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A plot pattern that occurs frequently in Shakespeare's plays. In modern works, it's often a homage to Romeo and Juliet. The pattern goes as follows: Alice and Bob are in love with each other. Something happens to Alice that makes Bob think she is dead, or otherwise unreachable. In despair, Bob commits suicide. Alice returns, and then realizing that Bob is dead, Alice commits suicide. Often there can be variations but the end result is often the same. It is usually an example of love but it can also be an occasional example of despair over losing a valued rival. Not to be confused with a Suicide Pact (mutually agreed beforehand) or Murder-Suicide (one of them killed the other and then themselves). As usual, because suicide involves making oneself die, there will be spoilers. |
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Checker does this after Charlene dies in the incredibly bad Joseph Lai pseudo-anime Space Transformers. | |
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Antony and Cleopatra This in turn was inspired by Plutarch's Life of Antony (circa 1st century CE), making this both Older Than They Think and Older Than Feudalism. |
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Romeo and Juliet is perhaps the most famous example. Juliet takes a sleeping potion as part of a plan for her and Romeo to get out of Verona. Friar Lawrence's information to Romeo explaining the plan never arrives, and when Balthasar tells him of Juliet's apparent death, he buys poison from an apothecary, goes back to Verona and heads for the Capulet tomb to die alongside Juliet, kills Paris who thinks he's there to do the evil version of Due to the Dead, and then poisons himself. Juliet wakes up, finds Romeo dead, and then kills herself with Romeo's dagger. | |
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Deliberately set up by Cleopatra on Rome. She and Antony make a suicide pact, then she leaves a fake suicide note and bloody knife to get Antony to kill himself in the belief that she's already dead, thinking that Octavian Caesar will spare her and let her remain in Egypt as queen if Antony is dead. Caesar insists on taking her back to Rome (he doesn't come out and say "as a prisoner," but that's really what he intends). Realizing that she's killed her lover for nothing and has no hope of avoiding capture and dishonor, she kills herself with the famous asp. | |
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Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart is a 12th century text which has an example that predates Romeo and Juliet. While searching for Gawain in the countryside of Gorre, Lancelot gets taken captive. The rumor mill turns "Lancelot was seized" into "Lancelot was seized and put to death." His lover guinevere hears this and is distraught, nearly suicidal. Grieving Lancelot, Guinevere goes two days without eating and drinking. From there springs a rumor she's dying, which becomes a rumor that she's already dead. Lancelot hears this and is Driven to Suicide himself. He's conflicted about it — he's a Christian and shouldn't die "without God's consent" — but nonetheless decides to do it. He tries to hang himself with his belt, but his men save him. Then the lovers both find out the other is living, and all is well. | |
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Cassius and Titinius in Julius Caesar. | |
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Used in an X-Men storyline that was a homage to Romeo and Juliet, making the rival families one of humans and one of mostly mutants to boot. He's shot. She kills herself. He proves to have been Not Quite Dead, finds that she is Quite Dead, and tries to kill himself... but the Healing Factor that saved him from the shooting won't let him die. He goes on to become the X-Man Icarus. Later on he dies anyway, killed by the Sentinel robot Nimrod. | |
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In the Robotech novelizations, Roy Fokker does this after the death of Captain Kramer when he decides life just isn't worth living anymore, pulls out his IV, and leaves the hospital to see Claudia, effectively killing himself. | |
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In Blackbird (1986), two of the characters do this in a tragic re-enactment of the double suicide of Romeo and Juliet, which the friends have been studying. | |
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Played with in Bram Stoker's Dracula. At the beginning of the film, set in medieval times, Dracula's noble love throws herself off a tower when she hears false news of his death in combat. When Dracula returns, the bishop tells him that she is damned to hell for her suicide. Enraged, he renounces God and becomes a vampire, technically committing suicide. | |
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Played with for laughs in one particular YouTube video by Smosh, about Batman and Robin making their own YouTube how-to guide. It involves a 'euthaniser gun', a rabid dog, and Batsy picking a particularly bad time to pull a particularly Jerkass practical joke... Subverted, in that discovering his sidekick killed himself out of forbidden, untold love for him, Bats is completely unconcerned and breaks into a victory dance, because he'll have more hits now than Spiderman's Youtube video will. Cape in the crotch! Cape in the crotch! Parodied again in "If Romantic Movies Were Real" in the Romeo + Juliet skit, Romeo (Anthony) drinks the poison the same time Juliet wakes up, for Juliet it was the "easiest breakup ever!" |
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In New Moon Alice tells Rosalie who tells Edward that Bella has jumped off a cliff. In return, Edward travels to Italy to be killed by the Volturi. Of course, Bella isn't really dead and she must herself go to Italy to stop Edward. Since apparently no one had access to a phone. | |
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In EastEnders, Leo finds his girlfriend Demi unconscious from an (accidental) heroin overdose, thinks she's killed herself, and overdoses on the remaining heroin... just as Demi wakes up. At that point, her parents arrive and find them, preventing her from killing herself in turn. | |
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