History YouAreNotAlone / ComicBooks

* UsefulNotes/{{The Bronze Age|OfComicBooks}} ComicBook/TeenTitans were ''made'' on this Trope. The BattleCry was "TITANS TOGETHER!"

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* Meta example: [[http://gailsimone.tumblr.com/post/108085323980/if-you-are-considering-making-comics This post from]] Creator/GailSimone to people who want to make comics but feel inadequate (which applies just as much to any other creative endeavor.)

* ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' #270 features Cap's support of his gay friend Arnie. It's incredibly sweet, and it becomes downright awesome when he de-brainwashes Arnie and frees him from the Red Skull via a RousingSpeech, combined with a GayAesop. Keep in mind, [[ValuesResonance this was in the 1980s]].

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--> '''Cap:''' "You are not a freak! You are as good and decent a man as I’ve ever known! They can’t corrupt your love for Michael with their lies… They’re the disease!"

* ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'' has this said to him by Siryn. He wants to kill Dr. Killebrew for making him into a monster and causing him so much trauma. Siryn tells him that murdering the doctor won't help, but if he leaves with her now, he'd have a friend for life to go through his troubles with.
* ''Franchise/GreenLantern'':
** ''ComicBook/SinestroCorpsWar'', has an awesome one between [[spoiler:Hal Jordan and Kyle Rayner]].
--->''For [[{{Superhero}} guys like us]], overcoming fear is what we do best, but when it comes to guilt, regret... loss. Even Green Lanterns struggle with those. But we don't have to do it alone.''\\
The duo proceed to [[spoiler:''tear'' their way out of Parallax]].
** Earlier in the storyline, Hal Jordan is trapped in the anti-matter universe, about to be murdered by Sinestro Corps member Amon Sur, when...
--->'''Amon Sur''': It's ironic, isn't it, Jordan?... You dying here. Killed by Sinestro's army. Alone. You've been despised and abandoned by your Corps.\\
'''TheCavalry''': Despised is one thing. But abandoned? THAT the Green Lantern Corps don't do.
** ''ComicBook/GreenLanternLegacy'': As his finishing move against Xander, Tai constructs John, Iolande, his grandmother, and his entire family as Green Lanterns.
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}: ComicBook/DarkVictory'' has such a scene. When a young Dick Grayson is taken in by Bruce Wayne after his parents were killed, he sadly tells Alfred, "I'm... I'm all alone now, Mr. Pennyworth." Alfred recalls a very similar scene years ago when eight year old Bruce said, "I'm... I'm all alone now Alfred", and Alfred couldn't think of anything to say to him as he walked out of the room. Back to the scene with Dick, Alfred decides not to make the same mistake.
-->'''Alfred:''' I am going to tell you something that I wish I had told another little boy years ago. ''You are not alone''. I imagine you never will be again.

* ''ComicBook/NewMutants'': Danielle Moonstar to Rahne Sinclair after a battle alongside her: "Without you those policemen would have died. You're not alone. Moira loves you, and I..."
* Alan Scott's speech to the scattered survivors of Anti-Life in ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis''.
-->'''Alan Scott:''' You are '''''not''''' alone! '''''And it's not over yet!'''''

* Valerie's letter in ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'': [[spoiler: even though Valerie died years ago, her words still comfort Evey.]]

* In ''ComicBook/DarkEmpire'', Leia retrieves a fallen Luke from the Emperor pretty easily. In the radio drama, though, it's expanded on in a sequence where we see how Luke's been {{Mind Rape}}d, with the Emperor making him believe "You are nothing", "You have no name", and "You are alone". When Leia breaks through this, Luke pulling free is marked with embracing their bond in the Force and shouting "I am ''not'' alone! I am ''never'' alone!"
* In ''ComicBook/NewAvengers'', ComicBook/DoctorStrange comes to them at two of the lowest moments in his life, not expecting their help or even asking for it, but is pulled into their circle in a way that ''screams'' this trope. After the second time, he joins the team.
* At the end of ''[[ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison The Return of Bruce Wayne]]'', Bruce Wayne finally realizes that the reason why he's been so successful as Batman and survived for so long is because he's always been surrounded by people who care about him and share his determination to protect others and serve justice. This revelation gives him the strength to [[spoiler:banish ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}'s presence from his mind, body, and soul.]]
* In ''ComicBook/Robin1993'' #156, Tim Drake [[TalkingDownTheSuicidal stops a would be jumper]] by deducing enough about him to make him curious about what Robin has to say and then sitting with him and convincing him that he is not alone.
* Meta example: [[http://gailsimone.tumblr.com/post/108085323980/if-you-are-considering-making-comics This post from]] Creator/GailSimone to people who want to make comics but feel inadequate (which applies just as much to any other creative endeavor.)
* In ''ComicBook/TheUnstoppableWasp'', [[spoiler:Priya uses this to help talk down a suicidal Nadia, stating that if she "went away", everyone who loved her - her adopted stepmother Janet van Dyne, fellow badass scientist Bobbi Morse, her teammates within the Champions and even poor beleaguered Jarvis - would be hurt by her loss and guilt-ridden by the fact that they couldn't save her.]]
* Inverted quite tragically in ''ComicBook/HeroesInCrisis'': [[spoiler:Wally West discovering that he's not the only superhero that is utterly screwed up in the head (and has suffered all kinds of traumatic hell) because he reconstructed the video confessional files of Sanctuary ''doesn't'' helps him get any peace of mind, but rather enables a colossal FreakOut that makes him lose control of the Speed Force and causes an accidental mass murder]]. The arc's coda plays this message more straight because [[spoiler:more heroes accept that they need therapy and become more open, but [[BrokenAesop nothing has been done to Sanctuary to prevent a similar mess from happening again]].]]

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** In ''ComicBook/KryptonNoMore'', Superman is feeling lonely and abandoned, and [[Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} his cousin Kara]] goes to great -and extreme- lengths to show him he is not alone.

* At the end of ''[[ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsBatman The Return of Bruce Wayne]]'', Bruce Wayne finally realizes that the reason why he's been so successful as Batman and survived for so long is because he's always been surrounded by people who care about him and share his determination to protect others and serve justice. This revelation gives him the strength to [[spoiler:banish Comicbook/{{Darkseid}}'s presence from his mind, body, and soul.]]

* In ''ComicBook/DarkEmpire'', Leia retrieves a fallen Luke from the Emperor pretty easily. In the radio drama, though, it's expanded on in a sequence where we see how Luke's been {{Mind Rape}}d, with the Emperor making him believe "You are nothing", "You have no name", and "You are alone". When Leia breaks through this, Luke pulling free is marked with embracing their bond in TheForce and shouting "I am ''not'' alone! I am ''never'' alone!"

* In ''Comicbook/DarkEmpire'', Leia retrieves a fallen Luke from the Emperor pretty easily. In the radio drama, though, it's expanded on in a sequence where we see how Luke's been {{Mind Rape}}d, with the Emperor making him believe "You are nothing", "You have no name", and "You are alone". When Leia breaks through this, Luke pulling free is marked with embracing their bond in TheForce and shouting "I am ''not'' alone! I am ''never'' alone!"
* In ''Comicbook/NewAvengers'', Comicbook/DoctorStrange comes to them at two of the lowest moments in his life, not expecting their help or even asking for it, but is pulled into their circle in a way that ''screams'' this trope. After the second time, he joins the team.
* At the end of ''[[Comicbook/GrantMorrisonsBatman The Return of Bruce Wayne]]'', Bruce Wayne finally realizes that the reason why he's been so successful as Batman and survived for so long is because he's always been surrounded by people who care about him and share his determination to protect others and serve justice. This revelation gives him the strength to [[spoiler:banish Comicbook/{{Darkseid}}'s presence from his mind, body, and soul.]]
* In ''[[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]]'' #156, Tim [[TalkingDownTheSuicidal stops a would be jumper]] by deducing enough about him to make him curious about what Robin has to say and then sitting with him and convincing him that he is not alone.

* In ''ComicBook/UnstoppableWasp'', [[spoiler:Priya uses this to help talk down a suicidal Nadia, stating that if she "went away", everyone who loved her - her adopted stepmother Janet van Dyne, fellow badass scientist Bobbi Morse, her teammates within the Champions and even poor beleaguered Jarvis - would be hurt by her loss and guilt-ridden by the fact that they couldn't save her.]]

* ComicBook/CaptainAmerica #270 features Cap's support of his gay friend Arnie. It's incredibly sweet, and it becomes downright awesome when he de-brainwashes Arnie and frees him from the Red Skull via a RousingSpeech, combined with a GayAesop. Keep in mind, [[ValuesResonance this was in the 1980s]].

* This trope is the source of one of the ''epic'' moments in ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis''. [[Franchise/TheFlash Wally West and Bart Allen]] try to trap Superboy-Prime in the Speed Force but Wally is torn away by the forces involved and Bart is left alone.

** Newsarama ran an annotations/comments thread for Infinite Crisis. Their assessment of this scene was "And if you happened to be reading this scene in the shop when the [[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths thirty-year]][[ManlyTears -old geek burst out crying]], well, we hope you gave him a hug, is all."

* ''ComicBook/GreenLantern''[='=]s StoryArc, ''ComicBook/SinestroCorpsWar'', has an awesome one between [[spoiler:Hal Jordan and Kyle Rayner]].
-->''For [[{{Superhero}} guys like us]], overcoming fear is what we do best, but when it comes to guilt, regret... loss. Even Green Lanterns struggle with those. But we don't have to do it alone.''\\

-->'''Amon Sur''': It's ironic, isn't it, Jordan?... You dying here. Killed by Sinestro's army. Alone. You've been despised and abandoned by your Corps.\\

* Franchise/{{Superman}}:
** ''ComicBook/AllStarSuperman'': In one of Franchise/{{Superman}}[='=]s most human scenes of his entire history, Superman - who is dying, running out of time - [[http://i684.photobucket.com/albums/vv205/haven_bucket/1245822166636.jpg?t=1246328571 talks a girl out of suicide]].

** In ''Comicbook/KryptonNoMore'', Superman is feeling lonely and abandoned, and [[Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} his cousin Kara]] goes to great -and extreme- lengths to show him he is not alone.
* ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'':
** Supergirl gives this speech to Lar-On -a Kryptonian werewolf who lost his family and got stranded in Earth- in ''Comicbook/SupergirlRebirth #1'':

** In ''Action Comics'' #850, Supergirl has to take over her cousin's body to save his life. Before leaving, she uses her heat vision to write on the wall: "Hang in there, big guy. You're not in this alone."

* Inverted, in a way, in ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'': [[spoiler:What finally breaks Walter Kovacs and [[BecomingTheMask creates Rorschach]], turning him from a mere vigilante into a true example of HeWhoFightsMonsters, is the knowledge that "we are alone. There is nothing else". Rorschach uses a HannibalLecture to explain this concept.]]

* In ''[[Comicbook/RobinSeries Robin]]'' #156, Tim [[TalkingDownTheSuicidal stops a would be jumper]] by deducing enough about him to make him curious about what Robin has to say and then sitting with him and convincing him that he is not alone.

* This trope is the source of one of the ''epic'' moments in ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis''. [[ComicBook/TheFlash Wally West and Bart Allen]] try to trap Superboy-Prime in the Speed Force but Wally is torn away by the forces involved and Bart is left alone.

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** ''ComicBook/AllStarSuperman'': In one of Franchise/{{Superman}}[='=]s [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments most human scenes of his entire history]], Superman - who is dying, running out of time - [[http://i684.photobucket.com/albums/vv205/haven_bucket/1245822166636.jpg?t=1246328571 talks a girl out of suicide]].

* In ''ComicBook/UnstopabbleWasp'', [[spoiler:Priya uses this to help talk down a suicidal Nadia, stating that if she "went away", everyone who loved her - her adopted stepmother Janet van Dyne, fellow badass scientist Bobbi Morse, her teammates within the Champions and even poor beleaguered Jarvis - would be hurt by her loss and guilt-ridden by the fact that they couldn't save her.]]

** ''ComicBook/AllStarSuperman'': In one of Franchise/{{Superman}}[='=]s most human scenes of his entire history, Superman - who is dying, running out of time - [[http://i684.photobucket.com/albums/vv205/haven_bucket/1245822166636.jpg?t=1246328571 talks a girl out of suicide]].

* ''{{Deadpool}}'' has this said to him by Siryn. He wants to kill Dr. Killebrew for making him into a monster and causing him so much trauma. Siryn tells him that murdering the doctor won't help, but if he leaves with her now, he'd have a friend for life to go through his troubles with.