History Main / CelebritySurvivor

* Not so much an AfterTheEnd scenario as a DayOfTheJackboot one, but Valerie in ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'', an acclaimed actress who was sent to a concentration camp for being a lesbian, possibly qualifies. She wasn't much of a survivor, though (although [[WMG/VForVendetta one fan theory]] holds that she became V).
* A few examples from ''ComicBook/YTheLastMan'':

* In the post-alien invasion America of ''Resurrection'', the main group of survivors come across a walled town that had been set up when the aliens first arrived, 10 years earlier in 1998. The town is holding a person codenamed "The Eagle," who turns out to be none other than [[spoiler: former President UsefulNotes/BillClinton, who ended up stranded in that region after Air Force One was shot down by the aliens during the initial invasion.]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Crossed}} Badlands'': the survivors encounter a rifle-toting, disfigured ginger man who claims to be Prince Harry of the British Royal Family. He says that during the mass infection, his bodyguards tried to take him to a bunker away from the capital only only to find the place already overrun with the infected and that the last thing he saw before escaping was his [[CrossesTheLineTwice granny Queen Elizabeth biting Prince Charles' bollocks off.]] [[RiddleForTheAges The work never confirms if he's the real deal or not]].

* ''Series/Fallout2024'': "The Ghoul" was previously Cooper Howard, a Hollywood actor who starred as the gunslinging lead character of ''[[ShowWithinAShow The Man From Dead Horse]]'', a hit [[TheWestern Western]] film released [[JustBeforeTheEnd just before the war]]. After the bombs fell, [[ILoveNuclearPower radiation]] turned him into a [[OurGhoulsAreCreepier ghoul]], and centuries of fighting for survival in the wasteland forged him into an ''actual'' [[TheGunslinger gunslinger]] making a living in the wasteland as a BountyHunter.

** President Janie Orlean is a [[GenderInvertedTrope female]] {{Trumplica}} running a [[CorruptPolitician brazenly corrupt administration]], while Peter Isherwell is a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive greedy, self-important tech CEO]] based on the worst qualities of UsefulNotes/SteveJobs and Elon Musk. Together, they serve as the main human antagonists [[spoiler:and are directly responsible for the failure of attempts to stop the comet through their own greed and stupidity. They [[TheElitesJumpShip successfully escape Earth with other elites]] on a SleeperStarship to colonize a distant planet, only to find out when they get there that it's a DeathWorld where [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty they're all promptly eaten by alien wildlife]].]]

A common form of RealPersonFic. For when the celebrities ''don’t'' survive, see CelebrityCasualty and CelebritiesHangOutInHeaven.

* As mentioned in the Comics entry above, ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' has Beta, although his pre-apocalypse career is changed from pro athlete to country music star, who performed under the name "Half Moon" (although, like his comics counterpart, his true name is never revealed).

** Creator/NicolasCage AsHimself is playable in the form of a playable Survivor.

* ''Series/TwistedMetal2023'': The show's take on Sweet Tooth from [[VideoGame/TwistedMetal the games]] is a FormerChildStar whose [[StageMom parents]] pushed him into starring on a sitcom where he found himself upstaged by his dog costar, causing him to one day snap, kill the dog in front of a live studio audience, and get sent to [[BedlamHouse Blackfield Asylum]]. When the apocalypse happened, he broke out, kidnapped his parents, and locked them in his old cell at the asylum to starve to death. Now, he's become a LargeHam showman and SerialKiller who rules the ruins of [[UsefulNotes/LasVegas Lost Vegas]], kidnapping travelers and forcing them to watch his stage show. After he successfully assaults Hoover Dam, Stu convinces him to keep going and liberate more of [[BigBad Agent Stone]]'s outposts with the promise that he'll have "fans for life" if he does so.

* ''Series/TwistedMetal2023'': The show's take on Sweet Tooth from [[VideoGame/TwistedMetal the games]] is a FormerChildStar whose [[StageMom parents]] pushed him into starring on a sitcom where he found himself upstaged by his dog costar, causing him to one day snap, kill the dog in front of a live studio audience, and get sent to [[BedlamHouse Blackfield Asylum]]. When the apocalypse happened, he broke out, kidnapped his parents, and locked them in his old cell at the asylum to starve to death. Now, he's become a LargeHam showman and SerialKiller who rules the ruins of [[UsefulNotes/LasVegas Lost Vegas]], kidnapping travelers and forcing them to watch his stage show.

** An upcoming DLC will feature Creator/NicolasCage AsHimself in the form of a playable Survivor.

* ''VideoGame/DeadIsland2'' is set in Los Angeles, and a number of the people you meet, be they alive or [[CelebrityCasualty zombified]], are former celebrities.
** Emma Jaunt is a British actress who was [[UsefulNotes/ScreamQueens known for horror movies]] before the ZombieApocalypse. She recently won a "Romero award" for a movie called ''Omen to Kill'' where she played a katana-wielding monster slayer, and in her mansion in Bel Air, one can find hanging on the walls various posters for the Kim Canaveral movies that she starred in, which seem to be TwoFistedTales-style homages to '50s horror B-movies. In real life, she's nowhere near as tough as the characters she plays, presented as a RichBitch who's [[NiceToTheWaiter rude to her Latina housekeeper Andrea]] and angry that Andrea brought her family to stay in the mansion when she and her husband tried to flee the city, and spends most of the game sulking upstairs in her room while "the help" takes charge downstairs. When Sam B, returning from the first game as a veteran survivor, arrives at the mansion, he's the one who slaps some sense into Emma and tells her that her being famous doesn't mean squat in a sealed-off city overrun by zombies.

** Amanda Styles is an influencer who uses her channel to document the ZombieApocalypse, implied to be the SoleSurvivor of the Goat Pen, a Bel Air mansion based on the real-life Hype House where a group of social media influencers lived. You encounter her on the roof of the Goat Pen filming herself (and later you) killing zombies.

** Amanda Styles is an influencer who uses her channel to document the ZombieApocalypse, implied to be the SoleSurvivor of the Goat Pen, a Bel Air mansion based on the real-life Hype House where a group of social media influencers lived. who you encounter on the roof of the Goat Pen filming herself (and later you) killing zombies.

* ''VideoGame/DeadIsland2'' is set in Los Angeles, and a number of the people you meet, be they alive or zombified, are former celebrities.

** Emma's husband Robert Steele was also an actor, the two having married for PR purposes. When they tried to escape LA, he wound up being the ZombieInfectee who brought the outbreak onto their plane and forced the military to shoot it down. His first victim aboard the plane was a woman who recognized him and tried to take a selfie with him, only for him to bite her right there.
** After the prologue, the game starts with you exploring the Bel Air mansion of a musician named Colt Swanson, which is filled with his guitars, framed album covers on the walls, and the antique officer's sword he has in a glass case. He and his wife tried to hide in the mansion's panic room to escape the zombies, but he got [[ZombieInfectee bitten]] in the process, and when you open the panic room up, you find him munching on his wife.

** Also in Bel Air, you travel through the Goat Pen, a mansion owned by a group of social media influencers in a parody of the real-life Hype House. The notes you find throughout the mansion indicate that they didn't take the outbreak seriously until it was far too late -- one of the first things you find is a whiteboard where one of the residents wrote down a script for an [[YouTuberApologyParody apology video]] telling everyone that [[ApocalypticLog they wish they got out in time instead of treating it as a joke]]. When you return to the Goat Pen later on, you encounter Amanda Styles, an influencer who used her channel to document the ZombieApocalypse and is currently filming herself (and you) killing zombies on the roof.

** Rikki is the frontman of an '80s HardRock band called Gods & Whiskey who, in true SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll fashion, decided to throw a massive "evac party" at his Beverly Hills mansion when the outbreak started, only to miss the evacuation because he got blackout drunk. Fortunately, he and his girlfriend Roxanne have several months' worth of supplies. Unfortunately, by "supplies", he means beer.