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  • Remove examples that are simply about sex scenes, and leave examples that are about sex scenes that interrupt the plot.

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Note: This thread was proposed by badtothebaritone.

Coitus Ensues is supposed to be when a gratuitous sex sequence stops the plot in its tracks. However, it is most often used to refer to sex scenes in general, whether it interrupts the plot or not. A Coitus Ensues Wick Check reveals that only 14% of wicks inspected were correct, and over half the wicks just refer to general sex scenes. As of this writing, I think a rename might be sufficient to fix this, but a retool or even cutting the page entirely might be necessary. We'll just have to see.

Wick check summary:

Sex brings the plot to a halt (Correct usage) - 7/50
"Sex ensues" - 15/50
Sex is part of the plot - 11/50
No sex happens - 7/50
ZCE - 7/50
Multiple categories/Other - 3/50

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     Sex brings the plot to a halt (Correct usage) - 7/ 50 
  1. The Wild Geese - Bait-and-Switch Gunshot: Haddad is walking through the forest with Kathy while a man with a scoped rifle takes aim...and shoots a boar. This Cat Scare gives a plot excuse for the subsequent Coitus Ensues moment.
  2. Narm.Live Action TV - The Season 6 episode with the classy title "Fuck The Pain Away" gives us out-of-nowhere caveman-fairy vampire sex.
  3. YMMV.IMGCM - Big-Lipped Alligator Moment
    1. The ambiguous/off-screen sex scene at the beginning of the tutorial and then followed by naked Isana dissolving into paint. This scene is absurd enough to begin with, and causes a confusion to players as to whether that scene is real or not.
    2. Pretty much all H-scenes from the DX version, some of them being Coitus Ensues, while others being Gratuitous Rape and others are gratuitous hallucinations, Mushroom Samba and dreams of first both categories.
  4. Writing Pitfall Index - Coitus Ensues: Don't write a sex scene if the depiction of the intercourse doesn't add anything to the story.
  5. TheOuterLimits1995.Tropes A To H - Coitus Ensues: In "Lithia", Major Mercer has sex with Miranda and then Ariel with really no buildup. Justified though as Mercer is the only man either has ever seen, and they're naturally fascinated. It's possibly implied too that in their society sexual mores are more relaxed.
  6. Elvira's House of Horrors - Coitus Ensues: Make Out Mayhem, the third mode on the Freak Fryer, invokes this, with many clips of gratuitous love scenes from different movies playing on the display.
  7. UQ Holder! - Coitus Ensues: In the Time Skip arc before the Final Battle, the plot pauses itself for a few chapters as the manga goes to more gratuitous Fanservice levels than ever before by showing Touta having sex with the female Numbers as he reunites with them after 45 years.

     "Sex ensues" - 15/ 50 
  1. FandomSpecificPlot.Pokemon - The most popular set of plot points for fics related to the anime: the characters growing/being older, and Ash is/or will become a Pokémon Master (whatever the author decides that means, usually being a Pokemon Master and being one of the Pokémon Champions is treated as basically one-in-the-same). This isn't specific to any single fic plot, but most of the fanfics tied to the anime, regardless of the broader plot, rely on the conceit that the characters can/do age. Particularly any shipping fics, because the idea of 10-year-olds hooking up (frequently followed by sex, shown or implied) is a bit much even for most hardcore shippers to accept. So it will quickly be established that time has been passing as Ash engages in his adventures and the plot will go from there. In more recent non-AU fics, which usually consider the most recent seasons, Ash and the other characters will usually be somewhere around 16-19, rather than canon-declared ten. Ash becoming a Pokemon Master is so common it's usually just a given with any fic with him as the main character. Frequently it will be a major part of the plot and his goal, other times he'll have already achieved the title.
  2. Starfighter - Slap-Slap-Kiss: After their first mission, Abel is convinced that Cain is a psycho and starts verbally chewing him out. Cain's response is to kiss him. Then, Coitus Ensues.
  3. The 100 S 06 E 04 - Coitus Ensues: Clarke sleeps with the doctor, Cillian.
  4. TriumphantExample.C - Coitus Ensues:
    1. The sex scene in Alone in the Dark (2005). ~ rjd1922
    2. Kaneki and Touka consummating their relationship in Chapter 125 of Tokyo Ghoul:re. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
  5. Characters.Sandra On The Rocks - Really Gets Around: Nadine seems quick to put out, and will gladly do the deed with anyone she considers hot.
  6. HypocriticalHumor.Anime And Manga - In the Yuri one-shot Affinitive Vision, a teacher confiscates some lesbian AV tapes that two girls brought into school. When the girls go plead for the teacher to return the tapes, they find out that she... got a little bit too curious. Hilarity and Coitus Ensues.
  7. RefugeInAudacity.Anime And Manga - The Secret of Twilight Gemini does this by having Lupin and Fujiko sneak into a police station, while it's crawling with cops, in order to steal the same file on Galoux and end up having sex in the file room! Simply put: Interpol's most wanted thief and his on-again/off-again girlfriend, who happens to be an international jewel thief, banged each other in a police station packed with cops who were canvassing all of Morocco to apprehend them!
  8. A Place So Wicked - Coitus Ensues: Toby and Addie bang next to a creak. It later turns out that she’s into getting some sacrificial dick and has seduced sacrifices of her age in this manner multiple times.
  9. Funny.Brandons Cult Movie Reviews: "Holy shit, not only is Wolf a woman, but she also has her clothes on in a Jim Wynorski movie! Don't worry, though, Wynorski doesn't let that last long."
  10. Farscape S 02 E 02 Vitas Mortis - Coitus Ensues: One of the first things Nilaam does after restoring her youth is have sex with D'Argo.
  11. All Amazons Want Hercules - 300: Rise of an Empire: Artemisia spends much of the film searching for "someone to stand at my side". She offers this to Themistocles, but he denies her. After sex, of course.
  12. Characters.Battlestar Galactica 2003 - After the producers decided to keep Helo on as a character, their first question was what to do with him. The logical answer would be to pair him up with another Eight, whom he would think was Boomer but was actually a separate instance. This Cylon, who eventually chose the call sign "Athena" had a very specific mission: the humanoid Cylons had thus far been unable to conceive biological offspring, and their theory was that The Power of Love was what was missing. Athena's job, then, was to get Helo to fall for her (and then frak her, of course). A High-Heel–Face Turn was almost inevitable. She then became the first Cylon character to openly side with the humans.
  13. Teasing from Behind the Language Barrier - In The New Mike Hammer episode "Dead Man's Run" a woman from a Fictional Country flirts with Mike in her own language, then implies that what she just said is rather naughty. Mike repeats the phrase to another beautiful babe who's quite shocked and asks if he knows what that means. When Mike admits he doesn't, she offers to demonstrate.
  14. Game of Thrones S4E7: "Mockingbird" - It's night-time in Meereen. Daenerys enters her private chambers for some shut-eye, to find, surprise, surprise, Daario! She demands to know how he got past her guards. He confesses that the windows are left unattended at the summit of her 800 foot-tall base of operations. He even brought her wild flowers, claiming that he swam to a distant isle to bring them back for her. Daenerys doesn't exactly take to these obvious pulls. He then asks her for a favor. The gods gave him only two talents— war and women— and he can't pursue either of them as the Second Sons are now policing Meereen's streets trying to keep the peace. Dany brushes him off, reminding him that preventing the revenge killings in her city is far more important to her than slaking his thirst for open battle. And as for women, there are plenty of the fairer sex to pursue. To which he retorts with a gentle push that there is only one woman he desires, and she will not have him. If she orders it, he'll stay and be her city watchdog, but he had sworn his sword to her service and he would gladly kill her enemies. Any enemy, anywhere. The game finally comes to a head and Daenerys decides to treat herself after what must have been a hard day's ruling over a divisive populace. With a goblet of fine red in hand, and a smoldering expression on her face, she tells him to do what he does best and he strips at her command. What follows next... Well, it's not hard to guess.
  15. OurVampiresAreDifferent.Anime And Manga - In the one-shot yaoi manga Nosferatou Kiss, vampires are living creatures that age and reproduce just like humans, except that they enjoy sleeping in coffins for some reason, possess certain supernatural powers (like levitation), and have a taste for human blood (particularly virgin blood, because it's unlikely to have venereal disease). As children, Kura (a vampire) plays hide and seek with Shuichi (his human friend) and hides in a coffin, then Shuichi promptly loses interest in the game and walks off, completing forgetting about Kura. Kura remains lying in the coffin for a decade, apparently without needing to eat, sleep, or attend to any other bodily functions. When Shuichi returns later looking for him and opens the coffin, Kura pops out, now aged into a teenager. In a bizarre twist, Kura then demonstrates to a surprised Shuichi that vampires aren't limited to drinking their victim's blood: blowjobs work just fine too.

     Sex is part of the plot - 11/ 50 
  1. Sex Montage - In the Parody Fic Hardcore Entertainment presents: Seven Does Voyager, the captain of Voyager finally authorises everyone other than the Official Couple to have sex. Coitus Ensues.
  2. YMMV.Mobile Suit Gundam Wing - Launcher of a Thousand Ships: The North American fans seemed to have a thing for Hilde. In fanfiction, she was often portrayed as being so kinky and desireable, that all the Gundam pilots (including Zechs) wanted to bang her. The now defunct "DxH Addiction" was an entire archive dedicated to such stories, with half its lemon section being reserved for her sexual escapades with Duo. The other half was for stories about the other pilots either seducing her, or being seduced by her.
  3. Guest House Alt-talia - Coitus Ensues: The Emil route is basically the instant smut route; seriously, it’s the actual beginning of the route if you ask him out and you’re playing the 18+ version (while in the all-ages version it still happens offscreen and there’s heavy fanservice leading up to and after it). The relationship starts after the sex scene, though if you turn him down or act offended he will be initially confused but then realize that he’s in a different culture now and apologize. However, it actually does serve a purpose, as this is normal dating protocol for his culture, the logic being that it’s a way of testing how much of a potential fit they are by how mutually pleasurable it was.
  4. MenageA3.Tropes A To F - Coitus Ensues: Some of the sex in the comic does come rather out of the blue — notably Kiley jumping Gary and Zii's night with Angele. However, by and large, there's a bit of foreshadowing or character consistency involved. Whether Sonya and Yuki's hate-sex was foreshadowed to the point of inevitability, or completely unpredictable, might be an interesting question.
  5. ScrewedByTheNetwork.American Broadcasting Corporation Live Action Shows - It's a Living during its two-season stint on ABC, changed timeslots five times.note  To make matters worse, the show also lost a major sponsor (Proctor and Gamble) due to what they felt were outfits that were too revealing and a controversial segment in the pilot episode where one of the waitresses (who was a virgin) was agonizing whether she should go on a vacation with a new boyfriend because it could lead to sex. The other waitresses heartily encouraged her to go and not worry about it. It's a Living was also a victim of the 1980 Screen Actors' Guild strike, which caused the show to have an abbreviated first season. The show was retooled extensively for its second seasonnote  with the name changed to Making a Living. Although It's a Living was cancelled by ABC in 1982, the syndicated reruns garnered surprisingly good ratings. Another key factor in the rediscovery of It's a Living was cast member Ann Jillian's public disclosure of her breast cancer diagnosis. With those factors in mind, the show was revived for the First-Run Syndication market in 1985, where it would air for four more seasons.
  6. PlayingWith.The Schlub Pub Seduction Deduction - Zig Zagged: Alice initially charms Bob into taking her where she wants to go, but then Bob's mind clicks again when he realizes that they're somewhere nominally respectable people like himself tend not to venture. She catches on and allays his suspicion by casually stripping naked right then and there, but then Bob sees that Alice wrote a detailed plan across her breasts and belly for how to bring down her mark. He decides he doesn't care ... then, the morning after they've had sex, he reveals himself to be a police officer and arrests her on the spot, confiscating all her possessions, dredging up all her embarrassing journal entries, subjecting her to public exposure, then forcing her to repay all her previous victims and leaving her to be thrown into solitary confinement. He makes her do all this while still wearing her birthday suit.
  7. PonyPOVSeries.Tropes A To D - Coitus Ensues: Inverted. Bright Eyes finally decides to have sex with Lancer for the first time after losing her memory. Not only does Bright Eyes refuse to go in detail about it other than saying it happened, it's a plot point because it triggers her memories of their relationship together.
  8. Fate/Harem Antics - Vitriolic Best Buds: An omake set in a future where Rin and Luvia are dating Shirou shows that they will tone down their rivalry to this trope, this being a Harem Genre story, by "toning down" we, of course, mean that they will force him to decide who's better than the other. In bed. At the same time.
  9. Comic Book/Katmandu - Coitus Ensues: Pretty common in the comic, as many characters, beginning with Liska for the biggest serial offender of this, ends up having sex for whatever excuse. It should be noted that, unlike one would think compared with other similar works using this trope, sex is normally handled in a very tasteful, through erotic, manner and avoids being the sole driving force of the story.
  10. Fan Works: In the (since deleted) fic 7 Minutes in Hell, Misa tries to force Light to put out for her and forces Light (and Ryuk) to play 7 Minutes In Heaven. But it's Light and Ryuk who end up getting shoved into the dark closet together where they discover they really like it and end up together, leaving Misa heartbroken.
  11. FanficRecs.Team Fortress 2 - Early Breakfast by Breech Loader and Draven Of Shadow
    1. Recommended by Tightwire
    2. Status: Complete
    3. Synopsis: One-Shot. Heavy comes down to breakfast early. He meets Fem!Medic having breakfast. They chat for five minutes. Coitus Ensues. Despite initial concerns of it just being basic smut, the whole thing is emotionally charged, fairly tasteful, and proof that even PWP can beat Sturgeon's Law - by a mile or two. You never forget what universe you're in, and it comes with a hilarious Stinger...
    4. Pairings: Heavy/Fem!Medic
[[reviews:EarlyBreakfast]]

     No sex happens - 7/ 50 
  1. Henneko The Hentai Prince And The Stony Cat - Coitus Ensues:
    1. Parodied. Azusa mumbles something suggestive, which the Cat takes as a request, so it hypnotizes Youto into handcuffing her and playing with her belly button. Luckily, she's able to undo the wish before actual sex occurs.
    2. Parodied yet again in the same episode. Tsukushi gets into Youto's bed, seductively lets her kimono loose, leans in to kiss him... and stops. Because she doesn't know what to do next.
  2. YMMV.Spongebob Squarepants - Mr. Krabs has a severe Money Fetish and has been shown going on a date with money on at least one occasion, which raises the question: Just how far around the baseball field is Krabs willing to go with money?!
    1. Thankfully Krabs could only accomplish this when he's molted.
  3. Funny.Two Best Friends Play Lets Play 2015 - The Running Gag of hoping for Jake to spontaneously sex up various men he interacts with in cutscenes, just like the game has him do with women.
  4. Quotes.Hack Slash
    Cassie: I’m still a virgin because I emit some kind of penis repellant. Seriously, I’m like Raid to cock.
    Georgia: What?! Come on, that’s bullshit. You’re a hot girl. And those clothes... You haven’t done it because you don’t want to. I mean, seriously, have you met men? Girls half as sexy as you have to use a stick to keep guys away.
    Cassie: Heh... I dunno... just with guys... it never feels right. They make me feel weird. Like.. I don’t know... Like I don’t understand them. And sometimes I don’t want to understand them.
    Georgia: Maybe you’re... gay.
    Cassie: Maybe. Sometimes I think it’s possible. Or I think I don’t know what I am. I think I like guys. Sometimes. I don’t know. Maybe I’m just nothing.
    Georgia: Well, if it wasn't for these chains, I know how we could maybe get us sent home. If I could, I'd make us good and impure and have sex with you right now.
    Cassie: Really?
    Georgia: See, now that sounded a little too excited. You are definitely gay.
    Cassie and "Georgia Peaches" discover the former's non-straight sexuality
  5. Funny.Star Trek Strange New Worlds - Ortegas' Unusual Euphemism when approaching the enemy vessel.
    Ortegas: First date or third date?
    Pike: Blind date.
  6. How To Date A Magical Girl! - Bait-and-Switch: During the 50% dates in general, the dialog starts with what seems to be coitus ensuing until the screen fades from black and reveals something rather innocent.
  7. ShoutOut.Nobody Dies - Chapter 90. Mana refers to the effects of being around Lilith as "the Sexytime aura."

     ZCE - 7/ 50 
  1. Hecksing Ulumate Crconikals - Coitus Ensues: The ending to chapter 7.
  2. The Walking Dead S02 E04 "Cherokee Rose" - Coitus Ensues: Between Maggie and Glenn.
  3. Ex Drummer - Coitus Ensues: Exaggerated to the point that the film includes a few shots from a hardcore video.
  4. Chzo Mythos - Coitus Ensues: The sex scene in 6 Days a Sacrifice. Yahtzee himself had this to say (from this Let's Play) in regards to that: invoked
    Yahtzee: "Fact is, this is me trying to do something disturbing without realising that I'm the only one it disturbs. I've come to develop a weird aversion to sex. I've never been really sold on it. It's possible I have some hangups from a few things from my past, but these days I'm pretty much celibate (and it's not for want of female (or even male) attention, thank you very much, I mean, I own a bar, for christ's sake). I don't think it's immoral, or anything. I just find it a bit gross. This may be linked to the fact that I hate kids and the thought of having any of my own makes me want to stick a gun in my mouth. The sex scene was intended to be grotesque, not in any way titillating. It's about characters succumbing to something animalistic as they lose their grip on reality. It's an expression of Janine's descent into madness (consider how she's behaving immediately afterwards), and another torture device to pile onto Theo. In case it's not been obvious enough so far, the theme of 6 Days is the Blessed Agonies, and how a comparatively short period of experiencing them is enough to turn Theo, the ultimate everyman, into something to Chzo's liking. And the sex thing is part of it. It's just plain physically painful but he's doing it because it's what Janine wants, and she's completely and utterly doomed. But I understand that most people don't see sex the same way I do, so the intention might have been lost. I defend the concept, but not so much the execution."
  5. 2 Live Crew - Coitus Ensues
  6. How to Write Badly Well - Coitus Ensues: "If in doubt, initiate sex."
  7. Alastair Campbell - Coitus Ensues

     Multiple categories/Other - 3/ 50 
  1. The Cousins' War Series - Coitus Ensues: Oh yes, love scenes and fanservice are the major selling point of the TV adaption. However, in the Starz version, there's a few sex scenes that are a bit redundant. A good example is Episode 8 where Henry Tudor was banging a woman. Yes, Henry Tudor has grown into a man now but there's other ways to show it.
  2. Outlander - Coitus Ensues: Like with many HBO shows, there's a lot of gratuitous sex scenes. While some make sense in the plot, the level of explicitness can't really be called anything except fanservice. This is not only done with the leads either-some of the minor characters get into it too.
  3. Memes.Super Smash Bros Ultimate - "(Let's Hit the) Climax!" Explanation 

Edited by GastonRabbit on Dec 3rd 2022 at 7:13:54 AM

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#27: Mar 13th 2023 at 12:27:01 AM

I might dewick Main/ soon. That's where I usually start with projects that involve going through every wick (renames, cuts, etc.), but I never got around to this one since I've been working on other projects during the times I've worked on dewicking.

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#28: Mar 18th 2023 at 8:44:28 AM

I finally dewicked Main/ after holding off on it for quite a while.

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#30: Mar 22nd 2023 at 9:12:49 PM

We now have 364 to go.

Edit: Enlisting help for the Se/ page at the moment, as the English version of the page had it as correct use.

Edited by Berrenta on Mar 22nd 2023 at 12:09:14 PM

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#31: Mar 24th 2023 at 6:00:31 PM

Less than 50! Let's go!

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#32: Mar 24th 2023 at 6:06:30 PM

[up] Wow that was fast! Thanks Berrenta/whoever else worked on this!

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#33: Mar 24th 2023 at 6:21:11 PM

Done, so locking up.

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Trope Repair Shop: Coitus Ensues
28th Nov '22 1:42:01 AM

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Consensus was to rename Coitus Ensues due to misuse, since the trope is supposed to be about a gratuitous sex scene stopping the plot, but it's frequently misused to refer to sex scenes in general. What should its new name be?

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