History Main / HeroesGoneFishing

* ''{{Lost}}''. I hope you like golf, because it is the only recreational activity on the island.
** This troper would disagree: Hurley's hobby car, er, VW Bus, made for a great distraction.

* Johnathan and Mark go fishing in ''HighwaytoHeaven''. What's supposed to be a vacation for Mark turns into Johnathan the angel playing holy match-maker to a woman and a shy man for some reason.

* An episode of''{{Danny Phantom}}'' has Danny go fishing with his dad for father son bonding, its peacefullness is soon interupted by Skulker. Danny defeats him without his dad even noticing. And they bring home a giant ghost sea creature.
* One episode of ReBoot opened with Bob fishing in the middle of a war game. He even took a nap during that time and wanted someone else deal with the User this time.

* [[{{Pokemon}} "What's that?]] Team [[PokemonRedAndBlue Rocket]]/[[PokemonRubyAndSapphire Magma/Aqua]]/[[PokemonDiamondAndPearl Galactic]]/[[PokemonBlackAndWhite Plasma]] is ploting something evil? [[GottaCatchEmAll I'll get on it after I catch a]][[ThatOneSidequest Feebas]].

* [[{{Pokemon}} "What's that?]] Team [[PokemonRed Rocket]]/[[PokemonRuby Magma]]/[[PokemonSapphire Aqua]]/[[PokemonDiamond Galactic]]/[[PokemonBlack Plasma]] is ploting something evil? [[GottaCatchEmAll I'll get on it after I catch a]][[ThatOneSidequest Feebas]].

* Bumblebee of ''TransformersAnimated'' likes playing videogames with Sari. Rattrap from ''BeastWars'' was once shown playing what looked like a {{Doom}} clone with Waspinators for enemies.

* [[MahouSenseiNegima Evangeline A.K. McDowell]]. Enjoys [[CurbStompBattle Curb Stomping]] ancient immortal demon gods, inflicting TrainingFromHell on her erstwhile students, and [[spoiler:[[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v31/c285/6.html playing retro video games in her birthday suit]]]].

* [[MahouSenseiNegima Evangeline A.K. McDowell]]. Enjoys [[CurbStompBattle Curb Stomping]] ancient immortal demon gods, inflicting TrainingFromHell on her erstwhile students, and [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v31/c285/6.html playing retro video games in her birthday suit]].

** The new series episode "Midnight" in particular starts out like this, with Donna having a nice relaxing day in a chaise longue while the Doctor decides to go on a fun day trip. Of course, this is ''{{Doctor Who}}'', so the episode quickly [[ItGotWorse descends into]] HighOctaneNightmareFuel. But it was nice while it lasted.

** The new series episode "Midnight" starts out like this, with Donna having a nice relaxing day in a chaise longue while the Doctor decides to go on a fun day trip. Of course, this is ''{{Doctor Who}}'', so the episode quickly [[ItGotWorse descends into]] HighOctaneNightmareFuel. But it was nice while it lasted.

** The new series episode "Midnight" starts out like this, with Donna having a nice relaxing day in a chaise longue while the Doctor decides to go on a fun day trip. Of course, this is ''{{Doctor Who]]'', so the episode quickly [[ItGotWorse descends into]] HighOctaneNightmareFuel. But it was nice while it lasted.

* ''StarTrek V'': Kirk, Spock, and Mc Coy go camping together. It doesn't end very well.[[hottip:* :[[TakeThat Nor does the camping trip]].]]

* An episode of ''{{Futurama}}'' has the Planet Express crew go on a fishing trip when the accidentally get a mandatory fishing license.

* GoldenAge ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' stories often began with Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson on vacation where they would invariably stumble across some crime or mystery that needed solving.

* [[MahouSenseiNegima Evangeline A.K. McDowell]]. Enjoys [[CurbStompBattle Curb Stomping]] ancient immortal demon gods, inflicting TrainingFromHell on her erstwhile students, and [[http://www.onemanga.com/Mahou_Sensei_Negima!/285/06/ playing retro video games in her birthday suit]].

--> -- Shamal, MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha [[AudioAdaptation Sound Stage]] M4

* Sound Stage M4 of MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha focuses on Hayate and the rest of the "Yagami Family" taking a day off from their jobs to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Hayate's legs healing.

* There was old FantasticFour story, the one that first introduced Black Panther. Black Panther lures the Fantastic Four to his hidden jungle hideout and hunts them down one by one, basically 'playing the villain', and only when he's finally defeated does he reveal that he's actually one of the good guys, and that he was just hunting them to test himself before going up against his archnemesis, Klaw. After Black Panther makes it up to them with a grand welcome to his kingdom, they all play baseball together. The Thing pitches, Johnny swings a Vibranium Bat, and Mr. Fantastic catches the ball - 30 feet up in the air. As for the Invisible Woman, she trips up her husband to give the mere mortals a fighting chance...
* GoldenAge [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} Batman]] stories often began with Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson on vacation where they would invariably stumble across some crime or mystery that needed solving.

* In {{Fable}} 1, its possible for your hero to literally go fishing. He can also get married, play various games, take part in local brawling competitions, and generally act like a normal person. He can't get a job though. On the other hand, in the sequel, you can get a job, filling the list of normal, everyday activities your hero can get up to. (Though you can't go fishing any more...)
* [[TheLegendOfZelda Link]]: Hero of Time, wielder of the Master Sword, and current record-holder at the local fishing hole.

* In one OrderOfTheStick comic, Nale says that the knowledge that the Order of the Stick must defeat Xykon must be a terrible burden on them. The strip cuts to the party playing Parcheesi.

* [[{{Stargate SG-1}} Jack O'Neill]] has a fish pond (which may or may not contain actual fish) and at the end of Season Eight, the whole team fishes there.

* In [[KyonBigDamnHero Kyon: Big Damn Hero]], Kyon literally goes fishing when visiting his uncle for Golden Week.