History Main / FarSideIsland

* Showed up in an episode of ''{{Jimmy Two-Shoes}}''. The only inhabitant was a [[EverythingsWickedWithWeasels weavil]] Lucius had imprisoned there.

* Desert Island Dick from TheTopper was just a whole comic strip about this trope on guy lives on a deserted island by himself and never seems to be able to get off or starve. He is friends with the wildlife though.

* In ''WapsiSquare'' Monica finds a small tropical island to which she and the golem girls can poit for a bit of peace and quiet. Except that [[http://wapsisquare.com/comic/helping-me/ the last time Bud went there]] she found something else [[spoiler:and the island got blown to bits]].

* In WapsiSquare Monica finds a small tropical island to which she and the golem girls can poit for a bit of peace and quiet. Except that [[http://wapsisquare.com/comic/helping-me/ the last time Bud went there]] she found something else [[spoiler:and the island got blown off the map]].

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A visual trope: a DesertedIsland[[hottip:* :And also, by loose definition, a desert island]] that is circular with a radius of two metres or so and a single palm tree in the centre. Usually has a single inhabitant. If there's more than one, they'll either be constantly arguing or one will be slowly driving the other insane in a comedic manner. Often features a {{message in a bottle}}. Should not be confused with seemingly deserted islands with a resort on the far side from where the characters land.

* At the very end of SupermanReturns, [[spoiler: Lex Luthor]] is shown to be stranded on a FarSideIsland because they ran out of fuel for the helicopter.

[[MST3KMantra Please don't think about]] [[FridgeLogic where the lone inhabitant is getting enough food and fresh water to live long enough to grow]] [[BadassBeard that spectacular beard]].

* In ''{{Adventurers}}'', Karn and Ardam [[http://www.adventurers-comic.com/d/0400.html somehow wind up on one of these]] after the BigBad accidentally causes TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. It turns out to be a movie set, somehow.

** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'' has a number of these, most notably one at TheHub with a castaway on it. It's also notable as part of what is probably [[ThatOneSidequest the most frustrating sidequest]] of the game, with two different spins on SuperDrowningSkills.

* There's a tiny island in the background of one section of Keelhaul Key in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor''. There's a palm tree there, and if you hit it with a hammer, a Coconut falls out for you to collect and exchange for the [[MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga Chuckola Cola]] Flavio has on him, if that's where you are in the story. There's a pipe linking it to the main island for "easy" possible access.

* ''{{Pirates Of The Caribbean}}'': Jack and Elizabeth are stranded on an island that looks like this, but is quite a bit larger.

* In ''{{Adventurers}}!'', Karn and Ardam [[http://www.adventurers-comic.com/d/0400.html somehow wind up on one of these]] after the BigBad accidentally causes TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. It turns out to be a movie set, somehow.

* There's a tiny island in the background of one section of Keelhaul Key in ''PaperMario: The Thousand-Year Door''. There's a palm tree there, and if you hit it with a hammer, a Coconut falls out for you to collect and exchange for the [[MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga Chuckola Cola]] Flavio has on him, if that's where you are in the story. There's a pipe linking it to the main island for "easy" possible access.

** ''SuperMarioSunshine'' has a number of these, most notably one at TheHub with a castaway on it. It's also notable as part of what is probably [[ThatOneSidequest the most frustrating sidequest]] of the game, with two different spins on SuperDrowningSkills.

* New Zealand kids' show ''What Now?'' [[{{parody}} parodied]] this by having the cast marooned on a traffic island.

* Some perfect examples of far side islands (minus the weird colors) appear in the background to the side of the island with the crystal tower in KingsQuest II. Another far side island becomes an actual walkable terrain and part of the story in KQIV.

* Gahan Wilson did a bunch of tragic 'stock cartoons' for the ''NationalLampoon'', including a little desert island with a bleached skeleton on it.

** ''Super Mario Sunshine'' has a number of these, most notably one at TheHub with a castaway on it. It's also notable as part of what is probably the most frustrating sidequest of the game, with two different spins on SuperDrowningSkills.

* ''TalesOfMonkeyIsland'' has a few of these, especially in Episode 2. When Guybrush encounters one of these for the first time, he [[LampshadeHanging lampshades this]] with his remark "I didn't know tiny islands like this really existed."