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* ''Film/{{Soldier}}:'' Todd encounters a group of shipwreck survivors on an uncharted planet led by a compassionate but sometimes close-minded old woman.
* ''Series/{{Defiance}}:'' "Wasteland" might be a strong word, but Earth has been terraformed, suffered a big population drop, and been partially occupied by aliens. Nicky Riordan (an older woman with an oxygen tank) is the isolated mayor of the eponymous mining town and seems like a perfect Wasteland Elder, only her first scene has her retiring in favor of a younger mayor and it turns out that she's the DiscOneFinalBoss and is trying to destroy the town to get at a spaceship beneath it.
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* Jack in ''Series/{{Lost}}'' seems to have fallen into this position, although the degree to which he brought it on himself is debatable.
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* ''Series/{{Jericho}}:'' In the aftermath of a series of nuclear bombings, small-town Colorado mayor and retired Army Ranger Johnston Greene struggles to keep his town safe and stable amidst threats like nuclear fallout, the cessation of outside food shipments, and TriggerHappy looters. Even after he's voted out of office in favor of a more gung-ho rival, Johnston remains a force for wisdom and stability. Phil Constantino, the sheriff turned mayor of the neighboring town of New Bern, also starts out as such a character but quickly turns into a WastelandWarlord.
* Jack in ''Series/{{Lost}}'' seems to have fallen into thisposition, position among the stranded plane crash survivors, although the degree to which he brought it on himself is debatable.
* Jack in ''Series/{{Lost}}'' seems to have fallen into this
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* ''Literature/SkyJumpers:'' Mr. Hudson was only twelve during the war that wiped out of humanity several decades before the book, and serves as the SoleSurvivingScientist of the town, with his {{Steampunk}} inventions helping make life easier. He's neither the leader of the town nor the oldest remaining survivor, but he's probably the smartest of them, and when he presents ideas to the town council, they take him very seriously.
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* ''Literature/TheHost:'' Melanie's uncle, Jeb, is leading a group of about thirty-five people hiding in a system of natural caverns during the PuppeteerParasite invasion. Jeb discovered the caverns and reserves a right to veto any votes by the rest of the community that go against his liking (with a flippant comment in the book and with his gun in the movie). However, his vetoes are all intelligent ones, and he has a fairly easy-going demeanor.
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* The final ''VideoGame/DarkForcesSaga'' tie-in novel features Fort Nowhere, a smuggling settlement on an isolated desert planet. After Fort Nowhere is discovered and nearly wiped out by Imperial remnants, the survivors fall under the leadership of Griff Grawley, a gray-haired, alcoholic farmer who lives out in the desert and [[CassandraTruth unsuccessfully tried to warn them about what was coming after encountering an Imperial probe droid.]] Taking up the job gives him some good CharacterDevelopment.
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* ''Film/TheMatrix:'' The subterranean post-apocalyptic city of Zion is ruled over by a CosmopolitanCouncil of twelve elderly leaders. Each comes across as a ReasonableAuthorityFigure to some degree, particularly Councilor Harmann, a CoolOldGuy who provides some words of advice to Neo before a big mission.
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** In ''Wish You Were Here,'' Rabb is a tough, cagey old fishermen with a SeadogBeard that's starting to go gray. He leads about thirty people in eking out a living on a previously uninhabited Scottish island and defending it from the Crossed (with a scheming former university lecturer as his self-appointed co-leader).
** In the '+100'' storyline, 100 years after the ZombieApocalypse, most of the resettled American settlements are governed by elderly, generally female, leaders and "Oldwoman" and "Oldman" are leadership titles. Most, if not all, of the ones to appear onscreen are killed by the Crossed or submit to them.
** Murfreesboro, a community of Muslims (whose belief system has altered somewhat over the last century) is led by a woman called the Ima'am, who seems younger than most of the other leaders, although not by that much. She's kind of a {{Jerkass}} to the protagonist and has some bad HeadInTheSandManagement moments, and is eventually forced to surrender her power to a KnightTemplar following a coup.
** One ''Mimic'' side story set in 2076 features a colony led by a man named James, a rugged survivalist type who is the only one of the group who was alive during C-Day, sixty-eight years earlier.
** In ''Wish You Were Here,'' Rabb is a tough, cagey old fishermen with a SeadogBeard that's starting to go gray. He leads about thirty people in eking out a living on a previously uninhabited Scottish island and defending it from the Crossed (with a scheming former university lecturer as his self-appointed co-leader).
** In the '+100'' storyline, 100 years after the ZombieApocalypse, most of the resettled American settlements are governed by elderly, generally female, leaders and "Oldwoman" and "Oldman" are leadership titles. Most, if not all, of the ones to appear onscreen are killed by the Crossed or submit to them.
** Murfreesboro, a community of Muslims (whose belief system has altered somewhat over the last century) is led by a woman called the Ima'am, who seems younger than most of the other leaders, although not by that much. She's kind of a {{Jerkass}} to the protagonist and has some bad HeadInTheSandManagement moments, and is eventually forced to surrender her power to a KnightTemplar following a coup.
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* By the end of ''Literature/EarthAbides'', Ish has outlived all of the other original survivors and is seen as a source of odd knowledge and advice by a tribe which now includes his grown great-grandchildren. During his prime, he tries to educate the new generation about the pre-pandemic society to restore their former glory, but it's a losing effort.
* By the end of ''Literature/EarthAbides'', Ish has outlived all of the other original survivors and is seen as a source of odd knowledge and advice by a tribe which now includes his grown great-grandchildren. During his prime, he tries to educate the new generation about the pre-pandemic society to restore their former glory, but it's a losing effort.
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* One ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'' one-shot story has Punisher go to an isolated town in the desert to help a Vietnam buddy against a MegaCorp which is after their mineral-rich land. The local leader, Roland Hugh, is a tinfoil hat-wearing ConspiracyTheorist who seems to be the oldest person there.
* ''Film/TheDarkTower:'' Roland and Jake go to a desert village in a society that's been post-apocalyptic for a long, long time to seek help from a psychic. The village leader is a white-bearded man who was a young man when the Gunslingers were still a major force. He is eager to help out Roland, despite some initial dissent from a few of his people.
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* The Old Woman in ''Film/TerminatorSalvation'' among the unfriendly survivors in the 7-11 gas station that Kyle Reese, Marcus Wright, and Star encounter after leaving Los Angeles. She and her clan get about two minutes of development and exposition before their "village" is squished by giant robots.
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* ''Film/StakeLand:'' The sequel features a fortified compound run by an aging ManlyGay BattleCouple who come across as pretty good leaders.
* The Old Woman in ''Film/TerminatorSalvation'' among the unfriendly survivors in the 7-11 gas station that Kyle Reese, Marcus Wright, and Star encounter after leaving Los Angeles. She and her clan get about two minutes of development and exposition before everyone in their "village" is squished or captured by giantrobots.robots.
* ''Film/Virus1980:'' In the final scene, SoleSurvivingScientist Dr. Latour is seen leading a ramshackle farming settlement with a few dozen other survivors (mainly women and children) of both ThePlague and the nuclear missile strike that largely wiped out humanity. He tries to keep them optimistic about the future, even as his medical knowledge can only save some of them.
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* ''Film/Virus1980:'' In the final scene, SoleSurvivingScientist Dr. Latour is seen leading a ramshackle farming settlement with a few dozen other survivors (mainly women and children) of both ThePlague and the nuclear missile strike that largely wiped out humanity. He tries to keep them optimistic about the future, even as his medical knowledge can only save some of them.
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** Played straight, then subverted in "The Old Man in the Cave." A town is managing to survive AfterTheEnd by following the directions of a hermit living in a cave in the nearby hills, who sends his instructions through more traditional WastelandElder. Then a group of really asshole soldiers show up and storm the cave, revealing the hermit to be [[spoiler: a computer that the real Wasteland Elder had been using to determine what food and areas were radioactive and therefore to be avoided. The soldiers and townspeople destroy in a fit of rage]]. After that, of course, they all die from not being able to tell what's radioactive or not.
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* In WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries'' season 2 "The Return of Quaid" episode, Rapunzel and Vex go to Quaid, the retired sheriff of Vardaros after unsuccessfully standing up to Weasel's attempts to rise to power. They discover that Quaid has retired to beekeeping and is out of practice, so Lance and the citizens help Quaid out by pretending to be thieves, allowing the townspeople to applaud him, which works... until it's discovered that Lance and the others were in on the scheme. Later on, Vex is made Quaid's deputy and she stands up to Weasel and his chief henchman, the Collector, and Quaid comes out of retirement to help revitalize the town, now that Weasel and the Collector have been run out of town, as Vardaros starts on the path to revival.
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* In WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries'' ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries'' season 2 "The Return of Quaid" episode, Rapunzel and Vex go to Quaid, the retired sheriff of Vardaros after unsuccessfully standing up to Weasel's attempts to rise to power. They discover that Quaid has retired to beekeeping and is out of practice, so Lance and the citizens help Quaid out by pretending to be thieves, allowing the townspeople to applaud him, which works... until it's discovered that Lance and the others were in on the scheme. Later on, Vex is made Quaid's deputy and she stands up to Weasel and his chief henchman, the Collector, and Quaid comes out of retirement to help revitalize the town, now that Weasel and the Collector have been run out of town, as Vardaros starts on the path to revival.
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* ''VideoGame/KnightsoftheOldRepublic'' has Rukil, an elder outcast from the Taris Undercity who searches for the long-sought "promised land" in hopes of leading his people towards a better existence.
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* In the manga version of ''Manga/{{Akira}},'' Lady Mikayo becomes this after taking in refugees in the wake of [[spoiler: Akira's AngstNuke wrecking Neo Tokyo]]. Eventually, she evolves into the de jure leader opposing [[spoiler: Tetsuo]]
* In the second story arc of ''Anime/ErgoProxy'', Hoody plays the role of the WastelandElder, though he bears a more flawed andManga]]human personality than others, and not everyone in the commune respects his word.
* In the manga version of ''Manga/{{Akira}},'' Lady Mikayo becomes this after taking in refugees in the wake of [[spoiler: Akira's AngstNuke wrecking Neo Tokyo]]. Eventually, she evolves into the de jure leader opposing [[spoiler: Tetsuo]]
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* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' comes across them from time to time whenever he heads out into the Cursed Earth. During "Origins", he meets one who is several old men fused together as one who prophesies doom when a child with two heads is born in his village, although one of the other judges in Dredd's party informs him of the abnormally high radiation count in the area.
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* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' comes across them from time to time whenever he heads out into the Cursed Earth. During "Origins", he meets one who is several old men fused together as one who prophesies doom when a child with two heads is born in his village, although one of the other judges in Dredd's party informs him of the abnormally high radiation count in the area.
* Edgar Friendly in ''Film/DemolitionMan'' is a weird version of this. The "wasteland" consists of an underground community in the sewers of San Angeles where people have gone to escape the [[CrapsaccharineWorld benign tyranny]] on the surface. Friendly has no desire to be a leader, but he's the one everyone listens to.
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* The Old Man in ''Film/TheSevenSamurai'' who probably inspired the example below.
* The Old Man in ''Film/TheSevenSamurai'' who probably inspired the ''Film/TheMagnicentSeven'' example above.
* Gilliam in ''{{Film/Snowpiercer}}'' is an equivalent, where he's the de facto leader of the lower class in the back section of the train that's travelling through the wasteland.
* Gilliam in ''{{Film/Snowpiercer}}'' is an equivalent, where he's the de facto leader of the lower class in the back section of the train that's travelling through the wasteland.
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The Wasteland Elder is the de facto leader of their small, rundown community. Maybe it's AfterTheEnd, it could be a {{Western}} frontier town fallen on hard times, or even just a tent town for squatters in the middle of a city. No one elected them, they never put their name in a sorting hat, nor do they push their leadership on their people. They're simply an old survivor and respected enough that their word carries weight. And since pretty much everyone can theoretically grow old, wise and respected enough to fill this trope, it is an [[UnisexTropes equal opportunity character.]]
If the Wasteland Elder is not leading their community, chances are the actual mayor is either corrupt or has been forced to help the BigBad. Classic roles for the Elder include acting as a first point of contact, quest-giver and MrExposition for the TheHero in the beginning. Later they may rally the UntrustingCommunity to [[TrainingThePeacefulVillagers take up arms]] and become a {{Posse}} or on the other hand side inspire the protagonist to come out of their HeroicBSOD. With a little luck, their community won't be dying like animals any longer - but of course, the Elder themself runs the risk of MentorOccupationalHazard.
If the Wasteland Elder is not leading their community, chances are the actual mayor is either corrupt or has been forced to help the BigBad. Classic roles for the Elder include acting as a first point of contact, quest-giver and MrExposition for the TheHero in the beginning. Later they may rally the UntrustingCommunity to [[TrainingThePeacefulVillagers take up arms]] and become a {{Posse}} or on the other hand side inspire the protagonist to come out of their HeroicBSOD. With a little luck, their community won't be dying like animals any longer - but of course, the Elder themself runs the risk of MentorOccupationalHazard.
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The Wasteland Elder is the de facto leader of their small, rundown community. Maybe it's AfterTheEnd, it could be a {{Western}} frontier town fallen on hard times, times or even just a tent town for squatters in the middle of a city. No one elected them, they never put their name in a sorting hat, nor do they push their leadership on their people. They're simply an old survivor and respected enough that their word carries weight. And since pretty much everyone can theoretically grow old, wise wise, and respected enough to fill this trope, it is an [[UnisexTropes equal opportunity character.]]
If the Wasteland Elder is not leading their community, chances are the actual mayor is either corrupt or has been forced to help the BigBad. Classic roles for the Elder include acting as a first point of contact,quest-giver quest-giver, and MrExposition for the TheHero in the beginning. Later they may rally the UntrustingCommunity to [[TrainingThePeacefulVillagers take up arms]] and become a {{Posse}} or on the other hand side inspire the protagonist to come out of their HeroicBSOD. With a little luck, their community won't be dying like animals any longer - but of course, the Elder themself runs the risk of MentorOccupationalHazard.
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** The trope was played somewhat more classically way back in the first appearance of [[MonsterClown Buggy the Clown]], although in that case he was the alder of a perfectly normal town which had only started to take on qualities of 'wasteland' recently after being occupied by circus-themed pirates.
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* In the ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' comics there's the "History Men". Old men who remember enough (or are just good enough at making stuff up) of the old world that they've effectively become the minstrels of the wasteland, regailing listeners with tales of wonder from the old (Pre-Apocalypse) world or the bravery of wasteland warriors. Their bodies are covered with etchings of random phrases like "MCDONALDS", "COCA COLA", "[[Creator/JrrTolkien JRR TOLKIEN]]" etc, effectively making them walking dictionaries. A History Man technically shows up in the movie too, but only in a pre-credits quote, although Miss Giddy seems to be a proto-History Woman with her tattoos and being entrusted with the Wives' education.
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* In the Creator/StrugatskyBrothers' novel ''Literature/PrisonersOfPower'', the mutant settlement on the southern frontier of the Fatherland have several, and a council formed thereby, but by far the most authoritative of them is a short, prematurely-aged man named "the Wizard", who is an outright genius, not to mention able to mind-control small animals. He and the others manage to keep the mutants alive, but between the various sicknesses and the increasingly horrible mutated lifeforms around them the future seems bleak. [[spoiler: [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism And the heroes really can't do anything to help]], although the mutants still let them stay and later give them a super plane.]]
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* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'': Several appear, with varying degrees of success, such as Hershel, Deanna and King Ezekiel.
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* Ethan in ''World Gone Wild'' is this, with more than a bit of TricksterMentor thrown in.
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** Subverted in "On Thursday We Leave for Home". Captain Benteen is the leader of the surviving colonists on the desert planet, who keeps them together and keeps their hopes up by telling them that there will be a ship coming from Earth to take them back home. But when that ship finally arrives, Benteen is less than willing to give up his position of leadership and authority, and tries to obstruct the efforts of the rescuers and keep them from taking "his people" back to Earth.
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* In the Film/MadMaxFuryRoad comics there's the "History Men". Old men who remember enough (or are just good enough at making stuff up) of the old world that they've effectively become the minstrels of the wasteland, regailing listeners with tales of wonder from the old (Pre-Apocalypse) world or the bravery of wasteland warriors. Their bodies are covered with etchings of random phrases like "MCDONALDS", "COCA COLA", "[[Creator/JrrTolkien JRR TOLKIEN]]" etc, effectively making them walking dictionaries. A History Man technically shows up in the movie too, but only in a pre-credits quote, although Miss Giddy seems to be a proto-History Woman with her tattoos and being entrusted with the Wives' education.
* In the Film/MadMaxFuryRoad comics there's the "History Men". Old men who remember enough (or are just good enough at making stuff up) of the old world that they've effectively become the minstrels of the wasteland, regailing listeners with tales of wonder from the old (Pre-Apocalypse) world or the bravery of wasteland warriors. Their bodies are covered with etchings of random phrases like "MCDONALDS", "COCA COLA", "[[Creator/JrrTolkien JRR TOLKIEN]]" etc, effectively making them walking dictionaries. A History Man technically shows up in the movie too, but only in a pre-credits quote, although Miss Giddy seems to be a proto-History Woman with her tattoos and being entrusted with the Wives' education.
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* Gilliam in ''{{Film/Snowpiercer}}'' is a the equivalent, where he's the de facto leader of the lower class in the back section of the train that's travelling throught the wasteland.
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* Gilliam in ''{{Film/Snowpiercer}}'' is a the an equivalent, where he's the de facto leader of the lower class in the back section of the train that's travelling throught through the wasteland.
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* Tom Barnard from Creator/KimStanleyRobinson's ''The Wild Shore'' is the only member of the post-apocalyptic South Orange County community who remembers the Old Days before TheWar.
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* Tom Barnard from Creator/KimStanleyRobinson's ''The Wild Shore'' is the only member of the post-apocalyptic South Orange County community who remembers the Old Days before TheWar.
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* ''Series/DoctorWho:'' In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E4DaleksInManhattan "Daleks in Manhattan"]], Solomon leads a Hoovervile in Central Park.
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* ''VideoGame/AVeryLongRopeToTheTopOfTheSky'': The tribal Somnians have "Grandpa."
* ''VideoGame/AVeryLongRopeToTheTopOfTheSky'': The tribal Somnians have "Grandpa."
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* '''MICHAELANGELO''' is one in a Post-Apocalyptic (think Film/MadMax) mutant world in ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012''.
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* '''MICHAELANGELO''' '''MICHELANGELO''' is one in a Post-Apocalyptic (think Film/MadMax) mutant world in ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012''.
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* '''MICHAELANGELO'''is one in a Post-Apocalyptic (think Film/MadMax) mutant world in ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012''.
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* '''MICHAELANGELO'''is '''MICHAELANGELO''' is one in a Post-Apocalyptic (think Film/MadMax) mutant world in ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012''.
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* '''MICHAELANGELO'''is one in a Post-Apocalyptic (think Franchise/MadMax) mutant world in TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012.
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* '''MICHAELANGELO'''is one in a Post-Apocalyptic (think Franchise/MadMax) Film/MadMax) mutant world in TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012.''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012''.
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* In WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries'' season 2 "The Return of Quaid" episode, Rapunzel and Vex go to Quaid, the retired sheriff of Vardaros after unsuccessfully standing up to Weasel's attempts to rise to power. They discover that Quaid has retired to beekeeping and is out of practice, so Lance and the citizens help Quaid out by pretending to be thieves, allowing the townspeople to applaud him, which works... until it's discovered that Lance and the others were in on the scheme. Later on, Vex is made Quaid's deputy and she stands up to Weasel and his chief henchman, the Collector, and Quaid comes out of retirement to help revitalize the town, now that Weasel and the Collector have been run out of town, as Vardaros starts on the path to revival.
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* Subverted in the ''Series/TwilightZone'' episode "On Thursday We Leave for Home". Captain Benteen is the leader of the surviving colonists on the desert planet, who keeps them together and keeps their hopes up by telling them that there will be a ship coming from Earth to take them back home. But when that ship finally arrives, Benteen is less than willing to give up his position of leadership and authority, and tries to obstruct the efforts of the rescuers and keep them from taking "his people" back to Earth.
** Played straight then subverted in "The Old Man in the Cave." A town is managing to survive AfterTheEnd by following the directions of a hermit living in a cave in the nearby hills, who sends his instructions through more traditional WastelandElder. Then a group of really asshole soldiers show up and storm the cave, revealing the hermit to be [[spoiler: a computer that the real Wasteland Elder had been using to determine what food and areas were radioactive and therefore to be avoided. The soldiers and townspeople destroy in a fit of rage]]. After that, of course, they all die from not being able to tell what's radioactive or not.
** Played straight then subverted in "The Old Man in the Cave." A town is managing to survive AfterTheEnd by following the directions of a hermit living in a cave in the nearby hills, who sends his instructions through more traditional WastelandElder. Then a group of really asshole soldiers show up and storm the cave, revealing the hermit to be [[spoiler: a computer that the real Wasteland Elder had been using to determine what food and areas were radioactive and therefore to be avoided. The soldiers and townspeople destroy in a fit of rage]]. After that, of course, they all die from not being able to tell what's radioactive or not.
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** Subverted inthe ''Series/TwilightZone'' episode "On Thursday We Leave for Home". Captain Benteen is the leader of the surviving colonists on the desert planet, who keeps them together and keeps their hopes up by telling them that there will be a ship coming from Earth to take them back home. But when that ship finally arrives, Benteen is less than willing to give up his position of leadership and authority, and tries to obstruct the efforts of the rescuers and keep them from taking "his people" back to Earth.
** Playedstraight straight, then subverted in "The Old Man in the Cave." A town is managing to survive AfterTheEnd by following the directions of a hermit living in a cave in the nearby hills, who sends his instructions through more traditional WastelandElder. Then a group of really asshole soldiers show up and storm the cave, revealing the hermit to be [[spoiler: a computer that the real Wasteland Elder had been using to determine what food and areas were radioactive and therefore to be avoided. The soldiers and townspeople destroy in a fit of rage]]. After that, of course, they all die from not being able to tell what's radioactive or not.
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