History Main / CartwrightCurse

* Almost ''every single companion'' in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' dies a horrible, sad death. Unless thay're from [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Part Four]].

* In ''Film/MissionImpossibleFilmSeries'' the real impossible mission is for Ethan to keep his love interests alive. Claire from the [[Film/MissionImpossible1996 first movie]]? Gunned down by the climax, not to mention Sarah whom Ethan was close to getting stabbed in the opening misson gone wrong. Lindsey from the [[Film/MissionImpossibleIII third movie]] lives just long to escape the villain's clutches and shoot her way out alongside Ethan, before it's revealed she has a bomb in her head and explodes. Illsa micraously survives two movies, only to have a fake out death and then is KilledOffForReal in ''Film/MissionImpossibleDeadReckoningPartOne'' by Gabriel; who just so happen to killed one of Ethan's other love interests decades earlier. In ''Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol'' Juila, Ethan's wife was apparently killed in events prior to the film -- but in the ending it's revealed Juila is totally fine and Ethan is keeping away from her precisely because of this trope.

Any {{Love Interest|s}} that the hero meets will be either killed off or [[PutOnABus otherwise removed forever]] from his or her life [[GirlOfTheWeek by the end of the episode or arc]]. Named for the hunky Cartwright family, father and three sons, of ''{{Series/Bonanza}}''. This also happened in the case of any love interest of the males on ''Bonanza'''s competitor, ''Series/TheBigValley'' (or maybe not just the ''males''; after all, their mother was a widow when the show opened and their sister wasn't exactly lucky in love herself). If the two of them wind up getting married, it's even worse -- chances are that the Love Interest [[WidowedAtTheWedding won't even make it to the honeymoon, or even through the ceremony!]] Often a case of [[StuffedIntoTheFridge women in refrigerators]].

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': [[Characters/MarvelComicsPeterParker Spider-Man]], while not quite as unlucky as Wolverine, in every universe has at least one of his girlfriends die and sometimes has multiple of them die. In the 616 universe and Ultimate universe Peter [[ComicBook/TheDeathOfGwenStacy loses Gwen to Green Goblin]] and Carnage respectively (though her consciousness placed into a clone body in the latter) and also lost his FairCop love interest Jean [=DeWolffe=] to Sin-Eater in ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfJeanDeWolffe''. In the infamous and greatly derided ''ComicBook/SpiderManReign'' universe he's unintentionally reponsible for Mary Jane's death due to his semen being radioactive (seriously). In ''ComicBook/Marvel1602'' Peter's shapeshifter girlfriend Virginia Dare is gunned down by Norman, who seemingly has a knack for killing the love of Spidey's life no matter which universe.

* Likewise, Tsunade of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' also seems to suffer from this, ranging from her brother Nawaki to her lover Dan and finally to Jiraiya.
* In ''Manga/{{Nightschool}}'', Alex has a literal curse on her that kills anyone or anything she says she likes, let alone loves (to demonstrate, she says "I really like pasta" and a bowl of pasta immediately explodes). This is the main cause of her FriendlessBackground, and brings up FridgeHorror when you wonder why she lives [[ConvenientlyAnOrphan alone with her sister]] (and why her sister is still alive).

* ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'' has Kyle Rayner. His first girlfriend, Alexandra [=DeWitt=], was the {{Trope Namer|s}} of StuffedIntoTheFridge (as well as Website/WomenInRefrigerators). His other two superhero girlfriends also died not long after each other (though they both [[BackFromTheDead got better]]). And what happened to the boy who had a crush on him... Or the girl who he had a one-night stand with who committed suicide. In fact during ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'', one of his dead love interests taunts his current girlfriend by saying that she'll eventually end up like the rest of them.
* [[Characters/MarvelComicsLogan Wolverine]] is "the best there is at what he does", and as he tells us what he does "isn't very nice", which apparently means what he does is "bury love interests"[[labelnote:*]]that and [[WolverinePublicity "make gratuitous guest appearances"]][[/labelnote]]. The fact that he's functionally immortal means that he's accumulated a ''lot'' of them. To be fair, one of them actually is still alive, but she is a [[AxCrazy crazy killer cyborg]] that wants to kill ''him''.
** Lampshaded in an old issue of ''ComicBook/MarvelComicsPresents'', when Wolverine is tied up next to otherwise bland wannabe-Sabretooth villain Cyber:
--->'''Cyber:''' Did you know you recite the names of your dead girlfriends when you're unconscious?\\
'''Wolverine:''' You should know, you killed one of 'em!\\
'''Cyber:''' Ahhh, who hasn't?
** It [[RetCon turns out]] [[Characters/MarvelComicsMystique Mystique]] (another virtual immortal) was another ex and just didn't mention it until Wolverine got his memories back. Apparently forgetting they were lovers for a few decades was enough to spare her from the curse.
** [[Characters/MarvelComicsJeanGrey Jean Grey]] initally didn't count outside alternate universes since they weren't truly an item around the time she first died, but by the Krakoa era, Jean is in a polyamory relationship with both Cyclops and Wolverine [[TheyKilledKennyAgain and of course dies again]] in the Hellfire Gala. Though both Scott and Logan in ''ComicBook/FallOfX'' know [[DeathIsCheap she'll be back soon]] so they don't bother grieving this time.
** In ''ComicBook/SpiderManVersusWolverine'', one of them was killed by ComicBook/SpiderMan of all people. To be fair that wasn't his fault, he thought she was Wolverine. She was trying to commit "suicide by cop"; she sneaks up behind him while he's still freaked out from fighting Wolvie. He spider-senses her, and instinctively lashes out (with his superhuman strength) without looking.
** It seems the secret is to stay away from him for the rest of your life. One comic has Wolverine called by a woman he knew, and fell in love with, 50 years before. They go on a mission together, and several pages later she's lying dead in the wreckage of their plane.
** It seems every other year, Logan [[RetCon discovers]] another dead Asian wife. Why nobody [[LampshadeHanging hung a lampshade]] on this yet is a mystery.
* Also from the ''ComicBook/XMen'', [[Characters/MarvelComicsProfessorX Charles Xavier aka Professor X]] is pretty unlucky when it comes to the women he's been in relationships with. So far he's lost: Gabrielle Haller (Legion's mother), Lilandra his Shi'ar love and Moira [=MacTaggert=] who's died many times and then turned completely evil in the Krakoa era.
* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'' par for the course of being TheWoobie has pretty much every single one of his girlfriends die at some point. Jarella his first alien lover got crushed by some falling rubble. His second alien lover and mother of two his children Caiera, gets killed by the exploding core of the Illuminati's shuttle he was sent to Sakaar on. Betty Ross aka Red She-Hulk, his poor wife has had several fake out deaths and has been put through the absoute wringer due to her connection to Bruce. The most cruel example probably being in ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'' when Betty finally reunites with Bruce and they share a BigDamnKiss... '''''before she is immediately sniped in the head by Bushwacker''''' though thankfully Betty's ResurrectiveImmortality as a Hulk bails her out there. Marlo Chandler, Hulk and Rick Jones's love interest gets around this by becoming Death herself.
* [[Characters/MarvelComicsMattMurdock Daredevil]] has had his share; four of his major love interests have died, and a fair number have gone insane.

** In the fourth volume of ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'', it's revealed that Matt Murdock wasn't ready to take the next step with his now-girlfriend Kristen [=McDuffie=] because he was aware of his bad luck with love interests, or to be more accurate, his love interests' bad luck.
* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' while not quite as unlucky as Wolverine, in every universe has at least one of his girlfriends die and sometimes has multiple of them die. In the 616 universe and Ultimate universe Peter loses Gwen to Green Goblin and Carnage respectively (though her consciousness placed into a clone body in the latter) and also lost his FairCop love interest Jean [=DeWolffe=] to Sin-Eater. In the infamous and greatly derided ''ComicBook/SpiderManReign'' universe he's unintentionally reponsible for Mary Jane's death due to his semen being radioactive (seriously). In ''ComicBook/Marvel1602'' Peter's shapeshifter girlfriend Virginia Dare is gunned down by Norman, who seemingly has a knack for killing the love of Spidey's life no matter which universe.
* Semi-example: her love interests are fine, but [[ComicBook/TheQuestion Renee Montoya]]'s partners/best friends tend to die tragically (see: Crispus Allen and [[ComicBook/FiftyTwo Vic Sage]]). Harvey Bullock gets off easy with just leaving the police force in disgrace. Crispus later came back as the new [[ComicBook/TheSpectre Spectre]].
* ComicBook/ThePunisher has got this very bad, especially in ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'' universe. In that continuity Frank not only loses his wife and mother of his children Maria as usual, but his second baby mama Kathryn O'Brien (to the Taliban) and Jenny Cesare who shoots herself in the head in the middle of having sex with Frank... thanks a lot Garth Ennis.
* [[Characters/HellblazerJohnConstantine John Constantine]] frequently [[LampshadeHanging hangs the ol' lampshade]] on this as a defense mechanism for his utter despair and self-loathing. Though you don't need to ''sleep'' with Constantine for this to happen -- [[DoomMagnet everyone who knows him goes this way.]] Probably only ComicBook/{{Zatanna}}, John's most reccuring love interest has been spared from this, though if she wasn't so insanely magical she would probably be six feet under by now.
* ComicBook/CarolDanvers aka Ms/Captain Marvel is probably one of the more prominent female examples of this in Marvel alongside Black Widow. Mar-Vell her first love interest dies due to cancer (and killed again two more times when he came back). Michael Barnett her steady boyfriend for quite awhile was beaten to death by Mystique while disquised as Carol herself. William Wagner a restaurant owner she dated turned out to be a Skrull and was killed. Rhoedy aka War Machine gets killed by Thanos not too long after they become a couple (though Rhoedy does eventually get better). It's no small wonder Carol and Wolverine get along so well with their similarly tragic love life.
* This trope applies itself in-universe to the main character, Alex, in ''Manga/{{Nightschool}}''. When she was young, her best friend [[DrivenToSuicide was driven to suicide]] and blamed Alex for it in her suicide note. The girl's mother, in a fit of grief-stricken rage, cursed Alex with something called a Neren Hex at her funeral, which functions as a ''literal'' Cartwright Curse. Anything she expresses even the slightest bit of affection for is instantly ''pulverized.'' Apparently, she's terrified of getting close to people in case she slips up and something horrible happens to them.
* [[Characters/TeenTitansStarfire Starfire]] doesn't catch a break in her romantic life since every love interest she had other than [[Characters/NightwingDickGrayson Dick Grayson]] died:

* Being a girlfriend of ComicBook/DylanDog is really dangerous.
* Fall for ComicBook/JonahHex, and odds are you will be eating a bullet by issue's end, usually by trying to help him and getting shot accidentally or for 'betrayal'. And if you don't die in that issue, then you'll die in the next issue you show up. Somewhat funnily, one of the two women who escaped this fate is the only one Hex married (she left him; the other was as hardened and skilled a gunfighter and bounty hunter as Hex and could take care of herself).
* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'' has poor Chromedome who has lost [[spoiler: a total of ''four'' husbands]] over his life. Although thankfully the last time is sort of [[spoiler: reversed with Rewind 2]].

* ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'''s Junior was subject to this ''twice'' first with Model Jones in the '50s (killed by her hoodlum brother) and then in the '70s with Moon Maid (killed by a car bomb aimed at Dick).

!!'''As a DeathTrope, all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware.'''

* [[TheChessmaster Lelouch vi Britannia]] from ''Anime/CodeGeass'' has three love interests in [[MysteriousWaif C.C.]], [[ActionGirl Kallen Kozuki]], and [[AllLovingHeroine Shirley Fenette]] (the main ones, at least; there are many more). Shirley ended up dead, and [[BreakHisHeartToSaveHim he turns Kallen against him]], so she tries to kill him. In the end, though, it doesn't matter, because he couldn't be with any of them anyway. Also [[WheelchairWoobie Nunnally]] and [[RoseHairedSweetie Euphemia]], who were both childhood crushes [[BrotherSisterIncest despite being his sisters.]] He accidentally caused the death of Euphemia, ''and'' the apparent death of Nunnally. '''If''' one counts the HoYay Lelouch has with two guys in the series, it's not much better: [[TykeBomb Rolo Haliburton (Lamperouge)]] -- his "adopted brother" -- [[HeKnowsTooMuch is the one who kills Shirley on the grounds that she knew too much for her own good]] [[MurderTheHypotenuse and had plans to off Nunnally]], but then ends up [[RedemptionEqualsDeath redeeming himself]] through pulling a HeroicSacrifice to save Lelouch. And for all effects, [[TheAtoner Suzaku Kururugi]] has secretly assumed the identity of Zero by the end of the series... while everyone else believes he ''is'' dead. Oh, and on top of it all, Lelouch plans his ''[[ThanatosGambit own death]]'' at Suzaku's hands at the end of the series. So even C.C. is denied a chance with him.

* In ''Film/MissionImpossibleFilmSeries'' the real impossible mission is for Ethan to keep his love interests alive. Claire from the [[Film/MissionImpossible1996 first movie]]? Gunned down by the climax, not to mention Sarah whom Ethan was close getting stabbed in the opening misson gone wrong. Lindsey from the [[Film/MissionImpossibleIII third movie]] lives just long to escape the villain's clutches and shoot her way out alongside Ethan, before it's revealed she has a bomb in her head and explodes. Illsa micraously survives two movies, only to have a fake out death and then is KilledOffForReal in ''Film/MissionImpossibleDeadReckoningPartOne'' by Gabriel; who just so happen to killed one of Ethan's other love interests decades earlier. In ''Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol'' Juila, Ethan's wife was apparently killed in events prior to the film -- but in the ending it's revealed Juila is totally fine and Ethan is keeping away from her precisely because of this trope.

* [[Characters/MarvelComicsLogan Wolverine]] is "the best there is at what he does", and as he tells us what he does "isn't very nice", which apparently means what he does is "bury love interests"[[note]]that and [[WolverinePublicity "make gratuitous guest appearances"]][[/note]]. The fact that he's functionally immortal means that he's accumulated a ''lot'' of them. To be fair, one of them actually is still alive, but she is a [[AxCrazy crazy killer cyborg]] that wants to kill ''him''.

** [[Characters/MarvelComicsJeanGrey Jean Grey]] does not count, since the relationship never really got anywhere (despite what some insist), save for the UltimateUniverse and the ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse'' universe.

* [[Characters/HellblazerJohnConstantine John Constantine]] frequently [[LampshadeHanging hangs the ol' lampshade]] on this as a defense mechanism for his utter despair and self-loathing. Though you don't need to ''sleep'' with Constantine for this to happen -- [[DoomMagnet everyone who knows him goes this way...]]

* Claire Redfield from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'' has horrible luck with men, which may be why she doesn't seem actively interested in dating. In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'', her would-be boyfriend Steve Burnside ends up first turned into a mutant monster, and then killed saving her from an even bigger monster. In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations2'', her boss Neil Fisher, whom she has a crush on, first turns out to be TheMole working to unleash bio-terror attacks to force the restoration of the disgraced [=FBC=], and then ''he'' gets turned into a mutant monster she has to kill in order to save herself. ''Then'' in [[Anime/ResidentEvilDegeneration ''Degeneration'']], the [=WilPharma=] Head Researcher, Frederic Downing, is constantly flirting with Claire but turns out to have been behind the outbreaks in order to secretly drum up interest for both the T- and G-Viruses and his newly invented antivirals on the black market. He ends up in a Federal prison.

** In another example, from the ''Literature/BookOfGenesis'', a woman named Tamar is married to Er, but he dies without leaving any heirs, so she is married off to his younger brother Onan: common practice among many ancient Middle Eastern peoples--including, historically, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yibbum the Hebrews]]--known as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levirate_marriage levirate marriage]]. The first child of a levirate marriage is considered to be the child and heir of the deceased first brother. Onan doesn't want to father children on someone else's behalf, so he uses coitus interruptus, which [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin his death is attributed to]]. Their father Judah, has one young son named Shelah left, and fears for Shelah's life since he believes Tamar to be cursed; Judah tells her that he'll give Shelah to her when the boy grows up... but when Shelah grows up, he is ''not'' married off to Tamar as promised, so she impersonates a shrine prostitute and sleeps with Judah so she can get pregnant and continue the bloodline, with the precaution of taking some of Judah's belonging as "payment" -- which she shows to Judah before explaining herself. Judah realises [[WomenAreWiser Tamar is in the right]] and accepts responsibility, with Tamar's twin kids being acknowledged as part of the family.

In TV series, this is often caused by the closely related trope StatusQuoIsGod. FatalAttractor is a variation of this, except that the love interests in question usually survive, but prove to be woefully unsuitable for the hero in some way, if they don't turn out to be bad guys. Sometimes the two of these are combined, making for a character who ''really'' can't catch a break in the romantic department. In [[LongRunners long running shows]], LongRunnerCastTurnover will virtually guarantee this. (See the TropeNamer, ''Series/{{Bonanza}}'', for an example.)

* ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} is "the best there is at what he does", and as he tells us what he does "isn't very nice", which apparently means what he does is "bury love interests"[[note]]that and [[WolverinePublicity "make gratuitous guest appearances"]][[/note]]. The fact that he's functionally immortal means that he's accumulated a ''lot'' of them. To be fair, one of them actually is still alive, but she is a [[AxCrazy crazy killer cyborg]] that wants to kill ''him''.

* ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} has had his share; four of his major love interests have died, and a fair number have gone insane.

** In the fourth volume of ''Daredevil'', it's revealed that Matt Murdock wasn't ready to take the next step with his now-girlfriend Kristen [=McDuffie=] because he was aware of his bad luck with love interests, or to be more accurate, his love interests' bad luck.

* [[ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}} John Constantine]] frequently [[LampshadeHanging hangs the ol' lampshade]] on this as a defense mechanism for his utter despair and self-loathing. Though you don't need to ''sleep'' with Constantine for this to happen -- [[DoomMagnet everyone who knows him goes this way...]]

* Being a girlfriend of ''ComicBook/DylanDog'' is really dangerous.
* Fall for ''ComicBook/JonahHex'', and odds are you will be eating a bullet by issue's end, usually by trying to help him and getting shot accidentally or for 'betrayal'. And if you don't die in that issue, then you'll die in the next issue you show up. Somewhat funnily, one of the two women who escaped this fate is the only one Hex married (she left him; the other was as hardened and skilled a gunfighter and bounty hunter as Hex and could take care of herself).

** Sean Connery: 26.67% (4 out of 15, although the first death of one of 007's conquests does not occur until the third movie)
** George Lazenby: 33.33% (1 out of 3)
** Roger Moore: 26.32% (5 out of 19)
** Timothy Dalton: ''0%'' (0 out of 4, but Felix gets married in ''Licence To Kill'' and guess what happens to his wife)
** Pierce Brosnan: 40% (4 out of 10; one in each movie)
** Daniel Craig (as of ''No Time To Die''): 42.86% (3 out of 7, and the first survivor wasn't until his third film [[note]] the unnamed woman he shacks up with while he's on the beach after everyone thinks he was killed in action [[/note]]; ladies, don't kiss him unless your will is in order)

** Poor Buffy's luck isn't much better. Her first {{Love Interest|s}} turned evil and had to be killed (and then was revived and left her...long story), her second was a jerk who dumped her as soon as they had sex, her third left because he couldn't handle being weaker than her, and her fourth and final one died in a HeroicSacrifice (but got better). In three seasons since then, she still hasn't dared to enter a serious relationship.
*** ''Finally'' averted in season 10 onward; [[spoiler: she gets back together with Spike (the above-mentioned 4th {{Love Interest|s}} who died then [[OnlyMostlyDead got better]])]] and they actually manage a healthy and happy relationship for a few years. While they ''do'' break-up sometime between seasons 11 and 12, season 12 implies [[MaybeEverAfter getting back together is very much on the table in the near future]].

* Hiro Nakamura of ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' has absolutely zero luck in the love department. His first love interest, Charlie, ends up killed by Sylar almost the moment they figure out they have something. He tries to use his time travel to save her, but ends up six months in the past instead, setting up the TieInNovel ''Literature/SavingCharlie'' (which reveals that most previous women in his life have simply opted to avoid interacting with him whenever they can). Hiro takes TheSlowPath back to the present and forms a relationship with Charlie over those six months, but then has to allow her to be killed again because her death is what caused him to take that leap back in time in the first place. Hiro's SecondLove, Yaeko from HollywoodMedievalJapan, doesn't actively die on screen, but he can't be with her because that would break the timeline and he might end up [[MyOwnGrandpa his own ancestor]] - oh, and there's the whole deal with his hero Kensei being ''extremely'' jealous (did we mention Kensei is immortal and takes TheSlowPath back to the present to hunt down Hiro for daring to steal his destined girl?). Then, Hiro manages to figure out a way to convince Sylar to actually ''save'' Charlie from an aneurysm instead of killing her for her PhotographicMemory, but Charlie gets ripped out of his life ''again'' by evil carnie Samuel and sent back to the 1940s using his own time traveler - but, without knowing where or when she ended up, Hiro couldn't save her. She ended up building her own life without him, only meeting him again briefly when she's dying of old age.

* Common in ''Series/InspectorMorse'', where Morse's love interests usually turn out to be either the next victim or the murderer. The spinoff ''Series/{{Lewis}}'' carries on the trend, [[spoiler: but it's eventually averted when Lewis enters into a relationship with his long-time colleague, pathologist Laura Hobson.]]

* Common in ''Series/InspectorMorse'', where Morse's love interests usually turn out to be either the next victim or the murderer. The spinoff ''Series/{{Lewis}}'' carries on the trend.

* A recurring thing in ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'': Spider-Man/Peter Parker has no less than ''four'' love interests in this series: Mary Jane Watson, Gwen Stacy, Liz Allan, and Black Cat (although the last one only knows him as Spider-Man). And, due to various reasons, he ends up with none of them: he was completely unaware of Gwen's affections for him until she started dating Harry, Mary Jane (despite being his date to the school dance) only liked him as a friend (although WordOfGod says they eventually would have married), and any chance he might have had with Black Cat disappeared when [[spoiler:he found out that her father was the one who killed his Uncle Ben, and left said father to rot in jail, earning Black Cat's rage]].

** Another woman accompanies him on an endurance race in one episode. She is shown to have a past with Joe and is a pretty assertive and confident lady, showing off her skills with her CoolGun. However she is revealed to not only be from Galactor but also a ''cyborg'' and after learning of her treachery of trying to leave them, Galactor remotely self-destructs her. Damn...

* Getting in bed with Film/JamesBond is, under Massachusetts state law, [[TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch Assisted Suicide]]. Tracy, the one woman whom he married in ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'', didn't even make it to her honeymoon--and really, how cruel is that? Why else would anyone marry James Bond if not for the experience of the honeymoon? Even Dominique Paradis, the first girl in video game ''VideoGame/{{Nightfire}}'', gets kicked off a roof for her trouble. Generally speaking, it's best to be the second woman Bond hooks up with during the course of a mission, or possibly the bit character he has a fling with before the mission even starts and is only present in that one scene. More often than not, the first woman he sleeps with is killed while the second survives. As an overall statistic, as of ''Film/NoTimeToDie'', sleeping with Bond brings with it a 31.03% (18 out of 58) chance of dying before the end of the movie. Of course, the death rate varies from Bond to Bond:
** Sean Connery: 26.67% (4 out of 15)

** Pierce Brosnan: 40% (4 out of 10)
** Daniel Craig (as of ''No Time To Die''): 42.86% (3 out of 7, and the first survivor wasn't until his third film [[note]] the unnamed woman he shacks up with while he's on the beach after everyone thinks he was killed in action [[/note]]. Ladies, don't kiss him unless your will is in order).

** Pierce Brosnan: 30% (3 out of 10)
** Daniel Craig (as of ''No Time To Die''): 42.86% (3 out of 7, and the first survivor wasn't until his third film. Ladies, don't kiss him unless your will is in order).

** One of them was killed by Franchise/SpiderMan of all people. To be fair that wasn't his fault, he thought she was Wolverine. She was trying to commit "suicide by cop"; she sneaks up behind him while he's still freaked out from fighting Wolvie. He spider-senses her, and instinctively lashes out (with his superhuman strength) without looking.

* Stan and Xev in ''Series/{{Lexx}}''. They are desperately ReadyForLovemaking with anyone their spaceship encounters, whether human, [[BoldlyComing alien]], [[{{Robosexual}} robot]], or AnythingThatMoves. Even when they find willing partners, they almost never get laid before their prospective lovers die.