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{{quote|''[[Trope Namer|Go back! To the first room!]] He'll show you... the Source!''|'''[[Mad Oracle|6]]''', ''[[9 (Animation)|Nine]]''}}
|'''[[Mad Oracle|6]]''', ''[[9]]''}}
 
A situation in which a character (usually the [[MacGuffin]] of the plotline) must return to the place where they or an important plot device originated from. This can involve taking the character back to where they came from, or going to the literal source of something, such as the place where an object of power was created..
 
Related to [[Now Do It Again Backwards]] (Wanna destroy something? Then go back to where it was created), [[Book Ends]], and [[It Was Withwith You All Along]]. Also could be a supertrope to [[Where It All Began]].
{{examples|Examples: }}▼
== Anime/Manga ==▼
* ''[[Digimon]]: [[The Movie]]'' involves Kokomon repeatedly telling Willis to "go back to the beginning", which Willis and the others try to figure out the meaning of.▼
* ''[[Pokémon (Film)|Pokémon]]'':▼
** In ''[[Pokémon the First Movie (Anime)|Pokémon the First Movie]]'', Mewtwo returns to the island of his creation to build his base.
** In ''[[Pokémon 4 Ever (Anime)|Pokémon 4 Ever]]'', Sam and Celebi need to return to the past after Celebi sends them 40 years into the future to escape a Pokémon Hunter.▼
** In ''[[Pokémon Jirachi Wishmaker (Anime)|Pokémon Jirachi Wishmaker]]'', the gang must return Jirachi to Forina so it can absorb the power of the Millennium Comet and sleep for another 1000 years.▼
** In ''[[Pokémon Ranger and The Temple of The Sea (Anime)|Pokémon Ranger and The Temple of The Sea]]'', Manaphy must be brought to Samiya, a temple that all Manaphy know how to find despite a cloaking device.▼
** In ''[[Pokémon the Rise of Darkrai (Anime)|Pokémon the Rise of Darkrai]]'', Ash and Alice must return to the Space-Time Tower to play Oracion to calm the raging Dialga and Palkia.▼
** In ''[[Pokémon Giratina and The Sky Warrior (Anime)|Pokémon Giratina and The Sky Warrior]]'', after trying to avoid the Reverse World for the majority of the film, the gang must go there in order to stop the [[Big Bad]].▼
 
▲{{examples|Examples: }}
== Film -- Animated ==
▲== Anime/ and Manga ==
* The film ''[[9 (Animation)|Nine]]'', the [[Trope Namer]], involves 9 needing to go back to the room where he and the other stitchpunks were created in order to stop the Fabrication Machine. The talisman that allowed them to be created is most commonly termed "the Source" by the fanbase, as it did transfer the stitchpunks' souls into their bodies. Though in the movie, 6 was implied to actually be referring to the scientist who used the Source to create them...▼
▲* ''[[Digimon]]: [[The Movie]]'' involves Kokomon repeatedly telling Willis to "go back to the beginning", which Willis and the others try to figure out the meaning of.
* ''[[Ice Age]]'': Manny, Sid, and Deigo must take the baby Rosham back to his village. ▼
▲* ''[[Pokémon (Filmfilm)|Pokémon]]'':
* Moses in ''[[The Prince of Egypt]]'' must return to Egypt in order to free his people.
** Simba fromIn ''[[Pokémon: The LionFirst KingMovie|Pokémon the First Movie]]'', Mewtwo returns to histhe homeisland of Pridehis Rock in ordercreation to dethrone Scar and claimbuild his place as kingbase.
▲** In ''[[Pokémon 4 Ever (Anime)4Ever|Pokémon 4 Ever]]'', Sam and Celebi need to return to the past after Celebi sends them 40 years into the future to escape a Pokémon Hunter.
▲** In ''[[Pokémon Jirachi Wishmaker (Anime)|Pokémon: Jirachi Wishmaker]]'', the gang must return Jirachi to Forina so it can absorb the power of the Millennium Comet and sleep for another 1000 years.
▲** In ''[[Pokémon Ranger and The Temple of The Sea (Anime)|Pokémon Ranger and The Temple of The Sea]]'', Manaphy must be brought to Samiya, a temple that all Manaphy know how to find despite a cloaking device.
▲** In ''[[Pokémon: theThe Rise of Darkrai (Anime)|Pokémon the Rise of Darkrai]]'', Ash and Alice must return to the Space-Time Tower to play Oracion to calm the raging Dialga and Palkia.
▲** In ''[[Pokémon Giratina and The Sky Warrior (Anime)|Pokémon: Giratina and The Sky Warrior]]'', after trying to avoid the Reverse World for the majority of the film, the gang must go there in order to stop the [[Big Bad]].
 
== Film -- Live Action ==
▲* The film ''[[9 (Animation)|Nine]]'', the [[Trope Namer]], involves 9 needing to go back to the room where he and the other stitchpunks were created in order to stop the Fabrication Machine. The talisman that allowed them to be created is most commonly termed "the Source" by the fanbase, as it did transfer the stitchpunks' souls into their bodies. Though in the movie, 6 was implied to actually be referring to the scientist who used the Source to create them...
* ''[[Lord of the Rings (Film)|Lord of the Rings]]'' -- see the Literature section for details.▼
▲* ''[[Ice Age]]'': Manny, Sid, and Deigo must take the baby Rosham back to his village.
* ''[[The Matrix]]'': "Returning to The Source" were [[Arc Words]] about returning to the heart of the Matrix's mainframe, where everything originated and hitting a [[Reset Button]] (or something like that). ▼
* Luke Skywalker has to return to TatooineMoses in ''[[ReturnThe Prince of the JediEgypt]]'' must return to saveEgypt Hanin Soloorder fromto Jabbafree thehis Huttpeople.
* Simba from ''[[The Lion King]]'' returns to his home of Pride Rock in order to dethrone Scar and claim his place as king.
* In ''[[Transformers (Film)|Transformers]]'', the All Spark is the artifact which gave the Transformers life, in fact rather similar to the Source talisman in ''[[9 (Animation)|9]]''.▼
▲* ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Filmfilm)|Lord of the Rings]]'' -- see—see the Literature section for details.
▲* ''[[The Matrix]]'': "Returning to The Source" were [[Arc Words]] about returning to the heart of the Matrix's mainframe, where everything originated and hitting a [[Reset Button]] (or something like that).
* Luke Skywalker has to return to Tatooine in ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'' to save Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt.
▲* In ''[[Transformers (Filmfilm)|Transformers]]'', the All -Spark is the artifact which gave the Transformers life, in fact rather similar to the Source talisman in ''[[9 (Animation)|9]]''.
* ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]'': Inigo remembers Vizzini's advice for what to do when a job goes wrong -- you go back to the beginning. So he returns to the place where he got hired and waits for (the now-deceased) Vizzini. Against all expectations, it works.
 
== Literature ==
* ''[[Haroun and The Sea of Stories (Literature)|Haroun and Thethe Sea of Stories]]'': Haroun and his friends on the moon of Kahani must go to the place in the Sea of Stories where all the stories originate, in order to stop Khattam-Shud from plugging it and corrupting all the stories with his "anti-stories". This part of the Sea of Stories, the Wellspring, is also appropriately called "the Source".
* At the end of ''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Franchisenovel)/|Harry Potter and Thethe Half -Blood Prince|Harry Potter]]'', Harry invokes this trope outright:
{{quote| "I thought I might go back to Godric’s Hollow… For me, it started there, all of it. I’ve just got a feeling I need to go there."}}
** In the next book, Hermione proposes an actual reason for going there. All is ultimately subverted when {{spoiler|nothing beneficial happens there. They don't find any of the unknown horcruxes, they don't find any information on the Deathly Hallows, Harry is nearly killed by Voldemort's snake, his wand is broken when he's rescued, and he later laments that he didn't even get a chance to kill the snake while he was at it (the snake being a horcrux).}}
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'': Frodo must take the One Ring to its place of creation, Mount Doom in the land of Mordor, in order to destroy it and rid the world of its evil power.
 
== Live-Action TV ==
* In the series finale of ''[[Lost (TV)|Lost]]'', Desmond - and later, Jack - return to the cave that was first seen in the earliest part of the series timeline. Inside is the source of life, death and rebirth; fans quickly dubbed it "the Source." This is probably directly inspired by ''[[Haroun and The Sea of Stories (Literature)|Haroun and Thethe Sea of Stories]]'' (above), [[ForeshadowingwhichForeshadowing|which Desmond was reading while sitting next to Jack on the plane]] in the season premiere. The site also happens to be right next to the bamboo grove where the series's first scene took place.
 
== Video Games ==
* ''[[EarthboundEarthBound]]'': Ness and the others must fight Giygas at its weakest point in time, which is when it was first created.
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]]'': Link has to return the Master Sword to its pedestal in order to gain access to the Temple of Time.
** In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]'', the first temple you must visit is the one in the Kokiri Forest, where you start the game.
** In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: MajorasMajora's Mask (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Majoras Mask]]'', whenever you play the Song of Time, you find yourself back at the same place in the center of Clock Town, where your adventure starts. When you get all four of the boss' remains, you must return to that same place (albeit at the top of the tower instead of the base) and summon the giants to stop the moon from falling.
* ''[[Final Fantasy]]'':
** ''[[Final Fantasy I (Video Game)|Final Fantasy I]]'': The Four Fiends were sealed in the Temple of Chaos. From there, they summoned Garland, transformed him into Chaos, and had him send them into the future to overrun the world. The Light Warriors must then travel back in time to the Temple to prevent this Time Loop.
** ''[[Final Fantasy IV (Video Game)|Final Fantasy IV]]'': The final dungeon is the Lunar Core, where the Lunarians sleep, and from which KluYa, {{spoiler|Cecil and Golbez' father}}, comes from.
** ''[[Final Fantasy IX (Video Game)|Final Fantasy IX]]'': The party's last voyage is into Memoria, an illusory world created by the memory of the planets Gaia and Terra...and then into the Crystal World, where the wellspring of life itself resides.
* In ''[[Halo 3]]'', the humans {{spoiler|and Elites}} must travel to the {{spoiler|Ark, where the titular Halos were constructed, to find the "solution" to the Flood. Turns out, the solution is a brand new [[MacGuffin]] it just coughed up.}}
* In ''[[Shin Megami Tensei Strange Journey (Video Game)|Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey]]'', the final sector, Horologium, is essentially primeval Earth, and the home of the {{spoiler|great mother of all life on the planet}}.
* The end of ''[[Okami]]'' had Amaterasu confront the ultimate darkness at the {{spoiler|Ark of Yamato, the vessel from which all monsters arrived from the Celestial Realm.}}
 
== Web Original ==
* In ''[[The Gamers Alliance (Roleplay)|The Gamers Alliance]]'', [[The Paladin|Khasra III]] enters the cursed celestial city of Xar Daeon to purify it from the taint of darkness, which helps him weaken demons' regenerative powers because the city's powers were directly linked to demons. The heroes of the Grand Alliance are given the task of locating the source of the Blood Fever in order to purify the source and thus put an end to the spread of the deadly fever.
* [[That Guy With theThe Glasses]]: In ''[[Suburban Knights]]'', Malachite's Hand is {{spoiler|hidden in the same place the quest started from}}.
 
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': Aang and Zuko go to the ruins of the Sun Warrior civilization to learn the original style of firebending, instead of the corrupted modern version.
* ''[[Ben 10 (Animation)|Ben 10]]'', the Omnitrix has an artificial planet called Primus that holds the universe's DNA bank, it must return to, on occasion.
 
== Real Life ==
* Several animals, such the Alaskan Salmon, travel back to their place of birth to spawn.
* Scientists try to create particles that existed during the Big Bang, which is believed to be the event of the origin of the Universe.
* There's a Latin phrase called "ad fontes" that translates to "go back to the source". In the humanities, it is the studying of different writings from different eras and comparing them to not only note any differences but also see how much civilization (philsophy, socially, civilly, it's a broad spectrum) has advanced.
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