The Last Man Heard a Knock: Difference between revisions

 

See also [[There Is Another]], [[Lonely Together]].

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* In obscure doujinshi series ''[[Mythic Quest]]'' this is {{spoiler|averted in the Empty Earth arc. Anaya really is the sole human left in the dimension of Earth.}} There are eventually robots powered back up and [[A Is]], though.

 

== Comic Books ==

* In the comic ''Kingdom'', it appears all humans have been wiped out, until we discover that there are living populations (albeit frozen ones) in Antarctica and possibly New Zealand.

* ''[[Y: The Last Man]]'' is both an aversion (Yorrick is the [[Depopulation Bomb|last male mammal]] besides his monkey, but there's still [[Lady Land|plenty of women]]) and a [[Zig-Zagging Trope]]. It turns out there are three astronauts aboard the International Space Station, including two men... but an equipment malfunction kills the men on reentry... but the surviving woman is pregnant with a baby boy. Later, Yorrick goes to Japan and stumbles upon another man... but it's actually a fairly lifelike robot. {{spoiler|Then he meets Dr. Mann's father, and incorrectly believes it's another robot.}}

 

== Film ==

* ''[[I Am Legend]]''. In the most recent film, [[Will Smith]]'s character is discovered by two survivors, a woman and a young boy. And later, an entire town of survivors pops up.

** Justified by the fact that he had a radio broadcast playing 24/7 saying exactly where he would be at exactly what time, if anyone wanted to bother coming for him.

* In ''[[Zombieland]]'', we're not really sure if Columbus is that last non-infected human alive. He doesn't seem to be clear on it either. {{spoiler|He's not.}}

* ''[[28 Days Later]]'' is another <s>[[Not Using the Z Word|zombie]]</s> film that starts with one man thinking he's the only one left alive and staggering around a deserted city. [[It Got Worse]] once the sun went down, naturally.

 

== Literature ==

* In "[http://tinyurl.com/ybq8bov The Silent Towns]", one of [[Ray Bradbury]]'s Martian stories, a man thinks he's the last human on Mars, but discovers - much to his displeasure - that he isn't.

* [[Fredric Brown]]'s short story "Knock" begins by quoting in full a short story that has become known as the world's shortest horror story:

{{quote|''"The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door."''}}

{{quote|''"The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a lock on the door."''}}

** This is quoted by [[Guillermo del Toro]] in ''[[One Hundred Scariest Movie Moments]]'', when talking about ''[[The Haunting]]''.

* M.P. Shiel's 1901 novel ''The Purple Cloud'' has a man believing himself to be the sole survivor after the title phenomenon seemingly kills off all other human and animal life on earth, but he eventually discovers a young woman has also survived the catastrophe.

** This story was updated and adapted for the 1959 film ''The World, the Flesh, and the Devil''.

* Mentioned in ''[[World War Z]]''. While most of the narrators were part of a group during the [[Zombie Apocalypse]], they tell of encountering LMOE's, 'Last Man On Earth' who assumed that they were the only humans left and did not always take well to the army comming to drive the zombies back.

 

* Averted in the ''[[Twilight Zone]]'' episode "Time Enough at Last".

* [[Doctor Who|The Doctor]] isn't the last ''man'' on ''Earth'', but he is the last of his kind. Except he isn't.

 

== Music ==

 

== Video Games ==

* ''[[Fragile Dreams]] : Farewell Ruins Of The Moon'' starts with Seto burying the only person alive he's ever know, setting off on a epic quest to find any form of life. Somewhat ruined by the fact he finds a girl wandering around almost immediately.

* ''Bastion'' starts this way, but rather quickly subverts it, though it takes a while for the true scope of the disaster to be understood.

 

== Western Animation ==

* Sort of averted in one episode of ''[[Justice League]]'' where we're shown a [[Bad Future]] in which {{spoiler|Vandal Savage}} is the last person on Earth {{spoiler|after inadvertently killing everyone else}}, but Superman arrives due to unexpected time travel.

 

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