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Recently in v4, Dawne Jiang commits suicide by remaining in a dangerzone after it has been announced as such. Hermione Miller and Violetta Lindsberg also commit suicide by pulling on their collars. Maria Graham attempts suicide by trying to slash her own throat with a shard of broken glass.
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The Suicide Squad is a 2021 ensemble superhero Science Fiction war Black Comedy film written and directed by James Gunn, based on the DC Comics title of the same name. It is the tenth installment of the DC Extended Universe, serving as a standalone sequel and Soft Reboot to 2016's Suicide Squad.
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For fear or shame. Whatever the reason (a guilty conscience, the world is simply too much to bear, or unreasonable self-hatred) the character may be Driven to Suicide. This may be as little as pondering their existence or as much as holding a gun to one's head. Most times the character will have second thoughts, or will be talked down by a friend. But in shows where Anyone Can Die, the character may go through with it. In any case this is a powerful way to underscore the desperation of the character. In a Backstory, being Driven to Suicide can illuminate the character's Dark and Troubled Past.
In some cases the reason for suicide may not be depression, but honor, as with ritual suicide. This obviously is more common in Japanese works (as in Japanese culture, traditionally suicide can be done to cleanse one's honor) than in Western ones (as in some Christian sects, suicide traditionally is a shameful act—but classical settings allow it to be presented as honourable, e.g. in Shakespeare). It was also accepted by various ancient Greek philosophies, particularly that of the Stoics, as well as the ancient Romans and Egyptians; both of whom lauded it as a dignified and timely alternative to illness, dementia, or disgrace. Some Proud Warrior Races, such as the nomadic Scythians, preferred suicide as an alternative to dying in bed, thus making this trope Older Than Feudalism. By contrast, Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, et al.) abhor suicide, believing that only God is permitted to say when a life may be ended—however, there is considerable debate over issues like terminal illness and capital punishment.
Sometimes this is done to deliver An Aesop about teen suicide by having Long-Lost Uncle Aesop show up in a Very Special Episode.
At the other extreme, victims of The Corruption, Compelling Voice, or other forms of compulsion may resort to becoming a hero to prevent the monster they are about to become from being unleashed on the world. This may allow Dying as Yourself.
This is regularly played for laughs, despite being Dude, Not Funny. Also incidentally, pushing someone into this is treated the same as premeditated first-degree murder in many countries. Unfortunately, minors can be total monsters to each other, and grave bullying at school or elsewhere often can have very sad consequences (the bully more often than not also gets off with a simple slap on the wrist, too).
Super-Trope of Leave Behind a Pistol. See also: I Cannot Self-Terminate, Suicide by Cop, Ate His Gun, Bath Suicide, Better to Die Than Be Killed, Goodbye, Cruel World, Suicide by Sunlight and Murder-Suicide. Contrast Face Death with Dignity, where one chooses to face the music (and the bullets); Bungled Suicide and Interrupted Suicide, where the character's attempt fails or is stopped by somebody else; Happily-Failed Suicide, where the character is grateful to be alive after all, and Suicide Is Painless, where the character has no reason to commit suicide, but does so anyway.
•A "Stop global warming" ad shows CGI animals committing suicide. A chimp hangs himself. A polar bear jumps off the last ice berg. A kangaroo jumps in front of a train.
•Arguably, Yomodo Chisa in Serial Experiments Lain. Although it's heavily implied that she did it to escape the Epiphanic Prison of reality, in theory the corrupting contact with 'God' made her do it.
•Several in Monster. After Nina finally regains most of her memories, Tenma had to talk her out of suicide.
•Then, of course, there's Johan, who's entire life's work and goal can be chalked down to the perfect suicide. Unfortunately, he feels it necessary to take the world with him...
•And Johan is also an expert at driving perfectly sane and normal people to suicide through total Mind Rape. And he does it a lot.
•Yuria, Kenshiro's fiancee of Fist of the North Star, throws herself off a building after witnessing the atrocities committed in her name by Shin (who had taken her away from Kenshiro), aided and abetted by Shin declaring that with the current Southern Cross burning down, he'll build a new one bigger and better than the last, which Yuria sees as an excuse for more death and destruction and in HER name to boot. Later on, Shin himself throws himself off of the very same building as a point of pride after Kenshiro mortally wounds him, intending to die from the impact, before the Kenshiro-inflicted mortal wound. In Yuria's case, however, she survived. Only for us to learn she's dying of radiation poisoning anyway. Well, at least she gets to spend her last days with Kenshiro...
•After being part of a genocidal slaughter, Roy Mustang from Fullmetal Alchemist felt so guilty over the horrors he participated in that he tried to commit suicide by eating his gun right on the spot, but was stopped from pulling the trigger by his mentor Dr. Marcoh (in the first anime)/his best friend Maes Hughes (in the manga).
•Green Lantern John Stewart nearly killed himself after being unable to stop the destruction of an inhabited planet (partly due to his own overconfidence). Martian Manhunter used reverse psychology to talk him out of it.
•Black Hand killed himself (not to mention his family) only to be raised as the first Black Lantern by Nekron and Scar, beginning the Blackest Night.
•Nny, the protagonist of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, regularly attempts to end his life, though he is always stopped by one thing or another. He does eventually end up killing himself... though he didn't mean to.
•It was through a suicide machine designed to kill him when he answers his phone. Guess what happens for the first time ever?
•Yorick Brown of Y: The Last Man (yes, his father was a Shakespeare fan) becomes a subconscious Death Seeker out of survivor guilt after the Gendercide. Culper Ring agent 711 tortures and abuses him until he's fully Driven to Suicide... but he has an epiphany and decides to live, which 711 reveals was the goal in the first place.
•Alter also puts a gun to her head in one scene. She doesn't pull the trigger because Alter wants to die in combat and therefore only a man (Yorick) has the right to kill her. Alter's self-destructive actions are motivated by Survivor Guilt, most likely over the accidental death of her sister at the hands of the Israeli military.
•In Bearskin, when the hero, appalling shaggy, filthy and ragged, but rich, rescues a man from financial distress, the man promises that he may marry one of his daughters. Only the youngest is willing. However, his appearance stemmed from a Deal with the Devil, and that being over, he cleans up nicely, and the older sisters are reduced to envy and commit suicide. The Devil exults to the hero that he has got two souls instead of the one.
•Other variants of this type of tale include Don Giovanni de la Fortuna, The Soldier and the Bad Man, The Road to Hell, The Reward of Kindness, The Devil As Partner and Never Wash.
•In Naruto Veangance Revelaitons, Naruto commits suicide out of jealousy toward Ronan after Ronan catches him having sex with his wife Sakura.
•In My Immortal, Draco commits suicide at one point, leading Ebony to attempt the same. Draco is alive the next time he's mentioned.
•In MGLN Crisis, Raquel Benna commits suicide after telling Fate the truth about her origins, not wanting Fate to have to arrest her.
•Shockingly enough, this happens to Meta Knight in The Dream Land Story. His one goal was to destroy Dark Matter, and kills himself after Kirby beats him to the job.
•Inner Demons: After Queen!Twilight Sparkle cements her Face Heel Turn, Fluttershy is left so far past the Despair Event Horizon that she attempts to throw herself off a cliff. Fortunately, Big Mac shows up in time to stop her, and her talks her down.
•In the fanfic The Best Night Ever, Prince Blueblood goes through a phase where he kills himself in ever more elaborate ways due to Sanity Slippage caused by being trapped in a Groundhog Day Loop that forces him to relive the day of the disastrous Grand Galloping Gala over and over and over again.
•Phil in Groundhog Day tries several methods of suicide, presumably out of boredom after being forced to relive the same day of his life so many times in a row. Among the methods he tries are: jumping off a building, stepping in front of a speeding bus, a fiery high-speed chase ending in a car crash and dropping a toaster into his bath tub. And while all of these actually succeed, it does not stop him from waking up alive every morning on February 2.
•In The Quiet Earth, most of the world's population has disappeared thanks to a mysterious experiment, and one person who felt responsible for the disaster chose suicide over living with the guilt. The twist here is that the man who committed suicide is the main character, and he survives to wander in an empty world, consumed by guilt and loneliness, because he succeeded at killing himself at the exact moment that the world ended.
•Jericho Cane in End of Days contemplates suicide every Christmas because his wife and daughter were killed while doing his job.
•George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life: Every golden opportunity is frustrated by his self-imposed duties, until one Christmas Eve, when Potter seizes an opportunity to steal $8,000 from the Bailey Building & Loan, then threatens to charge George with the theft. He is saved by his guardian angel as he contemplates jumping off a bridge.
•Ironically, he ends up jumping off the bridge anyway to save said guardian angel.
•In Lost and Delirious, Paulie jumps off the school roof after Tori rejects her
•Happens to quite a few of H.P. Lovecraft's characters after surviving some form of Cosmic Horror or another. The narrator of Dagon is one example, as is the protagonist's uncle in The Shadow Over Innsmouth after learning of the family's monstrous heritage.
•Stephen King's IT: When he finds out that the title character has returned, Stan is so terrified that he decides to kill himself rather than face the monster again. And yes, he's that terrified of It.
•The character Cass Anders shoots himself in the Callahans Crosstime Saloon short story "Fivesight" because he sees the future, but cannot change it or what he tries to prevent ends even more disasterously. He crossed his Despair Event Horizon when he forsees but fails to prevent his stepson's death by car accident.
•In Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality novel On a Pale Horse, after thoroughly screwing himself over with several bad descisions, Zane decides to kill himself. (He gets better when he winds up killing and replacing Death.)
•This was how Brave New World ended. The protagonist who never had a happy life at his old place but adopted their beliefs moved with Bernard back to London which like all the world except where he came from and maybe the islands (unless those fall under Released to Elsewhere) is a Crap Saccharine World where there is no free will and everybody is on drugs all the time. John eventually undergoes a Heroic BSOD which eventually makes him go against everything he believed in and cave into the peer pressure. He hangs himself in an act of honor.
•In House of the Scorpion, Tam Lin drinks wine only he knew was poisoned as an atonment for planting a bomb that accidently killed twenty schoolkids.
•In the 2000s Battlestar Galactica, Boomer begins having suicidal thoughts when she begins to suspect that she's a Cylon, and Baltar — who knows for a fact that she is — pushes her over the edge, causing her to shoot herself. She ends up jerking the gun away and letting the bullet pass through her cheek, leading her to wonder later whether her programming prevented her from killing herself until after her mission was accomplished, or if she was just a lousy shot.
•In later seasons, this also happens. Dualla does this after returning from the nuked Earth. In the finale Brother Cavil, upon seeing that his plans have been ruined, simply yells "FRAK!", shoves a gun into his mouth and pulls the trigger.
•That last one is subject to Alternative Character Interpretation: Cavil had gotten so used to resurrection that he instinctively tried to suicide as a Villain Exit Stage Left. In the heat of the moment, he completely forgot that he couldn't resurrect anymore. Oops.
•D'Anna Biers is Driven to Suicide for a different reason: After her first death, she becomes obsessed with the "place between life and death" and begins to kill herself...over and over in hopes of glimpsing into something she isn't supposed to know.
•She gets an actual an actual one after the Fleet comes across the nuked remains of Earth. She chooses to stay behind and presumably dies. Since she was the only living Number Three at the time, this action also ends her line.
•A favorite tactic of the First Evil on Buffy the Vampire Slayer is to use its shapeshifting powers to play mind games to trick heroes into destroying themselves. It actually talked potential Slayer Chloe into hanging herself in "Get It Done".
•The subject of the song "Inside the Fire" by Disturbed. Based on a true story in the lead singer's life.
•Close to half of defunct Finnish metal band Sentenced's studio output dealt with the subject. Then again, with songs like "Excuse Me While I Kill Myself", "Consider Us Dead" and "End of the Road", it's kind of their thing.
•The 17-year-old runaway girl protagonist of Marillion's Concept Album Brave endures alienation, abuse, betrayal, addiction and rape and ends up killing herself.
•In the film version, she does. On the album, it's quite ambiguous.
•Nerd Core artist MC Lars wrote a song called "Twenty-Three" about a real life friend named Patrick Wood who drove himself to suicide.
•Kate Bush has two:
A Heroic Suicide engages in lethal activity BECAUSE it will get him killed. The clearest examples are when a character personally will become the threat that endangers others, and they have to kill themselves to prevent it.
Finn: "Thanks guys. Your blood oath is now fulfilled." Balloons: "YAY! To the Mesosphere! FINALLY, WE CAN DIE!" In Real Life, suicide is a very serious matter. People generally commit suicide, or attempt suicide, because they are simply unable to cope with life and with their emotions...
Suicide Squad Isekai (Japanese: 異世界スーサイド・スクワッド, Hepburn: Isekai Sūsaido・Sukuwaddo) is an anime TV series based on the Suicide Squad from DC Comics. [3]
