List of Y: The Last Man characters
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Y: The Last Man is a comic book series written by Brian K. Vaughan and published by Vertigo Comics, about one human male (and a male Capuchin monkey) surviving the spontaneous, simultaneous death of all other male mammals on Earth.
Protagonists
Yorick Brown
Yorick Brown is the last man on Earth. As such, he often has to travel in disguise to avoid drawing attention from groups like the Daughters of the Amazon. One possible reason he survived the plague is because he owned the monkey Ampersand, and handling Ampersand's feces in cleaning him up gave him Ampersand's resistance to the plague. Another is that a mystical ring protected him from the effects of the plague. Neither explanation is made explicitly clear as the reason for his survival. He is the son of Jennifer Brown. His sister is Hero Brown.
After the plague hit, Yorick became suicidal due to survivor's guilt; only intervention by Agent 711 restored his will to live. Yorick is also Beth Deville's boyfriend, and maintains a semi-monogamous relationship with her.
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