'''Basic Trope''': Characters must journey to ensure an authority figure learns something
* '''Straight''': Characters learn that Tom is about to betray King Jack, and cross mountains in winter to bring the news to King Jack.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Characters learn of something and make a forty-page [=PowerPoint=] presentation which goes into exhaustive, boring detail. The authority figure falls asleep before the end of it.
** Characters trek through the forest and many other dangerous terrains, such that it would have been easier to cope with the original problem.
* '''Downplayed''': Two young children make a journey across the playground to tell the teacher that the school bully is calling kids names.
* '''Justified''': The something is far beyond their ability to cope with, but the authority figure can handle it.
* '''Inverted''': Characters must keep news from getting out.
* '''Subverted''': The thing should happen, and the authority figure is actually the villain who will stop it.
* '''Double Subverted''': But just because he's a villain doesn't mean his judgement of this is wrong; unleashing a plague to remove even a bad king will be worse than the king himself.
* '''Parodied''':
** They get back to find dozens of characters thronging the authority figure with the news.
** Characters learn Tom thinks King Jack's robes look ugly, and travel across several different {{Unholy Ground}}s, {{Eldritch Location}}s, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking crappy mini-malls]] to deliver this information to King Jack. [[HereWeGoAgain He then sends off the characters to tell Tom his hair looks stupid.]]
* '''Zig Zagged''': Jack brings news to Jill who sends him off to Charlie, who himself runs off to tell Agatha, who sends for Jack to send him to Dave -- who may, actually, do something.
* '''Averted''': The characters can and do cope with any problems they face.
* '''Enforced''':
** "We can't show kids fighting this! It's too dangerous."
** Today's episode of ''History Of Sport'' focuses on the origin of marathons.
* '''Lampshaded''': "We're going to have to get this news to King Jack, no matter how far away he is from us!"
* '''Invoked''': "It doesn't matter that we can't fight the Evil Overlord, we have to bring the news back."
* '''Exploited''': The BigBad enacts his plan while the heroes are journeying.
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': "Do you ever feel more like the paparazzi than a crusading hero in this kingdom?"
* '''Conversed''': "All they're going to bring back this time will amount to an article on page 5 of the Royal Herald."
* '''Deconstructed''': Characters discover that, despite how difficult it was to bring back news, the situation is no better off with the authority figure having knowledge than without it. Possibly worse.
* '''Reconstructed''': But they realize that sometimes it does make things better, and they have to do the best they can without knowing in advance which it will be.
* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': The entire plot is the grueling, terrifying journey through unimaginable horror to get the message to base.
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