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| 4 | ->''"If there's a war, I'll sleep with you before you get killed... ''[scoffs]'' that's what maidens do in books, and I'm a maiden!"'' |
| 5 | -->-- '''''The Camomile Lawn''''' |
| 6 | |
| 7 | It's TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, or rather, it's going to be. The heroes are gearing up for the last battle, or just waiting for [[ApocalypseHow the End]] to come. In the meantime, there's some time to spare, some UnresolvedSexualTension, and a WillTheyOrWontThey plotline that is driving everyone crazy. There's also a good chance none of them will make it through this alive. So, what now? |
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| 9 | It's time to [[DyingDeclarationOfLove go down with the ship.]] |
| 10 | |
| 11 | See NowOrNeverKiss for a PG version. Can lead to an infuriatingly ambiguous DidTheyOrDidntThey moment. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | May inspire a NotHowImDyingDeclaration. |
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| 15 | %%This bit is important to the trope. Do not remove it. |
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| 17 | Note that the trope ''only'' applies when at least one of the participants consummating their affair before a life-threatening event is a virgin, as that gives [[NatureAbhorsAVirgin an additional]] [[YouNeedToGetLaid sense of urgency]]. For anyone else, the supertrope PreClimaxClimax applies. |
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| 19 | See SomeoneToRememberHimBy for when one half of a couple dies and leaves a little something behind. RelationshipUpgrade may be awkward if they weren't thinking, and both survive. |
| 20 | |
| 21 | Not to be confused with OutWithABang. Contrast GladToBeAliveSex. Subtrope of PreClimaxClimax. May be part of a TooYoungToDieLamentation. |
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| 23 | ---- |
| 24 | !!Examples |
| 25 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 26 | |
| 27 | [[folder:Anime and Manga]] |
| 28 | * Hilariously invoked in ''Anime/YuYuHakusho'' when Juri thinks she's going to be killed in the collapsing stadium. |
| 29 | -->'''Juri:''' ''I don't want to die as a virgin!'' |
| 30 | -->'''Koto:''' Ah! Well, Juri's just revealed a bombshell that I never would have guessed, based on her popularity in the cocktail lounge. As much as I want to stay and commentate the match, I think this cause is a bit more noble. Let's find you a man! |
| 31 | * ''Manga/ShamanKing'': On the off chance that Yoh gets killed in the Shaman tournament, Anna ''asks'' him to have sex with her the night before his next fight. More exactly, she asks if they can sleep in the same room that night, but the intention behind that is very obvious [[Radar/AnimeAndManga even if not 100% spelled out.]] [[spoiler:In one of his rare serious moments, Yoh agrees. And as a result, Anna [[PregnantBadass gets pregnant]] with their son Hana.]] |
| 32 | * In the first volume of ''Manga/CryingFreeman'', [[OldMaid Emu Hino]] wants to experience her first time with [[HitmanWithAHeart Yoh Hinomura]] before he dispatches her and straightforwardly asks him to be her first. Luckily, Yoh (who ''also'' is a virgin) finds the offer too tempting to pass up and takes her in instead. |
| 33 | * ''Manga/FutureDiary'': Yuki and Yuno, who are both virgins [[spoiler:before Chapter 52.]] |
| 34 | * Thoroughly {{deconstruct|ion}}ed in ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'', where [[DoggedNiceGuy Isao Kako]], upon learning of his impending death via HumongousMecha piloting, tries to lose his virginity by [[AttemptedRape attempting]] to [[RapeAsDrama rape]] his crush and fellow pilot, Chizuru "Chizu" Honda at Dung Beetle's goading. [[spoiler: Not only was Chizuru a rape victim ''who was pregnant due to it'', but she first repels Kako's forceful attentions, then later ends up killing him.]] On top of that, they're both ''thirteen'' at the time. |
| 35 | * Yokoshima in ''Manga/GhostSweeperMikami'' constantly try to hug/kiss a nearby female whenever the situation turns bad, saying things to the effect of this. |
| 36 | * In ''Manga/SazanEyes'', [[spoiler:Yakumo and Parvati have sex before she leaves for the humanization ritual.]] |
| 37 | * Subverted in ''Manga/FushigiYuugi''. Miaka and Tamahome decide that (just in case one of them dies in the ensuing battle with Nakago), they will consummate their relationship. [[spoiler: However, Miaka's stomach grumbles, which ruins the mood. That, and the fact that Miaka has VirginPower.]] |
| 38 | * When Italy first meets Germany in ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'', he pleads for his life, telling him he's still a virgin. |
| 39 | * In the last episode of ''Anime/FullMetalPanicFumoffu'', after a seemingly deadly virus spread to the school, Sōsuke drags Kaname to the infirmary and asks her to TakeOffYourClothes. Kaname reacts all flustered, saying she needs time to prepare her heart, [[CannotSpitItOut eventually balking at the idea]]. [[spoiler:But Sōsuke learned that the "virus" only attacks synthetic fibers, including clothes, and only at the temperature of body heat, so he's just asking her to undress to save her school uniform before it'd disintegrate.]] Meanwhile, the ArrogantKungFuGuy has to constantly fend off the unwanted attentions of an aggressive female student who wants to fulfill this trope, as the only thing he's interested in doing before he dies is fighting Sōsuke. |
| 40 | * In ''Manga/BrynhildrInTheDarkness'' this is the main motivation for Kazumi, why she develops a sexual interest in Ryouta and is sometimes very aggressive. Like all [[PsychicPowers "magicians"]], she often has to take certain pills so that her body does not dissolve, so she must always expect to run out of pills or be killed in a fight. |
| 41 | ** But at least the anime ends so that a cure is found for her and the other "magicians", and she no longer has to fear being killed at any time. [[AllWomenAreLustful But it is unlikely that this will stop her from continuing to harass Ryouta]]. |
| 42 | * ''Manga/GunslingerGirl''. Alessandro Ricci has to tell Petrushka that she still has the cancer she had before she became a cyborg. He asks if there's anything she wants, only to have Petrushka start to say, "I want you to sleep with me." She's only sixteen so Alessandro cuts her off, saying she has to grow up a bit first. It's mentioned that she died a year later of leukemia, and it's never revealed whether they did consummate their relationship. |
| 43 | [[/folder]] |
| 44 | |
| 45 | [[folder:Card Games]] |
| 46 | * Played with in the color text of the "[[ReallyGetsAround Nymphomaniac]] Cheerleader" card from ''TabletopGame/GraveRobbersFromOuterSpace'': |
| 47 | -->"Oh, no! I don't want to die a virgin!"\ |
| 48 | "You're a virgin?"\ |
| 49 | "Look, do you want to get some or not?" |
| 50 | [[/folder]] |
| 51 | |
| 52 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 53 | * Kitty Pryde tried to fulfill this trope with Colossus in ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' #165 when it seemed like both were doomed to die from Brood infection. However, Colossus refuses because of her young age, despite her pleas. |
| 54 | * Amazingly, Mystique seduced Iceman by persuading him to pretend that he was going to die the next day; in his case, this was almost true as she was wearing poisonous lipstick supplied by Mister Sinister; fortunately, Bobby didn't die and it was the start of a brief, though torrid, relationship. |
| 55 | * In ''ComicBook/TeenTitans Annual'' #1, during ''Comicbook/InfiniteCrisis'', Comicbook/WonderGirl volunteers to look after Comicbook/{{Superboy}} as he recovers while the other Titans are called away to organize the relief effort in a decimated Blüdhaven, since her powers are slowly vanishing. Superboy awakens, and he and Wonder Girl spend time alone, reminiscing and longing for "simpler times". Thinking this may be their last night together, the two consummate their relationship in the Kent barn. |
| 56 | * ''Comicbook/ThePunisherMAX'': there's an in-universe book called "Valley Forge, Valley Forge" written by the brother of a soldier who served with Frank in Vietnam. At one point, the author states that he was reasonably certain that his brother lost his virginity before he left for Vietnam. He would eventually die in battle. |
| 57 | * Played with in ''Comicbook/ElfQuest: The Rebels''. When Chandra is convinced the city they are in is doomed and there is no way they can survive, she propositions Scorch. He doesn't really get it, because he runs off before she's finished talking, because her phrasing gives him an idea of how to save the city. |
| 58 | [[/folder]] |
| 59 | |
| 60 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 61 | * During this chapter of the ''Anime/CodeGeass'' fanfic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6969408/7/In_the_End In the End]]'', [[spoiler:Lelouch has sex with C.C before he banishes her.]] One of the most popular tropes in ''Anime/CodeGeass'' fanfiction is Lelouch having sex with [[HoYay Suzaku]] or CC...or [[OneTrueThreesome both]] the night before Zero Requiem. |
| 62 | * In ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy'', ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} wonders while she's being overpowered by [[EvilTwin Satan Girl]] whether she'll die without ever having made love to her boyfriend. |
| 63 | -->I'll die without ever once having made love to Dev, she told herself, looking at the masked woman who was about to close on her again. |
| 64 | * Played for drama in the [[http://www.fimfiction.net/user/kalash93 Kalash93]] story, [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/88520/1/welcome-to-the-brothel/das-laufhaus Welcome To The Brothel.]] |
| 65 | * Played with in [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/106068/1/relax/intimacy Relax,]] where the protagonist is not a virgin, though he's still seeing the same prostitute who took his virginity. It's more a case of ''I don't want to die before I see you again.'' |
| 66 | * In ''Fanfic/TheSecondTry'', Shinji and Asuka spend together in NERV's locker room the night before their final battle against the JSSDF and SEELE's [=MP-EVAs=]. Since this story is a PeggySue, it's actually their ''second'' first time. |
| 67 | * Subverted in ''Fanfic/InSottoVoce''. Thinking Impa's going to die the next day, Zelda and Impa have an intimate... cuddle. They ''literally'' sleep together. However, right before Impa leaves they have a NowOrNeverKiss. |
| 68 | * ''Fanfic/WhiteSheepRWBY'': The night before the final battle Jaune and Yang finally decide to consummate their relationship. [[IWantGrandkids Jaune's mom overhears and is very excited]], which is a bit of a MomentKiller, but Yang insists they're still doing it anyway. [[RightThroughTheWall Everyone else ends up sleeping in Ren's room, as far away from Jaune and Yang as possible]]. |
| 69 | -->'''Blake:''' [[TheImmodestOrgasm Let's just say that Yang has a healthy pair of lungs]]. |
| 70 | * ''Fanfic/TheReapingOfHatsuneMiku'': The [[VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou Reaper's Game]] in Diola has a version perhaps best described as "Must not [[DeaderThanDead be erased]] a virgin". A LoveHotel in DIVA District will scan Player Pins and bill the Reaper Colletive for the Players' nights. We don't see it happen, but Yowane Haku explains the general attitude thusly: |
| 71 | -->'''Haku:''' [[DeadToBeginWith You're already dead]], there's no guarantee you're gonna [[BackFromTheDead come back to life]], [[ActualPacifist some Players]] are more likely to get erased than clear the missions if the mission involves a fight, and it's not like anything's gonna carry back to the RG. You don't exactly want to [[MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces get it on in the middle of the street]], do you? |
| 72 | [[/folder]] |
| 73 | |
| 74 | [[folder:Films -- Live Action]] |
| 75 | * Alicia Casse's boyfriend from ''Film/IndependenceDay'' tries to talk her into losing her virginity, seeing as the world is probably going to be destroyed by aliens. Foiled by Alicia's Big Damn Brother interrupting and taking her home. Given a slightly touching revisit in a deleted scene, where Alicia says the same thing to a boy in the underground bunker, and he replies that if they don't make it, they'll ''both'' die virgins, but at least they'll die together. |
| 76 | * PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/AliGIndahouse'' when Ricky and Dave are trapped in a room that is running out of air and decide to try sodomy before they die. Ali walks in on them doing the deed while rescuing them. |
| 77 | * Niida tries this in ''Film/BattleRoyale'' with Chigusa. He then tries to [[AttemptedRape rape her]]...[[GroinAttack it ends badly]]. |
| 78 | * Played for laughs in ''Film/ZombieStrippers''. A chaste young man and his equally virginal girlfriend are trapped in a room while zombies pound on the door outside. As it seems their deaths are imminent, he suggests they have sex. After she shoots him down, he begins to run off a list of increasingly filthy sex acts that they could perform instead. When she asks where he's even heard of this stuff, he replies "{{The Internet|IsForPorn}}". |
| 79 | * ''Film/{{Grease 2}}'': Intentionally invoked and set to music, with the song "Let's Do It For Our Country". One of the guys brings his girlfriend down to the bomb shelter, where a confederate sounds the bomb siren to make her think it's TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. Cue musical number. Unfortunately, she misses the point and thinks he's singing about joining the army, and when the siren stops, she rushes out of the shelter only to find his buddies listening at the door. |
| 80 | * Parodied in ''Film/AirplaneIITheSequel'' where the supposed virgin has a long line waiting for her as she repeats this trope to every guy on the plane. For extra RuleOfFunny, the line also includes [[BestialityIsDepraved a donkey]]--in the next scene, she and the donkey are [[SmokingHotSex smoking together]]. |
| 81 | * In one of the many dramatic scenes in ''Film/TheSinkingOfJapan'', the protagonist's girlfriend asks him to make love to her before they both die. The protagonist politely declines, saying that they will have their chance when they meet again in London. [[spoiler: The protagonist is really going to perform a HeroicSacrifice and wants to save his girl the sadness.]] |
| 82 | * A variation in the AfterTheEnd movie ''Film/{{Testament}}'', played as a pure TearJerker: A girl dying of radiation poisoning asks her ''mother'' to describe what it's like to make love since she knows she won't live long enough to find out for herself. |
| 83 | * In a very brief scene in ''Film/Evolution2001'', after the potential end of the world is released to the public, there's a large scale college party/protest for The End. One girl is holding up a sign which says "I can't die as a virgin". |
| 84 | * ''Film/CherryFalls'': In this SlasherMovie, the killer only targets virgins and having sex is the only thing that the teens can do to stay alive. [[spoiler:That is, until the killer figures out the loophole, says "screw it", and just starts bumping them off indiscriminately.]] |
| 85 | * Jay refuses to allow Bethany to renege on their agreement when things seem their bleakest near the end of ''{{Film/Dogma}}''. When she continues to hold out, his pleas for her to make good on it end up giving her the film's big EurekaMoment. |
| 86 | * It's hinted that this is why Tatiana asked 'ArentYouGoingToRavishMe' to the guard that peeked in on her in ''Film/NicholasAndAlexandra'' and nearly invited him in: she's 21, pretty, no man has ever looked at her, and she's currently under house arrest as a member of the royal family with an unknown future. |
| 87 | * Lampshaded in the title of the 1966 war movie ''Once Before I Die'', referring to a scene where a young soldier begs Ursula Andress' character for sex so he'll have experienced it at least once in his life. She obliges, then he gets killed shortly afterwards. |
| 88 | * Averted in ''Film/TheKillerElite''. Tommie casually reveals to Locken that she's a virgin. Realising where she's heading with this, Locken abruptly cuts her off. "Look, lady, I don't give a shit!" |
| 89 | * Touched on in ''Film/SeekingAFriendForTheEndOfTheWorld''--with an asteroid expected to destroy the Earth soon, we see a bulletin board with various notices (including one providing the TitleDrop). One simply reads "Fuck a Virgin" and gives a phone number. |
| 90 | * ''Film/TheCandySnatchers'' contains a very dark example. [[spoiler:When Alan is told to kill Candy, he rapes her first so she won't die a virgin.]] |
| 91 | * Another dark example in ''Film/NoBladeOfGrass''. Mary asks her boyfriend to "make her a woman" as they're facing the collapse of civilization through mass famine. He refuses because she's only sixteen, and she gets raped later on in the film. |
| 92 | [[/folder]] |
| 93 | |
| 94 | [[folder:Jokes]] |
| 95 | * A subversion in joke form: The captain of a cruise ship announces the ship is sinking, and there aren't enough lifeboats for everybody. One young woman stands up and starts yelling that she doesn't want to die without knowing what it's like to be a woman. Then a TallDarkAndHandsome man stands up as well, slowly approaches her. With everybody watching, the young girl trembling with anticipation, he [[ShirtlessScene rips off his shirt]] and throws it in her face, yelling "[[StayInTheKitchen Here, iron this!]]" |
| 96 | [[/folder]] |
| 97 | |
| 98 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 99 | * In ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'', Bella Swan wants to have sex with [[spoiler:Edward Cullen]] before [[spoiler:she's turned into a vampire]]. |
| 100 | * In ''Literature/BattleRoyale'', Niida tries to persuade Chigusa of this. Unfortunately, he doesn't take "no" for an answer and becomes a bit more forceful... |
| 101 | * In the third ''Literature/ProtectorOfTheSmall'', before Kel is set up to joust against Lord Wyldon, Cleon jokingly makes this offer to her. She calls his bluff but realizes that the only reason he does not want to sleep with her is that he wants to marry her in proper Noble fashion--with her as a virgin. He's trying to talk his mother around to allowing them a marriage and wants to prove that he doesn't just think of Kel as a happy fling. |
| 102 | * Happens in ''Literature/GoodOmens'' when Newt and Anathema are caught in the big pre-Apocalypse storm. Made funnier because [[spoiler:it was prophesied by Anathema's ancestor, Agnes Nutter, and subsequent family members had added encouraging comments and cat-calls on an index card with the prophecy. Even better, said prophecy refers to something else entirely. Agnes must have deliberately written it that way [[ShipperOnDeck to play matchmaker]].]] |
| 103 | * In ''[[Literature/TheRiftwarCycle A Darkness at Sethanon]]'', squires Jimmy and Locklear hook up with two girls about their age before the sack of Armengar. Both of the girls and the street-smart Jimmy are extremely casual about it, while the naive Locklear overreacts and decides he's going to marry the girl he slept with, [[spoiler:who inevitably dies]]. This is in contrast to their roles in later books, where Locklear is a suave ladies' man and Jimmy is HappilyMarried. |
| 104 | * In Michelle Magorian's ''A Little Love Song''/''Not a Swan'', set in 1943, Derry convinces Rose to have sex with him before he goes to [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII war]], invoking this trope. It isn't until after he has left town that Rose finds out that [[spoiler:Derry wasn't even allowed to join the army, and tricked her into having sex with him to boost his own ego.]] |
| 105 | * Literature/AdrianMole, in his first diary, commented that he hoped the bomb wouldn't be dropped before he finished his O Levels as he didn't want to die an unqualified virgin (and getting laid seemed unlikely). |
| 106 | * In the first book of the ''Literature/TalesOfTheOtori'' series, Iida Sadamu uses this [[spoiler: as justification for [[AttemptedRape attempting to rape]] Kaede when she resolved that she would have to commit suicide. He doesn't get far.]] |
| 107 | * In ''[[Literature/LegacyOfTheAldenata Gust Front]]'', it's {{lampshade|Hanging}}d, then carried out a few chapters later, with [[spoiler:Tom Sunday Jr and Wendy Cummings]] (the latter being the virgin, in this case, and not the geeky former) during the Fredericksburg engagement, after the [[BigBulkyBomb building-sized FAE bomb]] is detonated and they're waiting for recovery. |
| 108 | * Downplayed in ''[[Literature/TheRiftwarCycle Shadow of a Dark Queen]]'' when Erik von Darkmoor spends his free time before his first major battle in the company of a prostitute, more out of curiosity than anything else. |
| 109 | * In the short story [[https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00QB6ZFTI/ref=cm_sw_su_dp Do Virgins Taste Better?]] from the anthology of the same name, the hero is selected to die precisely because he's a virgin. His attempts to lose his virginity are thwarted and he [[spoiler:does die, sadly, a virgin]]. |
| 110 | * ''Literature/TheShadowhunterChronicles'': |
| 111 | ** In ''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'', Jace and Clary have sex before they attack the castle, which is ruled by Clary's evil brother. At least Clary is still a virgin at this point, Jace most likely not, but that's never really made clear. |
| 112 | ** In ''[[Literature/TheInfernalDevices The Clockwork Princess]]'', [[spoiler: Will and Tessa]] have sex when they are trapped together in a prison cell and believe [[spoiler: the Magister]] is in all likelihood going to kill or enslave them the next day. |
| 113 | ** In ''Literature/TalesFromTheShadowhunterAcademy'', Simon and Isabelle have sex, and Simon loses his virginity. The next day he is to become a [[{{Nephilim}} shadowhunter]], but the chalice of the angels is very picky. While vampires and werewolves can turn ordinary humans into creatures like them with little effort, on average the angelic goblet kills four out of five humans, turning only the fifth human into a shadowhunter. For this reason, Simon really has to fear that he could be killed ... but it works out well for him. |
| 114 | * In ''[[Literature/GreatwinterTrilogy Eyes of the Calculor]]'' a fifteen-year-old youth is going off to fight a duel against a more experienced opponent. He intends to stop off a brothel first because dueling as a virgin is regarded as bad luck, but his 22-year old maid seduces him, figuring she'd be a better inspiration to live than some anonymous whore. |
| 115 | * For most of ''Literature/RavellingWrath'', Rinn would've been happy to have sex with Yali, while Yali held back because of her past trauma. But in chapter 16, it's ''Yali'' who initiates this trope, and ''Rinn'' who stops her because Rinn can tell something's wrong. |
| 116 | --> '''Yali:''' I – I – I don’t want to die! I don’t want to die before I ever have sex consensually! |
| 117 | --> '''Rinn:''' Yali, I don’t understand! I mean, don’t get me wrong, this is fuckin’ hot, but, I thought, you always said – |
| 118 | * ''Literature/InCryptid'': In "And Sweep Up the Wood", when Alice thinks she's going to die [[spoiler:facing a swarm of Apraxis wasps alone]], she goes to see Thomas one last time, and they finally kiss and have TheirFirstTime. |
| 119 | [[/folder]] |
| 120 | |
| 121 | [[folder:Live Action TV]] |
| 122 | * ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': |
| 123 | ** Parodied in Xander's dream in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E18DirtyGirls Dirty Girls]]": |
| 124 | --->'''Girl 1:''' I've never been with a man. I could die tomorrow, and I've never been with a man.\ |
| 125 | '''Xander:''' Well, uh?\ |
| 126 | '''Girl 2:''' I've never been with a man before either.\ |
| 127 | '''Xander:''' Colleen...\ |
| 128 | '''Girl 2:''' I've never been [[LesYay with her]] [[GirlOnGirlIsHot in front of a man]] before.\ |
| 129 | '''Girl 1:''' I've never been with her in front of a man, either.\ |
| 130 | '''Xander:''' Um...\ |
| 131 | '''Girl 1:''' Xander...\ |
| 132 | '''Girl 2:''' We're so scared.\ |
| 133 | '''Rona:''' Xander! Xander! Goddamnit!\ |
| 134 | '''Xander:''' ''(wakes up)'' What's going on? I was sleeping.\ |
| 135 | '''Rona:''' [[MoodWhiplash Dominique has the stomach flu, and the toilet bowl is backed up.]] |
| 136 | ** Not played for laughs on Buffy's 17th birthday in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E13Surprise Surprise]]". She and Angel barely survive an encounter with an apocalyptic demon, so they decide to consummate their love, [[SexFaceTurn destroying Angel's soul]] and creating the ''real'' BigBad. |
| 137 | ** Willow loses her virginity to Oz the night before the Mayor is scheduled to ascend to true demonhood and try to kill them all in "Graduation Day Part 1". |
| 138 | * ''Series/{{Angel}}''. Implied with Connor and Cordelia in "[[Recap/AngelS04E07ApocalypseNowish Apocalypse Nowish]]" as the [[PortentOfDoom sky turns dark and rains fire down upon Los Angeles]]. |
| 139 | -->'''Cordelia:''' You've never had anything that's real... And if this is the end, I want you to have something that is. |
| 140 | * ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': Just before an encounter with an archangel that the characters believe will prove fatal, Dean, on hearing that Castiel "never had occasion" to lose his virginity, attempts to set him up with a hooker (called Chastity, no less). HilarityEnsues when Chastity throws him out of her room while screaming abuse. |
| 141 | -->'''Dean:''' What did you do!?\ |
| 142 | '''Castiel:''' Nothing. I just looked deep into her eyes and told her that her father, Stan, didn't leave because he didn't love her. He just hated his job at the post office. |
| 143 | * In the Australian mini-series ''1915'', the two couples consummate their relationships before the boys ship off to UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. One of the girls becomes pregnant. |
| 144 | * Scott and Chloe on ''Series/StargateUniverse'', after learning that ''Destiny'' is about to fly into a star. They both survive (much to their surprise), and it becomes their relationship upgrade. |
| 145 | * ''Series/NoOrdinaryFamily'': Referenced for laughs in the first episode; on a plane experiencing engine failures during a storm, the teenage daughter of the family wails that she's going to die, "and I haven't even done it yet!" With both her parents in earshot. They look... unsure how to respond to or feel about this. |
| 146 | * The remake of the TV Movie ''The Initiation of Sarah'' does this, but interestingly it's actually tied to the plot. Right before the Good Sorority goes to try and stop the Evil Sorority, Sarah goes to *ahem* "be with" her boyfriend. However, it was earlier established that the Evil Sorority was a group of witches who were sacrificing virgins to prep for a ceremony, so Sarah was trying to take her boyfriend off the menu. |
| 147 | * The ''Film/{{Clueless}}'' Halloween special is a parody of ''Film/{{Scream|1996}},'' with the cast being apparently killed off one by one in a haunted house. When Dionne and Murray, the last ones left ([[BlackDudeDiesFirst surprisingly]]), are being trapped by the killer, Murray tries to instigate this. Dionne cuts him down, [[GenreSavvy pointing out that the virgin always survives in horror movies]]. |
| 148 | * The ''Series/{{MASH}}'' episode "The Army-Navy Game" has the 4077th threatened by heavy shelling and an unexploded bomb in the compound. Radar, of all people, manages to cajole a nurse into joining him in the supply tent. |
| 149 | * One episode of ''{{Series/Scrubs}}'' has Elliot and Carla attempting to find a male prostitute for a dying patient with this attitude. They end up getting arrested, while the patient does the deed with Ted. |
| 150 | * On ''Series/TheBoldAndTheBeautiful'', Taylor and James were trapped together during the 1994 Los Angeles earthquake. Believing they were going to die, James took the opportunity to declare his love for Taylor (he'd kept his feelings hidden out of respect for her marriage) and beg her to deflower him. She complied. |
| 151 | * ''Series/TheXFiles''. A satanic cult is supposedly [[VirginSacrifice killing virgins]], so the real culprits (two teenage girls) lure a boy to becoming their next victim by asking him to take their virginity. |
| 152 | * In the ''Series/GameOfThrones'' episode "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms", everyone is facing almost certain death in the upcoming battle with the Army of the Dead. Arya Stark interrogates Gendry as to his prior experience with women, then says she "wants to find out what it's like" and sleeps with him. |
| 153 | * In ''Series/GreysAnatomy'''s Season 4 finale, a boyfriend-girlfriend pair of brain cancer patients enlist Meredith and Derek to stand guard as they invoke this. While they had planned to wait until they were cancer-free, the upcoming procedure has so far killed every single patient, so they decide to just do it. [[spoiler: He dies, while she becomes the first to survive the procedure.]] |
| 154 | * ''Series/MyLeftNut'': Shy Mick gets a surge of courage in his relationship with Rachael when he believes he has cancer, and decides to push to have sex with her so he won't die a virgin. |
| 155 | -->'''Mick:''' Fuck it. Everyone dies. They just don’t think about it. So I'll just put it out of my mind. This is gonna be a big night. My last party with the lads. My last chance to get with Rachael. I’m not gonna die a virgin. Giant ball or no giant ball. |
| 156 | * On ''Series/OneDayAtATime1975'' a group are trapped in a closet by a psycho burglar who they think is going to kill them; teen-age Barbara berates her mother for telling her to wait and preserve her virginity. Her boyfriend offers to relieve the situation; mother Ann is not pleased. |
| 157 | * ''Series/{{Intergalactic}}'': Genevieve says this as she's propositioning Drew. She doesn't want to die a virgin, as she and everyone else among the main cast are constantly put in danger. |
| 158 | * ''Series/{{Yellowjackets}}'': Jackie still hasn't lost her virginity (in the sense of [[TechnicalVirgin sexual intercourse]] at least) and is insistent that she won't die as a virgin, convincing Travis to sleep with her. |
| 159 | [[/folder]] |
| 160 | |
| 161 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 162 | * If you listen to the lyrics of Romanthony's unplugged version of Music/DaftPunk's "One More Time," (from the Daft Club remix album), you realize that what was [[AdaptationExpansion originally just a silly dance refrain]] ("one more time") is actually a plea from the singer to invoke this trope before [[AIIsACrapshoot machines take over]]. |
| 163 | * Lenka's "The End of the World" is possibly either this or a metaphor. |
| 164 | -->We'll be making love, as the sky above falls down over us. [[WideEyedIdealist We'll be the luckiest ones]]. |
| 165 | * The Divine Comedy's "To Die A Virgin". It even opens with a sound clip of the above page quote. |
| 166 | [[/folder]] |
| 167 | |
| 168 | [[folder:Poetry]] |
| 169 | * In Creator/AndrewMarvell's SeductionLyric poem, "To His Coy Mistress," he basically tells the woman in verse that life's too short to be shy, and that if she dies a virgin "then worms shall try/ That long preserv'd virginity." |
| 170 | * A. D. Hope, in his poem "[[http://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2004/11/his-coy-mistress-to-mr-marvell-d-hope.html His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell]]," serves him a blistering (and hilarious) retort: |
| 171 | --> Shall I be moved to love you, pray, |
| 172 | --> By hints that I must soon decay? |
| 173 | --> No woman's won by being told |
| 174 | --> How quickly she is growing old[...] |
| 175 | --> But -- well I ask: to draw attention |
| 176 | --> To worms in -- what I blush to mention, |
| 177 | --> And prate of dust upon it too! |
| 178 | --> Sir, was this any way to woo? |
| 179 | [[/folder]] |
| 180 | |
| 181 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 182 | * In ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'' and ''[[VideoGame/MassEffect2 2]]'', the protagonist and his/her love interest have a chance to consummate their relation before the game's final mission. Most of the options definitely aren't or probably aren't virgins, the exceptions being Tali and Liara. Tali because her race's [[BizarreAlienBiology unique answer to the immune system]] leaves a very high chance that she'd be allergic to any potential partners, even of her own species, while Liara explicitly mentions that she's never been in a romantic relationship. |
| 183 | * ''Franchise/DragonAge'': |
| 184 | ** In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', if the female Warden is romancing Alistair (who reveals himself to be a virgin after getting to a "good friends" sort of stage) and doesn't proposition him herself, once it's been going on for a while, he'll eventually approach her, saying that seeing as they face danger day-to-day, he wants to take advantage of having the chance and "say I threw caution to the wind just this once". |
| 185 | ** In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', this is UpperClassTwit Emile de Launcet's motivation for running away from the admittedly draconian Kirkwall Circle of Magi: he had never got drunk in a tavern or kissed a girl. This wouldn't be so bad if he wasn't telling everyone he runs into that he's a blood mage [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys in order to make himself seem more alluring to women]]. |
| 186 | ** In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'', when the party is working to save the region of Crestwood from being destroyed by animated undead, they come across a pair of amorous teenagers hiding in the abandoned pub on the dam. Given the dangers they must have encountered just to reach the place, one can only assume that this is at least part of their motivation. |
| 187 | * Occurs in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' between Cloud and Tifa on the night before the party enters the VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon. |
| 188 | * In ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'', The Boss can offer to have sex with Matt Miller so that he doesn't die a virgin. |
| 189 | * In ''VisualNovel/YuNo'', TakahashiCouple Takuya and [[{{Tsundere}} Mio]] get trapped in a cave. After hours of fruitless searching for a way out, Mio loses hope and offers her virginity to Takuya, who reluctantly complies. |
| 190 | [[/folder]] |
| 191 | |
| 192 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 193 | * One of the non-canon endings to ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'''s fifth season has Tucker try this on Sister, who's more than eager to get to it. Until Grif kills Tucker. [[spoiler:Later, Tucker tells Grif in Revelations that "I fucked your sister." Normally, one would take this as an empty taunt, but this is [[ReallyGetsAround Sister]] we're talking about...]] |
| 194 | [[/folder]] |
| 195 | |
| 196 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 197 | * In ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', Lord Grater stops himself and Princess-Princess from escaping a [[EarthShatteringKaboom Universe Shattering Kaboom]] in order to [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20010826 invoke this trope]]. |
| 198 | -->'''Lord Grater:''' You said you'd give me a kiss if I was the last man in the universe, and I am!\ |
| 199 | '''Princess-Princess:''' ''I said I '''wouldn't''' kiss you even '''if''' you were the last man in the universe!!!''\ |
| 200 | '''Lord Grater:''' Oh. Never mind. |
| 201 | * In a ''Webcomic/CyanideAndHappiness'' [[http://www.explosm.net/comics/1052/ strip]]: |
| 202 | -->'''Man:''' Baby... you don't want to die a virgin, do you? |
| 203 | -->'''Woman:''' Um... That line only works if I'm about to die. |
| 204 | -->'''Man:''' Hmmm... good point. ''(pulls a gun on her)'' Baby... you don't want to die a virgin, do you? |
| 205 | * PlayedForLaughs in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' during the [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-10-12 goo panic scene]]. The [[FunnyBackgroundEvent background screams]] call attention to this trope. |
| 206 | * ''Webcomic/GirlsWithSlingshots'' offers a [[ShoutOut Jamie’s kitty, supposedly a reincarnation of an infantryman who died a virgin]]. |
| 207 | [[/folder]] |
| 208 | |
| 209 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 210 | * Discussed as possibly the best end-case scenario in the event of apocalypse via meteor in WebSite/{{Cracked}}'s [[http://www.cracked.com/video_18213_which-apocalypse-would-be-most-fun.html After Hours]] |
| 211 | --> '''Swaim''': Hey! No one's going to judge you; who cares if you get pregnant; and you're not going to work tomorrow; '''''Get in my goddamn van!''''' |
| 212 | * The creators of ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' did a Website/YouTube video where they did their parody of "I'll Make a Man Out of You" from ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''. At one point, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V06DISKajss#t=01m35s Krillin says "I don't wanna die a virgin!"]] Mr. Popo responds with "Boy, you really need to watch just what you say!" |
| 213 | [[/folder]] |
| 214 | |
| 215 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 216 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TrippingTheRift'', expecting they are about to die, Whip asks Six to take his virginity as he does not wish to die as a virgin. She agrees, but just before anything can happen, they are saved, much to his dismay. |
| 217 | -->'''Whip''': Why couldn't we have been saved ten minutes later? |
| 218 | -->'''Six''': [[SpeedSex You would have only needed ten seconds.]] |
| 219 | * Downplayed in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' (ironically the last show you'd ever expect a sex trope to be downplayed in) when Meg and Neil are about to be killed by a serial killer; Meg exclaims that she has never even had her first kiss, but Neil claims that there is still time. She does lament the fact that she never got to be some drunk college boy’s last resort. |
| 220 | ** In another episode, the town is led to believe a black hole will destroy the Earth, and Quagmire admits [[CasanovaWannabe he's never actually had sex]]. He manages to convince Joe to let him have sex with his wife. [[spoiler: Subverted in that Quagmire was lying to have sex with Bonnie, which Joe takes in stride.]] |
| 221 | * In ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' episode "Texas City Twister", Nancy, while reporting on the tornado, suggests that the people at the trailer park that if one hasn't experienced the miracle of lovemaking, that now would be a good time. |
| 222 | * ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': Parodied in "Food Truckin'", when the family is trapped in their overturned Food Truck by a pack of rowdy customers. |
| 223 | --> '''Tina:''' I don't wanna die a virgin!\ |
| 224 | '''Randy:''' Me neither!\ |
| 225 | '''Tina:''' Wait, that gives me an idea...\ |
| 226 | '''Bob:''' [[BigNo No!]] [[NoJustNoReaction No!]] |
| 227 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', this trope comes up in the "Tree House of Horror XV" segment "Four Behedings and a Funeral." When Master detective Eliza Simpson and her assistant Dr. Bartlely (Lisa and Bart in the respective roles of [[SherlockHomage Sherlock Holmes and Watson]]) catch the suspected Muttonchops Murderer (Homer). When he's about to be hanged he says: "Please spare me. I'm not a murderer, I'm not. And I've never known the pleasures of a woman or a proper eating apple." |
| 228 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'': In the episode "Escape to the House of Mummies Part II'' Doctor Venture, Pete White, and Billy Quizboy are trying to fix their old shrink ray and need to test it on a living subject. They force Billy to volunteer where he reveals he's a virgin and doesn't want to die one. The others see that as a perfect reason why. |
| 229 | --> '''Dr. Venture:''' Billy, that makes you the best candidate to take a ray blast. You have nothing to lose. You've never done anything. The way I look at it, it's not even murder. It's a very late abortion. |
| 230 | [[/folder]] |
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