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* The whole plot of ''Webcomic/ParadigmShift'' turns out to have been instigated by a modern variant. A letter sent to Chicago PD detective Kate [=MacAllister=] from someone she participated in a clinical trial alongside some years previously is delayed by at least a week because it was sent to a previous address, meaning he's unable to arrange a meeting and warn her that the trial may have [[SideEffectysMayInclude had some really dangerous side effects]]... [[spoiler: Like turning her into a werewolf.]]
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* The whole plot of ''Webcomic/ParadigmShift'' turns out to have been instigated by a modern variant. A letter sent to Chicago PD detective Kate [=MacAllister=] from someone she participated in a clinical trial alongside some years previously is delayed by at least a week because it was sent to a previous address, meaning he's unable to arrange a meeting and warn her that the trial may have [[SideEffectysMayInclude had some really dangerous side effects]]... [[spoiler: Like turning her into a werewolf.]]
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* In ''[[Literature/FelseInvestigates Death and The Joyful Woman]]'' by Creator/EllisPeters, young Dominic Felse sets out after the murderer, leaving a message for his police sergeant father with the intention that it will bring Sergeant Felse after him in time to rescue him if he gets in trouble, but not soon enough to forbid him going in the first place. An unexpected circumstance delays the delivery of the message, and Dominic very nearly gets himself killed.
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* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Discworld/ThiefOfTime'', it was mentioned that an ImpededMessenger example was averted when shortly after his horse threw a shoe, the messenger just 'happened' to run into a traveling peasant with a portable forge. This is played with further in that it is only due to the messenger's timely arrival that the dreadful Battle of Five Cities never happened.
** Terry Pratchett uses a variation of this in ''Discworld/CarpeJugulum'' as well.
** Terry Pratchett uses a variation of this in ''Discworld/CarpeJugulum'' as well.
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* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Discworld/ThiefOfTime'', ''Literature/ThiefOfTime'', it was mentioned that an ImpededMessenger example was averted when shortly after his horse threw a shoe, the messenger just 'happened' to run into a traveling peasant with a portable forge. This is played with further in that it is only due to the messenger's timely arrival that the dreadful Battle of Five Cities never happened.
** Terry Pratchett uses a variation of this in''Discworld/CarpeJugulum'' ''Literature/CarpeJugulum'' as well.
** Terry Pratchett uses a variation of this in
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** Terry Pratchett uses a variation of this in Carpe Jugulum as well.
** Terry Pratchett uses a variation of this in Carpe Jugulum as well.
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* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Thief of Time'', ''Discworld/ThiefOfTime'', it was mentioned that an ImpededMessenger example was averted when shortly after his horse threw a shoe, the messenger just 'happened' to run into a traveling peasant with a portable forge. This is played with further in that it is only due to the messenger's timely arrival that the dreadful Battle of Five Cities never happened.
** Terry Pratchett uses a variation of this inCarpe Jugulum ''Discworld/CarpeJugulum'' as well.
** Terry Pratchett uses a variation of this in
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* In the ''{{Series/Hornblower}}'' episode ''The Wrong War/[[MarketBasedTitle The Frogs and the Lobsters]]'', a messenger carrying plans for a joint invasion of France by British and French Royalist forces is killed and the plans stolen. In this case, the heroes know exactly what the message was, as this was a copy being sent to the Admiralty, but now the heroes have to consider the possibility that the plans might find their way into the Revolutionaries' hands before their operation can succeed. [[spoiler: They do.]]
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* In the ''{{Series/Hornblower}}'' ''Series/HoratioHornblower'' episode ''The Wrong War/[[MarketBasedTitle The "The Frogs and the Lobsters]]'', Lobsters", a messenger carrying plans for a joint invasion of mission in France by British and French Royalist forces is killed and the plans stolen. In this case, the heroes know exactly what the message was, as this it was a copy being sent to the Admiralty, but now Admiralty. Now the heroes have to consider the possibility that the plans might find their way into the Revolutionaries' hands before their operation can succeed. [[spoiler: They do.]]
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* When [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Tim]] was thought to have died during an Arkham breakout most of the Batfamily ended up separated from him by a force field before he could tell them he'd escaped. ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} ended up ''beating the Joker to death'' when the Joker gloated about killing another of his brothers. Though of course [[JokerImmunity he got better]] it showed Dick and the rest of the Bats that Dick could be pushed to lethal force.
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* When [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Tim]] was thought to have died during an Arkham breakout most of the Batfamily ended up separated from him by a force field before he could tell them he'd escaped. ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} ended up ''beating the Joker to death'' when the Joker gloated about killing another of his brothers. Though of course [[JokerImmunity he got better]] it showed Dick and the rest of the Bats that Dick could be pushed to lethal force.
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* In the second season of ''Anime/{{Hamatora}}'', Episode 6 has one of the characters follows a lead on his own. [[spoiler: He is able to achieve his objective of locating and defeating the antagonist, but is left beaten and battered.]] When he calls the main character to tell him what has happened, it turns out that the main character has forgotten his phone at home. [[spoiler: Unable to get in contact with anyone else or fight back, the antagonist's goons easily dispatch him.]]
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* In the second season of ''Anime/{{Hamatora}}'', Episode 6 has one of the characters follows a lead on his own. [[spoiler: He is able to achieve his objective of locating and defeating the antagonist, but is left beaten and battered.]] When he calls the main character to tell him what has happened, it turns out that the main character has forgotten his phone at home. [[spoiler: Unable to get in contact with anyone else or fight back, the antagonist's goons easily dispatch him.]]
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** The Battle of Antietam in the American Civil War was fought because a Confederate courier dropped a copy of the dispatch he was delivering, which was then found by some Union soldiers.
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** On the same vein, the official declaration of war by Japan was delivered late to the American authorities because of various details (a miscalculation of the time difference between Pearl Harbor and Washington, D.C. and the American official leaving the Japanese ambassador's aide waiting, among others). The fact that this lateness made it look like the Japanese had deliberately lied about their intentions [[AwakeningTheSleepingGiant pretty much ticked off the American military even more.]]
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* In the ''{{Series/Hornblower}}'' episode ''The Wrong War/[[MarketBasedTitle The Frogs and the Lobsters]]'', a messenger carrying plans for a joint invasion of France by British and French Royalist forces is killed and the plans stolen. In this case, the heroes know exactly what the message was, as this was a copy being sent to the Admiralty, but now the heroes have to consider the possibility that the plans might find their way into the Revolutionaries' hands before their operation can succeed. [[spoiler: They do.]]
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* In the ''{{Series/Hornblower}}'' episode ''The Wrong War/[[MarketBasedTitle The Frogs and the Lobsters]]'', a messenger carrying plans for a joint invasion of France by British and French Royalist forces is killed and the plans stolen. In this case, the heroes know exactly what the message was, as this was a copy being sent to the Admiralty, but now the heroes have to consider the possibility that the plans might find their way into the Revolutionaries' hands before their operation can succeed. [[spoiler: They do.]]
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** Similarly, shortly before the Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, the destroyer USS ''Ward'' spotted a Japanese mini-sub attempting to enter the harbor and sank it. The ''Ward's'' report of the engagement wasn't passed up the chain fast enough due to delays in transmission and decryption of the message, and the American commanders received it shortly after the air attack began.
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* Video game variant where the protagonist ''is'' the messenger: in ''EternalDarkness: Sanity's Requiem'', the character Anthony is given a scroll he's supposed to deliver to Charlemagne, but the scroll proves in fact to be a trap carrying a nasty undead curse--which Anthony discovers by accidentally inflicting it upon himself. Anthony bravely decides to warn Charlemagne of the plot against him, and after battling ghouls, traps, and the curse slowly eating away at his body, reaches his destination to find...that the assassins got sick of waiting, and Charlemagne is already dead.
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* Video game variant where the protagonist ''is'' the messenger: in ''EternalDarkness: ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness: Sanity's Requiem'', the character Anthony is given a scroll he's supposed to deliver to Charlemagne, but the scroll proves in fact to be a trap carrying a nasty undead curse--which Anthony discovers by accidentally inflicting it upon himself. Anthony bravely decides to warn Charlemagne of the plot against him, and after battling ghouls, traps, and the curse slowly eating away at his body, reaches his destination to find...that the assassins got sick of waiting, and Charlemagne is already dead.
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* In ''Film/{{Troy}}'', a Trojan scout discovers that the Greeks have not abandoned their war effort after all, despite their supposed peace offering of the [[TrojanHorse giant wooden horse]]. He immediately tries to warn Troy of the deception but is promptly cut down by a Greek arrow.
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** The ImpededMessenger is a crucial plot point in ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''.
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** The ImpededMessenger Impeded Messenger is a crucial plot point in ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''.''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'', as he's prevented from informing Romeo that [[spoiler:Juliet faked her suicide and isn't really dead]]. This results in [[spoiler:Romeo committing suicide for real, and Juliet following him after seeing his corpse]].
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** One famous case is the 06.06.1944 telegram that was supposed to inform Adolf Hitler and his Berlin staff that the Anglo-American armies had stormed the beaches of Normandy in the early morning of the same day, and that in order to beat them back, Hitler had to authorise the deployment of Panzer Reserves ''now''. However, Hitler was a long sleeper and had declared he wasn't to be awoken, so the message lingered unread for hours, all while the Allies fought their way inland and subsequently rob the German garrison of any possibility of an effective counter-attack. The rest, as they say, is history.
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** One famous case is the 06.06.1944 telegram that was supposed to inform Adolf Hitler and his Berlin staff that the Anglo-American armies had stormed the beaches of Normandy in the early morning of the same day, and that in order to beat them back, Hitler had to authorise the deployment of Panzer Reserves ''now''. However, Hitler was a long sleeper and had declared he wasn't to be awoken, so the message lingered unread for hours, all while the Allies fought their way inland and subsequently rob robbed the German garrison of any possibility of an effective counter-attack. The rest, as they say, is history.
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* As noted in "ForWantOfANail", many battles have been lost due to crucial communication holdups.
** One famous case is the 06.06.1944 telegram that was supposed to inform Adolf Hitler and his Berlin staff that the Anglo-American armies had stormed the beaches of Normandy in the early morning of the same day, and that in order to beat them back, Hitler had to authorise the deployment of Panzer Reserves ''now''. However, Hitler was a long sleeper and had declared he wasn't to be awoken, so the message lingered unread for hours, all while the Allies fought their way inland and subsequently rob the German garrison of any possibility of an effective counter-attack. The rest, as they say, is history.
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* As noted in "ForWantOfANail", many battles have been lost due to crucial communication holdups.
** One famous case is the 06.06.1944 telegram that was supposed to inform Adolf Hitler and his Berlin staff that the Anglo-American armies had stormed the beaches of Normandy in the early morning of the same day, and that in order to beat them back, Hitler had to authorise the deployment of Panzer Reserves ''now''. However, Hitler was a long sleeper and had declared he wasn't to be awoken, so the message lingered unread for hours, all while the Allies fought their way inland and subsequently rob the German garrison of any possibility of an effective counter-attack. The rest, as they say, is history.
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* Invoked in ''Film/WickerPark'' where Alex deliberately withholds Lisa's letter to Matthew in order to [[RelationshipSabotage sabotage their relationship]].
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* ''Film/ToraToraTora'': Attempts to transmit a warning message via radio to the American forces in Hawaii fail due to atmospheric interference. They decide to send the message via commercial telegram, but fail to mark the message as Urgent, meaning it sits in a backlog of messages in Hawaii and isn't delivered to Fort Shafter until after the attack is underway.
** Further, an American destroyer spots a Japanese submarine trying to enter the harbor and sinks it, but their report of the engagement isn't received until after the air attack starts.
** Further still, the Japanese send an ultimatum to the Americans, intended to be delivered before the attack as a final justification for the imminent war, but delays in decoding and translating the message into English mean this message isn't delivered until after the attack either. Understandably, the American government is not pleased by the timing of the message.
** Further, an American destroyer spots a Japanese submarine trying to enter the harbor and sinks it, but their report of the engagement isn't received until after the air attack starts.
** Further still, the Japanese send an ultimatum to the Americans, intended to be delivered before the attack as a final justification for the imminent war, but delays in decoding and translating the message into English mean this message isn't delivered until after the attack either. Understandably, the American government is not pleased by the timing of the message.
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* In ''Literature/TheAndromedaStrain'', the electronic version happens: the scientists working on the alien virus in an isolated lab don't get the notification that the president has ordered that an atomic bomb be dropped on the infected site (a ''very bad'' idea since the scientists have already discovered the virus is resistant to radiation and large amounts of energy just make it ''grow faster'') because of a mechanical failure in the bell of the teletype machine that was supposed to alert them.
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** Terry Pratchett uses a variation of this in Carpe Jugulum as well.
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* ''Gallipoli'' has this as the major plot point in the film, where [[spoiler: just as the soldiers are about to go over the top to attack the Turks in a futile attempt to gain ground,the order is rescinded. The catch? Mel Gibson doesn't deliver it fast enough and his best bud dies.]]
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* ''Gallipoli'' ''Film/{{Gallipoli}}'' has this as the major plot point in the film, where [[spoiler: just as the soldiers are about to go over the top to attack the Turks in a futile attempt to gain ground,the order is rescinded. The catch? Mel Gibson doesn't deliver it fast enough and his best bud dies.]]
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* ''Film/TheMadnessOfKingGeorge'': Both averted and [[{{Lampshade}} lampshaded]] in Thurlow's race to Parliament before the Regency bill passes.
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* In ''Film/DeepImpact'', the astronomer who realizes that the object is a comet on a collision course with Earth, tries to get the information out but dies in a car accident before he can alert the world.
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* Shakespeare:
** The ImpededMessenger is a crucial plot point in ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''.
** And a smaller point in ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' and in ''Theatre/RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead'', where Hamlet changes the letter to the king of England so that R&G are executed in his place.
* Any example of a DoomedAppointment is also a case of an ImpededMessenger.
* ''Gallipoli'' has this as the major plot point in the film, where [[spoiler: just as the soldiers are about to go over the top to attack the Turks in a futile attempt to gain ground,the order is rescinded. The catch? Mel Gibson doesn't deliver it fast enough and his best bud dies.]]
** The ImpededMessenger is a crucial plot point in ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''.
** And a smaller point in ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' and in ''Theatre/RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead'', where Hamlet changes the letter to the king of England so that R&G are executed in his place.
* Any example of a DoomedAppointment is also a case of an ImpededMessenger.
* ''Gallipoli'' has this as the major plot point in the film, where [[spoiler: just as the soldiers are about to go over the top to attack the Turks in a futile attempt to gain ground,the order is rescinded. The catch? Mel Gibson doesn't deliver it fast enough and his best bud dies.]]
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** The ImpededMessenger is a crucial plot point in ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''.
** And a smaller point in ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' and in ''Theatre/RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead'', where Hamlet changes the letter to the king of England so that R&G are executed in his place.
* Any example of a DoomedAppointment is also a case of an ImpededMessenger.
* ''Gallipoli'' has this as the major plot point in the film, where [[spoiler: just as the soldiers are about to go over the top to attack the Turks in a futile attempt to gain ground,the order is rescinded. The catch? Mel Gibson doesn't deliver it fast enough and his best bud dies.]]
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* Video game variant where the protagonist ''is'' the messenger: in ''EternalDarkness: Sanity's Requiem'', the character Anthony is given a scroll he's supposed to deliver to Charlemagne, but the scroll proves in fact to be a trap carrying a nasty undead curse--which Anthony discovers by accidentally inflicting it upon himself. Anthony bravely decides to warn Charlemagne of the plot against him, and after battling ghouls, traps, and the curse slowly eating away at his body, reaches his destination to find...that the assassins got sick of waiting, and Charlemagne is already dead.
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*Video game variant ''Gallipoli'' has this as the major plot point in the film, where [[spoiler: just as the protagonist ''is'' soldiers are about to go over the messenger: in ''EternalDarkness: Sanity's Requiem'', top to attack the character Anthony Turks in a futile attempt to gain ground,the order is given a scroll he's supposed to rescinded. The catch? Mel Gibson doesn't deliver to Charlemagne, but the scroll proves in fact to be a trap carrying a nasty undead curse--which Anthony discovers by accidentally inflicting it upon himself. Anthony bravely decides to warn Charlemagne of the plot against him, fast enough and after battling ghouls, traps, and the curse slowly eating away at his body, reaches his destination to find...that the assassins got sick of waiting, and Charlemagne is already dead.best bud dies.]]
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* Shakespeare:
** The ImpededMessenger is a crucial plot point in ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''.
** And a smaller point in ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' and in ''Theatre/RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead'', where Hamlet changes the letter to the king of England so that R&G are executed in his place.
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* Shakespeare:
** The ImpededMessenger is a crucial plot point in ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''.
** And a smaller point in ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' and in ''Theatre/RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead'', where Hamlet changes the letter to the king of England so that R&G are executed in his place.
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* Video game variant where the protagonist ''is'' the messenger: in ''EternalDarkness: Sanity's Requiem'', the character Anthony is given a scroll he's supposed to deliver to Charlemagne, but the scroll proves in fact to be a trap carrying a nasty undead curse--which Anthony discovers by accidentally inflicting it upon himself. Anthony bravely decides to warn Charlemagne of the plot against him, and after battling ghouls, traps, and the curse slowly eating away at his body, reaches his destination to find...that the assassins got sick of waiting, and Charlemagne is already dead.
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* Video game variant where the protagonist ''is'' the messenger: in ''EternalDarkness: Sanity's Requiem'', the character Anthony is given a scroll he's supposed to deliver to Charlemagne, but the scroll proves in fact to be a trap carrying a nasty undead curse--which Anthony discovers by accidentally inflicting it upon himself. Anthony bravely decides to warn Charlemagne of the plot against him, and after battling ghouls, traps, and the curse slowly eating away at his body, reaches his destination to find...that the assassins got sick of waiting, and Charlemagne is already dead.
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** The ImpededMessenger is a crucial plot point in ''RomeoAndJuliet''.
** And a smaller point in ''{{Hamlet}}'' and in TomStoppard's ''RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead'', where Hamlet changes the letter to the king of England so that R&G are executed in his place.
** And a smaller point in ''{{Hamlet}}'' and in TomStoppard's ''RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead'', where Hamlet changes the letter to the king of England so that R&G are executed in his place.
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** The ImpededMessenger is a crucial plot point in ''RomeoAndJuliet''.
''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''.
** And a smaller point in''{{Hamlet}}'' ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' and in TomStoppard's ''RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead'', ''Theatre/RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead'', where Hamlet changes the letter to the king of England so that R&G are executed in his place.
** And a smaller point in
