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Sometimes when the bad guys aren't feeling all that bad, when they don't feel like terrorizing the locals, they go [[Villains Out Shopping|shopping]]. But what do good guys do when they don't feel like fighting evil at the moment? When they just want to get away from it all? Everybody deserves some free time after all! Even superheroes deserve a holiday!
They go fishing, of course. "Fishing" being a general euphemism for things like [[The Fresh Prince of Bel
If on vacation, this can be related to a [[Busman's Holiday]].
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* Played with in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' (the manga/Brotherhood continuity). Roy Mustang sits in his office, talking on the official phone line with his girlfriend Elizabeth about a fishing trip he's planning to take, inviting her to join him. The truth is that {{spoiler|he's actually talking to his adjutant, Riza Hawkeye, and the "fishing" they're doing is for the person who murdered Mustang's best friend. The entire dialogue is encoded.}}
* Claes from ''[[Gunslinger Girl]]'' used to go fishing with her "Handler" frequently (it was the only time they actually had conversations). Now he's dead and she doesn't remember him, but she has a subconscious reaction to water (and in the manga, to ''A River Runs Through it'').
* ''[[Fate
* In ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'', Homura once meets with [[Anti-Hero|Kyouko]] when she's playing a dancing game in an arcade.
* In ''[[Full Metal Panic]]'', at the end of the "Into the Blue" story arc<ref>the third [[Light Novel]], or the final arc of the original anime</ref>, Sosuke reveals that the real reason he invited Kaname on the trip is because he wanted to show her his [[Happy Place]], 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.
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* The [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]] 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 [[Super Strength]]) 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 [[X
* There was old ''[[Fantastic Four]]'' story, the one that first introduced Black Panther. Black Panther lures the Fantastic Four to his hidden jungle hideout and hunts them down one by one, basically 'playing the villain', and only when he's finally defeated does he reveal that he's actually one of the good guys, and that he was just hunting them to test himself before going up against his archnemesis, Klaw. After Black Panther makes it up to them with a grand welcome to his kingdom, they all play baseball together. The Thing pitches, Johnny swings a Vibranium Bat, and Mr. Fantastic catches the ball - 30 feet up in the air. As for the Invisible Woman, she trips up her husband to give the mere mortals a fighting chance...
* [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]] ''[[
* Once, [[Empowered (Comic Book)|Empowered]] had to deal with a [[Super Villain]] 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".
== [[Fan Fiction]] ==
* In ''[[Kyon:
== [[Film]] ==
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In ''[[Star Trek:
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'': Jack O'Neill has a fish pond (which may or may not contain actual fish) next to his cabin in Minnesota. At the end of Season Eight, the whole team fishes there.
** The fact that it doesn't contain actual fish is a running gag, to the point that, when time travelling, he once set a video back to verify that time hadn't been changed and included that fact. {{spoiler|At the end of that two parter, the team finds out that there really ''are'' fish in his pond... but apparently decide that it's not important and move on.}}
** They also make a [[Running Gag]] out of O'Neill inviting Carter to come fishing, which she always politely declines with the excuse that she'd rather mess around with whatever new piece of alien technology the team has come up with.
* In season 2 of ''[[
* ''[[Lost]]''. Hope you like golf, because it is the only recreational activity on the island.
* Christopher Foyle is often shown fly fishing in ''[[
* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'', a good portion of the Doctor's adventures begin with him just kicking around in the TARDIS tinkering with things or trying to find a cool place to go on holiday (Blackpool or Brighton seem to be popular choices) before being somehow diverted to the location of the adventure of the week.
** 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...
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* In ''[[Fable]] 1'', its possible for your hero to literally go fishing. He can also get married, play various games, take part in local brawling competitions, and generally act like a normal person. He can't get a job though. On the other hand, in the sequel, you can get a job, filling the list of normal, everyday activities your hero can get up to. (Though you can't go fishing any more...)
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'': Link - Hero of Time, wielder of the Master Sword, and current record-holder at the local fishing hole. ([[Sidetracked
* Each Ryu in the ''[[Breath of Fire]]'' series goes out in a fishing minigame.
* The entire premise of the crossover game ''[[Poker Night At the Inventory]]'', where four characters [[Sam and Max|from]] [[Penny Arcade|wildly]] [[Team Fortress 2
* "What's that? Team [[Pokémon Red and Blue
* ''Okami'' This is actually a plot event. You have to catch a giant catfish, which and 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 make day into night.
** One of the sidequests is to help a sword collector by fishing. Why? He is fishing for a specific catch, the Cutlass fish, also known as the living sword.
* Done quite literally in [[Fate/hollow
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In one ''[[The Order of the Stick
== [[Web Original]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The [[Teen Titans (
* The ''[[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 ''[[Help! I'm a Fish]]'' starts with a fishing trip.
* An episode of ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' 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.
* One episode of ''[[Re Boot]]'' opened with Bob fishing in the middle of a war game. He even took a nap during that time and wanted someone else to deal with the User this time.
* Bumblebee of ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' likes playing videogames with Sari (also in ''[[Transformers Prime]]'', 'Bee with Raf). Rattrap from ''[[
** Hot Rod and Daniel are first seen out fishing in ''[[Transformers:
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