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Death by Despair

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Death by Despair	comment	Sometimes, life sucks. People go bankrupt. Plans go awry. People we love die. Terrible things happen to people. And sometimes the poor, unfortunate people to whom terrible things happen just... stop. Death by Despair is what happens when someone loses the will to live, and as a result, just dies. There's rarely a readily apparent medical cause for it. Just a broken heart, or a broken soul for those cases not caused by the loss of a loved one. A Sub-Trope of Despair Event Horizon, since this is the result of despair that severe. A Sister Trope to Driven to Suicide (especially since "died of grief" is sometimes a euphemism for that trope) and Death Seeker (when simple self-preservation instincts are ignored). Also see Victorian Novel Disease, of which physical suffering and illness from a moment of great psychological trauma may eventually lead into a case of this. Truth in Television, to an extent, in that someone who doesn't care whether he lives or dies may start neglecting his health and slip into a downward spiral leading to death. A mirrored version is also noted in elderly couples in ill health where both will seem to stave off terminal conditions and endure uncomfortable treatments for each other, but "let go" when the other has passed. Also, there is a phenomenon known as "Broken Heart Syndrome" (or, to use the technical name, "Takotsubo cardiomyopathy") where sudden, excessive stress can weaken the cardiac muscle, which can lead to heart attacks and acute heart failure. It's rare, but not impossible. There is also a similar phenomenon called voodoo death, where a strong enough emotional shock causes the brain to release massive amounts of adrenaline-like nerve chemicals and stress hormones, which has the potential to cause various complications, including death. That said, No Real Life Examples, Please! Compare Angst Coma. As a Death Trope, many Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware.
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Death by Despair / int_1305c32	comment	Almost happens in Kamen Rider Fourze where Jiro Iseki, who has just woken from a coma, loses his will to live and becomes close to death after he learns that Ryusei killed Gentaro and collaborated with Aries Zodiart to save him. The trope is ultimately averted when he does recover.
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Death by Despair / int_1331990c	comment	Literally occurs in Puella Magi Madoka Magica in the new world in the endings. A Magical Girl's magic is somewhat based on her level of hope, so if they run out of magic (or hope), they die, and it's speculated that they might ascend to Goddess Madoka's Plane of Existence. This is a step up from the original timeline, where they turn into the very Eldritch Abominations that they fight.
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Death by Despair / int_13349140	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW): Starline crosses the Despair Event Horizon as part of his Villainous Breakdown. Seeing as he makes no attempt to save himself after being beaten, he lost his will to live.
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Death by Despair / int_13d4b38f	comment	She Who Became The Sun: In the protagonist's childhood, when her famine-stricken town is attacked by bandits and her father killed, her brother loses the will to live and dies overnight. Given how hard the protagonist had to fight for survival, she finds this fairly pathetic, so she steals his identity and his prophesied destiny.
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Death by Despair / int_141a7410	comment	In Over the Garden Wall the Beast breaks down the hope of his victims until they reach the Despair Event Horizon and turn into Edelwood trees.
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Death by Despair / int_150578ad	comment	Iseult of Tristan and Iseult fame doesn't live long past Tristan's death.
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Death by Despair / int_1730589	comment	The Saga of Arrow-Odd: When Odd tells IngibjÃ¶rg that Hjalmar is dead, IngibjÃ¶rg looks silently at the bracelet that was Hjalmar's last present to her, then dies.
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Death by Despair / int_1d255d70	comment	Occurs at the end of The Pigman, where the eponymous character (having suffered a very long series of sad events) has a heart attack and dies after finding out that his best friend Bobo died.
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Death by Despair / int_1de036cc	comment	The Phantoms of Kamen Rider Wizard are born this way. Despair given birth to Phantoms from within a Gates (humans with high magic potential). The Phantoms then burst out of those Gates, killing them in the process.
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Death by Despair / int_2139ea95	comment	In Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story, this is implied to be how Ui Tamaki died in every timeline that isn't the one the game takes place in. After hearing about the death of her older sister Iroha, it's implied that her previously-existing illness became so bad that she died of it. And the only reason she survived in the game's timeline is because Iroha tripped on a pebble on her way to school and avoided the car accident that killed her, which allowed her to form a contract with Kyubey and wish for Ui's illness to be cured.
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Death by Despair / int_2174e1ae	comment	Not Old, Alone or Done For: Mrs. Darling died soon after her husband. The doctors say it was a combination of fever and heartache.
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Death by Despair / int_21b21f35	comment	Occurs in-universe in BoJack Horseman. In Horsin' Around, the series finale has the Horse dying of a broken heart because his adoptive children didn't appreciate him enough.
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Death by Despair / int_230b3240	comment	In The Cardinal of the Kremlin, after both of Colonel Filitov's sons died young, one while fighting counterrevolutionaries and one due to his tank suffering a critical defect, his wife faded away. The loss of his entire family is what inspired him to start working for the CIA, becoming the title character.
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Death by Despair / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: Parodied in "Old Money": In "Curse of the Flying Hellfish", this is implied to be the cause of Asa Phelps' death: Parodied in "C.E.D'oh" where Mr. Burns talks to Homer about how he was so busy working to build his career that he completely neglected his fiancee, and missed their wedding, anniversary and divorce proceedings. Homer's mother Mona returns in "Mona Leaves-a", where she wants to become a part of Homer's life again. Because she has left Homer so many times, he refuses and says he doesn't forgive her. Later that night, when Homer changes his mind and prepares to apologize, Mona dies.
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Death by Despair / int_274f5c4e	comment	Prose Edda: When Baldur is laid on the pyre, his wife Nanna dies of a broken heart.
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Death by Despair / int_27c708b3	comment	The succubi of Rosario + Vampire can literally die of heartbreak. Considering that Kurumu is in love with Tsukune who's in love with Moka, this can potentially happen to her as well.
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Death by Despair / int_2dec2fe3	comment	Betta of Pintosmalto predicts she will suffer this fate if her abducted husband doesn't answer her for the third and final night. Fortunately for her, he does.
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Death by Despair / int_2e75ac68	comment	In Imitation of Life (1934), Delilah the black housekeeper weakens and dies of nothing more than despair after her passing-white daughter, Peola, cuts Delilah out of her life so she can continue to pass as white. In the book, she actually has cancer, but still dies shortly after Peola abandons her. Heartbreakingly, the movie has Peola having a Heel Realization after her mother's death.
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Death by Despair / int_2e75acab	comment	In Imitation of Life (1959), much the same happens to Annie, the analogous character to Delilah. In this version, Annie agrees to let her daughter Sarah Jane go because she comes to understand why Sarah Jane wants to pass (so that she can live her life unimpeded by racism), but the emotional impact of this kills her shortly thereafter. It is foreshadowed when Lora alludes to "those spells" Annie has been having once there's a Time Skip of a few years, implying she has heart problems anyway.
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Death by Despair / int_2e79ce7a	comment	Oswald from Odin Sphere lets himself be carted off to the underworld by a Halja (a grim reaper-type servant of the Queen of the Dead) after his mistaken conclusion that Gwendolyn doesn't feel anything for him and that he is imprisoning her in their marriage causes him to lose the will to live. Fortunately, he's saved when Gwendolyn, who really does love him, invades the Underworld and rescues him.
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Death by Despair / int_2e97446c	comment	Ib herself, during the final scene of the 'Welcome to the World of Guertena' ending, after soaring over the Despair Event Horizon, she seems awfully still.
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Death by Despair / int_2fee008d	comment	The Anti-Spiral tries to make the whole of humanity suffer this in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. It doesn't work.
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Death by Despair / int_30ae30af	comment	Lisa, from Letter from an Unknown Woman almost immediately dies after the death of her son, and finding out that her one true love never knew who she was.
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Death by Despair / int_327c1042	comment	This is how Nyan~ Neko Sugar Girls ends. Raku-chan dies of a broken heart due to a failed Love Confession, because her crush Hitoshi-san had entered a homosexual relationship with his kidnapper.
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Death by Despair / int_32c541e6	comment	Fullmetal Alchemist: Shou Tucker's first chimera dies this way by ceasing to eat and eventually dying of starvation. This makes more sense when it's later revealed that this chimera was his wife. Also, it's implied that this is what happened to Ed and Al's mother Trisha. Yes, it's true, she got sick, but it was stated that she was just never the same after Hohenheim left and that the lack of self-care between being a single mother and her broken heart weakened her enough to die from an illness she probably should have recovered from. It could also be said that this is what almost happened to Riza. When Lust made the Badass Boast that she had killed Roy Mustang, Riza went on a brief Roaring Rampage of Revenge until she ran out of bullets... then slumped to the ground, weeping and waiting to be killed. She only recovered the will to live when she realized that Roy had survived.
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Death by Despair / int_3504b58e	comment	In Rain's ending in Mortal Kombat 11, it is revealed that his father, the Edenian God Argus, had an affair with a mortal woman, Amara. After Rain's birth, Argus gave a newborn Rain away to a poor family while telling Amara that Rain was stillborn, she died from grief. Upon learning this, Rain gets even by killing Argus and his sons Taven and Daegon, and allows Argus' wife Delia to live so she could experience the same pain and despair his mother did.
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Death by Despair / int_35f5d687	comment	Falstaff in Henry V after Hal breaks off contact with him. Arguably the most poignant death in the play, despite its being the offstage death of a character who never appears in this play, as we hear Mistress Quickly describing his death. Perhaps it had to be unseen to be believed - if we actually watched Falstaff die, we would probably assume he was faking again, as in Henry IV, Part 1
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Death by Despair / int_3729373e	comment	One possible ending for Kara's story in Detroit: Become Human sees her and Alice crossing the Canadian border via boat only for a patrol boat to fire on them and hit Alice, who dies just as they reach the other side. Kara can choose to give up living and shut down on the spot if this happens.
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Death by Despair / int_37a71462	comment	Les MisÃ©rables Fantine dies when Javert barges into her hospital room to arrest Jean Valjean â€“ she was already near death from tuberculosis, and because Valjean was her only hope of ever reuniting with her daughter Cosette, the horror of his arrest kills her. In the end, Jean Valjean dies like this after he is separated from Cosette, whom he's raised as his adopted daughter. Since Cosette is the novel's symbol of hope, it makes sense that both of her parents die when they think they'll never see her again â€“ though unlike Fantine, Valjean at least gets to see her in his last moments.
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Death by Despair / int_3c4aa416	comment	In one of the endings for Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness Sicily sacrifices her life for her older brother Laharl (much like how their mother did when he was a child). The narration states that Laharl was so overcome with grief that he simply waited at the spot where she disappeared until he eventually died.
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Death by Despair / int_3cb4d96	comment	Daystar and Shadow: Robin's mother Marge withered away and died after being forced to abandon him in the desert, saying life had no meaning for her. His father worked himself to death over the loss of Marge, Robin, and their other son Gregory, who was killed by a fireworm.
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Death by Despair / int_3e0b28b5	comment	Happens in the worst ending of Dead Rising 2. Having lost his young daughter Katey, Chuck ends up so broken that he does nothing when zombies break in to devour him.
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Death by Despair / int_3e5de40b	comment	Seen in Scrubs in the episode "My House", when a patient whose husband had just passed was suffering from "Broken Heart Syndrome" (see above), though she didn't die from it. This happens to lead to one of the show's all-time great Imagine Spots: "Get me a box of kittens, STAT!"
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Death by Despair / int_3ef1def5	comment	This almost happens to Jonathan Kent in The Death of Superman as the stress of his son's death caused him to have a near-fatal heart attack.
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Death by Despair / int_4037825e	comment	Zhuge Liang in Romance of the Three Kingdoms has the ability to cause this. Several other people die of this naturally as well.
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Death by Despair / int_413aa2f7	comment	Don Quixote: Parodied by the "resurrection" of Altisidora, a girl who claims to love Don Quixote and invokes this trope (itâ€™s really a prank). Don Quixote and Sancho didn't believe it for a minute (this was at XVI century). When Don Quixote rejects her again: Forced to return to his hometown and lay down his arms by his defeat to the Knight of the White Moon (really his friend SansÃ³n Carrasco), Don Quijote falls seriously ill. His friends believe he is dying of despair over his defeat, but unexpectedly the sickness snaps him out of his delusion, and he expresses relief that he has regained his sanity before dying.
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Death by Despair / int_4304355d	comment	In Written on the Wind, Marylee's father dies after finding out from one of his daughter's sexual partners that she had a habit of instigating such encounters.
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Death by Despair / int_43e07277	comment	According to Gesta Danorum, aged king Gorm the Old of Denmark died from grief after he was told that his favourite son Knut had been killed.
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Death by Despair / int_4585d76b	comment	After the dog Old Dan dies of injuries in Where the Red Fern Grows, his companion Little Ann gradually wastes away (her owner literally has to pry her jaws open to force her to eat something) and joins him in death.
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Death by Despair / int_48cec739	comment	Heavily implied to be the fates of the protagonists of Girls' Last Tour. After a perilous journey through their After the End world, they reach the top of their Layered Metropolis and find...nothing. The two eat their last bit of food, go to sleep and are heavily implied to pass on during their slumber from the reveal that their journey was ultimately pointless.
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Death by Despair / int_4965fb90	comment	Evelyn in Incredibles 2 implies that this was how her mother died after her husband, Evelynâ€™s father, was killed by criminals.
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Death by Despair / int_4c363bcc	comment	The Villain Iron Legacy from Sentinels of the Multiverse can cause this with the Demoralizing Presence card. Not only does it increase the damage Iron Legacy deals by 1, but at the end of each of his turns, all of the hero targets deal 1 Psychic damage to themselves. It's especially dangerous if any hero has damage buffs up (such as Legacy, Naturalist, Chrono-Ranger, and Knyfe).
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Death by Despair / int_4db7214f	comment	The Villainess Lives Again: It's implied that the devastating illness that killed Lisia Morten in the previous timeline was partially psychosomatic, brought about from the despair over the death of her child and the stress of having to deal with her husband Laurence's Domestic Abuse. It's for that reason that Artezia ardently hopes that Lisia doesn't regain her Past-Life Memories, for fear of the illness's return.
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Death by Despair / int_4e7bc558	comment	Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail: A denizen by the name of the Curry Prince/Clockwork Prince turns out to be a reincarnated Soma from Black Butler, who go onto the Train after the death of Agni. He ended up dying in his sleep, cradling Agni's urn.
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Death by Despair / int_4f9064f6	comment	In Kung Fu Panda 2, this is the implied fate of the villain's parents, who were heartbroken at being forced to exile their son.
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Death by Despair / int_4fc1c922	comment	It could be argued this is how Elphaba's and Nessa's father dies in Wicked. According to Nessa, he was "embarrassed to death".
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Death by Despair / int_5082a6a	comment	The Three Musketeers: In the book The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later, Part Three: The Man in the Iron Mask, Athos dies of a broken heart when he learns his son Raoul has been killed.
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Death by Despair / int_50b9a0e2	comment	The eponymous Phantom dies of a broken heart in The Phantom of the Opera.
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Death by Despair / int_50bcf7a6	comment	In Homestuck, this possibly happens to Dirk in the Game Over timeline. After finding the session destroyed and his friends dead, and believing himself to blame, he apparently allows himself to be dissolved into the cloud of glitches that's slowly overcoming the remains of the session. Only a possible example because it's ambiguous whether this actually "killed" him (though, given the dead-end nature of the timeline, it's arguably more depressing to imagine that he survived), as well as whether his glitching out was partly caused by his "soul-splintering" powers and triggered by the despair he was feeling (thus fitting this trope) or just an accident that happened to conveniently mirror his state of mind for symbolic purposes.
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Death by Despair / int_50cb8af5	comment	This is what killed Allen Schezar's mother in The Vision of Escaflowne after she lost both her husband Leon (disappeared without a trace) and daughter Selena (kidnapped). Allen is deeply angry at his father for that. It's later explained that Mrs. Schezar's depression became worse when she learned that Leon was Dead All Along.
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Death by Despair / int_50dfe56d	comment	Kaede Fuyou from SHUFFLE! was close to this as a young girl, after her mother's death in an accident. Rin had to lie to her by putting the blame on himself so she'd recover the will to live.
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Death by Despair / int_55c20cb5	comment	Invoked in Overlord. The Lich protagonist has a skill called Despair Aura. It has 5 levels of intensity, each inflicting increasingly debilitating Status Effects. The fifth level instantly kills those who fail to resist.
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Death by Despair / int_56e10d85	comment	Tolkien's Legendarium: Not a few cases in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth (The Lord of the Rings, etc.), both Elven and Human. Specifically notable as a way of death for the immortal Elves. Elven spirits are noted to have a much greater influence over their physical bodies, so if they have the appropriate willpower and determination they can live and pull through almost anything; however it also works the other way round - if they lose their hope and will to live, their bodies just give out. In The Silmarillion there almost seems to be a tradition for the men to be killed and their wives dying of despair shortly afterward; this happening to Rian, Gloredhel, and LÃºthien (although LÃºthien's case is a little unique). According to the appendix, Arwen eventually suffers this fate after Aragorn's death. Having chosen mortality, she is fated to die, but it's noted that, as a former immortal, she stays young and beautiful even as her husband ages. However, she does not live long after Aragorn dies, apparently retreating to her grandmother's long deserted domain of LothlÃ³rien and dying of a broken heart, alone.
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Death by Despair / int_56fb2dc5	comment	Dead of Winter: Some traumatic events cause survivors to take Despair tokens, which count against their Hit Points just like physical Wounds and can cause their death. Despair also tends to be trickier to heal.
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Death by Despair / int_5921531a	comment	The Apathy Syndrome victims in Persona 3 suffer from this after Shadows from humanity's Collective Unconscious feed on their sense of "self." All they do is shamble around and vegetate, doing nothing but wait to die while letting out the occasional moan if you try to talk to them. In the Bad Ending of the game, Nyx inflicts this upon everyone and everything on Earth, including the main characters.
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Death by Despair / int_5921531c	comment	Despair is a status effect in Persona 5. Anyone who's inflicted with it will be unable to act and lose SP for three rounds, then automatically die on the third round. This makes curing it quickly rather important if a party member gets hit by it. During days when the Flu Season status is active, enemies in Mementos may randomly start the battle afflicted with it, even The Reaper.
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Death by Despair / int_5a123cab	comment	A variation happened to Spinel, the main antagonist of Steven Universe: The Movie. A long time ago, she was created to be a cheerful, cute playmate to Pink Diamond. However, when Pink was finally given the chance to have her very own colony, she decided that she no longer needed Spinel, and ordered her playmate to stay still in their special garden until she came back. Six thousand years later, Steven's special universe-wide broadcast managed to reach the garden, and Spinel realized in the span of one moment that not only did Pink abandon her, she's now effectively dead. The resulting emotional turmoil broke Spinel so badly that she "poofed" (a process that Word of God has directly compared to broken-heart syndrome), and in her place, a completely snapped Axe-Crazy Gem emerged.
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Death by Despair / int_5c7ca3ef	comment	In Handmaid Cecily believes this is how her mother Anne Boleyn died, as she lost both the woman she loved and the man she came to care for in quick succession a year before.
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Death by Despair / int_5d21fab8	comment	Wolf Hall Implied to be the cause of Cardinal Wolsey's sudden decline and death. After an extended and humiliating fall from Henry VIII's favor, he was exiled to York. Being ordered back on the way there with charges of treason and probable execution was the final shock that finished him. When one of Anne's "lovers" claims he might die of this, Cromwell reflects bitterly that it's not that easy; he wanted to die after the deaths of his wife, his daughters, and Wolsey, but his body kept on breathing anyway because "God takes your heart of flesh and replaces it with a heart of stone."
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Death by Despair / int_6104baaf	comment	The Lord of the Rings Online, possibly uniquely among fantasy MMORPGs, replaces the admittedly conceptually illogical "hit points" most games use with "morale points." The general idea seems to be that the only way to die is literally from despair, though this despair is most commonly caused by the pain of being surrounded by enemies and stabbed repeatedly. Given the legendarium of Tolkien, mentioned in the Literature section of this very page, it's actually harder to argue against this being canonical than you'd think.
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Death by Despair / int_61626b92	comment	The Saga of the Faroe Islanders: When top villain Thrand hears that his nephews Sigurd, Thord and Gaut have all been killed in the Final Battle, he dies of grief. According to the internal timeline, he must be beyond 80 years of age at the time.
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Death by Despair / int_6276800c	comment	After realizing the painful truth that he's a waste of space whose life has gone nowhere, The Nostalgia Critic slumps over his chair to eventually die alone. Luckily, he then gets some confidence back with an awesome song.
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Death by Despair / int_629cd094	comment	Dragon Age: Origins: King Endrin Aeducan goes through this when his eldest son is murdered, his middle child (the player if the Dwarf Noble origin is chosen) is exiled and possibly killed, and his youngest is behind it all. This becomes a major problem that the player has to deal with, as his line of succession is now in question. The Dalish Elf Warden's mother is implied to have done this as well as Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence shortly after giving birth to her child shortly after her husband was killed by humans. She simply "vanished into the forest".
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Death by Despair / int_63a0f17d	comment	In Role Master, critical hits on the "depression damage" table can cause the target to assume a fetal position on the floor and literally lose the will to live, dying by despair.
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Death by Despair / int_63b679e5	comment	Defied in Deus Ex, in which Nicolette muses that mansions don't crumble to dust because their beloved owner (in this case her mother Beth) dies tragically.
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Death by Despair / int_68237790	comment	Pathfinder: Gnomes who become too bored/depressed suffer from the bleaching, which, in addition to turning their skin and hair white (hence the name) drains their mental abilities until they die. Some gnomes survive but are known as "bleachlings" and are still distrusted and seen as freaks by other gnomes. Characters may follow Sifkesh, the Demon Lord of despair and suicide. To her Demoniacs and Exalted, one of the abilities she grants is Mass Suicide, allowing the caster to compel a group of people to commit Exactly What It Says on the Tin, noting that "if no method of suicide is available for one who succumbs to this effect, the victim simply dies outright of sadness." Likewise, her Sentinels can cause a creature's body to "lose the drive to maintain life", which makes "its bodyâ€™s life-sustaining autonomic processes irreparably and lethally shut down" if it fails to resist the ability.
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Death by Despair / int_69de2e4d	comment	In No Rest for the Wicked, Beauty sees the Beast down and is convinced that it's this, and agrees to marry him.
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Death by Despair / int_6ae1d164	comment	An old legend is told in Galaxy of Fear; in it, a witch boasted that she was a Necromancer until people killed her son and challenged her to raise him. Instead, she cursed them before dying of despair.
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Death by Despair / int_6c5a9849	comment	In Shadow of the Conqueror, when Daylen first bonds Light to his memory, he remembers his entire life, and the pain of all his crimes causes his mind to break and him to die. His Healing Factor brings him Back from the Dead shortly after, with the unbearable memories safely tucked back away.
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Death by Despair / int_6d2aec8f	comment	Stone Ocean: After Weather Report manages to use Ungalo's own Stand powers to negate itself, Ungalo was overcome with despair at the thought of regressing back into his previous drug-addled life and fell into a catatonic state.
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Death by Despair / int_6e11257f	comment	The Saga of Gunnlaug Wormtongue (implied): After Helga's husband Hrafn and her former fiancÃ© Gunnlaug have killed each other in single combat, she marries another man, Thorkel, "although she did not really love him", but she cannot stop thinking about Gunnlaug ("She could never get Gunnlaug out of her mind, even though he was dead.") Though Helga has several children with Thorkel, her "greatest pleasure" is to a unfold a magnificent English cloak which Gunnlaug gave her as a present at her wedding with Hrafn (implying that he had intended it to be his present for his own wedding with Helga), and then just look at it "for a long time". One evening, when Helga is sick from disease, she lies in the main room with her head in Thorkel's lap, she has the cloak brought to her and spreads it out. After sitting up and looking at it for a while, she drops back dead into Thorkel's arms.
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Death by Despair / int_74c378a4	comment	Enobarbus in Antony and Cleopatra after he realizes betraying Antony was too much for him. Manages a long monologue before he dies (and there's also an opera of the play, where he sings an aria in good ol' operatic tradition).
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Death by Despair / int_762df2bc	comment	In the Kung Fu Panda fic The Vow, this happens to Lord Shen's parents when there isn't any more news of their son — whom they had to banish for committing mass murder — being alive somewhere.
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Death by Despair / int_7670db44	comment	Ghosts of Evangelion: Shinji's heart simply gives out less than three days following the passing of Asuka. They'd been inseparable for over sixty years by then, and people that knew them were not surprised he couldn't go on without her.
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Death by Despair / int_7d67d66e	comment	John of Gaunt in Richard II, when his son is sent into exile.
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Death by Despair / int_7dcd766b	comment	Possibly Illanka in House of Frankenstein after she shoots Lawrence Talbot with a silver bullet after he attacks her as the Wolf Man. She shows no signs of injury afterward, and since she can move, her neck was clearly not broken, but she dies on top of Larry's corpse.
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Death by Despair / int_7f640c58	comment	In The Sims 2, Sim children who are left alive, after their parents die, eventually die due to despair, even if all of their other needs are addressed.
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Death by Despair / int_7f6eb95d	comment	Romeo and Juliet contains two examples, one played straight and one subverted. Lady Montague is said to have died of despair after she learned about Romeo's banishment. Also, Juliet is believed to have died of grief over the death of her cousin Tybalt. Subverted because Juliet isn't dead (she wasn't at that level of grieving over Tybalt anyway), but rather is Faking the Dead to run away with Romeo... though despair does drive her to kill herself when she finds Romeo dead upon waking.
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Death by Despair / int_8049cb44	comment	Purple Days: In this A Song of Ice and Fire fanfiction, it's heavily implied that at least one of Joffrey's deaths after learning of his parentage was this, in Chapter 7.
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Death by Despair / int_817acecf	comment	Fables: According to Bigby, his mother died of a broken heart after his father abandoned the family.
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Death by Despair / int_81f5d35d	comment	Kamen Rider examples: One way to interpret Fumine Sonozaki/Shroud's death on Kamen Rider Double. The Phantoms of Kamen Rider Wizard are born this way. Despair given birth to Phantoms from within a Gates (humans with high magic potential). The Phantoms then burst out of those Gates, killing them in the process. Almost happens in Kamen Rider Fourze where Jiro Iseki, who has just woken from a coma, loses his will to live and becomes close to death after he learns that Ryusei killed Gentaro and collaborated with Aries Zodiart to save him. The trope is ultimately averted when he does recover.
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Death by Despair / int_83d346ad	comment	Reverend Sayer in The African Queen is left utterly traumatized when the German army rounds up and drives off the natives he has been preaching to before firing their village, burning down all their homes and even his church and punching him out when he tries to stop them. The shock leaves him in a near-catatonic state, barely cognizant of his surroundings, and he swiftly dies, apparently from grief at losing everything he had.
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Death by Despair / int_8577f936	comment	Catherine Earnshaw-Linton of Wuthering Heights — although the literal cause is premature childbirth while suffering from Brain Fever, her despair is what causes those two things. Nellie Dean personally believes Heathcliff died of this too and was not Driven to Suicide — she sees his refusal to eat or sleep for days as a result of his illness, rather than a cause.
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Death by Despair / int_87056d17	comment	The Chao from both Sonic Adventure and its sequel will go into a grey cocoon and die if it was treated badly during most of its life.
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Death by Despair / int_877bfaf7	comment	Better Bones AU: Larkstripe dies shortly after her son Ripplekit is taken from her as punishment for her stand against SkyClan's exile (with the excuse that she is breaking the cleric code by having a kit), supposedly due to her grief at what happened.
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Death by Despair / int_8a768a7c	comment	Twisted Tropes: The strip shows Artax choosing to drown in the Swamps of Sadness because Atreyu didn't give him enough sugar cubes.
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Death by Despair / int_8c853e7f	comment	Rachel Jackson in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, after her bigamy is made public by Congress. As quoted above, play even calls out how ridiculous such a death sounds.
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Death by Despair / int_8ee238c9	comment	Persona: The Apathy Syndrome victims in Persona 3 suffer from this after Shadows from humanity's Collective Unconscious feed on their sense of "self." All they do is shamble around and vegetate, doing nothing but wait to die while letting out the occasional moan if you try to talk to them. In the Bad Ending of the game, Nyx inflicts this upon everyone and everything on Earth, including the main characters. Despair is a status effect in Persona 5. Anyone who's inflicted with it will be unable to act and lose SP for three rounds, then automatically die on the third round. This makes curing it quickly rather important if a party member gets hit by it. During days when the Flu Season status is active, enemies in Mementos may randomly start the battle afflicted with it, even The Reaper.
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Death by Despair / int_9045b1b7	comment	In World War Z, some people are so traumatized by the horrors and hopelessness that they sometimes just go to sleep... and never wake up.
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Death by Despair / int_90f42a9b	comment	In The Wheel of Time people who lose the ability to channel do this as well as Warders with dead Aes Sedai who aren't killed trying to avenge them. Warders who outlive their bonded Aes Sedai and can't avenge their deaths (if the Aes Sedai wasn't killed by someone, or died in an accident, or someone else gets there first, etc.) more become Death Seekers By Despair — they'll continuously throw themselves at Shadowspawn and dangerous problems until they finally get killed.
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Death by Despair / int_91a56cd1	comment	Mind Brigade: Jamie's mother died of a sudden stress-induced heart attack that is described similarly to a Takotsubo cardiomyopathy. Jamie dies of a sudden heart attack after he freaks out, believing that he gave the dying Jill a fatal heart attack after yelling at her.
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Death by Despair / int_91e45f5	comment	At the very end of Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, your defendant is in hospital while you establish the verdict. Get a Not Guilty verdict, and she lives. They vote Guilty or the jury is hung, and she dies before court reconvenes.
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Death by Despair / int_967347ea	comment	Revolutionary Girl Utena was close to this after her parents died but thankfully her prince (or Touga) saves her.
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Death by Despair / int_9a1cf62c	comment	Prince Mamilius in The Winter's Tale after his mother is accused of adultery and thrown into prison.
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Death by Despair / int_9a6791aa	comment	In King Lear, the titular monarch collapses and dies of a broken heart when his daughter Cordelia, the only one who ever truly loved him, is executed as a political prisoner (although he does get one last Papa Wolf moment by murdering her executioner with his bare hands). It's inverted with Gloucester, who, upon discovering that his son Edgar is alive after mistakenly believing him dead, is so overcome with joy that his heart bursts, killing him.
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Death by Despair / int_9a7088bc	comment	Star Trek: The Original Series: Larry Marvick in the episode "Is There in Truth No Beauty?". A Red Shirt in "The Naked Time" tried to commit suicide, was stopped before he seriously hurt himself, then died anyway because he couldn't summon the will to fight off the minor infection of the wound. Depending on how you interpret his comment that he would "neither [live long nor prosper]", Spock (during "Amok Time") may have expected to die of despair over apparently murdering Kirk. He certainly seemed to have lost his will to live.
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Death by Despair / int_9caa9883	comment	Knight Bewitched: Alduin's mother, who also turns out to be Gwen's mother, died from heartbreak after her husband died protecting her while she fled from a city that found out she was a witch, and couldn't bring Alduin along, believing he might have died with his father.
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Death by Despair / int_9dfd8786	comment	In [C] â€“ Control, Entres who go bankrupt lose their future and usually commit suicide afterward.
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Death by Despair / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: Barely averted in Bellemere's backstory. She had fought in a terrible battle that destroyed a coastal city and was just waiting for her almost sure demise... then she saw little Nojiko carrying baby Nami in her arms and regained the will to live, taking the little girls in. Also averted by Boa Hancock. After she spares Luffy's life and allows him to leave Amazon Lily, she comes down with a bout of illness that her doctor cannot treat or explain. Elder Nyon slowly realizes that she's suffering from Love Sickness, a condition that killed several empresses of Amazon Lily across generations when they fell in love with men and suppressed their emotions in order to stay with their people; the pain of being separated from the object of their affection proving so strong that eventually it killed them. Elder Nyon herself and a few of the empresses survived by taking the opposite approach: leaving Amazon Lily and pursuing their lovers across the sea. Hancock's health improves when Luffy requests to speak with her, and she recovers completely once she admits to herself that she's fallen in love with him.
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Death by Despair / int_9f0dae2a	comment	In The Cold Moons, particularly grief-stricken badgers are known to die of a "death-wish". They long to be with their recently deceased loved one so much that they eventually die of unknown causes. It's not starvation or illness and no healer can help them. After Eldon's Heroic Sacrifice, the badgers have to help his adopted son Titan from dying of the wish of death.
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Death by Despair / int_9fa7d06a	comment	Subverted/Averted as all hell in Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei, much to the (non) consternation of Itoshiki, a man so steeped in despair that he will Wangst himself to suicide over the most outlandish theories and observations.
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Death by Despair / int_a3e038d3	comment	In Recoil after Lisa died in the ruins of New Delhi, Taylor was entirely willing to sit next to her cairn until she died as well. Phir SÄ“ discovered her corpse there before traveling back in time to recruit her before her death.
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Death by Despair / int_a3ea3070	comment	Michael Henchard, the title character of The Mayor of Casterbridge, leaves the town where he was once mayor and a successful businessman for the last time after his stepdaughter Elizabeth-Jane rebukes him for lying to her about her true paternity, then lying to her real father, Richard Newson, about whether or not she was still alive. He loses the will to live and lingers on for a few weeks in an abandoned house found for him by a former employee before dying alone and miserable. His last wishes are for a Lonely Funeral and for everyone to forget him.
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Death by Despair / int_a54eef52	comment	Almost happens to Liechtenstein in Hetalia: Axis Powers, after World War I destroys her lands and kills a good part of her people. Fortunately, Switzerland finds her when she's about to give in and let herself die, and takes her in into his home (symbolizing the union between both countries, which still survives to this day).
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Death by Despair / int_a5549ed0	comment	The Bible: In Genesis, the chapter immediately after the Binding of Isaac concerns the death of his mother Sarah. The actual text doesn't link the two events, but The Talmud says that after Sarah was informed by an angel that Isaac was to be sacrificed, she became so overcome with grief that she died. Later on in Genesis, Jacob's son Judah, after seeing that the youngest son Benjamin has been implicated in a theft he didn't commit and was subject to becoming Joseph's slave in Egypt, feared that if he and his brothers didn't return with Benjamin, their father Jacob would die of despair, and so offered himself in place of Benjamin to spare his father of that fate. Some argue that a broken heart, in addition to crucifixion, was responsible for the death of Jesus. He died within just three hours, unusually quickly for a crucifixion victim, and this could be a possible explanation. Despair, the eighth deadly sin, is a variant of this. If one manages to convince themselves that I've Come Too Far to seek forgiveness, then they won't find it and are condemning themselves to Hell by rejecting Christ's sacrifice for their sake.
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Death by Despair / int_a68c19b8	comment	Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War gives this as the demise of Tailtiu, a seemingly bright and cheerful young mage in the first generation, by having her survive the horrific Battle of Belhalla which took the lives of many of her friends and (likely) her possible husband, get separated from her son and then endure physical and mental abuse by her completely evil sister-in-law to protect her infant daughter. All these took such a great toll on her psyche that she degraded to a sorrowful woman that went no day without crying until at one point she succumbed to illness after losing her will to live.
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Death by Despair / int_a8abee5d	comment	Ink City: while not explicitly played out, Word of Mundane gave this as the reason for Misery's departure: the horrifying fashion in which her best friend departed from the City and the Awful Truths he unintentionally shared with her beforehand caused her so much grief that she curled up and wasted away.
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Death by Despair / int_aa0d3e35	comment	Loving Reaper: The mother swan whose eggs were crushed by teenagers is so heartbroken that she dies and welcomes death without any hesitation.
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Death by Despair / int_abe2e836	comment	In And Then There Were None, General Macarthur's wife Leslie died of a broken heart after her lover, Arthur Richmond, fell victim to her husband's Uriah Gambit in World War I. Macarthur himself loses the will to live and so is easy prey for the murderer (it helps that was did feel quite guilty over the whole thing, unlike most of the characters).
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Death by Despair / int_ad6a095e	comment	Princess: The Hopeful: This sometimes happens when a human crosses the Despair Event Horizon, if that human doesn't commit suicide first. Either way, as the despairing soul departs the Darkness floods in to fill the hole left behind, creating a Cataphract. This is the best-case result for a Princess who hits zero Belief. If she can regain a dot of Belief before running out of Willpower (which will require aid from friends and fellow Nobles), she dies in her sleep and her soul returns to the Light to be reborn. But if she does not escape before it's too late, then the last glimmers of her Light invert and she becomes one of the Dethroned.
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Death by Despair / int_ae806378	comment	No More Heroes III: After Travis beats Velvet Chair Girl at musical chairs, she kills herself out of shame of being surpassed as the champion.
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Death by Despair / int_aff9ab9f	comment	"Talma Gordon": Jeannette dies a year after the murder trial, the stress having taken its toll on her. Isabel died after birthing her third child. Captain Gordon's raving accusations upon seeing the child's appearance were apparently too much for her after the stress of childbirth — she fell into convulsions and died soon after. Near the end, Talma comes close to this; her emotional suffering causes her health to fail rapidly.
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Death by Despair / int_b0028436	comment	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind: Proscuitto willingly keeps his powers and himself alive after surviving getting tossed out a train in order to make sure that Pesci stays focused. He then lost his remaining will after seeing Pesci torn to pieces by Bucciarati. Stone Ocean: After Weather Report manages to use Ungalo's own Stand powers to negate itself, Ungalo was overcome with despair at the thought of regressing back into his previous drug-addled life and fell into a catatonic state.
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Death by Despair / int_b21cd2c3	comment	In The Faerie Queene, Marinell grows increasingly sick and nearly dies of a broken heart upon learning that Florimell is captured by Proteus.
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Death by Despair / int_b3aba9af	comment	In an episode of Six Feet Under, a woman died and her husband died a few days later, sitting beside her casket at Fisher & Sons.
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Death by Despair / int_b4340c66	comment	Corpse Party features The Darkening, which takes over a person completely when they lose all hope. While they don't technically die, they're made into mindless slaves of the Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl and can never leave Heavenly Host, so it's as good as death for them. Notably, this is arguably a better option than dying, as death causes your spirit to feel the pain you felt at death for all eternity.
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Death by Despair / int_b5a087d7	comment	Robot Chicken mocks Padme's death in the Revenge of the Sith with Dr. Ball, M.D.
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Death by Despair / int_b5c36a42	comment	Also happens to Gudrune in The Ring of the Nibelung, who collapses when Siegfried dies and Hagen kills Gunther.
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Death by Despair / int_b7b5e290	comment	In The Bishop's Heir, when Caulay MacArdry learns of Dhugal's capture, he clutches at his heart and dies within seconds. The news was the last straw for Caulay's already failing health.
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Death by Despair / int_b83dc46e	comment	In More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, the story Cold As Clay involved this, when a farmhand "wastes away" after his employer moves his daughter in order to keep the two apart. The daughter is never told about this, however, which is why she isn't surprised when the farmhand arrives at her door to take her home... some time after his death.
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Death by Despair / int_b87b3b84	comment	Anna Karenina subverts this, along with along with many other common tropes of romance novels. Anna does go into a period of fever and delusion when her adultery is exposed, but when her husband manages to forgive her and her lover, she recovers. In a further subversion, however, she and her lover are both so ashamed by his magnanimity in contrast to their own behaviour that the latter (unsuccessfully) attempts suicide, and the former still can't bear to be in her husband's presence. She later commits suicide for real, when she realises that even though she got what she wanted, her life still wasn't the fairytale romance she anticipated.
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Death by Despair / int_b9fa8728	comment	In Loving Vincent, Pere Tanguy says this happened to Theo; after Vincent's death, he lost his will to live.
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Death by Despair / int_baa99ab3	comment	Tevya: It's even explicitly stated that Mama Golde's grief over her daughter converting to Christianity and getting married to a Gentile is what ruined Golde's health. Sure enough, she croaks.
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Death by Despair / int_bb3fde3d	comment	This is the origin story of the Danny Phantom villain, Desiree. Who, after being denied her hearts desire promised to her by her lover, and then being driven away from him by his jealous wife, died of a broken heart (and old age).
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Death by Despair / int_bb8d2f1a	comment	Ford's father died from despair over the fact he [Ford] never learnt to say his real name in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Like everything else in the series, it's Played for Laughs.
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Death by Despair / int_be80de62	comment	In S Cryed, Ayase Terada goes out this way when she learns that her brother is dead (through a wireless heart monitor on her wrist). It might be justified since she went through a process to refine her power which is said to drastically shorten lifespan in some cases, but aside from some scarring looks perfectly healthy. Kazuma, who she was fighting, didn't even get a chance to land a hit.
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Death by Despair / int_c07374f4	comment	In Jumanji, Alan learns that after he disappeared, his father gave up everything he had to try to find him. His eventual death of a broken heart likely wasn't helped by rumors that he himself had murdered Alan and hidden the body.
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Death by Despair / int_c0d295c4	comment	In Team Fortress 2, you can inflict this on your enemies: The Jarate weapon causes anyone hit by it to "lose the will to live" and take more damage from you and your allies' weapons. Played entirely for laughs- this is TF2.
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Death by Despair / int_c1a47d69	comment	In Otto of the Silver Hand, Baron Conrad is badly wounded in battle, and when he's carried into the castle, his wife Matilda thinks he's dead. The shock sends her into premature labor. She gives birth to Otto before dying of grief.
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Death by Despair / int_c2463c55	comment	In Final Fantasy X, it is heavily implied that Tidus' mother died this way after Jecht vanished and that this is one of many reasons that Tidus hates his father so much.
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Death by Despair / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: "The Age of Steel": This is how the Doctor deals with the Cybermen. After their "upgrade", an emotional inhibitor is installed to keep them from freaking out or caring about how much it hurts to be unwillingly roboticized. Shutting off the inhibitor causes the Cybermen to go into What Have I Become?-mode, which overloads their systems and causes their heads to blow up. "Turn Left": The episode is set in an alternate timeline where the Doctor dies underneath the Thames because he never met Donna Noble. It's implied that he was so depressed after losing Rose that he didn't really care whether he lived or died, hence his death. Meeting Donna helped him reconnect with the world, which is why she was able to snap him out of it and convince him to escape. When the TARDIS appears near the end, it's all but said that, after the Doctor's death, she's going the same way.
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Death by Despair / int_cba0c906	comment	In The Yeomen of the Guard, this may or may not happen to Jack Point after he loses Elsie to Fairfax for good.
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Death by Despair / int_cd7111a7	comment	Golden Wind: Proscuitto willingly keeps his powers and himself alive after surviving getting tossed out a train in order to make sure that Pesci stays focused. He then lost his remaining will after seeing Pesci torn to pieces by Bucciarati.
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Death by Despair / int_d31cdea	comment	The Hunger Games: Katniss attempts this during her confinement after Prim's death and her subsequent assassination of Coin. It doesn't work.
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Death by Despair / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park: Almost happens to Kyle when Cartman receives $1,000,000 from his grandma upon her death and buys a failing amusement park with it, and keeps it all for himself, having the time of his life and gaining national fame. This causes Kyle to have a hemorrhoid in his ass that is slowly killing him because he loses faith in God and the will to live. But at the end of the episode, when a series of hardships causes Cartman to lose his park and be utterly miserable, Kyle's hemorrhoid vanishes and he instantly becomes better, realizing that there is a God. Kenny's only death in Season 16 was the result of terminal boredom induced by crappy ziplining and horseriding experiences topped off with a tedious boat trip. Parodied in "Stanley's Cup", where the Littlest Cancer Patient's health is tied to the fate of his peewee hockey team. When he sees his team of kindergartners getting brutally beaten by a professional team on live television, he immediately dies with his final words being "No hope... no hope...".
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Death by Despair / int_daff6a21	comment	Barely averted in Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds by Ruka and invoked by Aporia. In this duel, the hero's lives are connected to their life points and vice versa. When Ruka thinks her twin is dead, she falls to her knees, clutching her heart, as her life points ebb away... (They get better.)
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Death by Despair / int_db96ded4	comment	The Legend of Korra: A criminal in Republic City's past, specifically Yakone, died a broken man after his son Noatak (Amon as he would later be called) ran away, thus robbing him of his petty revenge against Aang.
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Death by Despair / int_ded9acbd	comment	No Time to Die: The death of James Bond at the end could be interpreted as this. Even if he miraculously survived the multiple gunshot wounds he's received, he's been injected with a virus that will be lethal to his love and to their daughter, meaning he can never see them again. It's very likely that his devastation at realizing this is why he positioned himself to take the missile strike.
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Death by Despair / int_df277244	comment	In American Gods, a funeral director observes that an elderly man whose wife just dies will most likely be dead himself in about eight months. In his experience, elderly women who lose their husbands are usually able to live on, but elderly men can't handle it and will stop taking care of themselves and lose the will to live.
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Death by Despair / int_e10d2c9	comment	In Queens of Mewni, while it was ultimately Death by Childbirth that got Sky the Weaver, there's an element of this trope as well as her health had already declined significantly after the death of her husband, to the point that her family had to force her to eat so she didn't lose the baby.
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Death by Despair / int_e2ade9fb	comment	In Genesis, the chapter immediately after the Binding of Isaac concerns the death of his mother Sarah. The actual text doesn't link the two events, but The Talmud says that after Sarah was informed by an angel that Isaac was to be sacrificed, she became so overcome with grief that she died.
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Death by Despair / int_e2d67fdc	comment	In most versions of Beauty and the Beast, the Beast nearly dies of despair when Beauty fails to come back from her visit home at the time she promised and he thinks she's abandoned him. Only her belated arrival and Anguished Declaration of Love save his life (and turn him human again).
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Death by Despair / int_e38b2bc4	comment	In Episode 10 of Space Patrol Luluco, Nova tears out and shatters Luluco's Aflutter Jewel (which is the physical embodiment of her love for him), causing her to die of a broken heart. Amazingly, she comes back to life after regaining her hope.
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Death by Despair / int_e393e4a3	comment	Primal: When the Chieftain sees his son's bloody corpse sprawled before him on a rocky island in the middle of the river, he just collapses and lets the water drag him away. He doesn't get the chance to visit the afterlife upon being dragged to the underworld by The Demon.
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Death by Despair / int_e6444cd2	comment	If Sergei Taboritsky unites Russia in The New Order Last Days Of Europe, this is his ultimate fate. A new item is added to the info screen, a clock counting down to Midnight. When it reaches Midnight, Taboritsky has a vision of Tzar Alexei... that melts into a picture of his corpse as he finally admits to himself that Alexei is dead. This is too much for Taboritsky's already-shattered psyche to take, and he dies screaming of a massive stroke.
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Death by Despair / int_e67a7d6c	comment	Parodied in Negima! Magister Negi Magi with Emily Sevensheep's mother. After she hears about her idol Nagi's death, we see her in her apparent death bed, telling her daughter that, just once, she wanted to see Nagi in person... then we cut to the doctor sweatdropping and saying that she only has a cold.
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Death by Despair / int_e7a27429	comment	The Bridge: Queen Amatheia's daughters were taken away by invaders and enslaved. After Amatheia used powerful magic to set up The Shroud to prevent future invasions, she passed away from both her exhaustion and her depression over the loss of her daughters.
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Death by Despair / int_ea49d044	comment	Happens to Zilpah in The Red Tent, after she witnesses Jacob destroying and urinating on the last of her household idols. She becomes both physically and mentally ill for a few hours or days, then just up and dies. It was said that her body broke into many pieces.
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Death by Despair / int_ec28245c	comment	In Dragon Ball Z, the stress of his people being slaughtered by Frieza and his forces causes this to happen to the Grand Elder of Planet Namek. To be fair, he was extremely old and had been dying slowly for quite a while, so it amounted to dying a matter of minutes before he would have died 'naturally'. It nonetheless becomes a critical plot point because Planet Namek's Dragon Balls disappear when he dies. Luckily, when Kami and Popo use Earth's Dragon Balls to resurrect everyone Frieza's forces murdered, this brings back the Elder for the amount of time his life was shortened by.
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Death by Despair / int_f1619fb6	comment	Daddy's Little Girl: Genine Cavanaugh technically died of liver failure caused by excessive drinking, though her daughter Ellie states in her opinion she really died of "a broken heart", given that the tragic loss of her eldest daughter and her failed marriage was what drove her to drink. Near the end of the novel Dorothy Westerfield has a fatal heart attack shortly after Ellie publicly reveals proof that her grandson plotted to kill her decades ago. It was rumored for years that Rob was behind the near-fatal shooting of his grandmother in a supposed burglary gone wrong, but Dorothy was in denial over this until Ellie's research removed her doubts. The realization that her grandson truly is a monster (and that her son likely helped cover for him) is evidently too much to bear for Dorothy, who is already in her nineties.
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Death by Despair / int_f4163996	comment	The Adventures of Pinocchio: After rescuing and healing Pinocchio from being hanged, the Blue Fairy tells him that his dad Geppetto is arriving, but he decides to go on his own to reach him faster. He ends up derailing himself through another series of misadventures, and when he returns to the house of the Fairy in the woods, it has disappeared and the only thing in its place is a marble tombstone that reads: "Here lies the girl with turquoise hair who died from the sorrow of being abandoned by her brother Pinocchio". Thankfully it turns out to be a Secret Test of Character and the Fairy returns a few chapters later.
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Death by Despair / int_f634206e	comment	This is what took Chef Gusteau in Ratatouille after getting his rating shot down to four stars by Anton Ego. This may come across as an overreaction on his part to much of the audience, but keep in mind that high cuisine is highly competitive. Anything less than the maximum rating will destroy a fancy restaurant, and sometimes even the chef; such was the case of Bernard Loiseau, the chef Gusteau was modeled after.
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Death by Despair / int_f91de837	comment	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince presents Merope Gaunt, who is a Stalker with a Crush to a man whom she eventually tricks into drinking a Love Potion in order to become married to him and whom she rapes into pregnancy with their son. She eventually stops giving him the Love Potion, either due to her believing he has fallen in love for her in return or in the hope that he'd remain for their son's sake. He runs away from her instead, which causes her such a deep depression she loses all of her will to live, ending with her dying soon after giving birth at an orphanage. That boy eventually grew up to become the most dangerous Dark Wizard of all time, Lord Voldemort. Albus Dumbledore surmises that if Merope had hung on and raised him with love, Voldemort might never have come to be the homicidal monster he is.
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Death by Despair / int_f9742e61	comment	In Anne Mcaffrey's Dragonflight, we learn that, when a rider dies, his/her dragon goes Between (a bitter cold, blackness through which dragons teleport), never to return. Likewise, dragon riders whose dragons die can succumb to this. In Moreta, Dragonlady of Pern, Moreta dies Between because she has borrowed the elderly dragon of another rider, Leri, and the dragon couldn't make the jump; both Leri and Orlith, Moreta's own dragon, sense the instant their mental bonds are severed. The only thing preventing Orlith from immediately going Between is that she has recently laid a clutch of eggs who need her to incubate them. Leri is persuaded by another rider to remain because "You're all Orlith has now." Once the eggs have hatched and the new dragons are impressed by future riders, Leri bids everyone farewell and rides Orlith into Between so they can both give in to this trope.
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Death by Despair / int_fbcfc340	comment	Incendies: It's implied that this is the cause of Nawal's death, after a life of being a Determinator. Her daughter suddenly finds her catatonic, and she dies soon afterwards. Her will refers to a mysterious "broken promise" and asks to be given a pauper's unmarked grave until her promise can be upheld by her children. At the end of the film, we discover what drove her into sudden despair — namely, the discovery that her long-lost son (the much-older brother that Jeanne and Simon never knew they had) and the man who raped and tortured her in prison (the father they never knew) were one and the same.
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Death by Despair / int_fda9c8b	comment	In series two of Downton Abbey, Lavinia develops Spanish flu before her wedding to Matthew, forcing them to cancel. While Matthew thinks she is in bed, she witnesses him and Mary kiss, with Matthew explaining that Violet asked him to marry Mary. Lavinia tries to convince him to go back to Mary, but then her condition inexplicably worsens and she dies suddenly, leading Matthew to conclude that she died of a broken heart because she believed he did not love her.
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Death by Despair / int_fdc66d32	comment	One way to interpret Fumine Sonozaki/Shroud's death on Kamen Rider Double.
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All That Glimmers Is Not Good / Fan Fic / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Elemental Chess Trilogy / Fan Fic / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
M.F.D. / Fan Fic / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
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Magical Pony Lyrical Twilight (Fanfic) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
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Symposium Of Supremacy (Fanfic) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
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How the West Was Won / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Hud / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
I Love You Phillip Morris / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
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My Last Five Girlfriends / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
No Time to Die / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
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Go Ask Alice / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Goblin Slayer / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
I Swear I Won't Bother You Again! / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Island of the Blue Dolphins / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
It's Time To Change The Genre / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Jennie / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Joe Golem and the Drowning City / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Keturah and Lord Death / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Le Morte d'Arthur / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Like Water for Chocolate / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Lilith's Brood / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Madame Bovary / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Mass / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Masters of Rome / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
MorningsInJenin	seeAlso	Death by Despair
Nínay / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Otto of the Silver Hand / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Out of the Dust / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Pintosmalto / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Ramayana	seeAlso	Death by Despair
Ringing Bell / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Romance of the Three Kingdoms / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Roots / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Seeds of Yesterday / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
SeedsofYesterday	seeAlso	Death by Despair
Shadow of the Conqueror / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
She Who Became The Sun / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Short and Shivery / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Stone Fox / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Stop That Bull, Theseus! / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Talma Gordon / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Tempting Hymn / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
The Bounty Trilogy / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
The Decameron / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
The Doll / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
The Faerie Queene / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
The Gashlycrumb Tinies / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
The Grandmother / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
The Icelandic Sagas / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
The Ingenue / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
The King in Yellow / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
The Mayor of Casterbridge / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
The Mister / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess To Savior / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
The Optimist's Daughter / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
The Saga of Arrow-Odd / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
The Saga of the Faroe Islanders / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
The Scarlet Letter / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
The School for Good and Evil / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
The Sight / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
The Silmarillion / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
The Sleeping Beauty Killer / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
The Song of Roland / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
The Underneath / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
The Villainess Flips the Script! / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
The Yellow Dwarf / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Tristan and Iseult / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Where the Red Fern Grows / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Wolf Hall / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
ChantersOfTremaris	seeAlso	Death by Despair
DeathbyDespair	sameAs	Death by Despair
ToshiroMifune	seeAlso	Death by Despair
A Bride's Story (Manga) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Henkyou no Roukishi Bard Loen (Manga) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
The Liminal Zone (Manga) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
AmnesiaER	seeAlso	Death by Despair
Peak of Hope (Roleplay) / int_3d51e6c6	type	Death by Despair
American Horror Story: Asylum / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Anne with an E / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Kamen Rider Wizard / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Law & Order: Criminal Intent / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Silicon Valley / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
The Spanish Princess / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
2point4 Children / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Wagon Train / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Gloom (Tabletop Game) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Princess: The Hopeful (Tabletop Game) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
A Very Potter Musical (Theatre) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Antony and Cleopatra (Theatre) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
King Lear (Theatre) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Romeo and Juliet (Theatre) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
The King and I (Theatre) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
BioShock 2 (Video Game) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Buddy Simulator 1984 (Video Game) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Bugsnax (Video Game) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Demon's Souls (Video Game) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Final Fantasy II (Video Game) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Friday Night Funkin': Corruption (Video Game) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Grim Tales (Video Game) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
King's Quest I: Quest For The Crown (Video Game) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Knight Bewitched (Video Game) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
My Time at Sandrock (Video Game) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous (Video Game) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
SIGNALIS (Video Game) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Tales of Xillia 2 (Video Game) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
The Curse of Monkey Island (Video Game) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
The Witch's House (Video Game) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Brass Restoration (Visual Novel) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Seinarukana (Visual Novel) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
True Remembrance (Visual Novel) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device (Web Animation) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Nyan~ Neko Sugar Girls (Web Animation) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
WitchCraft SMP (Web Video) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Loving Reaper (Webcomic) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
MoringMark - TOH Comics (Webcomic) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
No Rest for the Wicked (Webcomic) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Storyshift (Webcomic) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
This Isekai Maid is Forming a Union! (Webcomic) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Twisted Tropes (Webcomic) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Beauty and the Beast (Golden 1992) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Funan / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Incredibles 2 / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Loving Vincent / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Rainbow Brite / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Ratatouille / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Smiling Friends / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Ramayana / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
deathbydespair	sameAs	Death by Despair
Giselle (Theatre) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
LISA (Video Game) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
CLANNAD (Visual Novel) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair

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