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{{quote|"There can't be too many gentlemen of a heterosexual persuasion who, if asked how they'd want to die, wouldn't tick the box marked 'crushed to death between [[Famke Janssen]]'s thighs'."}}
* The Australian film ''[[Children Of The Revolution]]'' implies that [[Josef Stalin]] died in this way.
* In ''[[Species]] II'', most women who sleep with the man infected with alien DNA die from a five minute pregnancy that bursts their stomachs. Curiously, a woman similarly infected died the same way, instead of healing.
** First movie also had it, most notably with [http://www.moviedeaths.com/species/dr._stephen_arden/ Alfred Molina] (link might be [[Not Safe for Work|NSFW]]).
* In the low-budget ''[[Clay Pigeons]]'', Vince Vaughn gets revenge on Joaquin Phoenix's behalf by ''murdering'' his ex-girlfriend during sex... with Elvis playing in the background.
* Happened to Goldie Hawn's character's husband at the beginning of the film ''[[Private Benjamin]]''.
** ''At the funeral:'' "What were his last words?" "I'm coming."
* ''[[Basic Instinct]]'' opens with a woman murdering her partner during sex. With an ''ice-pick''. Ouch.
* The success of the above seemed to cause a [[Follow the Leader|mini-deluge of poor imitations]] (or rather, considering the original was no classic, ''poorer'' imitations) using this very trope. Most notably, the incredibly cheesy [[Madonna]] vehicle ''[[Body Of Evidence]]'' opens with a wealthy man dying from a heart-attack caused by indulging in cocaine and the stress brought about by having extremely passionate sex with his younger girlfriend. The resulting court case asks the penetrating ([[Incredibly Lame Pun|pun definitely intended]]) question of whether "sex was the murder weapon". {{spoiler|Hint - it was.}}
* Done for laughs in the ''Thanksgiving'' segment of ''[[Grindhouse]]''.
* In ''[[Dave]]'', the president has a stroke while having sex with his secretary. White House staffers then [[Prince and Pauper|replace the president with a body double]].
* [[Playing with a Trope|Played with]] in ''[[The Happiness of the Katakuris]]'' when one guest, a sumo wrestler who went out with a bang, was lifted to reveal his girlfriend had suffocated underneath him afterward.
* The political scandal in ''[[The Birdcage]]'' is the result of a noted politician going [[Out with a Bang]]. "Louise, I'm the Vice President of the Coalition for Moral Order! My co-founder has just died in the bed of an underage black whore!"
** Of course, this was also used in the French original, ''[[La Cage aux Folles]]''. The conservative political leader, while noting that most of the national newspapers have fondly eulogized the president, noticed that one liberal newspaper noted that the president's last words were "Remember my little gift."
* In ''[[Se7en]]'', the Lust victim suffers a particularly gruesome form of this, via bladed dildo.
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* In the screwball comedy ''Sibling Rivalry'' (1990), The one-night stand of Marjorie Turner (Kirstie Alley) dies during a wild rumpus. This lands Marjorie in a fine mess.
* The 2011 film ''[[The Victim]]'' begins with [[Danielle Harris|a stripper]] dying of accidental head trauma while being raped in the woods.
* In the film ''[[Patriot Games]]'', one Irish assassin is a redhead beauty that chokes her target during sex at the beginning of the movie.
* ''[[Very Bad Things]]'': The death of a stripper while having rough sex with one of the guests at a bachelor party is what kicks of the [[Plethora of Mistakes]] that drives the plot.
* ''[[Cabin Fever (film)|Cabin Fever]]'' features a moment where the diva is convinced that there is no escape from the deadly disease going around. Rather than actually trying to flee the infected area, like most of her friends, she resigns herself to her fate and decides to spend her last minutes gettin' her freak on. Grabbing the nearest available man, she gets naked in the blink of an eye and rides the dude to her last moaning madness. She was in such a wild mood the guy didn't even have time to put on a rubber. Pitty for him that it turned out she had the disease while they were doing the deed bareback. I guess [[Death by Sex|he went out ''from'' a bang]].
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* In ''[[The Black Magician Trilogy|The Magician's Apprentice]]'', by [[Trudi Canavan]], the control of your magic--including the episode was called "Day One".
* In the book ''Snap Shot'' by A.J. Quinell, the Mossad agent Misha Wigoda is killed this way by the SDECE's agent Janine Lesage at the end of his interrogation. This was because, even though he was on Valium they couldn't extract any useful information from him until they discovered the lust Janine was producing in him. They used this to extract the information they wanted from him. Janine always wanted to kill a man while having sex as she had heard that when that happens the victim gets a monumental erection.
* In ''[[The Kingkiller Chronicle]]'', every man that [[The Fair Folk|Felurian]] meets dies of exhaustion after having sex with her. The rare few that survive emerge with their minds shattered beyond repair. Kvothe is legendary for being the only man to ever survive with his mind and body intact.
* ''[[The Laundry Series|The Jennifer Morgue]]'' has Ramona Random, a CIA agent with a [[Horny Devils|succubus]] bound to her soul who usually kills by these means. It leads to a nasty predicament where one of her targets has a heart attack during sex, and she needs the little death to go with the big one or the awakened succubus will eat her soul as well.
* In ''[[Time Scout]]'', someone conjectures that sex with Margo would kill you. His interlocutor implies that it would be worth it.
* In [[Michael Ely]]'s ''Twilight of the Mind'', a ''[[Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri|Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri]]'' [[Expanded Universe]] novel, the daughter of the imprisoned Sheng-ji Yang kills her husband, the new chairman of the Hive, by placing a poisoned device in her vagina and getting him to forget his distrust of her long enough to seduce him. As soon as he penetrates, he gets injected with a fast-acting poison, while her guards take care of his guards. Thus she becomes the new Chairman Yang.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* On an episode of ''[[M*A*S*H|Mash]]'', a visiting general goes [[Out with a Bang]] with Major Houlihan... [[Hilarity Ensues]] as the general's aide de camp spends the second half of the episode trying to find a battle into which he can bring the general's corpse. The idea, of course, is that instead of going [[Out with a Bang]], the general -- in the public eye -- will Go Out With a *BANG*.
* Forms the basis of the plot of at least one episode of ''[[CSI]]'', with rather roundabout complications.
** In this episode, the main suspect, {{spoiler|a very overweight woman, accidentally suffocates her partner when she passes out drunk on top of him. The woman actually told the police that she smothered him with a pillow, because she said she would rather confess to murder than suffer through the jokes that would be made about her because of the true nature of the victim's death. Believe it or not, the show handled this with a degree of sensitivity}}.
*** ''[[Picket Fences]]'' did a similar story, but without {{spoiler|the sex: an obese woman didn't want to admit that she'd rolled over in her sleep and smothered her husband ''by accident,'' so she claimed to have done it deliberately.}}
** And then there was the guy who {{spoiler|[[Too Dumb to Live|fell off a hotel balcony while having sex on the railing]]...}}
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** The third season episode "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" had the titular psychic suggesting that this would be Mulder's death: "You know, there are worse ways to go, but I can't think of a more undignified one than auto-erotic asphyxiation."
** In the same episode Clyde also predicted he himself would die in bed with Scully. {{spoiler|This ended up being true, as he died in bed, and Scully was in the room. He was in bed, and with Scully, but not in bed with Scully.}}
* Ha'Gel from ''[[Earth: Final Conflict]]''. Very similar method of death for his victims. Of course, he was desperate, as he seemed to be the [[Last of His Kind]]. He essentially rapes {{spoiler|both Sandoval and Beckett}} to produce Liam, the hero of seasons 2&3. Liam doesn't seem to acknowledge his alien parent any more than he absolutely has to.
* Supposedly fated to be Lister's death long after the events of ''[[Red Dwarf]]''. "He chokes to death, aged 181, trying to remove a bra with his teeth." The source of this information does not have a stellar record, however.
** He does seem to have a penchant for that kind of thing, though... in the episode "Timeslides" he gains a [[Portal to the Past]] and tweaks things a little, so that he does ''not'' go on Red Dwarf and instead dies in a plane accident, aged 98. He was having sex with his fourteenth wife and lost control of the plane.
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'''Sally''': No... but a ''horrible'' way to kill. ''Right, Harry?''
''[Harry has an [[Oh Crap]] expression on his face]'' }}
* On ''[[The Steve Harvey Show]]'', Regina's husband Jordan dies this way on their honeymoon. She returns home and recounts the tragedy to Cedric, Lovita and Steve.
{{quote|'''Steve''' (to Cedric): I always knew it would be killer, but Damn! }}
* On ''[[Waiting for God]]'', Diana reveals this once happened to her. When Tom says, "What a wonderful way to go!" she replies, "For him, maybe! I was dreadfully embarrassed!"
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* Happened to Larry Hagman's character in ''[[Nip Tuck]]''.
* On [[Ham and Cheese]]-fest ''[[Dynasty]]'', Cecil Colby (Lloyd Bochner) suffers a heart attack and dies underneath new wife Alexis (Joan Collins). Alexis slapping him in the face to bring him around adds [[Narm]].
* Subverted and then played straight in an episode of ''[[Chicago Hope]]''. A man has a very bad blockage in his heart and shows up to get surgery. It turns out the doctor is an old flame of his. He doesn't tell her about his heart condition, instead acting like the only reason he's come to town is to see her.(Which isn't entirely a lie. It was really both reasons). They end up having sex and he has a heart attack during it. He actually lives for awhile afterwards since the doctor took the necessary steps to preserve his life and got him into surgery immediately. But while in recovery, his wife shows up. He wakes up to see his wife and the doctor together and instantly assumes that the doctor felt guilty (she didn't know he was married) and told the wife about his infidelity. The panic causes him to have ANOTHER heart attack, which kills him.
* Featured, not surprisingly, in the show ''[[1000 Ways to Die|One Thousand Ways to Die]]'':
** A ''very shy'' Japanese couple of the century that have restrained themselves from even kissing each other for 7 years of marriage decide one day to do it for the first time, resulting in their simultaneous deaths by heart attack as they reach the climax.
** In another episode, a man with a fetish for fatties ended up dying by suffocation when his date for the night climaxed and then passed out from exhaustion on top of him, preventing his lungs from expanding and covering his face with her fat rolls. Her reaction when she awoke was disappointed, but oddly not that surprised.
** A cheating sleaze is bitten by a spider, whose venom acts like Viagra during his final hours. Trying to relieve himself of the... ''tension'', he goes through a series of his girls until finally collapsing dead with one.
** And there was one about a virgin who went to a Nevada brothel, signed on with a Dominatrix for the night... but it turned out [[Weaksauce Weakness|he had a severe allergy to latex]]. That he was completely dressed in (including a zipper over the mouth).
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'''Tosh:''' I'm sure we could arrange it. }}
* [[Mad Men]]'s Roger Sterling has a heart attack and nearly dies while cheating on his wife.
* The live-action version of ''[[The Tick (animation)]]'' kills off the Immortal (a [[Expy|Superman-expy]]) with a heart attack while under Captain Liberty. Given the... erm, ''frizzy'' part of her hair in the following scenes (and the paired scorchmarks in her ceiling), it's evident he wasn't in full control of his heat vision during the act...
* On ''[[The Golden Girls]]'', this is apparently how Rose's husband Charlie died.
{{quote|'''Rose:''' Oh, there was something wild about him that night. Although I did think it was strange when he started yelling, "Rose, I'm going! I'm going!"}}
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