History Main / HeroesGoneFishing

* Each Ryu in the ''VideoGame/BreathOfFire'' series goes out in a fishing minigame. It's only mandatory in the ''[[VideoGame/BreathOfFire4 fourth game]], when the party is temporarily caught on a island by high tides, though you only have to catch one fish (edible or not) to proceed.

* In the ''VideoGame/TrailsSeries'', [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky Estelle Bright]], [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesZeroNoKiseki Lloyd Bannings]], and [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel Rean Schwarzer]] can take time off from their tasks at hand and saving the world to go fish. This is acknowledged in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesHajimariNoKiseki'' where the three of them are the only ones who are allowed to fish the final fish of the game.

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'': Evangeline A.K. [=McDowell=] enjoys [[CurbStompBattle Curb Stomping]] ancient immortal demon gods, inflicting TrainingFromHell on her erstwhile students, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking playing retro video games]] in her birthday suit.

* In ''Lightnovel/FullMetalPanic'', at the end of the "Into the Blue" story arc[[note]]the third LightNovel, or the final arc of the original anime[[/note]], Sosuke reveals that the real reason he invited Kaname on the trip is because he wanted to show her his HappyPlace, a quiet niche on Mithril's private island where he likes to fish. Despite the fact that the whole affair went crazy and they both almost died, she's happy because she gets to see Sosuke lowering his "shields" and honestly enjoying himself for once.

* In the first chapter of {{Manga/Kinnikuman}}, the Earth defense force learns that monsters from space are about to attack Japan. Unfortunately, all of the superheroes are out busy partying or sick to help out! Which means that the only one the defense force can turn to is the titular HeroWithAnFInGood, though that also works out... to a degree.

* The Comicbook/XMen regularly play mutant baseball. Which is like regular baseball, with mutant powers. On one occasion, they also played basketball (with a "no powers" rule, but they didn't keep it).

** Comicbook/{{Excalibur}}'s equivalent is going to a little pub which Moira's father used to own in mainland Scotland, just a ways across Muir Island. No one there even looks at mutants funny, much to Nightcrawler's relief.

* Once, Comicbook/{{Empowered}} had to deal with a {{supervillain}} who was enraged that nobody but a "lame-ass superhero" (her) came to stop him and inquired what the other heroes were doing. Emp: "They're doing... superhero-ey stuff?" Cut to the other Superhomies watching "Dancing with the Superheroes".

* In the ''FanFic/CardcaptorRad'' chapter ''Flower Child'', both the Autobots go on a town tour with Alexis, while Carlos takes the mini-cons to a science fair, to which has an instance of High Wire ''literally'' taking the other mini-cons to go to the fishing booth.

** In the main game itself, at one point Garrus takes you to a normally prohibited location above the Presidium for no reason other than to have a bottle-shooting contest to finally determine who is the better sniper. At several other point in the game you encounter people just trying to relax and forget for the moment the terror of the war they've found themselves in.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'' there's a wide variety of activities for the protagonist to do with his friends, from going to amusement parks, browsing bookstores, and going out to eat. You can even [[FishingMinigame go fishing]].

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* ''WebComic/ManlyGuysDoingManlyThings'' loves to use {{Action Hero}}s doing mundane activities as the premise of a lot of its comics. Some examples include [[VideoGame/DukeNukem Duke Nukem]] trying to get people to watch old movies with him, [[Franchise/TheChroniclesOfRiddick Riddick]] organizing a TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons campaign, and [[VideoGame/GodOfWar Kratos]] and [[Film/ThreeHundred Leonidas]] having an intense match of gay chicken.

* ''{{Literature/Deviant}}'': The Newborns play Dungeons & Dragons in one scene.

* In the ''VideoGame/TrailsSeries'', [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky Estelle Bright]], [[VideoGame/ZeroNoKiseki Lloyd Bannings]], and [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel Rean Schwarzer]] can take time off from their tasks at hand and saving the world to go fish. This is acknowledged in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesHajimariNoKiseki'' where the three of them are the only ones who are allowed to fish the final fish of the game.

* In the ''VideoGame/TrailsSeries'', [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky Estelle Bright]], [[VideoGame/ZeroNoKiseki Lloyd Bannings]], and [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel Rean Schwarzer]] can take time off from their tasks at hand and saving the world to go fish. This is acknowledged in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfOrigins'' where the three of them are the only ones who are allowed to fish the final fish of the game.

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'': Evangeline A.K. [=McDowell=] enjoys [[CurbStompBattle Curb Stomping]] ancient immortal demon gods, inflicting TrainingFromHell on her erstwhile students, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking playing retro video games]] [[http://www.batoto.net/read/_/3726/mahou-sensei-negima_v31_ch285_by_animum-mutare/6 in her birthday suit]].

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "The Deep South" has the Planet Express crew go on a fishing trip when they accidentally get a mandatory fishing license.
* The whole plot of ''WesternAnimation/HelpImAFish'' starts with a fishing trip.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' has Danny go fishing with his dad for father son bonding; its peacefulness is soon interupted by Skulker. Danny defeats him without his dad even noticing. And they bring home a giant ghost sea creature.

** To clarify, the game was actually being used as a training sequence for a few of the Mainframers, and Bob was actively wasting time to give them a chance to get the feel for playing the games without getting nullified. The User's avatar was even a tank that had managed to get itself stuck between two obstacles.

* The fourth episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Ewoks}}'', To Save Deej, starts out with the Warrick males and princess Kneesaa fishing. But it soon turns into a story where Deej's life is in danger.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/AtomicPuppet'' was about Joey going on a fishing trip with his dad. Naturally, it went sideways when the villainous Megalo-Don showed up and tricked Joey nd AP into helping him oppose the lake's ruler, King Hydronomous.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel'', Rean can take time off from school courses and saving the world to go fish.

* In the first chapter of {{Manga/Kinnikuman}}, the Earth defense force learns that monsters from space are about to attack Japan. Unfortunately, all of the superheroes are out busy partying or sick to help out! Which means that the only one the defense force can turn to is the titular HeroWithAnFInGood, though that also works out...to a degree.

* The whole plot of ''HelpImAFish'' starts with a fishing trip.

* ''WebComic/ManlyGuysDoingManlyThings'' loves to use {{Action Hero}}s doing mundane activities as the premise of a lot of its comics. Some examples include [[VideoGame/DukeNukem Duke Nukem]] trying to get people to watch old movies with him, [[Franchise/TheChroniclesOfRiddick Riddick]] organizing a TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons campaign, and [[VideoGame/GodOfWarSeries Kratos]] and [[Film/ThreeHundred Leonidas]] having an intense match of gay chicken.

* You could practically start another Trope for examples of this happening on ''Series/PowerRangers''; in fact, only too often, the good guys are in the middle of either participating in or running some recreational activity or event, when the current BigBad decides to ruin it. (Often in a way that was ''inspired'' by it.)

** Hot Rod and Daniel are first seen out fishing in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersTheMovie'', before Daniel gets distracted by the arriving shuttle. Later in a season 3 episode ("Grimlock's New Brain"), the Dinobots go fishing together, except for the big G himself, because he's caught up in his newfound superintelligence.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'' there's a wide variety of activities for the protagonist to do with his friends, from going to amusement parks, browsing bookstores, and going out to eat.

* In ''[[Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick Order of the Stick]]'', when [[EvilTwin Nale]] learned about the existence of [[EldritchAbomination the Snarl]] and that the eponymous Order was questing to ensure that it remained sealed, he mused about how this task must have weighed heavily on them...
-->'''Sabine:''' Hard to believe THAT team of shmucks is on a quest that's so...irrevocable.\\

* Webc0mic/KarateBears fish off [[http://www.karatebears.com/2012/06/fisherfolk.html docks]] when they have some spare time.

->''"Ahhh...that's it! A little sonar-wave pulse through the waters should attract the big fish. [[ForScience Science]], you win again!"''

* Each Ryu in the ''VideoGame/BreathOfFire'' series goes out in a fishing minigame.