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▲== Anime/Manga ==
* On ''[[Ranma ½]]'' Ryoga may as well be one of these. Yes, he has a real house, but he's almost never there. In fact, the entire family is equally prone to being lost, so the house really only exists as a wayside stop. Most days he simply camps out, or sleeps in Akane's bed as her pet pig.
* The title character of [[Rurouni Kenshin]] had been one for ten years before the official start of the story. Then Kaoru let him move into her dojo.
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* Then of course there's ''[[Top Ten]]'', where everyone in the city has powers and a [[Code Name]] - and like any other city, there are homeless people.
* ''[[The Punisher]]'' has to move pretty frequently among the safehouses he's established around the area. They are often abandoned buildings, storage units, or even little used access areas of the [[Sinister Subway|New York Subway]].
* ''[[Spawn]]'' - not many places where a literal demon would be welcome, but he doesn't really need housing.
* ''[[Spawn]]''▼
* [[The Authority|Apollo and Midnighter]] spent many years after their escape from [[Manipulative Bastard|Henry Bendix]] living in abandoned warehouses and being damn grateful that they didn't have to eat or sleep much. They were still [[Battle Couple|fighting crime]], though, and it caught the attention of the new and improved Stormwatch, who helped them out. Then along comes Jenny Sparks with a proposition...
* [[Flaming Carrot]] is a vagrant; when not righting wrongs, he doesn't do much except drink corn whiskey with other bums and read comic books.
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[The Fisher King]]'' (the Terry Gilliam film) fits this well.▼
* [[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]. Naturally, he shamelessly steals to live, but shares his bread with neighborhood children if compelled.▼
* Nada from John Carpenter's ''[[They Live!]]''▼
== [[Literature]] ==
* [[The Name of the Wind]]: Kvothe spends much of the book homeless in Tarbean.
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** Also on ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', Claude was an [[Invisible]] hobo. He stole everything he needed.
** Daphne too [[All There in the Manual|in her origin in the Graphic Novels]].
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* [[Frank and Ernest]] often appear as bums in their strip.
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* This trope is a stereotype of heroic fantasy RPGs like ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' to the point it's easier to list games where it's explicitly ''not'' the case. This tradition is often semi-affectionately known as "Murderhobo", so named for the tendency of stock heroes to wander from place to place, without permanent residence, killing things.
** Averted in most Living Campaigns, since significant amount of time is spent off-screen. In those characters generally have day jobs and off-screen homes by default.
▲* ''[[The Fisher King]]'' (the Terry Gilliam film) fits this well.
* While most clan samurai in ''[[Legend of the Five Rings]]'' have actual homes (however rarely they actually stay there), ronin player characters often fall into this.
▲* [[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]. Naturally, he shamelessly steals to live, but shares his bread with neighborhood children if compelled.
▲* Nada from John Carpenter's ''[[They Live!]]''
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Ryu from [[Street Fighter]] travels around the world seeking opponents to challenge and has no home to call his own because of this.
* ''[[Oracle of Tao]]''. Subverted. The main character, Ambrosia, is a [[Crazy Homeless Person]] who [[She Cleans Up Nicely|cleans up]] a bit, losing the homeless status when she gets money from killing monsters and is given a tent. She no longer is homeless by the end, but arguably is still very much crazy.
* Whether Gregory from ''[[Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach]]'' can be called a hero is debatable (it seems he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time), but he does seem to be homeless, the [[Bad Ending]] showing him sleeping in a cardboard box in a ally. More than likely, he snuck into the Pizzaplex hoping to steal food only to be trapped inside when it closed.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* A variant occurred in ''[[Spider-Man: The Animated Series]]'' - one of [[Captain America (comics)]]'s old comrades spent the [[World War II]] living rough so he could secretly watch over the facility where Cap and the Red Skull were imprisoned.
* By virtue of being on the run, the G.I. Joes are forced to become this trope in [[G.I. Joe: Renegades]].
* [[Wonder Woman]] in ''[[DC Super Hero Girls]]'', due to a tradition stating an Amazon must live wherever she finds herself when traveling to a new land. The other Hero Girls try to remedy this, but Diana makes for a rather annoying guest. Eventually she is taken in by an archeologist studying Themysciran history.
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