Time Stopping

Time Stopping
DIO (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part III: Stardust Crusaders) freezes time using his Stand, The World.
Power/Ability to:	Freeze time.

"The World's true power, as its name suggests, is to reign supreme over the entire world!!!"

― DIO Brando (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part III: Stardust Crusaders)

"He can even control time to the point of halting it. Of course... he didn't halt himself."

― Master Wu describing Krux's power, Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu

"Time flows like a river. In Tolaria we practice the art of building dams."

― "Rewind" Flavor Text, Magic: The Gathering

The power to stop time while still being able to move around normally. Sub-power of Time Manipulation. Not to be confused with Inanimation, Molecular Immobilization or Time Reduction.

Also Called

• Chronokinetic Stasis
• Chronostasis
• Temporal/Time Freeze/Freezing
• Temporal/Time Immobilizing/Immobilization
• Temporal Stasis (D&D)
• Temporal Stopping
• Temporal/Time Pause/Pausing
• The WORLD (JoJo)

Capabilities

User can stop time while being unaffected themselves and also allow whatever they want including objects and beings to be unaffected as well, just like a pause button for the reality. If the user moves and acts before this ability ceases, it will appear to everyone that the user teleported or the things around occurred out of nothing.

Applications

• Absolute Attack/Absolute Defense
• Binding/Inanimation
  • Paralysis Inducement
• Frozen Time Activity
  • Aim Dodging
  • Temporal Displacement - User is displaced from the regular flow of time
• Speed Cancellation - Objects and beings literally stop.

Variations

• Time Dilation Field
• Time Reduction

Associations

• Molecular Immobilization
• Supernatural Speed, Type III
• Temporal Imprisonment
• Temporal Lock
• Temporal Motion Manipulation
• Time Defiance
• Time Manipulation
• Time Perception Manipulation
• Time Reduction
• Timestream Shift

Limitations

• Temporal Immunity, Temporal Speed and/or Temporal Walking are the perfect counter.
• May have a limited range.
• Once user is working as like time didn't stop, they can age or get tired.
• The effects could wear off after a while.
• Temporal Slicing and Space-Time Slicing can cut apart the frozen time.
• Users of Temporal Lock, Spatial-Temporal Lock, Temporal Transcendence and Spatial-Temporal Transcendence are immune.

Known Users

See Also: Time Stands Still.

Anime/Manga/Aeni/Manhwa

• Regulus Corneas (Re:Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu)
• Ainz Ooal Gown (Overlord)
• Satoru Gojo (Jujutsu Kaisen); via Unlimited Void
• Esdeath (Akame Ga Kill); likely via Absolute Zero
• Celica Arfonia (Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor); via The World
• Amber (Darker than Black)
• Heinrad (Beast Wars Neo)
• Abraham Louis Fran (Big Order)
• Sylph (Black Clover)
• Urashiki Ōtsutsuki (Boruto: Naruto Next Generations)
• The Time (Cardcaptor Sakura/Cardcaptors)
• Yuna D. Kaito (Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Cards)
• Toya Kinomoto (Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card)
• Chrono (Chrono Crusade)
• Joshua Christopher (Chrono Crusade)
• Aion (Chrono Crusade)
• Control (Corrector Yui)
• Kurumi Tokisaki (Date A Live)
• Eyebrow hair (Denma); via Time Stopping Quanx ability
• Users of Planar Constraint Quanx ability (Denma)
  • Edel
  • Balak
  • Yoon
• Clockmon (Digimon)
• Timemon (Digimon Universe: App Monsters)
• Guldo (Dragon Ball series)
• Hit (Dragon Ball Super); via Time Skip
• Dimaria Yesta (Fairy Tail)
• Mavis Vermillion (Fairy Tail); via Fairy Sphere
• Lucy Heartfilia (Fairy Tail); via Fairy Sphere
• Zeref Dragneel (Fairy Tail)
• Sho Kusakabe (Fire Force); via Adolla Burst
• Geumbi (The Haunted House/Shinbi Apartment)
• Prim Anville (Hero Killer)
• Gasper Vladi (Highschool DxD)
• Rias Gremory (High School DxD); via the Forbidden Invade Balor the Princess
• Hanyū (Higurashi no Naku Koro ni)
• Erika (Hime-chan's Ribbon)
• George Kurai (HUGtto! Pretty Cure)
• Yume Furusuna (Instant Bullet)
• Aoi Akane (Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun)
• DIO Brando (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure); via The World
• Jotaro Kujo (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure); via Star Platinum
• Diego Brando from a Parallel World (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part VII: Steel Ball Run); via THE WORLD
• Pentagon (Kinnikuman)
• The Funder (Kokkoku)
• Tsuyuno Yatsumura (Magical Girl Site)
• God (One-Punch Man)
• Aun Freya (Photon: The Idiot Adventures)
• Homura Akemi (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)
• Ultimatia (Ragna Crimson)
• Zeus (Record of Ragnarok)
• Adam (Record of Ragnarok)
• Sailor Pluto (Sailor Moon)
• Mephistopheles Yōma (Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas)
• Saturn and the Pallasites (Saint Seiya Ω)
• Yūji Sakai (Shakugan no Shana)
• Monk (Sidekicks)
• Demon Bird Jean (Star Ocean Ex)
• Merlin (The Seven Deadly Sins)
• Chloe Aubert (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime)
• Guy Crimson (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime)
• Rimuru Tempest (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime)
• Shiori Kaburagi (There Was No Secret Evil-Fighting Organization (srsly?!), So I Made One MYSELF!)
• Kuzuno Sekai (Time Stop Brave); via controller
• Alice Anotherbible (Toaru Majutsu no Index)
• Jirou (Toriko); via Time Knocking
• Acacia (Toriko); via Backchannels
• Irori (Unbreakable Machine-Doll); via ice ability
• Lemon (Unmei no Makimodoshi/Fate Rewinder); via "Stop" Version Up
• Kirie Sakurame (UQ Holder); via breaking her save point and dying at the same time
• Tena Vita (UQ Holder)
• Being X (Youjo Senki)
• Lord Sullivan (Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun)

Cartoons/Comics

• Jeremy "Prock" Awesome (The Awesomes)
• Professor Paradox (Ben 10)
• Chronosapiens (Ben 10)
  • Clockwork
  • Maltruant
• Kevin Keene (Captain N: The Game Master)
• Clockwork (Danny Phantom)
• Petriphy/Chronoklok (Ghostforce)
• Krux (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu)
• Iris (Lolirock)
• Ronk (My Giant Friend)
• Raven (Teen Titans)
• Nox (Wakfu)
• Zatanna (DC Comics)
• Wally West/The Flash (DC Comics)
• The Phantom Stranger (DC Comics)
• David Haller/Legion/Time-Sink (Marvel Comics); persona of Legion
• Reader (Marvel Comics)
• Heartcon (Rainbow Bubblegem)
• Speedwarp (Static Shock)
• Time Skip/Arthur Chroniker (Loonatics Unleashed)

Live Television/Movies

• Angels of Destiny (Charmed)
• The Cleaners (Charmed)
• Nigel (Charmed)
• The Triad (Charmed)
• Melanie "Mel" Vera (Charmed 2018)
• Zaira Vangoria (Chica Vampiro)
• Watchers (Ghost Whisperer)
• Ranger (Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street); temporary, subconsciously
• Kamen Rider Cronus (Kamen Rider Ex-Aid)
• Time Jackers (Kamen Rider Zi-O)
• Tsukuyomi (Kamen Rider Zi-O)
• Daiki Kaito (Kamen Rider Zi-O)
• Sougo Tokiwa (Kamen Rider Zi-O)
• Lucy Miller (Lucy)
• Leo (Los Protegidos)
• Joe Miller (The Lost Room); via a supernatural comb
• Harold Stritzke (The Lost Room); via a supernatural comb
• Metro Man (Megamind)
• Merlin (Merlin)
• Morgause (Merlin)
• Grunhilda (Merlin)
• Skylar Storm (Mighty Med)
• Horace Diaz (Mighty Med)
• Nick Renfield (Mutant X)
• Evie Garland (Out of this World)
• Romane Berthauds (Para//èles)
• Zack Morris (Saved by the Bell)
• Fate (Supernatural)
• Reapers (Supernatural)
• Poli Truper (Supertorpe)
• Force Stasis Users (Star Wars)
• Pause Girl (The Thundermans)
• Stephen Jameson (The Tomorrow People)
• Roger Price (The Tomorrow People)
• Mary Gold (Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger)
• Cirronians (Tracker)
• Patrick T. McNulty (Twilight Zone)
• Ivar Zurka (Witches of East End); via spell
• Fairy Queen (Balala Fairies)
• Lay Lay (That Girl Lay Lay)
• Hot Rod (Transformers Film series)
• Dr. Strange (Dr. Strange)
• Sayuri (The Real Exorcist)
• Arados (Ultraman Cosmos)

Literature

• The Alien (All The Time In The World)
• The Fairies (Artemis Fowl)
• Kronos (Camp Half-Blood Chronicles)
• Kars (JORGE JOESTAR); via The World Ultimate
• Lena Duchannes (The Caster Chronicles)
• Jadis (The Chronicles of Narnia)
• Death (Discworld)
• Clover (Star Darlings)
• Master Hora (Momo); by falling asleep.
• Ryan Romano (The perfect run)

Video Games

• Hat Kid (A Hat in Time); via the Time Stop Hat
• Bomberman (Bomberman 64: The Second Attack); via the Light Bomb
• Dante (Devil May Cry); via the Quicksilver Style & Bangle of Time
• Corvo Attano (Dishonored)
• chronomancer (Totally Accurate Battle Simulator); via time cubes
• Daud (Dishonored)
• The Outsider (Dishonored)
• Malleus Draconia (Disney: Twisted-Wonderland); via Fey of Maleficence
• G-Man (Half-Life)
• Faceless Void (Dota 2)
• Dali's Clock (EarthBound/Mother 2)
• Last Dragonborn (Skyrim); via Slow Time Shout
• Herrscher of the Void (Honkai Impact 3rd)
• Saiki (The King of Fighters XIII)
• Veran (The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages)
• Link (Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild); via Sheikah Slate Stasis Rune
• Witches/Warlock (The Sims 2), via Tempus Interruptus spell
• Heaven Ascension DIO (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven); via The World Over Heaven
• Maxine Caulfield (Life is Strange)
• Bass (Mega Man); via certain Spacetime weapons
• Mega Man (Mega Man); via certain Spacetime weapons
• Certain Spacetime Robot Masters (Mega Man)
  • Bright Man
  • Centaur Man
  • Clock Men
  • Flash Man
  • Saturn
• Dark Dizzy (Mega Man X5)
• X (Mega Man X5); via his Dark Hold attack
• Zero (Mega Man X5); via his Dark Hold attack
• Kronika (Mortal Kombat 11)
• Celebi (Pokémon)
• Kirby (Kirby and the Forgotten Land); via Time Crash Copy Ability
• Jack Joyce (Quantum Break)
• Paul Serene (Quantum Break)
• Beth Wilder (Quantum Break)
• Sayuri (Senran Kagura)
• Ren Fuji/Tenma Yatou (Shinza Bansho series)
• Fiona (Shrek 2 game)
• Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog)
• Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog)
• Time Eater (Sonic the Hedgehog)
• The New Kid (South Park: The Fractured but Whole); via TimeFart Pause
• Prelate.Zeratul (Storm of the Imperial Sanctum)
• Sakuya Izayoi (Touhou Project)
• Gaunter O'Dimm (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt)
• The Bronze Dragonflight (World of Warcraft)
• Megumi Kitaniji (The World Ends With You)
• Limbo (Warframe); via 2nd ability named Stasis
• Kang the Conqueror (LEGO Marvel Superheroes 2)
• Blinx (Blinx: The Time Sweeper); via TS-1000 Vacuum Cleaner
• Saint Germain (Castlevania: Curse of Darkness)
• Mage Type Innocent Devils (Castlevania: Curse of Darkness)
• Tatsuya Suou (Megami Tensei)
• Mario (Super Mario Bros); via Stop Watch
• Robloxians (ROBLOX); via Dagger of Shattered Dimensions
• Hosts (HOURS); via Halt/Star/Dive/Gold/Word
• The Greed (Kingdom Two Crowns); during Blood Moons

Web Animation/Comics

• Seraphina (UnOrdinary)
• Leilah (UnOrdinary)
• Jinn (RWBY)
• Ambrosius (RWBY)
• Starfish (Charlie The Unicorn)
• Sarda the Sage (8-bit Theater)
• Sophie (Live with Yourself!)

Known Objects

• Demon's Extract (Akame Ga Kill)
• SCP-5510 - Universal Remote (SCP Foundation)
• Mortimer J. Denning Von Kronecker/Blackbird/The Black King/The Fifth Overseer/O5-5 (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-4101 (SCP Foundation)
• Armageddon Device (Spy Kids: All the Time in the World)
• Time Bombs (Spy Kids: All the Time in the World)
• The Watch (Bernard's Watch)
• The Time Clow Card (Cardcaptor Sakura/Cardcaptors)
• Kuan's Fridge (Denma); via Time Stopping Quanx ability
• The glass clock of Bad Schüschein (Discworld)
• Time Button (Futurama); only when broken
• Take-Five Bomb (Girl Genius)
• Time Stone (Marvel Comics)
• Clock (The Legend of Zelda)
• Phantom Hourglass (The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass)
• Sheikah Slate (Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild); via Stasis Rune
• Pause Time Blade (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu)
• Miracle Watch (The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror XIV: Stop the World, I Want to Goof Off)
• Time Freezing Devise (Rick and Morty)
• Kairosect (Trollhunters)
• Time Stop Lollipops (Just Add Magic)
• Special Stone (Kokkoku)
• Relic of Knowledge (RWBY)
• Relic of Creation (RWBY)
• God Hand (Roblox: Slap Battles)
• Golden Finger (Xiaolin Showdown)
• Remote Control (Various); via "stop" or "pause" button
• Universal remote control (Click)
• Horaria Porticus (UQ Holder)
• Tsuyuno's smartphone wand (Magical Girl Site)
• Kang's Time Crystal (LEGO Marvel Superheroes 2)
• The Hourglass of Time (The Smurfs)
• Time Bottle (Henry Stickmin)
• Hyperchron Devices (Aaron Stone)
• Chronal-Curbulater/Stop Watch (The Penguins of Madagascar)
• Freezeframe Rocket Launcher (Ultrakill); rockets only
• Time Displacement Laser (Inspector Gadget 2)

Known Powers

• Fey of Maleficence (Disney: Twisted-Wonderland)
• Time (ROBLOX: Ability Wars)

Gallery

Nigel (Charmed) stopping time.

Melanie "Mel" Vera (Charmed 2018)

Dante (Devil May Cry) performing the Quicksilver Style.

Everything caught in the area of effect created by Malleus Draconia's (Disney: Twisted-Wonderland) unique magic Fey of Maleficence is put in stasis, including time.

Ivar Zurka (Witches of East End) cast a spell to stop time.

Merlin (Merlin) stops the natural flow of events.

Stephen Jameson (The Tomorrow People) psionically stops time.

Lucy Miller (Lucy) stops time.

Kurumi Tokisaki (Date A Live) can freeze time.

Krux (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu) pausing the Elemental Master of Ice with his powers.

Homura (Puella Magi Madoka Magica) stops time in order to save Madoka.

Esdeath (Akame Ga Kill!) using her Mahapadma to extend her ice abilities to freeze time and space. Its taxing nature allows her to do it only once a day.

Kronika (Mortal Kombat 11) can stop time itself.

Heinrad (Beast Wars Neo)

THE WORLD (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part III Stardust Crusaders) is the Stand of DIO, which grants him the ability to freeze time itself.

Jotaro Kujo (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) using Star Platinum: THE WORLD to stop time.

The Light Bomb (Bomberman 64: The Second Attack) stopping time of anything caught within the blast.

Jadis (The Chronicles of Narnia) using her magic to freeze Narnia for 100 years, causing eternal winter and Christmas to never arrive.

In addition to powerful telekinesis, Guldo (Dragon Ball Z) had the power to stop time by holding his breath.

After evolving his powers further, Hit (Dragon Ball Super) developed the Time Freeze technique, allowing him to freeze those who could nullify his Time-Skip before.

Dimaria Yesta (Fairy Tail) using Time Sealing Magic: Age Seal to utterly stop the fabric of time and can do anything while in "her" Temporal World.

Tenma Yato's (Kajiri Kamui Kagura) Law, once completed, stops time in all of creation, which allowed him to halt Hajun's Law from being completed for over 8,000 years.

Link (Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild) use the Stasis Rune.

The Pause Time Blade (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu)

When Pryce (Pokémon Adventures) forced Celebi to travel back in time, it adversely caused temperature dropping to absolute zero and the world completely freezing.

Irori (Unbreakable Machine-Doll) can freeze time with her ice ability.

Golden Finger (Xiaolin Showdown) allows the user to freeze in place for a short time.

Amber (Darker than Black) uses her power to stop time allowing her to move freely throughout the frozen time stream.

Urashiki Ōtsutsuki (Naruto/Boruto: Naruto Next Generations) uses Palace of the Dragon King to freeze time by petrifying the target keeping them alive for ten-thousand years.

Kang the Conqueror (LEGO Marvel Superheroes 2) using Time Crystal to stop time.

The Hourglass of Time (The Smurfs) freezes time when being broken.

Jack Joyce (Quantum Break) using Time Rush.

Professor Paradox (Ben 10)

Special Stone (Kokkoku)

Zatanna (DC Comics)

Skylar Storm (Mighty Med/Lab Rats: Elite Force) can freeze someone in suspended animation and freeze energy, as she stopped a laser fire from hitting her as well.

Horace Diaz (Mighty Med) can freeze time which allows him to move so fast no one see him or switch clothes with other people faster than a blink of an eye, but when it is weakened, he can only slow it down.

Sakuya Izayoi (Touhou Project)

Kamen Rider Tsukuyomi (Kamen Rider Zi-O) can stop time at will.

Tatsuya Suou using Nova Kaiser (Persona 2)

Clockmon (Digimon)

Clockworks (Ben 10)

When summoned by the user, Jinn (RWBY) will stop time to answer whatever question they have.

Like Jinn, when a user summons him Ambrosius (RWBY) will stop time to create whatever they ask of him.

Prock (The Awesomes) has the power to stop time, but only for ten seconds.

Aradia Megido (Homestuck)

Dark Dizzy (Mega Man X5)

Yuji Sakai (Shakugan no Shana)

God (One-Punch Man)

Hot Rod (Transformers Film series) possesses a special weapon that can create temporary temporal bubbles.

Ice Man (Marvel Comics) can freeze time via freezing matter on a quantum level.

The Freezeframe Rocket Launcher (Ultrakill) is capable of freezing rockets with its clock, which can be deactivated manually.

Dr. Claw (Inspector Gadget) built the Time Displacement Laser to freeze the city of Riverton so that he and his men could rob the federal reserves.

Speedwarp (DC Animated Universe/Static Shock)

Time Skip (Loonatics Unleashed)

Celica Arfonia (Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor)

Videos

JJBA Diamond is Unbreakable - Star Platinum Attacks Sheer Heart Attack-2

JJBA Diamond is Unbreakable - Koichi's Mistake-2

Lex Luthor resurrects Darkseid - Justice League Unlimited

Bart Uses THE WORLD

Dante VS Bayonetta DEATH BATTLE!

One Minute Melee - Sakuya Izayoi vs Dio Brando

Gray VS Esdeath (Fairy Tail VS Akame ga Kill!) - DEATH BATTLE!-2

Inspector Gadget 2 (2003) - Time Freeze-2