Death by Sex: Difference between revisions

* 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.]

** 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]].

*** Note that Jill's sister Tilly (killed by [[Improbable Weapon User|Oddjob's deadly hat]]) doesn't count because not only did she not have sex with Bond, she didn't even flirt with him.

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

** Strawberry Fields from ''[[Quantum of Solace]]'' (drowned in crude oil).

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

** Lampshaded by M in ''[[Quantum of Solace]]''.

* 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.

** Dickens used the trope straight in ''[[Oliver Twist]]'' with poor Nancy, who also was a prostitute and ended up dead.

* [[Stephen Sondheim]] does it again in Passion, where Fosca dies three days after, um, a final bit of passion.