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* The Battle of Yavin in the first ''StarWars'' film ended with all the on-screen rebel pilots except Han, Luke, Wedge and a Y-wing pilot dead, with all of the dead pilots having only been introduced so they could fight in the battle. However, the ExpandedUniverse continues to write more and more just-off-screen characters into the battle.

* In episode III of ''StarWars'', all of the (appearing onscreen) Jedi are killed except for Yoda and Obi Wan.
* In ''TheIncredibles'', Mr. Incredible hacks into Syndrome's computer to discover that variations of the giant robot have killed off many former superheroes-- perhaps ''all'' former superheroes except for Frozone, Elastigirl, and Mr. Incredible himself. Genocide makes for a fairly bleak subject in a family-friendly movie.
* In Disney's ''{{Mulan}}'', the protagonists are journeying through a mountain pass to unite with the rest of the Chinese army, only to find that the army and the villagers they were protecting have all been slaughtered, including Lee Shang's father. Later, the same thing happens to the antagonists after a devastating avalanche kills all but six of the Huns.

* In adaptations, this is a way of enforcing MinimalistCast on a production that is normally chock full of LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters. For example, ''GIJoeRetaliation''.

* In ''[[{{Homer}} The Odyssey]]'', Odysseus's ship sank, and only he survived to spend seven years with Calypso.

'''Holly:''' Everybody, Dave. [[TropeNamer Everybody's dead, Dave.]]

The guy who appeared in that one scene to offer advice, dead. CaptainEthnic, dead. TheAce, the IdealHero, the BadassNormal? Dead, all of them. Wait, what about that NighInvulnerable guy? In the end, even ''he'' was mortal. Sure, life might be going on elsewhere. Greece was still populated when [[Literature/TheOdyssey Odysseus lost his crew]]. But for the person who survived, everyone is gone -- they are alone. For now, at least. Maybe, though, [[HumanitysWake there really are no people left]] and you are officially AfterTheEnd -- the [[LastOfHisKind last group of survivors]]. Have fun with a [[TheAloner lifetime of isolation!]]

When used to conclude a story, the idea is a [[{{Tragedy}} tragic]] ending, but still allows the main characters to move on to the next adventure and try harder next time. When used as a story setup, expect the [[SoleSurvivor sole survivor]] to cope with SurvivorsGuilt.

* "The Two Doctors": Everyone the Doctor and Sarah Jane meet dies.
** Let us not forget "Revelation of the Daleks."

* The AU movie for ''KamenRiderFaiz'', Paradise Lost. The number of humans alive doesn't even get close to the five-digit mark. At the start.

-->'''Gen 19:17 (NRSV):''' "When they had brought them outside, they[[hottip:*: 'he' in Septuagint/Syriac/Vulgate]] said 'Flee for your life; do not look back or stop anywhere in the Plain; flee to the hills, or else you will be consumed.'" End quote. [[ReadTheFreakingManual The speaker is an angel of the Lord.]]

** Not only that, but we're informed that [[TearJerker she might never get there]]. [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch Contrary to popular belief, she is not banned out of Heaven for liking lipstick or attending parties,]] but rather because [[SelfServingMemory she refused to believe they really did go to Narnia, believing (or more likely pretending to) that it was just a silly game they would play.]] Essentially she forgot what was important to her or what's real and replaced it with meaningless fancies. C.S. Lewis left it up to our own interpretation of Susan's personallity wether she would find her way again.

* ''The Commander's Daughter'' by Y. Jakovlev is set during the siege of Brest Fortress. At the end, every named charachter is dead, except the heroine's mother (imprisoned by enemy) and the heroine herself, who makes an UnexplainedRecovery, somehow surviving the whole mess (her prototypes also survived, but in-story this less explainable than in RealLife).

* Archeology [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory seems to suggest]] that there was a period around the last Ice Age where the entire human population got whittled down to only a few ''thousand'' people. You can just imagine the number of deaths involved.

* This is your character's BackStory if you select the "Sole Survivor" and "Colonist" backgrounds in ''MassEffect''. For bonus points, your character can have BOTH. And then BioWare had a lot of fun with this trope in the sequel:

** Subverted: In the worst ending of the game, Shepard's entire team and crew dies but it looks like Shepard him/herself will survive... and then s/he falls to his death.

** Played straight: ...thus, leaving Joker the sole (organic) survivor of the Suicide Mission.

** ''{{Quake}}'', the game's SpiritualSuccessor, has a similar premise.

* The Mexican Standoff in ''ReservoirDogs'' ends up with [[spoiler:everyone in the room dead or near dead except for heavily wounded Mr White, mortally wounded Mr Orange, and Mr. Pink who promptly makes off with the diamonds (and gets arrested). Immediately after, Mr. White shoots Mr. Orange through the head and is shot dead by the police. NOW everybody's dead, Mr. Pink.]]

* In ''InglouriousBasterds'', [[spoiler: Only three members of the original ensemble survive.]]

* Markus Zusak's ''Literature/TheBookThief'' ends with the entire street where Liesel lives with her foster family being bombed to rubble by the American planes. ''Everybody dies,'' except for Liesel, who happened to be lurking in the basement, reading a book, Alex Steiner, who was working for the German Army as a tailor, [[spoiler:and Max, who was in a concentration camp at the time]]. The only things keeping this from being a DiabolusExMachina are that 1. The narrator is Death himself ("I do not wear a cloak with a hood unless it is chilly"), and 2. Since the prologue, the narrator has been informing the audience of how everyone is going to die. ("A fact about Rudy Steiner: he did not deserve to die the way that he did.") and 3. The bombings were plenty foreshadowed themselves. Saves this book from being thrown at the wall of many a reader's corner.

** An early fan sub of the series put a disclaimer on the second to last episode that said "[[SnicketWarningLabel If you want this series to have a happy ending, stop watching here.]]" Never has a better synopsis of a final episode been written.
*** It was the third to last episode: "A friendly warning from the team: This is the end of happiness in Saikano. If you would prefer the anime to have a happy end, consider stopping here and pretending there are no more episodes. Continuing will only bring misery and pain. You have been warned..."

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' is infamous for frequently killing off protagonists near the end of each arc. It's especially prevalent at the end of the sixth arc [[spoiler: where * everyone* on the entire planet, * including* all but one of the protagonists who wasn't even the main focus of the story and the Big Bad, have been killed off]]. Thankfully [[spoiler: most of them get better]].

* The book ''TheRoad'' by CormacMcCarthy is about a father and son as they travel south during what is suspected to be a nuclear winter. The father and son are all they have left.

* This is the way ''TheSecretGarden'' ''opens'', oddly enough. Mary Lennox wakes up to find that her house is completely empty and silent. She is found a few minutes later by two soldiers, who proceed to tell her that her parents and everyone else in the household has died of cholera.

* ''AsurasWrath'': [[spoiler:Mithra]] is the only character with a name left alive by the end of the game.

* People die all the time in ''Manga/DragonBall'', but it is taken to its most extreme near the end of the Buu Saga. After previously taking out [[DepopulationBomb most of the humans on Earth]], then soon after a large chunk of the supporting cast, Kid Buu nearly finishes the job by taking out [[EarthShatteringKaboom the Earth itself]]. By the time the final battle begins, Goku and Hercule/Mr. Satan are the only 2 residents of Earth left alive. [[DeathIsCheap Everyone gets better, of course (Earth included!)]]

** According to Zaeed Massani's stories, this trope happens to him every Tuesday.

* When the Collectors kidnap the crew in VideoGame/MassEffect2, this is definitely the feeling when you walk around the empty ''Normandy.'' Yeoman Kelly telling you about the messages at your private terminal, the officers in the crew quarters concerned about their families, the cook, the doctor, ThoseTwoGuys down in Engineering... All part of the ship's atmosphere and suddenly gone. [[spoiler:And depending on how fast you head through the Omega 4 relay, they could really become dead.]]

* Many of the NPCs in TreasureOfTheRudra die out around day 10 [[spoiler: Due to Sodom's Moonlight. The ones who are smart enough stay inside, away from getting fried by it. The Residents of the Netherworld are completely safe aside from the wandering souls who return to Gafu.]]

See also: TenLittleMurderVictims, LastOfHisKind, LastStarfighter, DwindlingParty and OnlyTheLeadsGetAHappyEnding. Compare and contrast: TotalPartyKill, KillEmAll, and EverybodyLives. Compare PartyScattering, where the same feeling of abandonment is invoked for each main character separately, but without any of them dying.

* ''TheLastStarfighter'' features this exchange between protagonist Alex and his alien navigator Grig:

* ''FanFic/LastOneStanding'' contains a particularly [[TearJerker heartbreaking]] moment when http://www.fimfiction.net/story/72998/last-one-standingTwilight Sparkle suddenly realizes that she really is going to die,]] just like all her friends before her.

* ''{{Bastion}}'' has only four surviving Caelondians trying to undo The Calamity. [[spoiler: until Zulf finds out exactly what the Calamity was ''supposed'' to do...]]

*** [[spoiler:Or at least, this is what he thought. (Un)fortunately, his best friend survived-[[BigBad but people are ''wishing'' that he ''had'' died.]]]]