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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.
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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 [[Sole Surviving Scientist]] needn't be completely alone, he might have some soldiers guarding him, a few survivors he's generously allowed into his stronghold, even an assistant. Regardless of his company he's the only real scientist left (that we know of).
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.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* There was a ''[[
* ''[[BPRD]]'': When the Bureau gets its new headquarters, a disaffected nuclear-proof bunker in the mountains, they find an old scientist whose been living there since its was shut down, writing down notes on a typewriter for so long the keys wore out and it punched holes in the paper, he was so far gone he didn't notice. {{spoiler|He later releases an [[Eldritch Abomination]] into the base thinking it some kind of angelic creature.}}
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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.}}
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Edmond Haminton has a story where all the humanity has died except for a single immortal scientist. See [[Came Back Wrong]] for a description of his efforts.
* In the ''[[
== [[Live
* Dr. Edwin Jenner from ''[[The Walking Dead]]'' is a depressed and ultimately suicidal scientist found alone in his compound by the other survivors.
* ''[[
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica
== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==
* ''[[
== [[Theatre]] ==
* In the play ''[[
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Metroid Prime]] 3'', on the planet of Bryyo, you can read the journal entries of the last surviving scientist, as he tries to keep the world from suffering an environmental collapse. {{spoiler|He fails}}.
* A clear example is Belthasar from ''[[
* 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, ''[[
* Adam Fenix is Sera's
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Othar in ''[[
** Tarvek in the same Twitter may have been a better example, since ''he'' sent Othar back and was much closer to the problem (while Othar metaphorically "slept through it").
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* [[Vandal Savage]] ends up a sole surviving scientist in the episode
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