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Contrast [[Moses in the Bulrushes]], who was too young to know of his heritage.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Kenzo Tenma, brain surgeon supreme, is one of these in [[Monster (manga)|Monster]].
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== [[Fairy Tale]]s ==
* Many a princess has to flee her [[Wicked Stepmother]] or her [[Parental Incest|father who wants to marry her]] and go into service as a [[Scullery Maid]]. These include [[Joseph Jacobs]]'s "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130718151309/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/donkeyskin/stories/catskin.html Catskin]", "[https://web.archive.org/web/20131006101311/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/stories/katie.html Katie Woodencloak]", "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130824043504/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/stories/rashin.html Rashin-Coatie]", "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130802235809/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/donkeyskin/stories/bear.html The Bear]", [[The Brothers Grimm (creator)|The Brothers Grimm]]'s "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130718151024/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/donkeyskin/stories/allfur.html All-Kinds-Of-Fur]", "[https://web.archive.org/web/20131020230909/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/donkeyskin/stories/kingdaughter.html The King Who Wished Marry To His Daughter]", and "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130718143820/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/donkeyskin/stories/caporushes.html Cap O' Rushes]".
* In "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130803001541/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/31girlwithouthands.html The Girl Without Hands]", after the miller's daughter marries a king, she is driven out to the wilderness, and has to live there with her baby.
** Similarly with the heroine of "[https://web.archive.org/web/20131129130936/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/armlessmaiden/stories/onehandedgirl.html The One-Handed Girl]".
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Star Wars]]'':
** Princess Leia
** Her mother and adoptive father also fit this trope by the end of ''[[Revenge of the Sith]]''. The Emperor was in control of the Senate, forcing them to go into hiding. Of course, Amidala tragically did not survive long.
* Dr. Kimble - ''[[The Fugitive (film)|The Fugitive]]'' himself.
* [[Robin Hood]] in pretty much any film incarnation, possibly excepting the movie ''[[Robin Hood (2010 film)|Robin Hood]]'', in which he was a simple commoner pretending to be Loxley.
* ''Rick's'' is stuffed to the brim with these in ''[[Casablanca]]''. This was [[Truth in Television]], for while there was no exact Rick's (or no exact Rick or Victor Lazlo for that matter), there were a number of places like it.
== [[Literature]] ==
* The [[Noble Savage|Zulu warrior]] Umslopogaas in ''Alan Quartermain''
* Subverted with Maladict in the [[Terry Pratchett]] novel ''[[
* Alan Breck Stewart in ''Kidnapped'' by Robert Louis Stevenson.
* Aragorn in [[J. R. R.
* ''[[The Silmarillion]]'' is full of these. Beren is probably the cleanest-cut example; his father's kingdom gets overrun by Morgoth's army, and he lives off the land rather than leave it, first as part of a group of twelve warriors, then alone after the group gets betrayed. There's also Túrin, Elwing, Eärendil, and probably a bunch of others that I'm forgetting about at the moment.
* The princess in [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]'s ''[[John Carter of Mars|The Master Mind of Mars]]''. {{spoiler|Who is also the heroine, Valla Dia, though she tells her story in the third person.}}
** In ''The Chessman of Mars'', U-Thor, after he questioned his jeddak's injusitce, had to fight his way to freedom and then escape.
* Saukendar (Shoka) in [[C. J. Cherryh
* ''[[The Scarlet Pimpernel (novel)|The Scarlet Pimpernel]]'': The de Tournays and the other noble émigrés rescued by the Pimpernel.
* ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia|Prince Caspian]]'': Caspian, for much of the novel.
* Paul Atreides and his mother in the original ''[[Dune]]'' seek refuge among the Fremen after the Harkonnens kill his father the Duke Leto. Whom he rallies into an unstoppable army and uses to claim the Golden Lion Throne.
** In the prequel novels, the entire House Vernius goes renegade after their world of Ix gets invaded by the Tleilaxu with the secret support from Padishah-Emperor Elrood IX and, later, his son Shaddam IV. All but one end up dead before Rhombur Vernius re-takes the planet with the help of the Atreides and receives his father's title of Earl.
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* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s [[Conan the Barbarian]] story "[[Rogues in the House]]," Murillo thinks of fleeing to exile but doesn't know if it would be allowed.
* Sort of happens to David in [[The Bible]]. He was just a shepherd boy, but was anointed as the king of Israel by the prophet Samuel. Unfortunately, Saul was still the king, and was not very excited about this. David eventually ends up on the run from Saul.
* Aaron and Natalie Jastrow in [[The Winds of War and War and Remembrance]]. Natalie is a famous scholar's niece, daughter-in-law of a President's aide and future admiral,
* In the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' franchise, {{spoiler|Sirius Black, a close friend of Harry's parents and the closest thing Harry has to an actual father. Throughout most of ''[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (novel)|Prisoner of Azkaban]]'', Harry (and the readers) are made to believe Black is an unrepentant [[Serial Killer]] who betrayed Harry's parents and desires Harry's death. In truth, this was a [[Frame-Up]] orchestrated by the actual killer, Peter Pettigrew. Sadly, Black is never formally acquitted, and for most of the series, has to support Harry from a distance while on the run from the law.}}
== [[Live
* River and Simon Tam in ''[[Firefly]]''.
** A classic example of "seeking shelter among the barbarians and going native"
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** {{spoiler|And again at the end of season 4.}}
* Snow White, in Once Upon A Time due to her past with the Evil Queen in the Fairy World.
* Fester Addams is this in the [[Netflix]] series ''[[Wednesday]]'', having shown up at his niece's school while on the run from the police after robbing a bank - something he does for fun, it seems.
== Mythology and Legend ==
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* [[Robin Hood]], in those stories that make him the Earl of Huntingdon or Robert/Robin of Locksley.
== [[Theatre]] ==
* Duke Senior and his men, Rosalind, and Celia in [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[As You Like It]]''
* Macduff and Malcolm end up like this in ''[[Macbeth]]''.
* The bandits in ''[[Two Gentlemen of Verona]]}}'' are all banished nobles.
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* Aang of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''.▼
** More obviously, Zuko and Iroh.▼
* [[Fairly Oddparents]] has [[Alien Among Us|Mark Chang,]] who became a fugitive of sorts in order to escape [[Arranged Marriage|marrying Princess Mandie.]]▼
== Web Comics ==▼
* Windswept Questant/White Queen of ''[[Homestuck]]''. She driven away from Prospit after [[Big Bad|Jack Noir]] attacks and becomes an Exile.▼
** Snowman is also later revealed to be the former Black Queen of the Trolls' session, and joined [[Gang of Hats|The Felt]] after Spades Slick (along with the help of the Troll players) ousted her during the game.▼
* Prince Alfon in ''[http://www.radiocomix.com/birthright/ Birthright]'' was sent to another country after his homeland of Shartoa was invaded by the Tosiu. Ten years later he returned to start a populist revolution.▼
* [[The Legend of Zelda|Princess Zelda]] in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|Ocarina of Time]]'' is forced to go into hiding as a ninja for seven years after [[Big Bad|Ganondorf]] takes over her kingdom.
* Many nobles in the [[Fire Emblem]] series become disenfranchised and hunted before either joining or forming a massive army to reclaim their kingdoms, starting from the original [[The Hero|Marth]], and later reflected by supporting Characters in the [[Fire Emblem Tellius|Tellius]] universe in Elincia of Crimea and later Sanaki of Begnion.
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* In ''Fable 3'' the main character is pretty much this right from the get-go.
* Ramza Beoulve of [[Final Fantasy Tactics]] was a member of the noble Beoulve family; as a knight turned mercenary, he eventually defected upon discovering {{spoiler|that his brother killed his father and started to orchestrate a rebellion to gain the throne}}. For the remainder of the game, he remains a fugitive, trying to avoid capture by the kingdom and the Church.
* In ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'', no member of Avalanche denies the label of "eco terrorists", but their strikes on the [[Mega Corp| Shinra Electric Power Company]] are clearly efforts to prevent greater evils from occuring.
* Princess Sadira of ''[[Vanguard Bandits]]'' becomes a fugitive of her own Empire after [[Big Bad|Faulkner]] usurps it.
▲== [[Web Comics]] ==
▲* Windswept Questant/White Queen of ''[[Homestuck]]''. She driven away from Prospit after [[Big Bad|Jack Noir]] attacks and becomes an Exile.
▲** Snowman is also later revealed to be the former Black Queen of the Trolls' session, and joined [[Gang of Hats|The Felt]] after Spades Slick (along with the help of the Troll players) ousted her during the game.
▲* Prince Alfon in ''[http://www.radiocomix.com/birthright/ Birthright]'' was sent to another country after his homeland of Shartoa was invaded by the Tosiu. Ten years later he returned to start a populist revolution.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
▲* Aang of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''.
▲** More obviously, Zuko and Iroh.
▲* [[Fairly Oddparents]] has [[Alien Among Us|Mark Chang,]] who became a fugitive of sorts in order to escape [[Arranged Marriage|marrying Princess Mandie.]]
== [[Real Life]] ==
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* Oh heck, the whole [[The House of Stuart|Stuart family]].
* White Russian exiles from the Russian Civil War played a part in politics in the 1930s and 1940's. Many were merely mercenaries or spies, but the most notable of them was Field Marshal Mannerheim. While not all of these were hunted some were, or had reason to fear that they were.
* Almost every European head of state in [[World War II]].▼
* Robert the Bruce.
* Harald Hadrada. He had to flee Norway after his brother, the king, was killed in battle. After some time in Russia, he worked as a mercenary for the Byzantine Emperor, soon becoming a commander. After learning that his nephew had taken control of the country, he used his newfound wealth to raise an army and force his nephew to accept him as co-ruler. A couple years later, the nephew [[Make It Look Like an Accident|died]], leaving him sole ruler.
* [[World War II]]:
** Any number of high-status Jews ended up as this. Ironically the shoe ended up on the [[Poetic Justice|other foot]] after the war when Nazi war criminals themselves ended up hunted.
**The succession of political struggles in the first part of the twentieth century left colorful and rich people strewn all over the world and any city where there was not a war going on at the moment had a good chance of having an expatriate community of some kind. Often several of these. And not uncommonly these would either scheme for revenge or just get jobs as spies to [[Only in It For the Money|pay for their lifestyle.]]
***Istanbul was chockful of these. Aforesaid White Russians arrived first despite Czarists being a traditional enemy of Ottomans. Leon Trotsky spent some time there too. When the [[Those Wacky Nazis|new murderous extremists]] and the [[World War 2|new war]] came along, Jews and Eastern Europeans as well as Germans who [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|disagreed with Hitler's policy, thought it immoral, or just thought his mustache funny]] ended up there. The Turks got well paid for their [[Sacred Hospitality|welcome]] too because many of these were high-class and cultured people who introduced new methods of art, science, and education.
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[[Category:Royalty and Nobility Tropes]]
[[Category:Characters As Device]]
[[Category:Fairy Tale Tropes]]
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