Desperate Plea for Home

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

Everyone knows that There's No Place Like Home. However, the most heartfelt expressions of this particular sentiment seem to arrive when a character has been pushed to the very limit of their endurance.

In this trope, characters who have undergone peak levels of anxiety, terror, grief, and/or psychological trauma will beg to go home; in some instances, this may form part of a Heroic BSoD, possible Sanity Slippage, or a Despair Event Horizon; in extreme cases, the character might be critically wounded or even dying.

Depending on the work, responses to this may vary: for example, a villain who's kicking the dog or a character who doesn't understand the situation can reply with a very unhelpful, "You are home."

A possible consequence of the You Can't Go Home Again plot.

Compare I Want My Mommy!, another possible reaction to ending up in extremis. Contrast Homesickness Hymn, which doesn't always involve the extremes featured in this trope.

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Examples:

Audio Plays

• The Big Finish Doctor Who: Unbound story "He Jests at Scars" concludes with the reveal that the Valeyard's inept efforts to alter history have ruined the space-time continuum, leaving him trapped in his TARDIS for the next few million years while the universe gradually heals itself. Plus, in order to prevent him from doing even potential damage to reality, he's being kept paralyzed and will eventually be muted as well. Worst of all, Mel (having been sent to stop the Valeyard's reign of terror) is trapped with him for eternity under similar circumstances. The story ends with Mel despairingly whispering that she wants to go home, before falling silent forever.

Comic Books

• In a two-part issue of Exiles, the team's journey across the multiverse is interrupted when Mojo decides to use Morph as his latest star, holding Nocturne hostage to keep his new hire in a cooperative mood. The events of the story push Morph to breaking point, even driving him to assault Mojo in a rage, and even after he's finally rescued, he's too traumatized to be funny and clearly blames himself for Nocturne's suffering. Over the course of a Cooldown Hug from Nocturne, Morph can be seen muttering "All of this sucks. I want to go home..."
• Monica's Gang: In the "Magnetar" graphic novel, by Danilo Beyruth, Astronaut spends months isolated in the orbit of a dying star after his spaceship is damaged and begins suffering from paranoia-induced hallucinations that make him reflect on how much his profession has alienated him from his friends and family. The rescue team manages to reach him before his air supply runs out and informs him that he will be able to return to his mission in no time. Astronaut's reaction is to feebly reply that he wants to go home.
• In the Superman comic Day of Vengeance, Mister Mxyzptlk is left stranded in the third dimension due to the destruction of the Earth's magic. Left amnesiac and confused, he can't remember how to send himself back to the fifth dimension and ends up wandering around until he meets Superman and starts spending time with him. When Mxy senses the villain Ruin has set up a Kryptonite booby trap for the Man of Steel, he performs a Heroic Sacrifice by shoving him out of the way; as he lays dying, he thinks: "I'm scared... I just want to go home... I want... to go..."

Fan Works

• In An Eagle Among Lions, 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.
• The Fallout 3 fanfic Better to Reign in Heaven features the Lone Wanderer (real name Matthias AKA Mattie) being pushed to the limits of his endurance by his time in Tranquility Lane. As such, when Old Lady Dithers makes it clear that he's going to have to Mercy Kill her and the rest of Stanislaus Braun's playthings, the Lone Wanderer admits that he wants to go home; for good measure, over the course of the ensuing Despair Speech, he makes it clear that he's talking about Vault 101.
• In Cupcakes (Sergeant Sprinkles), Rainbow Dash weakly sobs to Pinkie Pie that she wants to go home before the harvesting starts.
• The Demon Girl Next Door fanart (NSFW ads), which spawned the "It's Shamiko's fault" meme, involves Momo making out forcefully towards Shamiko and blames the latter for turning her on. Shamiko denies it and begs Momo to let her go home.
• In Maybe Sprout Wings, Dean flashes back to crying and begging to go home shortly after selling himself into slavery as a teenager. His pleas are ignored.

Films — Animation

• In Alice in Wonderland, after Alice has had enough of Wonderland's craziness, she begins to desperately search for a way home.
  Alice: [in tears] I'm through with rabbits! I want to go home!
• In Coco, after Miguel is thrown into a cenote (a water-filled sinkhole) and left to die of his curse, he yells that he wants to go home.
• Inside Out: After deciding not to run away from her new home, Riley tearfully confesses to her parents that she wants to return to her old home in Minnesota. She expects them not to understand, but they do and comfort her.
• During a motorcycle chase near the start of The LEGO Movie, Emmet yells that he wants to go home. Barely a second later, a house transporter blocks the highway ahead, forcing Emmet to drive straight through.
  Emmet: This is not what I meant!
• Monsters vs. Aliens: Shortly after Susan/Ginormica is captured by the US government, she awakens to find herself in a secret facility that houses other monsters such as herself, where she's duly informed that she'll basically be living there for the rest of her life. Naturally, given that she's only been a giantess for all of a day and a half (and that's only because a meteor full of Quantonium fell on her just minutes before she was going to be married), she's incredibly upset at this and begs General Warmonger to let her go home.
• In Pinocchio, the fun at Pleasure Island is cut short when the boys are transformed into donkeys, doomed to be sold off to salt mines. While the newly transformed kids are being caged up by the Coachman's crew, one of the few still capable of human speech can be heard crying that he wants to go home.
• In When the New Year Trees Light Up, Vanya's stage fright (he and his sister are to perform a song at the kindergarten's New Year celebration) gets the better of him at one point, and he tearfully says he won't sing and wants to go home. He even tries to do it, getting as far as putting on his coat and going outside, before managing to pull himself together.

Films — Live-Action

• Avatar: The Way of Water: Neteyam's 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).
• Buried: When talking to the Iraqi insurgents who have buried him alive for the first time, Paul pleads for them to let him go home. They don't listen.
• The Disappearance of Alice Creed: Having been kidnapped and held for ransom, Alice repeatedly pleads to go home — specifically, when she's talking to her father on the phone, and when Vic catches her after she fires the gun.
• In First Blood, Rambo vividly recalls an incident in which a friend of his ended up getting blown in half by a Vietcong bomber while on leave in Saigon; the friend survived the initial explosion, and while Rambo was struggling to help gather up what was left of him, the man could only scream "I wanna go home!"
• Forrest Gump: During the Vietnam War segment, Bubba is fatally wounded in a surprise attack and weakly tells Forrest that he wants to go home, although he's a bit quieter about it than most examples.
• It: Chapter Two: Eddie repeatedly cries that he wants to go home while being tormented by IT's various manifestations. He's also the only one of the adult Losers to not make it back home, dying in IT's lair during the final confrontation.
• In The Karate Kid (1984), after being attacked one too many times by Johnny's gang, a fed-up Daniel flings his bicycle in the dumpster and shouts at his mother, "I hate this place! I HATE IT! I just want to go home. Why can't we just go home?"
• In The Mighty Ducks, Coach Bombay needs to get Goldberg to stop being afraid of the puck if he's to be the team's goalie. How he does this is tying Goldberg's limbs to the frame of the goal, then have the rest of the team fire hundreds of pucks at him all at once. Initially Goldberg is complaining, then pleading with Bombay to let him out; when the pucks start firing he initially continues screaming murder, including a brief "I wanna go home!", before he starts laughing as he realizes that now that he's got proper goalie equipment on fired pucks don't hurt — Bombay had Invoked a Worf Barrage of pucks to help him get over his fear of the puck.
• The Mother. 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.
• National Lampoon's Vacation: Audrey Griswold begs her parents to go home rather than going to Wally World by car. This is because she was traumatized by the death of Aunt Edna.
• Patton: General Patton drives past several wounded soldiers, one of whom has his head bandaged, his arm in a sling, and keeps muttering "Home. Please take me home."
• In the finale of Pulp Fiction, Ringo and Yolanda's attempt at sticking up the restaurant goes horribly wrong when two of the customers turn out to be professional hitmen, resulting in a Mexican Standoff. As a result, Yolanda's Ax-Crazy persona breaks down the longer Ringo is held at gunpoint, even when Jules begins taking steps to defuse the situation; when Jules asks her how she's doing, Yolanda whimpers "I wanna go home."
• The Poughkeepsie Tapes: After being rescued, all Cheryl is able to say is "Just take me home." It's not until later we find out she isn't talking about her mother's house but rather the Butcher's basement.
• Ready or Not: While the remaining members of the le Domas family are exploding around her due to not sacrificing Grace in time, Charity screams that she wants to go home, in stark contrast to her earlier remark that she'd rather die than live without the family's money.
• Resident Evil: Afterlife: Right before Albert Wesker kills him, Bennett Sinclair says, "Oh God, I just want to go home."
• Rocky V picks up minutes after Rocky's improbable victory in the fourth film... and we see him badly hurt in the locker room after the fight, his body trembling uncontrollably due to the beating that he took. In increasingly panicked tones, he tells his wife that he can't do anything to stop the trembling and shaking, and when she suggests seeing a doctor, he repeats over and over how he just wants to go home.
• Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird, after being placed with the Dodo Family by social services, Big Bird pleads to go home (to Sesame Street), to which the Dodos, confused, say that he is home.
• Early in The Shawshank Redemption, the seasoned convicts "go fishing" for new arrivals, placing bets on which one of the "new fish" will break down crying over their first night in prison. Heywood eventually manages to badger the man next door to him into a breakdown, prompting the poor guy to start screaming that he wants to go home; before long, he's crying for his mother as well. The breakdown ends with Captain Hadley storming onto the cellblock, dragging the man out of his cell, and delivering a fatal beating.
• In the film adaptation of The Silence of the Lambs, one of the things Catherine says to Buffalo Bill while trapped in his well is "I want to go home, please" — understandable, since he wants to turn her into a skin suit.
• Spring Breakers: After Al bails them out of prison, Faith breaks down crying and says she wants to go home. The other girls try to convince her that she can't, but this is Foreshadowing for the fact that Faith does leave and is in fact the first to do so.
• Fidget of Time Bandits is known for being a bit on the anxious side and just as dubious of Randall's leadership as the rest of the bandits. As such, when they all end up stranded in the middle of the Atlantic following the sinking of the Titanic with no hope of rescue, he makes his displeasure known immediately.
  "I WANNA GO HOME! YOU'LL GET US ALL KILLED, RANDALL!"
• In the film adaptation of Timeline, Sir William De Kere is eventually revealed to be William Decker, a former ITC employee stranded in The Hundred Years War and unable to return to the present due to transcription errors, an experience that's left him understandably bitter. As such, after being fatally wounded in a swordfight with Marek in the climax, he spends the last few seconds of his life deliriously begging to be taken home.
• Trick 'r Treat: In the "Halloween School Bus Massacre" vignette, one of the kids wearing a vampire costume becomes scared when the school bus driver restrains him and the other special needs kids and plans to drive over a quarry, he breaks out of his restraints and cries "wanna go home".
• In Zack Snyder's Justice League, Steppenwolf all but begs to be allowed to return home, having reached the limit of his endurance after conquering a hundred thousand worlds as penance for betraying Darkseid; however, as this is only two-thirds of the original penance agreed upon, Desaad coldly turns him down.

Literature

• Animorphs: When captured by Taylor in The Illusion, Tobias undergoes severe torture and at one point thought-whispers <I just want to go home!> and either lets Taylor hear or hallucinates her responding to him.
• In The Book of Lost Things, David ends up enduring a lot in the increasingly bleak Magic Land, especially given that he's a child pitted against some very adult Dark Fantasy tropes, and actually manages to score a few hard-won victories through guile and cunning. However, when the Crooked Man drags him underground, plants a seed of mistrust regarding his companion Roland, and taunts David with the fear that his father will be happier without him, David reaches the end of his tether; when he finally returns to the surface, he's in tears and crying that he wants to go home.
• Daenerys "Dany" Targaryen's first chapter in A Game of Thrones features her about to be married to Khal Drogo in exchange for military support to her brother's attempt to reclaim the throne of Westeros. Given that she hasn't even turned fourteen yet, Dany is understandably anxious, at one point panicking and blurting out that she wants to go home. Viserys' response doesn't help much, especially given that he just thinks she's talking about Westeros, not knowing that the nearest thing to home that Dany's ever had was the house with the red door.
• In the second Mary Poppins 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.
• In How the Little Ant Rushed Home by Vitaly Bianki, the eponymous little ant accidentally gets stranded far away from home (he sits on a leaf which gets blown away) and injures his legs. The rest of the story is him desperately pleading to all the insects and spiders he meets to take him home. Besides the fact that he's extremely distressed and his legs hurt, he needs to get there quickly because it's already late afternoon and the ants shut all the entrances to the anthill at sunset.
• In The Light Fantastic, when Rincewind recovers from his vision of the Great Spells telling him he has to save the Disc, he tells Twoflower "I want the feel of honest cobbles under my feet, I want the old familiar smell of cesspits, I want to go where there's lots of people and fires and roofs and walls and friendly things like that! I want to go home!" Much to his surprise, Twoflower agrees.

Live-Action TV

• In the Criminal Minds episode "Submerged", a disturbed young man has been murdering people by binding them, tying cinderblocks to them, and submerging them in bodies of water. At one point, he makes friends with a young boy by the name of Timmy, who unfortunately buys into the psychopath's pirate fantasy; this leads to the poor kid being bound and gagged as well, awaiting his turn to be the killer's next victim, during which he manages a muffled "I want to go home!"
• In the Doom Patrol (2019) pilot, a field trip for the team goes disastrously wrong when Rita Farr becomes too upset to control her powers and melts into an even bigger Blob Monster than usual, resulting in considerable property damage as the blob oozes heedlessly through town. In the end, Cliff is able to pacify Rita by ripping up a huge chunk of the road and using it as an improvised riot shield, allowing her to harmlessly pour herself against it until she finally runs out of energy and comes to her senses, whereupon she weakly mumbles that she wants to go home.
• Demonstrated by (of all people) Grigori Rasputin in The Last Czars. Having barely survived one assassination attempt and only escaped another by sheer dumb luck, his usual serene demeanor is beginning to crack under the strain; so, on the night of his murder, the Mad Monk proceeds to get absolutely hammered until he drunkenly confesses to Yusupov that he wants to go home to his village in Siberia. However, thanks to everything he's said and done to get this far, he can't — the royal family is now critically dependent on his presence, and the Tsarevich might die without him.
• Squid Game:
  • In "Gganbu", the elderly Player 001 appears to lapse into dementia-induced delusions as the fourth game begins, believing that the event's arena is actually his old neighborhood. With only half an hour to complete the game and avoid being eliminated from the contest, Player 001 can only wander the streets in a daze, at one point mumbling confusedly that he wants to go home. It turns out that he's faking his dementia, however, and is trying to string out the game as long as possible; in the end, Player 001 forfeits the game so that Gi-hun can live.
  • In "Front Man", Kang Sae-byok begins to falter just prior to the start of the sixth and final game, having caught a shard of glass to the stomach at the end of the previous contest and slowly dying of blood loss as a result; barely conscious, she wearily tells Gi-hun "if it's okay, mister, I'd like to go home now".
• The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Die Is Cast" features Garak being given the duty of interrogating Odo in order to prove his loyalty to the Obsidian Order. Apparently, Odo has one final secret that he hasn't shared even with his comrades on Deep Space 9, and Garak resorts to torturing him with an anti-Changeling Power Nullifier to learn the truth, resulting in the unfortunate victim deteriorating to the brink of a Death by Depower. The interrogation ends with Odo screaming that he wants to go home. He's not talking about Deep Space 9, though: he wants to return to the Great Link and be among his fellow Changelings; even though he turned his back on the Founders, he still wants to go home... and this is his final secret. Garak ashamedly switches off the machine and ends the interrogation.
• The Twilight Zone (1959): In the episode "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. 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.
  Benteen: Don't leave me here! Don't leave me here! Please... I... I want to go home.
• The Umbrella Academy (2019):
  • While still alive, Ben Hargreeves (a.k.a. Number Six) was extremely reluctant to use his powers in combat; during a flashback sequence to their early adolescence, his siblings pressure him into using his powers to clear out a roomful of bank robbers, which he does with nightmarish ease. Young Ben emerges covered in blood, looking as if he's seen a few things that he'd rather forget, and very quietly asks if they can go home.
  • In the episode "Man on the Moon", another flashback reveals that Sir Reginald Hargreeves was in the habit of locking young Klaus (a.k.a. Number Four) in a mausoleum to get him to master his powers and unlock his true potential. After being menaced by ghosts for hours on end, Klaus is at his wit's end, and when Sir Reginald arrives to check up on him, the kid can only plead to be allowed to go home.

Music

• The Sloop John B (also known as I Wanna Go Home) is an old folk song from the Bahamas made famous in the 1960s by groups such as The Kingston Trio and The Beach Boys. The story has the narrator and his grandpa sailing on the sloop but running into bad weather, drunken fights, and jail. Pertinent lyrics include:
  This is the worst day since I was born,
  Lord, I want to go home,
  Please let me go home,
  I want to go home,
  Why won't you let me go home?!
• In "Stop", from The Wall, Pink suddenly regains lucidity right in the middle of his plunge into Neo-Nazism and realizes he's got serious problems. He plaintively expresses a desire to just go home, "take off this uniform and leave the show", but quickly realizes that he's in too deep - eventually segueing into "The Trial."
• "Go Home" by Angel Olsen is this trope distilled in song form.
  I wanna go home
  Go back to small things
  I don't belong here
  Nobody knows me

Theatre

• 1776: In the song "Mama, Look Sharp", a wounded soldier calls for his mother to bring him home so he can die of his injuries there.
• In The Twelve Months, the Queen, who started as a major Royal Brat, gets stranded in the winter forest and deserted by most of her courtiers. When January offers to grant any wish of hers, she only begs him to let her get back to the palace.
• 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.
• In The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals, 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!

Video Games

• In BioShock 2, the newest generation of Little Sisters have been abducted from the surface and brainwashed into cheerily gathering ADAM from corpses just like their predecessors. However, every so often, the programming very briefly breaks down, resulting in the kids briefly panicking as the awful reality of where they are and what they're doing becomes apparent. As a result, when they're not being their usual creepy selves, some of the Little Sisters you escort throughout the game can occasionally be heard crying that they want to go home.
• In the climax of Control, Jesse Faden is infected by the Hiss following the destruction of Polaris, trapping her inside a dreamworld where she's just a powerless low-level employee at a mundane government department and forced to perform endless office work minigames, all while her few remaining allies struggle to contact her through the illusion. Assailed by nightmarish visions, Jesse's calm veneer cracks and she begins tearfully begging to be woken up or allowed to go home.
• Creep TV: The third question the host of The Ghostly Quiz Show asks Courage is, "Do you want to go home now?" and the correct answer is "yes."
• Devil Survivor: Unlike all the other characters in the game who are trying to solve the problems and mysteries of the Lockdown, all Yuzu wants is to get out of Central Tokyo — understandable, given the lack of basic necessities, the marauding demons and the clock telling everyone of their impending deaths. As such, she repeatedly pleads with the protagonist that she wants to go home and insists that escaping the Lockdown is their best solution. However, if you follow her plans instead of those of other characters, her ending is arguably the worst in the game.
• The City Elf origin story of Dragon Age: Origins kicks into gear when Bann Vaughan gatecrashes your wedding in order to kidnap several elvish women (including the bride) for a "party". Regardless of whether you're playing the bride or the groom, you end up killing your way through the Arl's mansion in the hopes of rescuing the women, and at the end, you find your cousin Shianni cornered by Vaughan; she's already been raped, and it's heavily implied that the Bann's friends took turns. While Vaughan tries to bribe his way out, Shianni is in tears and begging to be taken home.
• Grey Area (2023): 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...
• 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
• Mass Effect 2:
  • During Jacob's loyalty mission, you stumble upon the surviving crewmembers of the crashed MSV Hugo Gernsback, most of whom have undergone neural decay as a result of eating the local food. None of them are in a good place mentally after eight years spent on Aeia, and the first one you talk to can be heard shrieking that she just wants to go home. It turns out that Jacob's father — having sole access to the ship's original stock of rations — refused to launch the distress beacon; instead, he kept his brain-damaged subordinates trapped on the planet for eight years while he posed as a god to them, treating the female crewmembers as his personal harem.
  • In the mission to recruit Thane at Dantius Towers, you happen upon a group of Salarian night workers who were forced to hide when Nassana Dantius tried to have them killed by her Eclipse mercenaries in a fit of paranoia. They're understandably jumpy, and one of them is so panicked that he actually holds you at gunpoint; you can either punch his lights out or talk him down (whereupon he faints). Either way, as he's being helped to his feet, he weakly asks "can we go home now?"
• Nickelodeon Clickamajigs: Played for Laughs in "Bad Haircut". The entire game is spent subjecting a boy to have awful haircuts, with him sobbing at each one. You can either have the barber "fix it" by moving onto the next haircut or exit the game. The exit scene is him whining and sobbing and declaring that he wants to go home, leading to the barber finally giving him a good cut... with a "Kick Me" sign on the back of his head.
• Dummied Out lines from Portal 2 features the childlike Space Core belatedly regretting its wish to go to space during the epilogue of the game, which sees it accidentally catapulted through a portal leading to the Moon, ultimately leaving it stuck orbiting Wheatley in deep space for all eternity. Most of these lines consist of the Space Core repeatedly muttering "wanna go home."
• During your visit to Castle Dimitrescu in Resident Evil Village, you can find a diary left behind by one of the maids; as the abuse of her fellow servants stacks up and the place becomes progressively more disturbing, the terror-stricken maid writes that she wants to go home. Her final entry features her making a serious mistake in front of Lady Dimistrescu's daughters, so it's likely that she was taken downstairs to the Torture Cellar for experimentation.
• In Issue 9 of The Secret World, you're eventually sent to explore the abandoned Fear Nothing Foundation headquarters; here, the mission "Dear Diary" allows you to recover journal entries from a girl named Sabrina, charting her loss of sanity as the Foundation's psychological conditioning takes a toll. In the second-last entry, she's reduced to blind panic and pleading to go home. In the very last entry, she's fully converted and gearing up for a mass suicide with the rest of the Foundation; by the time you arrive, she's already dead.
• While exploring the Upsilon shuttle station in SOMA, Simon stumbles upon Amy Azzarro, trapped in the building after being critically injured in an accident; since then, the WAU has connected her to a set of artificial lungs to keep her alive, unfortunately leaving her paralyzed and alone for the foreseeable future. Because this life support system is connected to local power, Simon has to partially or completely unplug the lungs in order to get the transport working again, resulting in Amy groaning in pain as the first plug is removed, whimpering "I wanna go home."
• Pom from Them's Fightin' Herds, who doesn't want to be a fighter or an adventurer in the first place, will whine either "I wanna go home!" or "I don't wanna be here!" when picked on the selection screen.
• In the Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines quest "More Fun With Pestilence," you can find a teenage junkie trapped in the Plaguebearer cult's headquarters; though she's evidently a member of the cult, it soon becomes apparent that she's starting to have doubts after everything she's witnessed, and the longer you talk to her, the more terrified she becomes. By the end, she's in tears, admitting that she just wants to go home.
• XCOM: Enemy Unknown: If a soldier loses their cool and Panics, they instinctively do a randomized action entirely out of your control (from hunkering in place to randomly firing at a nearby target), accompanied by a desperate cry out for anyone to get them the hell out of the battlefield and go home.

Web Videos

• A SpingeBill Spooky Scary Halloween, Squidward begins cracking up as his inability to escape Davy Jones' Locker becomes impossible to ignore, to the point that he's reduced to repeatedly screaming that he just wants to go home.

Western Animation

• Arthur: In "Muffy Goes Metropolitan", Muffy had quite enough of her visit in Crown City, thinking that things didn't go as she expected. She begins to rant about the things that happened to her. Muffy's rant ends with her wanting to go home.
• In the Chowder episode "Sniffleball", Chowder (being forced to play the game) tearfully says that he just wants to go home since he hates the experience for a variety of reasons. He spends the rest of the episode determined to get to home (base) so he can finish and finally go home (to the catering company).
• HBO Storybook Musicals: In the adaptation of Peter Rabbit, Peter sadly says to himself, "I wanna go home..." when he's trapped inside Mr. McGregor's garden, and this leads to him singing "So Near and Yet So Far", which is all about how he just wants to go back to his house beyond the farm's gate.
• SpongeBob SquarePants
  • In "SB-129", Squidward, after spending the whole episode time traveling and ending up in a white void, proceeds to Go Mad from the Isolation. He ends up back in the time machine and bangs on the controls while repeatedly begging to go home.
  • Patrick twice says "I wanna go home!" in "Rock Bottom" after he finds Rock Bottom to be too weird for him.
  • Patrick again in "Hall Monitor" after the police tell him about the "Open Window Maniac".

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