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* In the ''[[Anime/KnightHunter Weiß Kreuz]] Dramatic Precious'' Drama CD collection, Yoji has this happen to him. As he's been suffering from PTSD and developed a tendency to freak out and start choking his partners during sex, he's not at all sure he ''didn't'' kill her. [[spoiler:The actual murderer is his new "friend" Ayame, a member of [[PsychoRangers La Mort]].]]

* In the ''Anime/WeissKreuz Dramatic Precious'' Drama CD collection, Yoji has this happen to him. As he's been suffering from PTSD and developed a tendency to freak out and start choking his partners during sex, he's not at all sure he ''didn't'' kill her. [[spoiler:The actual murderer is his new "friend" Ayame, a member of [[PsychoRangers La Mort]].]]

* In the "People vs. Cahill" episode of ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'', Alex Cahill wakes up next to an ex-boyfriend and finds him shot to death. Unusually, this wasn't after having sex; he'd stopped by her house to talk and she doesn't remember anything afterwards. It turns out that he drugged her so that he and some criminal associates could blackmail her with incriminating pictures, but they double-crossed him and decided to frame her for his murder.

See DeathBySex, OutWithABang. Compare and contrast TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction, where it's the man who winds up the victim of a HoneyTrap. Also compare YouWakeUpInARoom, BedmateReveal. Overlaps with BodyInABreadbox, as this is an unlikely place to dispose of a corpse, and TheCorpseStopsHere, as whoever is found next to the body will probably be the default suspect.

* ''ComicBook/LeScorpion'': In ''In the Name of the Father'', Trebaldi's brother wakes up to find his lover lying dead next to him. This is not an attempt to frame him for murder, but a warning from his father that he can get to him anywhere.

* In the Creator/HumphreyBogart film ''Film/InALonelyPlace'', Bogart's character invites a woman to his apartment to summarize a book for him. Shortly after she leaves, she is found murdered, and he becomes the prime suspect. Despite what the woman and the police initially assume, [[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow "summarizing a book"]] is really all that happens between them.

* Subverted in ''Film/TakingLives''. The morning after having sex, Illeana wakes up in to find James partially covered in blood. James is fine, though, his stitches popped in the night and he just has to go back to the ER to have them reapplied.

* Subverted in ''Film/TakingLives''. The morning after having sex, Illeana wakes up in to find James's blood all over the sheets. James is fine, though, his stitches popped in the night and he just has to go back to the ER to have them reapplied.

A rather different sort of FatalAttraction.

See DeathBySex, OutWithABang. Compare and contrast TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction, where it's the man who winds up the victim of a HoneyTrap. Also compare YouWakeUpInARoom, BedmateReveal. Overlaps with BodyInABreadbox, as this is an unlikely place to dispose of a corpse.

See DeathBySex, OutWithABang. Compare and contrast TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction, where it's the man who winds up the victim of a HoneyTrap. Also compare YouWakeUpInARoom, BedmateReveal, StuffedIntoTheFridge. Overlaps with BodyInABreadbox, as this is an unlikely place to dispose of a corpse.

[[caption-width-right:350: An appropriate reaction to this trope.]]

* Happens at the beginning of ''RedCorner'', starring Richard Gere. Also, the whole plot of this movie is based on this trope.

* ''The Morning After'' (1986). Creator/JaneFonda's character wakes up next to a corpse after a [[WhatDidIDoLastNight drunken one-night stand]]. Is she the murderer or the potential next victim?

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* Happens in the beginning of ''RedCorner'', starring Richard Gere. Also, the whole plot of this movie is based on this trope.

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* Happens in ''Series/StargateSG1''. Cameron Mitchell is framed for the murder for an alien scientist, including memory implantation so that even he thinks he did it. [[spoiler:It was actually another guy, but after implanting the memory into Mitchell he erased the memory in his own head, thus they can't prosecute him because he doesn't remember it.]]

* This is the IncitingIncident for the investigation in ''Series/TheNightOf''. The first episode shows, well, the night of: Nasir gets lost in Manhattan and meets a beautiful woman who gives him drugs and booze and persuades him to play FiveFingerFillet with her ([[{{Fingore}} badly]]) before they have sex. He wakes up hours later in the kitchen, goes upstairs, and finds her brutally murdered. Freaking out at finding himself in a crime scene so damning only a TV writer could come up with it, he grabs the bloody knife they played with the night before and flees the scene. He's convinced he didn't do it, but has no other explanation for what could have happened while he was blacked out.
* ''Series/{{Motive}}'': In "Best Enemies", a sleazy photographer wakes up following a drunken party next to the BodyOfTheWeek: his assistant whom he had been pressuring to have have sex with him.
* ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'': In "Lonelyville", a writer is blackmailed after waking up next to the body of one of of the two women who [[TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction picked him up in a bar]].

* Harmony on ''Series/{{Angel}}'' woke up with a man drained of all blood after Angel instituted a zero-tolerance policy on drinking human blood. Her attempts to clear her name were..somewhat inept.

See DeathBySex, OutWithABang. Compare and contrast TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction, where it's the man who winds up the victim of a HoneyTrap. Also compare YouWakeUpInARoom, BedmateReveal, StuffedIntoTheFridge.

That's one of a number of scenarios. Will Bob be MistakenForMurderer? Is it an elaborate FrameUp? What can Bob do to [[ClearTheirName Clear His Name]]? Often WhatDidIDoLastNight is a DrivingQuestion-- what if Bob really ''did'' kill the victim while he was [[IntoxicationEnsues under the influence]]? Looks like we have a {{Whodunnit}} on our hands, often with the extra twist that Bob himself can be a detective or a cop.

DI Andrew Smith is in a bar. He meets Billie Jones, a rather attractive woman. They have a few drinks and a talk. A few more drinks, then [[UnusualEuphemism a Ugandan discussion]].

They finish and Smith falls asleep. He wakes up in the morning -- with Billie's blood-covered corpse. He's just become the prime suspect for her murder...

That's one of a number of scenarios.

See DeathBySex, OutWithABang. Often WhatDidIDoLastNight is a DrivingQuestion. Compare and contrast TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction, where it's the man who winds up the victim of a HoneyTrap.

See DeathBySex, OutWithABang. Often WhatDidIDoLastNight is a DrivingQuestion.

* ''The Morning After'' (1986). Creator/JaneFonda's character wakes up next to a corpse after a drunken one-night stand. Is she the murderer or the potential next victim?

See DeathBySex, OutWithABang.