Those who find that they're happier In Harm's Way in Comic Books.
- Batman: Bruce Wayne almost never retires, when he does its usually because he's too infirm to continue fighting crime, and even then he guarantees he has a replacement and participates in crime-fighting from the back lines. Played with, in that the reason for Batman's drive is less that Victory Is Boring and more that his end goal lies somewhere between the eradication of evil and the resurrection of his dead parents and reclaiming his childhood (without that harming anyone else), which needless to say he's never accomplished.
- Disney Ducks Comic Universe: Scrooge McDuck travelled the world and made money for the thrill of it rather than for the money in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. Later in life, when he stops making money and settles down in Duckburg, he becomes depressed, shutting himself away in his mansion, and it is only the return of Donald and the nephews and their subsequent foiling of a robbery that shakes Scrooge out of his funk, turning him back to a life of adventure.
- At the end of the first Firefly comic, Mal intentionally uses the large money cache the group had found to bribe an Alliance soldier off their backs, sending the crew right back into Perpetual Poverty and preventing himself — and the crew — from being able to peacefully retire.
- The Flash: Former villains Trickster and the Pied Piper joined their old friends the Rogues in an apparent Face–Heel Turn. After the Rogues had murdered Bart Allen (the Flash), they talked revealing that it had been an attempted infiltration and they had both done it to get back to the adventure.
- Green Lantern: Queen Iolande finds politicking absolutely dull and would rather be a full-time Green Lantern. Since she is the only remaining member of the royal family of her homeworld, that really isn't an option.
- Moon from Pocket God takes advantage of her resurrection abilities to put herself in danger for thrills. She persuades Klak into doing dangerous things for her amusement when the source of her resurrection powers is destroyed.
- Each of the three Runaways series ends with the kids being offered some degree of safety and stability in exchange for submitting to adult authority. They always blow it off, even when the consequences are disastrous for them.
- Spider-Man: Peter Parker is most definitely an adrenaline junkie, in addition to being something of a showman since his inception in the wrestling ring. His patter has more energy the more danger he's in. He often goes out to 'clear his head' with the hazardous sport of swinging from skyscrapers.
- The Warlord:
- Travis Morgan passes up the opportunity to settle down peacefully when it is presented to him because he needs to keep traveling and adventuring.
- One of Morgan's friends becomes the ruler of some city-state or other... and is bored. He's delighted when a visit by Morgan coincided with the discovery of a serious plot to overthrow him, saying that he's finally found something that makes the job worthwhile: "Enemies!"
- Wonder Woman Vol 1: The Holliday Girls Bobby Strong and Glamora Treat live for adventure, and will invite themselves along on any expedition that promises some even if those in charge want to bar them from accompanying them. They've even stowed away when they weren't able to get permission.
- X-Men:
- When Storm married Black Panther and became Queen of Wakanda, she could possibly do more good for the planet as a world leader than as a superhero, but finds palace life and politics mind-numbingly boring. As a result, she makes regular trips to California to assist the X-Men.
- Cyclops always comes back to the X-Men, not because being an X-Man is fun, but because it's what he's been doing since he was 14 and he doesn't know how to have a happy, peaceful life. When the rest of the original team left, he stuck around, choosing to stay with a group of strangers rather than move on with the love of his life, because he believed his Power Incontinence meant that he couldn't function in normal society. And, when he married and had a child with the other love of his life, he made a genuine attempt to leave superheroics behind him and settle down with his new family but was unable to adjust to everyday life, which ultimately ended his marriage.
- In Zodiac Starforce, Kim misses everything about the days they fought Cimmeria's forces, but especially the monster fights. Savi is a little nostalgic about it too.
