History Main / HomeSweetHome

* In 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 PoulAnderson's "Gypsy", the reason they stopped looking for Earth was that they would rather settle on Harbor and make it their home.

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* In PreCrisis continuity, [[{{Superman}} 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.

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* In ''{{Peanuts}}'', Charlie Brown doesn't like to go to camp and is glad to be back. (Lucy asks if he's been away when he mentions it.)

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* ''Film/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.]]

** [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3645 Squigley's "vagabond spirit" does not keep him from wanting to stay home and watch his shows.]]
** [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4252 Enlightened Illuminati drones desire this.]]
** [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3008 Slick discovers a complication in regarding home as safe from commercialism.]]

* Alanna goes home after getting the [[McGuffin Dominion Jewel]] in ''[[TortallUniverse Lioness Rampant]]'' because the realm needs her.

* ''TheIncredibles'': Helen is perfectly happy in her home life.

* At the end of the Frieze story arc in ''{{Dragon Ball}}'', the final scene gives the feeling of being home after a dangerous and grand adventure with us seeing Gohan and his family settling back into a normal routine as they wait for Goku to return. The original music from the Funimation dub was even called 'Home Sweet Home'.

* At the end of the Frieze story arc, the final scene gives the feeling of being home after a dangerous and grand adventure with us seeing Gohan and his family settling back into a normal routine as they wait for Goku to return. The original music from the Funimation dub was even called 'Home Sweet Home'.

* At the end of the Kyoto Arc in ''Rurouni Kenshin'', Kaoru holds her hand out to Kenshin and tells him, [[HeartWarmingMoment "Welcome home". To which Kenshin smiles and says to himself, "I am home, yes I am".]]

* At the end of the Kyoto Arc in Rurouni Kenshin, Kaoru holds her hand out to Kenshin and tells him, [[HeartWarmingMoment "Welcome home". To which Kenshin smiles and says to himself, "I am home, yes I am".]]

* At the end of the Kyoto Arc in Rurouni Kenshin, Kaoru holds her hand out to Kenshin and tells him, [[HeartWarmingMoment "Welcome home". To which Kenshin smiles and says to himself, "I am home, yes I am".]] ]]

** In ''{{Neverwhere}}'', Richard's primary ambition.
* On returning from his trip through ''ThePhantomTollbooth'', Milo's first impulse is to avert this trope and go back the next day. But once he takes another look at his own world -- and all the things that'd previously bored him, yet now seem more interesting -- he stops being disappointed that the Tollbooth has vanished.
* In Kenneth Grahame's ''TheWindInTheWillows'', when Mole and Rat are out at Christmas time, Mole realizes they are near his home, and feels a primordial instinct to return.

** Also used in ''TheLordOfTheRings'', possibly as a ContinuityNod. When Sam returns home after [[spoiler:Frodo leaves to sail to the West]], he says (perhaps bittersweetly) "Well, I'm back."

-->''No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home.''\
** Subverted big time in later books. [[StrangerInAFamiliarLand Dorothy]] eventually [[IChooseToStay moves to Oz full time]], becoming a princess. Em and Henry are set up with a little patch of land in Munchkin Country.

* Franchise/{{Barbie}} had a marketing campaign in 2013 in which Barbie considered selling her Malibu Dreamhouse and move to another city. After traveling across the world, Barbie ultimately moved back to Malibu and had her Dreamhouse remodeled.

* Franchise/{{Barbie}} had a marketing campaign in 2013 in which Barbie decided to sell her Malibu Dreamhouse and move to another city. After traveling across North America, Barbie ultimately moved back to Malibu and got a new Dreamhouse.

* ''WebVideo/TheAutobiographyOfJaneEyre'': In episode 1, Jane enthusiastically plans a big change in her life and wants to experience sensational adventures, which results in applying for a new job rather spontaneously. This is in stark contrast to episode 9 when Jane longs for calm and she wants to go home really badly... except she's an orphan with only abusive step-aunt, and poor Jane doesn't really have any place she could consider her home.

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Maybe, despite your RefusalOfTheCall, you got dragged in, but you have always longed for escape; maybe you JumpedAtTheCall and are now older and wiser; maybe you did love being InHarmsWay, but it's gotten old now, or you've [[PowerOfLove fallen in love]], or your cynicism has been overcome by the CloseKnitCommunity. It's time for the HappyEnding: to go, and stay, home. Nice, peaceful, safe home. And do all sorts of quiet things. Maybe [[HappilyEverAfter settle down]] with the LoveInterest and indulge in BabiesEverAfter, or just [[CallToAgriculture grow some flowers]]. Definitely stop all this dangerous adventuring stuff. Any attempt at AndTheAdventureContinues will be rebuffed with WeAreNotGoingThroughThatAgain.

** 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. HomeSweetHome never looked more tragic.

** In ''Literature/DreadCompanion'', Kosgro insists they can't get any old CoolGate; they must get their own, that will return them to their own space and time.

* In ''{{Strays}}'', [[http://www.straysonline.com/2012/01/page-202/ Meela tries to make her brother let them go back.]]