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Hobos are either homeless people viewed through an industrial-strength Nostalgia Filter or living Americana: freewheeling folks, usually men, who for any number of reasons live a wealth-free life, stowing away on freight trains and moving from town to town looking for campfires and a good can of beans. The Great Depression Theme Park isn't complete without these boxcar barons. Having been everywhere, seen everything and met everyone, the patricians of poverty are full of tall tales and song — not to mention sage advice. Some may claim to have been men of status (i.e., mayors, railroad tycoons or heavyweight champs) brought low by dumb luck, while others willfully renounced the stationary life. Both varieties of hobo will recount his story in detail, if you have the time. These regents of the rails are never far from train tracks and almost always carry Bindle Sticks. They are usually found clad in their traditional attire, such as trousers filled with mismatched patches and ragged shoes that leave the big toe prominently exposed; oftentimes, one shoe will be missing and replaced by a rag tied about the foot. Their natural habitats are moving boxcars and campfire circles, though ramshackle hobo metropolises do occur. Any gathering of five or more hobos will feature a hobo gentleman, identified by ragged top hat, cane and swagger. Unlike street persons or the colloquial bum, hobos prefer rural settings, rarely panhandle, and generally conduct their affairs with some sense of dignity and etiquette. Newcomers to hoboism are often adopted by old timers and taught to observe some variety of "The Hobo's Code". When and how a hobo receives his nickname is unclear, but every hobo has one — it's usually "Boxcar" something. Hobos are allergic to hard work, unless promised beans or alcohol, and are magnetically attracted to pies cooling on the window sill (whose aroma may cause spontaneous levitation). Kindly old women and farmers' daughters are friends of the hobo; police officers, bulldogs and employees of the railway ("railroad bulls") are natural hobo predators. Bonus points are awarded whenever a hobo plays the harmonica. Note: This applies only to hobos as a trope. According to tradition that is now, at best, antiquated, the term "hobo" refers strictly to homeless travelers subsisting on odd jobs, whereas "tramps" travel without seeking work and "bums" do neither. Compare Disposable Vagrant. See also Impoverished Patrician, with which formerly-wealthy hobos often overlap. |
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Adventure Time: Lumpy Space Princess did a stint as one of these after she ran away from home. | |
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Heroes for Sale: Tom and Roger become hobos and are treated horribly even though they are WWI veterans. | |
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In It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Rickety Cricket is gradually worn down by the gang after abandoning his ambition to become a priest. In each episode, he becomes more and more dishevelled, injured and scarred depending on what the gang makes his do. Eventually, he fits the profile of a stereotypical hobo. | |
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Namor the Sub-Mariner, after World War II suffered from a bout of Easy Amnesia, and spent a good deal of the 50's and early 60's as a bearded homeless person until Johnny Storm of the Fantastic Four stumbled upon him and brought him home to the Baxter Building. | |
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The Simpsons have occasionally run into some hobos. Every third episode had a hobo joke for a while (some particularly cruel), mostly thanks to John Swartzwelder, a prolific writer and Preston Sturges fanatic. In "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?" (1992), we learn that Homer's brother Herb went from Detroit bigshot to hobo after trusting Homer to design a new car. In the DVD commentary of the episode creator Matt Groening said "John Swartzwelder loves hobos!" In ""Homer Bad Man" (1994), the family's babysitter choices have been narrowed down between a grad student and a "scary-looking hobo". Bart hopes for the hobo. In "The Homer They Fall" (1996), Homer competes in Springfield's hobo boxing circuit, fighting Switchyard Sam and Boxcar Ira on his road to the title bout. As his trainer, Moe warns Homer that his opponents are "hungry fighters" in that they're only fighting to get a meal. In "Kill the Alligator and Run" (2000), Bart asks if their Everglades tour guide has any hobo chunks to throw to the alligators. In "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes" (2000), Nelson claims that Springfield Elementary science classes are dissecting frozen hobos. And he's got the bindles to prove it. In a Formula-Breaking Episode, "Simpsons Tall Tales" (2001), a hobo explains that there are two kinds of hobos, stabbing and singing, and calls non-hobos no-bos. He works on a strict pricing plan: one story, one spongebath. Marge once asked when they became the bottom rung of society and Homer tells her "I think it was when that cold snap killed off all the hobos." A Halloween episode where Homer becomes Death has Lisa demonstrating his job to her class on a hobo they brought in with the promise of a meal. One episode has Grandpa traveling the countryside with Bart. He points out the various hobo codes left on fences. The first means "Good food", the second means "Sexy farmer's daughter", and the third means "Mass hobo grave in backyard". |
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iCarly: Hobos are often found or mentioned as a joke. In "iEnrage Gibby", Carly even has a "hobo party" where everyone dresses up a hobo. Hobos are present in pretty much all of his works, too. He actually offered a definition for the term and how it's different than just "homeless" in a blog post. Not that it helped; multiple complaints forced iCarly to stop with the hobo jokes in 2011. | |
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In the early Merrie Melodies short "Hobo Gadget Band", a Trash-Can Band of hobos enter a singing contest and win a big recording contract. They reject it for a life on the tracks. | |
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Sullivan's Travels by Preston Sturges features a film director who wants to make a gritty, realistic film about The Great Depression, but he's lived a privileged life, so he dresses as a hobo and goes out and rides the rails to help him learn what it's really like to experience that level of poverty. | |
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The Others (2015): One of the acolytes that the Sin player can choose is the Corrupted Hobo. They're not particularly strong (not that any of the acolytes are), but their ability allows them to be summoned once per turn to the board in a non-ranged fight and disable an upgrade that the player has for the remainder of combat. | |
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In Mad Men, Don Draper had a life-changing encounter with a hobo, as he remembers in the episode: "The Hobo Code." | |
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In Blattodea, the protagonist Chiyuri Haijima is a kind and hard-working homeless girl raised and trained in combat by a depiction of Leiji Matsumoto as a King of the Homeless. On the positive side, Chiyuri is the Only Sane Woman in a Crapsack World controlled by deranged Social Darwinist assassins and rapists — though she's very naïve and glamorizes her status too much. On the negative side, the story takes any excuse it can to portray homeless men as freakishly ugly bastards. As early as chapter 4, a zombie outbreak causes a group of middle aged people who helped her adoptive father Yamato look after Chiyuri to assault her and they act like that's what they wanted all along. | |
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The Green Hills of Earth: Old blind Rhysling, the Singer of the Spaceways, is a kind of hobo. He's an unusual example, as he's built up something of a reputation as a wandering poet and is well-regarded by pretty much everyone. | |
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Our Miss Brooks: Miss Brooks deals with hobos in the episodes "Hobo Jungle" and "Miss Brooks Writes About a Hobo". | |
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Every Child: The Doorstop Baby is eventually taken in by a pair of hobos after all the middle-class people of the neighborhood manage to find excuses not to take care of the child. | |
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In Potion Permit, Zeke is a homeless man who sleeps on the bench with his pet cat Kipps. He used to be a merchant from the capital, but he retired because his success became meaningless to him, and he chose to live the life of a carefree nobody in Moonbury. | |
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Mickey One: After Mickey fled Detroit but before he settled in Chicago, he spent four and a half years traveling around, mostly by train. | |
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Arkham Horror has "Ashcan" Pete, a hobo who makes a living being sneaky on the streets and traveling with his dog. He's one of the playable characters, and uses his sneaky stats to easily evade combat. | |
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Ironweed is about Francis, once a professional baseball player, now a dirty drunken hobo who's nearly 60. Francis abandoned his family 22 years ago and is living as a bum because he is plagued with guilt about the death of his infant son, whom a drunk Francis dropped while attempting to change his diaper. | |
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The protagonist of Hobo With a Shotgun is a hobo who becomes a vigilante. With a shotgun. | |
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The heroes in O Brother, Where Art Thou? are not hobos, but they briefly encounter some while attempting to sneak aboard a moving train. They still steal pies, though. They pay for the pies by replacing the pie with money held down with a rock. |
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ClayFighter 63 1/3: One of the possible characters is HoboCop (yeah, like RoboCop), a hobo who becomes a vigilante and use tin cans as his "armor". Being so politically incorrect, he was deleted from production for lack of time and later became the only character unadded from the discarded ones in Sculptor's Cut. | |
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The film Emperor of the North, set in the 1930s, depicts the brutal battle between a sadistic train conductor and a legendary hobo nicknamed A#1. (A rare example of a realistic depiction of the hobo life in a Hollywood production.) | |
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Power Pro-kun Pocket 9: The Vagabond Nice Guy scenario features a honorable wanderer who helps a shopping district's community face a corrupt supermarket chain. In most story routes he hangs out by an Artificial Riverbank with a tent and a fishing rod. It is also hinted he is the reincarnation of Red, the misguided sentai warrior from Koshien Hero, on something of a redemption journey. | |
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A violent variation most associated with Dungeons & Dragons (but also applies to most role-playing games) is the murderhobo: parties of adventurers with no fixed abode who go from place to place attacking whatever's in their way but not showing much in the way of Character Development or even personality. It's thought to have started as a reaction to the Killer DM tactic of using character backgrounds against them ("Oh, your character has a little sister? Guess who got kidnapped by cultists and possessed by the Big Bad"), leading to armed sociopaths caring only about the next source of gold and experience. | |
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In season 2 of Oliver Beene, a homeless man (played by Norm Macdonald) moves into Oliver's treehouse, sparking outrage amongst he and his friends. | |
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"Hobo's Lullaye", written by George Reeves and recorded by Woody Guthrie and David Rovics (amongst others) is about the harshness of the hobo lifestyle and the importance of finding solace where you can: | |
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Call of Cthulhu allows player characters to choose "hobo" as an occupation. | |
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Guttersnipe, set in a Theme Park Version of a Theme Park Version of the Great Depression, has hobos that have become so numerous that they have taken over the entire center third of the nation, succeeding to become a sovereign nation called "Hobotopia" Hobos are depicted as a roaming barbarian tribe, armed with spears and wearing nothing but loincloths and the obligatory battered top hats. | |
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Steven Universe: In "On the Run", Steven and Amethyst try living as hobos for a day, inspired by Steven's new favorite book series The No-Home Boys. Not only does being a hobo turn out to be less glamorous than it looks, but the trip brings up some of Amethyst's baggage about being a Gem who was born on Earth in a life-force sucking Gem "Kindergarten". | |
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In the closing section of Pulp Fiction, Jules declares his intention to quit his job as a hitman, leave Los Angeles and "walk the earth" in the style of Caine from Kung Fu (1972). His partner, Vincent, responds that he would be nothing more than a bum. Better a live bum than getting shot up on the toilet with your own gun, as Vincent finds out. | |
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Promethean: The Created basically has you playing Frankenstein. | |
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Daughter for Dessert: Before arriving at the diner, Lily travels to different places on the whim of an app she downloaded, not working, subsisting on her social skills and the kindness of strangers. | |
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The Onion: In "Why Am I The Only Homeless Man Still Wearing Pickle Barrels?", the narrator is a homeless man who was once a powerful railroad tycoon before the fickle hand of fate robbed him of his mansion, wealth and fine suits, and set him on the wandering path of the hobo. He bears himself with dignity, seeking nothing more than a pickle barrel to clad himself in, a stray can of beans for his supper, and the company of his old friend Handsome Joe the Hobo King who lives down by the train yard. In recent days, however, he worries about the looming extinction of his traditional lifestyle — modern hobos have largely abandoned the traditional barrels for flashy, trendy wear such as be-patched trousers and shoes that leave the big toe exposed, suitable barrels have become rare as well as shipping companies have switched to glass jars and cardboard boxes, and fewer and fewer people transport their canned goods in poorly-secured bicycles where even a slight bump might send a hearty stew flying to the street. | |
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Outside Dave in New Girl is a stereotypical homeless man who often shares strange wisdom, dresses in an assortment of clothes and rags he's found and wears cracked glasses. | |
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The Murdoch Mysteries episode "Ballad of Gentleman Jones" is set around Toronto's hobo community. Watts and Crabtree go undercover to investigate a hobo killer, learn about hobo coins, and get into a fight with railway bulls. | |
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Fahrenheit 451: The climax has literary hobos after Montag escapes the Mechanical Hound by jumping in a river. It is later revealed that these are all former English professors and stuff; they're keeping the books in their heads until contemporary society crumbles. | |
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In The Goon, hobos appear as cannibalistic cavemen/jungle savages who have their own language. Their leader, the Hobo King may be a caricature of Woody Guthrie. | |
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"The Ghost of Tom Joad", by Bruce Springsteen, is a hymn to the hobo life. | |
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Futurama has hobos... in space! Bender meets a reclusive chef Helmut Spargle who lives in a space hobo metropolis. Using only leftovers and garbage, Spargle can bake a pie with hobo-levitating aromatic properties (because they have jet packs somehow). The hobos actually refer to Bender as a robo, a Robot Hobo; at first he's offended, because he thought they said "romo". |
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Hijinks Ensue features Boxcar Pete, a hobo who for some strange reason wears a monocle and talks like a pirate. | |
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The Areas of My Expertise: Hodgman gives a detailed history of the Hobo Conspiracy, including how a hobo (Hobo Joe Junkpan) once became Secretary of the Treasury and then gives 700 Hobo names (and 100 more in the paperback version). He does, however, make a point of distinguishing between normal homeless people and hobos (it's a lifestyle choice). | |
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Cities in Flight: James Blish has the character Mayor Amalfi liken the titular cities, which turned themselves spaceflight-capable and took to wandering around the stars to flee totalitarianism on Earth, to the migrants of the United States, saying that most cities are hobos, migrant workers, but some are tramps, basically petty criminals, and a few are the lowest sort: bindlestiffs, migrants who live by robbing other migrants. | |
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The Easter Bunny Is Comin To Town: Hallelujah Jones is a heroic version of this trope complete with worn clothes and Bindle Stick. He is an ally to Sunny the Easter Bunny and the denizens of Kidville, helping them deliver Easter goodies and creating Easter traditions like jelly beans. | |
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Dave Attell encountered one on his show Insomniac with Dave Attell. After referring to him as a hobo, the man corrected him: "I'm a tramp." | |
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The Red Skelton Show: In an interview on the "Funny Faces" video, Red Skelton described his "Freddie the Freeloader" character from his long-running TV series: | |
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While hiking the Pacific Crest Trail in Wild, Strayed runs into a reporter from the Hobo Times who assumes that she is a hobo and starts interviewing her. She insists that she isn't a hobo, but has to admit that she doesn't actually have a job or a place to live. | |
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Invader Zim mentions hobos, as well... as an urban legend on par with the Loch Ness Monster or Bigfoot. One episode has Dib receiving advice from a friendly hobo. Immediately after their conversation the hobo abducts a screaming passerby and runs off. |
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Baggy Pants and the Nitwits: The eponymous Baggy Pants is explicitly described in the theme as "the hobo everyone knows". It may be because he's a No Celebrities Were Harmed version of Charlie Chaplin. | |
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Realm of Owls: The hobos live in the outskirts of the city of Buffet. They look, act and live like real-life hobos, but are mostly perfectly fine or even happy with their lifestyle. | |
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Doctor Who: The Second Doctor was basically a Space Hobo. | |
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Dick Tracy: Steve the Tramp was one of the early villains in the strip. | |
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Wild Boys of the Road: Lacking any better options, Eddie and Tommy start riding the rails, looking for work. It is a bad, bad life, nowhere near as romantic as it is often portrayed in other works. Hunger and fear plague the children as they travel across America. One child is sickened on the train by eating rotten food. Another is raped. | |
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In The Legend of Korra, Korra encounters the strangely cheery hobo Gommu, who politely asks for one of her speared fish and gives her the first revelation that Republic City isn't all the shine and splendor she thought it was. Gommu later takes the Krew in for sanctuary during the late stages of the Equalist uprising as guests in the underground shantytown that he and other vagrants (bender and nonbender alike) had set up. | |
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Of Mice and Men, a novel by former hobo John Steinbeck, has George and Lennie, a pair of wanderers who sign on to farms as workers and move on once the work dries up. | |
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In Meet John Doe, a reporter fabricates a letter from a John Doe who says he will kill himself on Christmas to protest the state of the country. When the story draws sympathy from the readership, she hires a former baseball player hobo to portray this fictional person in public. | |
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Hobo: Given his name, the titular Hobo is naturally one of these. Several other hobos appear as enemies in the first game. | |
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Daraku Tenshi: The Fallen Angels has Torao Onigawara, a karateka hobo (in reality a Retired Badass who became homeless). Also doubles with The Pig-Pen with flies surrounding him all the time. | |
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Sixth Column (also titled The Day After Tomorrow) by Robert A. Heinlein includes a hobo character. The hobo used to be a graduate student who decided to research the hobo lifestyle. He discovered he liked it and gave up being a student to be a hobo. He also points out to the protagonist that hobos are not tramps or bums, and in fact lays out an entire social taxonomy of American transients, with bindlestiffs at the bottom and true hobos at the top. | |
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Pee-wee's Big Adventure - Pee-Wee encounters a friendly hobo when he hops a freight train, but the hobo's delight in singing old songs finally becomes too much for him. | |
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