Last Of His Kind / Comic Books

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• Arawn: Siahm and her mother were the only two amazons who survived the destruction of their tribe. Eventually her mother passed away as well, leaving her as the last amazon.
• The alien known as Taz in the second Atari Force series was the last of her kind, being the survivor of a civil war with another alien species on her home planet. That is, until she is found to be pregnant with offspring.
• Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers: Mister Mind mentions in the third issue that he is the last of his kind.
• Hound:
  • According to the opening and ending narration, Morrigan is the last of the Followers of The Great Mother Danú since the Sons of Mil won against her people for rulership of Erin.
  • Morrigan claims to be the last Fomorian when she visits Farrell's farm in the guise of Calatin, Queen Maeve's advisor with a hidden agenda.
  • If Calatin's comment is anything to go by, King Connor's bull is the last of some unspecified kind of ancient creatures.
• Superman:
  • Kal-El is sometimes the last Kryptonian. However, for much of the pre-Crisis era, Supergirl, who first appeared in The Supergirl From Krypton (1959), Krypto the Superdog (who, to be fair, is a dog), the bottle city of Kandor, and numerous villains from the Phantom Zone (among others) mitigated this status. Superman's Post-Crisis retool attempted to make him the last Kryptonian again, but success of the characters means you'll still see some other Kryptonians pop up from time to time (mainly Supergirl and Krypto).
  • During New Krypton, it's Superman, Supergirl, the Phantom Zone criminals and 100,000 of their kin on New Krypton on the opposite side of Earth's orbit (until New Krypton gets blown up. In Bizarrogirl, Kara brings up the fact she and Superman are the last Kryptonians again.
    Supergirl: My people are gone, Lana. All of them. Mom. Dad. Thara. Even poor Zal-Tel. Me and Kal are the only ones who...
  • In Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade, Superman believes he's the last of his race until a rocket belonging to a certain Kara Zor-El crashes into Lex Luthor's robot he's fighting.
    The planet Earth. Home to the greatest hero of the galaxy, Superman. His native world of Krypton destroyed when he was an infant, he believes himself to be the last survivor of his race. He is mistaken.
  • In Krypton No More, Superman has a breakdown because of his and his cousin's last of their kind status. It gets so bad that the people of Kandor persuades Kara to trick him into believing Krypton was a delusion of his so he doesn't suffer anymore because his birth world is gone.
    Superman: I'm an orphan... Perhaps the most total orphan the world has ever known... The orphan son of an entire world!
  • Discussed in the Supergirl story arc Red Daughter of Krypton. Hal Jordan and Guy Gardner — who had never met Supergirl previously in the New 52 universe — are shocked to learn that there's another living Kryptonian besides Superman, who was supposedly the last one.
  • In Elseworld's Finest: Supergirl & Batgirl, Kara Zor-El -Supergirl — is the last Kryptonian because Lex Luthor murdered her cousin.
  • The Phantom Zone: Thul-Kar is the last of the Wizards of Juru. Born in an uncharted Kryptonian valley, Thul-Kar's race studied magic and practiced secret rituals until they were blown up together with Krypton. Only Thul-Kar survived because he heeded Jor-El's warnings and travelled into the Phantom Zone of his own volition.
  • Power Girl was the only surviving Kryptonian of Earth 2 — after that universe's Superman and Lois Lane died in Infinite Crisis she is the only one to make it out of that universe. In the New 52 universe, she and Helena Wayne — alias Huntress, daughter of Batman and Catwoman — are "the last daughters of Earth-Two" (which is a big lie, since as they eventually discover, Earth-2 was still very much alive and kicking).
  • In Supergirl (1982), Superman and Supergirl come upon Kryptonite Man, the last member of a race that inhabited Krypton long ago.
  • The Living Legends of Superman: In the distant future, humanity makes a heroic sacrifice to save the universe from oblivion, and a Superman's descendant called A'dam'mkent becomes the last living human.
  • In The Super-Duel in Space, Brainiac claims to be the last one of his race after a plague wiped out his home world. Later, it turns out that he is not the last living Coluan, but the last one of the Computer Tyrants of Colu, a race of living computers which ruled over the planet before being overthrown and destroyed by the Coluans.
  • In "The Super Dog from Krypton", we learn that Jor-El used his son's puppy Krypto as a test animal to try his prototype rocket, thus saving his life when Krypton exploded. Although Clark always ends up running into other Kryptonian humanoids like himself, there has never been found another surviving Kryptonian "dog".
  • Legion of Super-Heroes member Element Lad is the last survivor of the Trommite race, the others having been slaughtered either by pirates or genocidal superbeings, depending on which continuity you're working in. Another Legionnaire, Blok, is the last survivor of the planet Dryad.
• The Martian Manhunter is the last of the Green Martians, although another was teased in Brightest Day who turned out to be an Ax-Crazy murderess and he flew her into the sun, and another is still around as a disembodied psychic essence possessing a shark. There were also some White Martians brainwashed into believing they were Green, and Miss Martian, perhaps the White Martian who's actually nice, who is now erased from existence. Note that in this case the last-of-his-kind backstory dates back only to 1988; when the character first appeared in 1955, there was clearly a thriving society back on Mars, and the only reason he couldn't return was because Martian technology could not yet replicate the teleportation device that brought him to Earth.
• Lobo was the last Czarnian for some time, and a mockery of the trope in general, played for dark humour: in the comics, he fragged all the other Czarnians specifically because he wanted to be the last of them. (When another living Czarnian turns up, he is ordered to keep her alive, an order intended to gall him. Lobo complies and then, as soon as Dox confirms that he completed his mission, kills her.) In the DC Animated Universe, he blew up the planet for his high school science project (and gave himself an "A"). However, this status no longer applies since several of his children were introduced.
• Green Lantern:
  • In the '90s, Kyle Rayner was the last Green Lantern.
  • Ganthet, the one who gave Kyle his Ring, was the last of the Guardians of the Universe. Then a group of new Guardians were brought to life. They got whittled down, one by one, until Sinestro finally killed absolutely all of them, save Ganthet and his mate Sayd. However, there are several more of their species still alive and working with the Green Lantern Corps. But they're not calling themselves the Guardians of the Universe.
  • Before that, Appa Alli Apsa, also known as the Old Timer, was the last of the Guardians, not because the others had died, but because they had left for another dimension. The Old Timer couldn't take it, and the others had to come back to stop him.
  • Kilowog is the last of his species. There was a Hope Spot when he was able to fit all sixteen billion life energies of his home world's inhabitants into his ring when his home world was destroyed and released them on another planet, but that planet was destroyed by Sinestro while Kilowog wasn't there to save them.
• Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!: American Eagle is the last bald eagle in the United Species of America.
• Huntress: Helena Bertinelli is the last of the Bertinellis, who were once the dominant of Gotham's Five Families. The Bertinelli name is still highly respected in Gotham's underworld, however, and Huntress uses that to her advantage. Subverted in that she is revealed in Cry for Blood not to be a Bertinelli after all, but a Cassamento.
• Kraken is the Last Vampire. Humans wiped out his species. As seen in a story in Secrets of Sinister House, humanity destroys itself in an atomic war, leaving him very hungry. He settles down to wait until mankind evolves again but finds out that men have re-evolved from plants.
• In Shazam! (2012), the Wizard is the last wizard and member of the Council of Eternity left, since Black Adam killed them all several thousand years ago.
• Robin (1993): Villain Jaeger makes money off filming himself hunting down creatures and individuals who are the last of their kind and is considered to have caused the extinction of several species that were on the brink. It's implied he sells their bodies after he's done too.
• Legends of the Dead Earth:
  • In Superman: The Man of Steel Annual #5, Kaleb is the last survivor of Hydros as his people were wiped out by the Empire.
  • In Batman: Shadow of the Bat Annual #4, He-Who-Dares, the embodiment of all evil, is the last sentient being in the entire universe as it approaches heat death 33 billion years after the Big Bang (approximately 19-20 billion years in the future).
• Wonder Woman:
  • Wonder Woman (1942) & Comic Cavalcade: Badra and her three followers are the only survivors of the destruction of their home planet Hator. They discovered they had superpowers, like flight and super-strength on earth, but rather than become heroes they used their powers to commit crimes.
  • Wonder Woman (1987): It is never brought up but H'Elgn, the revolutionaries' eccentric chief mechanic, is pretty clearly one of the odd haired, teal skinned, eight fingered Velosians and her first appearance comes two years after Velos was destroyed and absorbed as energy. No other Velosians are known to have survived.
• In the Justice Society of America series from 1992, Kiki, a young adult orphan who had been adopted by Johnny Thunder, turned out to be the last of the Bahdnesians (from whom Johnny received the power to summon Yz the Thunderbolt), whose island had been deserted and taken over by someone else to become a vacation spot while using slave labor in secret.
• In Arak: Son of Thunder, Arak's ally Satyricus was the last remaining Satyr.
• Flashpoint establishes a still-living Abin Sur as the sole surviving Ungaran after his home planet's destruction.
• ThugBoy in Empowered is both the only non-super survivor of the "Capeless Uprising" of San Antonio, and the last survivor of the "Witless Minions", a gang he later formed to rip off supervillains.
• Gilgamesh the Immortal: One of the first humans, the king of ancient Uruk, is an indestructible immortal. He survived all of human history... and the nuclear holocaust. Earth has been a radioactive planet for millions of years, not even the cockroaches have survived, but Gilgamesh is still there.
• The Incredible Hulk: In Hulk: The End, after a nuclear war Bruce Banner and the Hulk are the last beings... or being... on earth save for the giant mutant cockroaches. In the end, Banner suffers a fatal heart attack and Hulk escapes one last time... and just sits and waits, knowing that when he calms down for the last time, he, too, will die.
• Ultimate Marvel: Jimmy Hudson, although they ignore that there are others, such as Miles Morales and The Maker.^note It may be argued that Hudson has no way of knowing that Miles is not a dimensional clone of the guy from his reality but the actual one, as Miles himself ignores it, and the Maker has been keeping a low profile the X-Men comics treat Jimmy as the last survivor of the Ultimate Marvel universe. Doubled in the aftermath of Venomized, as he becomes the last Poison as well.
• In Lucifer, The Silk Man is both the last survivor of his species (whatever the hell that was) and, as with Galactus above, the last survivor of an entire lost Creation.
• From the Marvel Universe:
  • Galactus is the last of his entire universe, which was reincarnated into the one with Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, and all the rest. Later subverted with the Galacta: Daughter of Galactus one-shot — he has a daughter, created via spontaneous generation, and she's pregnant — but this was later confirmed to be non-canonical.
  • The Elders of the Universe are somewhat younger, each of them immortal due to having become a one-person Species of Hats — they REALLY ticked off Death. Each is the last survivor of his respective species. The one exception is the Collector, who has a daughter who gained immortality too. (So did his wife, but after a few million years, she lost the will to live and relinquished her immortality. This was, in fact, what made him realize he needed a hobby to keep from going mad, which led him to, well, collecting.)
  • There's also Richard Rider of the Nova Corps, who became the last Nova in the Crisis Crossover Annihilation, up until War of Kings when the corps started to rebuild.
  • Gamora, former sidekick and lover of Adam Warlock, and a founding member of the modern Guardians of the Galaxy, is the last of the Zen-Whoberi, who were exterminated by the Church of Universal Truth when she was a child (though since time-travel is involved, it hasn't happened yet). She never brings it up though.
  • This was part of the premise of the original Guardians of the Galaxy as well — Charlie-27, Martinex, and Yondu were each the last survivors of their respective races, the rest having been wiped out by the Badoon. Major Vance Astro counts himself among them, being a Fish out of Temporal Water and the last survivor of the 20th century. Later they were joined by Nikki, the last Mercurian. Incidentally, it was eventually revealed that Yondu is not the last living native of Centauri IV.
  • The alien prankster the Impossible Man started out like this. After Galactus consumed his planet, he was the sole surviving Poppupian. Eventually, however, he started an Adam and Eve Plot of a sort by himself; out of loneliness, he used the cloning method that Poppupians use to reproduce to create the Impossible Woman to act as his companion; in turn, the two of them spawned more clones of themselves, the Impossible Kids. His species has not come close to recovering yet, of course, but it's a start.
  • Spider-Woman was originally supposed to be the only one of her kind ever, since she was originally a very mutated Wundagore Widow spider, genetically engineered to be sapient and humanoid in appearance (Latrodectus sapiens?), but her origin was later retconned to make her just a genetically altered human being.
  • It was believed for a long time that this was true for the villainous Space Phantom, a servant of Immortus whose species destroyed their home world by using Time Travel far too much. However, this was changed via a retcon, which said that there were, in fact, many surviving Phantoms, all of which worked for Immortus. (It was just hard to tell them apart, it seemed.)
  • Teen Jean Grey discovers that she's the last of her blood family in The Trial of Jean Grey after being kidnapped by the Shi'ar — who'd slaughtered her family on the off-chance that one of them would become the Dark Phoenix. She then uses this as a Badass Boast when she develops a new power under pressure and Oracle asks if she knows what she's becoming: "I know what I am. I'm Jean Grey... the last of my kind." She then proceeds to stalemate Gladiator, one of Marvel's cosmic heavy hitters.
  • It should be noted that this is only very technically true since her children, Rachel Summers (who survived the massacre), Nate Grey, and Cable are still around. However, at this point she's implied to have only met Rachel (and the two spent most of their time trying to avoid each other), and Rachel and Nate are from other universes, while Cable is technically not a Grey, given that his birth mother was Maddie Pryor (Jean's clone). So, in the most technical sense, she's the only member of the 616 Grey family left.
• Marvel Adventures Spider-Man Issue 19 sees Fin Fang Foom try to psychically contact his people from the other end of space...only to be met with silence. The realization that everybody he has known or cared for is now gone is enough to make him cease his attack on New York and fly off into the night.
• The Last Metabaron, voluntarily.
• Micronauts (Image) had two members of the team being the last survivors of their kind, with Knave being the last known Vaerian who is still alive and Koriah being the only member of the Galactic Defenders who has avoided being slain by Baron Karza.
• The Multiversity:
  • Nix Uotan is the last of the Monitors.
  • Thunderer is the last survivor of Earth-7.
• In Nexus, Drizripool was the last of the Merk, again, not because the rest of the Merk had died, but because they had Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence. As with the Old Timer in Green Lantern, he went mad, and another Merk, GQ, had to come back to stop him.
• The title character from Omega the Unknown, who was created by a race of aliens to be the perfect Übermensch.
• In The Others (1995), Rebound is one of the last of the dinosaur people amongst the Many, and is dying of a disease akin to tuberculosis.
• The Punisher: The End: Frank very briefly becomes the last human after killing the remnants of the world's elite in their underground bunker where they hid after The War on Terror went nuclear, as well as his traveling companion who'd once accidentally burned some kids alive. He's already dying from the radiation anyway, but he wanders into a fire and starts burning... and doesn't notice, knowing that he'll join his family again.
• Rom: Spaceknight: Serpentyne is the last of the Saurians, a race born from lizards being mutated by atomic testing who ended up wiped out by the Dire Wraiths. Serpentyne then dedicated his life to wiping out the Dire Wraiths until he ended up dying during a battle with Rom.
• Secret Invasion has Kly'bn, the last of the Skrull Eternals. The rest were wiped out along with the mainstream Skrull population by the Deviant shapeshifting Skrulls. Kly'bn convinced the rest that, as the last Eternal unchanging member of their race, he was the embodiment of what it meant to be a Skrull. Sl'gur't the leader of the Deviants fell in love with him and together they became the rulers of the Skrull pantheon.
• Shakara: Major Thorn is a wisecracking astronaut who is the last survivor of the Earth's destruction. He is killed on page 3 to make way for the real main character, who it's implied is the last of his own kind. This is later stated to be the case, although it turns that There Is Another, and he was the one who destroyed their race in the first place.
• Played with in the French sci-fi comic Sillage. The heroine, Nävis (no, she's not that kind of Navi), is the very last one living being of the planet she's from. Despite being the one and only human being aboard Sillage, there is very explicit hints that she's far from being the last human person in the universe.
• Like in the games, Knuckles the Echidna is the last echidna left in Sonic the Comic. Well, aside from Dr. Zachary, who was able to exploit this to manipulate Knuckles for his own purposes.
• Thrash the Devil in Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) is the last of the Mobian-type Tasmanian Devils as all others had been genetically modified into Mobini (more animal-like)-type Devil Dogs. Because this was done by echidnas centuries ago, he decides to return the favor by banishing almost every last echidna into another Zone save for two: Knuckles and Dr. Finitevus (who was off dimension-hopping on his own terms).
• Sovereign Seven: Every one of the Seven is the last survivor of their respective home worlds, said worlds having been destroyed by a force known as "The Rapture."
• Spider-Verse: The Inheritors do this towards the creature known as The Other and towards Spider-Totems created by chance or by magic when they infect the Web of Life with the blood of The Other and The Bride (re: Kaine Parker and Cindy Moon). They tried to do this to all Spiders via The Scion (Re: Benjy Parker), but Spider-Ham stopped that easily.
• Star Wars Legends:
  • Star Wars: Crimson Empire follows the last of Palpatine's imperial guard after the fall of the Galactic Empire, although Kir Kanos's status as the last of the Royal Guard excludes clones of Royal Guardsmen (due to implanted memories, at least one such clone thought he was the real deal), Guardsmen who were given the title and armor under Imperial leaders other than Palpatine, and quite naturally, that one Guardsman who defected to The Alliance.
  • Star Wars: Invasion: Arbeloa is the last survivor of the Cilare people after their genocide at the hands of the Yuuzhan Vong, and is driven only by a desire for bloody vengeance against the Vong.
  • Star Wars: Legacy:
    • By the end of the comic's run, K'kruhk is the last survivor of the Old Jedi Order. All other members who survived Order 66 have by then either fallen in battle or succumbed to old age; K'kruhk endures as long as he does because his species naturally reaches lifespans of 200 years.
    • Celeste Morne, an ancient Jedi who had been trapped in stasis for millennia, is the last member of the pre-Ruusan Jedi Order from the days of the Old Republic, and the last member of the Jedi Covenant.
    • While Karness Murr's body died long time ago, he was able to cling to life by binding his spirit to the Muur Talisman, which could possess whoever wore it, unless the wearer had a very strong will, making him the very last of the original Sith Lords who split from the Jedi Order more than 7000 years ago.
    • At the end of the series, with the death of his uncle Nat, protagonist Cade Skywalker is the last living descendant of Luke Skywalker.
    • In Vol. 2, Darth Wredd becomes the last living Sith after slaughtering the rest of the One Sith in his attempt to re-establish the Rule of Two.
• The Transformers: In IDW's run, Arcee was originally the only female Cybertronian as a result of being forcibly made such against her will by Mad Scientist Jhiaxus. This was because Simon Furman, the writer at the time, disliked the idea of Cybertronians having natural genders. This was eventually retconned away during Dark Reign when new female Transformers from the lost colony of Caminus were introduced and it was RetConed to there having always been both male and female Cybertronians, there just not having been any new ones born on Cybertron since long before the war. It twas also further retconned that Arcee was not, in fact, kidnapped and changed against her will by Jhiaxus but had actually asked him to alter her because she was transgender. Her belief that he'd forced it on her against her will was a result of him having decided that it would be fun to torture her after converting her body, which left her brain rather scrambled until she finally caught him and spent several years showing him why having resurrection immortality issn't always a good thing when someone really, really hates you and wants you to suffer.
• The Ultimates (2015): Logos, the fused form of Lord Chaos and Master Order, kills the last remaining Celestials... save one, hidden away by the Never-Queen, personification of What Could be.
• Y: The Last Man, initially. This was subverted in an early arc where a baby boy was born, meaning though Yorick is the last man, he's not the last male.

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