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Humanity was born in [[The Time of Myths]]<ref>The orphanage in which they grew up [[Conveniently Unverifiable Cover Story|burned down, making independent verification impossible]].</ref> and made their residence on [[Insignificant Little Blue Planet|the third planet in the Sol system, Milky Way galaxy, Orion Arm]]. Growing up, they created various technological marvels and were an active resident in the cosmos; some even say they were the [[Earth Is the Center of the Universe|center of cosmic life]]. Humanity's [[Easily-Thwarted Alien Invasion|former enemies]], currently [[Sealed Evil in a Can|residing in a can]], suspect their death may be due to [[Soiled City on a Hill|growing overly proud]] of their achievements.
They will be remembered for their philanthropic work as [[Precursors]], being prolific creators of not-yet-[[Lost Technology]], [[Humans Are Diplomats|stopping several galactic wars]]
Surviving humanity are the species they [[Uplifted Animal|uplifted to sapience]], [[Robot Roll Call|various models of robots]], and approximately [[
The funeral reception will be held in the Galactic Core on Stardate 2815.3, and burial in the [[Derelict Graveyard]] later that galactic rotation.
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* ''[[Texhnolyze]]'' {{spoiler|Those living on the surface are little more than shades of humans who live without purpose. The underground Lux is thrust into slaughter and carnage in the last few episodes, with essentially everyone dead by the end as the city goes dark.}}
* ''[[Utawarerumono]]'' It is
== Comic Books ==
* ''[[Atavar]]'' takes place in a future where humanity is extinct, having left behind a race of robots called UOS. UOS is bent on wiping out all life in the galaxy. Nice going, humans.
* ''[[Kamandi]]'' is the last ''intelligent'' human, with only beastlike beings incapable of speech and [[Uplifted Animal]]s remaining.
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▲* ''[[Nine]]''. The world is a tombstone for humanity.
* The aliens at the end of ''[[A.I.: Artificial Intelligence]]''.
** Although the movie never specifies one way or the other, it is implied (especially by the circuitry seen through their bodies) that these humanoid beings are not aliens, but robots like David. They are either the last creations of the extinct human species or of their own predecessors (robots building more sophisticated robots).
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* ''[[Rock and Rule]]'' depicts the humanoid descendants of dogs, cats, and rats (along with the occasional mutant) living atop and amongst the ruins of human civilization. They seem to have recreated a fairly accurate simulacrum of late '70s/early '80s North America.
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* There was a short story by [[Arthur C. Clarke]] about alien lifeforms from Venus studying the few remaining artifacts of the human found on a frozen Earth. The one that confuses them the most is a short film portraying people behaving in a variety of strange ways, revealed at the end to be {{spoiler|a [[Walt Disney]] cartoon}}.
* The book ''Re Body'', {{spoiler|Robots kill us all, revive a human head, and set out to destroy some uplifted animals we had created.}}
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* ''[[Last and First Men]]'' by Olaf Stapledon has all of the "First Men" killed in an atomic holocaust 100,000 years from now. Save for thirty-five who mutate into the Second Men, starting a cycle of extinction and replacement that continues for two billion years and 16 more species until the Eighteenth Men die when the Sun goes supernova.
* The short story ''Written on the Wind'' by David Levine, has a federation of alien races trying to decipher a message coded into the fabric of the universe, which turns out to be from humanity who destroyed the universe through nanotechnology; before the end they were able to program the nanites to rebuild the universe and create new and more diverse life.
* In short story ''Pots'' by C. J. Cherryh a race of aliens comes across a space probe with Pioneer plaque on the board, after mankind is long gone from the Earth. They attempt to find remaining descendants of humanity, while spreading romantic legend about the first space travelers across galaxy. They remake their whole social structure, with hibernation and [[Cloning Blues]] for top leaders and scientists, for this purpose. When group of
* ''[[The Daily Show]]'''s ''[[Earth (The Book)]]'' is addressed to a civilization that has
* One episode of ''[[The Outer Limits]]'' 1990s series had robots try to resurrect humanity, and in another, aliens.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* In the episode "The End of the World" from the new series of ''[[Doctor Who]]''
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▲* In the new series of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The End of the World" Cassandra claims to be the last human, but it turns out that there are billions of mutants and hybrids (most of whom look ''exactly'' like ''H. sapiens'') and she's just a racist.
* ''[[Life After People]]''.
* ''[[The Future Is Wild]]'' describes many animal species that evolve long after humanity has left the planet. In the last segment, a new type of tree-dwelling cephalopods show signs they may develop a civilization of their own.
** The book the documentary is based on plays this totally straight, with humanity having died out.
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The humans are dead.'' }}
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* Occurs in the gap between ''[[Mega Man ZX]]'' and ''[[Mega Man Legends]]''. Humanity managed first combined with reploids to become superior cyborgs, then created organic robots in the image of what humans used to be like (including ability to drown, which the hybrids of ''ZX'' lack) as a servant race, then true humanity goes extinct (at least on Earth), leaving the servant race behind to try and fend off the fail-safes that now think they've [[Turned Against Their Masters]]. The series [[MacGuffin]] of ''Legends'' is the last remaining sample of human DNA.▼
* ''[[
▲* Occurs in the gap between ''[[Mega Man ZX]]'' and ''[[Mega Man Legends]]''. Humanity managed first combined with reploids to become superior cyborgs, then created organic robots in the image of what humans used to be like as a servant race, then true humanity goes extinct, leaving the servant race behind to try and fend off the fail-safes that now think they've [[Turned Against Their Masters]]. The series [[MacGuffin]] of ''Legends'' is the last remaining sample of human DNA.
▲* ''[[Nie R]]'': {{spoiler|The events of the game ensure that the remnants of humanity will die out in a generation, as Gestalts can no longer prolong their descent to madness and Replicants cannot reproduce.}}
* In ''[[Escape Velocity]] Nova'', at least three of the storylines end with references to all of humanity [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence|ascending to a higher plane]], although it happens millennia after the player's involvement ceases.
* ''[[ULTRAKILL]]'' opens with the words "MANKIND IS DEAD. BLOOD IS FUEL. HELL IS FULL." The main character is a robot who heals by using the blood it spills, and hell is indeed full.
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* ''[[Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life]]'' follows the adventures of a pair of robots living in a solar system where humanity has died out due to sheer disinterest in procreation.▼
▲* [[Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life]] follows the adventures of a pair of robots living in a solar system where humanity has died out due to sheer disinterest in procreation.
* The segments with the Wandering Vagabond and crew in ''[[Homestuck]]''.
* A fairly common background to [[Furry Comics]], some notable examples:
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== Web Original ==
* Technically averted in the ''[[Orion's Arm]]'' setting. True members of ''Homo sapiens sapiens'' still exist in large numbers, but they are rare in comparison to the overall population of humanity's descendants and are generally only found in baseline reserves.
* In ''[[wikipedia:The Periodic Table of Science Fiction|The Periodic Table
* ''[[
== Western Animation ==
* There was an episode of ''[[Superfriends]]'' in which aliens find Earth devastated and lifeless. They search our records, find that one of the Legion of Doom's schemes had terrible unintended consequences, and used time travel to set things right without making their intervention too obvious.
* Similar to the above, one episode of ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' had Superman catapulted into the future thousands of years by a so-called disintegration ray, where he discovered [[Good Thing You Can Heal|Vandal Savage]] had inadvertently wiped out the rest of humanity in one of his attempts at world domination. As the only sentient being on Earth, [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|he went insane]], grew [[Bored with Insanity]], and then invited Superman home for dinner. "Like you've got anything better to do."
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