History PlayingWith / LastOfHisKind

* '''Played For Drama''': Gy'nary is a threat to the world that must be defeated, but the heroes' victory is treated as bittersweet; for better or worse, [[EndOfAnAge the world will never be the same without him.]]

* '''Straight''': [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign Gy'nary]] is the last member of the [[StealthPun Atarian]] race, and the only one who escaped [[ApocalypseHow his home-planet's]] EarthShatteringKaboom.

* '''Played For Drama''': Gy'nary is a threat to the world that must be defeated, but the heroes recognise that, for better or worse, [[EndOfAnAge the world will never be the same without him.]]

* '''Implied''': Every other race has multiple members apply on screen; Gy'nary is the only example of his ever shown. When another character casually asks when they'll get to visit his homeworld, Gy'nary goes into a momentary HeroicBSOD. He's also got an implacable hatred of a recurring villain who wears what looks like an Atarian pelt as a trophy.

** Evulz drips trillions of trillions of nukes on Gy'nary's home planet of Gy'nish to make sure his species is annihilated.

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* '''Straight''': [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign Gy’nary]] is the last member of the [[StealthPun Atarian]] race, and the only one who escaped [[ApocalypseHow his home-planet’s]] EarthShatteringKaboom.

** Gy’nary is the only living creature ''in his universe''.

** In an in-universe example of TechnologyMarchesOn, most of the freighter pilots are now robots; Gy’nary is the last organic pilot.
** RacialRemnant

** If Gy’nary gets around to explaining how exactly he became the LastOfHisKind, he will justify it with said explanation.

* '''Inverted''': Gy’nary is an artificial organism; he happens to be the ''first'' of his kind, which is temporarily a SingleSpecimenSpecies until his female counterpart is born.
* '''Subverted''': Gy’nary ''thinks'' he’s the Last of His Kind, but it turns out that ThereIsAnother.

** Bob makes a big deal out of the fact that he’s the only person left on the planet with brown eyes.

* '''Zig-zagged''': Gy’nary is constantly cloned, and his clone is repeatedly killed off.
* '''Averted''': Either others of Gy’nary’s species are seen, or it is mentioned that there are others early on.

* '''Lampshaded''': “Don’t you ''dare'' feel sorry for me just because I’m the last of my kind.”

** Evil Emperor Evulz massacres Gy’nary’s entire race in an effort to recruit him as TheDragon; Gy’nary is either unaware of that plot, or has no choice but to accept.

** During his escape from the EarthShatteringKaboom, Gy’nary put his sister (or another fertile female of his race that he knew) in suspended animation so that there will be a chance of his race repopulating elsewhere.

-->'''Bar Patron''': That man over there is the last of his kind, dude. He’s shut himself off and rather’d die alone.
* '''Conversed''': “So Gy’nary’s the Last Of His Kind? [[AndThatsTerrible That’s awful!]]”
* '''Deconstructed''': Gy’nary’s [[RealitySubtext excessive hunting and poaching has led to him aiming at the last Brown-Spotted Tropenent.]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone He then realizes that]] [[{{Heroic BSOD}} he has very nearly committed Genocide.]]

** The Brown-Spotted Tropenent becomes Gy’nary’s sidekick and TeamPet to his fellow former hunters.

'''Basic Trope''': A character in a work of fiction is the last member of his/her civilization or even species.

** Gy’nary is the only living creature ''in the universe''.

* '''Justified''': If Gy’nary gets around to explaining how exactly he became the LastOfHisKind, he will justify it with said explanation.

* '''Reconstructed''': The Brown-Spotted Tropenent becomes Gy’nary’s sidekick and TeamPet to his fellow former hunters.

* '''Exaggerated''': Gy’nary is the only living creature ''in the universe''.

* '''Invoked''': Evil Emperor Evulz massacres Gy’nary’s entire race in an effort to recruit him as TheDragon; Gy’nary is either unaware of that plot, or has no choice but to accept.
* '''Exploited''': Gy'nary uses his last of kind status as a TearJerker exploit to make people pity him.

* '''Downplayed''': In an in-universe example of TechnologyMarchesOn, most of the freighter pilots are now robots; Gy’nary is the last organic pilot.

* '''Invoked''': Evil Emperor Evulz massacres Gy’nary’s entire race in an effort to recruit him as his {{Dragon}}; Gy’nary is either unaware of that plot, or has no choice but to accept.

* '''Exploited''': ???

** During his escape from the EarthShatteringKaboom, Gy’nary put his sister in suspended animation so that there will be a chance of his race repopulating elsewhere.

* '''Parodied''': Bob makes a big deal out of the fact that he’s the only person left on the planet with brown eyes.

* '''Defied''': During his escape from the EarthShatteringKaboom, Gy’nary put his sister in suspended animation so that there will be a chance of his race repopulating elsewhere.

Basic Trope: A character in a work of fiction is the last member of his/her civilization or even species.

* '''Subverted''': Gy’nary ''thinks'' he’s the '''Last of His Kind''', but it turns out that ThereIsAnother.

* '''Deconstructed''': Gy’nary’s [[RealitySubtext excessive hunting and poaching has led to him aiming at the last Brown-Spotted Tropenent.]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone He then realizes that]] [[{{Heroic BSOD}} he has very nearly committed Genocide.]]
* '''Reconstructed''': The Brown-Spotted Tropenent becomes Gy’nary’s sidekick and TeamPet to his fellow former hunters.

* '''Enforced''': This trope can be a viable method of generating sympathy for a character…