History Main / HeroesGoneFishing

** While waiting to meet with a contact to sell the orb in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'', Drax, Groot, and Rocket decide to hit a bar/gambling hall and are shown drunkenly partying it up. This is our first hint at Drax's lighter side.

* The WesternAnimation/TeenTitans are regularly seen eating pizza or playing video games, among other "normal" social activities. Though almost every time they go out to the local carnival or something, trouble soon follows.

* In ''Fanfic/TheGhostOfOchs'', Byleth takes a rare day off from her teaching duties to bond and go fishing with Jeralt and Leonie before the Black Eagles and Golden Deer take on their next big missions outside of the monastery. She invites a few other students to join in, but only Linhardt (on account of it being his {{birthday|episode}}) and Monica (who's never gone fishing before) accept.

* Matenrou from ''Music/HypnosisMic'' like to chillax with some literal fishing, best exemplified by the song ''Papillon''. On one of these outings in the ''FP & M'' manga (of which they are the "M"), Doppo [[FishingForSole catches a boot]].

* Matenrou from ''Music/HypnosisMic'' like to chillax with some literal fishing (best exemplified by the song ''Papillon''). In the manga, Doppo catches a boot on one of these outings.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' continues the tradition, with the gift of a handmade fishing rod during the tutorial. This game loves this trope so much that it gives you ''[[UpToEleven two types]]'' of fishing to play with. Fishing can net you some surprisingly handy results, including one of the four bottles, bags of money, and a [[NoodleImplements smelly fish required to advance the plot.]]
*** You can even boast of your fishing achievements ''to the final boss'' by [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu shaking your fishing rod in his face,]] which shocks him so much that he leaves his guard open to attack.

* This is actually a plot event in ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}''. You have to catch a giant catfish, which devours the moon's reflection in the water, thus stopping the moon from coming out. Once you nab this guy, you get a brush power that lets you draw a moon in the sky to turn day into night.

* 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).
** Strictly speaking, every baseball game the X-Men have played is "no powers". This works until someone accuses a telepath or someone with a passive power (such as SuperStrength) of cheating at which point everyone starts using their powers resulting in baseballs catching fire, 2000 yard home runs and people running the bases in under two seconds.
** In ''Uncanny ComicBook/XMen'' #98, Professor X actually goes fishing...on the [[Literature/JohnCarterOfMars Deja Thoris]] no less.

* [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] ''Franchise/{{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.

* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': Tim hangs out with his civilian friends outside of school doing things like watching movie marathons, going to arcades, or playing {{Tabletop RPG}}s. He and Steph go on several dates as Robin and Spoiler, including going to the movies once.

** The Sixth Doctor portion of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E4TheTwoDoctors The Two Doctors]]" begins with him and Peri fishing on an alien planet.

* ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'': Kirk, Spock, and [=McCoy=] go camping together. It doesn't end very well.[[note]][[TakeThat Nor does the camping trip.]][[/note]]

* Jonathan and Mark go fishing in ''Series/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.

* The "Citadel" DLC for ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' once you finish the plot of dealing with [[spoiler: Shepard's evil clone]], the rest of the DLC consists of Shepard and crew simply goofing off on the Citadel--gambling, playing video games, shopping, engaging in simulated VR combat games, and partying.

--->'''Sabine:''' Hard to believe THAT team of shmucks is on a quest that's so...irrevocable.\\

* 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.

* A Wing Dings blackout on ''WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines'' has the Vulture Squadron playing baseball. Dick Dastardly cheats...and gets away with it! (He tags Muttley out at home by yanking home plate off the ground.)

* In ''Fanfic/TheGhostOfOchs'', Byleth takes a rare day off from her teaching duties to bond and go fishing with Jeralt and Leonie before the Black Eagles and Golden Deer take on their next big missions outside of the monastery. She invites a few other students to join in, but only Linhardt (on account of it being his birthday) and Monica (who's never gone fishing before) accept.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'': Link - Hero of Time, wielder of the Master Sword, and current record-holder at the local fishing hole. ([[SidetrackedByTheGoldSaucer It's the most addictive minigame in the series.]])

* In ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw'', the episode "Turner Classic Birdman" acts as a flashback to his pre-attorney superhero days. Being a parody of the original ''WesternAnimation/{{Birdman}}'' series it's based on, this means Falcon Seven frequently calls Birdman when he's eating dinner or découpaging.

* 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 one episode of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', Picard reluctantly goes to Risa for a relaxing vacation which turns into an ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' adventure. On another occasion the ship's amateur dramatic society ropes Commander Riker into playing a role in their current theatrical performance, which kicks off the whole plot when he starts seeing props and characters when he's not rehearsing. [[spoiler: It turns out to be AllJustADream as a result of him suffering a head injury when an away mission went awry.]]

** In ''The Androids of Tara'', the Doctor decides to leave the search for the Key to Time entirely to Romana, so that he can spend the afternoon fishing...
** "The Leisure Hive" started out with the Doctor and Romana at Blackpool beach.
** The new series episode "Midnight" starts out like this (we get the impression that they've come to the planet Midnight specifically to have a relaxing holiday) with Donna having a nice day in a spa sort of place while the Doctor decides to go on a fun day trip. Of course, this is ''Doctor Who'', so the episode quickly [[FromBadToWorse descends into]] horror. But it was nice while it lasted.
** The Sixth Doctor portion of ''The Two Doctors'' begins with him and Peri fishing on an alien planet.
** ''The Five Doctors'' started with the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough on the Eye of Orion for a bit of relaxation thanks to "the high bombardment of positive ions."
** "Silver Nemesis" opens with the Seventh Doctor and Ace contently enjoying some outdoor live jazz and reading the Sunday newspapers.

If on vacation, this can be related to a BusmansHoliday. Often featured in a FishingEpisode or BeachEpisode.

If on vacation, this can be related to a BusmansHoliday. Often featured in a FishingEpisode.

If on vacation, this can be related to a BusmansHoliday.

* Brian Michael Bendis' New Avengers run would show the heroes occasionally eating breakfast.
* In the Avengers issue following the Avengers vs. X-Men event, the heroes are shown chilling. Wolverine passed out with dozens of beer cans surrounding him, Tony Stark sleeping in the couch, Spider-Man lying in a web hammock, and Hawkeye and Spider-Woman doing their business.

* 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.

* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' never had a whole episode built around this trope, unless you count everyone on an away team except an increasingly exasperated T'Pol goofing off when they were supposed to be doing actual work one time, but regular movie screenings in the messhall were a regular source of FishOutOfWater and CultureClash humour.