1. The Steps of the Hero’s Journey pattern as outlined by Joseph Campbell

2. Stage One: The Departure
The Call to Adventure
The Refusal of the Call
Supernatural Aid
Crossing the First Threshold
Entering the Belly of the Whale

3. The Call to Adventure
Luke Skywalker finds the hologram of Princess Leia.
Harry Potter receives letters inviting him to Hogwarts.
Dorothy is told to find a place where she won’t get into any trouble. She sings about going over the rainbow.

4. Harry’s Uncle Vernon refuses to let Harry read his letters.
The Refusal of the Call
Jonah runs away after God told him to go to Nineveh.
Harry’s Uncle Vernon refuses to let Harry read his letters.
Bilbo Baggins informs Gandalf that he doesn’t want to go on any adventures.

5. Hagrid arrives to find out why Harry hasn’t answered his letters.
Supernatural Aid
Hagrid arrives to find out why Harry hasn’t answered his letters.
God sends a storm as punishment against the ship in which Jonah is attempting to escape.
Dorothy meets a “Fortune Teller” who insists that she go home to her family.

6. Crossing the First Threshold
Marty McFly gets the Delorean up to 88 mph and travels back in time.
Percy Jackson enters Camp Half-Blood, but his mother cannot cross the threshold.
Indiana Jones picks up the trail where his father was last seen and breaks through the floor to find the tomb of Sir Richard.

7. Entering the Belly of the Whale
Jonah is swallowed by a large fish and must repent before being released.
Dorothy finds herself in the Land of Oz and must go to the Emerald City to find a way home.
A young Indiana Jones falls into a boxcar filled with snakes, which forces him to move forward in an attempt to escape.

8. Stage Two: The Initiation
The Road of Trials
Meeting with the God/Goddess
Facing the Tempter
Companions on the Journey
Atonement with the Father
The Apotheosis
Receiving the Ultimate Boon

9. The Road of Trials
Hercules must complete twelve labors to atone for the sin of killing his family.
Dorothy must travel the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City.
Greg Mortenson and his crew of workers from the village of Korphe in Pakistan must carry the lumber to build their school when the trucks are unable to get through with the supplies.

10. Meeting the God/Goddess
Luke Skywalker learns the wisdom of the Jedi from Yoda.
Korphe village chief Haji Ali teaches Greg Mortenson about the life of the Pakistani and helps him to assimilate.
Harry Potter relies on Dumbledore to guide him through his trials at Hogwarts.

11. Facing the Tempter
Luke Skywalker must resist Darth Vader’s frequent attempts to lure him to The Dark Side.
The Wicked Witch of the West tries to foil Dorothy’s attempts to get home.
Marty McFly constantly runs into his nemesis, Biff Tanner, throughout his travels through time.

12. Companions on the Journey
The Lion, the Tin Man, and the Scarecrow all sought the same things that Dorothy needed to find in herself.
Luke Skywalker could count of Chewbacca and Han Solo to get him out of a jam.
Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley traveled the same road as Harry Potter throughout their time at Hogwarts.

13. Atonement with the Father
Harry is able to see his parents and make peace with his past through the Mirror of Erised.
Indiana Jones realizes that he might lose his father forever and does what he needs to do in order to save him.
Dorothy finally admits how badly she wishes to be back home with her family.

14. Apotheosis
Harry must defeat Voldemort in each of the adventure novels.
Greg Mortenson’s completed Korphe school.
The Grail Knight tells Indiana Jones that he must “choose wisely” in order to claim the Holy Grail and save his father.

15. Receiving the Ultimate Boon
After rising to the Green Knight’s challenge, Gawain is permitted to keep the magical Green Girdle.
Arthur draws Excalibur from the stone and becomes King of all England.
In “Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull”, Indy learns that he has a son only after the two have survived several adventures.

16. Stage Three: The Return
The Refusal of the Return
The Magic Flight
Help From Without
Crossing the Return Threshold
The Master of Two Worlds
Freedom to Live

17. The Refusal of the Return
Harry hates having to return to the Dursleys at the end of each school year.
Even after Indiana warns Elsa Schneider that the Grail cannot cross the Great Seal, she decides to try to take it anyway.
Dorothy hesitates when she says good-bye to the Scarecrow, telling him that she will miss him most of all.

18. Luke Skywalker escapes the Death Star in the Millennium Falcon.
The Magic Flight
Neo “jacks in” to the Matrix to fight the agents.
Luke Skywalker escapes the Death Star in the Millennium Falcon.
Dorothy attempts to ride in the balloon with the “Wizard” of Oz, but when she jumps out to catch a runaway Toto, the balloon leaves without her.

19. Help From Without
Glinda returns to tell Dorothy how to use her ruby slippers.
Henry Jones, Sr. tells Indy to let the Grail go in order to save his son.
Luke Skywalker hears Obi Wan Kenobi's encouragement in his head: “Use the Force, Luke!” as he tries to escape the Death Star.

20. Crossing the Return Threshold
Dorothy clicks her heels together three times and says, “There’s no place like home…”
When the clock tower is struck by lightning, Doc Brown sends 1.21 gigawatts of electricity into the flux capacitor, sending Marty back to the future.
The Goonies escape from the Pirate Cave minutes before the wall collapses, freeing the long-hidden pirate ship.

21. The Master of Two Worlds
Dorothy wakes up and remembers that all of her friends and family were part of her dream
Luke Skywalker and Han Solo are rewarded at the Yavin Ceremony
Bilbo Baggins writes his memoires of his adventure and entitles them “There, and Back Again”

22. Freedom to Live
Jack Sparrow and Will Turner survive to continue their adventures
Peter Parker turns away from MJ in order to protect her from Spiderman’s enemies as he continues to fight crime
Harry Potter continues his education at Hogwarts School of Magic