History Main / TogetherinDeath

* SakuraGari has [[spoiler: Souma]] invokes this when [[spoiler: he and Masataka are trapped by Sakurako in a burning warehouse, and he loses hope to survive. In a twist, Masataka manages to save them both.]]

* [[spoiler: Claude, Hannah, Jim/Alois ''and'' Luka]] in ''{{Kuroshitsuji}}''.

* Romeo and Juliet in RomeoXJuliet. Considering it ''is'' based on (no matter how loosely) RomeoAndJuliet, it's sort of a YouShouldKnowThisAlready from the start.

* ''[[NeverwinterNights2 Mask of the Betrayer]]'' has an interesting take on this in one of its more bitterweet endings for female PCs: [[spoiler: If you choose to stay on the Fugue Plane (the underworld, more or less) in order to bind the spirit eater there, FlatEarthAtheist Gann will go as far as pledging his soul to the God of the Dead so that you won't have to be alone there. Neither of you are dead, just in Hell.]]

* A pair of lovers (Paolo and Francesca) in the second level of Dante's hell remark that love joins them in death as in life, and not even hell can separate them. May have been intended as a subversion, however: Dante's IronicHell motif suggests that they may be united as a source of mutual torment rather than a mercy. The dialog is ambiguous.

** This is TruthInTelevision, as the RealLife Colonel Robert Gould Shaw (the character played by Broderick in the movie) was buried in a mass grave alongside his troops. The Confederates, who saw a white man being buried with blacks as an insult and an outrage, did this out of contempt for the man and the soldiers he commanded. However, Frank Shaw, Colonel Shaw's father, saw it differently:
-->"We would not have his body removed from where it lies surrounded by his brave and devoted soldiers. We can imagine no holier place than that in which he lies, among his brave and devoted followers, nor wish for him better company. What a body-guard he has!"

* A nonromantic example comes at the end of ''{{Glory}}'' when [[spoiler:Matthew Broderick and Denzel Washington's characters are buried side-by-side.]]

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* In ''SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries,'' [[NeverSayDie of all]] [[WhereDidTheyGetLasers things]], [[spoiler: Mysterio's lover is an actress who was disfigured. She kidnaps Mary Jane for a body-swap, but Mysterio's body-switching machine turns out to not actually work - and never had. He'd been trying to give her hope. When she discovers this, she activates the SelfDestructMechanism (okay, ''[[FridgeLogic why on Earth]]'' does it have one of those?) because she'd rather die than not be beautiful. Spider-Man urges Mysterio to run, but Mysterio chooses to stay behind and die with her.]] No, they don't [[IGotBetter get better]]. In fact, though we still don't get the word "dead," there were none of the expected attempts to sweep it under the rug or make it OnlyMostlyDead - it even gets referenced later on.

* [[spoiler: Claude, Hannah, Jim/Alois ''and'' Luka]] in ''{{Kuroshituji}}''.

* SakuraGari has [[spoiler: Souma]] invokes this when [[spoiler: he and Masataka are trapped by Sakurako in a burning warehouse. In a twist, Masataka manages to save them both.]]

* In a non-romantic example, the DistantFinale of Douglas Reeman's ''HMS Saracen'' reveals that the ship's captain died something like thirty years after the main story. A minor character realizes the probable cause of death was a heart attack brought on by seeing film of ''Saracen'' being used as a target for a missile test, and thinks, ''So even in death, they were together''.

* An episode of ''TheXFiles'' has a nasty variation on this: a pair of skeletons are found lying in a field. It turns out to be the skeletons of a married couple that were [[NightmareFuel captured by a carnivorous fungus]]. The organism gave off hallucinogens that made the couple believe that they were lying down and cuddling in their own bed.

* In ''CodeGeass'', the immortal C.C. apparently [[WhoWantsToLiveForever desires]] this outcome with her {{Yandere}} Mao for a while as she tells him to wait for her before giving him a MercyKill and then spends most of the series [[Deathseeker attempting to ensure her own demise]].

* The first panel of [[http://simulatedcomicproduct.com/2005/03/10/science/ this]] Simulated Comic Product comic shows a young man next to his dead wife's tombstone, vowing he will use science to be re-united with her. The rest of the comic shows a montage of his scientific career, [[spoiler: older in each panel, until the last shows the same scene as the first, with two tombstones.]]

* A creepy example in MST3K episode "Tormented": after the protagonist is HoistByHisOwnPetard, the body of the antagonist is discovered and lain on the beach beside his; her arm automatically wraps itself around him.

** Not to mention [[spoiler: The girls in the lighthouse. Even the one who precipitated the whole awful series of events is there. ThisTroper found that to be a real TearJerker moment.]]

* This troper remembers a comic book version of the ''Turandot'' opera where this is invoked: [[spoiler: Instead of commiting suicide, a maddened and throughly broken Liu stabs Prince Caláf to death just as he manages to get through [[DefrostingIceQueen Princess Turandot]] and give her a TrueLovesKiss. Cradling Caláf's lifeless body, Liu says they will be TogetherInDeath while Turandot remains alone forever, as punishment for her cruelty; she then stabs herself and dies, leaving a sobbing Turandot with her hands empty.]]

* "Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever" we are told in the movie adaptation of [[The Crow]] in which Eric Draven is murdered along with his [[StuffedIntotheFridge fiancee]] the night before their wedding and comes back from the dead for a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]. The theme of the first film, increasingly amplified throughout the subsequent franchise, is that "If two people are truly meant to be together, nothing can keep them apart. Not even death."

* "Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever" we are told in the movie adaptation of 'The Crow' in which Eric Draven is murdered along with his fiancee the night before their wedding and comes back from the dead for a Roaring Rampage of Revenge. The theme of the first film, increasingly amplified throughout the subsequent franchise, is that "If two people are truly meant to be together, nothing can keep them apart. Not even death."

-->''Death cannot stop true love. It can only delay it for a little while.''
---> '''ThePrincessBride'''

*** Arwen died a year after Aragorn of a broken heart and was buried with him.