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Thanks to inherent biological traits, some form of Applied Phlebotinum, etc, two characters are in a situation where they have to have sex in order to save their lives. Frequently used in Fan Fic, especially Slash Fic. A variety of Deus Sex Machina, with a bit of Intimate Healing thrown in. Compare with Aliens Made Them Do It. If saving the species is the reason then it might be an Adam and Eve Plot. If the characters merely "need" sexual satisfaction to improve their mood and disposition, it's an example of You Need to Get Laid — this trope is for situations in which they literally do need to have sex. The inverse of this is Sex Signals Death. Contrast Can't Have Sex, Ever. Also, not to be confused with the anime short series Meat Or Die. noreallife Examples |
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Wonder Woman (1987): Prior to instigating reforms and rejoining with the Themysciran tribe of Amazons the Bana would offer some male opponents the choice of becoming breeding slaves instead of death in battle or execution, meaning their only choices were to die at the women's hands or be chained up in stalls and used for reproduction. | |
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Thanks to her feline DNA, Max on Dark Angel goes into heat twice a year, as seen in the episodes "Heat" and "Meow", which makes her check out or come onto every male in close proximity. While she won't literally die if she doesn't have sex, it sure feels like it. In "Heat" she ultimately doesn't have sex and the situation is largely Played for Laughs; in "Meow" she bangs attractive delivery guy Rafer and the emotional aftermath of her hormones driving her to have a one-night stand with a stranger when her rational mind didn't really want to is treated a lot more seriously. | |
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And in Star Trek: Enterprise, an alien virus caused T'Pol's Pon Farr to manifest early. Unlike earlier examples, instead of growing general irritability and irrational anger she acts like a cat in heat. A cure was found before she could convince someone to do the deed. In the Mirror Universe, however, Tucker does make reference to "helping" her with that problem. | |
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This is — no, really— canon in Skins, with bonus incest: in retaliation for a vicious prank, Josh Stock kidnaps Tony's sister Effy, overdoses her with heroin, and tries to force Tony to have sex with her before he'll call an ambulance, although he inexplicably (very likely for real-life reasons having to do with Kaya Scodelario's age) backs down rather than make them go through with it. | |
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Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire: In a rather ... controversial flashback, Stonewater rescues Melna, while they're both children, from execution by claiming her as his wife. Unbeknownst to Stonewater, Melna's tribe holds to the tradition that claiming a wife requires immediate physical consummation. As Melna just witnessed both her parents die, she is emotionally hysterical and unable to give effective consent, so Stonewater is forced to rape her. This is shown to be a deeply traumatic experience for both of them. | |
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A Downplayed example in the RWBY fanfic Linked in Life and Love kicks off the plot, as Blake the cat Faunus starts to go into heat just as a lockdown of Beacon Academy is initiated and she finds she's out of the medication normally distributed to Faunus to help suppress it. While there's no suggestion that she'd actually die if she's not relieved, one hour into trying to get through it cold turkey and Blake's already sweating and trembling, nearly kissing Ruby without asking because Blake's having trouble staying lucid — and there's still nine more hours to go. Blake knows already that going solo won't stop the symptoms, and online research by the rest of Team RWBY indicates that Blake's symptoms will progress to a high fever and phantom pains if left unchecked. | |
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A same-sex version of this was used in the 1990s sitcom Pig Sty, where one of the five guys sharing an apartment got frozen while he was barbecuing for a party being held in the middle of winter. The resident physician who examined the frozen guy said that someone has to sleep naked with him in order to restore his body temperature. The other men in the apartment didn't seem so willing. | |
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White Court vampires from The Dresden Files feed off their victims' emotional energies, usually by having sex with them. There are cases in the series where badly-wounded Whites have slipped into a sexual-predatory frenzy, enthralling or outright raping any victim unlucky enough to come within reach, so they can use the stolen energies to heal their own potentially-fatal wounds. | |
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The World God Only Knows: Possibly the only g-rated example. The protagonist must seduce other girls to exorcise the evil spirits possessing them, and fulfill his contract with hell. An Explosive Leash makes sure he does not skeedaddle out of it. The catch? We're talking about a Celibate Hero who Hates Being Touched by girls. He barely manages the kiss needed to seal the deal without collapsing every time. | |
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Extremely popular in Supernatural slash fic as a way to help Sam and Dean get over their But He's My Brother aversion to sexual activity. The canonical series has already established them as being so codependent that they're willing to sell their souls and go to hell for one another so writers figure what's a little sex amongst brothers if it'll save each other's lives? This is usually commenced by one or both brothers being exposed to sex pollen (makes them super horny and their brains will fry from fever if they don't act on it), sex magic (a witch or a curse that forces them to be sexual together), or some combination that literally creates a screw or die situation (name has been mellowed for the less spicy nature of TV Tropes). Also used for slash pairings that are less popular in the fandom and lack even subtextual support in canon, such as John and either of his sons, Castiel and Sam, Castiel and any other angel, since angels are technically all siblings or characters who are canonically enemies such as Sam/ Lucifer or Dean/ Ruby or canonically strangers such as John/ Ruby or John/ Castiel. It also crops up sometimes in Dean/Castiel fic, often as a way to force Dean "Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?" Winchester to acknowledge his repressed attraction to Castiel, and Castiel being an angel with a biology potentially different from humans means that the Excuse Plot leading up to the "mate or die" scenario can get quite creative. An example of this is Our Sweet Rapture where Castiel uses up almost all of his grace trying to protect Sam from a de-aging spell which causes the part of his grace that he put into Dean's soul when he rescued him from Hell to instinctively try to reunite with its owner, an instinct that physically manifests as their bodies wanting to, ahem, unite with each other and will burn up Dean from the inside out if he doesn't, ahem, let it find release with Castiel every now and then. |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: There's an fanfic Bound. where Shinji and Asuka are kidnapped by SEELE and put into a meat locker naked as punishment for Shinji aborting Third Impact. Naturally, Asuka comes up with an idea how they could make more heat before the dropping temperature kills them. Cue this trope. | |
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In the Hero: The Guardian Smurf story "Smurfette's Crazy Love", Smurfette comes down with a condition where she grows breasts and has an insatiable desire to mate with Hero, who at the time was married to Wonder. Realizing that Smurfette could die if she doesn't mate with Hero, and also that Hero didn't want to do anything that would make him unfaithful to his first wife, the Smurfs create a life-size doll of Hero for Smurfette to expend her mating energy upon. | |
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In Animal X, a race of reptilian people need to breed to save their race. The problem is there are zero females and they don't want to mix blood with humans, so when one of them does find a compatible person (who even turns out to have been born female, unbeknownst to him), it results in the poor guy getting nearly raped (and eaten in one case) by every other guy he encounters. Making matters worse is his condition, which is slowly turning him back into a girl. | |
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In Homestuck, the Alternian trolls have a bizarre and brutal reproductive system involving genetic material collection by IMPERIAL DRONES. The brutal part comes in when the drone finds someone who refuses to, or simply cannot, fill the FILIAL PAILS; it simply kills him/her. | |
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Lisanne Norman's Sholan Alliance series features Leska pairs who live and die by this trope. | |
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In King's Game, a few of the King's orders are for two students to have sex or be punished. | |
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In Tina's Story, canine and feline hybrids in their heat cycle have a milder form of Pon Farr: They won't die if they don't have sex, but they'll want to, suffering mental and physical distress. When Tina's cycle came unexpectedly soon after giving birth, she needed medical intervention so her body could recover properly. | |
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The writers of Red Dwarf wrote a script "Identity Within", where the Cat has to breed with a female of his species or be killed by a growing poison sac in his body. The crew find a female, but as her species is a Proud Warrior Race she's none too impressed by Cat until he proves himself in combat. Unfortunately the script proved too expensive to film, which means (ironically) that Red Dwarf's resident ladies man is the only member of the crew who never gets laid. A reading of the script by Chris Barrie is available on the Series VII DVD. | |
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In Dragon Age: Origins, it's revealed that the only way to kill the Archdemon permanently is for Grey Warden to deliver the killing blow, preventing the Archdemon from body-surfing to the nearest Darkspawn and instead forcing it into the Grey Warden, killing them both. However, Morrigan offers a way out by performing a Blood Magic ritual with either a Male Warden or Alistair/Loghain, impregnating her with a child who will absorb the soul of the Archdemon in their place, but free from all the corruption of the Taint. | |
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Nappa plays this straight in Dragon Ball Z Abridged, when he (and an unwilling Vegeta) land on the Arlians' planet and force their king and queen to mate on pain of death- except it's the entire race and planet at risk, not just the maters. Unfortunately for the Arlians, after Nappa and Vegeta leave, Vegeta blows up the planet anyway. | |
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That exact fact was used as an innuendo in The X-Files episode "Detour". Scully tries to keep Mulder warm after he goes into shock from being attacked by a wild animal. Mulder quips "I've heard the best way to generate body heat is to crawl naked into a sleeping bag with someone else who's already naked." Scully replies "Well, maybe if it rains sleeping bags, you'll get lucky." Unfortunately, this never happens. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Wang-liang, a race of utterly black-skinned ogres from the Kara-tur setting, live for over two thousand years, but their females become fertile exactly once during their lifetimes. If she doesn't find a mate before her year-long fertility period ends, a female wang-liang will die, and similarly, if a male wang-liang doesn't find a mate ten years after reaching sexual maturity, he'll perish as well. Fortunately for the species, wang-liang births always result in mixed-sex twins or quadruplets, so they tend to have a steady gender ratio. But this reproductive quirk isn't doing the wang-liang any favors, so between that and competition from their infinitely more prolific human rivals, the giants consider themselves a Dying Race. | |
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Harry Potter fandom: The Snape/Lupin ship saw a great number of fanfics using this trope, where Snape and Lupin were imprisoned together right before a full moon. This would mean Snape's death as soon as Lupin took upon his werewolf form, but if Lupin considered Snape to be his "mate", the werewolf would spare them. Therefore... One particular fanfic featured a once-in-1000-years event where Hogwarts ghosts would compulsively kill anyone who was innocent (i.e. a virgin). Hermione didn't quite get out, so Snape had to go in to rescue her... yes, that way. It's also a particular favorite of Harry/Draco writers, who invented the Male Veela fic, where poor Draco had to bond (sexually, of course) with his Soul Mate, or perish. Naturally, his worst enemy was his destined Soul Mate. The fandom has an Epileptic Forest involving the sex lives of werewolves, with (mostly Slash Fic) writers coming up with new ways of justifying Lupin shagging anyone in the cast. |
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A variation in Farscape. If the princess doesn't marry John, she can't be queen because he's the only male who can give her healthy children (a prerequisite for becoming queen); if she can't be queen, the crown goes to her brother; if he becomes King, he allies the Kingdom with the Scarran Empire, the Peacekeepers invade by way of retaliation and hundreds of billions of people die- likely including the princess. On the other hand, if John doesn't marry the princess, he gets turned over to Scorpius to be tortured and killed. They end up splitting the difference and using his genetics for her children but having her marry the guy she's actually in love with (and lying about who the father is). | |
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Jory and Kol in S.L. Viehl's Blade Dancer. | |
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A Chrono Crusade fanfic used this trope explaining that Chrono needed to give some of his legion to turn Rosette into a demon so she could feed him astral energy and apparently digestion would dissolve the legion and blood transfusion would kill her. | |
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Frequently done in The Lord of the Rings fanfic, often though not always with Elves. This site debunks the idea. | |
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In Star Trek fandom, Vulcans go through something similar called "Pon Farr." The very origin of Slash Fics comes from corny situations where Spock had to mate with someone (Kirk) "or else." The various shows themselves found loopholes to get out of the implications. It was 'Mate or Die' originally, but turned into 'Mate, Fight or Die' to give the writers an out in the ST: Voyager episode 'Blood Fever'. The idea in TOS 'Amok Time' was that if anyone challenged a Vulcan's right to his wife while he was in the throes of the blood fever they'd literally have to kill him to stop him. Later writers missed the point (perhaps intentionally) that Spock was snapped out of Pon Farr by the shock of thinking he'd killed his friend. His line "It must have been the combat" was a cover for this (embarrassing) emotional reaction. It's also notable that originally, pon farr was something that only Vulcan males were subjected to. By the time of Star Trek: Enterprise and later Expanded Universe literature, pon farr became flanderized to where it affected all Vulcans. The fic Written in the Stars, a fic in which the Kirks of both timelines are women, deserves a mention as it puts a spin on Pon Farr. In this story, not even combat can relieve male Vulcans of Pon Farr, and if a male loses the right to mate with his betrothed, another woman would have to be found before the male died. In the original timeline, Fem!Kirk offered herself up as a mate for Spock in order to save him, which was how they were married (and how their daughter was conceived). The circumstances in the Alt Reality become a lot more complicated. |
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The Invention of Lying: Invoked when Ricky Gervais' character discovers lying for the first time in human history. To test his new-found ability, he stops a random attractive woman on the street (Stephanie March) and tells her that unless they have sex "right now" that the world will come to an end. Never realizing that he might not be telling the truth, she agrees in an instant. "Do we have time to get a hotel room? Or should we just do it here?" There is a certain irony in the fact that Ms. March played the ADA on Law & Order: SVU for a number of years. |
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One As the World Turns fanfic has Luke and Reid snowed in and have to get warm. It turns out Reid actually had that planned all along. Reid's a doctor, so Luke believed the having to keep each other warm excuse. | |
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Though it hasn't reached the level of sexual intercourse, yet, in The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter has Noir receive Life Energy from performing erotic acts with the opposite sex. Should the LP reach zero, he dies, so he has to engage in erotic acts with as many women as possible, just to stay alive. | |
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One example of this was an episode of Taxi, with Latka Gravis and some random female cabdriver. They do it, and it almost destroys Latka's marriage. Well, technically it does destroy his marriage. They then remarry 30 seconds later swearing to "really try to make it work this time" |
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Played for laughs in Boy Meets World when Eric and a rather attractive female co-worker with a good deal of out door survival knowledge get trapped in their car. She does this once Eric begins to succumb to the cold (off screen of course, as this is Disney) and explains how they survived later. Eric is mortified that she didn't wake him so he could enjoy being under the cover of a sleeping bag naked with a girl. She does seriously point out that they were in a little more danger than casual sex would permit. | |
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Naruto: There is an ItaSaku oneshot floating around in which Sakura had ingested nightshade, and the fastest way for her to burn it out of her system long enough to make an antidote is to have sex with a certain Uchiha. | |
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The fic Written in the Stars, a fic in which the Kirks of both timelines are women, deserves a mention as it puts a spin on Pon Farr. In this story, not even combat can relieve male Vulcans of Pon Farr, and if a male loses the right to mate with his betrothed, another woman would have to be found before the male died. In the original timeline, Fem!Kirk offered herself up as a mate for Spock in order to save him, which was how they were married (and how their daughter was conceived). The circumstances in the Alt Reality become a lot more complicated. | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series: The episode "Amok Time" reveals that Spock must return to Vulcan and mate or he will die. All Vulcans go through a process known as Pon Farr every 7 years; it makes them increasingly agitated, violent and dangerous for anyone, especially unmarried women, to be around. (Despite what some believe, there's no indication that Vulcans only mate during pon farr, only that they must do so at that time. D.C. Fontana confirmed that Vulcans can and do feel desire and take mates at other times, which has been canonically shown in more recent installments like Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.) While Vulcans are betrothed at the age of seven to ensure they have a marriage partner for when Pon Farr finally strikes, Spock is in deep space when his occurs, meaning his condition is very advanced by the time they finally reach Vulcan. As Spock's intended wife doesn't want to marry him, she challenges the arrangement by demanding Kirk fight Spock on her behalf, expecting Kirk to be killed and Spock to spurn her in retaliation. Believing he's killed Kirk, Spock is snapped out of the Pon Farr and he does indeed free his intended wife from the arrangement. This episode is responsible for launching Slash Fic as a fanfic genre, and has made Kirk/Spock one of the most enduring and prolific fanfic pairings of all time. | |
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Futurama: In one episode, Leela and Zapp are forced to have sex by a censorship death star/V-ger homage. It thought they were Adam and Eve, and decided that them mating was the only way to redeem Earth's for its sexually promiscuous sins. If they didn't mate, it would have destroyed Earth. Inverted with the Decapodians (Zoidberg's species), who are instinctively drawn back to their home planet to mate, and then die. Fry states this dilemma pretty succinctly: |
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Inverted in Grant: it's pretty much Mate Or Kill (in actual fact, simple oral contact with skin will satisfy his Horror Hunger, but it never ends at just smooching). | |
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Meg's Boyfriend: Jillian and Chris get trapped in a cabin after an avalanche. It begins to get cold, and well, you can probably guess what happens next. | |
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Retired Witches Mysteries: The sea witch in book 2 reveals that if she doesn't mate with a male witch who can survive the experience once every hundred years, she'll die. Unfortunately, if they aren't the right one for her, they die. This ceases to be an issue once she's been returned to her sea god husband. | |
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Recently, My Sister Is Unusual: Kanzaki Mitsuki wears a chastity belt that will kill her and send her to Hell if she doesn't perform a satisfactory amount of ecchi activity. | |
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In the visual novel of Fate/stay night people can share their magical energy by having sex. This paves the way for Shirou and Saber having sex before confronting Berserker and Gilgamesh on two separate occasions, and Shirou having sex with Rin before fighting Archer in the UBW section of the novel. This also holds for the Heaven's Feel route, due to the fact that the worms in Sakura's body and the strain of maintaining Rider are burning up her prana like crazy, which makes her clamor for anything that can restore it. Largely meaning sex. It starts out embarrassing for her and Shirou, but they're in love, so they don't mind. Rather squickily, this is also the reason why Zouken had Shinji regularly rape Sakura and was implied to have done so himself—training her with Crest Worms massacred her prana supply. |
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Crank, in which the lead character needs to keep his heart pumping with adrenaline in order to keep himself alive, where one of the methods for doing so was for him to have sex with someone. In public. | |
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In the first volume of Nekopara, Chocola and Vanilla trick Kashou into believing this is the case for their species. When he finds out otherwise, he's a bit irked. | |
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In the Duckman episode "Pig Amok", an ancestor of Cornfed ate a poisoned berry that messed with his DNA, causing all his descendants to die if they wait too long before losing their virginity. Or something. | |
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The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross has Ramona Random, an assassin from the CIA's occult equivalent with a succubus bound to her soul. The thing is regularly "fed" by consuming the souls of people Ramona has sex with...and when it gets hungry and Ramona's mark dies of a heart attack before climaxing, she's in a rough spot, as "if it doesn't get the little death, it'll go straight for the big one." | |
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A milder version comes up in quite a lot of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic lemons: Ponies have a mating season just like real horses (or as similar as the author's knowledge of horses allow). While they don't die if they don't have sex, they become quite obsessed with it and it makes anything but trying to get laid very hard, justifying OOC behaviour and the like. The end results vary: In Why Didn't Ah Stay At The Farm, Big Macintosh makes the mistake of going into town during that time, while in Fun Bus to Manehattan the Mane 6 decides to counter the lack of eligible males in Ponville by just taking the bus to Manehattan for some quick sex tourism (NSFW, though the mood of the stories for each of the Mane 6 is actually quite different). | |
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Another, rather less thought-through Doctor Who fanfic unintentionally managed to point out the Unfortunate Implications inherent in the Mate or Freeze scenario: The Doctor and Rose are trapped somewhere and Rose is freezing to death. Since the Doctor's natural body temperature is too low to do Rose any good, he grudgingly resolves to do the one thing he can to raise his own temperature, in order to act as a thermal blanket for Rose afterwards. However, the writer has him angst about this decision for a while, because Rose is near catatonic with cold at this point and really too out of it to consent or get any pleasure out of the act. He even worries that her body has shut down too far to make sex physically possible. But then he finds that she's still wet enough that it won't hurt her, so it's all good. Except that the readers are left to ask themselves why the Doctor had to involve Rose's anatomy at all, if all he needed was to induce his own physical arousal... | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series, episode 16: | |
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An example from Empath: The Luckiest Smurf: Empath, in an alternate timeline where he is returned to Psychelia a year after his 150th birthday, suffers from this condition, and thus a female Psyche is chosen to be his mate. What makes this example odd is that the Psyches are Expies of Vulcans and yet for the most part are raised to be asexual. Also in the story "Papa's Big Crush", where Papa Smurf is affected by the "pheromone cologne" mixed with other chemicals, causing him to be Hulked Out and to have an insatiable desire for Smurfette. Fortunately, Smurfette was spared the squicky fate by the Smurfs creating a life-size doll of her for Papa Smurf to expend his mating energy upon. And in "Grouchy And The Love Doll", his now-animate love doll Angel tells Grouchy that he must make love to her or else she will die. |
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Ninja Scroll gives us Jubei, poisoned and seeking the antidote. As it turns out, the only way to stop the poison is with more poison. Good thing his partner is a sexy ninja with a Kiss of Death. Interesting subversion; She offers herself — naked — to him. He refuses the sex, seemingly on principle. Insult to injury, before she dies, she confesses she loved him, and wished they could have made love before she died. |
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The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle invokes this without the Applied Phlebotinum. The plot of the novel involves First Contact with a species of aliens who literally die if they don't mate and get pregnant due to their Bizarre Alien Biology. The resulting overpopulation hasn't been very good for their long-term prospects as a civilization. | |
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Parallel Paradise: The all-female denizens of the alternate world die before turning 20 due to a curse on the world from the God of Deep Jealousy; the only two ways to avoid this fate are to mate with a man or kill the God himself, which would break the curse entirely. | |
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Joked about in Teen Wolf, where virgins are being kidnapped for Virgin Sacrifice, and Stiles declares that someone needs to sex him right now to protect his life. Danny jokingly volunteers, and Stiles is annoyed to find out he was kidding. | |
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Tsukihime plays this literally; making sexy time is the only way to hold back Roa in Ciel's route. She likes it in the ass, though, so it may not exactly be mating. And then there are Hisui and Kohaku's routes, as the two girls are "Synchronizers" and can boost the energy and healing of anyone they have sex with. Hisui's first time with Shiki, Lord of Bedroom Jackassery, is used to save him from energy drain and Kohaku's poisons. Kohaku does it to recharge Shiki in her route, as well, and Makihisa's rationale for raping her when she was a little girl was that if he didn't use her power, he'd go insane. Completely averted in another route: Akiha's, as she and Shiki have sex when she's barely got a grip left on her humanity. Shortly afterward, she becomes the Crimson Red Vermilion, which to Akiha is, for all intents and purposes, equal to death for her, as once a Tohno has lost to their inversion impulse they're no longer human. |
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In Laurell K. Hamiltion's Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series the title character becomes a sort of succubus. She has to have sex regularly or she will die. Often this leads to situations were she has to have emergency sex to save herself or others. | |
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In an episode of Tracker (2001), one of the aliens has a build-up of poisons that must be "released" daily, in order for him to survive. To that end, he becomes a pickup artist, sleeping with women and leaving before they lapse into a coma. Needless to say, he gets very upset when he is just about to do it with yet another woman, and she suddenly changes her mind, as he doesn't have time to go look for another. Said woman was Mel, the titular alien tracker's human (mostly) partner. Her task was to act as bait, so that Cole could get a jump on the guy. Unfortunately, Cole was late, so Mel had to play the "changed my mind" card... and nearly got raped for her trouble. |
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In the Book of Genesis from The Bible, Jacob's second wife Rachel gets jealous that her sister, his first wife Leah, is giving him children, and demands "Give me children [literally sons] or I'll die." (Whether that means she will kill herself or something else entirely is unknown.) When Jacob tells her that he's not in the place of God to decide whether or not she would have children, Rachel gives him her handmaid so that she could have children through an ancient form of surrogacy. Still not satisfied, Rachel has one of Leah's sons give her some of the mandrakes (believed to be an inducer of fertility) in exchange for Jacob sleeping with Leah and giving her more children. It's only when God finally decides to grant Rachel conception that she gives birth to her first son Joseph. | |
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Once Bitten: In the (very early) Jim Carrey comedy, the ancient vampire played by Lauren Hutton has to feed on the blood of teenage male virgins to renew her youth. Carrey's girlfriend saves him before the third (final) bite. No, not by killing the vampire, smart guy. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager: They solved Tuvok's pon farr with the holodeck so he could be with a simulation of his wife (who's waiting for him across the galaxy on Vulcan), though he was interrupted the first time. Another episode solved Tuvok's pon farr by having the Doctor SING at him until they could knock him out. Subversion, since it was just a holodeck simulation by the Doctor. On yet another episode, Ensign Vorik, a Vulcan, mind melds with Torres while in the throes of Pon Farr, thus "infecting" her with it. Paris agrees to do the deed to cure her, but Vorik is infatuated with Torres and challenges Paris to a ritual fight for her. Torres is having none of that, so she decides to fight as Paris' champion. She and Vorik end up fighting each other, thus purging their Pon Farrs without sex. |
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ElfQuest has Recognition, a telepathic mating urge that forces elf couples with good genetic matches to mate and have children. Elves who try to resist become sick, though Word of God is that the elves won't actually die, since that defeats the point. They may feel like they're going to, though. It should be noted that (1) these elves are almost always overjoyed with the opportunity to have a child, and (2) there is no such thing as cheating in the ElfQuest world, and more often than not Recognized mates are instantly welcomed into their new family, forming bisexual three-way relationships. Only two cases of elves being unwilling to mate are at all relevant to the plot: the main characters Cutter and Leetah, who are both just being stubborn and end up Happily Married; and the young wolf-elf Dewshine with the old bird-elf Tyldak, because Tyldak was a villain at that point. (Ironically, Recognition allowed them to see each other's "true selves", which caused Dewshine to be somewhat attracted to Tyldak - seeing his original body, not his flesh-shaped one - and Tyldak to be absolutely repulsed by Dewshine - seeing her wolf heritage instead of her regular pretty elf face.) Also a case of Mother Nature Knows Best. The result of a Recognition-forced mating will always (1) successfully come to term as a healthy baby (unless an outside force prevents it), and (2) be a genetically superior child who has all of the parents' genetic advantages and few, or any, of their weaknesses. Often, the offspring will manifest entirely new abilities or powers, as well. E.g., if one of the parents is a genius who possesses extremely high psychic ability at the expense of physical frailty, while the other is a half-witted, psychically inept world-class bruiser, the resulting child is pretty much guaranteed to have similar psychic ability to that of the first parent (if not more), tremendous physical strength and endurance, and a genius IQ. The drawbacks will simply never manifest. Also, in the New Blood series, Dodia and Door were Recognized, but Door soon crossed the Moral Event Horizon as a villain, such that Dodia had to bash him over the head with a club to end his crimes. Whether or not she could've done this before they'd had sex is unclear.note Dodia is shown as having gone completely bonkers later on |
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The Epic of Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh turned down Ishtar's marriage proposal for the excellent reason that all her lovers die quickly and horribly after loving her. In response, Ishtar throws a temper tantrum to convince her father, the sky-god Anu to sic the Bull of Heaven, embodiment of the gods' vengeance, on Gilgamesh's city, Uruk, to destroy everyone in it. Predictably, Gilgamesh and Enkiddu slew the Bull, and offered the beast's heart to the sun god Shamash. When Ishtar came to the walls of Uruk to curse Gilgamesh again, Enkiddu came to his friend's defense, and tore off the Bull's right thigh, throwing it at her face while threatening to do the same to her. As a result, Ishtar convinced the other gods to curse Enkiddu with a fatal illness, and thus, grant her some measure of revenge against Gilgamesh for spurning her. | |
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Used in the Dragonlance short story Raistlin's Daughter, in which a mysterious woman accidentally forms a painful magical connection with the titular character that can only be severed if she bears his child. When she finally tracks him down and gets him alone so she can explain, Raistlin is less than pleased. Of course, they're conveniently alone in a cave in the middle of a blizzard with no reliable source of heat. note Three guesses as to who lured Cameron away. And wiped both Raistlin and Cameron's minds afterwards. Though she claims that is was because if they knew her race, they'd hate her and the child. | |
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The title characters of The Lords of Satyr are half-Satyr men who are stricken with overwhelming lust when the moon is full — if they cannot discharge this lust at least once before sunrise, they die. Lyon Satyr falls victim to a sleep spell at exactly the wrong moment, forcing another character to rape him to save his life — even then, complex rules about what counts as 'mating' mean that he does not fully recover until his lover Juliette has sex with him. | |
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