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[[File:Heroes Gone Fishing 2646.jpg|link=Neon Genesis Evangelion|frame|......as literal as the trope can be.]]
{{quote|''"Ahhh...that's it! A little sonar-wave pulse through the waters should attract the big fish. [[For Science!|Science]], you win again!"''
|[[Iron Man]], ''[[Marvel Adventures]]: [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|Avengers]]''}}
{{quote|''"Our family head, [[Colonel Badass|Yagami Hayate]]-[[Japanese Honorifics|chan]], and every member of the [[Badass Family|Yagami family]] is busy with [[Space Police|work]] every day. But sometimes, we want to take a break and all gather together as family."''
▲{{quote|''"Ahhh...that's it! A little sonar-wave pulse through the waters should attract the big fish. [[For Science!|Science]], you win again!"''|[[Iron Man]], ''[[Marvel Adventures]]: [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|Avengers]]''}}
|Shamal, ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' [[Audio Adaptation|Sound Stage]] M4}}
▲{{quote|''"Our family head, [[Colonel Badass|Yagami Hayate]]-[[Japanese Honorifics|chan]], and every member of the [[Badass Family|Yagami family]] is busy with [[Space Police|work]] every day. But sometimes, we want to take a break and all gather together as family."''|Shamal, ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' [[Audio Adaptation|Sound Stage]] M4}}
Sometimes when the bad guys aren't feeling all that bad, when they don't feel like terrorizing the locals, they go [[Villains Out Shopping|shopping]]. But what do good guys do when they don't feel like fighting evil at the moment? When they just want to get away from it all? Everybody deserves some free time after all! Even superheroes deserve a holiday!
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{{examples}}
== [[Advertising]] ==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgWeFCzsKF4 This commercial] from 1996 shows a busload of various Marvel heroes stopping at McED's.
* In [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drPdzRkFQOk this one] from 1993 shows [[X-Men| Wolverine, Jean Grey and Cyclops]] lunching at Pizza Hut and subtly arguing over the last slice.
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Sound Stage M4 of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' focuses on Hayate and the rest of the "Yagami Family" taking a day off from their jobs to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Hayate's legs healing.
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'': Evangeline A.K. McDowell enjoys [[Curb Stomp Battle|Curb Stomping]] ancient immortal demon gods, inflicting [[Training from Hell]] on her erstwhile students, and {{spoiler|[[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|playing retro video games]] [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v31/c285/6.html in her birthday suit].}}
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** In ''Uncanny [[X-Men]]'' #98, Professor X actually goes fishing...on the [[John Carter of Mars|Deja Thoris]] no less.
* There was old ''[[Fantastic Four]]'' story, the one that first introduced Black Panther. Black Panther lures the Fantastic Four to his hidden jungle hideout and hunts them down one by one, basically 'playing the villain', and only when he's finally defeated does he reveal that he's actually one of the good guys, and that he was just hunting them to test himself before going up against his archnemesis, Klaw. After Black Panther makes it up to them with a grand welcome to his kingdom, they all play baseball together. The Thing pitches, Johnny swings a Vibranium Bat, and Mr. Fantastic catches the ball - 30 feet up in the air. As for the Invisible Woman, she trips up her husband to give the mere mortals a fighting chance...
* The ''Marvel Swimsuit Specials'' had all of Marvels' headliners (and often their foes) throw some sort of beach party at one of Marvel's most exotic locales, like Wakanda, the Savage Land, or Monster Island. [[Excuse Plot|Why? Not important.]]
* [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]] ''[[Batman]]'' stories often began with Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson on vacation where they would invariably stumble across some crime or mystery that needed solving.
* Once, [[Empowered]] had to deal with a [[Super Villain]] who was enraged that nobody but a "lame-ass superhero" (her) came to stop him and inquired what the other heroes were doing. Emp: "They're doing... superhero-ey stuff?" Cut to the other Superhomies watching "Dancing with the Superheroes".
* ''[[Too Much Coffee Man]]'' is this Trope. It's a unique title in that the stories focus entirely on the hero's life when he is "off the clock". All of TMCM's heroic actions occur offscreen.
== [[Fan
* In ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'', Kyon goes fishing (literally) when visiting his uncle for Golden Week.
* ''[https://www.wattpad.com/story/173566505-final-stand-of-death Final Stand of Death]'', when they're not dealing with [[Marilyn Manson]], the Fusion Gundam opts to have some fun, such as water-sports or checking out some ball games. The ghosts of the other fallen victims of ''[[Celebrity Deathmatch]]'' were seen calmly having a game of [[Basketball]] to pass some time.
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Star Trek V]]'': Kirk, Spock, and McCoy go camping together. It doesn't end very well.<ref>[[Take That|Nor does the camping trip.]]</ref>
* In the second ''[[The Avengers (2012 film)|The Avengers]]'' film has with the exhausted heroes {{spoiler| at a bistro, having a meal}} after a hard day.
== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[Harry Potter and
== [[Live
* In ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', Picard goes to Risa for a relaxing vacation which turns into an ''[[Indiana Jones]]'' adventure.
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'': Jack O'Neill has a fish pond (which may or may not contain actual fish) next to his cabin in Minnesota. At the end of Season Eight, the whole team fishes there.
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* ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'': Xena goes fishing a few times; one notable occasion ends with her returning with a cart full of fish for the end-of-episode fight. Another memorable case has her use the [[MacGuffin]] of the week as fish bait.
* Johnathan and Mark go fishing in ''[[Highway to Heaven]]''. What's supposed to be a vacation for Mark turns into Johnathan the angel playing holy match-maker to a woman and a shy man for some reason.
* You could practically start another section of this page for examples of this happening on ''[[Power Rangers]]''; in fact, only too often, the good guys are in the middle of either participating in or running some recreational activity or event, when the current [[Big Bad]] decides to ruin it, often in a way that was ''inspired'' by it.
* A segment on the [[The Electric Company]] has Spiderman attending a baseball game, but of course, it doesn't peaceful for long.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Fable]] 1'', its possible for your hero to literally go fishing. He can also get married, play various games, take part in local brawling competitions, and generally act like a normal person. He can't get a job though. On the other hand, in the sequel, you can get a job, filling the list of normal, everyday activities your hero can get up to. (Though you can't go fishing any more...)
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'': Link - Hero of Time, wielder of the Master Sword, and current record-holder at the local fishing hole. ([[Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer|It's the most addictive minigame in the series.]])
* Each Ryu in the ''[[Breath of Fire]]'' series goes out in a fishing minigame.
* The entire premise of the crossover game ''[[Poker Night At the Inventory]]'', where four characters [[Sam and Max|from]] [[Penny Arcade|wildly]] [[Team Fortress 2|different]] [[Homestar Runner|games]] get together when they're off the clock to play poker.
* "What's that? Team [[Pokémon Red and Blue|Roc]][[Pokémon Gold and Silver|ket]]/[[Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire|Magma/Aqua]]/[[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl|Galactic]]/[[Pokémon Black and White|Plasma]] is plotting something evil? [[Gotta Catch Em All|I'll get on it after I catch]] a [[That One Sidequest|Feebas]]." But don't worry, in these games you can [[Take Your Time]].
* ''Okami'' This is actually a plot event. You have to catch a giant catfish, which and devours the moon's reflection in the water, thus stopping the moon from coming out. Once you nab this guy, you get a brush power that lets you draw a moon in the sky to make day into night.
** One of the sidequests is to help a sword collector by fishing. Why? He is fishing for a specific catch, the Cutlass fish, also known as the living sword.
* Done quite literally in [[Fate/hollow ataraxia]], where quite a few of the Servants (read:legendary historical and mythological figures) have incredibly mundane day jobs and hobbies. For example: [[Celtic Mythology|Cu Chulainn, Ireland's Man of Light,]] [http://www.animesekai.com/images/uploads/tcdfha014.jpg fishing on the docks] (with [[The Epic of Gilgamesh|Gilgamesh]] in the background, no less).
* In ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'', this is the whole point of the ''Citadel'' DLC, an opportunity for Sheppard to take a well-earned break. The "questline" involves Sheppard engaging in activities like visiting a sushi place that an ally recommended, engaging in a chin-up contest with a fitness guru, and throwing a house party for the crew.
* The Blizzardworld DLC from ''[[Overwatch]]'' involves the heroes going to an amusement park with themes or other Blizzard games, including ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', ''[[Starcraft]]'', ''[[Hearthstone]]'' and ''[[Diablo]]''. Of course, their activities there are pretty much the same - forming teams to combat other players - but it gives them an awesome theme park to do it.
* Speaking of ''[[World of Warcraft]]''. the heroes there have Darkmoon Faire, a monthly event which can be sort of a "working vacation" for heroes like them, as it's a chance to play carnival games for easy XP and credits for [[Disc One Nuke| Relic Weapons.]]
* The ''[[Borderlands| Borderlands 2]]'' DLC, "Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep". consists of the heroes of the game playing a tabletop RPG called ''[[Magic Ampersand|Bunkers & Badasses]]''. A case of [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]], seeing as this is recreation for the ''characters'', but the ''player'' is using the same game mechanics in a humor-oriented fantasy setting.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In one ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'' comic, Nale says that the knowledge that the Order of the Stick must defeat Xykon must be a terrible burden on them. [[Description Cut|The strip cuts to the party playing Parcheesi]].
* ''[[Eerie Cuties]]''; would be [[Vampire Hunter]] Tiffany Winters [https://pixietrixcomix.com/eerie-cuties/2011-02-16 goes to a concert] - after Layla, the vampire she's trying to slay, invites her! (The two are in something of a [[Mutual Masquerade]].)
== [[Web Original]] ==
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* Bumblebee of ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' likes playing videogames with Sari (also in ''[[Transformers Prime]]'', 'Bee with Raf). Rattrap from ''[[Beast Wars]]'' was once shown playing what looked like a ''[[Doom]]'' clone with Waspinators for enemies.
** Hot Rod and Daniel are first seen out fishing in ''[[Transformers: The Movie]]'', before Daniel gets distracted by the arriving shuttle. Later in a season 3 episode ("Grimlock's New Brain"), the Dinobots go fishing together, except for the big G himself, because he's caught up in his newfound superintelligence.
* In ''[[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe ]]'' (2002 version), a ''lot'' of the heroes have hobbies. Adam and Teela play a game that's sort of like volleyball in one episode, Ram-Man ''literally'' likes to go fishing, while Roboto plays holographic chess with Man-E-Faces, Orko, and Sy-Clone in various episodes.
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