Running Away

Heroes runs away a lot. Running Away means that the hero is unhappy with their friends, family, or relatives or life in general, their parents don't want them, abuse, thinking their parents don't love them and thinking they love their newborn child more than them, their friends, neighbors, families angry at what they had done which they didn't do, or feeling homesick.

Examples

 * Robyn Starling ran away to get away from her Aunt Pristine Figg, from her abuse and also trying to find her father.
 * Harry Potter runs away from the Dursley house to get away from them after his accident inflating Marge Dursley out of anger.
 * Mowgli runs away when Baloo tells him that he has to take him back to the Man Village.
 * Princess Jasmine runs away to the Agrabah Marketplace to escape the pressures of being forced to marry a Prince.
 * Rudolph runs away from home because everyone made fun of his red nose and thinks that his father was ashamed of him.
 * Timmy Turner ran away in two episodes. One is a long episode movie that Timmy Turner was blamed by Vicky for all the reckless things that happened at the house which he didn't do at all while his parents still refused to believe that Vicky is evil. Feeling that his parents don't trust him no more, he went inside the TV channels and moved in their until his parents finally realized what they have done after discovering that Timmy was right about Vicky. The second part was that he thinks that his parents don't want him at all, because they want to be rich, but that was wrong because Timmy's parents love him dearly, so Timmy ran away to the circus. But he found out his parents loved him then.
 * Dennis Mitchell ran away from home because George Wilson said mean and hurtful things to him, even going as far as calling him a menace and stating that he doesn't want to see or know him. Which leads him to run away. Which George felt guilty what he said he tried to find him but no luck and when Dennis came back he changed.
 * Riley Andersen attempts to run away back to Minnesota to make more happy memories, as planted in her mind by Anger, Disgust and Fear, because Joy isn't in the control room to keep her happy, resulting in her homesickness.
 * Belle attempts to run away from the Beast's Castle after The Beast chases her out of The West Wing in anger, only to run into a pack of hungry wolves.
 * Nicholas Lorenz furiously ran away to get away from his father Ernst, for almost getting booked to jail by having a party.
 * Gosalyn Mallard: leaves, upset with her father Darkwing Duck focusing more on capturing Bushroot than he is on finding a cure for her slimy condition when she became a mutant slime creature exposed to Bushroot's failed IQ2U formula.
 * Angelica Pickles ran away from home after her father, Drew punished her for wrecking his home office in the episode, "Runaway Angelica".
 * Simba ran away from home because Scar banished him and he and the hyenas were about to kill him, and also, making him think that it's all his fault that Mufasa is dead.
 * Bayleef: ran away after being scolded by Ash Ketchum, telling her to "get away from me and stay away from me,"
 * Gary the Snail ran away because he felt neglected by SpongeBob who was to distracted by completing the Dirty Bubble challenge to remember to feed him.
 * SpongeBob SquarePants ran away after his friends (including Patrick, Gary, Squidward, Sandy and Mr. Krabs) berated him for accidentally ruining their hard work and called him, "Idiot Boy" in the episode, "Whatever Happened to SpongeBob?".
 * Pluto ran away from home because he destroyed Mickey Mouse's Christmas stuff. Having been yelled at two times, Pluto has enough of it and left and moved in with the reindeers.
 * Odie runs away after a jealous Garfield locks him out of the house.
 * Mater ran away after he was selfishly disowned by Lightning McQueen.
 * Moses exiled himself from Egypt after he killed an overseer when he tried to stop him from brutally lashing at a Hebrew slave.
 * Jimmy Neutron leaves home after he was grounded after a rocket incident on a school night.
 * Toph runs away from her rich parents so she can be with Aang and the group to teach him earthbending.
 * Elsa runs away after she unleashed her powers and everyone founds out and thinking she's a monster. She also ran away so Anna wouldn't get hurt or killed like last time.
 * Tiny a.k.a Scourge ran away from home because Ruby and Socks threaten him that when he gets adopted by the humans they will throw him out in the river. Which leads Tiny ran into the forest and became a villain.
 * Melody runs away from home away to find out the secret of her locket after a harsh argument with her mother, unkowingly setting Morgana's plan in motion.
 * Kiara runs away from Pride Rock after a defiant Simba directly defies his father's paw prints that himself must follow by exiling Kovu and forbidding her to near him which result the Circle of Life broken and telling him that he will never be Mufasa.
 * Blinky Bill runs away from home to finding his father after Just upset his mother what Mayor Cranklepot is taking over Greenpatch.
 * Marge Simpson leaving Alaska with the kids to help Springfield without her husband Homer to taped this for the wedding video.
 * Penny runs away from her kidnapper, Madame Medusa from her abuse and slavery.
 * Aleu ran away after a argument between her and her dad Balto, because she's part wolf and not more husky and more likely acts like an wild wolf than a husky (which is why no one wanted to adopt her).
 * Penny Fitzgerald runs away from her father Patrick Fitzgerald after he planned to transfer her to another school claiming it would be best for her.
 * Gohan running away with Icarus from to his home and joins Krillin and his friends in Master Roshi's Island.
 * Khumba runs away from his home and herd to find his stripes.
 * Mulan runs away to join the Imperial Army in her father's place.
 * Buddy ran away after his dad Walter yells at him that he doesn't want to see him, and get out of his life, and he's no longer his son.
 * Shadow, Chance, and Sassy ran away from Kate's farm to find their owners who went for a family vacation.
 * Dick Grayson runs away from Wayne Manor after Bruce Wayne had given up from being Batman in order to start a better life with Dr. Chase Meridian.
 * Merida runs away from the Castle of DunBroch after her mother Queen Elinor selfishly ruined her bow after their argument about her future.

Quotes
"[Harry is about to leave the house shortly after inflating Aunt Marge and she flew away, but Uncle Vernon stops him and furiously yells at him] (Uncle Vernon: [angrily, shouting at the top of his lungs] YOU BRING HER BACK!!! You bring her back now! You put her right!) Harry: No! She deserved what she got! [Uncle Vernon furiously tries to grab Harry, but Harry stands up to him and puts his foot down with him] Keep away from me. (Uncle Vernon: You're not allowed to do magic outside school.) Harry: Yeah? Try me. (Uncle Vernon: Well, they won't let you back now. You have nowhere to go.) Harry: I don't care. Anywhere is better than here. [angrily leaves the house and storms off]"

- Harry Potter running away from the Dursley house to get away from them after his accident inflating Marge Dursley out of anger.

"(Mayor Cranklepot: It's a disgrace! as your king, I demand punishment forthwith!) (Mrs. Bill: Cranky, you are not the king. You're just a jumped-up skink...) Yeah, with termite breath. Ouch! (Mayor Cranklepot: Tell it to the claw, koalas. The whole town's behind me now, thanks to your little stunt. First thing tomorrow, I'm sealing up Goannasburg from the outside world. and then... (Cackles) I'm turning this tree in to my castle.) You just try it, you stupid ant-licker! (Mrs. Bill: Blinky! Where are your manners? Shut your snout, you stinking, scaly, stupid little ant-licker!) (Mayor Cranklepot: OK Start packing koalas! I'll be back and you better be out!) (Mrs. Bill: Blinky Bartholomew Bill! you promised me you'd be good. Marcia was nearly squished.) I know. she shouldn't have been standing there. but now's not the time for finger-pointing, we've gotta go save dad before Cranky shuts up the valley forever. (Mrs. Bill: Blinky! Greenpatch needs us here. If we don't stand up to Cranky, who will?) Dad will! I know which way he went, I saw his marker! Mum, come on. Mum? (Mrs. Bill: It's been a year, love.) Exactly! We have to go to the sea of white dragons and save him! (Mrs. Bill: There's mo such place, Blinky. There's nothing out there but desert. It's just a myth!) But... What if it's not? (Mrs. Bill: I can't lose you too, Blinky I'm sorry. But i forbid you to go.) THAT'S NOT FAIR. You might have given up on dad, but i haven't. And dad says YOU NEVER GIVE UP! (Mrs. Bill: Blinky!) NEVER GIVE UP! [he rans off to his bedroom she sighs, In his room he throw the ball to a wall with the bat he hears the bedroom door behind] (Mrs: Bill: Blinky?) Blinky's not here! (Mrs. Bill: Well, can you give the message that his mum loves him?) I'll think about it. [she sighs and walks away and now he hits the ball again it around to his room and he spot the sea of white dragon] Dad, I'm not giving up if the sea of white dragons really exist, I'll find you."

- Blinky Bill running away to find his father at the Australian Outback without his mother what Mayor Cranklepot taking over Greenpatch after he accidentally broke the statue.

"(Timmy becomes fed up about his parents not listening to him about Vicky once again.) They didn't believe me about Vicky, AGAIN! (Timmy rips up the Bo Peep costume.) I AM SO SICK OF IT! (Cosmo and Wanda poof out of the fish bowl.) (Wanda: Aw, Timmy. They're just trying to raise you to be a mature responsible adult. Everybody has to grow up sometime.) (Timmy sees the characters that he watches on TV as they have stayed the same age forever.) Not The Futurellis! Not Heavy Hal! Not Johnny Hunt! They've all been the same age forever, and if I was a kid forever, I'd never have to lose you guys! (Cosmo and Wanda become shocked and concerned at what Timmy has said.) (Wanda: Oh, I don't like where this is going.) (Cosmo: Neither do the puppets.) I do. It's going into television. Where nobody grows up, ever! I wish I had another magic remote. (Cosmo poofs up another magic TV remote for Timmy to replace the one that was confiscated by his parents and given to Vicky.) I'm running away and I'm running away into television! (The Masked Man regains consciousness.) (Masked Man: How long I've been out? [He sees Timmy with the magic TV remote.] The remote. There's still time.) (Timmy writes a note to his parents.) Don't ever bother looking for me, because you'll never ever, ever find me. (Cosmo: EVUR! What? It helps with the drama.) (Timmy places the note on top of the TV and activates the magic TV remote as Cosmo and Wanda join Timmy to leave for the TV Universe.) Goodbye... FOREVER! (Timmy, Cosmo and Wanda magically teleport to the TV Universe and the Masked Man arrives to stop Timmy.) (Masked Man: Stop, wait!) (The Masked Man decides that he has no choice to follow Timmy into the TV Universe and he dives into the TV just before the magic dissipates. Just then, Mr. and Mrs. Turner return home with ammo and are about to fire at Dinkleberg's house.) (Mr. Turner: Well, we got the ammo.) (Mr. and Mrs. Turner enter Timmy's destroyed bedroom, only to become shocked that their son isn't there. They discover the note.) (Mrs. Turner: Goodbye Forevur! He's gone.) (Mrs. Turner begins to cry and Mr. Turner pushes his wife away and discovers the misspell.) (Mr. Turner: And he misspelled ever! Oh, but he can spell Dinkleberg just fine!) (Mr. Turner crumbles the note and does an angry stare about his son's disappearance.)"

- Timmy Turner running away after he been blamed on by his parents by Vicky for destroying the Turner house.

"(Moses flees to the outskirts of Egypt. Rameses follows him on his carriage.) (Rameses: Moses! Moses!) (Rameses drives his chariot in front of Moses to stop him. Moses just walks around it.) Let me go! (Rameses: No, wait!) You saw what happened--I just killed a man! (Rameses: We can take care of that! I-I will make it so it never happened!) Nothing you can say can change what I've done! (Rameses: I am Egypt! The morning and evening star! If I say, "day is night", it will be written! And you will be who I say you are. [He places his hands on Moses' shoulders to stop him] I say you are innocent.) (Moses shoves Rameses away) What you say does not matter! (sighs) You don't understand. I can't stay here any longer! (Rameses: Moses...) NO! All I've ever known to be true is a lie! I'm not who you think I am. (Rameses: What are you talking about?) Go ask the man I once called "Father." (turns, walks away) (Rameses, on the verge of tears: Moses? Please!) (Moses sadly gives Rameses one final look in the eye) Good-bye, Brother. (turns and runs into the desert) (Rameses: Moses! MOSES!)"

- Moses exiles himself from from Egypt after accidentally killing a slaver while trying to stop him from sadistically whipping a Hebrew slave.

"(Jimmy is disgruntled because he is grounded and can't go out to the convention as it's a school night.) What good is it to be a genius if you can't even go out on a school night? (He sits up.) Goddard, options. (Goddard reveals options of what to do after Jimmy got grounded.) (Goddard: Apologize, your parents love you.) (Jimmy thinks in silence) Next. (Goddard reveals the next option) (Goddard: Create a time capsule, escape to the future.) That'll take too long. Next. (Goddard reveals the next option) (Goddard: Build Goddard a female poodle.) (Jimmy is annoyed at this option.) Goddard, this is serious! (Goddard reveals the next option) (Goddard: SNEAK OUT.) That's it. Barbaric problems call for barbaric solutions."

- Jimmy Neutron decides to leave home after he was grounded after a rocket accident on a school night.

"(Melody stomps along the beach after a harsh argument with her mother.) (Sebastian: Oh, now, child, it's gonna be okay. You know, when I was a teenager, you couldn't get me out of my shell for nothin'. I had this high, squeaky voice and these itty-bitty little pincers. And then one day, boom! I sound like Caruso and these whoppers pop out! [Sebastian turns to see Melody shoving a rowboat into the sea and boarding it!] Young lady, just where do you think you're going?!) I've gotta figure this out! (Sebastian leaps onto Melody's rowboat in an attempt to stop her.) This necklace means something. And if no one's gonna tell me, I'm gonna find out myself! (Melody grabs the oars and starts to row, knocking Sebastian off the boat and into the water. The crab helplessly watches her row into the distance.) (Sebastian: MELODY, PLEASE! YOU'RE MAKING A BIG MISTAKE!) (Meanwhile, in Morgana's lair, the sea witch watches the whole thing from her crystal bubble and snickers evilly.) (Morgana: Oh, this is delicious. This is devine!) (Undertow: Let's go, flatsos!) (Undertow swims away with Cloak and Dagger following.) (Morgana: Hurry, Undertow. There's a little girl out there who needs our help.) (Morgana smirks wickedly.)"

- Melody running away from home to find out the secret of her locket after a harsh argument with her mother, ignoring Sebastian's protests. To make matters worse, Morgana has seen the whole thing via her crystal bubble and sends Undertow to find Melody and bring her to her.

"(Angelica throws a temper tantrum after Drew punished her for wrecking his home office.) It's not fair. It's not fair. IT'S NOT FAIR!!!! (Angelica calms down and thinks of a better idea.) Wait a minute. I know. I'll run away. Yeah that's it. Then they'll be sorry they punished me. (Angelica has her stuff packed up and leaves her room, but sees Drew and hides from him while Drew is busy cleaning up his home office.) (Drew Pickles: Charlotte, something's wrong with the fax machine.) (Charlotte Pickles: Use the one in the bedroom.) (Charlotte goes back to her phone call.) (Charlotte Pickles: If it were my decision, you know what I would say. I'm always right, you know these things. Listen, I am telling you the junk bond market is coming back and I, for one, intend to be in a position to take advantage of it.) (Angelica secretly leaves and makes it outside using the backdoor and then puts her stuff in her electric toy car and she drives off without her parents knowing that she is gone.) Ahh, the open road! We made it, Cynthia. Sweet freedom."

- Angelica Pickles running away after Drew punished her for wrecking his home office in the Rugrats episode, "Runaway Angelica".

"[At the post race press conference] (Darrell Cartrip: Francesco, over here! Hey, what was your strategy today? (Francesco: Strategia? Francesco needs-a no strategy, it's-a very simple: You start the race, wait for Lightning McQueen to choke, pass him, then win. Francesco always-a wins, it's boring.) [Lightning rolls his eyes.] (Darrell: I gotta tell you, dude, you were in trouble for awhile. That dirt track section had you crawlin'.) [Lightning notices Mater leaving and sneaks off.] (Francesco: To truly crush one's dream, you must first raise their hopes very high.) (Lightning McQueen: [meets up with Mater in his pit garage] MATER!) Hey, McQueen! What happened, is the race over? You won, right? (Lightning McQueen: Mater, why were you yelling things at me while I was racing?!) "Yellin'"? Oh, you thought... [chuckles] Oh, that's funny right there. Naw. See, that's 'cause I seen these two fellers doing some sort of karate street performance. It was nutso. One of 'em even had a flamethrower... (Lightning McQueen: [with disbelief] A flamethrower? What are you talking about? I-I don't understand. Where were you?) Goin' to meet my date. (Lightning McQueen: Your date?) Mater: She started talkin' to me as a voice in my head, tellin' me where to go– (Lightning McQueen: WHAT?!) Mater: Wait a minute. I didn't screw you up, did I? (Lightning McQueen: I LOST THE RACE BECAUSE OF YOU!) Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to! (Lightning McQueen: An imaginary girlfriend, flamethrowers?! You know, this is exactly why I don't bring you along to these things!) Maybe if I... I don't know, talk to somebody, and explain what happened, I could help... (Lightning McQueen: I DON'T NEED YOUR HELP! I DON'T WANT YOUR HELP!) [drives off, but is stopped by the paparazzi and Mater's feelings are hurt] (Reporter 1: Hey, there he is!) (Reporter 2: McQueen, you had it in the bag!) (Reporter 3: Yeah, what happened?) (Lightning McQueen: I-I made a mistake, but I can assure you, it won't happen again.) [Mater slumps. He drives over to the TV monitors] (Lightning McQueen: Look, guys, we know what the problem is, and we've taken care of it!) [Mater sadly drives away]"

- Mater driving away after being harshly berated by Lightning McQueen for unintentionally causing him to lose the Tokyo race.

"(Balto has just saved a completely unsuspecting Aleu from being shot by a hunter. He, Aleu, Boris and Muk & Luk hide in the bushes as the Hunter regains consciousness.) (Hunter: The spirits must be trying to trick me!) (The hunter leaves) I don't understand, Papa! Why did you attack him? What if he wanted to adopt me?) (Balto nervously turns to Boris, Muk & Luk) (Balto: Uh, guys? Could you help me out here?) (Muk: Oh, of course. [Luk nudges him in the shoulder] Ow! Uh, sorry, mate, b-b-but a wise polar bear always minds his own business.) (Luk shoves Muk as he leads him away) (Boris: [clears throat] Ah-hem. It is my opinion that--WAAH! [Luk grabs Boris by the neck and leads him away as well]) Well? (Balto: [sighs] Okay. See, that hunter was looking for wild animals to kill for food and furhunter was looking for wild animals to kill for food and fur.) So? I'm not a wild animal! Well, he thought you were.) (Aleu becomes shocked) What?! Why? (Balto: He thought you were a wolf.) (Aleu slumps. Later, at Balto's beached shipwreck home...) Oh! I knew there was something wrong with me! (Balto: There is nothing wrong with you. You have a proud heritage.) Oh, sure! (Balto: You're mother is a purebred husky.) Then what are you? (Balto: I-I'm the one who's part wolf.) How could this happen? (Balto: Look, Aleu. My dad was a husky who had pups with a wolf.) Great! My grandmother was a wild animal? Did the wolf teach you how to know when a human wants to kill you? (Balto: I was accidentally seperated from her when I was young, so I never spent much time with the wolf. But I remember that she was as white as snow, and she had this warm voice that made me feel safe. Then Boris took me in, and after being raised by a goose, it's a wonder I don't honk instead of bark.) Why didn't you tell me this before? (Balto: I was trying to protect you.) Protect me? From what? From the fact that no human will ever want me because I'm part wild animal? (Balto: Aleu!) And what about my brothers and sisters? They've got wolf in them, too! Why did humans want them?! (Balto: Because they don't look it. [sighs] And you do.) It's not fair. I hate you! (Aleu leaps off the boat and runs off) (Balto: ALEU! Aleu, come back!) LEAVE ME ALONE! (Aleu runs into the distance, sobbing)"

- Aleu running away after Balto reveals to her that she's part and more wolf in her than husky (which is why nobody wanted to adopt her).

"(Kiara runs to confront Simba after he exiles Kovu and ignoring Rafiki who was watching in sadness) Father, please reconsider. (Simba, sternly: You will not go anywhere without an escort from now on.) No, that's not-- (Simba: He used you to get to me!) He love's me...for me! (Simba very stubbornly: Because you are my daughter! You will not leave Pride Rock. You will stay where I can keep an eye on you...AWAY from him.) You don't know him! (Simba: I know he's following in Scar's pawprints...and I must follow in my father's) (angrily) You will NEVER be Mufasa! (Simba looks at her in shock, stunned and silent at what she said) (Kiara cries and runs to the den and Simba looks away sadly and disappointingly at the clouds for defying his father's paw prints and breaking the Circle of Life) (Kiara notices a hole in the wall and runs away from Pride Rock)"

- Kiara running away from Pride Rock after a defiant Simba coldly exiles Kovu believing he was involved in Zira's ambush, forbidding Kiara to near him, which result to defy his father's pawprints he himself to follow, breaking the Circle of Life and telling him that he will never be Mufasa.