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* [[Thelma Bates]] in ''[[Hex (TV series)|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]].
* [[Thelma Bates]] in ''[[Hex (TV series)|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]].


* [[Admiral Helena Cain]] in ''[[Battlestar Galactica (2004)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' and ''[[Battlestar Galactica: Razor]]''. Cain's lover, Gina, is a Cylon infiltrator. When she finds out about it, Cain imprisons Gina and orders her male officers to torture and rape her. Gina later escapes, and murders Cain, before killing herself in a suicide bombing.


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Revision as of 13:28, 25 November 2007

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



  • 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.

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