Adam and Eve Plot: Difference between revisions

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'''Kyon:''' I'll smack you.|''[[Haruhi Suzumiya|The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya]]''}}

 

== Film -- Live Action ==

* Lampshaded in ''[[Matinee]]'', a film set in the [[Cold War|Cuban missile crisis]], when the [[Teen Drama|teen protagonists]] get locked in a nuclear shelter during a [[The End of the World as We Know It|bomb scare]]. [[Ten Minutes in the Closet]] [[Hilarity Ensues|Ensues]].

"Then we become... Adam and Eve." }}

* [[Jim Henson]] and Frank Oz's ''[[The Dark Crystal]]'' has Jen and Kira, who both thought they were the last [[Hobbits|Gelfling]] until they met the other. And since Gelflings can now live in peace after the Skeksis and Mystics join bodies, they obviously will end up repopulating the Gelfling species.

* ''[[Shadow of the Colossus]]'' {{spoiler|The bridge to the Shrine of Worship is destroyed as Lord Emon and his men escape. That just leaves Mono and Wander to repopulate the Cursed Land.}}

* Parodied in ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'':

** And in the sequel, when [[The Chick|Rochelle]] dies:

* ''[[Radiant Silvergun]]'' where at the end it turns out that {{spoiler|the first humans on Earth are the clones of last humans on Earth who were sent back in time for [[Reset Button]]}}.

* Averted in ''[[Mass Effect]]'': {{spoiler|The last hundred or so surviving [[Precursors|Protheans]] were put into [[Human Popsicle|stasis]], but the genocide of the Protheans by the [[Eldritch Abomination|Reapers]] lasted centuries. In order to conserve energy, Vigil, the pseudo-AI watching over them, had to initiate a contingency program that would [[Cryonics Failure|shut down stasis pods]] one-by-one, starting from the lowest ranking individuals upwards. By the time the genocide ended centuries later, only the top dozen Protheans remained, which, as Vigil pointed out, [[Shown Their Work|was far too few to repopulate the species]].}}

* Subverted in ''[[Futurama]]'', where Leela falls in love with someone she believes to be [[Actor Allusion|another cyclops]]. Even when [[Jerkass|his personality gets to be too much to bear]], Leela feels that she owes it to her species to repopulate. As it turns out, {{spoiler|Alcazar was a shape-shifter - who had fooled four other girls}}. After Fry exposes him, the [[Wedding Deadline|wedding is called off]]. It course, it later turns out that Leela is {{spoiler|really a sewer mutant}}.

** In the comics, after the Professor teleports Earth's population to the dinosaur age, minus Fry, Bender, Leela and Cubert, the Omicronians show up to salvage the uninhabited Earth, unless our heroes can display one hundred Earthlings, proving Earth still has people. This trope may have been Fry's idea, earning him a slap from Leela.

** Leela seems to attract this a lot. {{spoiler|Of course, when the Adam in question is [[Jerkass|Zapp]] [[Small Name, Big Ego|Brannigan]]...}}

* The very end of [[Aeon Flux]]'s series finale, ''End Sinister''.

* In ''[[Freefall]]'', Flo laments that thirteen individuals do not provide enough genetic diversity for a species to survive, and her main objective in life is to ensure more (at least five hundred) are artificially created before it's too late.

* Parodied in the ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' storyline "28 Geeks Later," when a budding [[Zombie Apocalypse]] has taken over a research facility, [http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20050726 with several people trapped inside].

'''Soldier:''' This is no way to start a first date! }}

** This is even funnier if you know that Zoe is the Greek version of the name Eve (they both mean "life").

== Real Life ==

* Cheetahs. From Wikipedia (with a Scientific American [[There Is No Such Thing as Notability|citation]]):

* Northern Elephant Seals, which had a population that fell to a number somewhere in the 30s during the 1890s but now are no longer endangered (residing in the "least concern" category). However, it should be noted that [[Memetic Sex God|Male Elephant Seals are able to impregnate up to 50 females every mating season]].

* The stereotypical hamster (the golden/Syrian) is actually endangered in the wild. Virtually every domesticated Hamster is descended from a single litter captured in the 1930s.