lonewolf way of life theme

Someone deliberately shuns contact with others and prefers to live alone as much as they can.

8 total · 7 major · 1 minor

StoryLevelMotivation
ahp5x01 major Arthur time and again came back to how much he liked to live alone and somewhat in seclusion from society. In fact, he murdered a woman in order to preserve this way of life.
movie: Dersu Uzala (1975) major Dersu; old man encountered
movie: Escape from LA (1996) major The story's antihero Snake Plissken was the kind of guy who wasn't looking to make any friends and called no man mister.
movie: Escape from New York (1981) major The story's antihero Snake Plissken was the kind of guy who wasn't looking to make any friends and called no man mister.
movie: Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) major Both Han Solo and Tobias Beckett exemplified this lifestyle.
movie: Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983) major Wolff lived a lifestyle that was true to his name, and let Niki know that he wasn't ever going to adopt her. But in the end he invited her to come and stay together with him.
movie: X-Men (2000) major Wolverine made no bones about the fact that he didn't much care about the X-men community of mutants, and was content to find his own path in life.
movie: Survival Earth (1985) minor Simon made a number of statements to the effect that he didn't need companionship, especially female companionship, and that he enjoyed his survivalist existence.