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== Film ==
* In ''[[Toy Story|Toy Story 2]]'', after the climax, the next scene shows the toys back in Andy's room. Earlier, just crossing the street caused mayhem. It's shown that, rather than walking, they simply drove the luggage cart back to Andy's
* In ''[[Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas]]'', after Sinbad has spent the majority of the film traveling to Tartarus to confront the goddess Eris (overcoming numerous obstacles set out by the aforementioned goddess), his return journey to Syracuse is apparently instantaneous. However, Eris has not actually been defeated yet, and she would have every reason to try to prevent his arrival there.
* In ''[[Stand by Me]]'', the four kids take almost the entire movie to find the dead body they're looking for, and encounter all kinds of obstacles on the way. But a quick cut gets them home. Though it is said they walked through the night. Considering we don't know what time they left the town and what time they reached the body, it is possible they only needed to walk for eight hours.
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== Tabletop RPG ==
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]''
** Module [[EX 1]] ''Dungeonland'', Changed View of the Long Hall. When the [[PC
** Module [[EX 2]] ''The Land Beyond the Magic Mirror''. In the Mad Feast hall there are three doors. One leads back to the house where the [[PC
** Module I5 ''Lost Tomb of Martek''. After the [[PC
** Module OA6 ''Ronin Challenge''. If the [[PC
** Module Q1 ''Queen of the Demonweb Pits''. If Lolth is killed, her spider ship starts to self destruct. The [[PC
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* The end of ''[[Doom]] II'' has your character taking the long trek back home after practically destroying Hell. "Rebuilding Earth ought to be a lot more fun than ruining it was."
* In ''[[Fallout 3]]'', ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'', and the later ''Elder Scrolls'' games based on the same engine, you have to "discover" each location manually, but once you have, all you have to do to get back is click it on your map. The main limitation to this is not being able to do so while there's enemies nearby.
* During the ending of ''[[SaGa 2|SaGa 2 / Final Fantasy Legend II]]'', we see snippets of the heroes' (now joined by the protagonists' father) uneventful trip back to the first village. The one event of note is the discovery that two of the game's [[Guest Star Party Member
* ''[[The House of the Dead (series)|House of the Dead]]'' ends with the protagonists making their way back to their car while the credits play.
** The sequel ends the same way with the protagonists making their way back to the ground floor of Goldman's building with not a single monster in sight anymore (Unless you're playing Typing of the Dead.) When they get there, they're greeted either by a cheering crowd, a {{spoiler|zombified Goldman}} or Rogan from the first game.
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* After beating Ballser and recovering the scenario in ''[[Something]], Mario calls a Taxi and heads back to the Mushroom Kingdom
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The animated ''[[Peanuts]]'' special, ''What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown?'' (which takes place after the ending of ''Bon Voyage Charlie Brown'') averts this. Despite making it through the adventure of the previous film, their return journey is only slightly less difficult, consisting of things like their car breaking down, them getting lost (repeatedly) and being forced to set up camp.
* An offscreen version occurs in ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''. The Gaang, plus Suki and a young couple are going to Ba Sing Se through the Serpent's Pass, which is a very dangerous path. On the way, they're shot at by the Fire Nation, attacked by a giant sea serpent, and have to cross a long stretch that's underwater, only made possible by Aang and Katara's waterbending. Once they're safely on the other side, Suki says now that they're safely through, she's heading back to the side they started on. She apparently makes it fine, despite not having any of the bending abilities that let them cross the thing in the first place.
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== Real Life ==
* It took [[The Travels of Marco Polo|Marco Polo]] three years to get to the Orient, but most of his return journey was by sea, or in lands he'd traversed before. Compared to exploring the unknown lands of Asia for the first time, he really had a
* Lewis and Clark took 3 years to get to the Pacific Ocean, but only 6 months to get back, in part because they had stopped collecting specimens, and in part because they were going downstream on the Missouri and not up.
* After completing the historic first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, Charles Lindbergh returned to the U.S. not by plane, but by boat.
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