History Main / TheHermit

** Patch 1.5 introduced Birdie, an old woman living alone in a hut on Ginger Island, se survives by fishing and foraging wild fruits and vegetables. She gives a ChainOfDeals quest that concludes with the player giving her a locket that belonged to her late pirate husband.

* ''VideoGame/StardewValley'': Linus is an old man who made the conscious decision to live in a tent by the lake in the mountains near Robin's house, living off wild forage (and leftovers fished out of people's garbage cans). He's something of an outcast among the other villagers, but if the player befriends him he'll teach them a few cooking recipes, and how to make Wild Bait for fishing.

Most classic hermits to live in swamps, jungles, deserts, or caves; and are often shown to be {{Older Than Dirt}}. Modern hermits are more likely to live in cities or towns, but be highly, highly withdrawn, to the point of never interacting with the outside world. {{Hikikomori}}, BasementDweller, and the ReclusiveArtist are some examples.

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' has Kasen Ibaraki, The One-Armed, Horned Hermit. She lives on her own, and is about as eccentric as most people in [[MagicalLand Gensokyo]]. However, she is also tasked with aiding people with her wisdom, so she's not a complete recluse. Though called an Evil Hermit, Seiga Kaku is not much for isolation (what with masterminding religious takeovers and living with a [[ChineseVampire zombie]]).

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* At the start of ''ComicBook/{{Silverblade}}'', Jonathan Lord is this. After making his last film in 1967, he withdrew to his palatial estate Shangri-la and made no public appearances for the next 20 years: preferring to remain in his mansion watching his old movies.

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* ''FanFic/DontKeepYourDistance'': Morris the Iguana left the big city he was from on his motorcycle out of grief when a friend died and drove mindlessly into the forest, eventually happening upon the village Sunny Clearing and deciding to start a new life there when the locals took him in. Quickly, however, he realized he didn't much get along with them owing to their closed-minded mentality, but he does participate in communal activities anyway, it being only fair. One of these activities, a search for food in the woods, was when he found the protagonist, Paint, as a helpless infant.

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* Several of Creator/CarlHiaasen's novels include a recurring hermit named "Skink" who's sworn off society and lived the last 40-some years wandering the Florida Everglades, subsiding off roadkill and occasionally surfacing to lend his hand to a struggling individual or exact some vigilante justice on those who he feels have wronged nature. Only a few people know that he's actually Clinton Tyree, a former Governor who famously resigned and went missing after becoming disenchanted with the rampant corruption that permeated Florida politics.

** St. Ungulant in ''Literature/SmallGods'' is a religious hermit. The Omnian Church encourages them, since if people are ''going'' to ask questions about the nature of belief, it's best they do it out in the wilderness where no one can hear them.

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* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'': It's no big surprise that he would enjoy being alone, but the circumstances at hand make it tragic. Daryl Dixon becomes a hermit in Season 9 Episode 5. After Rick Grimes blows up the bridge the communities were building to destroy a massive walker herd and seemingly sacrificed himself, Daryl cried over the loss of his "brother". He then silently realizes that his and Maggie's actions trying to kill Negan ended up getting Rick "killed" instead. As a result, Daryl walks off alone and lived in the woods for six long years. In the six years he spent in the woods, Daryl desperately tried to find Rick's body or evidence of survival for closure. At some point he did find a dog he simply called "Dog" who he trained and kept around for company. However, it can be presumed that Daryl spent a vast majority of the six years living in the woods completely by himself.
** It's partly subverted because he encountered Michonne looking for Rick's body on the riverbank about eight months after Rick blew up the bridge. Later on the next day, he helps her find Judith and the other missing children who were kidnapped by Michonne's old friend Jocelyn and her group. It is also subverted partially because Daryl told Carol where to find him if she wanted to see him. However, dialogue between Henry and Daryl suggest that Carol hasn't seen much of Daryl after the bridge explosion. As such, Daryl spent many years completely cut off from his allies who cared about him.

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

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* Babs from ''Webcomic/{{Unfamiliar}}'' became one as a result of her siren powers constantly drawing unwanted attention to herself.

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* There's of course the Tarot card named "The Hermit", which represents contemplative solitude.

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* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': Bronze dragons are the least sociable of the metallics and prefer to spend their time alone with their books and research, often spending years or decades at a time holed up in seclusion before being forced to return to society to acquire new reading material.

Hermits are folks who don't live around other folks -- and they like it that way. They never say IJustWantToHaveFriends and they aren't afraid of DyingAlone. Hermits aren't banished or cut off from society as punishment -- they willingly chose to leave it, for whatever reason. In addition they are often shown to be {{Older Than Dirt}} in fictions like Lord of the Rings.

Hermits are folks who don't live around other folks -- and they like it that way. They never say IJustWantToHaveFriends and they aren't afraid of DyingAlone. Hermits aren't banished or cut off from society as punishment -- they willingly chose to leave it, for whatever reason.In addition they are often shown to be {{Older Than Dirt}} in fictions like Lord of the Rings.

Most classic hermits to live in swamps, jungles, deserts, or caves. Modern hermits are more likely to live in cities or towns, but be highly, highly withdrawn, to the point of never interacting with the outside world. {{Hikikomori}}, BasementDweller, and the ReclusiveArtist are some examples.

* ''Franchise/ArchieComics'': There have been a few 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.

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** At the beginning of ''Film/ANewHope'', Obi-Wan Kenobi is living in this way on a desert planet called Tatooine, as is Yoda in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' in a swamp located in Dagobah. The prequel films show that both are effectively in hiding from the Empire.
** In ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', [[spoiler:Luke Skywalker becomes a hermit on an isolated island after his nephew and former apprentice massacred the new Jedi order.]]

Hermits are folks who don't live around other folks -- and they like it that way. They never say IJustWantToHaveFriends and they aren't afraid of DyingAlone. Hermits aren't banished or cut off from society as punishment -- they willingly chose to leave it, for whatever reason.

** ''Literature/{{Snuff}}'' introduces a hermit who lives on Sybil's countryside property, because apparently having a hermit on one's land was once fashionable among the nobility and they like to keep up traditions. This one wanders around speaking cryptic philosophy and being filthy, but gets a week's vacation each year during which he behaves normally and is actually popular with the ladies, ensuring that he will have sons to carry on the profession.

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* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Thomas_Knight/ North Pond Hermit]] lived for over 25 years in the woods of central Maine with virtually no interaction with other people (other than breaking into their camps) until he was finally caught and arrested in 2013.

** St. Ungulant in ''Discworld/SmallGods'' is a religious hermit. The Omnian Church encourages them, since if people are ''going'' to ask questions about the nature of belief, it's best they do it out in the wilderness where no one can hear them.
** ''Discworld/{{Snuff}}'' introduces a hermit who lives on Sybil's countryside property, because apparently having a hermit on one's land was once fashionable among the nobility and they like to keep up traditions. This one wanders around speaking cryptic philosophy and being filthy, but gets a week's vacation each year during which he behaves normally and is actually popular with the ladies, ensuring that he will have sons to carry on the profession.

* Famously, Creator/HenryDavidThoreau spent a bit over two years living in comparative solitude at Walden Pond, which formed the basis for his book ''Walden''. He often entertained visitors, however, and returned to society once his time was over, so his stay at Walden was more of a social experiment in simple living than an official hermit lifestyle.