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A leader demonstrates their authority by ordering one of their followers or underlings to kill themselves. Perhaps the lieutenant has failed one too many times. Perhaps it's a sheer demonstration of their own power and their followers' Blind Obedience. Perhaps it's just to Kick the Dog. A key point is that the victim obeys of their own free will. If they don't have a choice, it's Psychic-Assisted Suicide. If they have a choice between suicide and something worse, see Suicidal Sadistic Choice. If the victim doesn't realize their action will kill them, see Tricked to Death. A variant is the leader ordering their people to do something obviously suicidally dangerous but not directly deadly, such as stand between him and The Hero. Subtrope of Murder by Suicide. Supertrope to Walk the Plank, a specific version of execution by suicide; Seppuku can also be one. A typical indirect way of achieving this while hypocritically disguising in wartime as duty is the all-time favourite Uriah Gambit. Compare Please Kill Me if It Satisfies You, where it's the character volunteering to die, and Leave Behind a Pistol, for when they are allowed to kill themselves as a way out. Telling someone to kill themselves without having the authority to expect them to obey is a Suicide Dare, and can end in Driven to Suicide. A culture built around this trope is a Martyrdom Culture. |
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The Grace of Kings: When the Chatelain and Prime Minister execute their coup, the Crown Prince receives a Forged Message from the Emperor informing him that he's been removed from the line of succession, a poison pill, and a squad of armed soldiers accompanying the messenger. He takes the hint and the pill. | |
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In the backstory of Madame Butterfly, Cio-Cio-San's father was somehow disgraced and ordered by the Mikado to commit Seppuku. At the end of the opera, by her own choice, Cio-Cio-San kills herself with the same dagger. | |
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In Quo Vadis, a Roman nobleman Petronius is ordered to commit suicide by Emperor Nero. It's clear that if he doesn't do it, he can expect a Fate Worse than Death. Petronius cuts his wrists and dies in a warm bath of water, which is supposed to be relatively painless. His beautiful slave and lover voluntarily joins him to invoke Together in Death. | |
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In the opening sequence of The Dark Knight Rises, Bane and his men are kidnapping a scientist from a plane, while making it appear as though the scientist died in the plane crash. Bane orders one of his men to remain behind on the crashing plane, as the CIA's flight plan listed one of the imprisoned terrorists and their disappearance would be incredibly suspicious. His man obeys immediately. | |
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Assassin's Creed: Al Mualim has Altair and two other assassins jump to their deaths to prove to Robert they do not fear death. It's really a ploy to get them to circumvent the Templars and activate Masyaf's defenses. | |
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Supernatural: Dick Roman, leader of the Leviathan monster race, orders a minion who failed him to eat himself. Since they have a built-in Healing Factor, this is a ridiculously cruel punishment even by the standards of other Bad Bosses featured in the show. | |
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Monty Python's Life of Brian: "We are the Judean People's Front Crack Suicide Squad! Suicide Squad, attack!" (they all stab themselves) | |
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King's Game: In the first novel, Shouta uses his authority as King to order Daisuke to hang himself. The game then reveals that if Daisuke ignores the order, he will die at the end of the day. Spurred by his lack of choice, some of his classmates decide to wait the day out with him to show that neither the King nor the game have to be followed. Just when they think they've beaten the clock, Daisuke goes missing and Nobuaki finds his corpse hanging in another room. It turns out there was a Clock Discrepancy of about 5 minutes, so he was compelled to die on time after all. | |
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Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams: Toyotomi Hideyoshi mentions this while delivering an angry speech about his power to Soki, showing how little he cares for his men. | |
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Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas: Garuda Aeacos orders somes of the Specters under his control to kill themselves in front of the heroes just to show off his authority over his underlings and their unwavering devotion in him. | |
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The origins of New Goddess Granny Goodness are a variant. In the hell world of Apokolips, she was selected as a warrior and was given a pup to raise, which was her closest and most faithful companion for years as her training progressed. Then, during an inspection, her instructor ordered her to kill the dog. Instead, she killed the instructor. When Darkseid appeared, he inquired why she had done so. She replied that to do so would have wasted a tremendous asset, as she had trained the dog to obey him first and foremost, even above her, who had raised and trained him. Interested, Darkseid ordered the dog to kill her. It immediately attacked and then she killed the dog. Impressed with her ability to inspire the fanatical devotion he wants, the tyrant awarded her full marks for the exercise and had her promoted. | |
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Mobile Suit Victory Gundam: The Zanscare Empire regularly executes soldiers and commanders for failure. Some are dragged to the guillotine, but others a given the chance to show their loyalty by obediently letting themselves be launched into deep space, complete with dry-firing rifles in salute as they crawl into the tube. | |
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A major plot point in Harakiri. It is established that a common scam carried out by Rōnin was to ask Clan Lords for permission to commit Seppuku on their land, being given money to go away. When a young samurai named Motome tried it on the Ii clan, they made an example of him by instead physically forcing him go through with the ritual suicide with a dull blade made out of bamboo. So Motome's father-in-law Hanshiro takes revenge by challenging all the samurai who took part in the coercion to duels and cutting off their topknots, a disgrace so horrendous that even suicide can barely atone for it. When they try to simply pretend to be ill for a few days until their hair grows back, Hanshiro goes to the Ii clan's stronghold and reveals what they're doing, ensuring that they will be ordered to commit seppuku, just like Motome. | |
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SV Wishes: In the original tale Shen Yuan read, Yue Qingyuan orders his husband Shen Qingqiu to hang himself as punishment for his attempted murder and sabotage of Liu Quingge, handing him a silken rope. Shen Yuan thinks that this bordered on Disproportionate Retribution. Making it worse is that Shen Qingqiu was actually innocent. | |
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The Glamorous Imperial Concubine: Qi You is ordered to commit suicide. Fu Ya and Official Xiang save him by switching the poison with a sleeping drug. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. In "Rocks and Shoals", a Vorta field officer deliberately sends his Jem'Hadar soldiers walking into a death trap, so that he can safely surrender once they are out of the way (and so they won't go Ax-Crazy and turn on him when the drug used to keep them in line runs out). They know it's a trap, but they go anyway simply because obeying the Vorta "is the order of things." | |
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Girl Genius: Already on a tight schedule, Lucrezia decides she doesn't have the time to help Lady Vrin and callously commands her to die. Because the Geisterdamen are physically unable to disobey the voice of Lucrezia (and her daughter Agatha's, whose body she is occupying), Vrin's body acts against her will and chokes to death. When a Wulfenbach soldier checks on Vrin a few minutes later, he only finds her corpse. | |
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In the pilot movie of Lexx His Divine Shadow orders a guard who failed to prevent the protagonists from escaping with the titular superweapon to execute her partner, and then herself. | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders: Vanilla Ice cutting off his own head to give Dio his blood out of Blind Obedience might count, as he had no idea he could be revived and become a vampire. Might — maybe he's just too dense to realize decapitation is a fatal sacrifice, or that he didn't have to give Dio all of his blood. | |
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Babylon A.D.. In an extra included in the DVD, an animated scene called The Genesis of Aurora shows the Back Story of how Darquandier met the High Priestess of the Neolite cult. The latter has the two acolytes accompanying her take poison, just to show off her power. | |
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One Piece: Don Krieg, infuriated by his lieutenant Gin's decision to spare Sanji, orders Gin to throw away his gas mask immediately before bombarding the area with poison gas. Gin complies, and when Luffy throws him and Sanji gas masks (forgetting to keep one for himself), Gin throws his back to Luffy, resulting in him being (possibly fatally) poisoned. The personnel of the military group Germa 66 are expected to become a Human Shield for their commanders if they are ordered to. In particular, their supreme leader, Judge, during his fight with Sanji, ordered his men to form a wall in front of him and then he tries to strike Sanji through his men, impaling one of them with his spear in the process, to distract Sanji. |
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At least two examples in the Sword of Truth series: Confessor magic enslaves a person's mind completely, to the extent that powerful ones can order a person to drop dead, and he will. Kahlan has demonstrated the ability several times over the books. Jagang demonstrates his power to the captive Sisters of Dark by ordering a previously captured one to die... and showing them what it means to die when still formally serving a most displeased Keeper. |
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War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches. In "Foreign Devils" the Guangxu Emperor is a Puppet King while Prince Tuan has all the power. The Emperor orders Tuan to kill himself on several occasions, but Tuan always pretends that the Emperor is making a joke. | |
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How the death penalty is executed in Shiloh. The condemned is offered a vial of poison. If they refuse to drink it, they are left chained up in a cell to die of starvation. | |
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In the Upsidasium arc of Rocky and Bullwinkle, after Boris fails to seize the mine, Mr. Big orders him to blow up Mt. Flatin...and himself with it. However, Boris then reminds Mr. Big that since he's on the mountain, he'll get blown up as well. Realizing that Boris had a point, Mr. Big quickly told him to put out the dynamite and decided to give him another chance to get the upsidasium. | |
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In The Darkness Between Stars, White Diamond uses her Compelling Voice to force gems to do whatever she commands of them. When it becomes clear that Steven and the Crystal Gems refuse to bow to her wishes, she casually orders him to die, causing his gem to start killing him until Connie uses Rose's Tears to stop the effect. | |
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In Alamut, Hassan-i Sabbah of The Hashshashin demonstrates his power over his acolytes by ordering two of them to commit suicide, which they do without hesitation. | |
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Star Wars: Legacy: In the last issue of the main series, Darth Krayt demonstrates the fanatical obedience of his newly unveiled Sith Troopers by ordering one to kill itself. The Trooper places the hilt of its lightsaber under its chin and switches it on without a moment's hesitation. | |
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In the Doctor Who story "The Talons of Weng Chiang", if one of Magnus Greel's Chinese underlings fails him, that underling has to poison himself with what the Doctor describes as "highly concentrated scorpion venom." This trope is implied with the man the Doctor and Leela capture in the first episode, who puts a red tablet given to him by Li Hsen Chang (who has been brought in to act as an interpreter) into his mouth and drops dead seconds later. However, when another character kills himself by the same method later in the story, it is explicitly stated that he is being ordered to do so, with Greel personally telling him to "take the sting of the scorpion", then standing over him to make sure he obeys. | |
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In the Pocket Books Star Trek novel Here There Be Dragons, the Enterprise is attacked by a ship that clearly has no chance of defeating them; the attacking crew triggers the self-destruct rather than be captured, as per their standing orders. An odd example in that the crew aren't soldiers, Proud Warrior Race Guys or religious fanatics, but regular human criminals who are Only in It for the Money; possibly their superiors have promised to ensure that blowing themselves up will be the less painful option, but it's not elaborated on. In any case, the flaws of this system rapidly become apparent, as one of the crew decides he'd rather live and ejects in the escape pod — but rather than simply turn himself in and provide state's evidence, he attempts to lead the Enterprise into a trap, figuring he can sweet-talk his way back into his superiors' good graces. It turns out badly both for him and his superiors. | |
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In Enemy at the Gates, when Kruschev arrives in Stalingrad, he immediately hands his predecessor — who had lost almost all of his command — a pistol and tells him he's on orders from The Boss and it will avoid red tape. The guy promptly kills himself with it offscreen. | |
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Voldemort in The Rigel Black Chronicles gets rid of the Basilisk, by repeatedly ordering it to bite itself. For extra horror, it pleads with him to make the pain stop while it's happening. | |
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Legendary Weapons of China has the Boxer Clan, a cult indoctrinated since birth to be obedient to every single order they're given. In their introduction scene, two Boxers are to prove their allegiance with their orders being to commit suicide by ripping their eyes and testicles in front of a hundred other inductees. The two volunteers did exactly that. | |
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At the start of No Game No Life Zero, Riku orders Ivan to sacrifice himself to allow Riku and Alei to escape. Ivan accepts unquestioningly, asking Riku to look after his daughter, and Riku later reveals that he has done this dozens of times before. | |
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In the movie The Beastmaster, High Priest Maax orders two of his underlings to kill themselves as a show of his power by hanging themselves. They immediately obey. | |
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In the Chronicles of the Kencyrath, the increasingly paranoid Ganth Gray Lord decided his household was plotting against him and ordered his son Torisen's friends (some of his own sworn followers) to commit suicide, which they immediately did. This was a major factor in Torisen's choice to run away, something that was both dishonorable by Kencyr standards and the only reason he survived his father. | |
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Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace: Ruiji is ordered to drink poison after she nearly kills Muping. After her crimes are revealed Yanwan is ordered to drink poison. She refuses, so she's forced to drink it. Then she's given an antidote and kept alive for years until she's tricked into drinking arsenic. |
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The Legend of Xiao Chuo: Yelü Li Hu is ordered to drink poisoned wine after his rebellion. | |
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Conan the Barbarian (1982). Thulsa Doom once sought the secret of making steel, and massacred a young Conan's village to get it. By the time Conan is grown up and confronts him again, Doom says he has since learned that flesh is stronger: in other words, he hardly needs steel weapons now that he has an entire cult of followers who would sacrifice their lives for him without hesitation. He points out one of the Children of Doom standing high above him on a cliff and gently encourages her to come to him. She fearlessly leaps off the edge to her death, her impact smashing her body through the floorboards. | |
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The Craft Sequence book Ruin of Angels has a character who has been secretly ordered by their monarch to become a Death Seeker as penance for a perceived act of disloyalty. If the character had refused, they would have been more formally executed, which would have been a disgrace to their family. | |
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In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Thine Own Self", Deanna Troi takes an exam to qualify as a command-level officer. One part of the exam is a holographic simulation of a scenario in which the ship faces possible destruction due to a malfunction in the engine; to pass, Deanna has to order a fellow officer to expose himself to deadly radiation in order to repair the problem manually. | |
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