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* '''Justified''': Alice and Bob experienced severe delays on their journey, such as vehicles breaking down, the path being hard to move through, etc.

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* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
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Alice and Bob experienced severe delays on their journey, such as vehicles breaking down, the path being hard to move through, etc.



* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???Troper's Landing appears to have suffered a disaster, but it was AllJustADream. Then it turns out that the disaster ''did'' really happen... or so it appears. They actually got the directions to a completely different place... which was ''also'' recently ravaged by tragedy.



* '''Invoked''': The threat doesn't allow any news to escape about what's happening until it's finished.

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* '''Invoked''': '''Invoked''':
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The threat doesn't allow any news to escape about what's happening until it's finished.



* '''Played for Drama''':
** Alice and Bob arrive to a place that suffered a horrible disaster, and the realization that they could've easily saved the victims if they came sooner makes them have a HeroicBSOD.
** Alice and Bob find out that some people close to them died in the disaster.



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** The call for help was [[ApocalypticLog older]] than Alice and Bob realized.

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* '''Justified''': ???

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* '''Justified''': ???Alice and Bob experienced severe delays on their journey, such as vehicles breaking down, the path being hard to move through, etc.



* '''Parodied''': ???

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* '''Parodied''': ???The "tragedy" turns out to be the birthday party of a BrattyHalfPint. And it still looks like a horrific event's aftermath.



* '''Lampshaded''': "Whatever happened...we're too late."

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* '''Lampshaded''': "Whatever happened...we're too late." "Goddamnit, why did we have the bad luck of getting delayed? We could have saved these people!"



** Or Alice and Bob wait until the tragedy is over to enter, as they don't want to risk getting caught in the initial destruction.



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"I really hope we can get there before it's too late. I don't wanna end up arriving at a barren ruin."
* '''Conversed''': ??? "Oh man, this episode has me bracing for when they find out they're too late..."



* '''Deconstructed''': Because the event happened very long ago, any chance of following the perpetrator's trail is incredibly slim.
* '''Reconstructed''': ...but that's okay, because Alice and Bob are able to report back on what happened and at least keep their superiors in the loop.



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* '''Downplayed''': ???

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* '''Downplayed''': ???Alice and Bob come back to their house and find it has burned down.



* '''Averted''': ???

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* '''Averted''': ???Alice and Bob are present for the disaster in Troper's Landing.



* '''Defied''': ???

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* '''Defied''': ???As soon as Alice and Bob hear a faint rumor something bad is happening in Troper's Landing, they rush to help.



* '''Implied''': Alice comes back from Troper's Landing saying something horrible happened. This is never brought up again.



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'''Basic Trope''': Something bad happened, and the heroes arrive too late.
* '''Straight''': Alice and Bob come to the town of Troper's Landing, only to find the place uninhabited, several buildings damaged, and some blood smeared on the walls.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice and Bob come to the land of Troperia and find no people or animals, only damaged trees and buildings and puddles and smears of blood.
* '''Downplayed''': ???
* '''Justified''': ???
* '''Inverted''':
** Alice and Bob come to the town of Troper's Landing just before something nasty hits it.
** Alice and Bob come to the town of Troper's Landing and find they just missed the Festival of Frolic.
* '''Subverted''': Alice and Bob come to Troper's Landing and find it uninhabited, damaged, and smeared with blood...and then it's revealed that Alice was having a [[DreamingOfThingsToCome premonitory dream]].
* '''Double Subverted''': ...But that still doesn't help them get to Troper's Landing before the disaster happens; they go there because of Alice's dream, only to find it exactly as the dream showed it.
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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': ???
* '''Enforced''': The author wants some way to show how dangerous the threat is without killing Alice or Bob, so s/he has it wipe out an entire town before they arrive.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Whatever happened...we're too late."
* '''Invoked''': The threat doesn't allow any news to escape about what's happening until it's finished.
* '''Exploited''': Bob and Alice are too late to help the owners of the surviving supplies, so they take them.
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
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Looks like we're LateToTheTragedy...whatever happened to this page happened a long time ago.
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