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Spiteful Suicide
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The Evil Twin of Heroic Suicide; a character takes their own life solely to have the last laugh over someone else, usually as one final act to make our heroes' lives much harder. One reason may be that they want to frame them for something. Another reason might simply be because the character is a Jerkass and this is their way of getting the last laugh. The other common reason is that the character wants to avoid being interrogated and does this to deny their captors the precious information. If the protagonist is vengeful, the avengee can do this to deny them of their vengeance. Related to the previous one, if a certain group/person wants them alive for some reason and they know it, then they may kill themselves to deny their potential captors that opportunity. Either way, the hero is being royally screwed. Often done as part of a Thanatos Gambit. Compare and contrast Better to Die than Be Killed, which may overlap with this trope if it occurs as a matter of pride, and Face Death with Dignity, where one chooses to face the music (and the bullets). This can be one of the reasons why some characters believe Suicide is Shameful. Can overlap with Suicide, Not Murder if the character kills themself in order to frame someone they hate. Subtrope of Self-Disposing Villain. No Real Life Examples, Please! As this is a Death Trope, unmarked spoilers abound. Beware. Examples |
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Sherlock, "The Reichenbach Fall": After Moriarty explains how he's ruined Sherlock's life, there's a Hope Spot where it seems like Sherlock might have a chance of persuading or manipulating Moriarty into fixing things or at least giving Sherlock an opening — which Moriarty deliberately punctures by killing himself. Even worse, Moriarty had sent out three assassins to kill Dr. Watson, Inspector Lestrade, and Mrs. Hudson, who were told only to break off their attacks on Moriarty's orders, or if Sherlock dies. With Moriarty dead, Sherlock has only one option. | |
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In Killzone 2, at the end of his boss battle, Colonel Radec shoots himself in the head to deny the main characters the satisfaction of killing him. | |
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The Empire Strikes Back has Luke Skywalker pretty much at a Walk the Plank moment after fighting Darth Vader and losing his right hand. Vader offers Luke a chance to join him and accede to the Dark Side of the Force. Rather than submit, Luke chooses to perish and allows himself to plummet into the near-bottomless shaft. Only the peculiarity of Cloud City's conduit system and a returning Millenium Falcon saves Luke from falling to his doom. | |
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Wild ARMs 5: After being defeated by the heroes and then in a duel by Greg, Kartikeya blows a hole through his torso to deny Greg the satisfaction of murdering the one responsible for the death of his family. Greg calls him an idiot, saying that his vendetta against the demon is no longer his main objective but "just a point to pass along the way". Realizing that he essentially killed himself for nothing, Kartikeya can only mutter an utterly confused "w-what!?" before falling down dead. | |
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Arrow: In the Season Five finale, Adrian Chase holds Oliver’s son hostage, while he himself is tied to a Dead Man's Switch that is rigged to cause the island (which Oliver’s friends are on) to blow up if he dies. He forces Oliver to make a Sadistic Choice, save his son by killing Chase which will cause his friends to die, or let Chase kill his son and save his friends. Oliver tries to Take a Third Option and knock Chase aside. Chase does not accept this and proceeds to shoot himself in the head to set off the explosions, all to spite Oliver one final time. | |
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The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) episode "Dinosaur Seen In Sewers" ends with this. After Zog's beacon to call his fellow Triceratons is destroyed (after spending the majority of the episode trying to activate it), he fights with the turtles until he winds up hanging over the edge of the top of the Statue of Liberty. When Raph tries to save him. Zog only has this to say: | |
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Grand Theft Auto V: In the 'Kill Michael' ending, Franklin chases Michael to the top of a generator tower. In the course of their brawl, Michael falls over the railing and Franklin reflexively catches him. At this point, the player can choose to have Franklin either let Michael go or pull him back up. If they choose the latter, Michael defiantly headbutts Franklin, causing Franklin to drop him, and sending him plummeting to his death. | |
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Cyanide and Happiness: In one strip, a death row inmate receives his last meal in the form of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich from a prison guard, the latter expressing his desire to personally execute an irredeemable criminal. But the inmate gleefully reveals that he has a peanut allergy, and drops dead with a smile on his face while the guard screams in frustration. | |
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Naruto: At the end of the Deidara vs Sasuke fight, the former chooses to use a Dangerous Forbidden Technique: turning himself into a high yield bomb. Not necessarily to kill Sasuke, mind you, but just to spite him because he didn't take Deidara's "art" (of explosions) seriously. Sasuke survives thanks to him using Manda as a Living Shield, although the latter dies of his injuries shortly after. | |
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In the Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Video Ouija", Shake kills himself just so that he can haunt Meatwad through the latter's new video game that apparently allows him to talk to the dead. Unfortunately, Meatwad had already lost interest and moved on to a new game, causing him to order Frylock to find a way to bring him back to life. | |
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Fist of the North Star: Shin is not in the least bit scared of dying after being beaten by Kenshiro. However, he'd much rather throw himself off the palace walls, than "die to an inferior technique." He falls to his death laughing, as Kenshiro calls out his name in vain. | |
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The Young and the Restless' rapist Matt Clark frames his victim's husband for his murder after he's in a car accident, actually yanking out his own intubation tube and shoving it into the man's hand. When the medical staff rushes in at the sound of alarms, they find the man standing there stunned, indeed looking as though he pulled the tube out. | |
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Dungeon Keeper Ami: In "Assault on Wemos", Wemos's final death, is used to spite Zarekos, who turned him into a vampire, by depriving him of the resource of his body, through being willingly teleported by an enemy to parts unknown. | |
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Trigun: The Gung Ho Guns were created with the express purpose of making Vash suffer, as he was taught that all life was precious, even those that are utterly immoral to boot. A good chunk of them are Not Afraid to Die and more than willing to kill themselves when defeated. Probably the most notable being The Dragon of the bunch, Legoto Bluesummers, who goes out via Suicide by Cop explicitly to prove Vash's Technical Pacifist ideals are wrong by threatening to kill Milly and Merryl if Vash doesn't kill him instead. | |
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In G K Chesterton's Father Brown story "The Strange Crime of John Boulnois", a man commits suicide and makes a crude attempt to frame another man, purely out of rage that the targeted man failed to notice that he was trying to anger him. | |
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Black Jack Justice: In "Justice Be Done", Jack and Trixie attend the reading of the will of occasional client Mordecai Brasseau, which asks Jack and Trixie to determine who poisoned him to make sure his murderer gets none of the inheritance. The catch is that none of the suspects, Mordecai's son, daughter, lawyer, and most recent wife were around him enough to perform the very gradual poisoning that killed him, and for the most part loathed one another too much to work together. The detectives realize that the only one with enough access to Mordecai to poison him was Mordecai himself, that his death was a suicide designed to teach his ungrateful heirs a lesson about how they took him for granted. "A Simple Case of Black and White" sees a man kill himself in an attempt to frame his ex-lover's current husband. The man goes so far as to give himself an Agonizing Stomach Wound to make sure he had time to hide the evidence it was Suicide, Not Murder before dying. |
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Layton Brothers: Mystery Room: One of the cases has the victim make their lover shoot them to death as punishment for their unfaithfulness. | |
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Your Turn to Die: Occurs near the end of the second Main Game. When faced with the idea that one of the gamemasters, Gashu, has tampered with the game, the players attempt to prove it and expose it as a transgression for the chance to retry the Main Game in 24 hours. Then, Gashu reminds them of the rule and it says that if misconduct is found, the Main Game must be retried in 24 hours... or proceed with the transgressor's death. Gashu shoots himself in the head just as they find this out, ripping away their last hope to save everyone from their unfair situation. | |
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King of the Hill: After the hospitalized Cotton repeatedly fakes his death by slowing his heart to the point of flatlining the monitor, purely for the sake of trolling everyone who came to visit him, Peggy rips into him with a vicious "The Reason You Suck" Speech about how he's a miserable, evil old man living in a hell of his own making and how she hopes he lives forever just so he can suffer more. Cotton just says "Do ya now?", then promptly forces himself to die for real, just to spite his daughter-in-law one last time. | |
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One episode of Elementary has Sherlock and Watson investigating what seems to be an open-and-shut murder case, only to discover the victim actually killed herself in such a way as to frame the man she believed murdered her sister. It turns out that she was actually right about the man she was trying to frame, even if the attempted framing was fairly inept. All it accomplishes is getting Sherlock onto the killer's trail. Another episode has a man who plots his own death by hiring a hitman with himself as the target. He doesn't advance his death by much since he's already terminally ill, but the way he orchestrates it makes the blame fall on his wife's lover - or it would have, if not for a bit of bad luck and Sherlock's instinct. |
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An episode of Forever Knight has the investigation of a black woman's murder culminate in the arrest of a white supremacist who'd previously had run-ins with Capt. Joe Reese. While he's awaiting trial, the man hangs himself. His suicide note, written on the wall of his cell, simply reads "No justice, Joe." | |
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Ar tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel: Kurogane committed suicide right in front of Tyria so that she would be too traumatized to successfully carry out the Planet Regeneration Project. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022): In the climax, after Dr. Robotnik undergoes a full Villainous Breakdown courtesy of Sonic becoming Super Sonic and wrecking his Egg Robot, Sonic stands in front of Robotnik ready to make him pay for what he has done. Robotnik promptly jumps off the robot's cockpit and vanishes in the middle of the explosionsnote Jim Carrey announced his retirement shortly after the film was released but made clear he could return to play Robotnik if the script was good enough, so possible sequels could go either way. | |
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Kamen Rider Ex-Aid pretty much ends this way. Masamune/Kamen Rider Cronus, the Big Bad, has a god complex that causes him to think only he gets to judge and decide people's life. After he is defeated in the final battle, he decided to kill himself so that others cannot judge him for his crimes, even implying his suicide as him judging himself to be "free". | |
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Belkar in The Order of the Stick tries to get Miko to kill him purely so that she'll lose her status as a paladin. | |
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In the film version of Holes, "Kissin' Kate" Barlow is cornered by Trout and Linda Walker, who demand to know where she buried her treasure. She gives the two a Dying Curse before allowing a yellow-spotted lizard to bite her, instantly killing her with its venom. | |
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Persona 5: Once Shido realizes that the Phantom Thieves have stolen his mental treasure to change his heart so he confesses his crimes, he takes a suicide pill that his Metaverse researchers developed to purge the Thieves from his Palace, making sure they die in there. He would rather die with the knowledge that he killed the people trying to stop him rather than let his heart be changed to confess his crimes. Thankfully, it doesn't work. The Thieves survive and his heart is changed. | |
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In skirmish games in Warcraft III, near dead heroes will often run into the closest creep camp and fight them. If the creeps kill the hero, the chasing player doesn't get the experience for it. | |
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The Devil's Advocate - Kevin choses to shoot himself rather than join his father in his unholy crusade and conceive The Antichrist with his own sister. | |
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Dragon Ball Z Abridged: In the original canon, Namekian leader Guru suffers Death by Despair from the sorrow of his people being slaughtered by Frieza. In Abridged, Guru is given a heaping dose of Adaptational Villainy and Jerkassery, and the context behind his death is changed so that he actually wills himself to die specifically to cause the Namekian Dragon Balls to be rendered inert and he thinks that screwing someone over in this way would be hilarious. This isn't even the most dickish thing Abridged Guru does. | |
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The Promised Neverland: Ray's original plan to help Norman and Emma escape the orphanage was to burn himself alive as a distraction the night before he would be eaten by the demons. He spent his entire life building himself up as the most valuable product that would only be eaten by the demon leadership. Burning himself would destroy all of his value and Norman and Emma's escape meant there would be no replacement. He could have come up with any other plan but chose this one because it screwed over everyone involved in the orphanage. Thankfully, Norman figured out Ray's plan and came up with a new one that only required faking his Self-Immolation and allowed all the kids over four to escape. In the second season of the anime, Peter Ratri does this as well, choosing death over accepting Emma and the others' forgiveness. This is Adaptational Villainy when compared to the manga, where he kills himself out of genuine remorse for his misdeeds. |
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In Mass Effect 3 Citadel, the Arc Villain, Shepard's clone, will opt to fall to their death rather than let Paragon Shepard save them because the alternative is admitting that Shepard is better than they are. | |
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BioShock: Andrew Ryan uses the Trigger Phrase "Would You Kindly" to mind-control Jack into killing him so that Fontaine doesn't get the satisfaction of beating him. | |
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In the final season of Better Call Saul, Nacho Varga spends his final moments in the middle of the desert giving a very lengthy Dying Declaration of Hate towards Hector Salamanca and his family, even revealing that he was the one responsible for his stroke and subsequent impairment. He then promptly shoots himself in the head, thus preventing Hector from truly extracting revenge on him (outside of angrily shooting his corpse as the rest of the Cartel leaves the area). | |
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In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (2016), after losing his final duel against Link and taking a mortal wound from the Master Sword, Ganondorf simply deactivates his Triforce of Power to die on his own terms, reasoning that some version of him will appear to torment Hyrule anyway. | |
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Final Fantasy VI has Lone Wolf, a thief who the party chases down in Narshe. At the end of the chase, he takes a moogle hostage... who turns out to be too wild for him to keep a handle on. The result is both him and the moogle hanging off a cliff. The party is then left with the choice of rescuing him to get the Gold Hairpin he has (which halves MP-usage), or the moogle. Saving the moogle prompts Lone Wolf to throw himself off the cliff he's on in a straightforward demonstration of this trope to prevent you getting the Gold Hairpin from him. note It's subverted, however, in that you see him, apparently alive and well, once you revisit Narshe, which has all but become a monster-infested Ghost Town, late in the game, in which he meets the party right at the entrance to inform the party members of the status of Narshe before leaving, never to be seen or heard from again. | |
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At the end of Transformers (2004), a defeated Megatron nearly falls into his erupting volcano base. Optimus Prime grabs his hand, only for Megatron to sneer that Prime "doesn't even know when he's won" and then spitefully jerk his hand so that Prime will drop him, sending him plummeting to his death. | |
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In Red Dead Redemption, Dutch is cornered by John Marston. Rather than let Marston capture him, Dutch jumps off the edge of a cliff so that Marston and Ross can't take him in. Downplayed in that he also expresses remorse for all the terrible things that he's done before jumping, so it was as much an act of despair as it was of spite. | |
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Law & Order: In one episode a man commits suicide solely in order to frame his unfaithful wife and her lover for the crime. In the SVU episode "Bully", the owner of a wine company who was exposed as a tyrant to her employees, gives a spiteful press conference in which she blames everyone else for her downfall before taking out a gun, putting it under her chin on live TV, and pulling the trigger. |
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In Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, the dying head of the magical team Troupe Gramarye, Magnifi Gramarye, hatches up an elaborate plot for his disciples - Zak and Valant - to follow along. A letter has two of them come to the hospital Magnifi's in and shoot once in the forehead. By telling Zak to come earlier, Magnifi rigs the test in his favor. Zak guesses his trick and shoots a nearby clown doll in the forehead, for which he receives Magnifi's rights to perform stage magic. Valant comes later and learns he has been fooled, but is unable to bring himself to end Magnifi. As he turns to leave, the old Gramarye shoots himself in the head with a leftover gun to make it look like Valant had killed him. Most likely because Magnifi believed Valant was the one who accidentally shot his daughter Thalassa in an accident three years prior. Driven by panic and resentment, Valant subsequently modifies the crime scene to implicate Zak as the killer. | |
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Decoder Ring Theatre: Black Jack Justice: In "Justice Be Done", Jack and Trixie attend the reading of the will of occasional client Mordecai Brasseau, which asks Jack and Trixie to determine who poisoned him to make sure his murderer gets none of the inheritance. The catch is that none of the suspects, Mordecai's son, daughter, lawyer, and most recent wife were around him enough to perform the very gradual poisoning that killed him, and for the most part loathed one another too much to work together. The detectives realize that the only one with enough access to Mordecai to poison him was Mordecai himself, that his death was a suicide designed to teach his ungrateful heirs a lesson about how they took him for granted. "A Simple Case of Black and White" sees a man kill himself in an attempt to frame his ex-lover's current husband. The man goes so far as to give himself an Agonizing Stomach Wound to make sure he had time to hide the evidence it was Suicide, Not Murder before dying. Red Panda Adventures: "Empire of Death" combines this with Suicide by Cop with the Red Panda's final confrontation with supervillainess Professor Zombie. The Red Panda is trying to save the Professor from the zombification she's been afflicted with by a combination of injecting her with a cure followed by an electric shock to trigger the drug's processes. Professor Zombie, too far gone by this point to want that, very deliberately destroys the injector, forcing the Red Panda to either kill her with the electric shock or else risk her succeeding in her plans to kill all of Toronto. |
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Dishonored: During the High Chaos finale, Overseer Martin will try to shoot himself to deny Corvo the satisfaction of killing him. A short while later, Admiral Havelock does something similar by leaping from the top of the lighthouse, but he attempts to bring Emily Kaldwin, the imperial heiress and Corvo's Protectorate, with him. Failing to save Emily results in the game's darkest ending. | |
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Top 10: Atoman, a Retired Badass, Superman Expy, and leader of a pedophile ring, is tricked into one when the arresting officer mentions they're going to depower him before throwing him in jail. He kills himself so the cops can't arrest him... which was the plan, because they didn't have the ability to arrest him without tremendous collateral damage. | |
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In Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, the villain jumps to his death in a multi-story automated car garage while holding the Russian nuclear "football" just to prevent Ethan from stopping a nuclear war. Ethan just barely gets down in time by getting into a nearby car and then driving off the lift, sparing him fatal injury when he hits the bottom. | |
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CSI: Miami: In the episode "Whacked", a condemned prisoner gets a stay of execution when key evidence used in his conviction is thrown out on appeal. After Horatio and the team still prove his guilt through other evidence, the prisoner requests a peanut butter and jelly sandwich as his last meal. He then dies of anaphylactic shock in his cell, as he was deathly allergic to peanuts. | |
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The Dark Knight Returns: After Batman nearly breaks Joker's neck, Joker finishes the job himself after the only witnesses have fled, leaving Batman to be accused of murder. | |
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Murder, She Wrote: The victim in "To The Last Will I Grapple With Thee", after learning that he had an incurable cancer, committed suicide and framed an old enemy of his for murder. | |
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Aurora (2019): Erin suffers from a bad case of Demonic Possession by a Destroyer Deity, but manages just enough control to use his own lightning magic to paralyze himself, leaving him dead open for a nearby monster to kill him and thus destroy the god's vessel. The god attempts to reason him out of it by claiming Erin may be smart enough to work the possession to his own advantage. | |
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Fatal Fury: In Terry and Andy’s endings in Real Bout Fatal Fury, Geese Howard is accidentally knocked off his tower during the ensuing Final Boss battle. Terry or Andy tries to save him by grabbing his arm, but Geese refuses, wrestling himself free from their grasps and proceeding to laugh at the Bogards the whole way down. The story canon, where the brother that did the deed was Terry, actually doubled the spite: Geese has a neglected son with the name Rock, and he also killed the Bogard family patriarch Jeff, orphaning Terry and Andy. By putting Geese in a position to choose death, he aimed to get the last laugh beyond his death by burdening Terry with the guilt of orphaning Geese's son the same way he orphaned Terry. | |
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Margaret Allingham's Albert Campion novel Police at the Funeral takes this to an extreme, with the solution that the first victim not only killed himself in such a way as to fake it as murder and disrupt his family's lives with an investigation, but also filled the house they all shared with booby traps that killed or injured several of them. | |
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Uncharted 2: Among Thieves: Flynn betrays Drake at the start of the game and works with the Big Bad Lazarevic for most of the plot. At the end, Lazarevic pulls a You Have Failed Me and mortally wounds him. When the protagonists run into him afterward, they try to help. But, being an utterly prideful dick, he refuses their aid and opts to try and kill them with a grenade, taking his own life just to satisfy some shred of his ego. | |
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A minor variation in Les Tuniques Bleues: Chesterfield is going around a prison camp to recruit men for the cavalry in exchange for a lighter sentence. He gives the job offer to a man whose neck is already in the noose, who then tells the executioners to get on with it. Chesterfield is then told the man had been sentenced to death for desertion from the cavalry. | |
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Spider-Man: At the climax of Ends of the Earth, Rhino deliberately drowns himself and Silver Sable to spite Spider-Man, knowing his Guilt Complex will make him blame himself for their deaths. | |
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A deleted scene from The Lion King II: Simba's Pride reveals that Zira was going to do this to Kiara. After Zira gets stuck hanging precariously from the edge of a cliff over a raging flood beneath her, Kiara offers to give her another chance at fixing her life by making peace with Simba and the reformed Outsiders (who had just turned on Zira after a speech Kiara had given earlier). Zira however, being a devoted follower of Scar, chose death over peace, and lets herself fall to her death, all with a smile on her face. | |
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In The Sun Will Come Up And The Seasons Will Change, Nora willingly lets herself fall and be ground underneath the Infinity Train's wheels even with the choice of being saved by Mary (who she’s hallucinating as her younger brother Julius) and Blanca, not wanting to go to jail for her crimes or be Julius's "slave" if she returns to the real world. | |
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Ghost of Tsushima: In the "Tales of Lady Masako", Lady Hana, Masako's older sister, kills herself as a final act of spite against Masako, telling her that now she had nothing to live for, since with her death her quest for revenge was over due to Hana being the one who killed her family. | |
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In Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, by the end as the kingdom of Necrus is collapsing, David Kane/Black Manta is about to fall down a crevasse, and Arthur reaches out his hand to save him, having learned from his callous mistake from the first film when he let David's father die. David then prefers to let himself fall than be saved by the man who let his father die. | |
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Brave Exkaiser: In the finale, Dino Geist throws himself into the sun rather than let Exkaiser arrest him to mock the belief of his nemesis that all life is precious. | |
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Doctor Who: At the end of the Series 3 finale, "Last Of The Time Lords", a fatally-wounded Master refuses to regenerate and lets himself die solely to make the Doctor suffer as the last Time Lord in the universe, his last words simply being "I win" as the Doctor begs him to live. | |
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The Hercule Poirot story "Wasp's Nest" has a man named Harrison plot to destroy a romantic rival's life by committing suicide and making it look like a murder (Harrison has terminal cancer anyway). Fortunately, over the course of a conversation with him (having anticipated the plot), Poirot is able to switch out the poison with baking soda, ending with the would-be murderer tearfully thanking Poirot. | |
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In an episode of CSI, a man is investigated for the murder of his wife, who was found chained to their bed and force-fed two tubes of fluoride toothpaste. In the end, it's revealed that she tried to frame her husband for murder, and when the evidence is presented, the husband says that he was a successful real estate banker that lost everything when the recession hit. Having practically no money at all and swimming in debt, they couldn't afford to get a divorce and were stuck living together in a house they couldn't sell. | |
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Ragyo in Kill la Kill takes her own life rather than surrendering to the humans she looked down on after Ryuko defeats her, pulling out her own Life-Fiber infused heart and crushing it while promising that the Life Fibers will return someday. A single life fiber strand floats off into space. | |
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Red Panda Adventures: "Empire of Death" combines this with Suicide by Cop with the Red Panda's final confrontation with supervillainess Professor Zombie. The Red Panda is trying to save the Professor from the zombification she's been afflicted with by a combination of injecting her with a cure followed by an electric shock to trigger the drug's processes. Professor Zombie, too far gone by this point to want that, very deliberately destroys the injector, forcing the Red Panda to either kill her with the electric shock or else risk her succeeding in her plans to kill all of Toronto. | |
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Live A Live: Once Oersted saves Princess Alethea at the end of the eighth chapter, she renders his efforts to save her utterly pointless by declaring her love for his rival Streibough, the man who ruined his life, and kills herself in front of him. This ends up being the last straw that drives Oersted to become Odio. | |
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Jaune Arc, Lord of Hunger: In "Death", faced with the prospect of having her mind enslaved by Darth Nihilus, Cinder stabs herself in the throat to avoid becoming his Slave Mook as well as denying him access to the Fall Maiden's powers, making everything he did in this chapter completely meaningless. | |
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Atlas Shrugged: Eric Starnes, one of the three siblings who ran the 20th Century Motor Company into the ground. As described by a character in-universe: | |
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The Law and the Lady: This is considered as a possible solution to the mystery — that Sara Macallan killed herself and framed her husband for the murder. | |
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Towards the end of John Carpenter's Vampires Father Guiteau threatens this to save Jack's life, who's been captured and is about to be sacrificed by a Sinister Minister to allow the vampire Valek to travel in the daylight. Guiteau blasts the minister with a shotgun and taunts Valek about not having a priest to complete the ritual, and when Valek tries to threaten Guiteau into doing it he puts the gun to his own head and says "try and make me!" He knows it's an empty threat since Valek can't kill either of them without foiling his own plan and, with only minutes to sunrise, doesn't have the time to force them via any other means. While he ultimately doesn't kill himself, it's only because Valek wasn't dumb enough to call his bluff — he had every intention of doing it. | |
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Sherlock Holmes: This is the solution to "The Problem of Thor Bridge" — the victim killed herself in such a way as to frame her rival in love for the murder. | |
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Indivisible: After the heroes defeat Garuda Cruel, he spitefully blows himself up rather than let them deal the killing blow. | |
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The Charmed (1998) episode "Sin Francisco" deals with this trope. A demon infects people around San Francisco with concentrated representations of the Seven Deadly Sins; when the Charmed Ones and Leo try to stop him, he zaps the four of them with a sin each. Prue is infected with Pride, which manifests as her natural headstrong attitude becoming increasingly worse until she's deliberately putting herself in dangerous situations. Towards the end of the episode, the demon captures Prue and plans to throw her into a swirling vortex that will lead straight to Hell...only for her to jump herself while declaring "You lose, I win!" Thankfully, the others (now sin-free) show up, and while Phoebe and Piper vanquish the demon, Leo manages to save Prue. The trope is then discussed when he, Phoebe, and Piper reveal how they cured themselves of their own afflictions: by committing truly selfless acts. Prue protests that her attempted suicide would have saved the whole city and thus should have counted, but her sisters realize that the real motivation for said attempt was just to spite the demon and make herself look good, thus negating its potential selflessness. | |
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This is the motivation for the killer in one episode of Diagnosis: Murder: The killer works at a dating agency and begins targeting men who dated a specific woman, murdering them in ways that look like suicides. Once caught she reveals that this is because of her ex-husband. After their divorce he was forced to take out a life insurance policy with her as the beneficiary when he learns about the incontestable clause; the insurance company can refuse to pay out if certain conditions are met, including the subject committing suicide within the first two years, prompting him to wait until the two years have almost paused and then killed himself, just to deny his ex-wife the payout. The killer then committed a series of lookalike killings in hope of getting her husband's suicide declared a murder, at which point the insurance company would have to pay out.note For the record, the reason she was targeting men who'd dated the specific woman, aside from her having dated her ex-husband, was because she had an Ex-boyfriend who assaulted anyone who tried to date her, and thus was a useful scapegoat for the murders. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has a variation at the end. After losing his duel against Link, Ganondorf swallows his Secret Stone to undergo draconification. He understands that becoming a dragon will erase his mind and sense of self, but he is willing to accept that as long as he can kill Link. | |
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The Water Margin, another Shaw Brothers output, ends with the Big Good fighting his Evil Former Friend-turned-Big Bad. The latter gets defeated and chose to end his own life rather than admit defeat. | |
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In the Frasier episode "Ham Radio", Frasier has organised an old-fashioned murder mystery radio drama, broadcast live and starring himself, which quickly goes Off the Rails due to unforeseen problems with the rest of the cast. Niles, who has been roped into playing multiple characters, finally brings the whole thing to an end by having one of his characters grab the gun, kill all the other characters, and finally shoot himself specifically to prevent Frasier's detective from ever figuring out what his motive was. | |
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Fullmetal Alchemist: Envy commits suicide by ripping out his own philosophers stone rather then live with the knowledge that his enemies pity him. | |
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