Examples of MGTOWs in Fiction

[Kyle R.Participant 21]

Okay guys, here we go (I hope this thread has not been opened before)…

Let’s give examples of MGTOWs in fiction. Motivating characters, inspiring role models and so on. I’ll start with two of my favourite:

• Bilbo Baggins – single guy enjoying a simple living, but also the occasional adventure of grand proportions. Loaded with cash and riches (but not showing off his wealth), not desiring relationships, or having children for that matter. Hell, he’s probably my favourite character in LOTR, even though I probably admire Aragorn the most (however, Aragorn was head over heels in love with Arwen). Strange thing, I admire Aragorn since my white knight days… maybe there’s a connection?
• Indiana Jones – why, need I mention why he is the coolest MGTOW in movies? I think not.

[KeymasterKeymaster]

Indiana Jones

My favorite after Han Solo. Now that’s a MGHOW to perfection in every sense of the term.

“Luke, he’s got to follow his own path. No one can choose it for him”
– Princess Leia

Harrison Ford is my all time movie hero. Although Indy IV was a piece of s~~~.

Another MGTOW character I loved – totally underrated movie – was James MacAvoy in “Wanted”. I loved the movie premise so much, I actually contacted the original maker of his leather jacket in England and had one custom made exactly like that. Journey / transformation of a guy from pussy whipped office working weakling with a cheating c~~~ of a girlfriend into ass kicking man in charge of his own destiny and identity. Loved the scene where he makes out with Angelina in front of his girlfriend.

I didn’t care much for a gun-slinging Angelina Jolie, though.
I just don’t like tough tattoo-ed know-it-all violent chicks depicted in movies.

If you keep doing what you've always done... you're gonna keep getting what you always got.

[HimeoParticipant 471]

Ramza Beoulve from Final Fantasy Tactics – http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Ramza_Beoulve

He’s the youngest of three brothers of a famous general. At his fathers death bed, his father leaves Ramza the following advice:

Ramza takes it to heart. Goes off to war for his clan, and sees that the motives of the people he’s following are corrupt. So he says, f~~~ that noise, I’m out. He goes mercenary and uncovers a threat to the world and fights it against all opposition. Ramza becomes an outcast, branded a heretic, hunted by his own family and former friends.

At the end of the story Ramza saves the world and takes no recognition no fame or glory. He vanishes into the fog of history to live his own life.

One of my favorite things about the game is that the story is represented by the gameplay mechanics. So, there are a dozen or so “classes” in the game. Thief, Knight, White Mage, Black Mage, etc. However, Ramza remains a squire from beginning to end. He fights against “Holy Knights” “Dragoons” “Angels” “Demons” etc, but he’s a humble squire. Why is this worth mentioning? Because the squires class abilities, what are they called?

“Guts.”

That’s all he ever needed.

[Puffin StuffParticipant 24979]

Achilles. I’m drawn to classics.

Achilles never shrunk from a fight, lived on his own, no wife, no children. Just his cousin and we know how that turned out.

He fought for no one but himself. He worked with Agamemnon but felt separate. He fought for his own glory. Think of how selfish that would sound today. Men actually having reputations and honor. We are barely allowed to walk the street and if we raise our head and a female see’s us it’s off to the hoosgow, not now but soon. They’ve published their plan and nailed it to the new church door, the Whitehouse website.

And Achilles wasn’t such a tight wad that he didn’t share his bed with a comely looking lass…sometimes 2 at a time. You can’t keep a good man down.

He set his own rules, his own limits and his own goals. He went his own way.

He had one fault, his Achilles heal. I think men today have one as well. Their heart. One arrow through can kill a man emotionally and leads to the gargantuan suicide rate among men. I think if men cut out the pussybegging mangina part of themselves, the part nurtured by the caustic influence of feminist traitor mothers creating men who are lambs to the slaughter.

The tale of Achilles was written by Homer about 2850 years ago, around the founding of Rome. These writings had a profound effect on Rome who consider Aneas of Troy to be one of the founders of the Latin races and hence Ancient Roman’s felt they were decendants of Italy, Greece and Troy.

So Achilles is a timeless figure of a strong and virile MGTOW.

I am proud to follow in his tradition.

Classical Achilles:

And Achilles at the airport waiting for his plane (can you see it in the corner?)

#icethemout; Remember Thomas Ball. He died for your children.

[Kyle R.Participant 21]

I have another one. Kurt Russell in The Thing.

There was this one line, after he incinerates the creature while it was trying to copy the dogs and some of his fellow scientists, when some other guy asks him what he plans to do: Russell’s plans were merely something along the lines of “I’m going to get to my cabin and get drunk, now leave me alone”.

I don’t know about you guys, but that line qualified him as a massive kick ass character in the movie. First his needs for alcohol (he needed it to face the depressing Antarctic winter) and then the need of facing some hellish alien creature trying to assassinate his colleagues.

Anyways, by the time I’m posting this, I’m kinda drunk. S~~~tiest weather outside and instead of cycling or jogging, I have to drink beer to keep by spirits up.

[In Which We ServeParticipant 111]

A slightly quirky MGTOW is Alfred Polly in ‘The History of Mr Polly’ by H.G. Wells.

He starts life as a put upon shop assistant, who is a bookish dreamer, but who is pressured into marrying and starting a small business.

Fifteen years later his wife has turned into a nagging witch and his business is failing. He decides to kill himself, but has a ‘moment of clarity’ (what we would now call a red pill/blue pill moment).

He walks out with nothing but the clothes he stands up in, and eventually gets work as a handyman in a country pub. The pub however is menaced by a local criminal, and Mr Polly is about to run away, until he has another moment of clarity and realises this is his ‘last stand.’ The criminal is driven off and Mr Polly achieves a life of quiet contentment, spending his days reading and fishing.

It’s a great book and an early example of the MGTOW phenomenon.

[lukeylalaParticipant 56]

I wouldn’t say he was exactly a MGTOW but I loved watching Lester Burnham’s transformation in American Beauty.

[Darth SinParticipant 576]

Best Examples of MGTOW in Comics :- Bruce Wayne / Batman & Steve Rogers / Captain America.

 

[Kyle R.Participant 21]

@lukeylala – Of course Lester Burnham is an obvious example  of MGTOW, it doesn’t matter that he realised he had to go his own way that late into his marriage. That movie is awesomely inspiring, period.

I’ve got another example, I don’t know if you Americans have seen Blackaddder (a British sitcom). Edmund Blackadder (played by Rowan Atkinson) is a kickass MGTOW character, as it can be seen in some episodes, especially the scene at 18: 47 in this episode:

 

[BigRed0331Participant 13]

I would have to say Doc Holiday in Tombstone.  Guy left the world of dentistry to gamble, gunfight, womanize and drink. After that, the protagonist from High Plains Drifter. Hmm….as I think about it you could pretty much substitute any Clint Eastwood character here and consider him MGTOW.  Makes you wonder what kind of man he is in real life.

[BONEParticipant 448]

Dragonball Z

Vegeta: “because f~~~ women, I’m a sayian warrior, petty women mean nothing to me”

sadly, he turned into a blue piller towards the end of the series.

[hmskl’dParticipant 6406]

John Steed

[Zuberi TauParticipant 10606]

Golgo 13, Riddick, Blade, Duke Nukem, Brock Samson, Yujiro Hanma, Kratos,

Jann Lee, Ryu, Akuma,

[parker_lewisParticipant 2]

Sherlock Holmes. 100% MGTOW.

[IGMOW (I Go My Own Way)Participant 2572]

I would push the envelope here, but I would like to say Buckaroo Banzai.  He did so much, from rock star to test pilot to neurosurgeon.  He did have a former love, and that creeps in, but I don’t believe he was married in the movie at least.  He also did save the world

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Buckaroo_Banzai_Across_the_8th_Dimension

I will let you judge yes or no.  I just am a fan of the movie, so any excuse I can to mention the movie and character, I do that.

"I am my own thang. Any questions?" - Davis S Pumpkins.

[ClintParticipant 331]

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Clint Eastwood in most of his movies.

Also, Troy is one of my favorite movies.

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you into something else is the greatest accomplishment." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

[RobinParticipant 17]

Henry Bemis in The Twilight Zone episode, Time Enough At Last.

I relate very much to this character.

[IGMOW (I Go My Own Way)Participant 2572]

Robin wrote:

Henry Bemis in The Twilight Zone episode, Time Enough At Last. <iframe src=”http://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/x13mc5l” width=”500″ height=”374″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen=””></iframe> I relate very much to this character.

Except I hope a MGTOW does a better way of avoiding the ending of that episode. 🙂

"I am my own thang. Any questions?" - Davis S Pumpkins.

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