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* At the end of ''Literature/TheMallorean'', the protagonists return to their respective homes; as Garion notes, since the loop of destiny was finally broken, it's as if they're all returning to where they started for whatever future is waiting now.

---> The sky had never seemed so ''sky''. The world had never seemed so ''world''.

* In Creator/RobertEHoward's "Literature/AWitchShallBeBorn", Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian's InHarmsWay is explicitly contrasted to Valerius, whose SmoochOfVictory is welcomed with the "gratitude of a weary fighter who has attained rest at last through tribulation and storm".
* In ''The Orc King,'' Tos'un Armgo is a drow with a typical ForTheEvulz attitude who changes slowly and ambiguously for the better during the novel. He is very relieved when moon elves take him in. A hundred years later he's married with two children. In contrast, good and noble Drizzt who was equally relieved at finding people who accept him keeps up an InHarmsWay lifestyle.

* In Creator/JohnHemry's Literature/TheLostFleet novel ''Invincible'', Admiral Lagemann tells Geary he will not be a problem when they return because all he wants is to resign and retire to some backwater planet.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': Helen Parr is perfectly happy in her home life. And the movie ends with all of the Parrs returning home, having grown much closer as a family. [[spoiler:Of course, the ''house'' is destroyed a few minutes later, but they still seem to live in the same town, judging by the track meet. They get a fancy mansion in the sequel.]]

Inverse of both InHarmsWay and SmallTownBoredom -- although it is not unknown for a character to oscillate between them. Can also be a motive for avoiding the DecadentCourt.

[[caption-width-right:192:And rejoicing all the way]]

-->-- '''Creator/WilliamShakespeare'''

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': Helen is perfectly happy in her home life. And the movie ends with all of the Parrs returning to their house, having grown much closer as a family. [[spoiler:Of course, the ''house'' is destroyed a few minutes later, but they still seem to live in the town judging by the track meet. They get a fancy mansion in the sequel.]]
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** Garak spends the entire seven years of the show in [[TheExile exile]] from Cardassia but clearly very much [[PatrioticFervor in love with]] the world he's come from, longing to return home but unable to do so. He and Odo even end up [[OddFriendship bonding]] over their [[NotSoDifferent shared yearning]]. At the end of the show, his exile is officially over and he's able to go home. But the Cardassia he once knew is gone; the planet's cities are in ruins and ''eight hundred million'' Cardassians are dead. And, by playing a pivotal role in the success of TheFederation and LaResistance against the BigBad occupiers of Cardassia, he's actually contributed to the situation his planet is now in. Home Sweet Home never looked more tragic.

The {{Quest}} for the BluebirdOfHappiness famously ends in returning home to find it nesting there, sometimes explicitly stated as this.

Inverse of both InHarmsWay and SmallTownBoredom -- although it is not unknown for a character to oscillate between them. Can also be a motive for avoiding the DeadlyDecadentCourt.

* The [[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/bravetailor/index.html Little Tailor]], having set out to let the world know of his feat -- seven at one blow! -- settles down once married to the princess.

* Featured in the end of the manga version of ''Manga/ChronoCrusade.'' [[spoiler:After Rosette saves her brother, they apparently go exploring for a year or two, then Rosette returns to the orphanage she grew up in to become a teacher. She dies there a few years later.]]

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'': In [[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths Pre-Crisis]] continuity, Clark Kent hangs on to the Kent family home in Smallville, even though no one lives there any more. His childhood friend Pete Ross, who [[SecretSecretKeeper secretly knows he's Superman,]] is bemused that the dude who can juggle planets is so sentimental.

** Subverted big time in later books, however. When Aunt Em and Uncle Henry can no longer keep the family farm, [[StrangerInAFamiliarLand Dorothy]] decides to [[IChooseToStay move to Oz full time]], where she holds the rank of Princess in Ozma's court. Ozma then brings Em and Henry to Oz as well, and sets them up with a little patch of land in Munchkin Country.

** In ''Literature/ThePrinceCommands'', the protagonist (after many adventures) settles down to his new life in Morvania upon learning that he and his last living relative had had a misunderstanding, and that he was welcome to stay.
** In ''Star Man's Son'', the hero gets several offers for places he could stay, but chooses to return home to face charges of theft and sacrilege. The people he stole from decide he did so well at ''their'' job that they dismiss the charges and recruit him to be a new leader.

* In Creator/GeneStrattonPorter's ''Literature/{{Freckles}}'', Freckles is not only looking for work, but for a place to call home.

* In Creator/JohnHemry's Literature/TheLostFleet novel ''Invincible'', Admiral Lagemann tells Geary he will not be a problem when they return, because all he wants is to resign and retire to some backwater planet.
* In Creator/PoulAnderson's Literature/TimePatrol stories, a good number of agents have a far amount of this, and work in a given era, checking for problems and providing other agents with what they need to operate in them.

* In ''Literature/ThisImmortal'', Conrad is not happy to begin with when he's called in for a job, especially since he's just married. In the end, he and Cassandra build themselves a new home on Haiti since their former home base island, Kos, is destroyed by an earthquake during the story. They just continue where they left off.

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' gives us two subversions at the very end of its seven year run.