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* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'': In one episode of the 2011 revival, a chemical spill forces an evacuation in the duo's neighborhood. Due to stupidly ignoring the repeated warnings on TV and sirens outside, they emerge to discover the whole town seemingly empty, and Butthead assumes the end of the world happened, leaving only the two of them alive. Naturally, they take the opportunity to loot the Maxi-Mart and trash Stewarts house.

* ''VideoGame/{{Detention}}'': Set in Korea in the 1960's (specifically during the "White Terror" martial law period), the game begins with a high school student named Wei drifting off to sleep during history class, only to wake up to find the classroom, and the entire school empty. The words "Typhoon Warning" have been scribbled on the blackboard, and sure enough, there is a storm brewing outside, despite it not being typhoon season.
* In ''{{VideoGame/Firewatch}}'' When Henry breaks into Wapiti Station, he is surprised and confused to discover it has been abandoned.

* At the beginning of ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicII'', you wake up on an abandoned mining facility. Save for an old woman whom you find in the morgue and a man in a prison cell, the station is devoid of life. You must piece together what happened as you explore the station.

* In ''{{VideoGame/Firewatch}}'' When Henry breaks into Wapiti Station, he is surprised and conused to discover it is been abandoned.

* In ''VideoGame/Firewatch'' When Henry breaks into Wapiti Station, he is surprised and conused to discover it is been abandoned.

* When Henry breaks into Wapiti Station, he is surprised to discover it is been abandoned.

See also TheAloner, LateToTheParty and SleptThroughTheApocalypse.

* In an episode of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', "Remember Me", Dr. Crusher finds herself being gradually abandoned by the crew of the Enterprise, as the result of being trapped in a NegativeSpaceWedgie. Each disappearance only heightens her horror as nobody else on the ship remembers the missing crewmen. Taken UpToEleven when she eventually finds herself alone on the Enterprise, and the computer tells her that she is and always has been the only crewmember of a ship that shouldn't be possible to run without a crew in the triple digits.

* ''StargateSG1'' had an episode where the team visits a settlement on a DeathWorld which is protected by an energy field, allowing for a normal society inside. However, after spending the night, the team discover that several people mysteriously disappeared overnight, and none of the settlers remember them ever existing. Turns out the energy shield is slowly losing power and shrinking, and the computer regulating it has been killing people and erasing all memory of them from the remaining population to maintain a sustainable population.

* ''Series/ThePrisoner'' TOS episode "Many Happy Returns". One morning Number Six wakes up and finds the entire Village deserted except for a cat.

* ''TheLangoliers'' revolve around a group of people who awake on a night-time flight, only to discover that everyone else onboard have mysteriously vanished, leaving behind clothes, jewelry and even fillings and pacemakers, and the world outside turns out to be just as abandoned when they manage to land at an airport. On top of that, the world outside the plane seems to be oddly dulled, with food and drink tasting flat and stale, and the colors look washed out. It turns out the plane flew through a NegativeSpaceWedgie and became "unstuck" in time, trapping it between the past moment and the present, which is being erased by the titular Langoliers.

* ''FamilyGuy'' did an episode where Peter, Joe, Quagmire and Brian experience a strange light on the way home from the Clam, and wake up in a hospital with total amnesia, not even remembering eachother or their own names. They soon discover that both the hospital and the town have been mysteriously abandoned, and try to piece together what happened and who they are. [[spoiler: They're actually in a simulation created by Stewie who wanted to see if Peter and Brian would naturally form a friendship with no previous history. They would.]]
** Parodied in one episode where Cleveland is trying to come up with a plot for a horror movie, and tells a story similar to the pilot for ''TheWalkingDead'', where he wakes up in an abandoned hospital, but gets sidetracked by trying to change one of the flickering fluorescent lights.

* In ''Literature/TheLangoliers'', most of the aircraft's passengers vanish, and the rest go through the plane, looking for the missing passengers.

** The ''Mary Celeste'' was found off the Azores in seaworthy condition and only its lifeboat and crew missing. What happened to these is still a mystery.
* In 1587 John White set sail for England to get help for the colony of Roanoke. When he finally returned in 1590, the entire colony had vanished, with only the word "Croatoan" carved into a tree trunk. Unfortunately, this could not be investigated, and nobody knows what happened to the colony of Roanoke.

* In {{Film/AM1200}} Sam Larson expects the radio station to be normally employed. When he enters the station, he finds only [[ClaimedByTheSupernatural one employee]].

* In {{Film/AM1200}} Sam Larson expects the radio station to be normally employed. When he enters the station, he finds only [[ThePawn one employee]].

* In the ''Literature/WarriorCats'' novel ''Dawn'', Brambleclaw and Squirrelpaw return home, but the camp is entirely deserted, and they have no idea where the Clan is; there's no sign of a fight or anything. [[TheMedic Their medicine cat]], Cinderpelt, happens to come back to retrieve some herbs from her den, and she explains that the Clan has relocated to Sunningrocks because the humans' deforestation activities had come too close to the camp.

* A frequent trope in the ''SilentHill'' series. Silent Hill is a resort town with scenic woods, a beautiful lake, and an amusement park. Its victims find themselves wandering alone through constant fog and frequent snow/ash fall.

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* Used briefly but effectively in ''DevilsAdvocate'', when [[AmoralAttorney Kevin]] is invited to pay his [[{{Satan}} father]] a visit. Just to give more weight to that invitation, the entire 57th Street is rendered (or at least appears) completely empty for Kevin to walk along towards his destiny.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' TOS did this a few times.
** The first episode, appropriately titled "Where is Everybody?": A man finds himself walking along a road. He comes across a diner and later a town: both are completely empty of people. The TwilightZoneTwist is that [[spoiler:he's taking part in an experiment that has caused him to hallucinate]].