternatively, a short conversation with no significant pauses described takes fifteen minutes.
• Subverted: Alice looks like she's going to say something but doesn't...
• Double Subverted: Until she says something while she dodges the car
• Parodied: "OMG a Dodge Ram, 1998 vintage, barrelling directly toward me! And based upon its velocity of 98 miles per hour, I have at most 2.38 seconds to leap out of its path before it smashes into me! I remember from the movie Twister that these trucks are practically indestructible; and so surely I will be converted into thick ketchup under its crushing one-ton weight! O sweet Tropernia! If only there were some way I could save myself! This is the end!"
• Deconstructed: Alice is Killed Mid-Sentence because she wasted time on talking.
• Reconstructed: Talking about the situation helps Alice understand it better, and through this, survive.
• Zig Zagged: ???
• Exploited: The Villain notes Alice's hesitation and points this out to The Hero, invoking a Sadistic Choice.
• Necessary Weasel: Alice herself; big fight scenes generally require at least one muggle who can be endangered.
• Averted: Alice simply leaps to safety.
• Enforced: "We need to show why Alice just stands there, instead of moving, so people won't think she's an idiot." "Well, why not just have her explain that there's no time to move?" "Brilliant!"
• Lampshaded: "No time to leap out of the way; only time to talk about it!"
• Invoked: Alice comments on the oncoming truck to make sure she has time to leap out of the way.
• Defied: "I'm geting out of here right now. When Supertroper and Emperor Evulz start fighting they tend to throw cars around, and I don't want to get smooshed."
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: ???

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