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** Not military remnants, but still equally problematic: one of the mayor major threats of Season 2 is the Zeros, the sole surviving [[TheCartel Mexican Cartel]] in the post-Z-Day world, which has made its BreadAndCircuses with "Z-Weed", marijuana fertilized with zombie bodies (that is somehow much more potent because of this) and that are seeking a cure for zombification (and killing all scientists that don't develop one effective, or fast, enough) as a way to gain more power.
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** The penultimate episode of Season 4 reveals that the remains of the federal government have survived a decade into the apocalypse by holing up in the Mount Weather facility. By the time the protagonists stumble on them though, everyone's died off except for one bureaucrat who has become President by default and two Secret Service agents protecting her.
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** Not military remnants, but still equally problematic: one of the mayor threats of Season 2 is the Zeros, the sole surviving [[TheCartel Mexican Cartel]] in the post-Z-Day world, which has made its BreadAndCircuses with "Z-Weed", marijuana fertilized with zombie bodies (that is somehow much more potent because of this) and that are seeking a cure for zombification (and killing all scientists that don't develop one effective, or fast, enough) as a way to gain more power.
** Not military remnants, but still equally problematic: one of the mayor threats of Season 2 is the Zeros, the sole surviving [[TheCartel Mexican Cartel]] in the post-Z-Day world, which has made its BreadAndCircuses with "Z-Weed", marijuana fertilized with zombie bodies (that is somehow much more potent because of this) and that are seeking a cure for zombification (and killing all scientists that don't develop one effective, or fast, enough) as a way to gain more power.
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* ''Series/TheLastShip'' features plenty of these, both positive and negative throughout the series given how many nations get ravaged by the Avian flu. The main characters (Navy servicemen sent on a mission to FindTheCure by a now-fallen government) provide an example of this themselves for the first season or two that actually succeeds in their mission and restores their government and many others. Villainous counterparts include Admiral Ruskov (a RenegadeRussian seeking to control the cure), Amy Granderson (a minor government bureaucrat-turned-WastelandWarlord backed by remnants of the Maryland State Police), and Peng Wu (the former head of China's StateSec, who took over the restored Chinese government post-plague due to being the highest-ranked official left).
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* ''Series/TheLastShip'' features plenty of these, both positive and negative throughout the series given how many nations get ravaged by the Avian flu. The main characters (Navy servicemen sent on a mission to FindTheCure by a now-fallen government) provide an example of this themselves for the first season or two that actually succeeds in their mission and restores their government and many others. Villainous counterparts include Ruskov, Admiral Ruskov (a RenegadeRussian seeking to control the cure), Amy Granderson (a minor government bureaucrat-turned-WastelandWarlord backed by remnants of the Maryland State Police), and Peng Wu, and Granderson's mother.Wu (the former head of China's StateSec, who took over the restored Chinese government post-plague due to being the highest-ranked official left).
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* ''Series/FearTheWalkingDead'':
** The Stalkers, the secondary antagonists of Season 7, are the remaining members of [[DarkMessiah Teddy's]] ApocalypseCult from the previous season, who blame the protagonists for the failure of his promised vision from coming to pass.
** The PADRE organization was originally a US Army program to create an island safe zone capable of providing material support towards reclaiming and rebuilding the mainland. However, after most of the leadership was killed by walkers, the remaining members reorganized it as a cult running on a twisted version of the founding General's vision.
*** After the protagonists overthrow PADRE's leadership midway through Season 8, including causing the death of [[TheHeavy Shrike]] and exiling her co-leader [[ShadowDictator Crane]], the latter returns in the first part of the GrandFinale with his remaining {{Mooks}} to try and reclaim control. [[BigBadWannabe He's utterly inept at it, and gets himself and his men all killed.]]
** The Stalkers, the secondary antagonists of Season 7, are the remaining members of [[DarkMessiah Teddy's]] ApocalypseCult from the previous season, who blame the protagonists for the failure of his promised vision from coming to pass.
** The PADRE organization was originally a US Army program to create an island safe zone capable of providing material support towards reclaiming and rebuilding the mainland. However, after most of the leadership was killed by walkers, the remaining members reorganized it as a cult running on a twisted version of the founding General's vision.
*** After the protagonists overthrow PADRE's leadership midway through Season 8, including causing the death of [[TheHeavy Shrike]] and exiling her co-leader [[ShadowDictator Crane]], the latter returns in the first part of the GrandFinale with his remaining {{Mooks}} to try and reclaim control. [[BigBadWannabe He's utterly inept at it, and gets himself and his men all killed.]]
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** ''Series/FearTheWalkingDead'':
*** The Stalkers, the secondary antagonists of Season 7, are the remaining members of [[DarkMessiah Teddy's]] ApocalypseCult from the previous season, who blame the protagonists for the failure of his promised vision from coming to pass.
*** The PADRE organization was originally a US Army program to create an island safe zone capable of providing material support towards reclaiming and rebuilding the mainland. However, after most of the leadership was killed by walkers, the remaining members reorganized it as a cult running on a twisted version of the founding General's vision.
*** After the protagonists overthrow PADRE's leadership midway through Season 8, including causing the death of [[TheHeavy Shrike]] and exiling her co-leader [[ShadowDictator Crane]], the latter returns in the first part of the GrandFinale with his remaining {{Mooks}} to try and reclaim control. [[BigBadWannabe He's utterly inept at it, and gets himself and his men all killed.]]
** ''Series/TheWalkingDeadTheOnesWhoLive'' reveals that the [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny Civic Republic Military]] was formed from what was left of the Pennsylvania National Guard, which during [[ZombieApocalypse the Fall]] rebelled against the federal government's desperate attempt to napalm Philadelphia to contain the dead, and afterwards helped transform the city into the Civic Republic.
** ''Series/FearTheWalkingDead'':
*** The Stalkers, the secondary antagonists of Season 7, are the remaining members of [[DarkMessiah Teddy's]] ApocalypseCult from the previous season, who blame the protagonists for the failure of his promised vision from coming to pass.
*** The PADRE organization was originally a US Army program to create an island safe zone capable of providing material support towards reclaiming and rebuilding the mainland. However, after most of the leadership was killed by walkers, the remaining members reorganized it as a cult running on a twisted version of the founding General's vision.
*** After the protagonists overthrow PADRE's leadership midway through Season 8, including causing the death of [[TheHeavy Shrike]] and exiling her co-leader [[ShadowDictator Crane]], the latter returns in the first part of the GrandFinale with his remaining {{Mooks}} to try and reclaim control. [[BigBadWannabe He's utterly inept at it, and gets himself and his men all killed.]]
** ''Series/TheWalkingDeadTheOnesWhoLive'' reveals that the [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny Civic Republic Military]] was formed from what was left of the Pennsylvania National Guard, which during [[ZombieApocalypse the Fall]] rebelled against the federal government's desperate attempt to napalm Philadelphia to contain the dead, and afterwards helped transform the city into the Civic Republic.
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* ''Series/TheLastShip'' features plenty of these, both positive and negative throughout the series given how many nations get ravaged by the Avian flu. The main characters arguably (Navy servicemen sent on a mission to FindTheCure by a now-fallen government) provide an example of this themselves for the first season or two that actually succeeds in their mission.mission and restores their government and many others. Villainous counterparts include Ruskov, Peng Wu, and Granderson’s mother.
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** The WholeEpisodeFlashback "Zarya" features Princess Anastasia of Russia, who survived the Revolution and is living in secret in an Alaskan colony with a handful of soldiers, a cabinet minister, a priest, and a few servants, while warily conducting peace negotiations with UsefulNotes/VladimirLenin.
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* ''Series/NorthernExposure'' featured one of these guys in one episode, from when Japan controlled the Aleutian Islands.
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** "The Quest" features a hermit soldier left behind from when Japan controlled the AleutianIslands.Islands.
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*** After the protagonists overthrow PADRE's leadership midway through Season 8, including causing the death of [[TheHeavy Shrike]] and exiling her co-leader [[ShadowDictator Crane]], the latter returns in the first part of the GrandFinale with his remaining {{Mooks}} to try and reclaim control. [[BigBadWannabe He's utterly inept at it, and gets himself and his men all killed.]]
*** After the protagonists overthrow PADRE's leadership midway through Season 8, including causing the death of [[TheHeavy Shrike]] and exiling her co-leader [[ShadowDictator Crane]], the latter returns in the first part of the GrandFinale with his remaining {{Mooks}} to try and reclaim control. [[BigBadWannabe He's utterly inept at it, and gets himself and his men all killed.]]
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* ''Series/{{Andor}}'' makes passing references to such groups existing among the isolated early cells of what would eventually become [[TheAlliance the Rebel Alliance]] in the original ''Franchise/StarWars'' trilogy. When Luthen tries to get Saw Gerrera to cooperate with other cells, Saw points out [[WeAreStrugglingTogether the enormous gulf in goals and viewpoints between the groups]], mentioning for example that one group is made up of former Separatists (who wanted to break away from the Republic in the prior war and simply carried on fighting after the Separatists lost and the Republic morphed into TheEmpire), while another group are "Neo-Republicans", who presumably are loyal to the old Republic and want to restore it to what it was before it was corrupted into The Galactic Empire. [[ItWillNeverCatchOn Saw scoffs at the idea that the cells will ever come together and form a cohesive group]].
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** The PADRE organization was originally an US Army program to create an island safe zone capable of providing material support towards reclaiming and rebuilding the mainland. However, after most of the leadership was killed by walkers, the remaining members reorganized it as cult running on a twisted version of the founding General's vision.
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* ''Series/The100'':
** Mount Weather (which houses the descendants of the members of the U.S. Government who survived the end of the world) provides a TragicVillain example of this for the first two seasons, referring to their leader as “President”, and generally acting like they’re the legitimate authority.
** Defied at the start of season 5, when Octavia [[spoiler: forcibly merges the survivors of all twelve tribes into Wonkru, preventing any of them from continuing on as separate factions]].
** Another (rather extreme) example occurs at the end of season five, where [[spoiler: the last know survivors ''of the entire human species'', numbering less than 500, flee Earth aboard the ''Eligius IV'']].
* One episode of ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSirLancelot'' had a remnant of the Roman colonial government of Britain hiding behind a section of Hadrian's Wall, pretending to be ghosts.
* Dylan Hunt is this for a while in ''{{Series/Andromeda}}'', trying to restart the Commonwealth despite being the last soldier of the High Guard in existence.
* ''Series/AroundTheWorldIn80Days2021'': While taking a stagecoach to catch up with a Transcontinental Railroad train, Phileas Fogg et al. become entangled with a black US Marshal pursuing a gang of Klansmen composed of ex-Confederate Army soldiers, led by a former colonel named Abernathy, who fled west after being driven out of Tennessee where they were conducting a terrorist campaign against freedmen.
* The crew of the Minbari warship ''Trigati'' in ''Series/BabylonFive''.
* The crew of the Battlestar Pegasus in ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' continued their war against the Cylons long after (as far as they knew) the government was completely wiped out and their warship was the only human fighting force left in the galaxy.
** The Galactica herself is also an example, though for the most part, they tended only to fight the Cylons when escaping wasn't immediately possible. They do spend most of the MiniSeries trying to figure out who is in charge and getting the ship re-armed so they can get back into the fight, it isn't until the end that Roslin convinces Adama that running away is the better option.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': The Order of Aurelius has existed for centuries as a {{cult}} of vampires who [[ReligionOfEvil worship]] the Old Ones and wish to bring them back. Initially the main threat of Season 1, after the Master's death and their failed attempt to resurrect him, only the Anointed One and a few others are left by the time of Season 2's "School Hard," and they decide that whoever kills Buffy will take the Master's place. When their plot is ruined due to Spike's impulsive tendencies, he decides to simply kill the Anointed One and takes control of what's left of the order, dissolving it completely.
-->'''Spike''': From now on, we're gonna have a little less ''ritual'' and a little more ''fun'' around here!
* ''Series/DayOfTheTriffids2009'': A group of soldiers and government officials who retain their sight are seen in the first half of the series preparing to retreat to the countryside to try and reestablish society away form the dangerous triffids and scores of blinded people.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E5RevengeOfTheCybermen Revenge of the Cybermen]]", the Cybermen encountered are small group of stragglers from the Cyber War reduced to skulking about the galaxy in a worn-out warship.
** In "Remembrance of the Daleks", the Seventh Doctor destroys the Daleks' home planet and then persuades the lone surviving Imperial Dalek to kill itself as it has "no superiors, no inferiors, no reinforcements, no hope, no rescue!"
** When the Ninth Doctor attempts a similar tactic on another lone Dalek in "Dalek", however, he only succeeds in making it angrier.
--->Then I shall follow the Primary Order! The Dalek instinct to ''destroy'', to '''''conquer'''''!
** Most Dalek factions in the revival (or at least the RTD era) were this, as the scattered survivors of the apocalyptic [[GreatOffscreenWar Last Great Time War]]. The revival's first season ended with the Doctor facing a two-hundred-ship Dalek fleet... after establishing the Time War had ended with ten ''million'' ships being wiped out.
** This seems to happen throughout history with the humans and the Cybermen. One destroys the other, but not quite, then the other recovers and comes back, rinse and repeat.
* ''Series/FearTheWalkingDead'': The Stalkers, the secondary antagonists of Season 7, are the remaining members of [[DarkMessiah Teddy's]] ApocalypseCult from the previous season, who blame the protagonists for the failure of his promised vision from coming to pass.
* In ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', Malcolm Reynolds, on the losing side of the Independents' revolt against the Alliance, still believes that he was on the ''right'' side, and ekes out an existence on the outskirts of civilization with a few like-minded comrades.
** Played with throughout the series. While everyone ''thinks'' that Mal is The Remnant -- ready to take the fight to the Alliance again on behalf of the Independents -- he really just wants to forget the Alliance exists and live his own gorram life. The mistaken belief that Mal is still fighting the war is invoked in "Bushwhacked" and several times during [[Film/{{Serenity}} the movie]].
--> '''Trade Agent''': You all are Browncoats, eh? Fought for independence? Petty thieving ain't exactly soldiers' work.\\
'''Mal''': War's long done. We're all just folk now.
** Note that for a while, he ''was'' The Remnant -- it's mentioned in various sources that he fought on at Serenity Valley with his troops for several weeks after the leaders of the Independents stopped fighting and began negotiating terms of surrender.
** As was Zoe, who joined a group called the Dust Devils when she was released from the Alliance prison camp.
** Other remnants show up in the comics as well.
* Jess Evans and his Confederate renegades in the ''Series/FrontierCircus'' episode "The Hunter and the Hunted". Refused a pardon after the Civil War, they moved west and have been living as outlaws. Several are StillWearingTheOldColors.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** The Wildlings have become this by late Season 5, when anywhere between 50,000 to 100,000 of them are massacred at Hardhome by the White Walkers. Only a small fraction of that number manages to escape with the Night's Watch fleet and then, even more of them are killed while fighting in the Battle for Winterfell. However, they're now at least somewhat safe south of the Wall, mostly because of their service and sacrifice to Jon Snow, who as [[spoiler: King in the North]], has placed the [[DyingRace surviving Wildlings]] under his banner and protection.
** The Stark children become this early in the series when their most prominent members are either dead or missing, their army is scattered, their household is ruined and family members are exiled by the crown, and their family name is also almost extinct in the male line. As Bran tells Rickon, if anything were to happen to him and Robb, he is the heir to Winterfell. With Bran going beyond the Wall, Sansa and Arya trapped in the South, and Jon being an [[HeroicBastard illegitimate]] son in the Stark family, Rickon is the only one with the Stark name left in the North -- one who Bran expects will be fostered with the Umbers, loyal bannermen.
** Daenerys is the last known Targaryen. House Targaryen themselves are The Remnant of the Valyrian dragonlords.
--> '''Maester Aemon:''' A Targaryen alone in the world is a terrible thing.
** Stannis is this as far as the War of the Five Kings is concerned, as of Season 4. He is the only original rival claimant to the Iron Throne who hasn't bent the knee to Joffrey at King's Landing. Balon Greyjoy has presumably not bent his knee yet, but he is not considered a threat like Stannis is.
* In one episode of ''Series/GilligansIsland'', a demented Japanese soldier who doesn't realize WWII is long-over arrives on the island and begins ambushing the castaways one by one.
* ''Series/{{Jeremiah}}'': The militaristic Valhalla Sector is made up of government members who avoided dying with the rest of the world's adults by withdrawing to a bunker until the initial plague died out.
* ''Series/Jericho2006'': Hawkins, Chavez and Cheung are unusual intelligence operative versions of this, trying to achieve their original mission as their country becomes the DividedStatesOfAmerica.
* ''Series/KamenRiderDecade'': Super Shocker in the GrandFinale movie ''Final Chapter''. It's the remains of [[LegionOfDoom Dai-Shocker's]] massive MonsterOfTheWeek army after the really big fight at the end of ''All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker'', rebranded under Narutaki (whose hatred of Decade has evolved from {{troll}}ing to outright villainy) and a revived [[Series/KamenRider Doctor Shinigami]].
* ''Series/KungFu1972'': In "The Last Raid", Kwai Chang Caine must rescue people who have been kidnapped by a Confederate soldier who still thinks the Civil War is going on.
* The American [=POWs=] in the ''Series/{{Lexx}}'' episode "Apocalexx Now" -- the Fighting 78th, a Marine Platoon that was captured during the Vietnam War and released during the episode, circa 2001 AD, under the impression that the war was still raging.
* ''Series/TheLastShip'' features plenty of these, both positive and negative throughout the series given how many nations get ravaged by the Avian flu. The main characters arguably provide an example of this themselves for the first season or two that actually succeeds in their mission. Villainous counterparts include Ruskov, Peng Wu, and Granderson’s mother.
* In the ''Series/MacGyver1985'' episode "Humanity", [=MacGyver=] tangles with the K-Force, a group of PraetorianGuard still loyal to Romania's dead tyrant Ceauşescu.
* Col. Emmett Anderson (played by Kurtwood Smith) in the pilot episode of ''Series/TheMagnificentSeven'' [[RecycledTheSeries TV series]], "Ghosts of the Confederacy," who leads a group of ex-Confederate soldiers who roam the west preying on isolated towns.
* The main antagonists of ''Series/TheMandalorian'' are a faction of former [[Franchise/StarWars Galactic Empire]] military units who refuse to acknowledge the Empire's collapse, and are rampaging across the Outer Rim (where the New Republic's [[AuthorityInNameOnly ability to enact its authority is fairly limited]]) as they try to gather the resources needed to retake control of the galaxy. Season 3 reveals that they're actually part of a larger Imperial Remnant controlled by a [[ShadowGovernment Shadow Council]] of high-ranking officials which presents the facade of being reduced to fragmented warlords to lull the New Republic into false security while they slowly regain their strength.
* ''Series/TheNewAvengers'': In "K is for Kill", a cadre of Soviet soldiers are accidentally awoken from their cryogenic sleep and embark on following their original Cold War orders; attacking several former military targets that have been abandoned for decades.
* ''Series/NorthernExposure'' featured one of these guys in one episode, from when Japan controlled the Aleutian Islands.
* The last surviving generals of the [[Series/PowerRangersZeo Machine Empire]] attacked Earth in the ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'' episode "Forever Red", four years after the Empire, and other forces of evil, were destroyed at the end of ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace''.
* Pompeii's army in ''Series/{{Rome}}'' is reduced to this after he loses a great battle and he is dumped as its leader. Cato and Scipio take over but they are defeated in Africa.
* The first episode of ''Series/RutlandWeekendTelevision'' has a sketch about a group of British soldiers who remain unaware WWII is over... and who are stationed on the Isle of Wight, a couple of miles off the English coast. It also has a Major who ''has'' been told the war is over, but is incapable of understanding the concept.
* ''Series/SirArthurConanDoylesTheLostWorld'': In "Tribute", Malone, Marguerite, and Summerlee are taken prisoner by a World War I pilot, Hans Dressler, who still thinks WWI is going on.
* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield", the crew encounter an alien fugitive with the right side of his body colored white and the left colored black. Eventually his pursuer, who has the same colors but reversed arrives to capture him for causing "race riots". Eventually, the pursuer hijacks the ''Enterprise'' to try to return the fugitive to their home planet to face trial only to find that the planet had destroyed itself in the race war. Despite being offered a place to live by Kirk, both of them blame each other's race for what happened and start fighting, eventually taking their fight to the destroyed planet below.
-->'''Sulu''': But the cause they fought about no longer exists. Does it matter now which one was right?\\
'''Spock''': All that matters to them is their hate.\\
'''Uhura''': Do you suppose that's all they ever had, sir?\\
'''Kirk''': No, but that's all they have left. ''[dejected]'' Warp factor 4, Mr. Sulu. Starbase...4.
* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "The Emissary", the ''Enterprise'' is sent to intercept a Klingon warship whose crew has been in [[HumanPopsicle suspended animation]] since the Klingon-Federation war 75 years ago and will awaken in range of Federation outposts. Despite fears that they might have to destroy the ship to save the outposts, Worf saves the day by assuming temporary command of the ''Enterprise'', tricking the Klingons into thinking the Klingon Empire won the war ([[ExactWords without ever exactly saying so]]) and convincing them to stand down.
* In ''Series/StarTrekVoyager,'' a member of the Maquis used a plan too complicated to describe here ([[{{Brainwashed}} Brainwashing]] was involved) to cause the Maquis members of the Voyager crew to mutiny. This is really a subversion; the guy in question was in reality never a part of the Maquis [[EvenEvilHasStandards because his more questionable methods of freedom fighting disgusted them]], and was trying to revive the Maquis through his brainwashing partially to get back at them for rejecting his help.
* In Season 3 of ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'', it's revealed that a galactic cataclysm called "The Burn" damn near ended interstellar civilization. TheFederation has been reduced from 350 members at its peak to just 38, and the seceeding worlds include three of its founders. The eponymous ship proves key to determining the cause of The Burn and bringing the Federation BackFromTheBrink.
* The [[GrandFinale final two episodes]] of ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' reveals the ultimate foe of the series to be [[spoiler:the Borg Queen and what's left of the Borg Collective, completely and utterly ravaged from what Admiral Janeway did in the GrandFinale of ''Voyager''. They attempt to rebuild their forces by forcefully assimilating young Starfleet members, but Picard and his old crew are able to stop them and destroy the Collective as we know it]].
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
** After Lucifer was thrown back into his Cage during the Apocalypse, thanks in part to the help of the demon Crowley, who subsequently took over Hell, there remained a remnant of demons who were still loyal to Lucifer and seeking to release him again, which the reigning Kings of Hell never quite managed to stamp out.
** Henry Winchester was briefly this to the [[spoiler: American branch of]] the Men of Letters, being the only member to escape the massacre of the group and coming to the present as a FishOutOfTemporalWater, who becomes desperate to restore them (and his relationship with his family) being willing to go back in time to achieve that even though it could retcon his grandsons Sam and Dean out of existence.
* ''Franchise/SuperSentai'': Most crossovers involve remnants of the previous villain group teaming up with the current one.
** ''JAKQ Dengekitai vs. Gorenger'' involves remnants of the Black Cross in various Zolders joining up with CRIME to avenge their organization against their nemesis.
** ''Film/GekisouSentaiCarrangerVsOhranger'' has Bara Mobile, the last of the Bara Machines, who plans to restart the Baranoia Empire from the ground-up as the "Car-Human Empire" by fusing humans to cars by making them biologically compatible; after initially being protected by the Carrangers due to them mistaking him for a good guy, he teams up with Bowzock once everything is clarified to realize his mad goals.
** ''Film/NinpuuSentaiHurricanegerVsGaoranger'' involves the last two Orgs: Tsuetsue and Yabaiba, teaming up with the Jakanja to destroy the Hurricaneger, Gouraiger, Shurikenger and especially the Gaoranger by stealing the latter's powers to use them for evil, both are destroyed midway through the film by the combined finishers of the team.
** ''Film/BakuryuuSentaiAbarangerVsHurricaneger'': Wendinu and Furabijo show up alive and well despite their apparent onscreen deaths and free a lost member of the destroyed Jakanja Ninja Clan: Janil Iga, who teams up with the Invasion Garden Evolian to help them conquer the world and destroy both Hurricaneger and Abaranger.
** After the Zangyack Empire is defeated in the FinalBattle of ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'', it's stated in a newspaper later that the Empire has split into multiple warring factions. One remnant faction, led by the deceased emperor Ackdos Gill's nephew Bacchus Gill, shows up in ''Film/TokumeiSentaiGoBustersVsKaizokuSentaiGokaigerTheMovie'' as the main antagonist though he has already beaten the Gokaiger and strong-armed them into service when he shows up.
*** An episode of ''Gokaier'' also features remnants of the Gaiark from ''Series/EngineSentaiGoOnger'' getting into conflict with the Zangyack over who gets to conquer Earth.
** A stageshow for ''Series/DoubutsuSentaiZyuohger'' had the team teaming up with Red Falcon of ''Series/ChoujuuSentaiLiveman'' to battle a surviving Armed Brain Army Volt robot.
** After the Gangler Crime Group is defeated at the end of ''Series/KaitouSentaiLupinrangerVsKeisatsuSentaiPatranger'', the ICPO turn their attention to hunting the "Gangler Remnants" that have managed to outlast the organization and are still causing trouble. One Gangler Remnant teams up with the remnants of the Jark Matter in the {{crossover}} movie with ''Series/UchuSentaiKyuranger''. Another Remnant teams up with the Druidon Tribe in ''Series/KishiryuSentaiRyusoulger''.
** SuperHeroMamaLeague implies ALL Sentai enemy groups never fully die out and every Sentai team despite mostly going back to their former lives occasionally have to suit up again to mop them up once in a while.
* In ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', the Torchwood Institute was once a massive organisation with access of powerful aliens weapons and talking about rebuilding the British Empire. After 2007 it's half a dozen people in a ElaborateUndergroundBase under Roald Dahl Plass. It became defunct in 2010, when [[spoiler:Jack left Earth]], and by 2011, it was four people on the run, basically running under Torchwood as a codeword. [[spoiler:With the death of one of its remaining four members, its status as of the end of ''Series/TorchwoodMiracleDay'' is unclear]].
* ''Series/TruthSeekers'': The ghost of Private Adkins believes that World War II is still ongoing, and jams all communications signals near the Portland Beacon in an attempt to frustrate German air raids.
* An episode of ''Series/VoyageToTheBottomOfTheSea'' dealt with a Japanese holdout (see RealLife examples below).
* ''Series/{{Westworld}}'': The Confederados are a group of hosts in the role of ex-Confederate soldiers who roam the outer lands of the park, and are a part of the War storyline. They are known as the "Army of New Virginia", but most people simply call them "Confederados". They are described as not willing to surrender at the end of the Civil War, and now work as mercenaries south of the border.
* ''Series/ZNation'':
** Both regular versions of this and more sympathetic ones appear from time to time, but the most notable is General Arthur [=McCandles=], who commanded the infection response forces in Virginia, and still broadcasts as if he's in command of a major force, but by the time they main cast encounter him, he's a bedridden ZombieInfectee who only has a single, neurotic living soldier left under his command.
** The first few episodes of Season 4 feature a Marine lieutenant and a few soldiers (one of whom is his daughter) running a benevolent refugee camp.
** The penultimate episode of Season 4 reveals that the remains of the federal government have survived a decade into the apocalypse by holing up in the Mount Weather facility. By the time the protagonists stumble on them though, everyone's died off except for one bureaucrat who has become President by default and two Secret Service agents protecting her.
** Mount Weather (which houses the descendants of the members of the U.S. Government who survived the end of the world) provides a TragicVillain example of this for the first two seasons, referring to their leader as “President”, and generally acting like they’re the legitimate authority.
** Defied at the start of season 5, when Octavia [[spoiler: forcibly merges the survivors of all twelve tribes into Wonkru, preventing any of them from continuing on as separate factions]].
** Another (rather extreme) example occurs at the end of season five, where [[spoiler: the last know survivors ''of the entire human species'', numbering less than 500, flee Earth aboard the ''Eligius IV'']].
* One episode of ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSirLancelot'' had a remnant of the Roman colonial government of Britain hiding behind a section of Hadrian's Wall, pretending to be ghosts.
* Dylan Hunt is this for a while in ''{{Series/Andromeda}}'', trying to restart the Commonwealth despite being the last soldier of the High Guard in existence.
* ''Series/AroundTheWorldIn80Days2021'': While taking a stagecoach to catch up with a Transcontinental Railroad train, Phileas Fogg et al. become entangled with a black US Marshal pursuing a gang of Klansmen composed of ex-Confederate Army soldiers, led by a former colonel named Abernathy, who fled west after being driven out of Tennessee where they were conducting a terrorist campaign against freedmen.
* The crew of the Minbari warship ''Trigati'' in ''Series/BabylonFive''.
* The crew of the Battlestar Pegasus in ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' continued their war against the Cylons long after (as far as they knew) the government was completely wiped out and their warship was the only human fighting force left in the galaxy.
** The Galactica herself is also an example, though for the most part, they tended only to fight the Cylons when escaping wasn't immediately possible. They do spend most of the MiniSeries trying to figure out who is in charge and getting the ship re-armed so they can get back into the fight, it isn't until the end that Roslin convinces Adama that running away is the better option.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': The Order of Aurelius has existed for centuries as a {{cult}} of vampires who [[ReligionOfEvil worship]] the Old Ones and wish to bring them back. Initially the main threat of Season 1, after the Master's death and their failed attempt to resurrect him, only the Anointed One and a few others are left by the time of Season 2's "School Hard," and they decide that whoever kills Buffy will take the Master's place. When their plot is ruined due to Spike's impulsive tendencies, he decides to simply kill the Anointed One and takes control of what's left of the order, dissolving it completely.
-->'''Spike''': From now on, we're gonna have a little less ''ritual'' and a little more ''fun'' around here!
* ''Series/DayOfTheTriffids2009'': A group of soldiers and government officials who retain their sight are seen in the first half of the series preparing to retreat to the countryside to try and reestablish society away form the dangerous triffids and scores of blinded people.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E5RevengeOfTheCybermen Revenge of the Cybermen]]", the Cybermen encountered are small group of stragglers from the Cyber War reduced to skulking about the galaxy in a worn-out warship.
** In "Remembrance of the Daleks", the Seventh Doctor destroys the Daleks' home planet and then persuades the lone surviving Imperial Dalek to kill itself as it has "no superiors, no inferiors, no reinforcements, no hope, no rescue!"
** When the Ninth Doctor attempts a similar tactic on another lone Dalek in "Dalek", however, he only succeeds in making it angrier.
--->Then I shall follow the Primary Order! The Dalek instinct to ''destroy'', to '''''conquer'''''!
** Most Dalek factions in the revival (or at least the RTD era) were this, as the scattered survivors of the apocalyptic [[GreatOffscreenWar Last Great Time War]]. The revival's first season ended with the Doctor facing a two-hundred-ship Dalek fleet... after establishing the Time War had ended with ten ''million'' ships being wiped out.
** This seems to happen throughout history with the humans and the Cybermen. One destroys the other, but not quite, then the other recovers and comes back, rinse and repeat.
* ''Series/FearTheWalkingDead'': The Stalkers, the secondary antagonists of Season 7, are the remaining members of [[DarkMessiah Teddy's]] ApocalypseCult from the previous season, who blame the protagonists for the failure of his promised vision from coming to pass.
* In ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', Malcolm Reynolds, on the losing side of the Independents' revolt against the Alliance, still believes that he was on the ''right'' side, and ekes out an existence on the outskirts of civilization with a few like-minded comrades.
** Played with throughout the series. While everyone ''thinks'' that Mal is The Remnant -- ready to take the fight to the Alliance again on behalf of the Independents -- he really just wants to forget the Alliance exists and live his own gorram life. The mistaken belief that Mal is still fighting the war is invoked in "Bushwhacked" and several times during [[Film/{{Serenity}} the movie]].
--> '''Trade Agent''': You all are Browncoats, eh? Fought for independence? Petty thieving ain't exactly soldiers' work.\\
'''Mal''': War's long done. We're all just folk now.
** Note that for a while, he ''was'' The Remnant -- it's mentioned in various sources that he fought on at Serenity Valley with his troops for several weeks after the leaders of the Independents stopped fighting and began negotiating terms of surrender.
** As was Zoe, who joined a group called the Dust Devils when she was released from the Alliance prison camp.
** Other remnants show up in the comics as well.
* Jess Evans and his Confederate renegades in the ''Series/FrontierCircus'' episode "The Hunter and the Hunted". Refused a pardon after the Civil War, they moved west and have been living as outlaws. Several are StillWearingTheOldColors.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** The Wildlings have become this by late Season 5, when anywhere between 50,000 to 100,000 of them are massacred at Hardhome by the White Walkers. Only a small fraction of that number manages to escape with the Night's Watch fleet and then, even more of them are killed while fighting in the Battle for Winterfell. However, they're now at least somewhat safe south of the Wall, mostly because of their service and sacrifice to Jon Snow, who as [[spoiler: King in the North]], has placed the [[DyingRace surviving Wildlings]] under his banner and protection.
** The Stark children become this early in the series when their most prominent members are either dead or missing, their army is scattered, their household is ruined and family members are exiled by the crown, and their family name is also almost extinct in the male line. As Bran tells Rickon, if anything were to happen to him and Robb, he is the heir to Winterfell. With Bran going beyond the Wall, Sansa and Arya trapped in the South, and Jon being an [[HeroicBastard illegitimate]] son in the Stark family, Rickon is the only one with the Stark name left in the North -- one who Bran expects will be fostered with the Umbers, loyal bannermen.
** Daenerys is the last known Targaryen. House Targaryen themselves are The Remnant of the Valyrian dragonlords.
--> '''Maester Aemon:''' A Targaryen alone in the world is a terrible thing.
** Stannis is this as far as the War of the Five Kings is concerned, as of Season 4. He is the only original rival claimant to the Iron Throne who hasn't bent the knee to Joffrey at King's Landing. Balon Greyjoy has presumably not bent his knee yet, but he is not considered a threat like Stannis is.
* In one episode of ''Series/GilligansIsland'', a demented Japanese soldier who doesn't realize WWII is long-over arrives on the island and begins ambushing the castaways one by one.
* ''Series/{{Jeremiah}}'': The militaristic Valhalla Sector is made up of government members who avoided dying with the rest of the world's adults by withdrawing to a bunker until the initial plague died out.
* ''Series/Jericho2006'': Hawkins, Chavez and Cheung are unusual intelligence operative versions of this, trying to achieve their original mission as their country becomes the DividedStatesOfAmerica.
* ''Series/KamenRiderDecade'': Super Shocker in the GrandFinale movie ''Final Chapter''. It's the remains of [[LegionOfDoom Dai-Shocker's]] massive MonsterOfTheWeek army after the really big fight at the end of ''All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker'', rebranded under Narutaki (whose hatred of Decade has evolved from {{troll}}ing to outright villainy) and a revived [[Series/KamenRider Doctor Shinigami]].
* ''Series/KungFu1972'': In "The Last Raid", Kwai Chang Caine must rescue people who have been kidnapped by a Confederate soldier who still thinks the Civil War is going on.
* The American [=POWs=] in the ''Series/{{Lexx}}'' episode "Apocalexx Now" -- the Fighting 78th, a Marine Platoon that was captured during the Vietnam War and released during the episode, circa 2001 AD, under the impression that the war was still raging.
* ''Series/TheLastShip'' features plenty of these, both positive and negative throughout the series given how many nations get ravaged by the Avian flu. The main characters arguably provide an example of this themselves for the first season or two that actually succeeds in their mission. Villainous counterparts include Ruskov, Peng Wu, and Granderson’s mother.
* In the ''Series/MacGyver1985'' episode "Humanity", [=MacGyver=] tangles with the K-Force, a group of PraetorianGuard still loyal to Romania's dead tyrant Ceauşescu.
* Col. Emmett Anderson (played by Kurtwood Smith) in the pilot episode of ''Series/TheMagnificentSeven'' [[RecycledTheSeries TV series]], "Ghosts of the Confederacy," who leads a group of ex-Confederate soldiers who roam the west preying on isolated towns.
* The main antagonists of ''Series/TheMandalorian'' are a faction of former [[Franchise/StarWars Galactic Empire]] military units who refuse to acknowledge the Empire's collapse, and are rampaging across the Outer Rim (where the New Republic's [[AuthorityInNameOnly ability to enact its authority is fairly limited]]) as they try to gather the resources needed to retake control of the galaxy. Season 3 reveals that they're actually part of a larger Imperial Remnant controlled by a [[ShadowGovernment Shadow Council]] of high-ranking officials which presents the facade of being reduced to fragmented warlords to lull the New Republic into false security while they slowly regain their strength.
* ''Series/TheNewAvengers'': In "K is for Kill", a cadre of Soviet soldiers are accidentally awoken from their cryogenic sleep and embark on following their original Cold War orders; attacking several former military targets that have been abandoned for decades.
* ''Series/NorthernExposure'' featured one of these guys in one episode, from when Japan controlled the Aleutian Islands.
* The last surviving generals of the [[Series/PowerRangersZeo Machine Empire]] attacked Earth in the ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'' episode "Forever Red", four years after the Empire, and other forces of evil, were destroyed at the end of ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace''.
* Pompeii's army in ''Series/{{Rome}}'' is reduced to this after he loses a great battle and he is dumped as its leader. Cato and Scipio take over but they are defeated in Africa.
* The first episode of ''Series/RutlandWeekendTelevision'' has a sketch about a group of British soldiers who remain unaware WWII is over... and who are stationed on the Isle of Wight, a couple of miles off the English coast. It also has a Major who ''has'' been told the war is over, but is incapable of understanding the concept.
* ''Series/SirArthurConanDoylesTheLostWorld'': In "Tribute", Malone, Marguerite, and Summerlee are taken prisoner by a World War I pilot, Hans Dressler, who still thinks WWI is going on.
* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield", the crew encounter an alien fugitive with the right side of his body colored white and the left colored black. Eventually his pursuer, who has the same colors but reversed arrives to capture him for causing "race riots". Eventually, the pursuer hijacks the ''Enterprise'' to try to return the fugitive to their home planet to face trial only to find that the planet had destroyed itself in the race war. Despite being offered a place to live by Kirk, both of them blame each other's race for what happened and start fighting, eventually taking their fight to the destroyed planet below.
-->'''Sulu''': But the cause they fought about no longer exists. Does it matter now which one was right?\\
'''Spock''': All that matters to them is their hate.\\
'''Uhura''': Do you suppose that's all they ever had, sir?\\
'''Kirk''': No, but that's all they have left. ''[dejected]'' Warp factor 4, Mr. Sulu. Starbase...4.
* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "The Emissary", the ''Enterprise'' is sent to intercept a Klingon warship whose crew has been in [[HumanPopsicle suspended animation]] since the Klingon-Federation war 75 years ago and will awaken in range of Federation outposts. Despite fears that they might have to destroy the ship to save the outposts, Worf saves the day by assuming temporary command of the ''Enterprise'', tricking the Klingons into thinking the Klingon Empire won the war ([[ExactWords without ever exactly saying so]]) and convincing them to stand down.
* In ''Series/StarTrekVoyager,'' a member of the Maquis used a plan too complicated to describe here ([[{{Brainwashed}} Brainwashing]] was involved) to cause the Maquis members of the Voyager crew to mutiny. This is really a subversion; the guy in question was in reality never a part of the Maquis [[EvenEvilHasStandards because his more questionable methods of freedom fighting disgusted them]], and was trying to revive the Maquis through his brainwashing partially to get back at them for rejecting his help.
* In Season 3 of ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'', it's revealed that a galactic cataclysm called "The Burn" damn near ended interstellar civilization. TheFederation has been reduced from 350 members at its peak to just 38, and the seceeding worlds include three of its founders. The eponymous ship proves key to determining the cause of The Burn and bringing the Federation BackFromTheBrink.
* The [[GrandFinale final two episodes]] of ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' reveals the ultimate foe of the series to be [[spoiler:the Borg Queen and what's left of the Borg Collective, completely and utterly ravaged from what Admiral Janeway did in the GrandFinale of ''Voyager''. They attempt to rebuild their forces by forcefully assimilating young Starfleet members, but Picard and his old crew are able to stop them and destroy the Collective as we know it]].
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
** After Lucifer was thrown back into his Cage during the Apocalypse, thanks in part to the help of the demon Crowley, who subsequently took over Hell, there remained a remnant of demons who were still loyal to Lucifer and seeking to release him again, which the reigning Kings of Hell never quite managed to stamp out.
** Henry Winchester was briefly this to the [[spoiler: American branch of]] the Men of Letters, being the only member to escape the massacre of the group and coming to the present as a FishOutOfTemporalWater, who becomes desperate to restore them (and his relationship with his family) being willing to go back in time to achieve that even though it could retcon his grandsons Sam and Dean out of existence.
* ''Franchise/SuperSentai'': Most crossovers involve remnants of the previous villain group teaming up with the current one.
** ''JAKQ Dengekitai vs. Gorenger'' involves remnants of the Black Cross in various Zolders joining up with CRIME to avenge their organization against their nemesis.
** ''Film/GekisouSentaiCarrangerVsOhranger'' has Bara Mobile, the last of the Bara Machines, who plans to restart the Baranoia Empire from the ground-up as the "Car-Human Empire" by fusing humans to cars by making them biologically compatible; after initially being protected by the Carrangers due to them mistaking him for a good guy, he teams up with Bowzock once everything is clarified to realize his mad goals.
** ''Film/NinpuuSentaiHurricanegerVsGaoranger'' involves the last two Orgs: Tsuetsue and Yabaiba, teaming up with the Jakanja to destroy the Hurricaneger, Gouraiger, Shurikenger and especially the Gaoranger by stealing the latter's powers to use them for evil, both are destroyed midway through the film by the combined finishers of the team.
** ''Film/BakuryuuSentaiAbarangerVsHurricaneger'': Wendinu and Furabijo show up alive and well despite their apparent onscreen deaths and free a lost member of the destroyed Jakanja Ninja Clan: Janil Iga, who teams up with the Invasion Garden Evolian to help them conquer the world and destroy both Hurricaneger and Abaranger.
** After the Zangyack Empire is defeated in the FinalBattle of ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'', it's stated in a newspaper later that the Empire has split into multiple warring factions. One remnant faction, led by the deceased emperor Ackdos Gill's nephew Bacchus Gill, shows up in ''Film/TokumeiSentaiGoBustersVsKaizokuSentaiGokaigerTheMovie'' as the main antagonist though he has already beaten the Gokaiger and strong-armed them into service when he shows up.
*** An episode of ''Gokaier'' also features remnants of the Gaiark from ''Series/EngineSentaiGoOnger'' getting into conflict with the Zangyack over who gets to conquer Earth.
** A stageshow for ''Series/DoubutsuSentaiZyuohger'' had the team teaming up with Red Falcon of ''Series/ChoujuuSentaiLiveman'' to battle a surviving Armed Brain Army Volt robot.
** After the Gangler Crime Group is defeated at the end of ''Series/KaitouSentaiLupinrangerVsKeisatsuSentaiPatranger'', the ICPO turn their attention to hunting the "Gangler Remnants" that have managed to outlast the organization and are still causing trouble. One Gangler Remnant teams up with the remnants of the Jark Matter in the {{crossover}} movie with ''Series/UchuSentaiKyuranger''. Another Remnant teams up with the Druidon Tribe in ''Series/KishiryuSentaiRyusoulger''.
** SuperHeroMamaLeague implies ALL Sentai enemy groups never fully die out and every Sentai team despite mostly going back to their former lives occasionally have to suit up again to mop them up once in a while.
* In ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', the Torchwood Institute was once a massive organisation with access of powerful aliens weapons and talking about rebuilding the British Empire. After 2007 it's half a dozen people in a ElaborateUndergroundBase under Roald Dahl Plass. It became defunct in 2010, when [[spoiler:Jack left Earth]], and by 2011, it was four people on the run, basically running under Torchwood as a codeword. [[spoiler:With the death of one of its remaining four members, its status as of the end of ''Series/TorchwoodMiracleDay'' is unclear]].
* ''Series/TruthSeekers'': The ghost of Private Adkins believes that World War II is still ongoing, and jams all communications signals near the Portland Beacon in an attempt to frustrate German air raids.
* An episode of ''Series/VoyageToTheBottomOfTheSea'' dealt with a Japanese holdout (see RealLife examples below).
* ''Series/{{Westworld}}'': The Confederados are a group of hosts in the role of ex-Confederate soldiers who roam the outer lands of the park, and are a part of the War storyline. They are known as the "Army of New Virginia", but most people simply call them "Confederados". They are described as not willing to surrender at the end of the Civil War, and now work as mercenaries south of the border.
* ''Series/ZNation'':
** Both regular versions of this and more sympathetic ones appear from time to time, but the most notable is General Arthur [=McCandles=], who commanded the infection response forces in Virginia, and still broadcasts as if he's in command of a major force, but by the time they main cast encounter him, he's a bedridden ZombieInfectee who only has a single, neurotic living soldier left under his command.
** The first few episodes of Season 4 feature a Marine lieutenant and a few soldiers (one of whom is his daughter) running a benevolent refugee camp.
** The penultimate episode of Season 4 reveals that the remains of the federal government have survived a decade into the apocalypse by holing up in the Mount Weather facility. By the time the protagonists stumble on them though, everyone's died off except for one bureaucrat who has become President by default and two Secret Service agents protecting her.
