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Usually results in [[Rightful King Returns]] if the protagonist was royalty, or [[A Protagonist Shall Lead Them]] if they were not. Related to [[Charlie Brown From Outta Town]], if the hero comes under a different (albeit similar) identity and costume. Compare / contrast [[Achilles in His Tent]], [[Refusal of the Call]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Piccolo from ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' may count, as he (or rather, his father) had been apart from Namek for years and only comes back when it's targeted by Frieza.
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* ''[[The Prince of Egypt]]'', being an adaptation of [[The Bible|the story of Moses]], tells this story, mixing both the accidental murder as well as disgust of the Egyptians' treatment towards the Jews.
* In ''[[Star Wars]]'', [[The Obi-Wan|Obi Wan Kenobi]] exiles himself to watch over little Luke Skywalker from a distance, and then returns to the first line to be his mentor.
* As the related trope of [[Rightful King Returns]] would suggest, [[The Lord of the Rings|Aragorn]] is an example of this, having fled from his duty and being forced to take on his destined responsibility as king. (Only in the movie; in the book he's accepted his destiny and has been working towards it for decades.)
== Literature ==
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** The [[Trope Namer]] of sorts is Jesus' fable of the Prodigal Son, in which a boy leaves home, loses all of his money gambling, becomes a wreck, and finally returns home, only to be greeted with love and open arms. However, because the son has no real dire reason to leave, and because there is no conflict upon his return, this isn't exactly a straight version of the trope at work.
** A more direct version of the trope, however, comes from earlier in ''The Bible'' with the tale of Moses fleeing Egypt, living happily in the desert, and then returning to Egypt to free the Jews from the tyrannical Pharaoh.
* In ''[[Harry Potter and
* Galadriel in [[J. R. R.
== Mythology ==
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