Solitary Tropes

"When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that."

- Gertrude Stein

Physical solitude, or mental (which can be worse in a crowd) -- and its causes, and its consequences.

A total lack of human contact can leave the character isolated even if surrounded by non-humans; and sometimes they have to be specific kinds of humans, and sometimes, no one can keep them from feeling isolated.

Compare Introversion Tropes. Contrast Ensembles, Power Trio and Duo Tropes.

Tropes

 * Alone in a Crowd
 * The Aloner
 * "Alone with Prisoner" Ploy
 * Alone with the Psycho
 * Attractiveness Isolation
 * Can't Live with Them Can't Live Without Them
 * City in a Bottle
 * Dark Magical Girl
 * The Drifter
 * Dying Alone
 * Eating Lunch Alone
 * Figure It Out Yourself
 * Friendless Background
 * Go Mad From the Isolation
 * The Hermit
 * Hermit Guru
 * Heroic Neutral
 * Hidden Elf Village
 * Hikikomori
 * I Just Want to Have Friends
 * In the End You Are on Your Own
 * Ineffectual Loner
 * Informed Loner
 * Intelligence Equals Isolation
 * It's Up to You
 * I Work Alone
 * Jungle Princess
 * A Kind of One
 * Knight Errant
 * The Last Man Heard a Knock
 * Last of His Kind
 * Leave Him to Me
 * Leave the Two Lovebirds Alone
 * Lonely At the Top
 * Lonely Doll Girl
 * Lonely Rich Kid
 * Lonely Together
 * Loners Are Freaks
 * Nature Hero
 * No Social Skills
 * Not Good with People
 * One Riot, One Ranger
 * The Only One
 * Orphan's Ordeal
 * Parental Abandonment
 * Remember That You Trust Me
 * Robinsonade
 * Single Specimen Species
 * Small Secluded World
 * Solo Sequence
 * Survivor Guilt
 * There Is Another
 * They're Called "Personal Issues" for a Reason
 * This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself
 * Uniqueness Value
 * Wild Child
 * Zen Survivor

Quite a crowd of them, isn't there?