History Main / YouCantGoHomeAgain

[[folder: Asian Animation]]

* ''WebAnimation/MurderDrones'': After Uzie's father betrays her, and the other robots are still cowardly and powerless against the invading killer robots, Uzie decides to exile herself because there's nothing she can do to convince them to fight. [[ThenLetMeBeEvil Besides, Earth is looking like a much better place to rule over.]]

Contrast with IChooseToStay. Also contrast with StrangerInAFamiliarLand, in which you ''can'' go home, but find that you no longer fit in there. If you can't go home because you've been banned from doing so, you're PersonaNonGrata. TheStateless may also have been expelled from their native country. Compare TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive, TheExile, HatedHometown, NeverAcceptedInHisHometown, and SoWhatDoWeDoNow. A common outcome of the LeavingTheNestSong.

* The first three volumes of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' are set in Beacon Academy, the boarding school that is training the titular team of students and their friends and colleagues. By the end of Volume 3, the girls are approaching the end of their first year in a four-year programme. [[spoiler:However, the villains instigate an invasion of the school by the Monsters of Grimm, leaving the school destroyed, the teachers and students evacuated, the headmaster missing, and a magically-frozen Grimm Dragon passively attracting more Grimm to the school's ruins. The finale ends with the titular team scattered, and a cross-continental quest beginning to try and seek answers to who the villains are.]]

* The premise of ''[[Literature/TheMagicForIdiots Mabaka! Magic is for Idiots!]]'' revolves around a novice wizard from another dimension getting stuck on Earth with no way to get back. Naturally, [[InnocentCohabitation he ends up staying with the same girl]] [[CrashIntoHello whose yard he crash-landed into]]. At least until a year is up and he can return via a dimensional transport system.

* In ''WebComic/DumbingOfAge'' Joyce and Becky briefly go back to their hometown for a weekend, only for Joyce to end up disillusioned because her church's congregation aren't as accepting of Becky's lesbianism as she is, and that they seemed to take her father's side (her father, who tried to ''kidnap Becky'' to bring her back to the Lord).

* Zigzagged in ''Theatre/JasperInDeadland'', as the shows subverts and double-subverts whether or not Agnes can return to the living world.

For some reason or another, one of the main characters is displaced from their home -- be it in the sense of homeland, home planet, home universe, or literal house -- and unable to return. Often, their attempts to return form a key plotline or focal point of the series, but since StatusQuoIsGod, FailureIsTheOnlyOption (until, perhaps, the GrandFinale). If the reason why they can't return is because of a DoomedHometown, then their quest is often {{revenge}} or [[FightingForAHomeland a new place to stay]]. Sometimes they will finally return to WhereItAllBegan to challenge the force that kept them away for so long. Before the character leaves their home, they may give it [[LongLastLook a final glance before leaving.]]

For some reason or another, one of the main characters is displaced from their home -- be it in the sense of homeland, home planet, home universe, or literal house -- and unable to return. Often, their attempts to return form a key plotline or focal point of the series, but since StatusQuoIsGod, FailureIsTheOnlyOption (until, perhaps, the GrandFinale). If the reason why they can't return is because of a DoomedHometown, then their quest is often {{revenge}} or [[FightingForAHomeland a new place to stay]]. Sometimes they'll finally return WhereItAllBegan to challenge the force that kept them away for so long. Before the character leaves their home, they may give it [[LongLastLook a final glance before leaving.]]

Contrast with IChooseToStay. Also contrast with StrangerInAFamiliarLand, where you ''can'' go home, but find you no longer fit in there. If you can't go home because you've been banned from doing so, you're PersonaNonGrata. TheStateless may also have been expelled from their native country. Compare TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive, TheExile, HatedHometown, NeverAcceptedInHisHometown, and SoWhatDoWeDoNow. A common outcome of the LeavingTheNestSong.

Contrast with IChooseToStay. Also contrast with StrangerInAFamiliarLand, where you ''can'' go home, but find you no longer fit in there. If you can't go home because you've been banned from doing so, you're PersonaNonGrata. TheStateless may also have been expelled from their native country. Compare TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive, HatedHometown, TheExile, NeverAcceptedInHisHometown, and SoWhatDoWeDoNow. A common outcome of the LeavingTheNestSong.

Contrast with IChooseToStay. Also contrast with StrangerInAFamiliarLand, where you ''can'' go home, but find you no longer fit in there. If you can't go home because you've been banned from doing so, you're PersonaNonGrata. TheStateless may also have been expelled from their native country. Compare TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive, TheExile, and SoWhatDoWeDoNow. A common outcome of the LeavingTheNestSong.

For some reason or another, one of the main characters is displaced from their home -- be it in the sense of homeland, home planet, home universe, or literal house -- and unable to return. Often, their attempts to return form a key plotline or focal point of the series, but since StatusQuoIsGod, FailureIsTheOnlyOption until the GrandFinale. If the reason why they can't return is because of a DoomedHometown, then their quest is often {{Revenge}} or [[FightingForAHomeland a new place to stay]]. Sometimes they'll finally return WhereItAllBegan to challenge the force that kept them away for so long. Before the character leaves their home, they may give it [[LongLastLook a final glance before leaving.]]

Contrast StrangerInAFamiliarLand, where you ''can'' go home, but you no longer fit in. If you can't go home because you're banned from doing so, you're PersonaNonGrata. TheStateless have often been expelled from their native country. Also contrast IChooseToStay. Compare TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive, TheExile and SoWhatDoWeDoNow. A common outcome of the LeavingTheNestSong.

* Taylor Swift's "My Tears Ricochet": "And I can go anywhere I want / Anywhere I want / Just not home..."

* This trope is the premise of Webcomic/DummComics [[http://www.dummcomics.com/index?sid=95 Earthward-Ho!]].

* ''Webcomic/QuentynQuinnSpaceRanger'': [[http://www.rhjunior.com/QQSR/00051.html It's impossible, really, to acclimatize to a world which has changed over a decade while you had three months.]]

* ''Webcomic/{{Africa}}:[[spoiler: Chui takes Africa's territory. She returns to try and reclaim it, only to get beaten. She returns to the new place in defeat]]