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''Run from the noise of the street and the loaded gun
''Too late for solutions to solve in the setting sun
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|'''[[Garbage]]''', "Run Baby Run"}}
* '''The Circus Runaway:''' a child wants to run away to the circus (or some other "exotic" location) because they feel they are not appreciated by their parents or given enough attention. If successful, becomes a [[Circus Brat]] or [[The One Who Made It Out]]. Probably a [[Discredited Trope]] (or perhaps a [[Dead Unicorn Trope]]) by now, especially the "circus" part.
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* '''The Orphan Runaway:''' a child or teenager who runs away because they have no one left, nowhere to go. Often the most tragic of runaways and can sometimes lead the story to ''[[Grave of the Fireflies]]'' territory.
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A Runaway who achieves success in the greater world may grow up to become [[The One Who Made It Out]].
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Ruby in ''[[Pokémon Special]]'' ran away because [[Billy Elliot Plot|his father wouldn't let him compete in Contests]]. Turns out Norman was going to let him do it anyway.
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* Lucy in ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' runs away to join the eponymous guild.
* Miyuki from ''[[Tokyo Godfathers]]'' ran away from home because she couldn't face her family after stabbing her father out of anger.
* Androids #17 and #18 from ''[[
* Sabo from ''[[
* ''[[Fruits Basket]]'':
** Yuki, running away from {{spoiler|an abusive home}}.
** Kyo, running away from a home where everybody hates him
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* All the [[Runaways]] start out being on the run from terrible parents. {{spoiler|After the first arc, they are orphans.}}
* All versions of the backstory of Rogue in Marvel's ''[[X
* Megan McKeenan from ''[[Local]]'' has a history of running away, not only from her parents, but from boyfriends, roommates, and bad jobs. She even knows this is bad and resolves to stop running...some day.
* ''[[Shazam]]'': Young Billy Batson was essentially a runaway, living on the streets; except in his case his miserly uncle ''threw him out'' at the age of 8 after getting his hands on Billy's parents' estate.
== Film - Animated ==
* In ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'', Princess Jasmine meets Aladdin when she runs away to avoid being forced to marry. It doesn't last long.
* ''[[
== [[Film]] - Live-Action ==
* ''On Our Own'' is about four orphans who run away to avoid being split up in foster care.
* In the first ''[[X
* In the Disney movie ''Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken'' the main character runs away from her aunt's home and starts riding horses in a traveling show.
* In the new ''[[Star Trek (
* The film version of ''[[The Wizard of Oz (
* ''[[
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== [[Literature]] ==
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** Huckleberry Finn (fakes his own death to escape his alcoholic father and rafts down the Mississippi with an escaped slave) and Oliver Twist (after the orphanage where he grew up sells him to an undertaker as an assistant, he runs away to London where he is taken in by a gang of pickpockets before being reunited with his charming, modestly wealthy relatives).
* ''The Whipping Boy'' by [[Sid Fleischman]] is about the spoiled and arrogant Prince Brat who runs away from home out of boredom, dragging with him his poor, much-abused servant Jem (the titular Whipping Boy, whose job, it being illegal to strike the prince, was to take his beatings for him when he misbehaved). The two boys come to respect and eventually befriend each other before finally finding their way home.
* ''[[From the Mixed
* The title character of ''[[Bud Not Buddy]]'' by Christopher Paul Curtis runs away from an unpleasant foster family to track down the man he suspects may be his father.
* In the book ''[[The Mysterious Benedict Society]]'', three of the four main characters are runaways. Constance's situation is never explained in detail. Sticky ran away from overbearing parents, and Kate joined the circus after her father disappeared. {{spoiler|In the end, Constance gets adopted, Sticky goes back to his very worried parents, and Kate's [[Disappeared Dad]] gets a [[Luke, I Am Your Father]].}} It has been revealed that Constance {{spoiler|was an orphan who ran away from the orphanage in order to avoid the Ten Men.}}
* In Steven Gould's book ''[[Jumper (
* [[Pinocchio]] runs away from his creator/father, Geppetto. The book version is actually far more disturbing than the Disney movie, featuring the puppet being hanged and then nursed back life by the Blue Fairy, before he goes on the run again, and eventually, turns into a donkey, gets swallowed by a whale, and etc.
* In Robertson Davies' [[Deptford Trilogy]], Paul Dempster runs away to join the circus.
* ''[[
** Harry runs away from the Dursleys after he blows up Aunt Marge in ''[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (novel)|Prisoner of Azkaban]]''.
** In ''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (novel)|Goblet of Fire]]'', Harry briefly considers running away from Hogwarts rather than facing the First Task.
*** Harry considers it again in ''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (novel)|Order of the Phoenix]]'', a bit more seriously than in ''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (novel)|Goblet of Fire]]''.
** Sirius did this as a teenager.
* In one of the ''[[Smallville]]'' novels, Clark runs away to Metropolis. This is similar to an plotline that occurs in the TV Series, except that in the novel, Clark doesn't put on a red kryptonite ring and go insane.
* In ''[[
* ''[[
* The protagonist from ''[[My Side of the Mountain]]'' has a perfect relationship with his parents and a nice life, still decides to run away to the Catskill Mountain and live in a hollowed out tree for the pure adventure of it all.
* {{spoiler|Hollyleaf}} from ''[[Warrior Cats]]'' runs away at the end of the ''[[Warrior Cats Power of Three|Power of Three]]'' arc after learning a shocking secret that leaves her feeling betrayed by her family.
** {{spoiler|Crookedstar}} was a runaway as a kit, but {{spoiler|he didn't mean to stay away from his Clan for a long time.}} By the time he gets back, he soon becomes an apprentice rather late.
* [[
* In the ''[[The Borribles|Borribles]]'' trilogy, successful runaways actually physically transform into immortal, elflike beings who have their own culture and society in the baseboards of human civilization.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'': "Every Boy Does It Once," even youngest son Bobby, who wants to leave the family in this early first-season episode because his stepmother and stepsisters are "evil." "Evil stepmother" Carol convinces Bobby that such is not true. This fits the "circus runaway" trope.
* ''[[Little House
** Albert, a street urchin introduced in the Winoka episodes to open the fifth season, is a runaway orphan who is ultimately adopted by the Ingalls.
** In the final season, the folks of Walnut Grove meet Matthew, a deaf and mute boy who is literally "The Wild Boy" (after having run away from the circus to escape a cruel master). Mr. Edwards adopts him for awhile, until Matthew's biological father shows up.
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== Music ==
* The aptly named [[Soul Asylum]] song "Runaway Train" has this as its theme. The video even went so far as to post the pictures of people<ref>
* Rapper [[Ludacris]] has a song called "Runaway Love" about an abused runaway.
* The second verse of Cowboy Troy's "If You Don't Wanna Love Me" is about one.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[
* ''[[Mr. Driller]]'' has Ataru, who ran away from home after getting in an argument with his father.
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* Helen of ''[[Penny and Aggie]]'', bitter over her parents' favouritism of her sister and her (largely self-caused) social outcast status, runs away to Boston to apply for a phone sex operator job, leading directly into a [[Crossover]] with ''[[Something
* In ''[[Strays]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20110830144237/http://www.straysonline.com/comic/152.htm Holland's] [[Backstory]].
== [[Web Original]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[
** Toph Bei-Fong. Her parents weren't physically abusive, but were definitely cold and stifling (even hiring ''bounty hunters'' to bring her back).
** Ty Lee preferred life as a circus acrobat to life among upper-end Fire Nation aristocracy, but [[Badass Princess|Princess]] Azula "[[Kick the Dog|convinced]]" her to come away and help hunt her brother down.
* In one episode of ''[[The Fairly
* Penny in ''[[The Rescuers]]'', though in her case, she was already an orphan. She was trying to run away (that is to say, escape) from her kidnappers, and failed each time, until the mice of the Rescue Aid Society turn up to help.
* In [[Don Bluth]]'s ''[[Banjo the Woodpile Cat]]'', Banjo runs away from home after his father tells him to fetch his own switch to be beaten with.
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* In the ''[[Pingu]]'' episode "Pingu Runs Away", Pingu runs away from his home after getting spanked by his parents for ruining their dinner. Despite running away, Pingu's parents think he'll show up again, that is until it gets late. They soon realize that they were too hard on him. They didn't even know that he was going to be gone for so long.
* An episode of ''[[The Littles]]'' deals with this, but doesn't appear to be any of the three. A one off "bigg" (The Littles' name for us normal sized humans) girl runs away because her father threatened to send her to a special school where her friends "wouldn't be such a bad influence" on her unless she got straight As on her report card, discovering that she had gotten one "B" and one "C".
* Deirdre, one of the Starlight girls runs away in the two part ''[[Jem]]'' episode "The Music Awards". After Jerrica kept [[Not Now, Kiddo|blowing her off]], the straw came when Jerrica blew her off as Jem. Fortunately, Jerrica/Jem learned her lesson and Deirdre eventually came back home.
* In the ''[[COPS (
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