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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.]]

* In the end of ''{{Manga/Hellsing}}'' [[spoiler: Alucard returns home to Integra after 30 years of fighting his army of souls, [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments "Welcome back, Count." "I'm home, Countess."]] ]]

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

* TheFilmOfTheBook ''Film/TheTimeMachine'': the protagonist lost his wife in the 1880s, but he gets another one and stays in circa. the 200th century instead.

* ''Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter'' has Rock retiring from advertising and settling down with his family on a chicken farm.

* The [[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/4youthfear.html Boy Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was]] stops when he marries the princess, even though he has not learned it. (She is annoyed by his muttering about it, though, and throws a bucket of cold water with minnows over him while he sleeps -- thus managing what all the characters have failed to do, teach him what fear was.)
* In "Literature/TsarevitchIvanTheFireBirdAndTheGrayWolf", Ivan set out on TheQuest for his father, and once accomplished, settles down.

* ''Film/OurMissBrooks'': The [[TheMovie cinematic]] [[SeriesFinale series finale]] sees Miss Brooks finally marry Mr. Boynton and move into the house across the street from Mrs. Davis'.

* ''Film/{{Willow}}'': he returns with a book of magic, but he settled back down to study at 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.

* In ''Literature/{{Neverwhere}}'', Richard's primary ambition.

* 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/PoulAnderson's "Gypsy", the reason they stopped looking for Earth was that they would rather settle on Harbor and make it their home.
* At the end of [[Literature/TheHungerGames Mockingjay]] Katniss, Peeta and Haymitch return to the Victors' Village in District 12 and settle in to live their lives as normally as possible.

** In "Day of the Doctor," After [[spoiler: saving Gallifrey with all of his incarnations]], he seems to realize this was his destination all along:

May end in StrangerInAFamiliarLand, deflating hopes; this can result in his searching for a new home, his [[IChooseToStay realizing that his new home]] is where his [[PowerOfLove new love]] and [[PowerOfFriendship new friends]] are, or his deciding that after all, he loves InHarmsWay.

** In ''The Prince Commands'', 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 ''The Beast Master'', Hosteen Storm nearly goes insane after the destruction of Terra; he channels it into a desire for {{Revenge}}, and [[spoiler:in the end, discovers that he had [[ThickerThanWater still living relatives]] on another planet where he could make his new home]].

** In ''Literature/{{Catseye}}'', after Troy forms a group of TrueCompanions with enhanced animals, they stay in the wild in hopes of finding a refuge.

** In ''Catseye'', after Troy forms a group of TrueCompanions with enhanced animals, they stay in the wild in hopes of finding a refuge.
** Simon Tregarth, having taken a CoolGate to another world, finds it more suited to him. He makes friends and fights for it; at the end of ''Literature/WitchWorld'', he and the witch had fallen in love and marry. Although they had further adventures, being dragged into them, at the end of ''Sorceress of Witch World'', they go to return home and settle down in peace.
** In the first novella of ''Garan the Eternal'', after some initial understandings the male protagonist settles down with the titular "People of the Crater".
** In ''Gryphon's Eyrie'', the protagonists have been WalkingTheEarth since their respective childhood homes were destroyed. They find a new permanent home and settle in by the end of the story.

** ''[[Literature/BardicVoices The Lark and the Wren]]'': Ends on this note once the Free Bard protagonists gain a permanent position as court bards while the BetaCouple acquire a well-fitted out wagon to let them continue their wanderings in comfort.

* At the end of ''[[{{Literature/TheBelgariad}} The Mallorean]]'', 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.

* Ellen Emerson White's ''EchoCompanySeries'' and its stand-alone conclusion ''The Road Home'' features a group of young soldiers and an Army nurse during the Vietnam War, all of whom spend their tours desperately longing to return home. When they finally do, most are deeply affected by physical and emotional damage, and so they are unable to settle back into their old lives.

** Simon Tregarth, having taken a CoolGate to another world, finds it more suited to him. He makes friends and fights for it; at the end of ''WitchWorld'', he and the witch had fallen in love and marry. Although they had further adventures, being dragged into them, at the end of ''Sorceress of Witch World'', they go to return home and settle down in peace.

* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'' The [[TheMovie cinematic]] [[SeriesFinale series finale]] sees Miss Brooks finally marry Mr. Boynton and move into the house across the street from Mrs. Davis'.

* Featured in the end of the manga version of ''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.]]
* In the end of ''{{Hellsing}}'' [[spoiler: Alucard returns home to Integra after 30 years of fighting his army of souls, [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments "Welcome back, Count." "I'm home, Countess."]] ]]

* At the end of the Frieza 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'.
* The last episode of ''FullmetalAlchemistBrotherhood'' has Edward and Alphonse [[spoiler: returning home to the Rockbells, and Edward proposing to Winry. Somewhat {{Subverted}} in that they depart again to learn more about alchemy, but it's later shown that both do return and have BabiesEverAfter with their respective love interests.]]

* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': In PreCrisis 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.

* TheFilmOfTheBook ''TheTimeMachine'': the protagonist lost his wife in the 1880s, but he gets another one and stays in circa. the 200th century instead.

* AndreNorton often features this. Usually, the original location was not a good fit in some manner, so they must find a new home, but that is what they are after.

* At the end of ''[[{{Belgariad}} The Mallorean]]'', 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.

* In JohnCWright's ''[[Literature/ChroniclesOfChaos Fugitives of Chaos]]'', Victor, asked what he wants, says a home, wife, children.
* In Creator/RobertEHoward's "Literature/AWitchShallBeBorn", 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".

* All the characters of ''Series/{{MASH}}'' go home in the final episode, "Goodbye, Farewell, Amen".

* At the end of every Shakespearean comedy, "marry and settle down" hits any number of couples. Particularly at the end of ''AsYouLikeIt'' where everyone heads back to court.

* The SuperFamicom RPG ''Traverse: Starlight & Prairie'' has a "Marriage" option in the game's main menu, which you can use at any time to hook up the protagonist with any sufficiently intimate party member. Using it results in a short cutscene at the chapel and a NonStandardGameOver.

* In Creator/JohnHemry's 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.

* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'' [[spoiler: has an endgame of finding "home"; eventually, the characters do arrive at Earth, and, despite some losses, are generally assumed to live happily ever after, etc. etc.]]

* In JackCampbell's 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.

* Both Renton & Eureka ended up back in their homeland Warsaw in the EurekaSeven movie ending, too bad the latter won't recall anything about it.

* In the end of ''{{Hellsing}}'' [[spoiler: Alucard returns home to Integra after 30 years of fighting his army of souls, [[HeartwarmingMoments "Welcome back Count" "I'm Home Countess"]] ]]

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

* In the end of ''{{Hellsing}}'' [[spoiler: Alucard returns home to Integra after 30 years of fighting his army of souls, [[HeartWarmingMoment "Welcome back Count" "I'm Home Countess"]] ]]

* 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".]]

* ''QuentynQuinnSpaceRanger'' looks forward to this -- some day, when he's retired. YouCantGoHomeAgain is the price he pays for the stars, and he likes it.
* ''WapsiSquare'': What Jin is looking forward to: [[http://wapsisquare.com/comic/grow-old-togethe/ Then time will continue, we'll live together, buy a house, grow old and then die!]]
* ''DorkTower'' [[http://www.dorktower.com/2001/03/14/comics-archive-120/ The corrupting effects of Sims!]]

* In ''{{Endstone}}'', [[http://endstone.net/2011/04/25/5-29/ Kyri and Jon settle down after dealing with the Dragonstone]].
* In ''{{Sinfest}}'',

* In ''{{Strays}}'', [[http://www.straysonline.com/2012/01/page-202/ Meela tries to make her brother let them go back.]] [[spoiler:[[http://www.straysonline.com/2013/06/page-277/ Later, that is where she goes for shelter.]]]]

* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': In PreCrisis continuity, [[ClarkKent]] 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.

* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': In PreCrisis 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.

** Only duty keeps Durkon adventuring. He wants to go home so much that he weeps TearsOfJoy when the Oracle tells him he will [[spoiler:posthumously. Later, when dying, his last words are "I get [[FunetikAccent ta]] go home."]]