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[[Ghost City|Something happens to a city]]. It could be an [[Bug-Out|evacuation]] or a disaster. Whoever's left over will now have the run of the city, and they can use its resources to attempt to comunicatecommunicate with the outside world, try to find more survivors or just have fun without anyone to stop them from breaking the rules.

* ''[[Kino's Journey]]'': One of the countries that [[Kino no Tabi|Kino]] encounters is the last remaining member of a "democracy" that voted by majority. Ultimately, everyone else had voted each other to death until one man was left.

* ''[[The Quiet Earth (film)|The Quiet Earth]]'': With apparently no-one else left on Earth, protagonist Zac Hobson sets a radio station to emit a message in case anyone's out there, moves to a mansion, raids shopping centres, plays with train sets in a store- and then the real trains- cracks up, starts dressing up in women's clothes and declares himself emperor of the world before an audience of cardboard cutouts. (He gets better.)

* The French movie ''Seuls Two'' (that<ref>That's the original French title,; noNetflix idea ifcalls it has"Two anAlone englishin Paris". one; A rough translation is "Two Alone").</ref> is about two people waking up in a completely deserted Paris.

* In ''[[The Omega Man]]'', [[Charlton Heston]] doesn't take much advantage of this trope, since he spends his time hunting zombies. However, his love interest, Lisa, likes to go "shopping" in abandoned department stores. At least until she gets [[The Virus]] and does her [[Face Heel Turn]].

* The main cast from ''[[Twenty Eight Days Later|28 Days Later]]'' have a [[Hope Spot]] moment raiding food from an abandoned store, and in the first scenes, Jim absconds with a bag full of soda cans from a derelict vending machine. On a darker note, since the original owners are dead, the soldiers have set up camp in an abandoned country estate, and govern from there, at one point {{spoiler|forcing the girls to dress up in the clothing of the former lady of the house for the pleasure of the men about to rape them.}}

** In one of the short films made with the sequalsequel, a man left in this situation kills himself out of loneliness. As he's dying he hears the helicopters returning.

* The protagonists of both the original ''[[Dawn of the Dead (Filmfilm)|Dawn of the Dead]]'' and [[Dawn of the Dead (2004 (Filmfilm)|the remake]] do this on a smaller scale with a shopping mall. In fact, this is largely the point (of the older movie, at least). It gets very [[Anvilicious]] when you see the little perfect world the protagonists have constructed for themselves, with things "borrowed" from the mall. The zombies are largely a distraction from the commercialism-[[Buffy -Speak|things]]. Sorry for [[Fan Wank]].

* The heroes of ''[[Zombieland (Film)|Zombieland]]'' don't limit themselves to one town, but they raid grocery stores for food (in search of the elusive Twinkie), trash a store just for fun and crash for a while in [[Bill Murray]]'s mansion (which isn't as abandoned as they thought).

* In ''[[A Nightmare Onon Elm Street|Freddy's Dead]]'', there are no children or teens left in Springwood, yet the adults still put on a pitiful show of a town fair, complete with kiddie entertainments no kids are around to enjoy. The school and orphanage are likewise left to fall apart, each with a crackpot staff member left behind to pretend they still have kids to teach or care for.

* Jadis, the Last Queen of Charn from ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]].'' In ''[[The MagiciansMagician's Nephew]]'', we find out that she single-handedly eradicated every other lifeform in her universe because her sister had raised a rebellion against her queenhood; with her sister's army at the door, she proved herself to be a sore loser. She then [[Sealed Evil in Aa Can|magically preserved herself as a statue]] until the heroes accidentally freed her, then hitched a ride with them to Earth and ultimately to Narnia, where she became known as [[The Lion, the Witch Andand Thethe Wardrobe|the White Witch]].

== [[Live -Action TV]] ==

* ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'' follows this premise. A radiation leak [[EverybodysEverybody's Dead, Dave|kills the entire crew]] of a [[City of Adventure|ship the size of a city]], leaving only the initial cast.

* On ''[[MST3KMystery Science Theater 3000]]'', the robots are asked what they would do in this situation. Servo would put bricks on accelerators and drive cars off cliffs all day. Crow would put on football pads and dive through pane glass windows up and down main street.

* ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'' had a flashback episode where the main characters think that [[YMillennium 2 KBug|Y2K]] has killed everyone else in town so they move into a supermarket and each of them claims part of the store as their own personal domain.

* ''[[Dragon Quest VII (Video Game)|Dragon Quest VII]]'' has this happen to Suifu in the Penal Colony where all the refugees/prisoners from Dharma Shrine are being held. Once the problems are solved, he finds himself alone, ruefully admitting that he'll never enjoy the sort of power and position [[Asskicking Equals Authority|he was able to claim for himself there]].

* Impaz from ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess]]'', the last inhabitant of the Hidden Village, who turned down a chance to escape from her Bulblin-occupied village so she could give the Ancient Sky Book to the [[Chosen One|messenger of the heavens]] (a.k.a. [[The Hero|Link]]).

** King Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule from ''[[The Legend of Zelda: theThe Wind Waker (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker]]'' is the only person left in Hyrule after it got sealed beneath the Great Sea, using his position to guide Link and awaken Zelda. {{spoiler|He decides to use the Triforce to drown Hyrule and himself in order to save Link and Zelda and defeat Ganon}}.

* Played for laughs in ''[[Homestuck]]''. The Wayward Vagabond, a non-human wanderer of post-apocalyptic Earth, is fascinated enough by the idea of democracy that he becomes a mayor over a stash of cans.

** It's [[Harsher in Hindsight|less humorous]] now that we know that he did this {{spoiler|as a coping mechanism after two entire armies he was leading were slaughtered in front of him in a matter of seconds, leaving him as the only survivor.}}

* Named for the ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode in which Homer divides Springfield into two towns, Old Springfield and New Springfield. When Homer erects a wall to this effect, the citizens of Old Springfield quickly realize that they suddenly have no means of obtaining supplies. All but the Simpson family climb over the border, leaving a disgruntled Homer alone, to which Bart says 'Face it Homer, you're mayor of a ghost town!'

* This is how an alternate-future version of Vandal Savage has lived for several <s> years</s> centuries in the ''[[Justice League]]'' episode, "Hereafter."

* An episode of ''[[Duckman]]'' had the whole town perform an "emergency drill", only to get trapped in the shelter underground. Only Duckman (who slept through the alarm) and a deaf woman (who couldn't hear it) remain, convinced they are the last people alive. So Duckman engages in his every hedonistic desire; tooling around in a motorcycle, stealing things, blowing up buildings, and unknowingly causing hell for the people trapped below.

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