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* ''Literature/TreasureIsland'': happened to Ben Gunn.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agafia_Lykova Agafia Lykova]], the last survivor of an Old Believer family that fled into the Siberian taiga in the 1930s to escape persecution. With her parents and siblings long dead (the most recent death, her father, dates back to 1988), Lykova, approaching 80, nonetheless continues to live in the isolated cottage the family built, though she does have occasional contact with the outside world. At one time she did have a single neighbor (a retired geologist who moved to the area specifically because of her presence there), but he too has since passed away.

* ''WesternAnimation/WallE'': the title character himself, at least in the beginning.

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* The "Rat Man" from ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}''. Hiding from [=GLaDOS=] in nooks and crannies of the Enrichment Centre, he cracked up and scrawled messages, poems and declarations of love for the CompanionCube on the walls.

* Samus Aran is usually completely alone on whatever planet her mission is on in most of the ''{{VideoGame/Metroid}}'' games.
* *Hyun-ae and *Mute, the two AIs of the ''Mugunghwa'' in ''VisualNovel/AnalogueAHateStory'', were like this during the 600 years before you showed up. And then presumably go back to this if you don't take one or both of them with you when you download the ship's logs.

-->-- '''Death''', ''Discworld/SmallGods''

* Used in ''Discworld/SmallGods'' as villain [[SinisterMinister Vorbis']] personal hell (see page quote). The lack of other people isn't the true hell for Vorbis, though... [[WhatYouAreInTheDark it's being trapped in his own head]].

* [[spoiler:Atlanna]] from ''Film/{{Aquaman}}'' has been stuck in the Hidden Sea after being sacrificed to the creatures of the Trench. She remains there until Mera and Arthur arrive and take her back to Atlantis.

* Lapis Lazuli from [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse]] becomes this after she [[MakesSenseInContext exiles herself to the moon]] out of fear of the Diamonds attacking Earth.

* [[Webcomic/RageComics The Forever Alone guy.]]

* In obscure doujinshi series ''Mythic Quest'', every human in the world is transported to a different dimension at the beginning of the Sorcerer's Curse arc. Except one, the female lead. For five years.

* The eponymous protagonist of ''VideoGame/DrMuto''.

* Maglor in TheSilmarillion. Oh, poor Maglor - zig-zagging with WalkingTheEarth, with singing a lament over his own violent stupidity and the fall of his nation after the end of the First Age

-> [[AC:"You have perhaps heard the phrase that [[Theatre/NoExit hell is other people]]? In time, you will learn that it is wrong."]]

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfDragoon'' has a number of characters who used to be this trope: [[TheLeader Dart]], who wandered on a mission alone to find and destroy the Black Monster, refused to take companionship because [[ItsPersonal it was a personal mission]] and would be incredibly dangerous. [[AloofDarkHairedGirl Rose]], who wandered the world aimlessly [[spoiler: and was said Black Monster]]. [[BadassPrincess Miranda]] comments that she used to be that way in between the period of her father's death and her adoption by Queen Theresa, wandering the Kashua Glacier all alone.

* ''WesternAnimation/WallE'': WALL•E, at least in the beginning.

-> [[AC:"You have perhaps heard the phrase that [[{{Theatre/NoExit}} hell is other people]]? In time, you will learn that it is wrong."]]

* Wiki/TheOtherWiki mention that [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philophobia_(fear) philophobia]] can lead people into this. The dread fear of being committed to a affectionate relationship will cause the subject to lead a solitary life.

* ''Literature/TheMartian'' by Andy Weir. Due to a freak accident, Mark Watney is the only person on the entire planet of Mars, and the next expedition is years away. For the first couple of months, it never even occurs to anyone back on Earth that he might still be alive.