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The Flying Dutchman (named after the legend popularized by Richard Wagner in an opera of the same name) is Barred from the Afterlife and cursed to go Walking the Earth (or sailing or flying or...) forever. Most versions of this fall into one of two types: the Flying Dutchman, cursed to sail the seas, and the Wandering Jew, forced to wander the earth. The Wandering Jew story can be traced to medieval Christianity — in particular, a reference to Matthew 16:28, wherein Jesus states that some of the people listening to him speak would not die prior to Jesus "coming in his kingdom", which some believe to be a reference to the Second Coming. Since many ordinary lifespans had passed between Jesus' speech and the time of its progenitors, the myth arose that at least one of those ancient audience members had been for some reason sentenced to immortality. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })The Flying Dutchman variant (sources differ on whether Flying Dutchman was the name of the ship or a nickname for her captain) first popped up in the seventeenth century, and was said to be an old sailing superstition. A more modern variant (though still quite old: Edward Everett Hale's short story The Man Without a Country dates to 1863) has the victims unable to ever stop wandering not because of being cursed by God, but due to lack of a passport, being an exile, or other bureaucratic bungle they just don't have the paperwork to stop. However, this also has variants where the character, instead of wandering, ends up stuck in an airport or the like, which moves it rather far from the original trope. When people wander by choice, this becomes Walking the Earth. When a ship is being followed, it's a Stern Chase instead; a vehicle of any kind that takes dead souls to another world is an Afterlife Express. There may also be some overlap with Noble Fugitive. The cursed character can sometimes be co-opted as The Drifter, or if they're specifically out to do good, a Knight Errant. And if it's nobody's fault, they may just have No Sense of Direction. It's a possible destiny of those who are Barred from the Afterlife. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Not to be confused with Wandering Dutchmen such as the traveling theologian and humanist Desiderius Erasmus. Examples: |
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The legend of the Flying Dutchman is mentioned in Swallows and Amazons, in which it's noted that Peter Duck (a seaman who loves the sea so much he considers going in to port for supplies to be an unwelcome necessary evil) would be a perfect choice to captain it. | |
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A The Mighty Thor story has him fighting a ship full of authentic Vikings that were cursed to sail the seas for 1,000 years... until they reached America. | |
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The man himself shows up in Franken Fran, his body so far gone that masses of insects have replaced his organs. Because he's an immortal bug-man, Fran & Co. think he might be a Nosferatunote You know how The Nightmare Before Christmas's Oogie-Boogie is actually a mass of bugs and Dracula turns into a mass of bats? German vampires traditionally can do that to escape being burned. They figure out who he is after he explains that his condition happened after he "mistreated a certain man" and Fran kindly restores his body and is excited at the fact that she can experiment as much as she likes on an apparent immortal; Veronica is less then thrilled, especially after the Wandering Jew says that he's "very tired and wants to rest". They both get their wish when, just as Fran gives him a clean bill of health, he sees a crucifix and a vision of Jesus and begs for forgiveness. Jesus says something along the lines of "There is always forgiveness." And he dies by 'liquefying''. Veronica notes that he was very glad to see Jesus (he was staying as far from humans as possible and probably never seen a crucifix before) and finally rest. This is one of the few cases of Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane that appear in the series. | |
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Jack from Fables and Jack Of Fables is apparently of the Jack O'Lantern variant, except his deal with the devil will eventually expire — so he needs to find a different version of the devil every few hundred years in order to make a deal for more time. | |
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In the published (by Christopher Tolkien, a son of J.R.R. Tolkien) version of The Silmarillion, Maglor, one of the sons of Feanor, threw the Silmaril he has stolen into the sea and possibly wanders till today singing. In the latest version by J.R.R., Maglor jumped into the sea together with the Silmaril. | |
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Slayers TRY has an episode about a ghost ship that is cursed to wander the seas because the captain neglected his duties in favor of his hobby: collecting vases. | |
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Brian Jacques (of Redwall fame) wrote a trilogy called Castaways of the Flying Dutchman, which feature not only the original Dutchman but a boy and dog who were allowed to leave the ship because they were pure of heart. An angel grants them immortality and a psychic link with each other, but they end up Walking the Earth and leaving behind everyone they ever love so no one will notice that they never age. The one time the boy tells their secret, it leads to disaster. (Though, really, it seems as if everyone they meet can sense that he's extraordinary just by looking into his eyes.) They're also constantly haunted by nightmares about the Flying Dutchman. Add in that the boy is forever stuck at age 14, and this is a definite case of Blessed with Suck. | |
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Big Boss learned the horrible truth about his country, and never recovered from it (or the execution he carried out on his mentor for said country, which wasn't for peace or even World Domination, but the victorious enslavement of the masses for the benefit of a few). As a result, he spent five years wallowing in regret, found hope in his charisma as a military leader, then spent another five years training an army of professional mercenaries, and even built a nation-state made out of oil rigs and loose parts. Only to lose these a few months later. He rebuilds yet again only to flee to Zanzibar when his successor blows it all to hell. In the end, Outer Haven is just a really good base, but Big Boss is a soldier through and through: Go somewhere, do a job, leave. Nothing else matters, home is the battlefield itself. | |
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Doctor Who – Expanded Universe: In one of Doctor Who Magazine's strips, Kroton, the Cyberman with a soul, once ended up on the spacefaring "Flying Dutchman II." | |
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The Soldier and Death, a Russian folk tale told in the first episode of The Storyteller, ends with the eponymous soldier being unable to enter either heaven or hell, and thus condemned to walking the earth forever. To the story's credit, mentioning this doesn't actually give away anything that makes it interesting. | |
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In Sinbad, Sinbad is cursed so he will die if he stays on land for more than 24 hours at a time, so he's always on the move. | |
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In the Whateley Universe, a character named Arturo Mucro Cursor shows up in Merry's stories, and carries with him a business card saying, 'AKA: The Guy Who Nailed Christ To A Tree; Rank: I don’t need no stinkin’ rank... I was there.' Sure enough, he's the Wandering Jew. | |
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In Chaucer's The Pardoner's Tale, the three rioters are approached by an old man doomed to wander the Earth - he is frustrated that Death has not come for him. One interpretation is that he was the Wandering Jew. | |
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One of The Phantom Stranger's purported origins — he has four, and DC will never say which if any of them is the real one — is that he is the Wandering Jew. (The other three also involve him being some kind of Flying Dutchman, but not the Wandering Jew. Clear?) | |
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On an episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, Gabrielle gets stuck on the ship of the legendary Cecrops (played by Tony Todd), who is cursed to sail the sea for eternity by Poseidon "until love redeems him." His crew isn't so lucky...they're stuck on the ship until they grow old and die. Cecrops hunts down pirate ships and press-gangs their crews to replenish his own. Xena gets involved, and manages to figure out how to break his curse and get them all off the ship. | |
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In Faery: Legends of Avalon, one of the realms that players are sent to is the ship on which the human legends of the Flying Dutchman are based. The ship is currently immobile for reasons that players have to sort out. (They involve a mutiny, a sea monster, and mermaids). | |
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This tends to happen to victims of the Slender Man, usually with said victims becoming Runners, people who were forced to leave their home and, well, run from the Slender Man.note "Runner" is also a term that refers to Slender Man's victims in general. It's so common it's an entire category of slenderblogs. | |
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Some people in Mushishi have a variation of this: they tend to unconsciously draw mushi to their location, and the only real way to keep it under control is to never stay in any one place for too long. For obvious reasons, most of them become travelling mushi masters. Apart from explaining why Ginko is Walking the Earth, it also serves as a major plot point in the eleventh episode. | |
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While we don't see the character-type, we do see a wrestler with this name in the first Spider-Man movie. | |
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As Hyperion is pretty much The Canterbury Tales IN SPACE!!, there is a man called the Wandering Jew by many people. However, that man, Sol Weintraub, is not an actual example; while he does search for a cure to his daughter's temporal illness, his wandering comes to an abrupt end when he finally meets the Shrike. | |
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Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- and ×××HOLiC: Syaoran Li and his "progeny" Watanuki are men without/outside the time-space continuum due to a magician creating clones of Li and his girlfriend Sakura that eventually became Li's own parents. When Li left his "home" dimension (where his parents lived) his absence created Watanuki, who subconsciously knew he shouldn't be alive. Eventually they defeated the magician but that didn't resolve the fact that Li and Watanuki shouldn't even exist. In the end, they paid a price to be able to live: Li would dimension-hop until he found a world where he, Sakura, and the clones could live while Watanuki would remain in a small but interdimensional space until Yuuko returned — unlike most of the examples their fates are presented as choices rather then punishments or unfortunate side-effects. At least they'll be able to visit each other/have visitors often, respectively (unlike some interdimensional lovebirds). | |
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Captain Fate in the Marvel Universe. Fate betrayed his captain Maura Hawke, selling her to a satyr in exchange for untold riches. Maura was furious to learn that her crew had truly left her, and she cursed them all to never reach port, never enjoy their new found wealth, and to sail on forever, beyond time, beyond death. The Serpent's Crown lifted off the water into the sky, sailing the space winds for eternity it seemed. Fate and his crew became Space Pirates, occasionally returning to Earth to act as Sky Pirates. | |
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In Time Enough for Love Lazarus Long claims to have met the Wandering Jew, and that all immortals know one another at some point. Of course, his descendants consider him to be something of an Unreliable Narrator. Lazarus himself almost counts, what with his tendency to wander off somewhere else at least once per century, though not cursed per say, unless one counts a family of millions who won't let him die whenever he's feeling suicidal. | |
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a rare variation on the Flying Dutchman version of this trope, whereby genuine repentance allows the mariner to escape his fate, with the only requirement that he tell his story to other people to warn them off his path. Well, he also still has to move like night from land to land. Repentance just gets him off the ship; it doesn't completely uncurse him. So he's also a Wandering Jew. Actually, he's a slight subversion. Though he is forced to retell his story to other people, he still has a normal lifetime. His curse occurs in his youth and by the time he tells his story, in the poem, he has aged severely. |
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Given a fantasy twist in the Dragon magazine #89 story "Dunkle Zee" by Troy Denning. | |
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Suikoden IV takes place in an archipelago, so naturally, there's an optional encounter with a particularly creepy-looking Flying Dutchman. | |
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In Silent Hill 2, a magazine tells the story of a ship that disappeared on Toluca Lake, leaving the ghosts of the crew to reach up to boats that pass overhead. In Silent Hill 3, the Sinister Subway is haunted by the wandering ghost of a train suicide, which pushes unsuspecting people onto the tracks. | |
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe: A Romano Scarpa Uncle Scrooge story tells us about the Flying Scotsman, an ancestor of Scrooge's, a former vicious pirate who is kept alive by an oath to atone for the crimes he did against poor villagers. His ship literally flies because it's so old it's completely dried out. Carl Barks used the actual Flying Dutchman in a Scrooge story a couple of years later; in this version it turns out that the ship itself has been frozen inside an iceberg for centuries; its “ghost” image was a mirage caused by the unusual properties of the ice in that region. |
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Dr. Sam Beckett in Quantum Leap. A botched time-travel experiment is the "curse" here. In the last episode, he decides to keep wandering for the rest of his life. | |
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The immortal Hob Gadling in The Sandman was once accused of being the Wandering Jew. | |
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And on that note, Vampire: The Masquerade has Caine, who was cursed with vampirism for slaying Abel. He wandered the earth and eventually settled a city of his people... and then God sent the Flood. | |
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The Terminal is a Tom Hanks film about a man being detained at John F. Kennedy International Airport because while he was in flight his home country fell to a civil war and effectively ceased to exist. He can't leave the airport to go to New York, and he can't fly home, since his country technically doesn't exist anymore. So he starts living in the airport terminal, making friends with various workers, and developing feelings for a flight attendant named Amelia. Very Loosely Based on a True Story about a guy who was stuck in a French airport for 18 years (see the Real Life section). | |
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Dresden Codak: Somewhere Niels Bohr walks among us unobserved and immortal. | |
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The Dune universe has the in-universe legend of Ampoliros: a starship whose crew experiences group psychosis and believes the human race has been wiped out by aliens. They elect to wander the galaxy, taking as many of the aliens with them as they can. The time dilation effect of near light speed travel makes them effectively immortal, every planet is hostile by definition, and any ship is a legitimate target. To make things worse, the men are sick of, and fatigued by, their endless voyage ("forever prepared, forever unready")... but in their minds at least, to stop would spell the end of the human race. | |
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His time-travel duplicate, Watanuki, has it worse, having inverted the trope hard. Rather than being cursed to wander, he's cursed to be trapped in a single Inn Between the Worlds-type mysterious shop for the rest of his life, although to be fair it is anchored in one place and dimension. He just can't leave. In the latest chapters, it appears he might be able to travel to certain places he's traveled to before, as a sort of dream travel/spirit/what have you. By the end after 100 years have passed, it's revealed that Watanuki's magic powers have grown strong enough for him to be capable of physically leaving the shop. That being said, he will still choose against leaving for now, because he'd also promised he'd wait for Yuuko. | |
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The River gives us the Exodus, which also turns its crew into...something. | |
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Davy Jones in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest pilots a ship called the Flying Dutchman. His original purpose was to ferry souls across the sea at World's End. If his love was waiting after ten years, he would go on land again for a single day with her before returning to his duty for another ten years (and so on for eternity). His love was not waiting, so he abandoned his duties and became a badass roaming pirate. His crew turned into half-men half-sea-creatures. | |
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In Promethean: The Created, it is difficult to play a character who isn't a Wandering Jew on account of a curse that all Prometheans share that gradually spoils the land and turns the locals against them. | |
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In the Traveller universe there is a Mythopoeia in-verse myth about the starship Robert-the-Bruce. At the founding of the Sword Worlds the ship had disappeared on a return trip to invite further settlers. According to Sword Worlds legend it wanders the stars forever and wherever it goes disaster follows behind. | |
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In Zebra Girl, Jack curses vampiric mage Harold DuVase to become a Wandering Jew with a twist. This is more of an And I Must Scream, since DuVase is teleported to a series of increasingly worse hells and doesn't actually do much wandering. | |
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In the Simon Ark series, Simon claims to be over 2000 years old and says that he was cursed by God for refusing to allow Jesus to rest while he was carrying the Cross. Another story suggests Ark was instead the author of a fraudulent gospel so pious that God was unable to punish him with hell or reward him with heaven, and so left him on the Earth instead. Whether any of this is true, a delusion, or an elaborate deception on Simon's part is left as an exercise for the reader. | |
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World had an episode where a man was cursed to stay on a zeppelin that crashes and explodes every day, only for him and the zeppelin to reappear good as new the next day (due to having shot and thrown his own crew overboard in an attempt to save his own skin). He is able to leave it for short periods, but is inevitably forced to return, and is immortal, preventing escape by suicide. The man managed to trick the heroes into taking his place, but after a day they then tricked him into taking it back. The heroes determined that the man was irredeemably evil and deserved to be cursed. | |
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The ghost ship in the third expansion of Final Fantasy XI, known as both The Black Coffin by the populace, and the Ashuu Talif by its crew and those who know the truth, is manned by a crew who had been killed when their nation was absorbed by the expansion's eponymous empire. Captain Luzaf's plot for revenge against the Empire is central to the expansion's plot. | |
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Embi, a minor character in Girl Genius, swore an oath to his gods when he was young to see the world before he died. This is mostly played for laughs, though. | |
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The Flying Dutchman appears in One Piece with a reversal of the legend: Instead of being unable to set foot on land again, the captain (who is a fishman) can never swim again due to eating a Devil Fruit. Said captain is actually a descendant of the original captain from the legend, who apparently wasn't quite as immortal as the legend would say. | |
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The DCU: One of The Phantom Stranger's purported origins — he has four, and DC will never say which if any of them is the real one — is that he is the Wandering Jew. (The other three also involve him being some kind of Flying Dutchman, but not the Wandering Jew. Clear?) The New 52 showed us "The Trinity of Sin", three figures who were cursed to be Wandering Jews: the Phantom Stranger (revealed to be Judas Iscariot himself) who was cursed to "walk the Earth as a stranger to man. As a witness of what greed can do"; the mythological Pandora; and The Question, cursed to "forever question [his] identity and forever search for answers [he will never find]". |
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It's also implied that the Wandering Jew is Cain himself. | |
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For his crime of starting the Elf Wars, Dr. Weil was locked into a biomechanical suit that made him immortal. He also had his memories converted into data so that he would never forget his crimes. He was then exiled to the wastelands. This turned out to backfire spectacularly. | |
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The Ancient Magus' Bride has the Biblical Wandering Jew, usually referred to as Cartaphilus in-story (though he really doesn't like being called that and would prefer to be called Joseph), who is the closest thing the story has to an overarching villain. His main goal is to create a body for himself that feels no pain, and he doesn't care who or what has to pay the price to obtain it. | |
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The Vistani, a gypsy-like folk from the Ravenloft setting, are unable to reside in one place for more than a few nights without losing their supernatural powers. Averted in the case of the Zarovan tribe, darklings (outcast Vistani), and occasional exceptions like Hyskosa. | |
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In the Malazan Book of the Fallen K'rul, Draconus and the Sister of Cold Nights cursed Kallor to live forever, but never ascent to godhood or become the leader of an empire. Kallor is forced to seek out magic candles that keep him somewhat young and functional and wander the earth, knowing that his dearest wish is unreachable for him. | |
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In Dickens' A Christmas Carol, the dead businessman Jacob Marley is punished for his selfishness by being forced to spend eternity as a ghost walking the Earth, burdened with heavy chains. And he has a lot of company, whom Scrooge is briefly enabled to see. All of them are also cursed with greater than human empathy, so they are eternally tormented by their inability to lessen the suffering of others. |
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In both Cryptonomicon (WWII to present) and The Baroque Cycle (Baroque period) by Neal Stephenson, a character named Enoch Root appears. This is a subversion, however, because he's actually a Jesuit. In The Baroque Cycle we learn that he was an alchemist before becoming a Jesuit, and there are hints that he may have found the Philosopher's Stone, which grants eternal life... then again, there are also hints that he was just that way all along. His name is a pun on the * NIX command "chroot" and the man Enoch in the Bible, who never died. | |
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Played for laughs in The Little Golden Calf with Ostap telling a humorous story about the Wandering Jew's final death. He was shot by Red October era Ukrainian nationalists, who were hugely antisemitic and hugely ignorant about Christian folklore, so when the Jew complained and tried to tell them he was immortal, they didn't listen and shot him anyway. | |
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In Dracula 2000, Dracula himself is one. He is Judas Iscariot, and only dies when the heroes discover who he is, and that the rope broke when he tried to kill himself. They hang him and he dies. | |
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The drifter Elijah in The Yiddish Policemen's Union is representative of all the Sitka Jews' imminent exile. He is even described as speaking his Yiddish with a slight Dutch accent. | |
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The Angels of Dogma have been cast out of heaven and banished to Wisconsin for all of human existence. | |
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Davy Jones in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest pilots a ship called the Flying Dutchman. His original purpose was to ferry souls across the sea at World's End. If his love was waiting after ten years, he would go on land again for a single day with her before returning to his duty for another ten years (and so on for eternity). His love was not waiting, so he abandoned his duties and became a badass roaming pirate. His crew turned into half-men half-sea-creatures. By the end of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Will Turner becomes the new captain of the Flying Dutchman. His love waited the ten years, and bore him a child, to boot. Despite this, it seems good ol' Will has gone down the rogue path like his predecessor, as he has started to turn into a half-sea-creature as well. |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: The Flying Dutchman is more a Peek A Bogey Man than anything else, but there is one episode that gives him a similar back story: his body was used as a window display, and thus never got a proper burial, cursing his spirit to forever wander the seas. In another episode, aptly named "Shanghai'd!", SpongeBob and Patrick are pressed into joining him as "ghostly ghost pirates." He also seems to serve as the Grim Reaper of the seas, in the episode where Mr. Krabs's thriftiness goes overboard with the consumption of an extremely old Krabby Patty found on the kitchen floor. |
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In the Warhammer 40,000 novel "Legion of the Damned", the titular Legion's only surviving spaceship (a "Star Fort") appears out of nowhere at the last minute to destroy the Keeler Comet and obliterate the Chaos armada while the Legionnaires wipe out the planetside Chaos crusaders right on the verge of their victory. | |
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Wulfrik the Wanderer in Warhammer Fantasy Battles sails the world in his flying longship. He said that he was the best warrior in the world and was cursed by the gods to try to prove it. | |
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By the end of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Will Turner becomes the new captain of the Flying Dutchman. His love waited the ten years, and bore him a child, to boot. Despite this, it seems good ol' Will has gone down the rogue path like his predecessor, as he has started to turn into a half-sea-creature as well. | |
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Illium also features a character called the Wandering Jew: her name is Savi and she's the last human left after the rest of the race was either wiped out by a virus, transformed into godlike "post-humans", trapped in a beam of blue light, or engineered into placid "eloi" and left behind. | |
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The title character of the Indigo series, on account of having let the sealed evil out of its can. Of course, it ends up being more complicated than that. | |
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In the Doctor Who revival, the Doctor has become one of these: his home planet has been destroyed, and, although he tries to be upbeat about it, he's weary of traveling. In fact, given that in a Romani variant, the Wandering Jew is the blacksmith who forged the nails that crucified Christ, and wanders in expiation for his sin, the Doctor fits the trope even better in his later incarnations. Slightly subverted in that he was recently able to saves his planet with a Tricked Out Time gambit. However, it is in another Universe and if it returned it would restart the Time War, which could destroy the Universe. But, as he said, he now feels like the Doctor again. | |
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In The Green Mile, Tom Hanks' character faces this for his participation in executing the Magical Negro who is implied to be Jesus. This is a combination of Cursed with Awesome and Blessed with Suck, as while he retains youth beyond his age, he still ends up in a nursing home with all of his friends and loved ones long dead. This one is probably a reference to some versions of the legend of Longinus. Though it was suggested that he isn't actually immortal. He will die eventually, just at an unusually old age, and long after everyone he knows is gone. At least he's not alone. Mister Jingles, a mouse who was also healed by the Magical Negro, is under the same effects. |
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The Changeling: The Lost book Grim Fears: Night Horrors has Jack of the Lantern, who is pretty much a straight retelling of the folk figure of the same name. | |
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Each part of Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz (which take place hundreds of years apart) features a very similar old Jewish man, and it's hinted that he might have been the Beatus Leibowitz from 20 Minutes into the Future. He explicitly denies this, but there are other implications that there's more to him than meets the eye. And he does not deny having lived so long. At one point he scrawls the Hebrew letters for (at least the beginning of) the name "Lazarus" into the ground, indicating that perhaps what Jesus raised up was hard to put down. He apparently will make it to the stars with the surviving remnant of Mankind. |
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The Silver Surfer actually battled the Flying Dutchman's ghostly captain in one Silver Age story, and the captain has since appeared once or twice to bedevil The Avengers among others. | |
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Night Gallery had a slight inversion of this. It involved a ship rescuing a man in a "Titanic" lifeboat, several years after the disaster. The rescuing ship turned out to be the Lusitania. The real curse was for any ship that would try to rescue him. | |
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In Richard Wagner's adaptation of the legend, the opera Der fliegende Holländer, the title character can be saved by The Power of Love coming from the local weird girl. Wagner lifted the plot from Heinrich Heine's Aus den Memoiren des Herrn von Schnabelewopski (From the memoirs of Mr. Schnabelewopski, 1838), where there is an at the time entirely fictional play the protagonist sees in Amsterdam. He helpfully ends up the summary: "The moral of the play for women is to watch out not to marry a Flying Dutchman; and we men see from this play that women in the best case cause us to perish." |
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Andromeda episode "The Mathematics of Tears" is heavily based on The Flying Dutchman, although the Pax Magellanic's crew are androids controlled by a rogue AI, not cursed humans. The Pax Magellanic draws the parallel herself, and plays the opera music frequently, considering it her theme song. | |
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In Malê Rising, Andras Weisz and his men were captured by the Ottomans during the Great War and sent to the Uppper Nile. However, they escaped and for three years traversed across war-torn Africa to find a way back home to Hungary. Along the way, the met the Lost Hungarians of Nubia, fought for native kings, and gathered a following of locals before finally reaching to Luanda and discover that Austria-Hungary had collapsed in the interim. | |
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The Man from Earth is about a man, John Oldman, who claims to be 14,000 years old. His Walking the Earth began when his home tribe of cavemen noticed that he didn't age, and believed that he was stealing their life force. The Wandering Jew epithet is particularly ironic, considering that he accidentally became Jesus while trying to spread the teachings of Buddha in Judea. | |
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In The Incredible Hulk, Doctor David Banner is forced to Walk the Earth because he is wanted by the federal government and military, whereas, in the comic, most of the wandering was done by his alter ego leaping from one location to another. | |
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Thomas Veil in Nowhere Man. A documentary photographer has his entire life erased by...we don't know, after he takes an incriminating photo, and must evade capture while trying to find out who is responsible. Veil (subtle, that) meets many different people whom he petitions for help, though he's never sure who he can trust, as he tries to stay one step ahead of whoever is pursuing him. | |
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In The Riftwar Cycle, it is suggested that the actual Wandering Jew, cursed to be immortal by Jesus, was the father of Macros the Black, a powerful sorcerer who inherited his immortality. The description of the condemned man who cursed his father does SOUND like Jesus, right down to the holy artifacts that sprung up after his death including a cup (The Holy Grail) and a cloak (The Shroud of Turin). Considering that it's revealed later that Macros was lying about his origins when he told Pug and Tomas that story, the truth may be stranger still. For that matter, Macros himself is a Wandering Jew figure, as most of the origins he gives for himself and most of the evidence to back them up suggest divine influence upon his life and wanderings. |
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The New 52 showed us "The Trinity of Sin", three figures who were cursed to be Wandering Jews: the Phantom Stranger (revealed to be Judas Iscariot himself) who was cursed to "walk the Earth as a stranger to man. As a witness of what greed can do"; the mythological Pandora; and The Question, cursed to "forever question [his] identity and forever search for answers [he will never find]". | |
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At the end of Tales of Destiny 2, when time is being reset, Judas hypothesizes that he might become one, wandering throughout all of time without a time or place to call home since he'd been revived by one who'd just been retconned out of time. No official word on whether this happened or whether he was erased from time completely, though the game implies he did somehow survive. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager: The Doctor once referred to Voyager as "The Voyage of the Damned." The episode Night implies that life on Voyager was beginning to feel like this trope for Captain Janeway, as well. | |
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The Wandering gives us the Wandering Space Traveling Jew, as Neshi is made to fly through the universe in search of a world where he could settle down, only to find worlds that were either (supposedly) destroyed by the Natasians or corrupted by their influence. | |
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The legend of the Wandering Londoner in The Caves of Steel: a murderer who got lost trying to escape through the abandoned emergency highways of the cities. After he made the mistake of saying that "the Trinity and all the saints" wouldn't stop him from reaching his hideout, his fate was sealed; visitors in the tunnels are said to see his ghostly figure in the distance, disappearing before it can reach them or any exit. | |
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Dragonlance has the Green Gemstone Man, condemned to wander the earth. He had a green gem from a column embedded in his chest; the gem prevented the gods from returning to the world of Dragonlance because the column was incomplete. He could be killed, but would be reincarnated. | |
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Merlin: Merlin himself. After Arthur dies, Merlin is told that when Albion's need is greatest, he (Arthur) will one day rise again. This, combined with the fact that Merlin is immortal, are what literally force him to Walk the Earth alone for over a millennium. Merlin's situation is a strange combination of Flying Dutchman and Purpose-Driven Immortality, since there is an end purpose, but it's very ambiguous as he isn't told when, why, or how it will happen. All he can do till then is wait. Lancelot also Walks The Earth earlier in the show after telling the truth about his faked seal of nobility, and being exiled from Camelot because of it. He also could fit under the Knight Errant category. |
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Babylon 5: At the end of "Babylon Squared", Sinclair compares to the situation (a previous station, Babylon 4, has begun drifting back and forth through time) to the Flying Dutchman. | |
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Casca: The Eternal Mercenary, a series by Barry Sadler, centers on Casca Rufio Longinus, the Roman legionary who thrust his spear into Jesus' side on the cross. He's cursed by Jesus to not only walk the earth til the Last Judgement, but to always be a soldier as well. While he can't be killed, he still feels pain when injured. | |
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Assassin's Creed: The Sage is a human being reincarnated throughout history, always picking up Past-Life Memories all the way back to prehuman times when he reaches a certain age (and manifesting heterochromia). He's strongly implied to be the origin of the Wandering Jew story, and one of his incarnations is the Real Life Count of St. Germain, who claimed to be this trope. His purpose seems to be to bring back the extinct Abusive Precursors, since he himself used to be one of them. | |
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The mysterious Pokémon Trainer AZ. He was once the king of Kalos from 3000 years ago. His immortally was caused by using the ultimate weapon to bring his Floette back to life and to end the war that killed his Floette in the first place, killing thousands in the process. When it found out what its trainer had done, it left him. He had been wandering Kalos searching for it ever since. | |
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In "A Terrible Vengeance", by Ukrainian author Nikolai Gogol, a Cossack named Petro murders his brother, Ivan, and Ivan's young son. When Petro finally dies, God summons the souls of both brothers together and commands Ivan to choose his brother's punishment. Ivan decides that Petro should be sealed under the mountains and forced to gnaw at his own bones; once he has been punished sufficiently, he will rise up from the earth for a climactic brother-to-brother throw down. God, displeased, decrees Ivan will not be allowed to enter the Kingdom of Heaven either until their final duel. Ivan - with his son tied behind him - is forced to wander eternally on horseback, waiting for Petro's punishment to be completed. | |
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Vampire: The Requiem has the Lancea Sanctum, who revere Longinus as Vampire Jesus. The story goes that Longinus was turned into a vampire when he stabbed Christ's side and the savior's blood dripped onto his lips; after that, he wandered for years until God revealed the purpose of vampires — to harrow humanity back into righteousness. And on that note, Vampire: The Masquerade has Caine, who was cursed with vampirism for slaying Abel. He wandered the earth and eventually settled a city of his people... and then God sent the Flood. The Changeling: The Lost book Grim Fears: Night Horrors has Jack of the Lantern, who is pretty much a straight retelling of the folk figure of the same name. |
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The Star Trek: The Next Generation novel Ghost Ship has the crew of a present day Russian naval vessel trapped as disembodied intelligences in a giant space going creature. | |
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