History Main / HermitGuru

* ''Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space''. Tumok of Mars talks of how he consulted a 900-year old sage on Olympus Mons. After months of {{Ice Cream Koan}}s and WordSaladPhilosophy, he loses patience and bangs the sage's head against the hardest rock he can find. On recovering consciousness, the sage tells Tumok that he's discovered the wisdom he was looking for. "For it is only when you stop screwing around with this existential rubbish that you ever achieve anything."

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* In ''Webcomic/KoanOfTheDay,'' the guru advises his student to travel to visit a hermit who will [[http://www.koanoftheday.com/34/ answer any question]].

* Guru Pathik in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', pictured above. He's a bit odd but essentially kind natured.

* The Wise Man from the Mountains in ''RaumschiffGamestar''.

* ''KillBill 2'' has Pei Mei, a kung-fu master living in an ancient temple who trained the Bride. He is an evil prick who probably ended up living alone on a mountain because very few people are crazy enough to spend more time in his company than is absolutely necessary.

* K'anpo Rimpoche/Cho Je from the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "Planet of the Spiders" (also mentioned in "The Time Monster") was a hermit who the Doctor approached in his youth at what was at that point the worst day of his life.

* One CharlesAddams cartoon has a line of people climbing a mountain to consult a guru who is surrounded on three sides by massive banks of 1960's-style computers.

* Eudy and Nessiah in ''BlazeUnion''. It's played with, as neither of them is really isolated by choice.
* Does [[KnightsOfTheOldRepublic Jolee Bindo]] count? The old Jedi did live in the Shadowlands for at least twenty years more or less by choice. [[RetiredBadass And he isn't rusty in the slightest]].

* The Guru of ''VideoGame/SlyCooper: Band of Thieves'', an aboriginal guru who can possess people by jumping on their backs.
* Sahasrahla, and to some extent the old man on DeathMountain, in ''TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast''.

* K'anpo Rimpoche/Cho Je from the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial ''Planet of the Spiders'' (also mentioned in ''The Time Monster'') was a hermit who the Doctor approached in his youth at what was at that point the worst day of his life.

* This character is common in {{Ziggy}} as well.
* In one gag in the FMinus comic strip, a mountaintop hermit offers the advice, "Don't major in philosophy."

'''Guru:''' "Thank you. Come again."\\

'''Guru:''' "Yes. I hope this has been enlightening."
'''Apu:''' "Bu-"
'''Guru:''' "Thank you. Come again."

'''Guru:''' "Yes. Thank you! Come again!"

* Parodied in the ''MonkeyIsland'' adventure games by Herman Toothrot.

* ''KillBill 2'' has Pei Mei, a kung-fu master living in an ancient temple who trained the Bride.
** As a minor subversion, he is an evil prick who probably ended up living alone on a mountain because very few people are crazy enough to spend more time in his company than is absolutely necessary.
** [[TooDumbToLive And he probably saw to them pretty quickly.]]

* Guru Pathik in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', pictured above.

* ''KillBill 2'' had a kung-fu master living in an ancient temple who trained the Bride.

The HermitGuru lives on a mountain, in an ancient temple, or anyplace suitably remote. The guru is usually a male, but even the wise witch that lives in a cave could be considered a HermitGuru.