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* Because of the [[Anachronic Order]] of ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'', both the protagonist's stated [[Love Interest]] and his [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]], the two girls that one would consider most in the running, could be considered both [[First Girl Wins|the first]] and the last. If Yuki or Sasaki ends up winning in the end, then, well...
** Sasaki is a debatable example, considering that the protagonist {{spoiler|knew Sasaki even before he met Haruhi or Mikuru in high school}}. Still, she shows up after any of the others.
* Viciously subverted in ''[[Code Geass]] R2.'' {{spoiler|first girl (sorta) Shirley was shot to death by potential [[Gay Option|Last Guy]] Rolo... and Rolo ultimately died too. And in the end, so does Lelouch.}} Talk about a subversion!
** Apparently, Kallen was the Last Girl to have romantic developments with a certain siscon.
*** If you choose to interpret it a certain way, {{spoiler|Lelouch calls Euphie his "First Love" right before he shoots her. Meanwhile, first guy Suzaku ''kills'' Lelouch while first girl Nunnally looks on in horror. Also, first girl (who's not a guy or a relative) Milly gives up on him}}. Really, the Last Guy and Girl seemed to have the best shot {{spoiler|before dying, only to have Lelouch join them}}.
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* In ''[[Pokémon Special]]'', Yellow is the last girl Red meets on his first journey and ends up having the most [[Ship Tease]] with him throughout the series. Funny enough, there's nothing to hint that Red actually realizes that the same girl he [[Rescue Romance|rescued]] and Yellow are the same person.
* In ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' pretty much [[Downer Ending|no-one wins]]. However, Asuka is the last person we see Shinji with in ''End of Evangelion,'' and she is the last female character he meets in the show. Well, unless you want to count Kaworu's freaky vagina hands, but [[Your Head Asplode|things don't end well for him at all]].
* In ''[[SHUFFLE!]]'', though Asa has been friends with Rin for a long time, she was the last of the girls in the harem to reveal she has feelings for him beyond just friendship and
== Film ==
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' has a bit of a gender inversion - while Bashir and Quark both go after Jadzia for a while, it's fourth season import Worf who ends up marrying her.
** Then played straight for Bashir, sort of, {{spoiler|when he ends up with Ezri at the end of the series.}}
* It was a [[Foregone Conclusion]], but neither Chloe Sullivan nor Alicia Baker nor Lana Lang had a chance against Lois Lane on ''[[Smallville]]''.
* This is the
* [[Frasier|Frasier Crane]] had [[Girl of the Week|many, many love interests]] over the course of the show's 11 seasons, (plus two marriages and one fiancee who leaves him at the altar on ''[[Cheers]]'', which ''Frasier'' was spun off from); but Frasier finally settles into an actually happy relationship with a woman he first meets in the show's final season, with the implication that they wind up happily ever after.
== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Fire Emblem]] 8'', [[Badass Bookworm]] Saleh is the last of Eirika's potential husbands that we meet, regardless of route. He fits the trope if you hook them up through supports.
** In the case of Eirika's brother Ephraim, there's [[Well, Excuse Me, Princess!|L'Arachel]]...
*** Who is also Last Girl for Innes, if you choose her over Eirika or Vanessa.
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*** Questions! Isn't Kyle last guy for Lute as well, compared to Artur the First Guy? And is Marisa either first or last girl for Gerik? (She IS Last Girl for Joshua, tho)
** Considering that the player chooses what supports to have, there is always the potential for the last person to be used in [[Fire Emblem]].
* In the ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'' Shadows of Undrentide and Hordes of the Underdark arc, you can end up with Aribeth, who is the second-last named female character to be introduced in the story.
** Although she originally appeared back in the core game, making her the first girl the player meets, the plot makes it clear that it's not the same ''player character''.
* Potentially gender-inverted in ''[[Dragon Age 2]]'', as Sebastian (a potential [[Love Interest]] for [[Player Character|Female!Hawke]]) only joins your party in chapter 2, where every other character did in chapter 1.
* Tidus meets Yuna as the last of the three female leads in ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'', and ends up snogging her in that beautiful underwater scene in Macalania Woods.
** Coincidentally, Tidus is also the last of the male leads that Yuna meets herself. This is assuming she has met Auron before... Which is quite probable, since he was her father's Guardian.
* [[Rebellious Princess|Tiltyu]] is the last of Levin's potential wives to appear in ''[[Fire Emblem Jugdral|FE4]]'', and she fits the trope if you hook them up ([[Disc One Nuke|Which quite a few people do]]), but is non-canon. Bridget [[The Archer]] is also this to every unpaired male, but especially fellow [[The Archer|Archers]] Jamuka and Midayle, who start out being in love with her sister.
*** Which is questioned to be [[Loving a Shadow]] in both their Lover Conversations at the end of Gen 1.
** Male example: Claude is the last of Sylvia's predestined love interests to be recruited. And this pairing is implied to be canon in both the unofficial manga and (if this troper remembers correctly) ''Thracia 776''.
*** Lex/Tiltyu and Azel/Tiltyu are both cases of First Girl and Last Girl; she's their childhood friend, but both guys start out with crushes on Ayra and Edain, respectively.
*** Mostly Azel. Lex didn't know Ayra until she was recruited. Azel, on the other hand, had his entire reason for joining with Sigurd as a way to stalk Edain.
* We can't forget [[Mysterious Waif]] Sophia in the case of ''[[Fire Emblem]] 6''{{'}}s Roy. And either Fiora for his dad Eliwood, or Farina for Lilina's dad Hector. Who, OTOH, is Last Guy for Lyndis. And there's Sain as Last Guy for Rebecca, and Farina doubling as Last Girl for Kent...
* Given the multi-choice nature of the game, ''[[Baldur's Gate]]'' both fulfills and averts this trope: You meet Aerie much later than either of the other two potential love interests (a game later in fact)
** Interestingly enough, in the context of BGII itself, Aerie is likely the second woman you meet (Jaheira being thrown at you at the very beginning, Viconia likely being the last you find because the game forces you to go to Waukeen's Promenade before it will allow you to travel to the Government District).
*** But both the game and Viconia react like she joined your party for a time in the first game, even if she never did.
* In ''[[Dragon Quest V]]'', while Bianca is canonically the [[First Girl Wins|First Girl]] the hero meets, the ''player'' technically meets her ''last'' in the DS version, thanks to a scene where the youngster meets Nera and Debora at the harbor. In the original, Flora (Nera in the DS translation) is the Last Girl, as he doesn't meet her until he visits her hometown as a young adult. Debora could ''also'' qualify, as she butts into the [[Engagement Challenge]] at literally the last possible second just to offer herself as a choice ([[My Friends and Zoidberg|which her father refuses to acknowledge unless you actually
* Rinoa is the last of the three female party members that Squall meets in ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' - by a considerable margin, since {{spoiler|it turns out that Squall spent his early childhood at the same orphanage as Quistis and Selphie}}.
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** This also applies to the visual novel, as the prologue starts with the scene where Shirou meets Saber and then flashes back a few days to show us the first few days of the story from Rin's perspective.
* This is what happens in Rin Tezuka's path in ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]''.
* In ''[[Deardrops]]'', Riho is technically the last girl to join the band, but she's certainly the canon love interest.
* While the ''[[Tsukihime]]'' visual novel allows you to choose any girl and its sequels could arguably be seen as more of a [[Tenchi Solution]] in both girl choice and story development, Arcueid, the closest there is to a 'canon' pairing, is the last girl Shiki meets in all versions of the story (except for the the 'far side' game routes in which Shiki never meets her at all.)
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