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* There's a comic book version of the ''Theatre/{{Turandot}}'' opera where this is invoked: [[spoiler:Instead of committing suicide, a maddened and thoroughly broken Liu stabs Prince Calaf to death just as he manages to get through to [[DefrostingIceQueen Princess Turandot]] and is about to give her a TrueLovesKiss. Cradling Calaf's lifeless body, Liu says they will be Together in Death while Turandot remains alone forever, as punishment for her cruelty; she then stabs herself and dies, leaving a sobbing Turandot with her hands empty]].

* Franchise/{{Superman}}: At the close of ''ComicBook/TheFinalDaysOfSuperman'', Franchise/WonderWoman comforts the dying Superman by telling him that all four of his parents (Jor-El and Lara, Jonathan and Martha Kent) will be there waiting for him when he gets to Heaven.

* In ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'', the undead Emily falls in love with Victor, but their AccidentalMarriage isn't legal because of the fact that Emily is dead and Victor alive. In order to validate the marriage, they must repeat the ceremony in the land of the living, and Victor must kill himself during it. Victor, devastated by the loss of his living love, Victoria, accepts this plan and proceeds to go through with the ceremony, [[spoiler:but is stopped before he kills himself by Emily, when she sees poor Victoria spying on them and realizes what she's doing will hurt Victoria the same way she was hurt]].
* Occurs in ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog''. [[spoiler:Ray gets to be with his Evangeline, in the end]].

* During the song "Worthless" from ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster'', a Texan wedding car and a funeral hearse are both crushed to death at the same time by a Car Crusher at the end of a conveyor belt.

* In ''ComicBook/WhenTheWindBlows'' despite the {{Downer Ending}} this was the one faint bright spot. [[spoiler:Hilda and Jim died of radiation sickness]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'', [[spoiler:Kubo's parents Sariatu and Hanzo]] are finally reunited in death [[spoiler:with their memories and true forms restored]].
* The ending of the Durch animated short' 'WesternAnimation/FatherAndDaughter'' appears to be this. A man hugs his little daughter goodbye and commits SuicideBySea, rowing away in a rowboat, never to return. The shallow sea coast is drained and turned into dry land, a Dutch polder. Decades later the girl, now an old woman, finds the boat and lies down in it. She wakes, and sees something. She goes running off, and ages backwards into a young girl again. She runs up to her father, looking as he did all those decades ago, and embraces him. It's implied that they reunited in death.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' this is attempted by [[spoiler: the toys when they are trapped in the furnace. Instead of fighting, they all hold hands and wait. Fortunately the LGM's and the Claw save them.]]

* Towards the end of ''Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren'', Cloud sees the spirits of Aeris and Zack finally reuniting with each other, and they walk together to the afterlife.

* Wagner's adaptation of the ''Literature/TristanAndIsolde'' legend is one long exploration of this trope.
* ''Theatre/{{Tosca}}'' throws herself over the wall of the prison after her lover Mario is killed. And in doing so, she calls the name of [[MagnificentBastard Scarpia]], [[FoeYay not her lover]].

%%* Haemon and Antigone in the Greek tragedy ''Theatre/{{Antigone}}''.

* Attempted by Horatio at the end of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', but his [[HoYay best friend]] Prince Hamlet (who's dying in his arms) stops him before he can drink the rest of the poison. Which makes Horatio a lot luckier than most characters in a Shakespearian tragedy.
* Audrey and Seymour both wind up eaten by the same plant in ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors'', and at the end their heads appear in adjacent pods.
* All of the students in ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' (and actually everyone else who died over the course of the show). When they realized their death that night were certain, they all silently decided to have one last drink together and fight till the end. In the finale, after Valjean's death, his ghost joins Fantine and the other deceased for the closing reprise of "Hear The People Sing".
* Subverted in ''Theatre/TheAddingMachine''. After Zero dies, Daisy appears to him in an Arcadian afterlife, where she suggests that they "can always be together now." He doesn't care for it and [[RefusingParadise decides to leave the place]].
* As listed above, the musical version of ''Theatre/{{Aida|JohnRice}}'' also has Radames and Aida buried alive in a tomb. The musical adds the framing story of their reincarnations finding each other in the modern day.
* At the end of ''25 Saints'', Charlie commits {{self immolation}} while holding his dead [[StarCrossedLovers star-crossed girlfriend]] Sammy.
* ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'': Alexander and Eliza's final singing appearances both invoke this trope.
-->'''Alexander:''' My love, take your time. I'll see you on the other side.\\
[...]\\
'''Eliza:''' Oh, I can't wait to see you again. It's only a matter of time.
** In a bittersweet aversion, the end emphasises that Angelica was only buried near, not with, Alexander, symbolising her unrequited and unfulfilled love for him.
* Theatre/{{Elisabeth}} is reunited ''with'' Death by her assassination. Rudolf may be this, too, depending on the production/actors.

* [[MultipleEndings One]] of the endings of ''VisualNovel/SayaNoUta'' has [[spoiler:Saya and Fuminori]] end up like this, [[spoiler:as Saya gets fatally wounded, causing Fuminori to kill himself]]. It is absolutely [[TearJerker heartwrenching]], the way that [[spoiler:Saya ignores her wounds (with Kouji still repeatedly delivering blows as she does so) and drags herself over to Fuminori's corpse so she can embrace him before slipping away herself]].
* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'': Saber and Shirou finally get a proper happy ending in [[UpdatedRerelease Realta Nua's]] [[RevisedEnding bonus ending of]] the Fate route. [[GuideDangIt To unlock it, you have to]] [[HundredPercentCompletion die every way possible, and finish all three routes, and get all five endings]]... but by doing so, you get what might well be the most heartwarming scene in the whole game. As she lays dying, Arturia is informed that it is absolutely impossible for her to ever see Shirou again; the afterlife is simply not designed to handle people who were born and died a thousand years apart. But if she [[IWillWaitForYou waits for him forever]], and if Shirou [[IWillFindYou seeks her forever]], then maybe [[BeyondTheImpossible the impossible will happen]]. In the end, they are reunited in Avalon.

* According to WordOfGod, [[spoiler:RED Spy and BLU Sniper]] in ''Webcomic/CuantaVida''.

* Parodied in ''Webcomic/ButtlordGT'' after nearly everyone dies. "Awesome! All my friends are [[DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist dead and safe!]]"

* Something of a recurring theme in Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}. [[spoiler:John and Vriska, Tavros and Vriska, Karkat and Terezi in two different alternate timelines, Karkat and Nepeta, Post-Scratch Rose and Dave, and John's Dad and Rose's Mom]] all end up this way.
* Parodied in ''Webcomic/{{Oglaf}}'' [[http://oglaf.com/survival/ here]].
* ''Webcomic/SamAndFuzzy'' has an unusual, non-romantic example: [[spoiler:Mr. Blank dies when the corpse of his OnlyFriend Mr. Black pushes him off the side of a building, with the last we see of the pair being their bodies plummeting to Blank's death together. The unusual part is because this is a KarmicDeath on the part of Mr. Blank, as [[FriendOrIdolDecision he had murdered Mr. Black earlier in the arc]] and the corpse wouldn't have been in a position to knock him off the side otherwise.]]
* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'': [[spoiler:After what appears to have been centuries of Jeanne being stuck as a vengeful ghost and her lover's soul being trapped in a device, they are finally freed and able to pass into the ether [[https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1790 together]].]]

* The short story of "[[https://imgur.com/gallery/ezMzj The Man who Lives Alone]]". [[spoiler: A man moved into an old house, not knowing it was haunted. However, he came to an understanding with the ghost lady haunting the place, and practically lived as a couple despite the different worlds they were in. Many years later, the now-old man died in a house fire but finally managed to be together with his lady.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries,'' [[NeverSayDie of all]] [[FamilyFriendlyFirearms 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 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 get better. In fact, though viewers 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.

* Presumably this was the logic for [[spoiler:Nox [[DrivenToSuicide killing himself]] on his late family's grave]] in the season one finale of ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}''. With [[DyingAlone no-one to bury him]], [[ShootTheShaggyDog his remains are blown away by the wind]].
* Happens to Ferdy the fox at the end of ''WesternAnimation/TheresGoodBoosTonight''. [[spoiler:He is shot by a hunter, only to come back to life as a ghost after [[WesternAnimation/CaspertheFriendlyGhost Casper]] mourns his death]].

* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}},'' [[AntiVillain the Emir]] uses magic [[DeathTakesAHoliday to capture]] [[TheGrimReaper Anubis]] and tries to force him to resurrect his young son, who died in a car accident. Long story short, the episode ends with the Emir being buried in a collapsed pyramid, and [[TheHero Goliath]] says that if there is any justice in the universe, the father and son are together again.
* The ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' episode "Shadow of the Hawk" ends with a shot of the mummies of [[ReincarnationRomance the first incarnations of Hawkman and Hawkgirl]] holding hands.

* Towards the end of ''Anime/FinalFantasyAdventChildren'', Cloud sees the spirits of Aeris and Zack finally reuniting with each other, and they walk together to the afterlife.

'''This is a {{death trope|s}} so spoilers below.'''

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* ''One Night Ultimate Vampire'' added "Marks" and the Cupid role to the ''One Night'' series. Cupid's action is to give two other players the Mark of Love which can invoke this trope. The effect of the Mark of Love is that if a player with it is "killed", so is the player with the other one.

* Occurs in ''Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog''. [[spoiler:Ray gets to be with his Evangeline, in the end]].
* [[spoiler:The king and queen of Atlantis]] from ''Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', who are both last seen as a recently added giant floating stone head and the Atlantean Crystal, respectively, while their son-in-law and daughter become the next king and queen.
* In ''Disney/{{Bolt}}'', when [[spoiler:Bolt couldn't find an exit large enough for Penny]], she insists that Bolt leaves her there. But Bolt chooses to [[spoiler:lie beside her in their potential last moments. [[AvertedTrope Fortunately, they make it]].]]

* Saber and Shirou finally get a proper happy ending in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'''s [[UpdatedRerelease Realta Nua's]] [[RevisedEnding bonus ending of]] Fate. [[GuideDangIt To unlock it, you have to]] [[HundredPercentCompletion die every way possible, and finish all three routes, and get all five endings]]... but by doing so, you get what might well be the most heartwarming scene in the whole game. Whether you like or dislike that Shirou and Saber's route was denied an alternate ending (unlike with "Unlimited Blade Works" or "Heaven's Feel" which gave genuine happy endings that didn't require this trope) this new ending manages to combine IWillWaitForYou, DiedHappilyEverAfter and Together in Death for an undeniably impressive effect.

* Franchise/{{Superman}}:
** At the close of ''ComicBook/TheFinalDaysOfSuperman'', Franchise/WonderWoman comforts the dying Superman by telling him that all four of his parents (Jor-El and Lara, Jonathan and Martha Kent) will be there waiting for him when he gets to Heaven.
** In Bronze Age story ''Adventure Comics'' issue #423 an alien conqueror is -deservingly- left to die by his crewmen as his ship sinks. However his brother goes back to die with him.
--->'''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}:''' It was one of the eeriest scenes I've ever witnessed. The two of them just sitting there together-- entombed in the darkness of that wrecked craft...

* TogetherInDeath/MythologyAndReligion

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* He doesn't manage it (nope, his actual ending manages to be ''worse''), but Donnie [=DuPre=] from ''WebVideo/DemoReel'' might be one of the few characters who wants to die so he can be with his [[spoiler:dead mom]] rather than a dead partner. And while he [[DyingAlone dies alone]], at least Tacoma, Quinn, Rebecca and Carl fade away into nothing together.
* In WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's ''Christmas Story II'' behind the scenes, Doug and Tamara say that during the couch scene, Hyper wanted to slit her and Critic's throats to preserve the moment.

* Saber and Shirou finally get a proper happy ending in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'''s [[UpdatedRerelease Realta Nua's]] [[RevisedEnding bonus ending of]] Fate. [[GuideDangIt To unlock it, you have to]] [[HundredPercentCompletion die every way possible, and finish all three routes, and get all five endings]]... but by doing so, you get what might well be the most SugarWiki/{{heartwarming|Moments}} scene in the whole game. Whether you like or dislike that Shirou and Saber's route was denied an alternate ending (unlike with "Unlimited Blade Works" or "Heaven's Feel" which gave genuine happy endings that didn't require this trope) this new ending manages to combine IWillWaitForYou, DiedHappilyEverAfter and Together in Death for an undeniably impressive effect.

** Another non-romantic example: [[spoiler:Roy finally gets to see his little brother again, who had been killed when one of their father's experiments with magic went awry, when he gets to the Celestial Realm after dying in his battle with Xykon]]. [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0496.html Then they play blocks together]]. It was quite the TearJerker / SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}} for many people.

Fate may have [[StarCrossedLovers kept them apart]], the world may have frowned on their love, and conflict may have wormed itself between them, but they're finally together--too bad they had to die for it to happen.

Together in Death is when a couple is literally or metaphorically reunited in death. They might be buried together, seen together in the afterlife (most often in Heaven or a similar paradise, but ''not'' always), or their corpses discovered embracing one another. It's not necessarily a romantic couple--it can just as easily be a pair of siblings, a parent and child, or a couple of TrueCompanions.

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* Appears in "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes.

* As listed above, the musical version of ''Theatre/{{Aida}}'' also has Radames and Aida buried alive in a tomb. The musical adds the framing story of their reincarnations finding each other in the modern day.

* Radames and Aida from the opera ''Theatre/{{Aida}}'' are buried ''alive'' in a single tomb.

* Haemon and Antigone in the Greek tragedy ''Theatre/{{Antigone}}''.

* [[MultipleEndings One]] of the endings of ''VisualNovel/SayaNoUta'' has [[spoiler:Saya and Fuminori]] end up like this. It is absolutely [[TearJerker heartwrenching]], the way that [[spoiler:Saya ignores her wounds (with Kouji still repeatedly delivering blows as she does so) and drags herself over to Fuminori's corpse so she can embrace him before slipping away herself]].