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Self-Immolation
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When a character sets themselves on fire to kill themselves in a blaze of glory. Truth in Television, as this has been a preferred method of suicide for centuries. Especially in Middle Eastern or Asian culture, it may be done as an act of political protest. Subtrope of Driven to Suicide. Compare Man on Fire, Murder by Cremation, and Wreathed in Flames. |
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In the first promo Kane ever cut in the gimmick, on the June 22, 1998 WWE Raw, he threatened to do this if he did not defeat WWE World Heavyweight Champion "Stone Cold" Steve Austin for the title in the First Blood Match at King of the Ring 1998. Kane won when The Undertaker interfered and caused Austin to bleed.note This was the same night as the famous Taker-Mankind Hell in a Cell match, and was the first step toward Taker's official heel turn and reunion with manager Paul Bearer in October, which culminated in the debut of the Ministry of Darkness on the January 11, 1999 RAW. | |
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During Bioshock Infinite a member of the Founders initiates a fire in a zeppelin Booker is currently on after a speech by Zachary Comstock; she could simply set the fire and run, but instead she lights herself and her surroundings on fire - and keeps standing up amid the inferno for as long as she can before collapsing - apparently for the sole reason of demonstrating the fanatical devotion of Comstock's followers and freaking the shit out of the main character. | |
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The One Who Started Fires has an inversion: although the title character undergoes self-immolation, it's not intended. | |
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By the end of Frankenstein, this is how the Creature plans to kill himself. | |
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CSI: NY: "My Name Is Mac Taylor" had a guy who threatened this because he was despondent over the hit-and-run death of his girlfriend. He'd been hunting for the driver, causing trouble because he only knew the person's name was Mac Taylor and had killed two other Macs in the process. Fortunately, he was prevented from succeeding. note At least temporarily. His fate is actually ambiguous due to the ep ending with him having just been taken to the hospital in critical condition. | |
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Titus: Papa Titus dismisses a woman that Erin introduced to him because he was too sober to be his usual womanizing self. When he asks how she took the rejection, a cutaway gag shows that she set herself on fire in a parking lot. | |
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Early in Slaves of the Abyss, a young page-boy was overwhelmed by visions of darkness before throwing himself into a burning fire in a kitchen, as signs of the dark times to come. | |
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The second season of Trapped (2015) begins with a financially troubled farmer and far-right-wing activist attempting to assassinate the Minister for Industry (who is also his sister) by burning both of them alive in the street outside her office. He dies and she survives. | |
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The Outer Limits (1995): In "Alien Radio", Eldon DeVries covers himself in gasoline and sets himself on fire in front of Stan Harbinger after he realizes that there is an alien living inside of him. | |
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Daft Punk's Electroma has the Guy-man robot pull this after his best friend's death. Keep in mind that this is after they've been run out of town and been trekking the desert for an indefinite period of time. The death just merely brought him over the edge. | |
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Parodied (of course) in Airplane!, where Ted's boring stories cause people to want to kill themselves. A turbaned man douses himself with some flammable liquid and lights a match, but just then Ted finishes the story as he was being called to the cockpit and leaves. The man puts out the match, sighs in relief...and Whooomph!. | |
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The Boys (2019). Lamplighter uses his superpower to commit suicide after breaking into Vought Industries and discovering that the statue of him standing with The Seven has been replaced. | |
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Burning Bush is based on a real-life case of this; namely, that of Jan Palach (see the "Real Life" folder below). | |
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What We Do in the Shadows (2019): In "Gail", energy vampire Colin Robinson sets himself on fire with gasoline to prank Laszlo, revealing that he is in fact immune to it. | |
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In the Supernatural episode "Simon Said", Holly Becker sets herself on fire at the gas station. | |
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In the second episode of Y Gwyll, Eric Roberts, the former owner of an abandoned farming estate called Talygroes, burned his own barn after discovering that three escaped German POWs had taken shelter there (during the second World War). The neighboring landowner, who longed to buy up Talygroes, learned about this and used that information to blackmail Roberts into giving his land away piece by piece over the next twenty-odd years for free. In the present time, Roberts' grandson murders the elderly son of that neighboring landowner under the false promise of regaining Talygroes, and when cornered by the police, burns himself alive along with the Talygroes farmhouse. | |
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World of Warcraft has Warlocks. Just to prove how much some warlocks like fire, there's the Hellfire spell. It not only does it do Area-of-Effect damage centered directly on you, but it also deals damage to you. Young warlocks generally kill themselves with it at least once. | |
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The Drummer and the Keeper: Gabriel finishes his final manic episode by setting himself on fire in front of what he thinks is the house of pop star Nevo, due to his delusional belief that she's been attending his gigs. At the hospital afterwards, he learns that he didn't even have the right address. | |
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Nostalghia: At the end of his rant about how sane people and insane people have to mix together in order to save the world, the deranged Dominico sets himself on fire in the public square. | |
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In Abaddon's Gate, the third book of The Expanse, a man attempts this in front of the VIPs traveling to the ring gate. However, since they are traveling on a warship, he is immediately covered in fire-suppression foam by hidden sprinklers and quickly led away by navy personnel, "looking more confused than hurt". | |
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The Terror: In "A Mercy", Dr. Stanley discovers that the poorly boxed food rations are giving everyone including himself lead poisoning, this gives him Sanity Slippage and during a masked Carnevale party he closes the entrances of the tent and sets himself ablaze setting the rest of the Carnevale on fire in an attempt to Mercy Kill everyone. | |
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In Fire Emblem Fates, during the Birthright path, Flora, one of your maids, does this out of guilt for betraying you and your army to the Ice Tribe, right in front of her own sister (as well as you, the Avatar). | |
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In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Elizabeth does this after seeing how Victor had brought her back from the dead as a hideous mangled monster sewn together with pieces of her best friend's corpse. | |
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In Götterdämmerung, Brünnhilde burns herself and her horse on Siegfried's funeral pyre, so she can end the Ring's curse with fire and have the Rhinemaidens recover their gold from her ashes. | |
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In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean, Jolyne sets herself on fire with Emporio's lighter in order to counter an enemy Stand who had the ability to drain the body heat from its victims. | |
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In Stargate SG-1, Gerak is convinced to do a Heel–Face Turn after being turned into an Ori prior. Knowing full well that he will die if he defies the Ori by curing the plague sent to eradicate Earth's population, he does it anyway...and then gets incinerated in a matter of seconds. | |
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In The Black Company monks do this to protest The Protector of Taglios while also using the slogan Rajadharma meaning The Duty of Kings. | |
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In Lightning, by Dean Koontz, this is twelve-year-old Tammy's approach to ending a miserable life that has included repeated sexual abuse by different men. Even sadder, she (presumably unintentionally) takes one of her roommates with her. | |
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Better Call Saul: A combination of being publicly humiliated in court, permanently having his reputation and career destroyed, driving away his brother Jimmy, and the realization that he will never overcome his illness causes Chuck McGill to decide to light his own house on fire with him in it. | |
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The Challenger, a minor villain from the wuxia film Jade Tiger, upon being defeated then sets himself on fire using his chi in a Better to Die than Be Killed moment. | |
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Caroline uses this method to commit suicide in The Sacrament. | |
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Denethor in The Lord of the Rings. "Bring wood and oil." In the original book, he burns in the tomb where he's built his pyre, but in Peter Jackson's film version, he runs out of the tomb and across the courtyard while still burning so that he can throw himself off the front of the rock prow overlooking the battlefield. The director's commentary made note of the distance but admitted he really wanted the shot of Denethor falling from the pinnacle. | |
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In the "Death Note" spin-off light novel "Another Note", the serial killer Beyond Birthday a.k.a Ryuzaki attempts this to make himself appear to be one of his murder victims (to hide that there was no posthumous mutilation on his corpse, as there were on the other victims), hoping to make the case unsolvable for L by forcing him to chase a killer who no longer exists. It may also have been a sort of protest, as he was angry with L for ignoring him (and for putting his friend through such a rigorous program that said friend committed suicide.) Thanks to Naomi's fire extinguisher, however, it doesn't end the way he intended. | |
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M*A*S*H: In "The Most Unforgettable Characters", Klinger threatened to do this to himself unless he was given a Section 8, going so far as to douse himself with gas (aka petrol). Potter called Klinger into his office, at which time he and Radar noticed that the "gasoline" was really water. After Potter didn't give in to Klinger's demands, Klinger went back out and doused himself some more, this time (unbeknownst to him) with real gas. | |
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Superman does this at the end of Superman: At Earth's End. | |
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In The Saga of the Volsungs, Brynhild stabs herself with a sword, then, still alive, climbs on Sigurd's funeral pyre to burn to death. | |
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The Death Gate Adventure Game has you learn a spell called "Self-Immolation". Casting it yourself proves nothing but you being Too Dumb to Live. It does prove useful, however, in tricking a doppelganger of yourself into casting it; if you cast the spell backwards, which does nothing to you, the doppelganger will perform your actions in reverse and set himself on fire. | |
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The Dry: After being confronted by Aaron and Raco, Scott Whitlam douses himself in petrol and threatens to set himself, the school, and probably the surrounding town alight. He does ignite himself, but is beaten out by Aaron and Raco. | |
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Dragon's Dogma has a class - the Magick Archer - who gets a nifty little ability appropriately called "Immolation." While it does drain your health while you use it, it's actually a very powerful spell against most enemies; it does decent damage on its own, has a high chance of setting enemies on fire, and when combined with the grappling mechanics, it can even make short work of most bosses and minibosses. | |
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Parodied in Bored of the Rings. According to Goodgulf, Benelux's burning to death confirmed his alleged suicidal tendencies brought on by Sorhed. How he managed to throw himself on the pyre after having tied himself up is anyone's guess. | |
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Smile (2022) ends with Rose setting herself on fire in front of Joshua, ensuring he's the next one possessed by the Smile Entity. | |
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Five years before Hatoful Boyfriend, Nageki burned himself to death in the hopes that no one else could weaponize his body. In Holiday Star he does it again to save his friends. | |
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Jerome Eugene Morrow's suicide in Gattaca. | |
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The main character in the film Dagon attempts to kill himself by this method after learning that his family hailed from the town of Imboca. It doesn't take, however, as he is pushed into a nearby pool to douse the flames. | |
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Payback: Deeply corrupt CEO Oh Chang-hyun is giving a press conference when an anti-corruption protester lights himself on fire in the audience. The public furor this causes results in Prosecutor Park approving his subordinate Tae-choon's investigation of Oh's corruption. | |
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House of the Dragon: In "The Princess and the Queen", Laena Velaryon, dying after a difficult childbirth, commits suicide by ordering her dragon, Vhagar, to burn her alive. | |
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A CSI case had a woman who did this to herself, but ironically, she lived while a stargazer who'd been nearby in the woods went up in flames and died. | |
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This is why the Burning Man in Waking Life is called the Burning Man. | |
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Saint Maud ends with Maud setting herself on fire after killing Amanda. We see her rise up towards Heaven... only to slam cut to her screeching in agony as she roasts alive. | |
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In Christian Nation, a gay Buddhist monk who comes to America at the time when it is slowly turning into The Theocracy immolates himself during a public protest. | |
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League of Legends originally used this for the pre-Continuity Reboot backstory of Lee Sin, the Blind Monk. During Noxus' invasion of Ionia, Lee Sin self-immolated for weeks in political protest (partly out of personal atonement for his severe misuse of their magic years prior). While it burned out his eyes, he was still alive by the time Ionia came out victorious, and Lee Sin was hailed as a hero to the country, motivating him to join the League of Legends as a champion. | |
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A qunari mage performs this in Dragon Age II, after being freed by the player. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: In "Becoming, Part 1", a cloaked vampire sent by Angelus turns up in Buffy's classroom in broad daylight, removes her shawl and declares, "Tonight. Sundown. At the graveyard..." before beginning to smoke. "You will come to him or more will DIE!" The female vamp then explodes into flames, all the while pointing accusingly at Buffy, who later dubs it an "immolation-o-gram." | |
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Major Crimes: In "Penalty Phase," the killer of the week douses himself in petrol and plans to go out in a blaze of glory when Major Crimes catch up to him. Sanchez manages to tackle him into a swimming pool just after he ignites himself. | |
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Mimi's Tales of Terror: The short story "Alone with You" opens with a woman immolating herself. She later returns as an ashy spirit who lingers near her young daughter, who is so frightened that she clings to whoever is nearby and can't stand to be by herself. | |
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Any poor sap who looks at Family Guy's Butt-Monkey Meg Griffin will do this. | |
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Mortal Kombat: Deception has self-slaying Hara Kiri moves for each character. As a Shaolin monk, Liu Kang covers himself in magical fire as a morbid nod to other Asian monks who have immolated themselves. A bit unique in that his magical fire causes his body parts to fall off, rather than being reduced to a skeleton as in most fire-based deaths in this series. | |
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The Minbari Starfire Wheel in Babylon 5, as described in the trope quote. The Starfire Wheel is an overhead device that opens in stages, producing a beam of energy that is strong enough to incinerate anyone within the beam. However, it opens in stages, with the beam starting out like very strong sunlight and becoming more intense with each stage. Any person standing in the beam's area essentially burns to death in slow increments... unless they step out of the beam before it reaches full power. | |
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