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{{quote|''"There are certain rules that one must abide by in order to [[Genre Savvy|successfully survive a horror movie]]! For instance, [[Rule Number One|Number One]]: You can never have sex. Sex equals death, OK?"''|'''Randy''', '''''[[Scream (film)|Scream]]'''''}}
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|Fanservice Extras]] are particularly vulnerable to this trope.
Very common in slasher movies, such as the ''[[Friday the 13th (film)|Friday the 13 th]]'' and ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street]]'' series. This could be a metaphor for the then-new AIDS scare, or for STDs in general, although according to one of the makers of ''[[Nightmare On Elm Street]]'', it was simply because he thought that people having sex will forget about everything else and be especially vulnerable to serial killers. Which wouldn't be an [[Ass Pull]] if they only died during sex, but when they're prone to it after...
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== Anime & Manga ==
* Genderflipped in ''[[Narutaru]]''. [[Manipulative Bastard|Takeo Tsurumaru]] impregnates several girls in the course of the story. In the second-to-last episode of the manga, he has sex with main girl [[Action Girl|Shiina Tamai]] after she tells him that she loves him. Soon... ''he'' dies. Shiina, along with her [[Shadow Archetype]] Mamiko, makes it to the end.
* ''[[X 1999]]''. Sorata and Arashi. Subverted because ''he'' dies - first in the movie (though she follows him later), later in the TV series. He's still alive in the manga, but it's a sure thing he'll die sooner or later.
** In a subversion, it's less about the sex than it is that Sorata, even before the story begins, was destined to die for a woman. Sorata didn't know ''who'' he would die for or how; he just jokingly said that, since he absolutely '''has''' to die for the sake of a lady, he'd like to die for a really pretty girl. It was many years later (which is the beginning of the story) when he actually '''met''' Arashi; knowing that [[You Can't Fight Fate]], he decided to die for her.
* Also genderflipped in ''[[Trigun]]'', with Nicholas D. Wolfwood and Milly Thompson. He dies in the same episode he sleeps with her. She makes it to the end.
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* ''[[My Balls]]'': This one guy has the demon queen sealed inside one of his testicles. Would he cum, the demon queen is released and he dies. Well, him and the rest of world. Talk about taking it to the extreme.
* This is what led to Gilbert's death in ''[[Kaze to Ki no Uta]]'', although [[Drugs Are Bad|other]] [[Look Both Ways|factors]] helped as well.
* Iason Mink's and subsequently Riki's deaths in ''[[Ai no Kusabi]]'' are a direct result of the former's refusal to let the latter be in order to continue having forbidden sex.
* One early client of [[Franken Fran|Fran Madaraki]] ends up like this after Fran saves his girlfriend by making her part insect. Apparently the species of insect in question instinctively eats its mate.
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* In the 1970s ''[[Day Of The Jackal]]'', The Jackal meets an attractive married woman at a hotel, has a torrid affair with her, then later discovers her address and goes to her home. When she asks him about what he's doing, because the police were looking for him, and he's driving a car with local plates, which means she knows he stole it, and if he'll just tell her, she won't say anything, he breaks her neck.
* Done literally in one of the latter ''[[Wishmaster]]'' films, when one of the characters wishes for "killer sex".
** In [[Wishmaster|Wishmaster2]] a prisoner wishes his lawyer would go "fuck himself". [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mtu3D471gK8 Wish granted.]
* Xenia Onatopp love of [[Murderous Thighs]] in the ''[[James Bond (film)|James Bond]]'' movie ''[[Goldeneye]]'' is more an example of [[Out with a Bang]], but it's worth noting that ''several'' Bond Girls and henchwomen die after hooking up or flirting with Bond:
** Jill Masterson (drugged and painted in gold from head to toe, which suffocated her because she can longer can breathe through her skin) in ''[[Goldfinger]]''. Yes, [[Science Marches On]].
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** The first victim is also described as a "professional virgin."
* In ''[[So Bad It's Good|Boa vs Python]]'', the python stalks a teenage couple that is having sex, and actually ''licks'' the girl, who, because her eyes are closed, thinks it is her lover. Then the python, which [[Did Not Do the Research|should be a constrictor]], ''bites'' them squarely in half.
* 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.
* ''[[Piranha]] II :The Spawning'' opening scene had a couple discussing where they failed to have sex because the guy found fault in everything. The hotel room was too dry, the beach too sandy and the boat too uncomfortable. They then go scuba-diving into a shipwreck and decided to have sex, you know nothing better than that, right? Well okay the killer piranha did kinda ruin the mood.
* 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.''
* Two of the youngsters that stop by in the Mario Bava movie ''[[Reazione a Catena]]'' who are speared while having sex. ''Friday the 13th Part 2'' copies this very scene, only putting the guy on top instead of the girl.
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* Mentioned in reference to Shelob in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', who killed her mates. However, this is a case of [[Truth in Television]], since spiders do actually do this.
* In the second ''[[Night Watch]]'' book, Alisa and Igor have sex, then discover who (and what) each other is. Light magician Igor then kills Alisa for being a dark witch, then goes into a depression and ultimately lets himself die in remorse.
* If it's not clear enough in ''[[Indigo|Troika]]'' that Veness is doomed when Indigo sleeps with him, it becomes ''painfully'' obvious when she admits to [[Love Hurts|reciprocating his love for her]].
* In ''[[Jaws]]'', the book actually kills off the character Matthew Hooper during the cage scene. Earlier in the book: he was having an affair with Brody's wife, Ellen. She avoids the trope by never being in the water. The first victim in the book was taking a postcoital swim.
* In David Eddings' ''[[Tamuli]]'', the emperor of the Tamul empire is required to marry a woman of each subject kingdom at the same time, and then consummate with all of them that night. After mentioning this, Emperor Sarabian recalls that his grandfather had not survived the night.
* Played straight in some ways, averted in others in ''[[The Dresden Files]]''. White Court vampires (specifically, the Raith family) play it straight, by feeding on Lust, sometimes to the point of killing their partner. On the other hand, the White Court is vulnerable to love, so sex that comes from real, genuine love will grant protection to the participants, which saved Harry on at least one occasion.
** Also joked about in the first book when Harry is asked in investigate a couple who's hearts exploded during sex.
{{quote|'''Murphy:'''So is it [magic]?
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* In ''[[Vampire Academy]]'s'' third volume, ''Shadow Kiss'', Rose and Dimitri finally give in to their passion for each other...And right after the school is attacked by Strigoi and Dimitri is "taken." Right when they whipped it out, you knew something bad was going to happen to ''one'' of them, at least, since a huge plot point of their relationship is that it's forbidden.
* In ''[[Rainbow Six (novel)|Rainbow Six]]'', part of the villains' testing of their lethal-if-not-vaccinated biological agent involves getting uninfected captives to have sex with infected ones while both sides are drugged. True to form, said virus can be spread by intercourse.
* While it is not a quick connection of "sex then death", Thomas Hardy's ''[[Tess of the D'Urbervilles]]'' is certainly ''doomed'' by sex. The titular character is either raped or seduced (it's slightly ambiguous, but most assume rape) early in the book by a distant relative. This completely destroys her life and sends her on an ever-increasing spiral of despair for the rest of the book, repeatedly rejected because of being [[Defiled Forever]], until at last she murders the man who deflowered her and is hanged for it.
** Also, while one may argue whether it happened or not, it's implied {{spoiler|Tess and her husband Angel, who once abandoned her just because she was not a virgin then came back and tried to rescue her from execution, consummate their marriage in their hideout}}. And their hideout scenes are supposed to be those moments of (false) hope.
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** Well, after she has a soliloquy/musical number that sums her mindset up as "my affair has made me more grateful for what I have but hey it was kind of nice." She's more killed by barely-repentant adultery than killed by sex, since she's a married lady with a child.
** Meanwhile, by contrast, the entirely '''un'''repentant and equally married Prince is punished by ''hooking up with'' ''[[Sleeping Beauty]]''. Then again, who was expecting something by [[Stephen Sondheim]] to be ''fair''?
* In Victorian theatre, the only accepted way for a "fallen" woman - that is, any woman who had sex outside of marriage, or had an affair - to redeem herself was to die. Preferably after seeing the horrible consequences of her actions. One notable example is ''East Lynne'': A woman is convinced by a rival of her husband that her husband is having an affair, and so agrees to run off with him. The husband supposedly was meeting the woman for purely innocent reasons. Which is why he's married to her in the second act. The man his first wife ran off with abandons her, so she returns to her former house in disguise as a governess to her own child. When she reveals herself to him, he dies. Everyone then finds out who she is, but she falls ill and dies shortly thereafter. And this was considered one of the classics of Victorian literature and theatre. Her melodramatic cry on her child's death, "Dead! And never called me mother!" is still somewhat well-known today.
** Aversion: W. S. Gilbert (of [[Gilbert and Sullivan]])'s 1874 play, ''[http://diamond.boisestate.edu/gas/other_gilbert/html/charity.html Charity]'' has up a woman, Mrs. Van Burgh, who was virtuous in every way, except she had never actually married her husband. She has spent all her time since his death doing good deeds, and trying to rescue other women back to the path of virtue. Victorian theatre demanded that she be ruined, and die in order to be redeemed. Gilbert allowed her to be ruined by public opinion and the hypocritical antagonist (he lectures Ruth, one of the women Mrs. Van Burgh gave a second chance to, on how abominable it is that she is being foisted on society as if she was an unfallen woman. Guess who had seduced her?) - but then both Mrs. Van Burgh and Ruth head off to Australia as traveling companions for a colonial bishop whose son is in love with Mrs. Van Burgh's daughter. You wouldn't believe the uproar this caused in the newspapers of the time, which fell over themselves trying to see which could declare the play more immoral.
** Another aversion. Dickens' ''[[David Copperfield]]'' has Emily, David's first love, dumping her fiancé Cam right before their wedding to run away with David's best friend James Steerforth and become his concubine. She ultimately lives, and after [[Break the Cutie|LOTS of misfortune (principally, Steerforth being an absolute]] [[Jerkass]] [[Break the Cutie|to her)]], she goes to Australia with her father Daniel. The book also includes Emily's best friend Martha, [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold|a prostitute]], who helps Daniel and David to find the missing Emily and also survives.
** Dickens used the trope straight in ''[[Oliver Twist]]'' with poor Nancy, who also was a prostitute and ended up dead.
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* Done after a fashion in ''Wicked'' where the very next scene after Fiyero and Elphaba have their G-rated sex scene in 'As long as you're mine' and kiss Fiyero gets beaten to death. [[Disney Death|He gets better though.]] Sort of.
** The novel, of course, plays it straight.
* [[Two Words]]: ''[[Spring Awakening]]''.
== Video Games ==
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* In the ''[[Leisure Suit Larry]]'' series, this trope appears twice. In the first game, sleeping with the hooker at Lefty's Bar without protection causes your family jewels to explode a minute or so later. In the second game, you can seduce the maid in your resort hotel room and sleep with her, only to have her brother (who's in the military and likes to shoot things) walk in on you.
* In ''[http://www.atrianglemorning.com/games/flash.php WhichWay]'', a flash adventure game, every time you end up with a naked or half-naked woman on screen, you will be ambushed by a monster within seconds.
* A variation occurs in the [[Hentai|H-Game]] of ''[[
* In the [[Silent Hill]] series, any woman who implies that she might perform sexual favors on the protagonist will die in an agonizing way within a few scenes. It began with {{spoiler|Maria in Silent Hill 2}} and continued with {{spoiler|Cynthia in Silent Hill 4}}.
* In ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', Shepard learns of a rare Asari genetic defect known as Ardat-Yakshi, which destroys the minds of anyone who has sex with the infected. It's possible to later replace Samara with her daughter Morinth, who has the symptom and [[Too Dumb to Live|choosing to have sex with her]] leads to a [[Nonstandard Game Over]].
** Most [[BioWare]] RPGs have the final scene of their romance arcs come immediately before the final battle, in which [[Captain Obvious|it is possible that your entire party will]] ''[[Captain Obvious|die]]''.
* Inverted in the third ''[[God of War (series)|God of War]]''. {{spoiler|Aphrodite has sex with Kratos late in the game. She is the only Greek God spared of his wrath.}}
** {{spoiler|This is more a case of Dummied out, the designers originally planned for aphrodite to pull a knife on Kratos if you went back for round two, which would end in her death, but decided against it.}}
* In ''[[Snow Drop]]'', there's a [[An Ice Person|Snow Lady]]. Her two main powers are the ability to [[Shapeshifting|change appearance]] and the ability to kill men by having sex with them. The secret to beating the second half of the game (the first half of the game is pure [[Guide Dang It]]) is learning when to keep it in your pants (read: 90% of the time).
* In the ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'' module series The Bastard of Kosigan, you can go through it in such a way that every woman you make out with or have sex with dies soon afterward. Of course, being the non-linear sort of story it is, all of them but Alex can survive too.
** Several quests in ''[[A Dance With Rogues]]'', most notably the Dhorn Generals' Heads quest in the first chapter, involve having sex with someone to get something before killing them.
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* After awhile of playing ''[[Kara no Shoujo]]'' you begin to wonder if maybe the writers were trying to scare teens away from sex. The first set of victims are targeted partially because of this and most of the time the main character has sex he ends up dead soon after. That or the girl does.
* ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]'' doesn't have a straight example, but it comes close enough to count. Protagonist Hisao has a bad heart and his (blind) girlfriend Lilly decides to go for blindfold sex. She gets him so turned on he keels over before the foreplay is even finished. He lives to tell about it though.
* Implied in ''[[F.E.A.R.]] 2: Project Origin'' if Beckett is killed while Alma is "grappling" with him. It turns out that she is actually trying to ''rape'' him, and process will actually kill Beckett if he doesn't fight her off. {{spoiler|She eventually manages to succeed when Becket is strapped into the Telesthetic Amplifier, which boosts his psychic abilities. Ostensibly those powers were supposed to be used to kill Alma, but instead they apparently strengthened him to the point that he could survive being raped by her.}}
* Happens to a seduced NPC in the Human Noble origin in [[Dragon Age]]. He or she opens the door of the playable character's room to investigate a noise and gets an arrow in the chest. However, you can find the noblewoman he or she arrived at the castle with dead later in the origin, meaning they'd have likely died anyway.
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