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Your first instinct in a crisis is to panic. Your second instinct is to remember you shouldn't panic. Heroes can't panic when they've got a world to save or a fortress to escape from or a Big Bad to fight, and teens can't panic when their simple plan goes awry. So in the most panic-worthy of situations, someone in the group will say this phrase. Someone being Genre Savvy may point out, "Actually, yeah, it is!" Or, between 5 seconds and 5 minutes later, some tiny change worsens the situation so severely, they do a Verbal Backspace and say, "Now panic!"

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  • Your first instinct in a crisis is to panic. Your second instinct is to remember you shouldn't panic. Heroes can't panic when they've got a world to save or a fortress to escape from or a Big Bad to fight, and teens can't panic when their simple plan goes awry. So in the most panic-worthy of situations, someone in the group will say this phrase. Someone being Genre Savvy may point out, "Actually, yeah, it is!" Or, between 5 seconds and 5 minutes later, some tiny change worsens the situation so severely, they do a Verbal Backspace and say, "Now panic!"
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  • Your first instinct in a crisis is to panic. Your second instinct is to remember you shouldn't panic. Heroes can't panic when they've got a world to save or a fortress to escape from or a Big Bad to fight, and teens can't panic when their simple plan goes awry. So in the most panic-worthy of situations, someone in the group will say this phrase. Someone being Genre Savvy may point out, "Actually, yeah, it is!" Or, between 5 seconds and 5 minutes later, some tiny change worsens the situation so severely, they do a Verbal Backspace and say, "Now panic!" Despite what the media commonly depicts, panic is difficult to induce in reality: One needs a sense of potential entrapment (if people feel themselves to be definitely trapped, they are more likely to go limp), a sense of great helplessness, and a sense of profound isolation. As a result, in many cases, panic occurs much earlier or later than it would in real life. A trope that is automatically lampshaded by its mere use. No relation with You Can Panic Now. Compare Stiff Upper Lip. Contrast Fear Is the Appropriate Response. Examples of This Is No Time to Panic include:
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