History Main / TheAloner

** Subverted by Galen Tyrol. Driven half-mad by Humans and Cylons alike, he settles in a dreary, desolate part of the world ([[spoiler:implied to be Scotland]]) so he never has to see another living being ever again.

* In ''VideoGame/PotionPermit'', Matheo lives in a house farthest south of the outskirts of Moonbury Town and never visits the town itself because of his dislike for you for being a Chemist. You have to actively seek him out if you want to bond with him.

* ''{{VideoGame/Proteus}}'' drops you on a remote island in the middle of the ocean with no companionship, except for some animals who flee at the sight of you. All you can do is walk around the island and check out [[SceneryPorn the gorgeous scenery]].

** Also, Henry Benis in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E9Probe7OverAndOut Time Enough at Last]]".

** The protagonist of the episode [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_Is_Everybody%3F "Where Is Everybody?"]]
** Also, Henry Benis in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Enough_At_Last "Time Enough At Last."]]
** Heavily implied to be the fate of Patrick Thomas [=McNulty=] in "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Kind_of_a_Stopwatch A Kind of a Stopwatch]]" and probably loads of others. The show was awful fond of this trope.

* Number Five in ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'', after accidentally time-warping to some time after the apocalypse. He claims to have found others, but considering the only one we ever "meet" is a mannequin he names Delores, that claim is dubious at best.

* ''Literature/IslandOfTheBlueDolphins'': A Native American girl gets trapped, alone, on the island her people used to inhabit, but then left due to the unscrupulous Aleuts (led by a Russian) that came to visit them and ended up killing off many of their men. [[spoiler:Even after she gets off the island, it's revealed that the very American boat that took the natives to the mainland got smashed in a storm and nobody survived, so even afterwards she's "alone".]]

* In the Literature/{{Nightside}} novel ''Something from the Nightside'', a timeslip reveals a future where the immortal Razor Eddie is the only surviving human.

* The title character in ''Literature/EnochArden,'' while shipwrecked on a DesertedIsland. When he is rescued after more than ten years, he hardly remembers how to speak:

* ''Literature/IslandOfTheBlueDolphins''. A Native American girl gets trapped, alone, on the island her people used to inhabit, but then left due to the unscrupulous Aleuts (led by a Russian) that came to visit them and ended up killing off many of their men. [[spoiler:Even after she gets off the island, it's revealed that the very American boat that took the natives to the mainland got smashed in a storm and nobody survived, so even afterwards she's "alone".]]

* The short story "Descendant" by [[Creator/IainBanks Iain M. Banks]], from the [[Literature/TheCulture Culture]] novella ''The State of the Art.'' An injured, shipwrecked soldier must hike a thousand kilometers to reach an outpost with only his damaged spacesuit's AI for company.
* Snowman in ''Literature/OryxAndCrake'' by Margaret Atwood. He is the sole survivor after a virus wipes out the human race and his sanity is definitely debatable.

* Used in ''Literature/SmallGods'' as villain [[SinisterMinister Vorbis']] personal hell (see page quote). The lack of other people isn't the true hell for Vorbis, though... [[WhatYouAreInTheDark it's being trapped in his own head]].
* ''Literature/IAmLegend'' has this pretty bad. Robert Neville [[spoiler:commits suicide while awaiting execution, after realizing that a single man in a world full of vampires is the true monster.]]
* Allen Steele's ''Literature/{{Coyote}}'', in which a group of political dissidents escape on an interstellar spaceship, has exactly one passenger pulled out of hibernation en route. He can't go back in. The destination is centuries away. He goes mad for a while, then spends the rest of his life painting murals all over the ship.
* Thomas Glavinic's novel ''Literature/NightWork'', in which Jonas, a resident of Vienna, wakes up one day to find himself the only person in existence on the whole planet. Even animals and insects are gone. With no one to interact with, he turns on himself.

* ''Literature/TheMysteriousIsland'' by Creator/JulesVerne has Ayrton, who, after 12 years alone on an island, is quite an extreme example of that.

* William F. Nolan's story "The Underdweller" has its protagonist as the last man (presumably, at least - we never get a global perspective), but there's something else wandering around that he works hard to avoid.

* "All the Time in the World" by Arthur C. Clarke. The main character isn't technically alone, but [[spoiler: he's wearing a time-accelerator which isolates him because he perceives everyone else as essentially motionless, and if he turns it off, he's dead.]]
* ''Literature/TheMartian'' by Andy Weir. Due to a freak accident, Mark Watney is the only person on the entire planet of Mars, and the next expedition is years away. For the first couple of months, it never even occurs to anyone back on Earth that he might still be alive. His log entries are, largely, almost defiantly upbeat - he nearly kills himself (accidentally) several times, he's facing seemingly impossible odds that he's well equipped to calculate and appreciate, but in spite of it all he mostly keeps working on whatever problem is in front of him because the alternative (running away, screaming at the sky, crying like a baby) would just waste time and, eventually, leave him facing the exact same problem, only probably worse. PlayedForLaughs when [=NASA=] realises he's up there alive, alone, and thinks that everyone thinks he's dead: