what if I were all alone in the world theme
A character, or small group of characters, experience what it is like to be more or less the only person/people in the world.
18 total · 3 choice · 13 major · 2 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| rbt1985e6x09 | choice | When Walter returned to town from working in the mountains, he realized that he was likely the only person on Mars who missed the sudden mass evacuation to Earth. He eventually managed to establish telephone contact with a woman who had stayed behind. But upon meeting her in person, he was so utterly repulsed by her personality and physical appearance that he chose to make a break for it and spend his remaining days in solitude. |
| tz1959e1x01 | choice | The story followed Ferris all alone in an empty town. Moreover, Ferris found a carousel stocked full of a book entitled "The Last Man on Earth," which raised the question of whether Ferris himself might be in such a predicament. |
| tz1959e1x08 | choice | Henry found that he was the only survivor after a nuclear war, and was at first delighted as there was nobody around to prevent him from pursuing his favorite pastime: reading. |
| blackmirror4x05 | major | Bella could not make contact with anyone at the episode's conclusion and we are made to ponder whether the robotic dogs had killed everyone else but her. |
| movie: Day the World Ended (1955) | major | Seven people led by Jim Maddison seemed to be the only ones left on Earth in the aftermath of a nuclear war. |
| movie: Five (1951) | major | Five nuclear holocaust survivors thought they might be the last people left on Earth. |
| movie: I Am Legend (2007) | major | The hero of the story Dr. Neville was the lone survivor of the virus in New York City. |
| movie: Idaho Transfer (1973) | major | Isa, Ronald and a handful of other young people traveled 56 years into the future by which time they understood that everyone else in the world had died in some kind of natural catastrophe. |
| movie: In the Year 2889 (1967) | major | Six people led by Captain John Ramsey seemed to be the only ones left on Earth in the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust. |
| movie: Last Woman on Earth (1960) | major | Three survivors of an unspecified apocalyptic event, which apparently wiped out all human life on Earth, had to make due as best they could. |