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** In fact, it's a theme for the main characters too. Yuna having completed her supposed suicide mission is left with a lifetime of summoner training and no ability to use it. Paine is looking for a purpose, any purpose to distract her from what happened on the Crimson Squad, and Rikku (unbelievably, but accurately the most well adjusted of the three) just wants to have fun.
** All of Spira seems to be have fallen into this after Sin's downfall. It's still an improvement since the only "purpose" they had when Sin was around was simple survival.
* Vaan from ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]'' is like this in the middle of the game, where he admits to Ashe that even with his hatred of
* The ''[[Persona (video game)|Persona]]'' series:
** Somewhat grimly done with Mitsuo is ''[[Persona 4]]'' who {{spoiler|becomes a copycat serial killer in a vain attempt to feel like he's doing something important or satisfying. When the party enters his section of the [[Mental World|TV world]], it turns out to be a NES style RPG dungeon, aptly titled "Void Quest." Along the way, we get some delightful narration along the lines of "Mitsuo slays Television Anchor (referring to a real murder in the outside world). Mitsuo gains a level. Mitsuo gains 2 Emptiness points." His shadow (the repressed part of himself) tells him that he has no purpose in life and that he'll never feel satisfied with anything. Unlike everyone else thrown in the TV world up to that point, he doesn't conquer his shadow and merely gets arrested while still in denial.}}
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** {{spoiler|Then comes ''Investigations 2'' where he goes right back to being an artist, and his art surprisingly improved, and his appearance in the DLC case of ''Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice'' shows him as a well known painter. It's a good theory that Larry will probably be an artist for the longest time. After all, in the third game, he wasn't lying when he said that Elise motivated him.}}
* This trope is why ''[[Fate/stay night]]'''s [[The Hero|Shiro Emiya]] and [[Sinister Minister|Kirei Kotomine]] are [[Not So Different]]. {{spoiler|Neither of them has any sense of self-worth and can only find purpose in other people. The difference is that Shirou's is helping people, while Kotomine's (as noted above) is causing people suffering. And even then, Kotomine still isn't happy, because while the suffering of others is the only thing that makes him happy, that in and of itself makes him unhappy because he ''knows'' [[Being Evil Sucks|it's wrong]].}}
* From the game ''[[BTS (band)|BTS]] World'', this trope makes the plot of Jeongguk's Another Story. At the beginning of his story he is shown wandering by all the clubs of his school, [[Renaissance Man|trying and doing it ''excellently'' in all of them]], but abandoning them immediately due to disinterest; this earns him the nickname of "Club Killer", as many members of whatever club he tried and abandoned resign immediately as they feel they cannot be as good as him. We quickly learn that the only thing that can hold his interest is taekwondo, on which he used to be a prodigy but had to abandon because of what at the time seemed a [[Career-Ending Injury]]; once he learns that he is fit enough to practice the sport again, he immediately turns all his efforts into getting admitted on his school's taekwondo club.
** The trope kicks again in Another Story Season Two. {{spoiler|Jeongguk}} found purpose by working in [[The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday|the Magic Shop]], helping people who made a wish within the place. {{spoiler|But after making a mistake while helping a client, the [[Genius Loci|store]] fires him. The store however offers him his position back if he manages to find a person that remembers him, so the poor guy has to run all over the city tracking back his last clients in a desperate attempt to get his life purpose back.}}
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* Betty Staines from ''[[Staines Down Drains]]'', who is shown starting a new job at the beginning of every episode.
* ''[[Rolie Polie Olie]]'': The plot of the episode "What to Be" focuses around Olie thinking about what occupation he should take when he grows up, from a paleontologist to an orchestra conductor.
* ''[[Justice League (Animation)|Justice League]]''; Amazo's goal, as of his final appearance. Upon realizing his powers were near-limitless but not knowing what to do with them, he consigned himself to wandering the universe, searching for a reason to exist.
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