History Main / TheHermit

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* ''{{Deadlands}}'': The ''Fire & Brimstone'' supplement included a Hermit archetype for Blessed characters.

* Parodied in a ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' sketch about hermits living in caves on a mountainside.

* Radagast the Brown in ''Film/TheHobbit''.

* Somewhat TruthInTelevision with people who have Schizoid personality disorder. People with the condition do not suffer from social anxiety nor to they particularly desire to go out and interact with others, and many still manage to hold jobs and spouses. They simply prefer to be alone, and cut themselves off. Of course with the new DSM-V criteria it won't be considered a disorder any more.

-->--Ambrose Bierce, ''TheDevilsDictionary''

->'''The Doctor:''' Bit of a hermit.
->'''Professor Yana:''' A hermit? With ''friends''?
->'''The Doctor:''' Hermits United. We meet up every 10 years, swap stories about caves. It's good fun. For a hermit.
-->--''Series/DoctorWho''

* Gottfried from ''LeScorpion''.
* There have been a few ArchieComics stories about hermits-- one was about a hermit teen who ran away from foster care and lived in a cave. He chased away any intruders, until Betty got in trouble-- then he swooped in, rescued her, and decided he liked people and wanted to live among them again.

* At the beginning of ''StarWars'' Obi-Wan Kenobi is living in this way on a desert planet, as is Yoda later on in the Original Trilogy in a swamp. The prequel films show that both are effectively in hiding from the Empire.

Despite their reclusive lifestyle, fictional hermits may be either friendly or hostile. If a hermit is friendly, their reason for living alone will be that [[MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold they simply enjoy the solitude]]. If the hermit is hostile, it's because [[MaddenedIntoMisanthropy they're misanthropic]]. On occasion, the hero will encounter a religious hermit.

* Somewhat TruthinTelevision with people who have Schizoid personality disorder. People with the condition do not suffer from social anxiety nor to they particularly desire to go out and interact with others, and many still manage to hold jobs and spouses. They simply prefer to be alone, and cut themselves off. Of course with the new DSM-V criteria it won't be considered a disorder any more.

* 'Arry the 'Ermit from ''QuestForGlory I: So You Want to be a Hero'' is very friendly and loves company, but is still very much a 'ermit.

* Benjamin from ''ACanticleForLeibowitz'', who may or may not also be [[spoiler: the pilgrim from the first portion of the book, the Old Jew from the third, and/or Leibowitz himself]].

* Benjamin from ''ACanticleForLeibowitz'', who may or may not also be [[spoiler: the pilgrim from the first portion of the book, the Old Jew from the third, and/or [[TheImmortal Leibowitz himself]] ]].

* One episode of BoyMeetsWorld features an ImagineSpot after the group of friends begin playing pranks on one another in which this causes a rift between them and breaks them apart. In this fantasy, Eric becomes a hermit living alone purifying and re-drinking his own urine, having changed his name to Plays-With-Squirrels. He wrote an immense manifesto (claiming that every hermit has one), which includes a thousand blank pages and only one with writing on it- "Lose one friend, lose all friends, lose yourself."

* A MadMathematician hermit is a major plot point in Theatre/{{Arcadia}}. By the end of the play, we know it was [[spoiler: Septimus]].

* At the beginning of ''{{Star Wars}}'' Obi-Wan Kenobi is living in this way on a desert planet, as is Yoda later on in the Original Trilogy in a swamp. The prequel films show that both are effectively in hiding from the Empire.

* Parodied in a ''MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' sketch about hermits living in caves on a mountainside.

Compare TheAloner, for whom social isolation is a terrible punishment.

* Monty Python's ''LifeOfBrian'' has at least one scene with a traditional religious hermit, who's had his eye on a particular bush of berries.

* The Once-Ler in ''TheLorax''. He lives near the wreckage of his old factory and never ventures outside. This is largely due to his guilt complex.

-->HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.

-->'''The Doctor:''' Bit of a hermit.
-->'''Professor Yana:''' A hermit? With ''friends''?
-->'''The Doctor:''' Hermits United. We meet up every 10 years, swap stories about caves. It's good fun. For a hermit.

* The early Christian hermits who lived in the deserts of Egypt and Palestine in the fourth and fifth centuries AD, although there are still monks and nuns who follow this tradition and live as hermits.

* Timon of ''TimonOfAthens'' becomes a hermit once he is sufficiently MaddenedIntoMisanthropy, and unlike most examples, he's not friendly to visitors ''at all''.