History ComicBook / YTheLastMan

* ArtisticLicenseReligion: The Swiss Guard doesn't wear multicolor, striped uniforms and wield halberds outside of ceremony. When they're actually performing security, they're equipped like any other modern security force.

That is the premise of ''Y: The Last Man'', a Creator/{{Vertigo|Comics}} comic book. Written by Creator/BrianKVaughan (creator and original author for ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' and ''ComicBook/ExMachina''), it tells the story of Yorick, a New York City escape artist who, along with his pet monkey Ampersand (&), somehow stayed alive while all other male mammals, from rats to giraffes to New York City Hall employees, [[{{Gendercide}} suddenly died]].

%%* EngineeredPublicConfession: Epiphany gets tricked which finally gets the Amazons to disperse

** Between [[spoiler:Dr. Mann calls out her father, Dr. Matsumori]].

%%* CallingTheOldManOut:
%%** Between Hero and her/Yorick's dad.
%%** Between [[spoiler:Dr. Mann and Dr. Matsumori.]]

%%* CurseIsFoiledAgain

%%* EngineeredPublicConfession: For Epiphany which finally gets the Amazons to disperse

%%* GeneralRipper: Alter.

%%* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Hero, Sadie, and Kilina]].

%%* LastOfHisKind

%%* MadeOfPlasticine: ... But everyone else is not.

%%* MaleGaze

%%* TheOneGuy

%%* PsychoForHire: Toyota.

%% * StevenUlyssesPerhero: Hero.

* ArtisticLicenseLinguistics: Yorick has an English degree, so he's prone to correcting people's grammar, but in doing so he repeats several common grammar myths, including not splitting infinitives and not [[PrepositionsAreNotToEndSentencesWith ending sentences with prepositions]]. Neither of these are actual grammar rules, which someone with an English degree would know... [[JustifiedTrope unless his focus had been on literature rather than grammar/linguistics]].

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The Culper ring solely had male agents, [[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-myth-of-agent-355-the-woman-spy-who-supposedly-helped-win-the-revolutionary-war-180979748/ this recent article]] points out, with 355 being the ring's personal code for a lady. One lady is mentioned in the surviving letters of the spy ring as an asset but this unidentified woman was not a direct member.

* ADateWithRosiePalms:
** Batteries for vibrators are suddenly a lot more valuable. And then, of course..
--->'''P.J:''' Seriously, you've been the last cock on Earth for ages. How do you not bone ''one'' girl in that whole time?\\
'''Yorick:''' ''(holds up his hand)''
** As a kid, 355 found out [[spoiler:her family had been killed in a car crash]] immediately after one of these. It put her off masturbation for years.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The Culper ring solely had male agents [[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-myth-of-agent-355-the-woman-spy-who-supposedly-helped-win-the-revolutionary-war-180979748/ this recent article]] points out with 355 being the ring's personal code for a lady. One lady is mentioned in the surviving letters of the spy ring as an asset but this unidentified woman was not a direct member.

* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler:Victoria, the leader of the Amazons, looks like a main antagonist, but she gets killed early on. From thereafter, the Amazons are a substantially reduced threat. They are replaced by the IDF]].

* BodyguardCrush: 355 realizes pretty early in the series that she is developing some feelings for Yorick, but [[SubvertedTrope she realizes just as quickly that it is simply a minor infatuation that comes with protecting him around the clock for such a length of time]]. [[spoiler:[[DoubleSubversion Then she and he fall in love for real]].]]

** So a ring of female agents who changed history and caused copycat agencies to emerge as a response is a cool bit of fiction but sadly inaccurate.

A [[DevelopmentHell long-proposed]] film adaption of the series never came to fruition, and a television series briefly aired on Hulu in 2021 before being swiftly cancelled. The short-lived trope page is [[Series/YTheLastMan2021 here]].