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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Maison Ikkoku]]'' had a (subverted) desert island episode (released as an OVA) that is mostly notable for having one of the worst puns in Takahashi history in its title (and that's saying something), playing off "nanpa" being both "hit on/pick up girls" and "shipwreck".
** She did it again in the [[Ranma ½]] manga, with Ranma and several girls fighting for their virtue when a plague turned all the males that had been shipwrecked with them into that most hideous of monsters - ''honeymooners on a tourist trip to Hawaii!'' Oh Noes!
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* The "Lincoln Island" arc from ''[[Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water]]''.
== [[Fan
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080624042113/http://www.thekeep.org/~lara/bliss/bliss.html Bliss]'' by Lara Bartram and Mike Loader, a ''[[Ranma ½]]''<ref>With unexpected [[H.P. Lovecraft|Lovecraftian]] elements.</ref> fic from 1999, features a male and female pair of amnesiac castaways who deduce that they must be named Akane and Ukyo from the scraps of their fragmentary memories, but the reader immediately knows at least one is wrong. However the question of their actual identities is far less important than their survival and the growing relationship between the two of them -- even as the island turns out to be more dangerous than they'd believed.
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Cast Away]]''
* ''[[Robinson Crusoe on Mars]]'' - [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]], [[Recycled in Space]].
* ''[[The Killer Shrews]]''.
* ''[[Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N.]]'', a 1966 [[Disney]] film starring [[Dick Van Dyke]].
* ''Hell In The Pacific'': Two soldiers, one Japanese and one American, are marooned on an island in World War II. Neither understand the other's language, and after a period of hostility, work together to survive and escape the island.
** ...and then ''[[Enemy Mine (film)|Enemy Mine]]'' remade it, In Space!
* ''[[Alive]]'' was a movie based on a true story of the survivors of a plane crash in the Andes. The survivors were stranded in the mountains without food and resorted to eating the flesh of those killed in the crash.
* ''[[The Blue Lagoon]]'' - two kids are shipwrecked and grow up on a deserted island with no adult supervision.
* ''
* ''[[Swiss Family Robinson (film)|Swiss Family Robinson]]'': The 1960 Disney [[Film of the Book|Film of the]] [[Swiss Family Robinson|Book]], one of Disney's top grossing movies of all time, adjusting for inflation.
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Robinson Crusoe]]'' is, of course, the [[Trope Namer]].
* ''[[The Swiss Family Robinson]]'' : A marooned family...
** The original German title of the book, which translates roughly as "the Swiss Robinson Crusoes" (the family name is almost certainly not Robinson, unlike what the English title suggests) quite blatantly acknowledges the influence.
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* ''The Coral Island'' : Boys marooned, without adult company, who prosper.
* ''[[Lord of the Flies]]'' : [[Teenage Wasteland|Boys marooned, without adult company, who don't prosper.]] A [[Deconstruction]] of the genre.
* ''[[Tunnel
* ''[[Life of Pi]]'' is this on a boat. He actually does find an island partway through, but it turns out to be made out of carnivorous algae. So he gets back on the boat and leaves. Subverted in that {{spoiler|He made it all up, possibly}}
* ''[[Jurassic Park]]'', all of them
* Ben Gunn in ''[[Treasure Island]]''.
* ''[[The Island of Doctor Moreau]]''.
* ''Dr. Franklin's Island'' by Ann Halam. Loosely based on H.G. Wells' novel, ''[[The Island of Doctor Moreau]]'', it tells the story of three teenagers who end up on an island owned by Dr. Franklin, a brilliant but insane scientist, who wants to use them as specimens for his transgenic experiments.
* ''The Cay''.
* ''Survivor Type'', a short story by [[Stephen King]]. After an an accident on cruise, a lone man washes up on an island. In an unusual variation, it's a ''very'' tiny island with absolutely nothing growing on it. Occasionally he lucks out and catches a bird, or some dead sealife washes ashore. Guess what he eats the rest of the rest of the time. [[I'm a Humanitarian|Go on, guess.]]
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* The ''[[Col Sec Trilogy]]'' at very least owes a lot to the concept.
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Lost]]'' - a Deserted Island with plenty of [[Phlebotinum]]
* ''[[Gilligan's Island]]''.
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* In an episode of ''[[Quantum Leap]]'', "The Leaping of the Shrew", Sam leaps into the body of a Greek sailor who's shipwrecked on an island with a spoiled heiress (played by [[Actor Allusion|Brooke Shields]] from the above-mentioned ''[[The Blue Lagoon]]''), who was planning to enter an [[Arranged Marriage]] before her yacht capsized. Sam helps set up shelter for them and attempts to [[MacGyvering|create a signal flare with her aerosol hairspray can]], but she had used up all the hairspray. She later reveals that she intentionally emptied the hairspray cans because she had fallen in love with the sailor and didn't want to return to civilization and her arranged marriage. According to Sam, the two would be rescued in ten years, by which time they would have [[Babies Ever After|four children]], and would be [[Happily Married]] for many years after their rescue.
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* A frequent plot device in the [[Newspaper Comics]] strip ''[[Prince Valiant]]'' is that when Val takes a sea voyage, his ship almost inevitably gets waylaid on some cursed island with a puzzle Val must solve to avoid the crew being trapped forever or killed.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Parodied in the ''[[Monkey Island]]'' games with Herman Toothrot, the crazy old hermit living on the titular island who, in the fourth game, {{spoiler|is revealed to be the amnesiac grandfather of the [[Love Interest]]}}. He has a boat. He just doesn't use it because it's traditional to wait and be rescued.
** If you've sunk your own boat by the time you get as far as being ready to head home, Herman will even lend you his boat so that you can rescue him in it.
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* ''[[Minecraft]]'' - even though there are [[NPC]]s around now, they don't really affect game-play in any way (yet), and they only spawn in villages (which are quite rare) to begin with.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[And Shine Heaven Now]]'', with the Obligatory Desert Island arc.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Madagascar]]''.
* The backstory of some of the islanders for ''[[Mike Lu and Og]]''. The descendents of the original shipwrecked pirates are living on the other side of the island.
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