Basic Trope: Against all odds gay characters keep surviving.
- Straight: In a TV show about zombies invading America, characters die all the time, however, the token lesbian couple: Claire and Diane, survive till the end of the show, even though there are many opportunities for them to die.
- Exaggerated: At the end of the show, Claire and Diane are the only survivors.
- Downplayed: Another couple, Eric and Fred however, died at the start of the season.
- Justified: Claire and Diane are too important to be left for dead, so the government does all it could to protect them.
- Inverted: Bury Your Gays
- Subverted: In season 7, it seems like Claire's luck has finally run out, as she is surrounded by thousands of zombies, they then begin to climb over her...
- Double Subverted: ...Only for the rescue helicopter to come in time.
- Parodied: Claire stands right under a nuclear bomb... she survives and doesn't look a single bit injured.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Both the straight and gay characters have a equal death rate.
- Enforced: The show runners are aiming for a gay audience and they know that killing off the token lesbian couple wouldn't be seen as a good move.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: The government puts Claire and Diane in increasingly dangerous missions, knowing that they will survive anyways.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: ???
- Reconstructed: ???
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