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Such a character is liable to manifest some profound [[Survivor Guilt]], and the prospect of avenging their kind may develop into an obsession that acts as an [[Achilles' Heel]]. It will also provide an excuse for them to be substantially different (read: "better") in skill, abilities, or morality than the rest of the characters. However, the writers still need to be careful as to how they construct this [[Survivor Guilt]]: owing to [[Angst Dissonance]], even something as traumatic as this can still degenerate into [[Wangst]] if the character seems determined not to get over it and eventually move on, or if the character's pain is written in an unconvincing fashion.

 

 

Since this kind of loneliness is the sort of thing that could easily drive you mad, evil versions are about as common as good ones, particularly of the [[Nietzsche Wannabe]] strain. In general, being the last of one's kind is a polarizing experience: the only folks who tend to survive the death of their species are either the very best examples, or the very worst. The evil version will often carry a thematic notion that their very existence is an affront to the natural order, as they "ought" to have died with the rest of their kind, and it's rather rude of them to keep hanging on to life well past their time. Some really evil versions might even be ''responsible'' for the deaths of the rest of their race in a way (see [[Lobo]] below), as may [[The Atoner]] every once in a blue moon (see Tetrax, further below). In either case, if it was an engineered [[Genocide Backfire|genocide, it just backfired]].