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* The ultimate fate of Gilbert in ''[[Kaze to Ki no Uta]]''.

* Subverted in the ''[[Lupin III]]'' TV Special ''An Angel's Tactics''. Bisexual [[Bifauxnen]] Lady Joe is the only one of the villainesses who survives.

* Maya in ''[[Maya's Funeral Procession]]'' is burned to death minutes after learning that her love interest is [[Incest Is Relative|really her half-sister]]. Said love interest marries a man not long afterwards.

* Mimi and Sheshe of ''[[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]]'' are killed in the second arc by their own employer. It's much worse for them in the manga, where they're [[I'm a Humanitarian|eaten alive]] without warning, than in the anime, where their life force is simply absorbed after they [[Heel Face Turn|rebel]].

* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'': Of course, all the relationships end badly, so Shinji and Kaworu's relationship is not unique here. It is unique in that Shinji has to kill him.

* Rei Asaka/"Hana no Saint-Juste" in ''[[Oniisama e...]]'', although in depends on which adaptation you are following: In the anime she dies suddenly in an accident just when it's beginning to look as though she and her love interest Nanako are getting a happy ending; in the manga, it's suicide after her other "love interest", her half-sister Fukiko, gives her a cruel [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]].

* Happens twice to Sailors Uranus and Neptune in ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', the first time when their heart crystals were extracted for the Talismans, and the second time after [[I Surrender, Suckers|faking]] a [[Face Heel Turn]] just to try to remove Galaxia's star seed only to find out that Galaxia doesn't have one. Both times the trope then gets subverted because [[Unexplained Recovery|they got better]]. They survive the longest out of the main cast (aside from Sailor Moon) in the final arc. Sailors Mercury, Mars Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto are all killed off before them. Slightly mitigated in that in the final arc (when Uranus and Neptune are killed in the manga), we get the deaths and revivals of numerous unnamed civilians, Sailor Saturn, and Sailor Pluto, not to mention that the backstory has all of the Inner Senshi die and come back to life.

* Simone in ''[[Shiroi Heya no Futari]]'' is stabbed by a jealousy-crazed male admirer.

== Fan Series ==

** It's also because the episode is based on a script David Gerrold wrote for ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' that [[Gay Panic|kept getting punted into the wastebasket]]. [[Fair for Its Day|For when the episode was originally envisioned, having gay characters in a relationship would be revolutionary, even if one of them died at the end]]. For the 21st century, [[Unfortunate Implications|well]]...

* Partially subverted in [[China Mieville]]'s ''[[Iron Council]]'': Cutter, who is gay, is one of the few characters to ''survive'' but his on-off boyfriend Judah is shot in one of the final scenes.

* [[Robin Hobb]]'s latest trilogy averts this; Sedric and Carson seem to be on their way to a happy ending.

** Similar to the 40k example, Jame and her wife Cathie in the first [[Alien vs. Predator]] novel are among 4 characters to make it to the end and are actually among the nicest most sympathetic characters in it. Their relationship is a [[Hide Your Gays|bit more subtle]] in the comics though.

* C J L Almquist's ''The Queen's Tiara'', which is set in Sweden in 1792, has Tintomara, who pretty much personifies [[Attractive Bent Gender]]. Two sisters and their respective suitors fall in love with her, the men thinking she's a woman, the girls convinced that she's male (at least initially). The men fight a [[Duel to the Death]] over her, the sisters go insane, and Tintomara herself is eventually killed for her refusal to pick a gender role and stick with it.

** Two more lesbian ghost characters turn up. Peggy, who has been long dead, and Maya, who was killed by the villain to provide Thelma with a girlfriend, thus giving him a hold on her. Admittedly, when you already have one lesbian ghost, who else is she going to get physical with? But then Maya proceeds to get [[Deader Than Dead|even deader]] at the hands of the heroine.

** Male gay character Tom ends up dying. At the hands of the man he fancies. Ouch.

** ''Hollyoaks'' also featured the death of Kieran, the gay priest, but averted this trope nicely when John-Paul and Craig went off into the sunset together, both fully comfortable with their sexuality and their relationship. It should also be noted that ''Hollyoaks'' features character deaths quite frequently, and that the majority of the gay or bisexual characters on the show remain alive and well.

* Another British soap, ''[[Emmerdale]]'' had Aaron and Jackson. Aaron was a violent thug, who got worse when he realised, and hated the fact that, he was gay. Eventually, he settled down with Jackson, who could tame him. They were happy, accepted. Then Jackson became paraplegic and begged Aaron to help him die until he agreed.

== Video Games ==

* Abu'l Nuquod in ''[[Assassin's Creed]]'' is very, ''very'' strongly implied to be gay due to his speech about being taunted by his neighbors for being "different" and refusing to serve a god who considers him an abomination. Unfortunately, he's also a bad guy, so Altair chases him down and stabs him in the throat. It doesn't help that while Altair mentions Abu'l's greed, decadence, and theft from his people as reasons that he needs to die, ''nobody ever said that''. Going purely by what you hear around the city he's not such a bad guy. Granted, he does poison his party guests, but Altair didn't know that was going to happen.

* Sorta subverted but not really in ''[[Phantasmagoria]] 2''. Trevor is the last out of four characters to be murdered, and specifically because Curtis loved him the most. However, he also dies right after admitting that he loves Curtis and right before they can kiss. The [[Shallow Love Interest|female love interest survives]], apparently remembering that she was, in fact, a character in the game after [[Ten-Minute Retirement|disappearing from the last half of it or so]].

* Subverted in the ''[[Shadow Hearts]]'' series, where straight couples kick the bucket with astonishing regularity while gay characters fulfill their romantic relationships.

* ''[[Cuanta Vida]]'' has BLU Sniper Liam and RED Spy Gabry. Gabry is killed taking a bullet for Liam. [[Together in Death|Liam commits assisted suicide later]], after losing his eyes.

* Mecha Maid in ''[[Spinnerette]]'' is terminally ill and apparently a lesbian.

** Of course, due to the fact that the main characters are 13, it's currently impossible to say which characters have what sexual orientations. The trolls do not regard gender as having any bearing on sex and Kanaya is considered gay because all her love interests have been women and [[Word of God|Hussie]] said she was through it would be more like a fetish to troll culture, and as a troll she has likely never heard of the concept of sexual orientation.

* ''[[Goodbye Chains]]'' has a rare inversion, wherein Banquo, the very straight, very promiscuous gunslinger gets killed off [http://www.goodbyechains.com/index.php?page=315\], leaving behind Colin, his gay and lovestruck partner in crime.

* [[Older Than Feudalism]]: The [[wikipedia:Harmodius and Aristogeiton|Tyrannicides]]: Short version, Greek noble Aristogeiton is upset that the tyrant's brother Hipparchus keeps putting the moves on his boy toy (Harmodius), so the couple decide it's time for the tyrant (Hippias) and his brother to go. An elaborate assassination is plotted, but botched, killing Hipparchus but not Hippias, as well as Harmodius. Aristogeiton is of course captured, but manages to trick Hippias into [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|killing him during the interrogation]].

* After a typical yet fateful taping of the ''Jenny Jones'' episode "Same-Sex Secret Crushes", Scott Amedure was killed sometime later by Jonathan Schmitz, the very person he had a crush on.

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