Basic Trope: Far from home? Bad stuff happens.
- Straight: Alice, Bob, and Charlie go on a camping trip in Mexico and get attacked by a Chupacabra.
- Exaggerated: Everyone who goes on a trip anywhere gets in trouble.
- Downplayed: Alice, Bob and Charlie go on a camping trip in Mexico and find a few tarantulas on their tent in the mornings, but nothing worse happens to them.
- Justified: Alice, Bob and Charlie went into a dangerous area in the world without any precautions against its dangers.
- Inverted: Alice, Bob, and Charlie go on a trip and have much better luck than at home.
- Subverted: Alice, Bob, and Charlie come back from a trip with a series of bruises. Eva questions if it went badly and Alice answers that the trip was fine, but there was a hostage situation on the way home.
- Double Subverted: The next trip, however, literally costs the group An Arm and a Leg.
- Zig-Zagged: Trips are literally ten hours of boredom followed by ten minutes of absolute horror.
- Averted: Trips are no more dangerous than day-to-day life.
- Parodied: Trips are so miserable that people buy "trip insurance" to deal with the issues.
- Invoked: Denise, who wants to get rid of Alice, Bob and Charlie, suggests a dangerous place to travel to them.
- Exploited: An insurance company sells travel insurance that covers dangers and deaths on road trips.
- Defied: "No, tourists frequently go missing in this region. Better not."
- Lampshaded:Alice: Out of town, and into trouble.
- Discussed: While planning their road trip, Alice, Bob and Charlie talk about everything what could happen there, especially the danger, and how to take precautions against them - and what better not to do at all.
- Conversed: "How does the saying go: If someone takes a trip, they will have a lot of stories to be told! True in many senses!"
- Deconstructed: The tourism industry, what is rather important for the place were the characters went, suffers massive lows due to bad reputation.
- Reconstructed: The place markets especially to adventurous souls looking for a good scare.
- Implied: Alice, Bob and Charlie go off for a vacation, and come back a week later, exhausted, bruised, bandaged, and sporting Thousand Yard Stares.
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