Tvtropes Last Man Standing

When the world goes silent, survival begins. A global blackout ends everything — power, communication, and control. In one terrifying instant, cities burn and the modern world disappears. High in the River-mouth Mountains, Caleb Cross, a quiet hydroplant engineer, becomes the unwilling leader of strangers trapped in the dark. As panic turns to hunger and trust turns to fear, Caleb must keep them alive while the outside world collapses into violence. Every night brings new threats: desperate survivors, freezing storms, and the crushing silence of a planet gone dead. In the darkness, leadership costs blood. In the quiet, humanity is tested. And when the last light fades, Caleb will learn what kind of man survives after the quiet.

Six years ago, Kaedric Ashbane disappeared after his entire family was slaughtered. Everyone believed the last heir of House Ashbane had died a coward. Six years later, he returns as the Protector of Midgard—the one man dragons answer to. But the home he came back to is worse than he imagined. The woman who waited for him has been turned into a servant. The daughter he never knew existed has become the target of a conspiracy powerful enough to erase entire bloodlines. They should have killed him when they had the chance. Because Kaedric did not come home for revenge alone. He came home to finish a war that never truly ended.

THE SILENT SHAREHOLDER Eli Vance was always the one nobody noticed, the quiet outsider married into a family that treated him like hired help. Then a stranger in a dive bar hands him two documents that change everything: his dead father still owns 34% of the company that destroyed him, and his death was never a suicide. Posing as a low-level clerk inside the very firm that bears his family’s name, Eli begins piecing together a conspiracy that reaches from the boardroom to his own dinner table. Every signature, every fabricated file, every carefully buried secret leads him closer to the truth, and to the people who thought a broken, unremarkable man was the last person they needed to fear. They were wrong.

Alan Walker returned home after four years serving as a captain in the elite Advanced Tactical Command, expecting to reunite with the woman he sacrificed everything for. Instead, he is met with betrayal. Lucia, the wife he left behind, has moved on and married the wealthy and influential Michael Fletcher. Humiliated and pressured into signing divorce papers, Alan becomes the laughingstock of high society. What no one knows is that Alan is far more than a forgotten soldier. Behind his quiet demeanor lies the secret mastermind of Gold Aries, a rapidly rising conglomerate capable of shaking the corporate world. Rather than seeking revenge openly, Alan begins dismantling the corrupt network surrounding Lucia’s family and Michael Fletcher through calculated moves and hidden influence. As his plans unfold, Alan crosses paths with Hazel Hades, a strong-willed heiress fighting to escape an arranged marriage. Their contract marriage begins as a strategic alliance, but together they soon become an unstoppable force against the ruthless elites standing in their way. In a world driven by power, greed, and betrayal, Alan Walker is about to prove that the man everyone underestimated is the most dangerous one of all.

Ten years of blood, sweat, and iron—Aaron Holmes climbed from the abyss to become Lord Holmes, the youngest and most revered supreme commander in the nation's history. Standing before a million elite troops at his grand investiture ceremony, he is offered supreme glory. But a single, static-filled phone call shatters his world: "Daddy, please save me... they locked me in the dark."

To Sophia, Michael was nothing but a placeholder husband. To Victoria, he was a stray dog they kept around for pity. But when Henry – his father-in-law, the only one who ever showed him kindness, lay dying, everything changed. Little did Michael know that the Donovan empire was about to be willed to him. “Would you want to become the head of the Donovan family?” Henry asked. The question hit Michael like a wave— unbelievable, impossible. He wasn’t born to power, was he? Yet, Henry saw something in him that no one else ever did: strength, loyalty, heart. Unfortunately, this only brought more hate to Michael from the patriarch’s daughters. “You’ll never see a single cent of this family’s money,” Victoria spat. After Henry died, they manipulated the will and threw him out. But the truth about Michael’s past is bigger than anyone can imagine. He isn’t just some helpless man with a forgotten name. He’s the heir to a legacy, the storm standing quietly at the door. He’s the lost heir to the mighty Ainsley family. A mighty storm they didn’t see coming.

As he handed everyone their room key , he smiled as he gave the last one out . All 39 rooms were filled up. After dinner , he rang a bell to summon everyone to the dinning table. "What's going on ? Haven't went had dinner already?" Room number 13 asked What they didnt know was that this dinner was for him not for them . "I'm sorry to announce this but i'll have you know that as you walked in here of your own accord "Arnold's eye turned bloodshot red "There's no going out " *** Forced to take his own life, the raving ghost of a man filled with revenge takes over the body of a young man called Arnold. It builds a hotel which he named after his first love because it needed blood to keep it around much longer until it's able to take it's revenge. Would his plan be successful or would this vengeance-filled ghost be exorcised before it even has it's chance?. Find out in this blood-thrilling horror story.

Popularly known as Alexander The Loser, Alex gets challenged by his fiance's father to bring $10,000 in a month. However, he loses his job, his mother dies of cancer, and on the last day of the challenge, his girlfriend betrays him by getting married, causing him misery. As Alex struggles to accept all this, his mother's best friend, who owns an empire worth trillions, offers to help Alex become like him. Filled with a desire for revenge, Alex transforms into a man of power and wealth. He vows to make those who once mocked him rue the day they broke his heart. Alex The Loser is dead. The day Alexander The Great arrives, everyone bows!

They called him a cripple. They called him a servant. They called him the most worthless man alive. Alex Vex has no magic. In a world defined by flashy elemental spells and cultivation ranks, he is forced to live as the disposable, live-in son-in-law to the prestigious Lin family—a necessary evil to shame their talented daughter, Lin Mei. To humiliate him further, they enroll him in the Silverpeak Battle Academy, expecting him to be crushed in the lowest tier, Class F. What they don't know is that Alex is not a man of this world. He is Subject 001—the last functioning super-soldier, the "Man-Made God" from the long-dead Aethelian Empire—a civilization that mastered physics, bio-engineering, and kinetic efficiency far beyond this world’s petty magic. When a Level 50 Fire Dragon attacks the campus, the mages scream and prepare their grandest spells. Alex? He sees a flawed biological weapon with seven weak points and a ninety-second expiry date. The world believes they are preparing to sacrifice their useless son-in-law. Alex is simply waiting for them to show him their necks.

Famine had taken a toll on the humans; this had set everyone to find what to sleep on for survival, Elrond a young orphan went on a hunt into the heart of the woods from the Charevibe where they stayed in search of a deer for venison, he heard whispers of strange folks that lured him into something he believed his eyes were tricking him.  This transgression into a foreboding land had wrecked the looming darkness upon them and now the trolloc invades in search of the faeries white wolf that protected the light and magick of the Elderwood. A black hood and a masked man bear at their door as the great sweeps of the north continue. Elrond is saved by a fate so cruel or eerie that awaits him as he either perishes or takes the hand of the pointed-ear stranger, who is also an enemy of their kind and a protector of the last Elderwood– the high elves.