You Are Not Alone in Live-Action Films.
- About Schmidt, which shows Warren Schmidt struggling to navigate retired life after his wife's death, ends with his coming home to an empty house, despairing at the idea that he's not had a single positive impact on anyone or anything. But among the piled-up mail is a letter from Ndugu, the African child he's sponsoring and has written letters to - or rather his care-taker, as Ndugu is illiterate. The letter tells Warren about how well Ndugu is doing, and thanking him for making such a difference in the young boy's life with his donations.
- The Abyss (1989) has a perfect example of this. Bud Brigman is doing a suit dive more than 20,000 feet below the surface of the ocean and is suffering from pressure effects (tremors and vision problems) as well as the cold. His ex-wife Lindsey is on the radio trying to encourage him, with assistance from the other crew members.Lindsey: You have to listen to my voice. You have to try. Concentrate, all right? Just listen to my voice. Please. I know how alone you feel. Alone in all that cold blackness. But I'm there in the dark with you. Oh, Bud. You're not alone. I'm with you. I'll always be with you, Bud. I promise that.
Catfish: How you doin', pardner? You still with us? Come back. You talk to us, buddy boy.
Lindsey: Bud? You hangin' in there? Talk to me, Bud. Are you okay? - Avengers: Endgame: Captain America prepares to face Thanos and his entire army with nothing more than his wrecked shield, his allies being beaten down by the mad titan. Suddenly he hears Sam Wilson's voice: "On your left", and numerous portals open and almost every hero saved from the decimation by the Avengers, along with entire armies, step out for battle.
- There's a perfect example also in Full Metal Jacket - the speech Hartman makes to the platoon on Graduation Day from Basic Training:Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Marines. You're part of a brotherhood. From now on until the day you die, wherever you are, every Marine is your brother. Most of you will go to Vietnam. Some of you will not come back. But always remember this: Marines die. That's what we're here for. But the Marine Corps lives forever. And that means YOU live forever.
- This is what George Bailey comes to realize by the end of It's a Wonderful Life: "No man is a failure, so long as he has friends."
- The Lord of the Rings
- From The Two Towers when Gandalf and the exiled Éomer relieve the siege of Helm's Deep.
- The Rohirrim repeat this trick in The Return of the King when they arrive to break siege at Minas Tirith.Aragorn: Gondor Calls for Aid!Théoden: And Rohan will answer. Muster the Rohirrim!
- Averted in The Fellowship of the Ring when Frodo asks Galadriel for advice.Frodo: I cannot do this alone.Galadriel: You are a Ring-bearer Frodo. To bear a Ring of Power, is to be alone.
- And then Sam proves her wrong and plays it straight, refusing to let him leave for Mordor on his own. And let's not even mention all the crap they go through together.Sam: I can't carry it for you. But I can carry you!
- In The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Galadriel says the trope word for word as she rescues Gandalf from Dol Guldur.
- After the kids in Jurassic Park are left alone in the car by Gennaro and attacked by a T.Rex:Grant: Listen! Lex, I'm right here. I'm going to look after you, but I have to go help your brother, so I want you to stay right here and wait for me.Lex: He left us... he left us!Grant: But that's not what I'm gonna do.
- The Specials: Done a few times, with different heroes, after the Strobe disbands the Specials.
- Amok gets this talk from Power Chick, at a bar with Alien Orphan and Mr. Smart. Then Alien Orphan gets them all dancing.
- Eight gives a very literal variation of this in a diner to the Strobe. Eight is literally a hive-mind in eight bodies, so three of him stay in the Bahamas while the other five sit and give him the talk about how the Specials need each other, even if the world doesn't need them. He stops partway through to mention how nice the sunrise is where he is in the Bahamas.
- The next day, the Strobe inverts the trope. He tells his wife, Ms. Indestructible, that he plans to punish her for her affair by staying married, shutting himself off even more to trap her in an emotionless marriage.
- Superman: The MovieLara: "He'll be isolated. Alone."
Jor-El holds up a single green crystal.
Jor-El: "He will not be alone. He will NEVER be alone..."- This becomes a meaningful echo in Superman Returns when Superman is talking to his own superpowered son:
Superman: "You'll feel like an outcast, but you'll never be alone". - DC Extended Universe:
- In Man of Steel Zod broadcasts this message to Earth with the intention of reaching Kal/Clark/Superman. While his intentions may have been hostile, as far as he knew, Kal may have been eager to join Zod and live among other Kryptonians.
- In Zack Snyder's Justice League, when Bruce Wayne and Barry Allen go to the Central City airport, there is a big billboard for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention with a "You Are Not Alone" message. Director Zack Snyder supports this foundation since the death of his daughter Autumn back in 2017.
- Star Wars:
- A New Hope: Even after Luke's wingman (Wedge) had to pull out, his best friend (Biggs) has been killed, and even Artoo is hit and unresponsive, in the final moments of the trench run, when any other person would have felt completely and utterly alone, he hears his not-so-dead mentor, Kenobi whispering in his ear, reminding him that "The Force will be with you. Always." And Han Solo and Chewbacca show up. Coincidence? I think not.
- The Force Awakens: Finn, in a symbolic act, comes back for Rey, proving that she is not alone and does indeed have people who care for her, even if those people are not her parents.
- The Last Jedi: Villainous version. Kylo Ren gives Rey a "The Reason You Suck" Speech detailing how her parents were "nobodies" who abandoned her, and she has no special destiny. No one in the galaxy cares for her... except for him. One of the reasons this comes across as very genuine is because Rey has spent most of the movie trying to redeem Kylo despite his misdeeds, and this is him reciprocating. Unfortunately, he's saying this as part of a We Can Rule Together speech, and the first step is to let the First Order finish killing the Resistance.
- Earlier in the movie, he says the exact words to her after she recounts her cave vision, and she tells him he isn't alone, either.
- The Rise of Skywalker:
- As the battle against the Final Order's fleet is starting to go downhill, Poe starts lamenting that there aren't enough resistance ships left. Cue Lando stating "But there are more of us" over comms, and when Poe moves to look at the "jump point" the resistance ships arrived from, he sees every single non-imperial ship in the entire galaxy poised to enter the fray as a single, contiguous fleet.
- Rey, in the final confrontation against Palpatine, is derided by her evil grandfather as being all alone. At that moment, all the Jedi of the past begin to speak to her and grant her their strength through the Force to finally defeat the Sith once and for all.
- Star Trek:Kirk: "My friends, I can't ask you to go any further. Dr. McCoy and I have to do this. The rest of you do not."Script: [beat]Chekov: "Admiral, we're losing precious time."Sulu: "What course please, Admiral?"Kirk: "Mr. Scott?"Scotty: "I'd be grateful Admiral, if you'd give the word."Kirk (looks at them all, humbled) "Gentlemen... may the wind be at our backs. Stations please."
- At the beginning of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Kirk tells Spock and McCoy that he knows he'll die alone, leading to the following heartwarming moment near the end of the film:
Kirk: I thought I was going to die.Spock: Not possible. You were never alone.- In Star Trek (2009), Spock decides to infiltrate Nero's ship, since he has the best chance of succeeding since as a Vulcan he's genetically closer to Romulans. Kirk emphatically announces that he's going with him.
- In Star Trek Into Darkness, after the Enterprise is about to fall out of orbit after getting pummelled by the Vengence, Spock orders the bridge crew to abandon ship while he tries to bring the ship under his control. After he repeats his order, Sulu answers, "With All Due Respect, sir... we're not going anywhere!"
- In Return To Paradise, an American man in Malaysia is sentenced to death due to the absurd amount of hash he had on him, unless his two friends return from the States, accept responsibility, and serve time in Malaysian jail. One man agrees to face punishment and the judge is moved by this nobility into lightening the sentence. When a reporter breaks the story to the press and maligns the legal system in Malaysia, she presses the judge's Hanging Button. As the original man is led crying to the gallows, his returning friend delivers a You Are Not Alone speech which helps him die with remarkable composure.I'm here, Lewis, I'm right here. You're not alone, Lewis. Look at me, Lewis. You're not alone, Lewis. Look at me. You're not alone. I'm here. Look at me. See me, Lewis. You're not alone. I'm right here. I'm right here, Lewis, I'm right here. I see you, Lewis. I'm right here. Lewis, you are not alone right now. I'm right here. You are not alone, Lewis. I see you. I see you, Lewis. I'm right here. You're not alone. You are not alone, Lewis!
- The Terminator: John Connor gives Kyle Reese some words of wisdom and encouragement to say to his mother in the past, which admit that she's got tough times ahead of her, fearing Judgement Day, but reminds her that, in the future, he'll be there to shoulder the burden too.
- Showcased at the end of The Breakfast Club, when everyone puts aside their differences, realizes that they're all not so different, and all become friends. The song they dance to is even called "We Are Not Alone."
- Harry Potter
- Though it isn't outright said in the book, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Dumbledore says this to Harry a couple days after he returns from the graveyard, and to many fans it was one of the more redeeming moments of GoF's portrayal of Dumbledore.
- Taken a step further with Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. In the novel, the reaction of Harry towards the adults withholding information from him and being an outcast at school is anger, feeling like he was being treated with kid gloves, which was not overly well-received by fans. In the film, Harry's reaction is one of sadness and isolation, feeling like everyone is intentionally distancing themselves from him, and Voldemort tries to exploit it during his attempted Mind Rape of Harry during the climax, making him think of the people he has lost and will lose. Harry's mind is able to remember all the good people in his life who have helped him, and realizing he is not alone forces out the Dark Lord.
- Expressed in several forms by different characters in X-Men: First Class, most directly when Charles Xavier says this verbatim to Erik Lehnsherr after he rescues the latter from drowning.
- Also invoked when a young Charles meets a young Raven.
Charles:I thought I was alone in the world... But here you are. - In the first Spider-Man film, debris-hurling New Yorkers openly taunt the Green Goblin as they invoke this trope for Spidey.
- Subverted in the Sequel, when the crowd in the train Spidey just saved realized he's a kid and he has passed out, the bystanders block Doctor Octopus from getting to Spiderman. Doc Ock pushes them aside without a fight.
- The conclusion of Revenge of the Nerds did this collectively, as the college's outcasts call for everyone else who's ever felt picked on to join them on the field, and every non-jock on the campus does so.
- Will Smith's character uses this in I Am Legend, during his daily radio broadcasts.
- The song "More Than A Band" from Lemonade Mouth exemplies this.
- In Conan the Barbarian (1982), Conan is saved from crucifixion and revived by his friends whom he'd previously left behind. His lover, Valeria, promises that she'll always be with him and even return from the dead to aid him if necessary. Later on in the film she makes good on her promise, returning from the afterlife to save him when he's about to be killed by a foe.Valeria: All the gods they can not sever us. If I were dead and you still fighting for life I would come back from the Abyss, back from the pit of Hell, to fight at your side.
- Bad Boys II: "We ride together, we die together. Bad Boys for life. We'll just have to do it ourselves." Which is immediately followed by:"You look like you're about to do something stupid. I'm in."
- The Amazing Spider-Man has this moment:The Lizard: Poor Peter Parker. No mother, no father, no uncle; you're all alone!
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Captain Stacy: He's not alone. - The final song in Into the Woods is this to Jack and Red after their parents are killed.
- In Airheads, SWAT leader Carl Mace tries to humiliate Chazz in front of the people supporting him by revealing that Chazz was a huge geek back in high school. When Chazz owns up to it, thinking his plan has been undone, several people admit to their share of geekiness in a show of solidarity.Metalhead 1: I played D&D, too!
Lemmy: I was editor of the school magazine!
Metalhead 2: I used to wear corduroy pants!
Metalhead 3: I used to masturbate... constantly!
Girl 1: We're with you, Chazz!
Girl 2: I want your body! - Now You See It...: When Danny is scared about having to prove his powers to everyone, which will end with him either being seen as a freak with supernatural abilities or a manipulative liar, Allison admits she doesn't understand how he really feels, but that she does understand what being an outcast is like, and promises that she'll be what he really needs- the one person who will really believe in him.
- Subverted in Interstellar. Dr Mann tells Cooper that he's not alone as he is dying of asphyxiation from a Broken Faceplate. It was Mann who broke it while trying to murder Cooper, and this is just a way of easing his conscience. Mann ends up leaving anyway, rather than watch Cooper die.
- In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Sam Wilson embodies this trope in regards to his relationship with Captain America. When they first meet, he recognizes and relates to Cap's Fish out of Temporal Water status through his experiences as a veterans' counselor, and invites him to a support group meeting, after which they have an honest, open conversation about how close their experiences with war are, regardless of their individual circumstances. Later, when Cap and Black Widow seek him out after they are branded fugitives, he takes them in, proving himself as The Heart:Natasha: Everyone we know is trying to kill us.Sam: ...Not everyone.
- Zack Snyder's Justice League: After recruiting Barry Allen, Bruce Wayne drives by a billboard for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention that says this trope verbatim. This instance is laced with heavy amounts of Reality Subtext, as the suicide of Snyder's daughter was what pushed him to leave the project in the first place, and the director has been a vocal supporter of the AFSP in the years since.
- The climax of Guardians of the Galaxy (2014): Peter grabs the Infinity Stone from the villain, and its power begins to destroy him. The other guardians individually make the choice to grab onto Peter, sharing the power with him, preventing him and each other from dying, and allowing them to use the Stone's power against the villain - though for all they knew, they were choosing to die together in that moment.
- Compassion and empathy for others is what ultimately saves the day in Everything Everywhere All at Once. The villain and, eventually, the protagonist have slipped into bored nihilism due to being able to perceive every facet of the multiverse simultaneously, surmising from this that "nothing matters". It's only by Evelyn witnessing her husband Waymond's attitude towards living that she is able to adopt the same philosophy herself, which is what helps her reconnect with her daughter Joy, drawing her back from the brink of suicide. On the way to this final encounter, Evelyn "fights" Joy's followers by bringing up what she had learned about them and freely sharing it, solidifying their human connections.
