Tropescilloscope: Death by Sex

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

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Or Is It? Every Car Is a Pinto Enemy Mine Redemption Equals Death Genre Shift Up to Eleven Bullying a Dragon Monumental Damage Film Series Stalker with a Crush Hollywood Darkness Line-of-Sight Name Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" No Name Given O.O.C. Is Serious Business As the Good Book Says... Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Double Entendre Death Seeker Naked People Are Funny All Just a Dream Smug Snake After the End An Arm and a Leg Extremely Short Timespan Failed a Spot Check Suddenly SHOUTING! Final Girl Manipulative Bastard Woman Scorned Freudian Excuse Pragmatic Adaptation Badass Normal Asshole Victim Fanservice Extra Not So Above It All Fake Shemp Danny Peary Cult Movies List Drives Like Crazy Dramedy Biopic An Axe to Grind My Beloved Smother Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Award-Bait Song Death by Adaptation Hidden Depths "Well Done, Son!" 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Rousing Speech Fainting Off-into-the-Distance Ending Those Wacky Nazis 20 Minutes into the Future Expy Not Quite Dead Red Oni, Blue Oni Tranquil Fury Anti-Villain Contrived Coincidence Creator Cameo I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Villain Opening Scene Lighter and Softer Bowdlerise Femme Fatale Playing Gertrude Half the Man He Used to Be Toplessness from the Back Daddy's Girl Age Lift The Mafia Martial Arts Movie Reckless Gun Usage The Chessmaster Badass Bookworm Slasher Movie In Medias Res Pretty Little Headshots Manly Tears Accidental Murder Recycled IN SPACE! Country Matters Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Cluster F-Bomb Market-Based Title The Ditz Public Domain Feature Films Adaptation Dye-Job Break the Cutie Outrun the Fireball Never Trust a Trailer Index of Film Westerns Product Placement Earn Your Happy Ending Yandere Vacation Films Manic Pixie Dream Girl Author Appeal Here We Go Again! Greater-Scope Villain The Casanova Bloodier and Gorier Idiot Ball No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Black and Gray Morality Instant Death Bullet Animated Credits Opening Heel–Face Turn Tagline Evil Brit The Un-Reveal Cat Scare Beard of Evil Knight Templar Unusual Euphemism Chekhov's Skill Grievous Bottley Harm Killed Mid-Sentence There Is No Kill Like Overkill And the Adventure Continues Boom, Headshot! Dark Is Not Evil The Quiet One Spared by the Adaptation A Date with Rosie Palms Cool Old Lady Shoot the Shaggy Dog Wrong Genre Savvy Love Triangle Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Deal with the Devil Love at First Sight Damsel in Distress Fourth Date Marriage Genre Savvy Artistic License – Law This Is Gonna Suck Celebrity Paradox Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Big Fancy House Mundane Made Awesome Jerk with a Heart of Gold Kick the Dog Mr. Exposition Dark and Troubled Past Never My Fault The Place N-Word Privileges The Bully No Antagonist Vitriolic Best Buds The Smart Guy Heroes Want Redheads Would Hit a Girl Dark Reprise Decoy Protagonist Major Injury Underreaction Fish out of Water Eureka Moment Match Cut Drugs Are Bad Our Vampires Are Different Never Found the Body Beauty Is Never Tarnished Captain Obvious Gory Discretion Shot Villain with Good Publicity Small Name, Big Ego As You Know Demoted to Extra The Big Guy Guile Hero La Résistance Death by Sex Developing Doomed Characters Rasputinian Death Based on a True Story Almost Kiss Music Stories Only Known by Their Nickname Meaningful Name Scary Black Man Shower Scene Vomit Discretion Shot Skewed Priorities Adaptational Badass Together in Death Actor Allusion Romantic False Lead Flipping the Bird Cowboy Cop Meaningful Background Event Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Men Are the Expendable Gender Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Hollywood Law Only in It for the Money Dramatic Irony Not So Stoic Morality Pet Irony As Long as It Sounds Foreign Dutch Angle Nice Guy Historical Villain Upgrade Maybe Ever After Say My Name Meet Cute Flashback The Stinger The Remake Gone Horribly Right Wounded Gazelle Gambit Brother–Sister Incest Whole Plot Reference Black Dude Dies First Token Minority Destination Defenestration Big-Bad Ensemble No OSHA Compliance Gender Flip Police are Useless Shipper on Deck Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Anachronism Stew The Voiceless Would Hurt a Child Fantasy Films Properly Paranoid Eiffel Tower Effect folderlabel You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Chekhov's Gun Awesome, but Impractical Hero of Another Story Four-Temperament Ensemble Stylistic Suck Foregone Conclusion Double-Meaning Title Jerkass Star-Crossed Lovers Psycho for Hire Peek-a-Boo Corpse My Greatest Failure Totally Radical Retired Badass Fiery Redhead Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Dirty Cop The Ace The Hero Dies British Films Mystery and Detective Films Interrupted Suicide Does This Remind You of Anything? Get Out! Insane Troll Logic Made of Iron What Happened to the Mouse? Cool Car Dual Wielding Revenge Those Two Bad Guys Make It Look Like an Accident Funny Background Event Faux Affably Evil Truth in Television Face–Heel Turn Fan Disservice Sequel Hook Hair-Trigger Temper Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Horror Films Action Genre Gorn Red Right Hand Daylight Horror Chekhov's Gunman No-Sell Credits Gag Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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Epilogue Scenery Porn Random Events Plot Artistic License – Gun Safety Take a Third Option Science Fiction Films An Aesop Blackmail Well-Intentioned Extremist Stealth Hi/Bye Covers Always Lie Unwitting Instigator of Doom Eye Scream Deconstruction Sassy Black Woman Offscreen Moment of Awesome Call-Forward A.I. Is a Crapshoot Historical In-Joke Heterosexual Life-Partners Disproportionate Retribution Setting Update Corrupt Corporate Executive Naïve Newcomer The Musical Eyepatch of Power Once More, with Clarity! No Ending Suspiciously Specific Denial Camp Gay Humans Are Bastards Funny Foreigner Epic Fail The Atoner The Faceless One Steve Limit Exact Words Antagonist Title Bland-Name Product Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Canadian Movies Russian Films Retcon Actually Pretty Funny Fun with Acronyms Despair Event Horizon Dumb Blonde It Will Never Catch On Intrepid Reporter Offscreen Teleportation Tempting Fate The Smurfette Principle Unspoken Plan Guarantee Mugging the Monster Left the Background Music On Hypocrite The Dragon Death by Irony MacGuffin Worthy Opponent Obviously Evil Big Eater Sexy Discretion Shot Obfuscating Stupidity Bury Your Gays Knife Nut Refuge in Audacity Woman in White Anachronic Order Adaptational Villainy Reality Ensues Sir Swears-a-Lot Soundtrack Dissonance Psychological Thriller The Mole Really Gets Around Adorkable I Did What I Had to Do Evil Counterpart Villainous Breakdown Last-Name Basis Throwing Your Sword Always Works Bar Brawl Rule of Cool Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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Determinator Immune to Bullets Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique