History Main / AdamAndEvePlot

* The very end of AeonFlux's series finale, ''End Sinister''.

* Subverted in ''{{Futurama}}'', where Leela falls in love with someone she believes to be [[ActorAllusion another cyclops]]. Even when [[{{Jerkass}} his personality gets to be too much to bear]], Leela feels that she owes it to her species to repopulate. As it turns out, [[spoiler:Alcazar was a shape-shifter - who had fooled four other girls]]. After Fry exposes him, the [[WeddingDeadline wedding is called off]]. Of course, it later turns out that Leela is [[spoiler:really a sewer mutant]].

* Lampshaded in ''Film/{{Matinee}}'', a film set in the [[ColdWar Cuban missile crisis]], when the [[TeenDrama teen protagonists]] get locked in a nuclear shelter during a [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt bomb scare]]. TenMinutesInTheCloset [[HilarityEnsues Ensues]].

* A classic, and rather literal, example can be found in ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' episode "Probe 7, Over and Out". An astronaut named Adam Cook crash lands on what appears to be a barren planet. Equipment failures keep him from radioing his homeworld, but he receives transmissions that indicate it has blown itself up in a nuclear war. While searching the planet, he comes across a woman, also stranded here. They can't communicate in words, but they make do by gestures and drawing in the sand. Eventually, it comes out that she's [[EarthAllAlong called the planet "Irth"]] and her name is... Eve Norda. It should be noted that RodSerling [[{{Anvilicious}} wielded an anvil]] as well as anyone in television. Although to be fair to the man, ''Probe 7'' was in the the fifth season of a show in which Serling contributed 80% if not more of the writing. By his own admission, quoted in ''The Twilight Zone Companion'', he was getting burned out, not knowing good writing from bad anymore and falling into his own cliches.
** The episode "Two" had Charles Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery as the (as far as we know) sole survivors -- from opposite sides, no less -- of a city-destroying war between two unnamed factions. RodSerling's narration in the episode purposefully says that it could be set at any time during the past ''or'' future, and that "[[TranslationConvention The signposts are in English so that we may read them more easily]]". There's also the fact that Elizabeth Montgomery's character speaks with a rather thick {{Lzherusskie}} accent...
* ''TheOuterLimits'' {{revival}} did this in a two-part story with the episodes "Double Helix" and "Origin of Species". The sample size was 8 students and one professor, and it is immediately pointed out that they could not possibly repopulate the planet alone. It's {{hand wave}}d by the [[spoiler:spaceship that took them into the future, which altered their genes to ensure maximum diversity and created hundreds of babies to further pad the gap]]. Subtly played with in the fact that both the professor and his son are exempt from being "Adams" due to a genetic disease (and are therefore vaporized), [[spoiler:but live on as holograms to assist their friends]].

* The post-apocalyptic story "{{Mecanoscrit}}" ends with the creepy variant that the Adam-character dies, and the Eve-character wondering if she would live long enough to have her infant son grow up and have children with ''him'', and a footnote stating that the entire story is a ''historical document.''

* The post-apocalyptic story "{{Mecanoscript}}" ends with the creepy variant that the Adam-character dies, and the Eve-character wondering if she would live long enough to have her infant son grow up and have children with ''him'', and a footnote stating that the entire story is a ''historical document.''

* In ''HisDarkMaterials'' [[spoiler: Lyra and Will end up being this at the end to ensure that Dust continues to flow down and into the worlds.]] Phillip Pullman even goes further with it and [[spoiler: creates a serpent out of Mary Malone and a garden of Eden type world.]]

-->--'''''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'''''

* AndreyLivadny's novel ''Ark'' is set aboard a Moon-sized (literally; it's actually the hollowed-out Moon with engines attached) GenerationShip sent a long time ago from Earth to find and collect alien life and put them in specially-adapted habitats. A catastrophe kills the command crew and forces the rest of the humans to live in one of the habitats, leaving the ship's AI to fly the damaged craft. Over time, the humans regress to near-Medieval state and forget their origins. At the end of the novel, the ''Ark'' crash-lands into the sea on [[spoiler:a habitable world orbiting a yellow dwarf, and the first person out is an old shepherd named Noah. How the ship ended up in the past is not explained. It is also not clear what happened to the aliens on-board]].

* In ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'', Florence laments that thirteen individuals do not provide enough genetic diversity for a species to survive, and her main objective in life is to ensure more Bowman's Wolves (at least five hundred) are artificially created before it's too late.

* Cheetahs. From Wikipedia (with a Scientific American [[ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability citation]]):

* Parodied in a HarlanEllison short-short story, "The Voice in the Garden" where two humans who are sole survivors of some sort meet each other and decide to do this. The woman is of course named Eve, and the man... George.

* Subverted in ''{{Futurama}}'', where Leela falls in love with someone she believes to be [[ActorAllusion another cyclops]]. Even when [[{{Jerkass}} his personality gets to be too much to bear]], Leela feels that she owes it to her species to repopulate. As it turns out, [[spoiler:Alcazar was a shape-shifter - who had fooled four other girls]]. After Fry exposes him, the [[WeddingDeadline wedding is called off]]. It course, it later turns out that Leela is [[spoiler:really a sewer mutant]].

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' has the appropriately named Eve, [[spoiler: the sole female krogan who has been cured of the genophage thanks to Maelon's experiments in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''. This makes her the prime candidate for starting the krogan's repopulation efforts]].
* Subverted in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'': the Overseer of Vault 101 refuses to let anyone out of the Vault because he thinks it's the last settlement of humans uncorrupted by the chaos outside, but it's possible to convince him otherwise by pointing out that the Vault doesn't have enough genetic diversity to survive.

* A Creator/DamonKnight short story had two survivors of a biological war, one being an infirm pilot who barely survived the plague and the other being a nurse who had a natural immunity. The repopulating never happens, because she is a very moral woman and they're not married. (And where are they going to find a priest?) The pilot eventually dies, because he has an attack of the sickness in the one place she would never follow him: The men's bathroom.
** ''Not With A Bang'' also directly addresses the incest issue - namely, the Adam finds his Eve so annoying he plans to leave her for their first daughter. On the other hand, the story never precludes the possibility that more successful {{Adam And Eve Plot}}s happened.

->'''Kyon:''' Do I have to live in this gray world all alone with Haruhi?\\

*** Before that, even, it's strongly implied that humanity was already created prior to Adam, as humanity as a whole was created on the sixth day, while Adam was created specially after the fact (yes, we're aware of the [[FlipFlopOfGod contradictions]]; the first half of Genesis is almost definitely interpretive stories, as opposed to the historical documents that comprise the rest of the Old Testament).

In particularly {{anvilicious}} scenarios, the two survivors who rebirth their species will actually be [[AdamAndOrEve named "Adam" and "Eve"]], or some fairly obvious variations on those names. This is sometimes called a [[IncrediblyLamePun Shaggy God Story]].

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' puts a massively violent spin on the original tale of Adam and Eve, and at the conclusion of the last ''Evangelion'' movie, ''End of Evangelion'', [[spoiler:it's [[GainaxEnding implied]] that Shinji and Asuka are left as the only two surviving humans on an utterly transformed and devastated Earth.

* Referenced in ''{{Half-Life}} 2'' (one of the episodes, anyway) where the [[GeniusDitz well-intentioned]] Dr. Kleiner mentions on the monitors previously used for Breencasts (and which are therefore presumably scattered strategically worldwide) that since the Combine suppression field that had been inhibiting pregnancies was now gone, that those so inclined might as well set about replenishing the human population. Alyx incredulously asks the question that was likely in every player's head at that moment: "Did he just tell everyone to... get busy?"

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' puts a massively violent spin on the original tale of Adam and Eve, and at the conclusion of the last ''Evangelion'' movie, ''End of Evangelion'', [[spoiler:it's [[GainaxEnding implied]] that Shinji and Asuka are left as the only two surviving humans on an utterly transformed and devastated Earth. The first thing Shinji does upon encountering Asuka is try to strangle her -- hardly the sort of behavior conducive to the continuation of the species]].

** In fact, the Y-Chromosomal Adam was dated to live 50,000 years ''after'' Eve.[[hottip:*:To quote StephenFry: "Obviously, this means that for 50,000 to 80,000 years, the human race ran on heavy to industrial-strength lesbianism."]]

* In ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'', Flo laments that thirteen individuals do not provide enough genetic diversity for a species to survive, and her main objective in life is to ensure more (at least five hundred) are artificially created before it's too late.

Literary note: the "Adam and Eve" plot is mentioned (in a bad way) in many articles and books on writing science fiction stories. Apparently it was, for many years, one the most over-used {{twist ending}}s in the badly written stories that make up the editors' mountainous "slush pile" of wasted efforts - in fact, many editors would reject stories with this twist ''on sight''.

*** Before that, even, it's strongly implied that humanity was already created prior to Adam, as humanity as a whole was created on the sixth day, while Adam was created specially after the fact.

** However, Narnia has a sister country in their ally of Archenland, which was fully populated by humans. Also, the subornate island nations, and the southern enemy nation of Calormene. There's not much explanation for how these people got there, though it might have been similar to how the Telmorenes showed up. Creator/CSLewis didn't expect to write more than the first book, until popular demand had him go back and expand the world.