No time to wait? Critics complaining about the pacing? Use one of these "Instant" tropes and get the awesomeness you need right now!
Tropes:
- Compressed Vice
- Confession Triggers Consummation: Having sex with your beloved immediately after confessing your love to them.
- Critical Existence Failure: Losing all your health means going from perfectly healthy to completely decimated in an instant.
- Easy Amnesia: A character suddenly gets amnesia, and may recover just as suddenly.
- Got Over Rape Instantly
- Hair Reboot: Instantly resetting your hairstyle after a mishap damages it.
- Hate at First Sight
- Hyperspace Holmes Hat: Instant detective deerstalker hat.
- Immediate Self-Contradiction
- Impossible Task Instantly Accomplished
- Instakill Mook
- Instant 180-Degree Turn
- Instant Armor
- Instant Bandages: Bandages appear on an injured character.
- Instant Birth: Just Add Labor!
- Instant Book Deal
- Instant Chucks
- Instant Container: Containers somehow appear when needed.
- Instant Cooldown
- Instant Cosplay Surprise
- Instant Costume Change: Changing clothes in the blink of an eye.
- Instant Cultured
- Instant Death Bullet
- "Instant Death" Radius
- Instant Death Stab: Stabbing is immediately fatal.
- Instant Emergency Response: Emergency services arrive within seconds of a disaster.
- Instant Expert
- Instant Fan Club
- Instant Fish Kill: Lots of fish quickly die when something affects the water.
- Instant Flight: Just Add Spinning!
- Instant Gravestone
- Instant Home Delivery
- Instant Humiliation: Just Add YouTube!
- Instant Illness: Getting sick as soon as you’re exposed to a contagion.
- Instant Index: Just Add Water!
- Instant A.I.: Just Add Water!: A machine instantly gains humanlike intelligence after getting wet and malfunctioning.
- Instant Ice: Just Add Cold!: Subjecting something to very cold temperatures instantly encases it in ice.
- Instant Mass: Just Add Water!
- Instant Oracle: Just Add Water!
- Instant People: Just Add Water!
- Instant Knots
- Instant Leech: Just Fall in Water!
- Instant Marksman: Just Squeeze Trigger!
- Instant Messenger Pigeon: Messages delivered via bird that arrive unusually fast.
- Instant Militia
- Instant Regret: Regret for an action or saying something immediately sets in.
- Instant Roast
- Instant Runes
- Instant Sedation: A sedative works in seconds when it should take at least a few minutes.
- Instant Seduction
- Instant Sobriety
- Instant Soprano
- Instant Taste Addiction: Becoming addicted to a food the moment you taste it for the first time.
- Instant Thunder
- Instant Waking Skills
- Instant Web Hit
- Instant-Win Condition
- Instant Wristwatch: A watch appears on a character’s wrist when they want to check the time.
- Instantly Defeathered Bird
- Instantly Proven Wrong: A character states something, and their statement is coincidentally shown to be untrue moments later.
- Love at First Sight
- News Travels Fast
- One-Hit Kill: A character dies as soon as they’re hit once.
- Possession Implies Mastery: Instantly knowing how to use a new item.
- Press Start to Game Over
- Puff of Logic: Something immediately disappears or stops when it’s pointed out that it shouldn’t exist.
- Reset Button
- Sexy Man, Instant Harem
- Spectral Body Construct
- Spontaneous Mustache
- Spontaneous Weapon Creation (a.k.a "Instant Weapon".)
- Stealth Hi/Bye
- Sudden Anatomy
- Sudden Intelligence
- Super Drowning Skills: Characters who drown almost immediately upon ending up in water.
- Thunder Equals Downpour: A clap of thunder, immediately followed by sudden pouring rain.
- To Be Continued... Right Now