Tropescilloscope: Death by Sex

People who have sex during the story tend to die. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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More Tropes Adaptation Distillation All Just a Dream Manic Pixie Dream Girl The Power of Love Room Full of Crazy Amusing Injuries Victoria's Secret Compartment Manipulative Bastard Index of Film Westerns Villain Song Male Frontal Nudity Disappeared Dad timeperiod Distracted by the Sexy Aside Glance Big Bad Names to Run Away from Really Fast Apocalypse How Betty and Veronica Big "NO!" Continuity Nod Revenge Daylight Horror I Have Your Wife Getting Crap Past the Radar Big Fancy House No Celebrities Were Harmed Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies No Antagonist Heel Realization Broken Pedestal Imagine Spot Film Noir Dirty Old Man Dual Wielding Catch-Phrase Funny Background Event Dull Surprise Stealth Hi/Bye Exact Words Honor Before Reason Roaring Rampage of Revenge The '90s Friend to All Children Adaptational Attractiveness The Starscream Documentary Curse Cut Short Ascended Extra Rape as Drama Groin Attack Cruel and Unusual Death Make It Look Like an Accident Humans Are Bastards Exactly What It Says on the Tin Captain Ersatz From Bad to Worse Cassandra Truth The Alleged Car Red Herring Hooker with a Heart of Gold Offscreen Moment of Awesome Mad Scientist Badass Bookworm The Stinger Grievous Bottley Harm Male Gaze French Films Death by Irony Bolivian Army Ending Even Evil Has Standards Dirty Coward Femme Fatale Totally Radical All Girls Want Bad Boys Body Horror Badass Longcoat Posthumous Character Spiteful Spit There Is No Kill Like Overkill Loophole Abuse Camp Gay The Oner Rule of Funny Evil Is Hammy Facial Horror Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Twist Ending Arc Words Authority Equals Asskicking Establishing Character Moment The Mole The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Say My Name Demoted to Extra Creepy Child Anyone Can Die Unspoken Plan Guarantee Wham Shot Take a Third Option Cowboy Cop Gory Discretion Shot Re-Cut 20 Minutes into the Future Maybe Ever After Bare Your Midriff Foil Made of Iron Major Injury Underreaction The Stoic Hope Spot I'm a Humanitarian Death Glare Mr. Exposition Chekhov's Skill Arch-Enemy May–December Romance Crazy-Prepared Heroes Want Redheads Adaptation Name Change Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Animal Motifs Creative Closing Credits Reckless Gun Usage Real Life Improvised Weapon Throwing Your Sword Always Works Despair Event Horizon Same Language Dub Laser-Guided Karma Actor Allusion The Hero The Dreaded Narrator Pay Evil unto Evil Anti-Hero Psycho for Hire Daddy's Girl Broken Aesop Novelization Mystery and Detective Films Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Disney Villain Death Politically Incorrect Villain Fiery Redhead Never Trust a Trailer Dying Moment of Awesome After the End Small Name, Big Ego Curb-Stomp Battle Bald of Evil Taking the Bullet Take That! Shown Their Work Big Damn Heroes Deadpan Snarker Fantasy Films Break the Cutie Evil vs. Evil Shout-Out Evil Plan Storming the Castle Beware the Nice Ones Famous Last Words How We Got Here Call-Forward Paper-Thin Disguise Conspicuous CG O.O.C. Is Serious Business Everyone Has Standards Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Logo Joke Villain Ball Back from the Dead The Alcoholic Horror Comedy Punch-Clock Villain Badass Boast Becoming the Mask Disguised in Drag Naïve Newcomer Black and Gray Morality Easily Forgiven Arranged Marriage The Atoner B-Movie Silence Is Golden Woman Scorned Plucky Comic Relief Adapted Out Fan Disservice Parental Neglect My God, What Have I Done? Bad Boss Up to Eleven Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy She's Got Legs Police Brutality You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Really Gets Around The Remake Neck Lift Bloodless Carnage Japanese Films Refuge in Audacity Bittersweet Ending Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? One-Man Army Lampshade Hanging Wham Line Hell Is That Noise Biopic Eye Scream Awesome, but Impractical World of Ham Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Your Head A-Splode Scenery Gorn Diabolus ex Machina Stepford Smiler Blackmail Does Not Like Shoes An Axe to Grind As Long as It Sounds Foreign Heterosexual Life-Partners The Mafia Overprotective Dad Bavarian Fire Drill Romantic Comedy Did Not Get the Girl Foreshadowing A Father to His Men Stylistic Suck Left the Background Music On Fainting Large Ham Artistic License – History Playing Gertrude Cluster F-Bomb Psychological Thriller Here We Go Again! Vomit Indiscretion Shot Race Lift Fire-Forged Friends Mooks Ms. Fanservice Token Minority Villain Protagonist Naked People Are Funny Woman in White The Un-Reveal Breaking the Fourth Wall Retired Badass Attempted Rape Abhorrent Admirer Book-Ends The Chick An Arm and a Leg Reality Ensues Kubrick Stare Unusual Euphemism No-Sell Evil Brit Spell My Name with an "S" Military and Warfare Films '80s Hair Determinator And Starring Asshole Victim Black Comedy Spiritual Successor Together in Death Outrun the Fireball Important Haircut Guile Hero Psychopathic Manchild Closed Circle Batman Gambit Nothing Is Scarier Russian Films Evil Is Petty Papa Wolf Gilligan Cut Super Strength Poor Communication Kills Hoist by His Own Petard Suspiciously Specific Denial I Want My Beloved to Be Happy The Brute The Stoner Homage Screw the Rules, I Have Money! NO INDOOR VOICE Adaptation Expansion Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Historical In-Joke She Cleans Up Nicely Freudian Excuse Punny Name The Big Guy Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Motor Mouth Heroic BSoD Pretty Little Headshots Developing Doomed Characters Reality Has No Subtitles Wounded Gazelle Gambit Mind Screw Grey and Gray Morality Would Hit a Girl One Steve Limit Cain and Abel Disproportionate Retribution Shoot the Shaggy Dog Adaptational Badass Tempting Fate Peek-a-Boo Corpse As Himself Deconstruction Slasher Movie Title Drop Corpsing Hidden Depths Parental Incest Combat Pragmatist Crazy Jealous Guy Earn Your Happy Ending Fun with Acronyms Jerk Jock Chekhov's Gun Black Best Friend Big-Bad Ensemble Mistaken for Gay Mundane Made Awesome Face Death with Dignity Wrong Genre Savvy Eyepatch of Power Slasher Smile Alpha Bitch The Musical Retcon Yandere Animated Credits Opening Obviously Evil Fantastic Racism I Did What I Had to Do Death Seeker Historical Hero Upgrade Not So Stoic Dumb Blonde Beta Couple Villain Opening Scene The Hero Dies The Great Depression Took a Level in Jerkass Killed Mid-Sentence Destination Defenestration You Killed My Father No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Dark Is Not Evil Toplessness from the Back Even Evil Has Loved Ones Adaptational Heroism He Knows Too Much Artistic License – Law Red Shirt Hypocritical Humor What You Are in the Dark Double-Meaning Title Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Sequel Hook Bland-Name Product Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Jitter Cam Video Credits Kill It with Fire And I Must Scream Line-of-Sight Name Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday The '70s All Men Are Perverts Mugging the Monster Villainous Breakdown Spared by the Adaptation Our Zombies Are Different Chase Scene Sassy Black Woman Adaptational Villainy Sacrificial Lion Frame-Up No Name Given Unusually Uninteresting Sight Black Comedy Rape Jerkass Dwindling Party The Sociopath Henpecked Husband Works Set in World War II Pragmatic Adaptation Serial Killer Crapsack World Pragmatic Villainy Tranquil Fury In Medias Res Framing Device Cool Car Taking You with Me Ironic Echo It Will Never Catch On Face–Heel Turn Put on a Bus Soft Glass Mexican Standoff Advertised Extra Non-Indicative Name Hate Sink Very Loosely Based on a True Story Moment Killer Mr. Fanservice Let's Get Dangerous! Action Girl Flipping the Bird The Dragon Faking the Dead Bad "Bad Acting" Alas, Poor Villain Romantic False Lead The Reveal Hollywood Darkness Plot Hole Freeze-Frame Bonus Spanner in the Works Demonic Possession La Résistance You Have Failed Me Noodle Incident Dramatic Irony Drives Like Crazy Ambiguous Ending Crucified Hero Shot Award-Bait Song Badass Grandpa Boom, Headshot! Ungrateful Bastard Bowdlerise Italian Films Anachronism Stew Gender Flip Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Five-Man Band Meaningful Background Event Chekhov's Gunman Dramedy Accidental Murder Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Suspiciously Similar Substitute Leaning on the Fourth Wall The '60s Bound and Gagged Eureka Moment Dark Reprise Knife Nut Canon Foreigner Reasonable Authority Figure Malevolent Masked Men Sexy Discretion Shot Worthy Opponent Driven to Suicide Determinator aka: The Determinator Cool Old Guy Bond One-Liner Final Girl Coming-of-Age Story Suddenly SHOUTING! This Is Gonna Suck Damsel in Distress Disney Death The Quiet One Retirony Kids Are Cruel Not So Different Better to Die than Be Killed Our Vampires Are Different The Smart Guy Vacation Films Rasputinian Death Martial Arts Movie Dramatic Gun Cock Danny Peary Cult Movies List Affectionate Parody Skewed Priorities In Name Only Brother–Sister Incest The Casanova Only Known by Their Nickname The Dog Bites Back The Cavalry Whole Plot Reference One-Word Title Sci-Fi Horror In the Back Not Using the "Z" Word Gratuitous English Wicked Cultured Love Triangle Deliberately Monochrome You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Artistic License – Geography Historical Villain Upgrade Fanservice Extra The Ditz Decoy Protagonist Blood from the Mouth folderlabel Stalker with a Crush Unwitting Instigator of Doom Rewatch Bonus Offscreen Teleportation The Faceless Kick the Dog Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Nice Hat Sanity Slippage Dark Action Girl Camera Abuse Chiaroscuro Dies Wide Open Empathic Environment Ominous Latin Chanting Ship Tease Insane Troll Logic Evil Counterpart Cloudcuckoolander Slashed Throat Not So Above It All No OSHA Compliance Stuff Blowing Up Properly Paranoid War Is Hell Car Fu Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Mood Whiplash Cat Fight Green-Eyed Monster Expy Hong Kong Films Never Found the Body Flashback Smoking Is Cool The Ace Evil Laugh Ambiguously Gay Defiant to the End Bi the Way Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Air-Vent Passageway "Shaggy Dog" Story Too Dumb to Live Lighter and Softer Adorkable Beard of Evil Training Montage Instant Death Bullet Fourth Date Marriage Product Placement Dissonant Serenity Eagleland Reality Is Unrealistic Bottomless Magazines The Lost Lenore The Chessmaster Big Applesauce Undying Loyalty Men Are the Expendable Gender Scare Chord Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Have a Gay Old Time Irony Rousing Speech Mercy Kill Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Sequel Escalation Film Series For the Evulz Jerk with a Heart of Gold Bond Villain Stupidity All There in the Script Antagonist Title Costume Porn Unreliable Narrator Off with His Head! Downer Ending Sealed Evil in a Can Scary Black Man Meaningful Name Superhero Darkest Hour Depraved Bisexual Word of God Fat Bastard Mighty Whitey Eiffel Tower Effect Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Horror Films The Voiceless Star-Crossed Lovers Cat Scare Those Wacky Nazis Broken Bird Artistic License – Gun Safety Your Cheating Heart Ghost Fiction Bait-and-Switch Pyrrhic Victory Brainless Beauty Bullying a Dragon Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie The Film of the Book Accidental Misnaming Four-Temperament Ensemble Hero Antagonist The Smurfette Principle Amoral Attorney Mama Bear Big Eater Jump Scare Babies Ever After Cold-Blooded Torture It's Personal Soundtrack Dissonance Vomit Discretion Shot Self-Deprecation Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Last-Name Basis I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Bloody Hilarious Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Guns Akimbo Recycled IN SPACE! As You Know Central Theme Darker and Edgier Missing Mom Intrepid Reporter Due to the Dead Be Careful What You Wish For Genre Savvy Silent Movie Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Anti-Villain Foregone Conclusion Corrupt Corporate Executive Stock Footage Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Evil Sounds Deep German Films Only One Name Love at First Sight Thriller Laughing Mad Historical-Domain Character Catapult Nightmare Big Bad Duumvirate Get Out! Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil The Bad Guy Wins Overly Long Gag Bloodier and Gorier Tap on the Head Bar Brawl Bury Your Gays A God Am I N-Word Privileges Blood Knight Needs Wiki Magic Love Visual Pun Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Redemption Equals Death Gainax Ending Loads and Loads of Characters True Companions Epic Movie Department of Redundancy Department Random Events Plot Informed Ability Death by Adaptation What the Hell, Hero? Jerkass Has a Point Hollywood Law Adults Are Useless Not Quite Dead Australian Movies Pimped-Out Dress Market-Based Title Karmic Death Pet the Dog Rule of Three Sir Swears-a-Lot Rule of Cool Obstructive Bureaucrat Big Brother Instinct Insult Backfire Enemy Mine Composite Character Happily Married Agony of the Feet Leitmotif Shipper on Deck Artistic License – Military "Awesome McCool" Name Idiot Ball Stealth Pun Time Skip BFG British Films Anguished Declaration of Love The '50s Black Dude Dies First Break the Haughty Genre Throwback Made of Explodium Early Installment Weirdness Ass Shove Riddle for the Ages Character Development Red Right Hand Death by Sex Author Appeal Adult Fear Canadian Movies Heroic Sacrifice Redshirt Army Comically Missing the Point Light Is Not Good Bring My Brown Pants Brutal Honesty From Nobody to Nightmare Insistent Terminology Meet Cute Good Is Not Nice Armor-Piercing Question Defrosting Ice Queen Married to the Job Rich Bitch Children Are Innocent Truth in Television Gold Digger Faux Affably Evil Creator Cameo Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Funny Foreigner Leave the Camera Running Brick Joke Kill 'em All MacGuffin Animal Title Index Deus ex Machina Contrived Coincidence Madness Mantra Match Cut The End... Or Is It? Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Race Against the Clock Running Gag Rated M for Manly Expository Hairstyle Change More Dakka Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Extremely Short Timespan Sports Stories Immune to Bullets Sole Survivor Music Stories Gone Horribly Right Only a Flesh Wound Smug Snake My Greatest Failure The Bully Straight Gay Ripped from the Headlines A.I. Is a Crapshoot Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Only in It for the Money Early-Bird Cameo Failed a Spot Check Action Survivor Those Two Bad Guys Age Lift Setting Update Dressing as the Enemy Not Even Bothering with the Accent Credits Gag Casting Gag Cool Shades Shell-Shocked Veteran Bunny-Ears Lawyer Unresolved Sexual Tension Sadistic Choice Butt-Monkey Beauty Is Never Tarnished Vampire Fiction Calling the Old Man Out Impaled with Extreme Prejudice An Aesop "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Domestic Abuse A Minor Kidroduction Eldritch Abomination Once More, with Clarity! Every Car Is a Pinto Double Entendre He Who Fights Monsters Well-Intentioned Extremist Interrupted Suicide The '80s Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Ax-Crazy Aluminum Christmas Trees Off-into-the-Distance Ending Translation Convention Evil-Detecting Dog Pre-Mortem One-Liner Action Genre Handicapped Badass All for Nothing "The Reason You Suck" Speech Deliberate Values Dissonance Hero of Another Story Lock and Load Montage Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Fake Shemp Neck Snap Country Matters Karma Houdini As the Good Book Says... Captain Obvious Police are Useless It Can Think Show Within a Show Took a Level in Badass Dropped a Bridge on Him Call-Back Would Hurt a Child Mythology Gag Drugs Are Bad Public Domain Feature Films The Lancer Fingore Improbable Aiming Skills Morality Pet Artistic License – Physics Badass in a Nice Suit Based on a True Story A Date with Rosie Palms Wretched Hive Action Prologue Half the Man He Used to Be Meaningful Echo Card-Carrying Villain Older Than They Look The Ghost Greater-Scope Villain My Beloved Smother Fatal Family Photo The Place Affably Evil Bilingual Bonus Annoying Younger Sibling No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Science Fiction Films Serious Business Parental Abandonment Pretty in Mink Ambiguous Disorder Celebrity Paradox The Vamp Fish out of Water Manly Tears Auto Erotica Epic Fail Improbable Weapon User Oh, Crap! And the Adventure Continues Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome It's All About Me Deal with the Devil Shower Scene Death of a Child Berserk Button What Happened to the Mouse? Red Oni, Blue Oni Kick the Son of a Bitch Chewing the Scenery Dogged Nice Guy Badass Normal Drill Sergeant Nasty Almost Kiss Villain with Good Publicity Monumental Damage Belligerent Sexual Tension Real Life Writes the Plot Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Nice Guy Fatal Flaw Knight Templar Zombie Stories Manchild Slap-Slap-Kiss Television Movie Index I Need a Freaking Drink Extreme Doormat Protagonist Title Intergenerational Friendship Not What It Looks Like Didn't Think This Through Never My Fault Man on Fire No Ending Author Avatar Dark and Troubled Past Sinister Minister The Load Covers Always Lie Shirtless Scene Those Two Guys Shut Up, Hannibal! Gorn Humiliation Conga Only Sane Man The Cameo Fanservice Film Noir Index Scenery Porn For Want of a Nail Adaptation Dye-Job Vitriolic Best Buds Does This Remind You of Anything? "Well Done, Son!" Guy Obfuscating Stupidity The X of Y Alliterative Name Red Eyes, Take Warning Drowning My Sorrows Rule of Symbolism Parental Substitute Anachronic Order Heel–Face Turn Genre Shift Tagline Dirty Cop All There in the Manual Artistic License – Biology Hypocrite Cool Guns Implacable Man Cool Old Lady Blatant Lies Dutch Angle Fate Worse than Death Trailers Always Spoil Hair-Trigger Temper Abusive Parents Actually Pretty Funny Precision F-Strike Christmas Movies Index