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A comedic Deserted Islandnote And also, by loose definition, a desert island that is circular with a radius of two meters or so and a single palm, coconut, banana or pineapple treenote Pineapples and bananas don't actually grow on trees, but that's a different trope. in the center. Usually has a single inhabitant. If there's more than one, they'll either be constantly arguing or one will be slowly driving the other insane in a comedic manner (Meat-O-Vision may also occur). Often features a Message in a Bottle. If the stranded are really unlucky, there will be a pack of sharks circling the island. Should not be confused with those larger, seemingly-deserted islands with a resort on the side far from where the characters landed. Please don't think about where the lone inhabitant is getting enough food and fresh water to live long enough to grow that spectacular beard. Or even how they survive high tide. For another common island design, see Crescent Moon Island. |
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Desert Island Dick from The Topper was a whole comic strip about this trope: one guy lives on a deserted island by himself and never escapes but never starves either. He is friends with the wildlife though. This trope has also been occasionally used in The Topper's better-known stablemates The Beano and The Dandy. | |
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In zOMG!, Sandblast and his Elite Mooks can only be battled by taking a canoe from Gold Beach to one of these. | |
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Tales of Monkey Island has a few of these, especially in Episode 2. When Guybrush encounters one of these for the first time, he lampshades this with his remark "I didn't know tiny islands like this really existed." He also comments that he's glad he's not stranded there (he got there by sailing to it after choosing the destination from the ship's map) or else he'd have to worry about having something to read. Return to Monkey Island has Barebones Island, its only resident being an accountant who's in hiding. |
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The trope maker may be Ostrov, a 1973 Russian cartoon in which a little man with a thick beard sits on a Gary Larson-style Far Side Island, barely big enough for him and one palm tree. Some pointed satire ensues as all sorts of people cruise by the island and harass or take advantage of the man, or just ignore him, but no one ever bothers to help him until another castaway, floating by on a chunk of driftwood, offers to help the man off what's left of his island. | |
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On WandaVision, the "Yo-Magic" commercial features a man stranded on an island like this without any food, before a Totally Radical '90s surfer shark arrives and offers him a Yo-Magic yogurt. Given that this is WandaVision, a show built around a mix of Affectionate Parody and subversion of classic television tropes, it doesn't go well. | |
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Beavis And Butthead: In "B&B Island", Beavis and Butthead end up stuck on an ornamental Far Side Island in the middle of the mall fountain after the janitor turns the water back on while the duo were looting the emptied fountain for coins. They're trapped on the island for three days because they don't realize the water is shallow enough to just walk out. | |
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Taz-Mania: Taz and Wendal are stranded on one in "Taz-Manian Theatre". | |
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Master Roshi of Dragon Ball lives on such an island. It's big enough to hold his small house, but that's it. The house also manages to have running water and electricity. | |
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Sponge Out Of Water revealed that the island is actually much bigger than it looks. It has a dense jungle that's dwarfed by three giant palm trees. | |
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Rocko's Modern Life: At the end of "Cabin Fever", it's shown the rocket Ed used to escape landed him on a tiny island with two shipwrecked guys, who are passing the time waiting for rescue by playing Charades (badly). In "Schnitheads", Heffer joins a sausage cult, but is sentenced to work the sauerkraut fields after tiring of sausage. Rocko and Filburt try to rescue their friend, but are caught. Just as the three are about to be punished, Really Really Big Man shows up disguised as The Most Supreme and Mighty King Of Wieners. He claims he will take his faithful servants home but instead drops them on a deserted island. |
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Some perfect examples of Far Side islands (minus the weird colors) appear in the background to the side of the island with the crystal tower in King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne. Another Far Side island becomes an actual walkable terrain and part of the story in King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella. | |
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In an animated Sesame Street sequence, the letters H, E, L, and P are stranded on an island and miss two opportunities to be rescued by being in the wrong order. | |
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Rincewind from the Discworld series enjoyed his time on one of these (between Eric and Interesting Times). It was boring and the Luggage kept itself entertained by fighting sharks. | |
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A sketch on The Muppet Show had Cloris Leachman stranded on an island with Sweetums. They are later joined by Doglion. | |
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Madam & Eve: One story arc has Madam, Eve, and Mother abruptly stranded on a small island and find themselves trying to cope with the lack of resources. At the end of the week, a frustrated Mother walks off the island, revealing it to be in the middle of a city park. | |
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xkcd: Played with in this strip, which contrasts the drabness of the tiny desert island with the vibrant sea-scape just beneath the waves. | |
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MAD's Don Martin often used this trope in his comics. As does Frank Jacobs. | |
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One of these showed up on American Dad!. Originally it was a quite spacious desert island with many luxuries installed, until a tidal wave submerged something like 95% of the island underwater. Stan and Roger survive by eating mostly seagulls. They attempt to escape with a raft made from seagull carcasses which immediately sinks, but then discover that Rogers body is bouyant enough to function as a makeshift flotation device. | |
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The Powerpuff Girls (1998): In "Sun Scream", the Powerpuff Girls get sunburns so the mere touch of the villains causes pain. When a pair of bad guys later surrender, instead of taking them to jail, the girls strand them on an island to suffer the same fate. The girls left them sunscreen, but they deem it to be "for nerds" and prefer to burn in the sun. | |
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In The Coral Island, the titular island is surrounded by a lagoon that contains many tiny islets, some of which have one or two coconut trees growing on them. The castaways visit some of the islets after they build a boat for themselves. | |
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Regularly featured in The New Yorker cartoons, such as one that has the palm tree replaced by a wind turbine and one castaway saying to another, "I miss the palm tree too, but at least we can have a refrigerator." Lampshaded in this one. |
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Super Mario Bros. There's a tiny island in the background of one section of Keelhaul Key in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. There's a palm tree there, and if you hit it with a hammer, a Coconut falls out for you to collect and exchange for the Chuckola Cola Flavio has on him, if that's where you are in the story. There's a pipe linking it to the main island for "easy" possible access. Super Mario Sunshine has a number of these, most notably one at the Hub Level with a castaway on it. It's also notable as part of what is probably the most frustrating sidequest of the game, with two different spins on Super Drowning Skills. |
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Private Snafu: Snafu and a Japanese sailor find themselves stranded on one in "No Buddy Atoll". | |
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The Onion in Our Dumb World had a wonderful section lampshading this, referring to the islands of Kiribati as "An island, a palm tree, and one guy" going through all the clichés of these types of cartoons. | |
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MacBat 64: Journey of a Nice Chap has a level made up of multiple little islands. | |
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A Series of Unfortunate Events: Each book ends with the usual author/illustrator info, including a humorous self-portrait of Brett Helquist having something to do with the plot of the book. In The End, which takes place on a faraway island, Helquist draws a stereotypical portrayal of this trope. | |
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Existential Comics: Strip 5 features two shipwrecked sailors stranded on a small sandy islet, adorned by a single coconut tree, and philosophizing about the nature and origin of knowledge and whether anything can truly be known for certain. The comic ends with one wondering whether the world is anything but a dream or mad delusion of the other, and the second replies that, now that he thinks about it, they've been subsisting off of the occasional coconut and no water for a suspiciously long time. | |
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In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, DIO has such an island in the basement of his mansion. It's an illusion cast by one of his minions. | |
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Wapsi Square: Monica finds a small tropical island that more or less fits this description, to which she and the golem girls can poit for a bit of peace and quiet. Except that the last time Bud went there she found something else and the island got blown to bits. | |
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Unsurprisingly, in the Pokémon Trading Card Game the card known as "Castaway" depicts a man on such an island, although it is just off the coast of a larger one. The illustration hints that he has not been able to get back to the larger island. | |
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At the end of 102 Dalmatians: Puppies to the Rescue, Horace, Jasper and LePelt hide in a crate about to be shipped out, in an attempt to ditch Cruella DeVil. They end up on an island just like this...for some unexplained reason. | |
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Jack and Elizabeth in the first film are stranded on an island that looks like this, but is quite a bit larger. It also wasn't always deserted; rumrunners used it as a secret cache before the Royal Navy cracked down on them. |
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Private Eye did one once complying with gender, race, religion and disability discrimination laws, the comic in question featuring a woman in a burhka and a wheelchair on a desert island reading a message in a bottle rendered entirely in As Long As It Looks Foreign script. | |
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While The Mysterious Island isn't an example, containing everything needed for resourceful castaways to build a successful colony, it becomes this after the volcano explodes, leaving all the humans stuck on a tiny rock barely big enough to hold all of them. | |
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Two men and a bunch of stones that spell out "H_LP". The first man asks to buy a vowel. | |
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Adventurers!: Karn and Ardam somehow wind up on one of these after the Big Bad accidentally causes The End of the World as We Know It. It turns out to be a movie set, somehow. | |
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Super Mario Sunshine has a number of these, most notably one at the Hub Level with a castaway on it. It's also notable as part of what is probably the most frustrating sidequest of the game, with two different spins on Super Drowning Skills. | |
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Nero: Nero often strands on islands like these, where he meets strange creatures like mermaids or talking monkeys, who always disappear when the Deus ex Machina appears. When he tells them what he saw they refuse to believe him. | |
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Jack and Elizabeth in the first film are stranded on an island that looks like this, but is quite a bit larger. It also wasn't always deserted; rumrunners used it as a secret cache before the Royal Navy cracked down on them. However, in the third film one of these islands (sans the palm tree) is used as a quick meeting place for the heroes and villains to negotiate. |
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However, in the third film one of these islands (sans the palm tree) is used as a quick meeting place for the heroes and villains to negotiate. | |
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Return to Monkey Island has Barebones Island, its only resident being an accountant who's in hiding. | |
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Not unusual in Minecraft ocean biomes — though they do break the monotony of the endless stretch of sea and provide a brief bit of solid land to set a bed to sleep. Woe betide the player who spawns here — "Survival island" maps invoke this trope as a starting point, challenging the player to work with extremely limited resources. | |
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Showed up in an episode of Jimmy Two-Shoes. The only inhabitant was a weavil Lucius had imprisoned there. | |
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Hägar the Horrible regularly gets stranded on tiny islands with Lucky Eddie that have a palm tree. In one of the comic strips, Hägar asks why is there always just one tree on desert island. | |
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Li'l Gotham: The Joker and Harley Quinn end up stranded on one after the Joker sinks Greenbeard's ship #8. It turns out this was the one time Harley hadn't packed her escape balloon, because she needed to make room for all her shoes. | |
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In Heavy Object the climax of Volume 15 occurs on this type of island at the center of the Bermuda Triangle. Aside from the tree, there is also a beat-up refrigerator which houses the "breaker" for the Capulet AI system. | |
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B.C.'s Peter ended up on one while trying to circumnavigate the Earth on a raft. He eventually noticed that he could walk home during low tide. | |
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Bizarro features many of the island's inhabitants◊ in a comic of its own. | |
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At the very end of Superman Returns, Lex Luthor and Kitty are shown to be stranded on a Far Side Island because they ran out of fuel for the helicopter. | |
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There's a tiny island in the background of one section of Keelhaul Key in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. There's a palm tree there, and if you hit it with a hammer, a Coconut falls out for you to collect and exchange for the Chuckola Cola Flavio has on him, if that's where you are in the story. There's a pipe linking it to the main island for "easy" possible access. | |
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Island Wars features tiny islands with a rotating cannon and few palm trees. The trees act as your Video-Game Lives, and your job in Invasion Mode is to defend them with your cannon. In the VS mode, one player uses a plane to attack their opponent's palm trees. | |
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In The Archonate setting, the Commons, humanity's collective unconscious, is well-stocked with tropes including this one: | |
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The Happy Tree Friends episode "Happy Trails Pt. 2: Jumping the Shark" has this as the main plot. Somehow, the school bus crashes onto a deserted island after falling off a cliff in the previous part, followed by the survivors' subsequent attempts to escape. | |
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One of these shows up in a few Homestar Runner cartoons: One Strong Bad Email has a viewer asking Strong Bad what it would be like if he and Homestar were stranded on such an island. Strong Bad first mentioned the usual tropes for such a situation, but figured the reality would actually be more dull and unpleasant. In the cartoon "Weclome Back", Bubs remarks that he spend the month-and-a-half hiatus trying to sell baloney sandwiches "at the beach". Cut to Bubs by himself on a tiny island that's almost too small for his truck. In the email "the paper", we see a flashback of Strong Bad being saved by The Paper from a sinking version of one. |
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Most of the islands in Raft are only slightly bigger than your raft, with room enough for some flowers, fruit, and a few small palm trees. Later in the game you can encounter "large islands" which have more resources but also aggressive wildlife like boars, bears, and Screechers. | |
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The third series of Eyewitness features one island like this in its intro; this island itself was the central figure of the titular episode on islands. | |
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One Strong Bad Email has a viewer asking Strong Bad what it would be like if he and Homestar were stranded on such an island. Strong Bad first mentioned the usual tropes for such a situation, but figured the reality would actually be more dull and unpleasant. | |
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Suske en Wiske: Near the end of Het Eiland Amoras, some time after he was believed to have been killed when blowing up the ship of the Big Bad, Suske is found alive and well on such an island. | |
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One of these is seen regularly on Spongebob Squarepants (to the point of literally being featured in the title sequence) as an establishing shot for the city Bikini Bottom. The cast even went there in the episode "Pressure". Sponge Out Of Water revealed that the island is actually much bigger than it looks. It has a dense jungle that's dwarfed by three giant palm trees. |
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Robotbox and Cactus: In "The Meaning of Life", Cactus gets teleported to a tiny desert island with nothing but a palm tree and another already-dead cactus. | |
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