History Main / HomelessHero

There is the hero that [[TheDrifter drifts from place to place]] helping people as he [[WalkingTheEarth walks the earth]]. Then there are these heroes: ones that stay in the same place, but are so down on their luck that they live in squalor or, worse, have no place to live at all. They squat for the night in an [[AbandonedWarehouse abandoned building]] and keep warm with scrap wood burning in an OilDrumFire.

There is the hero that [[TheDrifter drifts from place to place]] helping people as he [[WalkingTheEarth walks the earth]]. Then there are these heroes: ones that stay in the same place, but are so down on their luck that they live in squalor or, worse, have no place to live at all. They squat for the night in an AbandonedBuilding or [[AbandonedWarehouse warehouse]] and keep warm with scrap wood burning in an [[OilDrumFire]].

There is the hero that [[TheDrifter drifts from place to place]] helping people as he [[WalkingTheEarth walks the earth]]. Then there are these heroes: ones that stay in the same place, but are so down on their luck that they live in squalor or, worse, have no place to live at all.

* ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'' has to move pretty frequently among the safehouses he's established around the area. They are often abandoned buildings, storage units, or even little used access areas of the [[SinisterSubway New York Subway]].

* [[ComicBook/TheAuthority Apollo and Midnighter]] spent many years after their escape from [[ManipulativeBastard Henry Bendix]] living in abandoned warehouses and being damn grateful that they didn't have to eat or sleep much. They were still [[BattleCouple fighting crime]], though, and it caught the attention of the new and improved Stormwatch, who helped them out. Then along comes Jenny Sparks with a proposition...

* Johnny Klebitz, the protagonist of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheLostAndDamned'', apparently has no home of his own, instead sleeping in the storeroom of the Lost MC clubhouse.

* After the prologue and release from imprisonment in ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'', Ichiban has no home to go back to due to being in prison for eighteen long years. Although he doesn't have much time to process that thanks to Adachi picking him up and telling him what he missed. However his state of homelessness really settles in when he wakes up in a garbage bin and ends up having to live among a small commune of homeless people (one of them being Nanba, a ex-nurse hobo who becomes one of Ichiban's closest allies and playable characters}. However with some luck and determination he steadily comes out of it by the end of the game.
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* All the Regulars that climb the ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'' leave their homes and families behind to reach the top, a task which usually takes at least 500 years, if it succeeds at all.

* The Gaang from ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' fit this trope as they fly from place to place on Appa.
* By virtue of being on the run, the G.I. Joes are forced to become this trope in ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeRenegades''.

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* In ''Film/{{Stuck}}'' the main protagonist Tom Bardo is a homeless man who gets hit by a car and trapped in the driver’s garage, since the driver has decided to let him bleed out so she won’t have to face the consequences of running him over.

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* All the Regulars that climb the ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'' leave their homes and families behind to reach the top, a task which usually takes at least 500 years, if it succeeds at all.
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* Kaim, the protagonist from ''VideoGame/LostOdyssey'', is an amnesiac immortal mercenary whose memories return in the form of dreams as the player progresses in the game. He's had homes in the past, but being immortal, he has outlived most everyone he ever knew. He moves from place to place regularly, to avoid revealing he is immortal, or forging close bonds that will inevitably be broken.

* ''VideoGame/BadDayLA'' features Anthony Williams, a former Hollywood Agent now homeless. He is forced to survive when the city of Los Angeles has disaster after disaster. He inadvertently becomes heroic along the way.
* Kat, the protagonist of ''VideoGame/GravityRush'', has no home outside of a large sewer pipe underneath the town of Auldnoir.

* Pictured abive is D-Man [[note]](Also known as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demolition_Man_(comics) Demolition Man]])[[/note]] of the MarvelUniverse (once sidekick to ComicBook/CaptainAmerica) was homeless due to a mental illness. Last time he was seen, he was getting treatment.

* ''Webcomic/MagIsa'' -- [[http://mag-isa.thecomicseries.com/comics/38 Claudita]] doesn't have a home. Poor girl.

* Parodied on ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'', with "The Surprising Adventures of Sir Digby Chicken Caesar". Although Digby in his narration claims to be a dashing GentlemanAdventurer fighting a never-ending battle against his unknown nemesis, "Some Bastard Who's Presumably Responsible," he and his sidekick, Ginger, are in fact deluded, drug-addled hobos, and their "adventures" are merely them committing acts of petty theft of money and alcohol and occasionally beating and robbing random people.

* Parodied on ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'', with "The Surprising Adventures of Sir Digby Chicken Caesar". Although Digby claims to be a GentlemanAdventurer fighting a never-ending battle against his unknown nemesis, "Some Bastard Who's Presumably Responsible," he and his sidekick, Ginger, are in fact deluded, drug-addled hobos, and their "adventures" are merely acts of petty theft of money and alcohol and occasionally straight up beating and robbing random people.

* Parodied on ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'', with "The Surprising Adventures of Sir Digby Chicken-Caesar." Although he claims to be a GentlemanAdventurer fighting a never-ending battle against his unknown nemesis, "some bastard who is presumably responsible," he and his sidekick are in fact deluded hobos who randomly attack people and rob them.

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* D-Man of the MarvelUniverse (once sidekick to ComicBook/CaptainAmerica) was homeless due to a mental illness. Last time he was seen, he was getting treatment.

* ''Fanfic/BlackkatsReverse'', all Kurama has is the clothes on his back and what little money he makes doing odd jobs. Due being the run from various pursuers trying to capture him and take back the abused children he kidnapped, Kurama is constantly running from place to place trying to find shelter.

* A variant occurred in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'': one of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's old comrades spent the UsefulNotes/WorldWarII living rough so he could secretly watch over the facility where Cap and the Red Skull were imprisoned.

* Played with in Creator/TomClancy's ''Without Remorse''. A woman reports being attacked by a mugger but saved by the intervention of a "homeless man", who rather brutally disposes of the mugger in the process. Eventually the police realise this is connected to all the dead drug pushers they've been finding lately; their suspect isn't ''really'' homeless, but he's disguising himself as a wino to blend in and become BeneathSuspicion.

* ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}''. Naturally, the title hero shamelessly steals to live, but shares his bread with neighborhood children if compelled.