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Well, the young couple had sex. You know what this means -- [[Tempting Fate|they are doomed]]. Anyway, more often ''[[My Girl Is Not a Slut|she]]'' is.

Shows where [[Kill'Em All|lots of people die]] tend to have a [[The Scourge of God|strange conservatism]] about who gets killed. Anyone who engages in nonmarital sex, especially unprotected and/or with someone they don't really know, is almost guaranteed to get offed by the killer, even if the killer is choosing their victims totally at random. [[Fanservice Extra]]s are particularly vulnerable to this trope.

 

 

For a literal application, compare [[Out with a Bang]], [[Death by Childbirth]] (yeah, [[Anvilicious|we know...]]), [[Curiosity Killed the Cast]], and [[The Murder After]]. For the lite version, see [[Kiss of Death]]. [[Mate or Die]] is the inverse of this trope. Contrast [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]] and [[Her Heart Will Go On]], where the man is doomed, but the woman has [[Contractual Immortality]]. In some cases, the doomed man will leave [[Someone to Remember Him By]] ([[But I Can't Be Pregnant|Hur, hur, hur...]]). Don't even get us started if it's [[Bury Your Gays|with the same gender]]. Compare [[Cartwright Curse]] where death can happen even ''before'' the sex merely for being a love interest.

* Avoided in ''[[Crying Freeman]]''. Yoh has to kill Emu for witnessing his crimes, so she asks him to have sex with her as her last wish... but after that, Yoh not only doesn't kill her, but he actually ''takes her in'' and they become a [[Battle Couple]].

* Strangely inverted in ''[[Anatolia Story|Red River]]'', most of the important characters who die are the ones who never got the chance to have sex.

* ''[[Wolf Guy Wolfen Crest]]'': Every man who's ever slept with Ryuuko Konuma has died. [[Parental Incest|Like her father]], [[Squick|and that man he sold her to]]. That's not to say she murdered them directly, either. Apparently sleeping with Ryuuko just sucks away your will to live unless you're a callous, violent maniac... [[Unholy Matrimony|like her boyfriend]] [[Big Bad|Haguro]]. Eeeeek.

* Implied to have happened to {{spoiler|the other cabin attendant}} in ''[[Cage of Eden]]''. Subverted in the fact that {{spoiler|she was raped to death.}}

* In ''[[Urotsukidouji]]'', sex with the Chojin causes this.

** {{spoiler|Ava Lord}} uses a mixture of sex and [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]] to get men to do her bidding, often leading them to their demises.

* Narrowly averted in the "Darkest Night" arc. Writers initially planned to have the current Firestorm, Jason and his girlfriend Gehenna, doing a make-out session prior to Gen's death. This was later changed to a quiet conversation about getting married and having kids. Then they changed their minds and had it re-drawn into the make-out scene, but this was fortunately lost somehow and they ended by putting in the conversation.

 

== Film ==

** Especially for THE JACUZZI SCENE. [[Up to Eleven]] indeed.

* The entire plot of ''[[Basic Instinct]]'' (Catherine Tramell lives, however).

** Although there are later claims that the counselors tried to catch Jason who ran off and fell into the lake ''because'' he saw them going at it.

** A most notorious moment in the second movie is where two teens got killed while ''in the middle'' of getting it on. Jason killed them shiskabob style by skewering them both with a spear.

** A significant Lampshade is hung on this trope in the tenth film in the series. In a virtual reality simulation meant to distract Jason, a pair of scantily clad teenage girls exclaim (among other things), "We love premarital sex!" He proceeds to kill them with ''[[Grievous Harm with a Body|each other]]''.

* ''[[Cherry Falls]]'' had a serial killer that targeted virgins. When the [[Genre Savvy]] town teenagers figure this out, they decide to throw an orgy... which the killer, having gone completely [[Ax Crazy]] (complete with axe) by the end, crashes and massacres.

* In ''[[The Day After Tomorrow]]'', two workers at the local weather service station are making out passionately on the couch when tornadoes strike Los Angeles. In the chaos that ensues, they die, while the Mexican janitor (who was diligently cleaning the floors while the people who were supposed to be monitoring the weather were making out) survives.

** Elektra King from ''[[The World Is Not Enough]]'' (gunned down by Bond himself when her treachery is revealed).

** Vesper Lynd (drowned) and Solange Dimitrios (strangled) from ''[[Casino Royale]]''.

** Lampshaded in ''[[GoldenEye (film)|GoldenEye]]'', as the villain makes a comment about Bond's track record

{{quote|'''Trevelyan:''' ...or if you find forgiveness in the arms of all those willing women for all the dead ones you failed to protect.}}

** This happens to ''[[James Bond (film)|James Bond]]'' himself in the [[Fake-Out Opening]] of ''[[You Only Live Twice]]'', as he's killed by assassins shortly after boinking a Chinese girl.

** Played straight and averted in ''[[Live and Let Die (film)|Live and Let Die]]''. Rosie Carver is killed after Bond seduces her. Solitaire, who is supposed to remain a virgin to retain her psychic powers, is also seduced by Bond and was supposed to be sacrificed in a voodoo ritual, but Bond saves her.

* In ''[[Snakes on a Plane]]'', a couple sneaks into the bathroom to have sex. They are the first to be killed by the snakes. Their [[The Scourge of God|drug use]] may have contributed, too.

* Interestingly, the slasher film did not always contain this trope: in the 1976 Canadian film ''[[Black Christmas]]'', the heroine is pregnant, {{spoiler|though the movie ends with her alone in the house with the killer}}.

** The first victim is also described as a "professional virgin."

* In ''[[Once Bitten]]'', the hero is targeted by the vampire Countess ''because'' he's a virgin. He and his girlfriend end up having quickie sex in a coffin.

* In ''[[Taken (film)|Taken]]'', as soon as the slutty best friend says she's going to have sex with a random French guy because "Who cares? He's hot!" it was obvious she was a goner.

* In the film ''[[Tormented]]'', a schoolboy who killed himself because of bullying comes back from the dead to take fatal revenge on the bullies. One of them decides to go to the cemetery and dig up the killer's body, but is sidetracked by having sex with his girlfriend while his car is parked there, which turns out to have been a very bad idea because the killer drags him out of the car and castrates him by repeatedly stomping on his genitals, leaving him to bleed to death. ''Ouch.''

* Subverted in ''[[The Godfather]],'' where a conservative senator who hates Michael Corleone's crime-racket, is made to believe that he accidentally killed a prostitute during "weird sex-games" at Fredo Corleone's brothel; after this, the senator is indebted to Michael for covering up the incident, but is also ''blackmailed'' by him.

* Invoked in ''[[Evolution (film)|Evolution]]'' where an [[Asshole Victim]] actually sings the song quoted at the top while preparing a rendezvous on a golf course... and is promptly eaten. Slight subversion in that the pair hadn't actually gotten around to the deed (and the woman survived)

* ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' shows us the family-friendly version of this trope: Death By Marriage as soon as Will and Elizabeth are hitched in the third film, you know one of them is about to die. (Also kinda inverted, in that the sex comes after. No, not like ''that''.)

* Sarah Connor's roommate in the first ''[[Terminator]]'' movie.

** And Kyle as well, after he serves his purpose by {{spoiler|impregnating Sarah with John and delivering her to the point where she can defend herself from then on (partly because he's already damaged the Terminator so badly himself).}}

* In ''[[Starship Troopers (film)|Starship Troopers]]'', Dizzy Flores dies within 24 hours after finally having sex with Rico. Something she'd been wanting since the beginning of the movie. The sex, not dying.

* In ''[[All the Boys Love Mandy Lane]]'', Marlin gets killed just minutes after giving a blowjob to Jake. The cause of death? [[Freud Was Right|Getting a shotgun barrel shoved down her throat.]]

** Watch the whole fight [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y41_x7fcPA&feature=fvst here], Spoilers ahoy.

* Inverted in Norwegian slasher [[Cold Prey]]/Fritt Vilt. {{spoiler|The virgin who just refused to have sex with her boyfriend is the first one to die.}}

**** Hence why she can refuse and he can't.

***** The reason for this being that in Bible times non-widowed non-virgins had virtually no chance of being married after being deflowered, (unless already betrothed) so marrying her rapist/lover was the only way she could get married and have some status in society. Getting married was woman's only option in those days unless she wanted to be an outcast.

 

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