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{{quote|''East, west -- home's best.''}}
When a character's major, overriding goal - one that takes priority over all others - is
[[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]].
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== Anime ==
* The beginning of ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'' has the girls go back and forth between "this world is awesome, I wanna see more of it!" to "no way, I want to go home now". This becomes the conflict between Miaka and Yui.
* ''[[Digimon]]'' has aspects of this.
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** [[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]]''
* Another [[Neil Gaiman]] novel, ''[[Neverwhere]]'', also uses this.
* ''[[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.
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** 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.''"}}
* Ian and Barbara in the first season of ''[[Doctor Who]]''.
** Also Jo in ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S10
* ''[[Gilligan's Island]]''
* ''[[Quantum Leap]]''
* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]''
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== Video Games ==
* Half the quest in ''[[King's Quest IV|King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella]]'' is returning to her kingdom (the other half is finding a magic fruit to cure her father), and you can end the game without actually getting the fruit.
* One of the two driving forces for Sora's gang in [[Kingdom Hearts]]. The other is finding their lost friends.
== Webcomics ==
* ''[[Annyseed]]'' desperately wants to be human again. Or at least feel like part of the human race.
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== Western Animation ==
* The ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' cartoon.
* [[Samurai Jack]]'s main goal is to get back to his home time, though, of course, [[Failure Is the Only Option]].
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