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The Aloner
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Maybe the End of the World as We Know It came and went. Perhaps they are the only survivor of an interplanetary expedition or a Robinson Crusoe on Earth. Or worst of all, they are trapped tantalizingly close to other humans, yet unable to escape the Tailor-Made Prison that keeps them trapped. However, the effect is the same; this guy or gal is now completely, utterly alone and it is slowly... driving them... mad. On the plus side, they'll usually have a trusty animal companion that helps keep them sane in the absence of true human companionship (generally it's debatable just how sane they are)... that is, until it dies. Usually they will be rescued by movie's end, but before that expect them to run into another survivor and creep them out quite a bit before settling down. However, if they aren't the lead expect them to actually go insane long before being found. This is also the ultimate Ironic Hell for any Misanthrope Supreme Big Bad. Related to I Just Want to Have Friends, Last of His Kind, Alone in a Crowd, Living Relic, and Slept Through the Apocalypse. Compare The Hermit. Not to be confused with The Atoner. |
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Atlanna from Aquaman has been stuck in the Hidden Sea after being sacrificed to the creatures of the Trench. She remains there until Mera and Arthur arrive and take her back to Atlantis. | |
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Juan in a Million: Like in The Quiet Earth, above, Juan finds himself in an empty world. | |
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Nicholas Hoel from The Overstory lives completely alone after his whole family dies, with him left as the only survivor thanks to a Lifesaving Misfortune. | |
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In Turtle Kittens, when Spike is mutated into Slash, he immediately decides to go off on his own. | |
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Hayy ibn Yaqzan is about a boy who is raised by a gazelle on a Deserted Island. When he realizes how different he is from the other animals, he searches the island for anyone who looks like him, to no avail. He doesn't realize that landmasses other than his island exist, so as far as he knows, he's the only human being in the world. Until he's fifty, when he gets a visitor. | |
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The creature in Frankenstein is the only one of his kind and is too hideous to make friends. | |
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Maglor in The Silmarillion. Oh, poor Maglor - zig-zagging with Walking the Earth, with singing a lament over his own violent stupidity and the fall of his nation after the end of the First Age | |
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In a What-if tale in the Marvel Universe, Cain Marko, the Juggernaut, has powers that make him invulnerable and immortal. He wanders the Earth because a strange plague had wiped out both humankind and mutants. He discovers a stronghold of surviving mutants. Magneto tries to stop him. He cannot. When he gets to them, the survivors inform him that he has the plague but cannot die because his power made him immune. Cain is immortal, but he has doomed all that remained of mutantkind. They ask for him to leave before they die. Cain, who always was a dick, agrees with them. He roams the really solitary Earth, thinking about the truth about his battle cry: Nobody can stop the unstoppable Juggernaut. | |
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Unwanted Houseguest: Downplayed. The Houseguest has regular contact by phone with Doctor Wolfula, and talks to his audience, and has pretty regular interactions withsometimes benevolent spirits, but he does seem unhappy about not getting more visitors, especially at Halloween. | |
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Sylar experiences this in the final season of Heroes as he gets sealed inside an empty shell of a city inside his own mind by Matt Parkman. In there, he experiences three years of being alone with nothing but his various psychological issues and guilt to deal with. Add in the sudden appearance of his arch-nemesis Peter to further exacerbate his guilt, it's no wonder that Sylar has completely cracked to the side of good by the end of the series. | |
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Adventures in Odyssey: Unfortunately, Whit ends up in a coma before realizing his Imagination Station program about the Afterlife was a bit more than Man was ready for, leaving Eugene to discover that Curiosity Is a Crapshoot: | |
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In the Justice League episode "Hereafter", immortal villain Vandal Savage has accidentally caused the death of the human race and spent thousands of years alone. He had enough time to build a working starship but decided that he deserves to be punished. Thanks to a time-lost Superman, he's able to prevent these events from happening, and though it causes him to cease to exist, he's happy. | |
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Trapped on Draconica: Invoked. Rana traveled to perhaps the most inhospitable place in Draconica to be alone. Ironically, this is also the only place in the world where one can hear what's going on everywhere in the world. | |
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Rush's Xanadu ends with the protagonist finding the immortality he sought, but it turns out to consist of being frozen in a single moment of time within the Pleasure Dome. "A thousand years have come and gone/But time has passed me by/Stars stopped in the sky/Frozen in an everlasting view ... To taste my bitter triumph/As a mad immortal man." | |
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Treasure Island: Ben Gunn was marooned on the island by his mates after a failed search for the treasure. | |
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Nathan Prior in Growing Up plans to live alone after high school to live the quiet life and escape his messy upbringing caused by his parents' breakup. He does so in both of his endings, but he'll reconcile with his parents with the Player Character's help in the good ending. | |
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The SCP Foundation has SCP-451, a former Foundation agent who thinks he's the last human on Earth due to a Perception Filter which prevents him from perceiving other humans, any of their actions, or any of their attempts to communicate with him. | |
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In A Girl Named Disaster, Nhamo goes through this during her months on the island. | |
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PandoraHearts has Alice, the B-Rabbit, spend a lot of time alone in the Abyss. | |
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In Potion Permit, Matheo lives in a house farthest south of the outskirts of Moonbury Town and never visits the town itself except for certain events because of his dislike for you for being a Chemist. You have to actively seek him out if you want to bond with him. | |
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Like the book it is adapted from, the film version of The Martian has NASA belatedly realizing that Watney is actually alive on Mars and now all by himself. The narrative again takes a comedic turn, though in a different way here: after the scene in Mission Control where Kapoor wonders about Watney's mental state, the film cuts to Watney's latest video log where he appears downbeat while Vicki Sue Robinson's "Turn the Beat Around" plays as background music because 70's disco is the only music he could find in any of the astronauts' personal files. | |
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In Ben 10: Alien Force, Paradox was pulled into a wormhole and stuck alone at the center of time for several lifetimes of the universe. He went quite insane, then grew tired of that and grew quite sane indeed. | |
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In the Ready Jet Go! episode "Sean's Year in Space", Sean tries to live in the treehouse for a full year all by himself, but nearly goes insane doing so, and eventually comes down for dinner. | |
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Red from Penumbra: Overture, who has been living in a sealed-off area of the mine that is the setting of the game until he would prefer to die than continue with that life. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1959): The protagonist of the episode "Where Is Everybody?". Also, Henry Benis in "Time Enough at Last". Heavily implied to be the fate of Patrick Thomas McNulty in "A Kind of a Stopwatch" and probably loads of others. The show is awful fond of this trope. |
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The farmer from Vase de Noces is quite literally the only human character in the whole film, with the other characters being regular farm animals. | |
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The Fallout: New Vegas DLC Honest Hearts has Randall Clark, a former soldier who survived the initial blast from the bombs and dedicated himself to helping other survivors, though mostly from afar. By the end of his life, he rarely left his cave, and become a god to the Sorrows tribe that eventually formed in Zion. | |
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The Walking Dead: Clementine Is introduced as such in New Frontier, and is quick to distrust people such as Javi and would rather be alone in order to save herself from being hurt and abandoned again. It's explained that it's due to her caretaker in Season 2 dying no matter the player's choice (whether it be Kenny, Jane, or Edith). Even if she was alone with AJ, she still ended up having him taken from her by The New Frontier on David's order after she tried to save his life, and is later exiled and left to fend for herself. Molly in season one had been alone since she lose her sister, and preferred it that way until she met Lee and the group. If she leaves the group voluntarily, she claims that she had always fared better on her own. After having a Heel Realization when with the Whisperers, James in The Final Season came to realize he does not fit in a group of people and has been fending for himself ever since. He actually prefers to be alone, and if not, to be surrounded by walkers as one of them. |
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Red Dwarf: Holly reanimates Lister's dead bunkmate in hologram form to prevent Lister from becoming this, three million years after the presumed extinction of the human race. Kryten is rescued after being left alone on the Nova 5 for centuries, at least, and has succumbed to delusions and hallucinations. He thinks the dead crew members are still alive and well, despite being skeletons. Holly, the Red Dwarf's AI, has also -in his own words- "gone a bit peculiar" in the three million years between the death of the crew and the reawakening of Lister. He's certainly succumbed to at least a bit of computer senility. |
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Cast Away: Chuck Noland survives a plane crash to end up marooned on a tropical island for more than four years with only a volleyball for company. | |
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Number Five in The Umbrella Academy (2019), after accidentally time-warping to some time after the apocalypse. He claims to have found others, but considering the only one we ever "meet" is a mannequin he names Delores, that claim is dubious at best. | |
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In Star Wars: Age of Resistance, the issue featuring General Hux introduces a character named Blysma, a former Alderaan guard who was off-world when the planet was blown up and had been living on an unknown planet with just a couple of Norwoods as company ever since. | |
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The Fallout 3 tie-in comic "One Man and a Crate of Puppets" features a vault dweller in Vault 77, which was filled with a crate of puppets and exactly one person. He rapidly spirals into believing that a vault-boy puppet is commanding him to murder, and when he emerges on the surface (which has, in the meantime, re-established itself to some degree), goes berserk on some slavers. In the game itself, you can find his jumpsuit, along with a note saying to burn it asap. | |
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The premise of Remnant Population is a single elderly woman who secretly stays behind when everyone else in her colony is moved to a new planet. Unlike most examples of this trope, she thrives while alone and starts making art, telling stories, and learning new things. And when the loneliness finally starts setting in, she meets the People, an alien race who respect her need for solitude and give her the supportive community she always needed. | |
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Stargate SG-1 uses this trope in the episode "The Torment of Tantalus," in which Ernest Littlefield has been trapped alone on an alien planet for about 50 years and has gone crazy. He recovers surprisingly quickly. | |
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Halo: 343 Guilty Spark was left to oversee Installation 04 all by himself for 100,000 years, with nothing but increasingly infrequent communications from the Monitors on the other six Halo rings for company. After exhausting all his planned experiments and entering longer and longer periods of hibernation, he started ejecting portions of the ring's landscape into space to keep occupied. In the Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary terminals, he notes that the Forerunners really ought to have assigned two monitors per ring. In fact, pretty much every Forerunner Monitor we've met so far have spent the previous 100,000 years by themselves. All of them have gone a little batty, but some do handle it better than others. |
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: after "going quantum" thirty years earlier, Janet Van Dyne - the first Wasp - has been stuck in the Quantum realm ever since. She remains there until her husband Hank Pym arrives and takes her back to the "surface". However Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania reveals that this trope didn't apply, as the Quantum realm is well-populated and she had her own adventures there. | |
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Lapis Lazuli from Steven Universe becomes this after she exiles herself to the moon out of fear of the Diamonds attacking Earth. | |
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343 Guilty Spark was left to oversee Installation 04 all by himself for 100,000 years, with nothing but increasingly infrequent communications from the Monitors on the other six Halo rings for company. After exhausting all his planned experiments and entering longer and longer periods of hibernation, he started ejecting portions of the ring's landscape into space to keep occupied. In the Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary terminals, he notes that the Forerunners really ought to have assigned two monitors per ring. | |
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Gunnerkrigg Court: The Exposition of Immortality for Jones, an immortal entity as old as the planet, shows that she spent four billion years encased in rock, followed by half a billion years Walking the Earth alone until the human species evolved. However, she claims not to experience emotions like loneliness. | |
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Fallout: The Fallout 3 tie-in comic "One Man and a Crate of Puppets" features a vault dweller in Vault 77, which was filled with a crate of puppets and exactly one person. He rapidly spirals into believing that a vault-boy puppet is commanding him to murder, and when he emerges on the surface (which has, in the meantime, re-established itself to some degree), goes berserk on some slavers. In the game itself, you can find his jumpsuit, along with a note saying to burn it asap. The Fallout: New Vegas DLC Honest Hearts has Randall Clark, a former soldier who survived the initial blast from the bombs and dedicated himself to helping other survivors, though mostly from afar. By the end of his life, he rarely left his cave, and become a god to the Sorrows tribe that eventually formed in Zion. |
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God in Preacher was this, being the first and only being before Creation. Many of the terrible things in the story happen because of his pathetic need for love and attention. | |
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Demona from Gargoyles fits this trope well; decades of watching her species being driven almost to extinction (often through her own fault, not that she'd admit it), centuries of being hunted down by men in striped masks, and finally alienating the few gargoyles who survived to the 20th century have driven her completely insane. | |
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The Last Man on Earth: The show's protagonist lives like this for years, with only several balls with faces drawn on them and a mannequin for company. It's implied that the last women on Earth lived like this before finding him, too. | |
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The protagonists of the indie flick Nothing. Hordes of angry people are settling on their house, they are hiding in a room, crying and hugging... and suddenly everything apart from them and the house disappears, replaced by a big, white, surprisingly bouncy nothing. | |
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I Am Legend has this pretty bad. Robert Neville commits suicide while awaiting execution, after realizing that a single man in a world full of vampires is the true monster. | |
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Lost: Rousseau has been on the island alone for 16 years (until season 4) and is mad as a hatter. There's some chicken-egg debate here, seeing as she's alone because she killed the rest of her team. Claire has followed in her footsteps, spending about three years alone on the island. |
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Pretty much every resident of Hell in The Great Divorce ends up alone, because they can't stop quarreling with their neighbors. Every time someone settles near another person, within a week they've fought so badly that someone decides to move farther out, eventually moving to the outskirts and building a new house. | |
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WALL•E: The title character himself, being the last functional trash compacting robot on the heavily polluted and abandoned Earth. All he has for company is his pet cockroach Hal until another robot, EVE, shows up. | |
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One Piece has Brook, who after a series of particularly unfortunate circumstances ends up spending nearly fifty years without contact with any other living thing. Because of a promise he'd made to his dying crew and Laboon he won't even consider killing himself. The brief flashback set ten years into his ordeal leaves little doubt that he's gone off the deep end, to say nothing of when the main cast finds him after another forty years. Made worse by the fact that he's made immortal by a Devil Fruit power, meaning that he doesn't even have a natural death to look forward to. This trope is emphasized by the fact that Brook's remaining crew dies while playing a song. As they die, he comments that it's only a quartet, trio, duet, and finally solo. | |
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Pi Patel of Life of Pi becomes stranded on a lifeboat for 277 days with only a Bengal tiger to keep him company. The only other human being he encounters on the ocean is a similarly insane, cannibalistic Frenchman. | |
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In the Nightside novel Something from the Nightside, a timeslip reveals a future where the immortal Razor Eddie is the only surviving human. | |
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I Am Legend. Robert Neville even holds full conversations with mannequins he has set up in stores and completely flips out demanding to know if they are actually alive or not when he finds one has moved on its own. Turns out one of the vampires moved it as bait. | |
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The final fate of Porky in Mother 3. The Absolutely Safe Capsule is absolutely safe. For all eternity. | |
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Martian Manhunter: In some continuities, J'onn not only is the last Martian left, but he's conscious and active by himself for an indeterminately long time before coming to Earth. | |
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I Am Mother involves a young girl being raised from birth by an A.I. droid called Mother in an underground bunker after an extinction event. As Mother is programmed for the task, the girl copes a lot better than you would expect. Not so the Woman who enters the bunker from the devastated outside world. Mother later mentions that she feared becoming this trope if humanity destroyed itself; hence her incentive to raise the human embryos so she won't be the last sentient being on the planet. | |
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The Shadow King in The City of Dreaming Books would be killed if exposed to sunlight, and does not dare interact with normal people for other reasons. He occasionally watches or listens to them, but spends most of his time in caves deep under the city. He is not the most sane of individuals. | |
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Molly in season one had been alone since she lose her sister, and preferred it that way until she met Lee and the group. If she leaves the group voluntarily, she claims that she had always fared better on her own. | |
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The title character in Enoch Arden, while shipwrecked on a Deserted Island. When he is rescued after more than ten years, he hardly remembers how to speak: | |
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Drizzt in The Dark Elf Trilogy runs away from the drow and lives alone in the cavern labyrinth for ten years and he's nearly losing his mind despite having the magical panther. In the end, he approaches the svirfnebli who have been fighting the drow for millennia in the hope of them taking him in. | |
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Island of the Blue Dolphins: A Native American girl gets trapped, alone, when the rest of her village leaves their ancestral island. By the time she's finally rescued, a full 18 years after everyone else left, none of the people of her village are anywhere to be found; the closest she's able to find is her niece and nephew (born after her sister left the island), who don't even speak her language. | |
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Proteus drops you on a remote island in the middle of the ocean with no companionship, except for some animals who flee at the sight of you. All you can do is walk around the island and check out the gorgeous scenery. | |
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The Mysterious Island has Ayrton, who, after 12 years alone on an island, is quite an extreme example of this. | |
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Clementine Is introduced as such in New Frontier, and is quick to distrust people such as Javi and would rather be alone in order to save herself from being hurt and abandoned again. It's explained that it's due to her caretaker in Season 2 dying no matter the player's choice (whether it be Kenny, Jane, or Edith). Even if she was alone with AJ, she still ended up having him taken from her by The New Frontier on David's order after she tried to save his life, and is later exiled and left to fend for herself. | |
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Takahiro Aramaki of 7 Seeds is the only survivor of Team Winter... who turn out to have awakened from cryostasis about fifteen years before the other teams. He spends the intervening time alone except for his dogs; while he doesn't go crazy, he's very rusty at dealing with people by the time he meets the other survivors. | |
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Moon (2009). Sam Bell is nearing the end of a shift maintaining Helium-3 mining operations on the far side of the moon. Unfortunately, his only company is a computer (GERTY) and his contact with the outside world is restricted to occasional transmissions bounced off other planetary bodies. He spends his days comforting himself with the fact that he'll soon be reunited with his wife and baby daughter... but after three years effectively on his own, he's starting to crack... | |
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In Marooned in Realtime, Marta Korolev is left alone on the depopulated Earth of the distant future, with nobody for company except a colony of fishermonkeys. There are several hundred other people around, but they're all in stasis and sealed away where she can't contact them or wake them up. She has enough wilderness training to survive and avoids going mad, but after living alone for forty years, she dies of old age before rescue reaches her. (That's not a spoiler; her death is reported before any of the details of the ordeal that preceded it.) When the saboteur who prevented her from entering stasis with the others is identified, he is punished with a similar ordeal. He does go mad, eventually. | |
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In Coyote, a group of political dissidents escape on an interstellar spaceship, has exactly one passenger pulled out of hibernation en route. He can't go back in. The destination is centuries away. He goes mad for a while, then spends the rest of his life painting murals all over the ship. | |
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Black Mage Zeref of Fairy Tail spent centuries in self-imposed exile after he realized the value of human life one day and lost control of his death magic because of it. | |
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Zac, the protagonist of The Quiet Earth, and the last man on Earth. Or so he believes - although meeting two other survivors is only a comfort for a short while when they start favoring each other's company and leaving him feeling even more alone. | |
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Ayla for a good part of The Valley of Horses from the Earth's Children book series. She gets thrown out of her tribe and has to survive on her own for three years by hunting, gathering, and working alone. She notes that if she ever should get incapacitated for a longer while, she would be doomed. She doesn't go mad but she sure feels very lonely and adopts a horse and a lion. | |
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In SpongeBob SquarePants, Squidward enters a Time Machine and ends up in a formless limbo. "Finally, a place where I can finally be alone." He lasts all of one minute before screaming to get back home. Probably has less to do with being alone, and more to do with the constant "Alone"s popping up and saying alone, over and over. | |
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You are this in Minecraft's single-player mode. It's just you and a world eight times the size of the planet Earth. And lots of hostile and not-so-hostile creatures... unless you enable villages. | |
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Omega, from the third Doctor's run of Doctor Who, is trapped alone in an antimatter dimension for millennia. He's shown to be pitifully insane by the end of the story. | |
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The Legend of Dragoon has a number of characters who used to be this trope: Dart, who wandered on a mission alone to find and destroy the Black Monster, refused to take companionship because it was a personal mission and would be incredibly dangerous. Rose, who wandered the world aimlessly and was said Black Monster. Miranda comments that she used to be that way in between the period of her father's death and her adoption by Queen Theresa, wandering the Kashua Glacier all alone. | |
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The eponymous protagonist of Dr. Muto, due to accidentally blowing up his own planet. The main goal of the game is to build a machine to rebuild his planet. | |
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Mau goes through this in Nation after the Wave wipes out his people. It doesn't last terribly long, though, before other survivors start showing up. | |
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Hulk: The End: The Hulk is the only survivor of a nuclear war. He and his alter ego Bruce Banner are still alive hundreds of years after everyone else died. Banner grimly conjectures that he and his monstrous alter ego were spared as the atoner(s) for mankind's self-destruction, due to the Hulk, having been created in a radioactive explosion, being something of a walking symbol of the Nuclear Age. Finally, the Hulk becomes truly alone when Banner succumbs to a heart attack—even though Hulk retains the ability to revert to human form, Banner is no longer present in their shared consciousness, and Hulk realizes that changing back will mean his death as well. It is strongly suggested that Banner died of the heart attack. An internal dialogue has Banner pleading for the Hulk not to take over so that he can finally die and let Hulk be alone like he always wanted; it's implied that the transformation was held off just long enough to accomplish it. At this point in the story, they are two fully separate entities that hate each other, and Hulk's healing factor is the only thing keeping either alive. |
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Galen Tyrol does this in the Grand Finale. Driven half-mad by Humans and Cylons alike, he settles in a dreary, desolate part of the world (implied to be Scotland) so he never has to see another living being ever again. | |
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Snowman in Oryx and Crake is the sole survivor after a virus wipes out the human race and his sanity is definitely debatable. | |
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The Home We Built Together: With the exception of Astrid, Hiccup avoids socializing with anyone if he can help it. | |
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Battlestar Galactica: Galen Tyrol does this in the Grand Finale. Driven half-mad by Humans and Cylons alike, he settles in a dreary, desolate part of the world (implied to be Scotland) so he never has to see another living being ever again. Earlier in the season, D'Anna does the same thing, deciding to stay on the ruined Earth of the Final Five. |
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The Martian: Due to a freak accident, Mark Watney is the only person on the entire planet of Mars, and the next expedition is years away. For the first couple of months, it never even occurs to anyone back on Earth that he might still be alive. His log entries are, largely, almost defiantly upbeat - he nearly kills himself (accidentally) several times, he's facing seemingly impossible odds that he's well equipped to calculate and appreciate, but in spite of it all he mostly keeps working on whatever problem is in front of him because the alternative (running away, screaming at the sky, crying like a baby) would just waste time and, eventually, leave him facing the exact same problem, only probably worse. Played for Laughs when NASA realises he's up there alive, alone, and thinks that everyone thinks he's dead: | |
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In Portal, Doug Rattmann is the only survivor after GLaDOS flooded Aperture Science with a deadly neurotoxin. Hiding from GLaDOS in nooks and crannies of the Enrichment Center, he cracked up and scrawled messages, poems, and declarations of love for the Companion Cube on the walls. | |
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Strangely enough, came up a couple of times in the 2003 Strawberry Shortcake series. In "The Mystery of Seaberry Shore," Coco Calypso is the sole inhabitant of the eponymous shore (save her pet parrot and two dozen monkeys). When Strawberry is called in to investigate a seaberry robbery, it becomes apparent that Coco, contrary to her song ("With all that I've got, with all that I've found, it's okay by me if there's no one around."), is incredibly lonely. Fortunately for her, the thief was just a girl who lives in a neighboring lagoon who used the seaberries for sustenance before Coco started harvesting them. With the misunderstanding cleared up, the two girls resolve to be friends and share the berries. In "Strawberry's Big Journey," Strawberry's car breaks down just outside of a small town whose only resident, Banana Candy, takes on all the jobs in the town (claiming she needs them to make ends meet). In order to keep Strawberry and her friends from leaving, she plans to sabotage the car even more, but hearing about their trip, she has a change of heart, fixes the car, and confesses to everything. Hearing that she's never left the town before, Strawberry invites her along on their trip, and she seems to have taken up residence in Strawberryland since then. |
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The Last Man on Earth starring Vincent Price. This was the first movie version of the Richard Matheson novel I Am Legend, which was adapted twice more, as The Ωmega Man and I Am Legend (Will Smith film). | |
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Cult of Luna has this as a frequent subject, particularly in Somewhere Along the Highway. | |
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This is both the past and future of Touhou's Fujiwara no Mokou, who impulsively drank the Hourai Elixir over a thousand years ago, becoming irrevocably immortal. After her agelessness drove others away, she spent centuries living by herself in the wilds, until she snapped and cut down anyone and anything who crossed her, then snapped further and sank into absolute apathy. She's stabilized since coming to Gensokyo, but speculation is that Mokou will outlive the planet Earth and the human race. The twist is that she won't be entirely alone - her nemesis Kaguya Houraisan also drank the Elixir, meaning that the two can look forward to repeatedly killing each other for the rest of eternity. | |
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In the Scion roleplaying system, the ultimate power of the 'Justice' domain allows the user to "condemn" someone - assuming he knows for sure that they committed a great crime. Doing so traps them within their own mind, in a prison cell, completely isolated from anything and everything, for months and years - to their perception. When their "sentence" finally ends, they wake up, with merely a second having passed in the real world. It is implied that most mortals do not get through this with their sanity intact - it is, after all, designed to put the fear of God(s) in magical beings and titanspawn... | |
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Bleak World has the Experiment organization "Isolationists". They gain humanity by staying away from civilization and sentient creatures. The challenge of this comes from your other voices likely trying to get you back to society. Probably to kill it. | |
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The Family Guy episode "Road To The Multiverse" featured a universe inhabited by only one guy. He did nothing but shout compliments. | |
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Used in Small Gods as villain Vorbis' personal hell (see page quote). The lack of other people isn't the true hell for Vorbis, though... it's being trapped in his own head. | |
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The Culture: In the short story "Descendant" from the novella The State of the Art, an injured, shipwrecked soldier must hike a thousand kilometers to reach an outpost with only his damaged spacesuit's AI for company. | |
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Robinson Crusoe lives alone on a Deserted Island for years after being shipwrecked. | |
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Left 4 Dead 2: There is a single-player mode called "The Last Man On Earth" where you are the only human other than the rescue vehicle pilots and the gun store owner (there are also no Common Infected or Boomers). Keep in mind that this game is built entirely around co-op. Since there are still Special Infected, expect tons of Things That Go "Bump" in the Night horror (particularly so, since you're alone and any Special Infected could potentially kill you by itself) and Jump Scares. In a normal game, if you are a long distance away from any of your teammates, every once in a while your character will shout out something like "Hello?" or "Where is everybody?". As you're the only survivor in The Last Man On Earth, the character you're playing as will periodically give out these shouts for the entire game to have nothing but the sounds of the Special Infected answer back. Bonus creepy points for the survivor you're playing as talking as if the other survivors are still there, giving directions, pointing out supplies/weapons on the map, spotting Special Infected for "other people", etc. And, as each campaign in Left 4 Dead 2 is connected to the last, and your character still talks as if there were other survivors, in whatever campaign you're playing, this mode gives off the feeling that you were somehow separated from the other survivors between this one and the last one, but since there are also no longer any "normal" zombies anywhere, it suggests that something... else must have happened along the way, too. |
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Samus Aran is usually completely alone on whatever planet her mission is on in most of the Metroid games. | |
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