History Main / TheAloner

* ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'': after "going quantum" thirty years earlier, Janet Van Dyne - the ''first'' Wasp - has been stuck in the Quantum realm ever since. She remains there until her husband Hank Pym arrives and takes her back to the "surface".

* Like the book it is adapted from, the film version of ''Film/TheMartian'' has NASA belatedly realizing that Watney is actually alive on Mars and now all by himself. The narrative again takes a comedic turn, though in a different way here: after the scene in Mission Control where Kapoor wonders about Watney'd mental state, the film cuts to Watney's latest video log where he appears downbeat while Vicki Sue Robinson's "Turn the Beat Around" plays as background music because 70's disco is the only music he could find in any of the astronauts' personal files.

* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Noah The Noah]]'' (1975). The protagonist is the sole survivor of a nuclear war.

* Finn [=McFee=] from ''Literature/SongOfTheDolphinBoy'' has no friends. There's something about his behaviour that other children find creepy. However, his classmates eventually undergo a HeelRealisation and start including him.

%% Does this count or not? If so, it's improperly indented.* The protagonist of ''Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream''.
%% see ^ ** He's not alone. He still has AM. [[FateWorseThanDeath Being insane and alone would be a vast improvement.]]

* ''Literature/RobinsonCrusoe''.

* Thomas Glavinic's novel ''[[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jul/26/fiction5 Night Work]]'', in which Jonas, a resident of Vienna, wakes up one day to find himself the only person in existence on the whole planet. Even animals and insects are gone. With no one to interact with, he turns on himself.
* ''Men'' opens with one of the characters engineering the apocalypse, killing everyone else on the planet except him. Naturally, he goes insane. Then becomes sane again. Then goes insane again. Then becomes sane again. Over and over, for fifty thousand years. Then he finds that he wasn't the only one left. There were still babies kept in capsules.

* Roger Zelazny's ''Lucifer'', whose title is technically correct, but not the way you're thinking. This guy is clearly a bit insane from his isolation.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', immortal villain Vandal Savage accidentally caused the death of the human race and spent thousands of years alone. He had enough time to build a working starship but decided he deserved to be punished. Thanks to a time-lost Superman, he's able to prevent these events from happening, and though it caused him to cease to exist, he was ''[[WhoWantsToLiveForever happy.]]''

* In ''Comicbook/HulkTheEnd'', the Hulk is the only survivor of a nuclear war. He and his alter ego Bruce Banner are still alive hundreds of years after everyone else died. Banner grimly conjectures that he and his monstrous alter ego were spared as the atoner(s) for mankind's self-destruction, due to the Hulk, having been created in a radioactive explosion, being something of a walking symbol of the Nuclear Age. Finally, the Hulk becomes truly alone when Banner succumbs to a heart attack--even though Hulk retains the ability to revert to human form, Banner is no longer present in their shared consciousness, and Hulk realizes that changing back will mean his death as well.

%%* ''{{Film/Castaway}}''

* ''Film/CastAway'': Chuck Noland survives a plane crash to end up marooned on a tropical island with only a volleyball for company.

* The protagonist of ''Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream''.
** He's not alone. He still has AM. [[FateWorseThanDeath Being insane and alone would be a vast improvement.]]

* Sylar experiences this in the final season of ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' as he gets sealed inside an empty shell of a city inside his own mind by Matt Parkman. In there, he experiences three years of being alone with nothing but his various psychological issues and guilt to deal with. Add in the sudden appearance of his archnemesis Peter to further exacerbate his guilt, it's no wonder that Sylar has completely cracked to the side of good by the end of the series.

* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'''s 343 Guilty Spark was left to oversee Installation 04 all by himself for 100,000 years, with nothing but increasingly infrequent communications from the Monitors on the other six Halo rings for company. After exhausting all his planned experiments and entering longer and longer periods of hibernation, he started ejecting portions of the ring's landscape into space to keep occupied. In the ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved Anniversary'' terminals, he notes that the Forerunners really ought to have assigned two monitors per ring.

* In ''Videogame/Left4Dead2'', there is a single-player mode called "The Last Man On Earth" where you are the only human [[TheLastManHeardAKnock other than the rescue vehicle pilots and the gun store owner]] (there are also no Common Infected or Boomers). Keep in mind that this game ''is'' built entirely around co-op.

* You are this in ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'''s single-player mode. It's just you and a world eight times the size of the planet Earth. And lots of hostile and not-so-hostile creatures........Unless you enable villages.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', Squidward enters a TimeMachine and ends up in a formless limbo. "Finally, a place where I can finally be alone." He lasts all of one minute before screaming to get back home.
** Probably has less to do with being alone, and more to do with the constant "Alone"s popping up and saying alone, over and over

* Strangely enough, came up a couple of times in the 2003 ''WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake'' series. In "The Mystery of Seaberry Shore," Coco Calypso is the sole inhabitant of the eponymous shore (save her pet parrot and two dozen monkeys). When Strawberry is called in to investigate a seaberry robbery, it becomes apparent that Coco, contrary to her song ("With all that I've got, with all that I've found, it's okay by me if there's no one around."), is incredibly lonely. Fortunately for her, the thief was just a girl who lives in a neighboring lagoon who used the seaberries for sustenance before Coco started harvesting them. With the misunderstanding cleared up, the two girls resolve to be friends and share the berries.

** Lt. Hiroo Onoda held out for 30 years, and only surrendered upon the direct order of his former commanding officer (who luckily survived the war as well). Onoda was not alone the entire time; two of his men surrendered in TheFifties.
* Alexander Selkirk, the original Literature/RobinsonCrusoe.
* People with Insomnia can feel a ''lot'' like this if they don't live with people who also have it. Since most are asleep when they're doing their thing, it can seem that the whole world's died in its sleep.

* In ''The Island Keeper'', a girl who fled to an island to grieve in solitude loses her canoe in a storm, and has to survive there alone until the lake freezes enough to walk out. While she isn't left isolated as long as other examples, bonus points are awarded because she winds up killing and eating a raccoon and a deer she'd originally thought of as her furry friends.

* ''Something Green'' by Creator/FredricBrown has a protagonist trapped on an alien world where there is apparently nothing that is colored green. He keeps himself sane by a combination of talking to his alien pet and occasionally firing his RayGun, which has a green energy discharge, while he dreams of returning to Earth, apparently the only planet where green things grow. Then he's rescued. [[spoiler:It turns out the alien pet is a hallucination. When his rescuer reveals to him that Earth has been destroyed in a war and that he'd have to settle on one of the other, non-green planets, the protagonist has a BSOD and murders his rescuer, then wanders off and completely forgets about the incident and continues to dream of rescue. It's implied that this has happened to him more than once.]]

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation has [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-451 SCP-451]], a former Foundation agent who ''thinks'' he's the last human on Earth due to a PerceptionFilter which prevents him from perceiving other humans, any of their actions, or any of their attempts to communicate with him.

* Music/{{Rush}}'s ''Xanadu'' ends with the protagonist finding the immortality he sought, but it turns out to consist of being frozen in a single moment of time within the Pleasure Dome. "A thousand years have come and gone/But time has passed me by/Stars stopped in the sky/Frozen in an everlasting view ... To taste my bitter triumph/As a mad immortal man."

* Creator/OsamuTezuka's ''Manga/{{Phoenix}}'' manga chapter 'Future' has antagonist/anti-hero Rock Holmes, contemplate being the last sole-survivor of mankind after a nuclear war has broken out and ravaged the Earth. Slowly dying to radiation poisoning, the fact that an all-powerful divine Phoenix entity exists, and is no doubt watching, does not console him. He sits over a smoldering crater of a vaporized megacity, and ''[[LaughingMad starts laughing]]''.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'' has Brook, who after a series of particularly unfortunate circumstances ends up spending nearly fifty years without contact with any other living thing. Because of a promise he'd made to his dying crew and Laboon he won't even consider killing himself. The brief flashback set ten years into his ordeal leaves little doubt that he's gone off the deep end, to say nothing of when the main cast finds him after another forty years. Made worse by the fact that he's made immortal by a Devil Fruit power, meaning that he doesn't even have a natural death to look forward to. This trope is emphasized by the fact that Brook's remaining crew dies while playing a song. As they die, he comments that it's only a quartet, trio, duet and finally solo.

* ''Yonakano Reiji Ni Harem Wo'', a DeconstructiveParody of the harem genre, gives us Rei, an immortal spirit who has existed [[TimeAbyss literally forever]], but is completely unable to be seen or heard by anyone, until the protagonist comes along. This kicks off the plot when, upon finding out that the protagonist’s mother can also see her, she comes to the conclusion that it’s a genetic ability, and tries to hook the protagonist up with as many girls as possible so that he has so many children that his descendants never die out, ensuring that there will always be people who can see her, so that she will never be alone again.

* In ''Comicbook/HulkTheEnd'', the Hulk is the only survivor of a nuclear war. He, and his alter ego, Bruce Banner, are still alive hundreds of years after everyone else died. Banner grimly conjectures that he and his monstrous alter ego were spared as the atoner(s) for mankind's self-destruction, due to the Hulk, having been created in a radioactive explosion, being something of a walking symbol of the Nuclear Age. Finally, the Hulk becomes truly alone when Banner succumbs to a heart attack--even though Hulk retains the ability to revert to human form, Banner is no longer present in their shared consciousness, and Hulk realizes that changing back will mean his death as well.
--> "Hulk is the strongest one there is!! Hulk is the ONLY one there is!! Hulk is the only one there is!! Hulk feels...cold."

* In a What-if tale in the Marvel Universe, Cain Marko, the Juggernaut, has powers that make him invulnerable and immortal. He wanders the Earth because a strange plague had wiped out both humankind and mutants. He discovers a stronghold of surviving mutants. ComicBook/{{Magneto}} tries to stop him. He cannot. When he gets to them, the survivors inform him that he has the plague but cannot die because his power made him immune. Cain is immortal, but he has doomed all that remained of mutantkind. They ask for him to leave before they die. Cain, who always was a dick, agrees with them. He roams the really solitary Earth, thinking about the truth about his battlecry: ''Nobody can stop the unstoppable Juggernaut''.

* ''Film/IAmLegend''. Robert Neville even holds full conversations with mannequins he has set up in stores, and completely flips out demanding to know if they are actually alive or not when he finds one has moved on its own. [[spoiler:Turns out one of the vampires moved it as bait.]]

* ''Film/TheLastManOnEarth'' starring Vincent Price. This was the first movie version of the Richard Matheson novel ''Literature/IAmLegend'', which was adapted twice more, as ''Film/TheOmegaMan'' and ''Film/IAmLegend'' (Will Smith film).

* ''Film/IAmMother'' involves a young girl being raised from birth by a A.I. droid called Mother in an underground bunker after an extinction event. As Mother is programmed for the task, the girl copes a lot better than you would expect. Not so the Woman who enters the bunker from the devastated outside world. Mother later mentions that she feared becoming this trope [[InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves if humanity destroyed itself]]; hence her incentive to raise the human embryos so she won't be the last sentient being on the planet.

* Drizzt in ''Literature/TheDarkElfTrilogy'' runs away from the drow and lives alone in the cavern labyrinth for ten years and he's nearly losing his mind despite having the magical panther. In the end he approaches the svirfnebli who have been fighting the drow for millennia in the hope of them taking him in.

* Ayla for a good part of ''The Valley of Horses'' from the ''Literature/EarthsChildren'' book series. She gets thrown out of her tribe and has to survive on her own for three years by hunting, gathering and working alone. She notes that if she ever should get incapacitated for a longer while, she would be doomed. She doesn't go mad but she sure feels very lonely and adopts a horse and a lion.

* William F. Nolan's story "The Underdweller" has its protagonist as the last man (presumably, at least - we never get a global perspective), but there's something else wandering around which he works hard to avoid.

* In ''Literature/MaroonedInRealtime'', Marta Korolev is left alone on the depopulated Earth of the distant future, with nobody for company except a colony of fishermonkeys. There are several hundred other people around, but they're all in stasis and sealed away where she can't contact them or wake them up. She has enough wilderness training to survive, and avoids going mad, but after living alone for forty years she dies of old age before rescue reaches her. (That's not a spoiler; her death is reported before any of the details of the ordeal that preceded it.) [[spoiler:When the saboteur who prevented her from entering stasis with the others is identified, he is punished with a similar ordeal. He does go mad, eventually.]]

** Holly reanimates Lister's dead bunkmate in hologram form to prevent Lister becoming this, three million years after the presumed extinction of the human race.

* Lemon Demon's song ''Saga of You, Confused Destroyer of Planets'' has a character who, after [[MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds unintentionally destroying the world]], becomes the Aloner for awhile. Though he deals with it better than most:

* The main character of Scanner's ConceptAlbum ''Hypertrace'' was a result of SuperSoldier project from WWII, who along with his brethren was deemed too dangerous for service. They were launched into space, and he drifted there for over five years before he was found by the mystic Wizard Force, who turned him into an instrument at building a galaxy-spanning utopia.
* Music/ThePolice's song "Message in a Bottle is about a castaway in a desert island, trying to reach people with... well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a message in a bottle]]. What the protagonist finds out the next day is "a hundred million bottles washed up on the shore"

* In the ''TabletopGame/{{Scion}}'' roleplaying system, the ultimate power of the 'Justice' domain allows the user to "condemn" someone - assuming he knows for sure that they committed a great crime. Doing so traps them within their own mind, in a prison-cell, completely isolated from anything and everything, for months and years - to their perception. When their "sentence" finally ends, they wake up, with merely a second having passed in the real world. It is implied that most mortals do not get through this with their sanity intact - it is, after all, designed to put the fear of God(s) in magical beings and titanspawn...
* ''TabletopGame/BleakWorld'' has the [[GoneHorriblyWrong Experiment]] organization "Isolationists". They gain humanity for staying away from civilization and sentient creatures. The challenge of this comes from your [[SplitPersonalityTakeover other voices likely trying to get you back to society]]. [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Probably to kill it]].

** The ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' tie-in comic "One Man and a Crate of Puppets" features a vault dweller in Vault 77, which was filled with a crate of puppets and exactly one person. He rapidly spirals into believing that a vault-boy puppet is commanding him to murder, and when he emerges on the surface (which has, in the meantime, re-established itself to some degree), goes beserk on some slavers. In the game itself, you can find his jumpsuit, along with a note saying to burn it asap.

* Because TimeTravel in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' is imprecise, [[spoiler: Laurent]] ended up coming back in time three years earlier than the rest of the [[KidFromTheFuture kids from the future]], and spent it hiding in a village, unable to find his friends or go to the Shepherds to warn them about the BadFuture (due to a lack of proof). In his A-support with his father he notes that he thought he would go mad or die alone.

* You are this in ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'''s single player mode. It's just you and a world eight times the size of the planet Earth. And lots of hostile and not-so-hostile creatures........Unless you enable villages.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'', Doug Rattmann is the only survivor after [=GLaDOS=] flooded Aperture Science with deadly neurotoxin. Hiding from [=GLaDOS=] in nooks and crannies of the Enrichment Center, he cracked up and scrawled messages, poems and declarations of love for the CompanionCube on the walls.

** Clementine Is introduced as such in [[VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadSeasonThree New Frontier]], and is quick to distrust people such as Javi and would rather be alone in order to [[NeverBeHurtAgain save herself from being hurt and abandoned again]]. It's explained that it's due to her caretaker in Season 2 dying no matter the player's choice (whether it be Kenny, Jane or Edith). Even if she was alone with AJ, she still ended up having him taken from her by The New Frontier on David's order after she tried to save his life, and is later exiled and left to fend for herself.
** Molly in [[VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadSeasonOne season one]] had been alone since she lose her sister, and preferred it that way, until she met Lee and the group. If she leaves the group voluntarily, she claims that she had always fared better on her own.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', immortal villain Vandal Savage accidentally caused the death of the human race and spent thousands of years alone. He had enough time to build a working starship, but decided he deserved to be punished. Thanks to a time-lost Superman, he's able to prevent these events from happening, and though it caused him to cease to exist, he was ''[[WhoWantsToLiveForever happy.]]''

** In "Strawberry's Big Journey," Strawberry's car breaks down just outside of a small town whose only resident, Banana Candy, takes on all the jobs in the town (claiming she needs them to make ends meet). In order to keep Strawberry and her friends from leaving, she plans to sabotage the car even more, but hearing about their trip, she has a change of heart, fixes the car and confesses to everything. Hearing that she's never left the town before, Strawberry invites her along on their trip, and she seems to have taken up residence in Strawberryland since then.

* Teruo Nakamura, an Imperial Japanese soldier, did not surrender until 1974. He lived by himself on a small island for twenty years.

* ''Island of the Blue Dolphins'', in Literature, is based on a true story. The tribe lived on an island off the coast of California, and the American Government resettled them. One young woman missed the boat, and no one came back for 18 years. Disease had killed off the few remnants of her tribe, and she ended her days unable to communicate with anyone around her, even after she left the island, because they had no language in common.
* Website/TheOtherWiki mention that [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philophobia_(fear) philophobia]] can lead people into this. The [[CommitmentIssues dread fear of being committed to a affectionate relationship]] will cause the subject to lead a solitary life.
* [[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, with only 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.

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

* In ''[[Comicbook/IncredibleHulk Hulk: The End]]'', the Hulk is the only survivor of a nuclear war. He, and his alter ego, Bruce Banner, are still alive hundreds of years after everyone else died. Banner grimly conjectures that he and his monstrous alter ego were spared as the atoner(s) for mankind's self-destruction, due to the Hulk, having been created in a radioactive explosion, being something of a walking symbol of the Nuclear Age. Finally, the Hulk becomes truly alone when Banner succumbs to a heart attack--even though Hulk retains the ability to revert to human form, Banner is no longer present in their shared consciousness, and Hulk realizes that changing back will mean his death as well.

** The protagonist of the episode "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_Is_Everybody%3F Where Is Everybody?]]"
** Also, Henry Benis in "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Enough_At_Last Time Enough At Last]]."

* [[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, with only 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.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'', Doug Rattmann is the only survivor after [=GLaDOS=] flooded Aperture Science with deadly neurotoxin. Hiding from [=GLaDOS=] in nooks and crannies of the Enrichment Center, he cracked up and scrawled messages, poems and declarations of love for the CompanionCube on the walls.
* You are this in ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'''s single player mode. It's just you and a world eight times the size of the planet Earth. And lots of hostile and not-so-hostile creatures........Unless you enable villages.
* Samus Aran is usually completely alone on whatever planet her mission is on in most of the ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' games.
* *Hyun-ae and *Mute, the two {{Artificial Intelligence}}s 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.
* ''{{Franchise/Halo}}'''s 343 Guilty Spark was left to oversee Installation 04 all by himself for 100,000 years, with nothing but increasingly infrequent communications from the Monitors on the other six Halo rings for company. After exhausting all his planned experiments and entering longer and longer periods of hibernation, he started ejecting portions of the ring's landscape into space to keep occupied. In the ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved Anniversary'' terminals, he notes that the Forerunners really ought to have assigned two monitors per ring.

* Red from ''[[VideoGame/{{Penumbra}} Penumbra: Overture]]'', who has been living in a sealed-off area of the mine that is the setting of the game [[spoiler:until he [[DrivenToSuicide would prefer to die]] than continue with that life]].

* Because TimeTravel in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' is imprecise, [[spoiler: Laurent]] ended up coming back in time three years earlier than the rest of the [[KidFromTheFuture kids from the future]], and spent it hiding in a village, unable to find his friends or go to the Shepherds to warn them about the BadFuture (due to a lack of proof). In his A-support with his father he notes that he thought he would go mad or die alone.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' tie-in comic "One Man and a Crate of Puppets" features a vault dweller in Vault 77, which was filled with a crate of puppets and exactly one person. He rapidly spirals into believing that a vault-boy puppet is commanding him to murder, and when he emerges on the surface (which has, in the meantime, re-established itself to some degree), goes beserk on some slavers. In the game itself, you can find his jumpsuit, along with a note saying to burn it asap.
* The ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' [=DLC=] Honest Hearts has Randall Clark, a former soldier who survived the initial blast from the bombs and dedicated himself to helping other survivors, though mostly from afar. By the end of his life, he rarely left his cave, and become a god to the Sorrows tribe that eventually formed in Zion.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[[[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk The Hulk]] wanted to be left alone. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor He got his wish]].]]

[[quoteright:350:[[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Hulk_alone_6620.jpg]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:The Hulk wanted to be left alone. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor He got his wish]].]]

* ''Film/IAmMother'' involves a young girl being raised from birth by a A.I. droid called Mother in an underground bunker after an extinction event. As Mother is programmed for the task, she copes a lot better than you would expect. Not so the Woman who enters the bunker from the devastated outside world. Mother later mentions that she feared becoming this trope [[InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves if humanity destroyed itself]]; hence her incentive to raise the human embryos so she won't be the last sentient being on the planet.

* ''Film/IAmMother'' involves a young girl being raised from birth by a A.I. droid called Mother in an underground bunker after an extinction event. As Mother is programmed for the task, she copes a lot better than you would expect. Not so the Woman who enters the bunker from the devastated outside world. Mother later mentions that she feared becoming this trope as ItIsInYourNatureToDestroyYourselves; hence her incentive to raise the human embryos so she won't be the last sentient being on the planet.

* ''{{VideoGame/Proteus}}'' drops you on a remote island in the middle of the ocean with no companionship, except for some animals who flee at the sight of you. All you can do is walk around the island and check out [[SceneryPorn the gorgeous scenery]].
* This is both the past and future of ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'''s Fujiwara no Mokou, who impulsively drank the Hourai Elixir over a thousand years ago, becoming irrevocably immortal. After her agelessness drove others away, she spent centuries living by herself in the wilds, until she snapped and cut down anyone and anything who crossed her, then snapped ''further'' and sank into absolute apathy. She's stabilized since coming to Gensokyo, but speculation is that Mokou will outlive the planet Earth and the human race. The twist is that she won't be ''entirely'' alone - her nemesis Kaguya Houraisan also drank the Elixir, meaning that the two can look forward to repeatedly killing each other for the rest of eternity.

* *Hyun-ae and *Mute, the two {{AI}}s 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.

* In ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'', Paradox was pulled into a wormhole and stuck alone at the center of time for several lifetimes of the universe. [[GoMadFromTheRevelation He went quite insane,]] [[BoredWithInsanity then grew tired of that]] [[AGodAmI and grew quite sane indeed.]]

* In''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'', Doug Rattmann is the only survivor after [=GLaDOS=] flooded Aperture Science with deadly neurotoxin. 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.