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Would this apply to young people/teenagers who are terminally ill and want to have their first sexual experience before they die? I can think of a few characters like that: Kristen Stewart in the Cake Eaters, Dakota Fanning in Now is Good, and there was some movie about a kid who was dying and wanted to meet his favorite actress but I can't remember the name of it.

Good for A D Hope that he responded to Marvell. I always found that poem misogynistic and creepy.

Yet another set of examples listed both here and in Pre-Climax Climax:

• Bio Ware and Obsidian almost always put the culminating sequence of their romance arcs on the eve of a major battle that it is unlikely the heroes will survive.
  • In Neverwinter Nights 2, the culminating scenes in the main campaign come as The Dragon's horrifically large undead army is about to lay siege to the player's fortress.
  • In Jade Empire, the culminating scenes (and implied sex) come on the evening before the ten heroes are about to face off against the entire Imperial Army.
  • One of the two other Grey Warden candidates from the Player Character's joining can be found (unsuccessfully) trying this at Ostagar, telling a female soldier they could all be dead by tomorrow. He does, from doing the Joining. (In his defense, it might not have been so unsuccessful if he had not used such graphic terms. To describe the killing.)

• 11eyes: The two main leads do this on screen (nothing explicit is shown though) in an apocalyptic vision in the penultimate episode.

This is listed in Pre-Climax Climax as well as here. Anyone know where it really belongs?

Would this also include people who are about to die from something other than a world-ending event, like terminally ill cases?

Over at the renaming trope repair shop thread, we couldn't tell if these are legitimate examples or fit under Pre-Climax Climax. Posting them here:

• If, as according to some fans' theories, Rogue and Magneto had sex in Uncanny X-Men #274, this would qualify. If, as per Word of God, Rogue's first time actually was when Gambit talked her into sex while chained to the wall, with other prisoners in the same cavern and - entirely forseeable - in front of a surveillance system in UXM #348, then this does. (This one's plain weird. What is canon?)
• Happens in The Walking Dead with Glenn and Maggie, although they pursue a serious relationship soon after.
• In World War Z, a former security guard tells about the time he guarded a group of rich and famous celebrities who had barricaded themselves in a sort of fortress on Long Island to avoid zombie attacks. In a hubristic move, they also broadcast videos of themselves locked away, watching the carnage unfold. The fortress is soon stormed — not by zombies, but by furious regular people. As the guard manages to escape, he witnesses two people he thought were supposed to be political enemies (implied to be * shudder* Bill Maher and Ann Coulter) "going at it" like there was no tomorrow. Well, for them, there wasn't. It could also have been Jon Stewart.
  • Strangely, there are persistent rumours that Bill Maher and Ann Coulter actually dated at one point in real life. A case of Reality Is Unrealistic, perhaps.
• The Zombie Survival Guide anticipates mass orgies throughout the world should a zombie plague grow large enough to threaten human extinction.
• The Peking Target by Adam Hall. Quiller parachutes into Korea with a female soldier who breaks her leg on landing. Knowing their mission will be blown if she's evacuated, she insists Quiller give her the Coupd de Grâce; but as a last request she asks him to have sex with her first.
• In Gust Front, lampshaded, then carried out a few chapters later, with Tom Sunday Jr and Wendy Cummmings during the Fredericksburg engagement.
• Willow on Buffy before the big fight with the Mayor on Graduation Day, with Oz.
• Supernatural's Dean Winchester cuts himself a slice of angel food cake on the eve of a battle that he expects to lose.
  Anna: (goes up on tiptoe and kisses him)
  Dean: What was that for?
  Anna: My last night on Earth. All that.
  Dean: You're stealing my best line.
  • On the eve of a mid-season finale's climactic battle:
    Jo: Are you giving me the last night on Earth speech?
    Dean: No. No. But if I was, would that... would that work?
• In Sinfest, Slick tries to use Seymour's doomsday proclamations to argue for Apocalypse Sex.
• On The Order of the Stick, Haley elects to spend the night before the Battle of Azure City with Elan

"In World War II, 'Victory Girls' felt it was their patriotic duty to have sex with soldiers. Many of the soldiers may have been virgins before entering the military and many may have died virgins if it wasn't for said 'Victory Girls'."

This puts that song 'Do It For Our Country' from Grease 2 into perspective, doesn't it?

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• A very memorable But I Would Really Enjoy It moment in Wizard's First Rule.

About halfway through this page, it says this trope doesn't apply to just virgins, but at the bottom it tells the trope (Pre-Climax Climax) that is about when two people who aren't virgins do this.

I may be something of a lumper, but I'm confused. Is the distinction that two people who are in a relationship, but haven't slept together have Their First Time before something deadly, whereas Pre-Climax Climax is just two people screwing, not necessarily for the first time, before the end of the story?

I know this was played with somehow in Airplane! Can anyone remember the details?