'''Basic Trope''': Gay characters die in the course of a story, while straight characters get happy endings.
* '''[[AccidentalPun Straight]]''':
** Ted and George are gay, and Alice and Bob are straight. All four fight the BigBad, but George dies. Ted is left alone miserable while Alice and Bob live on.
** Ted and George both die.
** Stella and Claire are a lesbian couple, and Stella or Claire or both die.
** SexSignalsDeath for a character having sex with another of the same gender.
** Claire and Bob are a couple, but Claire is bisexual and has been in an relationship with Stella. Claire dies. or Bob is bisexual and he dies.
** Claire or Bob are the only gay/bisexual character and they die.
** AnyoneCanDie but gay/lesbian/bisexual characters' deaths are more excessively graphic or tragic compared to the straight characters' deaths or straight characters die less than they do and/or there is more straight characters than gay/bi.
** Cameron, the show's only non-binary character, is killed.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** There are loads of characters, the vast majority of whom are gay or lesbian. AliceAndBob are the only straight characters, and the only characters who stay alive.
** The BigBad's plot involves murdering all the gays in Tropeland. It works, as he finishes killing them just before AliceAndBob defeat him.
** Your only non-straight character [[{{Series/Supernatural}} dies and goes to super hell literally seconds after coming out]].
* '''Downplayed''':
** Ted and George's car is destroyed, so the straight [[OnlyTheLeadsGetAHappyEnding lead characters]] AliceAndBob end up better off, but [[EverybodyLives every character makes it out alive]].
** Ted and Alice both die, and are mourned by their husbands George and Bob. Bob eventually gets over his grief and gets involved with Claire, but George remains single for the rest of his life.
* '''Justified''':
** The BigBad is a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain crazy homophobe]] who actively focuses his efforts into killing George and Ted while practically ignoring Alice and Bob.
** Unfortunately TruthInTelevision; being gay in real life, has been and still is often prone to its downsides due to the prejudice from other social groups. In most countries you can't get married if you're gay or have children in a same sex relationship, and in many places, homosexuality itself is still illegal. Also, you might have trouble being accepted by your peers, your family, or your religious group. The author uses this trope as he/she is gay and is using this trope as a metaphor for how society makes life harder for being due to their orientation and reflects the hardships he/she has been through.
** The character's arc works best if it ends tragically.
** The death [[BasedOnATrueStory actually happened in real life]].
** The story takes place in the afterlife meaning that almost all of the characters are dead.
* '''Inverted''':
** One of the characters in the straight couple dies, leaving the other miserable. The gay couple goes on with life.
** Alice and Bob both die.
** Ted and George are immortal.
** PreserveYourGays
* '''Subverted''':
** It seems like George has been killed, but [[DisneyDeath he manages to survive]] within an inch of his life thanks to sheer determination.
** FakingTheDead
** DeathFakedForYou
** The couple dies but they are shown to be reunited in a happy afterlife.
** George is [[BackFromTheDead somehow resurrected]].
** [[OurGhostsAreDifferent In a setting where ghosts can interact with the realm of the living]], George returns to the cast as a specter. [[EarnYourHappyEnding It takes some adjustment but he and Ted make it work]].
** George [[TheyKilledKennyAgain repeatedly dies and comes back to life.]]
* '''Double Subverted''':
** ...Sadly, George only lives long enough to die from his injuries later in a hospital.
** As George goes to inform his same-sex love interest he's okay it turns out the love interest died of something totally unrelated to the rest of the story.
* '''Parodied''':
** Alice, Bob, Ted, George, and Stella all go fight the big bad. Ted and George die immediately, and Alice, who is pretending to be Stella's girlfriend so [[BoyfriendBluff she can repel another girlfriend]], is killed too. This makes Bob, Alice's real boyfriend, complain. Somehow Alice is magically revived, while Stella remains dead.
** The show has [[NoHuggingNoKissing no romance involved]] and no reason why anyone's sexuality would be relevant. Nonetheless, as the team prepares to fight the villain, Bob states "I am feeling particularly heteroflexible today" completely out of the blue. This somehow causes him to spontaneously explode into a fountain of LudicrousGibs. The other characters briefly mourn Bob, [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment and agree never to speak of his death again.]]
* '''Zig Zagged''':
** The character that dies is only AmbiguouslyGay or AmbiguouslyBi.
** The show at first kills off Ted and George, but then they are both brought back. Then Alice and Bob are both KilledOffForReal. A gay villain is killed, but two straight villains manage to survive until next season. Then they turn out to have been lovers. And ''then'' it turns out in the afterlife EveryoneIsBi.
** George cheats death, but then Stella is KilledOffForReal, and Ted and George are DrivenToSuicide over the loss of their friend. Then Bob (who is straight) dies, and George is brought BackFromTheDead for some reason.
** The show at first kills off Ted and George and Alice and Bob are survived, but then Stella and Claire join the team. Then Alice is KilledOffForReal and leaves Bob left alone miserable. Then Stella makes a HeroicSacrifice and dies to kill off a gay villain and save Bob and Claire. Then Claire realized that she is actually bisexual and Bob eventually gets over his grief and gets involved with Claire.
* '''Averted''':
** Every character gets a HappyEnding, regardless of their sexuality.
** There is an equally balanced cast of gay and straight people, and an equal amount of them are KilledOffForReal.
** This show is set in a CrapsackWorld, and ''everyone'' [[DownerEnding is either miserable]] [[{{Tragedy}} or dead at the end]]. There are simply no exceptions made for characters on the LGBT spectrum.
** There are no LGBT characters.
** The show has a CastFullOfGay, so even if a few characters die, there are still plenty of LGBT characters left alive.
** The character's death fits the character or the death is from natural causes and neither death has anything to do with the character's sexuality.
** AnyoneCanDie with no exceptions to anyone.
** Nobody dies, ever.
* '''Enforced''':
** "To [[RuleOfDrama show that things are serious]], let's kill off a minority."
*** The series is set on [[FairForItsDay the time or the place that queer people still face heavy discrimination, so there is almost no happy ending during their lifespan.]]
** One of the writers is a HeteronormativeCrusader.
** George [[ActorLeavesCharacterDies is killed because his actor left the show]].
* '''Lampshaded''': "Damn it! Damn it to hell! [[CartwrightCurse Why does every guy I love end up dead]]?!"
* '''Invoked''':
** George ends up engaged [[BolivianArmyEnding in a hopeless fight]], but Ted decides to stay along with him until the end. If he's meant to die, [[YouAreWorthHell he'll die with him too]].
** Ted's brother, who wants to inherit the family fortune, makes sure the homophobic villain knows about Ted's sexual preferences.
* '''Exploited''': Stella pretends to be straight (perhaps with [[TheBeard a fake boyfriend]]) in order to cheat death.
* '''Defied''':
** Detecting the clear signs of [[CosmicPlayThing the universe conspiring to kill them]], [[ScrewDestiny Ted goes to great lengths to ensure his and George's survival.]]
** Alice and Bob help them out, Ted and George live on thanks to their help.
* '''Discussed''': "I thought gays didn't get happy endings." "Oh, that's just superstition."
* '''Conversed''':
** "Have you ever noticed how gay characters seem to have a higher mortality ratio than any straight co-protagonists?"
** "Bob's crush on Joe doesn't speak well about his chances."
* '''Implied''': The gay characters are PutOnABus and their fates are simply [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse not mentioned]], leaving the audience to figure out what happened to them.
* '''Deconstructed''': George considers himself an inferior person as a gay man, due to his conflicting religious views and sexuality. This leads him to care less about his own life and take too much risk in a battle, leading to his death.
* '''Reconstructed''': This leads Ted, who also considered himself an inferior person, to come to terms with his sexuality and persevere.
* '''Played For Laughs''': Ted and George make a HeroicSacrifice and die to save AliceAndBob, because they believe that [[BoomerangBigot if anyone deserves to survive, it's the straight characters]].
* '''Played For Drama''': Ted, George, Alice, and Bob all fight the BigBad. During the dramatic climax scene, Alice and Bob manage to escape. However, Ted and George are left behind, and die so horribly that no one is gay ever again.
* '''Untwisted''': Ted, George, Alice, and Bob all die. At Alice and Bob's funeral they were revealed to be married to Claire and Daniel respectively.
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