We study the extremality of nonexpansive mappings on a non-empty bounded, closed, and convex subset of a normed space (therein specific Banach spaces). We show that surjective isometries are extremal in this sense for many Banach spaces, including Banach spaces with the Radon–Nikodym property and all C(K) -spaces for compact Hausdorff K . We also conclude that the typical, in the sense of Baire category, nonexpansive mapping is close to being extremal.