last survivor
Only one left
Last survivor refers to the final person remaining alive from a defined group—the last of siblings, the last veteran of a war, the last person standing in a competition.
In legal and insurance contexts, it often determines when benefits transfer or policies pay out: The property passes to the last survivor of the three sisters.
In gaming, last survivor describes battle royale formats where players compete until one remains.
- remnantWhat stays after most goes
- dying breedDiminishing group nearing disappearance
- final chapterLast section of book
- outlastPersist longer than another
- final girlSlasher film's survivor
deceased · loneliness · left behind · battle royale · persistence · lone wolf · testimony · Robinson Crusoe · inheritor · legacy · witness · grief · trauma · perseverer · memorialization · isolation · second death · redemption arc
- horror tropesjump scare, final girl, haunted house, masked killer, slasher
- survival storiesescape story, shipwreck tales, shipwreck, plane crash, rescue story
- survivorsescapee, castaway, refugee, war refugee, veteran
- Zombieszombie, zombies, undead, walkers, walker
- hero tropesaction heroes, chosen one, superheroes, hero's journey, reluctant hero
- holdoutsdiehard, deadender