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It's [[After the End]], humanity is on the brink of extinction. In a remote outpost somewhere, one man is still looking to reverse this situation. He toils away in a laboratory trying to cure the disease, fix the Earth's Magnetic field, change the weather, or even build a time machine to go back and prevent the apocalypse.
The
Often the scientist's efforts are fruitless and he descends into depression, madness or a macabre obsession with studying mankind's downfall.
This trope is especially common in zombie fiction.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Bulma in ''[[Dragonball Z]]'', who invented a time machine to send Trunks to the past and find a way to kill the androids.
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* Dr. Robert Nevil from the film version of ''[[I Am Legend]]'' is about as alone as you can get.
* The future in-a-bubble scenes from ''[[The Fountain]]'' appear to be this trope, although the oncologist is more concerned with staying alive until he reaches a far-off star than with restoring the Earth.
* Zac Hobson in ''[[The Quiet Earth (film)|The Quiet Earth]]'', a scientist who was working on Project Flashlight. A malfunction caused almost everyone on Earth to simply disappear. He goes a little crazy in the first part of the movie, but after meeting two other survivors he tries to destroy the laboratory where the experiment took place so it can't happen again.
* Abby in ''Grindhouse: [[Planet Terror]]'' {{spoiler|Or he would have been if he hadn't gotten killed. This is lampshaded in the movie.}}
{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Cherry Darling:''' I don't suppose anyone else here is a bio-chemical engineer?}}}}
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* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' spin-off novel ''The Eyeless'', the Doctor visits a planet where most of the population was wiped out in an incomprehensible catastrophe. Professor Jeffip does his best to fill the Sole Surviving Scientist role.
== [[Live
* Dr. Edwin Jenner from ''[[The Walking Dead]]'' is a depressed and ultimately suicidal scientist found alone in his compound by the other survivors.
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'': Professor Yana in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica
== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==
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== [[Theatre]] ==
* In the play ''[[R.U.R.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* The [[Adobe Flash]] game ''[[One Chance]]'' is all about this - you play a scientist trying to fix an accidentally lethal cure for cancer as it slowly infects everyone in the lab.
* In another Flash game, ''[[Lab of the Dead]]'', the main character is a sole surviving researcher following in the footsteps of the original dead scientists.
* Adam Fenix is Sera's
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* [[Vandal Savage]] ends up a sole surviving scientist in the episode
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