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Sole Surviving Scientist

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Sole Surviving Scientist	comment	It's After the End, humanity is on the brink of extinction. In a remote outpost somewhere, one man is still looking to reverse this situation. He toils away in a laboratory trying to cure the disease, fix the Earth's Magnetic field, change the weather, or even build a time machine to go back and prevent the apocalypse. The Sole Surviving Scientist needn't be completely alone, he might have some soldiers guarding him, a few survivors he's generously allowed into his stronghold, even an assistant. Regardless of his company he's the only real scientist left (that we know of). Can overlap with Crazy Survivalist, in which case expect some truly inspired "Home Alone" Antics with Death Traps. Often the scientist's efforts are fruitless and he descends into depression, madness or a macabre obsession with studying mankind's downfall. This trope is especially common in zombie fiction.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_14b52449	comment	2012: Helmsley has some of this as an expert on the environmental factors threatening to destroy the world. He zigzags this by having figured everything out years before the apocalypse hit and getting government backing while making preparations, only for things to get strained when those preparations couldn't solve as much as expected. He spends most of the film's final act (assisted by colleagues Scotty and West) clashing with authority figures about how to implement the life-saving Arks.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_17842d5f	comment	Fallout 76: Had this role taken by Keesha McDermot (a former science teacher who worked to purify the water from the fallout) and Miguel Caldera (who built robots they put to effect in trying to rebuild) of The Responders, and Grant McNamara (an engineer who restored a hydroelectric dam, dismantled or installed various futuristic security systems and making devices to kill the Scorchbeasts) of The Appalachian Brotherhood of Steel.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_19395f33	comment	The prequel novel, The Boy on the Bridge, centers around those scientists and their military escort before they disappeared.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_1bd4c2fc	comment	B.P.R.D.: When the Bureau gets its new headquarters, a disaffected nuclear-proof bunker in the mountains, they find an old scientist whose been living there since its was shut down, writing down notes on a typewriter for so long the keys wore out and it punched holes in the paper — he was so far gone he didn't notice. He later releases an Eldritch Abomination into the base thinking it some kind of angelic creature.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_1beda93b	comment	Sluggy Freelance: Dr. Schlock, in a Bad Future, uses a time machine to Set Right What Once Went Wrong by sending Berk back to avert the apocalypse in the present. He also sends himself back twenty years further to live out his life. Torg and Gwynn briefly encounter an alternate-dimensional Riff who, having accidentally replaced everyone else in the world with butterflies, has already moved past trying to fix the problem and into Drowning His Sorrows, with a reasonable start on a Beard of Sorrow too. In the Dimension of Rain, both of them fill this role. After winning the Research and Development Wars (and controlling what remained) through excessive use of dimensional flux agitation, Dr. Schlock split his time between ruling 4U City and monitoring the breakdown of the fabric of reality. Then Riff forced his way back into the dimension, causing even more damage than had already been sustained. In the face of this catastrophe, they teamed up and put 4U City into "a holding pattern for society" so they could devote their attention to the hard work of repairing dimensional stability. Since Schlock's death, Riff has carried on the scientific work alone, delegating oversight of the city to an Artificial Intelligence with its own agenda.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_1c334568	comment	The Walking Dead: Eugene Porter claims to be this when he encounters Rick's group. He tells them he is a scientist who knows what caused the zombie outbreak and is working on a way to combat it. However, it is later revealed to be a lie, as Eugene only used this claim as a cover story to make himself seem important so stronger people with more practical skills for surviving the end of civilization would be willing to protect him. Ironically, he ends up becoming one of these for real thanks to his high intelligence - despite not being an official scientist, he becomes vital in helping Rick and the other survivors rebuild society, including the construction of windmills and other farming equipment, manufacturing ammunition, setting up a radio network, and in the Distant Finale, overseeing the construction of a new transcontinental railroad. Alice Warren is a self-taught version of this (before the Zombie Apocalypse she was an interior design student) but makes a game, albeit futile, effort at studying a captive zombie for clues to a way to prevent humans from reanimating after they die.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_21317f86	comment	Abby in Grindhouse: Planet Terror, or he would have been if he hadn't gotten killed. This is lampshaded in the movie.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_27b84429	comment	In The Last of Us, the Fireflies are the only people that're still searching for a cure for the fungal infection that has almost wiped out mankind by the time of the game. Like most of humanity at this point they're on their last legs, their previous attempts have all failed, and their latest test subject (Deuteragonist Ellie) wouldn't survive the required surgery. Examining their theories and deductions also reveals that their entire scientific approach is pretty much bullshit, so their chances of succeeding were practically nil even before they tried to kill the surrogate daughter of a trigger-happy Papa Wolf and got wiped out to a man in the ensuing Roaring Rampage of Rescue. That said, the game only follows the very narrow viewpoint of two people on their way across the continental United States, with next to no word on how the rest of the world is doing, which means there might be other groups looking for a cure somewhere in the Americas, not to mention on other continents.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_297aab77	comment	The Day After: Joe Huxley is a university science teacher who monitors radiation after the nuclear war to see when it will be safe to go outside and also tries to contact others on the radio.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_2a842e3a	comment	In the Doctor Who Expanded Universe novel The Eyeless, the Doctor visits a planet where most of the population was wiped out in an incomprehensible catastrophe. Former schoolteacher "Professor" Jeffip tinkers with things and calculates how diverse the gene pool needs to be, doing his best to fill the Sole Surviving Scientist role.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_2b4ab578	comment	The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello: Dr. Claude Belgnon is a scientist in a society suffering from a plague. His research involves finding a cure (partially out of a desire for fame) and becomes more morally dubious as the story's progresses.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_2ce94f43	comment	Crossed: Generally averted due to the grim and/or deconstructive nature of the series but not entirely absent. Jack from "Shrink" is an interesting version of this, a psychologist trying to study Crossed. The human antagonist of Volume 3 claims to know of a convoy of doctors working on a cure as they travel cross country but it's quickly revealed to the audience that he's lying. Professor Nelson looks like an example of this given that before the apocalypse he spoke about something that sounds a lot like the Crossed virus and is hiding in a bunker afterwards with a rescue mission looking for him and his work, but he didn't survive, and it's never revealed if he was actually right with his theory. In "Wish You Were Here", the narrator lampshades the absence of these after the first two years, noting that when they actually do find someone who might be The Immune if there was a movie they'd rush him to some bunker to make a vaccine out of his blood, but, as far as he knows, there's nowhere left to do that anymore.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_31a48eed	comment	The Outer Limits (1995): Some are alluded to in the episode "The Vaccine" who created the titular vaccine for survivors of The Plague (although interestingly it is lethal to anyone who is The Immune). None of them appear in person, and they're represented by a dying soldier delivering samples to various groups of survivors.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_33dd1d90	comment	In Half-Life 2 there's not a whole lot of anything left, much less scientists. It's unclear if the Resistance Science Team has more than Doctors Kleiner, Vance, Magnusson, Mossman, and Freeman.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_3a52d201	comment	Down to a Sunless Sea: The plane that's crossing the Atlantic when the nuclear war that wipes out practically the entire world has four scientists from an energy conference aboard, who are thrust into this role as they scramble to figure out where the radiation fallout will travel to, where it would be safe to land, and what other long term effects the missiles might have.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_405243c7	comment	The 100: Dr. Tsing inside Mount Weather is a fairly sadistic version of this and her actions to harvest the bone marrow of people who are immune to radiation largely spark a war that wipes out her community. In the backstory we have Becca, who invented the AI which destroyed the world. She survived in space, worked on methods to counter her creation (correctly deducing it would be a threat again), and invented a lot of stuff relevant during the main story.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_440f812c	comment	Cooties: Doug the Cloudcuckoolander science teacher fits this role a lot, figuring out what's going on and speculating on the potential for a cure.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_450c6be4	comment	Sky Jumpers: Long before Hope was born, Frank Hudson was a combination of this and a Child Prodigy in the years after World War III. He was only twelve years old, but used his library of science books to help his group of 26 survivors survive, with things like ammonia refrigeration systems and a telegraph system powered by electrolyte batteries.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_475972f0	comment	Y: The Last Man gives us Allison, who is trying to save humanity though cloning after nearly all the men on Earth die. Other scientists with similar efforts are her own parents, and the geneticist Hartle twins.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_51d757e9	comment	Daybreakers: In an interesting variation of the scenario, there's a vampire plague and humans are in hiding while vampire society is strong but struggling due to lack of blood. Edward one of the vampire scientist working to produce a blood substitute shifts his efforts to creating a cure, after an encounter with the human resistance. He's hardly the sole surviving scientist but the sole one on the right side that we see. The film has a bittersweet but hopeful ending as his effort succeeds and could be widely administered.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_53736ee6	comment	In the play R.U.R. (a.k.a. Rossum's Universal Robots), after the robots Kill All Humans, the sole survivor is Alquist. It is a significant plot point that Alquist is actually not a scientist at all (he was the clerk of the works at the robot factory); the robots want him to figure out how to allow them to reproduce, and he doesn't have the knowledge or skill to do so.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_53a0bd8b	comment	The Twilight Zone (1985): The episode "Quarantine" features a scientist placed in the position of being the only person with the skills to save the day because of society's progression while he was a Human Popsicle. Matthew Forman is awoken from cryo-sleep solely to help a utopian society that ordinarily shuns weapons technology destroy an approaching invasion ship with his Kill Sat expertise.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_5413e001	comment	Dr. Logan from Day of the Dead (1985) is a prime example. His obsessive pursuit of understanding the undead was a harsh critique on the pursuit of scientific knowledge without practical application. He does manage to train a zombie to be peaceful and empathic, and even remember parts of his past life. But when confronted, he didn't bring up practical applications (like using "tame" zombies to perform tasks out in the open without fear of being eaten, and even potentially influence an entire horde's behavior) but simply raved on about a need to understand, indicating his focus was on satisfying his own curiosity rather then accomplishing anything productive. Notably, Logan has two saner colleagues, Sarah and Fisher, who are focused on finding a cure but make significantly less progress than he does.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_55b0d97b	comment	Variable Star: Andrew Hamilton survives the destruction of the solar system onboard the Faster-Than-Light Travel ship he recently invented. He is quick to consider ways to use it to rescue as many people as possible from the colonies that will be hit by solar radiation, although it's someone else who proposes just putting his engine in a bigger ship.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_58bcf32e	comment	Crusade: Dr. Chambers is the Medical officer aboard a ship working to Find the Cure! in time to keep everyone on Earth from dying, and thus the one most likely to make the actual medical breakthroughs for their mission.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_58e3b9fc	comment	The Last Ship: Rachel and Tophet are this for a while in season one as the only scientists working on a cure aboard an isolated ship. Gradually, we meet various other scientists (some good, some evil) making similar efforts in quarantine zones, some of whom provide aid to the crew of the Nathan James, such as Julius Hunter, Michael Neustadter and Dr. Milowsky.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_59da62aa	comment	Doc Henry from Fallout: New Vegas was a contemporary of Dr. Curling who wanted to cure the mutants instead of eradicate them. In the decades since, following the collapse of his former faction, he became a high-functioning Frontier Doctor, using his expertise to cure one disease plaguing the Wasteland at a time, largely just because he can.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_681aacbe	comment	The main character’s father and his assistant Libby look for a cure to The Plague that killed everyone over the age of thirteen from within the Ravenrock Mountain bunker, although their boss plans to misuse their work.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_6c1d09b2	comment	Dr. Curling in Fallout 2 saw himself as this while working on a virus that would wipe out all of the mutated people on the surface to make way for the people who'd survived in Vaults and government bunkers to come out and reclaim the country. Depending on the players choice, he can be talked into a Heel–Face Turn.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_6c1d09b3	comment	James, the Lone Wanderers father from Fallout 3, was a member of Project Purity, an alliance of Sole Surviving Scientists who were dedicated to purifying the irradiated Washington Tidal Basin, but left the project when his wife Catherine died in childbirth, and sought refuge in Vault 101 with his infant child. He tried to resume his work when the Wanderer turned 19, leaving the Vault, and unknowingly caused it to collapse into anarchy thanks to the Control Freak Overseer.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_6c1d09b4	comment	The Institute in Fallout 4 are an entire society of this, leaning towards the macabre, depending on the Player's interpretation and actions; they're the descendants of the faculty from M.I.T (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) that survived the Great War, who have since decided to rebuild civilization underground, while pulling Kill and Replace on survivors on the surface with their Synth androids, allowing them to spy, steal resources and manipulate events to their benefit. In the same game, The Institute's enemies, the Brotherhood of Steel has a couple figures who also fill this role: Quinlan (who tries to recreate old tech by retrieving documents from before the fall), and Neriah (who works on radiation therapy drugs with ingredients form the bodies of dead organics).
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_79ab4c73	comment	Finch (2021): After a deadly solar flare ravages Earth, one of the few surviving humans is a roboticist who builds an android to take care of his dog once he dies.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_7a354cfa	comment	The Midnight Sky: Augustine Lofthouse survives a world-ending cataclysm at his Arctic research station while trying to contact astronauts in space and give the coordinates he's programmed, which will allow them to reach another planet with the limited fuel aboard their ship.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_7a8b5f6a	comment	In The Passage, Dr. Leer feels like one of these for having been involved in the project that started everything and surviving the initial outbreak but unusually for this trope he died during the Time Skip without working on anything that might try to save humanity in the aftermath.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_7c6649d2	comment	The Host (2008): Doc is the only member of the group with the skills to work remove the Hosts from people as a way of fighting the invasion. That being said he's consistently unsuccessful (killing both the hosts and their subjects in a way similar to a lot of examples on this page related to zombie fiction), although unlike many examples on this page he eventually gets better at that (with Wanda's help) and survives, still being able to do it well. All the other scientists aren't really dead but they are prisoners losing their consciousness. He's also a bit of a Closest Thing We Got since he seems to be more of a Back-Alley Doctor than a trained research scientist.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_83607124	comment	The Zombie Diaries: The opening scene shows a pair of scientists being escorted by some soldiers during the middle of the Zombie Apocalypse and taking tissue samples from a corpse.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_83e716b1	comment	The Last Man on Earth International Space station researcher Mike Miller initially seems like the last scientist left alive after The Virus killed the vast majority of humans Earthside. Word of God says that one of the gas-mask wearing bunker survivors from the finale is a scientist who understood how bad the virus would be early on and convinced the others to hide underground until any potential carriers were dead.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_84ad0bd6	comment	Sakaki in Eternal Sabbath is the only scientist who escaped from the lab when Izaku broke loose and slaughtered everyone there.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_85a5a4e9	comment	Just a Pilgrim: About a decade after the solar flare that killed nearly all of the world's people and dried up the oceans, the main character stumbles across a Hidden Elf Village of these in the Marianas Trench, formerly the deepest known part of the Ocean. Oceanologists and NASA engineers fled there right after the burn with a lot of genetic samples and a half-finished rocket ship, and have since been preparing for a Homeworld Evacuation.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_862b19ff	comment	The Lottery: In a world that's spent six years ravaged by a Sterility Plague, we have Allison and her assistant, who've managed to fertilize a hundred new eggs. The plot (and the title) comes from the governments decision about what to do with them.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_86c3beca	comment	Othar in Girl Genius has been this but managed to go back in time (according to his Twitter, anyway). Tarvek in the same Twitter may have been a better example, since he sent Othar back and was much closer to the problem (while Othar metaphorically "slept through it").
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_8a836c90	comment	The Walking Dead (2010): Dr. Edwin Jenner is a depressed and ultimately suicidal scientist found alone in the CDC bunker by the other survivors. Later in the series, the group encounters a character named Eugene Porter, who claims to be a scientist searching for a cure to the zombie outbreak. Ultimately, this amounts to nothing, because, like in the comics, Eugene is lying to make people protect him. However, he is pretty good at MacGyvering and making things like batteries and new bullets, which proves useful amid the apocalyptic landscape. There's also Milton, a scientist in Woodbury who experiments on the zombies, trying to bring out memories of their past lives and find a way to condition them.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_8d7da5c0	comment	Day 5: In a world where sleep has mysteriously become lethal, the first season features a group of scientists, led by Dr. Abrams and Lex, who are testing a drug that keeps sleepers from dying but has failed to save over two hundred test subjects so far.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_926fd8d6	comment	The Postman: There's some remaining scientists at the Corvallis college, although they aren't nearly as advanced as they try to get the outside world to think.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_9394b77b	comment	In Blast from the Past, Christopher Walken's character thinks he's one, after fleeing into a bunker with his family for thirty years during the outbreak of the Cuban missile crisis, but the fact that the world didn't end in nuclear war averts this and sees it played for laughs.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_99d4fcd4	comment	Sweet Tooth gives us Dr. Singh, who is a cross between this and Reluctant Mad Scientist, experimenting on human/animal hybrids while trying to find an origin and cure for The Plague. While he does experiment on the hero as a result of this goal, unusually, he ends up joining him after suffering a Heel Realization.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_99e61d8f	comment	The Day of the Triffids: The protagonist is a biologist who worked with triffids, and while it doesn't really come up until the end he's one of the best-qualified survivors to try and come up with a way to get rid of them permanently. He's still working on it in The Night of the Triffids, with little apparent success, but the book ends on a hopeful note: Having made contact with a much larger and better-resourced group of survivors in the United States, with better equipment and more trained staff he's in a better position to actually get something done.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_9aeccfc4	comment	The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Catherine Weaver is an unusual version of this who with her shadowiness, methods and scientist schtick is doing a lot that fits this before the actual apocalypse due to time travel. Also unusually, she's a robot.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_9b38e5f3	comment	Interstellar doesn't start out this way, with lots of brilliant minds, recourses and infrastructure dedicated to the Homeworld Evacuation, but by the film's last act, on Earth NASA is crumbling, along with society, with the death of their leader and The Reveal that his research giving them hope was a Motivational Lie. However, Murph Cooper and her colleague Getty press on trying to find a way that will let their ships escape the gravitational pull. Meanwhile, in space, the last of the scientists is Amelia, who can't figure out a way to help those still on Earth and is alone and prepared to set up a new colony with genetic samples on the one life-bearing planet that the expedition found.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_9d25491c	comment	Pandorum: Nadia is a biologist who helped collect Earth's biosphere on the colonization ship. When she wakes up to find the ship infested by cannibals, she guards the area her work is gathered and works on an (incorrect, it turns out) theory about where the Hunters came from. Notably Nadia probably isn't the only scientist left but any others are still cryogenically frozen.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_9dd9cbb9	comment	Land of the Dead: Although he's more of a fighter than a scientist, Riley Denbro created a zombie-killing APC that provides a lot of security to his community. Riley has become disillusioned with the Fantastic Caste System around him and wants to strike out on his own, but his skills are too valuable and his group's leader won't let him go.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_9f1284a8	comment	U.S. Army Virologist Dr. Robert Neville (who hopes to cure the zombie-like creatures that have nearly engulfed humanity) from the film version of I Am Legend is about as alone as you can get. So is Robert Neville in The Ωmega Man, an adaptation of the same novel.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_a1434e74	comment	Night of the Comet: A small group of these (who got a minor dose of comet radiation even with their preparedness, and thus are trying to stave off their inevitable doom by any means necessary) becomes the antagonists for the final act.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_a14e5771	comment	There was a 28 Days Later spin-off comic with a scientist who played a role in the creation of the Rage Virus. He admits this to a girl that he had escaped a holding facility with, and plans to atone by becoming one of these, being that he's one of the few people alive (maybe the only one) who knows anything about the virus and has the best chance of curing it. Unfortunately, she had lost her parents earlier during the initial outbreak, and lost her brother during the escape. Apparently learning that the guy she'd been helping was the root cause of those things is too much for her, so first she kisses him, then grabs his gun and shoots him. Then lets herself be killed by the soldiers pursuing them. So much for that.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_a40b1126	comment	Independence Day: While the work that Dr. Okun and his team do along with their disheveled appearances scream this trope, they've been like that before the alien invasion started. Dr. Isaacs becomes a more literal version of this when all of the others are killed or incapacitated, although his role afterwards isn't that huge.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_a44b76ea	comment	World War Z: First we have Fassbach who has a decent idea and strategy how to identify the virus and maybe find a cure for the zombie plague, but proves to be a Decoy Protagonist. Later we meet four surviving scientists at a WHO outpost who play this trope straighter; they make mention of having tried and failed to infect the zombies with lethal diseases and while the idea to get humans sicker to see if the zombies ignore them comes from another source, they help carry it out and the success of that idea turns the tide.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_a563b2ec	comment	Doomsday: Dr. Kane started out as one of these among the quarantined population of Scotland, seeking a cure to The Plague, but suffered from both a Despair Event Horizon and a Face–Heel Turn and by the time we meet him, has completely abandoned science in favor of ruling as a feudal dictator.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_a7a51256	comment	When Worlds Collide: Most of the surviving characters are scientists who were working for the Homeworld Evacuation project.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_adfba5c8	comment	Ex-Heroes: Multiple survivors are scientists, but most are of highly different disciplines. Danielle/Cerberus is the primary creator and wearer of a suit of Power Armor that is used to defend The Mount, and eventually works to upgrade and replace the original. Barry/Zzap is a former nuclear physicist who uses both his training and his electrical superpowers to supply energy to the survivors. Dr. Conolly is a medical researcher with graying red hair, and the primary doctor and supplier of information about Exes for the people of the Mount Dr. Sorenson is a biologist and the inventor of a serum for government super soldiers, and survives the zombie outbreak. He soon dies, leaving Dr. Conolly back in the role as the only remaining scientist of that discipline.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_b0dd1563	comment	Virus (1980): Zigzagged in both the film and the book. Most of the surviving humans left in the world were stationed at scientific research stations in Antarctica. Still, only a few have skills that are actually relevant for preventing The End of the World as We Know It. Yoshizumi is a seismologist who realizes that a series of earthquakes might set off an automated nuclear missile system and kill them all. Major Carter helped build that automated missile system and accompanies Yoshizumi to America to try and disarm it. Dr. Latour creates a vaccine for The Plague that wiped out the rest of humanity. He injects Carter, Yoshizumi, and those who flee for areas that are safe from the missiles but still contain the eponymous deadly virus.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_b65416b9	comment	Before Logan, in Dawn of the Dead (1978), there was Dr. Rausch, who appeared on several TV emergency broadcasts, describing the zombies' abilities and behaviors for anyone still listening and proposes feeding them any dead bodies that don't reanimate as a way to distract them.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_ba291a47	comment	Zombieland: Double Tap: A cutaway scene shows a scientist in eking out an existence in a hi-tech lab several years after the end of civilization before being attacked and apparently killed by an evolved Hawking zombie (using a Borrowed Biometric Bypass from the body of a second scientist).
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_ba2a608d	comment	Zac Hobson in The Quiet Earth, a scientist who was working on Project Flashlight. A malfunction caused almost everyone on Earth to simply disappear. He goes a little crazy in the first part of the movie, but after meeting two other survivors he tries to destroy the laboratory where the experiment took place so it can't happen again. It does anyway.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_badccad0	comment	The Mosquito Coast: Allie wants to be one of these but lacks the apocalypse to make it real, so he pretends there was a nuclear war to make his engineering abilities seem more valuable.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_c0c57462	comment	Belthasar from Chrono Trigger spent his time After the End building the Epoch which would allow anyone to travel back in time and avoid the Earth's destruction by Lavos.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_c14f68c	comment	At the end of Breath of Death VII's final dungeon, you encounter a labcoat-wearing human survivor who uses the crystals you found in Ruins of the Modern Age to travel back in time to prevent the nuclear apocalypse from happening in the first place. But not before a sudden attack by a designated Final Boss from nowhere.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_c2184f42	comment	Nei Rin in Star Wars: Legacy has shades of this. She's more of a fugitive than a survivor, but after the Sith overthrow the Jedi, she spent years in the shadows trying to complete her terraforming work and find evidence to exonerate herself and the Jedi of having been behind its disastrous failure.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_c2cc8a7c	comment	The Day of the Triffids (2009) gives us Brian Cox's character, the father of the main character. He is introduced experimenting on the Triffids, trying to make a new strain of the species which will launch sterile spores, and end their infestation. He does succeed in his efforts, but it's only a Hope Spot, as a subsequent attack kills him and destroys his work.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_c2de33c0	comment	Snowpiercer Melanie, Bennett and Avi are the ones who keep the train running, calculating things like what speeds it can safely go through the winter, and Bennett and Melanie apparently had major roles in designing and building the train in the first place. Dr. Klimpt, head of "The Drawers" is a former research scientist, and its eventually revealed that he isn't just freezing prisoners in a not quite unconscious state out of malice or For Science! but because he's been entailed with mastering Human Popsicle technology for a Sleeper Ship to save someone if worst comes to worse and the train breaks down, but has yet to master the technology with the recourses onboard. Since surviving the Freeze onboard Big Alice, the Headwoods have perfected a method of instantly healing frostbite injuries and are implied to have experimented on the Ambiguously Human Icy Bob.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_c3a60a48	comment	The Last Train features Jonathan, who built the cryo chambers that let the main characters survive, is this when he reappears in the future, forty years older.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: Professor Yana in "Utopia", until the Doctor shows up. The sole scientist at the end of the universe trying to get a rocket ship to work, so he can send everyone to Utopia.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_ca5d97f1	comment	Monty Python's Flying Circus: In the episode "You're No Fun Anymore", where alien blancmanges turn everyone into Scotsmen in a plot to take over the Earth, a scientist and his bimbo stay out of their reach and search for the reason of the transformation of everyone into Scotsmen.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_cb07578d	comment	Another ice age apocalypse example is Wilford, the Big Bad of Snowpiercer, who built the train that serves as a refuge from the blizzard and keeps it running at the cost of oppressing hundreds. It's played with, though, as Wilford supposedly wanted to build the train to go around the world before there ever was an apocalypse, meaning that it was only by accident that he had the technology to save humanity and install himself as its leader.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_cec99ed9	comment	Safehold: Several of these are responsible for the backstory, in the aftermath of a war against alien invaders who slaughtered all of mankind except for a couple colony ships. They had a schism about whether or not to get rid of all technology and rewrite history to deter the other survivors from eventually striking back against the aliens, or whether doing so would just cause their descendants to re-establish technology on their own in several generations and go back to the stars, unprepared for any encounter with the aliens. By the present day, the populace remembers the former group as angels and saviors, and the later group as fallen angels.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_d2c93f02	comment	The Day of the Triffids: While trying to fight off the attacking plant creatures, marine biologist Dr. Goodwin discovers that salt water kills them and quickly moves to work on this.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_d3616edb	comment	In Cyborg (1989), a group of doctors, the last ones in the country, are working on a cure for The Plague in an old CDC facility. Prior to the movie's beginning, they created the titular cyborg to venture into dangerous territory and collect data for their experiments.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_d461f757	comment	In Battlestar Galactica (2003), the Final Five were Earth-1's sole surviving scientists after a nuclear holocaust, who attempted to Fling a Light into the Future, only to succumb to the next iteration of the cycle of violence at the hands of their progeny.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_d6ab9c17	comment	In Z for Zachariah, Ann Burden is living alone in a valley that escaped the destruction of the rest of the world by nuclear war. Eventually she encounters John Loomis, a scientist who invented a special suit that makes the wearer immune to radiation. As far as either of them know, he is he last remaining scientist on earth.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_d981184b	comment	The future in-a-bubble scenes from The Fountain appear to be this trope, although the oncologist is more concerned with staying alive until he reaches a far-off star than with restoring the Earth.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_da6c3f4d	comment	In The Girl With All the Gifts, Dr. Caldwell is this, because although she's quite competent, she wasn't among the scientists chosen to research the virus that caused the Zombie Apocalypse. Those scientist then disappeared, leaving only Dr. Caldwell to do the job. The prequel novel, The Boy on the Bridge, centers around those scientists and their military escort before they disappeared.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_dae48d5a	comment	Z Nation begins by showing one, Dr. Merch, working hard on a vaccine using prisoners as test subjects with a pair of soldiers trying to keep the zombies out. Surprisingly, she succeeds then and there, but the remainder of the show gets taken up by the long journey of other characters trying to get her patient somewhere where someone can actually do something about all of that, while Merch herself gets Put on a Bus and fades into the background. Sun Mei, introduced in the third season, is another one of these who shows up to intercept the main character and try to harvest the cure from him with a bunch of soldiers.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_de7400d5	comment	Maid RPG. In the replay "Maids at the End of the World", there was a worldwide nuclear war that wiped out civilization. The Master is Masami Onji, an Omnidisciplinary Scientist dedicated to finding a way to restore the Earth.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_e0266fa8	comment	Station Eleven: Although the Story Within a Story follows one, who is also a Science Hero, in the actual story, The Plague spread too fast for anyone to work on an effective cure or vaccine, although many surviving engineers wanting to re-establish society are trying to reestablish electricity (and even the internet) in the decades that follow, with limited success.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_e07a5e98	comment	Jeremiah: The main character’s father and his assistant Libby look for a cure to The Plague that killed everyone over the age of thirteen from within the Ravenrock Mountain bunker, although their boss plans to misuse their work. Theo also sheltered and groomed a bunch of nerds from her school to be this on a small-scale, such as by making a working generator. Season 2 One-Shot Character Frederick, who lives in one of the only areas where adults survived the Big Death, is a psychological warfafe expert who played a large role in creating an fake perfect leader for their faction to act as a charismatic leader against the aggression of the Valhalla Sector. Farralon from "City of Roses" and an unnamed Mad Scientist from "Red Kiss" both survived the Big Death due to being kids and are trying to use blood samples to make a vaccine for in case it returns.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_e85e05b5	comment	Divergent: The whole plot turns out to have been caused by the Bureau, a society of these conducting experiments on the people of the city in an effort to fix perceived genetic damage, although their goal ultimately isn't treated with much sympathy.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_e9cb2780	comment	Adam Fenix is Sera's Sole Surviving Scientist in the Gears of War series. The Locust get to Azura before Delta. They manage to kill everyone on the island except Adam, and they're literally at his door before being stopped.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_ea3a10ed	comment	12 Monkeys: As a framing device there's a small cabal of these, working to find a cure for the plague in an underground bunker, who send the protagonist back in time to get a pure sample of the virus.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_eba48324	comment	In another Flash game, Lab of the Dead, the main character is a sole surviving researcher following in the footsteps of the original dead scientists.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_ec28245c	comment	Bulma in the Dragon Ball Z Bad Future timeline. She invented a time machine to send Trunks to the past and find a way to kill the androids.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_ec2a1c9e	comment	9: The scientist in the backstory, after watching a dictator use his inventions to destroy humanity, survived long enough to create the Stitchpunks and allow some form of life to endure.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_ecb39970	comment	Undead on Arrival: Dr. Judy Bloch, the last doctor in town, keeps a couple of chained-up zombies (with their jawbones removed to prevent an outbreak if they get loose) in her basement, which she studies trying to find a way to understand and potentially stop their herd migratory tendencies. The town still isn't happy when they find out but Novak is able to keep them from lynching her. She also knows enough about the nature of zombie transformation to recognize a Zombie Infectee, and tries to keep the gene pool for getting too small (including by getting herself pregnant).
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_ee66462b	comment	Senku Ishigami in Dr. STONE is a highschool-aged science prodigy who takes it upon himself to use science to rebuild civilization thousands of years after an unknown apocalyptic event turned the entire world's population into stone.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_f333b19f	comment	Sixth Column: The book begins with Major Ardmore arriving at a secret base hiding 200 top scientists during the borderline genocidal invasion of America. He finds all of the scientists dead from the testing of a Doomsday Device except for a young physicist, a mathematician, and a biologist, although those three manage to finish the device and use it against the invaders.
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Sole Surviving Scientist / int_fae61810	comment	So is Robert Neville in The Ωmega Man, an adaptation of the same novel.
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