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* The musical version of "James and the Giant Peach" starts off this way for James as he's stuck in an orphanage after the deaths of his parents and had a nightmare about the awful event. His first song is "On Your Way Home" in which he sings of his desire to leave the orphanage and go home where a family is waiting for him. Also serves as foreshadowing because he's voicing these desires to a grasshopper and ladybug, even asking them if they have families and wondering if they wouldn't mind James coming home with them.*

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* The musical version of "James and the Giant Peach" starts off this way for James as he's stuck in an orphanage after the deaths of his parents and had a nightmare about the awful event. His first song is "On Your Way Home" in which he sings of his desire to leave the orphanage and go home where a family is waiting for him. Also serves as foreshadowing because he's voicing these desires to a grasshopper and ladybug, even asking them if they have families and wondering if they wouldn't mind James coming home with them.*them.
* In ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'', Paul is driven to this when hearing his boss Mr. Davidson sing at him becomes too much to handle.
-->'''Mr. Davidson:''' (singing) So Paul, now you know what it is to want!
-->'''Paul:''' (spoken) I wanna go home!
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* ''VideoGame/{{Fractured}}'': The last sentence of ''Fractured 4'''s narration has the narrator, exhausted from being isolated and confused, wish she was home.
-->''i should just give up''\\
''i'm sick of being something i'm not''\\
''someone I'm not''\\
''i just want to be home''\\
''home... where i can just be''\\
''me''
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* "Go Home" by Music/AngelOlsen is this trope distilled in song form.
--> ''I wanna go home\\
Go back to small things\\
I don't belong here\\
Nobody knows me''
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* ''Film/TheMother''. After Zoe is targeted by the killers seeking Zoe's natural mother, the title character takes Zoe to her hut in the Alaskan woods and refuses to let her go back to the family that adopted her until she learns survival skills. Naturally this trope comes up on a couple of occasions.
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* In ''Fanfic/AnEagleAmongLions'', on the night before reliving the Battle of the Eagle and Lion, Edelgard begins to write a journal entry of things she wants to tell her alternate self, but winds up writing a simple five-word plea to find a way back to her own timeline.
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* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In the episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E118OnThursdayWeLeaveForHome On Thursday We Leave for Home]]", the colonists are finally able to return to Earth after being stranded for 30 years, but their leader, Benteen, doesn't want to give up his authority. When he can't convince the others to stay, Benteen decides to remain behind... only to remember the stories he would tell the others about the beauty of Earth and realize that he is alone and wants to go home. [[CruelTwistEnding Unfortunately, he's too late]] -- the ship has already taken off, and he is left futilely pleading for them to come back and not leave him stranded on the desert planet.

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* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In the episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E118OnThursdayWeLeaveForHome "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S4E16OnThursdayWeLeaveForHome On Thursday We Leave for Home]]", the colonists are finally able to return to Earth after being stranded for 30 years, but their leader, Benteen, doesn't want to give up his authority. When he can't convince the others to stay, Benteen decides to remain behind... only to remember the stories he would tell the others about the beauty of Earth and realize that he is alone and wants to go home. [[CruelTwistEnding Unfortunately, he's too late]] -- the ship has already taken off, and he is left futilely pleading for them to come back and not leave him stranded on the desert planet.
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* ''Film/AvatarTheWayOfWater'': Neteyam's [[spoiler:final words]] are him asking to go home again (since Jake pulled his family away from the trees and to the Reef People Na'vi).
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* ''Film/ThePoughkeepsieTapes'': After being rescued, all Cheryl is able to say is "[[MadnessMantra Just take me home]]." It's not until later we find out she isn't talking about her mother's house but rather [[StockholmSyndrome the Butcher's basement]].

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* ''Film/ThePoughkeepsieTapes'': After being rescued, all Cheryl is able to say is "[[MadnessMantra Just take me home]]." It's not until later we find out she isn't talking about her mother's house but rather [[StockholmSyndrome the Butcher's basement]].basement.
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* ''VideoGame/GreyArea2023'': At the start of Chapter 4, after going through the titular Grey Area then waking up soaked in the middle of a rainstorm, Hailey wishes she was back home, eating cereal with her parents like she was planning on doing that morning.
--> '''Hailey:''' I just wanna go home... I want our special breakfast...
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Depending on the work, responses to this may vary: for example, a villain who's [[KickTheDog kicking the dog]] or a character who doesn't understand the situation can reply with a very unhelpful, "You are home."

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Depending on the work, responses to this may vary: for example, a villain who's [[KickTheDog kicking the dog]] or a character who doesn't understand the situation can reply with a very unhelpful, "You are ''are'' home."
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* In the second ''Literature/MaryPoppins'' book, the story of "Bad Wednesday" features Jane Banks, as punishment for being naughty, being magically drawn through an antique bowl to a big dark house where a very creepy old man lives. When he says he would like to adopt her as his granddaughter, a terrified Jane says that she wants to go home, to which he replies that that's impossible: she's gone so far back in time that her family hasn't been born yet, and her home hasn't been built. Jane begins screaming for Mary Poppins to help her, and as soon as she apologises for having been naughty, Mary Poppins comes to pull her back out of the bowl.

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->''The poor cook got the fits\\
Throw away all o' my grits\\
Captain's pig done eat up all o' my corn.\\
Lemme go home, I want to go home,\\
I feel so break-up, I want to go home.''
-->-- "Sloop John B" (alternatively "The John B. Sails"), Bahamian folk song

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* ''VideoGame/XComEnemyUnknown'': If a soldier [[MoraleMechanic loses their cool]] and [[FreakOut Panics]], they instinctively do a randomized action entirely out of your control (from [[DeerInTheHeadlights hunkering in place]] to randomly firing at a nearby target), accompanied by a desperate cry out for anyone to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere get them the hell out of the battlefield and go home]].

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* ''VideoGame/XComEnemyUnknown'': ''VideoGame/XcomEnemyUnknown'': If a soldier [[MoraleMechanic loses their cool]] and [[FreakOut Panics]], they instinctively do a randomized action entirely out of your control (from [[DeerInTheHeadlights hunkering in place]] to randomly firing at a nearby target), accompanied by a desperate cry out for anyone to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere get them the hell out of the battlefield and go home]].
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*The musical version of "James and the Giant Peach" starts off this way for James as he's stuck in an orphanage after the deaths of his parents and had a nightmare about the awful event. His first song is "On Your Way Home" in which he sings of his desire to leave the orphanage and go home where a family is waiting for him. Also serves as foreshadowing because he's voicing these desires to a grasshopper and ladybug, even asking them if they have families and wondering if they wouldn't mind James coming home with them.*
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