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| 16 | [[quoteright:312:[[Film/BloodAndBlackLace https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/blood_and_black_lace_poster.jpg]]]] |
| 17 | [[caption-width-right:312:Their last words were: "Wait, catch my good side!"]] |
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| 19 | ->''"And now she's dead\ |
| 20 | Forever dead\ |
| 21 | Forever dead and lovely now"'' |
| 22 | -->-- '''Music/TomWaits''', "Dead and Lovely" |
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| 24 | There seems to be nothing more dramatic to crime stories than a dead, naked woman. Whether fully or partially nude, dead women are far more likely to be sexualized than males. Often this is justified by the murdered women being the victims of sexual crimes, while other times the purpose seems purely to titillate the audience. |
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| 26 | Add a perverted character to the mix, and naked corpses might lead to ILoveTheDead. |
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| 28 | The trope is quite likely to be used as a form of FanDisservice. |
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| 30 | Contrast JacobMarleyApparel. |
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| 32 | See also SexSignalsDeath, TheMurderAfter, DisposableSexWorker, and InterplayOfSexAndViolence. Often a result of MonsterMisogyny. |
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| 34 | If the "corpse" is actually a member of TheUndead, it's a case of CuteMonsterGirl, AttractiveZombie, and/or SeductiveMummy. |
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| 36 | For the 1999 film, see ''Film/DropDeadGorgeous''. |
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| 38 | !!As this is a {{Death Trope|s}}, [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff unmarked spoilers abound]]. [[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned Beware]]. |
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| 40 | !!Examples: |
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| 45 | * A darkly humorous [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56K4abCINF8 TV commercial]] for Crocker jeans features a coroner undressing an attractive young woman's corpse, only to find the corpse resisting his attempts to remove her Crocker jeans. |
| 46 | * [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dropdeadgorgeoustrope_5430.jpg An ad]] for Duncan Quinn ties wants you to remember that they're also useful for strangling half-naked women on the hood of your European sportscar. Duncan Quinn: for the fashionable psychopath! |
| 47 | * Actress Sheryl Lee, most famous for playing the naked murder victim Laura Palmer in ''Series/TwinPeaks'', appeared in a PETA ad in which she poses naked on a morgue slab, with the caption, "I wouldn't be caught dead in fur." |
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| 51 | * The three ''Anime/AgentAika'' series are made up of very sexualized cat fights between the heroine and crowds of hapless henchwomen, with the main draw of their fanservice unabashedly being the ogling of the [[MookHorrorShow piles upon piles of knocked out girls]] with exposed breasts and panties left in Aika's path. |
| 52 | ** The original series is a WholePlotReference to ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' that doesn't end with all the pretty henchwomen slaughtered in the collapse of the villain's EvilLair, but a flashback scene from a mournful Bianca shows at least one of them [[CerebusSyndrome lying on a pool of blood]] from being hit by debris and left to die, with her butt exposed just like all the others. Then in the end, after one last pile of defeated bad girls, the Delmos realize how much they're risking their underlings' lives by pursuing revenge against Aika and give up. |
| 53 | ** The ''R-16'' and ''ZERO'' prequels have more nudity on fights and the henchwomen's defeat scenes were even more evocative of death, body disposal and morgue examination despite [[NonlethalKO nobody actually dying]] or [[BloodlessCarnage even getting visibly injured]]. In ''R-16'', all the henchwomen are teenagers except the buxom Risako, who ends up sedated and stripped out of her tiny bikini. The abuse inflicted on them builds up to a TokenMiniMoe thrusting her crotch into the sky when she's karate chopped on the neck. Then in ''ZERO'', one topless girl getting [[MultipleGunshotDeath repeatedly shot up]] with tranquilizers and another getting [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaled butt-to-mouth]] by an energy spear are framed like something out of a snuff film until they both turn out to be NotQuiteDead. |
| 54 | * The short manga adaptation of the [='80s=] TV series ''a.ki.re.ta-DEKA'' starts with the detective protagonist examining the naked corpse of a murder victim, as is costumary for the genre. He lecherously describes the appearance of her vagina, [[ILoveTheDead gropes her breasts]] to determine the time of her death... and the nearby forensics team [[BlackComedy applauds his investigative skills]]. |
| 55 | * ''Manga/{{Arachnid}}'': |
| 56 | ** The [[DCupDistress very busty]] Army Ant Queen is killed by her neck being crushed by a [[RazorFloss magic wire]] while she's only wearing underwear. While the scene can be read as eroticized and is framed to [[{{Bookends}} poetically mirror]] the first time she was shown in undies, [[AlasPoorVillain her servant Sara screams in despair]] the whole time and sketches by the author show the corpse was supposed to have a really unsightly expression to subvert the trope that the illustrator ignored. |
| 57 | ** In ''Manga/{{Caterpillar}}'', the naked SpikeShooter Togehamushi is stabbed in the abdomen and her body is lasciviously shown as she collapses and lies on the floor. She doesn't outright die, but to add to her humiliation, the last we see of the girl is her unconscious bare butt as Riokku carries her out of the ''Ageha'' cruise ship. In another scene, a necrophiliac leader of a CleanupCrew is shown placing the nude body of a strangled girl in some sort of liquid tank before she turns out to be alive and breaks out of it. |
| 58 | ** In the ''Manga/ChoubuNoShinobi'' spinoff, most of the female ninjas involved in the Iga-Koga clan war are slain while nude, like the seductress Iroha who gets KilledOffscreen and is left ironically ''less'' naked than in minutes before or poor Hiyori being sliced in half so brutally that her upper body and the kimono she's wearing are blown into the air. Jokingly or not, the story's illustrator advertised the nudity in those death scenes on his Twitter as bonuses for volume 4. |
| 59 | ** ''Manga/{{Blattodea}}'' involves multiple voyeuristic scenes of [[DudeShesLikeInAComa sleeping girls in distress]], with the series ''Konchuki'' by the same author being even more blatant about it at that time. It ''really'' cranks up the sexualization of Setsuna after she got raped almost to death in ''Arachnid'', which includes multiple scenes of her being knocked out naked and with increasingly exploitative views of her defenseless body. Another scene plays the trope for comedy, with Megumi almost dying of overexcitement like a cockroach and flopping on the floor with raised limbs and exposed panties. |
| 60 | * In ''Literature/ArifuretaFromCommonplaceToWorldsStrongest'', Hajime brutally kneecaps and executes the busty and scantily-clad demon Cattleya with a [[BoomHeadshot shot to the head]] after Kouki's failed attempt to spare her endangers their whole group. The anime version [[GoryDiscretionShot completely obscures]] her death aside from a DeadHandShot, but the manga shows it in detail and includes a close-up of her barely-dressed corpse while Kouki and Hajime are arguing about who's really at fault for what happened. |
| 61 | * In ''Literature/BanishedFromTheHerosParty'', Ruti senselessly murders a contract demon named Belial after extorting a dangerous drug from them. In the original light novel, the demon's appearance was described in little detail and in the anime they are a cartoonish goat-man. The manga version made them a gorgeous dark-skinned female satyr whose chest is barely covered by flaps of cloth. She's found sprawled dead on a pool of blood with said flaps somehow still sticking to her breasts. |
| 62 | * The short manga ''Bestia'' by Ryoichi Ikegami centers around a [[PoisonousPerson poisonous half-demon]] ronin who euthanizes sickly or suicidal women by [[OutWithABang consensually fucking them to death]], leaving a telltale trail of nude corpses with [[PeacefulInDeath peaceful expressions]] and polka dot marks on their skin. One antagonist is a IdenticalStranger demon who hates women and has no qualms about violently raping them to death, leaving the corpses [[UndignifiedDeath beaten with horrified looks]] on their faces. |
| 63 | * ''Manga/BlackJoke'': |
| 64 | ** In chapter 40, Orlando beats a naked prostitute to death while she was talking dirty to him, and when a shocked henchman discovers the corpse, he callously says [[EvilIsPetty he didn't like]] how she violated what he considers "sex etiquette" by teasing and domming him like they were close. |
| 65 | ** Akari is repeatedly knocked down in an embarrassing pose with her butt up in the air like a RunningGag throughout the story. Towards the end, she appears to meet her demise like that by having half of her head chopped off in a nude fight against a female American agent. In truth, that was doctored footage to deceive the Americans, and it was the villainess who got killed by Akari in such a humiliating way. |
| 66 | * In chapter 16 of ''Manga/ADatingSimOfLifeAndDeath'', the detective Ryou finds Matsune killed by poison and slumped naked on a wall, without visible injuries but foaming with a horrified and cross-eyed look on her face. Despite his videogame-like powers, [[PlotlineDeath he's railroaded]] into just finding her dead again when he loads his "save file". The inside covers for each volume in the series have Ryou overlooking a pair of images usually showing the double-faced nature of the women in his life. In volume 5 it is an image of a happy Matsune juxtaposed with one of her nude corpse. This repeats with the VictimOfTheWeek Honoka in volume 15, but in the actual story that girl's body is found still dressed [[{{Gorn}} and mutilated]] to a bloody pulp. |
| 67 | * ''Manga/DeadTube'': |
| 68 | ** In the beginning, Sanagi fakes her death and attempts to frame Tomohiro for murder as part of a video for the titular SnuffFilm hosting website. Tomohiro foresees this and, with help from Mai, has Sanagi [[ShamefulStrip stripped]], dangled from a rooftop and dropped while she's terrified. [[NightmareFetishist He gets turned on]] by filming her bloodsoaked naked corpse and things only get more depraved from there. |
| 69 | ** Eri murders anyone who fails to sexually satisfy her and is shot in the back of the head by Mai while she's starting to rape Tomohiro, with the scene showing a close-up of her naked corpse with a deranged expression. Tomohiro is still noted to be the worst one in the room for filming it all with glee. |
| 70 | ** Chapters 95 to 97 involve a group of Dead Tube participants being tasked to [[DisposingOfABody dispose of]] the naked corpse of a female singer that had been raped to death. After some hesitation and over 10 pages of the girl's corpse being shown in detail from various angles, they use a saw to slice her to pieces. |
| 71 | * ''Fujimi Tensei: Kuzu Dakedo Saisei Cheat de Musou Shimasu'': Ibara, a dominatrix demon vaguely dressed in a bottomless corset and [[VineTentacles thorny vine]] "panties", sadistically tortures and beheads the [[TooKinkyToTorture masochist Mutsuo]] but gets punched from behind [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice through her abdomen]] in a very sexualized way by his rampaging [[LosingYourHead headless body]], with her legs open to make it clear that her vines [[SuperSexOrgans spawn from her genitalia]]. She is left [[AlasPoorVillain pitifully]] lying naked and bloody with vines and roses covering her in a vain attempt at healing, and gives life to a rose-bird messenger before perishing offscreen. |
| 72 | * One arc in the detective story ''Manga/FuutoPi'' involves the protagonists investigating murders in a manor where a marriage competition between four women is taking place. The second victim is found floating nude in a pool and both her and the previous one [[OutWithABang had ecstatic looks on their faces]], which is later explained as them having died of alcohol poisoning. The anime version censors the nudity by obscuring the corpse with steam and objects in the room. |
| 73 | * Near the end of ''Glass Feet'', the detective Owen and the priest Mido encounter a crowd of topless LivingAphrodisiac succubi in the lair of Asmodeus. When they get too naughty and Mido faints from their proximity, Owen [[NotDistractedByTheSexy reacts by]] revealing his riot suit like he's Superman, pulling a HyperspaceArsenal and murdering upwards of 30 naked and unarmed women [[MookHorrorShow with reckless abandon]] while [[CallingYourAttacks dramatically calling]] the name of each firearm, even after they're too scared to defend themselves. The brief view of only a few of the girls' corpses when a disturbed Mido wakes up is actually a [[GoryDiscretionShot rather restrained]] end to such an absurdly violent scene. |
| 74 | * [[https://twitter.com/zangya_of_cruel/status/1763964725073948869 Magazine commentary]] by animation director Hideyuki Motohashi about ''Anime/GodMazinger'' tellingly points viewers to look foward to how the beautiful Shamans, a squad of haughty identical-looking amazons in swimsuits, get slaughtered with escalating brutality by the male protagonists as the stakes get higher. This culminates in their leader Yoname dying fully naked as she is horribly impaled and sliced in half. |
| 75 | * ''Manga/GokuMidnightEye'', pulpy noir cyberpunk detective story by the author of ''Space Adventure Cobra'' that it was, had most of its female cast be haughty femme fatales who are killed while naked, like a topless PeacockGirl assassin with a hypnotic tail who's shot dead before she could realize Goku became immune to her powers or a kunoichi who ends up blown in half by her own trap while having sex with Goku. Volume 3 in particular has the corpse of a damsel named Li-Chen Li be found naked and covered in toxic tattoos made out of heroin as a reference to ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' before she is examined in a morgue. |
| 76 | * In ''Gokudo Heiki[=/=]Yakuza Weapon'' by Creator/KenIshikawa, Shozo's lover Nayoko is raped and strangled to death by the end of the story. The protagonist marches toward the headquarters of the villains in funeral attire for one final shootout, carrying Nayoko's naked corpse over his arms... [[MoodWhiplash and then]] in a [[BlackComedy ludicrous ending]] it turns out he's implanted weapons [[DesecratingTheDead into every joint and orifice]] of the corpse, with it becoming more and more mangled as he tosses her breasts as grenades, shoots missiles out of her vagina and uses her neck stump as a gatling gun. |
| 77 | * Every so often, ''Manga/Golgo13'' has Expressionless Sex with some woman only to end up killing her after finding she is an assassin, with some chapters having him dispose of the naked corpses by tossing them into a river or off a balcony for further cold-bloodness. Even the ''[[Film/Golgo13 Assignment Kowloon]]'' film starring Creator/SonnyChiba had an instance of this. |
| 78 | * In ''Manga/GunFrontier'' by Creator/LeijiMatsumoto, attractive women get killed practically OnceAnEpisode, with some partially or fully naked instances: |
| 79 | ** In chapter 11, two scantily-clad twin samurai girls named Sanae and Ayame get KilledOffscreen by Tartandare and are found sprawled on the floor as Tochiro arrives in the area. One of them was stripped naked in the manga version, but this was censored in episode 6 of the anime. |
| 80 | ** In chapter 12, Tochiro and Harlock ambush Utamaro and his [[BodyguardBabes gunslinger wife]] while they were having sex. Harlock gives Ms. Utamaro a chance to defend herself in a quick draw match before swiftly shooting her on the chest and blowing her body through a window, leaving her nude corpse draped upside-down over its frame for all the onlookers to see. Her corpse is displayed more in episode 8 of the anime adaptation, even as it retains the manga's NippleAndDimed censorship. The next chapter[=/=]episode then opens to ''another'' naked female corpse hanged upside down, this time on a tree as bait to lure Tochiro into an ambush. |
| 81 | * In ''Manga/HappySugarLife'', after Satou kills Shouko the next time we see her is her undressed, open eye lifeless body. |
| 82 | * Early in ''Literature/HaremInTheLabyrinthOfAnotherWorld'', Michio assassinates some bandits in their sleep for quick money to buy a slave girl. This includes a drowsy naked woman who he beheads as she moves past him in the dark, with the anime version making the murdered girl more busty and showing her dead body collapsing into the camera. Michio's actions are portrayed as particularly cruel and pointless because there were other options he could be taking for easy money that he wasn't aware of, the bandits could have been harmless all along and he's forced to flee before he can loot the arms of his two female victims for their bounties. |
| 83 | * Chapter 42 of ''Manga/HeartGear'' opens to the [[OffWithHisHead severed head]] of the provocative PerkyFemaleMinion Reis lying next to her [[GoingCommando barely thong-covered]] butt, with her tongue sticking out for further indignity, after she's easily cut down by Shiraha. She turns out to be NotQuiteDead and stabs him from behind before merrily putting her head back on. |
| 84 | * In ''Manga/{{Heat}}'' by Ryoichi Ikegami, the protagonist Karasawa [[NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization heroically rapes]] Yuuko, the secretary of his archnemesis Umizaki, to interrogate her about the villain. After Umizaki is defeated, Yuuko is [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped and killed]] by members of the Grass organization for helping Karasawa and her corpse is found topless and covered in slash wounds. |
| 85 | * In the '80s Magazine/ShonenJump series ''Hengen Sennin Asuka'', the titular heroine fights the water-themed female ninja Suikihi and smashes her head onto the floor, killing her and causing her body to [[NoBodyLeftBehind burst into water]]. When this scene was published in volume 2, they added a panel where we see a closeup of Suikihi fully naked and [[PeacefulInDeath with a blissful expression on her face]] as she gets splattered. |
| 86 | * ''Manga/{{Himenospia}}'': Tokisaka is brutally executed by a cop named Jiro alongside countless mutant schoolgirls and her dumbstruck naked corpse is briefly shown in a morgue when it is revealed that Jiro somehow had his brain transplanted inside her to infiltrate the protagonist's organization. |
| 87 | * In the original manga version of ''Anime/HiwouWarChronicles'', the villainous kunoichi Nue is ruthlessly shot in the chest by Sakamoto when she tries to kidnap Yuki, causing her to retaliate by bursting several [[CombatTentacles centipede-like machines]] out of [[BattleStrip her clothes]] in desperation. Nue is [[BoomHeadshot brutally finished off]] [[KilledOffscreen between pages]] and is left sprawled topless over a pile of debris, which even Sakamoto feels rotten about as he remarks the pacifist Hiwou would hate him if he ever found out about it. The [[TamerAndChaster anime adaptation]] removes Nue's multiple nude scenes and has her [[SparedByTheAdaptation be defeated non-lethally]] with multiple people including Sakamoto agreeing that killing a Wind Gang henchwoman wouldn't amount to anything. |
| 88 | * ''Manga/{{Ikkitousen}}'' features a ''ton'' of eroticized violence, with girls more often than not being stripped on defeat or death. In chapter 44 of the ''Shin'' sequel, an unnamed female ninja is shown as just an ass flying across a group of {{mooks}}, and when we see her face she's promptly whacked under the eyes by a staff. She gets blown through a wall and left sprawled with an exposed breast and open legs. |
| 89 | * When Manten is holding Kagome captive in ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'', his brother Hiten shows up with a topless demon girl in tow. The man appears AffablyEvil enough until he gets upset and senselessly murders the nameless girl with a punch through the head, leaving her naked corpse sprawled with her pet snake moving in and out of the gaping wound. The anime version censors her nudity and changes her death to Hiten using his lightning powers to burn her to a crisp. |
| 90 | * In ''Ishura'', the AttractiveZombie Nihilo rides a SpiderTank into battle while naked and bent over the cockpit. Sometime after Dakai yanks the top of the tank open and decapitates the girl, Hidow arrives on the area and mourns her. While the source novel doesn't draw attention to the appearance of her corpse, its adaptations do prominently show her exposed buttocks just lying there. |
| 91 | * ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': |
| 92 | ** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Phantom Blood]]'': In the beginning of the manga, an Aztec man is offering a woman as a sacrifice for the Stone Mask. This scene is AdaptedOut in the anime to effectively {{retcon}} the [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Pillar Men]] into being the mask's creators. |
| 93 | ** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'': The first sight of a returned DIO is by showing the scantily-clad corpse of a beautiful girl, who had just served as the vampire's meal. Apparently, while resting at his mansion in Egypt, DIO just feeds off entire harems of young, attractive girls, and he doesn't even bother having his minions take their dead bodies away, because later on, when Hol Horse tries to assassinate him, he stumbles upon the corpses of the girls DIO has sucked blood from. |
| 94 | * In Chapter 19 of the manga adaptation of ''Series/KamenRiderBlack'', the topless henchwoman Shiva invites Kotaro for sex only to end up overpowered and strangled to death by him over a bed after she coldly mentions she had already killed a scholar he was looking to save. Then there's the ''[[Series/KamenRiderBlackRX Black RX]]'' manga adaptation by Iwata Kazuhisa, which is largely unknown aside from [[http://tinyurl.com/yc2txphn a notorious scene]] where Kotaro [[{{Gorn}} brutally]] murders the leotard-clad Maribaron by [[HalfTheWomanSheUsedToBe ripping her in half]] over his head before tossing her practically naked corpse aside. This was published on Comic Bonbon, a magazine [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids directed at young children]]. |
| 95 | * Creator/KazuoKoike wrote and[=/=]or illustrated several pulp stories that, combined with a clear fixation on [[FullFrontalAssault naked assassins fighting]] to the death, had no end of nude damsels and henchwomen being killed in sexualized ways. |
| 96 | ** One scenario in ''Auction House'' had Ryu escaping from a shootout between several assassins in a mansion. In the chaos, a blonde assassin is killed, stripped and violated. Her killer is then stabbed from behind by the other woman in the group, who ''herself'' is killed, stripped and raped by some guy who then drops dead from sustained injuries. |
| 97 | ** One chapter of ''Manga/CryingFreeman'' had a villainess masturbating naked [[InLoveWithYourCarnage to a violent fight]] between Yo and some villain before she is engulfed by explosions and is reduced to a severed head frozen in a ecstatic expression. In the OVA adaptation she is killed by Yo during a naked fight by being stabbed in the breast and pushed off a cliff during a kiss, in a slow-motion scene set to melodramatic music. |
| 98 | ** One scene in ''Duet'' has Tetsuki drowning a henchwoman in a bikini in the bottom of the sea and still having enough breathing time to casually manipulate her corpse and swim under it to ambush her allies who await in a nearby ship. |
| 99 | ** One instance of this trope in ''Manga/MadBull34'' is the unscrupulous cop Amos callously stripping and murdering the mistress of a robber named Chico with a point-blank shot right to the nipple while she's trying to resist capture. He then gets the naked corpse in the crime scene shown on TV to lure Chico into coming back for revenge. |
| 100 | * ''Manga/KillingBites'': Pure is coerced into slaughtering Nodoka after she [[OneWingedAngel turns into]] a rampaging giant Megatherium. The AmazonianBeauty is left naked on the ground with her guts spilling out of a massive wound, which is portrayed as a [[AlasPoorVillain truly pitiful and underserved fate]] while Pure tries to comfort her. And upon dying [[ThisWasHisTrueForm she further reverts]] to her original form of a sloth. The scene continues a trend of the series resorting to sexualized gore to show [[NippleAndDimed uncensored]] female nudity after the early BaitAndSwitch of Ryoko flashing Yuuya. |
| 101 | * You can't throw an amputated ear without hitting one of these in ''Manga/TheKurosagiCorpseDeliveryService''. |
| 102 | * In the manga adaptation of ''Literature/{{Kurozuka}}'', a trio of mercenaries sent after the protagonists are all effortlessly killed in a single chapter. The female leader of the group is outright KilledOffscreen by Kuon without a fight and her corpse is later found [[WallSlump slumped on a wall]] in an alluring pose with one breast exposed. This is followed by Kuromitsu brutally beating a female guard to death, stealing her clothes and leaving her naked corpse sprawled over a cell room's bed. |
| 103 | * ''Manga/KyuusenNoShima'' is a horror story set in an island ruled by masked and topless buxom assassins whose chests fill the pages so [[MaleGaze constantly and gratuitously]] that it is how they're supposed to be told apart from each other. When "Number 2" is found dead, she's prominently shown sprawled with unblinking eyes and strangling bruises. Her nipples are uncharacteristically obscured by the scenery, though, in a vague attempt to give her some dignity that also makes it difficult to identify which masked woman she was in previous scenes. |
| 104 | * In ''Manga/LudwigRevolution'', according to Ludwig, Blanche looks more beautiful dead than alive. |
| 105 | * The Gamia Q cyborgs from ''Manga/MazingerZ'' and its related series are ''always'' killed in gruesome ways that leave their breasts and panties exposed, to the point one of them being sliced vertically in half by a laser is made into a twisted RunningGag. |
| 106 | * In chapter 3 of ''Manga/{{MW}}'' by Creator/OsamuTezuka, Michio murders Miho [[OutWithABang during sex]] by injecting her with a lethal dose of picrotoxin. He then takes her naked corpse away and in another scene tricks Father Garai into shooting it to frame him for murder and ensure his cooperation. |
| 107 | * ''Anime/MyHime'' episode 11, where Orphans (mistakenly called "vampires" by some of the students) randomly searched [[MonsterMisogyny young females]] for the mark of the [=HiME=]. The one girl at the beginning of the episode who was attacked lived through her injuries. [[spoiler:Later in the episode, the same thing happens to Aoi, and everyone thinks Sister Yukariko was the one behind it because she's spotted at the scene with her bow in her hand, and Aoi has a few arrows sticking out of her.]] |
| 108 | * In ''Anime/NinjaScroll'', Benisato, a nude kunoichi who can create snakes out of tattoos in her body, ends up [[HighVoltageDeath eletrocuted to death]] by a [[RazorFloss magic wire]] from Yurimaru for her failures and is shown writhing on the floor in agony for a while before finally expiring. |
| 109 | * In ''Anime/NinjaScrollTheSeries'', Jubei slices a topless kunoichi named Ubume in half in the first episode. She dramatically collapses already dead and is mourned by her son who's fused to her flesh and crumbles to a puddle right afterwards. This is followed by Jubei killing a scantily-clad cat-girl named Nekome, with multiple shots of her corpse as Jyashi examines her later. The busty kunoichi Nubatama accuses Jyashi of being a necrophile before fighting him. She's also horribly killed later by being stabbed all over her chest, with the camera actually avoiding showing her corpse and instead framing her beautiful face withering to a husk. |
| 110 | * In the manga version of ''WebComic/OnePunchMan'', a scantily-clad lizard-girl named Raptora falls victim to a poison gas trap set by Child Emperor and is prominently seen dying on the floor while foaming at the mouth. Her technically topless twin sister Raptera is absorbed by a monster and later gets spat out unconscious in an alluring pose with comically crossed-out eyes. The same arc also had two versions of the dominatrix Do-S being cruelly KilledOffscreen by Sweet Mask, and later a scene lingers on her motionless head-crushed body for a while before she turns out to be NotQuiteDead and regenerates by consuming monster blood that was dripping from the walls. |
| 111 | * ''Manga/{{Origin}}'': |
| 112 | ** The story practically opens with Origin fighting a gorgeous female android named Da and slicing her to pieces before placing her over an operation table to harvest parts from her nude remains. The ''ero-guro'' scene is framed in a very exploitative way that contrasts with how indifferent Origin acts as an android while monologuing about the killer robots and how his father created them. He then hangs Da's corpse to the wall like a trophy until he repurposes it into a simple maid robot... who [[LudicrousGibs just gets mutilated even worse]] by another villain. |
| 113 | ** Mai is killed from out of nowhere by an android who then strips her naked and threatens to mutilate her corpse as Origin watches. After avenging Mai, Origin [[DueToTheDead solemnly gives her a makeshift burial]] due to having realized, thanks to his now awakened emotions, the importance of such a thing. |
| 114 | * Part of the Huang brothers' backstory in ''Manga/OsuKarateClub'' shows An-hai's forces plundering and pillaging villages. One page shows people lamenting the death of children and a victim of rape lying naked and dead on the ground. In a series with otherwise very little sexuality, this does seem purely [[KickTheDog to convey]] [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil how evil]] An-Hai is. |
| 115 | * Volume 3 of the [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids spicy shonen series]] ''Phantom Rei'' introduces a henchwoman named Nina Jinguuji fully naked in a ShowerScene. She later [[BattleStrip tears off her clothes]], transforms into a panther-like mutant to fight Rei and slashes him up for a while before he knocks her into a pool and holds her underwater. The topless girl's [[HollywoodDrowning agonizing death]] is portrayed in every detail, and her corpse is left bobbing face-down as the immortal Rei revives from drowning and angsts over his nature as a LivingWeapon. |
| 116 | * The fight against Metropoli Man in ''Manga/PlatinumEnd'' just happens to involve a henchwoman named Fuyuko who's provocatively dressed like a dominatrix nurse. She ends up stabbed by a side character's katana between those large, [[ScaryStitches scarred and bandaged]] breasts of hers and quickly dies with a look of shock on her single eye. Both the manga and anime versions busy themselves with framing her scantily-clad corpse from several distracting angles as the protagonist Mirai rambles about how he doesn't want to kill anyone. |
| 117 | * The series ''Poison Cat'' (毒猫‐ポイズンキャット‐) was published for 28 chapters on the Play Comic anthology between 2009 and 2010 [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes without being compiled into volumes]]. Since then, ''[[BestKnownForTheFanservice the only thing]]'' documented online about it is the final fight against a trio of unnamed evil counterparts, among which was a [[MsFanservice busty and scantily clad]] [[DressedLikeADominatrix dominatrix]] with whips and knives. The protagonists collapse a pile of frozen saury fish crates onto the villains, leaving all of them [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice horribly impaled]]. The dominatrix is prominently shown mortally wounded with her left breast exposed and an agonized yet annoyed expression, bemoaning [[UndignifiedDeath how "lame" her death is]]. |
| 118 | * In the third case of ''Manga/RonKamonohashiDerangedDetective'', a naked woman is found drowned in a supposedly cursed hot springs. The corpse receives more focus in the anime adaptation than in the manga, and appears less covered in leaves while still avoiding explicit nudity. |
| 119 | * In volume 5 of ''Satsukare'', a topless HoneyTrap assassin named Rumi is paralyzed and [[{{Gorn}} graphically]] tortured to death by two bisexual men after failing to kill one of them. One of the men, Kazumi, is said to be a [[HeManWomanHater serial killer of non-virgin women]] who dismembers and decorates their naked corpses [[DeadGuyOnDisplay to put them on display]]. While his "work" on Rumi's corpse isn't shown in the story itself, the author Asahi, who's also the artist for ''[[Franchise/WhenTheyCry Higurashi]] no Naku Koro ni Oni'', dedicated an illustration to it in their Twitter profile in 2021. |
| 120 | * The ''Shin Seiki Inma Seiden'' OVA involves a priestess named Himiko having virgins raped to death by tentacle demons as sacrifices to a ritual. Her rival Kaori fails to prevent any murders [[NightmareFetishist and jills off to]] Reiko's and Ayano's naked corpses upon finding them. The spy Melanie [[WellIntentionedExtremist hastily attempts]] to [[CuttingTheKnot cut the knot]] on the incident by killing the next targets Mao and Hitomi but is stripped and [[DiagonalCut brutally slashed]] by Mao's bodyguard Akira, with the scene panning over her bloodsoaked nude corpse afterwards. Rather ironically, only Himiko and Kaori are exempt from this trope when they die in the end. |
| 121 | * One chapter of ''Manga/SorcererHunters'' features a henchwoman named Moss Green who suddenly strips naked and starts attacking the heroes with earth spikes. The author sounds ''real proud'' of inserting her in an afterword, but of course she [[WeHardlyKnewYe only lasts a few pages]] before being killed by the Misu sisters, who either crush her neck or decapitate her with a sneaky [[RazorFloss magic wire]]. The story shies away from [[GoryDiscretionShot actually showing]] its various sexualized villainesses being killed, so the scene only shows a final view of Moss' bare chest while she's [[OhCrap in shock]] with the wire pressing around her neck and cuts away to her screaming in the distance. |
| 122 | * Most of the female cast in the pulpy adventure series ''Manga/SpaceAdventureCobra'' is virtually naked and consists of either disposable damsels or villainous femme fatales. They are sexualized all the way to the grave, by the dozens, on [[OnceAnEpisode nearly every story arc]]: |
| 123 | ** The first story arc lampshades the SpyFiction genre's fixation with this trope when Cobra claims to be Film/JamesBond right before he kills two cyborg ladies who are expies of Bambi and Thumper from ''Film/DiamondsAreForever''. The brunette one with NavelDeepNeckline is eletrocuted to death and falls with one breast exposed and half of her body burnt off. The blonde in a sling bikini is then killed with a MegatonPunch to the gut. She kisses Cobra in her dying moments to use her lipstick as a trap and collapses posed like a starfish. Some guards later find and examine the corpses of both girls, with the anime version dutifully panning over the brunette's body and zooming on the blonde's unblinking face and lips. |
| 124 | ** Catherine is shot in the neck by a brainwashed Jane and falls from a tall height before her half-dressed corpse is kicked around for a picture of her butterfly back tattoo. Cobra is then attacked by a crowd of brainwashed topless strippers and is forced to slaughter them, leaving naked dead women strewn all over the sewers of a city. Cobra kills the villain who controlled Jane with parasites, but finds her already dead in a surgery room, with multiple pages dramatically framing her ChainmailBikini-clad corpse as the pirate looks on in anger. All that in just a couple of chapters. |
| 125 | ** One short story has Cobra tricking Sheila, a female spy dressed in a ChainmailBikini, into falling for her own trap and being ravaged by a swarm of bullet-like beetles sensitive to light. The anime adaptation portrays her MultipleGunshotDeath far more violently than the manga while ''still'' sticking to BloodlessCarnage and making it seem clearly eroticized as she moans and convulses all over the screen in slow motion for 20 seconds before dying. Both versions then closely frame her corpse [[AlasPoorVillain in a pitiable manner]] as Cobra leaves the scene. |
| 126 | ** When Cobra kills Eris in the manga by blowing her out of the sky, she's fully clothed and there's only a subdued close-up of her dead face [[PeacefulInDeath with closed eyes]] as she sinks into the ocean. This wasn't enough for the anime's staff, who left Eris in her bikini for the whole fight and had her full corpse dramatically sink across the screen [[DiesWideOpen with open eyes and mouth]] after she's killed. |
| 127 | ** A distraught Cobra discovers Dominique has been KilledOffscreen when he finds not even a corpse but instead just the ripped skin of her tattooed back and buttocks put on display, in a reference to ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' that's PlayedForHorror. It actually makes the deaths of her sisters Catherine and Jane seem dignified in comparison. |
| 128 | ** Early in the "Eyes of God" arc, Cobra figures a woman couldn't have commited suicide because "no beauty would shoot herself in the face". The arc also features three practically naked female villains scheming against Cobra. Two of them get overly gruesome and barely offscreen deaths, so to compensate the author gives the ArcVillain Papillon a body double pretty much so he could draw as many gratuitous views of her corpse as possible. |
| 129 | ** The "Wandering Women" arc involves a crowd of preserved female corpses barely covered in jewelry drifting in the bottom of the ocean. When the GirlOfTheWeek, a [[OneSteveLimit second "Eris"]] who's only dressed in a bikini and is distinctly portrayed with erect nipples, is revealed to be a traitor who attempts to get rid of Cobra to keep the treasure to herself, she's shot dead and sinks alongside the sacrificial women. |
| 130 | ** The "Hell Crusaders" arc has a couple instances of half-naked henchwomen being killed in ways that read as provocative and features a race of frog-like aliens that kidnap naked damsels to eat their brains. Further MonsterMisogyny is seen from the Nazi-like Fuhrer Goldman, who decorates his EvilLair with severed female heads and scantily-clad corpses mounted on the walls because women on Mars have rubies growing out of their heads. After so many instances of this trope in the series, Cobra [[LampshadeHanging points out loud]] how tasteless the villain is. |
| 131 | ** The "Over the Rainbow" webcomic saga begins with Cobra getting yet another half-naked woman blown spread-eagle into the air by a thick laser beam, by kicking an automatic gun backwards while she tries to shoot him. As her corpse lies before him, the pirate [[BondOneLiner coldly quips]] that he "doesn't like killing women but doesn't care if she kills herself". The last published chapter had him killing a naked tentacle monster woman in defense of a naked damsel, but it happens offscreen. The ArcVillain was ''of course'' also a naked woman, but Buichi Terasawa [[DiedDuringProduction passed away in 2023]], leaving the series and Cobra's decades long onslaught on naked women unfinished. |
| 132 | * Towards the end of ''Manga/SunKenRock'', Yumin faces a squad of female assassins in a sword fight that's just as violent as it is sexualized and ends up practically naked while surrounded by stripped and mutilated corpses. In both this ''and'' a previous fight against White Dragon Clan henchwomen, the leaders are ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice while framed with the [[MaleGaze most detailed close up]] of their crotches and spread legs that Creator/{{Boichi}} could manage to draw. |
| 133 | * In ''Swany Angel'', Reiko is turned into a superheroine to kill succubi-like alien androids who are draining the life force of men in Japan. Most of the henchwomen are KilledOffscreen, but the second one is shown [[WallSlump slumped against a wall]] naked when Reiko's student Iida witnesses the scene. Her corpse then [[ImMelting melts]], showing him the girls are NotEvenHuman. |
| 134 | * In volume 2 of the Feudal Japan series ''Tamahagane'', the kunoichi Otomi seduces Hayato and puts him to sleep with a poison kiss before being attacked by the heroine Kasumi. Otomi handily strangles the girl with a chain, but she's interrupted by a summoned crane that bursts into the room and her naked body is [[DeathOfAThousandCuts brutally pecked to a pulp]]. After a view of Otomi's bloody corpse, which had an arm torn off and has an [[AlasPoorVillain anguished expression]] on her face, the next page [[MoodWhiplash jarringly cuts]] to a close-up of her large bare breasts in Hayato's dreams. |
| 135 | * For most of ''Manga/TerraforMars'' until its hiatus, all uncensored female nudity was of mutilated corpses who were victims of the deranged cavemen roaches. One particular instance was Eva being caught in the self-destruction of Adolf's body and fully regenerating from the back of a piece of one of her breasts. Joseph then walks up to the confused and distressed naked girl and reveals himself to be EvilAllAlong by callously beheading her and copying her powers as she regenerates again. |
| 136 | * In ''Manga/TwinStarExorcists'', Gabura needlessly murders one of his own allies, a ''very'' busty girl in a bra and panties named Atago, by [[OffWithHisHead splattering her head]] onto the ground. Her corpse is dramatically shown stumbling and collapsing on her side while Gabura mockingly calls her a "titty girl". |
| 137 | * ''Manga/UbelBlatt'': |
| 138 | ** Degeta is rejuvenated by Glenn's dark powers and after a few nude scenes fights Köinzell while wearing skimpy armor. She is betrayed and backstabbed by Gurye, who realizes Köinzell is her former disciple, and then Köinzell repeatedly stabs her with CombatTentacles. Several pages then emphasize the dying Degeta's curves as she forces her enraged pupil Gunnodis to flee for her own safety. |
| 139 | ** Spazz is likewise turned from an ugly BrawnHilda into a stunning AmazonianBeauty by Glenn's magic. She fights Köinzell in the nude after being interrupted from raping a female general and is also cheated out of a fair one-on-one fight, with archers arrowing her from the side, Köinzell impaling her with tentacles and [[RasputinianDeath finally]] slashing her with her own weapon after Ato distracts her. The villainess dies [[AlasPoorVillain horrified and in tears]] as one of her brothers abandons her and his airship is destroyed by their other brother, with the scene ending on a view of her bloodsoaked naked corpse and her unblinking face as the wreckage burns everything. |
| 140 | * ''Wild 7'' is a very violent and misogynistic long-running series about a CowboyCop: |
| 141 | ** The ''Shin Wild 7'' sequel opens to Tobiha pursuing a criminal couple in a bike chase and killing them in a crash, leaving the female of the duo smashed into the wreckage with her butt and panties sticking out. |
| 142 | ** Also in ''Shin'' volume 1, Tobiha is ambushed by several nude hitwomen in a hot spring who kill a pair of naked bystander girls to intimidate him. The cop tosses a grenade into the water, causing a whirlpool that sends the assassins crashing onto the surrounding rocks. He then sneaks up on the only henchgirl who wasn't on the water, dunks her upside down and sticks her rifle on her belt and into the rocks, cruelly leaving her to drown. Tobiha walks towards one of the dead villainesses, his hands looming over her naked body, and then just emotionlessly loots her weapons and ammo before leaving. |
| 143 | ** The inside cover of ''Shin'' volume 2 is of Tobiha stomping on a scantily-clad dead woman during a firefight. Volume 5 then features a fight against a crowd of half-naked amazons in a Thai temple, with one of the anti-heroes grappling and groping some of them before shooting one in the back. The scene is framed as if the dying amazon is orgasming. |
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| 145 | |
| 146 | [[folder:Arts]] |
| 147 | * More than one painting has depicted [[UsefulNotes/CleopatraVII Cleopatra]] as having been naked at the time of her death - or at least topless, since she's portrayed as committing suicide by having a snake bite her breast. |
| 148 | * ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Delacroix_-_La_Mort_de_Sardanapale_(1827).jpg Death of Sardanapalus]]'' depicts Sardanapalus watching his naked concubines get slaughtered on his orders in preparation for his immolation. |
| 149 | * Likewise, many paintings of Dido's suicide show her with at least one breast bared, often both. |
| 150 | * The work of photographers [[http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fl20050410x1.html Kaoru Izima]] and [[http://www.melaniepullen.com/ Melanie Pullen]]. |
| 151 | * ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fernand_Cormon_001.jpg Murder in the Seraglio]]'' by Fernand Cormon is an 1872 orientalist painting depicting a naked harem girl who has been murdered by a harem guard while her dark rival sneers in triumph. |
| 152 | * ''Murder and Its Consequences'' (1984), a triptych of paintings by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Laderman Gabriel Laderman]]: The [[https://www.artnet.com/artists/gabriel-laderman/murder-its-consequences-a-nWT3tNx_3DMw1rIYveS4jw2 first painting]] depicts a nude woman sitting on a bed with a clothed man standing beside her; the [[https://www.artnet.com/artists/gabriel-laderman/murder-its-consequences-a-5uB7lhZn-IG58EtjB9AYHA2 second]] shows the man strangling her; and the [[https://www.artnet.com/artists/gabriel-laderman/murder-its-consequences-a-E9nnK_f7O-Zjf5opOJ8Cfg2 final painting]] shows the killer [[KarmaHoudini sleeping peacefully]]. |
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| 154 | |
| 155 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 156 | * ''ComicBook/OneHundredBullets'': |
| 157 | ** In issue #86, Helena Kotias is found dead in a department store dressing room, having received a [[PrettyLittleHeadshots Pretty Little Headshot]] while changing clothes, still in her skirt and boots but only wearing a black bra above the waist. |
| 158 | ** The treacherous seductress Echo Memoria is executed by Cole while she's defenseless and having sex with Jack, who coldly drops her dead body as soon as Cole justifies it as revenge for a friend she killed. It is noted that the shocked Jack [[CoitusUninterruptus came inside her]] when she was shot in the head, since he accidentally [[BlackComedy soaks Cole's gun in bodily fluids]] while angrily pushing her naked corpse against him. After a panel of the gun dripping over Echo's silhouetted breast and some scenes of the men casually talking around her corpse, she's covered in the painting she had been pursuing and is dumped in a swamp while Jack disparages her as just some nobody thief who got in over her head. |
| 159 | ** Joan D'Arcy is KilledOffscreen by Cole with a VorpalPillow and is left topless over a bed while he threatens the remaining femme fatale Megan, who is spared from this trope... by being incinerated by a huge explosion. |
| 160 | * In the 1968 graphic novel ''The Adventures of Phoebe Zeit-Geist'' (written by future ''National Lampoon'' and ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' writer Michael O'Donoghue), the title character (who spends almost the entirety of the book [[MsFanservice completely naked]] and [[EverythingTryingToKillYou under nonsensical amounts]] [[ButtMonkey of distress]]) is murdered by a [[BlindWeaponmaster blind archer]] at the end of Chapter Three. Her nude corpse is prominently displayed throughout the next few chapters as her body is abducted by a [[ILoveTheDead cult of necrophiliacs]] (who already have several equally-nude and perfectly preserved women on display in their hideout), then stolen again and sent to a MadScientist, before finally being taken to the frozen North and brought back to life by an Inuit shaman in Chapter Six. After her resurrection, Phoebe later encounters a mad tattoo artist whose handiwork is displayed on several nude female corpses in his studio. |
| 161 | * In issue 8 of ''Belladonna: Fire and Fury'', the [[AmazonBrigade Shield Maidens]] are possessed by vengeful spirits and forced to rip their own throats off while sleeping on a beach. Each issue had an official variant that showcased illustrator Nahuel Lopez's "mastery of the female form" by portraying all the female characters fully naked on every single panel, enhancing this trope significantly thanks to the story's very violent content. |
| 162 | * The first ''ComicBook/{{Blacksad}}'' book begins with a murder scene: the victim is a woman, wearing vaporous night clothing, with one breast exposed. In the flashback to her murder, her nightgown was noticeably closed. The [[WordOfGod writers revealed]] in a background making-off album that the implication was that the murderer [[ILoveTheDead played around with the corpse just for kicks]]. |
| 163 | * A 1992 set of ''ComicBook/ConanTheBarbarian'' illustrations by Craig Hamilton adapts the "Sea Woman" poem by Robert E. Howard. It consists of "[[{{Bookends}} rhyming]]" rows of panels set on the top and the bottom of four splash pages that depict Conan being seduced by a siren on a beach after killing an unseen foe, having underwater sex with her and waking up next to her stark-naked corpse after impaling her on the neck. |
| 164 | * Several Creator/ECComics stories have murder victims depicted lying in alluring poses, particularly when drawn by Jack Kamen or Wally Wood. An in-universe lampshading in the ''Shock [=SuspenStories=]'' story "Beauty and the Beach," when a jealous husband makes his exhibitionist wife wear her bikini before encasing her in plastic so that "she can be admired...always!" |
| 165 | * DC stirred up controversy by starting a contest asking for amateur artists to draw a series of four panels in which ComicBook/HarleyQuinn is attempting suicide. The final panel for the contest is supposed to be Harley sitting naked in a bathtub and about to electrocute herself with appliances. Although the contest is apparently going more for a Creator/HaroldLloyd in ''Never Weaken'' vibe, online critics felt the company was eroticizing misogyny. |
| 166 | * This trope turns up from time to time in ''Magazine/HeavyMetal'': |
| 167 | ** In the Creator/VaughnBode serial ''Sunpot'', Belinda Bump is [[MsFanservice always topless]] in every episode, including the final story's EverybodyDiesEnding where her bare-breasted corpse is shown lying in the wreckage of the space station following an unspecified off-panel disaster. Another episode had one of the station's robots going berserk and shooting two topless crew members. |
| 168 | ** The Creator/{{Moebius}} story "Ballade" ends with the nude Loona and her whimsical travel companion being shot by an [[ArmiesAreEvil advancing line of soldiers]] in a senseless and SuddenDownerEnding, though the rest of the scene only frames her corpse from an extreme distance as the story ends. |
| 169 | ** Another Moebius story, "The Mysteries of Eroticism #2," features a beautiful woman shown sprawled naked on the floor after fatally overdosing on a FantasticDrug. |
| 170 | ** ''Heilman'': In the first chapter, Heilman has an [[AstralProjection out-of-body experience]] while having sex with a CuteMonsterGirl and battles an EldritchAbomination while astrally projecting; when he returns to his body, he discovers that his enemy killed the woman while Heilman's consciousness was on the astral plane. Her naked body is shown lying in a BoobsAndButtPose (the better to show her PrehensileTail). |
| 171 | ** In the final chapter of the serial ''The Great Passage'', the heroine Topsannah is shown floating naked and dead in a pool of water, revealing that she had been DeadAllAlong since she had fallen into the water in a previous chapter, and that all of her adventures since then had been [[AmbiguousSituation either]] her journey through the afterlife or a DyingDream. The old shaman who discovers her body remarks that her beauty "destroys the pallor of death." |
| 172 | ** In the Creator/JuanGimenez story "Timescooter," a nerdy scientist is seduced by his boss' wife, then strangles her after she tells him it was just a meaningless fling and [[BerserkButton laughs at him]]. He carries her naked body to his time machine and creates a time loop so that he can perpetually relive the sexual encounter and the murder. |
| 173 | * Issue 2 of ''Jaguar God'', a series based on artwork by Creator/FrankFrazetta, had the titular warrior being raped by a priestress in a dark goddess summoning ritual before he strangles her off himself, breaks her neck and tosses her naked corpse aside. The next issue then revolves around Jaguar God fighting to retrieve the body of a nude woman killed and devoured by a shapeshifting snake to be given proper burial, with a page featuring him triumphantly raising the girl's corpse above the mutilated remains of the serpent. |
| 174 | * ''[[https://kirby.fandom.com/wiki/Kirby%27s_Biggest_Case Kirby's Biggest Case]]'' was one of two promotional comics by the German Club Nintendo magazine that portrayed the [[Franchise/{{Kirby}} pink waddling blob]] as a parody of a hardboiled detective. The story is bizarrely raunchy and violent in tone in comparison to anything else in the franchise, with things like the corpse of the woman who hired Kirby being dropped before him on a table in an attempt to pin the blame for the murder on him. The scene subverts the trope [[PlayedForHorror by portraying the corpse as pale and decayed]]. |
| 175 | * ''Penthouse Comix'': |
| 176 | ** In the "Backlash" serial, the heroine grabs a ray-gun and shoots a female guard whose uniform includes strategic cut-outs to expose her breasts (and whose thong had just been torn off in a struggle, leaving her bottomless). The dead guard is shown from various angles, displaying all her body parts intimately. |
| 177 | ** In the 2024 relaunch ''Penthouse Comics'' (note the slightly altered title spelling), the "Miss October" storyline concerns the hunt for a SerialKiller who arranges his half-naked victims in provocative "pin-up" poses and leaves photographs of the bodies in various positions, like a macabre parody of a ''Playboy'' pictorial. |
| 178 | * Richard Sala has a thing for nubile action girls being menaced[=/=]slain by various pulpy dangers while in a state of undress. In addition to this being a regular occurrence in his comics in general, he also released a pinup book dedicated to the theme. |
| 179 | * In ''ComicBook/SinCity'', it's precisely this that sets Marv on his RoaringRampageOfRevenge to avenge Goldie's death. Notably they actually just had consensual sex, but her murderer killed her while Marv was still sleeping. In the later story ''Hell and Back'', a woman gets a [[PrettyLittleHeadshots Pretty Little Headshot]] after stepping out of the shower, and is shown sprawled on the floor with full-frontal nudity on display. |
| 180 | * ''ComicBook/StarTrekDCComics'': In the aftermath of a battle, a nude woman is shown lying on the battlefield (with her private parts [[SceneryCensor conveniently hidden]]). It's later revealed that the woman is an ''Enterprise'' RedShirt, and that Kirk's old enemy [[Recap/StarTrekS3E14WhomGodsDestroy Garth of Izar]] had murdered the ensign and [[MuggedForDisguise stripped her of her uniform]] so that Garth could take her place on the ''Enterprise''. |
| 181 | * ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': After her brutal murder ComicBook/{{Artemis}}'s body is depicted in an attractive pose with her significant clothing damage evident but not so much the damage to her. |
| 182 | * ''ComicBook/XMen'': The [[https://twitter.com/MarkBrooksArt/status/1720126092239855898 cover for issue 1]] of ''ComicBook/XMenForever2024'' depicts Jean Grey sprawled unconscious on the snow in her form-fitting suit, seemingly uninjured but with a huge splatter of blood in the shape of a Phoenix around her. Many have pointed out how the pose makes it look like Jean got knocked out by an extreme menstruation. |
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| 184 | |
| 185 | [[folder:Film -- Animation]] |
| 186 | * In ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'', Emily is a primary character with an active role in the movie, but she is still dead. Even after having been murdered [[spoiler:by Lord Barkis, her fiancé in life]] and decomposed over several years, she is genuinely pretty. |
| 187 | * The animated adaptation of ''VideoGame/DantesInferno'' features the protagonist being accosted by a group of naked demonic temptresses in the circle of lust, spurning the women and slaughtering them while they attack with VaginaDentata tentacles. As he leaves, the film very briefly shows two shots of the bloodsoaked nude women left dead with horrified gazes. The adaptation omits the appearance of Cleopatra from the game, who is suggestively stabbed to death while rolling around naked with Dante in an attempt to seduce him. |
| 188 | [[/folder]] |
| 189 | |
| 190 | [[folder:Film -- Live-Action]] |
| 191 | * In ''Film/TwentyTwentyTexasGladiators'', the scantily clad henchwoman played by Geretta Geretta is shot down while she's distracted by a boy she was threatening and is blown onto a table, briefly exposing her right nipple as she dies. Her killer pauses to admire her spread legs as she lies there. The other recurring henchwoman who's topless is killed right after, but the camera turns away from her right as she is shot. |
| 192 | * In ''Film/ActionJackson'', a coroner laments that most of the beautiful women he sees naked are dead while looking at the corpse of such a woman. |
| 193 | * In ''Film/AfterHours'', the protagonist discovers Rosanna Arquette's naked body in her bed after she has committed suicide by sleeping pills. He had rejected her advances out of fear that she had terrible burn scars, so he pulls the blanket off of her and inspects her body, finding only a tattoo. |
| 194 | * In the end of ''The Alien Girl[=/=]Chuzhaya'', Snot ambushes and murders the titular FemmeFatale, Angela, when she thought she had gotten away with everything. She's wearing a full costume at the time and depending of the version the scene [[{{Bowdlerized}} is censored]] [[GoryDiscretionShot by a sudden cut]] to a hole in a prison wall. Then comes the CreativeClosingCredits featuring every character dead, naked and bloody on morgue slabs regardless of their status in the film, as if to convey that crime doesn't pay. All of them are male except for Angela at the very end. |
| 195 | * In ''Film/AngelHeart'', Mickey Rourke discovers the naked body of Lisa Bonet, and it turns out [[spoiler:he murdered her and suppressed the memory]]. The {{squick}}y sex and violence of the film caused quite a stir over Lisa Bonet's involvement, who was known at the time for her role in ''Series/TheCosbyShow''. |
| 196 | * In ''Film/Anon2018'', a half-naked lesbian couple is shown being murdered from the point of view of their killer. Their topless corpses are left sprawled on a bed as Sal examines the crime scene. |
| 197 | * In ''Film/{{Assassins}}'' (1995), Miguel Bain (Creator/AntonioBanderas) kills two Interpol agents, one of them an attractive blonde, while they're making out in a hotel hallway (they're supposed to be guarding several other agents who are dealing with Creator/JulianneMoore's character Elektra). The blonde's shapely, black-stockinged legs, wearing shoes with very high heels, are prominently displayed as Bain drags her body into an empty room to hide it along with the body of her male partner and that of a hotel maid who inadvertently witnessed the shootings and got shot dead in consequence. |
| 198 | * In ''Film/AttackForce'', Reina spends most of the film wearing a lacy and partially transparent top. She's captured by Marshall, bound to a slab for interrogation and ends up executed [[TooDumbToLive for helplessly trying to attack him]]. It's only at this point that her nipples slip out from the opaque pattern of her lingerie, with the camera continuing to leer onto her corpse for multiple scenes. |
| 199 | * ''Film/TheAutopsyOfJaneDoe'': Model Olwen Kelly plays the corpse of Jane Doe, which spends the entire film naked. In fact, it's a plot point as to why her body is untarnished. |
| 200 | * A gag in ''Film/BadBoysII'' involves the heroes discovering the corpse of a naked woman with gigantic breasts. Martin Lawrence's character hides underneath the sheet with the body and stares at her breasts while {{mooks}} search the area. Negative reviews of the film made particular mention of this scene's poor taste. |
| 201 | * ''Film/BadGirlsFromMars'': While Emmanuelle and Martine are engaged in a CatFight which results in both of their tops being torn off, the killer ends the fight by grabbing Martine from behind and [[NeckSnap snapping her neck]], with the camera focusing on Martine's bare breasts jiggling during the murder. |
| 202 | * ''Film/BewareOfAHolyWhore'': Invoked when an actress suggests that she should play her death scene nude, then subverted when the finished scene is shown and it's revealed that she performed the scene clothed after all. |
| 203 | * In ''Film/Birdemic2TheResurrection'', three topless actresses are killed by birds thanks to the protagonists' hopeless skill with firearms. The guys bother checking the pulses on them, exclaiming "she's dead!" every time, just so there can be gratuitous close-ups of the half-naked corpses. |
| 204 | * The cover for ''Film/BlackWake'' shows an unconscious or dead scantily-clad woman wrapped in tentacles. In the film itself, two voluptuous naked corpses are shown being examined in a morgue when a parasite jumps out of them and into one of the doctors, resulting in chaos until guards outside shoot down the awakened zombie women. The film is framed as FoundFootage and the scene ends on a prolonged view of the blonde zombie collapsing on her side, meaning a camera just so happened to be recording that particular spot... |
| 205 | * The 1964 Mario Bava film ''Film/BloodAndBlackLace'' (original Italian title: ''Sei donne per l'assassino''), just as the page image implies, features the dead bodies of the killer's gorgeous victims prominently, starting literally at the beginning of the movie when a fashion model is brutally strangled and beaten to death and then dragged away by her ankles by the murderer, her skirt riding up to reveal her gartered thighs. |
| 206 | * The Creator/RichardBurton version of ''Film/Bluebeard1972'' fairly oozes this trope, since the classic Bluebeard legend is all about the titular character killing off one beautiful wife after another; in this version, Burton's character, Baron Sepper, does away with six lovely wives in six different ways. The most prominent corpses belong to the characters played by Karin Schubert, shot in the back by her husband while hunting (her body is shown afterward laid out for her funeral in a diaphanous evening dress, photographed and then kissed by Burton, in a scene that has strong overtones of ILoveTheDead), and Creator/SybilDanning, who is killed by being impaled by a falling chandelier together with her lover (Nathalie Delon); the two bodies, nude except for black stockings, are shown afterward looking very little the worse for wear for having been skewered by a huge ivory tusk. The frozen bodies of all of Bluebeard's victims are shown together when Joey Heatherton (playing the Baron's latest wife) discovers the walk-in freezer where his dead ex-wives are stored, and then again at the end of the movie. |
| 207 | * In ''Carter & June'', Caitlin is introduced walking around topless as she discusses a bank robbery plan with the protagonist over the phone. She ends up murdered by an incompetent trigger-happy guard when the heist fails and her naked corpse is later shown off in a morgue while Carter is being interrogated about his involvement with her. |
| 208 | * ''Film/CatRun2'' begins with assassins Tatiana and Mina posing as hookers to steal data from a military base and getting into [[FullFrontalAssault a naked fight]] against the soldiers there. The curvy Mina gets killed by multiple gunshots and dramatically falls and bounces onto the floor in slow motion, in a scene set to opera music. The detectives Anthony and Julian later get into the morgue housing Mina's corpse, with the latter uncovering her and making some crass remarks about how the woman couldn't be a hooker because she had several piercings on her. A [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes previously lost Unrated cut released exclusively on German Amazon Prime]] offers even more risqué views of the corpse's full frontal nudity, with Julian [[ILoveTheDead groping Mina's breast]] in this version and the camera pointing onto her crotch when he mentions how she's shaved and pierced down there. The men are forced to hide from Tatiana, [[DueToTheDead who angrily covers Mina, kisses her on the forehead]] and retrieves her body before shooting at the fleeing protagonists. |
| 209 | * Invoked in the animated "Lost Scene" segment of ''Film/{{Clerks}}''. Dante and Randall go to visit Julie's wake, an old girlfriend of Dante. When they get to the coffin they see she's only wearing a black bikini top on her upper half, and assume she probably requested it. HilarityEnsues when they drop their keys in her lap. |
| 210 | * In the 1940's B-movie ''Film/TheCorpseVanishes'', the villain, played by Creator/BelaLugosi, drugs high-society brides with a poisonous orchid to send them into a death-like state, then takes the unconscious women to his lair (a funeral home) where he draws their blood for an elixir designed to keep his wife young and beautiful. While the heroine, a plucky newspaper reporter, is investigating Lugosi's lair, she discovers a morgue where the dead bodies of several beautiful young women in wedding gowns are stored in body drawers; these are the missing society brides, who apparently have died from the process. Lugosi's hunchbacked assistant displays a very creepy attraction toward these lovely corpses... |
| 211 | * In the Film/HammerHorror movie ''Film/{{Crescendo}}'', Lilliane is SkinnyDipping in the swimming pool when the killer stabs her; her nude body is shown floating face down surrounded by a [[BloodIsSquickerInWater cloud of red water]]. |
| 212 | * ''Film/{{Cyberjack}}'': The henchwoman Megham, who wears a SexyBacklessOutfit with sculpted nipples, is shot dead and gets a couple lingering views of her open-eyed corpse as blood drips out of her mouth. |
| 213 | * ''Film/TheDarkBackward'': Gus finds the naked corpse of a young woman in the dump and is immediately aroused. |
| 214 | * The schlock "horror" film ''Film/{{Deadmate}}'' features this primarily on its cover, depicting a beautiful, naked, dead woman held in the arms of an amorous coroner in a perverted twist on a classic romance novel pose. The film is about a woman who unwittingly marries a [[ILoveTheDead necropheliac]] coroner, though [[CoversAlwaysLie nothing like the scene depicted in the cover]] happens in the film. It seems intended purely to titillate the audience. |
| 215 | * In ''Film/DearGodNo'', a [[FanserviceExtra blonde topless stripper]] in a NixonMask opens machine gun fire at the protagonist bikers, but when she runs out of ammo [[TooDumbToLive she foolishly stops in place]] and gets shot in the head. She removes the ugly mask just to show her stunned beautiful face and collapses dead before two other strippers carry her corpse away. After this, the film and its sequel noticeably [[GoryDiscretionShot avoid focusing]] on the deaths of other naked women despite mantaining all the other very exploitative elements in the story. |
| 216 | * In the 1997 film ''Deathline'', also known as ''Redline'' (not to be confused with multiple other films under those titles), Wade gets randomly attacked by multiple assassins including a topless blonde and a completely nude brunette after entering a gym. Wade and Katya easily kill the two women and scenes of them having sex later on are alternated with the police examining the two naked corpses at the crime scene. |
| 217 | * In ''Film/{{Doom}}'', Portman and the Kid come across a woman who's stripping naked for some reason and ogle her for a while. When the two men finally call her attention, [[FaceRevealingTurn it turns out]] she's starting to morph into a demon. They mercilessly shoot her dead and we see her mutilated nude corpse on the floor with several wounds on her chest and an arm torn off. |
| 218 | * ''Film/DressedToKill'' ends with a sequence where the CreepyCrossdresser killer escapes a mental asylum by strangling a nurse and then stripping her nurse uniform to [[MuggedForDisguise use as a disguise]]. The dead nurse (played by a former Penthouse playmate) is revealed to be wearing some suspiciously sexy lingerie beneath her work outfit. It's kept ambiguous as to whether this sequence is actually happening or is the fantasy of the imprisoned killer. |
| 219 | * The 2010 film ''Drop Dead Gorgeous'' ([[SimilarlyNamedWorks not the one in the Film namespace]]) features a model who dies part-way through a fashion shoot, so the crew completes the shoot with her corpse. The dead model's resulting popularity is a satire on the fashion industry for forcing models to lead unhealthy lifestyles and for presenting lifeless expressions and poses as sexy. |
| 220 | * The entire plot of the indie comedy ''Film/DropDeadSexy'' revolves around the theft of the dead body of a beautiful blonde by two small-time crooks so they can hold it for ransom from her equally crooked husband [[spoiler:who had her murdered in the first place]]. The blonde's body, originally clad in a nightgown when the protagonists remove it from its coffin, spends most of the movie stripped down to bra and panties. In a lengthy scene in a morgue, the nude body of another attractive woman, half-covered by a sheet, is prominently featured. |
| 221 | * ''Film/EdgeOfTomorrow''. In her [[GroundhogDayLoop many death scenes]] Rita Vrataski face's is unmarked except for some dirt, despite [[WarIsHell other soldiers dying in gory or undignified ways throughout the battle]]. This is to play up the tragedy of William Cage having to watch her death over and over. |
| 222 | * ''Film/EyesWideShut'': There is a long, lingering view of Mandy's naked corpse in the morgue, showing full frontal nudity. |
| 223 | * ''Film/FeedingFrenzy'': There's a long sequence played under the opening credits of Mr. Plinkett dragging the corpse of a murdered prostitute in her underwear, played by Z-movie scream queen Tina Krause in a DeadStarWalking appearance. |
| 224 | * ''Film/ForcedVengeance'': Josh discovers his girlfriend Claire lying naked on the floor after she's been raped and murdered. |
| 225 | * In ''Film/{{Frenzy|1972}}'', a naked victim of the killer floats in the river in the film's first minutes. [[{{Bookends}} Echoed]] in the final scene when the killer's last victim is uncovered to display her bare breasts. |
| 226 | * In ''Film/TheGeneralsDaughter'', the woman of the title is found naked, strangled, and bound to the earth. It turns out [[spoiler:she was recreating a previous sexual assault when a psycho soldier found her and killed her.]] |
| 227 | * ''Film/{{Gotham}}'' (aka ''The Dead Can't Lie'') features Creator/VirginiaMadsen playing the ghost of a murdered woman who makes several appearances to Creator/TommyLeeJones as a naked corpse. |
| 228 | * In ''He Who Dares: Downing Street Siege'', a stripper is shown performing for a squad of soldiers in a bus [[ManchurianAgent when a signal brainwashes them]]. They stare blankly ahead, ignoring the woman until one man suddenly executes her with a bullet to the head. A scene of the soldiers robotically gearing up for battle is followed by a long close up of the stripper's face and bare breasts as she lies dead in the bus. Later on, Christopher fights the lover of the BigBad and [[SlashedThroat slashes her throat]], with a similarly conspicuous focus on [[AlasPoorVillain her slow and agonizing death]] as she collapses and blood pools around her open-eyed face. |
| 229 | * ''Film/HenryPortraitOfASerialKiller'': The first shot of the film is a nude woman lying dead on the ground. This is followed with a scene of a bare-breasted, lingerie-clad DisposableSexWorker with a [[GrievousBottleyHarm broken bottle embedded in her face]] in the opening montage. Later on, in the home-invasion scene, the mother's breasts are exposed before and after Otis [[NeckSnap snaps her neck]]. |
| 230 | * The parody film ''Film/TheHungoverGames'' involves two busty and topless female combatants who just hang around looking pretty. They're abruptly KilledOffscreen by arrows from the two ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' expies, while the Film/{{Thor}} expy exclaims that "their gratuitous nudity was no match for gratuitous violence". After a view of the girls' naked corpses, the very frustrated look on one of the [[CombatCommentator combat commentators']] face says it all: what's even the point of the film now? In this scene, a flat chested [[Film/{{Avatar}} Na'vi]] expy is also killed. The protagonist who had ignored the busty duo in favor of her takes the time [[ILoveTheDead to grope her corpse]] before running off. |
| 231 | * ''Hustle'' (1975): When a bereaved father is brought to the morgue to identify the body of his daughter (played by adult film actress Sharon Kelly), the father is appalled that her body is not covered with a sheet and that her breasts are in plain view. After the enraged father punches the detective who made him view his dead daughter's nudity, the detective [[JerkassHasAPoint acknowledges that they should have covered her]]. |
| 232 | * In ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire'', Creator/KirstenDunst's character hides the naked body of a woman with her dolls, reflecting her inability to ever grow into an adult. In another scene, a theatrical vampire troupe kills a naked woman onstage before an unwitting audience. |
| 233 | * Several Film/JamesBond films feature the trope: |
| 234 | ** One of cinema's most enduring images is the naked body of a murdered woman painted gold in ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''. Of course, the murder method is pure pseudoscience. |
| 235 | ** In ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'', Fiona Volpe (Luciana Paluzzi) tries to maneuver Bond (Creator/SeanConnery) into a position where he can be shot by a hidden assassin while they're dancing together at an outdoor street festival. 007 realizes what's going on, however, and turns her so that ''she'' gets a bullet in her back (leading to a close-up of his fingers on her back as blood seeps between them from the fatal wound). He deposits her body in a chair next to two surprised tourists with the casual explanation, "She's dead on her feet." |
| 236 | ** ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'' has a ShoutOut to the ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' body when [[spoiler:Agent Fields is discovered to have drowned in oil and her apparently naked body laid out across a bed.]] |
| 237 | ** In ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'' [[spoiler:Vesper Lynd]]'s corpse has a SexySoakedShirt. |
| 238 | * ''Film/JusteAvantLaNuit'': Laura's nude body is shown sprawled across the bed after she is strangled. |
| 239 | * Played for HypocriticalHumor in ''Film/KillBill''. On seeing the Bride, Sheriff [=McGraw=] proceeds to go on about how beautiful she is and just what kind of person would kill a pregnant woman. Then the [[NotQuiteDead comatose Bride involuntarily spits in his eye]] and [=McGraw=] grumbles, "This tall drink of cocksucker ain't dead." |
| 240 | * In the beginning of ''Film/KungPowEnterTheFist'', the Chosen One is attacked by a crowd of martial artists. There's a [[FanserviceExtra random busty blonde in a bikini]] among them, and the only thing seen of her after the initial shot is an eroticized slow motion closeup of her falling unconscious onto the ground after being defeated offscreen. |
| 241 | * ''Film/LAConfidential'': Susan Lefferts' body is initially discreetly covered with a sheet in the morgue, but the sheet is then pulled down (exposing her breasts in the process) so that her mother can identify her by the birthmark on her hip. |
| 242 | * In ''Film/LadyInCement'', Sandra Lomax's body is found nude, with camera angles being used to avoid showing explicit nudity. |
| 243 | * The first victim in the first ''Film/LethalWeapon'' movie had on just a skimpy robe which was worn open and fluttered around her otherwise nude body. |
| 244 | * A pretty sizable number of beautiful female spies and secret agents become Drop Dead Gorgeous in the Film/MattHelm series: Nancy Kovack, Creator/CydCharisse and Daliah Lavi in ''Film/TheSilencers'', Nadia Sanders and Camilla Sparv in ''Murderers' Row'', Senta Berger in ''The Ambushers'', and Tina Louise, Creator/ElkeSommer and Nancy Kwan in ''Film/TheWreckingCrew''. |
| 245 | * The female body count gets pretty outrageous in the 1967 flick ''Film/TheMillionEyesOfSuMuru'', starring Frankie Avalon; at one point, the villains kill a woman and put her nude body in Avalon's bed in an attempt to frame him, and the climactic battle has the Hong Kong police storming the villainess' lair and engaging in a fierce firefight with her band of beautiful henchwomen, killing most of them in the process and leaving their bodies, clad in tight black outfits, strewn all over the place. |
| 246 | * This happens in ''Film/{{Munich}}'' to [[spoiler:Jeanette, the Dutch assassin]]. The protagonist even made a point of pushing aside the front of her bathrobe to expose her body, an act he later regrets. |
| 247 | * A downplayed male example: the blind butler in ''Film/MurderByDeath'' is discovered sitting at a desk, naked (the scene is not set up to look sexy; he's just there, bare). When Dora Charleston wonders aloud what anyone would want with a naked body, her husband [[ILoveTheDead whispers into her ear]]. She smirks incredulously and exclaims, "Oh, that's... tacky!" |
| 248 | * ''Film/TheNakedFace'': Creator/RogerMoore's character arrives at his office to discover the police investigating, the office ransacked, and his secretary lying naked and dead on the floor. |
| 249 | * Campily {{Exaggerated}} at the beginning of ''Film/TheNiceGuys'' -- a woman's car goes off the road and she crashes in the garden of a young boy who's up sneaking a peek at his dad's magazines. He goes to investigate and finds her sprawled naked on the hood of the car in the exact same pose as the centerfold model, "Misty Mountains"... for it is she. She has just enough time to mutter "how do I look?" before dying of her ([[BeautyIsNeverTarnished presumably internal]]) injuries. In a sweet ending to such a deliberately exploitative scene, the boy covers her body before anyone else can see her like that. |
| 250 | * ''Film/NocturnalAnimals'': The corpses of [[spoiler:Laura and India]] are left naked and posed in each other's arms on a red sofa by the band of psychos after what was presumably a rape and murder. The SpoilerCover of the soundtrack depicts the scene, with a tear through the image to censor a corpse's bare ass. |
| 251 | * In ''Film/{{Pathology}}'', both [[spoiler:Juliette (Creator/LaurenLeeSmith)]] and [[spoiler:Gwen (Creator/AlyssaMilano)]] are shown naked on autopsy tables. And it is a plot point that both of them have been murdered in ways that did not leave any marks on their bodies. |
| 252 | * ''Literature/{{Perfume}}'' features a lengthy montage of the naked corpses of virgin girls who have been dumped around the city by the VillainProtagonist, who kills them to steal their scent. |
| 253 | * ''Film/{{Phobia}}'': Laura is seen naked as she takes a bath before the killer enters and [[DeadlyBath drowns her]]. Director Creator/JohnHuston originally filmed an overhead shot of her body lying in the tub after her death, but actress Creator/LisaLanglois saw that the post-mortem shot showed more of her body than she had agreed to, and fought to have the full-frontal footage removed. In the finished film, she only shows her breasts and buttocks getting into the tub, and the full-frontal shot of her body was replaced with a close-up of her face. |
| 254 | * ''Film/{{Polar}}'': Sindy the HoneyTrap assassin has wild sex with Duncan all over a cabin to lure him to be sniped by Facundo but he knows just the right time to [[HoistByHerOwnPetard push her in the way of the shot]] and then tosses an axe into her forehead while she's struggling and trying to alert the A-Team to his location. Her naked corpse is found lying in a BoobsAndButtPose by Hilde shortly afterwards. |
| 255 | * In ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', Creator/JanetLeigh's character is slashed to death while taking a shower. Camera angles and fast cutting give the impression of a naked body, though no actual nudity is shown. In the 1998 remake, Creator/AnneHeche did show her bare butt while collapsing over the side of the bathtub. |
| 256 | * Joaquin Phoenix gets a little too excited by naked, dead Creator/KateWinslet in ''Film/{{Quills}}''. |
| 257 | * ''Film/RisingSun'' revolves around a murdered prostitute splayed across a boardroom table in a LittleBlackDress. Her corpse and post-coital murder are given a great deal of attention throughout the film as well as on the movie posters. |
| 258 | * In ''Film/RiversEdge'', a teenager leaves the naked body of his murdered girlfriend at the titular river's edge and shows it to his group of friends, who then swear to silence. |
| 259 | * ''Literature/TheRulesOfAttraction'': The [[NoNameGiven food-service girl]] slits her wrists in a [[DeadlyBath bathtub]] [[DrivenToSuicide suicide]], with her bare breasts shown before and after her death. |
| 260 | * A male example in ''Film/{{Sebastiane}}'', which depicts the martyrdom of St. Sebastian (tied naked to a stake and shot with arrows) with vivid homoerotic overtones. |
| 261 | * In ''Film/TheSecretInTheirEyes'', Liliana Colotto is found naked on her bedroom floor after being brutally raped and murdered. |
| 262 | * ''Film/ShootEmUp'': Oliver's mother is shown with her right breast exposed after she suffers a [[PrettyLittleHeadshots Pretty Little Headshot]]. Hertz comments "Nice tits" as he runs past her body, and later [[ILoveTheDead gropes her bare breast]], though he at least looks ashamed of himself immediately afterwards. |
| 263 | * ''Film/TheSidehackers'': Rita's bare buttocks are shown below her torn clothing after she's been murdered and strung up by J.C. (The entirety of Rita's death scene was cut from the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S02E02TheSidehackers version]].) |
| 264 | * ''Film/SnowSteamIron'': Scarlett's dead bare-breasted body is seen about one minute into the short. She's seen alive later in it due to the AnachronicOrder. |
| 265 | * ''Film/StudentBodies'', possibly the first parody of the Slasher genre, has an example in [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2b/Student_Bodies.jpg its poster]], which features a dead, buxom girl sprawled across her classroom desk, with her bare legs prominently displayed. |
| 266 | * ''Film/{{Tightrope}}'': Several of the killer's victims are shown naked at the crime scenes after their murders. Jamie even gets a close-up of her bare butt as the camera focuses on her tattoo. |
| 267 | * ''Film/TracesOfRed'': Morgan is shown lying dead in bed with her breasts exposed when Jack arrives at the crime scene; Jack covers her chest to restore her dignity. In another scene, when Jack testifies about Kimberly Davis' murder, a flashback shows her bare-breasted corpse lying on the bed. |
| 268 | * ''Film/TheTransporter 2'' features a ton of sexual tension between Frank and a smug scantily-clad henchwoman named Lola. He eventually kicks her onto a conveniently-placed spiked wall decoration thing and admires her corpse for a few good seconds. There exists an uncensored but lower quality cut of the scene that's not restored in the Director's Cut where blood drips over Lola's corpse and the camera moves in to a closeup of her [[DiesWideOpen death stare]]. |
| 269 | * In ''Film/UnderworldEvolution'', Selene kills Andreas Tanis' vampire concubines. After she leaves, he dumps their naked bodies in the dungeon. |
| 270 | * In the campy comedy ''Film/VampireU'', some college students stake a seductive vampiress, and one of the students says "Nice side-boob!" as he admires his handiwork. |
| 271 | * ''Film/VengefulBeauty'' has a typical samurai film scene where the BigBad's unnamed daughter poses as a damsel and [[HoneyTrap attempts to seduce and kill]] the warrior Ma Sen while topless by a river. She is thwarted and stabbed on the gut by Qiu-yan, with the scene showing her writhing and rolling over the ground in agony before dying with open eyes. |
| 272 | * ''Film/TheWarriorAndTheSorceress'': |
| 273 | ** The naked slavegirl who is thrown into a glass case full of water and rubs up against the glass as she drowns. |
| 274 | ** A four-breasted topless dancer subdues Kain with a venomous sting, but he strangles her to death at the same time and falls unconscious over her chest. |
| 275 | * ''Film/WhatHaveYouDoneToSolange'': [[spoiler:Elizabeth]] is drowned while bathing naked in her bathtub. Her nude body is later carried out by police. |
| 276 | * ''Film/WhispersInTheDark'': Deborah Kara Unger is killed by Alan Alda and her naked body is later discovered hanging from the ceiling. |
| 277 | * ''Film/WildCactus'': Celeste's unfortunate fate, left naked and with a [[PrettyLittleHeadshots bullet hole in her forehead]], as David discovers when he makes it back from the desert. |
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| 280 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 281 | * ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' Book One, ''Literature/{{Storm Front|DresdenFiles}}'', begins with Harry called to a crime scene involving a naked dead woman - who died in intercourse with an equally naked man, for good measure. It's not particularly erotic, since both victims had [[OutWithABang their hearts exploded out of their chests with magic]]. |
| 282 | * In the Creator/LenDeighton novel ''An Expensive Place to Die'', the narrator is visiting a shady "sex clinic"/brothel when a naked woman suddenly runs out of one of the rooms, bleeding profusely from multiple wounds (the result of having been put in an IronMaiden). The woman runs out into the street before finally collapsing and dying, and passersby respond to the sight with catcalls and wolf-whistles, apparently more attentive to her nudity than to her wounds. |
| 283 | * Creator/EdgarAllanPoe famously said, "There is nothing more poetic than the death of a beautiful woman." |
| 284 | * The ''Literature/{{Fletch}}'' series: The inciting incident in ''Confess, Fletch'' is our hero finding the naked corpse of a woman in his home. She's [[AdaptationalModesty clothed]] in the [[Film/ConfessFletch film]]. |
| 285 | * ''Literature/HyperionCantos'': When Kassad kills an Ouster and strips off the soldier's space suit, he's surprised that the Ouster inside is a naked woman. The narration gives a rather detailed description of the woman's nude corpse as it floats away. This is only one of many examples of the InterplayOfSexAndViolence in Kassad's storyline. |
| 286 | * The ending of the 1947 Literature/MikeHammer novel ''I, the Jury'' features Mike shooting the naked Charlotte after she turns out to be the killer he's been investigating, both in revenge for a friend and in retaliation for her attempting to shoot him in the back, before proclaiming "it was easy". This was the [[TropeCodifier quintessential example]] of a ruthless DetectiveLiterature or SpyFiction protagonist [[WouldHitAGirl killing evil women]] in cold blood and was more faithfully adapted by the 1982 film of the book than the 1953 one. |
| 287 | * The ''Literature/InDeath'' series occasionally features descriptions of nude dead bodies, starting with the first novel ''Naked In Death'', in which the DisposableSexWorker victims are found [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin naked in death]]. Other examples in the series include ''Thankless In Death'' (in which Eve notes that the victim's shoes being left on made the killing even more sexualized than if she had been completely nude), ''Holiday In Death'' (in which male and female victims alike are found nude, with make-up applied and the bodies arranged in artistic poses), and ''Strangers In Death'' (a male example, with both Eve and Peabody commenting on the victim's "impressive" post-mortem erection). |
| 288 | * ''The Lady in the Morgue'', a 1936 detective novel by Jonathan Latimer: When detective Jonathan Crane visits the morgue to view the title character, her nude body is described in detail, with the morgue attendant making appreciative comments about her physique. The attendant also remarks that while the chief coroner usually leaves the work on male bodies to his underlings, the chief always finds the time to view any attractive woman who winds up in the morgue--though the attendant [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial denies]] that any [[ILoveTheDead funny business]] ever goes on. Later in the book, Crane questions the bellhop who found the victim hanging nude in her hotel bathroom; the bellboy enthusiastically recalls getting "a good peep" at her, and starts to lasciviously describe [[LegFocus her legs]] before Crane interrupts him. |
| 289 | * This was occasionally a rather unsettling trope in the Literature/MichaelShayne pulp fiction detective novel series. |
| 290 | ** ''Literature/MurderAndTheMarriedVirgin'': Dr. Mattson, the coroner, describes murder victim Katrin Moe as "a slim, unsullied body, clean-limbed and full-breasted." He says he wishes he could meet women like that while they are "still warm." |
| 291 | ** ''Literature/ThisIsItMichaelShayne'': A pretty gross scene in this pulp fiction detective story has PI Michael Shayne finding the corpse of Sara Morton. She was wearing a gown with a "plunging neckline", and the blood from her slashed throat ran between her "firm breasts." |
| 292 | ** ''Literature/TheUncomplainingCorpses'': Shayne arrives at the crime scene and takes a long look at the naked, dead body of Leora Thrip. |
| 293 | * ''Three Bedrooms, One Corpse'', part of the Aurora Teagarden mystery series by Creator/CharlaineHarris, begins with Aurora discovering a strangled real-estate agent, naked and tied to the bed in a house she was trying to sell. Aurora's narration describes the victim's nudity before mentioning her death: "Her bare breasts shocked the eyes first; then her face, dark and swollen." The [[Creator/HallmarkMystery Hallmark Movies & Mysteries]] adaptation [[{{Bowdlerized}} eliminated the nudity]] to bring the story more in line with their family-friendly CozyMystery fare. |
| 294 | * The fully illustrated ''Literature/WhoKilledAmandaPalmer'' by Creator/NeilGaiman, "starring" his wife, Music/AmandaPalmer. |
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| 297 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 298 | * An ill-advised episode of ''Series/AmericasNextTopModel'' had the contestants made up as "sexy" corpses who had each been murdered in a different way "by a jealous model," complete with fake wounds, bruises, etc. |
| 299 | * ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'': |
| 300 | ** In the premiere episode, Mickey's gang of bootleggers put their distillery beneath a morgue to hide the smell. The only body we see is a fully nude young woman. |
| 301 | ** Gyp Rosetti uses a waitress he was just having sex with as a naked BulletproofHumanShield when Benny Siegel starts shooting at him. |
| 302 | * ''Series/{{CSI}}'' episodes often feature young, attractive, female victims in very limited states of dress. |
| 303 | * ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' has done this multiple times, maybe most notably when the Trinity Killer murders a very attractive naked woman in a bathtub in the Season 4 premiere. This is paralleled in the season five premiere when the main characters see [[spoiler:Rita's]] dead body in a bathtub, and [[LovableSexManiac Masuka]] says that he's often pictured her naked "but never like this." |
| 304 | * ''Series/GameOfThrones'': |
| 305 | ** An episode ends on the dead body of [[spoiler:Ros the prostitute who has been shot to death with a crossbow. The camera pans across her body, and somewhere between her tousled red hair and the soft lighting, she ends up looking like a martyr in a Renaissance painting. She was also scantily clad, a former sex worker, and killed whilst sitting tied to the end of a bed.]] |
| 306 | ** Ygritte makes a similarly beautiful corpse on her pyre in "The Children". |
| 307 | * A number of episodes of ''Series/LawAndOrder'' and its spin-offs. Of course, given that ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' partially involves sex crimes, there's a slight justification for it. |
| 308 | * The infamous ''Series/{{Loving}}'' murders storyline kicked off with the first victim being discovered lying on her bed, clad in a beautiful negligee (she was preparing for a romantic evening and the final touch was to dab herself with fragrant powder, which turned out to be poisoned). |
| 309 | * ''Series/MurderOne'': The first season's murder victim, Jessica Costello, is shown completely naked and strangled to death, which is even more alarming considering that the character is supposed to be 15 years old. |
| 310 | * ''Series/PennyDreadful'': |
| 311 | ** Vanessa, who is possessed by a demon at the time, monologues about how dead women were photographed and the pictures circulated to titillate their male audience. |
| 312 | ** The Nightcomers are demonic naked women [[BodyHorror covered in disturbing ritualistic scars]]. They all end up shot dead during certain fight scenes, with Hecate getting the most dramatic death out of them all as she perishes in Ethan's arms. |
| 313 | * In a rare male example, the ''Series/{{Poirot}}'' episode "Five Little Pigs" features the very sexualised corpse of Amyas Crale. More than once. |
| 314 | * It's also mentioned though not depicted in ''Series/{{Salem}}'' in which Sebastian briefly mentions how much he enjoys the beauty of a woman drained of all her blood. |
| 315 | * In an early episode from ''Series/TheShield'', Detective Wagenbach can't help but stare at a naked dead woman's breasts. He justifies himself by saying something about how remarkably firm they are, to which detective Claudette Wyms sarcastically replies 'That's called rigor mortis'. |
| 316 | * This trope shows up occasionally in ''Series/SilentWitness'', but the vast majority of dead bodies look like murder victims, and thus are not sexualised. Additionally, both male and female victims are usually naked during autopsy scenes (with [[SceneryCensor censorship from conveniently placed lab equipment]]), and this is treated as part of the process rather than {{Fanservice}}. |
| 317 | * The early-1990s cable-TV detective series ''Series/SilkStalkings'', which centered on two detectives investigating murders among the high-society set of Palm Beach, Florida, featured numerous episodes with beautiful, glamorous women being violently done to death, often with their bodies being shown afterwards either at the crime scene or in the morgue. |
| 318 | * In ''Series/TwinPeaks'', Laura Palmer's body is found naked and wrapped in a sheet of plastic. |
| 319 | * ''Series/UtopiaUS'': [[spoiler:Samantha]] dies wearing a fetishy goth outfit of a little black dress and torn fishnet stockings. When her friends cover her body with some drapes, Becky tells Wilson to leave her head uncovered because "she's too pretty." |
| 320 | * ''Series/TheWhiteQueen'': A RareMaleExample occurs when King Richard III's corpse is stripped naked after the Battle of Bosworth, and there's a close-up of his face, bare neck, and shoulder. As he is a RavenHairIvorySkin PrettyBoy, he looks like a porcelain doll stained with blood and dirt despite the violence that has been inflicted upon him. Richard was given the MrFanservice treatment in a sex scene [[note]]featured in the Starz telecast[[/note]] that took place the night before the battle (the image is therefore still fresh in the audience's minds), so the underlying sensuality of his nude dead body is unmistakable. |
| 321 | * ''Series/TheWire'': |
| 322 | ** Bunk and [=McNulty=] investigate the scene of an old crime where a woman was murdered while delivering a ClusterFBomb. They reference crime scene photos showing the victim wearing only an open bathrobe at the scene. In another episode, drug dealers discover that a naked woman has overdosed at their party, so they dump her body in the trash. |
| 323 | ** In the fifth season, [=McNulty=] and another character have a conversation at the morgue regarding a male corpse, which is laying there completely uncovered the whole time. |
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| 325 | |
| 326 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 327 | * This is a recurring theme in Serbian artist Dead Body Collection's works. Heck, instances of such have shown up on his covers, such as "Throat," "Catoptrophobia," "She Is Like Winter" and "I Slice Her Body, Over And Over." |
| 328 | * The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aowSGxim_O8 famous music video]] for Music/TomPetty's "Mary Jane's Last Dance" features Kim Basinger's corpse receiving quite a lot of MaleGaze before Petty's character takes it on an actual date. |
| 329 | * "Can't Go Back" by Primal Scream made this trope central to the video, as three professional models met their demise. Bobby Gillespie, on the other hand, meets his death the old-fashioned (and more gruesome) way: an axe. |
| 330 | * Kanye West's video for "[[http://vimeo.com/24789963 Monster]]" features quite a few scantily clad corpses, most of them young women in lingerie. |
| 331 | [[/folder]] |
| 332 | |
| 333 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 334 | * In the Platform/PC98 adventure game ''Armist'', a detective named Shou investigates a massacre in a laboratory that makes [[CuteMonsterGirl monster girls]] as bioweapons. Two brainwashed henchwomen, who are a catgirl in a sling bikini and a topless harpy, are killed in violent fights but their corpses are portrayed [[BloodlessCarnage without visible injuries]]. Shou spends multiple paragraphs monologuing to depressive background music about how beautiful and PeacefulInDeath they are. The main villain Kawai, who's dressed in a topless dominatrix outfit when fought, gets this treatment even before she actually dies from the building being self-destructed. |
| 335 | * The two ''Bacta'' adventure games for the Platform/PC98 feature a race of naked [[SuccubiAndIncubi succubi-like]] demons called Youma who serve their leader Dirsala by performing terrorist attacks and possessing human women. The paranormal investigator [[NominalHero Jinpachi]] goes around raping suspicious women to dispel possessions via TheImmodestOrgasm just to execute the Youma [[FantasticRacism out of pure sadism]], making the temptresses [[AlasPoorVillain seem pitiful]] in their death throes regardless of the danger they pose. The duology varies between showing the henchwomen's bloody corpses to having them fade away after being shot in the head or [[GoryDiscretionShot just]] [[KilledOffscreen offscreening]] their deaths. |
| 336 | * Among the antagonists in the Platform/PCEngine ActionRPG ''Basted'', the female sorcerer Miriam is mortally beaten out of her monster form and is prominently shown lying covered in bruises, with her clothes [[ClothingDamage in tatters]], [[DyingSpeech as she laments]] her failure to serve Largryme and dies. |
| 337 | * In ''Battle Skin Panic'' by Creator/StudioGainax, the protagonist Mimi confronts a race of insectoid monster girls in fights that involve stripping them [[DefeatByModesty to lower their defenses from shame]]. Most of them are KilledOffscreen except for their queen Mothylsu, who is shown lying naked on the ground before her corpse DisappearsIntoLight. |
| 338 | * ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaRondoOfBlood'' opens with the sacrifice of a naked young woman (presumably a virgin). |
| 339 | * The death animations of most female characters in ''VideoGame/DeadAheadZombieWarfare'' noticeably emphasize their butts. Some characters also spontaneously drop their shorts upon becoming zombies and start attacking the player in panties. |
| 340 | * Anna from ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition'', to the point that she is often remarked to be a "goddess of the forest" by the more off-kilter characters. |
| 341 | * When Arclight is defeated in ''VideoGame/Deadpool2013'', she and Deadpool fall off a platform into a pit. Deadpool wakes up to find the woman impaled on a pipe, suspended in a pose that emphasizes her chest as if she was still sticking it out in death like she had been doing in several previous scenes. Deadpool mockingly gestures at her breasts and says his "pipe" would've given her way more pleasure. |
| 342 | * ''VideoGame/GoldenAxe: Beast Rider'' starts with a cult of priestesses being slaughtered by monsters and their naked corpses can be found sprawled all over the early areas until their leader is seen [[HangingAround hanging from a tree]]. One of the game's [[https://twitter.com/bgolus/status/1592697744850030592 developers mentioned on Twitter]] that part of its TroubledProduction involved those scenes being implemented in secret against the wishes of a portion of the team, who felt that it, at minimum, clashed with the relatively lighter tone of the rest of the game. The game also features one scantily clad villainess being beheaded by Tyris with a lot of focus on her [[JigglePhysics bouncing chest]] as her corpse falls onto the ground. |
| 343 | * An ad series for ''VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney'' featured assassinated victims of the main character. The two female victims in the series are both sexualized, with one dressed in lingerie and the other naked in her bathtub. As you can imagine, this drew quite a bit of controversy. |
| 344 | * ''VideoGame/{{IMGCM}}'': In the intro of [[ItsAllUpstairsFromHere Demon's Tower dungeon]], the heroines stumble upon a corpse of a naked woman, splattered with [[BlackBlood pink blood]] and with her lewder parts covered by [[AlienKudzu Demon World's fungi and plants]]. |
| 345 | * ''VideoGame/LANoire'' includes a crime wave of murders leaving behind the corpses of naked women. [[spoiler:Not surprising as the murders were based off of the murder, and in universe committed by killer, of Elizabeth Short aka The Black Dahlia.]] |
| 346 | * The first boss of ''VideoGame/LostRuins'' is Lami, a SlimeGirl who is blasted out of her clothes and turns into a [[ReluctantFanserviceGirl bashful]] giantess. Once defeated, Lami tries covering her chest as she dies and explodes back to her normal form, leaving her slimy naked corpse bobbing in the water. To add insult to injury, you get to loot her [[BringMyBrownPants pee-stained]] panties. |
| 347 | * It is possible to be killed by acid attacks in some of the ''VideoGame/MetalSlug'' games, and the death animations for Eri and Fio notoriously [[TheNudifier show their clothes completely melting]] before they collapse and their bodies disintegrate. Male characters get StrippedToTheBone instead. |
| 348 | * In the shameless CatFight wrestling game ''VideoGame/RumbleRoses'', the cyborg Lady X is the final boss for most of the cast. While some of the endings avoid drawing attention to her death and make her body vanish from the scene, two of them show her writhing on the floor before dying and one heavily frames her bust with her eyes half-open before she's used as a human shield and dropped aside. Also, Anesthesia's ending closes on a dramatic PastelChalkedFreezeFrame of Lady X's corpse after the villainess kicks it in contempt. |
| 349 | * The arcade RailShooter ''VideoGame/SailorZombie'' involves the protagonist shooting zombies with antidotes until they're knocked unconscious. The [[AttractiveZombie cute female zombies]] are left strewn all over the levels when defeated, but male ones immediately disappear when shot down. |
| 350 | * In the "Enter The Dominatrix" DLC for ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'', a cutscene fills the screen with the corpse of the titular {{stripperiffic}} villainess lying in a BoobsAndButtPose without visible injuries. |
| 351 | * In ''VideoGame/SigmaStarSaga'', the female Krill are [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe purple-skinned alien babes]] outfitted with skimpy biopunk [[BattleBikini battle bikinis]] and Commander Zelly has a whole AmazonBrigade of them. It is those henchwomen who end up murdered and left strewn all over a base [[BadBoss by Zelly herself]] to prevent leaking of information most of them had no idea about to begin with. |
| 352 | * ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'': When Geralt finally tracks down Whoreson Junior, he finds the gang boss surrounded by [[DisposableSexWorker dead prostitutes]]. Three of the corpses are naked and slumped in a bath. |
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| 354 | |
| 355 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 356 | * In ''VisualNovel/{{Snatcher}}'', Lisa is found to have been killed and replaced by one of the titular androids. The impostor is shot down and falls backward with her chest exposed... and her entire face [[{{Gorn}} bloodily torn apart]], revealing a metallic skull. The nudity was removed from the Sega CD and later versions. |
| 357 | * During the True Route of ''VisualNovel/YuNo'', Takuya encounters a mortally wounded nogard, a beautiful naked WingedHumanoid, and agrees to raise her child before she dies. Said child, Kun Kun, fully morphs into a humanoid girl and saves Takuya from a collapsing quarry but dies of exhaustion while trying to fly him over a desert. The protagonist is forced to [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalize the naked girl]] to survive. Adaptations of the original visual novel censor the full nudity of the dragon-girls by giving them [[NippleAndDimed nippleless scale-like skin]] or skimpy outfits. |
| 358 | [[/folder]] |
| 359 | |
| 360 | [[folder:Web Originals]] |
| 361 | * Website/FourChan's "Perfection Girl" is a series of photographs that circulated around the internet of an attractive blonde woman lying in a bed. A block of text linked with the photos claimed that the girl was actually dead, "tricking" people who see the photos into lustful thoughts about a corpse. It's highly dubious that the girl is actually dead, making it sort of an inverse prank. |
| 362 | [[/folder]] |
| 363 | |
| 364 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 365 | * ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'' has the scene where Sumi and Taka have forceful sex with Alucard in a senseless attempt to assassinate him for what they perceive as a betrayal. The restrained Alucard reluctantly slashes their throats with a floating sword familiar, and the siblings collapse naked over the bed while clutching their necks. After they die, Alucard takes a page from his father's book and [[DeadGuyOnDisplay leaves their corpses impaled on pikes]] as a warning to trespassers, but he bothers to dress them upon doing so. |
| 366 | * Cartoon short ''WesternAnimation/SpecialDelivery'' is a doubly rare example in that it's both animated and male. When a mailman falls on an icy porch and dies, the man who lives there realizes that he has to get rid of the body, but not before completing the mailman's route. He strips the mailman's corpse; many full-frontal shots follow. |
| 367 | * ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama - Revenge of the Island'': Thanks to Mike's Chester persona, Jo's makeup looks horrifying, with Brick fainting when he sees Jo's makeup. Jo, assuming she looks pretty, openly says the trope word for word, completely ignoring the looks of horror on her team mates at her appearance. |
| 368 | [[/folder]] |
| 369 | |
| 370 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 371 | * [[http://www.kottke.org/08/07/the-most-beautiful-suicide Evelyn [=McHale=]]], photographed minutes after committing suicide by leaping from the Empire State Building in 1947. Called [[PeacefulInDeath "the most beautiful suicide"]] by some. |
| 372 | * Austrian coroner and author of [[BlackComedy quite dark-humoured]] popular science books, Hans Bankl, stated once that he hardly ever had any cases in his long career. However, as a young doctor, he was confronted with the body of a 16-year-old trick shot performer, who had killed herself in an [[RealityIsUnrealistic unbelievable manner]]. According to him, she was extraordinarily beautiful, even in death. |
| 373 | * One of the most enduring mysteries of the Battle of Waterloo is [[http://battlefield-site.co.uk/napoleonic_anecdotes.htm the strange incident of the body of a "strikingly beautiful" young woman, dressed in the uniform of a French officer of cuiraissers]], which was found by several British officers inspecting the battlefield on the morning of June 19, 1815, the day following the battle. The woman's body was found near the hamlet of La Haye Sainte, where some of the fiercest fighting (including the climactic charge by Napoleon's Imperial Guard) occurred. While she has never been identified, the prevailing theory among students of the battle is that she was a camp follower, possibly the mistress of a French cavalry officer, who went forward in a charge alongside her lover and was killed. |
| 374 | * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Inconnue_de_la_Seine L'Inconnue de la Seine]] ("the unknown woman of the Seine"), a death mask of an anonymous young woman whose body was supposedly recovered from the river Seine in Paris, was an incredibly popular artistic and erotic icon in early 20th-century Europe (and, eventually, the model for the Rescusci-Annie CPR dummy). |
| 375 | [[/folder]] |
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