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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]].
 
As a part of a [[Downer Ending|Downer]] or [[Bittersweet Ending]], the character may find that he/she [[You Can't Go Home Again|can't go home again]]. In a happier variant of that ending, the character can go home but [[I Choose to Stay|chooses to stay]], or discovers a new home that is as good as, or better than the original.
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== Film ==
* The [[Trope Namer]] is, of course, the film version of ''[[The Wizard of Oz (Filmfilm)|The Wizard of Oz]]''. Surprisingly, the phrase never actually shows up in the book.
* ''[[Back to The Future]]''
* ''[[E.T. the Extraterrestrial (Film)Extra-Terrestrial|ET the Extraterrestrial]]''
* The ultimate goal of Maximus in ''Gladiator''.
* In ''[[Labyrinth (Film)|Labyrinth]]'', it's rescue Toby, THEN get home.
* Simba in ''[[The Lion King]]''.
* Kate and Humphrey in ''[[Alpha and Omega]]''.
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== Literature ==
* ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]''
* In ''[[The Odyssey (Literature)|The Odyssey]]'', the protagonist has been unable to return home to Ithaca for 20 years of warfare and increasingly lonely wandering. Even when the goddess Calypso wants to make him her immortal sex buddy, all he wants is to see his mortal family again.
** [[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 (Literaturenovel)|Stardust]]''
* Another [[Neil Gaiman]] novel, ''[[Neverwhere]]'', also uses this.
* ''[[The HitchhikersHitchhiker's Guide to Thethe 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.
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* Ian and Barbara in the first season of ''[[Doctor Who]]''.
** Also Jo in ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S10 E4 Planet of the Daleks|Planet of the Daleks]]''. She even turns down a chance to stay with a man in love with her because she wanted Earth.
* ''[[GilligansGilligan's Island]]''
* ''[[Quantum Leap]]''
* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]''
* ''[[wikipedia:The Fantastic Journey|The Fantastic Journey]]'' (1977)
* ''[[Otherworld]]'' (1985), which had a very similar plot to ''The Fantastic Journey''.
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== Webcomics ==
* ''[[Annyseed (Webcomic)|Annyseed]]'' desperately wants to be human again. Or at least feel like part of the human race.
 
 
== Web Original ==
* Done nicely in ''[[Kickassia (Web Video)|Kickassia]]''. After [[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Critic]] banishes [[The Cinema Snob (Web Video)|The Cinema Snob]], he finds his room has turned into his old review room with his [[Catch Phrase]] echoing when he touches the table. He's far too gone with the need to be in power by this point, but just for a moment you can tell he desperately wants to go home.
 
 
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