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You're a samurai and you're either very depressed, very pissed off, or both. You've been pigeon-holed into choosing between obeying foolish or evil orders or abandoning your warrior ideals. Either way, you're screwed. Time to send a message. Those gaijin may say it with flowers, but samurai say it with bowels—their own bowels, to be precise. For a true Samurai Warrior Poet, this is the only third option you can take to preserve your honor. Seppuku is a centuries-old Japanese rite of suicide — literally, "stomach cutting". Harakiri (often misspelled as "hari-kari" or worse) is a more in-speech term for the same thing but refers very simply to the act of stomach cutting, while "seppuku" is the term for the proper ceremony. Many people have incorrectly believed that harakiri is a more vulgar term, but it is not true. The words actually share the same kanji, albeit in reverse: "seppuku" is the on-yominote Sino-Japanese, borrowed from the Middle Chinese words tset (cut) and pjuwk (belly) reading of those kanji (with the part meaning "cut", read setsu alone, first), while "harakiri" is the kun-yominote Native Japanese reading with the part meaning "belly" (hara) first. To perform harakiri is to simply perform the stomach cutting on one's own, and to perform seppuku is to perform the full ceremony with proper clothing, knife, posture, and sheet/platform, with witnesses and decapitator present. How and why seppuku is to be performed, what it means, and so on depends on the historical era, gender, and context. The Theme Park Version, however, is this: After a period of meditation, the samurai walks out before a number of witnesses and sits seiza on a white sheet or platform. He'll be wearing white, a color associated with death and burial in Japan (and on which blood stands out so well). A special knife is set before him, and a stern-looking dude stands behind him with a raised sword. The samurai says whatever the drama necessitates, then rams the knife deep into his abdomen, curving up into his chest cavity, and slowly pulls it from left to right. The stern-looking dude is a kaishakunin, or "second"; he is expected to be a sport and cut off the samurai's head before he loses his composure (after all, it's just bad suicide etiquette to show pain while you're disemboweling yourself). How soon this happens depends on the kaishakunin's respect for the samurai in question; too early, and he shows contempt by not giving the samurai a chance to show his honor, but too late, and he forces the samurai to endure the entire ritual. Contrary to popular belief, the kaishakunin isn't actually supposed to decapitate a person during seppuku; doing so often led to the severed head bouncing off the samurai's body in a very undignified fashion, which defeats the whole purpose of seppuku (and also causes huge cleanup issues, because corpses were considered unclean and any bit of ground the head touched would have to be dug up and replaced). Instead, a proper kaishakunin cut is to leave the head attached to the body by a bit of skin and neck muscle (Ã la "Nearly Headless Nick"). The difficulty of making this cut — and the importance of doing it correctly the first time — meant that being a kaishakunin was a huge responsibility. It should be noted that in many cases (perhaps the majority), seppuku was effectively a form of capital punishment for the samurai caste — they weren't killing themselves willingly, but rather under orders from their lord. In cases where it was thought the samurai might waver, or couldn't be trusted with a weapon of any kind (there were cases where, when presented with the dagger, samurai attempted to free themselves), a ritualized process was used. Rather than using a knife, the samurai in question would touch their stomach with a paper fan, at which point the kaishakunin would make the fatal cut. Seppuku manuals written during the Edo period even suggest where young children or teenagers are concerned, to convince the victim that the act is merely a rehearsal. There was a different process for women called jigai,note Literally "suicide", so in Japanese it can refer to any form of suicide in general, regardless of who does it or how it's done. as disembowelment is considered unladylike. A suicidal woman sits seiza with her legs tied up so that they won't fall open scandalously after she dies, and then she slices her jugular vein with a knife. It's a variant of the common trope of a woman facing invasion or military defeat killing herself to avoid becoming a prisoner of war or a spoil of war. Another similar practice is kanshi, an act of seppuku by a retainer to protest an act by his lord, whom it would otherwise be dishonorable to challenge or contradict. A variant known as kagebara is a common dramatic device in Japanese theater. A character comes on stage, tells a lord why he sucks, and then opens his robe to reveal that he's already slit his belly (binding the wound to painfully extend his brief life) and "punished" himself for his treasonous act. And seppuku still happens in modern Japan, although it's not as common as it once was. Japan is known to have a much more permissive attitude to suicide than other developed countries, and some of that can be traced to rituals like seppuku. Disgraced officials, politicians, and other authority figures might kill themselves as an apology for screwing up, albeit usually not according to ritual. Celebrities occasionally do this as well, and dedicated fans will often follow suit when this happens. For the Wiki's purposes, seppuku covers a broad range of ritualized suicides from Japan (and East Asia in general), where a character makes a big deal about how, why, and when they kill themselves. The Western equivalent ritualised suicide tropes include Leave Behind a Pistol and Bath Suicide. In addition to the latter of those, writers in Ancient Rome described the practice of falling on one's sword, which was also perceived as an honourable way of getting out of a hopeless situation; this is how Marcus Junius Brutus killed himself at the Battle of Philippi. Subtrope of Self-Punishment Over Failure. Lodged Blade Removal can be present, although removing the blade is not a part of Seppuku as it's a suicide ritual. When done to protest a lord's actions, it is the only honorable way for a samurai to Resign in Protest. Finally, as this is a Death Trope, beware of unmarked spoilers. Examples |
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In Shall We Date?: Ninja Shadow, seppuku isn't really treated until Hijikata and Okita from The Shinsengumi join the cast: Mentioned for laughs in the That's what I call Summer even, as Hijikata tells Asagi "disembowel yourself!" when the other man teases him too much. His profile has the trope as one of his "likes" (according to his companion Okita) and mentions that he's a skillful kaishakunnin (again, according to Okita). This phrase sums all up: According to Hijikata himself in his own route, the Shinsengumi has a set of very strict rules. If a member of the group breaks them, he is to commit seppuku on the spot. Taken to Overly Long Gag levels in a winter-themed event. Hijikata is so grumpy and angry due to the intense cold in Nagasaki that he threatens near everyone that he talks to with forcing them into committing seppuku, so Okita and Saori have to repeatedly talk him out of it. |
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Golden Swallow, one of Shaw Brothers' Darker and Edgier works, has a child framed over stealing and eating a priceless goose, and forced to disembowel himself in order to prove his innocence. | |
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In the first Samurai Shodown game, after failing to rescue his son Shinzo (whom Amakusa performed a Grand Theft Me on), Hanzo gets ready to commit seppuku. A group of ninja trainees stop him and then beg him to become their sensei. | |
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The dwarves in Dragon Age have their own variation of this. When faced with either exile to the surface or a lonely death in the Deep Roads, many criminals in Orzammar decide to instead join the Legion of the Dead as a way to regain their lost honour. After a ceremony where they are declared to be already dead, they descend into the furthest reaches of the Deep Roads to hold back the Darkspawn horde for the rest of their natural lives, or until they fall in battle. Female Grey Wardens are also given the option to do a variation on this when they get their Calling and the Darkspawn taint starts to overpower them, with the other choice for both female and male Grey Wardens is to go out taking out as many Darkspawn as they can. The reason is that female Grey Wardens are at risk for becoming Broodmothers for the Darkspawn, a Fate Worse than Death that horribly mutates them. |
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Ranma's mother Nodoka in Ranma ½ is charged with carrying around the sword to be used by her as the kaishakunin should her son or husband disgrace themselves.◊ Luckily for them, she's not very good with the sword. Unluckily for them, she's dead serious about her duty. What pushes this into Honor Before Reason territory (and would push Nodoka into Abusive Parents territory in any series that took itself more seriously) is that the contract she is so dedicated to following literally consists of a verbal vow from Genma that "I will make Ranma a man among men", and a written contract consisting of "I will commit seppuku", signed with Genma's thumb-print and baby-Ranma's handprint. In the end, she accepts Ranma's female side (and it's implied that she forgives the whole "Ranko" deception) on the grounds that, regardless of what Ranma looks like, he's a man through and through. Unmanly behavior can still make her reach for her sword, though... |
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Invoked in K: Stray Dog Story. After his master dies, Kuroh, a somewhat anachronistic modern samurai, tells the old woman next door about his plan to retrieve his late master's sword and use it to fulfill his late master's dying wish. The old woman asks what he will do if he doesn't manage to make it happen, and he says he will commit harakiri. The old woman just smiles and says, "I don't think that's what the Ichigen Miwa I knew would want you to do." | |
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In Get Backers, three different characters attempt suicide during the IL arc, but Juubei's the one everyone compares to a samurai. He tries to kill his best friend and "lord," Kazuki, and, when he loses that fight, begs Kazuki to kill him. When Kazuki refuses, he tries to do it himself and tells Kazuki he always intended to kill himself, win or lose, as atonement. | |
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Sword of the Samurai had this as an option if the player character was ever caught doing something horribly dishonorable, like attempting to assassinate a rival or plant false evidence against them. It would remove the stain on the PC's family's honor, giving the PC's son (and next PC) a better chance. The player is free to ignore the order, but this causes instant defeat as the player's entire family is eradicated. | |
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In Noob, most of comic 9 consists of a battle in which each side's commander is randomly chosen among participants. The randomly chosen commander for the Empire is Manipulative Bitch and Dirty Coward Gaea, whose strategy inevitably includes We Have Reserves. At the end of the battle, the protagonists decide to participate in another battle, and Omega Zell, who hates Gaea, comments that there's no way the next commander of their side can be any worse than her. Cut to the last panel of the comic showing the Empire commander being chosen for the next battle: it's Sparadrap, everyone's favorite Stupid Good Kindhearted Simpleton, and Omega Zell is seen in the background pointing a dagger towards his own stomach. | |
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Obviously, this takes place in 47 Ronin (a very, very fictionalised version of the story). Kai, the half-Mighty Whitey protagonist, goes through it with the ronin themselves. | |
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In Bleach, Giselle Gewelle uses her powers to force a bunch of guys to kill themselves like this. | |
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In the old Commodore 64 game of Usagi Yojimbo, if the eponymous Rōnin's honor got below a certain point, he would commit suicide right there. | |
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In a flashback in Episode 74 of Sonic X: Dark Chaos, Cosmo's mother Hertia committed seppuku with a plasma knife after Maledict devolved her to her original form. It's actually a case of Better to Die than Be Killed - Maledict explicitly gave her the choice between suicide or a Fate Worse than Death. And in an interesting case of Shown Their Work, Maledict ends her suffering by decapitating her as well. | |
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Early in Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan, Gyuuki tries to do this after revealing why he plotted to kill Rikuo, in order to preserve the honor of the Nura clan. However, Rikuo (in his Nurarihyon form) stops him by breaking the blade off his sword, understanding his reasons for doing so. | |
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In Ninja Burger, a ninja who loses all honor has to apologize to his ancestors. "This requires you to go to visit them, and unfortunately it will not be possible for you to come back." (The unfortunate player discards all cards and has to start with a new character.) | |
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In the Haven episode "Burned", a man named Lance kills himself this way when Ginger tells him, "I hate your guts!" | |
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In the Japanese series Oshin, one of the many pains that Shin "Oshin" Tanekura goes through is her husband Ryuuzou's suicide around the end of World War II. It counts at this because he does so out of grief after the death of his and Oshin's eldest son Yuu in the war and the definitive ruin of his government-sponsored business, so he feels that he has failed his wife in an absolutely unforgivable way. | |
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In the WW2 period drama Tenko the Japanese internment camp guard Sato commits seppuku rather than acknowledge the allied victory. It's a strangely chilling, yet dignified, scene. | |
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In Harold and Maude, this is how Harold stages one of his elaborate fake suicides. Amusingly, instead of scaring off his would-be date, as intended, she recognizes it as a performance and joins in. | |
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In the Choose Your Own Adventure book Secret of the Ninja, The Protagonist and their best friend Danai pull Time Travel to evade a powerful curse. One of the paths leads them to meet the samurai Sashami, who's about to abandon a village he was ordered to protect since he knows it's a hopeless mission. Choosing to run away with him will lead to the three being caught by a local lord who will give them a "The Reason You Suck" Speech, force the time travellers to become his servants, and order Sashami to commit seppuku as punishment.note (Conversely, helping the guy to fight back will lead to the group's victory and a Good End where he lives to tell the tale and the protagonists undo the curse.) | |
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During the filming of the James Bond film You Only Live Twice, actress Mie Hama, desperate to keep her role as Bond Girl Aki but unable to learn English sufficiently well, suffered a breakdown and threatened to commit seppuku if she was fired. The producers defused the situation by having Hama switch roles with Akiko Wakabayashi, who spoke English fluently and played another Bond Girl, Kissy Suzuki, who had fewer speaking lines. | |
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Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects ends on a dark note because the little Japanese girl that Charles Bronson's character had saved from child prostitution uses this method of expiating her shame at having been raped. | |
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In Total War: Shogun 2, the leaders of defeated clans perform seppuku in the cinematic scenes. | |
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Attempted by the Running Gag in 1/0 when Andy dies, but it can't quite jump high enough to impale itself successfully. It runs off into the distance instead. Later in the comic, Junior. | |
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In For Honor, the Samurai have a special execution added in Year Four named Ware Shinaba, in which the Samurai gives their defeated opponent a knife, which they gut themselves with. The Samurai hero will then chop off their head and bow respectfully to their slain foe. | |
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Yuki Yuna is a Hero: Mimori Togo attempted to commit jigai but failed because her Fairy Companion got in the way. She tried suicide in other manners but her fairy always prevented her. When she reveals the Awful Truth to two of her friends, she does it by attempting jigai again to show them. Played for Laughs in the second season. Togo threatens jigai to atone for preventing Fu from studying for her exams. |
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In Ōoku: The Inner Chambers, a number of retainers follow Shogun Iemitsu into death. The 47 Ronin also make an appearance later. | |
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In Blade of the Immortal, Kensui commits sepukku after being ordered to betray Anotsu, who acts as his second. Later Hisoka follows by cutting her throat. Hibaki is given a month before he is obligated to commit seppuku after failing to prevent an attack on the castle. He uses it to hunt down the remaining Itto-ryu. During this time, his wife and son kill themselves so they won't be used as hostages. |
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Naruto: Kakashi's father Sakumo commits seppuku, having failed a mission as a result of going to save his friends, and being ostracized for his failure, even by those he saved. The act is not witnessed, but a young Kakashi finds his father's body after the deed is done. In a filler episode, Koumei is ordered to commit seppuku as the sentence for being behind the cursed warrior incidents despite being innocent. Later in the arc, in a flashback Toki, seeing her brother dying, contemplates committing seppuku, but his spirit inspires her to keep on living. The whole arc was in fact full of this - when Shishima is unable to convince the Hokage to accept his mission, he pulls out a knife and stabs himself in the... moneybags? They were tied to his stomach, and the reactions of Tsunade and Shizune are truly priceless. |
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Seppuku is referenced in Drifters. Shimazu Toyohisa convinces a group of Orte soldiers to surrender after he has their backs to the wall. Although Toyohisa promised to spare the surrendering soldiers, he intended for the Orte commander to commit seppuku with himself acting as his kaishakunin. Being from the Sengoku era, Toyohisa offered this so that the commander and his forces would keep their honor after the defeat, but the soldier was horrified that Toyohisa would demand such a barbaric thing from him. Shimazu decides then that the Orte are honorless and simply beheads the commander, but stops Yoichi from hunting down his fleeing men. | |
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Bleeding Sun: If the player performed mostly honorable actions, Yori convinces Ichiro to commit ritualistic suicide to reclaim his honor rather than go to prison for life. | |
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Time Stop Hero: The hero Kuzuno Sekai stumbles upon a Japanese village that is invaded by vampires. He finds that several people committed seppuku to avoid being fed on. | |
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Epic Battle Fantasy 5: Dropping Telperion's health low enough will trigger a quote that parodies and implies this: | |
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Airplane!: Played for Laughs (as is pretty much everything else in the film) when a Japanese general does this rather than listen to another one of Ted's stories. | |
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In the film version of The Hunger Games, Seneca, having been in charge of the Games and allowing two winners, is lead to a room, with a bowl of the poisonous nightshade berries that Katniss used to save herself and Peeta. | |
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In Fist of the North Star, Ryuga commits kagebara before his battle with Kenshiro. Knowing defeat was inevitable especially against the adopted younger brother of Toki (who he had killed only days earlier), Ryuga felt it was better to Face Death with Dignity. | |
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Seppuku is treated as a fact of life in Hakuouki, given that it's a Visual Novel about The Shinsengumi. Harada Sanosuke has a scar across his abdomen from a failed attempt at it, and following the Choshu assault on the Imperial Palace, Hijikata takes a number of men in pursuit of the escaping leaders of the rebellion specifically with the intention of arresting them before they commit seppuku. And when the main characters learn that Kondou was beheaded rather than being allowed to commit seppuku, they're deeply distressed over it. | |
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In Machete, when Machete mortally wounds Torrez, Torrez scornfully finishes himself off this way, to deny Machete the glory of killing him. Torrez has to pause, saying it hurts more than he thought it would, before pulling the blade all the way through. | |
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Done in Tales of Vesperia with Don Whitehorse, leader of the guild Altosk, after learning some bad information given to his grandson, Harry, resulted in the death of the Duce of Pallestralle and longtime friend and ally, Belius. The Cool Old Guy commits seppuku to balance things out and prevent a war between the two guilds. Yuri himself volunteers to be his kaishakunin. | |
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The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You: In order to prove that his love for all of his girlfriends is sincere, Rentarou promises to do this if he can't be a good boyfriend to all of them. (This is mainly Played for Laughs.) | |
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In Dead Rising 2, in the Dual Boss battle against Amber and Crystal Bailey, once you kill one of them, the other will curse you and then run herself through with a katana to join her sister in death. | |
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Invoked by a racist commander in Code Geass: Akito the Exiled, who justifies sending Japanese soldiers on suicide missions because "Elevens love to kill themselves". | |
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In one Calvin and Hobbes strip, Calvin asks Hobbes if this would be the appropriate response to breaking his father's prized binoculars, or if running away from home would be sufficient. Hobbes suggests both. | |
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In Medaka Box, Zenkichi has to turn down his classmate Emukae's long-standing Love Confession and chooses to do so in possibly the most manly and over-the-top fashion ever: to repay the emotional pain she's suffered from his indecision, he inflicts equal physical pain upon himself by committing seppuku right then and there, all while reassuring her that she's a wonderful person who deserves all the love in the world, but he can't be the one to give it because already in love with Medaka. However, he doesn't die because their teammate Kumagawa can "heal" him by erasing the injuries from existence. | |
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Japan's Longest Day, an earlier movie depicting these same events, also shows Anami committing seppuku. | |
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Parodied in the Discworld of A.A. Pessimal. The Prospectus issued as a guide to prospective parents and students of the Assassins' guild School devotes a proud chapter to its brand-new Agatean Studies Department. Set texts are issued to students explaining the purpose and philosophy underlying seppuku. however, titles like Today is a Good Day for Somebody Else to Commit Seppuku suggest the particular slant the assassins put on the practice. Assisted seppuku for others, most certainly... | |
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Elden Ring: Seppuku is one of the many Ashes of War (weapon skills) in the game. It can be equipped to most swords and polearms, and has you stabbing yourself in the gut to coat the weapon in your blood, temporarily increasing its damage and adding bleed buildup (or increasing the amount of Bleed buildup if it has some already). Due to how powerful bleed is as a status effect, one of the most popular builds is to dual wield either two weapons with innate bleed and an Occult affinity or two weapons without innate bleed and a Blood affinity, give both of them this Ash of War, buff them both with it, and go to town. The self-damage from Seppuku also counts as a bleed proc on yourself, and as such will trigger the effects of the talisman and headgear that both give you a damage buff whenever a bleed proc occurs in your vicinity. | |
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The main villain of the James Bond novel The Man with the Red Tattoo has dedicated himself to following the old Samurai ethics, and in the climax, he follows his failure to defeat Bond in a duel with seppuku. | |
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Also parodied in Total Drama. Feeling responsible for his team's loss, Harold tries to commit seppuku with a toy lightsaber while announcing he quits his competition. | |
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Lost to Dust: When Yagyuu Munenori is defeated, he commits seppuku to avoid interrogation. | |
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An Inuyasha one-shot, Sisters, Forever, states that Kikyo's father, blaming himself for her mother's death, left a young Kaede in Kikyo's care before committing seppuku. | |
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Good News Week: Paul McDermott on the subject of the Japanese Prime Minister's resignation: | |
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Parodied at the end of the Popeye Wartime Cartoon, "You're a Sap, Mr. Jap" when the last remaining Japanese officer commits suicide by drinking gasoline and swallowing firecrackers. | |
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In the Flash cartoon The Ultimate Showdown by Lemon Demon, Mr. Rogers commits seppuku after being the final pop culture icon left alive. | |
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In episode 4 of Samurai Champloo, a noble Yakuza leader does this as an act of defiance/taking a third option between his son being killed and losing his territory. At the end of the episode, one of his former lieutenants who had joined his unpleasant rival redeems himself by committing Suicide by Mugen. | |
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In The Machineries of Empire, there's a particularly inventive form of suicide as political protest known as "corpse calligraphy", which involves tattooing yourself with political slogans in poisonous ink that kills you. | |
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Irresponsible Captain Tylor: Played for Laughs. Admiral Mifune always carries a katana around and has to be physically restrained from committing seppuku after every setback. | |
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In The Order of the Stick, one of the Sapphire Guard commits Seppuku after being tricked into killing her comrades by Xykon. | |
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Ran includes several instances of seppuku, but perhaps the most significant is the one that Lord Hidetora never commits. He can't because his sword is broken and he is unable to find another blade to do it with. Instead, he goes insane inside his burning castle. | |
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In The Manchurian Candidate, the death of Raymond has undertones of this. After breaking out of his mind control at the last minute and shooting the Soviet conspirators, he explains himself to his commanding officer before shooting himself in the head. Said officer, Marco, actually orders him to commit suicide rather than go on trial for the murders he did not willingly commit. | |
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In Warcraft III, when the Night Elf Demon Hunter hero is killed, he kneels and stabs himself with his blade. | |
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In Dark Souls II, if the player defeats Sir Alonne under a set amount of time and without taking any damage, a short cutscene will play where Alonne stabs himself in the gut rather than simply falling over dead without a cutscene like normal. However, it's not clear if he did so out of shame at getting so thoroughly beaten, or if his Evil Weapon compelled him to do it to satisfy its hunger for blood since it wasn't able to have any of yours. The fact that using his sword yourself allows you to stab yourself in the gut to buff it seems to point towards the latter case. | |
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Tokyo Gore Police has a spoof PSA decrying the practice, filmed in the usual surreal Japanese advertisement fashion. In it, a disgraced businessman is egged on into Hara-Kiri, by both his boss and a man covered in blue spots. He commits it and is then shown with his intestines pouring out (a deliberate Special Effect Failure), before reminding us that it's actually suicide. | |
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The Last Nyanmurai from Yo-kai Watch is a samurai cat yokai. He's obsessed with being in last place and committing seppuku when he fails (which doesn't do much because he's already dead). | |
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Red Dwarf: In the episode "Back to Reality", one of the Despair Squid's victims kills himself in this manner. In the Series 10 episode "The Beginning", a simulant who has failed the boss thinks he's being told to do this and does. Then the exasperated boss explains he was actually only asking him to clean his sword. |
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Spoofed in Disgaea 2. Yukimaru threatens impromptu seppuku upon losing to the main characters in the Inevitable Tournament. After several seconds of the ninja standing there with herself at knife-point, Taro and Hanako point out that she's obviously expecting someone to talk her out of it for dramatic effect. Adell begrudgingly obliges, accidentally charming the pants off of her in the process. This takes special note because Yukimaru is supposed to be a Ninja, and Adell's suggestion for how she could carry out her assault on Zenon is, ironically, what a real ninja would do; work their way into any group that bests her to ensure that they get close to their mark. Yukimaru shows that she has learned from this by talking Fubuki out of his own seppuku attempt later on. It got to a point where her inclination to commit seppuku gets very exaggerated in Disgaea RPG that she attempts it several times at any level of dishonor. Her brother, Fubuki, is just as bad about it as her. |
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In The Wolverine some Japanese military leaders in charge of the POW camp that Wolverine himself is being held in preferred to die with honor through this rather than in the atomic explosion that was coming. | |
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Harakiri (1962) is a black and white Jidaigeki and massive Take That! to the seppuku ritual and its portrayal in fiction. In it, Rōnin request permission of daimyo (local magistrates) to kill themselves and be buried on their property, hoping to be turned away and given sympathy money; one young samurai is called on the bluff and forced to complete the ritual — with a blunt stick of bamboo. Bloody, poetic justice is enacted by the young samurai's father-in-law, who realised his son-in-law had already sold his swords to pay for medicine for his sick wife and child. The entire movie revolves around the father's revenge, although at the end he shows his honour by cutting his belly just before his enemies gun him down. | |
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In Fire Emblem Fates, Ryoma chooses to stab himself to death after his fight with the Avatar in the Conquest route. It counts as seppuku, never mind the lack of kaishakunninnote Likely because, at that point, he's the only one on his side left alive. and rituals, because Ryoma (a samurai who comes from the land of Hoshido which is modeled after Medieval Japan) not only stabs himself through the stomach while sitting in the seiza position, but does so to keep the Avatar from having to make the choice of killing him with his/her own hands, and possibly getting killed by Garon for refusing. His last words even lampshade the trope, as he claims that he will die to preserve his samurai honor. In fact, even the name of the cutscene is "Samurai's Duty". | |
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In the French series Clémentine, the titular protagonist travels to Medieval Japan and befriends Momotarou and his companions. During this adventure, a samurai commits seppuku on-screen. | |
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In Age of Empires II, the death animation of the samurai units is to stab themselves with their swords. | |
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Mortal Kombat: Deception has the "Hara-Kiri" as a companion to the Fatality. During the typical "FINISH HIM/HER!" moment where the winner can perform a Fatality, the loser can input a special button combination and do a Hara-Kiri instead, essentially committing suicide in various ways before the opponent can finish them off. (The most common methods involve doing… all kinds of unpleasant things to the character's own head. Beheading is just the beginning.) Of the above, however, Kenshi Takahashi is the only character who actually performs seppuku. (Though he only goes through the first cut and has no kaishakunnin, obviously.) It makes sense: Kenshi likely comes closer to fitting the description of a Samurai more than any other character in the franchise does. In Mortal Kombat X, Hanzo Hasashi aka. Scorpion seriously considers this in his Arcade ending when he realizes how his desire for revenge on Quan Chi nearly caused Shinnok's victory, as well as condemning Liu Kang and the others to an eternity as revenants. Dark Raiden stops him, then punishes him by making him the guardian of the Jinsei instead. |
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In Fallout 3's expansion pack Operation Anchorage, General Jingwei can be convinced to fall on his sword with a high Speech skill, bypassing a rather long boss fight. A possible in-universe research failure as Jingwei is Chinese. | |
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Yakuza 6; Someya does this at the end of his final boss fight, gutting himself in a desperate attempt to appease Iwami and save his ex-wife Kiyomi from being executed. It seemingly fails and Iwami's Dragon Koshimizu cuts the video feed just as he puts a gun to Kiyomi's head, and Someya dies not knowing Koshimizu loaded blanks into his gun. | |
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Black Lagoon: In the anime, during the flashback segments of the submarine arc, it is revealed the Japanese army officer aboard the ship committed Seppuku rather than die of asphyxiation when it was obvious the submarine would never be able to surface again. (There was no mention of any Japanese officer in the manga.) Yukio Washimine gives herself an Impromptu Tracheotomy with Ginji's katana after Revy kills him in the final episode. It counts as seppuku as not only does she do it right after the death of her only remaining supporter, but it follows the traditional suicide rite for women: piercing her own throat. Only Yukio, for obvious reasons, does it with a katana instead of a dagger. |
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In Mark of the Ninja, the past members of the clan who inherited the ink's mark have committed seppuku before having their mind consumed by the mark's toxins. In the final level, The Ninja must decide to either kill Azai to live and be consumed by the mark or commit seppuku to spare the clan. | |
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Samurai in Battle Realms commit seppuku as their death animation, meaning they essentially kill themselves rather than be defeated when they run out of HP (they still count as the enemy's kill). This lengthy death animation serves to warn the opponent of the samurai's death, as they unleash area-of-effect damage when they die as their unconquered spirits lash back at their aggressors on their way to the afterlife. | |
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Letters from Iwo Jima contains a lot of this, including various suicides by grenade. | |
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In The Five Star Stories, Blreno, wracked with guilt over losing both the war against Colus and his entire battalion attempts Seppuku during an audience with his king, only for the king to knock the sword from his hand. Turns out the king is just glad he made it back alive and wants him to keep fighting to learn from his mistakes so he can improve, rather than kill himself over them. | |
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In Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, the Japanese entrant in the air race crashes shortly after takeoff. He asks a responding fireman for a knife, who worries that the pilot will try to kill himself. Actually, his seatbelt is jammed. | |
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Worf's brother, Kurn asks that Worf assist him in performing this ritual after Worf dishonors his family in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Sons of Mogh". Dax realizes Worf's intent and tries to stop it, just a moment too late. Odo claims that Worf could be charged with murder if Kurn doesn't survive. | |
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In Interesting Times, the Agatean Empire's equivalent to Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler is named Disembowel-Myself-Honorably Dhibala in reference to this. Nobody actually performs seppuku in the book, though, the more common method of suicide being telling Cohen the Barbarian you would rather die than betray your Emperor. | |
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In Shadow Warrior (1997), the mutant ninja enemies sometimes point an uzi to their heads. The manual states that enemies will commit seppuku if "dishonored." | |
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In Sword of the Stars, whenever a Tarka player has research that goes overbudget, the notification icon shows a Tarka scientist (or project manager) falling on his own sword for failing to deliver the tech on time. | |
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In System Restore, Kuzuryu tries this for reasons similar to the Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair example below, but in this fic, he fails because his hands are badly burned from a failed attempt to save Pekoyama's life. | |
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In The Mikado, Nanki-Poo threatens to perform "the Happy Despatch" with a dagger if Ko-Ko tries to prevent him from hanging himself. | |
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In Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, Admiral Otomo turns out to be a Japanese Nationalist, and the plot of the game mostly centers around his attempt to make Japan an Imperial power again. So it is no surprise that when his plans go up in smoke, he attempts to commit seppuku. Sam manages to save his life (and shows quite a bit of respect towards the ritual while doing so, for that matter). | |
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In an issue of Daredevil (set just before Shadowland), DD is the head of The Hand, a cult of ninjas. One of his lieutenants is getting too ambitious and would rather be the head, so some of DD's other lieutenants kill him, and later claim he committed seppuku since he failed to become leader of The Hand. | |
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Star Wars: The Old Republic: A Sith apprentice whom the Sith Warrior PC defeats in a duel on Nar Shaddaa does something very similar to seppuku with his lightsaber (obscured by a Gory Discretion Shot) if the PC doesn't deliver a Coup de Grâce in the following cutscene. | |
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Kris Longknife has a close variant: the Iteeche are a Fantasy Counterpart Culture to ancient Japan, and people who rebel against or are perceived to have embarrassed the empire are usually required to "make a most sincere apology to the Emperor" by drinking a poison that causes an extremely painful death. | |
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Parodied in The Great Ace Attorney. At the end of the first trial of Resolve, Prosecutor Taketsuchi Auchi composes a death poem for himself, holds up a knife, and it really looks like he's going to do it... Then he cuts off a tuft of his hair. | |
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The Legend of Koizumi: When Shinzo Abe fails in an attempt to pass the missing Koizumi's son Kotaro off as his father in a mahjong match with Vladimir Putin, he commits seppuku in front of his maid. | |
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This is a common threat from Hijikata of Gintama. | |
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The possessed ninja doll in Checkered Ninja commits seppuku so that he can be filled with cocaine and frame the villain for drug smuggling. This is also part of his backstory. He was a ninja warrior who committed seppuku when he failed to protect a group of children, and became a vengeful spirit who punishes child abuse. |
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Star Trek: The Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Ethics" has Worf getting crippled from the waist down by a falling crate. Since he's a Klingon, he feels that the only honorable thing for him to do would be to commit ritual suicide and asks Riker to be his second. Everyone aboard objects strenuously, and Worf is nearly convinced that life is still worth living — until a rogue surgeon offers him a possibly deadly operation, which he almost instantly takes them up on, and it works perfectly. Technically, Worf was almost convinced to live when Riker found out that, according to Klingon tradition, Worf's second was supposed to be his six-year-old son Alexander. Also, the operation is actually botched; Worf only survives because Klingons are Made of Iron, and he hadn't quite hurt himself badly enough for his backup spinal cord to kick in. Worf also attempts this in "Night Terrors", when the Enterprise is stuck in a Tyken's Rift and the crew are faced with the prospect of being slowly driven insane by a lack of REM sleep. Troi manages to stop him just before he goes through with it. Worf's brother, Kurn asks that Worf assist him in performing this ritual after Worf dishonors his family in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Sons of Mogh". Dax realizes Worf's intent and tries to stop it, just a moment too late. Odo claims that Worf could be charged with murder if Kurn doesn't survive. Also from DS9, the Jem'Hadar are a species born and bred to serve the Founders, a race of God Guise shapeshifters. The Jem'Hadar were programmed from birth to revere their masters and would commit suicide en masse if a Founder died on their watch. ("The Ship") |
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An offscreen version happened in Flash of the Blade when the previous wielder of the Soulstealer, realizing the weapon's powers is too much for him to control, then kills himself via disembowelment. You come across his corpse in the final level, Soulstealer still in his guts, but as it turns out the Soulstealer actually re-animates him to pull the blade out, and continue fighting. | |
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9 Monkeys of Shaolin: The fight against Hannya, the Disc-One Final Boss, ends with her choosing to disembowel herself rather than face the shame of defeat, with a "forgive me, father, I have failed you" as her last words. | |
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Shigurui features a gruesome example of the kagebara variant; a samurai slits his stomach open offscreen, bandages himself up, and then dramatically pulls his entrails out, in protest of the use of real swords in a tournament. | |
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Not exactly seppuku, but similar: Oggie and Maxim of Girl Genius once claimed that after having broken the solemn oath of the Jagerkin their only option was a "svift, painful, honourable death!" and attempted to slit each other's throats. It's unclear whether they actually meant it or were just kidding around (the overdramatic nature of the delivery suggests the latter), as they changed their minds as soon as Dimo pointed out that they hadn't been caught breaking the oath. | |
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The opening credits of Kabuki Z sees a monk committing hara-kiri, and your character then finishes him off by removing his head, with his blood writing the "Z" on the title screen. | |
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The Roman version appears several times in I, Claudius. In one episode, a corrupt governor named Piso is encouraged to stab himself, as that will prevent his family's assets from being seized when he's inevitably found guilty of murdering a member of the imperial family. He waffles on it, so his wife feigns doing it to herself and then turns the knife on him when he moves to intervene. Later, Claudius' traitorous wife Messalina is offered a dagger so that his councilors won't have to tell him that he'd signed her death warrant (they got him drunk). She too hesitates and is swiftly beheaded. | |
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In the anime adaptation of Death Note, Mikami gives himself an Impromptu Tracheotomy with a pen after Light Yagami reveals his true nature, the former losing faith after the latter's spectacular breakdown. | |
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In M*A*S*H, the episode "Goodbye, Cruel World" featured a guilt-ridden Asian-American soldier who, despite being sent home a war hero, kept trying to commit suicide. In the words of the psychiatrist, Major Freedman, he had to kill Asians "to be a good American," but then had to kill himself "to be a good Asian." | |
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In Liar Liar, Fletcher stabs himself in the gut with his phone after he accidentally hung up on a judge. | |
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Discussed (semi-jokingly) by Shinji in Doing It Right This Time, as he is rather sore about being essentially press-ganged into being Kaworu's kaishakunin, and avows that if they end up going through the whole "I Cannot Self-Terminate" thing again this time around he's going to make him observe the proper ceremonies first. | |
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In BattleTech, the Draconis Combine brings back Seppuku, particularly among its mechwarriors. The "Total Warfare" rulebook contains a passage about a Draconis Commander who very nearly commits suicide after successfully withdrawing his forces from a Lyran blitzkrieg. The crime is having withdrawn without permission. The reprieve is that the attack was part of a larger conflict, and the Combine would need every commander and Mechwarrior it had. When Theodore Kurita assumed leadership of the Draconis Combine during the Clan Invasion, one of his first acts was to try to put an end to the practice, or at least greatly tone down the circumstances that required it, in order to save the state's warriors so they could continue fighting the Clans. Theodore's father, Takashi, committed seppuku himself after being convinced that his challenging the mercenary Jaime Wolf to a duel to the death to settle their old grudge had put the Combine in danger, with Theodore acting as his kaishakunin. He was officially listed as having died in his sleep to avoid awkward questions over the incident. About ten years later, Theodore's wife Tomoe Sakade would also commit seppuku after being named Warlord of the Pesht Military District during the First Combine-Ghost Bear War- some of her subordinates rankled at the idea of being commanded by a woman and disobeyed orders, resulting in many of the operations she ordered during the war failing. Choosing to die in proper samurai fashion showed her detractors were wrong and many of them were promptly awarded the Honor of the Wakizashi and committed seppuku themselves. | |
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Parodied in Real Ultimate Power, where seppuku consists of bending a lubricated Frisbee in half and swallowing it after "getting really super pissed". | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn features a Humongous Mecha doing this with the barrel of a sniper rifle. In context, he was trying to pierce the reactor and blow up the enemies who were surrounding him, but the pose he does it in is meant to be evocative of seppuku. | |
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My Hero Academia: The Equipped Hero: Yoroi Musha calls a press conference for this purpose. His "seppuku" is retiring. Everyone calls him out for being a Drama Queen over it, not least because the country is in a state of emergency at the moment and retiring right now is seen as an act of cowardice. | |
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One of the participants in the season finale of This Is Your Death kills himself by committing harakiri. | |
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Mentioned in Mystery Science Theater 3000 occasionally by Tom Servo, although he was asking for help due to having nonfunctional arms. (This was, of course, a reaction to the movie that week being particularly bad.) | |
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In the Lupin III: Part II episode "Kooky Kabuki", Goemon betrays Lupin to help a woman, is in turn betrayed himself, and decides seppuku is the only way he can make amends, with Lupin himself doing the beheading part. Lupin can't bear to behead his friend, so he instead punches him, leading to a fistfight and a reconciliation. | |
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In a Case Closed case, a female culprit grabs a katana that belongs to her husband and victim and points it at her neck as if she's about to commit jigai with it. Then she changes her mind and starts to madly swing it around, but another woman who is a kendo expert manages to stop her. Using only a paper fan. Then, she gives the culprit a "The Reason You Suck" Speech and dissuades her from trying to kill herself again. The second woman is Shizuka Hattori (nèe Ikenami), Heiji's Almighty Mom. | |
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When the Last Sword Is Drawn: Yoshimura first shows his true skills when he acts as kaishakunin for another Shinsengumi who had been ordered to commit seppuku as a punishment for an unspecified offense. The man chickens out and tries to run, but Yoshimura catches him with a sword blow to the spine, then cuts his head off. Yoshimura's lord orders him to kill himself when he returns home after the final battle, but he succumbs to multiple gunshot wounds from his battle with the Imperial Army before he can carry it out. |
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In Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky an evil minion commits seppuku and then tries to strangle the hero with his intestines. The rest of the movie has the same Gorn vibe. It becomes absolutely hilarious when the assistant warden in the dub shouts: |
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Of the above, however, Kenshi Takahashi is the only character who actually performs seppuku. (Though he only goes through the first cut and has no kaishakunnin, obviously.) It makes sense: Kenshi likely comes closer to fitting the description of a Samurai more than any other character in the franchise does. In Mortal Kombat X, Hanzo Hasashi aka. Scorpion seriously considers this in his Arcade ending when he realizes how his desire for revenge on Quan Chi nearly caused Shinnok's victory, as well as condemning Liu Kang and the others to an eternity as revenants. Dark Raiden stops him, then punishes him by making him the guardian of the Jinsei instead. |
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Parodied in Codename: Sailor V: Sailor V, pissed at the Monster of the Week, sentences him to this, and then cuts him in two, with Artemis pointing out that's not how it's done. | |
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One Piece Kumadori frequently claims responsibility for failures that aren't his fault in the first place, and proceeds to attempt seppuku — only to always subconsciously harden his body and thus survive. At the start of the Wano arc, set in the Japan-themed country of the same name, Zoro is falsely convicted of murder and sentenced to commit seppuku, with a second nearby prepared to cut his head off. Instead, Zoro takes the knife and uses it as a weapon. |
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Lone Wolf and Cub's Ogami Itto was the head kaishakunin of the Shogun before they killed his wife and he became a Rōnin, and in the story, several characters are threatened with (and commit) Seppuku should they fail to capture Itto and Daigoro. | |
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In Tekken, the character Yoshimitsu can do this as an attack with the standing suicide (which can be followed up by spinning like a spinning blade at your opponent — hits do 2 damage to both of you, while the actual stab does 60 to whoever's hit — especially you), and the Turning Suicide (dash in, turn, gut yourself for 100 points of damage)... and the Double Stab (after taking the earlier 100, take another — and you have 140 hit points to play with, at most). The attacks will not kill the user, but hurt them in exchange for doing a lot more damage, somehow. | |
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At the end of the Tintin story The Blue Lotus, it's stated that Big Bad Mitsuhirato committed hara-kiri (as it was usually known in the West at the time). | |
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Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence sees Kanemoto, one of the guards at the Japanese POW camp, be forced to commit seppuku as punishment for raping de Jong, with the rest of the inmates being Forced to Watch as a warning. De Jong kills himself too during the ceremony by biting off and swallowing his tongue, which enrages the other prisoners and results in Cpt. Yonoi forcing them all to fast as punishment for insubordination. | |
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In an episode of Futurama, Zoidberg is ridden with guilt after he breaks Professor Farnsworth's bottled ship and blames Fry (and he's forced to pay the exorbitant price of ten dollars to replace it). Ashamed, he confesses the whole thing and, since he won't be able to pay Fry back, he attempts to kill himself by stabbing his chest with a katana but he just ends up bending it on his hard exoskeleton. The owner of the sword angrily tells him how much that sword was worth. Zoidberg yells that Fry did it and runs away. | |
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Code Geass: This is the cause of Japanese Prime Minister Genbu Kururugi's death after he fails to stop the invasion of Britannia. Officially, anyway. Actually, he was stabbed to death by his pre-teen son Suzaku, in the middle of a heated discussion where the kid tried to dissuade his dad from destroying Japan itself by leading a last desperate attack on the enemy. Invoked by a racist commander in Code Geass: Akito the Exiled, who justifies sending Japanese soldiers on suicide missions because "Elevens love to kill themselves". |
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In The Bible, King Saul fell on his sword to avoid being captured by the Philistines. | |
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In "Vow of the Samurai" in Jonah Hex #39 (original series), a samurai commits hara-kiri after he discovers that his daughter has had a child with an outlaw. He forces Jonah to fulfill an oath he made earlier by acting as kaishakunin and cutting his head off. | |
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Legend of the Five Rings, set in a Fantasy Counterpart Culture to medieval Japan, naturally has seppuku as a plot element, and several cards and even basic game mechanics in the Collectible Card Game revolve around it. It also reinforced the idea that in most cases, seppuku was more to cleanse the family/clan/empire's honor rather than the one who was committing seppuku. The most notable character to commit seppuku within the storyline was Emperor Toturi I, who did so to purify his soul of the Lying Darkness' corruption. Prior he acted as kaishakunin to Matsu Tsuku, who had succeeded him as daimyo of the Lion Clan, only to see the consequences of choosing loyalty to the (corrupted) Emperor rather than to the Empire itself. This allowed the Lion Clan to honorably reverse its stance and join in the overthrow of said Emperor. |
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In Kämpfer, there's a line of very creepy-looking stuffed animals that look like they committed seppuku, with their intestines sticking out and all; two of their names translate to Suicide Tiger and Suicide Black Rabbit. One of the girls in Natsuru's Unwanted Harem has a room full of them, and Natsuru once has to spend the night there. | |
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Game of Thrones: Jorah's greyscale becomes bad enough for the maesters to plan to send him to die with the stone man. Because he's a knight, however, they give him a sword and suggest that he do with it as he will. The prequel House of the Dragon invokes this during the Despair Event Horizon of Criston Cole, a Kingsguard night who compromised his honor by bedding the Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen and killing her fiancé's homosexual lover. Being prevented from going ahead by Queen Consort Alicent Hightower solidifies his loyalty to the Queen, but also essentially spells his Face–Heel Turn as her attack dog. |
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On Good Eats, after having been called out for giving Alton erroneous information, the owner of the simulated Asian market attempts this. Alton stops him. Alton himself does this while dressed as a sunflower, in order to explain the concept of plant starch. |
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In Sonic and the Black Knight, Sir Gawain is so disgraced after being beaten by Sonic that he tries to do this. Sonic calls him out and stops him. | |
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13 Assassins has a few instances of seppuku, including one which kicks off the whole plot. | |
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Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice has a variant of this when you get the final Deathblow on final boss Sword Saint Isshin except without the stabbing. He falls to his knees and tells Sekiro to finish it; Sekiro, standing behind him as a kaishakunin with his sword raised, expertly slices through the back of Isshin's neck and finishes him off. | |
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The Emperor in August: In the early hours of August 15, 1945, General Anami, the army minister, refuses to support a right-wing coup aimed at stopping the Emperor's surrender announcement. Having done so, he then commits ritual seppuku, as penance for his part in losing the war for Japan. Japan's Longest Day, an earlier movie depicting these same events, also shows Anami committing seppuku. |
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Tales of the Otori: A fantasy set in a world based on Sengoku period Japan, also plays this as Serious Business. | |
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In Love Hina, at one point Motoko offers to help with the ritualized suicides of the Rōnin who have not managed to get into Tokyo University. After a failed attempt at femininity, she also misinterprets one of Keitaro's comments as suggesting that she kill herself, and she asks Su to be her second. Thankfully she soon reverts to her normal self. Something that makes this dramatic scene hilarious is that Motoko is holding a sharpened knife near her abdomen: a "proper" woman would commit suicide by cutting open her jugular, as stated in the paragraphs above... so if she actually went through with it, she would've failed at femininity again. |
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In the backstory prior to Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, Kazuhira Miller completely flips the idea of an honorable death when, upon being soundly defeated by Big Boss, he asks him to be his kaishakunin. Except this was actually a ploy to get Big Boss to walk close enough for Kaz to blow both of them up with a grenade. It doesn't work, but needless to say, the fact that Kaz was willing to kick honor to the curb just to go out in a blaze of glory really makes an impression on Snake. | |
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The second Na Cha have the titular character being sentenced to execution, where he commits suicide by self-disembowelment in order to appease the dragon gods and prevent a war from breaking out between humans and immortals. He gets better anf stronger. | |
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In the 1928 silent movie Spies, Matsumoto sends out three couriers to take a treaty back to Japan. All three of them are killed by the villain, who gets all three of their diplomatic parcels—which contain shredded newspaper. Matsumoto, who has kept the treaty in his office while sending out three decoys, then winds up letting the Honey Pot that's been living with him steal the treaty. Filled with guilt and after hallucinating the ghosts of the three couriers, Matsumoto kills himself Seppuku-style. | |
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The Tau of Warhammer 40,000 have something like this. It's called "Malk'la" and is occasionally demanded by Ethereals as a punishment for a high-ranking Tau who has seriously breached conduct or otherwise failed the empire in a spectacular fashion. The ritual is not described, but it is said that all who see it are permanently scarred. | |
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In The Punisher, one of the late-game targets is the leader of a yakuza syndicate. When Frank finally shoots his way into his office, the yakuza boss informs him that he has been usurped by a different villain. He wishes to commit seppuku to atone for this and asks Frank to be his kaishakunin. Choosing to accept saves the player from a short firefight with his bodyguards afterwards. | |
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In The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, the Garo Master, upon losing to Link, offers up some advice as a sign of good faith and then detonates a bomb in his hand. His clones, however, do this as a last-ditch effort to kill Link. | |
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The prequel House of the Dragon invokes this during the Despair Event Horizon of Criston Cole, a Kingsguard night who compromised his honor by bedding the Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen and killing her fiancé's homosexual lover. Being prevented from going ahead by Queen Consort Alicent Hightower solidifies his loyalty to the Queen, but also essentially spells his Face–Heel Turn as her attack dog. | |
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Occasionally crops up in games of Team Fortress 2 thanks to the Soldier's new suicide taunt: When a round ends, the losing team loses their weapons, granting free kills to any nearby winners. However, they can still taunt. Any Soldiers who had the Equalizer out at the time are liable to kill themselves to avoid adding another point to the opposing team, and occasionally manage to add a point to their own in the bargain (since taunt kills are always fatal when they connect). | |
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In the very first issue of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage), the four heroes offer Shredder the chance to commit Seppuku so that he may die with honor. (In most versions of the Turtles' continuity, the term bushido is used liberally and is a code that can be followed by Ninja as well as Samurai.) Instead, Shredder opts to blow them all up with a grenade. As a spin-off to the above franchise, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin opens in a dark future where all but one of the Turtles (the titular Ronin) have been killed by the Foot, with the Ronin attempting to kill Oroku Hiroto, grandson of the Shredder and ruler of New York. When the Ronin's initial attack fails, he retreats to the sewers and attempts to commit seppuku, but passes out from blood loss in time to be rescued and receive medical treatment from his remaining allies. |
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The Simpsons Game: The Flying Face guide of the Pokemon-esque level suddenly commits seppuku once the Hub World starts to fall apart, with a sword floating in mid-air as he drops to the ground. | |
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In Basilisk, the deaths of the Star-Crossed Lovers Oboro and Gennosuke don't follow the rituals ( she stabs herself in the chest and he later does the same) but count as this since Oboro killed 'self to not have to kill Gennosuke in a fixed duel and to free herself from Lady Ofuku's plans and Gennosuke committed suicide after Oboro's death, having lost literally everything in this Crapsack World despite being the Sole Survivor. | |
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In Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu attempts this in chapter three, when trying to make amends for his behavior in the previous chapter. His classmates are horrified and drag him to the hospital, where his wounds are seen to. | |
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In Boppin', player 1 would commit seppuku every time he lost a life, and player 2 would shot himself in the mouth. It's all an anvilicious commentary about violence in video games... No, really. | |
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In Gundam Extreme Vs., the Susanoo has a seppuku move much like Yoshimitsu's (below), where the machine turns around and stabs itself with its swords. It does big damage if an enemy is right behind, but whether or not it connects the Susanoo takes damage. Despite the fact that its pilot is American, he's also a huge Japanese culture Otaku, justifying the existence of this move. | |
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As a spin-off to the above franchise, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin opens in a dark future where all but one of the Turtles (the titular Ronin) have been killed by the Foot, with the Ronin attempting to kill Oroku Hiroto, grandson of the Shredder and ruler of New York. When the Ronin's initial attack fails, he retreats to the sewers and attempts to commit seppuku, but passes out from blood loss in time to be rescued and receive medical treatment from his remaining allies. | |
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An American admiral stationed in Japan commits suicide in the JAG episode "Innocence" for what he perceived to be a failure on his part. The characters can't help but comment on how Japanese it all was. | |
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Keiji Tanaka's death in Survival of the Fittest was basically seppuku. Oddly, Lenny Priestly, the one who fatally wounded him to begin with, acted as his second. Shinya Motomura also committed seppuku in V1. However, he did not have a second. |
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The Last Samurai General Hasegawa, a member of the samurai class who leads the modernized army against the rebels, commits seppuku after his forces lose the battle. Katsumoto, the opposing leader and one of his old friends, serves as kaishakunin and later remarks he was "honored to cut off his head". Algren, who sees it from the back, misses the stomach-cutting and thus thinks it was just Katsumoto murdering an unarmed man. Worth noting: while the movie did a pretty good job with most of its research, this seppuku would have been considered exceptionally sloppy in real life. Katsumoto screams right before delivering the kaishaku cut (a big no-no in what is supposed to be a calm and dignified ritual) and makes the mistake of cutting all the way through Hasegawa's neck, which would have been extraordinarily disrespectful and/or a display of very shoddy swordsmanship. Later, Algren helps the defeated Katsumoto kill himself after the samurai are horribly slaughtered in a charge against a number of Gatling guns. This is in the understanding that he is taking his own life after his service to his Emperor is complete, the samurai rebellion crushed, which, really, Katsumoto knew was going to happen anyway. His sacrifice succeeds: the Emperor finally pushes back against the Westernization of Japan. This is mentioned after Katsumoto is attacked by assassins during a theater performance when Algren suspects the Emperor. Katsumoto rejects the idea, saying that if the Emperor wants his life, all he has to do is ask. When Katsumoto is arrested in the capital, he is seen meditating in his chambers after a meal. Behind him, one of Omura's henchmen quietly enters, drawing a tanto from his clothes as though he was going to kill Katsumoto. He draws close... then simply places the knife on Katsumoto's plate and mutters "Save us the trouble." |
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Then there is Kai Suwabara from Yakitate!! Japan, who wanted to commit seppuku because of his inability to win against Azuma, after several tries. He is only stopped because his girlfriend says that she is pregnant and it would bring greater shame to leave her as an alone mother. She isn't. They have, after all, just hugged each other. | |
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In Beast Wars, Dinobot once attempted seppuku but backed out at the last minute, allowing him to go on to his Heroic Sacrifice. While suicide was never overtly mentioned (this is a kid's show, after all), kneeling while holding your sword upside down towards your body and trembling in intense concentration is a bit hard to interpret any other way. | |
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The ABCs of Death: In the "J" segment, an executioner prepares to decapitate a samurai; however, the samurai begins performing a series of bizarre and physically impossible facial expressions, causing the executioner to panic. A man off-screen tells the executioner to finish the job, as he notices that the samurai is performing seppuku. The executioner, who turns out to be a kaishakunin, beheads the samurai but then laughs at the ridiculous expression that the latter made. | |
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Attempted by Ira Gamagoori in Kill la Kill, after he loses to Ryuko. Satsuki, however, stops him. | |
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Soulcalibur IV modeled Yoshimitsu's Critical Finish attack after seppuku, with Yoshi playing the role of the kaishakunin. Additionally, several of his unblockable attacks come in the form of stabbing himself in the stomach. One is done from a stance where he would have his back turned to his enemy, and thus would be able to hit his opponent with the sword coming out of the other side. Another is done from the typical sitting stance one would associate with seppuku but can be followed up with him ripping his sword out of him and delivering a quick unblockable attack to his opponent. Needless to say, Yoshimitsu is one of the few characters with ways to heal himself, if only because he's also one of the few characters that can do so much damage to themselves. | |
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In Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders episode "Whispering Death", the Criminal of the Week was a hikikomori whose parents were Driven to Suicide after their sushi shop was closed down shortly after being acquired by an American company. He then targeted the people he blamed the death of his parents for and staged the crime scenes as suicides to make them atone for what they'd done. Two murders, an American woman who planned to move to the department subleased by the criminal's father and a former employee of the shop, were made to resemble seppuku rituals (Jigai and Seppuku proper respectively). | |
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Ditto The 47 Ronin, the 1941 Japanese version of the story. Asano is forced to commit seppuku at the beginning of the story. The 47 ronin are forced to commit it at the end, after finally getting revenge for their master and killing Lord Kira. | |
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In Utawarerumono the heroes surround and overwhelm a cruel lord's castle. The lord's general, Benawi, realizes that they have lost and he urges his master to "die with honor" and offers to assist him. The lord doesn't dare, so Benawi kills him himself. Then he unceremoniously tries to cut off his own head. The hero stops him and he asks if he should live in shame. Next scene he's feasting happily with the victorious army. | |
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In XCOM 2's War of the Chosen Expansion Pack, the Chosen Assassin will wish you luck in overthrowing her masters and then commit seppuku upon defeat. | |
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Sabaton History's video on the Battle of Shiroyama at the end of the Satsuma Rebellion, discusses the practice of seppuku as part of the larger samurai honor code of bushido, then later recounts how a badly wounded Saigou Takamori committed seppuku with the help of his second-in-command after the samurais' final suicide charge. | |
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In the X/1999 TV series, Hinoto performs jigai in the Dream Scape to kill both herself and her Dark Self. As a bonus, Hinoto's body appears mortally wounded in the Real World - quite the feat, considering she's crippled, deaf and blind in here. | |
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: Early on in the series, Tanjiro's teacher, Urokodaki, tells him that if his younger sister Nezuko, who's turned into a demon, attacks a human, Tanjiro must kill her and then slit his belly open. Later on, Urokodaki and his other student, Giyu Tomioka of the Hashira, also promise to commit seppuku if Nezuko attacks a human, which helps convince the head of the Demon Slayer Corps to accept Nezuko. In the final arc, Zenitsu gets a major boost in motivation after he finds out that his sensei (who was like a grandfather to him) committed seppuku in shame after finding out that his other student Kaigaku betrayed the Demon Slayer Corps to become a demon. When confronting Kaigaku, Zenitsu angrily reveals that their master didn't even have a kaishakunin, meaning he died in immense pain. |
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In Ensemble Stars!, the extremely dutiful and highly emotional Souma regularly offers to commit seppuku in apology for what is usually a very minor mistake, due to acting in every way like a 16th-century samurai somehow walking around in modern-day Japan. This is played entirely for laughs, and Keito and Kanata (the most common recipients) usually just responding by tiredly chastising him for losing his head (so to speak). | |
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South Park, in typical fashion, played with this rather irreverently when the Japanese Mr. Takayama moves to town and opens a restaurant next to City Wok (owned by the angry and stereotypically Chinese Mr. Lu Kim), sparking a rivalry. Lu Kim builds a "Tower of Peace", planning to lure his rival to the top and push him off, assuming he will get away with it because "Japanese people [are] always killing themselves". When he reveals this plan to Takayama while struggling atop the tower, Takayama angrily refuses to be associated with such a stereotype and overpowers him. However, when it is revealed that Lu Kim is actually one of several "split personalities" of a white man, Takayama realizes he has been duped and throws himself off the tower in shame. In another episode, after Butters is sold off to Paris Hilton to be her pet, he finds out that her previous pets have all committed suicide over not standing her any longer in increasingly ridiculous ways, ending with Cuddles, a spaniel who committed ritual seppuku, white clothes and Japanese characters hanging from the walls included. In the episode “Ginger Cow,� a variety of newscasters commit suicide around the world upon reporting the incidence of the aforementioned bovine. All of them shoot themselves with the exception of the Japanese newscaster, who draws a katana and begins to commit seppuku as he delivers his news. His partner then comes in and decapitates him after he collapses on the desk before drawing a pistol and shooting himself in the head like everyone else. |
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In Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds, Mizoguchi with his Samurai deck has a card called "Resolve of the Lord and Retainer". The illustration has a man about to commit seppuku, and it inflicts damage to both players by making a blade appear in their hands with which they stab themselves. | |
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Valvrave the Liberator, by the same writer as Geass, has the titular Humongous Mecha's special weapon - the harakiri blade. The robot plunges its sword through its midsection and withdraws it with a force powerful enough to take out a fleet of battleships. It sounds just plain ridiculous until you realize that these are the secret hidden weapons that save JIOR, which is really just Japan under a different name... and it might just be Crossing the Line Twice into a critique of the whole cultural-suicide-fixation thing. JIOR was also developing them in secret while telling the rest of the world they were completely pacifist and neutral. | |
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In the original Tenchu, one of the missions involves executing a corrupt minister, but if the player is using Rikimaru, he will plead in a cinematic with the minister to take the honourable route and perform seppuku, which he will and Rikimaru will assist by decapitating him. If the player chooses Ayame however, she will insult and agitate the minister until he lashes out, resulting in a boss battle. | |
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In Code Monkeys, after Gameavision breaks Protendo's one-day efficiency record, every Protendo employee still on the Gameavision premises simply pulls out a katana and rams it into their stomach, 22 in all. This also puts the final nail in the coffin of Mr. Larrity's plan to sell Gameavision off so the company can be liquidated. | |
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Least I Could Do references this. | |
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After the remaining villain Yamashita is defeated in a duel in Samurai Cop, he performs seppuku in accordance with his samurai code. | |
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A tanto appears in Nioh as the game's answer to the Darksign or Hunter's Mark; that is to say, an item that will warp the player back to the last shrine checkpoint they visited at the cost of all the Amrita they're holding. Not something the player would use all that often, but handy on the off-chance they get hopelessly lost or stuck in the scenery. | |
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In Urusei Yatsura, There are a couple of manga chapters/TV episodes that end with Shuutaro Mendou threatening to commit suicide out of shame, though he never follows through for various reasons (mostly concerning a cloud of girls who physically restrain him from doing so). | |
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In Family Guy when Brian and Stewie enter the universe when Japan conquered the world, Meg, being the Butt-Monkey in every universe she's in, commits seppuku when Peter told her of being ugly and dishonorable. | |
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Seppuku is referenced, quite appropriately, in Harukanaru Toki no Naka de's first OAV and the TV series, where certain characters wonder whether Minamoto no Yorihisa might do this to himself in case he fails to protect the Miko. | |
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Likely due to changing social mores and Japan's ludicrous suicide rate, it's becoming increasingly common in various Japanese media to deconstruct this. The Twilight Samurai (Tasogare Seibei in Japan) features a samurai ordered to kill himself when his master is dishonored; he refuses, and is given a death sentence to be carried out by the title character. Seibei does not particularly hold it against the man that he refuses to kill himself: he simply has been ordered to do something, and he has children and an ailing mother to care for. | |
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In Showdown in Little Tokyo, the Damsel in Distress Minako attempts to commit this after the Big Bad is strongly implied to have raped her. | |
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Rurouni Kenshin: Kenshin Himura has said outright that he began his life as a wanderer as an alternative to suicide and encourages others to follow his path of atonement. His reasoning is simply that killing himself helps no one and he can do much more good alive. A similar Aesop pops up in Tales of Symphonia: all life has value, and death solves nothing. After losing his last bout to Kenshin, his long sword, and the use of his right arm, Udo Jin-e spitefully throws himself on his wakizashi rather than get taken alive. Towards the end of the Kanryu Takeda mini-arc, Megumi was about to commit jigai with a dagger that Aoshi had given her, thinking the Kenshin-gumi had perished at the hands of the Oniwabashu. Sanosuke gives her a Get A Hold Of Yourself Man to stop her. When Kenshin defeats Raijuta, some of his disillusioned mooks attempt to kill themselves, but Kenshin knocks their blades out of their hands and lectures them to atone for their sins instead of dying. Also, Villainous Crossdresser Kamatari tries to kill himself through jigai after losing to Kaoru and Misao. The latter has to knock him out to keep him from taking his own life. Later on, his former comrade Chou lies to him about Shishio's last wish so he won't try to kill himself again, now that his master and one-sided crush is dead. Shishio's right-hand man Houji ends up killing himself in prison after he realizes that he won't be granted a fair trial where he could defend the ideals of his late master. He slit his throat and as he was dying he wrote "This world is dead to me now. I go to follow my master to hell." to the wall of his prison cell. With his own blood. Spoofed on the "About the Author" page of volume four of the manga. Nobuhiro Watsuki draws himself doing this as punishment for failing to live up to a promise he made in volume two. With Kenshin as kaishakunin. |
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On How I Met Your Mother Barney mimes committing suicide several times when he feels Ted and Robin are being too lovey-dovey with each other; at one point this includes miming seppuku. | |
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Mentioned in an episode of Legends of Tomorrow, when the team accidentally ends up in Edo-period Japan. An old man named Ichiro explains that his son Oda used to be a great samurai. Unfortunately, his popularity among the troops made the Shogun jealous, so he ordered Oda to take his own life. Being a loyal samurai, Oda obliged. The Shogun even went on to demand that Ichiro destroy Oda's sword, which Ichiro forged himself, but Ichiro hid the weapon instead. | |
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Itachi Kunata does this in Fractured Fates using a hunting knife, sabotaging his own execution in an attempt to atone for killing a classmate and to defy Monokuma. | |
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Quidditch Through the Ages, a defictionalized Harry Potter book, has a non-fatal version: Apparently Japanese Quidditch players tend to destroy their brooms should they lose a match. Costly, yes, but not fatal. The international Quidditch community considers it a waste of good wood. | |
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On Drawn Together, Ling-Ling commits Seppuku upon losing a game of Not-It to impregnate Toot. | |
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Done by the Japanese commanders at Okinawa at the end of Hacksaw Ridge to demonstrate that the Japanese have finally lost the battle and aren't about to commit another suicidal charge against the Americans. | |
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Parodied in Spongebob Squarepants when after accidentally dropping a customer's take-out order, SpongeBob commits seppuku with his spatula, though given that he is a sponge, the spatula just goes harmlessly through his body. | |
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Parodied in a Dexter's Laboratory episode where Dee Dee's paper route is beset by vandals dressed as ninjas. After she beats them in a paper-delivering competition (final score: 1 to 0), the other ninja give the one who lost the competition a rolled-up newspaper; he smacks himself in the face with it and collapses. | |
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In the TV adaptation of The Man in the High Castle, seppuku is still used in Imperial Japan and its territories in the former US. An Imperial Guard officer is seen committing public seppuku after the crown prince's attempted assassination, and Kido is expected to do so if he can't find the would-be assassin. | |
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In the Fighting Fantasy gamebook Sword of the Samurai, where the Player Character is — what else? — a Samurai — you do this automatically if your Honor Score drops to 0 (which means, naturally, you lose). | |
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The Sotoha in Vampire: The Requiem are a vampire Bloodline founded by a 16th-century Japanese nobleman based on the code of Bushido. Public seppuku in protest against a Sotoha Lord's conduct is the only way for a vassal to sever their My Master, Right or Wrong obligations and free them from service — though, being a vampire, it only leaves them comatose for a while. In the most extreme case, a vassal can commit Suicide by Sunlight to release all their Lord's other subjects from their oaths of loyalty. | |
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In Mortal Kombat X, Hanzo Hasashi aka. Scorpion seriously considers this in his Arcade ending when he realizes how his desire for revenge on Quan Chi nearly caused Shinnok's victory, as well as condemning Liu Kang and the others to an eternity as revenants. Dark Raiden stops him, then punishes him by making him the guardian of the Jinsei instead. | |
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The Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Ethics" has Worf getting crippled from the waist down by a falling crate. Since he's a Klingon, he feels that the only honorable thing for him to do would be to commit ritual suicide and asks Riker to be his second. Everyone aboard objects strenuously, and Worf is nearly convinced that life is still worth living — until a rogue surgeon offers him a possibly deadly operation, which he almost instantly takes them up on, and it works perfectly. | |
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The first fight against Hiroyuki in Loopmancer, where if you survive his challenge of fending off Hiroyuki's attacks for a whole minute, Hiroyuki will admit defeat and prepares to disembowel himself to regain his honor. He's stopped in the nick of time by his grandmother, Shizue Ogata. | |
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