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** A [[Complete Monster|less sympathetic version]] is implied to be {{spoiler|Captain Continental who was supposedly killed by Leonard after he cut his penis off as revenge for him raping Jonathan.}}
* The main character from [[Claudine]] is a female-to-male [[Transsexualism]]. He takes his own life when it's all but stated that the [[Love Triangle]] between himself, his girlfriend Sirene and his brother Andre is not tipping towards him.
* A transgender variant pops up in one chapter of ''He Said "I'm A Girl"''. Yuki makes a comment on how one of her friends was [[Gay Panic|killed by her boyfriend]] after learning she was trans.
== Comic Books ==
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* ''Justice League: Cry for Justice'' seemed like one of the more queer-inclusive products DC was putting out in recent days -- it has both [[Batwoman]] ''and'' Mikaal Tomas in the book's main superteam. Surprise! Mikaal's boyfriend is killed off for pathos' sake (offscreen), and obscure gay superhero the Tasmanian Devil is killed ''and skinned'' (again, offscreen) to set up the villain as a threat. Batwoman gets lucky by just disappearing from the series, and luckily had her own book planned that spared her from getting killed.
** In a prime example of "Oops, we done fucked up," James Robinson has now resurrected Tasmanian Devil (via a Lazarus Pit), and it looks like he and Mikaal may get together at some point.
* In Matt Wagner's ''Grendel'' series, [[Action Girl|bad-ass]] bodyguard and fighter Susan Veraghen is portrayed as a lesbian. Her first lover abandons her. Her next lover is brutally killed. Her ''next'' lover abandons her and THEN is brutally killed. Veraghan herself lives to a ripe old age, but only after she falls in [[Courtly Love]] with the (male) Grendel Prime.
* Knockout, one of the bad-guys in DC's fantastic ''[[Secret Six]]'' died essentially offscreen between the first mini-series and the ongoing comic. Her lover Scandal Savage is left devastated although thankfully not insane or any more evil than before. Knockout was a "New God" and killed off with the rest in the ''[[Final Crisis]]'' arc, so it gets a pass as her death didn't come off like such an afterthought within the confines of someone else's comic book or because of her lesbian relationship, and the writer, [[Gail Simone]], was not happy that the character had to die. It also helps that in the finale of ''Secret Six'' they go to Hell and get Knockout back.
* Terry Moore's various series often deal with human sexuality in a mature and intelligent fashion, exploring what might force a person to reassess their self-identification and what impact societal pressures and expectations have on human desires, but when ''[[Echo]]'' needs to show its villain beginning to lose his grasp on his sanity and [[Villainous Breakdown|begin to break down]] he, of course, kills his boyfriend to keep him from leaving.
* After writer [[Peter David]] brought Rictor and Shatterstar together, many people guessed that he'd kill one or both of them off, to which he responded that he was aware of this trope and would purposefully avoid it.
* An [http://www.bumbleking.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5334 unintentional] example, one can't help but think this with Rotor's brutal torture (and his significant other Cobar's implied death) shortly after their [[Word of Gay]] reveal in the ''[[Archie Comics Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' story "Mobius: 25 Years Later". The fact that writers Ian Flynn and Ken Penders (the one who wrote the torture and revealed the Word of Gay, respectively) are at odds about each other's writings, and the former's denouncement of the Word of Gay as "irrelevant" years earlier, didn't help matters any.
* It's suggested that John Reddear from The Tamakis' ''[[Skim]]'' was in love with another boy from his Catholic school and is part of the reason he committed suicide at the start of the story. Unfortunately this sort of happens all too often in real life.
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== Fan Series ==
* Unfortunately, in "Blood and Fire", an episode of ''[[Star Trek New Voyages|Star Trek Phase II]]''. Kirk's redshirt nephew Peter is deeply in love with medical tech Alex Freeman, and the two plan to marry. (Everyone charmingly takes this for granted.) Alex ends up the last person alive on a doomed research ship, killing himself seconds before the Regulan bloodworms get to him. This was probably supposed to be reminiscent of Robert Tomlinson and Angela Martine in the TOS episode "Balance of Terror".
** 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]]...
== Film ==
* ''[[Two Thousand Maniacs!|2001 Maniacs]]'' - The [[Token Minority|gay guy]] is [[Death by Sex|sodomized to death]].
* ''[[Trailer Park Of Terror]]'' - A group of [[Cure Your Gays|troubled teens on a Christian retreat]] get [[Ironic Hell|tormented]] according to their most offensive [[Anvilicious|sin]] by a gang of supernatural [[Deep South|trailer]] [[Corrupt Hick|trash]]. The leader gets some [[Incredibly Lame Pun|head]] while cheating on his wife, [[Drugs Are Bad|the doper gets it after doing dope]], the [[A Date with Rosie Palms|masturbator]] gets a not-so-happy ending, the [[Alpha Bitch|hetero couple]] gets [[The Bible]] misquoted at them for their [[Death by Sex|premarital sex]] before getting murdered. But the [[But Not Too Gay|gay]] guy? Well, he gets hit by a car, nothing to do with his "sin" to avoid showing the sin, unlike the rest of the characters, [[Unfortunate Implications|because gay sex would be too terrible to show in a movie filled with endless, varied torture and murder in loving close-up]]. Breasts are also too terrible to show. The writer tried to make the gay guy's primary sin different halfway through by having the gay guy literally throw the goth girl at one of the monsters so that he could escape, which only made him a [[Depraved Homosexual]]. [[Have I Mentioned I Am Gay?|And we only know that he's gay because another character calls the gay guy various epithets.]]
** Speaking of [[Depraved Homosexual|Depraved Homosexuals]], there's Larlene, who gets killed once for being a [[Psycho Lesbian|scary lesbian]] [[Have I Mentioned I Am Gay?|spouting sexually harassing threats at a het woman]], and then killed again for being a [[Lesbian Vampire|Lesbian Zombie]], who [[Incredibly Lame Pun|eats out]] a young female.
*** But don't worry: [[It Was His Sled|A heterosexual survives]].
* [[9 Dead Gay Guys]]: [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|All there in the title.]] The two protagonists,one straight and one gay, live.
* ''Beyond the Valley of the Dolls'' in some way subverted this trope. Though the lesbian couple in the film were not the only ones to die in the show, their fate was specifically mentioned in the sarcastic voice-over ending as not being based around the fact that their relationship was in any way evil. Of course, they also weren't the only people to die, just the only ones for whom it wasn't supposed to be a consequence or punishment of their wrongdoing according to that monologue.
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* In [[Bent]], it is a movie about two gay men in a concentration camp during the holocaust. Use your imagination.
* Lucy bites it at the end of [[High Art]].
* ''Cruising'' is also a serial killer stalking New York City's gay leather subculture, and Al Pacino going undercover to stop this. In contrast to the acres of dead sexually active perverts, Al's neighbor, Ted, is offered up as a contrast - he has a steady boyfriend and hates the idea of cruising. And he dies, too.
* The 1987 thriller ''[[No Way Out]]'' features a [[Depraved Homosexual]] as the story's main antagonist. When his [[Unrequited Love]] for the man he's protecting from a murder accusation is outed, he [[Driven to Suicide|shoots himself]] and is posthumously framed both for the murder and for being a [[Red Herring Mole|Soviet mole]].
* The titular funeral in [[Four Weddings and a Funeral]]. The eulogy delivered for Gareth got the main character thinking about love and marriage, setting up the climax.
* ''[[Independence Day]]'' features a walking -- nay, prancing -- gay stereotype played by Harvey Fierstein. Naturally, the aliens get him.
* [[Your Highness]] gets extra special mention for Boremont, who reveals his love for Fabious, [[Dying Declaration of Love|as Fabious is stabbing him]].
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== Literature ==
* [[Older Than Feudalism]]: Although the story of Sodom was probably originally about [[Sacred Hospitality|the treatment of guests]] (read: don't gang rape them), Jewish authors were already reading it as against homosexuality around 100 BCE. When things started to get worse for homosexuals and bisexuals in Europe in the 13th and 14th century, Sodom narratives became more common. The first known in English is ''Cleanness'' by the Pearl-Poet (author of ''[[Sir Gawain and the Green Knight]]''), which includes a full description of the destruction of Sodom for homosexuality, complete with fiery dogs, and a lifeless sea and ash-filled fruit to symbolize sterility.
* James Baldwin's feel bad classic, ''Giovanni's Room'' is a stunning example. The novel is narrated by a sexually confused young man who is counting the hours before his lover is executed.
* ''[[Les Misérables]]'' may feature this trope: there's references to possible historical and mythological homosexuals in the scenes featuring Enjolras and Grantaire, and they eventually die together, hand in hand, in "Orestes Sober and Pylades Drunk". However, there is no confirmation of either person's sexuality, and none of the heterosexual students survive either, except a protagonist, Marius.
* In [[Voltaire (creator)|Voltaire]]'s ''[[Candide]]'', the Baron's son is ''heavily'' implied to be gay, {{spoiler|and he's the only one of the recurring characters who at the end is shipped off to be a galley slave.}}
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* For all of the death and destruction that happens in ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'', this trope is oddly enough subverted during the ''[[Ciaphas Cain]]'' novels. Magot and Grifen, the lesbian couple, are pretty much hinted at being the only actual couple with names to survive long enough to see retirement aside from Cain and Amberley. Indeed, it is their relationship that's the main reason that they make it away from the Necrons without a major mental breakdown, which actually impresses Cain a bit, saying that he wishes there were more soldiers like them in the Imperial Guard.
** 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.
* In [[Clive Barker|Clive Barker's]] ''Imajica'' (by [[Zero Punctuation|Clive Barker]]), a fantasy novel by British horror author [[Clive Barker]] (published in 1991), a subplot introduces an openly gay male couple who are friends of the Christ-like protagonist Gentle. One of the gay men, Taylor Briggs, dies of AIDS near the beginning of the story, while his partner Clem survives and goes on to help the protagonist. It is mentioned in passing that both men were in a lot of open relationships during the 1970s and "slept around" a lot, back before HIV became public knowledge; but only Taylor, the party animal, contracted HIV while his partner was plain lucky and never did, something for which Clem feels [[Survivor Guilt]]. [[Subverted Trope]] in that both men had been lovers for a long time and their love and relationship are depicted in a very positive light. Later on, Taylor returns as a ghost and reunites with Clem. At the end of the story, after the Reconciliation of all five realms, when all the souls of the dead of Earth and the other four Dominions are free to travel on to... somewhere else, before he departs Taylor asks his lover not to forget him but to go on with his life.
* In ''[[The Golden Compass]]'' there is Balthamos's death, six other characters on the protagonists' side had died in the series, most of them fairly major characters.
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* In the [[Left Behind]] book series, closet lesbian and [[Straw Feminist]] Verna Zee gets killed by the Wrath Of The Lamb earthquake in the book ''Nicolae''. In the prequel novels, the Antichrist villain Nicolae Carpathia has [[Has Two Daddies|his two biological fathers]], who were both gay, killed off.
* In Terry Goodkind's [[Sword of Truth]] series the lesbian Raina dies from a magical plague in Richard's arms while her lover is trying to find a way to save her. They have time to say they love each other before she dies.
* ''[[Mass Effect: Deception]]'' kills off Hendel Mitra, established as [[Straight Gay]] in [[Mass Effect Ascension|another book]]... after ''Deception'' makes an effort to make him ''un''-gay by having him ogle asari strippers. Asari are monogendered aliens who [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|all look like blue women]].
* [[Truth in Television]] with ''[[Someone Else's War|Someone Elses War]]''. The LRA hates Muslims and homosexuals and will kill both indiscriminately.
== Live Action TV ==
* Surprisingly, this is played straight more often than not in [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]; specifically, Larry, the only (confirmed) gay man to ever appear on the show was killed off in the battle against The Mayor, and Tara, Willow's long term girlfriend was shot by Warren Mears. In addition to Tara, Willow's next girlfriend, Kennedy, was killed between Seasons 7 and 8, but then revived by Willow.
** Though this being a ''Joss Whedon'' series, straight people get bumped off just as often. And the deaths are never played as a punishment for being gay. Lets just say no one, gay or straight, is safe when Joss is writing.
* For a series that has been praised for it's portrayal and inclusion of gay characters and themes, ''[[True Blood]]'' does often fall victim to this trope. While the majority of the series' vampires are [[Ambiguously Gay]] or flamingly bisexual, the only strictly gay vampire, Eddie Fournier, {{spoiler|was kidnapped and staked to death by Jason's psycho girlfriend}}.
** And then there was {{spoiler|Lafayette's boyfriend Jesus}}. Their romance was surprisingly genuine, but apart from a few kisses and laying in bed together they weren't shown "in action" like most in-series couples. And then {{spoiler|Lafayette was possessed by a psycho witch and was forced to stab Jesus to death}}.
*** To the series' credit, it averted this trope by keeping {{spoiler|Lafayette}} alive at the start of the second season. The book actually killed him.
* Averted in the series ''[[Will and Grace]]''. All of the characters, including the flamboyantly gay Jack and title character Will (also homosexual), go on to live long, comfortable lives (as shown in the final episode).
* The ''[[Lexx]]'' episode "Nook" had Brother Trager admit that he was in love with Stanley. This is on a planet populated by all men, but he's the only one who specifically states an attraction. He is later killed in an attempt to frame the crew for murder. Even on a [[Sadist Show]] known for a dark tone, this was a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] because he was genuinely a good guy and moved Stan to show genuine regret that he couldn't return Trager's affections.
* ''[[Ally McBeal]]'' had a [[Very Special Episode]] guest-starring Wilson Cruz from ''[[My So-Called Life]]'' as an [[Attractive Bent Gender]] [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold|Magical Prostitute]], who of course died at the end of the episode.
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* On the soon to be gone ''[[As the World Turns]],'' Reid (one half of the show's gay couple) died after his car was hit by a train and his heart is going to be used to save a straight character.
** To add insult to injury, with Luke (Reid's boyfriend) heartbroken and Noah (Luke's ex) rejected, [[Unfortunate Implications|the show's three gay characters as essentially the only ones without a happy ending.]]
** Also Reid died before he and Luke could consummate their relationship.
* ''[[Babylon 5]]'', which rather unsubtly implies a certain sapphic essence to the relationship between Talia and Susan, doesn't really go all the way to acknowledging that they sleep together until the episode in which Talia's personality is wiped, which is called "death". But had the [[Real Life Writes the Plot|actress playing Talia not]] left the show, [[Chekhov's Gun|Kosh had plans to make it better.]]
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'' Gaeta was revealed as bisexual, and he had a very unfortunate experience with a Cylon that ended up pushing him over the edge into a full-blown insurrection against Adama and his proposed Alliance with elements of the Cylons. For his part in the attempted coup, he was executed. All in the span of four episodes. Although in this case the Cylon relationship was heterosexual and his homosexual relationship was the nice one.
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** Averted with Willow and Kennedy, the only couple to survive the finale.
* In the ''[[Cold Case]]'' episode "Forever Blue", the cop who calls him and his partner 'the lucky ones', tells his father that he is a man, and all but admits that he's in love with said partner is the one who's killed. Meanwhile, his partner, who in present day, still insists until near the end of the episode that he isn't gay (and to add insult to death, claims his partner also wasn't 'like that') is the one who lives. He lived because he broke things off the night they were supposed to go patrolling together.
** Also, in the ''Cold Case'' episode "Best Friends", a butch lesbian dies and her girlfriend lives after they try to commit suicide by driving off a bridge, while being chased by her homophobic brother.
** Another ''[[Cold Case]]'' episode featured elements of this trope being applied, not to gays, but to the deaf. A student at a deaf school has a massive falling-out with his parents and friends over his attraction to a non-deaf teaching assistant, and is murdered by his roommate when he acquires a cochlear implant, making the proudly-deaf roommate feel abandoned and betrayed.
* The worst thing about the first season of ''[[Damages]]'' was Ray's plot, which looked horribly reminiscent of one of those would-be sympathetic 1950s/60s films confronting the Homosexual Problem, in which gay people are tragic victims of a terrible burden but still suffer perpetual torment and death. It would have been less unfortunate if he hadn't been the only identified gay character in the show '''ever''' (as of the end of S3).
* ''[[Dark Angel]]''. Original Cindy's one serious girlfriend onscreen, Diamond, dies of being used as a disease lab rat. At least she took her murderer with her. Original Cindy herself survived, however.
* ''[[Dirty Sexy Money]]'' killed off its transsexual character Carmelita, who was played by real life transexual Candis Cayne. Making it even worse was that the show had just been canceled, giving the impression that they just had to get that death in before it was over. Viewers had had their eyes on the show right from the start as well, as in the pilot episode Cayne's voice was digitally lowered an octave. [[Word of God]] explained that Cayne is so convincing as a woman that they were afraid [[Viewers are Morons|the audience wouldn't get that the character used to be a man]].
* Nicely subverted in ''[[Flash Forward (TV series)|Flash Forward]]''. The episode in which Janis is confirmed to be a lesbian ends with her lying alone in the street, bleeding out from a bullet to the stomach. In the next episode, she gets to a hospital and is saved.
* In an episode of ''Foyle's War'', Foyle lets the handsome young gay pilot in love with Foyle's son, Andrew, atone for his crime (his "girlfriend"'s death) by dying heroically in battle.
** In another episode, the [[Victim of the Week]] [[Never Suicide|supposedly committed suicide]] over a breakup with his girlfriend. Discovering the victim "didn't fancy girls" is an early hint at the lie.
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He swordfights the queen
He steals the whole show in his last dying scene }}
* Elton John's "All the Girls Love Alice," about a lesbian who dies:
{{quote|Gettin' your kicks in another girl's bed
And it was only last Tuesday...
They found you in the subway, dead! }}
* The name "[[Scissor Sisters]]" is a shortening of the band's original name, [[Refuge in Audacity|Dead Lesbian and Her Fibrillating Scissor Sisters]].
* Bobby Gentry's ''Ode to Billy Joe''
* The [[Velvet Underground]]'s "Lady Godiva's Operation" is a [[Black Comedy]] song about a [[Transsexualism]] who accidentally gets sent to a brain operation and dies due to an incompetent surgeon.
* Rich Mullins' "Awesome God" in its entirety has a line referencing God pouring out His wrath on Sodom, which [[Second Verse Curse|can partly explain why the chorus version of the song is more commonly used]].
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** Also applies to {{spoiler|the Androsynth race from the original Star Control. Yes, the ''entire species''.}}
* Viranus Donton in ''[[The Elder Scrolls]] [[The Elder Scrolls Four|IV: Oblivion]]''. The only one character to be strongly hinted to be gay, and guess what happens to both him ''and'' his apparent romantic interest? The short version: mistaken for ''cavern trolls'' by a bunch of heavily armed mercenaries on acid.
* Inverted in ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]''. [[Camp Gay]] Dist is the only one of the villains who survives.
* The ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' series on top of [[Ho Yay]] has four obviously non-hetero men. Scott Dolph, bisexual ([[Black Dude Dies First|and black]]), dies after the prologue in ''MGS2''. Volgin the [[Big Bad]] of ''MGS3'', [[Depraved Bisexual]], dies at the end. Raikov, Volgin's lover and [[Depraved Homosexual]] (there's nothing in game that shows this but a radio conversation with EVA reveals he likes to ''punch his subordinates in the face for no reason''), can be killed off with no consequences to the story. He was mostly a gag/minor plot device as it was. By the way, the way you dispatch of him is stuffing him [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|into a closet]]. Then finally there's Vamp who is also a [[Depraved Bisexual]] and survives 2, dies in 4.
** Portable Ops confirms Raikov's survival... well, as long as you rescue him, that is. If you don't, it's fair to assume this happens. Either way, just as in MGS3, it's up to the player to decide his fate.
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** Strangelove in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]: Peace Walker'' is loudly lesbian and survives until the end!!... but only after hooking up with a man and implicitly becoming the mother of his child. At one point, she even states that she was planning to make herself into this trope by killing herself after completing Peace Walker, but changed her mind upon interpreting Peace Walker's message as The Boss (her female lover) telling her to move on.
* In ''[[Syphon Filter]]: Dark Mirror'', Mara and Elsa are revealed to be a lesbian couple, and are subsequently killed.
* ''[[Dragon Age]]'' averts this with allowing players of either gender to have healthy relationships with the bisexual characters [[Jeanne D'Archetype|Leliana]] and [[Hitman with a Heart|Zevran]], and possibly even to survive the story with them. Notably Herren and Wade are one of the only happy, stable couples in the entire game.
** The same applies to ''[[Dragon Age II]]'', where there are four bisexual options, and the player can be in a loving relationship with any of them.
* In ''[[Deadly Premonition]]'', Thomas suffers a rather gruesome death after flipping out and going all [[Depraved Homosexual]] (thereby forcing the player to fight him).
* In ''The Orion Conspiracy'', Devlin discovers that his dead son Danny was gay. Devlin was surprised, because he and Danny had been so distant from each other that Devlin simply did not have a clue. He also finds out that Kaufmann is gay and that he was Danny's boyfriend. Kaufmann and Devlin get into a shouting match, because Kaufmann thinks Devlin disapproves of the relationship. Devlin, on his part, feels that he would not have held that against Danny. Sadly, Kaufmann is found dead and disemboweled shortly afterwards. Devlin finds out later that Captain Shannon killed Danny and Kaufmann. Why? Because Shannon blames Devlin for the death of Shannon's wife, and so he murdered Danny for revenge. Shannon killed Kaufmann to frame Devlin. Naturally, Shannon is planning to kill Devlin. Despite this reasoning, Danny and Kaufmann are the first characters confirmed dead, and they were both gay, so the trope still stands.
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* In Soviet Russia, homosexuality was deemed "antisocial behavior" and outlawed. Those who were found guilty of it were often sent to forced labor camps as punishment.
* The Motion Picture Production Code, or [[Hays Code]], made it illegal to show or reference "sexual perversion" unless the people involved ended up dead, villainous, or converted by the end of the work.
* The story of Emperor Ai of Han and his romantic affair with [[The Woobie|Dong Xian]] ... is quite the [[Downer Ending]].
* [[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 a 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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