History Main / HomelessHero

* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'''s Rorschach lives in squalor and has poor personal hygiene.

* While they don't have an supernatural powers, Sherlock's homeless network in ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' certainly qualify. They provide information about happenings across London that the FBI would envy.

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* In the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' fic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/31564853 A Little Red and Blue]]'', Sharon is inadvertently sent to the year 1944. Lacking time period appropriate currency, she's unable to get basic necessities for herself such as clothing, food, and shelter. She is later found by the past Steve and Bucky who are more than willing to pay for her; Bucky's aunt Agatha who insists on paying Sharon for protecting her from getting mugged and helping around her apartment building, but Sharon is unwilling to accept any money from them unless she absolutely has to. It's mentioned that Sharon took temporary residence in an empty apartment unit, [[CrazyPrepared even timing her showers at the same moment of her unknowing neighbor so that nobody notices that she is currently occupying the room]].

* In the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' fic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/31564853 A Little Red and Blue]]'', Sharon is inadvertently sent to the year 1944. Lacking time period appropriate currency, she's unable to get basic necessities for herself such as clothing, food, and shelter. She is later found by the past Steve and Bucky who are more than willing to help her; there's also Bucky's aunt Agatha who insists on paying Sharon for helping her, but Sharon is unwilling to accept any money from them unless she absolutely has to.

* Pictured above is D-Man [[note]](Also known as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demolition_Man_(comics) Demolition Man]])[[/note]] of the MarvelUniverse (once sidekick to ComicBook/CaptainAmerica) was homeless due to a mental illness. Last time he was seen, he was getting treatment.

* On ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', Ryōga may as well be one of these. Yes, he has a real house, but he's almost never there. In fact, the entire family is equally [[NoSenseOfDirection prone to being lost]], so the house really only exists as a wayside stop. Most days he simply camps out, or sleeps in Akane's bed as her pet pig.

* Fuka Reventon of ''Anime/VividStrike''. Unlike previous, fairly well-off protagonists of the ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' franchise, she's a poor orphan who had not been adopted, and thus has to work odd jobs just to have a place to live in. Unfortunately, she has difficulty keeping any job for long [[{{Delinquents}} due to all the trouble she causes]], and could no longer stay at her orphanage due to the same problem. Nove was able to convince her to work at her gym when she mentions that she'd have free food and lodging.

* ''Animation/{{Lamput}}'' has the title character. Being a creature that EscapedFromTheLab and forced to be constantly on the move, has no real location to call his home. He sleeps on rooftops and tries to find shelter wherever he can, even if that place happens to be the Docs' residence.

* ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'' has to move pretty frequently among the safehouses he's established around the area. They are often abandoned buildings, storage units, or even little used access areas of the [[SinisterSubway New York Subway]]. Notably, Frank Castle technically still has a house, but it's not been 'home' to him ever since the murder of his family. He deliberately stays there as little as possible and when he does, he can't even sleep in his own bed--it reminds him too much of his wife.

* [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]] once hit rock-bottom, lost everything, and wound up a homeless alcoholic. But he also gave up being Iron Man for the time.

* In ''Fanfic/AmazingFantasy'', Peter is homeless after being forcibly transported to Izuku's universe. He initially has to live out of an abandoned construction site, but moves to an abandoned amusement park on the outskirts of Musutafu after being ambushed by the Prowler.

* In ''WebVideo/RWBYAbridged'', fourteen year old Ruby Rose accidentally lets it slip to her older sister Yang, that she has been living on the streets of a crime-ridden "CityOfAdventure", where she routinely has to fight off dangerous criminals to survive with no real source of income. Yang is understandably concerned.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}''. Naturally, the title hero shamelessly steals to live, but shares his bread with neighborhood children if compelled.

* ''Film/{{Merantau}}'' is named for a practice among the Minangkabou people of West Sumatra, where young men will leave their hometown to pursue his fortune further afield, since inheritance in that culture is largely matriarchal. The main character of the movie, Yuda (Creator/IkoUwais), is on such a journey in Jakarta, where he sleeps at an empty construction site, and hoping to become a martial arts instructor, but he gets forced into vigilantism to bring down a human trafficking ring.

* In ''Film/{{Stuck}}'' the main protagonist Tom Bardo is a homeless man who gets hit by a car and trapped in the driver's garage, since the driver has decided to let him bleed out so she won't have to face the consequences of running him over.

* Tofu from ''Literature/SuperMinion'' starts out this way. As an escaped [[BioweaponBeast superweapon]], he doesn't have family, a home, or a financial history. He actually resists Sandra's attempts to convince him to rent an apartment, because he could buy dozens of burgers for the money it would cost. He changes his mind when he learns that a home would allow him to cook and make food for himself for a fraction the cost.

** Earl and Randy had been briefly homeless before Earl's AccidentalMarriage to Joy, because their father got fed up with them and kicked them out of the house.

* After the prologue and release from imprisonment in ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'', Ichiban has no home to go back to due to being in prison for eighteen long years. Although he doesn't have much time to process that thanks to Adachi picking him up and telling him what he missed. However his state of homelessness really settles in when he wakes up in a garbage bin and ends up having to live among a small commune of homeless people (one of them being Nanba, a ex-nurse hobo who becomes one of Ichiban's closest allies and playable characters). However with some luck and determination he steadily moves out of it as the game and plot progresses.

* The Gaang from ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' fit this trope to an extent, while Katara, Sokka, Toph and Zuko have homes to go too. They choose to travel as nomads with Aang to put a stop to the Fire Nation. Aang on the other hand has his former home turned into abandoned ruins thanks to the Fire Nation's purge of Airbenders. They all fly from place to place on Appa, setting up tents or sleeping in homes offered to them.

* Parodied on ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'', with "The Surprising Adventures of Sir Digby Chicken Caesar". Although Digby in his narration claims to be a dashing GentlemanAdventurer going on missions for the for the government and fighting a never-ending battle against his unknown nemesis, "Some Bastard Who's Presumably Responsible," he and his sidekick, Ginger, are in fact [[CrazyHomelessPeople deluded, drug-addled hobos]], and their "adventures" are merely them committing acts of petty theft of money and alcohol and occasionally beating and robbing random people.

There is the hero that [[TheDrifter drifts from place to place]] helping people as he [[WalkingTheEarth walks the earth]]. Then there are these heroes: ones that stay in the same place, but are so down on their luck that they live in squalor or, worse, have no place to live at all. They squat for the night in an [[AbandonedWarehouse abandoned building]] and keep warm with scrap wood burning in a TrashcanBonfire.