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* In [[Being A Green Mother]] in Piers Anthony's [[Incarnations of Immortality]] series, {{spoiler|Satan}} has this happen when {{spoiler|he falls in love with Gaea and sings her a hymn to God at their wedding}}. He literally goes up in flames as a result.
* ''[[Everworld]]'''s Christopher Hitchcock has no [[Genre Blindness]], so he had an internal monologue to this effect in book 11. "I was so dead. By all the Unwritten Rules of Movies and Television, I was dead: The reformed bad boy who does the heroic thing at last? I could not be more dead."
* Dates back to Victorian times: If a woman had sex outside of marriage or in adultery, the only accepted redemption for her was death. The very rare plays that dared to challenge this sexual [[Double Standard]], such as W. S. Gilbert's ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20060901090614/http://diamond.boisestate.edu/gas/other_gilbert/html/charity.html Charity]'', were declared immoral.
** Averted in Nathaniel Hawthorne's ''[[The Scarlet Letter]],'' where the married Hester Prynne sleeps with the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, whose sin is considered worse than hers because of his position, so he dies instead, and she redeems herself through general good works.
*** Also, Hester couldn't hide her adultery because of an ill-timed pregnancy. She faced up to her punishment, and started to redeem herself. Dimmesdale continued to live in the community's good graces while Hester was shunned, and only fessed up when he couldn't take the guilt anymore. It's possible that his part of the adultery ''was'' worse, but hiding it didn't get him any redemption points either.
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