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-->'''Aeryn:''' Somebody's ''docking?''

* ''Film/EpicMovie'': Near the end of Epic Movie, the Orphans decide to hold a pre-final battle party in Gnarnia, before they fight the White Bitch's army. During this, a girl who previously showed no interest in him, Mystique, shows up and says him being king is very hot. He's then dragged into a tent by her, with the chance to have sex with an absolutely stunning woman, even given the chance for her to shapeshift features before they get it on such as [[BreastExpansion a larger pair of breasts, a huge ass, and a bandonkadonk...]] granted, he follows those up with the requests of [[FanDisservice a monobrow and "big flabby grandma arms"/"bingo wings like a fat blur Britney Spears" causing her to look like an obese disgusting grandmother...]] [[ChubbyChaser but Peter was quite into it and they seemed to get it on throughout the night despite this.]]

** In the third season finale, Oz and Willow make love for the first time on the eve of the final battle with the Mayor.
** And Xander and Anya before the final battle with Glory, though not for the first time.
** [[Creator/JossWhedon Joss]] loves this one; this trope was actually the whole basis of the episode "Touched" near the end of the series, with even a bit of {{Deconstruction}} by the incorporeal [[BigBad First]]. Though it was still a few episodes from the final battle, the stress of a half-season-long war resulted in Willow and Kennedy having sex for the first time, [[PairTheSpares Robin and Faith]] hooking up, and Anya and Xander having sex despite being technically broken up, all at the same time (and [[RightThroughTheWall rather noisily]], too). As for Spike and Buffy, they [[spoiler:just held each other through the night]]. Aw.

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}''

* In ''Manga/OtakuNoMusumesan'', [[spoiler:Haruka]] gets some alone-time with Kouta right before [[spoiler:he goes to confront Nozomi who has just kidnapped Kanau away from his custody. Though Haruka didn't do this because they knew a climactic confrontation was coming but rather to snap Kouta out of his HeroicBSOD over that whole sequence of events]]. Exactly how far [[spoiler:Haruka]] went was left ambiguous until the DistantFinale when [[spoiler:she's shown a couple of years later with a toddler son with Kouta's distinctive huge eyebrows]].

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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Invoked by the Doctor at the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E6Extremis "Extremis"]], when he phones [[TomboyishName Bill]] and tells her she should hook up with her crush Penny [[spoiler:because there's going to be an alien invasion]].

* Subverted in ''Film/CabinFever''. Marcy and Paul end up in bed together because Marcy was convinced that they were bound to get the deadly disease that was going around. Just as she feared, she died shortly afterwards, however, she was killed by a freak attack by a mad dog, not the disease.

** ''ComicBook/XWingSeries'':

In RealLife, sex before a strenuous or stressful activity is usually not encouraged because of the energy that sex supposedly uses up (this is especially true in the world of sports, where athletes often believe that having sex the night before a game will negatively affect their performance). There is no scientific evidence for this. There is even a contrary theory suggesting that the hormone surge could improve subsequent performance. Even so, sometimes TruthInTelevision: natural selection in the tribal days may have encouraged an instinct for such conduct, because those who have sex before battle are more likely to reproduce and leave descendants than those who don't.

The reverse case, where the sex comes as a celebration of the fact that both characters survived whatever it was, is GladToBeAliveSex. If they not only survived the battle but emerged victorious, it's VictorySex.

* In ''Manga/OtakuNoMusumesan'', [[spoiler:Haruka]] gets some alone-time with Kouta right before [[spoiler:he goes to confront Nozomi who has just kidnapped Kanau away from his custody. Though Haruka didn't do this because they knew a climatic confrontation was coming, but to snap Kouta out of his HeroicBSOD over that whole sequence of events]]. Exactly how far [[spoiler:Haruka]] went was left ambiguous until the DistantFinale when [[spoiler:she's shown a couple years later with a toddler son with Kouta's distinctive huge eyebrows]].

* In ''LightNovel/Overlord2012'' Crusch and Zaryusu have sex before the battle against Cocytus, since Crusch wants to have Zaryusu's child and knows he will probably die. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Ainz accidentally spies on them with a magic mirror during the act]] and the trope is lampshaded.

* In the beginning of the final arc of ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy'', Kara and Dev have pre-mission sex just in case.

* Björn and Natascha in ''FanFic/SamowarInAtlantis'' that's set at the end and the athermath of [[Literature/ChaosTimeline quite interesting times]].

* Subverted in ''Film/CabinFever''. Marcy and Paul end up in bed together because Marcy was convinced that they were bound to get the deadly disease that was going around. Just as she feared, she died shortly afterwards, however she was killed by a freak attack by a mad dog, not the disease.

* In ''[[Literature/TheEdge On the Edge]]'', Rose tries to argue with Declan that she should be the one to risk her life, not him. Declan's fascination with her lips is not related to what she's saying. Finally they compromise that both of them will go together, and he carries her into the bedroom for a pre-death-defying-last-stand romp.

-->'''Carol:''' Have you ever read stories about people in falling airplanes? People who know their time's up so they do things... reckless things that they've always wanted to do? Well I've wanted to do this since I was a tomboy in pigtails.

** Tyrion Lannister tells CampFollower Shae to fuck him like it's his last day on Earth, because his father Lord Tywin has [[UriahGambit placed him in the vanguard]] for tomorrow's battle. On hearing this news, his bodyguard Bronn rushes off to find a woman as well.
** Arya Stark has sex with Gendry Waters right before the big battle against the White Walker army at Winterfell, after Gendry finishes her custom weapon for the fight. Arya was still virgin at the time, so this is also an example of MustNotDieAVirgin.
* ''Series/LostGirl'', "Its Better To Burn Out Than Fae Away". Aware that it might be the last time they see each other, Bo and Lauren share a passionate night. In this case there's no battle coming, but Lauren is being taken back by her asshole of a boss/owner.

* Lucas and Carla do just this near the end of ''VideoGame/{{Fahrenheit}}'', both of them under the belief that the next day may very well be the last of their lives. This becomes particularly [[{{Squick}} squicky]] when you realize that Carla and Lucas have shown absolutely no romantic attraction towards one-another in the past, and that [[spoiler:Lucas is essentially a reanimated corpse.]] This also becomes a plot-point in the end, when the end-game narration mentions that [[spoiler:Lucas managed to actually inseminate Carla, and their child has been exposed to the Chroma source in the womb, so their child may very well be the next savior of mankind.]]

* A darker variety occurs in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', when [[spoiler:Morrigan asks the Warden (or the other Grey Warden if the Warden is female) to conceive a child with her so she can use a dark ritual to save their life.]]

* In ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle'', [[spoiler:Sylvia, despite [[KarmaHoudini avoiding comeuppance for]] [[ManipulativeBastard scamming Travis in the first game]], ''does'' make good on her promise to hookup with Travis, but instead of waiting for him to get to Rank 1, she visits him right before his fight with [[BigBad Pizza Batt, Jr.]]. [[SexyDiscretionShot Obviously, we don't see anything]], but their lovemaking is implied to be [[GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex hot]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO6nTaDDnFU See for yourself.]]]] In addition, this causes [[spoiler:a RelationshipUpgrade from a [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold brash and uncouth, but surprisingly gentle guy]] and a possessive and berating, yet sweet lady, with ''tons'' of UnresolvedSexualTension to the OfficialCouple. You can tell they're not just FriendsWithBenefits when Sylvia refers to Travis as "''my'' [[TitleDrop No More Hero]]". There's no word if Jeane (Sylvia's daughter [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse who only appeared in an epilogue from the first game]]) is their child though.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Homer Simpson trying to help Apu & Manjula conceive by role playing as the sort of scenario that would invoke the LawOfInverseFertility:

[''Both scream as psycho attacks wielding [[NoKillLikeOverkill four flame-sprouting chainsaws]]'']

* UFC fighter, RondaRousey encourages this before a fight believing that it raises her testosterone level, thus increasing her toughness in a fight.

The reverse case, where the sex comes as a celebration of the fact that both characters survived whatever it was, is GladToBeAliveSex.

** Arya Stark has steamy sex with Gendry Baratheon right before the big battle against the White Walker army at Winterfell, after Gendry finishes her custom weapon for the fight. Arya was still virgin at the time, despite her go-get-it-girl attitude, so this is also an example of MustNotDieAVirgin. This being ''Series/GameOfThrones'', Masie Williams gets to show her well-proportioned features in plain sight. Hooray for character growth.

* In ''Film/{{Dogma}}'', Bethany promises Jay that she'd have sex with him if "the world was going to end and there were only five minutes left to live." [[spoiler: This is mentioned again towards the end of the film as Loki and Bartleby attempt to execute their plan; Jay tells a shocked Bethany, "I'd say we've got about five minutes left to live; the whole world's going to end. You said you'd fuck me."]]

** Arya Stark has steamy sex with Gendry Baratheon right before the big battle against the White Walker army at Winterfell, after Gendry finishes her custom weapon for the fight. Arya was still virgin at the time, despite her go-get-it-girl attitude, so this is also an example of MustNotDieAVirgin. This being [[Game of Thrones]], Masie Williams gets to show her well-proportioned features in plain sight. Hooray for character growth.

** Arya Stark has steamy sex with Gendry Baratheon right before the big battle against the White Walker army at Winterfell, after Gendry finishes her custom weapon for the fight. Arya was still virgin at the time, despite her go-get-it-girl attitude, so this is also an example of MustNotDieAVirgin. This being GameOfThrones, Masie Williams gets to show her well-proportioned features in plain sight. Hooray for character growth.

** Arya Stark has steamy sex with Gendry Baratheon right before the big battle against the White Walker army at Winterfell, after Gendry finishes her custom weapon for the fight. Arya was still virgin at the time, despite her go-get-it-girl attitude, so this is also an example of MustNotDieAVirgin.

** Arya Stark has steamy sex with Gendry Baratheon right before the big battle against the White Walker army at Winterfell, after Gendry finishes her custom weapon for the fight. Arya was still virgin at the time, despite her you-go-girl attitude, so this is also an example of MustNotDieAVirgin.

** Arya Stark has steamy sex with Gendry Baratheon right before the big battle against the White Walker army at Winterfell, after Gendry finishes her custom weapon for the fight. Arya was still virgin at the time, despite her you-go-girl attitude, so this is also an example of [[Must Not Die a Virgin]].

* ''Series/GameOfThrones''. Tyrion Lannister tells CampFollower Shae to fuck him like it's his last day on Earth, because his father Lord Tywin has [[UriahGambit placed him in the vanguard]] for tomorrow's battle. On hearing this news, his bodyguard Bronn rushes off to find a woman as well.
* ''Series/GameOfTrhones''. Arya Stark has steamy sex with Gendry Baratheon right before the big battle against the White Walker army at Winterfell, after Gendry finishes her custom weapon for the fight. Arya was still virgin at the time, despite her you-go-girl attitude, so this is also an example of [[Must Not Die A Virgin]].

In RealLife, sex before a strenuous or stressful activity is usually not encouraged because of the energy that sex supposedly uses up (this is especially true in the world of sports, where athletes often believe that having sex the night before a game will negatively affect their performance). There is no scientific evidence for this. Even so, sometimes TruthInTelevision: natural selection in the tribal days may have encouraged an instinct for such conduct, because those who have sex before battle are more likely to reproduce and leave descendants than those who don't.

* In the ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' episode "A Human Reaction", John and Aeryn are indicated to have sex for the first time when they are trapped on Earth, being hunted by malevolent anti-alien authorities, and not expecting to survive for very long. [[spoiler:It turns out that the whole episode was a VirtualRealityInterrogation, and although both of them were "real", it's hinted that Aeryn may have been in on the trick.]] This may explain why the incident is rarely mentioned afterwards, and they don't end up dating properly for a long time.
** In "The Flax", John and Aeryn are adrift in space and AlmostOutOfOxygen, so they start tearing off their spacesuits to have sex. Aeryn sounds almost disappointed when D'Argo turns up to rescue them.