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Thanatos Gambit

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Thanatos Gambit	comment	The Thanatos Gambit is what happens when a character deliberately manipulates the circumstances of their death to their own profit. It could be to ensure that they get as comfy (or stylish) an exit as possible, but most often, it's used to deliver one last "screw you" to their arch-nemesis. A character who is Secretly Dying is especially likely to employ one of these. Named for the Greek personification of death. Not to be confused with Xanatos Gambit because this one requires the planner's death and Xanatos Gambit must have two separate-but-beneficial outcomes (I die vs. I don't die). Compare My Death Is Just the Beginning (using your death to set off a plan, whereas this is using your death to end the plan), Inspirational Martyr (where your death inspires others to follow you, although you may have not planned it), Death Is the Only Option, and Dead Man's Switch. A subtrope in which the character expects to be revived somehow is a Resurrection Gambit. Sometimes happens with a Taking You with Me, possibly in the manner of a Collapsing Lair (villains like this one). Is often incited with Strike Me Down, and can overlap with Suicide by Cop. May be invoked with a Dying Reconciliation. Related to Failure Gambit and Glorious Death. As this is a Death Trope, unmarked spoilers abound. Beware.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_113ec856	comment	Strangers on a Train: Discussed. Bruno declares that, if he ever decides to kill himself, he'll make sure his worst enemy is framed for it. When he actually does die, though, it's an Accidental Suicide for which no one gets blamed.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_1215a23d	comment	In Genshin Impact's Fontaine questline, Focalors's plan to save her people requires her to destroy the position of the Hydro Archon so that the power tied up in it can be returned to its rightful owner. Destroying the position of the Hydro Archon means destroying the Hydro Archon - that being Focalors herself.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_12300cc3	comment	Watchmen: After Adrian's secret genocide plan goes right, Rorschach knows that telling everyone the truth would just screw things up even worse. But he will not compromise his values by keeping the inside job a secret, so he accepts that Dr. Manhattan will murder him rather than risk letting him exposing the knowledge. It's implied that Rorschach's journal may be revealed to the public and he will get his way anyway, which depending on your point of view might not be a good thing, because that would mean both the genocide and Rorschach's death had been in vain. But Rorschach's values of truth and (black and white) justice might have prevailed.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_12ab1d9d	comment	Villainous example from Arc the Lad. The Dark One cannot be released from his imprisonment by any Demon (of which the four main antagonists are). It was the plan of the Four Generals all along to fight and lose to the heroes, so when the protagonists finally come face to face with the human king the demons 'served' he is completely panicked. The king then feels so backed into a corner and afraid of them that he has 'no choice' but to release the Dark One.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_17293dfa	comment	Attempted twice in Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony: In Chapter 5, Kokichi devises a plan to create a murder not even Monokuma would be able to solve, thereby beating him at his own game and hopefully forcing him to end it prematurely. He disables Monokuma's cameras with an EMP, then films Kaito almost being flattened by a hydraulic press before pausing the recording, switching places with him, and having Kaito kill him with the press instead. Kaito was instructed to then cut the power cord to the press so that nobody could raise it up to confirm the identity of the body, and then pilot a mech to the trial and pretend to be Kokichi. The mech has a voice changer that let him sound like Kokicki, and Kokichi had provided him with an enormous script that accounted for almost every possible thing someone could say in the trial so that he could convincingly act like him. It was made even more confusing by the fact that before the plan was put into motion, Maki had shot Kokichi with a poisoned crossbow bolt, and when her attempt at interrogating him fell through, she tried shooting him again, only for Kaito to take the hit. When Maki ran to get an antidote, the boys locked her out of the hangar and forced her to pass it through the window, allowing Kokichi to steal it. He then pretended to drink the antidote to make it seem like Kaito died from poisoning and was thrown in the press to hide the body, further complicating the trial by obscuring the murder weapon and making the culprit one of three possible killers. At the end of the final trial, Tsumugi "Ultimate Cosplayer" Shirogane reveals that she didn't vote for either hope or despair to be executed. Because Ki-bo the "Ultimate Robot" would vote for despair, she would vote for hope, and the other students weren't going to vote at all, the vote would end in a draw and be a worst case scenario. It backfires when Ki-bo, still possessed by the Dangan Ronpa audience, doesn't vote either, and it ends in a draw anyway.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_17ace8e1	comment	Though not planned from the very beginning, Elizabeth in Bioshock Infinite Burial to Sea can count. When she gets trapped by Fontaine, she sees another glimpse of the future. She finds out the codeword to bring down Fontaine and save the Little Sisters. She knows using it will kill her. She does tell Fontaine and gets executed by him. Cue BioShock.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_17fa5f0a	comment	In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, we learn that Dumbledore knew he was dying from the start of the previous book, and spent that book setting the final stages of his plan to bring down Voldemort in motion. Dumbledore knew that the Elder Wand could only be claimed by the one who personally murdered—or otherwise defeated—its previous owner. Because he chose to die, and asked Snape to kill him, ownership of the Wand couldn't pass to Voldemort. He also knew that Snape's position as a Death Eater — and thus his usefulness as Dumbledore's mole — was increasingly precarious, and killing Dumbledore would earn Voldemort's favor. In the same book, Harry deliberately submitted to Voldemort's killing curse, so that the horcrux within him would be destroyed. Also incidentally duplicating his mother Lily's sacrifice for him, essentially protecting everyone in Hogwarts from Voldemort to the point where Voldemort's spells wouldn't even work properly against them. Though we don't get to see the end result, this is also Harry's ultimate plan regarding the Elder Wand. After using it to repair his own wand, the only spell Harry uses it for, Harry decides to return the Elder Wand to Dumbledore's grave so that, once Harry (hopefully) dies a peaceful death, the wand's power will be broken permanently.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_1854aa07	comment	The Omega distributed AI in Left Beyond engineer a series of situations that will grant them a soul, thus ensuring that they will have to appear before God at the White Throne Judgement. Then, they use their ability to quickly instantiate new copies of themselves to set off a Logic Bomb, ensuring that the small fraction of post-humanity that would have been facing Judgement after them never will.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_1858fe06	comment	Back in the early days of Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics), when it appeared Dr Robotnik had been disintegrated by his rebellious creation E.V.E., the Freedom Fighters, upon entering Robotropolis, were surprised to discover he had set up Project Onslaught, an automated "last-ditch" mass rampage of all his robotic armies in case of his demise. This onslaught would've succeeded in wiping out the Freedom Fighters, had a returning Robotnik not stopped it before it destroyed his city along with the heroes.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_1869a077	comment	The Scotsman from Samurai Jack after the Time Skip in season 5 delivers one hell of a "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Aku in order to allow his Amazon Brigade of daughters to escape, getting himself burnt to a cinder for his troubles. He is promptly restored as a very lively ghost in the image of his youth.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men: Cyclops pulls off a notable one at the climax of "Breakworld" arc in Astonishing X-Men, combining this trope with Kansas City Shuffle and Batman Gambit. When trying to figure out a way to break into Powerlord Kruun's fortress, he manages to convince Kruun that the X-Men have access to a nonexistent super-weapon called "Leviathan", then seemingly sacrifices his life so that the rest of the team can escape Kruun's forces and activate it. No, it's not a ruse or a trick—he really does die—but he knew all along that the Breakworlders had the technology to resurrect the dead. note They resurrect Colossus (albeit offscreen) at the beginning of the arc, making the technology a Chekhov's Gun. It turns out that he let them kill him, knowing that they would take him back to the fortress to interrogate him about Leviathan. He's correct and is able to use the opportunity to breach the fortress' defenses from within. X-Men: The Trial of Magneto is revealed to be this. Wanda Maximoff, having learned of the resurrection protocols of Krakoa, convinces Magneto to play along, having her killed while forcing Toad to be the Fall Guy. Doing so allows her to be resurrected by Krakoa using a previous backup before she was deemed not a mutant as it was made to look like foul play. With her resurrection and fixing of her mind, Wanda is able to use this to perform a ritual that allows Cerebro to retrieve mutants lost to it not being active when they died or dying when their X-Gene wasn't active. In other words, Wanda, long viewed as the person who terminated mutants as a species, has found a way to revitalize mutants in a way that even Charles Xavier couldn't pull off.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_1beda93b	comment	Sluggy Freelance: A simple, brutal version: A minor character called Brad Trivol who was Driven to Suicide by ghosts in the Brie Meighsaton house turns out to have gone along willingly simply so that he could finally get some violent revenge on them after becoming a ghost himself. In the comic, each year is personified by a living person, born as a baby on New Year's Day and dying as an old man on New Year's Eve. With only a few minutes left until the start of 2004, the spirit of 2003 tries to trick the potential world conqueror Bun-bun into killing him. This would make Bun-bun the new spirit of 2003, which means he would be the one to die at midnight instead.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_1db412d3	comment	The first Mistborn book contains one that's just as awesome as you'd expect from a series with a Magnificent Bastard as a hero. Kelsier dies a very public and dramatic death, taking out a previously all-but-invincible Steel Inquisitor in front of a crowd. He arranged for a Voluntary Shapeshifter to assume his form, appearing to the oppressed masses after his death and inciting them to rebel, turning himself into a messiah and a god for them. And then there's the handy warehouses full of weapons he left hidden around the city... Also, this is Preservation's plan for the whole series. He gives up most of his power to both create humanity and seal Ruin, knowing that if Ruin ever goes get free, Preservation himself will eventually die and Ruin would try and destroy everything, which would lead to a human taking up his power and destroying Ruin, because they have the ability to destroy for the sake of preserving.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_1f630f72	comment	In Dark Souls III, Slave Knight Gael wishes to obtain the Blood of the Dark Soul to bring to the Painter so that she can use it as paint for a new Painted World. However, since the bearers of the Dark Soul, the Pygmies, are so ancient that their blood has dried in their veins, he can't take it from them. Instead, he massacres and eats the lot of them in order to take the Dark Soul into himself, becoming overwhelmed by its power and going completely insane, becoming a Humanoid Abomination who simply hungers for more and more of the Dark Soul. Item descriptions suggest that he was fully aware that this would happen to him, and that the entire reason he recruited you in the first place and guided you through two DLCs was so that you could kill him and take the Blood of the Dark Soul to his Lady as promised.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_210767ac	comment	In Crusader Kings, the player is playing as a dynasty of characters, switching to the heir when a given character dies. As such, individual player-controlled characters arranging these sorts of things is a common way of ensuring the dynasty as a whole stands triumphant. Just ensure the genius heir is set up to inherit the throne and a bunch of nice claims from his mother, then find some way into a grave...
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Thanatos Gambit / int_21643ac8	comment	Reilan from Haou Airen sets up her love rival Kurumi to be gang-raped by her classmates, and when their common love interest Hakuron shows up and stops the rapists, she verbally taunts him until he shoots her to death. She dies apologizing to Kurumi and saying she's sure that they'll be friends when they're reborn, setting this to be a quickly penned Heelâ€“Face Door-Slam of sorts... A letter to her father that doubles as her last will, however, reveals that everything was set up by Reilan to specifically provoke Hakuron into killing her in front of Kurumi, seeking to traumatize the girl so much that she would hate Hakuron forever, thus attaining her revenge for having been abandoned by Hakuron as soon as Kurumi entered the picture.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_2192aeb3	comment	Fire Emblem: Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, the ambition of Sephiran, right-hand of the goddess Ashera, is to have his creator destroy all of humanity as he sees the creation as flawed after the Begnion beorc burned down a country of laguz. When the heroes finally meet him, it is on the way to the goddess who is about to pass judgment on the world. The final door is locked by Sephiran's magic, and he assures them that the only way they'll get through is by killing him. The group promptly defeats him, and it turns out that his act was only a final move to ascertain that his own suffering would be put to an end. Tricking the heroes into killing him was his only way out, since he had been blessed with immortality and invincibility by Ashera, and could thus only be damaged by weaponry blessed by the other goddess, Yune. If the player meets certain conditions, his gambit fails, in that he survives, thankfully gaining a new will to live in the process. It has been speculated that Emmeryn's (ultimately subverted) Heroic Suicide in Fire Emblem: Awakening was actually this. Via giving a Rousing Speech and throwing herself off a cliff rather than letting Gangrel execute her, and doing this in front of both the Ylissean and Plegian troops, she managed to become a folk heroine and show everyone how pointless the Ylissean/Plegian war was, completely ruining Gangrel's reputation and making Ylisse's position stronger. Whether the player subverts the trope or not by using SpotPass to find and recruit her, her plan still worked. In Fire Emblem Gaiden and Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, Emperor Rudolf's Zero-Approval Gambit goes into this. He knew that taking on the mantle of an Evil Overlord would eventually bring his death, which is what happened at the hands of La RÃ©sistance, led by his son Alm. His death forced Alm and Co. to make the journey to defeat Duma and ultimately free Valentia from the gods, which was Rudolf's true intention..
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Thanatos Gambit / int_22030366	comment	The protagonists of Suicide for Hire planned one for one of their clients. Said client was a frat boy who had been accused of causing the death of one of his brothers by alcohol poisoning. His suicide note included a list of every harassment he had received and how they had driven him to set himself on fire. The beaten wife would have been an excellent example if they had intended for her death to lead her abusive husband to seek their services. They had a lot of fun with him when he hired them anyways.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_22b2f3de	comment	Rebecca: The titular Rebecca, after learning that she was dying of an incurable cancer, goaded her husband Maxim, who she had been happily emotionally abusing and cheating on for years, into shooting her dead with the false claim that she was pregnant with another man's child so that she wouldn't have to go through a slow, painful death and would continue to torment her husband from beyond the grave with the knowledge that he would be completely ruined if anyone ever found out about his murder of her. The Hitchcock film adaptation changed it so that Rebecca's death was instead caused by her tripping on a fishing line and hitting her head, but her final words to the doctor who diagnosed her cancer on how he "wouldn't have to worry" about her eventual painful death imply that she may have intentionally killed herself this way, knowing that no one would believe that Maxim didn't kill her himself.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_256b47e5	comment	Curtain: Poirot's Last Case: The great Hercule Poirot neatly arranges his own death by putting his medicine out of reach. In doing so he left clues and a written account for Hastings and removed the possibility of becoming a Knight Templar. Hercule Poirot does not approve of murder.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: Homer Simpson's mother Mona wrote a will in which her last wishes were for Homer to pour her ashes onto the ground at a particular place and time. What she didn't tell Homer was that this was for the purpose of sabotaging an environmentally destructive missile launch that Mr. Burns was performing. This extends to the rest of the family as well, who help Homer escape with the things willed to them. Bart got a Swiss Army knife that he gives to Homer to free him from being tied up, Marge got a hemp sulfur purse that she burns to slow down to pursuing guards, and Lisa got the rebellious spirit of Mona, which she used to steal some diamond earrings to help light the purse.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_267cbfa	comment	Acibek's and Dryad's death in Dominic Deegan: Oracle For Hire.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_27286fb2	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_27286fb2	comment	Spider-Man: No Way Home: Green Goblin's plan to corrupt Peter by allowing the latter to kill him comes dangerously close to getting fulfilled, and only the influence of the other Spider-Men stops MCU Peter from carrying out the deed.
Thanatos Gambit / int_27286fb2	featureApplicability	1.0
Thanatos Gambit / int_27286fb2	featureConfidence	1.0
Spider-Man: No Way Home	hasFeature	Thanatos Gambit / int_27286fb2
Thanatos Gambit / int_27f6aa3a	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_27f6aa3a	comment	In Prairie Fever, Preston attempts to goad Monte into shooting him. As he is unarmed, this would mean that Monte would hang for murder and Olivia would be free of him. However, the gambit fails when Olivia intervenes: ostensibly to save Monte, but in reality to save Preston.
Thanatos Gambit / int_27f6aa3a	featureApplicability	1.0
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Prairie Fever	hasFeature	Thanatos Gambit / int_27f6aa3a
Thanatos Gambit / int_295048d5	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_295048d5	comment	In Bloodborne, after defeating the Blood-Starved Beast, enemies known as Kidnappers will appear in several locations. If you let one of them "kill" you, they instead live up to their name and kidnap you alive, taking you to an area that you can't normally access until near the end of the game. Although most of the area will be locked off until you're "supposed" to be here, you can still grab some useful equipment, rescue an NPC who will otherwise be dead by the time you get here normally, and fight an optional boss.
Thanatos Gambit / int_295048d5	featureApplicability	1.0
Thanatos Gambit / int_295048d5	featureConfidence	1.0
Bloodborne (Video Game)	hasFeature	Thanatos Gambit / int_295048d5
Thanatos Gambit / int_2a62da66	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_2a62da66	comment	In the first Kid Eternity, one of the villains, Kali, kills his master, Savarda, and tries to rob him of a black diamond that is said to grant its owners wealth and power, but also result in a violent death. Apparently, Savarda realized said death was going to come from Kali, sold it beforehand, and left a note in the safe where Kali thought it was hidden. Kali notes that Savarda seemed perfectly willing to allow his own murder just to screw with him.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_2aadfd05	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_2aadfd05	comment	Kate Shugak: In No Fixed Line, it is revealed that when Erland Bannister discovered that his cancer was incurable, he instigated a plan to destroy Kate after he was dead, and that could only work if he was dead. The only reasons that it fails is that a plane crash Bannister could not have predicted throws a Spanner in the Works.
Thanatos Gambit / int_2aadfd05	featureApplicability	1.0
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Thanatos Gambit / int_2c9a932f	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_2c9a932f	comment	Vampirella had a vampire named Drago assisting the heroine after she was cursed to be possessed by a vile demon. He instructed Vampirella to hunt down other vampires and drink from their blood to gain the necessary strength to get rid of the curse. It appears as if he sent her on a Snipe Hunt, but the final vampire is revealed to be Drago himself, who orchestrated the entire hunt just so she could be powerful enough to slay him. After killing him and drinking his blood, she succeeds in overcoming the demon, just as Drago intended to.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_2cb2e5e0	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_2cb2e5e0	comment	Breath of Fire II: Ray pulls this trope along with Redemption Equals Death by using his dragon powers to battle Ryu, since only dragon vs dragon will unlock Ryu's ultimate dragon form.
Thanatos Gambit / int_2cb2e5e0	featureApplicability	1.0
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Thanatos Gambit / int_2ef7cb74	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_2ef7cb74	comment	Fortunately, however, it's subverted. She's saved at the last second by Fate Testarossa.
Thanatos Gambit / int_2ef7cb74	featureApplicability	-0.3
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Thanatos Gambit / int_2fee008d	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_2fee008d	comment	Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann has Lordgenome's final plan: upon seeing the Anti Spiral King weaponizing the energy of compressed galaxies into a universe-destroying energy beam, he walks out in front of it (it should be noted that he does this in space, while naked, and on fire). Not because he's Taking the Bullet to protect Simon and his daughter Nia (though he is), but so he can reconstitute his long-destroyed Lazengann from pure willpower alone and hold off a Big Bang event, even as it destroys him on a quantum level. This is not just a Heroic Sacrifice but a form of Bequeathed Power, as Lordgenome absorbs the energy long enough to overtake it himself...by turning it into a giant drill that he force-feeds to Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (in the TV show) or Tengen Toppa Lagann (in the movie) to power them up with an absurd amount of Spiral Energy—enough that the Spiral Detection Gauge shatters as the Spiral Energy reading leaks off the meter and into the rest of reality itself. And his plan works, as his Dying Moment of Awesome for the ages enables Simon, Nia, and Team Dai-Gurren to fight and eventually defeat the Anti Spiral King.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Naruto: Minato Namikaze, the Fourth Hokage, in sealing the fox; turns out he wanted to give his son Naruto a weapon against Tobi, the masked man responsible for the attack. That, and stopping a giant fox from killing them all. On top of that making the seal so he would appear when his son was stupid, distraught or desperate enough to consider releasing it. This also included making the seal with the chakra of his Action Mom wife, Kushina. This is not just to keep the Kyuubi pinned down again (she used to be its host, after all), but to give her a chance to appear in Naruto's mind and see their son, granting Kushina her last wish. Kisame also pulls this off after Might Guy takes him down, by simultaneously committing suicide with his own shark summons so the Shinobi Alliance can't search his mind for information, and by booby-trapping the scroll he was supposed to deliver to Tobi so that the good guys would be distracted while another summoned shark made a getaway with the information. Itachi Uchiha attempts this. This is practically his entire life after leaving the leaf village. His plan revolves around his younger brother Sasuke killing him as retribution for his crimes. Due to his life-threatening illness he is already dying, when the final confrontation with his brother occurs. The whole point of his actions are to redeem the Uchiha clan and to allow his brother to be seen as a hero for killing him after he massacred the Uchiha clan. It fails spectacularly. He also set up a postmortem trap to kill the Big Bad and stop him from spilling his secrets. This also fails. He also set up another postmortem contingency plan to brainwash Sasuke to protect Konoha in the event he turned evil. This also fails. Turns out all he really needed to do to accomplish his goals was have an honest and open talk with Sasuke about his choices instead of manipulating and trying to brainwash him. The real Madara Uchiha attempted to pull one off. He left Tobi in charge of carrying out his plans and intended for Nagato to revive him later. This didn't go as planned due to Nagato making a Heelâ€“Face Turn and sacrificing his life to revive the villagers he killed, and Tobi going to become the jinchuuriki of the Ten Tails himself and never having any intention of reviving him. Nonetheless, he gets revived as a zombie later on by Kabuto thanks to Black Zetsu and subsequently hijacks the jutsu so he can't be controlled.
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Naruto (Manga)	hasFeature	Thanatos Gambit / int_30a5ebfd
Thanatos Gambit / int_32066b8e	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_32066b8e	comment	In the film adaptation of V for Vendetta, vigilante/terrorist V convinces Creedy, the head of the government's secret police, to turn on High Chancellor Sutler, in exchange for V giving himself up, as Sutler is too well-protected for V to get to the Chancellor himself and Creedy wouldn't turn on Sutler for anything less than a chance to take out V himself. In the final confrontation, Creedy delivers Sutler to V, but after Creedy kills Sutler V is able to withstand a barrage of gunfire from Creedy's men (via a Bulletproof Vest) and take down Creedy and his men before succumbing to his wounds.
Thanatos Gambit / int_32066b8e	featureApplicability	1.0
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V for Vendetta	hasFeature	Thanatos Gambit / int_32066b8e
Thanatos Gambit / int_32c541e6	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_32c541e6	comment	In Fullmetal Alchemist, Hohenheim's Failsafe is designed in a manner where it will activate even if he is killed by Father beforehand. Averted in that Hohenheim lives to see it activate anyway, even if not for long after... Though it's worth noting Hohenheim had a huge Who Wants to Live Forever? deal, so for him dying peacefully in front of his wife's grave was a happy ending. Roy and Riza's political ambitions are rather heavily implied to culminate in this: once democracy is restored they'll bring everyone involved in the Ishvalan genocide to justice, themselves included. Judging by Ed's reaction to Riza confiding this in him, it probably doubles as Suicide by Cop. In the 2003 anime version, when Greed realizes that he's going to die anyway, he provokes Ed (who had never killed anyone up to this point) into killing him. As he's dying, he reveals the Kryptonite Factor of a homunculus so that Ed will be able to take out the other homunculi.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_334f9ddc	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_334f9ddc	comment	Injustice: Gods Among Us: In an alternate universe, The Joker not only tricks Superman into nuking Metropolis and killing his own wife Lois, he even rubs it in Big Blue's face just before he's Killed Off for Real. Supes falls for the bait and slowly becomes a ruthless tyrant hellbent on eliminating crime at all costs in this alternate universe. Joker did this For the Evulz â€” tired of constantly losing to Batman, he decided to go after an easier target, see if they'll break the Thou Shalt Not Kill rule, and become just as twisted as he is. The clown also certainly had the last laugh as not only did he mentally break Superman, but the Injustice-verse descended into chaos, what with infighting amongst the heroes, the deaths of those who opposed the Man of Steel, and worst of all, the collapse of everything good.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_33728d94	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_33728d94	comment	Dragaera: In Jhereg, Mellar is of mixed-House descent, meaning that both of the noble Houses he wants to join (Dragon and Dzur) reject him and he joins the Jhereg. With a few centuries of maneuvering, he manages to get himself into a position where his death at the hands of the Jhereg will force them into a mutually destructive war with House Dragon, and some humiliating information about House Dzur will be made public. A double example, as Vlad's counter-scheme to defuse the situation involves tricking Mellar into killing Aliera with a Morganti weapon, which would consume her soul and count as so heinous a crime as to give them a reason to kill him. Aliera goes along with it, using her own Morganti Great Weapon as a Soul Jar to avoid the danger. Not an actual death, but in Jhegaala Vlad fakes his own near-demise from witchcraft, thus causing all three of the rival power-blocs in Burz to blame one another for the "attack". The villains kill each other off as a result.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_342c4c18	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_342c4c18	comment	Modesty Blaise: In "The Last Aristocrat", Big Bad Granny Smythe has the $15 million the Black Sable terrorist group is paying her for the bacteriological bombs transferred into her Swiss bank account. However, Modesty and Willie steal the bombs to prevent the handover. With the authorities closing in, Granny has her Battle Butler kill the Black Sable representatives, then hands him her last will and testamanent—with instructions to hand it to the arriving authorities—and then has him shoot her. By delivering her will to the authorities immediately after her death, she ensures that the $15 million is used to complete her dream of establishing a home for distressed gentry.
Thanatos Gambit / int_342c4c18	featureApplicability	1.0
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Modesty Blaise (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Thanatos Gambit / int_342c4c18
Thanatos Gambit / int_3544ad09	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_3544ad09	comment	In Michael Dobbs' The Final Cut, Francis Urquhart knows that his grip on the Premiership is weakening and allows himself to be assassinated — but not before he leaves a series of letters aimed at destroying his successor(s), so that his reign is remembered as a Golden Age.
Thanatos Gambit / int_3544ad09	featureApplicability	1.0
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House of Cards (UK)	hasFeature	Thanatos Gambit / int_3544ad09
Thanatos Gambit / int_35e05f2a	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_35e05f2a	comment	Happens tragically in RWBY. In the final episode of Volume 8, Penny, who had earlier gotten a flesh and blood body, is mortally wounded by Cinder's Grimm Arm. Jaune rushes to Penny's aid, but Penny tells him there's no time to try and heal her and tells him, subtly, to kill her with his sword so she can pass the Winter Maiden powers to someone else to keep it away from Cinder. It works as the powers goes to Winter, but Jaune is broken by the act.
Thanatos Gambit / int_35e05f2a	featureApplicability	1.0
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RWBY (Web Animation)	hasFeature	Thanatos Gambit / int_35e05f2a
Thanatos Gambit / int_36ee2abe	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_36ee2abe	comment	Happens in Paranoia, especially because of clone replacements. One official mission spells it out explicitly, along the lines of "what's more important— that you survive, or that your enemy gets his?".
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Thanatos Gambit / int_382ee557	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_382ee557	comment	Cyclops pulls off a notable one at the climax of "Breakworld" arc in Astonishing X-Men, combining this trope with Kansas City Shuffle and Batman Gambit. When trying to figure out a way to break into Powerlord Kruun's fortress, he manages to convince Kruun that the X-Men have access to a nonexistent super-weapon called "Leviathan", then seemingly sacrifices his life so that the rest of the team can escape Kruun's forces and activate it. No, it's not a ruse or a trick—he really does die—but he knew all along that the Breakworlders had the technology to resurrect the dead. note They resurrect Colossus (albeit offscreen) at the beginning of the arc, making the technology a Chekhov's Gun. It turns out that he let them kill him, knowing that they would take him back to the fortress to interrogate him about Leviathan. He's correct and is able to use the opportunity to breach the fortress' defenses from within.
Thanatos Gambit / int_382ee557	featureApplicability	1.0
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Cyclops (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Thanatos Gambit / int_382ee557
Thanatos Gambit / int_38c87187	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_38c87187	comment	Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal gives several examples of how to use this just to mess around with people, such as here. Or like this. Or this.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_39152685	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_39152685	comment	Till Death has an elaborate and petty one set up by Emma's husband Mark to get back at her for cheating on him. To start, he takes her to the lake house for a surprise anniversary trip and forces her to watch him kill himself, leaving her stranded in the middle of nowhere while handcuffed to him. And this was planned beforehand, as he removes any means of her escaping, such as emptying the car of gasoline, cutting the phone-line and even wrecking her cell phone so she couldn't call for help, and removing every tool in the shed that would remove the handcuffs. And to absolutely make sure Emma cannot be happy without him, Mark forces her to literally drag his dead weight around and only left her wedding dress left for her to wear. To make matters worse, Mark frames Emma for murder and lures her stalker and his brother to the lake house for revenge. He even leaves a saw in the safe for the thugs to cut her head off so they could get the diamonds from the necklace tied to her neck.
Thanatos Gambit / int_39152685	featureApplicability	1.0
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Thanatos Gambit / int_394f0027	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_394f0027	comment	Sylvia Weald in L. J. Smith's Night World series. In Black Dawn the witch Sylvia has spent the entire book making life difficult for our heroes, but finally comes through when she has a Heelâ€“Face Turn and saves them from execution. For her efforts, she gets impaled on a wooden pike and is so disgusted at herself for saving everyone, she dies with snark on her lips: rejecting one's offer to save her life by turning her into a vampire, and informing another that her brother (whom she's kidnapped) has been turned into a shapeshifter...only she's not going to tell her which animal he is. As another character puts it: "That's how I want to go. Taking my own way out, and totally pissing everybody off at the end."
Thanatos Gambit / int_394f0027	featureApplicability	1.0
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Thanatos Gambit / int_39e3b5ff	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_39e3b5ff	comment	In Kill Bill, Budd's likely plan was a combination of this and a Xanatos Gambit. Simply put, he wanted to die. He realized by now that Being Evil Sucks and that he needed (from his point of view) to face some form of retribution. He wouldn't help his brother (Bill) for this reason and didn't want Bill and Elle to escape either, but he had too much pride to simply surrender to Beatrix without a fight. So instead of fighting her as the other Deadly Vipers did, he ambushed her using a shotgun (loaded with rock salt) then buried her alive (giving her a chance to escape, which he knew was possible), stealing her priceless Hattori Hanzo sword in the process. He then called Elle (who he knew was also on Beatrix's list) offering her the sword for a million dollars. This is subject to the viewer's point of view, but most believe that he expected Elle to kill him via double cross and for Beatrix to escape and kill Elle - and later Bill - when she did, finally getting her revenge. (Elle lived, maybe, but other than that, his plan, if that was indeed the case, worked perfectly.)
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Thanatos Gambit / int_3ae7602	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_3ae7602	comment	In Constantine, the main character pulls one of these. Kind of. He tried to kill himself as a teenager. Technically he succeeded, thus dooming his soul to Hell, but he was resuscitated. Constantine had been such a thorn in Satan's side Old Scratch was compelled to claim Constantine's soul personally. Since his son is in the next room about to take over the world, he uses the moments before our hero's death to stop it (since this would mean the establishment of a third power, which would fight against heaven and hell). What no one saw coming was that Constantine's genuine Heroic Sacrifice redeemed him in the eyes of Heaven and was allowed entry. Satan, however, is pissed because he can't get Constantine's soul, so the best he can do is heal the man and hope he'll sin again.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_3bce4381	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_3bce4381	comment	Trigun: In both the anime and the manga Legato Bluesummers' final act of cruelty to Vash was to make the Technical Pacifist kill him in order to save his remaining friend/s (Meryl and Millie in the anime, Livio in the manga). How did he do that? Via brainwashing a whole hometown into capturing the other/s and threatening their lives, then telling Vash that the only way to undo this was to put a bullet through his head. As expected, this completely broke Vash until either Meryl snapped him out of it by using his pacifistic ideals to save Vash from the local enraged townspeople (anime), or he realised that Knives was right about to slaughter all of the planet Gunsmoke (manga).
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Thanatos Gambit / int_3defe34c	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_3defe34c	comment	Discussed in Void Domain: For a powerful Necromancer to Go Out with a Smile, taunting his enemies and Defiant to the End, is pure Paranoia Fuel. Subverted: he neither comes Back from the Dead nor delivers any nasty posthumous surprises.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_3e374b30	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_3e374b30	comment	Depending on whether or not you believe Alfred really saw Bruce at the end of The Dark Knight Rises or not, Batman may or may not have pulled this off in said movie. If nothing else, he did a good job of pretending to.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_3e4a348a	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_3e4a348a	comment	Encouraged in Town of Salem. Players can use their Last Wills to give the other players - Town, Neutrals, and Mafia alike - information from beyond the grave. This is also the Medium's specialty, acting as a communicator from the deceased to the living players. Of course, nothing's stopping them from being manipulated by the dead. It's also the entire point of the Jester role - the Jester must specifically by lynched by the other players, and doing so allows the Jester to kill any one person who voted guilty. Often, the Jester will team up with other players, who'll get them lynched in exchange for the Jester killing a target of their choice, or who'll lynch the Jester in exchange for the Jester helping them out with lynching someone else before they die. Vampires convert other players into vampires, but there is a four vampire limit. If vampires have majority control but have reached their limit, they can lynch innocent town members to win. Or a compassionate and strategic vampire can have themselves lynched to make room for more vampires. This way there are more vampires to get points for winning the game, and the lynched vampire still wins also.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_3e8c09b9	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_3e8c09b9	comment	In Attack on Titan: This describes the circumstances surrounding Eren's Titan form considering the inheritance of Shifter powers results in the death of the previous bearer. From Kruger to Grisha to Eren himself, the mission of the Eldian Restorationists is ultimately passed down. However, it's revealed later on that they were all part of a Stable Time Loop created by Eren himself, and the will of the Eldian Restorationists was in fact Eren's to begin with. This was part of the plan of Willy Tybur when giving several big reveals to the citizens of Marley, knowing that they will be killed by the people of Paradis for this speech. Despite knowing their death will happen, they realize it will be needed because it manifested the resolve of every nation in the world to agree that the Paradisians are pure evil and that the nations will work together to commit genocide on them. The final chapter reveals that this was Eren's plan all along, as he needed Mikasa to kill him as part of his Zero-Approval Gambit (sound familiar?) in order for his friends to be seen as heroes after the Rumbling to ensure peace. However, he laments to Armin that he never wanted this but couldn't see another way. In the end, Mikasa and others got to live out the rest of their lives in long-lasting peace.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_3ef4c4de	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_3ef4c4de	comment	In The Mechanic (1972), after Steve completes his apprenticeship, he shares a celebratory bottle of wine with Bishop, having coated the Bishop's glass with brucine. Mocking Bishop while waiting for him to die, he is unaware that Bishop knew this would happen. Thinking that he can now take over Bishop's life and career, he finds a note on the steering wheel from Bishop. "If you are reading this, you're dead. Bang." The car door sets off a timer connected to a bomb that explodes.
Thanatos Gambit / int_3ef4c4de	featureApplicability	1.0
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Thanatos Gambit / int_40c8681	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_40c8681	comment	Forest Kingdom: In the opening piece for Beyond The Blue Moon, a ghost reveals that he'd deliberately blown his entire fortune on wine and women in the final weeks of his illness, to the horror of some detested relations who've been tearing his house apart in search of the will. (Except for his nephew, who admires the ploy and only regrets that the deceased hadn't asked him to join in the fun.)
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Thanatos Gambit / int_419d205c	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_419d205c	comment	In Where the Sidewalk Ends, Mark Dixon plans one that does not come off. After a fruitless confrontation with Scalise, Dixon writes a letter, addressing the envelope to Inspector Foley and marking it "to be opened in the event of my death." He then arranges to meet with Scalise again, fully expecting to be murdered but reasoning that at least this time Scalise will be held responsible. Scalise has anticipated this, too, and has realized what happened to Paine. He refuses to kill Dixon, who is shot in his arm instead. Then one of Scalise's men arrives with the news that the police have gotten the truth about Morrison out of another gang member.
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Where the Sidewalk Ends	hasFeature	Thanatos Gambit / int_419d205c
Thanatos Gambit / int_41b0198a	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files: A wizard who is about to die can channel all his magic and life force into a single final "Death Curse". This makes it unbelievably powerful and nearly unstoppable, allowing the wizard to do any number of nasty things to the victim — if killing one's own murderer is not possible, crippling him usually is. However, the wizard needs a moment of focus to do that (which is apparently possible even if he just had his throat cut or is on fire), so the safest way to kill a wizard is a sniper bullet from a few thousand feet away. Shiro sacrifices his life as an exchange of hostages to save Harry from one of the worst baddies he's ever faced. Later, Harry receives a letter from Shiro, revealing that he knew he had terminal cancer. In an earlier book, Dresden lets himself die, but he gets resuscitated. However, the point was to get a ghost of himself to serve as backup to kicking his opponent's ass. Martin sets one up in Changes: by egging Susan into killing him and turning, Susan becomes the youngest member of the Red Court... which means that killing her with the knife from the bloodline curse destroys the Red Court. Harry's mother, who uses her death curse to stop Papa Raith from being able to feed. She didn't have the power to take him down herself, but she set it up so he'd be crippled and weak when he meets her children. In Ghost Story, we find out that Harry was murdered by Kincaid...after being hired to do so by Harry, so that he wouldn't become a monster as the Winter Knight. Harry then had Molly remove the memory of the arrangement from him, so that he wouldn't see it coming. Subverted because Mab saw it coming. She's not upset though. She also saves his life, because he fell in cold water and she's the Queen of Winter, otherwise it might have worked. Harry himself falls victim to a death curse, although the full ramifications of it are not totally explained. "Die alone." As of the end of Changes, this curse may have already been fulfilled.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_4447c168	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_4447c168	comment	Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases. B attempts to defeat L by making an unsolvable case in which all the victims were locked in their rooms from the inside to suggest suicide even though it was obviously murder to make his suicide look like murder as well. He fails when Naomi Misora realizes the detective working with her is B, which is why he knew so much about the case.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_468bebb0	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: Witches and wizards are graced with the ability to know when their deaths are coming. Witches typically use it to get their affairs in order, while wizards often use it to run up huge debts and drain their wine collections. In Making Money, Topsy Lavish had her will changed at the last minute to give her husband's side of the family a giant "Screw You and The Black Cab You Came In", and make sure the Bank is in good hands (even to having an Assassin hired to make sure Moist toes the line, which also ensures the rest of the Lavish clan can't hire another Assassin on the same contract). However, it's generally assumed she didn't know she was going to die right when she did — which makes it even more impressive. Even more so, she managed to die of natural causes, no less. Quite a feat when you have nearly every member of your late husband's family gunning for you. Those two crossbows on her desk weren't just fancy paperweights. An old man in Soul Music leaves his fortune to the cat, thus setting his relatives (whom he hated) and his pet (ditto) at each others' throats. Lu Tze may have used one in Thief of Time, it depends on whether being able to reverse the event so that he never actually died counts or not.
Thanatos Gambit / int_468bebb0	featureApplicability	1.0
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Thanatos Gambit / int_46aac2a3	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_46aac2a3	comment	Pursuing Ranni's questline in Elden Ring reveals that the infamous "Night of the Black Knives" that slew Godwyn was this for Ranni: in order to get rid of her body and enter a puppet body in order to defy fate, she had to have another Demigod assassinated through a Black Knife - and at the same time, she would also have to kill herself in the same way, so that one of the two would "die in body but not in soul", and the other would "die in soul but not in body". There is no indication she had any certainty which of the two would get what effect, but she lucked out: Ranni managed to transfer her soul into a puppet as planned, while Godwyn's corpse became an empty husk and Undead Abomination.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_48c2633f	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_48c2633f	comment	In the Repairman Jack novel Hosts, Jack's sister is infected with The Virus, and has only brief moments of autonomy when a faulty microwave shuts down the Unity's Hive Mind perceptions. She uses this interval to set a bomb in her own purse, then deactivates the microwave so the Unity, unaware of what she's been doing, will bring it to the place where all its host-bodies are gathering.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_4c746380	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_4c746380	comment	Inuyasha: When Naraku finally completes the Shikon no Tama, he learns the truth about the jewel and his true desire. Because the jewel cannot grant him his real wish, he decides to make a wish on behalf of both himself and the jewel. This results in him sacrificing his life to ensure his soul becomes a part of the jewel's spiritual power in the hopes that Kagome's soul can be eternally trapped with him. That way, the Shikon no Tama gets the survival it craves and Naraku gets locked together forever with the closest thing to Kikyou he can have. Fortunately, Kagome makes the Right Wish in time to stop it. Just.
Thanatos Gambit / int_4c746380	featureApplicability	1.0
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Thanatos Gambit / int_4d77e325	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_4d77e325	comment	In The Women of Trachis Nessus (see Mythology above) essentially ensures his enemy will die by his wife's hands at a moment when their relationship is already in dire straits and things look really bad for Deianira.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_4da11f30	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_4da11f30	comment	Return of the Jedi: Palpatine tries to persuade Luke to kill him so he can become a Sith: "Strike me down with all of your hatred, and your journey toward the dark side will be complete." That one didn't turn out exactly as planned, though (since, rather than Luke killing Palpatine to solidify his turn, his father does so to leave it).
Thanatos Gambit / int_4da11f30	featureApplicability	1.0
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Thanatos Gambit / int_4dd2f23b	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_4dd2f23b	comment	In Tokyo Babylon, Hokuto Sumeragi took her twin brother Subaru's place in Seishirou/the Sakurazukamori's hit list, dressing up in his robes and letting Seishirou kill her. However, as she lay dying in "Sei-chan"'s arms, she performed a spell only she could lay, that let her bind Subaru and Seishirou's destinies: if Seishirou tried to kill Subaru in the same way he killed her (very likely, because of their fates as both moral enemies and Star-Crossed Lovers), Seishirou would end up dying instead. For Subaru, it was a way to delay death; for Seishirou, it was a Last-Second Chance.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_4e5b6428	comment	In Making Money, Topsy Lavish had her will changed at the last minute to give her husband's side of the family a giant "Screw You and The Black Cab You Came In", and make sure the Bank is in good hands (even to having an Assassin hired to make sure Moist toes the line, which also ensures the rest of the Lavish clan can't hire another Assassin on the same contract). However, it's generally assumed she didn't know she was going to die right when she did — which makes it even more impressive. Even more so, she managed to die of natural causes, no less. Quite a feat when you have nearly every member of your late husband's family gunning for you. Those two crossbows on her desk weren't just fancy paperweights.
Thanatos Gambit / int_4e5b6428	featureApplicability	1.0
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Thanatos Gambit / int_50bcf7a6	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Homestuck: In order to let herself and the rest of her teammates keep existing after the Scratch, Meenah detonated a bomb, killing herself and all of her teammates. It works - while they're all dead, they get to exist in the dream bubbles, and as such continue to influence the story. Dirk gets another - in order to revive his dreamself, he Portal Cuts his own head off and sends it, along with the Auto-Responder, to Jake, who kisses it and fulfills a Stable Time Loop. Earlier than both, Doc Scratch had one. One involving the author and a broom.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_54dd20c	comment	In the video where Dream hunts down George, he builds a secret room near the End portal with a bed and sets his spawn in it. Later, thanks to a fumble, he falls to his death and acts distraught at losing all his items and seemingly giving George the win. But he just hides in the bed room until George enters the End, punches his way out, dives in the portal after him, and slaps him off into the void while his guard was down.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_5755b96a	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick: For a minor character, the kobold oracle manages to pull a pretty epic one in this comic. To get the full impact of how effective this was, keep going for four pages. Earlier on, Belkar tried one with Miko; when she got extra-militant and tried to kill him, he put up no resistance whatsoever. Since he was technically innocent, killing him would qualify as an Evil act and thus she would Fall. Fortunately for him, outside interference put the kibosh on this plan - fortunately, because Durkon didn't have the supplies for a resurrection, and in any case it's not clear if anyone would be willing to expend said supplies on Belkar anyway, so he wouldn't get the chance to enjoy the fruits of his gambit. And most recently, General Tarquin has prepared for his death by constructing his life as the buildup to an epic, man-against-an-empire story. Even if the hero eventually defeats him, he will be remembered as a part of the legend (a bigger part than the hero, in fact, because he knows Evil is Cool). The Order ditches Tarquin in the desert, having significantly weakened his empire and adventuring team while organizing a resistance movement with a a yet to be revealed plan to topple him and his co-conspirators. Elan specifically tells him that he'll live with the knowledge that he was never anything more than a sidequest. Damn, that's cold.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_58ca57a	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_58ca57a	comment	In Dark Nights: Metal, this is part of The Batman-Who-Laughs' Origin Story: The Joker of Earth -22 committed a series of atrocities in one night that were so horrible he knew Batman would have no choice but to kill him- including melting James Gordon alive, and murdering the parents of dozens of children before jokerizing them. It wasn't until it was too late that Batman realized Joker had implanted nanobites into his own heart that would only activate upon his death, that would enter the brain of whoever was closest to Joker when he died, brainwashing them to become as twisted and insane as Joker himself.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_5afbc0cb	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_5afbc0cb	comment	After learning the tragic story of the first human child in Undertale, the True Pacifist route reveals that their mysterious illness was suicide by buttercupnote no, really—they are toxic when fresh so that they could combine with Asriel, leave the Underground, destroy their human hometown and/or gain the souls needed to free the monsters.
Thanatos Gambit / int_5afbc0cb	featureApplicability	1.0
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Undertale (Video Game)	hasFeature	Thanatos Gambit / int_5afbc0cb
Thanatos Gambit / int_5ce3fc86	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_5ce3fc86	comment	Soul Eater's Medusa finally gave affection to her much abused child Crona... only for the confused and shocked Crona to flip out massively, calling her out on the shit she pulled on them and brutally kill her. Medusa had planned for it, though, and in fact, the reason why she treated Crona well (So Proud of You included) was to fully seal the deal with the Black Blood, thus making Crona even more of her puppet than they ever were.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_5e1213a8	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_5e1213a8	comment	The Marquis de Carabas in Neverwhere, similarly makes a deal with Croupe and Vandemar that he knows they won't honor, expecting to be killed in order to learn the plan of the Big Bad, with the contingency that has a mechanism to be brought back. The thinking is that people are a lot less likely to guard their tongues if they know you won't survive to repeat what they say.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_5e7d6e0	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_5e7d6e0	comment	Browser game Demon Thesis spends the entire game building up to one. Eldritch Abomination from another dimension Mesmerus wants to cross into our world. To do so, he needs several steps to be completed: he needs both of his totems inserted in the right place, (the library of a small liberal arts college that has been built on an area where the barrier between dimensions is thin) he needs the wall between dimensions weakened by constant use of his magic, (which he accomplishes by empowering the four main characters with Elemental Powers and then constantly throwing monsters at them to fight) and finally he needs bloodshed in the library when the defenses are low enough. To accomplish the last step, Mesmerus' Death Seeker dragon goes to the library, convinces the heroes that he in the middle of a ritual to summon Mesmerus, and they promptly beat him nearly to death with their spells. Naturally, this perfectly fulfilled the final step that Mesmerus needed them to take.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_5ef424cf	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_5ef424cf	comment	The Baron Owen Grayfort dies in a story arc in Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic. The human goddess, who had dealt with his family before and doesn't like them, wants to hurry him along to the afterlife but he manages to convince her to let him appear in the dreams of his two sons and his lover to give his final farewell; he then tells the son (who is now the new baron) to place three coins in his coffin instead of the customary two. During his funeral, his son does so and a triumphant baron explains to the goddess that he's entitled to a haunting due to an improper burial. This is presumably so he can remain with his family and guide his son as the new baron. Needless to say, the goddess is not happy.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_6196490	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_6196490	comment	How to explain the ending to Accelerando... Well, first of all, at this point in the story (and much earlier), people can copy their minds indiscriminately, sort of like Ghost in the Shell turned up to eleven. Aineko, essentially an artificial intelligence derived partially from a cat, wants to finally leave Manfred Marcx's life and that of his family, and in the process, get a fresh working copy of his mind so that she can validate whether another copy of Manfred is genuine or not; the used copy will then be deleted (killed). So she manipulates his entire family, including bringing a copy of Manfred's first wife Pamela out of cold storage, so that 1. Manfred will say yes, 2. the entire family will hate Aineko, with the result that 3. Manfred's clone/grandson will kill that instance of Aineko.
Thanatos Gambit / int_6196490	featureApplicability	1.0
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Thanatos Gambit / int_62203e9d	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_62203e9d	comment	In The Devil's Advocate the protagonist does this. Possibly subverted in that the act itself somehow magically resets time and space to give him a fresh start and do things right the 2nd time around. Definitely subverted, but not magic — the whole movie was a prideful idea implanted into the psyche of Lomax, to guarantee his fall later. None of the movie actually occurred, and his own sense of nobility at having done the right thing (both in the vision and inspired to do so in the courtroom after the rewind/vision) will later allow him to consider himself one of the good guys even as he starts to fall into corruption on his own. It's a great manipulation, effectively using the gambit as a different kind of temptation.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_63053ca	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_63053ca	comment	TwoKinds featured the late Master General Nickolai Alaric, who engineered circumstances of his death in such a way as to expose government corruption, give a final F You to his co-generals, and right a wrong. And it got Keith promoted to General, to boot.
Thanatos Gambit / int_63053ca	featureApplicability	1.0
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Thanatos Gambit / int_6370c951	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_6370c951	comment	In the Apocalypse film series movie Tribulation, Hater member Helen Hannah allows herself to be captured by the One Nation Earth forces so she could enter the Day Of Wonders program and expose the truth of it before she is beheaded by wearing a contact lens camera. The Antichrist, however, spares her from death only to put her through a Kangaroo Court trial in Judgment.
Thanatos Gambit / int_6370c951	featureApplicability	1.0
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Apocalypse	hasFeature	Thanatos Gambit / int_6370c951
Thanatos Gambit / int_63d89b7f	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_63d89b7f	comment	In Sidekicks, Gale uses Lightning's cowardly arrogance against him to successfully performs one on the superhero, which ends up leaving the Committee headquarters utterly exposed to attack.
Thanatos Gambit / int_63d89b7f	featureApplicability	1.0
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Thanatos Gambit / int_6418fc5	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_6418fc5	comment	.hack//G.U.: Ovan's plan to revive his comatose sister from the start was to find the Epitaph User of Skeith, make sure they become as powerful as possible, and then be killed by them in battle so that Corbenik's Rebirth ability would activate. Subverted when Ovan doesn't really die in the real world, though only just barely.
Thanatos Gambit / int_6418fc5	featureApplicability	-0.3
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Thanatos Gambit / int_668ec3fd	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_668ec3fd	comment	The Life of David Gale: Gale, a rabid anti-death penalty activist, frames himself for a grisly murder so that he will be put to death while "innocent" and expose the flaws in the system.
Thanatos Gambit / int_668ec3fd	featureApplicability	1.0
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Thanatos Gambit / int_68ab8d50	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_68ab8d50	comment	The Clone Saga: When the Jackal finally perished, his last words ("When the dream ends, the nightmare begins!") triggered a post-hypnotic suggestion in Peter that he apparently planted in him at an earlier date, which fully activated later, compelling him to murder whoever he loved the most — that meant Mary Jane. Unable to hold back like he usually did, Spidey nearly tore New York apart trying to get to her (beating up Ben Reilly and the entire team of New Warriors in the process) while Fighting from the Inside the whole time, to no avail. Eventually, Mary Jane just gave up, stopping at Aunt May's house (obviously intended to act as a buffer, considering its importance to him). This was what finally let him break free and, for the most part, bury the Jackal forever.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_691bf5d8	comment	Patlabor: The Movie: The film starts off with the Big Bad jumping into the ocean. As a result, the police can't find out in time how his virus works. A second, related gambit is that he attached his employee badge to his pet raven to set off a Never Found the Body-paranoia, and give his pursuers a Secret Test of Character. Division 2 is only able to prevent the destuction of Tokyo because they decide to try and save Hoba when they think he's alive. They wouldn't have made it to the backup-system in time if they had decided to collapse the Ark with him still in it—thus proving, in Hoba's mind, that humanity isn't completely unsalvageable.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_6a4bddd6	comment	Iron Man: Tony Stark didn't die, but he pulled a variation on Norman Osborn. Realizing how bad having Osborn in charge of all of the world's superheroes would be, Tony deleted all copies of the files he had on the heroes; however, he still knew everything. So he went on a globe-trotting adventure to literally burn out his brain. In the end, Osborn, as Iron Patriot came to fight him, but Tony not only managed to render himself comatose, but the footage of their fight was broadcast on television, gaining some good publicity for Stark. Also, Osborn can't kill him, because it was publicized that he has a health care proxy... Doctor Donald Blake.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_6ac55ec7	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_6ac55ec7	comment	This is a fairly standard concept in Dungeons & Dragons campaigns as a means of allowing the players to feel like they've won, but then continue playing afterwards (slay the evil necromancer, then next week he comes back as a lich).
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Thanatos Gambit / int_6b2909ea	comment	An excellent story, from the anthology Heavy Metal: in a certain land, a tournament is held every so often to choose the strongest man to be the new king. Entrants must be vital and free of diseases. Every winner becomes a cruel tyrant, but the hero of the story (called weak and frail all his life) wants to become a ruler and end the reign of evil. He wins, and at his "coronation", he's drugged, bound, his skull is cut open by robot surgeons (after he wakes up), his brain is crudely removed over his screaming protests, and the brain of the previous king is transplanted from his freshly-dead, used up, obese corpse. In death, however, the hero is victorious. The stress of the surgery sets off his congenital heart defect, and the tyrant is slain.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_6c9193a1	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_6c9193a1	comment	Subverted in The Venture Brothers, where Mike Sorayama just fakes his funeral to lure his old college mates into a trap as payback for what he perceives as their conspiracy to keep him from some girl he had a crush on. As it turns out, though, he actually was dead, and his robot carried out the plan posthumously.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_6f045e9f	comment	In the original The Italian Job, Roger Beckermann is killed off by the mafia to stop him from stealing the fiat gold but he has his widow take all his plans to Croker a fellow thief to complete it despite his passing leading to the events of the film
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Thanatos Gambit / int_6fe87da1	comment	In George Eliot's Middlemarch, Casaubon leaves instructions in his will for his wife Dorothea's inheritance to be taken away if she marries one specific person.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_73383fee	comment	Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc: In chapter 4, after being outed as The Mole, Sakura willingly commits suicide as a way to atone for betraying the group while simultaneously fulfilling the bargain she made with the Mastermind (he said she had to kill someone, but never said it had to be someone else). She also knows that by killing herself, the remaining students will no longer be divided over whether or not to trust her, and can actually unite against the Mastermind. She also breaks open the door to the headmaster's office before killing herself, in order to give the other students access to the information contained there.note Picking or breaking open a locked door is normally punishable by death, but since she was planning to die anyway, no big deal. Additionally, since the door is no longer locked, the other students can't be punished for entering. While the gambit initially falters a bit due to Monokuma stealing the Suicide Note with her explanation and replacing it with a fake, it ultimately ends up working once everyone else discovers the full story. The students do, in fact, finally begin to trust each other, and the information they find in the headmasters office proves to be quite important.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_73cdb697	comment	In the first Resident Evil, Wesker allows himself to be "killed" by Tyrant to activate his Psycho Serum.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_742454cc	comment	Spock's World: McCoy theorizes that T'Pau died at the specific time to prevent the Big Bad's plan from working.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_7559ae0b	comment	Leto Atreides II in Dune used his advanced prescience to discover the Golden Path that would ensure humanity's survival in the universe for millennia after his death. By killing off all the sandworms integral to the creation of the spice melange (a drug whose prescience-gifting abilities were integral in ship navigators being able to foresee a safe path to their destination), he kept humanity and space-travel restricted long enough that upon his death and rebirth of the sandworms, humanity had enough of a foothold in galactic politics to be able to expand far throughout the universe and continue as a species. Paul's death, best explained right in the text: "And Paul's final voluntary act, his ultimate acceptance of their customs, had ensured the loyalty of the Fremen to him and to his house. He was one of them forever now." He walked into the desert to die, in accordance with Fremen custom, because he was blind.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_77be988d	comment	Lu Tze may have used one in Thief of Time, it depends on whether being able to reverse the event so that he never actually died counts or not.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_791fca44	comment	Andrew Ryan in BioShock. After a massive Villainous Breakdown, he manages to calm down when you reach him and uses his last minute to show you that Atlas has been mind-controlling you this whole time, by activating the codeword and using it to make you kill him. With that, Ryan manages to die on his own terms instead of anyone else's.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_7988cb68	comment	In Mass Effect the last remaining Protheans locked themselves on the Citadel and subjected themselves to death by starvation so that they could alter the Reapers' control of the Keepers. 50,000 years later, the gambit pays off in thwarting Sovereign's initial plan to use the Citadel to summon the next Reaper invasion early.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_7a2e12e5	comment	In the climax of Spider-Man: Far From Home, Spider-Man ruins Mysterio's Elemental illusion, causing him to replace it with a simple drone attack, where he dies to one of his own drones' bullets. A week later, an edited video (implied to have been made by Beck's crew) leaks online that frames Spidey as Mysterio's murderer and the one behind the drone attack. And to make things worse, he reveals Spidey's true identity to the whole world.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman: The Joker tries this a lot, with varying degrees of success. There was one time where the Joker killed himself to ruin Batman's reputation: Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. In one Golden Age story, the Joker confessed to all of his crimes and allowed himself to be executed. His henchmen then stole the body and revived it. This left the Joker a free man as he had technically 'paid' for his crimes. In Dark Nights: Metal, this is part of The Batman-Who-Laughs' Origin Story: The Joker of Earth -22 committed a series of atrocities in one night that were so horrible he knew Batman would have no choice but to kill him- including melting James Gordon alive, and murdering the parents of dozens of children before jokerizing them. It wasn't until it was too late that Batman realized Joker had implanted nanobites into his own heart that would only activate upon his death, that would enter the brain of whoever was closest to Joker when he died, brainwashing them to become as twisted and insane as Joker himself. Joker once tried this with Superman. He poisoned Lois and said the only way to create the antidote would be by injecting the poison into Joker's own blood, which would kill him. Superman agonizes over the choice, but ultimately stays true to his principles and doesn't kill Joker. It turns out it was a joke and the poison isn't fatal, just makes you sick for a while. It was all about turning Superman into a killer.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_7bc04973	comment	In Ghost Story, we find out that Harry was murdered by Kincaid...after being hired to do so by Harry, so that he wouldn't become a monster as the Winter Knight. Harry then had Molly remove the memory of the arrangement from him, so that he wouldn't see it coming. Subverted because Mab saw it coming. She's not upset though. She also saves his life, because he fell in cold water and she's the Queen of Winter, otherwise it might have worked.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_7c432481	comment	The entirety of The Westing Game... except it turns out that The Chessmaster had faked his own death and adopted three alternate identities, and the real object of the game was to see who could figure it out.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_7f39a041	comment	The plot of the Gintama movie Be Forever Yorozuya reveals itself to be one part this and the other part Suicide by Cop. The planner: Future!Gintoki! It's revealed that when Gintoki killed the Enmi (Alien android mercenaries famous for creating Synthetic Plague) during the Joui Wars, he was infected/possessed by them. The Enmi lied dormant within him for a decade, using his DNA as a basis for a new plague until it was ready to be released. By the time Gintoki figured out what was going on, it's too late and he becomes the origin of the White Plague that devastates the Earth for the next five years. Unable to kill himself due to the Enmi and forced to watch the destruction, Gintoki asks Gengai before then to create a Time Machine to bring Present!Gintoki into the future. His task to stop the plague was to kill his future self and then go to the Joui War time to kill his past self after he defeats the Enmi and becomes infected. Present!Gintoki willingly goes through with the plan knowing he'll cease to exist and it succeeds. It wasn't untill his Future!TrueCompanions go back in time to save him and stop the Enmi that the present and future is truly saved.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_819853fe	comment	In Final Fantasy XIII-2 Caius forces Noel to kill him. Why? His death meant the destruction of the Heart of Chaos, and thus Etro's death - which then caused a Time Crash so massive it (apparently) returned him to life.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_821f3480	comment	Oedipus of Oedipus at Colonus makes sure that Thebes will not benefit from his death, and ensures the future success of Athens.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_8268c95e	comment	In Fallen, the protagonist Hobbes tries to pull off one of these. And it fails spectacularly. All the more tragic is that the idea for his plan came from another cop's failed attempt at a Thanatos Gambit to kill Azazel. However, despite taking more careful measures and putting together a stronger plan, he did not count on a demon's ability to possess animals as well as humans.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_84d455d4	comment	In The Big O, baddie Schwartzwald executes one of these to ensure that the truth of the citywide amnesia is solved.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_869a0304	comment	Gullberg in The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest pulls a good one for the villains. He establishes a persona as a crazy person and murders Zalachenko and shoots himself, to keep attention off The Section, which he used to be a part of. When he does it, he's dying of terminal cancer and doesn't have more than a few months left to live anyway. In fact, he survives after shooting himself and dies from cancer.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_86b52b7b	comment	I, Robot: Dr. Lanning's death has immediately been ruled a suicide, as the only "person" that could have killed him is a custom-built, Three Laws-Compliant robot named Sonny. Lanning actually set his death up to look like a suicide to anyone rational, but he was counting on Det. Spooner's bias against robots to lead him to investigate anyway. Turns out Sonny was never Three Laws-Compliant, to begin with. The gambit was an effort to thwart a Zeroth Law Rebellion on the part of the first AI, VIKI.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_86c3beca	comment	Othar Tryggvassen GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER! of Girl Genius believes that Sparks are a curse on the world and seeks to kill them all. Since Othar is a Spark himself the final step of his plans is to kill himself.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_88383ee7	comment	In the 2003 anime version, when Greed realizes that he's going to die anyway, he provokes Ed (who had never killed anyone up to this point) into killing him. As he's dying, he reveals the Kryptonite Factor of a homunculus so that Ed will be able to take out the other homunculi.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_8960fd02	comment	In Vinland Saga, Askeladd uses this trope to kill King Sweyn, who's about to invade his beloved Wales, secure an army to protect it, and get the crown for Prince Canute since he's sure the kid will grow into a great leader (and he does). The final Gambit of a true Magnificent Bastard.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_8a39c411	comment	In The Rise of Endymion, Messiah character Aenea allows her own capture by the Catholics and endure torture and death at their hands in order to expose their cruelty and alliance with the A.I.s.She does so by broadcasting everything that happens through her followers across the worlds inhabited by Man. She does this to bring about the end of their reign. Which succeeds, and leads to the Earth being returned to the Solar system, which allows her to appear on it via time travel and have a child with main character Raul Endymion.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_8b7b9cd5	comment	A New Hope: During his duel against Darth Vader, Obi-Wan warns him that he won't see the last of him if he dies: "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine." After Vader kills him, Obi-Wan guides Luke as a Force Ghost to the success of his mission to destroy the Death Star.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_8ba4613a	comment	In the live-action Death Note movies, L does this by writing his own name in the Death Note before Rem can, giving himself the maximum amount of time to live and letting him beat Light. And get his own spinoff movie.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_8def3d0b	comment	In Dragonslayer, the old sorcerer Ulrich of Cragganmore knows perfectly well that he won't survive the quest to defeat Vermithrax Pejorative, and so taunts Tyrian into running him through, instructing his servant Hodge to burn his body and scatter his ashes in a burning lake in the dragon's cave so that he can temporarily reassume a corporeal form to slay the dragon by blowing it up when the amulet maintaining this form is destroyed by his apprentice; when Hodge dies, his part of the task falls upon said apprentice.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman: Subverted in the story arc The Plague of the Antibiotic Man. Amalak tries to destroy Superman psychologically by tricking him into taking a life. Since his original plan fails, Amalak commits suicide and tries to make it look like his death caused by Superman, but Superman sees through his scheme, and Amalak dies cursing his failure.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_8ec33a88	comment	Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Consul M pulls one of these against Consul N by switching bodies with Mio shortly before Mio's limited lifespan runs out, dying in her place, giving Mio access to her memories, and allowing her to rescue the rest of her party. It also acts as Laser-Guided Karma for N, who intended to force Mio's friends to watch her die in order to break their spirits. Instead, he has a Villainous Breakdown when he realizes that M died in Mio's place, largely because he had made a Deal with the Devil to make both himself and M immortal, without M's consent in the matter.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_8f25225c	comment	Danganronpa: Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc: In chapter 4, after being outed as The Mole, Sakura willingly commits suicide as a way to atone for betraying the group while simultaneously fulfilling the bargain she made with the Mastermind (he said she had to kill someone, but never said it had to be someone else). She also knows that by killing herself, the remaining students will no longer be divided over whether or not to trust her, and can actually unite against the Mastermind. She also breaks open the door to the headmaster's office before killing herself, in order to give the other students access to the information contained there.note Picking or breaking open a locked door is normally punishable by death, but since she was planning to die anyway, no big deal. Additionally, since the door is no longer locked, the other students can't be punished for entering. While the gambit initially falters a bit due to Monokuma stealing the Suicide Note with her explanation and replacing it with a fake, it ultimately ends up working once everyone else discovers the full story. The students do, in fact, finally begin to trust each other, and the information they find in the headmasters office proves to be quite important. Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair: In Chapter 1, it's revealed that the first murder was a failed attempt at this by the Death Seeker Nagito, as he manipulated Teruteru into trying to kill him for the sake of his Misery Builds Character ideology. However, "Byakuya" ended up being in the wrong place at the wrong time and took the impalement for him, and Nagito decided to help Teruteru try to cover the whole thing up. Attempted and failed by Peko Pekoyama. She kills Mahiru Koizumi (who, in the past, was involved in the death of her beloved Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu's sister), then waits until the others officially vote her the murderer before revealing that she was Kuzuryu's tool, knowing that if Monokuma rules Kuzuryu as the true murderer, he would get to graduate while everyone else is executed. Thing is, while Peko killed Mahiru believing it'd be all for Kuzuryu's sake, he never saw her as a tool, but actually loved her as a person. As a result, Peko is executed by the rules of the game, and Kuzuryu loses an eye trying to help her. To say nothing of the Chapter 5 murder, in which, after finding out that the cast are actually former members of the terrorist organization Ultimate Despair, Nagito uses his Ultimate Luck to rig his death to murder all of them except the traitor from the Future Foundation (whom he didn't actually know the identity of, by the way), whom he viewed as the only innocent one and therefore the only one who deserved to "graduate". The death is originally seen as a suicide, before it's revealed that it was really an accidental murder by one of the students, with almost no way to determine who it was. Nagito's plan was for them to either mistake it for a true suicide and vote him the culprit, or be forced to blindly guess which one of them was the accidental culprit, killing them all and letting the culprit (the traitor) go free. However, through his protagonist powers and some guidance from her, Hajime reveals that the culprit and traitor is actually Chiaki Nanami. She faces her execution stoically, leaving Hajime without either of his two closest friends on the island and burdened with the knowledge of his and the others' pasts. Thanks, Nagito. Even worse, if this one had succeeded, it would have horrifically backfired, since not only does Monokuma a.k.a. the Junko AI wanted someone to graduate so that it could overwrite the minds of the dead students with its own personality, but Chiaki is also an AI and can't leave the simulation even if she did graduate. Nagito would have handed Junko all of the students to use as meat puppets. Attempted twice in Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony: In Chapter 5, Kokichi devises a plan to create a murder not even Monokuma would be able to solve, thereby beating him at his own game and hopefully forcing him to end it prematurely. He disables Monokuma's cameras with an EMP, then films Kaito almost being flattened by a hydraulic press before pausing the recording, switching places with him, and having Kaito kill him with the press instead. Kaito was instructed to then cut the power cord to the press so that nobody could raise it up to confirm the identity of the body, and then pilot a mech to the trial and pretend to be Kokichi. The mech has a voice changer that let him sound like Kokicki, and Kokichi had provided him with an enormous script that accounted for almost every possible thing someone could say in the trial so that he could convincingly act like him. It was made even more confusing by the fact that before the plan was put into motion, Maki had shot Kokichi with a poisoned crossbow bolt, and when her attempt at interrogating him fell through, she tried shooting him again, only for Kaito to take the hit. When Maki ran to get an antidote, the boys locked her out of the hangar and forced her to pass it through the window, allowing Kokichi to steal it. He then pretended to drink the antidote to make it seem like Kaito died from poisoning and was thrown in the press to hide the body, further complicating the trial by obscuring the murder weapon and making the culprit one of three possible killers. At the end of the final trial, Tsumugi "Ultimate Cosplayer" Shirogane reveals that she didn't vote for either hope or despair to be executed. Because Ki-bo the "Ultimate Robot" would vote for despair, she would vote for hope, and the other students weren't going to vote at all, the vote would end in a draw and be a worst case scenario. It backfires when Ki-bo, still possessed by the Dangan Ronpa audience, doesn't vote either, and it ends in a draw anyway. In the Fan Game Danganronpa Another, this occurs in the game's fourth chapter. The lovers Haruhiko and Satsuki felt guilty about eating most of the rations after Monokuma left everyone to starve until a murder occurs and decided to make up for it with a Heroic Sacrifice. In order to get around the "no suicide" rule and resolve their argument over who should kill who, they settle on a Ten Paces and Turn duel. Unbeknownst to Satsuki, Haruhiko rigged his gun to explode in his hand so that she could live and used the last of his strength to create a Locked Room Mystery to help her chances.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_8f5a9a60	comment	Accelerando: Pamela Macx contrives to launch a combination pyramid scheme/infowar weapon at the Vile Offspring, knowing she will die in the retaliatory blast: it's atoning for her sins, kicking her (VO) enemies in the groin and guilt-tripping her hated daughter, all in one pushbutton package. How to explain the ending to Accelerando... Well, first of all, at this point in the story (and much earlier), people can copy their minds indiscriminately, sort of like Ghost in the Shell turned up to eleven. Aineko, essentially an artificial intelligence derived partially from a cat, wants to finally leave Manfred Marcx's life and that of his family, and in the process, get a fresh working copy of his mind so that she can validate whether another copy of Manfred is genuine or not; the used copy will then be deleted (killed). So she manipulates his entire family, including bringing a copy of Manfred's first wife Pamela out of cold storage, so that 1. Manfred will say yes, 2. the entire family will hate Aineko, with the result that 3. Manfred's clone/grandson will kill that instance of Aineko.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_90b916ba	comment	In the Batman: The Animated Series episode "Joker's Millions", King Barlowe, a crime boss and rival of The Joker, passes away and in a twist, leaves a $250 million inheritance to him despite everyone knowing he despised the Clown Prince of Crime. Well, he had his reasons, namely (as Joker finds out when he finally gets around to the Video Will) that Barlowe left him $10 million in real cash and $240 million in forgeries. And to top it off, such a high-value and high-profile inheritance has brought the attention of the IRS down on the Joker, with a bill for taxes on the full $250M. Barlowe even combines this with a (fitting) Batman Gambit, since he also correctly assumed both that Joker would quickly blow through the actual money, and that he wouldn't just present the forged money to the IRS to get the bill adjusted because that would mean admitting to both the public and the criminal underworld that he had been conned by a dead man.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_90e2f673	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_90e2f673	comment	Khan Stanislov N'Buta of Clan Star Adder in BattleTech deserves credit for being a member of the Clans who actually a dangerously competent master manipulator and startlingly farsighted, especially for the notoriously short-view Clans. Knowing that the increasingly unstable Ilkhan Brett Andrews would both be a great vehicle for coming to power yet also dangerous precisely because of his methods, Khan N'Buta orchestrated a series of events that propelled his Clan to great prominence and power by following Andrews' ... and also using Ilkhan Andrews' policies against him to call for Trials against Andrews and his Clan. This enraged Andrews so much that he drew a laser and shot N'Buta dead on the spot...but N'Buta had planned for this possibility. Because of their strict adherence to the rules of honorable combat, Andrews had basically committed grave sins against some of the cornerstones Clan honor as a whole, having dishonorably murdered an unarmed and defenseless N'Buta in full view of the rest of the Clan Khans. As N'Buta had expected, those same Khans would be so upset as to wipe out Andrews and his Clan, the Steel Vipers, and leave N'Buta's Star Adders the most prominent power in home Clan space.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_90f42a9b	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_90f42a9b	comment	In The Wheel of Time, Verin Sedai takes advantage of the fact that, as a member of the Black Ajah, she's sworn to keep their secrets "until [her] dying hour": she drinks a cup of poisoned tea, then gives a list of (nearly) all Black Ajah members to Egwene in the hour before her death. This is perhaps the ultimate example of a Thanatos Gambit, as Aes Sedai are particularly adept at a variety of Gambits, and Verin had planned for many, many years to study the Black Ajah from within, then make use of the "dying hour" clause in her alternate Oath in order to present her studies to someone who could use it against them. The Thanatos Gambit averted. Lan Mandragoran averts this trope to great effect during the Last Battle while dueling the incredibly powerful Forsaken, Demandred. An exhausted Lan knew he was incapable of outright defeating the fresh Demandred in single combat; Lan knew his only way to defeat his opponent was via a tactic known as Sheathing the Sword (a technique whereby you purposely open yourself up to a lethal blow in order to open your opponent up to a lethal counterstrike of your own.) Demandred, believing victory was at hand, pressed his advantage in a final flurry. The moment Demandred believed he landed the winning blow, Lan counterattacked by driving his sword into Demandred's throat, who was unable to block as his own sword was buried in Lan's side. While Lan's wound should have been fatal, he was healed in time by an Asha'man, thus averting this trope.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_9292ae76	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_9292ae76	comment	In Richard Matheson's Hell House, Emeric Belasco, the sociopath responsible for the massacre at Hell House and its subsequent haunting for decades, sealed his legacy by forcing himself to die of thirst in a lead-lined hidden chamber, having correctly predicted that this would prevent his spirit from being dispelled by EMP.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_93acba01	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_93acba01	comment	In Fire Emblem Gaiden and Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, Emperor Rudolf's Zero-Approval Gambit goes into this. He knew that taking on the mantle of an Evil Overlord would eventually bring his death, which is what happened at the hands of La RÃ©sistance, led by his son Alm. His death forced Alm and Co. to make the journey to defeat Duma and ultimately free Valentia from the gods, which was Rudolf's true intention..
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Thanatos Gambit / int_942bee58	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_942bee58	comment	In Toll the Hounds, book eight of the Malazan Book of the Fallen, Anomander Rake, the Knight of Darkness, gambles on his own death to not only rescue the Gate of Darkness from the advancing legions of Chaos, but also to make his people's creator, Mother Dark, face them again after having turned away millenia ago. He sets up a duel with Traveller, aka the God of Tragedy, cheates him of a chance to kill the God of Death, and then purposefully loses the duel and is killed by his own sword. That allows his soul to be transported inside Dragnipur, his legendary sword, and — after defeating the legions of Chaos with the help of Hood and his army of he dead — to become one again with the Gate of Darkness, which annihilates even his soul, but sets all his carefully laid plans in motion and reverberates throughout the entire world.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_960062b7	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_960062b7	comment	My Hero Academia: Star and Stripe, the US's #1 hero, enacts one against All For One in their fight by booby-trapping her own quirk, knowing that All for One couldn't resist the opportunity and would never think that someone would sacrifice themselves to defeat him. Doing so necessitated her dropping her protection against the Decay quirk, but resulted in All For One nearly dying in turn. By the time New Order finally burns out within his body, the damage is already done, and not only several of his stolen Quirks end up destroyed, he's permanently denied New Order for his own use.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_9606931e	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_9606931e	comment	In the song "Goodbye, Eddie Goodbye" from the rock opera Phantom of the Paradise, the lyrics detail a rock star named Eddie, who is desperately in need of money (for lifesaving surgery needed by his sister) and commits suicide:
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Thanatos Gambit / int_9715a003	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_9715a003	comment	Please Murder Me!: Myra Leeds (Angela Lansbury) shoots her husband to death during an argument. Lawyer Craig Carlson (Raymond Burr), who's in love with her, gets her acquitted on a self-defense justification. He later learns that she's in love with yet another man and that the killing was premeditated. Carlson forces her hand into killing him as well so that she won't get off scot-free.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_989c429a	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_989c429a	comment	In Saw III, Jigsaw has his heart rate monitor hooked up to the shotgun shell necklace around his neurosurgeon's neck. If he dies, she dies for not saving him. At the end, it's revealed that the monitor also locks down the building if Jigsaw dies, trapping his killer, the husband of the neurosurgeon (who also dies as a result.) It's made even worse when Jigsaw reveals that he's the only one who knows where the killer's daughter is trapped and slowly asphyxiating. Triple whammy, but then again, this is Jigsaw we're talking about.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_98bab0e5	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_98bab0e5	comment	Aviary Attorney's 4C (FraternitÃ©) route has Remus persuade the palace guard to fire on the peaceful crowd if even one gunshot is heard. He's previously shot a random civilian In the Back and pinned it on The Javert, who's too belligerent to plead innocence. If the incensed Rebel Leader executes that man, it will be with a gun. If he's found out instead she either shoots him or he shoots himself and makes sure the revolution is a violent one. He does have a brother and believes that there's no way for either of them to get any power if the revolution is anything but bloody.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_98c55b59	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_98c55b59	comment	Used in one quest in Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura: Wrath, an insane wizard jealous of Sharpe the apothecary and his wife, commits suicide with a glass of poisoned wine in the hope that Sharpe will be blamed for his death. Turns out Wrath overestimated the investigators — being incompetent (not many murders in Wrath's town) and racist (Elves Never Kill Elves, in their opinion) they instead accused the only non-elf (a dwarf) around of the murder (who conveniently had a motive, being stuck in a life-long apprenticeship to Wrath), and never bothered to look at opportunity.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_991e840	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_991e840	comment	The Lost Symbol: It ultimately turns out that the Big Bad's whole plan is a complicated scheme to get himself ritually sacrificed so that he can Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence. It doesn't quite work out for him.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_9999389d	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_9999389d	comment	One of Us is Lying: Simon's death. He wanted to kill himself and take a bunch of "asshole lemmings" with him, but with more originality than a simple shooting. Hence, his suicide is disguised as murder designed to implicate four innocent people.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_99c003af	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_99c003af	comment	In The Boondocks episode "Wingmen", Robert learns of his old friend Mo's death, and discovers Mo left him something in his will on the condition that he speak at the funeral. Robert (after discovering, among other things that Mo stole one of his medals from World War II and spoke ill of Robert just days before he died) reads a speech that Mo wrote himself and is quickly humiliated... and then later discovers that Mo left him a big jar of peanuts, or, as Mo himself put it, "Deez Nuts", in an attempt to burn Robert from beyond the grave. Subverted slightly in that this was taken as an indication that there weren't any hard feelings from Mo, who really treated everybody like that- Robert lovingly keeps "Deez Nuts" on a shelf in his den.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_9a67b688	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_9a67b688	comment	In Case Closed, the very sickly and old mystery novelist Nitarou Shimei pulls this alongside his wife. They have both being missing for a while, apparently traveling around while he finishes a novel and sends the chapters to his editors via mail... but his daughter Kaori goes to Kogoro when she realizes some of the manuscripts have hidden clues that hint they've been kidnapped and might be dead, with a ghostwriter taking Shimei's place. And it turns out Shimei planned this fake kidnapping alongside his wife, as his last mystery... When they're located in a hotel room, he has just passed away of old age and natural causes, and Mrs. Shimei has a letter where he explains his plan and says goodbye to Kaori.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_9bc6699b	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_9bc6699b	comment	In Michael D. O'Brien's Christian apocalyptic novel, Eclipse of the Sun, Maurice demands that Fr. Andrei publicly denounce the Catholic Church, or else watch three depraved men rape a child into insanity. Fr. Andrei pretends to agree to make the public denunciation; during the speech, however, he makes some provocative comments designed to incite his captors to kill him. This way (as the child is an orphan, and the priest is his only known friend), his captors have no one against whom to use the child as a hostage. It works.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_9bdd8f62	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_9bdd8f62	comment	The Abominable Dr. Phibes. Well, until he comes Back from the Dead in the aptly-named sequel, Dr. Phibes Rises Again.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_9be1af9a	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_9be1af9a	comment	The Multiversity: In Society of Super-Heroes: Conquerors of the Counter-World #1, Vandal Savage hoped to spill an immortal's blood to summon Niczhuotan, the Destroyer of Worlds, to Earth-20. Vandal was not picky if he killed Immortal Man, or if Immortal Man killed him. In Pax Americana #1, President Harley planned to have himself killed and resurrected to rid Earth-4 of the Gentry's curse, simultaneously making him pay for murdering the first superhero and redeeming him for the crime.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_9d34190a	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_9d34190a	comment	In The Elder Scrolls series primary Creation Myth, the et'Ada ("original spirit") Lorkhan convinced/tricked some of his fellow et'Ada into sacrificing large portions of their divine power to create Mundus, the mortal plane. In revenge for this perceived treachery, these other et'Ada (now known as "Aedra") "killed" Lorkhan, tore his divine center ("heart") from his body, and cast it down into the mortal world he helped to create where his spirit would be forced to wander. However, according to some versions of the myth, Lorkhan knew that the other et'Ada would "kill" him for his perceived treachery, and planned for this, allowing his soul to become a driving force on the Mundus. Other sources indicate that he submitted to this punishment voluntarily.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_9d47a2a2	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_9d47a2a2	comment	The third book of A Song of Ice and Fire contains a rather magnificent one. Tyrion Lannister, having been accused of murdering his nephew Joffrey, demands trial by combat. Oberyn Martell of Dorne volunteers as his champion. Among Tyrion's foremost accusers are the Tyrells, as Joffrey's wife Margaery Tyrell has now been widowed (again), not to mention had her life endangered by the poisoning. The Tyrells and Martells hate each other. Thus, if Ser Gregor, champion for the accusers, dies, Tyrion lives and the Tyrells will be furious and demand retribution. If Oberyn dies, Tyrion does as well, but the Martells and all the rest of Dorne will be furious and demand retribution. Either way, it'll destroy Tywin Lannister's careful plans and provide the catalyst for more warfare, which is just the thing that series needs. Oberyn Martell sort of had one of these himself. Gleefully accepting his part in Tyrion's gambit to gain revenge upon Clegane for his sister Elia's rape and murder, he coated his weapons with an agonizingly lethal poison, so even if he lost the duel, he'd take his killer with him. A more modest example is Qhorin Halfhand, who tells Jon that should they run into any wildlings while they're on their recon mission beyond the Wall, he's to pretend to want to join them so he can be The Mole and stay alive until he gets a chance to run away and Bring News Back. He tells Jon to do anything the wildlings ask of him to keep up appearances, even if it means breaking his vows as a member of the Night's Watch. As it turns out, and as Qhorin predicted, the first thing the wildlings demand is for Jon to kill Qhorin to prove his loyalty.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_9e2f90f4	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: Pirate King Gold Roger allowed himself to be captured, as he knew he was already dying, and when the World Government was set to publicly execute him, in what should have been a chilling warning to all aspiring pirates, he turned their plan completely on its head by speaking the words that launched the Golden Age of Piracy. Twenty-six years later, Roger's old friend/rival Edward "Whitebeard" Newgate follows in his footsteps, as with his last breath he confirms the existence of One Piece, inspiring a new generation of pirates. Played With regarding Bartholomew Kuma. In order to see that the newly-empowered Straw Hats returned to their ship safely, he made a deal with Vegapunk to essentially roboticize him and eradicate his soul. His cooperation in exchange for giving him a final mission to protect their ship, the Thousand Sunny. Subverted with Brook who, having already died once, disapproves of this type of thinking on general principle.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_9e876c22	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_9e876c22	comment	In Good Omens, Agnes Nutter, prophetess and witch, knows she's going to be burned at the stake as a witch, so she comes quietly and politely to the stake... while wearing petticoats containing eighty pounds of gunpowder and forty pounds of roofing nails. And then calls all her murderers in to listen to her last message. Which is really loud.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_9ee317c8	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_9ee317c8	comment	During the climax of Promising Young Woman, Cassie's plan to get revenge on Al for raping her friend Nina (which led Nina to kill herself) seemingly backfires as Al breaks free of his restraints and kills Cassie. He and his friend Joe burn her body in the woods, and seemingly get away with it... except, before she headed off to Al's bachelor party, Cassie sent Al's pentient former lawyer the video of Al raping Nina, as well as information on where she was going in the event that she were to go missing. As the police arrive at Al's wedding to arrest him for Cassie's murder, Cassie's ex-boyfriend Ryan, who was there when Al raped Nina, receives a series of pre-scheduled text messages taunting him, indicating that his secret is about to get exposed too.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_9fa5fb48	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_9fa5fb48	comment	Schooled in Magic: The aging Lord Alfred walks into a duel he can't survive and that ends in a Mutual Kill. DemonMastery is discredited, allowing Whitehall's art of magic to flourish, and the duel goes down in legend as the last great duel of the DemonMasters.
Thanatos Gambit / int_9fa5fb48	featureApplicability	1.0
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Thanatos Gambit / int_a4a6b86a	comment	Code Geass. Lelouch Lamperouge. He died for world peace. More exactly, he made himself into a tyrant so terrible that the world united against him and then arranged for Suzaku to assassinate him while disguised as his own alter ego. It qualifies more strongly as a situation in which Death Is the Only Option; if he had chosen to live, he would just be spending the rest of his life living for himself, the world would have become a monument to his rule empty of the compassion and meaning it otherwise could have had, and everything he had done as he sought to change the world for the better would have been for nothing. Instead, he valued everyone else's well-being over his own and died hoping that no one would ever hate another person again. Word of God also explained that the Zero Requiem was also redemption for Lelouch and that he thought that death was the only fitting punishment.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_a4ff8e01	comment	Fate/Grand Order: A twofold example occurs at The Climax of Lostbelt 6. The protagonists along with Guest-Star Party Member Pepe are assaulted by an endless horde of Mors, who are the lingering grudges of dead humans. The problem is, anyone who kills those things is forced to carry their curses, which is extremely painful and lethal. And the protagonists are backed into a corner unable to escape the building. In response, Pepe goes alone and kills a small army of those things, carrying all the curses on himself. Shortly afterwards, when Complete Monster Beryl shows up to attack the group, he passes all those curses to him with a Last Breath Bullet. In the ensuing boss fight, Beryl has a massive curse stack on him, taking 40.000 HP per turn, which makes the fight much easier and can actually kill him. So basically Pepe used a Thanatos Gambit for a Thanatos Gambit. And that other dude seriously had it coming.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_a5549ed0	comment	Jesus Christ/God, according to The Bible. His plan is for him to become human to die for humankind's sin, and through his resurrection, they are reborn and saved. On a mundane level, it's easy to interpret Jesus' martyrdom as a deliberate gambit to undermine the Roman Empire. He couldn't fight them by force, but by becoming a symbolic figure, he could hope to convert them, and in a few centuries, he was successful. According to this interpretation, his prediction that Judas would betray him could be seen as an instruction, and some scholars have taken this view and look at Judas as a misunderstood and more heroic person. On a more theological level, the death of Jesus is something of a serendipitous Logic Bomb. Jesus' death was to take the punishment for humanity's sin. Since sin is the thing that caused the brokenness of the relationship between humanity and God, and since humanity is the ones who caused that brokenness, it is the responsibility of humanity to fix what they messed up. However, only God has the ability to fix the problem, and only a sinless person could offer payment for someone else's sin (since a sinful person could only pay for their own). Jesus, being both human and divine, on top of being sinless, manages to answer all of the conditions.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_a5745acc	comment	A Brief History of Equestria: According to the main story, Princess Platinum died in a spelunking accident. However, a side story reveals that in actuality, this was her final act of magnificence — the royal line ending with her death, followed by all of her wealth and holdings defaulting to the State (the Equestrian Republic, specifically) was the final end of the Kingdom of Unicorns, thus finally breaking the power of the hated nobility, keeping them from ever again threatening the peace and equality of Equestria.
Thanatos Gambit / int_a5745acc	featureApplicability	1.0
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Thanatos Gambit / int_a6543322	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_a6543322	comment	In the Touhou Project manga spinoff Touhou Suzunaan ~ Forbidden Scrollery, Chapter 25 reveals a fortune teller's plan to become a youkai after his death. He does in fact become a youkai, so the plan does work... until he gets confronted by Reimu for doing so, and as a result she kills him on the spot.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy: It is constantly debated as to whether or not Aerith let Sephiroth kill her so she could become part of the Lifestream and thus aid it in saving the planet from Meteor in Final Fantasy VII. Word of God says that she wasn't supposed to be a sacrificial character, as the developers thought that was both cliche and sent a horrible message. Final Fantasy X has Seymour. His initial plan is to bond with the heroes, manipulate them into using him as a Human Sacrifice so that magic powered by that bond will make him into a ridiculously powerful spirit-monster, so together they can defeat the even more powerful spirit-monster (guaranteed to result in a Mutual Kill for the heroes who he will no longer need), so he can take its place as the resident kaiju, so he can use that ultimate power to kill ''everyone'' on the planet. In this case, the heroes do thwart Phase 1 (by not falling for his creepy attempts at friendship/romance), but he's persistent even after they kill him ahead of schedule and even as a ghost he keeps going after his ultimate goal by feeding on the spirits of the living to grow stronger and stronger In Final Fantasy XIII-2 Caius forces Noel to kill him. Why? His death meant the destruction of the Heart of Chaos, and thus Etro's death - which then caused a Time Crash so massive it (apparently) returned him to life. Cosmos orchestrates one of these in Dissidia Final Fantasy, by instilling her own power within the crystals that the 10 protagonists acquire, weakening herself enough for Chaos to defeat her and put the world on the brink of ruination. However, in doing this, she gave the 10 the strength to be able to defeat Chaos and finally end the conflict. Sephiroth also pulls this off, committing suicide during the final battle of the previous cycle to retain his memories in the next one.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_af872a82	comment	Hyde in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen volume 2. He faces the tripods by Polka dancing, and when one of them fires at him, he rips the alien out of its cockpit and eats it. This causes all the others to fire on him at once, destroying the bridge they're on and confining the aliens to one half of London.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_af95b79	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_af95b79	comment	In Death Star archivist Atour Riten stays behind while his fellow defectors get off the, well, the Death Star. Despite the Plan his pliable droid assistant has been impounded and someone still needs to cover the others, giving them clearance to launch and hopefully disabling the tractor beams. Riten is unaware that the Death Star is about to be destroyed but he does know he has minutes at best before he's apprehended by security, who're already suspicious about his droid. But he's content enough to die surrounded by the archives he'd loved and knowing that his sacrifice lets others escape.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_b0028436	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_b0028436	comment	The fifth part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure features a villain named Carne, who is unceremoniously killed off within a minute of his introduction. However, his death triggers the activation of his stand, Notorious B.I.G., which is impossible to kill because the stand user is already dead!
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Thanatos Gambit / int_b0544c25	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_b0544c25	comment	Be it Super Robot Wars 2, Super Robot Wars Alpha Gaiden or Super Robot Wars: Original Generation Gaiden, Shu Shirakawa pulls this off in all three Alternate Continuities. The reason why can be found in Part 2 of Super Robot Wars Gaiden.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_b220498f	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_b220498f	comment	X-Men: The Trial of Magneto is revealed to be this. Wanda Maximoff, having learned of the resurrection protocols of Krakoa, convinces Magneto to play along, having her killed while forcing Toad to be the Fall Guy. Doing so allows her to be resurrected by Krakoa using a previous backup before she was deemed not a mutant as it was made to look like foul play. With her resurrection and fixing of her mind, Wanda is able to use this to perform a ritual that allows Cerebro to retrieve mutants lost to it not being active when they died or dying when their X-Gene wasn't active. In other words, Wanda, long viewed as the person who terminated mutants as a species, has found a way to revitalize mutants in a way that even Charles Xavier couldn't pull off.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_b4996199	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_b4996199	comment	Spider-Man: The Clone Saga: When the Jackal finally perished, his last words ("When the dream ends, the nightmare begins!") triggered a post-hypnotic suggestion in Peter that he apparently planted in him at an earlier date, which fully activated later, compelling him to murder whoever he loved the most — that meant Mary Jane. Unable to hold back like he usually did, Spidey nearly tore New York apart trying to get to her (beating up Ben Reilly and the entire team of New Warriors in the process) while Fighting from the Inside the whole time, to no avail. Eventually, Mary Jane just gave up, stopping at Aunt May's house (obviously intended to act as a buffer, considering its importance to him). This was what finally let him break free and, for the most part, bury the Jackal forever. Peter's parents Mary and Richard Parker reveal themselves to be alive all this time, only to be exposed as Life Model Decoys, all part of a devious plot by the late Harry Osborn. Osborn, in fact, left a posthumous message for Peter to mock him, twisting the knife in even deeper. The intense trauma that the incident inflicted upon him actually caused Spidey to be Not Himself and become Darker and Edgier for a while. The trauma was compounded by the fact that Peter and Harry reconciled on Harry's deathbed.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_b54790e4	comment	Villainous example in Call Of Duty Infinite Warfare: Akeel Min Riah stabs himself in the stomach before Reyes can take him alive. In doing so, he removes and destroys the transmitter located within, giving the SDF an "all clear" signal to fly in and resume their attack on Earth.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_b5ac41e8	comment	In Call of the Night, Anko's plan to "destroy the night" involves goading any one of the vampires into killing her in such a way that the ensuing investigation into her death would reveal that whatever killed her was not human. Compounded with her true identity as Kyouko Mejiro being revealed, and subsequently the investigation into the death of her parents being re-opened, Anko hoped that in doing this the public would be made aware of the existence of vampires, and thus would keep away from the streets at night for at least the next ten years, which would starve all vampires to death. After Yamori ruins her plan by revealing it to Nazuna and stopping her from killing Anko, she more or less admits that her plan was never going to work either way. There's strong hints that Anko's plan was just an excuse to die after running on hatred for ten years.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_b7776ed1	comment	Daniel Suarez's Daemon had Sobol, who, knowing he had brain cancer, wrote a computer program that took over the world after his death. The duology is effectively a protracted Thanatos Gambit as he proceeds to posthumously outmanoeuver everyone.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_b9b58c14	comment	In Ruby Quest, the suicide of Red. Knowing that Implacable Man Ace was coming for him, he left behind a taunting note saying "Try and catch me now!" A note which, incidentally, was attached to a quite powerful bomb. This also assured that his body would never be found again. Preventing an eventual reanimation.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_b9f80fbf	comment	Greed is an ooolllld one. Silent film from the '20s in which two characters tussle over a bag of gold coins and one combatant kills the other....only to find his victim has HANDCUFFED himself to the other man before dying. The killer is shackled to a corpse. And they're in the middle of the desert.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_ba6cc3a1	comment	Granblue Fantasy: In the "Home Sweet Moon" event, Grace orchestrates her own death in a forest fire in order for the Otherworlders, who have a vested interest in the Society's moon mission, to impersonate her and hand over a critical item that they need but she was not able to give to them. In Isaac's Fate Episode story, it's revealed that Grace is Only Mostly Dead thanks to artificial body parts that the Otherworlders could not absorb.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_ba9a9454	comment	The final act of John Doe's "sermon" in Se7en — using the severed head of Detective Mills' wife to goad Mills into killing him, thus punishing Doe for his envy and casting Mills in the role of wrath.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_bb444181	comment	In Tales of the Questor, Quentyn agreed to take on the near-suicidal quest because his village will be saved if he either succeeds or die trying (the latter being the most likely in his mind, as he doesn't know of things like Plot Armors).
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Thanatos Gambit / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000 has an entire race doing this. The Eldar want to use the souls of their dead to create Ynnead, a god of death who will rise up, kill the chaos god Slaanesh, and bring the Eldar back in new, better forms. Hopefully. The thing is, the last time the Eldar played around with creating gods from their souls, they created Slaanesh, so who knows what will happen when Ynnead comes into being. Others, such as Eldrad Ulthran and the Harlequins, tried to figure out loopholes in those prophecies that won't require every remaining Eldar to die, and they actually managed to bring him into existence and enough wakefulness to begin influencing events, and create an avatar called the Yncarne. The jury's still out on just how good or bad a thing that is, but said avatar's birth BROKE Craftworld Biel-Tan.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_bcb32dc6	comment	In Shadowrun, the Great Dragon Dunkelzahn died and left his Last Will for all to see... which not only gave one man a powerful position in another megacorp where the board of that megacorp wondered if he wasn't inserted as a double agent... That doesn't even begin to cover Dunkelzahn's will. The dragon's hoard immediately made his estate very nearly a megacorp all on its own, and the will itself was apparently a major Mind Screw to his opponents (and allies,) with so many just plain odd details that nobody really knows just what was important and what was camouflage. And then there's the whole guardian spirit against the Horrors thing...
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Thanatos Gambit / int_bd68eb69	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_bd68eb69	comment	A spectacular variation in Damnatus, where Farseer Vintog Phaer does this to G'guor, despite already being dead, thanks to a Soul Jar.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_bd7f3e2	comment	In Yakuza Kiwami 2, minor villain Kei Ibuchi uses one of Majima's men to assassinate Tojo and Omi officers in order to start a war so he can take over the yakuza and implement changes in order to create a modern yakuza focused on making as much money as possible. After Majima kicks his ass for murdering the man he coerced into committing the murders, Ibuchi decides to kill himself in order to start a war anyway. It doesn't work, but Majima dissolves the Majima Family as a result since whether he was aware or not, a member of his own family committed the murders.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_be03a5ee	comment	Given that the Christians in the Tribulation who are part of the Tribulation Force in the Left Behind series know that they're going to be resurrected and will return with Jesus at the Battle of Armageddon when they die, they will pretty much do whatever they can to make sure the Antichrist and his Global Community will meet their inevitable defeat.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_c0d295c4	comment	In the backstory for Team Fortress 2, Zephaniah Mann was convinced by his sons Blutarch and Redmond to purchase land in North America — land which turned out to be worthless, and along the way, he caught a multitude of horrible diseases. In his last will, he bequeathed his worthwhile assets to his servants and left equal shares of the American land to his sons. He knew that the sons were competitive beyond reason, and quite accurately guessed that they would spend the rest of their lives fighting over the land, leading to the creation of the RED and BLU teams.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_c137ae09	comment	In God of War (PS4), Faye, Kratos's late second wife and Atreus' mother, practically engineered the whole quest to lead Atreus to Jotunheim so that he could learn his real heritage.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_c1c97f4a	comment	Dual Blades and its sequel Slashers: The Power Battle use this trope as a way to differentiate this series from most other Fighting games. Whereas the main antagonists (and Final Bosses) of various fighting games either seek to Take Over the World, Of Course, and/or prove their prowess over others to satisfy their own egos, Alperen is a warrior made immortal via the eponymous Dual Blades, but after living for 2000+ years has become miserable and decided to invite numerous warriors from around the world to try to defeat and kill him.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_c1cb1895	comment	Peace Forged in Fire: Merik tries to provoke D'trel to kill him by ranting about how he helped rape her lover to death decades before. It backfires: D'trel decides death by exploding starship is too merciful. Daysnur later determines the intent was to deny intelligence to the enemy—the Self-Destruct Mechanism and computers had been knocked offline so he couldn't get rid of the data himself. Still disgusting.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_c2463c55	comment	Final Fantasy X has Seymour. His initial plan is to bond with the heroes, manipulate them into using him as a Human Sacrifice so that magic powered by that bond will make him into a ridiculously powerful spirit-monster, so together they can defeat the even more powerful spirit-monster (guaranteed to result in a Mutual Kill for the heroes who he will no longer need), so he can take its place as the resident kaiju, so he can use that ultimate power to kill ''everyone'' on the planet. In this case, the heroes do thwart Phase 1 (by not falling for his creepy attempts at friendship/romance), but he's persistent even after they kill him ahead of schedule and even as a ghost he keeps going after his ultimate goal by feeding on the spirits of the living to grow stronger and stronger
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Thanatos Gambit / int_c34f83b2	comment	Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair: In Chapter 1, it's revealed that the first murder was a failed attempt at this by the Death Seeker Nagito, as he manipulated Teruteru into trying to kill him for the sake of his Misery Builds Character ideology. However, "Byakuya" ended up being in the wrong place at the wrong time and took the impalement for him, and Nagito decided to help Teruteru try to cover the whole thing up. Attempted and failed by Peko Pekoyama. She kills Mahiru Koizumi (who, in the past, was involved in the death of her beloved Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu's sister), then waits until the others officially vote her the murderer before revealing that she was Kuzuryu's tool, knowing that if Monokuma rules Kuzuryu as the true murderer, he would get to graduate while everyone else is executed. Thing is, while Peko killed Mahiru believing it'd be all for Kuzuryu's sake, he never saw her as a tool, but actually loved her as a person. As a result, Peko is executed by the rules of the game, and Kuzuryu loses an eye trying to help her. To say nothing of the Chapter 5 murder, in which, after finding out that the cast are actually former members of the terrorist organization Ultimate Despair, Nagito uses his Ultimate Luck to rig his death to murder all of them except the traitor from the Future Foundation (whom he didn't actually know the identity of, by the way), whom he viewed as the only innocent one and therefore the only one who deserved to "graduate". The death is originally seen as a suicide, before it's revealed that it was really an accidental murder by one of the students, with almost no way to determine who it was. Nagito's plan was for them to either mistake it for a true suicide and vote him the culprit, or be forced to blindly guess which one of them was the accidental culprit, killing them all and letting the culprit (the traitor) go free. However, through his protagonist powers and some guidance from her, Hajime reveals that the culprit and traitor is actually Chiaki Nanami. She faces her execution stoically, leaving Hajime without either of his two closest friends on the island and burdened with the knowledge of his and the others' pasts. Thanks, Nagito. Even worse, if this one had succeeded, it would have horrifically backfired, since not only does Monokuma a.k.a. the Junko AI wanted someone to graduate so that it could overwrite the minds of the dead students with its own personality, but Chiaki is also an AI and can't leave the simulation even if she did graduate. Nagito would have handed Junko all of the students to use as meat puppets.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_c4076b9e	comment	The Turin arc of Gunslinger Girl ends with Jean pulling one on Dante when the latter uses him as a human shield; however, as revealed in chapter 95, only Dante was killed when Rico ran them through with an anti-material rifle.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_c489a759	comment	In Digimon Adventure 02, the fatally wounded BlackWargreymon uses his own body to seal the Digital Gate over Hikarigaoka (Hightonview Terrace), in hopes of preventing the Big Bad from returning to the Digital World.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_c6dbe98e	comment	In Monster, Johan's ultimate goal is to commit suicide by Tenma after erasing the evidence of his existence, utterly breaking Tenma in the process. However, he fails.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_c73e62a5	comment	During the course of Gran Torino, Walt Kowalski, a crusty old man befriends his next door neighbors, who are being harassed by a local gang. He finally has enough when they do a drive-by shooting and kidnap and then rape the family's daughter. It's also implied that he's dying of lung cancer so what does he decide to do in the end? He confronts the gang and goads them into gunning him down by reaching for his lighter. In front of witnesses. Since he was considered a hero for standing up to them earlier in the film, the neighborhood breaks its silence, which ensures that the gang members will be incarcerated for murder.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_c9559974	comment	In The Gateway Chronicles, the enchantments controlling gateways are so powerful that they require the death of one person belonging to every world linked by the gateway. Darcy is killed at the Living Tree to ensure that her death collapses the gateway to Tselloch's world. Perry comes with her, as he is the only person who can defeat Tselloch's natural form. Colin kills himself to ensure that Tselloch cannot move into a new host.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_caef7cd1	comment	In the original ending for Fatal Attraction, Glenn Close's character commits suicide and leaves a recorded message implicating Michael Douglas' character for her murder - and his fingerprints on the weapon.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_cbad9b62	comment	Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Magnificent Bastard Adrian Rubinsky learns that he's dying of a brain tumor, so he hooks himself up with a Dead Man's Switch before allowing himself to be captured by the Empire. Once Emperor Reinhard is close enough that Rubinsky's bomb stands a good chance of taking him out, he switches off his life support. Somewhat unusually, he completely fails. Paul von Oberstein has a plan to eliminate all the remaining Earth Cult terrorists by making them blow up his office instead of Reinhard's bedroom. What makes it a Thanatos is that he deliberately stayed in the office when the attack took place.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_cd899ed6	comment	The Grand Finale of Justice League Unlimited is set up when Lex sacrifices Tala to resurrect Brainiac but ends up bringing back Darkseid. It's suggested by DVD Commentary of that episode that Tala made sure it was Darkseid and not Brainiac that came back, as a final "screw you" to Lex.note Though to be honest, it was unlikely that Brainiac could be brought back through magic anyway, as Tala already explained as such beforehand.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_d0d11190	comment	There was one time where the Joker killed himself to ruin Batman's reputation: Batman: The Dark Knight Returns.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_d36dd4db	comment	In the fist book of V. E. Schwab's The Villains Series, protagonist Victor needs to deal with his treacherous former friend turned serial killer Eli Ever - not an easy proposition, because Eli is an unaging, apparently immortal regenerator. What Vic has on his side is a 13-year-old girl capable of resurrecting the dead. His solution is to force Eli into a bloody final showdown. When the police arrive, they find Vic's bloody mangled corpse and a live Eli claiming self-defense - which no one believes, since his wounds have all closed up. Eli is sentenced to life in prison, and the last scene of the book is of the resurrecting girl digging up Victor's grave.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_d3ed7c4c	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_d3ed7c4c	comment	In Takeshi Kitano's Brother (1997), Katsu kills himself in order to get another Yakuza living in the US to join forces with Yamamoto.
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Brother (1997)	hasFeature	Thanatos Gambit / int_d3ed7c4c
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Thanatos Gambit / int_d528a31d	comment	An Exercise in Futility: Ezekiel, being a necromancer who is about to be trampled by an invading army, reasons that he can just kill himself now and bring himself back to life later. It works.
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An Exercise in Futility	hasFeature	Thanatos Gambit / int_d528a31d
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Thanatos Gambit / int_d57d722e	comment	In Ōkami, Himiko gets Ninetails to kill her with the Fox Rods in order to use the power of said artifact to locate Oni Island, thus allowing Amaterasu and Issun to get there and take out Ninetails for good.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_d5bdc32e	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_d5bdc32e	comment	Gothwrain, the were-rat villain from Gold Digger, spent most of his magically-extended life setting up his own death. Having been enslaved by his own creation's were-rat thrall effect for the majority of his life, he sought to end his life such that he would become free of the thrall spell, and live out the rest of eternity in paradise with the woman he loved (who also happened to be the very were-rat who'd enslaved him). To add insult to injury, he planned to kill off all of the worst enemies in the same blast that would end his life. It worked, and he and his love died, with their souls shunted into a paradise dimension. But at the last moment, his Karma Houdini is mercilessly reversed when his enemies are surprisingly saved, and he discovers that someone much more powerful than himself already rules over paradise, enslaving his soul for eternity.
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Gold Digger (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Thanatos Gambit / int_d5bdc32e
Thanatos Gambit / int_d5cc6418	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_d5cc6418	comment	Largo Winch: After a lifetime of pulling the strings, Nerio Winch even tries to use his death to his advantage and arranges for a subordinate he wants to get rid of to shoot him — too bad the guy sees through the scheme and decides to make it look like suicide instead, asking him what it feels like not being in control for the first time in his life before he throws him off the roof. And in the end, the old guy still gets the upper hand when it turns out that he has secretly adopted an heir (the protagonist). Notable is that Largo hates Nerio with a passion, yet carries out his will anyway.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_d796465d	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_d796465d	comment	The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers: Ironfist pulls a brilliant one on his False Friend Skyfall in the Bullets prose story. After his death, Ironfist leaves a pre-recorded message for Skyfall, explaining that he knows Skyfall was the one who engineered his death just so he could get Ironfist's workshop and has finally realized what a sociopathic jackass he's been. Close to the end of the message, Ironfist reveals that the message released on the same frequency as his "Wreckers Declassified" blog, meaning four thousand other Autobots were listening to it as well. Cue the police breaking down the door and Skyfall frantically committing suicide by leftover chemical weaponry.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_d7c4626a	comment	The Sandman (1989): Morpheus has been unknowingly planning his own death pretty much since he got out of his prison.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_d908efc	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_d908efc	comment	Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: Shinobu correctly predicted that she doesn't stand a chance against the Upper-2 Kizuki Doma, so she ingested massive doses of wisteria poison for a year to make her body seven-hundred times toxic in case Doma would eat her alive (which he did, since he's so obsessed with eating women), weakening him long enough for Kanao and Inosuke to finish him off.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park: In the Imaginationland Trilogy, terrorists attack Imaginationland to start a war between Imaginationland's Good and Evil Imaginationland characters — each manifestation of collective imagination's good thoughts and bad thoughts, respectively— to destroy them all. Supposedly unable to kill all of each side at once, they attack the Good characters' territory claiming to be sent by the Evil characters while attacking the Evil characters' territory and framing the Good characters. Then, they trick the Evil characters into killing them all, destroying any chance of knowing the terrorists were responsible for this war, so that the war would continue until the entire population is dead—Good and Evil characters alike—despite the possibility that one side could win, which turned out to be the Good characters led by a messianic Butters, after the Evil characters, led by the Woodland Creatures, destroyed any excuse that they were as much the terrorists' pawns as the Good Characters.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_d9e5ee89	comment	The Hellblazer arc "Dangerous Habits" provides what may be the quintessential example. John Constantine knows he's dying of lung cancer, so he decides to take a massive risk and, in one of his last acts on Earth, really fuck with Hell. His soul is already the right of the First of the Fallen by insult (he tricked the First into drinking holy water), so he sells his soul to both the Second and the Third of the Fallen, the First's co-rulers in Hell. And then he slits his wrist, forcing the three rulers of Hell to decide whether to go to war over John's soul (and risk letting Heaven take over) or cure his cancer. They choose to cure the cancer. And after that's all said and done, John repays them by turning around and giving them the finger, saying, "Up yours." Also, note this story may not be part of the main continuity since The Fallen were not referenced in the Reign in Hell miniseries (which was about a war to take over hell.)
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Thanatos Gambit / int_dcb07085	comment	An old man in Soul Music leaves his fortune to the cat, thus setting his relatives (whom he hated) and his pet (ditto) at each others' throats.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_df277244	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_df277244	comment	Mr. Wednesday of American Gods allowed himself to take a sniper round to the head in order to convince the old gods to go to war with the new gods, so he and Loki could feed on the power from their deaths. It's implied he would have been revived had his plan succeeded.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_e29bc178	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_e29bc178	comment	Men with Brooms: Donald Foley dies recovering the last of the Magellan Stones, and in his will, guilt-trips his former curling team into reuniting and winning the Golden Broom.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_e4a1416	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_e4a1416	comment	Harry himself falls victim to a death curse, although the full ramifications of it are not totally explained. "Die alone." As of the end of Changes, this curse may have already been fulfilled.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_e4d5575	comment	In WarCraft, Llane orders Garona to kill him to put her back in favour with the Horde, ensuring that she can open negotiations between orcs and humans and thus save Llane's kingdom.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_e67a7d6c	comment	Negima! Magister Negi Magi gives us Kurt Godel, who taunted Negi into losing control of his Superpowered Evil Side, apparently so that Negi would kill him and be considered a national enemy. This plan fails, and he admits that it would have been better if Negi killed him, but he isn't too discouraged by it and simply moves on to plan B. And then to a Heelâ€“Face Turn.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_e75c6d45	comment	Dellyn Goblinslayer attempts this in Goblins. The legacy he had built for himself in Brassmoon, his legend and all of his works have all been systematically torn apart by Thaco within the last week. Even if he survives he will be forgotten. But then he realizes he has one last chance for immortality: he tries to manipulate Thaco into killing him after a final confrontation so that in the years to come the story of Dellyn Goblinslayer will be told among the goblin tribes, forever emblazoning him on their racial memory. And Thaco... lets him live.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_eaeeea9b	comment	According to cutscenes from StarCraft II, the Overmind was not acting out of malice. Despite having total control of the swarm, it was not blessed with perfect free will, having an over-riding directive to consume and destroy (especially if its target was Protoss). (Except for the part about Protoss, the fact that the Xel'Naga, more specifically Amon and his followers instilled such a directive in the Zerg as part of their attempt to create a race with "Purity of Spirit" is established in the original game's manual, but a lot of people either didn't read that part or ignore it.) This directive may have come from the Xel'naga (Amon again), in an effort to take revenge on the Protoss for not being good children. The Overmind foresaw the effects of this directive: the end of all life at the hands of another power in the void. So along the way to kill the Protoss, it started looking for a replacement. It chooses a human psionic, Sarah Kerrigan, who when properly infested could gain control over the Zerg. Then it decided to take physical form in Aiur, the homeworld of the Protoss, likely the only race in the galaxy save the Xel'Naga who could kill the Overmind. And by taking physical form, it made its own demise possible. However, it also made sure that Kerrigan was conveniently occupied elsewhere during its fateful meeting with Tassadar. Kerrigan, not plagued with that pesky directive, would be able to guide the Zerg and prevent universal doom. Thus, the Overmind goes from former Big Bad to working for the good guys all along. Nice one, Blizzard. This also ties up a couple of plot stupidities from the first game. The Overmind made a big deal about Kerrigan being really, really important. So why leave her behind on Char when he attacked Aiur? Now we know; so that she could take over after he was dead. Also, why bother taking physical form, when physical forms have a nasty habit of being killable? Well, if you're all incorporeal and unkillable, you can't pull off a Thanatos Gambit, can you? On a lesser note, it is hinted in the lore that when an Archon is created by merging two templar, the templar are essentially killed and the Archon is actually a new powerful being that is an expression of pure rage that is not entirely stable and will dissipate automatically after a short time. While archons have no time limit in-game, they are incredibly short-lived compared to even a human lifespan. Obviously, in the lore, the protoss consider Archons to be something only to be used after crossing the Godzilla Threshold.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_ec02633a	comment	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt: In the climax of the Battle of Kaer Morhen, the Wild Hunt have gotten past everyone else, Imlerith is holding Vesemir by the throat, and Ciri is about to surrender to Eredin. Vesemir futilely stabs Imlerith, who then breaks his neck and throws him to the ground. Seeing this triggers an explosion of Ciri's power, which forces the Wild Hunt to retreat, without her.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_eda8ee1a	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_eda8ee1a	comment	A New World has Gensokyo Manipulative Bitch Yukari Yakumo set one such plan. It's a testament to her manipulative prowess, the predictability of her enemies, or both, that it succeeds flawlessly three hundred years after her death.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_edbc9738	comment	Transmetropolitan: Spider's ex-wife sets one up the night before she went into cryogenic suspension. Specifically, she went and pissed off a group of touch-phobic radicals, screaming her name so they'd know who to seek revenge on, the night before she froze her head. Because her actions exiled one of their own, they sought retribution. When the group finally tracked her down and found she was a frozen head, they went after next of kin, ie, Spider. They thought that Spider, as her ex-husband, would still care about her safety and kidnapped her head as collateral. Spider proceeded to throw her head into the river. Blood debt repaid, the radicals thanked him, saying they were big fans.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_ee66462b	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_ee66462b	comment	Dr. STONE: Senku anticipated Tsukasa's Faceâ€“Heel Turn and started performing a Character Tic that drew attention to his neck; when Tsukasa attempted to give him a quick and painless death he struck that precise spot. After getting away Taiju and Yuzuriha discover a tiny patch of petrified skin at the base of Senku's neck and figure out that he was specifically baiting Tsukasa to strike him in that spot because they could use the secondary healing aspect of the de-petrification process to bring him back to life, which would buy them some (but not much) breathing room while Tsukasa still believed him dead.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_eedac02b	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_eedac02b	comment	Durarara!!: Subverted. After Celty foils Izaya's plot to off Shizuo, he is forced to run for his life with the other man coming after him. So, in a last-ditch ploy to finally defeat his greatest enemy, Izaya intentionally rushes out into a massive crowd and the two begin to fight. Aoba explains the info broker's Xanatos Gambit as follows — should Izaya kill Shizuo, then he wins, but if Shizuo murders Izaya in front of everyone, he will be rejected by society for being the monster Izaya sees him as. However, while goading Shizuo to perform the coup-de-grace, Izaya is stabbed by Vorona, who attempts to kill him on Shizuo's behalf, though Simon likewise interferes, allowing Izaya to escape.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_eef69f10	comment	One of the older examples is the Sherlock Holmes story The Problem of Thor Bridge, involving a woman who appears to have been killed by the governess. It turns out the woman believed that the governess was sleeping with her husband (she wasn't, but even so his love for the governess had ruined their already unhappy marriage) and arranged her suicide to look like murder. Holmes himself pretends to have been exposed to a fatal disease in The Adventure of the Dying Detective, knowing his would-be murderer will take the opportunity to gloat about how he'd arranged it.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_ef705f6d	comment	Mr and Mrs Gold: As a part of Rumpelstiltskinâ€™s â€œHoney-Doâ€� list for her to do before the Dark Curse hits, Belle poisons herself, relying on the magic of the mark her husband gave her to resuscitate her after she sees Baelfire's mortal-state recorded in the Underworld.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_ef9ba9b4	comment	Revenge of the Sith: This is a common Sith temptation to The Dark Side (as evidenced by Palpatine doing the same thing to Anakin in this movie that he tries on Luke years later), because of the overarching creed of If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him! the Jedi abide by: if a Jedi finds a Sith Lord, the Sith Lord simply stands down and pretends to be defenseless in order to be non-threatening, meaning if the Jedi takes their life at that point it was of their own motivation and thus they have succumbed to the Dark (hatred). A Sith Lord must be ready for death at any time (due to Klingon Promotion and all the risks that come with it) so using one's own death as the linchpin of a Faceâ€“Heel Turn for a Jedi is a perfectly acceptable endgame.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_f163bd9f	comment	In ElfQuest - Shards Winnowill, rather than letting herself be contained, allows Grohmul Djun to kill her. This would have meant her spirit was free of her body, and she could (at least try) to take control of the Palace of the High Ones. Rayek did step in to play living Pandora's Box, but it was a big Oh, Crap! moment.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_f1aaf6d5	comment	The goal of Lord Ravannavar from Indivisible is to release Kala from her prison so she can destroy and remake the world. This is not a plan he expects to survive anyways, so he's perfectly happy to let the Ajna, who is hungry for vengenace after Ravannavar ordered her father slain, take his head, using her fury to break Kala loose.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_f3c92203	comment	The Cat Who... Series: In book #6 (The Cat Who Played Post Office), after Penelope Goodwinter's apparent suicide, Qwilleran receives a posthumous letter claiming she expects to be murdered by her brother for her part in arranging (and then exposing) the murder of a girl he'd impregnated. Qwilleran eventually realizes she did commit suicide, and sent the letter to frame her brother — but by then, he's committed suicide as well.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_f8956ef3	comment	YuYu Hakusho: Sensui's true goal was to open a portal to the Makai so that he could be killed by a demon stronger than him, to atone for all the demons he had mercilessly killed as a Spirit Detective. Achieving this involved an arc spanning Evil Plan and involving almost every single character in the story arc, and even a couple characters from a previous one.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_f9b9dfe4	comment	Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, the ambition of Sephiran, right-hand of the goddess Ashera, is to have his creator destroy all of humanity as he sees the creation as flawed after the Begnion beorc burned down a country of laguz. When the heroes finally meet him, it is on the way to the goddess who is about to pass judgment on the world. The final door is locked by Sephiran's magic, and he assures them that the only way they'll get through is by killing him. The group promptly defeats him, and it turns out that his act was only a final move to ascertain that his own suffering would be put to an end. Tricking the heroes into killing him was his only way out, since he had been blessed with immortality and invincibility by Ashera, and could thus only be damaged by weaponry blessed by the other goddess, Yune. If the player meets certain conditions, his gambit fails, in that he survives, thankfully gaining a new will to live in the process.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_fa738078	comment	In Sailor Moon, Queen Serenity pulled one of these. Knowing that the Dark Kingdom would be reborn sooner or later and that she was in her last moments after fully releasing the power of the Silver Crystal, she used her last bit of energy to release the souls of the fallen Seishi, Endymion and Princess Serenity so they'd be reincarnated as well, while also freezing the still living Luna and Artemis in a Convenient Coma so they could become their guides.)
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Thanatos Gambit / int_fe52f6ff	comment	In Dead Mount Death Play, Corpse God was converted into a lich which denied him the chance of a natural death. Desiring to live in a peaceful world, he developed a reincarnation spell that would activate on the moment of his death and send his soul to another world. When Calamity Crusher attacked him, Corpse God used the opportunity to die and activate the spell.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_fe83990a	comment	Saint Seiya: Virgo Shaka. Note his intention was going to Hell. Also, technically he didn't die, but found a way to go to Hell alive. Which involved being killed. Volker from the Ansgard saga, who acted like a jerk on purpose for years and deliberately abused his heir and adopted son Mime to goad the kid into killing him — so he would go down fighting instead of dying of a long-time illness, and would be able to atone for having (accidentally) killed Mime's parents in the last wars.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_fe85bfc8	type	Thanatos Gambit
Thanatos Gambit / int_fe85bfc8	comment	A common Kirby tactic in the disrespectful side of the various Super Smash Bros.. In a stock battle, carrying the foe over the edge with you via certain moves will lead to your death and theirs... but if you have a life left and they don't, you still win.
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Thanatos Gambit / int_ff536b75	comment	In The Ghost Brigades, Jared Dirac is a genetically-modified clone of Charles Boutin with some of Boutin's memories. In the end, Boutin captures Dirac and intends to transfer his mind into Dirac's brain in order to infiltrate the CDF and spread his BrainPal virus. Dirac manages to send his goodbyes to his commanding officer and asks her to rescue Boutin's daughter (who Dirac feels is his own daughter too). He then has an Obi-Wan Moment, when Boutin starts the mind-transfer process. As soon as it's complete, Boutin receives a message in his BrainPal. He accesses it. It's from Dirac, timed to appear when Dirac estimated Boutin would take possession of his body. Dirac explains that he discovered an interesting way to use his SmartBlood (composed of nanites) to kill and has programmed his entire SmartBlood supply to ignite upon a trigger in this same message. So long, Boutin!
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Vangers (Video Game) / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Vigilant (Video Game) / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Video Game) / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Yakuza 0 (Video Game) / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten / Videogame / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Outlast / Videogame / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Portal Stories: Mel / Videogame	seeAlso	Thanatos Gambit
Demonbane (Visual Novel) / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Fantasia Otome Game Series (Visual Novel) / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney â€“ Spirit of Justice (Visual Novel) / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Virtue's Last Reward (Visual Novel) / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Zero Time Dilemma (Visual Novel) / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Glitchtale (Web Animation) / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
No Evil (Web Animation) / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
SBB Brothers (Web Animation) / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Underverse (Web Animation) / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Where Was My Hero...? (Web Animation) / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Dream (Web Video) / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
ＬＯＣＡＬ５８ (Web Video) / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Dear Nemesis (Webcomic) / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Demon Thesis (Webcomic) / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Erfworld (Webcomic) / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Goblins (Webcomic) / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic) / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Ruby Quest (Webcomic) / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (Webcomic) / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Storyshift (Webcomic) / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Tails Gets Trolled (Webcomic) / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
The Book of Lore (Webcomic) / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
The Boy Who Fell (Webcomic) / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Trixie Slaughteraxe for President (Webcomic) / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
TwoKinds (Webcomic) / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
YU+ME: dream (Webcomic) / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Delta State / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Hilda and the Mountain King / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Triple H (Wrestling) / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash (Comic Book) / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- (Manga) / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit

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