History Main / GoBackToTheSource

->''[[TropeNamer Go back! To the first room!]] He'll show you... the Source!''\\
--'''[[MadOracle 6]]''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Nine}}''

* In ''ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney'', the final sector, Horologium, is essentially primeval Earth, and the home of the [[spoiler:great mother of all life on the planet]].

* ''LegendOfZelda: TwilightPrincess'': Link has to return the Master Sword to its pedestal in order to gain access to the Temple of Time.
** In ''Ocarina of Time'', the first temple you must visit is the one in the Kokiri Forest, where you start the game.
** In ''Majora's Mask'', whenever you play the Song of Time, you find yourself back at the same place in the center of Clock Town, where your adventure starts. When you get all four of the boss' remains, you must return to that same place (albeit at the top of the tower instead of the base) and summon the giants to stop the moon from falling.

* The film ''WesternAnimation/{{Nine}}'', the TropeNamer, involves 9 needing to go back to the room where he and the other stitchpunks were created in order to stop the Fabrication Machine. The talisman that allowed them to be created is most commonly termed "the Source" by the fanbase, as it did transfer the stitchpunks' souls into their bodies.
** Though in the movie, 6 was implied to actually be referring to the scientist who used the Source to create them...

* At the end of ''HarryPotter/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'', Harry just about invokes this trope outright:

** In the next book, Hermione proposes an actual reason for going there.
*** All is ultimately subverted when [[spoiler:nothing beneficial happens there. They don't find any of the unknown horcruxes, they don't find any information on the Deathly Hallows, Harry is nearly killed by Voldemort's snake, his wand is broken when he's rescued, and he later laments that he didn't even get a chance to kill the snake while he was at it (the snake being a horcrux).]]

* In ''Film/{{Transformers}}'', the All Spark is the artifact which gave the Transformers life, in fact rather similar to the Source talisman in [[Film/{{Nine}} 9]].

--'''[[MadOracle 6]]''', ''Film/{{Nine}}''

* The film ''Film/{{Nine}}'', the TropeNamer, involves 9 needing to go back to the room where he and the other stitchpunks were created in order to stop the Fabrication Machine. The talisman that allowed them to be created is most commonly termed "the Source" by the fanbase, as it did transfer the stitchpunks' souls into their bodies.

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* ''{{Pokemon}}'':
** In Pokemon the First Movie, Mewtwo returns to the island of his creation to build his base.
** In Pokemon 4Ever, Sam and Celebi need to return to the past after Celebi sends them 40 years into the future to escape a Pokemon Hunter.
** In Jirachi Wish Maker, the gang must return Jirachi to Forina so it can absorb the power of the Millennium Comet and sleep for another 1000 years.
** In Pokemon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea, Manaphy must be brought to Samiya, a temple that all Manaphy know how to find despite a cloaking device.
** In The Rise of Darkrai, Ash and Alice must return to the Space-Time Tower to play Oracion to calm the raging Dialga and Palkia.
** In Giratina and the Sky Warrior, after trying to avoid the Reverse World for the majority of the film, the gang must go there in order to stop the BigBad

* ''HarounAndTheSeaOfStories'': Haroun and his friends on the moon of Kahani must go to the place in the Sea of Stories where all the stories originate, in order to stop Khattam-Shud from plugging it and corrupting all the stories with his "anti-stories". This part of the Sea of Stories, the Wellspring, is also appropriately called "the Source".

* In the series finale of ''Series/{{Lost}}'', Desmond - and later, Jack - return to the cave that was first seen in the earliest part of the series timeline. Inside is the source of life, death and rebirth; fans quickly dubbed it "the Source." This is probably directly inspired by ''HarounAndTheSeaOfStories'' (above), [[{{Foreshadowing}}which Desmond was reading while sitting next to Jack on the plane]] in the season premiere. The site also happens to be right next to the bamboo grove where the series's first scene took place.

** In ''Ocarina of Time'', the first temple you must visit is the one in the Korkiri Forest, where you start the game.

* In ''{{Transformers}}'', the All Spark is the artifact which gave the Transformers life, in fact rather similar to the Source talisman in [[Film/{{Nine}} 9]].

* At the end of ''HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'', Harry just about invokes this trope outright:

* In the series finale of ''{{Lost}}'', Desmond - and later, Jack - return to the cave that was first seen in the earliest part of the series timeline. Inside is the source of life, death and rebirth; fans quickly dubbed it "the Source." This is probably directly inspired by ''HarounAndTheSeaOfStories'' (above), [[{{Foreshadowing}}which Desmond was reading while sitting next to Jack on the plane]] in the season premiere. The site also happens to be right next to the bamboo grove where the series's first scene took place.

** ''FinalFantasyI'': The Four Fiends were sealed in the Temple of Chaos. From there, they summoned Garland, transformed him into Chaos, and had him send them into the future to overrun the world. The Light Warriors must then travel back in time to the Temple to prevent this Time Loop.
** ''FinalFantasyIV'': The final dungeon is the Lunar Core, where the Lunarians sleep, and from which [=KluYa=], [[spoiler:Cecil and Golbez' father]], comes from.
** ''FinalFantasyIX'': The party's last voyage is into Memoria, an illusory world created by the memory of the planets Gaia and Terra...and then into the Crystal World, where the wellspring of life itself resides.

* ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Aang and Zuko go to the ruins of the Sun Warrior civilization to learn the original style of firebending, instead of the corrupted modern version.
* ''{{Ben10}}'', the Omnitrix has an artificial planet called Primus that holds the universe's DNA bank, it must return to, on occasion.

* There's a Latin phrase called "ad fontes" that translates to "go back to the source". In the humanities, it is the studying of different writings from different eras and comparing them to not only note any differences but also see how much civilization (philsophy, socially, civilly, it's a broad spectrum) has advanced.

* The end of ''{{Okami}}'' had Amaterasu confront the ultimate darkness at the Ark of Yamato, the vessel from which all monsters arrived from the Celestial Realm.

* {{Pokemon}}:

* In {{Transformers}}, the All Spark is the artifact which gave the Transformers life, in fact rather similar to the Source talisman in [[Film/{{Nine}} 9]].

* In {{Halo 3}}, the humans [[spoiler: and Elites]] must travel to the [[spoiler: Ark, where the titular Halos were constructed, to find the "solution" to the Flood. Turns out, the solution is a brand new MacGuffin it just coughed up.]]

--'''[[MadOracle 6]]''', ''{{Nine}}''

--'''[[MadOracle 6]]''', ''[=~9~=]''

* The film ''{{Nine}}'', the TropeNamer, involves 9 needing to go back to the room where he and the other stitchpunks were created in order to stop the Fabrication Machine. The talisman that allowed them to be created is most commonly termed "the Source" by the fanbase, as it did transfer the stitchpunks' souls into their bodies.

[[AC: Film]]
* The film ''[=~9~=]'', the TropeNamer, involves 9 needing to go back to the room where he and the other stitchpunks were created in order to stop the Fabrication Machine. The talisman that allowed them to be created is most commonly termed "the Source" by the fanbase, as it did transfer the stitchpunks' souls into their bodies.
* ''LordOfTheRings'': Frodo must take the One Ring to its place of creation, Mount Doom in the land of Mordor, in order to destroy it and rid the world of its evil power.
* ''TheMatrix'': "Returning to The Source" were ArcWords about returning to the heart of the Matrix's mainframe, where everything originated and hitting a ResetButton (or something like that).
* Luke Skywalker has to return to Tatooine in ''ReturnOfTheJedi'' to save Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt.

* In the series finale of ''{{Lost}}'', Desmond - and later, Jack - return to the cave that was first seen in the earliest part of the series timeline. This is probably directly inspired by ''HarounAndTheSeaOfStories'' (above), [[{{Foreshadowing}}which Desmond was reading while sitting next to Jack on the plane]] in the season premiere.

* {{Pokemon}} movies love this trope.

** In Giritina and the Sky Warrior, after trying to avoid the Reverse World for the majority of the film, the gang must go there in order to stop the BigBad

* In the fourth {{Pokemon}} film, "Pokemon 4Ever", Sam and Celebi need to return to the past after Celebi sends them 40 years into the future to escape a Pokemon Hunter.

-->''[[TropeNamer Go back! To the first room!]] He'll show you... the Source!''\\
'''[[MadOracle 6]]''', ''[=~9~=]''

* In Transformers, the AllSpark is the artifact which gave the Transformers life, in fact rather similar to the Source talisman in [[Film/{{Nine}} 9]].

* The end of ''Okami'' had Amaterasu confront the ultimate darkness at the Ark of Yamato, the vessel from which all monsters arrived from the Celestial Realm.

* Ben10, the Omnitrix has an artificial planet called Primus that holds the universe's DNA bank, it must return to, on occasion.

Related to NowDoItAgainBackwards (Wanna destroy something? Then go back to where it was created), BookEnds, WhereItAllStarted, and ItWasWithYouAllAlong. Also could be a supertrope to WhereItAllBegan.