Dead/evil lesbian cliché

The dead/evil lesbian cliché is the plot cliché wherein lesbians in fiction will end up dead or evil by the end of the story.

A notable non-SFnal example is the film The Children's Hour (1961).

Examples in SF

• Talia Winters in Babylon 5

• Tara and Willow in Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 6: Willow turns evil after Tara's death.

• Thelma Bates in Hex subverts the cliché a little: she dies in the first episode, but remains a major character throughout the rest of the series since she immediately returns as a ghost.

External Links

• http://www.stephenbooth.org/lesbiancliche.htm
• http://home.surewest.net/lcountry/cliche.html

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