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[[File:dropdeadgorgeoustrope 5430.jpg|frame|Nothing says men's formal wear like strangled women in their underwear!]]
{{quote|''And now she's dead''
''Forever dead''
''Forever dead and lovely now.''
|'''[[Tom Waits]]'''|"Dead and Lovely"}}
There seems to be nothing more dramatic to crime stories than a dead, naked woman. Whether fully or partially nude, dead women are far more likely to be sexualized than males. Often this is justified by the murdered women being the victims of sexual crimes, while other times the purpose seems purely to titillate the audience. Feminist literature is stocked to bursting with analysis and condemnation of this trend.
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Not to be confused with the 1999 film ''[[Drop Dead Gorgeous (film)|Drop Dead Gorgeous]]''.
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* The pictured ad apparently wants you to remember that Duncan Quinn's high-quality ties are also useful for strangling half-naked women on the hood of your European
* An ad series for the ''[[Hitman]]'' video games featured assassinated victims of the main character. The two female victims in the series are both sexualized, with one dressed in lingerie and the other naked in her bathtub.
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[
* You can't throw an amputated ear without hitting one of these in ''[[Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service]]''.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* The first ''[[Blacksad]]'' book begins with a murder scene: the victim is a woman, wearing vaporous night clothing, with one breast exposed.
* In ''[[Sin City]]'', it´s precisely this that sets Marv in his [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]].
== [[Film]] ==
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* In ''[[Corpse Bride]]'', Emily is a primary character with an active role in the movie, but she is still dead. Even after having been murdered {{spoiler|by Lord Barkis, her fiance in life}} and decomposed over several years, she is genuinely pretty.
* The title character in Frank Sinatra's "Tony Rome" sequel, ''Lady in Cement.''
== [[Literature]] ==
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* The fully illustrated ''Who Killed Amanda Palmer'' by Neil Gaiman.
* A number of episodes of ''[[Law &
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
▲* A number of episodes of ''[[Law & Order|Law and Order]]'' and its spin-offs. Of course, given that ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]'' partially involves sex crimes, there's a slight justification for it.
* In ''[[Twin Peaks]]'', Laura Palmer's body is found naked and wrapped in a sheet of plastic.
* ''[[CSI]]'' episodes often feature young, attractive, female victims in very limited states of dress.
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* An ill-advised episode of ''America's Next Top Model'' had the contestants made up as "sexy" corpses who had each been murdered in a different way "by a jealous model," complete with fake wounds, bruises, etc.
== [[Music]] ==▼
▲== Music ==
* This is a recurring theme in Serbian artist Dead Body Collection's works. Heck, instances of such have shown up on his covers, such as "Throat," "Catoptrophobia," "She Is Like Winter" and "I Slice Her Body, Over And Over."
* The video for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' "Last Dance With Mary Jane" features a morgue employee (Petty) taking a beautiful corpse ([[Kim Basinger]]) out for a night on the town.
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
* ''Castlevania: Dracula X'' opens with the sacrifice of a naked young woman (presumably a virgin).
▲== Video Games ==
▲* ''Castlevania: Dracula X'' opens with the sacrifice of a naked young woman (presumably a virgin).
== [[Web Original]] ==
* [[Image Boards|Perfection Girl]] is a series of photographs that circulated around the internet of an attractive blonde woman lying in a bed. A block of text linked with the photos claimed that the girl was actually dead, "tricking" people who see the photos into lustful thoughts about a corpse. It's highly dubious that the girl is actually dead, making it sort of an inverse prank.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* [http://www.kottke.org/08/07/the-most-beautiful-suicide Evelyn McHale], photographed minutes after committing suicide by leaping from the Empire State Building in 1947. Called [[Peaceful in Death|"the most beautiful suicide"]] by some.
* This trope is mostly averted in [[Real Life]]. Austrian coroner and author of [[Black Comedy|quite darkly humourous]] popular science books, Hans Bankl, stated once that he hardly ever had any cases in his long career. However, as a young doctor he was confronted with the body of a 16-year old trick shot performer, who had killed herself in an [[
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