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* ''Manga/TomorrowsJoe'': When Joe accidentally kills his WorthyOpponent of a rival during their long-awaited encounter, he falls into a deep depression and he's haunted by PTSD in any subsequent fight; always fearing he'd cross-counter his contenders and thus avoiding hits on the head. This leads to him losing match after match until he renounces boxing altogether and returns to the San'ya slums.
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* What happens at the end of ''Film/TheNatural''; Roy Hobbs finishes his lone season of Major League Baseball after hitting a dramatic, pennant winning homerun to be with his ChildhoodSweetheart and son at his family farm.
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* What happens at the end of ''Film/TheNatural''; ''Film/TheNatural'': Roy Hobbs finishes his lone season of Major League Baseball after hitting a dramatic, pennant winning pennant-winning homerun to be with his ChildhoodSweetheart and son at his family farm.
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* What happens at the end of ''Film/TheNatural''; Roy Hobbs finishes his lone season of Major League Baseball after hitting a dramatic, pennant winning homerun to be with his ChildhoodSweetheart and son at his family farm.
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* ''VideoGame/GranblueFantasy'': The plot of her Grand version's episode. After visiting her sister's grave on the island where she spent her last years, Ferry returns to Tramont island to hold a solitary funeral service for her. As she's still grieving at the time, she then enters her family's mansion and begins sorting through her family's belongings and cleaning the rooms, in an attempt to find some emotional closure.
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* ''VideoGame/GranblueFantasy'': The plot of her Grand version's episode. After visiting her sister's grave on the island where she spent her last years, Ferry returns to Tramont island Island to hold a solitary funeral service for her. As she's still grieving at the time, she then enters her family's mansion and begins sorting through her family's belongings and cleaning the rooms, in an attempt to find some emotional closure.closure.
* ''VideoGame/LegoCityUndercover'': Chase gets ReassignedToAntarctica due to revealing Natalia's anonymous witness identity to Rex Fury. When Fury breaks out of prison, he's called back to Lego City, where his confidence and case-solving track start to slowly recuperate.
* ''VideoGame/LegoCityUndercover'': Chase gets ReassignedToAntarctica due to revealing Natalia's anonymous witness identity to Rex Fury. When Fury breaks out of prison, he's called back to Lego City, where his confidence and case-solving track start to slowly recuperate.
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* ''VideoGame/SakuraWars'': Sakura goes back to Sendai repeatedly for various reasons, some of which include repairing the Arataka or undergoing swordsmanship training.
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* ''WebAnimation/SonicForHire'': In "We're Home", the gang decides to return home now that Sonic Mania has been destroyed. After a while, Tails and Sonic set up to create their own game.
* ''WebAnimation/SonicForHire'': In "We're Home", the gang decides to return home now that Sonic Mania has been destroyed. After a while, Tails and Sonic set up to create their own game.
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Not to be confused with HowDidWeGetBackHome, which is when the main characters get transported back to their home without there being an explanation.
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Whatever the protagonist has done with their skills in the big league, something invariably goes wrong, and they lose their focus. They can't seem to make the big plays or come through in a clinch. In other words, the protagonist has lost their groove. Sometimes it's a momentary case of EveryYearTheyFizzleOut. Even worse, it almost always happens before the BigGame.
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Whatever the protagonist has done with their skills in the big league, something invariably goes wrong, wrong --they score an OwnGoal or get a bad case of ParalysisByAnalysis-- and they lose their focus. They can't seem to make the big plays or come through in a clinch. In other words, the protagonist has lost their groove. Sometimes it's a momentary case of EveryYearTheyFizzleOut. Even worse, it almost always happens before the BigGame.
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Usually, this trope is used as StockAesops about not forgetting where you came from and/or the importance of friendship. It can also be a commentary on how the big league distorts the purity of sport. Contrast ThrowingTheFight, when the character is paid to lose the game or match. Compare and contrast ICouldaBeenAContender, a character who retires just when they could have achieved something great.
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Usually, this trope is used as StockAesops about not forgetting where you came from and/or the importance of friendship. It can also be a commentary on how the big league distorts the purity of sport. Contrast ThrowingTheFight, when the character is paid to purposefully lose the game or match.BigGame. Compare and contrast ICouldaBeenAContender, a character who retires just when they could have achieved something great.
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* ''{{Literature/Tsurune}}'': In middle school, Minato causes his team to lose in the finals of a tournament due to his hayake. This frustrates him and causes him to quit his old club (which belonged to a private middle school) and the sport. He then goes to his local public high school and eventually joins the archery club there, reuniting with his old friends begins to regain his confidence in archery and aims for that same tournament again.
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* ''{{Literature/Tsurune}}'': In middle school, Minato causes his team to lose in the finals of a tournament due to his hayake. This frustrates him and causes him to quit his old club (which belonged to a private middle school) and the sport. He then goes to his local public high school and eventually joins the archery club there, reuniting with his old friends begins to regain his confidence in archery archery, and aims for that same tournament again.
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* Music/MirandaLambert: "The House that Built Me".
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* Music/MirandaLambert: "The House that Built Me".Me" is about returning to where one grew up and made herself because by returning to one's roots, to those happy memories and feeling one's parents' hopes, we can heal. Memories of the journey that brought us today are important and soothing.
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* ''Series/TheShield'': {{Averted}}. A pro basketball player tries to go home again and just hang out with his buddies. He gets caught up in a Strike Team warrant sweep, and they hold him hostage in a hotel room so that they can win a bet on the Lakers. Then [[FromBadToWorse it gets much, much worse.]]
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* ''Series/TheShield'': {{Averted}}.{{Defied}}. A pro basketball player tries to go home again and just hang out with his buddies. He gets caught up in a Strike Team warrant sweep, and they hold him hostage in a hotel room so that they can win a bet on the Lakers. Then [[FromBadToWorse it gets much, much worse.]]
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* ''Film/RockyBalboa'': The film's plot is kickstarted because Mason, TheVillain, feels like this. He's the Heavy Weight Champion but can't find either respect or a worthy opponent in the ring, so he goes home to his old gym.
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* ''Film/RockyBalboa'': The film's plot is kickstarted because Mason, TheVillain, TheAntagonist, feels like this. He's the Heavy Weight Champion but can't find either respect or a worthy opponent in the ring, so he goes home to his old gym.
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* ''{{Fanfic/Ancienverse}}'': Ash and his friends return to Pallet Town after the end of ''The Kalos Trilogy''.
* ''Fanfic/TheCameraEyeSeries'': Serena exiles herself back to her home at the end of ''Any Color You Like''.
* ''{{Fanfic/Ancienverse}}'': Ash and his friends return to Pallet Town after the end of ''The Kalos Trilogy''.
* ''Fanfic/TheCameraEyeSeries'': Serena exiles herself back to her home at the end of ''Any Color You Like''.
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* ''Film/TheMightyDucks'': The first two movies have some version of this involving Gordon Bombay.
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** In the firsttwo movies film, Gordon's backstory is that he's a rising, talented hockey player who scored 197 goals in a season just before clanging what could have some version been the 198th off the goalpost. This turns him off hockey and he goes into law. His return back to Hans' sports equipment shop after the disastrous start to his Pee-wee coaching career ends with a quiet nighttime skate that brought back old memories of this involving Gordon Bombay.him and his dad in a frozen backyard pond, rekindling his love of the game and prompting him to begin the long road to repairing the Ducks.
** ''D2: The Mighty Ducks'':
*** At the beginning, Bombay returns from his minor league hockey stint after his CareerEndingInjury by bus on a rainy night alone (mirroring his departure at the end of the first film by bus on a clear day with his team and Charlie's mother cheering him off) --he comes home unsure about what to do now that he's injured but doesn't want to go back to being a lawyer (the eggs Jans makes helps a little, but doesn't solve the problem) until he gets the Team USA offer.
*** Bombay goes back to the house he's staying at courtesy of his sponsor Hendrix after getting caught up in the Hollywood spotlight --with Jans flying in to cook him the same egg dish-- before he goes rollerblading on the beach and reconciling with the team.
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** ''D2: The Mighty Ducks'':
*** At the beginning, Bombay returns from his minor league hockey stint after his CareerEndingInjury by bus on a rainy night alone (mirroring his departure at the end of the first film by bus on a clear day with his team and Charlie's mother cheering him off) --he comes home unsure about what to do now that he's injured but doesn't want to go back to being a lawyer (the eggs Jans makes helps a little, but doesn't solve the problem) until he gets the Team USA offer.
*** Bombay goes back to the house he's staying at courtesy of his sponsor Hendrix after getting caught up in the Hollywood spotlight --with Jans flying in to cook him the same egg dish-- before he goes rollerblading on the beach and reconciling with the team.
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* ''Film/Series7TheContenders'': {{Inverted}}. Dawn is [[SarcasmMode less than thrilled]] that Series 7 of ''The Contenders'' is taking place in her hometown. This is because Dawn's mom kicked her out of the house at 17 for having an abortion and the guy who knocked her up is one of her new opponents.
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* ''VideoGame/GranblueFantasy'': The plot of her Grand version's episode. After visiting her sister's grave on the island where she spent her last years, Ferry returns to Tramont island to hold a solitary funeral service for her. As she's still grieving at the time, she then enters her family's mansion and begins sorting through her family's belongings and cleaning the rooms, in an attempt to find some emotional closure.
* ''VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope'': Taking his overdue seven-day break from work, Lam goes back to the small seaside fishing village to reconnect with his family that he hasn't heard from in over a year.
* ''{{VideoGame/Sdorica}}'': Pang decides to return to the Eastern Alliance during Eclipse, after hearing that his friend Yao may be alive and connected to the ongoing instability there.
* ''VideoGame/GranblueFantasy'': The plot of her Grand version's episode. After visiting her sister's grave on the island where she spent her last years, Ferry returns to Tramont island to hold a solitary funeral service for her. As she's still grieving at the time, she then enters her family's mansion and begins sorting through her family's belongings and cleaning the rooms, in an attempt to find some emotional closure.
* ''VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope'': Taking his overdue seven-day break from work, Lam goes back to the small seaside fishing village to reconnect with his family that he hasn't heard from in over a year.
* ''{{VideoGame/Sdorica}}'': Pang decides to return to the Eastern Alliance during Eclipse, after hearing that his friend Yao may be alive and connected to the ongoing instability there.
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* ''{{Literature/Tsurune}}'': In middle school, Minato causes his team to lose in the finals of a tournament due to his hayake. This frustrates him and causes him to quit his old club (which belonged to a private middle school) and the sport. He then goes to his local public high school and eventually joins the archery club there, reuniting with his old friends begins to regain his confidence in archery and aims for that same tournament again.
* ''{{Literature/Tsurune}}'': In middle school, Minato causes his team to lose in the finals of a tournament due to his hayake. This frustrates him and causes him to quit his old club (which belonged to a private middle school) and the sport. He then goes to his local public high school and eventually joins the archery club there, reuniting with his old friends begins to regain his confidence in archery and aims for that same tournament again.
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* ''Anime/YuGiOhVRAINS'': In [[Recap/YuGiOhVRAINSEp117ParallelPaths "Parallel Paths"]], Takeru reveals that he intends to return home and once again lead a normal life after the situation with Ai wraps up in its entirety.
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* ''Series/TheShield'': {{Averted}}. A pro basketball player tries to go home again and just hang out with his buddies. He gets caught up in a Strike Team warrant sweep, and they hold him hostage in a hotel room so that they can win a bet on the Lakers. Then [[FromBadToWorse it gets much, much worse.]]
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* ''Series/MakeItOrBreakIt'': Emily does this after getting kicked out of the gym.
* ''Series/O11CE'': When Francisco figures out that Gabo's poor performance on the pitch has to do with his being homesick, he brings a piece of Gabo's home to the IAD, inviting his grandmother and Felipe to the first game of the season. Gabo immediately performs better.
* ''Series/QuantumLeap'': In [[Recap/QuantumLeapS5E07DeliverUsFromEvil "Deliver Us from Evil"]], Sam's narration remarks that he absolutely loved Jimmy [=LaMotta=] and the rest of the [=LaMotta=] family, explaining why he's so happy to find himself back in their lives again.
-->'''Sam:''' ''[narrating]'' Leaping is a lonesome business. Just when you start to feel comfortable, to fit in somewhere, you're gone. But today I was back with people I knew and cared about, people who cared about me.
* ''Series/TheShield'': {{Averted}}. A pro basketball player tries to go home again and just hang out with his buddies. He gets caught up in a Strike Team warrant sweep, and they hold him hostage in a hotel room so that they can win a bet on the Lakers. Then [[FromBadToWorse it gets much, much worse.]]
* ''Series/O11CE'': When Francisco figures out that Gabo's poor performance on the pitch has to do with his being homesick, he brings a piece of Gabo's home to the IAD, inviting his grandmother and Felipe to the first game of the season. Gabo immediately performs better.
* ''Series/QuantumLeap'': In [[Recap/QuantumLeapS5E07DeliverUsFromEvil "Deliver Us from Evil"]], Sam's narration remarks that he absolutely loved Jimmy [=LaMotta=] and the rest of the [=LaMotta=] family, explaining why he's so happy to find himself back in their lives again.
-->'''Sam:''' ''[narrating]'' Leaping is a lonesome business. Just when you start to feel comfortable, to fit in somewhere, you're gone. But today I was back with people I knew and cared about, people who cared about me.
* ''Series/TheShield'': {{Averted}}. A pro basketball player tries to go home again and just hang out with his buddies. He gets caught up in a Strike Team warrant sweep, and they hold him hostage in a hotel room so that they can win a bet on the Lakers. Then [[FromBadToWorse it gets much, much worse.]]
