- "You'd think after all this time I'd be ready. But look at me. Stretching one moment out into a thousand... just so that I can watch the snow."
- ― The Ancient One (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
- "However a slow progression can be just as dangerous. Different Power but as equally as effective. One Master of Time was bad enough but like the hands on a clock, there are two "
- ― Wu explaining Acronix's power to slow Time and introducing Krux (Ninjago)
- "It's eternity in there..."
- ― Man explaining the effects of Jaunting (The Jaunt)
- "Shout at time, and command it to obey, as the world around you stands still."
- ― Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
The ability to slow down time and continue to move normally. Sub-power of Time Manipulation. Variation of Time Stopping and Reduction. Opposite to Time Acceleration. Not to be confused with Molecular Deceleration or Time Stopping.
Also Called
- Bullet Time
- Dilated time
- Slow Motion
- Slowness
- Time Deceleration
- Time Plodding/Rush/Slow-Down
- Time Dilation
Capabilities
The user can slow time down to various degrees while being able to move normally, either slowing time for a certain target or affecting everything but the user. They can slow down opponents to avoid attacks and dampen movements.
Applications
Associations
Limitations
- Might be a limit for how long the user can slow time
- Couldn't interact with things in different time streams
- The user may age normally relative to themself but appear to age faster than everyone else.
- Moving objects may retain the same amount of force.
- Might affect the user to various levels
- By slowing down time the user could slow down light, sound, air, and brain waves making it, so the user doesn't stop time.
- Temporal Immunity
- The user can be overpowered by Supernatural Speed wielders.
Known Users
Sea also: Year Inside, Hour Outside
- Illyria (Angel)
- Chuck (Angry Birds)
- Lumen Sages (Bayonetta); via Light Speed
- Balder
- Umbra Witches (Bayonetta); via Witch Time
- Chronosapiens (Ben 10: Ultimate Alien/Ben 10: Omnivers)
- Baraggan Louisenbairn (Bleach)
- Louisa May Alcott (Bungou Stray Dogs); makes time pass at 1/8000 of its original speed when thinking alone
- Herbert George Wells (Bungou Stray Dogs)
- Cole Turner (Charmed)
- Eobard Thawne/Reserve Flash (DC Comics)
- Hunter Zolomon/Zoom (DC Comics)
- Eddie Felson/Speedwarp (DC Animated Universe/Static Shock)
- Manny (Constantine TV series)
- Merton (DC League of Super-Pets)
- Dante (Devil May Cry); via the Quicksilver Style
- Nero (Devil May Cry); via Ragtime
- Ren Fujii (Dies Irae)
- Monks of History (Discworld); via slicing time
- Billie Lurk (Dishonored)
- Corvo Attano (Dishonored)
- Daud (Dishonored)
- Emily Kaldwin (Dishonored)
- Doomguy/Doom Slayer (Doom); via Chrono Strike
- Faceless Void (Dota 2)
- Freya (DWP)
- Thu'um users of Slow Time (The Elder Scrolls)
- Cahu (Elena of Avalor)
- Racer/Sawyer (Fairy Tail)
- Sho Kusakabe (Fire Force); via Severed Universe
- Cassandra Hays (Gemini: Heroes Reborn)
- Franklin Clinton (Grand Theft Auto HD Universe); works on any vehicle, game mechanic only
- Michael De Santa (Grand Theft Auto HD Universe); works on foot, game mechanic only
- Arthur Petrelli (Heroes)
- Daphne Millbrook (Heroes)
- Hiro Nakamura (Heroes)
- Peter Petrelli (Heroes)
- Right Hand Man (Henry Stickmin); via Time in a Bottle
- Users of Spacetime Decelaration (Honkai Impact 3rd)
- Herrscher of the Void
- Tomoyo Kanzaki (Inō-Batoru wa Nichijō-kei no Naka de)
- Jak/Light Jak (Jak and Daxter); via Flash Freeze
- Nick of Time (Jupiter's Legacy)
- Roidmudes (Kamen Rider Drive)
- Fifteen (Katana Zero); via Chronos
- Zero (Katana Zero); via Chronos
- Zilean (League of Legends)
- Acronix (Ninjago)
- Amenadiel (Lucifer)
- Dang (Mr. Young)
- David Haller/Legion/Time-Sink (Marvel Comics); persona of Legion
- Innocent Zero (Mashle: Magic and Muscles)
- Time Man (Mega Man: Powered Up)
- Merlin (Merlin)
- Horace Diaz (Mighty Med)
- Jalil Kubdel/Pharaoh (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir)
- Hari Kurono/Chronostasis (My Hero Academia)
- Bruno Gollini (My Hero Academia: You're Next); via Delay Spot
- Protagonist (Need for Speed: Most Wanted 2005/Need for Speed: Carbon); game mechanic only
- Danny Cooper (The New Heroes/Quantum Prophecy)
- Silvers Foxy (One Piece)
- Stranger/The Captain (The Outer Worlds); via Tactical Time Dialation
- Hammy (Over the Hedge); when he drinks a fizzy drink
- Lena Oxton/Tracer (Overwatch)
- Doofenshmirtz (Phineas and Ferb)
- Dialga (Pokemon/Super Smash Bros.)
- Sam/S.P.D. Omega Ranger (Power Rangers S.P.D.); via the Omega Morpher
- Jack Joyce (Quantum Break)
- Clank (Ratchet & Clank)
- Red Harlow (Red Dead Revolver); via Dead Eye, game mechanic only
- Dead Eye users (Red Dead Redemption); game mechanic only
- Arthur Morgan
- Jack Marston
- John Marston
- Zeus (Record of Ragnarok)
- Marrow Amin (RWBY)
- Tokisada (Saint Seiya Omega)
- Itu (Shadow Fight)
- Destrier (Skulduggery Pleasant)
- Jeremiah Wallow (Skulduggery Pleasant)
- Chaos Control users (Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Chronos (Space Jam: A New Legacy)
- Danger D'Amo/Time Keeper/Tick Tock (Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World); via the Time Gadgets
- Spyro/Purple Dragons (Spyro); via Dragon Time
- Speedwarp (Static Shock); via Time Gauntlet
- Steven Universe (Steven Universe); via Pink State
- Player (Superhot)
- Sakuya Izayoi (Touhou Project); via Time Sign "Private Square"
- Cirronians (Tracker)
- Krace (Tracker); via Hypertime Simulator
- Hot Rod (Transformers film series)
- Kiritsugu Emiya (TYPE-MOON)
- Time (Undead Unluck)
- Leilah (unORDINARY)
- Seraphina (unORDINARY)
- Ashley (Warioware)
- The Fiend/Old Nick (The Wardstone Chronicles)
- Thomas Ward (The Wardstone Chronicles)
- Aiden Pearce (Watch Dogs); game mechanic only
- Anachronos (World of Warcraft)
- Nozdormu (World of Warcraft)
Known Objects
- Spear of Leonidas (Assassin's Creed); via Slow Time and Kronos Time Warp
- Time-slowing watch (Clockstoppers)
- Ragtime (Devil May Cry)
- Impaler (Doom); via the Chronospike
- The Artifact (Doom 3); after absorbing the Helltime Hunter's soul
- Feliz Navidiamond (DuckTales 2017 TV series)
- Amulet of the Fates (God of War)
- Amulet of Uroborus (God of War)
- Time Stop Hat (A Hat in Time)
- Slow-Mo Time Blade (Ninjago)
- Noro Noro no Mi/Slow-Slow Fruit (One Piece)
- Mack 6 Energy Drink (Over the Hedge); works on Hammy
- Slow Motion-inator (Phineas and Ferb)
- Omega Morpher (Power Rangers S.P.D.)
- Quantum Repulsor (Ratchet & Clank)
- Time Orb (Skylar and Plux)
- Thief Costume's scepter (Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time)
- Slow Motion Machine (Sonic Boom)
- Time Bombs (Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World)
- Slow-Mo Gloves (X-Ray and Vav)
Known Locations
- Avalon (Gargoyles)
- Sonic's world (Sonic X)
- Time reduction cave (Time Trap)
Known Powers
- Sands of Time (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons)
- Kronos Time Warp (Assassin's Creed)
- Slow Time (Assassin's Creed)
- Light Speed (Bayonetta)
- Witch Time (Bayonetta)
- Hypertime (Clockstoppers)
- Quicksilver Style (Devil May Cry); via Time Lag
- Slow Sphere (Devil May Cry)
- Slow World (Devil May Cry)
- Chrono Strike (Doom)
- Slow Time (The Elder Scrolls)
- Severed Universe (Fire Force)
- Area Kill (Grand Theft Auto V); works on foot, game mechanic only
- Driving Focus (Grand Theft Auto V); works on any vehicle, game mechanic only
- Time in a Bottle (Henry Stickmin)
- Flash Freeze (Jak 3)
- Heavy Acceleration/Heaviness (Kamen Rider Drive)
- Chronos (Katana Zero)
- Time (Ninjago)
- Timez Rate (Mashle: Magic and Muscles)
- Delay Spot (My Hero Academia: You're Next)
- Speedbreaker (Need For Speed: Most Wanted 2005 video game/Need For Speed: Carbon); game mechanic only
- Tactical Time Dilation (The Outer Worlds)
- Hyper Mode (Power Rangers S.P.D.)
- Dead Eye Targeting (Red Dead Revolver/Red Dead Redemption); game mechanic only
- Time Manipulation (Shadow Fight)
- Chaos Control (Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Dragon Time (Spyro)
- Time Sign "Private Square" (Touhou Project)
- Time Alter (TYPE-MOON)
Gallery
Zoom (DC Comics) can use the Speed Force to slow the flow of time, giving the illusion he is moving at super-speed.
Similar to his uncle, Nero (Devil May Cry) can use his Ragtime Devil Breaker to manipulate time, such as firing a Slow Sphere that slows anything within it...
...or temporarily slowing down everything around him at the cost of the Devil Breaker being destroyed with Slow World.
On Avalon (Gargoyles), time is slowed down to the extent that one day in the outside world is equivalent to one hour on the island.
Spacetime Deceleration (Honkai Impact 3rd) is an ability that allows the user to slow down the passage of time during combat.
Innocent Zero (Mashle: Magic and Muscles) casting Timez Rate, a spell that decreases the passage of time for a target by 1/100.
By calling upon Thoth, Jalil Kubdel/the Pharaoh (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir) is able to create condensed temporal bubbles. Those caught in the bubbles are trapped, stuck in slow motion.
Bruno Gollini's (My Hero Academia: You're Next) Quirk, Delay Spot, allows him to slow time down within a semi-sphere bubble, without him being affected.
Due to an accident with an experimental teleporter and Winston's Chronal accelerator, Lena Oxton/Tracer (Overwatch) has the ability to control her own time, allowing her to speed it up and slow it down at will.
Doofenshmirtz (Phineas and Ferb) create the Slow-Motion-inator to slow down Perry the Platypus, so Perry can't stop him.
Sam/The S.P.D. Omega Ranger (Power Rangers S.P.D.) using his Omega Morpher to initiate Hyper Mode to slow down time for able to catch laser pellets.
The Thief Costume (Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time) comes with a magic scepter that enables the user to slow down time.
The flow of time in Sonic's world (Sonic X) is considerably slower than on Earth, with one month in Sonic's world equaling an entire year on Earth.
Sakuya Izayoi (Touhou Project) uses Time Sign "Private Square" to delay time around her and slow down the opponent.
Hot Rod (Transformers film series) possesses a special weapon that can create temporary temporal bubbles that can either slow or freeze a target in time.

















































