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.

"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 Spinjtzu

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

― "Rewind" Flavor Text, Magic: The Gathering

"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)

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

Also Called

• Chronoprohiberis
• Temporal/Time Freeze/Freezing/Immobilization/Stasis/Stopping

Capabilities

User can stop time while being unaffected themselves, or may also allow others to be unaffected. If the user moves before this ability ceases, it would appear to everyone that the user teleported.

Applications

• Aim Dodging
• Body Immobilization

Associations

• Molecular Immobilization
• Temporal Motion Manipulation
• Time Manipulation
• Time Perception Manipulation
• Timestream Shift

Limitations

• Temporal Immunity
• Electrical equipment may not work.
• May affect how the user perceives their environment.
• May have a limited range.
• The effects could wear off after a while, even if users don't restart time.
• User may not be able to interact with physical objects.
• User may still age while time is stopped.
• Users of Spatial-Temporal Lock and Temporal Lock may be immune.
• Temporal Slicing and Space-Time Slicing can cut apart the frozen time.
• May cause pain or discomfort if used for a prolonged time.
• May not work on deities or anyone who has been affected by time alterations.
• Air may not move in stopped time, requiring an oxygen tank in order to breathe.

Known Users

See Also: Time Stands Still.

Cartoons

• Jeremy "Prock" Awesome (The Awesomes)
• Professor Paradox (Ben 10)
• Chronosapiens (Ben 10)
• Kevin Keene (Captain N: The Game Master)
• Krux (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu)
• Raven (Teen Titans)
• Nox (Wakfu)

Comics

• 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)

Movies

• Fairy Queen (Balala Fairies)
• Hot Rod (Transformers: The Last Knight)

Literature

• The Alien (All The Time In The World)
• The Fairies (Artemis Fowl)
• Kronos (Camp Half-Blood Chronicles)
• Lena Duchannes (The Caster Chronicles)
• Jadis (The Chronicles of Narnia)
• Death (Discworld)
• Clockblocker (Worm)
• Master Hora (Momo); by falling asleep

Live Television

• Angels of Destiny (Charmed)
• The Cleaners (Charmed)
• Nigel (Charmed)
• The Triad (Charmed)
• Melanie "Mel" Vera (Charmed 2018)
• Lucy Miller (Lucy)
• Merlin (Merlin)
• Morgause (Merlin)
• Grunhilda (Merlin)
• Zaira Vangoria (Chica Vampiro)
• Watchers (Ghost Whisperer)
• Leo (Los Protegidos)
• Joe Miller (The Lost Room); via a supernatural comb
• Harold Stritzke (The Lost Room); via a supernatural comb
• Skylar Storm (Mighty Med)
• Horace Diaz/Caduceo (Mighty Med)
• Boris Diaz/Timeline (Mighty Med)
• Evie Garland (Out of this World)
• Zack Morris (Saved by the Bell)
• Fate (Supernatural)
• Reapers (Supernatural)
• Poli Truper (Supertorpe)
• Pause Girl (The Thundermans)
• Stephen Jameson (The Tomorrow People)
• Roger Price (The Tomorrow People)
• Patrick T. McNulty (Twilight Zone)
• Ivar Zurka (Witches of East End); via spell.
• 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)

Anime/Manga

• Ainz Ooal Gown (Overlord)
• Esdeath (Akame Ga Kill!)
• 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)
• The Time (Cardcaptor Sakura)
• Yuna D. Kaito (Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Cards)
• 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
• Timemon (Digimon Universe: Appli Monsters)
• Clockmon (Digimon)
• Guldo (Dragon Ball Z)
• Hit (Dragon Ball)
• Dimaria Chronos Yesta (Fairy Tail)
• Mavis Vermillion (Fairy Tail); via Fairy Sphere
• Zeref Dragneel (Fairy Tail)
• Urashiki Ōtsutsuki (Naruto/Boruto: Naruto Next Generations)
• 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)
• Yume Furusuna (Instant Bullet)
• Jotaro Kujo (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part III: Stardust Crusaders); via Star Platinum: The World
• DIO (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part III: Stardust Crusaders); via The World
• Diego Brando from Another Universe (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part VII: Steel Ball Run); via THE WORLD
• Pentagon (Kinnikuman)
• Merlin (Nanatsu no Taizai)
• Aun Freya (Photon: The Idiot Adventures)
• Homura Akemi (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)
• Sailor Pluto (Sailor Moon)
• Mephistopheles Yōma (Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas)
• Saturn and the Pallasites (Saint Seiya Ω)
• Monk (Sidekicks)
• Demon Bird Jean (Star Ocean Ex)
• Irori (Unbreakable Machine-Doll); via ice ability
• Kirie Sakurame (UQ Holder); via breaking her save point and dying at the same time
• Tena Vita (UQ Holder)
• Aoi Akane (Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun)
• Jiro (Toriko)
• Being X (Youjo Senki)
• Tsuyuno Yatsumura (Magical Girl Site)
• The founder (Kokkoku)
• Shiori Kaburagi (There Was No Secret Evil-Fighting Organization (srsly?!), So I Made One MYSELF!)
• Sullivan (Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun)
• Sho Kusakabe ("Fire Force"); via pyrokinesis

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)
• Daud (Dishonored)
• The Outsider (Dishonored)
• Faceless Void (Dota 2)
• Dali's Clock (EarthBound/Mother 2)
• The Dragonborn (The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim ); via Slow Time Shout
• Ren Fuji/Tenma Yatou (Dies Irae/Kajiri Kamui Kagura)
• Saiki (The King of Fighters XIII)
• Veran (The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages)
• Witches/Warlock (The Sims 2), via Tempus Interruptus spell.
• Maxine Caulfield (Life is Strange)
• Bass (Mega Man series); via certain Spacetime weapons
• Mega Man (Mega Man series); via certain Spacetime weapons
• Certain Spacetime Robot Masters (Mega Man series)
  • 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)
• Jack Joyce (Quantum Break)
• Paul Serene (Quantum Break)
• Beth Wilder (Quantum Break)
• Fiona (Shrek 2 game)
• Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog)
• Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog)
• The New Kid (South Park: The Fractured but Whole); via TimeFart Pause
• Prelate.Zeratul (Storm of the Imperial Sanctum)
• Izayoi Sakuya (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)

Web Comics

• Sarda the Sage (8-bit Theater)

Known Objects

• 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)
• 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 Gem (Marvel Comics)
• Stasis Rune (Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild)
• Pause Time Blade (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu)
• Miracle Watch (The Simpsons)
• Kairosect (Trollhunters)
• Special Stone (Kokkoku)
• Golden Finger (Xiaolin Showdown)
• Stop Watch (various)
• 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))

Gallery

Nigel (Charmed) stopping time.

Melanie "Mel" Vera (Charmed 2018)

Dante (Devil May Cry) performing the Quicksilver Style.

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) 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. It's 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) has the power to stop time by holding his breath.

Hit (Dragon Ball Super) can use his Time-Skip technique to stop time...

and after evolving his powers further, Hit 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 (Pokemon 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 can freeze someone in suspended animation and freeze energy, as she stopped a laser fire from hitting her as well

Horace Diaz 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

Horace's cousin Timeline can only freeze time if he simultaneously seeing the future and thinking about the past.

Sakuya Izayoi (Touhou Project)

Video

Setsuna Attack - Time Stop

Sailor Pluto (Sailor Moon) stops time to save her comrades.