-> '''Obi Wan:''' That boy is our last hope.
-> '''Yoda:''' No. [[TropeNamers There is another]].
--> --''[[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back]]''

So, you are a writer, and you establish, for the purposes of building up drama and depth, that a character is the LastOfHisKind. However, this severely restricts the options available to you, especially if we have previously seen others of his kind, [[EverybodysDeadDave who are now, obviously, gone]].

Therefore, very often, at least for the heroic sort, it will eventually turn out that he's ''not'' really the LastOfHisKind after all, and his fellows have either been secreted away or [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascended to a higher plane of existence]]. Unless this is revealed in the GrandFinale or when the character is PutOnABus, this revelation will either prove a MacGuffin (as the character will now be driven to actually [[QuestForTheRest find and reunite with his fellows]]), or be conveniently removed by a ResetButton (for example, these other survivors will be killed, or permanently sealed away in another dimension for their own protection, turning out to be a dream, ChuckCunninghamSyndrome or whatnot), as being reunited with his people pretty much cancels out the character type. See SailorEarth for when a fanfiction writer creates this type of character.

Compare: TheChosenMany, TheLastManHeardAKnock.
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* Michel in ''MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' [[spoiler:is kept from realizing the existence of other Ancients by Fuku, the ''real'' ManBehindTheMan (as opposed to the fake, the Great One), as they would spoil his delusions of turning the world into a flying fish-ridden {{Mordor}}.]]
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': The Quincy, Uryuu Ishida is supposed to be the LastOfHisKind because the quincy power skipped a generation from grandfather to grandson due to his father turning his back on the quincy way. Then it's revealed his father is actually the ''official'' Last Quincy and he's not only got all his quincy power but he's fully mastered every known quincy technique that existed. That made Uryuu the last practicing quincy and his father the last master. [[spoiler: Then it's revealed an entire organisation of quincies known as the Vandenreich survived in secret, but have abandoned the old ways. That makes Ryuuken the last quincy master of the old ways and Uryuu the last practitioner of the old ways. To make matters even more complicated, Ichigo Kurosaki's mother is revealed to have been a quincy, although the power Ichigo has inherited appears to be more Vandenreich than traditional.]]
* ''Manga/DeathNote'' features an unusual mundane use of this trope. [[spoiler:After L's death, Light assumes he now has free reign to be the God of the new world, as L was the only detective smart enough to outmaneuver him. Indeed, he was one step away from proving Light was Kira before his death. Light's plans are ultimately wrecked by the appearance of Mello and Near, who had been raised as L's potential successors, and who quickly deduce that Light is Kira because his increasingly complex plans could only possibly have been executed by the head of the Japanese Task Force.]]
** A better application of this trope would be the introduction of Misa, the second Kira.
* Averted in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' if you ignore the non-canon movies. When the author says Goku, Raditz, Nappa and Vegeta are the last Saiyans, they really are, and no new ones pop up to replace the ones who are killed off.
** While it would hardly be shocking if others had survived in the same way Goku did (if one slipped through the cracks decades ago, why not two, or three, or fifty?), from the time the Saiyan race is introduced the manga has only 4 story arcs. None of them introduce new Saiyans (aside from HalfHumanHybrids), and then the series ends, leaving no possibility of the issue ever coming up.
** ''Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!'' introduces Vegeta's younger brother, who comes to Earth seeking help against his enemies. If it sounds like a fanfic, he was sent to a distant planet for being unpardonably weak by Saiyan standards and Vegeta is more embarrassed by him than anything else. He's also a pretty nice guy, shorter than Vegeta, and married to a friendly humanoid-but-not-human''like'' alien, which weirds Vegeta out. Oh, and the main cast are so ridiculously powerful post-Buu Saga that his enemies are a joke to them.
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[[folder:Comicbooks]]
* ''{{Superman}}'' and the Kryptonians. This got to ridiculous levels in the SilverAge. PostCrisis, it became editorial policy that Superman must be the ''only'' Kryptonian, ''ever at all even for a moment''. So we got {{Supergirl}} the Earth Angel, {{Superboy}} the human clone with grafted powers (because Kryptonians couldn't even be cloned) and PowerGirl the Atlantean. [[spoiler:They changed their minds.]]
** The Martian Manhunter was likewise the last Martian. However, it turns out that he was the last ''green'' Martian, and there's a race of AlwaysChaoticEvil white Martians that are very much alive. Go figure. Eventually they're all killed, except for the good aligned Miss Martian.
*** Which has changed again in the new Martian Manhunter retooling. Not only are there other White Martians, but [[spoiler:another Green Martian... and female. But she's evil]].
*** After another apparent retcon in ''BrightestDay'', [[spoiler: this is still the case. It's a ''different'' Green Martian. Who is also female. And insanely evil.]]
* Subverted in ''ComicBook/YTheLastMan''. About ten issues in, it's revealed that [[spoiler:two male astronauts avoided the {{Gendercide}} because they were [[{{ButWhatAboutTheAstronauts}} in space at the time]]]]. A bare bones effort to ensure a safe landing ensued... but [[spoiler:both male astronauts died on reentry]]. The only one to survive was their female cosmonaut partner... [[spoiler:who was pregnant with the (male) baby of one of them]].
** In the [[StoryArc penultimate arc]] we find another survivor: [[spoiler:Dr. Mann's father, who blames his cloning experiment and/or efforts to sabotage his daughter's for the disaster... and decides that the world would better off with the menfolk out of the way completely since his daughter([[ReplacementGoldfish s]]) can continue his work]].
* ''{{Elfquest}}'' does this with the Wolfriders, who believe they are the last of their kind. Imagine their surprise when they find out [[spoiler:not only are there more tribes (three [later four] to be precise) but a High One survived as well]].
** It's just as much of a surprise to the Gliders, one of the other tribes, when they discover there are elves out there who can still have ''children''. Their leader, [[BigBad Winnowill]], also discovers that she has a non-evil counterpart in Savah (of the first tribe the Wolfriders encounter).
** In ''Wavedancers'', there is an inversion. [[spoiler: Wavelet is an elf who was raised by humans, and does not know there are tribes of elves in this world. She is introduced in a side-plot after other elves discover her, rather than being treated as a protagonist.]]
* ''{{Lobo}}'' in his first own series "The Last Czarnian" has to discover that another Czarnian survived his genocide on his own race, and worse, it's his fourth grade math teacher (probably one -if not the one- member of his race he hated most). And he has to bring her to Vril Dox unharmed. [[spoiler: However after his contract with Vril Dox is fulfilled he quickly fixes that mistake by snapping her neck.]]
* ''{{Cerebus}}'' did this with aardvarks. Cooler than it sounds.
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[[folder:Films]]
* The trope name comes from ''StarWars: Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', where after Luke Skywalker is rushing off to an obvious trap Vader has set for him, Yoda cryptically dismisses Obi-Wan's suggestion that Luke was the last hope for the Jedi. The "another" is Leia, as implied in the ending to ''Empire Strikes Back'' and confirmed in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''. This is actually used to chilling effect in said scene since, if Luke is NOT the last hope, he no longer has Plot Armor.
* At the beginning of ''IceAge 2'', Manny the Mammoth is led to believe he's the last of the mammoths. Later, he finds a female mammoth who was living with her possum brothers (...), and at the end [[spoiler: he found out a herd of mammoths, and had to make a FriendOrIdolDecision about staying with them or his friends]].
* The ending of the first ''Film/{{Highlander}}'' film explicitly said that Connor [=MacLeod=] had won "The Prize" and was the last [[{{Immortality}} Immortal]]. [[Franchise/{{Highlander}} Subsequent films]] (and [[Series/{{Highlander}} the TV series]]) [[RetCon changed that]].
* The ending of ''Film/{{Gojira}}'' states that the titular monster cannot be the only member of his species, and that nuclear bomb testings will only bring about more. Cue the sequel....
** Later films in the series not only established there was more than one Godzilla, but that the appearance of Minya (Showa/Final Wars) and Junior (Heisei) implied a breeding population. There isn't just one Godzilla. There's an entire ''species''.
* {{Hancock}} had the titular character suffer from amnesia only to be reminded once again, by saving her current husband, that he once had a wife who had the same powers he did.
* In ''KingRalph'', the [[UnexpectedSuccessor title character]] discovers he's not the only distant relative of the royal family still alive. [[spoiler: His advisor, Sir Cedric is too. He had been offered the position first, but he [[RefusalOfTheCall turned it down]].]]
* This was the premise for ''The Tigger Movie'', in which Tigger thinks he's received a letter from another Tigger. It turns out that the letter was from [[spoiler: Roo]]. The whole movie is an {{Aesop}} about the PowerOfFriendship.
** And has anyone else on this list declared "I'm the only one!" so triumphantly?
* Both protagonists of ''TheDarkCrystal'' believed themselves to be the last of the gelfling race, then invoked this trope when they met.
* ''{{Dogma}}'': Mary was a virgin [[NoPurpleDragons when Jesus was born]]. The last of her and Joseph's descendants, though, is Bethany. She also developed uterine cancer and had a hysterectomy. At the end of the movie, God regrows her womb, with the new Last Scion in it.
* Subverted in ''TheChroniclesOfRiddick'', in which Riddick is assumed to be the last Furyan. Turns out there's at least one more ... [[spoiler: but he's been converted into a Necromonger, and commits suicide immediately after revealing his race.]]
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[[folder:Literature]]
* In ''[[Literature/InheritanceCycle Eragon]]'', we are led to believe that Eragon and [[BigBad Gallbatorix]] are the only Dragon Riders left in the world, Gallbatorix having slaughtered every Rider and Dragon, with only two eggs [[spoiler:and one dragonless Rider]] left in the world besides them. In ''Eldest'', we find out that [[spoiler:Gallbatorix missed one. The elf [[TheObiWan Oromis]] and his dragon Glaedr are crippled but alive, and become Eragon and Saphira's teachers.]] [[spoiler:And at the end of the book, we find out that another of the eggs has hatched.]]
** The last egg (a green one) hatches in "[[Literature/InheritanceCycle Inheritance]]". In this universe, eggs wait to hatch until they sense the proximity of a worthy rider, [[spoiler: and this egg hatches for Arya, who names him Fírnen.]]
** [[spoiler: In Inheritance, it is also revealed that there is a sizeable stockpile of dragon eggs, created just before the fall of Vroengard, that can be used to bring back the dragon riders.]]
* The first book in the Deathgate Cycle makes Alfred out to be the last Sartan alive. Two books later we find out there are others. Many, many others, living on other worlds.
* A variation. Grand Admiral Thrawn died in TheThrawnTrilogy. He was far from the only one of his species - Chiss are isolationist but not endangered - but there's only one [[MagnificentBastard Thrawn]]. Luke and Mara found his clone floating, asleep or not yet alive, in a [[PeopleJars Spaarti cylinder]] underneath his hidden fortress in the HandOfThrawn duology. They sort-of-accidentally killed it while escaping. But the incredibly elaborate Chiss [[GambitIndex gambiting]] in [[OutboundFlight Survivor's Quest]] has enough elements of Thrawn's style to cause Mara Jade to wonder if he had another clone. TimothyZahn has said that he'd be interested in writing a book involving Thrawn's clone, who, unusually, would not mentally be Thrawn (while he'd have Thrawn's memories, he'd still know they were just copied memories) and would feel [[CloningBlues tremendous pressure to live up to the original]][[hottip:*:Which, given Chiss skin tone, would make him a [[JustForPun Blue Clone with Cloning Blues]]]].
* ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''
** Arthur Dent discovers his entire planet has been rebuilt in ''Literature/SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish''. Then he discovers a parallel version in ''Literature/MostlyHarmless''. Then, once the Guide Mk2 has ensured that [[spoiler: every parallel Earth in the Whole Sort Of General Mish-Mash has been destroyed]], he discovers [[spoiler: an Earth colony]] in ''Literature/AndAnotherThing''.
** Trillian. Sure, Arthur runs into her only a few hours after the Earth is destroyed, but up till then he believed himself the LastOfHisKind.
* Shelmerdine in Creator/VirginiaWoolf's ''Literature/OrlandoABiography''.
* The protagonist of ''How Like a God'' thinks he's the only person in the world with PsychicPowers. Wandering a MentalWorld, he looks out into an ocean, filled with tadpoles that represent the minds of all the people in the world. Then he sees a ''whale''.
* A prophecy in PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians refers to a child of one of the Big Three (Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades) under the age of sixteen [[spoiler: that will decide the fate of the Gods]]. Due to the nature of the prophecy, after WorldWarII the Three signed a pact not to have any more children, because those children were too powerful and warped the world. Percy is thought to be the necessary referent, since only he and Thalia had been born since the oath and Thalia pulled a HeroicSacrifice several years ago. [[spoiler:Then Thalia [[SealedGoodInACan comes back to life]], and then it turns out that yet another two have been trapped in a LotusEaterMachine since before the pact.]]
** Eventually [[spoiler: Thalia chooses to stop aging right before her 16th birthday, the daughter of Hades is killed, and Nico is younger than Percy, so he doesn't qualify, so it refers to Percy after all.]]
* Possibly a subversion, in L B. Graham’s ''The Binding of the Blade'' series, everyone comes to believe that the main character, Joraiem, is a foretold prophet, the only one left on earth to manifest Allfather’s power once the current prophet dies. However, when Joraiem [[spoiler: is murdered by a man who is in love with the woman Joraeim just married]], it turns out that the prophecy is actually referring to his son, Benjiah.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/DoctorWho'' did this a few times.
** Every time you think the last surviving Daleks are all but gone, another one (four, one million) pop up from an AlternateUniverse, an [[SealedEvilInACan evil-sealing can]], or somewhere else.
** In the third season of the new series, it was revealed that [[spoiler:the Doctor himself was not the last of the Time Lords as he believed, as the Master also survived the Time War, unknown to him. The Master, being the Master, has since died, come back to life, and "died" again in less than three years.]]
** The fourth season introduced an OppositeSexClone "daughter", although the Doctor was reluctant to consider her a "real" Time Lord. She's still alive, he just doesn't know it.
** In the 11th Doctor's second series, [[spoiler: Doctor River Song]] was confirmed to be ''part''-Time Lord.
* In the StargateVerse, the original movie mentioned that Ra's race was dying, leading many to believe he was the LastOfHisKind. In the series, this is apparently ignored: the Goa'uld are numerous, and are the dominant galactic power. This was partially reconciled with the movie later on, when it was established that the Goa'uld were indeed dying out at that time, desperately looking for a host species (which they found in the [[HumansByAnyOtherName Tau'ri]].) The nature of Ra's species was also changed (from TheGreys to snake-like symbiotes), among the many {{retcon}}s in the transition from the movie to the TV franchise.
* In ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'', the Sirian Anubis "Doggie" Cruger was thought to be the last of his kind after the Troobian Empire destroyed his home planet. At the end of the series, it's learned that his wife, Aisinya, was kept alive within the Troobian Emperor's personal chambers. [[FridgeLogic The logic behind this has yet to pass a cursory examination.]]
* In Series/RedDwarf, Lister is believed to be the last human, with his companions being an evolved cat, a hologram, and an android. In the books and the series, an alternate universe version of Christine Kochanski is added to the cast (though how she arrived is very different between the two media.) He also loses the status as last human native to ''this'' universe in different ways:
** In the series, Kryten's repair nanites go a bit too far, rebuilding the entire crew of the Red Dwarf, including previously PutOnABus cast member Rimmer (who didn't experience "our" Rimmer's adventures with them and had ''no'' qualms about double-crossing them.)
** In the ''Series/RedDwarf'' novel ''Last Human'', Michael [=McGruder=], the child of Rimmer's one night stand, arrives, having been in stasis a really, really long time.
* Series/{{Angel}} was, for a long time, considered to be the only vampire with a soul, to the point where prophecies referring to the 'vampire with a soul' were assumed naturally to refer to Angel. But then Spike got his soul back.
-->'''Angel:''' Oh. That's great. Everyone's got a soul now...You know, I started it. The whole 'having a soul'. Before it was all the cool new thing...
* Arguably, a form of this occurred in Series/{{Charmed}} with Pru's death, which broke the power of three - until the fourth sister, Paige, turned up.
* A version of this trope appears in both the [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaClassic old]] and new versions of ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'': [[spoiler: the twist being that another battlestar has survived the genocide: the Pegasus.]]
** [[spoiler: Also in the newer one, another Earth. Or something.]]
*** The second [[spoiler: battlestar]] is an example, but not the second [[spoiler: Earth. The "Earth" that Adama spoke of right after the attack was the ruined Cylon world they found first. When they found another planet they could finally settle on, Adama and the crew named it Earth in deference to the prophesy, but it wasn't another Earth, it was just a reuse of the name.]]
* ''{{Smallville}}'' has Clark's cousin Kara show up. And then [[spoiler: a Kryptonian army led by Colonel Zod]].
* [[TheSixMillionDollarMan Steve Austin]] thought he was the first and only Bionic man ... until the second season when he ran into OSI's "failed experiment": [[NamesTheSame Barney Miller]], the Seven Million Dollar Man.
* In ''TheSarahConnorChronicles'', John Henry delivers the line, implying that [[spoiler:Skynet is already starting to develop into a complex AI.]]
* Until season 4, Kilgarrah was the last dragon in the BBC's ''{{Series/Merlin}}'' . But now another dragon, Aithusa, has been hatched.
* In one episode of ''Series/TheInvisibleMan'', an invisible man tries to kill the Official. Darien is accused of going rogue before Eberts suggests that Simon Cole, the first Invisible Man test subject, may have done it. Darien starts seeing the invisible Simon's heat signature everywhere he goes as he tries to clear his name. [[spoiler:Averted. Simon is actually DeadAllAlong, shot by the Official when he went crazy. The invisibility gland was taken from Simon and transferred to Darien. Darien is merely being influenced by the dead Simon's memories which were somehow transferred along with the gland.]] Later, the villain Arnaud finds another invisibility gland and has it implanted in himself, though his has the downside of ''permanent'' invisibility.
* A version of this is done in ''House of Anubis'' where they discover Nina is not the only [[ChosenOne chosen person]] in the house, and there is in fact her Osirian, who is destined to protect her. [[spoiler:It's Eddie]]
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* In ''ImpureBlood'', [[http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Chapter005/ib025.html the last Ancient may be the Last of His Kind, but to Roan, it means there is someone else out there with Ancient blood.]]
* In ''RiceBoy'', this forms the final-act plot twist. [[spoiler:Rice Boy gets named as the Fulfiller of the Prophecy of Ridrom, and most of the plot involves him fulfilling the terms of the prophecy necessary to bring the Avatar of Mind back to the world. The final term to fulfill is dying. At the end, as Rice Boy is steeling his nerves for impending death, and the secondary protagonist T.O.E. shows up to save him. Rice Boy then realizes that, in his own way, T.O.E. has also fulfilled all but the final term of the prophecy. T.O.E. then dies, and the Avatar returns.]]
* In ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'', Princess Leia is upset that there is no one else to train Luke to use the Force, but Chewbacca reveals that Yoda is still out there, somewhere.
-->'''Leia:''' Obi-Wan Kenobi. He was our only hope.\\
'''Chewbacca:''' No. There is another.
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[[folder:Videogames]]
* In ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClank'', Ratchet was discovered to be anything ''but'' the LastOfHisKind. {{Lampshaded}} in A Crack in Time, where he meets [[CoolOldGuy Cool Old Lombax]].
* Rexxar and the Mok'Nathal in the ''{{Warcraft}}'' universe.
** Also, the uncorrupted furbolgs. Apart from Krolg in Ashenvale, the Timbermaw tribe at the farthest reaches of civilization was portrayed as the last uncorrupted furbolgs in Azeroth. That is, until the expansion added the Stillpine... on the draenei starting island. The island did sport Alliance, however, they had recently shipwrecked there, something which seems to happen often on that island.
* Red XIII from ''FinalFantasyVII''. You never actually see another member of his race anywhere in the canon, but in the FlashForward ending, he's shown with a pair of cubs. The compilation reveals he did have a mate, named Deneh, who he lost contact with in one of the prequels, and presumably finds again after the events of the game.
* According to the documentation in the ''{{Halo}}'' games, Master Chief is the last surviving SPARTAN II super-soldier, and that the rest of the unit died in the Battle of Reach. The ExpandedUniverse reveals, however, that about a dozen Spartans survived the fall of Reach, including three who weren't even at Reach at the time, and one who was actually present through the events of the first game (but couldn't help because she was clinically dead and in stasis). These fellow survivors are never mentioned in the rest of the main game series. Although one's existence is referred to in the [[UpdatedRerelease Anniversary Edition]] of the first game: when the Chief goes through the stasis control room, one of the readouts shows a Spartan still in stasis, and her name (Linda) barely legible on the screen. It's so subtle that it may be considered an EasterEgg.
* [[spoiler:Knuckles]] according to ''SonicChronicles: The Dark Brotherhood''.
** The same game reveals that, inside the [[PhantomZone Twilight Cage]], there are far more [[spoiler:gizoids]] than we were led to believe.
*** [[spoiler:Emerl was just the last Gizoid on earth instead of in existance.]]
*** Except WordOfGod has stated that ''Chronicles'' isn't canon at all, therefore this trope is subverted, as Knuckles and Emerl are still [[TheLastOfHisKind the last of their kind]] in the canon game universe.
** [[spoiler:Knuckles]] also is considered this in the early Archie Comics.
** In SonicTheComic Knuckles was belived to be the last of the Echidnas until [[OmnicidalManiac Doctor Zachary]] appeared.
* Happens ''all the time'' in the ''BreathOfFire'' games. In the first, you start in the last village of the Light Dragons, but you're supposedly the last warrior capable of harnessing the ancient clan's power. You're not, [[spoiler:and you have to kill your sister, who also had that power.]] In the second, you find the last village of the dragons guarding the BigBad. In the third, much is made of the fact that you're the last dragon. No, really, you are. Like, the last one. Except for this village over here. And [[spoiler: Teepo]]. But you're the last.
* In ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTellius Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance]]'', it's initially established that Reyson is [[spoiler: the last survivor of the heron race, due to a genocide by Begnion.]] However, throughout the game and its sequel, a couple more turn up... including [[spoiler: Reyson's sister, and later his elder brother.]]
** Actually his father was stated to be alive not to long after Reyson was introduced. But he's so sick that he can't do anything so he never appears in the game itself.
* Panne, in VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening is said throughout the game to be the last taguel. [[spoiler: And she is - until her son Yarne is born.]]
* In ''VideoGame/{{Homeworld}}'', the Kushan discover that there are other exiles from Hiigara in the galaxy [[spoiler:only after they kill them all in self-defense]].
** In ''Homeworld 2'', meanwhile, there's an example with spaceships rather than people. After going through a lot of trouble to acquire the last known Progenitor [[CoolShip Dreadnought]], the key to reaching the mysterious Sajuuk, a final line of dialogue is delivered quietly at the end of the mission: "There is another Dreadnought. [[spoiler:[[BigBad Makaan]] has it]]." (This is especially scary since a Dreadnought is much more powerful than anything the player can build at that point in the game, and about 50% stronger than the most powerful ship the player can ever build.)
* Very similar to the original ''StarWars'', ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic 2'' states the player character to be the "last of the Jedi". Except for all the others. It's rationalized as the player character to be ''perceived'' as the last of the Jedi, as few others self-identify themselves such [[spoiler:and those that do, aren't]].
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyro'', Spyro is thought to be the only purple dragon (since they're only supposed to be born once every ten generations), but the second game reveals that [[spoiler:[[BigBad The Dark Master]] (aka Malefor) is also one]].
* The original ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' ends like this. After Solid Snake kills his EvilTwin [[BigBad Liquid Snake]] in the game's climax, he's left believing that he's Big Boss' only surviving clone. Then TheStinger hits. Not only is there a third clone named "Solidus"...he's none other than [[PresidentEvil the President of the United States]]. And Liquid's [[TheDragon chief lieutenant]] Revolver Ocelot [[PlayingBothSides was working for him the whole time]]. Cue SequelHook.
* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'': In the original game, the PlayerCharacter was thought to be the only Dragonborn... but the ''Dragonborn'' DLC reveals that, indeed, ThereIsAnother. It's best said in the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWbObVD2jKI trailer]]:
-->'''Narrator''': ''You didn't think that you were the only one? He was the first!''
** [[spoiler:And then averted when you kill him.]]
* In ''VideoGame/LunarTheSilverStar'', Alex eventually surmounts all obstacles to becoming a Dragonmaster, except for the fact that all the dragons are dead. It turns out that Nall, Alex's flying companion, is another white dragon.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}''. In the beginning of the series, it's implied they're the last. Then they find out the eggs from their Rookery were saved, and raised in Avalon. Then they find a bunch of other clans around the world that survived. Though given the Manhattan Clan rather limited world view, they weren't exactly exposed to other clans much less those half-way around the world. So as far as they were concerned, when their clan was destroyed, that was it.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', Dr. Venture has a dream in which his dead father warns him "There is another Venture!" in a spooky, dramatic voice. When asked why he said it like that, he answered "Don't ask me; it's your dream." It turns out he was right, the "other Venture" being the [[{{Twinnibalism}} twin brother that Dr. Venture swallowed in the womb]].
* Until ''ShrekForeverAfter'', we assumed Shrek [[spoiler:Fiona and their kids]] were the only ogres. Then, we find an entire race of ogres acting as LaResistance as [[spoiler:Rumplestiltskin]] has taken over the world.
* ''{{Futurama}}'' has one not-so-straight example: Leela finds someone who seems to be part of the same alien race [[spoiler:she thinks she's a part of]], but turns out to be [[spoiler: a shapeshifter who happened to have a thing for women who are [[LastOfHisKind the last of their kind]]]]. The whole situation was just an excuse for ActorAllusion.
*** Better than that [[spoiler: Leela isn't an alien, she's a mutant]].
* One episode of the TheWildThornberrys had a tortoise that was (almost) the LastOfHisKind. Sadly TruthInTelevision, as he was based on a real tortoise called Lonesome George.
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_taxon Lazarus taxa]].
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