History YMMV / TheLastMan

* VindicatedByHistory: Initially, ''The Last Man'' did not sit well with many people due to its heavy and controversial themes and sombre tone. More than a century after its publication, the book began to receive more notice and praise due to how it tackles said themes and how the theme of loneliness is emotionally powerful for many people.

** A disease that ends up being a global pandemic, and whose appearance is linked to a war. [[UsefulNotes/TheSpanishFlu Sounds]] [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic familliar ?]]

** A disease that ends up being a global pandemic, and whose appearance is LinkedIn to a war. [[UsefulNotes/TheSpanishFlu Sounds]][[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic familliar ?]]

** A disease that ends up being a global pandemic. [[UsefulNotes/TheSpanishFlu Sounds]]
[[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic familliar ?]]

[[UsefulNotes/COVID-19Pandemic familliar?]]

[[UsefulNotes/COVID-19Pandemic familliar ?]]

** A disease that ends up being a global pandemic. [[The SpanishFlu Sounds]] [[COVID-19Pandemic familiar]] ?

** A disease that ends up being a global pandemic. [[UsefulNotes/The SpanishFlu Sounds]] [[UsefulNotes/COVID-19Pandemic familiar]] ?

* VindicatedByHistory: Initially, ''The Last Man'' did not sit well with many people due to its heavy and controversial themes and sombre tone. More than a century after its publication, the book began to receive more notice and praise due to how it tackles said themes and how the theme of loneliness is emotionally powerful for many people.

* VindicatedByHistory: Initially, ''The Last Man'' did not sit well with many people due to its heavy and controversial themes and sombre tone. More than a century after its publication, the book began to receive more notice and praise due to how it tackles said themes and how the theme of loneliness is emotionally powerful for many people.
* TropeMakers: As a Meta-inversion of the novel’s story of the last man, the novel itself is the first example of an Apocalypse Novel and is one of the first examples of apocalyptic fiction alongside her friend Creator/LordByron‘s poem ''[[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43825/darkness-56d222aeeee1b Darkness]]''.

* VindicatedByHistory: Initially, ''The Last Man'' did not sit well with many people due to it's heavy and controversial themes and sombre tone. More than a century after its publication, the book began to receive more notice and praise due to how it tackles said themes and how the theme of loneliness is emotionally powerful for many people.

* TropeMakers: As a Meta-inversion of the novel’s story of the last man, the novel itself is the first example of an Apocalypse Novel and is one of the first examples of apocalyptic fiction alongside her friend Creator/LordByron‘s poem ''Darkness''.

* TropeMakers: As a Meta-inversion of the novel’s story of the last man, the novel itself is the first Apocalyptic Novel with a few tonal similarities to her friend Creator/LordByron‘s End of the World poem ''Darkness''.

* TropeMakers: As a Meta-inversion of the novel’s story of the last man, The novel itself is the first Apocalypse Novel with a few tonal similarities to her friend Creator/LordByron‘s End of the World poem ''Darkness''.

* TropeMakers: As a Meta-inversion of the novel’s story of the last man, The novel itself is the first example of an Apocalypse/Post-Apocalyptic Novel with a lot of tonal similarities to her friend Creator/LordByron‘s ''Darkness''.

* TropeMakers: As a Meta-inversion of the novel’s story of the last man, The novel itself is the first example of an Apocalypse/Post-Apocalyptic Novel.

* TropeMakers: As a Meta-inversion of the novel’s subject the last man, The novel itself is the first example of an Apocalypse/Post-Apocalyptic Novel.

* TropeMakers: As a Meta-inversion of the novel’s subject the last man, The novel itself is the first example of an Apocalypse/Post-Apocalyptic Novel (ignoring biblical examples)).

* TropeMakers: As a Meta-inversion of the novel’s subject the last man, The novel itself is the first example of a Apocalypse/Post-Apocalyptic Novel (ignoring biblical examples of apocalypses such the Flood and the Rapture).

* FirstOfItsKind: As a Meta-inversion of the novel’s subject the last man, The novel itself is the first example of a Apocalypse/Post-Apocalyptic Novel.

* FirstOfItsKind: As a Meta-inversion of the novels subject of the last man, Mary Shelley’s novel itself is arguably the first example of a Apocalypse/Post-Apocalyptic Novel.

* VindicatedByHistory: Initially, ''The Last Man'' did not sit well with many people due to it's heavy and controversial themes and sombre tone. More than a century after its publication, the book began to receive more notice and praise due to how it tackles said themes and how the theme of loneliness is emotionally powerful for many people.

* HarsherInHindsight: The fact that the book details the fall of humanity during a plague is unnervingly reminiscent of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic that would break out almost two centuries after the book's publication.