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While being exiled can sometimes lead to [[Walking the Earth]], it's ''usually'' more temporary than a [[Wandering Jew]] type of curse, either by Bob finding a new place to call [[Home, Sweet Home]], or by Bob doing one specific thing to absolve himself.

Subtropes include [[Remittance Man]], [[Noble Fugitive]], and [[Locked Away in Aa Monastery]]. Related to [[Put Onon a Bus]], which is a narrative tool rather than a situation. Also comparable to [[Kicked Upstairs]], which is placing a person in a position that, at first glance seems to be prestigious, but is actually a job that barely requires any work done and lacks any real power.

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** Coventry also featured prominently in his first book (last published) ''[[For Us, the Living A Comedy of Customs (Literature)|For Us theThe Living: A Comedy of Customs]]''.

* Marina from the ''[[Silverwing (Literaturenovel)|Silverwing]]'' books is banished from her colony after she receives a band from humans, which acts as a [[Mark of Shame]] until she befriends Shade, who has no prejudice against humans and even envies her band.

* At the end of the last ''[[Doctrine of Labyrinths (Literature)|Doctrine of Labyrinths]]'' book, ''Corambis'', {{spoiler|Felix}} comments that he must be the only person ever to be exiled from exile. (At the end of the previous book, he was exiled from Melusine for {{spoiler|destroying the mind of his lover's murderer}}; in ''Corambis'', he hasn't really done anything wrong, but the people in charge want him out of the way where he can't cause any trouble.)

* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s [[Conan the Barbarian]] story "[[Rogues in The House (Literature)|Rogues in Thethe House]]," Murillo thinks that the ear given to him in a box might be a warning to leave for voluntary exile, but does not want to risk it. Later, Nabonidus asks him why he didn't take the warning, and Murillo retorts that he did not know he would be allowed to.

* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s "The Shadow Kingdom", [[Kull]] himself.

{{quote| ''the name of Kull was now a word accursed among the mountains and valleys of his people, and... Kull had put them from his mind,''}}

* Common in [[The Icelandic Sagas (Literature)|The Icelandic Sagas]].

* In [[FateoftheFate of the Jedi]], Luke Skywalker is exiled for his role in training Jacen Solo, [[A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil|aka]] [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope|Darth]] [[Complete Monster|Caedus]]. He's to keep away from Jedi temples and train no one for ten years, or until he can discover why Jacen became what he did. His teenaged son Ben decides to come with him.

* In [[Devon Monk]]'s ''[[Age of Steam (Literature)|Dead Iron]]'', LeFel's backstory. Which has the side effect of making him mortal.

* In [[Michael Flynn]]'s ''[[Spiral Arm (Literature)|January Dancer]]'', Fa Li's assignment at the Rift is considered this.

* ''[[The Fugitive (TV series)|The Fugitive]]'' is the [[Trope Codifier]].

* ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'': Garak. In the show, his exact crime is never revealed but his former position was so powerful and important that when he's exiled, he chooses to live on [[Deep Space Nine]] because, as Sisko once observes, for a man in trouble with the highest levels of the Cardassian government, a Bajoran-owned, Federation-controlled region is very probably the safest place in the entire Alpha Quadrant for him to live.

* Elphaba in ''[[Wicked (Theatretheatre)|Wicked]]'' becomes one after [[Faking the Dead|faking her death]], as she can never return to Oz.

* The main character of ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]] II: The Sith Lords'' [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|is called 'The Exile']] no matter what name you pick for him/her. Getting to the bottom of the circumstances around the main character's exile makes up most of the game's story.

* Lloyd and Genis in ''[[Tales of Symphonia (Video Game)|Tales of Symphonia]]'' get exiled from their hometown, Iselia, after [[Doomed Hometown|it gets burned down]] by the Desians because they went to the nearby Human Ranch, a forbidden act according to the non-agression pact made between Iselia and the Desians.

* Most of the main characters in [[Dragon Age II]] fall into this category in one form of another. The Hawke family had to leave Ferelden after the [[Doomed Hometown|destruction of Lothering]], Aveline is the daughter of a exiled-in-disgrace Orlesian Chevalier, Varric's family was stripped of their Noble status and exiled from Orzammar for fixing Provings, Fenris is an escaped slave on the run from Tevinter Magisters, Merrill is a Pariah amongst the Dalish and may end up exiled from her clan, while Prince Sebastian Vael was [[Locked Away in Aa Monastery|sent to the Chantry]].

* Parodied in ''[[Kickassia (Web Video)|Kickassia]]'', when [[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Critic]] dramatically exiles [[The Cinema Snob (Web Video)|The Cinema Snob]] from Kickassia for treason, intending for him to walk in shame and solitude across the desert. Since the nation is question is not too far from a nearby town (complete with comfy hotel), the Snob has his phone to call for a cab and things in Kickassia are beginning to get a bit crazy thanks to the Nostalgia Critic [[Drunk Withwith Power|going mad with power]], the Snob isn't as bothered by this as the Critic would probably like. Not to mention the fact that the intended gravitas is lost when everyone's waving goodbye behind his back.

* One episode of ''[[South Park (Animation)|South Park]]'' involved Stan refusing to vote on the new school mascot (the choices were a giant douche and a turd sandwich) and being banished from the town in a ritual involving being tied to a donkey and spat upon. An [[Animal Wrongs Group]] finds him and complains about the mistreatment of the donkey.

* Zuko from ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', banished from the fire nation by his father the Fire Lord until he finds and defeats the Avatar. Also {{spoiler|his mother, Ursa, was banished for killing the previous Fire Lord to save Zuko's life}}.

* In the original ''[[TMNTTeenage 1987Mutant (Animation)Ninja Turtles 1987|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' toon, part of Krang's backstory was that he had been exiled from Dimension X.

* In ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'', Jasmine threatens to get rid of Jafar when she's Queen, and he mentions at first that she'll exile him. Depending on where Agrabah is, and whether other cities would be willing to let an exile in (a traitorous vizier being the kind of exile most cities would ''not'' want to let in), being banished would likely lead to death.