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* Several times in ''[[Wolf's Rain]]'':

** Toboe and Quent. "Look after him, old man."

* Seigo's and Fukko's ultimate fate in ''[[The Mermaid Princess's Guilty Meal]]''.

 

*** To be fair, they're still together in death. It's just [[Blackest Night|their bodies that are, er, busy, not their souls]].

* There's a comic book version of the ''[[Turandot]]'' opera where this is invoked: {{spoiler|Instead of commiting suicide, a maddened and throughly broken Liu stabs Prince Calaf to death just as he manages to get through to [[Defrosting Ice Queen|Princess Turandot]] and give her a [[True Love's Kiss]]. Cradling Calaf's lifeless body, Liu says they will be Together in Death while Turandot remains alone forever, as punishment for her cruelty; she then stabs herself and dies, leaving a sobbing Turandot with her hands empty.}}

* The battery of the [[Green Lantern|Star Sapphires]] is built around crystallized remains on Zamaron found this way. They turn out to be the original selves of [[Reincarnation Romance|Hawkman and Hawkgirl]].

 

* ''[[The Hill of Swords]]'' takes after {{spoiler|''[[Fate/stay night]]'''s Realta Nua ending and reunites Saber and Shirou in Avalon in the epilogue}}.

* ''[[The Legend of Spyro]]'' fanfic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6842215/1/Passing_The_Torch Passing The Torch]'' takes place far after the trilogy, with Spyro now in his twilight years, having far outlived everyone he knew and looking forwards to [[Passing the Torch]] to his successor so he can be reunited with them in the afterlife. {{spoiler|In the end, he dies peacefully in his sleep and is greeted by Cynder's spirit who leads him into the afterlife.}}

 

* In ''[[Corpse Bride]]'', the undead Emily falls in love with Victor, but their [[Accidental Marriage]] isn't legal because of the fact that Emily is dead and Victor alive. In order to validate the marriage, they must repeat the ceremony in the land of the living, and Victor must kill himself during it. Victor, devastated by the loss of his living love, Victoria, accepts this plan and proceeds to go through with the ceremony, {{spoiler|but is stopped before he kills himself by Emily, when she sees poor Victoria spying on them and realizes what she's doing will hurt Victoria the same way she was hurt.}}

* Occurs in [[The Princess and the Frog]]. {{spoiler|Ray gets to be with his Evangeline, in the end.}}

* In ''[[Bolt]]'', when {{spoiler|Bolt couldn't find an exit large enough for Penny}}, she insists that Bolt leaves her there. But Bolt chooses to {{spoiler|lie beside her in their potential last moments. Fortunately, they make it.}}

* During the song "Worthless" from ''[[The Brave Little Toaster]]'', a Texan wedding car and a funeral hearse are both crushed to death at the same time by a Car Crusher at the end of a conveyor belt.

 

== Film - Live-Action ==

* ''[[Beetlejuice (film)|Beetlejuice]]'' has a rare lighthearted approach, where Adam and Barbara Maitland are stuck as ghosts haunting their own home. Even in death, they remain a [[Happily Married]] couple.

 

* At the end of ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (novel)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'', they find {{spoiler|Quasimodo's}} skeleton so intertwined with {{spoiler|Esmeralda's}} that when they try to remove it, it falls to dust.

* In ''The Mill on the Floss'', {{spoiler|Maggie and her brother}}, previously estranged, embrace each other as they drown.

* At the end of ''[[Beachwalker]]'', it’s heavily implied that {{spoiler|the [[Nameless Narrative|Beachwalker and her Starfish]]}} go to the afterlife together, possibly with him escorting her there.

 

 

* The [http://lostpedia.com/wiki/Adam_and_Eve two skeletons] found in an early ''[[Lost]]'' episode might be an example, but their past and identity is unknown.

** Since the reveal, this may actually count as a subversion since {{spoiler|one has murdered the other}}.

* ''[[Being Human (UK)]]'': [[Tear Jerker|"I have to be with my]] {{spoiler|Nina"}}- {{spoiler|George, in ghost form, moments after his death by heroic sacrifice}}

 

* The [[W Rock]] band Ministry Of Magic has a song called the Phoenix Lament, the final line of which is "Golden lights are cords for songs of love; something death can not erase."

* Parodic folk singer Les Barker has a song called "Maybe Then I'll Be A Rose", which deconstructs this trope as it appears in English ballads:

{{quote|He lies in St. Mary's kirk and she lies in the choir,

And out of her grave grows a rose and out of his a briar.

 

So at last their souls entwine and now as one are climbing;

* Milky the Milk Carton (and his strawberry milk carton lover) at the end of the music video for "Coffee & TV" by [[Blur (band)|Blur]] (combined with [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence]]).

 

* In a Greek myth described in ''[[The Metamorphoses]]'', the old couple Baucis and Philemon were turned into trees when they died, which grew so close as to intertwine.

* Forbidden lovers [[Tristan and Iseult|Tristan and Isolde]] had a vine and a rose grow on their respective graves, which likewise intertwined.

* In one version of [[Celtic Mythology|Deirdre of the Sorrows]], Deirdre and her lover Naoise are buried beside one another and trees grow from their graves to intertwine.

 

* Haemon and [[Antigone]] in the eponymous Greek tragedy.

* ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'', the modern archetypal [[Star-Crossed Lovers]].

* Subverted in ''The Adding Machine''. After Zero dies, Daisy appears to him in an Arcadian afterlife, where she suggests that they "can always be together now." He gets bored and decides to leave the place.

 

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* The {{spoiler|Bailey Twins, Crystal and Amber}} in ''[[Dead Rising]] 2''. Once {{spoiler|one of them is dead, the other will proceed to stab herself, as she will 'never be complete again'.}}

* In ''[[The Curse of Monkey Island]]'', one of the game's puzzles involves reuniting two dead lovers (a ghost and a skeleton, respectively). When the heartbroken ghost discovers that her lover had never intended to abandon her, their spirits are shown reuniting and then vanishing happily together.

* The ''[[Shadow Hearts]]'' series contains several examples, especially in its canon endings:

** Most notably, Yuri and Alice. After spending Shadow Hearts: Covenant mourning his dead lover, series hero Yuri tells her spirit that he will soon return to her and never leave again. At the end of the game, he commits suicide by allowing himself to be impaled. In his mind, Alice's soul is seen descending from the sky while his is finally released from its curse. The two souls embrace, and then disappear together.

** {{spoiler|The Masked King}}'s dying words are that he's going to meet with {{spoiler|Fyra}} again.

* In Chapter 4 of ''[[Eternal Darkness]]'', Chandra is not only killed by a jealous mistress but explicitly cursed to be with a man only in death. She persuades Karim to join her in guarding a [[MacGuffin]] indefinitely, then seals the deal with a [[Kiss of Death]].

 

* Saber and Shirou finally get a proper happy ending in ''[[Fate/stay night|Fate Stay Night]]'''s [[Updated Rerelease|Realta Nua's]] [[Revised Ending|bonus ending of]] Fate. [[Guide Dang It|To unlock it, you have to]] [[100% Completion|die every way possible, and finish all three routes, and get all five endings.]] Doing so gets you perhaps the most [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|heartwarming]] scene in the whole game, combining [[I Will Wait for You]], [[Died Happily Ever After]] and Together in Death for amazing effect.

* One of the ending in [[Girls Love]] [[Visual Novel]] ''[[Akai Ito]]'' had {{spoiler|Kei and Sakuya replacing Yumei in being the Ohashira, after Kei was fatally wounded by Nushi and Yumei decided that she can't live without her}}.

 

* {{spoiler|Dorukan and Lirian}} in ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'', with the twist that {{spoiler|rather than having gone to the afterlife, their souls are trapped in a gem in [[Big Bad]] Xykon's pocket}}.

** {{spoiler|Lirian}}: No...not a prison. Not anymore.

* Something of a recurring theme in [[Homestuck]]. {{spoiler|John and Vriska, Karkat and Terezi in two different alternate timelines, Karkat and Nepeta, and John's Dad and Rose's Mom all end up this way.}}

 

* In the '[[Cracked.com]]'' short film [http://www.cracked.com/video_18220_worst-second-date-ever.html "Worst Second Date Ever"], the main character attempts to enter a suicide pact with a Hispanic maid he's dating, claiming that they're [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]. It doesn't go as he planned and it ends in a rather lighthearted note.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* Happens to Ferdy the fox at the end of ''[[There's Good Boos Tonight]]''. {{spoiler|He is shot by a hunter, only to come back to life as a ghost after [[Casper the Friendly Ghost|Casper]] mourns his death.}}

* At the end of the ''[[American Dad]]'' episode, "May the Best Stan Win", Stan and Francine are shown as skeletons in the same coffin.

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

 

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[[Category:Death Tropes]]

[[Category:Romance Arc]]

[[Category:Romantic Resolutions]]

[[Category:Tear Jerker Tropes]]