History Main / WalkingTheEarth

* ''ComicBook/TheWarlordDC'': Travis Morgan spends most of the story walking the hollow Earth world of Skartaris, sometimes intentionally and sometimes not.
* The ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' storyline ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga'' reveals that Ben Reilly, the clone of Spider-Man, spent the better part of five years wandering America after his creation. Available information about this period of Ben's life includes that he spent some time as a vigilante in Salt Lake City (''The Lost Years''), and confronted a crime lord in New Orleans (said crime lord later came to New York and was fought by Ben and Gambit). These wandering came to an end when news of Aunt May's hospitalisation prompted him to return to New York, where Peter Parker learned about his continued survival and the two eventually began to bond.

** In ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', Gandalf the Grey spent two millennia walking the (Middle) Earth while searching for ways to resist the return of Sauron.
** Aragorn and the other Rangers have a bit of this as well -- in fact, it's implied that this is a good part of the reason why Aragorn and Gandalf are such good friends.

** In ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'', Maglor took up a life of wandering beside the sea and singing a lament over his own violent stupidity at the end of the First Age. The same is true for Daeron, who vanished after Lúthien's disappearance. Fanon commonly has them as ShipsThatPassInTheNight.

* Subverted in Orstead's Ending of the Final Chapter in ''VideoGame/LiveALive'' [[spoiler: He does wander the earth but with nobody around]].

* The main characters of '' Creator/GenndyTartakovsky’s'' ''WesternAnimation/{{Primal}}'' Spear and Fang (A neanderthal-like caveman and Tyrannosaurus) who bonded over losing their families, wander the prehistoric world encountering different creatures and battling the MonsterOfTheWeek in each episode.

* This is ComicBook/ThePhantomStranger's hat (well, his other hat, he also wears a tasteful fedora). He sums it up thusly - "I have walked hundreds of billions of miles across this Earth... across time and space... through the blinding light of the Elysian Fields... and the darkest depths of Pandemonium... where the stench and despair of the chaoplasm is always a potent reminder of how far man can fall. I am the Phantom Stranger. And the stranger comes... when the stranger is needed."

* An issue of ''ComicBook/SecretOrigins'' offers as [[MultipleChoicePast one possible origin]] of the Phantom Stranger that he is the Wandering Jew of Christian myth.

* Dr. Banner of ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'' tends to alternate between periods of this and periods where he has more control over the Hulk and settles down. (E.g., his time with the Pantheon in the '90s, and his tenure with SHIELD in the teens.) [[Series/TheIncredibleHulk1977 The TV series]], by contrast, was all "walking".

* ''Series/TheIncredibleHulk1977'' has David Banner walking the United States.

* A staple of the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series where the protagonists travel the Post-Apocalyptic Wastelands while saving the world.
** The Vault Dweller is sent out to do this in order to find a much-needed replacement water chip to save Vault 13. Afterwards he is exiled from his Vault and returns to travelling the Wasteland. [[VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}} The sequel]] reveals he's eventually settled, founding a village and starting a family, then several years after his wife dies and at a great age, he mysteriously vanishes into the Wastelands once more.

* This was Wrestling/{{Sabu}} attitude towards pro wrestling, being misled by his father to believe there was more money in drifting between territories than staying tied to one company. This often ''is'' true of professional wrestling, just not in the 1990s, when the territorial system was all but dead and the independent circuits fairly weak. Still, when Wrestling/PaulHeyman publicly trashed Sabu for walking out of Wrestling/{{ECW}}, that was just Sabu chasing after a bigger payday, and Sabu ''did'' come back, despite getting it from Wrestling/{{FMW}} and IWA Japan, two of the strongest independent feds of the time.

* When Nikki St John took up pro wrestling she rarely stomped into any promotion with much fanfare and even more rarely did she stay long, as she wasn't particularly patient regarding her goal to wrestle in every state of the union. Much to the chagrin of those in Memphis, she ''did'' find a prolonged roll in the state with Taylor Made as one of Melanie Cruise's "[[CoDragons Chicago Girls]]".[[/folder]]