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'''Alex Rogan:''' ''ONE?''|''[[The Last Starfighter]]''}}

 

 

Related to [[Only One]], but with the added condition that [[The Hero]] is fighting alone against numberless foes. He now has to battle [[Back From the Brink]]. (There are a few versions without this.) Better hope he's a [[One-Man Army]] or else make ready for the [[Downer Ending]].

* You know what you doing. Move "Zig". [[Zero Wing|For great justice...]]

* Once you reach the second half of the ''[[Freelancer]]'', it's not rare to take out entire fleets by yourself after all your partners have been pummeled.

* [[Fraxy]]'s premise is basically this: In the red corner, your little midget cricket of a ship. In the blue corner, The [[Bullet Hell]] [[Nintendo Hard]] [[That One Boss|Death Machine]] boss. Guess who wins, albeit dying a lot in the process.

* Played with in the Taito shoot 'em up ''Metal Black'': Decades after aliens destroy Earth and the world's governments unconditionally surrender, you steal an experimental space fighter and blow up most of the planet's remaining military forces while attempting to escape into space to fight the enemy hordes. The game has multiple endings depending on if you win or game over in a certain stage, and one ending involves the governments being motivated by your death into bringing another 20,000 experimental fighters into action.

* This ''did'' happen to the [[Green Lantern]] [[The Chosen Many|Corps]]. It was so bad that the last Guardian teleported to Earth and threw a ring at a random person. Eventually they got better.

** This happens to the Corps every so often. When Hal Jordan was still a rookie, the villain Legion had defeated the entire corps with its gigantic yellow suit of armor, but Hal figures out that if he covers Legion in mud, his ring will work on him. When cracking the armor open turns out not to have been the best idea, Hal flies into the central power battery and supercharges his ring, giving him the strength to defeat the villain on his own.

** Nova Corps: After a devastating interstellar war, the superpowers of a million-man-strong force were co-opted into one super suit, leading to several [[Heroic RROD]] situations.

* ''[[Rogue Trooper]]'' is the last living Genetic Infantryman, if you don't count his biochip buddies.

* Len from [[Kamen Rider Dragon Knight]] not only starts ''out'' like this, he wants to ''keep it that way'' at first because he doesn't believe anyone from Earth can be trusted with the Kamen Rider Advent Decks, particularly Kit, who is the mirror twin of the Rider who betrayed the team. The fact that most of the Earth Riders actually tend to be bad guys (though a few are innocently duped or framed) doesn't help matters any. He gets better about it as the series goes on, and then it's revealed that he ''wasn't'' the last of the Ventaran Riders to escape being vented anyway.

* In ''[[Dragon Age]]: Origins'', the player is a newly-recruited Grey Warden of just a dozen in [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture|Ferelden]] alone. Then all but two in Ferelden are killed in battle, leaving just the player and another Warden who is nearly as new. Their goal is to unite all the races in the fight against the [[Our Orcs Are Different|Darkspawn]] and defeat [[Big Bad|the Archdemon]].

* [[Only You Can Save Mankind]] gleefully subverts this. {{spoiler|You respawn, while the aliens are [[Killed Off for Real]]. Also, you're not the only one who can save mankind. Not that it needs saving, anyway.}}

* ''[[Demon Knight]]''. The Demon Knight is a [[Legacy Character]]. One Demon Knight, One Collector.