History Main / GladToBeAliveSex

* In Creator/SergeyLukyanenko's ''Literature/SeekersOfTheSky'' duology, based on Helena's (a glider pilot) stories, this seems to be true whenever several pilots survive a crash-landing or a near-miss. This is considering that most of the pilots are male, with Helena being a rare exception. This lifestyle helps her develop a cavalier attitude towards sex. In her first appearance, the main character (a thief) kidnaps her and forces her to fly him from a prison island. After crash-landing, he is badly hurt. Does she run away immediately? No, she has sex with him before leaving "to work out the aching muscles."

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* ''Manga/KaseiYakyoku'': This happens between [[spoiler: Akiko and Saionji]] in the fourth 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 a 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]]]].

* In the Roleplay/DCNation universe, [[http://community.livejournal.com/jla_watchtower/481353.html this]] and IntimatePsychotherapy happened between Beast Boy and Fauna after [[http://community.livejournal.com/jla_watchtower/tag/plague Ra's al Ghul's plague]]. Their altered, animal-based physiology left them ''completely immune'' to the plague's effects while virtually everyone else was dying around them, and one of the ingredients Ra's used in the plague was some of Gar's blood.

'''18:''' ''[thinking]'' If we make it through this, I am going to rock his four-foot world.

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

* Ken Wolfe's series of ''Anime/SailorMoon'' fics (found on the [[FanficRecs.SailorMoon Sailor Moon Fanfics Recs page]]) have as a mostly-background feature an affair between Minako and Ami, founded on this following their revivals after fighting Beryl[[spoiler: , and later, Galaxia]].

* In the ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' fanfic [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/827430 "Wagon"]], Casca and Guts make love to celebrate surviving the Hawks' harrowing battle with Wyald but moreso to allow some IntimateHealing and [[IntimatePsychotherapy psychotherapy]] take place between them, since the canonical event put their newfound relationship to the test and they want to reaffirm their devotion to each other.
* ''Fanfic/WhatItTakes'': [[spoiler:Nyssa and Sara have sex (in Quentin's apartment no less) shortly after learning of Nanda Parbat's destruction. This is both celebrating that Sara is alive and ensouled again, and due to them realizing how close they were to being killed by the nuke as well]].

-->'''Commentator:''' All right, and there you have it! Terry Bradshaw, your thoughts on what just transpired?
-->'''Terry:''' Well, it's a disgrace, Roger. This network will show a dozen gruesome murders, but I bet they cut to commercial before these two begin the tender act of love. (''Homer and Marge moan offscreen'') I spoke too soon, huh? There they go! Whoa! That's goin' in my playbook!

* Most of the Film/JamesBond films end like this (the Trope itself is lampshaded in the ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' novelization) though sometimes (like ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'' and ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'') one of the BigBad's [[DragonTheirFeet surviving minions shows up to try to ruin the mood]] and others (''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'' and ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'') [[TheCavalryArrivesLate The Cavalry]] (sometimes with Bond's superiors in command) show up to 'rescue' Bond. It varies as to whether he goes back to business or not.

This can take many forms. Perhaps TheTeam saves a town and decided to enjoy the "hospitality" of the grateful female population. If the setting is a little more egalitarian then it shall be made perfectly clear the female members of the group are as glad to be alive as the men are and thus they shall be more likely to seek out each others' company. As a matter of fact, this more or less defines the sex life of any BattleCouple that has gone all the way; it may constitute their RelationshipUpgrade to a BattleCouple. Perhaps the DamselInDistress doesn't think the SmoochOfVictory is sufficient reward and offers RescueSex, especially if she, too, is glad to be alive. Many an ActionGirl has become an ActionMom in the immediate aftermath of such a situation. May, in fact, lead to BabiesEverAfter. Can also be one of the attractions of InHarmsWay. On a darker and more disturbing note, these notions are probably a reason behind the "rape" part of RapePillageAndBurn when a victorious army is marching into town.

* In Creator/HarryTurtledove's ''Literature/{{Worldwar}}'' series, there are two instances of this in the first novel. The first is between Barbara Larssen and her husband Jens after they survive a Lizard bombing of Chicago. Next, [[spoiler: Sam Yeager]] is traveling with Barbara on a ship, when it gets attacked by the Lizards. The strafing run on a ship leads to [[BloodSplatteredInnocents the both of them getting splattered with blood]]. They rush to a cabin and have frantic sex, only for Barbara to have a MyGodWhatHaveIDone reaction afterwards.

* In ''Manga/DeathNote'' fanworks where [[spoiler: Matt and Mello]] [[ForWantOfANail survive]], they often do this, as they are thought to be [[HoYay partners in more than one sense of the word]].

* 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.

* In ''[[Franchise/GreenLantern Green Lantern Corps]]'' #20, AKA the prologue to ''ComicBook/WrathOfTheFirstLantern'', [[spoiler:John Stewart and Fatality]] make love on Mogo the living planet after the battle with [[EmotionEater Volthoom]].
* ''ComicBook/SavageDragon'' issue# 207 opens with Battle Girl and Mr. Glum having passionate sex amidst a [[RefugeInAudacity sea of corpses, in the aftermath of a successful battle against an alien horde]].
* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':

** 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/LukeCage to believe he's rushing to get laid. Next scene shows that Peter simply wanted to take Mary Jane out web swinging.
* Done in the Creator/JMichaelStraczynski upgrade of ComicBook/SquadronSupreme, ComicBook/SupremePower. Mark Milton's government-assigned parents had just seen him vaporize a puppy by accident with HeatVision that nobody knew he had and were so overwhelmed that they sneaked off into a closet with no cameras and did the nasty.
* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', in the comic, after the heroes come to terms with the fact that [[spoiler: the BigBad attacked their city while they were away, killing millions]]. Strangely enough, averted in the DarkerAndEdgier movie.

* ''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.