History Main / GladToBeAliveSex

** Subverted near the end of ''Spider-Man: The Other''. Peter ends up carrying Mary Jane in his arms because she's moving too slow, leading {{ComicBook/Luke Cage|HeroForHire}} to believe he's rushing to get laid. Next scene shows that Peter simply wanted to take Mary Jane out web swinging.

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': Referenced in the third season episode "Jus in Bello". During an assault by an army of demons on a police station, the secretary (established as the only virgin in the building) claims that [[IfWeSurviveThis if she makes it out alive]], she is "going to have ''so'' much sex." [[spoiler: While she and everyone else survives the siege, she never gets to follow through with it; merely hours later, Lilith arrives to clean up her army's failure.]]

** After a harrowing attempt on Home Secretary [[BreakTheHaughty Julia Montague's life]], she and David Budd are relocated to a hotel for safety. Unused to such visceral violence, Julia starts to break down. Visibly breaking down, she asks David [[CryIntoChest for a hug]]. The hug slowly morphs into kissing which leads to an "I can't believe we survived that" session in bed. As Budd is her bodyguard, this involves him crossing a professional line.
** Averted in the first episode when Budd's estranged ex-wife invites him to stay after he talked down a suicide bomber, only to reject him when he tries to kiss her. Budd then leaves the house instead.

* In ''VisualNovel/PrincessLover!'', after Teppei saves her from an out of control train, Charlotte thanks him (off-screen) in a gratuitously erotic way. Silvie's facial expressions tell the story.

* The MLP [=FiM=] fanfic, [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/106068/1/relax/intimacy Relax]] features this between a soldier and a prostitute, whom he regularly visits. It's shown how that their encounters have turned into more than just business transactions, whith genuine affection developing between the two.
* The ''Anime/CodeGeass'' fanfic [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6969408/1/ In the End]] it's not exactly clear what happens in the haystack between [[spoiler: Lelouch and C.C after she bathes him]] but the author mentions how they were sleeping side-by-side when [[spoiler: Orange found them]].

* A ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' fanfic, "[[http://fasterassembly.livejournal.com/25712.html Goes Down Alone]]'' is pretty much about UnresolvedSexualTension culminating into this trope. It's actually more dramatic than [[NotSafeForWork erotic]].

* In the "Manga/FromEroicaWithLove" fanfiction drama [[http://www.caffiends.net/viewstory.php?sid=44 "Alles Klar"]], [[spoiler:Klaus and Dorian]] have hot, intimate sex after surving torture and (mostly) getting over [[spoiler:the trauma of rape]] together.

* In the ''Manga/MobPsycho100'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13226631/1/Shigeko-Kageyama-AKA-Mob Shigeko Kageyama AKA Mob]]'' after surviving the events of the 7th Division arc Mob(gender swapped) and Teru don't go all the way but in chapter 17 they go much farther than they have before. Mob's reasoning is that she doesn't want to die without knowing what any of it is like.

* [[Radar/FireEmblem VERY strongly implied]] to be the case with [[spoiler: Kaze and his wife, whomever she may be]] in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'': ''Birthright'', since [[spoiler: in normal circumstances a child's paralogue unlocks as soon as their parents S-Support... but for plot reasons, Kaze's daughter Midori's paralogue doesn't unlock ''unless'' Kaze survives his and the Avatar's near death experience at the end of Chapter 15, leading to this implication]].

* ''Series/BodyguardUK2018'': After a harrowing attempt on [[BreakTheHaughty Julia's life]], she and David are relocated to a hotel for safety. Unused to such visceral violence, Julia starts to break down. Visibly breaking down, she asks David [[CryIntoChest for a hug]]. The hug slowly morphs into kissing which leads to an "I can't believe we survived that" session in bed.

* In ''Literature/{{Touch}},'' Bex was apparently conceived from this, right after her father led the effort to [[spoiler:stop an EldritchAbomination from eating everyone on Earth]]. Its presented more poetically than most examples:

** In "[[Recap/BreakingBadS1E2TheCatsInTheBag The Cat's in the Bag...]]". Walter White has just escaped two drug dealers who were about to kill him and a fire that one of them set accidentally. And then he crawls back home to his wife.
** In "[[Recap/BreakingBadS2E1SevenThirtySeven Seven Thirty-Seven]]" it goes much worse. He come home half-whimpering after a really traumatic ordeal and needs some sexual healing from his wife. When she's not in the mood for it he almost rapes her.

* [[Radar/FireEmblemFates VERY strongly implied]] to be the case with [[spoiler: Kaze and his wife, whomever she may be]] in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'': ''Birthright'', since [[spoiler: in normal circumstances a child's paralogue unlocks as soon as their parents S-Support... but for plot reasons, Kaze's daughter Midori's paralogue doesn't unlock ''unless'' Kaze survives his and the Avatar's near death experience at the end of Chapter 15, leading to this implication]].

* Invoked in an advertisement for Bridgestone tires, where the GPS advises an elderly couple the best route to a makeout spot:

* ''LightNovel/TheTestamentOfSisterNewDevil'': [[spoiler: The hero, Basara Tojo, is the result of one of these.]]

* Happens between [[spoiler: Akiko and Saionji]] in the fourth Manga/KaseiYakyoku OAV, right after [[spoiler: the Great Kanto Earthquake.]] [[PlayingWithATrope With a big catch, though]]: [[spoiler: their relationship issues are ''not'' solved by their sexual act, as Saionji reveals to her that he ''has'' met the guy whom Akiko truly likes, Taka, and knows he's just the RomanticFalseLead. That leads to: Akiko suffering and HeroicBSOD, them breaking up, and to her [[ButNowIMustGo leaving Tokyo to rebuild her life on her own]], whereas Saionji [[SecondLove gets together]] [[PairTheSpares with Akiko's lady-in-waiting Sara]].]]

* {{Discussed}} in ''Manga/CityHunter'': Ryo knows perfectly that part of his ''immense'' libido is owed to him being in near-constant danger, and explains to his friend Mick it's why he's not sure if his feelings for Kaori are romantic or platonic.

** Played straight and very effectively in ''ComicBook/KravensLastHunt''. [[spoiler: After being buried alive for two weeks, the first thing Spider-Man does is return home to the arms of his wife Mary Jane, who had spent these two weeks worried sick and on at least one occasion getting into a very dangerous situation looking for him.]]

** Shinji and Asuka engaged in celebratory sex after [[spoiler:destroying Leliel.]]
** After winning the war, [[spoiler:Shinji, Asuka and Rei celebrated both their victory and their survival with a threesome.]]

* ''Fanfic/CyclesUponCycles'': After the events on Virmire, [[spoiler:which had Shepard knocked-out for two days following a mind-link with Sovereign, Kasumi confronts him about what he did, rakes him over the coals for nearly killing himself, finally admits her feelings for him and the two quickly get to multiple rounds of love-making.]]

* In Episode 51 of ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'', 18 implied in her thoughts that this was in the cards if Krillin and her got through Cell. Of course, she got consumed by Cell shortly thereafter, but given [[Anime/DragonBallZ the source material]], it's bound to happen eventually. [[spoiler:And it did. The end result completely obliterated the Krillin Owned Counter]].

* At least one of the many sex scenes in ''Film/NineAndAHalfWeeks'', with Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke.

* ''Film/BloodSurf'': After the final guy and girl manage to kill the big bad crocodile, they celebrate by making out.
* ''Film/{{Serenity}}'': When Simon and Kaylee are cornered by Reavers, he laments that he never took the chnce with her. Realizing that her attraction isn't so one-sided after all, Kaylee is spurred to fight and drive the Reavers back. In the epilogue, they are seen... 'celebrating' vigorously.

* [[spoiler:Aviendha and Rand]]'s first time in the ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' might qualify, though two very attractive people with significant UST sharing body heat in cold climates is really jumping the gun on this trope.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''

** A non-sexual variant in "[[Recap/Daredevil2015S2E4PennyAndDime Penny and Dime]]". After a very taxing day, attending Grotto's funeral, then learning the truth about Frank Castle's family, Matt Murdock and Karen Page's [[RomanticRain kiss in the rain]] at the end of the episode has a lot of this in the subtext, if Matt's flirting with Karen while at Josie's watching the news of Frank's arrest is anything.

--->[[spoiler:'''Simon:''']] In all this, if there's one thing I regret, it's never having the chance... to be with you.\\
[[spoiler:'''Kaylee:''']] You mean to say, as in... sex?\\
[[spoiler:'''Simon:''']] ''[smiles]'' I mean to say.\\
[[spoiler:'''Kaylee:''']] ''[[[DramaticGunCock cocks gun]]]'' Hell with this, I'm gonna ''live!''

* In ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', it's #26 on Lily's reasons to have sex.

* ''Series/IronFist2017'': In "[[Recap/IronFist2017S1E9TheMistressOfAllAgonies The Mistress of All Agonies]]", Colleen Wing has been poisoned by Madame Gao. Bakuto teaches Danny how to use his chi to burn away the poison. Danny succeeds, but the effort causes him to pass out, giving Bakuto's group (including Colleen) more than enough time to take both Gao and Danny to an unknown location. At the start of [[Recap/IronFist2017S1E10BlackTigerStealsHeart the next episode]], we see Danny and Colleen wake up naked in a bed at the Hand's compound. It's implied that they do the deed, but we cut away to Harold Meachum talking with Joy before we see anything explicit.

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': Referenced in the third season episode "Jus in Bello". During an assault by an army of demons on a police station, the secretary (established as the only virgin in the building) claims that if she makes it out alive, she is "going to have ''so'' much sex." [[spoiler: While she and everyone else survives the siege, she never gets to follow through with it; merely hours later, Lilith arrives to clean up her army's failure.]]

* [[Radar/FireEmblemFates VERY strongly implied]] to be the case with [[spoiler: Kaze and his wife, whomever she may be]] in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'': ''Birthright'', since [[spoiler: in normal circumstances a child's paralogue unlocks as soon as their parents S-Support... but for plot reasons, Kaze's daughter Midori's paralogue doesn't unlock ''unless'' Kaze survives his and the Avatar's near death experience at the end of Chapter 15, leading to this implication.]]

* In ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaWarriorWithin'', this happens in the GoldenEnding. [[spoiler:When the Prince rescues Kaileena from the Dahaka, the two sail towards Babylon and have sex along the way]].

* In ''Webcomic/DocRat'', [[http://www.docrat.com.au/default.asp?thisItem=909 must be refused because she's under an anesthetic that would affect her thinking.]]

* Discussed in ''Goodbye Darkness'' by William Manchester. After he's the SoleSurvivor from a shell that kills everyone else in his squad, Manchester has a hallucination of what he calls the Whore of Death, a FanDisservice image of a sexy New England schoolgirl who, when viewed up-close, has rotting flesh and jagged teeth. Despite this he has a RagingStiffie and [[HornyDevils she uses her sexual attraction to try and entice him out into the open where he'll be killed]]. The explosion of another shell causes her to vanish, but he's driven to masturbate and ejaculates in seconds.

* [[spoiler:Sam Yeager and Barbara Larssen]] do this after nearly being killed by a Lizard Bomb in Creator/HarryTurtledove's ''Literature/{{Worldwar}}'' series.

[[caption-width-range:350:From one big bang, to another.]]

* Subverted in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12290311/1/The-Black-Emperor The Black Emperor]]''. Lelouch and Milly are about to have sex after he returns from the Shinjuku Ghetto, but they get interrupted by C.C.

* In one episode of ''Jem'', Craig almost died when he was trapped inside a bombed building. ''[[Fanfic/HowStormerGotHerGrooveBack Painted Blind]]'' implies that Craig and his girlfriend Aja had TheirFirstTime that night.

* ''LightNovel/TheTestamentOfSisterNewDevilTojoHousehold'': [[spoiler: The hero, Basara Tojo, is the result of one of these.]]

* ''Series/TheWitcher2019'': After Geralt saves Yennefer from a spell gone wrong, they have sex in relief.

* ''Fanfic/MyHeroPlaythrough'': Averted. Tsuyu attempts to initiate this when she and Izuku both nearly die and save each other. His response is Main/LetsWaitAWhile.

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* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** Bronn recommends this to Tyrion after his first kill. Tyrion eyes Lady Catelyn Stark (the only woman for miles) and snarks, "I'm willing if she is."
** Bronn raises the trope again with Tyrion's brother Jaime, along with PreClimaxClimax.
--->"The [[ProudWarriorRace Dornish]] are crazy. All they want to do is fight and fuck, fuck and fight. There's nothing like a good fight, to get you in the mood for fucking. And there's nothing like a fuck-mad Dornish girl, to clear your head for the next fight."
** In "The Last of the Starks", the survivors of the recent apocalyptic battle to save the world burn their dead in a mass cremation, then have a celebration in the main hall. As the wine flows quite a lot of people are seen pairing off, including main characters Jaime Lannister and Brienne of Tarth who finally consumate years of {{UST}}. The trope is lampshaded by the Hound when he sees Gendry looking for Arya Stark (with whom he had [[PreClimaxClimax sex with before the battle]]).
--->'''Gendry:''' Have you seen Arya?
--->'''The Hound:''' You can still smell the burning bodies, and that's where your head is at.
--->'''Gendry:''' I just want to thank her for--
--->'''The Hound:''' [[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow I'm sure you do.]]
--->'''Gendry:''' Look, it's not about that.
--->'''The Hound:''' Of course it's about that you twat. Why shouldn't it be? The dead are dead, and you're not.
* In ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', it's #26 on Lily's reasons to have sex.
** Also gets a mention in the episode where Ted and Barney pose as tourists visiting NYC in order to pick up girls.
* Wash and Zoe from ''Series/{{Firefly}}''.
** After doing a dangerous maneuver to escape from very, very dangerous Reavers (space cannibals) in "[[{{Recap/FireflyE01Serenity}} Serenity]]":
-->'''Zoe''': Sir? I'd like you to take the helm, please. I need this man [Wash] to tear all my clothes off.
** Jayne says something about this to Book in "[[{{Recap/FireflyE12TheMessage}} The Message]]" when they are talking about how they deal with death. They also say something similar when they are defending the brothel in "[[{{Recap/FireflyE13HeartOfGold}} Heart of Gold]]".
** In the movie, [[spoiler: Kaylee and Simon]] use this as their RelationshipUpgrade. It's also implied in this exchange during a lull in a battle:
-->[[spoiler:'''Simon:''']] In all this, if there's one thing I regret, it's never having the chance... to be with you.\\
[[spoiler:'''Kaylee:''']] You mean to say, as in... sex?\\
[[spoiler:'''Simon:''']] ''[smiles]'' I mean to say.\\
[[spoiler:'''Kaylee:''']] ''[[[DramaticGunCock cocks gun]]]'' Hell with this, I'm gonna ''live!''

** Faith and Xander have sex in the episode "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E13TheZeppo}} The Zeppo]]". Faith implies she may like to indulge in this trope often, stating outright "Isn't it crazy how slaying just always makes you hungry and horny?"
** Buffy and Angel having sex at the end of "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E13Surprise}} Surprise]]", though it was less celebratory and more "I almost lost you, so I want to be as intimate as possible with you."
** In "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E17Forever}} Forever]]" Xander and Anya have sex after Joyce's funeral, with Anya lampshading the trope. Angel, who's turned up just to comfort Buffy over the death of her mother, [[CantHaveSexEver has to leave her]] when Buffy's kissing becomes too passionate.
* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': After nearly dying at the hands of a serial killer, Ziva goes to a bar and picks up a guy. Subverted in that she looks more screwed-up then sad. Also, after his old {{Love Interest|s}} [[spoiler: Paula Cassidy dies]], Tony goes and tells his girlfriend he loves her in a more romantic form of this.
* ''Series/DoctorWho''. Amy Pond all but demands this outright at the end of the episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E5FleshAndStone Flesh and Stone]]". Doesn't get further than a kiss before the [[CelibateHero Doctor puts a stop to it]]. Then came the next episode where he tells Amy's pissed-off fiancé what happened.
-->'''The Doctor:''' She was frightened. But we survived, you know, and in the relief of it and so, yes, she kissed me.\\
'''Rory:''' And you kissed her back.\\
'''The Doctor:''' [[LiteralMinded No, I kissed her mouth.]]

* Inverted in the first seasons episode ''Ceasefire'' of ''Series/{{MASH}}''. Thinking the war is over, Hawkeye breaks all relationships with nurses he has been bedding by faking being married.
* ''Series/BreakingBad'':
** In "[[Recap/BreakingBadS1E2TheCatsInTheBag The Cat's in the Bag...]]". Walter White has just escaped two drug dealers who were about to kill him and a fire that one of them set accidentally. And then he crawls back home to his wife.
** In "[[Recap/BreakingBadS2E1SevenThirtySeven Seven Thirty-Seven]]" it goes much worse. He come home half-whimpering after a really traumatic ordeal and needs some sexual healing from his wife. When she's not in the mood for it he almost rapes her.
* ''Series/MadMen'': After Roger and Joan get mugged in an alley, they get busy immediately after in that same alley.
* TravelogShow RealitySubtext example: ''Series/NoReservations'' goes to do a show in Beirut in 2006, gets trapped there by the Israeli bombing campaign, have to be evacuated out by the Marines. Anthony Bourdain gets him, reunites with his then-girlfriend, now wife. Nine months later their first daughter is born. He recounts this at the begining of the show where he returns to Beirut four years later for a do-over.

* ''The Hanging Gale'' (1995). After surviving an assassination attempt, Captain Townsend makes an aggressive overture to his maid, but she fends him off. He apologizes for his actions the next day.
* ''Series/ChicagoFire'': Casey and Dawson after the trying events of "I Am the Apocalypse." [[BlatantLies And that's the only reason.]]
-->'''Dawson:''' This is... This is just the reaction to the stress of the day.\\
'''Casey:''' Absolutely.
* ''Series/IronFist2017'': In "[[Recap/IronFist2017S1E9TheMistressOfAllAgonies The Mistress of All Agonies]]", Colleen Wing has been poisoned by Madame Gao. Bakuto teaches Danny how to use his chi to burn away the poison. Danny succeeds, but the effort causes him to pass out, giving Bakuto's group (including Colleen) more than enough time to take both Gao and Danny to an unknown location. At the start of [[Recap/IronFist2017S1E10BlackTigerStealsHeart the next episode]], we see Danny and Colleen wake up naked in a bed at the Hand's compound. It's implied that they do the deed, but we cut away to Harold Meachum talking with Joy before we see anything explicit.

-->'''Matt Murdock:''' Hey. You okay?\\

* Referenced in the third season episode ''Jus In Bello'' of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''. During an assault by an army of demons on a police station, the secretary (established as the only virgin in the building) claims that if she makes it out alive, she is "going to have ''so'' much sex." [[spoiler: While she and everyone else survives the siege, she never gets to follow through with it; merely hours later, Lilith arrives to clean up her army's failure.]]

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