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* 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.

* 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]].

* [[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...

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* [[The Name of the Wind]]: Kvothe spends much of the book homeless in Tarbean.

 

* An episode of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' had a homeless veteran that could turn his arm metal.

** Also on ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', Claude was an [[Invisible]] hobo. He stole everything he needed.

== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==

* [[Frank and Ernest]] often appear as bums in their strip.

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* 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]].

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