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* In ''[[Ranma ½]]'', the Saotomes had been doing this for about fifteen years at the opening of the series. It's left up in the air whether or not their time in the Tendo Dojo qualifies as the ''end'' of their [[Walking the Earth]], or merely a temporary respite. Also, antagonist Ryoga Hibiki always Wanders The Earth, due to the fact that his [[No Sense of Direction|sense of direction]] is so ''bad'' he gets lost trying to [[The Exit Is That Way|walk across a room]]. [[Unlucky Childhood Friend|Ukyo Kuonji]] also spent about ten years doing this after Genma stole her father's cart and abandoned her, while minor [[Villain of the Week|single-arc antagonists]] are often implied to be doing this, like Natsume & Kurumi (anime) and Ryu Kumon (manga), who are travelling all over Japan in search of their father and the counterpart to their school of martial arts respectively.
* Vash the Stampede and Nicholas D. Wolfwood from ''[[Trigun]]'' are examples, except that the planet isn't Earth.
* A lot of the immortals in ''[[Baccano!]]'' do this. The most notable are the years between 1970-2002 in the novels where Maiza, Sylvie, and Czes spend a long time with the broad needle in a haystack reason of finding the other immortals who have scattered across the planet over a few hundred years.
* The setting of ''[[The Slayers]]''
* The ''[[Saiyuki]]'' gang could be considered to be part of this trope; although they do have a destination, they get side-tracked so often that they might as well not have one. Luckily, Sanzo has a credit card. The kind that's accepted everywhere. Even in small, rural villages in the middle of nowhere.
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* [[Robert E. Howard]]'s [[Conan the Barbarian]] and all Conan-derived characters. Conan himself, at least, has some explanation for how he makes a living while wandering (thief and occasional mercenary soldier).
* Randall Flagg, [[Big Bad]] of Stephen King's ''[[The Stand]]'' and [[The Dragon]] of ''[[The Dark Tower]]'', is the rare villainous version of Walking the Earth. And Walking Alternate Universes.
** In ''[[The Dark Tower]] V: Wolves Of The Calla'', Father Callahan reveals that he had spent the time between the events of ''[['Salem's Lot]]'' and his arrival at Calla bryn Sturgis wandering the Earth.
* In [[John Steinbeck]]'s ''East of Eden'', Adam walks the earth for several years after leaving the Army-he doesn't have much want or need to return home.
* [[Mark Twain]]'s ''[[Adventures of Huckleberry Finn|The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]''... possibly in part inspired by Twain's real life experiences - for that matter, two of his autobiographical books are named ''Life on the Mississippi'' and ''Roughing It'' [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|for a good reason]].
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