History TogetherInDeath / LiveActionTV

** "I'll see you on the other side]], [[spoiler:Kara]]."- [[spoiler:[[TearJerker Sam Anders]]]] (somewhat debatable since it's never actually made clear where [[spoiler:Starbuck]] goes when she vanishes).

* ''Series/CrossingJordan'' with a couple that's always arguing about something. Lily and Bug were assigned to their case. The reconstruction has the argument start small(about cat food), slowly mutates into vase throwing, hand-to-hand combat up the stairs, one of them pushing the other over the rails, then falling themselves because of a falling bookshelf. Turns out the bookshelf was falling, and they accidentally died from the fall trying to save each other.

** The season 7 finale of ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' has a twofold example. [[spoiler:The Monitor takes Oliver after Mia's birth in order to fulfill Oliver's promise made to him during the previous crossover and to save the multiverse. The Monitor tells him from the get-go that he isn't going to survive the crisis, which will reunite him with his many deceased loved ones, including his parents, his best friend Tommy, and his FirstLove Laurel, but will separate him from his SecondLove and wife, Felicity. In the FlashForward, after the city is safe and the torch has been passed to the main characters' children, Felicity says good-bye to William and Mia next to Oliver's grave, before the Monitor takes her to be reunited with them as well. The series finale shows Felicity arriving to Oliver's afterlife, which looks like his mother's old office at Queen Consolidated, and being reunited with her husband. On the other hand, Oliver rebooting the universe and creating Earth Prime results in many of his loved ones surviving (except for his father, who had to die in order for Oliver to become the Green Arrow, and the original Laurel, because there can be only one Laurel on Earth Prime and Laurel-2 was already there), so Oliver's funeral is attended by, among others, Moira, Tommy, and Emiko]].

** The season 7 finale of ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' has a twofold example. [[spoiler:The Monitor takes Oliver after Mia's birth in order to fulfill Oliver's promise made to him during the previous crossover and to save the multiverse. The Monitor tells him from the get-go that he isn't going to survive the crisis, which will reunite him with his many deceased loved ones, including his parents, his best friend Tommy, and his FirstLove Laurel, but will separate him from his SecondLove and wife, Felicity. In the FlashForward, after the city is safe and the torch has been passed to the main characters' children, Felicity says good-bye to William and Mia next to Oliver's grave, before the Monitor takes her to be reunited with them as well. The series finale shows Felicity arriving to Oliver's afterlife, which looks like his mother's old office at Queen Consolidated, and being reunited with her husband]].

** The season 7 finale of ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' has a twofold example. [[spoiler:The Monitor takes Oliver after Mia's birth in order to fulfill Oliver's promise made to him during the previous crossover and to save the multiverse. The Monitor tells him from the get-go that he isn't going to survive the crisis, which will reunite him with his many deceased loved ones, including his parents, his best friend Tommy, and his FirstLove Laurel, but will separate him from his SecondLove and wife, Felicity. In the FlashForward, after the city is safe and the torch has been passed to the main characters' children, Felicity says good-bye to William and Mia next to Oliver's grave, before the Monitor takes her to be reunited with them as well]].

%%* ''Series/TheDefenders'': [[spoiler: A valiant attempt by Elektra and Daredevil, but unfortunately this is a comic book adaptation, so DeathIsCheap]].

* A creepy example in the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode ''Film/{{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.

* In the season finale of the BBC's ''Series/RobinHood'', Robin [[spoiler:is mortally wounded by a poisoned dagger and stumbles into Sherwood Forest. As he dies, an apparition of Marian appears, and the couple are last seen embracing and laughing in the forest.]]

** In another episode Angel stakes a female vampire, leaving her longtime lover behind. He's [[DrivenToSuicide willing to die]], but wants to [[TakingYouWithMe take Angel with him]], so he has his heart surgically removed. Apparently this makes a vampire invincible for a short amount of time, but once that time expires they instantly die.

** Because of this, Chris and Shaz as well as Gene and Alex (eventually) form romantic relationships in purgatory.

* Played in two ways with Kelly in the end of the ''Series/BlackMirror'' episode “[[Recap/BlackMirrorSanJunipero San Junipero]]”. Her body is buried next to her husband of 49 years and their daughter, while her VirtualGhost is uploaded to San Junipero to spend eternity with her newly “passed over” wife.

** Another case of this in "The Archeologist in the Cocoon". Remains that are thousands of years old are found, and it's revealed that [[spoiler:they belong to a family (mother, father and daughter). The parents were fatally injured in an attack, and they died together, with their young daughter also laying with them. She remained with them and later starved to death, the remains being found laying together thousands of years later.]]

* ''Series/CrossingJordan'' with a couple that's always arguing about something. Lily and Bug were assigned to their case. The reconstruction has the argument start small(about cat food), slowly mutates into vase throwing, hand-to-hand combat up the stairs, one of them pushing the other over the rails, then falling themselves because of a falling bookshelf. Turns out the book shelf was falling, and they accidentally died from the fall trying to save each other.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E5TheAngelsTakeManhattan "The Angels Take Manhattan"]]: [[spoiler:Amy and Rory's ultimate fate [[TrappedInThePast (albeit from old age)]].]] It's especially heartwrenching because the Doctor is unable to save or ever see them again.

* ''Series/EerieIndiana'': In "The Dead Letter", Mary is reunited with the ghost of Tripp [=McConnell=] 62 years after his death. The next morning, she dies of a heart failure and happily joins Tripp in the afterlife.

* The [[http://lostpedia.com/wiki/Adam_and_Eve two skeletons]] found in an early ''Series/{{Lost}}'' episode might be an example, but their past and identity is unknown.

* Subverted in ''Series/{{Rome}}''. On hearing that UsefulNotes/{{Cleopatra}} has committed suicide, Marc Antony has Vorenus help him fall on his sword. To Vorenus' unconcealed contempt, Cleopatra then turns up very much alive. However on meeting Octavian, Cleopatra realises she can't influence him as she did Julius Caesar or Antony, and so poisons herself next to his body.

* In "Knight of Shadows", the first-season Halloween episode of ''Series/SeaQuestDSV'', the crew of the [=SeaQuest=] solve a hundred-year-old murder mystery on a sunken liner, allowing the spirits of the ship's engineer and a passenger to finally reunite. Even better, they forgive the spirit of the ship's Captain (who murdered the engineer out of jealousy), who joins them in the afterlife.

*** The ghosts tries to get Mulder and Scully re-enact their deaths. They invoke the illusion of the bodies lying together with corpses that remind Mulder and Scully under the floorboards.

*** Nearly played straight with Mulder and Scully who appear to have shot each other so that they need not to face their lonely lives. However, they recognize that it is a trick and they flee from the house.

** In the crossover ''Series/CrisisOnEarthX'', [[spoiler:Martin Stein is shot, and chooses to accept his death in order to save the life of his second partner, Jefferson Jackson, and reunites with his first partner, Ronnie Raymond (who died in the Season One Finale/Season 2 Premiere of ''Series/TheFlash2014''), in the death. This is only enforced when Caitlin Snow, Ronnie's widow, tells Stein at his grave to give his regards to Ronnie for her]].
** The season 7 finale of ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' has [[spoiler:the Monitor take Oliver after Mia's birth in order to fulfill Oliver's promise made to him during the previous crossover and to save the multiverse. The Monitor tells him from the get-go that he isn't going to survive the crisis. In the FlashForward, after the city is safe and the torch has been passed to the main characters' children, Felicity says good-bye to William and Mia next to Oliver's grave, before the Monitor taker her to be reunited with her husband]].

* The [[http://lostpedia.com/wiki/Adam_and_Eve two skeletons]] found in an early ''Series/{{Lost}}'' episode might be an example, but their past and identity is unknown.
** It's revealed in ''Across the Sea'' that Adam and Eve are [[spoiler: an adoptive mother and son. The son killed the mother in a rage and was then transformed into a monster by his brother, leaving his body behind. Jacob placed thebodies in the cave together afterwards.]]
** Although they're definitely not Adam and Eve, this is played straight in late Season Six with [[spoiler: Sun and Jin]].
** Speaking of ''Lost'', [[spoiler: everyone is reunited in the end, after their lives are over]]. [[TearJerker Sniffle.]]
* A creepy example in the [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]] episode "Film/{{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.
* ''Series/TheXFiles'':
** "Field Trip" 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 captured by a carnivorous fungus. The organism gave off hallucinogens that made the couple believe that they were [[LotusEaterMachine lying down and cuddling in their own bed.]]
** "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas":
*** The ghosts Maurice and Lyda died via SuicidePact and are together in the afterlife.
*** The ghosts tries to get Mulder and Scully re-enact their deaths. They invoke the illusion of the bodies lying together with corpses that remind Mulder and Scully under the floorboards.
*** It is implied that the ghosts drove other couples to suicide. They were people who lived in their HauntedHouse.
*** Nearly played straight with Mulder and Scully who appear to have shot each other so that they need not to face their lonely lives. However, they recognize that it is a trick and they flee from the house.
** In "The Field Where I Died", it is revealed that Mulder and Scully have been closely tied in previous incarnations already. They were family, TrueCompanions or BandOfBrothers, but never lovers. The memories are revealed through one character's split personality when she channels her various lives, and through Mulder's hypnosis.
* [[spoiler: The Kanzaki siblings]] in ''Series/KamenRiderRyuki''. After rejecting his plans, [[spoiler: Yui manages to convince Shiro to end the Rider War and as a result, a new timeline is created where both are deceased. The final shot of the series hammers this home as it is a photograph of both Yui and Shiro as children in positions similar to the ones they have as adults in the original timeline.]]
* [[spoiler: The Sonozaki family]] in ''Series/KamenRiderDouble''. Even more of a TearJerker because in life they'd grown to hate and manipulate each other, but are seen in the end embracing and wishing [[spoiler: Philip]] well.
** In ''Series/KamenRiderOOO'', [[spoiler:Gamel]]'s last act before [[spoiler:disintegrating into a pile of Medals]] is to lay a lollipop upon [[spoiler:Mezool]]'s last Core Medal as a parting gift to [[spoiler:her. He]] then has a vision of [[spoiler:her smiling and thanking him.]] This could possibly imply that they will be together in some sort of afterlife, since it's later shown that [[spoiler:Ankh gained a human soul because he finally felt fulfilled.]]
* In a ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' tie-in, [[http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/novels/downloads/Heroes_novel_104.pdf two of Sylar's victims]] are depicted this way; one of whom lied in order to protect his love's ability. It's quite a TearJerker too.
* [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 "I'll see you on the other side]], [[spoiler: [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 Kara]]]]."- [[spoiler: [[TearJerker Sam Anders]]]] (somewhat debatable since it's never actually made clear where Starbucks goes when she vanishes).
* In the season finale of the BBC's ''Series/RobinHood'', Robin [[spoiler:is mortally wounded by a poisoned dagger and stumbles into Sherwood Forest. As he dies, an apparition of Marian appears, and the couple are last seen embracing and laughing in the forest.]]
* In the ''Series/{{Bones}}'' episode "Aliens in a Spaceship," there's a spectacularly sad platonic example. Twin brothers had been sealed in a vat with only 12 hours' worth of air, and there's an unusual amount of blood pooled on the bottom from one of them, caused by a mysterious wound that punctured an artery in his neck. They find out ''how'' it happened easily enough (a pen was used) but it takes until the end of the episode to find out ''why'': [[spoiler: He killed himself [[TearJerker to give his brother the rest of the oxygen]].]]
** Also, in the episode "The Couple in the Cave", with two skeletal remains found (as the title suggests) in a cave. It turns out that [[spoiler:they were pushed from a cliff, with the woman's injuries being far more severe. After getting to the cave, the man could have gone on further to find help and possibly save himself, but he chose to remain with his partner, and she died in his arms before he too succumbed to his injuries.]]
** Another case of this in "The Archeologist in the Cocoon". Remains that are thousands of years old are found, and it's revealed that [[spoiler:they belong to a family (mother, father and daughter). The parents were fatally injured in an attack, and they died together, with their young daughter also laying with them. She remained with them and later starved to death, the remains being found laying together thousands of years later.]]
* ''Series/{{Medium}}'' does an interesting take on this. [[spoiler: The lovers are actually serial killers and one is killed in an accident. When Allison discovers the truth, she tricks the other into getting arrested. After she's executed, their ghosts are reunited. However, he's very mad at her for getting caught so easily and they end up arguing... apparently for eternity.]]
** The SeriesFinale does a TearJerker version. [[spoiler:Joe dies in a plane crash. Alison dies 41 years later, an old grandmother, and ''finally'' gets to see him again. Darn it, got SandInMyEyes again...]]
* The latest version of ''Literature/WutheringHeights'' shows Heathcliff and Cathy together looking down from an upstairs window as Cathy II departs to start her new life.
* [[spoiler: The Sinclair family]] from ''{{Series/Dinosaurs}}''.
* The SpeculativeDocumentary by Animal Planet ''Film/DragonsAFantasyMadeReal'' had the body of the mother dragon and the child dragon in the museum together after it was recovered and studied by the scientists.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': The alien EnergyBeings Sargon and Thalassa in "Return to Tomorrow".
* ''Series/CrossingJordan'' with a couple that's always arguing about something. Lily and Bug were assigned to their case. The reconstruction has the argument start small(about cat food), slowly mutates into vase throwing, hand-to-hand combat up the stairs, one of them pushing the other over the rails, then falling themselves because of a falling bookshelf. Turns out the book shelf was falling, and they accidentally died from the fall trying to save each other.
* HenpeckedHusband Jack Duckworth's final scene in ''Series/CoronationStreet'' featured the return of Vera Duckworth, who had died two years earlier, and they dance away together.

* ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryMurderHouse'': [[spoiler: The fate of the entire Harmon family. Couple-wise, Ben and Vivien are both finally happy together in death. Tate and Violet might end up this way if she ever comes around to forgiving him. He's willing to wait.]]
* The fate of [[spoiler: Tony and Sally]] on ''Series/{{Misfits}}''. [[spoiler: Technically, it also applies to Simon and Alisha]].

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': [[spoiler: Amy and Rory's ultimate fate [[TrappedInThePast (albeit from old age)]].]] It's especially heartwrenching because The Doctor is unable to save or ever see them again.
* A variant in ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'': [[spoiler: Jack and Ianto die from an alien virus within moments of each other]] and the camera zooms out to show their bodies still with their arms around each other. Unfortunately, [[spoiler: [[CameBackWrong Jack can't just stay dead]]]].
* ''Series/AshesToAshes2008'' is an interesting example of this trope, ''once removed.''
** All of the main characters (excluding Gene) in ''Series/AshesToAshes2008'' forget of their deaths over time while in Gene's purgatory, so that the purgatory seems to be their actual life.
** Because of this, Chris and Shaz as well as Gene and Alex (eventually) form romantic relationships in purgatory.
** Thus, in the [[TheReveal big reveal]] when the characters progress into heaven, Shaz and Chris are together in heaven and Gene and Alex will eventually be reunited in heaven as well. (when Gene is finished being a Psychopomp.)
* Subverted in ''Series/TwentyFour'': [[spoiler: Michelle Dessler]] and [[spoiler: Tony Almeida]] were both killed off at different points in the fifth season, so there at least was that somewhat consolation for them. Only it turns out a few seasons later that the latter was [[FakingTheDead still alive]], and the resultant death of said spouse has left him crossing the DespairEventHorizon...
* Episode 4x22 from {{Series/The Vampire Diaries}} gives us [[spoiler:Bonnie]] and Jeremy reuniting on the other side, and possibly reconciling. They do hug, and it's a {{Tear Jerker}}.
* ''Series/GreysAnatomy'':
** [[spoiler:Mark and Lexie]]: She dies in the plane crash in the season 8 finale as he's telling her that he loves her. As he's slipping into a coma (he doesn't actually die until after he wakes up the next season), he says "[[spoiler: Lexie]]'s waiting for me... I'll be okay." What makes this moment especially tragic is that they never [[WillTheyOrWontThey got to get back together.]]
** Another example is in the episode "Sledgehammer" with two girls named Jessica and Aliyah who were in love who decided to commit suicide after Jessica's homophobic mother discovers their relationship and to send Jessica to a gay conversion camp. The girls survive and Jessica's mom still intends to send her to the camp until her dad stands up for her when he sees how happy Jessica is with Aliyah.
* ''Series/ForeverKnight'' heavily implied this with Nick and Natalie at the end. Nick can't stop drinking and drains Nat, then is depressed and asks Lacroix to stake him. We only see the stake being raised, followed by CueTheSun, but the implication is obvious.
* The DistantFinale of ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'' shows that [[spoiler:Helo and Sharon died and were buried together, along with their daughter Hera]].

* In "Knight of Shadows", the first-season Halloween episode of ''{{Series/SeaQuestDSV}}'', the crew of the [=SeaQuest=] solve a hundred-year-old murder mystery on a sunken liner, allowing the spirits of the ship's engineer and a passenger to finally reunite. Even better, they forgive the spirit of the ship's Captain (who murdered the engineer out of jealousy), who joins them in the afterlife.
* An episode of ''Series/LegendOfTheSeeker'' starts with Richard reading the story of his predecessor, who is said to have done what he was meant to do, but both him and his [[PowerOfLove Confessor]] (and LoveInterest) were mortally wounded and died in each other's arms. Their wizard buried them together in a tomb. By chance, Richard, Kahlan, and Zedd end up finding that tomb, and the ghost of the wizard (Zedd's predecessor) reveals that he made up the story. In fact, the previous Seeker gave in to temptation and slept with his Confessor, resulting in him being confessed (effectively becoming her love slave, whether she wished it or not). He started acting recklessly, and the wizard convinced her to kill herself for the greater good. However, her death did not release the Seeker, who went insane with grief and slaughtered innocents. The wizard was forced to kill him and take the Sword of Truth. He then bound their spirits to their bodies specifically to prevent this trope from coming true (it's never specified why it's necessary, especially since the Underworld is hardly a pleasant place to be). The two spirits end up possessing Richard and Kahlan in order to make this trope true (sort of), but Zedd manages to remove the spell, and their spirits finally depart together.

* ''Series/TheDefenders'': [[spoiler: A valiant attempt by Elektra and Daredevil, but unfortunately this is a comic book adaptation, so DeathIsCheap]].

* Played in two ways with Kelly in the end of the ''Series/BlackMirror'' episode “[[Recap/BlackMirrorSanJunipero San Junipero]]”. Her body is buried next to her husband of 49 years and their daughter, while her VirtualGhost is uploaded to San Junipero to spend eternity with her newly “passed over” wife.
* In the Series/{{Arrowverse}} crossover ''Series/CrisisOnEarthX'', [[spoiler:Martin Stein is shot, and chooses to accept his death in order to save the life of his second partner, Jefferson Jackson, and reunites with his first partner, Ronnie Raymond (who died in the Season One Finale/Season 2 Premiere of ''Series/TheFlash2014''), in the death. This is only enforced when Caitlin Snow, Ronnie's widow, tells Stein at his grave to give his regards to Ronnie for her]].
** The season 7 finale of ''Series/{{Arrow}} has [[spoiler:the Monitor take Oliver after Mia's birth in order to fulfill Oliver's promise made to him during the previous crossover and to save the multiverse. The Monitor tells him from the get-go that he isn't going to survive the crisis. In the FlashForward, after the city is safe and the torch has been passed to the main characters' children, Felicity says good-bye to William and Mia next to Oliver's grave, before the Monitor taker her to be reunited with her husband]].

* In the Season 3 finale of ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'', [[spoiler:Rip chooses to sacrifice himself to delay Mallus and allow the ''Waverider'' to escape. He takes the time drive and overloads it. Just before this happens, he tells Sara that he's looking forward to being reunited with his wife and son, who were murdered by Vandal Savage just prior to the series]].

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Lord Steffon Baratheon died along with his wife.

** Since the reveal, this may actually count as a subversion since [[spoiler: one has murdered the other]].
** It's revealed in ''Across the Sea'' that Adam and Eve are [[spoiler: an adoptive mother and son. The son killed the mother in a rage and was then transformed into a monster by his brother, leaving his body behind.]]

* ''Series/AshesToAshes'' is an interesting example of this trope, ''once removed.''
** All of the main characters (excluding Gene) in ''Series/AshesToAshes'' forget of their deaths over time while in Gene's purgatory, so that the purgatory seems to be their actual life.

* Subverted in ''Series/{{Rome}}''. On hearing that UsefulNotes/{{Cleopatra}} has committed suicide, Marc Antony has Vorenus help him fall on his sword. To Vorenus' unconcealed contempt, Cleopatra then turns up very much alive. However on meeting Octavian, Cleopatra realises she can't influence him as she did Julius Caesar or Antony, and so kills herself for real.

* Subverted in ''Series/Rome''. On hearing that UsefulNotes/Cleopatra has committed suicide, Marc Antony has Vorenus help him fall on his sword. To Vorenus' unconcealed contempt, Cleopatra then turns up very much alive. However on meeting Octavian, Cleopatra realises she can't influence him as she did Julius Caesar or Antony, and so kills herself for real.

* Played in two ways with Kelly in the end of the ‘’Series/BlackMirror’’ episode “San Junipero”. Her body is buried next to her husband of 49 years and their daughter, while her VirtualGhost is uploaded to San Junipero to spend eternity with her newly “passed over” wife.