History Main / LastofHisKind

* The rachni queen on Noveria in ''MassEffect'' is the last survivor of a genocidal BugWar. You meet her in a research facility where her offspring are being used for scientific experiments, in the hope of turning them into supersoldiers. Unfortunately they're taken too soon from their mother and go insane. Shepard can choose to free or kill her.

* In ASongOfIceAndFire, [[BadassPrincess Daenerys]] and [[ImpoverishedPatrician Viserys]] Targaryen were believed to be the last surviving members of House Targaryen. [[ThereIsAnother Keep reading to find out if it was true.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' plays this with Po, the only apparent [[PandaingToTheAudience panda]] in rabbits and pigs' village. The second film shows that his tribe was killed off by evil wolves. [[spoiler: Subverted in the sequel hook sequence. Not only Po's real dad's alive, there are few pandas left around in a far and unknown area.]]

* [[http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/12/20/184723/82 The Lonely Whale]]. Possibly.

* Pseudo-example: There is a lone gibbon living on a small island on the Khao Lak reservoir in Thailand. If you paddle around the island in the early morning you can see him swinging and calling to other gibbons. He was trapped on the island during the formation of the reservoir and can't swim. He can hear the gibbon calls from the lake edges but he can't find them. There is controversy locally whether to tranquilise and release him on the mainland or leave him to his own devices.

* Poor little Woody Allen-esque Wendell T Wolf from ''{{Taz-Mania}}'' is the last surviving Tasmanian wolf and is often mistaken for a silly-looking dog. He's TheWoobie for sure!

*** [[spoiler:Note the key word "known." Technically speaking, the Ishidas weren't even the only quincies in the their own town. The Kurosakis are of quincy blood as well, with the obvious exception of Isshin.]]

* According to ''[[The Onion]],'' the [[ArabIsraeliConflict Israeli-Palestinian conflict]] will have been whittled down to one man on each side [[http://youtu.be/iKC21wDarBo?t=3m13s by the year 2137]].

*** Unless you believe in bigfoots/sasquatches.

*** Subverted in the BigFinishDoctorWho audio drama ''Primeval'', where it turns out that [[ThereIsAnother at least one Trakenite colony survived]] the destruction of the Traken Union.

* Flying Scotsman. The last of Sir Herbert Nigel Gresley's famous A1 (later A3) express passenger steam engines. All others of the class were scrapped by 1968. Flying Scotsman was only rescued through private patronage. One fictional example exists, though: Gordon the Big Engine.

** The last known ''master'' (and the official Last Quincy) is Uryuu's father, RetiredBadass Ryuuken Ishida.

* From around 1982 to his retirement after the 1986 season, [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball NFL kicker]] Mark Mosley was both the last of the "straight ahead" kickers and the last NFL player to sport the [[http://i.cdn.turner.com/si/multimedia/photo_gallery/1001/nfl.playoffs.best.nfc.championship.games/images/1983-redskins-49ers-joe-theismann-mark-mosley.jpg "single-bar" face mask]] on his helmet.
** Not really. Gary Anderson, most known for [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-3DDFGvnII missing a field goal after a perfect 1998 regular season, which cost his team a trip to the super bowl]], also sported the single-bar facemask.
* From 2002 to its demolition in 2005, Busch Stadium in St. Louis was the last of the great "Cookie Cutter" stadiums - five near-identical mufti-purpose stadiums built in the late 60's. The other stadiums were (in order of demolition: Atlanta Fulton County, Three Rivers (Pittsburgh), Riverfront (Cincinatti) and Veterans' (Philadelphia).

Furthermore, as stated in the background materials, Skull Island's entire ecosystem is dying because the island is submerging due to geological activity. According to [[AllThereInTheManual the companion book]] on Skull Island, the entire island sank not long after the crew's second visit to document the area.

* In ''TheFountain'' it is implied, but not known, if Tom the astronaut who has become [[WhoWantsToLiveForever near-immortal]], is the last surviving human... not least by the soundtrack theme entitled [[LampshadeHanging The Last Man]]...[[hottip:*: or the fact that Tom [[RecursiveFiction is reborn]] as the First Man [[StoryWithinAStory within a story]] at the film's climax.]]

* Disney's ''{{Dinosaur}}'' features Baylene, the last of the brachiosaurs glimpsed in the movie's prologue.

Furthermore, as stated in the background materials, Skull Island's entire ecosystem is dying because the island is submerging due to geological activity. Those V. Rexes that Kong killed, for instance, may have just been the last three members of their entire species.
** Not really, in [[AllThereInTheManual the companion book]] V. rexes and basically all the animals in the movie are stated to have survived right up to when the island sank.

* Before his death, Yoda says in [[StarWars Return of the Jedi]], that Luke Skywalker is the last of the Jedi.
** Don't worry! ThereIsAnother. Also, Yoda himself [[SingleSpecimenSpecies may very well have been]] The Last Of The Wrinkly Green Muppets.
** Although plenty of other force users do show up in the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse''. Whether they count as Jedi is a different matter.
* In ''[[TransformersFilmSeries Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen]]'', Optimus Prime is said to be the last of the Dynasty Of Primes. Which becomes especially true at the end of the film in which he kills [[BigBad The Fallen]] in combat (The Fallen used to be a Prime until he [[FaceHeelTurn decided to kill his brothers]]).
** In the follow-up, ''Transformers: Dark of the Moon'', it is revealed that Optimus ''isn't'' the last one; it was merely assumed he was. This revelation is made by the discovery of Sentinel Prime; Optimus' mentor and father figure, who was thought killed centuries ago, but in reality his ship, the ''Ark'', was disabled and eventually crashed on our moon, whilst Sentinel slipped into stasis. He is reactivated for the events of the film, [[spoiler: whereupon the more shocking revelation that [[FaceHeelTurn he had allied himself with the Decepticons]] occurs, becoming the film's BigBad via usurping command from Megatron. Optimus is left with little choice but to kill him at the end of the film, presumably leaving himself as the last Prime for certain]].
* The quote comes from ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean: At World's End'' where, while Jack isn't specifically the last of his kind, pirates are still a "dying breed" and by the third movie are bordering on extinction. Jack doesn't feel like fighting for survival, though, discusses with Barbossa how cool it might be to have the nickname "the Last Pirate". [[spoiler:He changes his mind when they encounter the dead Kraken, which was the last of its kind]].

* Attempts to avoid this trope formed the plot of {{Pixar}}'s now-cancelled film [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_(film)#Unfinished_projects ''Newt'']].

** Ed and Al by descent are [[spoiler:the last two ethnic Xerxes-ans]]. What would the [[BuffySpeak proper term]] be?

** The Vandenreich [[spoiler:including Masaki Kurosaki]] has abandoned the old ways entirely, resulting in the last known users of the old traditions being the two Ishida quincies.

* Roland Deschain of ''TheDarkTower'' series is the last gunslinger, representing a past that most people remember only from stories. The fact that he's somewhere between several hundred and several thousand years (time is a face upon the water) old helps.

* In WilliamJoyce's ''Literature/TheGuardiansofChildhood'', E. Aster Bunnymund (a.k.a. "The Easter Bunny"), a Pooka, is the last of his species, the rest of the Pookas having been wiped out in a war against Pitch Black, the Nightmare King. After his entire clan was destroyed by Pitch, he settled down on Earth and away from any human civilization.