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Line 22: * The Borrowers in ''[[The Borrower Arrietty]]''. * This is something that worries the vampires in ''[[Karin]]''. There are more vampires dying than there are children being born. The protagonist's parents are looked up to by younger couples since they have three children while most other parents only have one at most. * The Saiyans in the ''[[~~Dragonball~~Dragon Ball]]'' franchise. The destruction of their home planet left only a handful left, and most of the survivors will concede that most of them were jerks anyway. Still, each new series in the franchise ~~intruduces~~introduces children (or grandchildren) of those survivors, so there does seem to be hope the species might recover. == Comic Books == Line 71: * ''[[Babylon 5]]'' - Several examples: The Minbari - fewer are born with each generation and the greatest of their souls are no longer found among them, for {{spoiler\|their souls are being reborn into humans (a large plot point in the series)}}. * We later get a full explanation for this: {{spoiler\|The Minbari were, at one point, introduced to a [[Half-Human Hybrid]] time traveler, [[Really ~~Got~~Gets Around\|who mated with a minbari and so did his descendants]]. At the present time, the windfall his genes caught has begun to turn and the human DNA sequences are gradually being removed from the Minbari genome by outbreeding. When the Minbari reach first contact with humanity (which by an extreme coincidence happens to be the very same time traveller), they find pieces of those genetic sequences (who were originally human in the first place) in his genome and reach the above conclusion.}} The Narn and the Centauri are both said to be dying races according to Kosh. However, this is more philosophical than literal - Kosh meant that both were trapped in a cycle of revenge and fixated on each other's deaths to their own detriment, and were therefore (from a Vorlon point of view) on the path to eventual destruction. Both the Narn and Centauri are in fact populous and relatively vital. The Hyach are a more literal example; though there are still quite a few of them around, their genome is slowly collapsing due to having become dependent on a counterpart species that is no longer around {{spoiler\|because the Hyach killed them all}}.