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* ''{{Three Hearts and Three Lions}}'' by PoulAnderson

* Averted in Inuyasha. When Kagome first returns to her own time, she briefly considers attempting to go back to feudal Japan to help search for the shards of the Shikon no Tama. In the end, however, she decides to just pretend it was all a dream and ignore it. [[spoiler: And then Inuyasha shows up and drags her back to the past anyway.]]

* The BigBad Soren in demands this in ''StarTrekGenerations'' after being pulled back from [[{{Heaven}} the Nexus]] (although the crew think they were just beaming him off his ship which was about to be destroyed). His quest to get back to the Nexus set up the film's plot.

* ''Film/JohnCarter'': After fighting the climactic battle and defeating the (supposed) BigBad on Mars, John gets sent back to Earth by one of one remaining Therns (ageless alien wizards who manipulate other races to suit their own ends). He spends several years searching for another [[MacGuffin teleport medallion]] (unsuccessfully). Then he develops an [[BatmanGambit elaborate plan]] to fake his own death (sort of), set his nephew up as bait in order to ambush one of the Therns to kill him and steal his medallion, all in effort to get himself back to Mars. [[EarnYourHappyEnding It works]].

* About halfway through [[NeilGaiman Neverwhere]], the hero gets back 'home', to upper London. He chooses to return to the adventure.

* ''JohnCarter'': After fighting the climactic battle and defeating the (supposed) BigBad on Mars, John gets sent back to Earth by one of one remaining Therns (ageless alien wizards who manipulate other races to suit their own ends). He spends several years searching for another [[MacGuffin teleport medallion]] (unsuccessfully). Then he develops an [[BatmanGambit elaborate plan]] to fake his own death (sort of), set his nephew up as bait in order to ambush one of the Therns to kill him and steal his medallion, all in effort to get himself back to Mars. [[EarnYourHappyEnding It works]].

* The first season of ''MagicKnightRayearth''. The heroines have defeated the BigBad Zagato, and freed Princess Emerald from her imprisonment so that she can return to being the Pillar of the World. The magical world saved, their mission fulfilled, the magic knights return to their own world. Good End. [[spoiler: Except that nothing about it was good. [[WellIntentionedExtremist Zagato was in love with the Princess, and kidnapped her to liberate her from her fate as a Pillar]]. The princess, embittered by her savior and lover's death, went UnstoppableRage against the heroines, forcing them to slay her]].

* ''[[JohnCarter'': After fighting the climactic battle and defeating the (supposed) BigBad on Mars, John gets sent back to Earth by one of one remaining Therns (ageless alien wizards who manipulate other races to suit their own ends). He spends several years searching for another [[MacGuffin teleport medallion]] (unsuccessfully). Then he develops an [[BatmanGambit elaborate plan]] to fake his own death (sort of), set his nephew up as bait in order to ambush one of the Therns to kill him and steal his medallion, all in effort to get himself back to Mars. [[EarnYourHappyEnding It works]].

* ''[[film/JohnCarter]]'': After fighting the climactic battle and defeating the (supposed) BigBad on Mars, John gets sent back to Earth by one of one remaining Therns (ageless alien wizards who manipulate other races to suit their own ends). He spends several years searching for another [[MacGuffin teleport medallion]] (unsuccessfully). Then he develops an [[BatmanGambit elaborate plan]] to fake his own death (sort of), set his nephew up as bait in order to ambush one of the Therns to kill him and steal his medallion, all in effort to get himself back to Mars. [[EarnYourHappyEnding It works]].

* ''JohnCarter'': After fighting the climactic battle and defeating the BigBad on Mars, John gets sent back to Earth by one of one remaining enemy wizards who had one of the [[MacGuffin teleport tokens]]. He spends several years searching for another token and developing an elaborate plan involving faking his own death and passing his rather large inheritance to his nephew while charging him with the duty to guard his tomb, all in effort to get himself back to Mars [[EarnYourHappyEnding and eventually gets there]].

* ''[[StarOceanTheSecondStory Star Ocean: The Second Story]]'': Claude accidentally lands on 'undeveloped planet' Expel and is stranded there. Though he sends out a distress signal, he later forgets about it... until his father's ship stumbles across it and tracks him down, teleporting him away from his friends [[spoiler: inside the DiscOneFinalDungeon]]. Naturally, Claude doesn't take it well.

* In ''DoctorWho'' episode ''[[Recap.DoctorWhoNSS1E13ThePartingOfTheWays The Parting Of The Ways]]'', Rose is trapped in the TARDIS by The Doctor and sent back to the twenty-first century, because "Emergency Program 1 means [The Doctor is] facing an enemy that should never be allowed to get their hands on [the TARDIS]." However, Rose won't take that for a good reason. She knows that the Doctor is going to die if he fights [[spoiler:the Daleks]] by himself, so she gets Jackie and Micky to help her crack the TARDIS so she can get back to the 2001st century - [[spoiler:and it ''works'']].

* In ''TeenTitans'', Cyborg at one point becomes trapped in the distant past. While in the past, he befriends the people of a barbarian tribe, who have been fighting off invading monsters. Then, during the final battle to defend the tribe and destroy the monsters once and for all, the other Titans manage to use magic to forcibly retrieve him from the past. His words as he arrives? "Send me back!" Unusual in that Cyborg does not actually return to the past, as (a) he has no way to get there, and (b) he finds out from a history book that the tribes won without him anyway.

* The second season of ''MagicKnightRayearth''. The heroines have defeated the BigBad Zagato, and freed Princess Emerald from her imprisonment so that she can return to being the Pillar of the World. The magical world saved, their mission fulfilled, the magic knights return to their own world. Good End. [[spoiler: Except that nothing about it was good. [[WellIntentionedExtremist Zagato was in love with the Princess, and kidnapped her to liberate her from her fate as a Pillar]]. The princess, embittered by her savior and lover's death, went UnstoppableRage against the heroines, forcing them to slay her]].

* Neverwhere.

* Averted in Inuyasha. When Kagome first returns to her own time, she briefly considers attempting to go back to feudal Japan to help search for the shards of the Shikon no Tama. In the end, however, she decides to just pretend it was all a dream and ignore it. And then Inuyasha shows up and drags her back to the past anyway.

* ''Three Hearts and Three Lions'' by PoulAnderson

* The second season of ''MagicKnightRayearth''. The heroines have defeated the BigBag Zagato, and freed Princess Emerald from her imprisonment so that she can return to being the Pillar of the World. The magical world saved, their mission fulfilled, the magic knights return to their own world. Good End. [[spoiler: Except that nothing about it was good. Zagato was in love with the Princess, and kidnapped her to liberate her from her fate as a Pillar. The princess, embittered by her savior and lover's death, went UnstoppableRage against the heroines, forcing them to slay her]].
--> '''Hikaru''': This can't end this way!!!

--> '''Hikaru''': [[TearJerker This can't end this way!!!]]