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Death Seeker
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At some point in the past, some characters have had a traumatic experience, found themselves dishonored, committed a crime they could not repay, lost everything worth living for, caught an incurable disease or just became bored with continued existence. For whatever reason, rather than turning to suicide, they went off seeking battles to fight, hoping to find an enemy who would kill them, and achieve an honorable, heroic, awesome, or otherwise acceptable death, sometimes going as far as outright surrendering and offering their life to their enemies. Martyrdom Cultures may regard such a character as a role model, even if upon closer examination they might seem like a Martyr Without a Cause. In cases of cruel Irony, Death Seeker characters who snap out of it and find something to live for often end up dying or getting killed shortly afterwards anyway. A Super-Trope to Glorious Death. Compare Heaven Seeker, when a heroic death is viewed as a means of being rewarded in the afterlife, and Suicide by Cop, where one engineers a scenario where someone else (it doesn't necessarily have to be a cop) will kill them. Contrast Immortality Seeker, for those utterly dedicated to avoiding death. Compare and contrast Not Afraid to Die, where someone is definitely unafraid of death but isn't actively seeking it out, and Worth Living For for something or someone who pulls a Death Seeker out of this mentality. Likely to cause a Threat Backfire to any death threat, for obvious reasons. These characters are, however, prone to Revenge by Proxy. See also Miles to Go Before I Sleep and Suicide by Assassin. Some immortal characters who contracted a bad case of Who Wants to Live Forever? may also become Death Seekers if they know of one hard-to-obtain way for them to get a peaceful death. This often, (but not always) overlaps with Honorable Warrior's Death, which denotes someone who wants to die in battle, but they may not be actively seeking it out. |
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Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony has Ryoma Hoshi, the Ultimate Tennis Pro. Since he became a death row inmate, he thinks his life is worth less than anyone else's, and after Monokuma announces that everyone will be executed if murder isn't committed in 48 hours, he volunteers to be the first victim (and is disappointed when he isn't). However, he doesn't want to be like this and desperately tries to find a reason to live. Then, in Chapter 2, he learns that nobody from the outside world misses him (most likely because he doesn't have anyone left to miss him since the reason he's on death row in the first place is because he killed members of The Mafia out of revenge for them killing his family and girlfriend). This breaks him and causes him to give up on ever finding a reason to live, and he allows Kirumi to murder him. | |
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Samurai Jack: An early episode featured a Norseman who was cursed with eternal life by the Big Bad. He set himself up behind an elaborate death course to weed out anyone who had no chance of ever defeating him, and waited for someone to bring him death. He had to fight all-out to get the afterlife he desired... but Jack did manage to beat him. Jack himself is hinted to be towing this line as of Season 5. Having spent 50 years without aging or getting any closer to finding a way home has completely worn him down, and the second episode reveals that he's apparently contemplated seppuku at least once. |
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Chrononauts: Lost Identities features Isaac, a playable character who prevents various tragedies, including his own death at Columbine. One of his win conditions includes allowing the massacre to happen, so Isaac can let himself die. | |
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The main character of the Cyanide and Happiness short "Sad, Sad Larry". He can never seem to kill himself, no matter how hard he tries. | |
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Case 03: True Cannibal Boy: Sally considers her zombification to be a Fate Worse than Death because she constantly craves blood and could become a danger to others. She asks Lily to kill her, which happens in the normal ending, but in the true ending, Lily convinces Sally to continue living instead. | |
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RWBY: Jaune's willingness to put his friends' lives ahead of his own is not seen as heroic by the villains. When Cinder defeats him during the battle of Haven, he tells her that dying doesn't matter to him if it buys his friends a little time because their lives matter more than his own. Cinder angrily states he's just a failure with a death wish. His teammates later address this attitude in Volume 6, insisting they love him like family and don't wish to lose him; this helps break him out of the mentality. This is later revealed to be the true end goal of Salem, who was cursed with immortality after failing to stage a coup against the gods over their refusal to bring Ozma back to life. Given the terms of her curse, which is "for as long as this world turns, you shall walk its face", she assumes Exact Words is at play and plans to turn humanity against each other, use the relics to summon the gods and showcase to them Remnant at its worst, and hope that their subsequent destruction of the world will finally put an end to her eternal suffering. While some of her followers like Tyrian and Cinder have no qualms with this, the rest of the group are quick to turn on her upon finding out, especially since they were mislead with the promise of a new world order. |
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Lexx is suicidal in Alien Dice, but can't commit suicide because of the nanites in his blood, keeping him alive. He's too scared to try more extreme methods of suicide, so instead hopes he'll be killed in a battle. This changes later in the series, when Lexx decides to live and spend the rest of his life with his family and Chel. | |
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Eberron: Erandis d'Vol, half-dragon lich, is the last survivor of the line of Vol and one of the mid-level Big Bads in the setting. One possible interpretation suggested by Keith Baker is that she's gone insane and only seeks to join her family in death. Unfortunately, her phylactery was hidden and enchanted by her mother, so that any time she dies she's resurrected somewhere random. Even she can't kill herself permanently. | |
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The song "Across the Rainbow Bridge" by Swedish melodic death metal band Amon Amarth is written from the perspective of an aging Norse warrior setting out to find an honorable death and so enter Valhalla. | |
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I'm the Grim Reaper: Chase is hinted to be one when Scarlet returns his gun after apologizing for using it. He reveals that there was only one bullet anyway. Later confirmed after Scarlet takes a bullet for him, he admits that the reason there was only one bullet was that he figured “one shot would do it.� | |
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Rick and Morty: The Mr. Meeseeks, a Servant Race who finds existence painful, and can only die once whatever task they're asked to do is over. It's suggested to only give them simple tasks to avoid pushing them too much, but they can have some rather complex tasks done in less than a day, like a therapy session or making someone popular at school. However, if they haven't died by the second day, they start to go insane and find increasingly violent and kill-happy ways to solve the problem. After all, if the person who summoned them is dead, then their problem is solved, right? It is implied that Rick Sanchez is one in several Season 2 episodes, as living on the multi-dimensional scale he lives on has caused him to emotionally distance himself from everyone he runs into and his Heel Realization that he is a toxic influence on people nearly caused him to kill himself with a heat laser in Auto-Erotic Assimilation. Season 2 Episode 4 - Total Rickall has Rick held at gunpoint by Morty, since the latter mistakenly thinks the former is a fake parasite. A rant from Rick while the gun is held at his head shows him a little too eager to have Morty pull the trigger. In the episode "Morty's Mind Blowers", an alien comes to Rick asking to be killed- according to his people, if he is killed by a great warrior (Rick counts) he goes to Paradise, but if he dies by accident he goes to Hell. At the last minute, he changes his mind, unsure if his religion is right- but in a Cruel Twist Ending, he is hit by a car, and spirits appear to drag him down to Hell, proving that his religion was right all along. |
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In Dilbert Alice becomes one after being promoted to manager, which she quickly finds a Fate Worse than Death. | |
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In The Lady's Not for Burning, Thomas is an ex-soldier who has given up on life after seeing much of the world's ugly side. He confesses to a murder he didn't commit as a way of making his death useful by saving the innocent woman on whom the authorities are trying to pin the crime. (It's a comedy, so he and the woman both survive, and fall in love, which gives him a reason to go on living — although he insists he isn't happy about it.) | |
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With DJ in Total Drama, he wants to get himself voted off the show in World Tour because he thinks he's cursed after destroying a mummified dog. Eventually, he's the only person left on his team and finally decides to actually start trying to play (mainly because Alejandro found a (fake) lucky fish for him which makes DJ think the curse was lifted), only to be eliminated in the episode after his decision. | |
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Tsugumi of Ever17 leaps into a dangerous situation to save the hero's life, not because she cares about his wellbeing, but because she's hoping it will kill her. Unfortunately for her, her Healing Factor makes her more or less immortal. | |
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Troll Slayers are a player career path in Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, though after advancing through the Giant, Dragon and Daemon Slayer stages their only exit career is "Glorious Death," so a note advises players to "think it over carefully" before picking the class. The class evades Game-Breaker status because anyone playing a slayer is expected to act like one; you are supposed to pick fights even when the odds aren't good, sleep deprivation, mental instability, and rampant alcoholism is the best way to spend your downtime, and armour is for people without a death wish (i.e. people who are not you). Your impressive combat prowess is there to make the party want to hang out with you anyway. Their only non-combat abilities are limited to "resistance to getting drunk" and "scaring people," so the only thing a Slayer is good for outside of a fight is starting one. | |
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From the interactive music project MILGRAM, there's Shidou Kirisaki, as shown in his first interrogation by the prison warden Es. | |
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Doc Scratch of Homestuck has accomplished his life's purpose, and as such, wants his life to end. He's a First Guardian. You can see why he's having trouble dying. There's also Scratch's adopted daughter, the Handmaid, aka Aradia Megido's ancestor. In her case, she's immortal thanks to a curse Lord English put on her, and can only die once she's completed her tenure. Thanks to Scratch's conditioning, she desperately wants to die. |
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The Order of the Stick: After being exiled to human lands, Durkon was like this when Roy first met him. While no longer explicitly seeking death, he is currently looking forward to it, since the Oracle informed him that he would go home "posthumously." At that point he expected that he would die in human lands and never be returned to his family's ancestral tomb, so he sees this as better than nothing. Unfortunately, he doesn't know the other prophecy made about his homecoming. It's also become clear that what the Oracle meant by "posthumously" was "after you turn into a vampire." Dwarves in general are like this due to the "honourable death" exception from ending up in Hel's domain. At one point, an elderly dwarf is killed fighting a monster, Haley and Blackwing are shocked... and said dwarf's relatives yell things like "Way to go!" and comment that he got "in under the wire". |
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Zbeng! has a character named Stav — an extremely depressed, pessimistic Goth girl, who constantly tries to commit suicide. She does seem good at driving others to it, but she herself is so "lucky" that she constantly wins the lottery despite never buying tickets (she doesn't tend to collect the winnings). | |
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Exalted: The Neverborn. As Primordials, they could not die, so when the Exalted killed them anyway, they ended up trapped between life and death, stuck in excruciating agony. Now they work to tear down Creation in hopes that this will allow them to finally cease. | |
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It's been implied that The Nostalgia Critic is this. Leaving the room that the bad movie is in vs. shooting yourself in the head... what would you pick? Confirmed in To Boldly Flee and Played for Drama. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Atropus, the moon-sized, undead remnants of the universe's creator, has long since given up on the hope that it might return to its original state of being, and now mostly hopes for the only thing that can grant it release from its torment — the final cessation of its existence. Most of its followers follow suit, as they tend to be beings who despise their own existence or no longer see worth in life and hope to simply take down as many others as they with them when they go. Eberron: Erandis d'Vol, half-dragon lich, is the last survivor of the line of Vol and one of the mid-level Big Bads in the setting. One possible interpretation suggested by Keith Baker is that she's gone insane and only seeks to join her family in death. Unfortunately, her phylactery was hidden and enchanted by her mother, so that any time she dies she's resurrected somewhere random. Even she can't kill herself permanently. |
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"Criminal" by Disturbed. The Despair Event Horizon and Sanity Slippage turn the narrator into a Death Seeker. | |
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The Saga of Biorn is about Biorn, an old Viking who wants A Good Way to Die in battle because it's the only way he can enter Valhalla. After several would-be slayers die in series of increasingly improbable accidents, he finds a troll attacking a nunnery and gets his honorable death, but the nuns give him a Christian burial so he gets rerouted to Fluffy Cloud Heaven at the last second. | |
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One Night Ultimate Werewolf: The Tanner hates his job, his life, and his village and only wins if he gets killed. The Apprentice Tanner from Bonus Pack 2 normally tries to help the Tanner get killed but becomes a Death Seeker if none of the other players are a Tanner. The Synthetic Alien from One Night Ultimate Alien is like an evil version of the Tanner in that he only wins if he gets killed, but is on the Alien team. The Mad Scientist from One Night Ultimate Super Villains also wants to get caught, but the game app says he gets captured instead of killed. The mechanics are the same as the Tanner, though. The Intern acts similarly to the Apprentice Tanner in that she's trying to help the Mad Scientist get caught. If none of the other players are a Mad Scientist, her mission is to get caught. |
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Sentenced's "May Today Become The Day" is about a soldier who charges into battle vigorously hoping to die, with his suicidal attitude being mistaken for bravery. | |
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Dies Irae: Mercurius was born as a god, and since the god can't experience the unknown, he wants to die, but he can't kill himself. All events of the novel are actually his plan to die. Göetz von Berlichingen (Michael Wittman) is tired of battles and wants to die, but, since he's part of Reinhard's Gladsheimr, he can't. |
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Professional wrestler Fritz Von Erich. After his oldest son Jack died of electrocution at the young age of five, Fritz took on a much more aggressive fighting style in the ring, hoping that he would piss off the wrong person and get killed in the ring. This more aggressive ring style helped turn him into one of the most hated men in wrestling in the 1960s. It should be noted that back in that time, professional wrestling was not 'pure entertainment' the way it is now. The outcomes were still predetermined, but the guys would often really hit each other in the name of "keeping it real" and the wrestlers were more often than not legitimate tough guys. | |
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Warhammer Fantasy Battle: Count Mordred the Damned is a Chaos Champion who is cursed to forever constantly mutate within his armour and will always be brought Back from the Dead by the Chaos Gods if he should fall in battle. As such, he doesn't have much of a chance of ever finding real rest in death, but it's what he hopes for against all hope. Troll Slayers: The rigidity of Dwarfs' honour codes results in Troll Slayers, unfortunate Dwarfs who have failed at some task or are unable to fulfill an oath, for which death is their only solace. However, it's dishonorable for a Dwarf to just off himself, so they dye their hair, cut it into an intimidating shape, and go into battle unarmored against the biggest, meanest opponent they can find. If they can't find a troll nasty enough to kill them, they graduate to become Giant Slayers, then Dragon Slayers, then Daemon Slayers. In the Storm of Chaos campaign's Slayer army list, the Dwarf player gets almost as many victory points from getting his troops killed by monsters as his opponent does for killing them. Troll Slayers are a player career path in Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, though after advancing through the Giant, Dragon and Daemon Slayer stages their only exit career is "Glorious Death," so a note advises players to "think it over carefully" before picking the class. The class evades Game-Breaker status because anyone playing a slayer is expected to act like one; you are supposed to pick fights even when the odds aren't good, sleep deprivation, mental instability, and rampant alcoholism is the best way to spend your downtime, and armour is for people without a death wish (i.e. people who are not you). Your impressive combat prowess is there to make the party want to hang out with you anyway. Their only non-combat abilities are limited to "resistance to getting drunk" and "scaring people," so the only thing a Slayer is good for outside of a fight is starting one. Flagellants are citizens of the Empire who've become unhinged by the game's apocalyptic atmosphere, gathering into warbands and tagging along with the army in hopes of saving the world by dying in the most painful way possible. |
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Siegfried Sassoon, the poet, during the First World War. Along the way, he picked up an MC, and the title of "best war poet to survive the war". Detailed in The Regeneration Trilogy. He had to choose between guilt over leaving his men on the battlefield and guilt over not continuing to protest against the war and ended up going on patrol without a helmet after going back to the front. But he lived. | |
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The muffin in asdfmovie 7 and 8. And he looks so happy about it! | |
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The Eden of Grisaia: Protagonist Yuuji becomes this, after being haunted by his past for too long, especially since his promise to his master, that he is not allowed to die until he is saved five people, been fulfilled. | |
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The Mrs. Hawking play series: The Colonel, in later life, with his pursuit of dangerous military missions and increasing drinking habit, is implied to have become this. | |
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Stumpy from Kaeloo challenges Death in an attempt to go to Paradise in Episode 92. In the end, he commits suicide, but goes to Hell instead as a punishment for ending his own life. | |
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Kei Okazaki from Collar × Malice embodies this trope. Kei hopes he can die while protecting someone he himself believes to be important. He easily puts himself in harm's way and does not care very much about his injuries or personal safety. This becomes a major source of tension with the heroine in Kei's route. | |
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In the final episode of The Adventure Zone: Balance Travis says that early on he imagined Magnus as ultimately wanting to go out in a blaze of glory, for the right cause, so that he could reunite with his dead wife Julia, but that over the course of the story things change for him, and he finds so many more reasons to live. He actually dies of old age, surrounded by friends. Though Julia teases him for living a lot longer than she expected when they are finally reunited. | |
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Save Face: Many of the songs on Another Kill for the Highlight Reel are about the protagonist wishing for death. However, he still feels guilty over the death that kickstarts the plot, and everything he never got to say to the deceased beforehand, so he doesn't go through with it. He's also afraid of ending up in Hell if he kills himself. By the end of the album, he remains alive. | |
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The Onion characterizes the entire zebra species having evolved to be eaten in its piece "Zebras: Nature's Ultimate Prey - Horrifying Planet". | |
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A variation occurs in Goemon's Bad Ending in Nightshade where Anju could have dodged Yodo's attack but chose not to, since she believed she was going to die either way. Tragically, in this ending, she did not realize that Goemon had a plan to rescue her and get her out alive. | |
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Macbeth (yes, that Macbeth) of Gargoyles, with a couple of twists: due to a Deal with the Devil (sort of), he and fellow antagonist Demona have been granted immortality and eternal youth until one kills the other, but once that happens, both will die. Since Macbeth is tired of life, and Demona wishes to continue living, they often come into conflict with each other, forcing the usually-homicidal Demona into an awkward fighting position. He gets over it in "City of Stone", when the Weird Sisters' Armor-Piercing Question makes him realize that death has never solved any of his problems. Macbeth still doesn't know what he wants out of life, but he knows death isn't the answer. | |
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Aurora: Dainix's village was destroyed by a demon, and he wants to avenge them. A few arcs after he tells Kendall this, they fight, and we have this exchange: | |
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BattleTech: The stereotype of a Clan Solahma warrior is one of these. Solahma are warriors in their thirties who have failed to obtain a Bloodname (which is needed to enter Clan politics and higher command). Since they have failed to live up to their potential, they are used as garrison units, military police, live-fire training targets for The Spartan Way that trains the next generation, or Cannon Fodder. While actual Solahma tend to vary in their responses, most are left with little to do but seek an Honorable Warrior's Death, and willingly fight as unarmored line infantry or pilot Armored Coffins like the Hunchback IIC to do so. Natasha Kerensky is noted to have become increasingly rash and careless after her lover Joshua Wolf was assassinated. Some In-Universe sources suggest she was subconsciously trying to kill herself in battle, though if that was the case it took her over thirty years to succeed. |
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Kill Six Billion Demons: The God-Emperor Jadis succeeded at a ritual that made her The Omniscient and was driven mad by her perfect, unfailing knowledge of everything. As a result, Jadis wants to die to make it stop, but being omniscient she also knows the exact moment of her death and cannot alter it, leaving her trapped in her perfect knowledge of everything and re-living the worst moments of everyone's lives until the foretold day arrived. | |
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Jin of Wapsi Square has reached the point where she will even resort to suicide just so that she can die. The problem is that she is an indestructible clay golem and therefore can't die. It's not pretty. | |
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While they weren't exactly looking to die, in the Popeye short "Hospitaliky", Popeye and Bluto compete with one another to get injured and have Olive Oyl nurse them to health, who in this short works at a hospital. Any one of the stunts they try to pull could easily have killed them, such as purposely crashing a motorcycle, laying down in the middle of a busy intersection, and laying down on train tracks, however, they keep miraculously surviving unscathed, to their own annoyance. The 1945 remake, "For Better or Nurse", has it be All for Nothing because Olive works at a veterinary hospital. Popeye and Bluto start acting like dogs and cats and get hauled off to an asylum. A later short played on the same gag, this time with Olive seeking someone suitably beaten up as a model for a sculpture. So the two start trying to get themselves beat up. Eventually, Popeye makes Bluto eat his Spinach, making him go into an involuntary fit of beating up Popeye; Bluto wins the fight but loses the chance to pose for Olive. |
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The British Railway Stories: In episode 18, "The Last Run", Stephen is seen talking about how he doesn't want to just stop running and existing. The engine next to him, which has been reduced to a stationary boiler, seems more welcoming of being scrapped. | |
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In Fate/Grand Order, Jeanne Alter comments this is the ultimate result of every Avenger: their curse prevents them from ever letting go of their hate, even if they've completed their revenge, even if it takes an eternity: they will continue to hate, aware of the sheer, horrible pointlessness. As such, death is the only thing that can release them. | |
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In In Strange Woods, it's implied Howl agreed to the Final to die on his own terms after spending his life running from everyone he was ever close to. | |
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Legend of the Five Rings: The Death Seekers of the Lion Clan are Lion samurai who failed the clan in some grave fashion, but not to the point that only immediate seppuku would exonerate their kin. Rather, they throw themselves into self-chosen Uriah Gambits, figuring that one of them will kill them off soon. In the meantime, the immediate wreckage they inflict on the Lions' enemies (they want to die, so the only time they'll hold back is if it will let them do even more damage within the next twenty minutes...and maybe not even then) will compensate for most of their crime—the actual honorable death in combat will compensate for the last few bits. The Damned of the Crab Clan are the 'diseased' variation. They are victims of the corruption they fight and seek to do more damage to their enemy than they would do to Rokugan if they gave in to the Taint outright. |
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While The Nostalgia Chick's never said that she wants to die, it's pretty easy to infer from her growing alcoholism that she wouldn't really mind it. | |
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Nightwish: "End of All Hope" leads to "Death wish without a prayer". "Planet Hell": |
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Basically everyone in Gone with the Blastwave except Crosshairs has spent long enough in the post-apocalyptic urban warzone that death would at least be a change of scenery, but for the most part not quite long enough to do it to themselves (although there is a little suicide played as very dark comedy). At one point Pyro's only objection to being used as an Action Bomb was that the explosion of his fuel tank wouldn't be big enough to hit all the enemies. | |
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Zomgan: Mirae On's main goal is to find someone who'll be able to kill him. However as he has a powerful Healing Factor that'll patch him up quickly from other-wise lethal injuries such as getting sliced into numerous pieces and decapitation, it's rather difficult and Mirae has failed several times. He only joins the Eradication Front when Gyeong Lee promises to him that she'll help kill him. | |
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The Magnus Archives has a few of these, most notably: When planning for their attack at the end of series three, it becomes very clear that Tim doesn't intend on coming back from the Unknowing and in the end, he doesn't. when Jon enters the coffin to save Daisy, he admits himself that it wasn't just to save her, he thought it would have been better if he'd died trying |
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In the Young Justice (2010) episode "Salvage", there's an alien golem created from the husks of four aliens that is forced to commit criminal acts. When it breaks free of its mind control, it tries to demolish a nuclear plant. Blue Beetle tries to communicate with it and the golem explains that it feels like it's an abomination and wishes to end the pain by death; thinking that a nuclear explosion will be enough to end its life. Superboy's response to its death plea is "I can relate". It's ambiguous as to whether he's referring to a past death wish or feeling like an abomination, but neither has been confirmed. The golem finally gets its death wish when an unseen enemy destroys it before Blue Beetle tries to talk it out of death. | |
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Archer in Fate/stay night takes this to a new extreme: he wants to die, but because he exists as a Counter Guardian/Heroic Spirit, unbound by time, the only way it would even be possible for him to die would be to cause a paradox so big that reality itself will cause him to cease to ever having started to exist. He gets better during the events of the Unlimited Blade Works route. In Fate/Grand Order, Jeanne Alter comments this is the ultimate result of every Avenger: their curse prevents them from ever letting go of their hate, even if they've completed their revenge, even if it takes an eternity: they will continue to hate, aware of the sheer, horrible pointlessness. As such, death is the only thing that can release them. |
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Warhammer 40,000: The Blood Angels chapter of Space Marines have the Genetic Memory of their Primarch's death built into their blood, a curse they call the Black Rage. This manifests in occasional outbreaks of Unstoppable Rage, but in its worst form, the Space Marine goes almost completely berserk, hallucinating the last moments of their Primarch and forgetting their own identities. Such unfortunates are grouped into the Death Company and thrown into near-hopeless battles in search of death, and any who survive are given the Emperor's Peace afterward. From the Adepta Sororitas, Sisters Repentia are disgraced Sisters of Battle who have taken an oath of redemption, forsaking their armour and normal weapons for rags and a really huge chainsword. Any that survive a battle are allowed to rejoin their normal squads. Lone Wolves from the Space Wolves army list are trying to find an honorable death in battle to rejoin their fallen packmates in the afterlife, so much so that their "A Glorious Death" rule penalizes the player if they survive the game. That said, if they manage to fling themselves at a terrible foe and survive the experience, they usually are welcomed into the Wolf Guard as one of the chapter's greatest badasses. The more zealous devotees of Khorne the Blood God have been known to decapitate themselves if they're crippled and unable to fight the enemy, as a way to stay in their god's favor. For Khorne cares not from where the blood flows, so long as it flows... Chaos Dreadnoughts fall deep into this category. Dreadnoughts are a combination Mini-Mecha and life support device, allowing Space Marines with untreatable wounds to continue to serve the Chapter, both as support units on the battlefield and as wise councilors in the monastery—Dreadnoughts are essentially immortal, as one in canon personally fought with the Emperor, making him over 10000 years old. Chaos Dreadnoughts, on the other hand, feel imprisoned inside their shells (Dreadnoughts live long because they are asleep in the centuries between battles, Chaos dreadnoughts aren't), constantly searching for a way out of them, with death being the fastest way out. Most Chaos Dreadnoughts are uncontrollably insane, even by Chaos standards. This is to the point that Abaddon the Despoiler created the Defiler Tank to fulfill the combat role formerly occupied by Dreadnoughts because Chaos Dreadnoughts could not be trusted even to keep their weapons on enemies. Played with for the Dark Eldar. The Haemonculi have mastered the art of resurrection to explain how they keep up usable numbers with all the backstabbing going on. Some Dark Eldar actually have become addicted to dying, constantly trying to find new and interesting ways to kick the bucket, with one Haemonculus eagerly awaiting the new and bizarre mutations the process will inflict on him. The Death Korps of Krieg are Imperial Guard regiments from the world of the same name whose world rebelled against the Imperium and only was brought back after hundreds of years of nuclear and trench warfare. They specialize in defensive battles, sieges, and wars of attrition, and have no regard for casualties because they see their deaths as a way of atonement for their world committing treason against the Imperium hundreds of years earlier. In fact, they are so eager to sacrifice themselves for the Imperium that Commissars assigned to their units have the unusual purpose of keeping them from sacrificing themselves uselessly. Konrad Curze, Primarch of the Night Lord, knew his betrayal of the Imperium during the Horus Heresy was beyond forgiveness. Combined with his rampant psychosis and visions of his own end, he welcomed the assassin who liberated him of his head. More tragically, it is implied that he wanted to die before his time because it would prove his prophecies wrong and the future is not as doomed as his foresight showed. In the White Scars chapter when a battle brother has done something dishonorable they will become Sagyar Mazan. Where they will be exiled from the chapter, and seek death in battle to wash away their sins. Circa the Horus Heresy, their Dreadnoughts could also exhibit a certain level of death-urge; while they usually served to defend the few things the Scars absolutely could not do without, hidden away from their brothers as an unwelcome reminder of the true cost of their loyalties, some would be drawn by prophetic half-dreams to face a final death on a coming battle that they knew, somehow, would need them. |
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El Goonish Shive: Ellen shortly after her creation: A more apt example would be Abraham, who created the diamond that made Ellen by separating Elliot from the V5 transformation and is sworn to kill any creation of it. |
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Unsounded: Mathis wants to die, but won't commit suicide out of a sense of duty to his son. Matty has noticed that his father always seems to be looking for good people to leave him with so he can run off on a suicide mission and his exchange with Knock after they've teamed up briefly is telling; | |
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Vesa Turunen of Survival of the Fittest version two, while not starting out like this, eventually turned into one near the end of the game. | |
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Beast Wars: Dinobot, as confirmed by Word of God. Wish granted. Rampage doesn't like pain, which is the only way Megatron can control him, but he sure doesn't seem to have a problem with it when Depth Charge takes him out in a Mutual Kill. His counterpart from Beast Wars: Uprising is even worse, to go along with his much stronger Healing Factor; his reaction to regenerating From a Single Cell is to be enraged that even being nuked wasn't enough. |
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This is speculated to be what finally killed Emperor Franz Joseph in Malê Rising, as he was inspecting his troops in full view of enemy fire and lost his wife to a field hospital bombing a month before. | |
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Death Seeker | |
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In Embers in the Dusk the Black Irons are primarily composed of soldiers with death wishes. Their commander, Lieutenant-General Viktor Mineyev, stands out in particular. Despite all the crazy shit he has been throwing himself into, he has yet to die. He did have to get large chunks of his body replaced with cybernetics though. | |
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The Book of Mormon: Nine of Jesus' apostles wish to reunite with Jesus after they finish their work. This is treated more positively than most examples, as Jesus decides to grant that wish after their ministry is over (age 70). Moroni in the end. He's a bit more moderate than most examples as he doesn't really angst about it, but it's pretty clear that with his entire people annihilated he doesn't have anything to live for after he finishes his father's work. |
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"Across the Highlands" by Kamelot is about an immortal who longs to die. | |
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GURPS: One of the example villains in the old edition of Supers was a disgraced sumo wrestler who couldn't commit seppuku due to his Nigh-Invulnerability. Thus, he sought out other supers to goad them into killing him. His sympathetic backstory, and his history of tracking down and defeating violent supers make him more of an Anti-Villain. There's also a disadvantage called 'On The Edge', which basically allows you to play your character as a Death Seeker. It makes you passively suicidal. You won't off yourself, but if you're, say, facing down an entire biker gang while armed with a toothbrush... |
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Contrary to what the ending of The Labyrinth of Grisaia would have you believe, in The Eden of Grisaia Yuuji has basically given up on life and is actually looking forward to dying, feeling that he has no reason to go on at this point. After a meeting with Kazuki and Dead Person Conversation with Asako, he decides to hold off on blindly awaiting death for the moment, though he's still a prisoner. | |
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While not strictly trying to die, Nicola Francesca in Piofiore: Fated Memories makes a set of choices that he believes will lead to his death because he cares more about Dante being free from his family's long-held mission than about being alive. He also gets very upset with the heroine in his own route for covering him from a bullet because he does not believe his life is worth hers. | |
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