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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[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 stated that {{spoiler|this is the real setting of the story. Humanity was wiped out via a combination of [[Gaia's
== Comic Books ==
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== Film ==
* ''[[
* 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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* ''[[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
== Live-Action TV ==
* One episode of ''[[The Outer Limits]]'' 1990s series had robots try to resurrect humanity, and in another, aliens.
* In the episode "The End of the World" from the new series of ''[[Doctor Who]]''
* ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' takes place millions of years after humanity's extinction.
* ''[[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.
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== Video Games ==
* 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.
* ''[[NieR]]'': {{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. The subsequent game ''[NieR Automata]]'' reveals that's exactly what happened.}}
* 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.
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