All The Tropes

Living Relic: Difference between revisions

Page Discussion

Living Relic (view source)

Revision as of 17:57, 25 January 2014

84 bytes removed ,  10 years ago
m
Mass update links
VisualWikitext
m (Mass update links)
m (Mass update links)
Line 15:
Rarely, the living relic has managed to join and live among normal human civilization (or [[Humanity's Wake|an alien equivalent]]) and tries to live on, sometimes successfully hiding their origins. Despite the emphasis on immortal survivors of ancient civilizations, the Living Relic isn't always ancient or [[Immortality|immortal]]. A derelict in space might have the [[Robot Buddy]] shut down and get started up again by the heroes thousands of years later, or a [[Human Popsicle]] can be woken up from a [[Sleeping Beauty|sleep inducing spindle.]] Sometimes, they might just be the [[Last of His Kind|last descendant]] of a group of survivors.
 
[[Sub -Trope]] to [[Time Abyss]]. See also [[End of an Age]] and [[Gotterdammerung]] for two frequent causes. Compare [[Living Memory]].
 
{{examples}}
Line 66:
* Most everyone in ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]''. Lister being the [[Human Popsicle]], Kryten the android, and Cat - the last member of a surviving population, sort of...
* Millennia past, Illyria from ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'' was a Demonic [[God-Emperor]] whose essence was sealed into a casket after her death. Now funneled into a frail human form, she's always [[Puny Earthlings|a bit baffled]] when people don't worship her. As a classicist, she tends to talk in platitudes about [[The Art of War]].
* Lorien in ''[[Babylon 5 (TV)|Babylon 5]]''. He was the first living being to achieve sentience in the universe along with his race and was born immortal in a time before the universe invented things like life-cycles. All of his kind had died out or went beyond the rim of galaxy in the billions of intervening years. The one thing stopping him from being an [[Eldritch Abomination]] is that he also happens to be the kindest person you will ever meet.
* The Doctor in ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' (from 2005 onwards, anyway), the last Time Lord (except when The Master makes his semi annual return from eternal death) with one massive case of [[Survivors Guilt]]. Understandable, as he was the one to push the metaphorical button that ended the time war and destroyed Gallifrey.
* In ''[[Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger]]'' the Rangers themselves are living relics.
 
Line 93:
 
== Real Life ==
* ''[http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginkgo_biloba:Ginkgo biloba|Ginkgo biloba]]'', the plant, is the one remaining species of its entire genus after multiple worldwide extinctions - a [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_fossil:Living fossil|living fossil]]. It has no living relatives. The only stands of it in the "wild" are speculated to have been cultivated by Chinese monks, rather than surviving on their own.
* The AOL operating system.
* Most bacteria. Although the typical lifespan of a single bacterium is only a few hours old, their species (every single one of them) are actually all 3 billion years old! (almost as old as the Earth itself) They also happen to be the only living things that never became or can never become extinct (natural extinction events, that is, some harmful microbes were intentionally wiped out by new medical technology recently). In fact, the only thing that can truly wipe out bacteria is a dying Sun, which right now is about halfway through its life. As a result, bacteria may eventually outlive many modern plants and animals, including humanity
Line 102:
[[Category:This Index Will Live Forever]]
[[Category:Living Relic]]
[[Category:Trope]]
Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/584474"