There's No Place Like Home: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''East, west -- home's best.''}}

 

[[Home, Sweet Home|to go home again]]. "Home" can be as specific as the character's house, or as general as his/her home planet. Usually comes as a result of being [[Trapped in Another World]], going [[Down the Rabbit Hole]], or being a [[Fish Out of Water]]. Sometimes leads to [[The Homeward Journey]].

 

 

== Anime ==

* ''[[Digimon]]'' has aspects of this.

 

** [[Shout-Out|Referenced]] in a well-known sonnet from the collection ''Les Regrets'' by Joachim du Bellay (1525-1560), who felt homesick for France while serving as a cardinal's secretary in Rome: "The seat my fathers built pleases me more than the Roman palaces with their bold front, more than hard marble I like the fine shale, more the Gallic Loire than the Latin Tiber, more my little Liré than the Palatine Mount, more than the sea breeze I like the Angevin sweetness." The opening words, ''Heureux, qui comme Ulysse'' ("Happy (is he), who like Ulysses") have also been used as as the title of a film starring Fernandel, who takes an old horse to the Camargue to set it free.

* ''[[Stardust (novel)|Stardust]]''

* ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' Ford Prefect uses this as a method of coercion "In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal. This signal simply communicates an exact and almost pathetic sense of how far that being is from the place of his birth." Ford hits the barman with an "incomprehensible sense of distance" and very much gets his point across.

* This is [[The Pendragon Adventure|Bobby Pendragon's]] original motive upon learning he was a Traveler. This changes about a third of the way through the series.

* ''A World Without Heroes'' follows the story of the main character, Jason, who is doing everything in his powers to get home.

* Jonathan Thomas Meriwether (aka "Jon-Tom") spent most of Alan Dean Foster's Spellsinger series desperately wishing to return to his home dimension. When he finally could, he decided to take some of what he considered the best bits of it and return to his friends and love interest in his adopted dimension.

* Subverted in Piers Anthony's Virtual Mode series, where Colene, who had little to keep her in her home dimension, spent the entire series trying to get to her love interest Darius' dimension.

 

 

* ''[[Life On Mars]]''

** And its [[Spin-Off]], ''[[Ashes to Ashes]]''.

** Aside from the obvious "plane crash survivors wanting to go home" plot (which is {{spoiler|resolved halfway through the series}}), a much more specific form of this trope comes in season 6:

{{quote|{{spoiler|The Smoke Monster}}: "I want the one thing that John Locke didn't. ''I want to go home.''"}}

* ''[[Quantum Leap]]''

* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]''

* ''[[Otherworld]]'' (1985), which had a very similar plot to ''The Fantastic Journey''.

* ''[[Sliders]]''. Ironically, the group made it back to their own world at the start of Season Two... but they mistakenly thought that they ''hadn't'' {{spoiler|because the gate was oiled since becoming lost}}, so they left again.

 

== Video Games ==

* One of the two driving forces for Sora's gang in [[Kingdom Hearts]]. The other is finding their lost friends.

 

 

 

== Web Original ==

 

== Western Animation ==

* [[Samurai Jack]]'s main goal is to get back to his home time, though, of course, [[Failure Is the Only Option]].