Will We Ever Be All Together Again After We Die

"Decease cannot stop true love. Information technology tin just delay it for a picayune while."

Fate may have kept them apart, the globe may have frowned on their love, and disharmonize may have wormed itself between them, but they're finally together — besides bad they had to die for it to happen.

Together in Death is when a couple is literally or metaphorically reunited in death. They might be buried together, seen together in the afterlife (almost often in Heaven or a like paradise, but non ever), or their corpses discovered embracing i another. It'due south not necessarily a romantic couple — information technology can simply as hands be a pair of siblings, a parent and child, or a couple of True Companions.

This is a proficient manner to evidence the couple's devotion to one another, even unto death; it is also a tidy style to show a (lasting) reconciliation. Often forms function of a Bittersweet Ending. Less positively, the death of a loved one tin be a pop motivator for suicide, in an attempt to invoke this trope. For the inversion of this trope, run into Necromantic, where devotion to a loved one drives them to bring them dorsum from expiry.

Compare Ghost Reunion Ending, Reincarnation Romance, Died Happily Ever After, You lot Are Worth Hell.

This is a Death Trope so spoilers below.

---

Example subpages:

• Anime & Manga
• Fan Works
• Films — Live-Action
• Literature
• Alive-Action TV
• Music
• Myths & Organized religion
• Video Games
• Real Life

Other examples:

    open/close all folders

    Comic Books

• Ralph Dibny, the Elongated Human, always saw himself more than as a detective than a superhero — and after his wife Sue'south murder, it seemed the DCU was determined to make him a Butt-Monkey besides. But he got a measure of victory by the end of 52 — he trapped Felix Faust and the demon Neron in Dr. Fate'southward belfry, while they thought they were tricking him. It price him his life, but he was reunited with Sue — and it seemed they were going to spend the afterlife as Topper, instead of Nick and Nora.
• When Franklin Storm is fatally wounded in Fantastic Iv #32, he tells his children Sue and Johnny not to exist pitiful, every bit he'll finally be reunited with his love wife (who'd been killed in a car accident years earlier).
• Greenish Lantern: The battery of the Star Sapphires is congenital around crystallized remains on Zamaron found this mode. They turn out to exist the original selves of Hawkman and Hawkgirl.
• Judge Dredd: After the Apocalypse War wiped out half of the Large Meg, a comatose patient remained alive for 8 years because his life support system continued to run equally an independent unit afterward the hospital was destroyed. His wife'southward body was however sitting at his bedside later on she died in the nail, but her ghost remained trapped in the ruins. When Judge Dredd and Psi-Judge Anderson find the patient on a routine cheque through the area and conclude that they can't take him back due to the years of radiation exposure, they plow off the unit of measurement. The couple is then reunited in the afterlife.
• In "My Heart of Darkness", a rewrite of the Falling in Honey comic story, "Lesson in Love", by Jeanne Martinet (found in Truer Than True Romance), Nan falls in love with her teacher, Wayne Allen, but tin can't print him because of her writings that bargain with nuclear war, existential angst, and expiry. She tries to keep a directly confront, only this turns From Bad to Worse. She fifty-fifty notices that he has a thing for Dumb Blondes similar his student Marsha. But 1 rainy twenty-four hours, while Wayne is driving in the auto with Nan, she discovers that he likewise is angsty like her, dislikes sappy stories about cherry pie, and secretly wants to dice. Equally the car they are in purposefully swerves off the road in the path of an oncoming truck and plunges into the river, she realizes that she and Wayne will finally be together eternally in the afterlife.
• In Onetime Man Quill (set up in the universe of Old Man Logan, where the world's supervillains united to slaughter most of the heroes), Star-Lord finds the skeletons of Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman, who died in each other's artillery.
• Robin (1993): Shawn Wells and Catalina Del Toro founded the Lords of the Avenues and took a supposed super-serum trying to stay together in the face of gang violence and police corruption in Gotham. When Tim finds them horrifically dying side by side from the effects of the serum he mentally notes that they will get to stay together, merely not the way they wanted.
• Superman: At the shut of The Final Days of Superman, Wonder Adult female comforts the dying Superman past telling him that all four of his parents (Jor-El and Lara, Jonathan and Martha Kent) will exist there waiting for him when he gets to Heaven.
• There's a comic book version of the Turandot opera where this is invoked: Instead of committing suicide, a maddened and thoroughly broken Liu stabs Prince Calaf to death just as he manages to get through to Princess Turandot and is virtually to give her a True Love'due south Kiss. Cradling Calaf's lifeless body, Liu says they will exist Together in Decease while Turandot remains lone forever, as penalization for her cruelty; she and so stabs herself and dies, leaving a sobbing Turandot with her hands empty.
• Nnewts: Herk's begetter is a workaholic who doesn't spend much time with his family unit. In Book 1, Herk's parents and their unhatched eggs are killed by the Lizzarks, but they reunite in the afterlife.

    Fairy Tales

• In The Brothers Grimm tale "The Iii Snake Leaves", the princess swears she will only marry whoever is willing to exist buried alive with her if she dies first; and she declares she will do the aforementioned if her husband dies first.

  The King had a daughter who was very beautiful, but she was as well very foreign. She had made a vow to accept no one as her lord and husband who did not promise to let himself be buried alive with her if she died first. "If he loves me with all his heart," said she, "of what use will life be to him afterwards?" On her side she would do the same, and if he died first, would become down to the grave with him.

    Films — Animation

• The king and queen of Atlantis from Atlantis: The Lost Empire, who are both final seen as a recently added giant floating rock head and the Atlantean Crystal, respectively, while their son-in-police and girl become the next king and queen.
• In Bolt, when Bolt couldn't find an exit big enough for Penny, she insists that Bolt leaves her in that location. But Commodities chooses to lie beside her in their potential last moments. Fortunately, they brand it.
• The Volume of Life:
  • Attempted by Manolo after Maria's apparent decease. It fails because she's still alive.
  • Carlos and Carmen are reunited following the former's decease and seem quite happy together.
• During the vocal "Worthless" from The Brave Little Toaster, a Texan wedding car and a funeral hearse are both crushed to death at the same time past a Auto Crusher at the end of a conveyor belt.
• In Coco, Miguel'due south keen-grandmother is the but one left keeping her father's retentiveness alive, because the rest of the family has been taught to hate him. Past extension, this memory is the only thing keeping him from fading away in the afterlife. At the end, they are together in the afterlife equally they prepare to visit the family on the next Dia de los Meurtos.
• In Corpse Bride, the undead Emily falls in beloved with Victor, but their Accidental Union isn't legal because of the fact that Emily is dead and Victor alive. In order to validate the spousal relationship, they must repeat the anniversary in the state of the living, and Victor must impale himself during information technology. Victor, devastated by the loss of his living love, Victoria, accepts this program and gain to go through with the ceremony, but is stopped before he kills himself past Emily, when she sees poor Victoria spying on them and realizes what she's doing will hurt Victoria the aforementioned style she was hurt.
• The catastrophe of the Durch blithe short' 'Father and Daughter'' appears to be this. A human hugs his little daughter goodbye and commits Suicide by Sea, rowing away in a rowboat, never to return. The shallow sea coast is drained and turned into dry land, a Dutch polder. Decades afterward the girl, at present an old woman, finds the boat and lies downward in it. She wakes, and sees something. She goes running off, and ages backwards into a immature daughter once again. She runs upward to her father, looking as he did all those decades ago, and embraces him. It'southward implied that they reunited in death.
• Towards the stop of Concluding Fantasy VII: Appearance Children, Cloud sees the spirits of Aerith and Zack finally reuniting with each other, and they walk together to the afterlife.
• In Kubo and the Two Strings, Kubo's parents Sariatu and Hanzo are finally reunited in expiry with their memories and truthful forms restored.
• Occurs in The Princess and the Frog. Ray gets to exist with his Evangeline, in the end.
• In Toy Story 3 this is attempted by the toys when they are trapped in the furnace. Instead of fighting, they all hold hands and wait. Fortunately the LGM's and the Claw save them.
• In When the Current of air Blows despite the Downer Ending this was the 1 faint bright spot. Hilda and Jim died of radiation sickness

    Podcasts

• The Risk Zone: Balance has Magnus and Julia in the Distant Finale.

    Verse

• Appears in "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes.
• "Lenore": Lenore is overcome with despair when she realizes that her lover Wilhelm may not come up dorsum from the war, and says that she does not want to alive without Wilhelm. At midnight, much to Lenore's joy, Wilhelm appears on a horse to accept Lenore away with him. However, Wilhelm is, in fact, dead, and their ride ends on the graveyard where Wilhelm is buried. Lenore dies of terror on Wilhelm'south grave, and thus is ultimately reunited with Wilhelm.
• "Chant for Two Veterans" by Walt Whitman does this. A male parent and son fell together in the American Ceremonious War, and were buried together in a double grave.

    Tabletop Games

• Lore from Vampire: The Masquerade tells of a pair known only as "The Lovers". Possessing love described as "perfect", they were the starting time people Embraced past Caine, hoping to make up for his evil deeds by giving the pair eternity together. Nevertheless, the pair is distraught by the Embrace taking away their chance to have a kid together and cull to commit suicide together.
• One Night Ultimate Vampire added "Marks" and the Cupid role to the 1 Night Ultimate Werewolf serial. Cupid's action is to give two other players the Mark of Honey which can invoke this trope. The effect of the Mark of Love is that if a player with it is "killed", so is the player with the other ane.

    Theatre

• At the end of 25 Saints, Charlie commits Cocky-Immolation while belongings his dead star-crossed girlfriend Sammy.
• Subverted in The Calculation Car. After Zero dies, Daisy appears to him in an Arcadian afterlife, where she suggests that they "can ever exist together now." He doesn't intendance for it and decides to go out the place.
• Every bit listed above, the musical version of Aida also has Radames and Aida buried alive in a tomb. The musical adds the framing story of their reincarnations finding each other in the modern 24-hour interval.
• Radames and Aida from the opera Aida are buried alive in a unmarried tomb.
• In Donizetti's Lucia di Lamermoor, Edgar stabs himself when he learns that Lucia has died, singing an aria about joining her in heaven.
• In Wagner'south Götterdämmerung Brünnhilde immolates herself in Siegfried'southward funerary pyre.
• Elisabeth is reunited with Decease by her assassination. Rudolf may be this, also, depending on the production/actors.
• In The Flying Dutchman, as the Dutchman crosses the Despair Event Horizon and takes off in his cursed ship under the belief that Senta doesn't love him plenty to interruption his curse, she proves him wrong via telling him she'll be faithful to the expiry and so throwing herself off a cliff to evidence it. Her suicide releases his soul and those of his sailors; at the end, the souls of the Dutchman and Senta are seen ascending to Heaven together.
• Hamilton: Alexander and Eliza's final singing appearances both invoke this trope.

  Alexander: My love, take your fourth dimension. I'll see you on the other side.
  [...]
  Eliza: Oh, I can't wait to see you again. It'due south simply a matter of fourth dimension.

  • In a bittersweet disfavor, the stop emphasizes that Angelica was just buried near, not with, Alexander, symbolising her unrequited and unfulfilled love for him.
• Attempted by Horatio at the end of Hamlet, simply his best friend Prince Hamlet (who'southward dying in his arms) stops him before he can drink the remainder of the poisonous substance. Which makes Horatio a lot luckier than most characters in a Shakespearian tragedy.
• Invoked in Heathers, where JD kills Kurt and Ram but arranges it to look like a suicide pact. He leaves behind a forged suicide note challenge that the two killed themselves to hide their "gay forbidden love from an unforgiving world."
• In Jasper In Deadland, Agnes suggests that she and Jasper remain in Deadland and give in to Ghost Amnesia when she realizes that her life wasn't as bully every bit it seemed.
• All of the students in Les Misérables (and actually anybody else who died over the course of the show). When they realized their death that night were sure, they all silently decided to have one last drink together and fight till the end. In the finale, afterward Valjean's death, his ghost joins Fantine and the other deceased for the closing reprise of "Hear The People Sing".
• Audrey and Seymour both wind upwardly eaten by the same plant in Little Shop of Horrors, and at the end their heads appear in adjacent pods.
• Romeo and Juliet, the modern archetypal Star-Crossed Lovers.
• Most versions of Swan Lake end with some version of this - unable to be together in life, Princess Odette and Prince Siegfried plunge together into the lake to be united in death. In the Matthew Bourne version, when both the Prince and the (possibly imaginary) Swan are dead, the Prince's younger cocky is seen cradled in the Swan's artillery as the ballet ends.
• Tosca throws herself over the wall of the prison afterwards her lover Mario is killed. And in doing then, she calls the proper noun of Scarpia, not her lover.
• Wagner's adaptation of the Tristan and Isolde legend is one long exploration of this trope.

    Visual Novels

• One of the ending in Yuri Genre Visual Novel Akai Ito had Kei and Sakuya replacing Yumei in being the Ohashira, after Kei was fatally wounded by Nushi and Yumei decided that she can't live without her.
• Sora and Takeshi in Ever17 become trapped in HIMMEL together later Takeshi refuses to escape without her. Takeshi makes a backup of her data, leading to a Hope Spot, but ultimately no rescue comes and they drown together.
• Fate/stay dark: Saber and Shirou finally get a proper happy ending in Realta Nua'south bonus ending of the Fate route. To unlock information technology, you lot take to finish all 3 routes, and get all v endings... just by doing then, you lot get what might well be the well-nigh heartwarming scene in the whole game. Every bit she lays dying, Arturia is informed that it is absolutely impossible for her to ever come across Shirou once again; the afterlife is just not designed to handle people who were built-in and died a thousand years autonomously. Just if she waits for him forever, and if Shirou seeks her forever, then maybe the impossible will happen. In the end, they are reunited in Avalon.
• One of the endings of Saya no Uta has Saya and Fuminori end up like this, every bit Saya gets fatally wounded, causing Fuminori to kill himself. Information technology is absolutely heartwrenching, the way that Saya ignores her wounds (with Kouji still repeatedly delivering blows as she does so) and drags herself over to Fuminori's corpse so she can cover him before slipping abroad herself.
• Umineko: When They Cry:
  • In the second twilight's requirement of "tear[ing] apart the ii who are close" often winds upwardly playing around with this trope. Probably the most notable one was actually an intentional aversion where Beatrice erases Kanon's corpse peculiarly so he and Jessica tin't exist together in expiry. And in the procedure frames him for the entire thing. Or Did She?
  • The magic ending of the series plays this result. Battler takes Beatrice (and a gilded ingot) with him, even though she thinks she won't exist able to fit in the world outside Rokkenjima. When they are on the boat in the middle of the bounding main, she asks him to close his eyes, kisses him... and jump into the bounding main with the 10kg ingot. Battler'southward response is to jump and drown with her, saying "I won't allow you go" (in reality though, he somehow survives, and loses his memories afterwards an accident on the land). Add this song to the scene, and y'all get a big fat Tear Jerker.

    Web Blitheness

• Episode four of Helluva Boss has I.G.P. taking on a job by Loopty Goopty; a recently-deceased inventor that wanted them to kill his yet-living business partner in a veiled attempt at revenge for his death. After going through several hijinks caused past rival corporation C.H.Eastward.R.U.B. for his soul, it is revealed that Lyle Lipton wound up in Hell anyways and that the job was simply a way for Loopty to be reunited with Lyle again.

  Loopty Goopty: Give thanks y'all for reuniting me with my best friend!

• RWBY. After defying the Gods for them refusing to revive Ozma, they punish Salem past cursing her with immortality and so that she can never reunite with Ozma, but the curse will only be lifted if she learns "the meaning of life and expiry". After, when the God of Light revives him anyways to deal with the grimmified Salem, Ozma initially only wants to render to the afterlife so that he tin can be with Salem until he is told what happened to her.

    Webcomics

• Parodied in Buttlord GT after nearly anybody dies. "Awesome! All my friends are dead and rubber!"
• According to Word of God, Ruddy Spy and BLU Sniper in Cuanta Vida.
• Gunnerkrigg Court: Afterwards what appears to have been centuries of Jeanne being stuck as a vengeful ghost and her lover's soul being trapped in a device, they are finally freed and able to pass into the ether together.
• In the short comic Hold Shut , a little burn down spirit and a little water spirit fall in love, but they can't hold hands considering the burn spirit is hurt when he touches water. Somewhen, the fire spirit is scooped upwardly by a human being and put into an oil lamp. The water spirit follows him and sits with him all night, but evaporates due to the heat. Shortly after, the lamp is extinguished, killing the fire spirit. The two spirits are reunited every bit ghosts, and are finally able to hold hands.
• Something of a recurring theme in Homestuck. John and Vriska, Tavros and Vriska, Karkat and Terezi in two different alternate timelines, Karkat and Nepeta, Post-Scratch Rose and Dave, and John's Dad and Rose'south Mom all cease up this way.
• Parodied in Oglaf here.
• The Order of the Stick:
  • Dorukan and Lirian, with the twist that rather than having gone to the afterlife, their souls are trapped in a gem in Large Bad Xykon'southward pocket.

    Lirian: No... not a prison. Not anymore.

  • Non-romantic semi-instance: Miko and her horse, Windstriker. "Semi" because merely i is dead, the other is merely stuck in the Celestial Realms. When she realizes that she is going to die and doesn't even have a chance of redemption, she only asks if she'll be able to see him again. For her, that's proficient enough.
  • Some other non-romantic example: Roy finally gets to run into his little blood brother again, who had been killed when i of their begetter's experiments with magic went amiss, when he gets to the Celestial Realm later dying in his battle with Xykon. And then they play blocks together.
• Sam & Fuzzy has an unusual, non-romantic example: Mr. Blank dies when the corpse of his Only Friend Mr. Black pushes him off the side of a edifice, with the terminal we see of the pair existence their bodies plummeting to Blank's expiry together. The unusual part is considering this is a Karmic Expiry on the role of Mr. Blank, as he had murdered Mr. Black earlier in the arc and the corpse wouldn't have been in a position to knock him off the side otherwise.
• The first panel of this ◊ Imitation Comic Product comic shows a young man next to his dead married woman's tombstone, vowing he will apply science to be re-united with her. The rest of the comic shows a montage of his scientific career, older in each panel, until the final shows the same scene as the first, with two tombstones.
• Mandy and Grace, two minor characters in It's Walky!
• Foxes in Dear: Discussed in this strip, where Green says that if he and Blue die at the aforementioned time, he wants them to be buried together so archaeologists in the future know they loved each other... and too so he tin exist the big spoon forever.
• Unsounded: After Vienne's burial Mathis' internal commentary notes that he couldn't at the time imagine doing anything other than crawling through the earth and resting next to her. Instead he takes their son on a suicide run through the constable's office where the construct she'd been killed over was beingness kept, survived, stole the construct and fled.

    Web Original

• In the Cracked short film "Worst Second Date Ever", the main grapheme attempts to enter a suicide pact with a Hispanic maid he's dating, claiming that they're Star-Crossed Lovers. It doesn't go as he planned and information technology ends in a rather lighthearted note.
• The short story of "The Human being who Lives Lonely". A man moved into an old house, non knowing it was haunted. Withal, he came to an agreement with the ghost lady haunting the place, and practically lived every bit a couple despite the different worlds they were in. Many years later on, the now-old man died in a firm fire but finally managed to be together with his lady.
• SCP Foundation: SCP-1522-ane and 1522-2, When SCP-1522-ii is heavily damaged by the GOC in an unprovoked missile strike, 1522-1 goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge at Mach 4 and annihilates the GOC warship that attacked its mate. It returns to find its swain ship unresponsive and sinking. It desperately sails a pattern around SCP-1522-2 to endeavor and heighten it using advanced water-pressure techniques, only does not succeed and 1522-two sinks. It stops responding for 7 hours. When approached past an SCP search-and-rescue helicopter, SCP-1522-ane lets of a unmarried, loud, sustained blare of its foghorn in the ship version of a Big "NO!" and wills itself to fall autonomously and sink next to SCP-1522-ii. Their remains were salvaged by the SCP Foundation and their rusting hulls now sit together on a beach in Svalbard.

    Web Videos

• He doesn't manage it (nope, his actual ending manages to be worse), but Donnie DuPre from Demo Reel might be one of the few characters who wants to die so he can exist with his dead mom rather than a dead partner. And while he dies alone, at least Tacoma, Quinn, Rebecca and Carl fade away into zilch together.
• In The Nostalgia Critic's Christmas Story Two behind the scenes, Doug and Tamara say that during the couch scene, Hyper wanted to slit her and Critic's throats to preserve the moment.

    Western Animation

• In Spider-Human: The Animated Series, of all things, Mysterio's lover is an actress who was disfigured. She kidnaps Mary Jane for a body-bandy, but Mysterio'south body-switching machine turns out to not actually work - and never had. He'd been trying to give her hope. When she discovers this, she activates the Cocky-Destruct Machinery because she'd rather dice than not be beautiful. Spider-Human urges Mysterio to run, merely Mysterio chooses to stay behind and dice with her. No, they don't get improve. In fact, though viewers still don't get the word "dead," at that place were none of the expected attempts to sweep information technology under the rug or make it Only More often than not Dead — it even gets referenced subsequently on.
• The episode "Ghost Princess" in Hazard Time features the soul of a dead princess who is Barred from the Afterlife until she tin think how she died, which is inconvenient because ghosts can't remember who they were in life. She goes on a engagement with another ghost who seems familiar to her, and then Finn and Jake realize he was the person who killed her. This causes her to remember that the ii were Star-Crossed Lovers on contrary sides of a war and he accidentally killed her. She forgives him for information technology, just now is beingness fatigued towards the afterlife abroad from her lover who has still to remember his own expiry. And so Jake realizes he witnessed the lover'south death: mad with guilt over killing his love, he overate and concluded up exploding in a convenience store. The lover remembers, and the couple proceed to the afterlife together.
  • This is also the driving plot in "Together Again" from the follow upwardly miniseries, Risk Time: Distant Lands. The episode takes place far past the end of the series, where Jake has been expressionless a long time; and starts with Finn arriving in the deadworlds, where his reaction to his own death is elation at beingness able to reunite (and eventually reincarnate with) Jake. Other characters are also shown enjoying the afterlife, with Tree Trunks and Mr. Hog having settled down on i Expressionless World while Finn and Jake's Family (Margaret, Joshua, and Jermaine) share a house in another.
• In the American Dad! episode "May the Best Stan Win," Francine wants to exist buried with Stan, merely he apparently signed an agreement with the CIA to have his trunk made into a cyborg. Things get weird when cyborg!Stan comes from the futurity, regretting his conclusion. The episode ends with a Distant Finale showing that Stan changes the hereafter and is buried with her after all.
• In just one of the many Tear Jerker moments of The Animals of Farthing Woods, this happens to the mannerly old hedgehog couple as they're crossing the throughway. The racket of the traffic proves too much for Mr. Hedgehog and he freezes in fright, and while Mrs. Hedgehog has time to escape the path of the oncoming lorry, she refuses to get out her husband backside.
• In one episode of Chowder, Panini's Stalker with a Crush tendencies are taken to the farthermost when she mentions she e'er visualized her and Chowder existence buried together in a tomb.

  Chowder: You and I are having a serious talk.

• On Gargoyles, the Emir uses magic to capture Anubis and tries to force him to resurrect his young son, who died in a car blow. Long story short, the episode ends with the Emir being buried in a collapsed pyramid, and Goliath says that if at that place is any justice in the universe, the male parent and son are together once more.
• The Justice League Unlimited episode "Shadow of the Hawk" ends with a shot of the mummies of the outset incarnations of Hawkman and Hawkgirl holding easily.
• In the Superman: The Animated Series episode "The Terminal Son of Krypton-Part one", shortly later on Jor El and Lara launch the ship conveying baby Kal to earth, they share ane Terminal Kiss before Krypton explodes.
• Happens to Ferdy the fox at the end of At that place'southward Practiced Boos This night. He is shot by a hunter, only to come back to life equally a ghost after Casper mourns his death.
• Presumably this was the logic for Nox killing himself on his belatedly family'southward grave in the flavor ane finale of Wakfu. With no-one to bury him, his remains are blown away by the wind.

---

bowenlestroon.blogspot.com

Source: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TogetherInDeath

Share this post