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Fake Assisted Suicide
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A character intends to commit suicide and solicits the help of another. The other pretends to go along with it, but sabotages the attempt. Typically the goal is to convince the would-be suicide that their life has been miraculously spared, or just to buy them time to reconsider, though more cynical motives are possible. Can be seen as a subtrope of Interrupted Suicide (the interruption occurs during the planning process, rather than later), or as a way of invoking Bungled Suicide. Likely to lead to a Happily Failed Suicide. Compare Talking Down the Suicidal, where a similar effect is achieved without deception. As this is a Death Trope, unmarked spoilers abound. Beware. |
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In Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Dr. Gonzo (after eating a huge amount of acid) asks Raoul Duke to throw the tape player into his bathtub "when 'White Rabbit' peaks." Duke instead throws a grapefruit into the tub and makes away with the tape player. | |
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Moriarty the Patriot: Sherlock agrees to go along with "Ending" the story of the Lord of Crime, Professor James Moriarty, which William takes to mean that Sherlock will help him die. Of course, Sherlock has every intent to save William's life before agrees, and when he shows up to their confrontation, immediately argues with him until William is convinced and even has to jump off a bridge after him. | |
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Inverted in the Archer episode "Deadly Prep": Archer's Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up Ivy reveals he has terminal cancer, and asks Archer to kill him in a staged home invasion so he doesn't have to suffer or invalidate his life insurance by killing himself. Archer genuinely obliges, both because he's being paid and wants revenge, but it turns Ivy was faking. It was really a plan to trick Archer into killing his other former bully for sleeping with Ivy's wife before killing Archer as well. | |
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In King Lear, the blinded Duke of Gloucester asks a mad beggar (actually his son Edgar in disguise) to lead him to the cliffs of Dover so he can jump to his death. Edgar leads him across level land, claiming it is the clifftop; after Gloucester has harmlessly "jumped," Edgar assumes another persona and tells Gloucester that he has been spared miraculously and that the person who led him to the cliff appeared to be an evil spirit. | |
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In Tristan und Isolde, Isolde plans to kill both Tristan and herself. She asks her maid to prepare two cups of poison, but the maid, unwilling to kill, replaces it with a Love Potion. The ensuing events lead to them both dying anyway. | |
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In M*A*S*H, a character becomes suicidal after discovering he is impotent. His comrades arrange an elaborate living funeral for him, capped off by a putative suicide pill — but instead of dying he wakes up in bed beside a willing nurse, who cures his affliction. | |
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The Count of Monte Cristo: After Maximilien's fiancee Valentine is poisoned, Maximilien is heartbroken and only the Count's intervention prevents him from shooting himself by revealing it was he who saved his father from bankruptcy and suicide, extorting from Maximilien a solemn oath that he won't make any more suicide attempts for a month. Having taken him to his private island in the meantime, the Count finds that Maximilien is still willing to die, and gives him a spoonful of haschich, which he claims will kill him painlessly. After Maximilien takes it and wakes up, he bitterly readies to kill himself with a knife... before Valentine makes her presence known to him (the Count had helped her fake her death in order to continue his revenge against her father, he was perfectly willing to let her die before he learned how important she was to Maximilien). | |
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