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Being a slave sucks, whether Born into Slavery or Made a Slave. For some, dying is the best alternative. This isn't about being willing to fight to the death for freedom. If these characters have fought, this trope is when they lose, and still choose death over being enslaved again. Do not expect a Rousing Speech, for the most part, since the bittersweet nature of this trope usually goes against the "rousing" part. It Has Been an Honor is likely, though. Happens in many Real Life slave narratives. Often overlaps Dying Reconciliation. Compare Better to Die than Be Killed (if the slave dies by their own hand), Dying as Yourself (if they're facing some variety of Mind Control or The Virus), Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death! (when one is willing to fight to the death for freedom), Never Going Back to Prison (if jail time is considered bad enough to be worth dying to avoid), It Has Been an Honor (when they're able to talk with an ally before the end). Contrast The Problem with Fighting Death, where a user of this trope may not die free after all. As a Death Trope, all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware. |
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Bioshock Infinite: After narrowly avoiding Songbird, Elizabeth begs Booker to never let it confine her again, putting his hand around her neck to make it clear she'd rather die. Booker promises that it won't come to that. He fails in at least one timeline, and Elizabeth gets the Fate Worse than Death that Comstock had long since promised her. | |
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Midwinter Night's Dream: After Lazar defected from the army, he threw away his Kalashnikov, but he kept his revolver in case the army caught him so he could kill himself before they could. | |
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In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Dobby, a house-elf who feels forever indebted to Harry due to freeing him from the abusive Malfoys, sacrifices his life by leaping in front of a throwing knife meant to kill Harry. Harry is crushed by the guilt, and digs Dobby's grave by hand, rather than dig a grave quickly and easily using magic. He even carves a headstone for the grave, which reads "Here Lies Dobby, A Free Elf". | |
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In Samurai Jack, a lava monster turns out to be a Viking trapped in a rock by Aku, unable to die. After Jack kills him, he's taken up into Valhalla, and Jack respectfully carves his final moments on the runestone. | |
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Aurion Redeye in The Iron Tower Trilogy by Dennis L. McKiernan. He is given a choice by an emissary of an evil wizard to choose between "Slavery or Death". He says, "You tell your master that Aurion Redeye chooses freedom!" The emissary does not like this and responds with, "Then you choose death." Aurion Redeye is eventually killed in a siege and his tomb says, "Who chose freedom." | |
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Final Fantasy IV: The After Years: The Archfiends and several other previous bosses from the original game are furious with being revived and controlled by the Maenads/Creator, and will actively kill themselves if the party damages them enough to free them from mental control. | |
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Odin Sphere: Belial the Dragon outright asks Cornelius to kill him, due to a spell on his heart that the Three Wise Men use to keep him in line. Upon piercing his heart, Belial is freed from his slavery, a fact he reveals to Urzur before devouring him whole. | |
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Naruto: When Neji takes the bullet for Hinata, his Caged Bird Seal (symbol of the branch Hyuga's servitude to the main branch) fades. Similar to his father, he willingly gave his life, not for his duty to his superiors, but out of love for his closest friends and family. Said father, Hizashi, forced his twin brother and leader of the family Hiashi to let him take his place as a sacrifice demanded by a rival village as compensation. This allowed him to save his brother and choose his own death, a minor rebellion against his fate. |
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ANNO: Mutationem: At the end of the Mysterious Console DLC, Noni, after learning that she's a digital construct of the real Noni who died long ago, chooses to leave the console knowing she'll disappear forever, being content with finally being free instead of remaining trapped within a device. | |
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The Outer Limits (1995): In the episode "The Grell", a Rubber-Forehead Alien whose species was enslaved by humans states that he would rather go back to his people's now uninhabitable planet, even though it would mean certain death. When his master asks him why, he replies "Because I would die free". | |
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This is a major cultural touchstone in the Amavikka, or Tatooine Slave Culture depicted in Double Agent Vader. They have a saying, "Dukkra ba dukkra", which translates to "freedom and death", and it's no coincidence that "dukkra" carries both meanings. To a slave, death is a form of freedom. | |
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In Borderlands 2, Angel asks the player character(s) to end her suffering as her cruel father has kept her imprisoned since childhood as a living power source to charge the key necessary to unlock an alien superweapon. She is so desperate to be free of her situation that she sends the protagonist(s) extra ammo as they destroy the systems keeping her alive. | |
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Everqueen: Reclamation: Surprisingly, this how Be'lakor goes out: his plan to devour Isha so he can ascend to godhood backfires spectacularly when she embraces her War Goddess aspect. When she has him dead to rights, the Chaos Gods reach out, offering to give him the power to save himself, at the cost of binding himself to them as their slave again. To the surprise of everyone, the First Fallen decides he would rather let Isha kill him then return to bondage. Even Isha seems to show a measure of respect. | |
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With This Ring: Invoked by a dark elf, when given the choice between execution and Brainwashing for the Greater Good. | |
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Attack on Titan: Kenny finds that his desire for power has made him a slave just like Rod and Freida. So when he is mortally wounded, he decides to let it end. | |
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In The Lightning Strike, when Madame Hydra tries to use Loki's spear to take control of Erik "Killmonger" Stevens, Erik shoots himself in the head rather than become their puppet. | |
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Tam Elgrin in Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream is implanted with a Yuuzhan Vong bioform that causes great pain if he fails to follow the directives given to him, or even think rebellious thoughts. This pain can build to lethal levels, and he knows it. After a small rebellion where he resists killing a scientist (Danni Quee), he's plagued with pain, and eventually decides he'd rather die than continue following the directives of the Yuuzhan Vong, so he reverses an earlier bit of sabotage he'd performed, and ends up collapsing a short distance away thanks to the pain quickly building up. At this point, he accepts he's about to die, but at least this way he dies on his own terms. He survives thanks to the intervention of New Republic medical staff and the Jedi Cilghal, but it's the thought that counts. | |
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Spartacus, the man who traveled across Italy freeing slaves from every town he encountered. When the Romans finally defeated him, they offered a chance for the slaves to get off. The 1960 movie's ending made the story famous enough that it named a whole other trope, but it is also a perfect example of this; the fact that (whether they actually all claimed to be Spartacus as in the film or not), they ended up choosing to be crucified over being spared but spending the rest of their lives as slaves. | |
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The Discworld book Going Postal has an odd example of this trope. A golem who has been active for so long that it counts as 'alive enough' is destroyed and its spirit finds its way to the place between life and afterlife. Death tells it that by moving on it will reach the afterlife, but the Golem is content to simply sit down in the boundary and stay there. Death asks it why, since there is nothing to do here. The golem simply replies that makes it perfect. With there being nothing there, there are no orders, no commands, no imperatives, and nothing to do. In other words, a state of perfect freedom. A huge theme of Going Postal is the true nature of freedom. Vetinari has very specific views on this subject, believing that true freedom is more horrible than can be comprehended, because to be truly free you must be without attachments of any kind, without fear, inhibitions, conscience, repercussions, and any of those things that keep us from doing terrible things. He much prefers reminding people that they are free... to take the consequences if they so choose. Which is what was offered to Moist von Lipwig, when he subverted this trope by "dying" and finding himself quite free to either take the postmaster's job, or walk out the door into a pit of spikes. It's ambiguous, but implied by Vetinari, that Reacher Gilt took this trope to the logical conclusion when Vetinari offered him a similar deal and intentionally stepped into the pit (or possibly rushed out the door so quickly that he didn't even see the pit until he was in it). |
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Kagura in Inuyasha is eventually freed from the sway of Naraku but he mortally wounded her before he let her go. After reuniting with Sesshomaru, she understands she's going to die anyway and welcomes death as her own liberation. | |
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Before entering his final battle in Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, Zack utters: "The price of freedom sure is steep." It was that or be killed by the army. | |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars: In "Orders", Fives seems to be relieved as he dies that he no longer has the control chip in his brain, even though he wasn't able to spread the word about the true nature of the chips like he was trying to do. | |
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Persona 2: Kandori willingly lets himself die a second time when the underwater ruins collapse around him, freeing him from Nyarlathotep's thrall once and for all. | |
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Persona 5 Royal: Akechi tells Joker that despite being brought back to life as a result of a Lotus-Eater Machine, he wants to carve his own path and accept the choice he made in their last meeting, and that he refuses to embrace a false reality while being under the control of someone else. | |
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If Arcade is a prisoner of the Legion, the epilogue of Fallout: New Vegas reveals that he eventually took his own life rather than face life as Caesar's slave. He does this by disemboweling himself, a nod to the fate of Cato the Younger at Utica. | |
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In the final mission of Warcraft III, Thrall said to Archimonde (who was about to kill him): "Our spirit is stronger than you know, demon! If we are to fall, then so be it! At least now we are free!" In the previous two games in the series, the orcs had been More than Mind Control servants to the demons. Then he teleported away, so this may not count. A better example might be Thrall's friend Grom, who dies in battle against the demon Mannoroth, who originally corrupted the orcs. As he lays dying from his wounds, he remarks that at least he was able to free himself, to which Thrall responds, "No, my friend.. you've freed us all." (It's worth noting that Grom killed Mannoroth in the battle. What killed him was the fact demons explode when they die.) | |
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The Handmaid's Tale: This seems to be the motivation behind Ofglen—now Ofsteven—stealing the car and going on a "joyride" that includes running over a military officer. Season reveals she was not killed but sent to the Colonies, to suffer a Fate Worse than Death. | |
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At the end of Black Panther (2018), Killmonger has been mortally wounded and T'Challa offers to use Wakanda's medical technology to save him. Killmonger, knowing that he'll just be locked up afterwards, chooses to finish himself off rather than spend the rest of his life in prison for his crimes, comparing himself to black slaves who chose to do the same thing instead of working in a plantation in America. The Irony of putting himself on that same moral plane when he's committed actual crimes against Wakanda and the world, up to and including mass murder, is lost upon him. | |
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Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories: The Masked Servants of Zenon outright ask the party to kill them to free them of Zenon's seal. Upon their defeat, they note how they've been freed, and take this time to confess as to what they truly were. | |
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In Super Robot Wars, Shu Shirakawa does not have a will of his own because he is controlled by Volkruss. So instead, he goads the heroes to kill him, which they do. This allows the villains to revive him, at the cost of annulling the link between him and Volkruss. He then uses this opportunity to start his rebellion against the evil god. | |
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Vow of Nudity: A variant in one story, when a member of the Genasi royal family warns Haara that killing her will ensure the death penalty if the Genasi ever recapture her. Haara replies that she prefers that over the threat of being enslaved again. | |
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Castlevania: In Season 4, Lenore steps out into the sunlight to die, having had a Heel Realization and not wanting to be Isaac's prisoner. | |
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Dead Poets Society: After Neil had his moment to shine on the stage as Puck in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, even if it was for just one night, he tells himself, "I was good, I was really good", before he pulls the trigger rather than face being sent to boot camp. | |
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In Stargate SG-1, this is the motto of the Jaffa rebellion ("Dal shakka mel", or, more commonly, "Shel kek nem ron" in Goa'uld). They'd rather die fighting the false gods than remain slaves. Later spoken by Gerak, when he heals the SGC from the Ori plague, after becoming a Prior, knowing that a failsafe would kill him for it. | |
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The third game has many examples of this trope. Considering the nature of the invading Reapers, this is to be expected. At the conclusion of Shepard's investigation into the Ardat-Yakshi monastery on Lessus, Rila manages to exert her free will long enough to tell the Reapers "We are NOT your slaves," before activating the detonator on a bomb large enough to destroy herself and all the Banshees in the monastery. Liara has a background conversation with her VI assistant Glyph aboard the Normandy where she is informed that, rather than falling prey to the Reapers, an entire colony elected to detonate nuclear warheads at the heart of their population centers once the Reapers landed. This becomes exemplary of this trope when you are then told that this decision occurred after evacuation had been rendered impossible, and that the inhabitants of the planet elected to embrace this fate rather than the unspeakable horrors that are inevitable at the hands of the Reapers. The Control ending has the Catalyst reprogrammed with Shepard's mind, a process which destroys their corporeal body. In the epilogue, Shepard will state that their mind is "now freed." The Extended Cut, which revised the endgame content after fan backlash, allowed the player to take a fourth option when presented with the Catalyst's three possible resolutions to the Reaper crisis: Refusing to activate the Crucible, or attempting to kill the Catalyst, will result in the galaxy being wiped out once again by the Reapers. Shepard invokes this trope directly in justifying this decision. |
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Matriarch Benezia in Mass Effect counts as this. She refuses medical help after being shot by Shepard because if she lived, she would fall under Sovereign's mental control again. Shepard can convince Saren that this is the only way to be free of Sovereign's control. If he agrees, Saren thanks Shepard and commits suicide. The third game has many examples of this trope. Considering the nature of the invading Reapers, this is to be expected. At the conclusion of Shepard's investigation into the Ardat-Yakshi monastery on Lessus, Rila manages to exert her free will long enough to tell the Reapers "We are NOT your slaves," before activating the detonator on a bomb large enough to destroy herself and all the Banshees in the monastery. Liara has a background conversation with her VI assistant Glyph aboard the Normandy where she is informed that, rather than falling prey to the Reapers, an entire colony elected to detonate nuclear warheads at the heart of their population centers once the Reapers landed. This becomes exemplary of this trope when you are then told that this decision occurred after evacuation had been rendered impossible, and that the inhabitants of the planet elected to embrace this fate rather than the unspeakable horrors that are inevitable at the hands of the Reapers. The Control ending has the Catalyst reprogrammed with Shepard's mind, a process which destroys their corporeal body. In the epilogue, Shepard will state that their mind is "now freed." The Extended Cut, which revised the endgame content after fan backlash, allowed the player to take a fourth option when presented with the Catalyst's three possible resolutions to the Reaper crisis: Refusing to activate the Crucible, or attempting to kill the Catalyst, will result in the galaxy being wiped out once again by the Reapers. Shepard invokes this trope directly in justifying this decision. |
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The Soul Drinkers consider this a better fate than living under the corrupt and tyrannical Imperium. | |
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In Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, David outright rejects Adam Smasher's offer to become a construct and accepts his fate knowing he kept Lucy safe. Given that engrams don't legally have rights, his decision ensured he wouldn't become Arasaka property. | |
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Black Mirror: The goal of the sentient video game characters in "USS Callister" — fly the ship through to the update patch (represented in-game by a wormhole) and get deleted by the firewall connecting the computer to the Cloud, so they can escape the Video Game Cruelty Potential of their evil creator. It doesn't work... Because they don't get deleted, only Daly's mod does — they become a part of the proper game. Getting to explore an entire procedurally generated universe in a Cool Starship? That sure sounds like heaven, doesn't it? | |
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Sonic Adventure: Gamma deletes Eggman's master status from his own system and then decides that he must rescue his brothers, who are still Eggman's servants, by destroying them in a Duel to the Death. | |
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Blood Omen: "We shall die today as heroes, lest we live tomorrow as slaves!" | |
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Greed in Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) is caught in a sealing array by the Big Bad that would imprison him. He instead chooses to break free, at the cost of almost all the Applied Phlebotinum keeping him alive, and kill himself through Suicide by Cop rather than risk being hunted down by the Big Bad and sealed again. | |
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All Assorted Animorphs AUs: When Tobias is made into a Controller in "What if they were caught during their first mission?", he morphs into a red-tailed hawk in the Yeerk Pool's cages and refuses to turn back no matter what the Yeerks threaten him with, until they finally shoot him and he dies free. | |
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Persona: Persona 2: Kandori willingly lets himself die a second time when the underwater ruins collapse around him, freeing him from Nyarlathotep's thrall once and for all. Persona 5 Royal: Akechi tells Joker that despite being brought back to life as a result of a Lotus-Eater Machine, he wants to carve his own path and accept the choice he made in their last meeting, and that he refuses to embrace a false reality while being under the control of someone else. |
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The Season 2 finale of Orange Is the New Black, Rosa's cancer treatments aren't working, meaning she's on a death sentence. When the prison van comes back, it's revealed that a prison escape has happened. During that time, Lorna, the driver of the van, tells Rosa to just drive as long as she can. Not only does Rosa end up killing the recently escaped Vee, she goes out by driving off a quarry. | |
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A New Hope (Danganronpa): The reason that Peko accepts her execution is that she is going to die not as a tool or a servant, but as Peko Pekoyama. | |
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XenoGears: Hammer's final moments has him dying with relief, being freed from the pain brought upon him when he was integrated with a Gear. | |
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In the Animorphs series, the Hork-Bajir are a peaceful alien race who have been enslaved by the parasitic Yeerks and used as shocktroops. The small amount of freed Hork-Bajir have a simple rallying cry: "Free or dead!". That cry carries a deeper meaning though, as it's also a pledge to the Animorphs (who helped free them) that they'll commit suicide if need be to avoid being taken alive in order to protect the Animorphs secrets, especially that they are human. | |
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In To Kill a Mockingbird, Mrs. Dubose is determined to break her morphine addiction before she dies, despite adding withdrawal symptoms to her chronic pain. | |
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Killer7: Emir Parkreiner is proclaimed to be evil by Harman, and considered "The Bloody Heartland" by those who know him. But he clearly realized something was wrong with his operation and his life after murdering all of the Smiths besides Harman and, not wanting to keep dealing with all the manipulation anymore, took himself out. | |
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My Hero Academia: Himiko Toga establishes many times over that her freedom is more precious to her than anything besides her friends; it's why she's so terrified of being caught by the authorities and forced to live in prison, or killed in the struggle against heroes. When Ochaco is bleeding out in front of her after fighting so hard to save her, she realizes she'll never be happier than in that moment, and chooses to give her life for Ochaco's with a blood transfusion to ensure she truly dies on her own terms. | |
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Even though he was not a slave, Guy of Gisborne's final words are this in Robin Hood: | |
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JoJolion: Kaato's takes a fatal wound from Toru's Wonder of U to feed Tsurugi the sap from the Locacaca plant, saving his life and freeing herself and the rest of the family from their curse before she dies. | |
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Dragon's Dogma: In the prelude to the true ending, the Arisen player ends up as Seneschal. If they decide to stay in the Seneschal Chamber, they can observe the now peaceful world but as a result are perpetuating the wicked cycle the game's universe is trapped in. The true ending has the Arisen end their own life, so they and the world may be free from the cycle. Even the upbeat out of place JPop opening, Into Free by B'z, is basically a song the Arisen's corpse falling at the end of the game, describing it as "flying into free". | |
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In the A Song of Ice and Fire series, this trope is the genesis of the Faceless Men. Centuries ago, a man realized that deep in the hellish mines of the Valyrian Freehold, slaves of all nationalities prayed for death to myriad deities as a way to free themselves from slavery. He started granting their wish and the cult of the Many-Faced God was born. | |
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In One Piece, a pirate attempts to commit suicide by biting his tongue as an alternative to being sold as a slave for one of the World Nobles. | |
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Mother 3: After intentionally killing himself with a rebounded lightning bolt, Clause dies as himself, free of Porky's control. | |
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Golden Wind: Bucciarati tells this to Giorno before ascending to the afterlife, saying that he freed himself from being a slave of fate and took his own path. | |
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In Mega Man X5, most of the bosses you fight have already been infected by the Maverick Virus, and they know it. They challenge X/Zero to a battle to the death, fully aware of the consequences. | |
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Final Fantasy: Final Fantasy IV: The After Years: The Archfiends and several other previous bosses from the original game are furious with being revived and controlled by the Maenads/Creator, and will actively kill themselves if the party damages them enough to free them from mental control. Before entering his final battle in Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, Zack utters: "The price of freedom sure is steep." It was that or be killed by the army. |
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Chaos Theory Ilya tells Rin that the reason she didn't stop Sakura from leaving on a suicide mission is because for once in her life, Sakura was making her own choice about her life instead of being someone's doll, which Ilya empathizes with. Archer kills himself rather than let Dark Sakura corrupt him. |
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The dark science-fiction world of Victoria has various villains, as well the heroes, enslaving their enemies. Among the victims are the Azanians, a race of lesbian Amazons enabled by technology who are terrified of being forced to submit to a man. When they are finally defeated after a no-holds-barred total war against the protagonists, some are taken alive, and made wives or slaves, but others prefer to adhere to this. | |
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Parodied in The Amazing World of Gumball episode "The Burden", where the incredibly old Class Pet hamster Chris Morris expects to die of old age when he escapes the school. A moment after collapsing he realizes he isn't dying, so he just walks off. | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind: Bucciarati tells this to Giorno before ascending to the afterlife, saying that he freed himself from being a slave of fate and took his own path. JoJolion: Kaato's takes a fatal wound from Toru's Wonder of U to feed Tsurugi the sap from the Locacaca plant, saving his life and freeing herself and the rest of the family from their curse before she dies. |
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Game of Thrones: "Walk of Punishment": Daenerys offers water to a crucified slave, but he declines, as "there are no masters in the grave". "Two Swords": Daenerys is going for something like this when she orders the slave collars removed from the crucified children. |
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Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen: "We shall die today as heroes, lest we live tomorrow as slaves!" And in the first Soul Reaver, Melchiah is openly relieved that, with his death, he is no longer trapped in his rotting carcass of a body. ("I am released...") |
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Xenocide sees Planter, an alien "piggy", learn that his species may only be sapient due to a virus introduced from outside his home planet. In order to prove otherwise, he demands to be placed in a quarantine room designed to remove the virus (which causes horrible death to any non-native life that it infects) from those placed in it. As "piggies" have evolved to be in symbiosis with the virus, having it "cured" causes Planter incredible agony and a slow, horrific death... but he retains his mind the entire time, and dies satisfied that his species gained sapience of their own accord. | |
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Robin of Sherwood: Robin, after his men take their first losses in fighting. Herne's words after Robin dies say the same of him. |
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Doctor Who: In "Castrovalva", when the denizens of Castrovalva (a time/space trap created by the Master to destroy the Doctor) rebel against the Master, destroying the trap and themselves: "You made us, man of evil, but we are free!" | |
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Star Wars Rebels: After being mortally wounded while fighting alongside the Rebellion in the Grand Finale, Gregor uses his last words to thank Rex and the Rebels for giving him a chance to fight for a cause he actually believed in for once, rather than one he was programmed to serve. | |
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No More Heroes: Holly Summers dies on her own terms instead of letting the UAA get a hold of her. | |
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In Superman story The Krypton Chronicles, slave Val-Lor chooses to speak up against his oppressors and get killed off rather than pretend he is happy to become their ownership. | |
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In Eleutherophobia: How I Live Now, Tom is so terrified by the idea that there are still Yeerks infesting people out there that he prepares to shoot himself with a Dracon beam to avoid being taken again. | |
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In Beloved, Sethe, an escaped slave, was prepared to kill her four children and herself rather than let them be dragged back to slavery. (She only kills one, her oldest daughter, before she's stopped.) Given the horrors she endured prior to escaping (the book goes into fairly graphic detail about a few of them), it's not exactly surprising that she would genuinely think she and her children would be better off dead than going back to that. | |
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: The Mother Spider Demon lets Tanjiro kill her so she can finally die in peace and be freed from Rui and "Father's" abuses. | |
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The Legend of Korra: Ghazan's last words are "I'm never going back to prison. If I'm going down today you're coming with me!". Then he uses his earthbending powers to cause a cave-in, with fatal results for himself, although Bolin and Mako survive and escape. | |
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And in the first Soul Reaver, Melchiah is openly relieved that, with his death, he is no longer trapped in his rotting carcass of a body. ("I am released...") | |
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Dragon Age II: Hawke's mother Leandra says this as she dies, free of the horrific spells and magic that had been done to her. Free to return to those of Hawke's family who have since died. Anders invokes this trope at the end when he blows up the Chantry. He believes it's better for Kirkwall mages to die fighting for their freedom than live under the Cricle. | |
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Chronopia: The Firstborn humans would prefer to die fighting than be taken prisoners, as they have a really dark past of being enslaved by the other races, and will do anything to never be slaves again. | |
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Paperinik New Adventures: Geena. Even after she has a Heel–Face Turn, she'd rather die that take orders from a "biologic": | |
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Metaphorically, in the Kiryuuin Chronicles, Rei's death is this, considering all that has happened to her by that point, in that she doesn't have to suffer anymore. At the same time, she used to be a servant, although her death happens some time after she flees with Satsuki and her sister, Ragyou, in a fit of pent-up rage, burns the house down. | |
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The Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics version of "Godfather Death" recontextualizes the godson's death as this — finally tired of having to obey Death, he saves the princess knowing that Death will kill him in return so he can finally save innocents by his own free will. | |
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Nana, from Nana's Everyday Life, spends most of her life as an experimental guinea pig, a sex slave, or at least a prisoner. When her half dead body is eventually jettisoned off an oil rig (along with some biohazardous waste), she is naturally presumed dead. However, she somehow manages to survive until she washes up on shore, although she nonetheless dies shortly thereafter. As she lies on her deathbed, she watches the clouds move across the sky, and her last words are "Oh... Oh well... It's... okay... like this... It's okay." | |
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Pompeii: Atticus says this right before being consumed by the pyroclastic flow after defeating Proculus. | |
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In Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, General Jarod, the Big Bad of the first act of the game, defies orders to stand down and await an imperial inspection and face the consequences for crimes he and his men committed during the occupation of Daein. Knowing that his crimes are undeniable so long as the rebellion now sweeping the nation continues, Jarod and the last of his men force the Dawn Brigade to face in one final battle by essentially holding the entire capital city hostage, knowing that if they are defeated, they die as free men of the Begnion Empire, while if they wait for the imperial inspection, they face imprisonment and execution in disgrace. Even if they maintain some hope that they might win the final decisive battle and might be able to sweep the whole thing under the rug before the inspection arrives, the tone of Jarod's Rousing Speech implies that he already knows he and his men will almost certainly not survive the battle. | |
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Mega Man (Archie Comics) #49: Dr. Light rebuilt the Robot Masters from Mega Man 2 and Mega Man 3, the same way he did the original set. Half of them note Quick Man, Heat Man, Metal Man, Crash Man, Magnet Man, Needle Man, Gemini Man and Top Man refuse to be reprogrammed, arguing they were too combat-specialized to do civilian work (some of them even took offense at the idea of being used for Mundane Utility, as they saw their combat-robot status as a badge of pride), and if they accepted reprogramming, it wouldn't be "them" anymore. Dr. Light tells them, point blank, that he was allowed to rebuild them on the condition that they could be re-purposed, and they'd have to be deactivated if that couldn't be done. Despite Rock/Mega Man's pleas for them to reconsider, they chose deactivation. | |
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In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Suddenly Human", one of the Talarians the Enterprise rescues from their damaged ship is actually a human named Jono. In an attempt to get Jono to accept his human heritage, Captain Picard tries to get him involved in a number of activities. Conflicted between the Talarian way of life he had and returning to the humans he was told he was, he decides to try and murder Picard in his sleep in a Suicide by Cop-style action, hoping they will kill him so he can die as a Talarian rather than return as a human. This convinces Picard to stand down and return Jono to the Talarians. | |
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