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* In ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Dave Bowman finds out everybody but himself and Frank Poole is dead]] because HAL pulled the plug on the hibernation systems. Later HAL kills Frank Poole by cutting his lifeline during an EVA before Dave can shut him down. In the end, Dave gets zapped by the Monolith and turned into the Star Child. As far as Earth is concerned, until they find out otherwise in ''Film/TwoThousandTenTheYearWeMakeContact'', literally everybody really is dead. The ''Series/RedDwarf'' premise, which is actually the TropeNamer as opposed to ''2001'', may be a ShoutOut to ''2001''.

* Film/{{Jonestown}}, where ApocalypseCult leader Jim Jones massacred over 700 of his followers in a ritual murder-suicide. Only a handful survived, in some cases by playing dead.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone'':

* ''VideoGame/WarriorsOrochi 3'' opens with every single ''Dynasty'' and ''Samurai'' character except for Ma Chao, Sima Zhao, and Hanbei Takenaka dead after the appearance of a monstrous multi-headed Hydra. The thrust of the game is to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong travel back in time and save those characters from their deaths]] in order to amass a large enough army to defeat the Hydra once and for all.

See also: TenLittleMurderVictims, LastOfHisKind, 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.

* In Franchise/TheDCU mini-series ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'', viewpoint character Norman [=McKay=] has prophetic visions telling him that this will happen to Superman. In the end [[spoiler:it happens exactly like that. Except instead of redshirts, it's an entire battlefield filled with most of the superhuman characters in the DC universe which gets hit with a nuke. There ''are'' survivors, thanks to [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]]'s HeroicSacrifice, but most of them are dead, with Superman kneeling in the ashes, more or less unharmed but ''exceptionally angry''. Kingdom Come is worth reading just for this -- it's a rare time we've ever seen Supes in a true, unhindered, out-and-out homicidal rage]].

* The first ''Comicbook/TheTransformers'' comic book starts its UnCancelled run (pictured above) with the bad guys victorious and the good guys reduced to one pacifistic medic and a bunch of scrap.
** Note that the above image has endlessly been parodied and imitated both within the official materials and fan-made works since.

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* When you arrive aboard the station in ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'', every member of the station's crew is already dead or is infested with X parasites.

** When Redcloak [[spoiler: destroys the Resistance, he kills everyone, including his own minions. [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0827.html Niu is the only one to survive]].]].

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode ''The Siege of AR-558'' ends with the main characters in addition to 10 or so soldiers alive -- out of a 150-strong unit.
** In earlier episode "Valiant", the titular ship, sister ship of "Defiant", is destroyed [[spoiler: and the only survivors are Nog, Jake, and one girl -- the rest of Red Squad dies.]]

* In ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode ''Dragon's Teeth'', The Vaadwaur, once 6 billion strong and a major power, are reduced to less then 600 -- [[spoiler: but are no less dangerous...]]

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

* The legends related to KingArthur. Only 1-7 knights (it varies between various accounts) survive Arthur's final battle at Camlann. There are no survivors on the opposing side.

** In the second-to-last episode of the series, Chuck has already destroyed every other universe in the multiverse. He then wipes out all life on the remaining universe, leaving the Winchester Brothers and Jack Kline as the last surviving mortals in all of creation. Fortunately, once Jack becomes the new god, he restores everything to what it once was.

* ''ComicBook/Bone'': After the Hooded One unleashes ghost circles on the entire Valley, Thorn, the Bone Cousins and especially Gran'ma Ben believe themselves to be the last survivors not trapped. They're subsequently proven wrong in the worst way imaginable, as the Hooded One is also alive, and an ever present threat to the heroes.

* The end of the Wildstorm series ''ComicBook/{{Stormwatch}}'' has almost the entire team of superheroes killed by [[spoiler: aliens]]

* The end of the Wildstorm series ''ComicBook/{{Stormwatch}}'' has almost the entire team of superheroes killed by [[spoiler:
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* The end of the Wildstorm series ''ComicBook/{{Stormwatch}}'' has almost the entire team of superheroes killed by [[spoiler: Franchise/{{Alien}}s]]

* Turned UpToEleven in the prequel novel ''Literature/TheMagiciansNephew'' when Jadis used [[BrownNote The Deplorable Word]] to destroy ''all living things in the world'' except herself.