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* ''[[The Picture of Dorian Gray]]'', in which the two main characters (Basil Hallward and Dorian Grey) are heavily implied to be gay or bisexual, ends up with two of them dead, one murdered by the other. The other later effectively committed suicide. This may be a reflection of the difficulties of being a gay man in Victorian England, though (Wilde himself eventually died in poverty after being imprisoned for "gross obscenity", i.e. having sex with men).

* ''Kiss of the Spider Woman'', in which the gay protagonist demonstrates his new-found bravery by accepting a suicide mission to pass a message to political revolutionaries.

* The ~~first -- and~~ so far ~~only -- plainly~~ gay characters in R.A. Salvatore's ''[[The Dark Elf Trilogy]]'' were... pirates. The [[Incredibly Lame Pun|horrible joke]] is (thankfully?) ruined, as they're ''lesbian'' pirates (bisexual in the case of one). At least they're properly pirate-y, not just [[Fan Service]], though that makes them bad guys. But guess what? All the gay ones die, [[Going Down with the Ship]] as it were ([[Incredibly Lame Pun|ugh]]). The bisexual one, who also happens to have maintained a male lover she coerced into working for the pirates, is a sorceress and manages to escape with him after he talks her into doing the right thing.

* The first—and so far only—plainly gay characters in R.A. Salvatore's ''[[The Dark Elf Trilogy]]'' were... pirates. The [[Incredibly Lame Pun|horrible joke]] is (thankfully?) ruined, as they're ''lesbian'' pirates (bisexual in the case of one). At least they're properly pirate-y, not just [[Fan Service]], though that makes them bad guys. But guess what? All the gay ones die, [[Going Down with the Ship]] as it were ([[Incredibly Lame Pun|ugh]]). The bisexual one, who also happens to have maintained a male lover she coerced into working for the pirates, is a sorceress and manages to escape with him after he talks her into doing the right thing.

* Margaret in ''Affinity'' intends to take her life at the end of the story. The TV adaptation explicitly shows her jumping into the Thames.

* Played as a [[Gay Aesop]] in ''The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay'', Sam Clay's too-good-to-be-true boyfriend Tracy is killed in action in World War II. Soon after, Sam marries fellow comic book writer Rosa Saks. Sam and Tracy were arrested in a raid, where the arresting officer basically raped Sam before letting him and Tracy go. Tracy wanted to know what happened, but Sam [[What the Hell, Hero?|breaks off the relationship and never tells Tracy why]]. Rosa becomes [[The Beard]] because she'd gotten pregnant before her fiancée Joe (also Sam's cousin and writing partner) ran off to join the Navy. After Joe comes back and is [[Easily Forgiven]], Sam is pretty much outed for the [[All Gays Are Promiscuous|multiple affairs he's had with other men]] and regrets having treated Tracy so poorly. Sam is forced to renounce his [[Jerkass]] [[Gayngst]] and [[Earn Your Happy Ending|move on with his own life.]] As for Tracy, being an [[Heroic Build|able-bodied American male]] on the eve of [[World War II]], he might have wanted to [[Truth in Television|join the Air Force regardless of his relationship status]]. No news on if Tracy ever found [[Hello, Sailor!|love in the barraks]].

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== Western Animation ==

* Surprisingly subverted in ''[[Superman: The Animated Series]]'' (That is, if [[Hide Your Lesbians|you managed to notice it at all]]), espcially since this is a show that is ''not'' [[Never Say "Die"|afraid to say "die"]]. Maggie Sawyer is blown out of her car during an attack by Intergang, and the next shot has her badly burned and motionless beneath a crushing pile of rubble, ''without'' [[Eye Awaken|moving her eyes]] or [[Finger-Twitching Revival|her fingers]]. Dan Turpin even calls the attackers "murderers" as he screams at them, so everything seems to be indicating that she [[Killed Off for Real|is really dead]]... [[Not Quite Dead|except she is alive]], and she returns later on in this and future episodes. In fact, her recovery is the first ([[Hide Your Lesbians|and only]]) appearance of her girlfriend in the series... and ''Turpin'' is later [[Killed Off for Real]].

* Weirdly enough, inverted in ''[[Superjail]]'' ~~-- a~~ gay couple are two of the few characters to ''survive'' every episode.

* Weirdly enough, inverted in ''[[Superjail]]''—a gay couple are two of the few characters to ''survive'' every episode.

* In the show ''[[Adventure Time]]'', a group of gladiators killed each other, and were forced to continue fighting each other in the afterlife as ghosts. [[Word of Gay|It was revealed months after the episode aired that the gladiators weren't brothers or friends; they were all homosexual couples.]] [[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?|This is a kid's show.]]