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Vacation Hell

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Sometimes, a vacation ends up not being one, simply by being horrible.

Maybe it's because of bad planning and sickness, maybe criminals hijack your bus/plane, or maybe you end up attacked by a giant monster. Whether it's your fault or not, your time of rest is now ruined.

Welcome to Vacation Hell.

Compare Busman's Holiday, where one ends up doing his job on vacation.

Examples of Vacation Hell include:

Anime and Manga[]

  • The Trope Namer is Geobreeders, where it is the title of the third volume.
    • To explain, here are the various vacations in that book:
      • One goes back to her hometown. She ends up blackmailed into writing mangas/doujins for her entire time there.
      • The second goes to be with the man she loves. She gets in a duel, a shootout with the Mafia, and ends up dumped by her man.
      • Number three goes to a festival. Her car ends up lost, with a flat tire, then she gets a ride with people who try kidnapping her. They fail.
      • The last goes to see her family. She ends asleep right in the entrance hall, dressed in cosplay with grafiti drawn over her face. Then her place back gets hijacked.
  • In A Certain Magical Index, Touma wins a trip to Italy, so he takes Index. He and Index run into a plot by the Roman Catholic Church to sail a fleet of ships to bomb Academy City.
  • This or Busman's Holiday is what happens every time the heroes from Sorcerer Hunters go anywhere, manga or anime. The cursed lake in the anime is a particularly good example, though.

Film[]

  • Basically the whole plot of RV, if seen from the family's point of view.
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