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16	[[quoteright:350:[[VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/you_are_not_alone_2.png]]]]
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19	->'''Batman:''' I can't do it... I can't stop them...\
20	'''Alfred:''' No, you can't... not on your own. But it's high time you realize you're a man, not an island. And a man's strength comes not from just brawn and intelligence... but also from his allies.
21	-->-- ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins''
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23	For many of us, DyingAlone is particularly depressing. Maybe TheHero is fighting alone against [[CurbStompBattle impossible odds]] with [[HeroicBSOD his confidence shot to hell]]. Maybe that BreakingSpeech delivered to TheSmartGuy over [[NerdsAreVirgins his non-existent love life]] hit too close to home. Maybe the GrumpyOldMan is especially grumpy with having to spend the upcoming Christmas alone again this year. Maybe the ShellShockedVeteran has decided that he can't live with what happened anymore.
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25	This is when a character has their personal DarkestHour (or is just down in a slump) and is brought out of it by [[TrueCompanions the people who truly matter]]. It could be that the villain's EvilGloating is [[ShutUpHannibal interrupted]] by the BigDamnHeroes delivering [[TalkToTheFist a bone-shattering punch to the jaw]] and rousing the hero with a motivational speech, assuring him that his struggle isn't meaningless and that he has inspired people to greatness. Maybe TheSmartGuy comes home depressed only to discover that the recently [[HighHeelFaceTurn reformed]] FemmeFatale is [[ReadyForLovemaking waiting for him wearing nothing but]]... ''[[HeadTiltinglyKinky Huh!]]'' The GrumpyOldMan gets an unexpected visit from his nephew and his family. And the ShellShockedVeteran receives a phone call from his estranged daughter just when he's ready to [[DrivenToSuicide put the gun to his head]].
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27	[[RousseauWasRight Or maybe someone feels lonely and simply needs a hug.]]
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29	[[TragicVillain Maybe it's the villain that needs the hug.]]
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31	People, both real and fictional, often find themselves isolated and overwhelmed by the circumstances surrounding them. It is when this happens that ThePowerOfFriendship and ThePowerOfLove shines. [[AFriendInNeed Someone lending you a hand when it is truly needed]] is a great way to be told that "[[TitleDrop You Are Not Alone]]".
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33	Is frequently a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment\|s}}. Can overlap with BigDamnHeroes if it involves a rescue. Can be used to bring people out of a TenMinuteRetirement. AllLovingHero or the GoodSamaritan will offer this kind of help even to random strangers. TheAntiNihilist often practices this philosophy as a response to the [[CrapsackWorld nihilistically lonely world]] around him. Many a BadassCreed is based on the idea that the badass is just part of many; kill them and another will be there to carry on the fight. When someone chooses to ComfortTheDying, they often do it so the dying character doesn't feel alone. Extreme cases can even involve YouAreWorthHell (e.g., "it's okay to suffer a FateWorseThanDeath, as long as nobody's lonely!"). Compare YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre. Often turns out to be LifeSavingEncouragement.
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35	Compare with LonersAreFreaks. Contrast IJustWantToHaveFriends , EtTuBrute, InTheEndYouAreOnYourOwn and UnwantedAssistance. In certain cases, can be contrasted with DontYouDarePityMe.
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37	For the anime movie ''You Are (Not) Alone'', see the ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' series. Not to be confused with "we are not alone", which refers to [[AlienTropes extra-terrestrial life]], or the WeAreNotAloneIndex (unless your angst stems from feeling like you're troping alone).
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39	For the [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant dark tropes that could have been dubbed this]], about something nightmarish nearby, see EnemyRisingBehind.
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41	Not to be confused with "reinforcement" tropes like TheCavalry or GondorCallsForAid, though this trope could be invoked by proxy if the reinforcements arrive during the hero's DarkestHour.
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43	And if it doesn't make you any happier than that, there's even a song named and called "You're Never Alone", which is written and performed by Jack Grunsky. This tune is from his JUNO award winning CD titled: 'Sing & Dance' 2000, which can be seen and heard in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IplKxqfuM0c this video]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvuk6FfrOs8 that video]].
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45	!!Example subpages:
46	[[index]]
47	* YouAreNotAlone/AnimeAndManga
48	* YouAreNotAlone/ComicBooks
49	* YouAreNotAlone/FanWorks
50	* [[YouAreNotAlone/LiveActionFilms Films — Live-Action]]
51	* YouAreNotAlone/{{Literature}}
52	* YouAreNotAlone/LiveActionTV
53	* YouAreNotAlone/{{Music}}
54	* YouAreNotAlone/{{Theatre}}
55	* YouAreNotAlone/VideoGames
56	* YouAreNotAlone/VisualNovels
57	* YouAreNotAlone/{{Webcomics}}
58	* YouAreNotAlone/WebOriginal
59	* YouAreNotAlone/WesternAnimation
60	[[/index]]
61
62	!!Other examples:
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64	[[AC:[[AnimatedFilms Films - Animated]]]]
65	* ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'': Rare shiny villainous example: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBqt0a8sgWM Every guy here'd love to be you Gaston, even when taking your lumps.]]
66	* Toward the end of ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'' during the song "All of You", the whole town shows up a the remains of the Casita, various tools and building supplies in hand.
67	-->''"Lay down your load,\
68	We're only down the road,\
69	We have no gifts but we are many,\
70	And we'll do anything for you..."''
71	* Featured in ''WesternAnimation/Epic2013''. The villainous Mandrake is about to destroy the heroic Leafman Ronin.
72	-->'''Mandrake:''' In the end, every leaf falls alone.\
73	''(Mandrake swings, a sword comes out of nowhere to block)''\
74	'''Nod:''' No one is alone.
75	* One of the core themes in ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen\|2013}}''; alone and isolated, Elsa's fears consumed her, making it impossible for her to [[PowerIncontinence control her ice powers]]. Ultimately it's [[spoiler:her sister Anna's HeroicSacrifice through ThePowerOfLove]] that helps her gain control.
76	* The climax of ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'' involves Riley tearfully confessing to her parents that she misses their former home in Minnesota, who go on to comfort her by revealing that they also miss their old home and she's not alone in feeling that way.
77	* The song "We Are One" from ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'' is all about this idea. It's arguably one of the most meaningful and heartwarming songs in the whole film series, and the advice certainly aids Kiara later in the film.
78	* ''Animation/NextGen'': 7723 says this in his attempts to reassure an angered Mai during her attempt to sneak in and rescue her mother. Mai then asks if she's not alone then she's dragging him down into her garbage life and is that really where he wants to be? To which he responds "Nowhere else".
79	* In ''Animation/TheSnowQueen2012'', Gerda sees a vision of her parents that say this.
80	* ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'':
81	** When Mei is alone in her bedroom, struggling to suppress her panda form, her friends come to visit her. Simply by being there, they cheer her up and give her the emotional strength she needs to control the panda transformation.
82	** When Mei [[spoiler:meets her mother on the astral plane, and gives Ming the support she needs to break out of her despair]], this dynamic is definitely at work between them.
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84	[[AC:{{Podcast}}s]]
85	* In episode two of ''Podcast/MysteryShow'', Starlee ends up talking to a customer service rep from Ticketmaster named Dennis. The conversation starts on Music/BritneySpears, but quickly turns personal. When Dennis admits to not feeling worthy of love, Starlee quickly assures him that he ''is'' worthy and that many people, including herself, deal with the same feelings.
86	* In ''Podcast/TheMagnusArchives'', this is the weakness of [[EldritchAbomination The Lonely]], appropriately enough, and statements involving its influence tend to be resolved by love of others.
87	** Both Naomi Herne and Herman Gorgoli's statements revolve around people who recently lost their loved one (to death and divorce respectively) being caught in an infinite empty world completely alone, a misty graveyard and an infinite suburbia. Naomi ultimately gets out when she hears the voice of her late husband call to her, and follows it out of the graveyard, and Herman gets a sudden call on his dead phone from his ex-husband chewing him out for being late to a meeting, and the only thing he can choke out through the tears is "I love you."
88	** At the end of season 4, one of the Lonely's servitors remarks that he once tried to make an apartment complex designed to make everyone as miserable and lonely as possible. Most of the apartments were empty, the ones that weren't were far apart and too small to have guests or roommates. The halls twisted in such a way that you were unlikely to run into anyone else, and the windows only let you see the crowds far bellow with no hope of getting to them. He had even planned to at one point lock the doors and leave everyone to suffer. Gertrude Robinson stopped this by putting in a call to a local paper with a thinkpiece on it, and the denizens of the apartment complex were flooded by social outreach and support from the community.
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90	[[AC:TabletopGames]]
91	* ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'' uses this as a game mechanic, emphasizing that hunter cells will always work together no matter what they face in the darkness of the unknown.
92	* ''TabletopGame/LegendOfTheFiveRings'' gives us this exchange when the Water Dragon offers Yoritomo to take his twenty strongest samurai to Volturnum, most likely to face certain death:
93	-->Yoritomo turned to the Dragon, lifting his kamas from their sheaths. "I am my twenty-strongest samurai!" he roared. "Take me, and I shall show you how the Son of Storms faces death!"\
94	The Dragon rolled through sea foam and salt tears, prepared to work its magic, when another voice echoed from beside the Mantis general. Aramasu, Bayushi no more, stood at his father's side.\
95	"And I am twenty-one."
96	* There is an example in ''TabletopGame/{{Nobilis}}'' that's at once moving and horrifying. In the world of ''Nobilis,'' Hell loves you. It loves you even if the entire rest of Creation hates you, loves you even if you hate yourself, loves you even if you are so wretched that hate is all you truly deserve. And it's evil and twisted and hideous, and it's going to hurt you and break you and torture you, because it's Hell, and that's what it does. But it has always loved you, and it always will.
97	* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
98	** The Eldar capture the souls of their dead to save them from being absorbed by Slaanesh, the god of excess. The Eldar keep them inside soulstones, which are used to amplify the psychic powers of their descendants and to pilot giant mech suits. Given that [[CrapsackWorld every hour they live is their darkest hour]], this example qualifies.
99	-->"You are our children. Dead though we are, we shall not abandon you"
100	** This is also one of the central points of the Imperium's faith. This is a vast and merciless universe filled with eldritch abominations and untold cosmic horrors, where ''everything'' hates humans. But the Emperor of Mankind watches over and protects His servants. Any human, as long as he or she believes in Him on Terra, will have something worth fighting for and have Him as Father, Guardian and God. This isn't just their religion, by the way. This is actually part of the laws of physics in this universe. The Emperor watches over all mankind, but he cannot, and therefore will not, protect those who do not serve him faithfully.
101	-->"There is only the Emperor, and he is our Shield and Protector."
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103	[[AC:Other]]
104	* Toonami's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwWtWSmLebY 2016 promo/music video/AMV]] titled [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin You're Not Alone]] intercuts various out-of-context scenes of companionship between characters of their shows airing at the time.
105	-->"You're not alone, I'm here with you..."\
106	"If you die, well, I'll die alongside you."
107	* Good Smile Company's [[http://www.goodsmile.info/product/en/3115/Nendoroid+Miku+Hatsune+Support+ver.html Hatsune Miku (Support Version)]] Nendoroid's flag says this. The Nendoroid was redistributed with special pom-poms and a flag to support the relief for the victims of the 2011 Sendai Tsunami and Earthquake. For every Nendoroid purchased, GSC donated ¥1,000 (about $12.00 USD) to UsefulNotes/TheRedCross in UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}. 74,394 were ordered, meaning GSC donated a whopping ¥74,384,000 (about $913,260 USD).
108	** Website/GaiaOnline had a similar fundraiser for the same disaster through their Cash Shop.
109	* Very prevalent in [=OnStar=] commercials, as well as those of similar services, usually involving a single occupant crashed in a remote area.
110	-->'''Tagline:''' The last thing you want to be right now is alone.
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