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* ''VideoGame/ImmortalFenyxRising'' begins with a trireme carrying a squad of greek soldiers crashing on the shore of the Golden Isle after a storm, with the protagonist, a young shield-bearer called Fenyx, as the only survivor.

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* ''VideoGame/ImmortalFenyxRising'' ''VideoGame/ImmortalsFenyxRising'' begins with a trireme carrying a squad of greek soldiers crashing on the shore of the Golden Isle after a storm, with the protagonist, a young shield-bearer called Fenyx, as the only survivor.

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* ''VideoGame/BravelyDefaultII'': Seth begins the game as a sailor who was washed over the side of his ship and drowned during a storm, but the Wind Crystal identified him as a [[TheChosenOne Hero of Light]] and brought him BackFromTheDead. He washes ashore on the coast of Excillant, a continent he's never visited before, and befriends a princess called Gloria who agrees to recruit him as a bodyguard.

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* ''VideoGame/BravelyDefaultII'': Seth begins the game as a sailor who was washed over the side of his ship and drowned during a storm, but the Wind Crystal identified him as a [[TheChosenOne [[TheChosenMany Hero of Light]] and brought him BackFromTheDead. He washes ashore on the coast of Excillant, a continent he's never visited before, and befriends a princess called Gloria who agrees to recruit him as a bodyguard.


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* ''VideoGame/ImmortalFenyxRising'' begins with a trireme carrying a squad of greek soldiers crashing on the shore of the Golden Isle after a storm, with the protagonist, a young shield-bearer called Fenyx, as the only survivor.
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* ''VideoGame/TheForest'' has the plane-crash version, with the only survivors being the player character and his son, who is promptly kidnapped.
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* Each session of ''VideoGame/DontStarve: [[DownloadableContent Shipwrecked]]'' starts with your chosen character being woken up on a beach by a talking parrot after their ship wrecks in it. You can salvage what remains of it for some useful materials.
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* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': In episode 2, Galadriel finds a bunch of shipwrecked people on a raft. On the raft, she meets the mysterious Halbrand and they both become the sole survivors after a SeaMonster attacks the raft they were on. Luckily for them, they are saved by the Numenorian ships.
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Depending on where the shipwreck happens, it can also be used to generate a ClosedCircle situation, locking the protagonist into an area, such as a DesertedIsland, and if the latter, also possibly leading to a {{Robinsonade}} plot. The protagonist likely has [[YouWakeUpOnABeach wakes up on a beach]] to give the author an even easier starting point for his story.

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Depending on where the shipwreck happens, it can also be used to generate a ClosedCircle situation, locking the protagonist into an area, such as a DesertedIsland, and if the latter, also possibly leading to a {{Robinsonade}} plot. The protagonist likely has [[YouWakeUpOnABeach wakes up on a beach]] to give the author an even easier starting point for his story.
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* ''VideoGame/BravelyDefaultII'': Seth begins the game as a sailor who was washed over the side of his ship and drowned during a storm, but the Wind Crystal identified him as a [[TheChosenOne Hero of Light]] and brought him BackFromTheDead. He washes ashore on the coast of Excillant, a continent he's never visited before, and befriends a princess called Gloria who agrees to recruit him as a bodyguard.

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* This is a staple of the {{Robinsonade}} genre; going all the way back to ''Literature/RobinsonCrusoe'', where Crusoe spends a large part of the book salvaging from the wreckage of the ship he was the only survivor from.
* ''Literature/TheSwissFamilyRobinson'', as well as the [[Film/SwissFamilyRobinson 1960 film]], begins with a family of six ([[AdaptedOut originally]]) being stranded on an island probably in the East Indies after their ship founders in a storm. In the film, they tried to use the storm to evade pirates, but the original book just seems to be a case of bad luck. Thankfully for the latter, their ship survives basically intact with all their supplies, so it's a downplayed example.



* ''Literature/TheSwissFamilyRobinson'', as well as the [[Film/SwissFamilyRobinson 1960 film]], begins with a family of six ([[AdaptedOut originally]]) being stranded on an island probably in the East Indies after their ship founders in a storm. In the film, they tried to use the storm to evade pirates, but the original book just seems to be a case of bad luck. Thankfully for the latter, their ship survives basically intact with all their supplies, so it's a downplayed example.

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