"Glad to Be Alive" Sex: Difference between revisions

 

Sometimes overlaps with [[Last-Minute Hookup]], particularly in one shot works. [[Standard Hero Reward]] is a [[Lighter and Softer]] version of this. [[You Don't Want to Die a Virgin, Do You?]] and [[Pre-Climax Climax]] occur when they decide not to risk not surviving. See also [[Intimate Psychotherapy]]. [[Sex Is Good]] is the supertrope that allows this one to make sense.

 

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* Invoked in an advertisement for Bridgestone tires, where the GPS advises an elderly couple the best route to a makeout spot:

{{quote|Turn right in fifteen feet (car cuts across several lanes of traffic and into a narrow alley). Stomp on the brakes (car stops just before it drives off a cliff).

(Couple turns to each other and begins kissing furiously as romantic music swells.) }}

 

* In ''[[Wicked City]]'', [[Dark Action Girl]] Makie and [[Badass Normal]] Taki have sex after a Black World extremist ambush nearly kills them both. {{spoiler|In a subversion, it's actually a ''huge'' plot point: a part of [[The Plan]] of their boss Giuseppe included them getting emotionally and sexually involved since not only Makie would became a [[Pregnant Badass]] and experience a big power-up from that... but her and Taki's future child would be ''the first human/demon hybrid kid'', the living proof that humans and demons ''can'' live in peace together.}}

* In ''[[Princess Lover]]!'', after Teppei saves her from an out of control train, Charlotte thanks him (off-screen) in a gratuitously erotic way. Silvie's facial expressions tell the story.

* The ''[[Code Geass]]'' fanfic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6969408/1/ In the End]'': it's not exactly clear what happens in the haystack between {{spoiler|Lelouch and C.C after she bathes him}} but the author mentions how they were sleeping side-by-side when {{spoiler|Orange found them}}.

* Somewhere on the internet, there ''has'' to be a [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Post-Third Impact]] story where Shinji and Asuka do this after the camera had cut away...

* In the ''[[DC Nation]]'' universe, [http://community.livejournal.com/jla_watchtower/481353.html this] and [[Intimate Psychotherapy]] happened between Beast Boy and Fauna after [http://community.livejournal.com/jla_watchtower/tag/plague Ra's al Ghul's plague]. Their altered, animal-based physiology left them ''completely immune'' to the plague's effects while virtually everyone else was dying around them, and one of the ingredients Ra's used in the plague was some of Gar's blood.

* A ''[[Persona 4]]'' fanfic, ''[http://fasterassembly.livejournal.com/25712.html Goes Down Alone]'' is pretty much about [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]] culminating into this trope. It's actually more dramatic than [[Not Safe for Work|erotic]].

* Ken Wolfe's series of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' fics (found on the [[Sailor Moon/Fanfic Recs|Sailor Moon Fanfics Recs page]]) have as a mostly-background feature an affair between Minako and Ami, founded on this following their revivals after fighting Beryl {{spoiler|, and later, Galaxia}}.

 

* The end of most ''[[James Bond]]'' films.

** Actually lampshaded in the ''[[Moonraker]]'' novelization.

* Possibly implied at the end of ''[[Die Hard]]'', in which {{spoiler|John and his wife reunite, kiss, and climb into the back of a limo.}} Although it may be asking a bit much of our hero after his ordeal.

* At least one of the many sex scenes in ''[[w:9½ Weeks|9½ Weeks]]'', with Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke.

* An interesting example in the Japanese film ''[[Departures]]''. The guy comes home from his first session of preparing corpses for burial, and quickly gets hot for his wife. It's not that he was ever in danger of dying, but being around a corpse just spooked him so much that he wants to have sex so he can feel alive again. (Made more interesting by the fact that his wife doesn't actually know what his job is.)

* At the end of ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'', this is likely what Jessica has in mind when she urges Roger to come home with the promise of a "carrot cake".

== Live-Action TV ==

* In ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'', it's #26 on Lily's reasons to have sex.

* Wash and Zoe from ''[[Firefly]]''.

** Jayne says something about this to Book in "The Message" when they are talking about how they deal with death. The also say something similar when they are defending the brothel in "Heart of Gold."

{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Simon'''}}: In all this, if there's one thing I regret, it's never having the chance... to be with you.

{{spoiler|'''Kaylee'''}}: You mean to say, as in... sex?

== Music ==

* Bonnie "Prince" Billy's "Death To Everyone" combines this with a healthy doese of [[Existentialism]].

 

== Video Games ==

* You can bring up the subject with Zevran in ''[[Dragon Age]]''--specifically, the idea of ravishing him during the celebration.

* The first H Scene between Hisao and {{spoiler|Lilly}} during her route in the [[Visual Novel]] ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]'' for all intents and purposes boils down this {{spoiler|because it happens after Hisao experiences a heart flutter. It is more "Glad ''you're'' alive sex" in Lilly's case.}}

 

== Web Comics ==

 

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