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Maybe their home is a Dying Town or The Old Country, maybe they live in an urban ghetto, or maybe most people are just bored with life Down on the Farm. Hardly anyone seems to want to live there, but finances, family obligations or lack of will to leave keep most people there for good. But every so often, there's one who makes it out — maybe an incredible talent proved their ticket out of there. Maybe they won their way to a great, faraway college or to a lucrative job... but sometimes they just up and leave. Peers and elders in the town usually admire them for their tenacity, but tend to resent them for leaving if the community isn't as close-knit. Impressionable youngsters, though, might look up to them and get ideas of maybe leaving one day themselves. Alternately, the one who made it out could be despised for "forgetting where they come from" or trading their "roots" for material success and comfort. Expect, for the hero after achieving success to come back home and find out how much or how little is changed, as well as why You Can't Go Home Again. This story is a particular fascination in several American films, books and plays partly because of its close relationship to The American Dream, the promise that anyone in America can transcend their origins and roots to get where they want to go. Character trope. Can overlap with The Runaway, Social Climber, Working-Class Hero and Rags to Riches. Darker variations may overlap with From Nobody to Nightmare. Examples |
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Blke Thorburn of Pact is the only one of his extended family to make it out of the toxic environment that their Big, Screwed-Up Family became over an inheritance conflict, with dubiously-legal acts of sabotage and spiteful manipulation abounding. In an inversion of the usual, Blake ended up homeless in Toronto, where he was brutally beaten more than once, and by the start of the story has only just managed to claw his way up to "dirt poor." He still considers it better than coming home. | |
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In Pokémon Detective Pikachu, this is inverted with Tim. He is from a small town where young people eventually leave for more exciting things (whether Pokemon training or college). But Tim is the only one out of his friends who refused to leave, preferring to settle for a boring cubicle insurance job. His friends are all worried about him for this reason. | |
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Bojack Horseman: Out of the cast of Horsin' Around, Bradley Hitler-Smith was the one with enough sense to get out of show business. At the time of the show's present, he runs a successful hardware store and is the only reasonably well-adjusted member of the group. However, it's also shown that he's quick to drop his business for a chance at a potential comeback. From the same show, Diane is the only member of her family who actually has a job. |
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Dragon Age In Dragon Age: Origins, this is a major theme for wardens of the Dwarf Commoner origin. A Dwarf Commoner warden was born into abject poverty as a casteless "untouchable" and was forced to be an enforcer for a petty crime lord before being conscripted into the Grey Wardens, who among dwarves are a highly respected order. When they return to their home city later in the game, several casteless (including their former best friend) will berate them for forgetting how hard life is in the slums there, and the Guardian Spirit in the Temple of Sacred Ashes will ask the player if they feel they failed their friends and family by abandoning them to become a Grey Warden. In Dragon Age: Inquisition, should the player convince Iron Bull to order his mercenary company to retreat and allow the Qunari ship to be destroyed and become Tal-Vashoth, Cole's dialogue with Bull indicates Bull's old Tamassran (teacher-cum-parent) views him this way. |
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Somebody I Used to Know: Ally's friends and acquaintances from her small hometown are all very proud of her for getting a Hollywood job. She's embarrassed to tell them that the show she created and ran has been cancelled. | |
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CSI: NY: The victim in "Unwrapped" had grown up in a very poor neighborhood rife with drugs and crime. He'd applied himself in school, went to college, became a CPA, moved to a much nicer area and bought an expensive car. He never forgot where he came from, though. He is killed while visiting relatives in his old neighborhood and, when questioned, everyone there speaks highly of him. One drop-out even mentions that the man had encouraged him to stay in school so he could have a better life as well, and regrets not having listened. | |
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The Simpsons: The show originally portrayed world boxing heavyweight champion Drederick Tatum this way, to the point where he once said if he ever moved back to Springfield "you know he'd messed up bad". Ironically, when he became a minor recurring character, the show implied he never left despite his success. Marge's high school friend Chloe is this, having become a hugely successfull international reporter, much to Marge's resentment. |
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Hojo and Asami, the main characters of Sanctuary, escaped from the Killing Fields of Cambodia under Khmer Rouge as children, and work together to reform the political system of Japan, one from "on top" as a diet member, and one from "underneath" as a yakuza boss. Atypically, they claim that they didn't make it out of Cambodia because they were clever or driven, but because they were lucky. | |
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Franklin Clinton's goal in Grand Theft Auto V is to be one of these. He wishes to escape his impoverished, violent neighborhood of Chamberlain Hills not because he's an honest man, but because the local gangs have no prospects compared to more experienced and hardened criminals like Michael DeSanta and Trevor Philips. Via successful robberies and assassinations, he quickly makes a name for himself and buys a mansion in Vinewood Hills, but pretty much all of his old acquaintances from the hood (including his aunt and ex-girlfriend, the latter of whom became this trope by marrying well) castigate him for forgetting his roots when they're not accusing him of being a male prostitute. In Ending C, Franklin settles into an upper-class lifestyle, but still demonstrates his loyalty to his friends from the ghetto. | |
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In Dragon Age: Inquisition, should the player convince Iron Bull to order his mercenary company to retreat and allow the Qunari ship to be destroyed and become Tal-Vashoth, Cole's dialogue with Bull indicates Bull's old Tamassran (teacher-cum-parent) views him this way. | |
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In Discworld, Lancre is "the place people come from to become successful somewhere else" (usually Ankh-Morpork). Opera singer Enrico Basilica grew up in Rookery Yard, in the Shades, where "you could fight your way out, or you could sing your way out" (or you could get out by going through an alley into Shamlegger Street, but no-one came to anything going that way). | |
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This is Mahlia's life's goal in The Drowned Cities. She is desperate to make it out of the war-torn Wretched Hive she lives in. She manages to do it by the end, bringing a whole pack of soldier boys along for the ride. | |
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Welcome Back, Kotter: Gabriel Kotter made it out of the Brooklyn "ghetto", became a teacher, and then moved back to teach in his old neighborhood. | |
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X-Statix: Phat supposedly comes from a lower-class background before getting spotted by a recruiter for X-Force. In reality, he came from the suburbs, and his old neighborhood is less than thrilled by how he portrays in interviews, resulting in him getting the shit kicked out of him when he tries to go home. | |
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag has Edward Kenway, the son of poor Welsh farmers who wants to become "a man of fortune" and see the wide world. In the process he becomes a Privateer, a Pirate, an Assassin and finally a rich gentlemen albeit not without a lot of painful sacrifices along the way. | |
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Beka Cooper and her friend Tansy make it out of the slum in Beka Cooper in different ways. Beka helps the Lord Provost arrest a gang that threatened his career, so he takes in her family to repay her. Tansy marries Herun Lofts, the Nice Guy grandson of the richest (and nastiest) man in the Lower City. | |
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Grand Theft Auto largely deals with protagonists who for a variety of reasons want to escape their hood and face consequences for trying to do so. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City has Tommy Vercetti raised poor and a gangster in Liberty City, the son of his father who worked as a printer. He wanted to get out, and so worked for the Forelli Family who sold him out and Tommy spent a decade or so in prison. Naturally when he gets dispatched to the titular Vice City to oversee a drug deal, Tommy is not going to miss a chance of making up for losing out a huge chunk of his life. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has CJ who gets a lot of grief from his brother Sweet for walking out of Los Santos to Liberty City after past tragedy. In the middle point of the game, CJ is exiled and banished from Los Santos and becomes a powerful mercenary who is One Degree of Separation from every mob-boss and power broker on the West Coast but Sweet insists that he has to do something for the Hood. Grand Theft Auto IV and its DLC Mission-Pack Sequel also deal with this. Niko Bellic is an immigrant to America who is frustrated and miserable that in the new world he's more or less doing the same kind of work he did in the old world. Luiz Lopez and Gay Tony likewise are kind of miserable about their mutual aspirations, friendships and how a lot of it depends on their ties to the poor homes they came from. Johnny Klebitz doesn't want to escape the hood, but he does want to make his biker gang powerful again, and in the process, he destroys it. Franklin Clinton's goal in Grand Theft Auto V is to be one of these. He wishes to escape his impoverished, violent neighborhood of Chamberlain Hills not because he's an honest man, but because the local gangs have no prospects compared to more experienced and hardened criminals like Michael DeSanta and Trevor Philips. Via successful robberies and assassinations, he quickly makes a name for himself and buys a mansion in Vinewood Hills, but pretty much all of his old acquaintances from the hood (including his aunt and ex-girlfriend, the latter of whom became this trope by marrying well) castigate him for forgetting his roots when they're not accusing him of being a male prostitute. In Ending C, Franklin settles into an upper-class lifestyle, but still demonstrates his loyalty to his friends from the ghetto. |
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In The Godfather, Michael Corleone, the youngest of Mafia Don Vito Corleone's three sons, is initially set up as this; he's a war hero who has put some distance between himself and the "family business". But after an attempt on Vito's life, Michael ends up falling in deeper than either of the other two, eventually inheriting his father's position. | |
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Afterschool Special: Subverted in "15 and Getting Straight," a 1989 "ABC Afterschool Special" starring Drew Barrymore, Corey Feldman and David Birney about junkies in a 12-step drug counseling program. A teen named Rick seems to have made tremendous progress and is mentoring some of the other teens who are in denial about their problem. The subversion is played as irony ... in the end, the lead counselor (Birney) comes in one day and announces to the group that Rick had overdosed on a new drug. Rick had run into some old friends and was trying to tell them to go away, but they persisted in getting him to try the drug and immediately had a seizure. The counselor – himself an ex-drug user – tells the group "I would have bet money" on Rick's future success in staying straight; instead, Rick is dead ... and – in playing the trope straight and part of this episode's irony – all of the other teenagers who had been in denial are successful in their resolve to stay straight. | |
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Norman Osborn in his revival often taunted Peter for being an underachiever who more or less still lives in the same way he did as a young man, was still poor, and came off as an underachiever. Doctor Octopus in the Superior Spider Man initially expressed the same views. | |
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Satanik offers a very dark take on this trope: Marnie Bannister is the third daughter of an alcoholic and of a closed-minded housewife and comes from a poor background but is also a brilliant biologist and chemist, having earned herself a Ph.D. at just 25 years of age and is trying to use that to make it out in spite of her poor origins and being ridiculed by everyone, including (especially) her parents and two beautiful sisters, for that and the angioma that viciously scars her face... And the ridicule pushes her first to try and complete the work of the mad alchemist Masopust, and when she succeeds and creates a serum that makes her gorgeous... Well, let's just say that she takes the name Satanik for a reason. | |
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In Dragon Age: Origins, this is a major theme for wardens of the Dwarf Commoner origin. A Dwarf Commoner warden was born into abject poverty as a casteless "untouchable" and was forced to be an enforcer for a petty crime lord before being conscripted into the Grey Wardens, who among dwarves are a highly respected order. When they return to their home city later in the game, several casteless (including their former best friend) will berate them for forgetting how hard life is in the slums there, and the Guardian Spirit in the Temple of Sacred Ashes will ask the player if they feel they failed their friends and family by abandoning them to become a Grey Warden. | |
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Janice and Larry, the older Grape siblings from What's Eating Gilbert Grape. They only come back for Arnie's birthday party at the end of the book. | |
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Boy's Abyss takes place in a dreary town with no future and a whole lot of secrets. The goal of quite a few of the main characters is to eventually leave, but their own character flaws and the misguidance of their elders keeps them trapped. The series plays with this trope with the ones who finally left: Kosaku Esomori left after graduating high school and ended up a famous novelist, but the trauma of what happened in his youth there soured his relationships with all his wives and he ultimately goes back there to stir up trouble. Yuko Kurose's brother left when he was a teenager. Not much is known about why he left but he had a heated argument with his father and left town one day. He eventually comes back to visit his nephew Reiji, shown to at least have gotten married and had a happy pair of kids, something that very few people in the series can say they have. The one who played this trope straightest of all was Saki Shino'oka, a girl Esomori knew and dated in high school. She suffered from neglect in her home and knew her father was cheating on her mother, even attempting suicide there when she learned she was cheated on herself. However, when we see her as an adult, we learn she eventually left, got married, had four children, and had her parents' relationship resolved with them now acting like a proper couple. |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Lord Soth stands out as one of the only Darklords ever to escape from Ravenloft. After nobody-knows-how-long trapped in the Mists, he finally came to understand that his punishment was entirely his fault and admitted his guilt for the actions that brought him there. As the setting lore repeatedly stated would happen, admitting his own guilt rendered his punishment effectively meaningless, and the plane eventually got bored with him and kicked him back out again. The other Darklord who escaped is Vecna. Demigod, lich and Sorcerous Overlord extraordinaire, he once was imprisoned as the Darklord of Cavitius for a while, stuck in a Forever War against his treacherous lieutenant, the vampire Kas, Darklord of Tovag... but in a series of adventure modules towards the end of 2nd edition D&D, he managed to break out of the Demiplane of Dread, put planar metropolis Sigil under siege and nearly killed its ruler, the Lady of Pain in a bid to become ultimate ruler of the D&D multiverse... and when thwarted by the PCs, still managed to get away scot-free, with enough of a power boost to rise in divine rank from demigod to lesser god, and with the fabric of the multiverse so irrevocably altered it's implied to be the in-game reason for the changes between 2e and 3e, cementing Vecna as one of the most Magnificent Bastards in the game's history. When Vecna makes it out, he makes it out in style. |
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In one episode of NUMB3RS, Che Lobo, a former gangster turned hip-hop CEO, tells Colby Granger that he wanted his (currently kidnapped) son to be this. | |
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One way of interpreting the fate of Molly the pony from Animal Farm. While she's the only animal to leave the Farm and voluntarily return to the service of a human, she nevertheless seems happy with her new life and ends up with more luxuries and less work than almost any other animal on the Farm. Some people have even suggested that Molly was smarter than she let on, at least enough to realise that Napoleon and Squealer tended to hastily change the subject whenever Benjamin asked them pointed questions about the finer details of their big ideas, and took to her hooves before everything went wrong. | |
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has CJ who gets a lot of grief from his brother Sweet for walking out of Los Santos to Liberty City after past tragedy. In the middle point of the game, CJ is exiled and banished from Los Santos and becomes a powerful mercenary who is One Degree of Separation from every mob-boss and power broker on the West Coast but Sweet insists that he has to do something for the Hood. | |
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Death of a Salesman: It's heavily implied that Biff Loman will be the one member of the Loman line to avoid the trap of chasing after unattainable dreams. | |
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The Purge: His career as a doctor has caused him to leave the middle or working class black neighborhood where he was born for a more affluent community that was more vulnerable to the Purge. Marcus remains friendly with his old neighbors and is disappointed that they forgot to tell him about one old friend’s death. | |
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If Shepard has the "Earthborn" background in Mass Effect, they escaped a childhood of petty crime on the streets as a member of the Tenth Street Reds by joining the military. In the first game, a member of the Reds who is still active approaches Shepard and tries to blackmail them by threatening to reveal their criminal past to the galaxy, with embellishments to also make Shepard seem like an anti-alien xenophobe. Shepard has multiple options on how to deal with the situation. In the sequel, Finch will send you an e-mail saying that, even if you are not a member of the Reds anymore, he is glad it is you going after the Collectors. | |
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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City has Tommy Vercetti raised poor and a gangster in Liberty City, the son of his father who worked as a printer. He wanted to get out, and so worked for the Forelli Family who sold him out and Tommy spent a decade or so in prison. Naturally when he gets dispatched to the titular Vice City to oversee a drug deal, Tommy is not going to miss a chance of making up for losing out a huge chunk of his life. | |
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Rebuild World: Applies in two ways to Akira, Recruited from the Gutter by an ancient Artificial Intelligence Alpha, becoming a successful Private Military Contractor and moving up in Urban Segregation class to the Lower District: Amongst Sheryl's Gang he runs with her in the slum, views on Akira's success vary quite wildly. Generally, Akira cultivates an image as The Dreaded, using Make an Example of Them to prevent people in the slums from betraying him. Erio, after Defeat Means Friendship becomes a Determinator to catch up to Akira in combat skill. Akira earns the envy of Sebla, who wishes it could have been him and that Akira was just lucky (which Akira agrees), leading to Sebla being The Mole. Multiple women in the gang want to make moves on him for Gold Digger reasons, but are too afraid of Sheryl's jealousy. Akira earns The Resenter hatred from his competing hunter Airi for having gotten out of the Wrong Side of the Tracks seemingly by himself, while she needed helped by Katsuya (though she doesn't know Akira had Alpha's Virtual Sidekick assistance). This led to Airi hiding her intuition that a pickpocket who stole from Akira but claimed otherwise was in fact guilty, and after a certain incident, Airi swears vengeance on Akira. |
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In Star Wars: The Old Republic, the Sith Inquisitor was plucked from the slave auction when their Force sensitivity was discovered and sent to Korriban Sith Academy as just another recruit for the other hopefuls to kill on their way to the top. The Inquisitor ends up as one of the CoDragons of the Empire (along with the Sith Warrior). | |
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Fantastic Four: Part of the reason the Yancy Street Gang initially hated the Thing is that Ben Grimm is a former Yancy Streeter who got out, and they think he's forgotten his roots. | |
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October Daye: Toby is this for Home. She's the first changeling to be knighted and gain (partial) acceptance in fae society, when most of the other kids from Home end up as street criminals, just as purebloods expect them to. | |
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In Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee, Jiggy Pepper grew up in the Dying Town of Kyrie, a town in the poor district to Yodaka on the bridge leading to the middle-class district of Yuusari. Determined to give hope to his town, he become a Letter Bee, being one of two known Letter Bees to come from Yodaka(the other being Lag Seeing, The Hero of the series). He proves himself to be The Ace among the Letter Bees, and earns enough money to buy a bell for Kyrie's church. | |
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In A New Hope, Luke's good friend Biggs Darklighter managed to make it off Tatooine, became a pilot for the Rebel Alliance and insinuates he's had many adventures. Unfortunately, he's killed during the assault on the Death Star before he and Luke can have a proper catch-up. | |
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One episode of NCIS had a Marine captain whose mother had taken him away from their hometown to escape the blood feud which had killed his father and countless other members of their family. He only returned to take revenge when he learned his brother had been killed as part of the on-going feud. | |
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Superman: Depending on the Writer, continuity reboot status, medium, etc., in various permutations of the franchise, Clark Kent is occasionally given this treatment for having made it from Smallville to Metropolis. | |
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In Francine Rivers’ Redeeming Love, Angel is the only prostitute that escapes the brothel she lived in at the beginning of the story. This is partially because there was a fire that killed most of them a few weeks after Angel left. Near the novel’s end, she begins working to subvert this trope by beginning a ministry that helps girls who have been sold into prostitution by teaching them skills that will help them integrate into society as self-sufficient and upstanding women. | |
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Black Lightning: Jefferson Pierce is the one who made it out of the ghetto and then came back to teach in the high school and help others make it out. | |
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Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy shows the doomed attempts made by hero Clyde Griffiths to get out of his ghetto. He succeeds for a time, but his past and own moral failings end up bringing him down. His lover Roberta Alden is also a tragic example of the same. | |
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The Ghost With The Lizard from The Great Divorce is the only Ghost we see who accepts redemption and becomes a Person. | |
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The Boondocks: Huey and Riley originally came from inner-city South Side Chicago. They weren't all that happy about being sent away to live with their grandfather Robert in the lily-white suburb of Woodcrest. Robert himself is a former Tuskeegee Airman who has worked his whole life to get where he is. According to an in-universe documentary, Thugnificent's hometown was so poor that many locals couldn't afford clothes. The crime was so out of control, that the underfunded police department gave up on the place, and just built an electric fence around it. But thanks to his musical career, Thugnificent can now afford a Big Fancy House in Woodcrest. |
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Umrika: At the beginning of the film, Rajan and Udai are the pride of their small village for going out and getting good jobs. Rajan stays in Mumbai and keeps in correspondence with the village; Udai straight-up vanishes (forged letters aside). | |
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Characters of this type show up from time to time in the various Law & Order series. Their past often ends up being related in some way to the case. Amanda Rollins of Law & Order: SVU is implied to be this in her family. Her mother and sister are less than thrilled (though the latter eventually comes around), believing that Amanda thinks herself better than them because of this. |
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Monkey D. Luffy, in One Piece, is one of the few people born and raised in the East Blue sector of the world to achieve international notoriety as a pirate. His first mate, Roronoa Zoro, shares this distinction. The people of the East Blue have a reputation as weak and unable to compete with people from other regions, almost every pirate from there quickly fizzling out when they attempt to sail the Grand Line looking for the One Piece treasure. This is why Luffy and Zoro repeatedly shock the world with their accomplishments. However, Gold Roger, the legendary pirate who owned the One Piece in the first place, also comes from the East Blue, suggesting that while few East Blue pirates become notable, those few are the best of the best. | |
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I Am Not a Serial Killer: One of the first hints towards Marci's Hidden Depths is her speech about wanting to get out of Clayton, and how she doesn't understand how such a stagnant, pathetic town came from people who walked out into the boonies and built something from scratch. | |
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Deconstructed with the title superhero himself in Superman & Lois — Clark moved out of the little Midwest farming town of Smallville, got a job in the city with a prestigious newspaper, and (unbeknownst to the people of Smallville) became the world's most beloved and famous superhero. Over the years meanwhile, Smallville fell victim to many of the same socioeconomic problems plaguing other small towns in Flyover Country, and when Clark returns in the wake of his mother's death, he's appalled at how bad things have gotten, taking it upon himself to turn things around. | |
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Hillbilly Elegy: The author is one of the few who left his Dying Town, becoming a lawyer in New York and trying to hide his poor rural background. However, he seems to have some form of contempt for those who couldn’t or wouldn’t leave. | |
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In Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, the Jedi Exile is the only one of Revan's renegade Jedi who did not become a Sith. Whether or not that stays the case depends on the player's actions. | |
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Lord Soth stands out as one of the only Darklords ever to escape from Ravenloft. After nobody-knows-how-long trapped in the Mists, he finally came to understand that his punishment was entirely his fault and admitted his guilt for the actions that brought him there. As the setting lore repeatedly stated would happen, admitting his own guilt rendered his punishment effectively meaningless, and the plane eventually got bored with him and kicked him back out again. | |
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Luke Cage: Since Luke Cage became a globally prominent superhero, some characters have occasionally accused him of forgetting his roots as a hero of the downtrodden in New York City. He doesn't take it very kindly, especially not when a young upstart uses this to justify taking up Luke's abandoned "Power Man" codename. | |
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In The Force Awakens, Rey manages to escape her dead-end life as a scavenger on Jakku—where she'd been stuck since ever since her parents abandoned her—when she gets caught up in the search for Luke Skywalker, with Han Solo also offering her a job. Initially, she actually wants to return to Jakku in the vain hope her parents will come back, but after learning she's Force-sensitive she joins the Resistance and seeks out Luke herself. | |
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Two examples from Solo. It's played straight with Han Solo. He manages to escape from his crappy life on Corellia and eventually earn his freedom by bribing his way past a check-point (more or less), joining the Imperial Army and then deserting to become a smuggler. He attempted to take his girlfriend Qi'ra with him, but she was unfortunately captured. Qi'ra, on the other hand, is a subversion. When she and Han meet for the first time since his escape from Corellia, he asks her how she made it out. She replies "I didn't". It's heavily implied she 'got out' by pledging her services to Dryden Vos and is clearly under his command now. She may be better off now than she was in the slums of Corellia, but she isn't free. |
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This trope is a running source of source of conflict in Six Feet Under: Older brother Nate ran away from his dysfunctional and overbearing family so he could live outside their influence and without having anything to do with their family business. This condemned younger brother David to suspend his ambitions to go to law school as he felt responsible for the family and he got saddled into a line of work he had no interest in. When their father dies at the beginning of the show, Nate returns, clearly afraid of getting stuck at home for good this time while David's resentment at being left behind to deal with everything boils to the surface. Over the course of the series, it is revealed that their mother, Ruth, had her own dreams but ended up staying home to take care of her sickly mother, resulting in life-long regret of What Could Have Been. Towards the end of the series, their sister Claire receives a job offer in New York and takes it. Just before she is due to leave, she gets news that the offer is no longer available but she decides to move anyways as she is afraid of repeating the mistake her mom did. |
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Spider-Man: Some of the stories (at least before the Dan Slott eranote Where Peter is a CEO businessman) deal with Peter's Angst about the fact that being Spider-Man is delaying or hurting his ambitions and plans for his career or attempts to live up to his potential. This is also part of the arc of his supporting characters. Norman Osborn in his revival often taunted Peter for being an underachiever who more or less still lives in the same way he did as a young man, was still poor, and came off as an underachiever. Doctor Octopus in the Superior Spider Man initially expressed the same views. |
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In Takotsubo, the trope is heavily referenced in the prologue: Cord Cai is a Chinese-American boy from Oakland with gang history, who desperately wants to get out of the street life. His fiance Roland's death and the police force's uselessness utterly trash that plan, so after a suicide attempt, he shoots Roland's murderer and starts a gang again. He's constantly calling himself a failure or a "bad Asian," but his gang alias is "the Tin Man," Cord's gang is constantly helping out civilians and the police, and the tagline is "the story of a superhero." | |
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Beyond the Wall: Before Whisperleaf was born, her older sister Whispersilk successfully escaped the village and never came back. Their parents told Whisperleaf that her sister was eaten by forest monsters. | |
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In the Doctor Who Expanded Universe Elseworld novel The Infinity Doctors, some young Gallifreyans treat the Doctor as this, and are bemused as to why he has come back. | |
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Blue Beetle (2023): Jaime is the first of his blue-collar Mexican immigrant family to graduate from college and is implied to have wanted to be a lawyer, but the Reyeses' current financial troubles have temporarily put a stop to those plans. He references this trope when he bittersweetly tells Milagro he had wanted to be "the one who made it out" and get them out of the ghetto-y Edge Keys. | |
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The Wire: Poot is the only one of his friends who got out of the game and found a real job. He's also the only one alive by the end of the series. Season four introduces a group of children from West Baltimore's projects and rowhouses. Each friend follows a different path and Namond Brice, the son of a reputed drug soldier, is the only kid able to escape the doomed background of a troubled childhood, a dysfunctional family—at best—and the notion that crime is the only way to earn a living. Sadly, it only happens thanks to a remarkable, extremely unusual and unique adoptive parent, Howard Colvin, a former cop who identifies Namond's potential. |
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Night in the Woods has this as a theme, as it’s centered on a small Dying Town. Protagonist Mae is the first in her family and friend circle to go to college, but drops out and returns home after a mental breakdown. Casey Hartley has gone missing and his friends think he's hopped on a freight train. Gregg recounts a story from his childhood about how he accidentally let loose his uncle’s sheep and how nearly all of them either returned or died. Only one of them escaped to the woods, and Gregg says that he wants to do the same. Casey turned out to have never made it out of Possum Springs, having been sacrificed by the town cult. | |
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In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, the protagonist realizes that if he stays in his American Indian reserve, he'll lose hope and go nowhere like everyone else in the reservation. He is encouraged to go to an off-reserve school (where the education is better than in the reserve) by a teacher who helps him see this. | |
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Gary is one of these early in Pokémon: The Series. For example: Before Gold/Silver were announced, he shows off 10 badges when anyone who played the game knew you could only get 8. Additionally, he has a chauffeur and is always accompanied by fangirls and his own cheerleader squad. This also applies to Ash — he and Gary were the only ones out of the original four trainers that started their journey in Pallet Town that got at least 8 badges, never mind getting a decent place in the tournament (Ash in the top 16, Gary in the top 32). Ash manages to work his way up the ranks with each region, while Gary decides to become a researcher like his grandfather (while still traveling to learn new information). |
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A major theme of No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle is Travis' status as this in the UAA. During the events of the first game he managed to kill his way up to being Rank 1 in the rankings and then just... left. When he eventually comes back and is forced to restart from the lowest rank, motivated by the new Rank 1 killing his best friend, multiple assassins, most notably Alice Twilight, ask how he managed to get away from both the lifestyle and UAA itself. | |
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In Veronica Mars, the eponymous detective has a shot at getting out of Neptune and leaving her painful past behind her, but eventually decides she likes being In Harm's Way. (She is a very dysfunctional person.) | |
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Jack Atlas of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds, who made it out of the slums of Satellite by betraying Yusei in his backstory. | |
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A major motivation of many characters of In the Heights, and whether or not this is necessarily for the best. Nina escaped the barrio and got into Stanford. Subverted in that she struggled to meet her financial obligations, her grades suffered as a result, and she lost her scholarship and dropped out. When she returns home for a visit she's embarrassed and ashamed when everyone tells her how proud they are of her. Double Subverted when she uses the money from her father selling off his business to go back in the fall. Vanessa wants to find a better place to work and get an apartment downtown in West Village. She ultimately goes through with it, but not before getting a date with Usnavi. Abuela Claudia came from Cuba with her family, and is happy to have a home and close relationships with the community until her death. Usnavi wants to leave the Heights and return to his parents' home on a beach in the Dominican Republic, believing the place is changing and with many of his friends leaving, there's not much left for him. At the end after seeing Graffiti Pete's beautiful mural of Abuela, he decides to stay and use his lottery money to fix up the bodega, get a date with Vanessa, and remember all the stories the customers have to tell as the community changes with the times. |
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Throughout Red Dead Redemption 2, several characters — including the lead Arthur Morgan — keep suggesting John Marston (The Protagonist of the first game) to take his family and leave the outlaw life behind. As the first game tells us, John eventually does so. Once Arthur finds out he's slowly dying to tuberculosis, he chooses to use his remaining time to help John leave. He even uses this as a taunt of sorts as part of his last words; an another gang member believes he's made it simply by surviving a single encounter, which slightly offends Arthur. | |
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Grand Theft Auto IV and its DLC Mission-Pack Sequel also deal with this. Niko Bellic is an immigrant to America who is frustrated and miserable that in the new world he's more or less doing the same kind of work he did in the old world. Luiz Lopez and Gay Tony likewise are kind of miserable about their mutual aspirations, friendships and how a lot of it depends on their ties to the poor homes they came from. Johnny Klebitz doesn't want to escape the hood, but he does want to make his biker gang powerful again, and in the process, he destroys it. | |
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The Authority: Angie Spica came from a lower-class background where her dad drove a bus and all of her sisters ended up pregnant before they finished high school. She escaped the same fate by applying herself to her studies, replacing her blood with nine pints of liquid machinery (which transformed her into the superhero known as the Engineer), and travelling back in time to turn Jenny Sparks into a Century Baby so that she could go on to recruit the future members of the Authority. | |
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Played for tragedy with Sang-woo in Squid Game — he came from a low-class beginning with a mother who operated a market stall selling fish, attended a prestigious university, and became a successful businessman and the pride of his neighborhood. However, he wound up getting involved with some White Collar Crimes, which led to him getting into deep debts and trouble with the law. He's desperate enough to compete in the titular Deadly Game, where he's willing to put his life (and the lives of others) at risk to win the equivalent of $45 million. He's called out on this by his childhood friend Gi-hun, whose own dire financial situation is something he fully owns up to as being his own fault. | |
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"dorothea" by Taylor Swift is a Love Nostalgia Song towards the titular woman, who left her small, sleepy hometown to become a famous celebrity. The narrator stayed behind and hasn't seen her in many years, and still carries a torch for her and holds out hope that she'll come back. | |
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Prima Facie: Tessa is from a working-class background. She gets mockery from her family for becoming a 'fancy lawyer' and feels out of place among her classmates and colleagues with posh backgrounds. | |
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This is a major theme in Justified. Harlan County is very poor and many of the characters dream of leaving and starting a better life somewhere else. However, few actually follow through with this. Raylan Givens is actually one of the characters who actually made it out of Harlan. Faced with either working in the coal mine for the rest of his life or becoming a criminal like his father, he left Kentucky and became a U.S. marshal. He is understandably quite unhappy that when he is assigned to the Kentucky office at the beginning of the series. Bowman Crowder and his wife Ava wanted to get out of Harlan and believed that as a local football star Bowman would get a college scholarship and then have a professional sports career. When it turned out that he was not good enough for a scholarship, he went to work in the coal mine and started committing Domestic Abuse. After Ava kills Bowman she has a chance to leave Kentucky but decides to stay. When Ava finally gets away from Kentucky, she is a fugitive wanted for murder. The main motivation behind Mags Bennet's actions is to provide her grandchildren with the opportunity to go to college and get away from the criminal life she and her sons are living. The Crowes are a family of poor criminals and Wendy Crowe is desperate to get away from that environment. She works as a paralegal and is studying to be a lawyer. However, she is pulled back into the criminal life when her brothers get in trouble with the US Marshals. It turns out that Kendell Crowe is actually her son and she lacks the means to support them both so has to rely on her brothers to help raise him. She finally has a chance for a fresh start with Kendell when her brothers are killed. |
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Tasha Yar of Star Trek: The Next Generation was originally from a post-apocalyptic planet but managed to get into Starfleet. Ro Laren similarly managed to escape from the Cardassian Occupation of Bajor. | |
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