In the comics, the secret agent is on a mission retrieving an artifact from Jordan when everyone with a Y chromosome suddenly dies. The highly skilled, covert operative designated Agent 355 had been tasked with guarding President Campbell when the catastrophe happens in the show. The show is much more intentional and explicit about its depiction of gender and affirming trans, nonbinary and intersex people - Yorick isn’t “the last man,” he’s the last human with a Y chromosome. Clark has mentioned that this dated idea of fixed, binary gender is one aspect of the comics the show updates. While the comics acknowledge the existence of trans people, it is both fleeting and dated. Hero’s best friend Sam (Elliot Fletcher), a transgender man, is one of the original characters created for the TV series.
Could having a good friend keep Hero from falling in with a dangerous crowd? The show spends more time on Hero (Olivia Thirlby) and her story and she has a real friend from the very beginning.
Her making a friend (thanks to Yorick) is one of the key developments in Hero’s journey later in the series. Not much else about Hero’s life preceding and immediately following the catastrophe is shown in the comics, and when she eventually crosses paths with Yorick, it is revealed that she has joined a militant, trans-exclusionary gang of women known as Daughters of the Amazon. In both the comics and the show, Hero Brown - Yorick’s older sister - is an EMT who is with her boyfriend when the mass death event happens. For now, it appears neither Cunningham nor Oliver will be won over by President Brown and it’s unlikely that whatever they plan will be resolved as easily as the Republican dissent in the comics. Conservative personality Kimberly Campbell Cunningham (Amber Tamblyn), the previous president’s daughter who is none too happy about being excluded from government decisions, has been trying to assemble allies in the Pentagon and sees Oliver’s return as a blessing. Unlike in the comics, where the Republican uprising was quickly resolved, the political conflict still brews in the series led by new characters created for the show. representative-turned-president Jennifer Brown (Diane Lane) - Yorick’s mother - and the obstacles she faces as she tries to govern while worrying about her children. But the TV series, from executive producer-showrunner Eliza Clark, has kept closer track of U.S. Outside of an early uprising by Republican wives trying to claim their husbands’ elected seats, readers aren’t shown much about how the government tries to get the country back up and running.
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