Tv Tropes You Cant Go Home Again

"The situation's changed, for Pinky and the Brain. No laboratory, solitary in the rain..."

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• Cabalistic: Twice over. Vi'southward return to the Undercity is an unhappy one. Half dozen destroys her first childhood abode in the Pit to escape from Silco and his goons. She's besides pissed to see that he's taken over her 2nd babyhood dwelling, the Last Drop bar. Armed with Hextech gauntlets she storms it, but before she tin can properly retake information technology, she's knocked out past Jinx.
• Avatar: The Concluding Airbender: I of the things that makes Aang and Zuko much alike is that neither can go domicile again — Zuko because he's been exiled, and Aang because information technology's non there anymore. seventy years later, he rebuilt and restored his ancestral home to its erstwhile glory.
  • Subverted when Zuko betrays Iroh and is allowed to come back. Then subverted right back to straight when Zuko realizes it wasn't worth it and makes a Heel–Face Plough. And subverted again in the finale when he non but goes home, just he owns the dwelling house.
  • Also happened in The Legend of Korra to Asami Sato. After discovering that her father is an Equalist, she had to abandon her habitation and her previous lifestyle that came with it.
• The plot of Brandy & Mr. Whiskers. Brandy Harrington tin't return to her flush family in Florida considering Mr. Whiskers has stranded them in the Amazon Pelting Woods. Several episodes tease them returning to civilization, just of course it never worked out.
• Danielle in Danny Phantom can't return to Vlad's manor where she was cloned and raised on the virtue that the possessor is willing to kill her in society to make a improve clone! She spends her fourth dimension constantly on the move.
• For a while in The Fairly Oddparents, Marker Chang was unable to render to Yugopotamia, since information technology would forcefulness him into an Arranged Wedlock with Princess Mandie.
• The basis of Futurama. Fry subverts it in the final moments earlier the Opening Theme, however:

  "My God, information technology's the time to come. My parents. My co-workers. My girlfriend. I'll never see any of them again... [Beat] Yahoo!"

• Gargoyles sometimes plays with this trope, for example in "Enter Macbeth," in which Xanatos is released from jail and free to return to his castle... forcing the titular gargoyles to leave said castle and observe a new home. Information technology doesn't end them from visiting occasionally, though...
  • Also notable is the Avalon arc, where several characters spend much of the second flavour beingness dragged around the planet by a magic boat.
  • In the "Hunter'south Moon" arc (the last canonical arc of the evidence), the clock tower where they've been living is also destroyed. Luckily, Xanatos owes them for saving his son and allows them to return the castle.
• A conversation betwixt the Martian Manhunter and Hawkgirl in an episode of Justice League notes that this trope applies to and so many of them — Superman and J'onn are each the Terminal of His Kind, Hawkgirl is stranded lite-years from home, and Wonder Woman has just been exiled from Paradise Isle Themyscira — that they should call themselves the "Just U.s.a. League". It's even more poignant for the audition, who (unlike J'onn and Hawkgirl) know that Batman lost his family as a kid.
  • This trope is played with in Hawkgirl's case. She is actually an agent sent by the Thanagarians to spy on World and its secrets. The Thanagarians eventually come to Earth and take it over. She then finds out that they are going to utilise World equally part of a weapon confronting this one alien species they are at state of war with. Unfortunately, World would exist destroyed once the weapon is activated. In the cease, she ends up alienating a lot of people, causes a chain of events that lead to the devastation of Thanagar, and it takes a long time before she is allowed back into the Justice League. Wonder Woman somewhen manages to work things out with her female parent, and she is allowed to set foot on Themyscira again.
• The whole premise behind The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh episode Home Is Where The Home Is. Christopher Robin accidentally breaks a statue of a family unit member and decides that he can't stay there anymore.
• In Mission Hill it happens as office of Kevin's Character Development. After losing his temper at his altogether party he buys a birthday block from the aforementioned place his folks ever got ane goes to his family unit's old home to swallow it. When Andy catches upwards to him he's miserable and somberly remarks that nothing is the aforementioned anymore, every bit he and his home have inverse too much for him to ever go back. Andy cheers him upwards by showing him his alcohol and porn stash and then pointing out they accept a gilded opportunity to exercise all the things they were never allowed to practise as kids like slide down the banister, pee in the shower, and throw a huge party.

  Kevin: This cake isn't as good as I remember. Nothing out here is as good every bit I recall. Non even home.

• The My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Castle, Sweet Castle" has something of a variant as it's nearly Twilight not wanting to stay at the new castle, missing the Gilt Oak Library, which was destroyed by Lord Tirek at the end of the previous season.
• Oh No! It'due south an Alien Invasion: Later on the Brainlings kidnapped all the grown-ups they were supposed to get out Earth, but their leader Emperor Brainlius insisted on staying because he finds it a great party spot, much to the badgerer of his assistant Briiian who wants to leave.
• In the season i finale The Owl Business firm, the Emperor forces Luz into An Offering You Can't Refuse by handing over the portal to Earth so she can save Eda, King, and Lillith from petrification. Luz hands him the portal, knowing that she'll never return to her dwelling and her mother. Just as she is brought up to the execution platform, she activates the glyphs she placed on the portal and destroys information technology, making sure that the Emperor cannot use Earth in whatsoever plans he has. A major plot line in the post-obit season is Luz finding a way to make her own portal and so she can get back to her mother.
• Pictured above, what sets up the premise of Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain. Acme Labs was torn downward, leaving those poor mice homeless until they came across Elmyra Duff. Whoop dee doo.
• ReBoot for most of the third season.

  "I live in the games. I search through systems, people, and cities, for this identify: Mainframe; my dwelling house. My format? I have no format. I am a renegade, lost on the Cyberspace."

  • In more ways than i likewise. While Matrix and Andraia are lost on the Internet, Bob is lost in the Web. At the same time Dot and Mouse are forced to abandon the Primary Office offscreen and are forced into hiding. The Tor also gets destroyed forcing Megabyte to observe a new place to "ready shop". Seems like everyone in this show loses their home at 1 signal or another.
• For Samurai Jack, it was his dwelling time that Aku tried to ensure that he could never return to after sending him to the future. In the Bad Future ruled by Aku, Jack's home has been forgotten for a few millennia since the Master Of Darkness destroyed information technology.
• The Simpsons parodied this a Tree House of Horror episode where Homer inadvertently travels back in fourth dimension and repeatedly makes changes to the world. After some fourth dimension, he settles on a world about identical, with the simply difference being that everyone has long forked tongues.

  "Eh... close plenty."

• Dreamy Smurf in The Smurfs episode "The Smurf Who Would Be King" idea this to exist the case when he and his send were dragged down a whirlpool and shipwrecked in the land of the Pookies...only for the whole affair to exist All Just a Dream...Or Was It a Dream?, as finds a crystal similar to the ones that were in the land of the Pookies.
• Stargate Infinity: Later being framed for an assail on Stargate Command, Major Gus Bonner and iv SGC cadets flee Earth through the Stargate, unable to return until they've gathered enough evidence to articulate their names.
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars concludes with Ahsoka Tano on trial for multiple sabotages and state of war crimes, equally part of a Frame-Up scheme born from a not-then-misguided belief that both the Jedi and the Republic have failed in their duty as peacekeepers. She'south somewhen cleared of all charges, but leaves the Jedi Order without hesitation considering of the revelation that the Jedi Council, even when acting with honor and wisdom, is capable of cruelty and inhumanity that overshadows the Sith . This turns out to be a good thing, equally almost everyone who stays affiliated with the Jedi Council is wiped out in Star Wars Episode III anyway.
  • Which allows her to survive long enough to become the grandmaster of the rebels. And so she finds out what happened to Anakin...
• Steven Universe:
  • The Crystal Gems can't beget to go dorsum to the Jewel Homeworld for proficient reason; their sinister plans for Earth led to Rose Quartz and the others deciding to stay and protect information technology. Garnet goes and so far as to smash World's connection to the Galaxy Warp later on Peridot repairs it, with the implication that she was the i (or at least among the ones) who broke it the showtime fourth dimension.
    • At ane point, Pearl recalls when Rose beginning told her she wanted to stay and fight for Earth. However, she states that if they lose, they'll be shattered, and if they win, they tin can never get home. This seems to contradict the subsequently argument that Rose Quartzes were produced exclusively on Earth, which would've meant that Rose would take never seen Homeworld. Withal, this also foreshadows the after reveal that Rose Quartz was actually Pink Diamond.
  • Peridot winds up in the same gunkhole as them and becomes a Crystal Jewel after the events of "Message Received". This is mostly considering Yellow Diamond, her boss and idol, tells her she's expendable, not caring in the slightest if she gets killed in the World-Shattering Kaboom that would happen if the Cluster hatches. The last harbinger, even so, comes when Peridot tries to convince her that Earth is worth saving, if only for its resources, and Yellow Diamond goes into full-on Evil Is Picayune mode, deciding that Earth must be destroyed simply considering the Crystal Gems DARED to defy her... and as later revealed, considering their leader Rose Quartz, allegedly shattered her sis, Pink Diamond, who led the attempted colonization of Globe.
  • Lapis Lazuli in a way. While Homeworld is still around, and she has the power to reach information technology by herself it'due south changed and then much that she no longer recognizes it. She tin't go home again because the home she remembers no longer exists. Now, Lapis acknowledges that she tin't get home again considering of how she betrayed Jasper and kept her trapped, besides as the threat that the Dandy Diamond Dominance poses to Steven, her first real friend.
• Mario and Luigi in The Super Mario Bros Super Show!.
  • One episode did focus on the duo finding a fashion back home, but they opt to stay in order to protect the Princess.
  • In another episode, they did go back domicile, only to detect out Koopa was terrorizing Brooklyn. They and then tricked him into post-obit them back to Mushroom Kingdom and blew upward the way so he'd not be able to return to Brooklyn.
• Part of the series premise for Transformers: Beast Wars. Everyone was stranded on a strange planet far from their homeworld of Cybertron; at the end of the first season, this was revealed to exist prehistoric Earth Earth All Along, far from their home time, which would be about three hundred years past our present day.
• Played with in Transformers: Prime, Cybertron itself had been reduced to a lifeless planet with so trivial energon resources it can't contain more than than a few small pockets of life. It isn't that they can't return abode so much as at that place isn't much to return to. The video game Transformers: War for Cybertron suggests that the planet core was "rebooting" itself and would take eons to do so earlier energon production would go along, while late in the 2nd season of Prime there is an option presented that might speed the process up. Too bad that selection had to exist violently removed from the picture...
  • Equally of the Creature Hunters finale, Cybertron is finally restored and the Autobots, and what remains of the Decepticons, return domicile.
• In the last two episodes of Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego??, appropriately named "Can Y'all Ever Go Abode Once again?" (pt. I & II), Carmen meets her father, Malcolm Avalon, who has believed for virtually xxx years that she died in a burn. At first, he disowns her but later on acknowledges her "willful decision" and seems ready to take her. Then Lee Jordan captures him, and while Carmen and Meridian are trying to rescue him, he falls off a roof and suffers amnesia, causing him to forget ever meeting her. Carmen resolves herself never to go close to him again.

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