Birth-Death Juxtaposition: Difference between revisions

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=== '''As a [[Death Trope]], all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware.''' ===

== Anime and Manga ==

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* In ''[[Millennium Actress]]'', Chiyoko is born in a great earthquake that took her father's life. Chiyoko expresses the belief that [[Heroic Sacrifice|he died so she could be born]].

* In ''[[Bokurano]]'', [[Bokukko|Maki Anou]]'s battle happens around the time her baby brother is born. With the power of Zearth, she's able to witness it before she dies, even getting to briefly hold the newborn in her arms.

* The end of ''[[Romeo X Juliet]]'' mixes this with [[Babies Ever After]], as Romeo and Juliet die but the [[Where Are They Now Epilogue]] shows the [[Beta Couple]] of Benvolio and Cordelia with their firstborn.

* The end of ''[[Romeo X Juliet]]'' mixes this with [[Babies Ever After]], as Romeo and Juliet die but the [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]] shows the [[Beta Couple]] of Benvolio and Cordelia with their firstborn.

* This technically happened in ''[[Dragonball Z]]'', where Goku got Chi Chi pregnant just before dying in the Cell games, but it's not shown that Chi Chi had a son until several episodes later (seven years in the storyline).

* In the fast-paced anime movie ''[[Dead Leaves]]'', one of the focuses is on the conception, birth, aging and death of the main characters' baby, all in one day!

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== [[Fanfic]] ==

* In a [[Fanfic]] this troper wrote for ''[[The Lion King]]'', one character (the [[Large and In Charge]] king) was [[Family Unfriendly Death|torn apart by a pack of jackals]] while the [[Star Crossed Lovers]] were conceiving their cub--[[Mood Whiplash|with intercuts between the scenes]]. The fact the dying character [[Like Father Like Son|was the ancestor of Mufasa and Simba]], while those having sex were [[Start of Darkness|the ancestors of Zira]], only made the juxtaposition all the more meaningful. Looking back, it seems horribly [[Anvilicious]] now, but it seemed like a good idea at the time.

* In a [[Fanfic]] this troper wrote for ''[[The Lion King]]'', one character (the [[Large and In Charge]] king) was [[Family-Unfriendly Death|torn apart by a pack of jackals]] while the [[Star-Crossed Lovers]] were conceiving their cub--[[Mood Whiplash|with intercuts between the scenes]]. The fact the dying character [[Like Father Like Son|was the ancestor of Mufasa and Simba]], while those having sex were [[Start of Darkness|the ancestors of Zira]], only made the juxtaposition all the more meaningful. Looking back, it seems horribly [[Anvilicious]] now, but it seemed like a good idea at the time.

** Care to provide a link?

*** ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5959382/1/Pride_Lands_Generations Pride Lands: Generations]''.

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** ''Species II'' shows this connection even more directly, where we get to see women impregnated by an alien dying giving birth to their gruesome offspring. Other scenes simply show the alien baby sitting beside it's mother's bloody corpse.

* ''[[Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (Bollywood)|Kuch Kuch Hota Hai]]'' starts with the birth of Anjali and the death of her mother Tina.

* The [[Tear Jerker]] Cleansing of the House montage from the end of the first ''Children of Dune'' film (which, incidentally, ''combines'' this trope with [[Death By Childbirth]]), all set to the tune of a [[One Woman Wail]].

* The [[Tear Jerker]] Cleansing of the House montage from the end of the first ''Children of Dune'' film (which, incidentally, ''combines'' this trope with [[Death By Childbirth]]), all set to the tune of a [[One-Woman Wail]].

** The cleansing includes the executions of Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam and Guild Navigator Edric.

* In the movie ''[[Angus]]'', the titular character's father died as his mother gave birth to him.

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* Not birth exactly, but similar: in ''[[The Grapes of Wrath (Literature)|The Grapes of Wrath]],'' Rose of Sharon (who's pregnant) and her husband have sex as the family arrives in California. When they get there they discover the grandmother is dead, and Rose of Sharon is horrified as she considers the juxtaposition.

* In N. Perumow's "Hierward Chronicles", there are Elemental Mages, which are personalized powers. Those powers can only belong to one generation, so if one of the mages has children, they all begin to loose their powers and die (unless they can secure some auxiliary magic source, but even they they are vulnerable, whereas before they just re-spawned if killed). Conversely, if all Mage are wiped out, new are spawned by magic.

* ''[[Literature/Song Of Solomon|Song Of Solomon]]'' begins with a man named Robert Smith on the roof of the hospital, falling to his death as he attempts to fly with a suit he has created. One of the women in the crowd of onlookers goes into labor, and the next day gives birth to the protagonist, Milkman, becomes the first black child born in that same hospital. He then grows up and learns to fly himself. [[Maybe Magic Maybe Mundane|Sort of/maybe]].

* ''[[Literature/Song Of Solomon|Song Of Solomon]]'' begins with a man named Robert Smith on the roof of the hospital, falling to his death as he attempts to fly with a suit he has created. One of the women in the crowd of onlookers goes into labor, and the next day gives birth to the protagonist, Milkman, becomes the first black child born in that same hospital. He then grows up and learns to fly himself. [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane|Sort of/maybe]].

* Enforced out of necessity, due to limited resources, at the beginning of [[Robert Silverberg]]'s ''At Winter's End''. Almost no one's allowed to conceive a child to begin with; the few who ''are'' allowed to procreate are required to wait until someone's committed ritual suicide at the allotted age.

* ''[[Warrior Cats (Literature)|Warrior Cats]]'': Cinderpelt dies shortly before Cinderkit is born.

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* In ''[[House (TV)|House]]'', a pregnant woman was ill but they got the baby out. For a minute, it looks like they're both going to die but the baby cries on its own. At exactly the same time, the mother dies. [[Tear Jerker|It's seriously depressing.]]

* ''[[Lost (TV)|Lost]]'': "Do No Harm." Boone dies, and Aaron is born.

* ''[[NCIS (TV)|NCIS]]'': In "Newborn King." The poor woman gives birth {{spoiler|in the backseat of a broken down car, parked in a gas station garage, in a blizzard, on Christmas, [[It Got Worse|during a shootout with Russian mercenaries who want to kill her and kidnap her child]], [[Arson Murder and Jaywalking|with]] ''[[Arson Murder and Jaywalking|Gibbs]]'' [[Arson Murder and Jaywalking|as the midwife.]] This is interspersed with a desperately outnumbered and outgunned Ziva singlehandedly defending them against an onslaught of Russian mercenaries.}}

* ''[[NCIS (TV)|NCIS]]'': In "Newborn King." The poor woman gives birth {{spoiler|in the backseat of a broken down car, parked in a gas station garage, in a blizzard, on Christmas, [[It Got Worse|during a shootout with Russian mercenaries who want to kill her and kidnap her child]], [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|with]] ''[[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|Gibbs]]'' [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|as the midwife.]] This is interspersed with a desperately outnumbered and outgunned Ziva singlehandedly defending them against an onslaught of Russian mercenaries.}}

* Toyed with in ''[[Scrubs (TV)|Scrubs]]'': Dr. Cox doesn't want his daughter's birth to be announced until later, over concern that her birth will forever be associated with Laverne's death.

** JD explicitly states that this is one of the beautiful things about working in a hospital in the episode "My Philosophy", such as patients receiving life-saving donor organs from someone who just died or (unfortunately) the possible death of either a mother or child to save the other's life. He refers to it as the "circle of life" (he likes that lion cub)

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* In ''DMFA'', there are always 2,438,165 [[The Fair Folk|Fae]]. When one dies, their relatives get to auction the rights to have a kid, or a random Fae becomes a parent all of the sudden.

* In ''[[Anders Loves Maria]]'', the titular Maria gives birth and dies, while one of the other characters is busy catapulting herself off a bridge.

* In ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Gunnerkrigg Court]]'', a [[Half Human Hybrid|human with]] [[Elemental Embodiment|fire-elemental]] [[Half Human Hybrid|blood]] passes their life force onto their first child. They grow weaker as the child grows older, and die when the child is about 12 years old. Surma Carver was one such person; her daughter Antimony only learns of these facts, and that she'll go through the same thing as well, three year after Surma's death.

* In ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Gunnerkrigg Court]]'', a [[Half-Human Hybrid|human with]] [[Elemental Embodiment|fire-elemental]] [[Half-Human Hybrid|blood]] passes their life force onto their first child. They grow weaker as the child grows older, and die when the child is about 12 years old. Surma Carver was one such person; her daughter Antimony only learns of these facts, and that she'll go through the same thing as well, three year after Surma's death.