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For some reason or another, one of the main characters is displaced from their home — be it in the sense of homeland, home planet, home universe, or literal house — and unable to return. Often, their attempts to return form a key plotline or focal point of the series, but since Status Quo Is God, Failure Is the Only Option (until, perhaps, the Grand Finale). If the reason why they can't return is because of a Doomed Hometown or because they are The Exile, then their quest is often revenge or a new place to stay. Sometimes they will finally return to Where It All Began to challenge the force that kept them away for so long. Before the character leaves their home, they may give it a final glance before leaving. This is often seen alongside Fish out of Water, and tends to result in Walking the Earth or a Wagon Train to the Stars. Trapped in Another World usually entails this (so most examples of that trope are equally valid for this one). When this trope is applied to the entire human race, it's Earth That Was. Contrast with I Choose to Stay. Also contrast with Stranger in a Familiar Land, in which you can go home, but find that you no longer fit in there. If you can't go home because you've been banned from doing so, you're Persona Non Grata. Patriot in Exile and The Stateless may also have been expelled from their native country. Compare The Call Knows Where You Live, The Exile, Hated Hometown, Never Accepted in His Hometown, and So What Do We Do Now?. A common outcome of the "Leaving the Nest" Song. When this happens, some people may choose to Start a New Life instead. |
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In Twig, Sylvester realizes, after he deserts Radham Academy with Jamie, that by killing the Baron Richmond and taking Jamie he's finally crossed the line and made Radham and his fellow Lambs his enemy, and that he can't go home, not alive, at least. | |
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The Autobiography of Jane Eyre: In episode 9, Jane has caught cold and is really sick, which also triggers her homesickness. It's all the more sad because she doesn't really have her home. The house feels empty and isolated, she doesn't have anybody to talk to; she misses university, but concludes that it was just a dorm room. | |
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Atop the Fourth Wall: The Gunslinger's pocketwatch was made specifically to avert this trope. Under normal circumstances, travelling to another dimension would either be fatal to him, or it would cause the dimension to assimilate him, thereby making his own dimension fatal to him. The pocketwatch prevents these effects from occurring. But then Linkara destroyed the pocketwatch, causing The Gunslinger to be trapped in Linkara's world forever, unable to return. When Linkara realizes this, he swears that he'll find a way to fix it. | |
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RWBY: The first three volumes of the show are set in Beacon Academy, the boarding school that is training the titular team of students and their friends and colleagues. By the end of Volume 3, the girls are approaching the end of their first year in a four-year programme. However, the villains instigate an invasion of the school by the Monsters of Grimm, leaving the school destroyed, the teachers and students evacuated, the headmaster killed, and a magically-frozen Grimm Dragon passively attracting more Grimm to the school's ruins. The finale ends with the titular team scattered, and a cross-continental quest beginning to try and seek answers to who the villains are. During Volume 8, the heroes try to find a way to save the people of both Atlas and Mantle from Salem and her forces while Ironwood and the Atlas Military only try to save the people of Atlas and abandon Mantle to die. During the climax of the Volume when Ironwood threatens to bomb Mantle himself, the heroes come up with a plan to evacuate the citizens of the entire Kingdom to Vacuo using the Staff of Creation. Because they used it to create something new, the previous command on it to keep Atlas flying above Mantle stops and the city starts to fall. At the end of the Volume, Atlas ends up crashing onto Mantle as the people are evacuated while the cities were both covered in flames and flooded. Because of this, Weiss and the people of the Kingdom can never return to their homes again. |
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Alice Grove: Ardent and Gavia teleport to Earth from the orbital habitat where they grew up, then find that their requests to return are being ignored. When they get back to space by a different route, they learn that their "habitat" is actually a simulation being run by a titanic, sapient space tree, which won't accept them back because they've been infected by impossibly advanced picotechnology of unknown purpose. Rough day. | |
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A recurring theme in many webcomics about life in college, at least in late 1990s-early 2000s, perhaps in a bit more literal sense. In College Catastrophe Jan visits his parents' home and finds his old room no longer suitable for life. In his case, it's used as a junk storeroom. | |
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In Freefall, Sam Starfall is prohibited from returning to his home world, due to his acquiring knowledge of technology far above the approximately "Steam Age" technology level there. | |
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In Dumbing of Age Joyce and Becky briefly go back to their hometown for a weekend, only for Joyce to end up disillusioned because her church's congregation aren't as accepting of Becky's lesbianism as she is, and that they seemed to take Becky's father's side (her father, who tried to kidnap Becky to bring her back to the Lord). | |
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In the Whateley Universe, Phase can't go home again. His family are the largest anti-mutant force on the planet. | |
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Tower of God: Urek Mazino followed Phantaminum into the Tower, but he discovered he could not get out of it anymore. | |
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The Dimensional Guardians trapped in Creturia in the web fiction serial Dimension Heroes. | |
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The premise of Mabaka! Magic is for Idiots! revolves around a novice wizard from another dimension getting stuck on Earth with no way to get back. Naturally, he ends up staying with the same girl whose yard he crash-landed into. At least until a year is up and he can return via a dimensional transport system. | |
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A minor plot point in Homestuck is that Sburb, a video game which can manipulate physical objects, is targeted at players who are entering adolescence and beginning to want to escape their homes for a life of their own. Sburb also enforces this, since playing it eventually sends players to a Pocket Universe while their home planet is destroyed by meteors created by the game. | |
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In The Order of the Stick, it is foretold that Durkon will return to his homeland—posthumously. However, he's actually happy to learn this because he'd much rather be buried with his ancestors than to die somewhere else. Of course, he doesn't know the real reason he was sent away from his home in the first place: it's prophecized that when he returns, it will result in the land's destruction. And this turned out to be subjected to Prophecy Twist. A Durkon that got turned into a vampire is dead, after all. Then there's Vaarsuvius, whose quest for power cost V's marriage and nearly the lives of spouse and children. |
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Zucchero: The song "Il Suono Della Domenica" (The Sound of Sunday) tells about Zucchero missing the rural homeland where he was born and raised. There's an English version of the song called "Someone Else's Tears", whose lyrics emphasize his tearful feelings about it, saying he can't stop crying. | |
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Silver Bullet Nights: The head of Donovan's family has disowned him for being transgender, resulting in him living on the mean streets of Toro City. He can't return to the family home or business; his previous life is over. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons The Deep Imaskari race in the Underdark setting live in a Hidden Elf Village. If anyone decides to leave, they automatically have the location of their home erased from their memory so that in the (highly likely) chance they are captured by something evil that can read minds, they will be unable to divulge the secret location. Elminster Aumar of the Forgotten Realms. At the start of his book series a magelord on a dragon burns down his home village to assassinate his father, a prince of Athalantar who had abdicated. About a century later, an orc horde destroyed the entire kingdom. The present-day city of Secomber is built on its capital's ruins. |
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In Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures, this trope is why Mab is travelling with Dan but this is played with. What happened was is that the current queen of the faerie kingdom, Nutmeg, made a decree that no one could have a tail fluffier than the queen's, so Mab, known for her fluffy tail, decided "Screw that" and left. She could go back home and did for a little bit but she chose not to. This happened to Matilda and the reason why she can't go home is because she ripped off her brother's arm and beat him with it. In her tribe, a female going against a male is punishable by death. |
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Elminster Aumar of the Forgotten Realms. At the start of his book series a magelord on a dragon burns down his home village to assassinate his father, a prince of Athalantar who had abdicated. About a century later, an orc horde destroyed the entire kingdom. The present-day city of Secomber is built on its capital's ruins. | |
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Zeetha from Girl Genius doesn't know where her tribe is from. Everyone who was involved in her journey to Europa ended up dead one way or another. | |
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Africa: Chui takes Africa's territory. She returns to try and reclaim it, only to get beaten. She returns to the new place in defeat | |
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Murder Drones: After Uzi's father betrays her, and the Worker Drones are still cowardly and powerless against the Disassembly Drones, Uzi decides to exile herself because there's nothing she can do to convince them to fight. Besides, Earth is looking like a much better place to rule over. | |
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The Bible: In the Book of Genesis, after Adam and Eve break the rules in the Garden of Eden, they are cast out forever and an angel with a flaming sword guards it from them. Hence, they and their descendants spread around the planet. The trope is eventually averted in Christianity, however, when God takes the consequences and punishment for human sin on himself. In the same book, after Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed, Lot and his daughters take shelter in a nearby cave. Lot's wife made the mistake of looking back as her hometown was destroyed, and ended up being turned into a pillar of salt. And their unnamed daughters' fiances were killed along with their neighbors. They get their father drunk and rape him, and each have a son by him, because they think they're the only people left After the End. Also in the same book, most of Abraham's line falls into this, including Abraham and Sarah themselves. Abraham (then known as Abram) and his wife/half-sister Sarai are approached by God, given a Meaningful Rename, and told to migrate to the other side of the Fertile Crescent. Abraham has a son named Ishmael by his slave Hagar (who is from somewhere around Egypt or Nubia), and when he and Sarah finally have the biological son they've been waiting for (Isaac), Sarah makes him kick Hagar and Ishmael out into the desert. They are promised by an angel that everything will be okay, and Ishmael becomes the Hero of Another Story. Meanwhile, Isaac grows up, and Abraham and Sarah really want him to marry a girl from the "right" family, instead of the local Canaanite women, whom they view as godless heathens. So they send a messenger back to Padan-Aram, and he brings home a girl named Rebekah as a bride for Isaac, and it's understood that she will never return home again after the marriage (which she accepts). They have two sons Jacob and Esau, and when Jacob and Rebekah trick Esau out of his inheritance, Rebekah sends Jacob off to Padan-Aram to her brother, where he marries Leah and Rachel. Although he does eventually visit Esau (who, to his surprise, has forgiven him), he never sees his parents again. His son Joseph is sold into slavery by his jealous brothers, and ends up in Egypt, where he becomes an important adviser to the Pharaoh. In the Book of Jeremiah, the titular prophet along with the Judean survivors of the Babylonian invasion of Jerusalem escape to Egypt for fear of the Babylonians, despite Jeremiah's warnings from God not to go down there. It is there where God through Jeremiah tells the refugees that a good deal of them will die there and never return to the land of Judah. |
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In We Are The Wyrecats, K.A. tries hard to pick up where she left off after coming out of a coma, but reality sets in pretty quickly that the world not only isn't the same one she left, but that it's a decidedly worse one. | |
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In the Book of Jeremiah, the titular prophet along with the Judean survivors of the Babylonian invasion of Jerusalem escape to Egypt for fear of the Babylonians, despite Jeremiah's warnings from God not to go down there. It is there where God through Jeremiah tells the refugees that a good deal of them will die there and never return to the land of Judah. | |
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A series of Peanuts strips followed Snoopy taking Woodstock to the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm where he (Snoopy) was born, only to find it had been replaced by a parking garage.note Depending on when this strip was written, it may have been a Shout-Out to Terry, the Cairn Terrier who played Toto, whose gravesite was destroyed by the building of the Ventura Highway. She now has a memorial statue at Hollywood Forever cemetery. This became the basis for one of the Peanuts specials where Snoopy is reunited with his siblings. | |
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The odds of a member of the Imperial Guard of Warhammer 40,000 making it to retirement age are pretty low, considering that the Imperium is almost continuously at war with some if not all of its neighbors (and quite frequently itself). Those that make it are generally discharged on the planet they happen to be on when they retire, and their retirement package does not include a ticket back to their home planet (which could be thousands of light years away, depending on what events happened during their deployment). As such, there is a very good chance that anyone who enlists in a Guard regiment will never return to their home planet, let alone their home town, ever again. Indeed, the lucky ones instead get a commission and some land on the planet they conquered most recently, essentially becoming landed gentry there. This applies to the Regiments on a logistical and bureaucratic level. Once a regiment is raised it will likely never see its original homeworld or system. With new recruits being picked up from planets they pass, or liberate. Only the more famous and decorated regiments such as the Firstborn or Death Korps of Krieg have the privilege of getting reinforcements from their homeworld. |
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In The Jenkinsverse, Xiù Chang returns to Earth after spending two years living among an alien species called Gaoians, barely survives the effects of a nervejam grenade, spends three years hiding in exile pretending to *be* a Gaoian, and five years stuck in a stasis pod after narrowly surviving the destruction of a starship. Her experiences leave her unable to relate to her family and friends back home, but unwilling to return to Gao as that would put the Gaoians in danger from the Hunters. In the end, the only people she feels at home with are fellow abductees Julian and Allison. | |
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In Changeling: The Lost, every newly-made Changeling quickly learns that the Fae who abducted and transformed them left a lifelike impostor in their place. Good luck convincing the family that the deformed, unhinged version of their loved one who showed up out of nowhere is actually the real person. Even if they manage, Changelings are irreversibly bound to Fate, which tends to turn them into Doom Magnets for mortals they get too close to. | |
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Survival of the Fittest: At the end of v3, JR Rizzolo manages to return home after (ostensibly) being the Sole Survivor, only to find that his family has disowned him and completely moved out. | |
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Zigzagged in Jasper in Deadland, as the shows subverts and double-subverts whether or not Agnes is actually dead, and whether or not it's possible for a dead person to return to the Living World. | |
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MegaTokyo is an interesting case indeed... With the plot and Character Development going the way it is, it seems that Piro and Largo feel too tied up in the personal lives of all the people they've interacted with. As such, even if they were offered a fool-proof method to return to America, neither would likely take it. One scene with Meimi and Junpei implies that they may end up being forced out of Japan at some point. Until then... |
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In the Book of Genesis, after Adam and Eve break the rules in the Garden of Eden, they are cast out forever and an angel with a flaming sword guards it from them. Hence, they and their descendants spread around the planet. The trope is eventually averted in Christianity, however, when God takes the consequences and punishment for human sin on himself. | |
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A plot arc in At Arm's Length allowed for the introduction of a new character, one that was in their Character contest back in 2012. This character appeared in a flash of light, and apparently is from another reality. Sadly, nobody knows how he got there, or if they will be able to send him back. | |
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Vampire: The Requiem goes to great lengths to describe why a fledgling should never go back to its mortal life. Even if its old friends and family can cope with its return as a vampire; even if the vampire has enough Heroic Willpower to keep its Horror Hunger and Unstoppable Rages in check; the dysfunctional, sadistic, and highly lethal vampiric societies will find out and take a very dim view of mortals learning about their existence. | |
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Happy Heroes: Big M. and Little M. crash-land themselves on Planet Xing Xing and can't return home to Planet Gray. | |
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