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== [[Literature]] ==
* Arthur and Trillian in ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' are the only two humans left - for a while at least.
* It's somewhat understated, but this forms part of Harry's bond with Ginny in the ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' series—she is the only other person he knows who understands how it feels to have been possessed by Voldemort.
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* Angel and Spike in Season 5 of ''[[Angel]]'' - they have a shared history as well as being the only two vampires with souls in the world.
* Lister and Rimmer in ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' (series 1-7) are the only two left who remember Red Dwarf before the accident. And Lister and Kochanski in series 7 are the only two humans.
* Odo from ''[[Deep Space Nine]]'' is sort of like this, yearning to find his people, until he does and learns they're dicks (although this doesn't stop him wishing he ''could'' rejoin them). This trope is also used as the basis for the bond that ends up forming between him and Garak who, as the only Cardassian on the station, also yearns to be rejoined with his people. His separation from his people is entirely different to Odo's (for a start it [[Mysterious Past|possibly]] may be his own fault he's in exile) but the knowledge that they'd both do almost anything to rejoin their people and that there's a line they can't bring themselves to cross (no-one is more surprised to learn [[Torture Technician|Garak]] has one of these lines than [[Hoist by His Own Petard|Garak]] himself) in pursuit of this desire which keeps them separated from their kin culminates in a [[Torture Always Works|stunning scene]] that should have driven them apart forever but which instead is the [[Despair Event Horizon|basis]] out of which their friendship forms. The look on Garak's face when he finally gets Odo to confess his deep secret about the Founders ("HOME! I want to go HOME!") says it all, followed shortly thereafter by a [[My God, What Have I Done?]] expression when he realizes how similar they are (and that he too, can't go home without crossing the [[Moral Event Horizon]]).
* Kyle and Jessi from ''[[Kyle XY]]'' are like this due to both being born in the same lab and having similar abilities. It helps that their genetic donors were once lovers.
* A scene in one episode of ''[[Babylon 5]]'' has Vir and Lennier commiserating over being put-upon ambassadorial flunkies.
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* The members of [[Whateley Universe|Team Kimba]] bond together on their first day at [[Super-Hero School|Whateley Academy]] because of this: they're more than just mutants. {{spoiler|They are all
* In the ''[[Paradise]]'' setting, an unknown force is randomly, permanently turning humans into [[Funny Animal]]s (and sometimes [[Gender Bender|changing their gender]]) in a way that is [[Invisible to Normals]]. Changed, especially from the early waves where they are few and far between, often fear they're alone or outright going crazy. After spending weeks, months, or even years alone, they are so relieved to find out there are others like them that they might break down and cry.
* The Golden Marvel and Ultra-Man from the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'' are close friends who often dine together to remember life during the Great Depression, the Spanish Influenza epidemic, World War II, and other events of the first four decades of the 20th Century.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* This is subverted in ''[[Futurama]]'' when Leela supposedly meets the last remaining member of her species, and therefore feels obligated to marry him even though he is rude, dirty, and misogynist and they have nothing in common. Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, it turns out that {{spoiler|he's not really a member of her species, but a shapeshifter who "collects wives" of odd species to do housekeeping for him.}}
* On ''[[The Fairly
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