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* ''[[Rave Master]]''. Technically, the world the story is set in is a parallel world created by the last surviving human after famine drought and plague destroyed the original world. The main villain, the only descendant of that sole survivor and, therefore, the only 'real' person, [[What an Idiot!|wants to go back to that world]].
** And we have an [[Eldritch Abomination]] [[Clock Roaches|Clock Roach]] trying to destroy the parallel world to boot.
* ''[[Utawarerumono]]'' Due to [[Gaia's Vengeance]] (kinda), humans can no longer live on the surface. In fact, at the beginning of the story, ALL humans are dead. (They are seen in flashbacks, just to prove that [[Humans Are
* Possibly ''[[Naruto]]''. Between the severe levels of schizo tech, the bizarre structures in Rain country, and the wreckage that the Uchiha weapons stash appears to be located below, it's never been explicitly stated but it would explain a lot. The probable source of said apocalyptic event is most likely the {{spoiler|Juubi}}. The wreckage in particular has an after the end feel to it.
* In ''[[Él|EL]]'', the Megaro Earth Project is implied to be the last remaining city populated by humans after nuclear war devastated the Earth. At the end of the second OVA, it is revealed that the situation is far worse {{spoiler|as only El and a single human male have survived, kept in a coma-like state by sentient AI hoping to find a way to breed them.}}
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** ''Star Man's Son'' (a.k.a. ''Daybreak - 2250 A.D.'') opens generations after [[World War III]]. The protagonist is suffering from his culture's prejudice against [[Mutants]].
* In [[H. Beam Piper]]'s short story "The Answer", the protagonists - an American and a Russian - managed to survive the destruction of their respective nations, and are now working in South America. The titular answer is to the question, why was Auburn, New York, the first casualty of [[World War III]] - particularly since the Soviets then threw away the advantage of a first strike and didn't follow it up? {{spoiler|The town wasn't destroyed by the Soviets, but by a [[Colony Drop]] - specifically, of an antimatter meteor - and nobody recognized it for what it was until after one of the protagonists, who witnessed the destruction of Auburn and investigated it, witnessed the results of a similar, artificial antimatter experiment in South America.}}
* Reeves' ''[[Mortal Engines]]'' takes place after not only the Sixty Minute War, a conflict so devastating it caused centuries of geological instability and fundamentally changed the geography of the Earth (the North American continent is glassed, and severed from South America through the ''complete obliteration'' of Central America. ''Entire seas'' have evaporated and changed places, and there is a ''[[Beyond the Impossible|mountain so high its top is in space, generated by volcanic activity]]''. Half of China is underwater, and everything north of New York is an icy wasteland with five-hundred-mile-an-hour winds), but {{[[[Humans Are Warriors]] at least}} [[Battlefield Earth|two]] [[Forever War|other]] [[Humans Are
* M.P. Shiel's 1901 novel ''The Purple Cloud'' finds a man returning from a Polar expedition to discover that seemingly all other humans and animals on the planet have been killed by the purple cloud of the title.
* In Olaf Stapleton's ''[[Last and First Men]]'', 99% of humanity is wiped out in a huge geological upheaval, with humanity thrown back to the [[stone Age]] and forced to crawl back to dominance over several million years, and evolving into the 2nd, 3rd, etc Men. Eventually Earth must be abandoned when the [[Colony Drop|Moon comes crashing down]], and later Venus, Man's new home, is threatened and must be abandoned for a final home on Neptune. The book ends with the 17th (Last) Men awaiting the end as the Sun threatens to go nova.
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