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* ''Film/{{Corsage}}'': As her cousin Ludwig lampshades, Elisabeth spends most of the film in various moods with an apparent death wish. She's unhappy with her lot in life and her social set reducing her to the Austro-Hungarian Empire's pretty face. Finally she [[spoiler:jumps off a boat off the coast of Italy, her final fate in this retelling unknown.]]
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* ''Film/TheresaAndAllison'': Theresa met a woman who'd wanted to die, willingly becoming her victim. She also fed on junkies, secretly hoping it would kill her due to [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone her guilt over this]].
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* In a similar vein to ''Tombstone'', ''Film/TheShootist'' sees Creator/JohnWayne play as an aging gunslinger hoping for one last good gunfight before his cancer claims him, knowing full well that he is an anachronism in 1901. [[spoiler:He actually ''wins'' his last gunfight against his old enemies, leaving him wondering what to do next... so deep in thought, he doesn't notice the bartender with the shotgun.]]
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* In a similar vein to ''Tombstone'', ''Film/TheShootist'' sees Creator/JohnWayne play as an aging gunslinger hoping for one last good gunfight and to [[DiedOnTheirBirthday go out with a bang on his birthday]] before his cancer claims him, knowing full well that he is an anachronism in 1901. [[spoiler:He actually ''wins'' his last gunfight against his old enemies, leaving him wondering what to do next... so deep in thought, he doesn't notice the bartender with the shotgun.]]
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* [[spoiler:Lumalee]], in the ''WesternAnimation/SuperMarioBrosMovie'', is a death seeker played for BlackComedy. Really. In practically every scene he's in, he talks about how he seeks the sweet release of death and is visibly disappointed when [[spoiler:Donkey Kong saves him and all of Bowser's other prisoners from being dunked in lava]]. For some, this makes him the most entertaining character of all.
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* [[spoiler:Lumalee]], in the ''WesternAnimation/SuperMarioBrosMovie'', ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'', is a death seeker played for BlackComedy. Really. In practically every scene he's in, he talks about how he seeks the sweet release of death and is visibly disappointed when [[spoiler:Donkey Kong saves him and all of Bowser's other prisoners from being dunked in lava]]. For some, this makes him the most entertaining character of all.
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* [[spoiler:Lumalee]], in the ''WesternAnimation/SuperMarioBrosMovie'', is a death seeker played for BlackComedy. Really. In practically every scene he's in, he talks about how he seeks the sweet release of death and is visibly disappointed when [[spoiler:Donkey Kong saves him and all of Bowser's other prisoners from being dunked in lava]]. For some, this makes him the most entertaining character of all.
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* ''Film/Rogue2020'': During the rescue mission against the al-Shabaab compound, Pata takes several suicidal risks; including standing up in direct line of fire of the jihadists to get a better shot at them and is only saved when one of his squad mates drags him down. Later it is revealed that Pata used to be a member of al-Shabaab, and that the group killed his family when he became a DefectorFromDecadence, and he is now seeking to die. He eventually manages to kill Masakh, the man who executed his family, in a BattleAmongstTheFlames before expiring from his wounds: finally satisfied.
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* ''Film/Rogue2020'': During the rescue mission against the al-Shabaab compound, Pata takes several suicidal risks; including standing up in direct line of fire of the jihadists to get a better shot at them and is only saved when one of his squad mates drags him down. Later it is revealed that Pata used to be a member of al-Shabaab, and that the group killed his family when he became a DefectorFromDecadence, and he is now seeking to die. He eventually manages to kill Masakh, the man who executed his family, in a BattleAmongstTheFlames before expiring from his wounds: finally satisfied.satisfied.
* ''Film/Youth2017'': At one point during the war, Liu Feng insists on being left behind while injured. Suizi, narrating, speculates that he wanted to be a martyr.
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* ''Film/Youth2017'': At one point during the war, Liu Feng insists on being left behind while injured. Suizi, narrating, speculates that he wanted to be a martyr.
-->'''Suizi:''' Only through sacrifice would his ordinary life become a hero's tale.
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* ''{{Film/Compulsion}}'': [[spoiler:Saffron]] is revealed as wanting to die more than anything because of her traumatic past.
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* ''{{Film/Compulsion}}'': ''Film/Compulsion2013'': [[spoiler:Saffron]] is revealed as wanting to die more than anything because of her traumatic past.
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* ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'': the Polka-Dot Man combines a DarkAndTroubledPast with a bunch of additional personal issues and a power that both makes him an object of mockery and inflicts BodyHorror on him if he doesn't use it regularly. When Bloodsport mutters that [[ThisIsGonnaSuck they're going to die]], all he can say is, "I hope so." [[spoiler:He gets his wish when Starro crushes him.]]
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* ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'': the Polka-Dot Man combines a DarkAndTroubledPast with a bunch of additional personal issues and a power that both makes him an object of mockery and inflicts BodyHorror on him if he doesn't use it regularly. When Bloodsport mutters that [[ThisIsGonnaSuck they're going to die]], all he can say is, "I hope so." [[spoiler:He gets his wish when Starro crushes him.]]]]
* ''Film/Rogue2020'': During the rescue mission against the al-Shabaab compound, Pata takes several suicidal risks; including standing up in direct line of fire of the jihadists to get a better shot at them and is only saved when one of his squad mates drags him down. Later it is revealed that Pata used to be a member of al-Shabaab, and that the group killed his family when he became a DefectorFromDecadence, and he is now seeking to die. He eventually manages to kill Masakh, the man who executed his family, in a BattleAmongstTheFlames before expiring from his wounds: finally satisfied.
* ''Film/Rogue2020'': During the rescue mission against the al-Shabaab compound, Pata takes several suicidal risks; including standing up in direct line of fire of the jihadists to get a better shot at them and is only saved when one of his squad mates drags him down. Later it is revealed that Pata used to be a member of al-Shabaab, and that the group killed his family when he became a DefectorFromDecadence, and he is now seeking to die. He eventually manages to kill Masakh, the man who executed his family, in a BattleAmongstTheFlames before expiring from his wounds: finally satisfied.
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* Doc Holliday in ''Film/{{Tombstone}}.'' "Whelp...got the consumption...might as well shoot at people."
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* Doc Holliday in ''Film/{{Tombstone}}.'' "Whelp...got the consumption... might as well shoot at people.""
* In a similar vein to ''Tombstone'', ''Film/TheShootist'' sees Creator/JohnWayne play as an aging gunslinger hoping for one last good gunfight before his cancer claims him, knowing full well that he is an anachronism in 1901. [[spoiler:He actually ''wins'' his last gunfight against his old enemies, leaving him wondering what to do next... so deep in thought, he doesn't notice the bartender with the shotgun.]]
* In a similar vein to ''Tombstone'', ''Film/TheShootist'' sees Creator/JohnWayne play as an aging gunslinger hoping for one last good gunfight before his cancer claims him, knowing full well that he is an anachronism in 1901. [[spoiler:He actually ''wins'' his last gunfight against his old enemies, leaving him wondering what to do next... so deep in thought, he doesn't notice the bartender with the shotgun.]]
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* In ''Film/SharkWeek'', Layla believes that she deserves to die and offers to be a distraction for one of the sharks so the others can escape. She later performs a HeroicSacrifice to destroy the tiger shark.
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* In ''Film/SharkWeek'', Layla believes that she deserves to die and offers to be a distraction for one of the sharks so the others can escape. She later performs a HeroicSacrifice to destroy the tiger shark.shark.
* ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'': the Polka-Dot Man combines a DarkAndTroubledPast with a bunch of additional personal issues and a power that both makes him an object of mockery and inflicts BodyHorror on him if he doesn't use it regularly. When Bloodsport mutters that [[ThisIsGonnaSuck they're going to die]], all he can say is, "I hope so." [[spoiler:He gets his wish when Starro crushes him.]]
* ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'': the Polka-Dot Man combines a DarkAndTroubledPast with a bunch of additional personal issues and a power that both makes him an object of mockery and inflicts BodyHorror on him if he doesn't use it regularly. When Bloodsport mutters that [[ThisIsGonnaSuck they're going to die]], all he can say is, "I hope so." [[spoiler:He gets his wish when Starro crushes him.]]
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* ''Film/LostGirlsAndLoveHotels'': After the last man she goes to a love hotel with says he easily could kill her after she's been tied up to the bed, Margaret begs him to. It was foreshadowed with her love of being choked during sex.
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* ''Film/LostGirlsAndLoveHotels'': After the last man she goes to a love hotel with says he easily could kill her after she's been tied up to the bed, Margaret begs him to. It was foreshadowed with her love of being choked during sex.sex.
* In ''Film/SharkWeek'', Layla believes that she deserves to die and offers to be a distraction for one of the sharks so the others can escape. She later performs a HeroicSacrifice to destroy the tiger shark.
* In ''Film/SharkWeek'', Layla believes that she deserves to die and offers to be a distraction for one of the sharks so the others can escape. She later performs a HeroicSacrifice to destroy the tiger shark.
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** Hell, it's how they sell him on taking the mission in the first place.
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* J.B. Books in ''Film/TheShootist''. The death that was coming for him, though, was far worse than the death he sought.
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* Sgt. [=McCron=] in ''Film/TheThinRedLine'' after his entire squad dies. (In the novel, he merely has a nervous breakdown.)
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* Also Bodhi in ''Film/PointBreak1991'', to an extent.
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* Riggs in ''Film/LethalWeapon'' films start out this way, but his partnership with Murtaugh changes him for the better.
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* Subtly hinted at with Riddick in ''Film/PitchBlack''. That trait is (mostly) ditched in later incarnations.
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** In the book's sequel ''Gump and Co.'', [[spoiler: he gets killed by friendly fire during Operation Desert Storm.]]
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* ''Film/ForrestGump'' has Lt. Dan, who has ancestors who have fought, and died, in every major American war. He winds up making it out of UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar alive and becomes one of these, feeling like he's a failure for not continuing the "family tradition", so to speak. [[spoiler: He gets over it after surviving Hurricane Carmen.]]
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* ''Film/ForrestGump'' has Lt. Dan, who has ancestors who have fought, and died, in every major American war. He winds signs up making it out of to fight in the UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar alive fully intending to die, and becomes one of these, feeling when he survives, he feels like he's a failure for not continuing the "family tradition", so to speak. [[spoiler: He gets over it after surviving Hurricane Carmen.]]
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I don't think it's that he's seeking death so much as that he is willing to risk it for what he wants, meeting his "real" family, but doesn't want his friends to do the same.
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* Tigger becomes this in ''WesternAnimation/TheTiggerMovie'' when Rabbit points out it's not safe to be in the snow.
-->'''Rabbit:''' Are you crazy? It's not safe out here.\\
'''Tigger:''' Exactakly! That's why you should all go home where it is safe. But I've got to wait here in my family tree for [[PunctuatedForEmphasis MY! REAL! FAMILY!]]
-->'''Rabbit:''' Are you crazy? It's not safe out here.\\
'''Tigger:''' Exactakly! That's why you should all go home where it is safe. But I've got to wait here in my family tree for [[PunctuatedForEmphasis MY! REAL! FAMILY!]]
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-->'''Katsumoto''': ''[talking with Algren]'' You do not fear death, but sometimes you wish for it.
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* In ''Film/SerialKilling4Dummys'', Sasha is a failed suicide whose ambition is to be the first kill of a SerialKiller to guarantee her fame.
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* In ''Film/SerialKilling4Dummys'', Sasha is a failed suicide whose ambition is to be the first kill of a SerialKiller to guarantee her fame.fame.
* ''Film/LostGirlsAndLoveHotels'': After the last man she goes to a love hotel with says he easily could kill her after she's been tied up to the bed, Margaret begs him to. It was foreshadowed with her love of being choked during sex.
* ''Film/LostGirlsAndLoveHotels'': After the last man she goes to a love hotel with says he easily could kill her after she's been tied up to the bed, Margaret begs him to. It was foreshadowed with her love of being choked during sex.
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* ''{{Film/Compulsion}}'': [[spoiler:Saffron]] is revealed as wanting to die more than anything because of her traumatic past.
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* ''{{Film/Compulsion}}'': [[spoiler:Saffron]] is revealed as wanting to die more than anything because of her traumatic past.past.
* In ''Film/SerialKilling4Dummys'', Sasha is a failed suicide whose ambition is to be the first kill of a SerialKiller to guarantee her fame.
* In ''Film/SerialKilling4Dummys'', Sasha is a failed suicide whose ambition is to be the first kill of a SerialKiller to guarantee her fame.
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* Mark Twain in ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfMarkTwain''. He seeks out Halley's Comet because "I came in with Halley's Comet, and I intend to go out with it." Eventually, it's revealed that he misses his dead wife Olivia and wishes to rejoin her. [[spoiler: He gets his wish, but it's treated more as an AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence as he merges with his dark half and becomes part of Halley's Comet itself.]]
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** Likewise, at the end of the second act of Endgame, Thor [[spoiler: begs to be allowed to use the Infinity Gauntlet, even though Hulk is stronger, and in Thor's condition nobody thinks he would survive. He continues to beg as he's told no, and pleads to be allowed to do "Something good, something right," showing he's not over his guilt of allowing his people to be massacred by Thanos, and then letting the Snap go ahead after trying to get revenge on Thanos. Tony talks him down in a way that is very reminiscent of a suicide crisis intervention.]]
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** Likewise, at the end of the second act of Endgame, ''Endgame'', Thor [[spoiler: begs to be allowed to use the Infinity Gauntlet, even though Hulk is stronger, and in Thor's condition nobody thinks he would survive. He continues to beg as he's told no, and pleads to be allowed to do "Something good, something right," showing he's not over his guilt of allowing his people to be massacred by Thanos, and then letting the Snap go ahead after trying to get revenge on Thanos. Tony talks him down in a way that is very reminiscent of a suicide crisis intervention.]]
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** Likewise, at the end of the second act of Endgame, Thor [[spoiler: begs to be allowed to use the Infinity Gauntlet, even though Hulk is stronger, and in Thor's condition nobody thinks he would survive. He continues to beg as he's told no, and pleads to be allowed to do "Something good, something right," showing he's not over his guilt of allowing his people to be massacred by Thanos, and then letting the Snap go ahead after trying to get revenge on Thanos. Tony talks him down in a way that is very reminiscent of a suicide crisis intervention.]]
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* Massai is this at the start of ''Film/{{Apache}}'': attacking the surrender in the hopes that he will be killed and die a warrior. Instead, he is captured and shipped in chains to Florida. At the end of the film he becomes this again, leaving the cabin to face the soldiers who are coming for and not planning to return: stating that no one sings songs of farmers. [[spoiler:However, he changes his mind when he hears the cries of his newborn son.]]
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* Massai is this at the start of ''Film/{{Apache}}'': attacking the surrender in the hopes that he will be killed and die a warrior. Instead, he is captured and shipped in chains to Florida. At the end of the film he becomes this again, leaving the cabin to face the soldiers who are coming for and not planning to return: stating that no one sings songs of farmers. [[spoiler:However, he changes his mind when he hears the cries of his newborn son.]]]]
* ''{{Film/Compulsion}}'': [[spoiler:Saffron]] is revealed as wanting to die more than anything because of her traumatic past.
* ''{{Film/Compulsion}}'': [[spoiler:Saffron]] is revealed as wanting to die more than anything because of her traumatic past.
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* In ''Film/TheDeadCenter'', John Doe is an emergency psych ward patient who spends most of the movie in a catatonic state. In one of his few conscious moments, he tells Dr. Forrester directly, in no uncertain terms, to kill him. [[spoiler: He's still lucid enough to know that the [[DemonicPossession demon that has possessed his body]] has to be stopped there and then within the confines of the psych ward, before it can get out and devour more people.]] It's also revealed during Dr. Graham's investigation that John Doe was suicidal before that; [[spoiler: he drained his entire body of blood, but the demon resurrected him.]]
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* In ''Film/TheDeadCenter'', John Doe is an emergency psych ward patient who spends most of the movie in a catatonic state. In one of his few conscious moments, he tells Dr. Forrester directly, in no uncertain terms, to kill him. [[spoiler: He's still lucid enough to know that the [[DemonicPossession demon that has possessed his body]] has to be stopped there and then within the confines of the psych ward, before it can get out and devour more people.]] It's also revealed during Dr. Graham's investigation that John Doe was suicidal before that; [[spoiler: he drained his entire body of blood, but the demon resurrected him.]]
* Massai is this at the start of ''Film/{{Apache}}'': attacking the surrender in the hopes that he will be killed and die a warrior. Instead, he is captured and shipped in chains to Florida. At the end of the film he becomes this again, leaving the cabin to face the soldiers who are coming for and not planning to return: stating that no one sings songs of farmers. [[spoiler:However, he changes his mind when he hears the cries of his newborn son.]]
* Massai is this at the start of ''Film/{{Apache}}'': attacking the surrender in the hopes that he will be killed and die a warrior. Instead, he is captured and shipped in chains to Florida. At the end of the film he becomes this again, leaving the cabin to face the soldiers who are coming for and not planning to return: stating that no one sings songs of farmers. [[spoiler:However, he changes his mind when he hears the cries of his newborn son.]]
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* ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' ominously implies this about, of all people, ''Captain America''. His [[HumanPopsicle 70-year sleep]] has robbed him of his entire world; he's a 20-something WWII vet stuck in an era where the girl he loves is [[spoiler: 90 years old, long married, and is bedridden and suffering from Alzheimer's]] and later he finds [[spoiler: he may have "died" for nothing -- Hydra is alive and at the heart of SHIELD, and his childhood friend has been turned into a mindless weapon]]. When Sam Wilson asks him what makes him happy, Steve candidly tells him he doesn't know. Throughout the film, he takes one deadly risk after another and during the climax [[spoiler:he gives Maria Hill the order to have the carriers fire on each other -- despite him still being on one of them -- and seems to resign himself to going down with the ship. He only springs back into action when he sees Bucky trapped under one of the girders, and when Bucky tries to kill him, he refuses to fight back.]]
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** [[EvilFormerFriend Loki]] shows shades of this in ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld''. When his former friends and his [[CainAndAbel brother]] threaten to kill him [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder if he betrays Thor]], he responds to their threats with [[StepfordSnarker superficially]] [[ThreatBackfire unconcerned one-liners]], and later, when he sees that his brother is losing a battle against [[spoiler: Kurse]], he risks his life to save him, [[spoiler: [[FakingTheDead appearing to get]] [[RedemptionEqualsDeath mortally wounded in the process.]]]] Merely minutes before that, he saved Jane's life's without a second thought and would have most definitely been sucked into the black-hole grenade in the process if it hadn't been for Thor. Possibly still a subverted trope, as [[ConsummateLiar how injured]] [[MasterOfIllusion he actually was in the battle]] hasn't yet been explained.
** ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' ominously implies this about, of all people, ''Captain America''. His [[HumanPopsicle 70-year sleep]] has robbed him of his entire world; he's a 20-something WWII vet stuck in an era where the girl he loves is [[spoiler: 90 years old, long married, and is bedridden and suffering from Alzheimer's]] and later he finds [[spoiler: he may have "died" for nothing -- Hydra is alive and at the heart of SHIELD, and his childhood friend has been turned into a mindless weapon]]. When Sam Wilson asks him what makes him happy, Steve candidly tells him he doesn't know. Throughout the film, he takes one deadly risk after another and during the climax [[spoiler:he gives Maria Hill the order to have the carriers fire on each other -- despite him still being on one of them -- and seems to resign himself to going down with the ship. He only springs back into action when he sees Bucky trapped under one of the girders, and when Bucky tries to kill him, he refuses to fight back.]] ]]
** At the start of ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', Clint Barton [[spoiler:loses his entire family when Thanos "snaps" half the universe out of existence. The five-year TimeSkip shows Clint has now become the masked Ronin, dishing out brutal attacks on surviving crime cartels. It's obvious that Clint is risking his life so much on the hopes he dies and can be with his family. In fact, when Scott Lang warns of the dangers of a time travel experiment, Clint volunteers without hesitation, showing he doesn't mind if he doesn't come back. He even tries to sacrifice himself for the Soul Stone, arguing that after all he's done, he doesn't deserve to be happy with his family again.]]
** [[EvilFormerFriend Loki]] shows shades of this in ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld''. When his former friends and his [[CainAndAbel brother]] threaten to kill him [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder if he betrays Thor]], he responds to their threats with [[StepfordSnarker superficially]] [[ThreatBackfire unconcerned one-liners]], and later, when he sees that his brother is losing a battle against [[spoiler: Kurse]], he risks his life to save him, [[spoiler: [[FakingTheDead appearing to get]] [[RedemptionEqualsDeath mortally wounded in the process.]]]] Merely minutes before that, he saved Jane's life's without a second thought and would have most definitely been sucked into the black-hole grenade in the process if it hadn't been for Thor. Possibly still a subverted trope, as [[ConsummateLiar how injured]] [[MasterOfIllusion he actually was in the battle]] hasn't yet been explained.
** ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' ominously implies this about, of all people, ''Captain America''. His [[HumanPopsicle 70-year sleep]] has robbed him of his entire world; he's a 20-something WWII vet stuck in an era where the girl he loves is [[spoiler: 90 years old, long married, and is bedridden and suffering from Alzheimer's]] and later he finds [[spoiler: he may have "died" for nothing -- Hydra is alive and at the heart of SHIELD, and his childhood friend has been turned into a mindless weapon]]. When Sam Wilson asks him what makes him happy, Steve candidly tells him he doesn't know. Throughout the film, he takes one deadly risk after another and during the climax [[spoiler:he gives Maria Hill the order to have the carriers fire on each other -- despite him still being on one of them -- and seems to resign himself to going down with the ship. He only springs back into action when he sees Bucky trapped under one of the girders, and when Bucky tries to kill him, he refuses to fight back.
** At the start of ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', Clint Barton [[spoiler:loses his entire family when Thanos "snaps" half the universe out of existence. The five-year TimeSkip shows Clint has now become the masked Ronin, dishing out brutal attacks on surviving crime cartels. It's obvious that Clint is risking his life so much on the hopes he dies and can be with his family. In fact, when Scott Lang warns of the dangers of a time travel experiment, Clint volunteers without hesitation, showing he doesn't mind if he doesn't come back. He even tries to sacrifice himself for the Soul Stone, arguing that after all he's done, he doesn't deserve to be happy with his family again.]]
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* [[EvilFormerFriend Loki]] shows shades of this in ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld''. When his former friends and his [[CainAndAbel brother]] threaten to kill him [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder if he betrays Thor]], he responds to their threats with [[StepfordSnarker superficially]] [[ThreatBackfire unconcerned one-liners]], and later, when he sees that his brother is losing a battle against [[spoiler: Kurse]], he risks his life to save him, [[spoiler: [[FakingTheDead appearing to get]] [[RedemptionEqualsDeath mortally wounded in the process.]]]] Merely minutes before that, he saved Jane's life's without a second thought and would have most definitely been sucked into the black-hole grenade in the process if it hadn't been for Thor. Possibly still a subverted trope, as [[ConsummateLiar how injured]] [[MasterOfIllusion he actually was in the battle]] hasn't yet been explained.
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* In ''Film/{{Gunless}}'', Sean seems to want to die as he is taken back when the Jack the blacksmith says so and later during his duel with the Jack, Sean purposefully adjusts his aim so that he would miss, allowing the Jack to win the duel and kill him.
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* In ''Film/{{Gunless}}'', Sean seems to want to die as he is taken back when the Jack the blacksmith says so and later during his duel with the Jack, Sean purposefully adjusts his aim so that he would miss, allowing the Jack to win the duel and kill him.
* In ''Film/TheDeadCenter'', John Doe is an emergency psych ward patient who spends most of the movie in a catatonic state. In one of his few conscious moments, he tells Dr. Forrester directly, in no uncertain terms, to kill him. [[spoiler: He's still lucid enough to know that the [[DemonicPossession demon that has possessed his body]] has to be stopped there and then within the confines of the psych ward, before it can get out and devour more people.]] It's also revealed during Dr. Graham's investigation that John Doe was suicidal before that; [[spoiler: he drained his entire body of blood, but the demon resurrected him.]]
* In ''Film/TheDeadCenter'', John Doe is an emergency psych ward patient who spends most of the movie in a catatonic state. In one of his few conscious moments, he tells Dr. Forrester directly, in no uncertain terms, to kill him. [[spoiler: He's still lucid enough to know that the [[DemonicPossession demon that has possessed his body]] has to be stopped there and then within the confines of the psych ward, before it can get out and devour more people.]] It's also revealed during Dr. Graham's investigation that John Doe was suicidal before that; [[spoiler: he drained his entire body of blood, but the demon resurrected him.]]
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* In ''Film/{{Slashers}}'', Rebecca has multiple sclerosis and is planning to use the show to go out in a blaze of glory before her body betrays her.
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* In ''Film/{{Gunless}}'', Sean seems to want to die as he is taken back when the Jack the blacksmith says so and later during his duel with the Jack, Sean purposefully adjusts his aim so that he would miss, allowing the Jack to win the duel and kill him.
* In ''Film/{{Gunless}}'', Sean seems to want to die as he is taken back when the Jack the blacksmith says so and later during his duel with the Jack, Sean purposefully adjusts his aim so that he would miss, allowing the Jack to win the duel and kill him.
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* ''Film/VioletAndDaisy'': The Guy it turns out actually wants to die, as he's dying of terminal cancer. Because of that he stole from a criminal gang, knowing they'd have him killed for it.
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* From ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'', the Beast becomes this after Belle leaves. When the castle is under attack, he outright says "Let them come." and it's only when he sees that Belle has returned that he fights back against Gaston.
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* From ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'', ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', the Beast becomes this after Belle leaves. When the castle is under attack, he outright says "Let them come." and it's only when he sees that Belle has returned that he fights back against Gaston.
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!Animation
* From ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'', the Beast becomes this after Belle leaves. When the castle is under attack, he outright says "Let them come." and it's only when he sees that Belle has returned that he fights back against Gaston.
* In ''{{WesternAnimation/Igor}},'' Scamper is a rabbit that Igor gave intelligence and immortality--to his annoyance, since Scamper ''wants'' to die. He gets grievously harmed numerous times throughout the movie, all while [[DeadpanSnarker snarking about it]], but winds up appreciating life more by the end.
* Tigger becomes this in ''Disney/TheTiggerMovie'' when Rabbit points out it's not safe to be in the snow.
-->'''Rabbit:''' Are you crazy? It's not safe out here.\\
'''Tigger:''' Exactakly! That's why you should all go home where it is safe. But I've got to wait here in my family tree for [[PunctuatedForEmphasis MY! REAL! FAMILY!]]
* In ''{{WesternAnimation/Up}}'', there's a kind of variation — WordOfGod said Carl's motivation was originally supposed to be using the balloons so he could basically be with Ellie "in heaven." Of course, you couldn't actually have him kill himself and there wasn't much of a story you could get of him just floating around in the sky being sad, so the plot gradually changed to him trying to reach Paradise Falls (where he and Ellie always dreamed of visiting) while finding new meaning for his life.
* Peter B. Parker in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'' has elements of being the death-seeker; thinking that he's ruined any hope of a future with his MJ, he's more than willing to stay behind to shut down the super-collider and send the other Spider-people home, even knowing that he won't survive long in this universe. Miles Morales manages to convince him to go home.
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* ''Film/ForrestGump'' has Lt. Dan, who has ancestors who have fought, and died, in every major American war. He winds up making it out of UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar alive and becomes one of these, feeling like he's a failure for not continuing the "family tradition", so to speak. [[spoiler: He gets over it after surviving Hurricane Carmen.]]
** In the book's sequel ''Gump and Co.'', [[spoiler: he gets killed by friendly fire during Operation Desert Storm.]]
* Nick in ''Film/TheDeerHunter'' is a ShellShockedVeteran traumatized by the terrors of the Vietnam war. He never recovered from an incident where he was forced to play a game of RussianRoulette for the amusement of his Viet Cong capturers. He ends up as an EmptyShell living out his life doing Russian Roulette for money in Saigon.
* ''Film/JamesBond'' movie ''Film/{{Skyfall}}''. Oh yes, Bond killed the villain, but it's made fairly clear that Raoul Silva would've killed himself after completing his revenge on M.
-->'''Silva:''' So, I had only one thing left. My cyanide capsule in my back left molar. You remember, right? So, I broke the tooth and bit into the capsule. It...burned all my insides, but I didn't die. Life clung to me like a disease. And then I understood why I had survived. I needed to look in your eyes one last time.
* Sgt. [=McCron=] in ''Film/TheThinRedLine'' after his entire squad dies. (In the novel, he merely has a nervous breakdown.)
* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen''. The Baron doesn't mind death. In fact, he recommends it.
-->'''Baron:''' And that was only one of the ''many'' occasions on which I met my death, an experience which I don't hesitate ''strongly'' to recommend!
* In the various ''Film/TheProphecy'' movies, fallen angel Gabriel's unwillingly-revived henchpeople fall into this category: when one them gets (re-)fatally shot by a protagonist, his last comment is a sincere "Thanks pal, you're a sport!"
* Doc Holliday in ''Film/{{Tombstone}}.'' "Whelp...got the consumption...might as well shoot at people."
* Also Bodhi in ''Film/PointBreak1991'', to an extent.
* John Ryder from ''Film/TheHitcher''. [[spoiler:As the plot uncovers, he repeatedly asks Jim Halsey to kill him in cold blood (after their first encounter when Jim picked up Ryder as an unsuspecting hitchhiker). When Jim fails to do so, John proceeds to go on a path of carnage]].
* ''Film/{{Stargate}}'': Following his son accidentally shooting himself with Jack's gun, Jack O'Neill undertakes what he figures is probably a suicide mission.
-->'''Dr. Daniel Jackson:''' [to Colonel O'Neil] I don't want to die. And your men don't want to die, and these people certainly don't want to die. It's a shame you're in such a hurry to.
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* Riggs in ''Film/LethalWeapon'' films start out this way, but his partnership with Murtaugh changes him for the better.
* Louis, in the film version of ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire'', becomes this when his young wife dies in childbirth and the baby doesn't survive either. His willingness to die leaves him open to Lestat's machinations. Note that this is a complete change from the original novel, in which Louis was unmarried.
* Plot of ''Film/FrankensteinMeetsTheWolfMan'' is set in motion when Larry Talbot (the WolfMan) is accidentally resurrected and sets out to find the way to keep himself dead permanently.
* Miles Tuck in ''Film/TuckEverlasting'', due to losing his wife and children. He's fought in every war he can find and regularly picks fights, trying ([[WhoWantsToLiveForever unsuccessfully]]) to die.
* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest'': Of the commanding officer's SurvivorGuilt/[[ShellShockedVeteran Shell-Shocked Veteran]] variety, we have James Norrington in the opening. He'd deliberately steered his ship into a hurricane while chasing Jack Sparrow, resulting in the loss of the ship and most of the crew, and having to resign his commission. The next time we see him, he's a grimy drunk who seemed to be pretty zealous about his bar fights.
* The WWI pilot in ''Film/TheMummy1999'' wants to go out in a blaze of glory like the rest of his deceased war buddies. [[spoiler:Seeing as he dies fighting a giant face made of sand while successfully escorting Rick and Johnathan to Hamunaptra, it's probably safe to say that he succeeded. His last words?]]
-->"[[spoiler:Here I come, laddies]]!" ''[huge laugh]''
** Hell, it's how they sell him on taking the mission in the first place.
-->'''Winston:''' So, what's your little problem got to do with His Majesty's Royal Air Corps?\\
'''Rick:''' Not a damn thing.\\
'''Winston:''' Is it dangerous?\\
'''Rick:''' Well, you probably won't live through it.\\
'''Winston:''' By Jove! Do you really think so?\\
'''Jonathan:''' Well, everybody else we've bumped into has died. Why not you?
* Much like [[ComicBook/TheDarkKnightReturns one of its main inspirations]], ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' puts Batman firmly in this territory. His world, his future, and his entire life has been shattered, so despite being [[DentedIron in bad physical shape]], he puts the cowl back on and throws himself into a fight with a much tougher opponent rather than find a way to live as Bruce Wayne. [[spoiler:He finds his "fear of death" again and by the end of the film, he's able to give up being Batman and find a life for himself]].
* Sir Lancelot in ''Film/{{Excalibur}}''. He's more of a defeat seeker than a death seeker though, having traveled around looking for a King who was good enough to beat him and thereby win his fealty. He claims he was CursedWithAwesome.
* J.B. Books in ''Film/TheShootist''. The death that was coming for him, though, was far worse than the death he sought.
* In ''Film/ManOfSteel'', [[spoiler:Zod admits straight up he has nothing more to live for and goads Superman several times during their fight that he will have to kill him or be killed. Even his final act -- trying to fry innocents with HeatVision while in a choke hold -- is basically pleading for Kal-El to end it.]]
* Subtly hinted at with Riddick in ''Film/PitchBlack''. That trait is (mostly) ditched in later incarnations.
* In ''Film/TheGreyZone'', most of the Sonderkommando can't live with what they've been forced to do -- assisting the Nazis in disposing of the bodies from the gas chambers by cremating the bodies of other Jews, or they'll be killed as well. Simon discusses this quite extensively with Dr. Nyizli, stating that he doesn't want to live after everything is done. [[spoiler:He chooses to die in the explosion which destroys the crematoria.]]
* ''Film/TheNatureOfTheBeast'' has this trait as a reveal in the final act. The main characters are a serial killer and a white-collar embezzler who know each other's secret. It seems like the meek wage-slave is the embezzler and the brash vagabond is the killer. However, [[spoiler:it turns out that the vagabond is the embezzler, and he's been tormenting the serial killer wage-slave because he wants to be killed by him]].
* ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' ominously implies this about, of all people, ''Captain America''. His [[HumanPopsicle 70-year sleep]] has robbed him of his entire world; he's a 20-something WWII vet stuck in an era where the girl he loves is [[spoiler: 90 years old, long married, and is bedridden and suffering from Alzheimer's]] and later he finds [[spoiler: he may have "died" for nothing -- Hydra is alive and at the heart of SHIELD, and his childhood friend has been turned into a mindless weapon]]. When Sam Wilson asks him what makes him happy, Steve candidly tells him he doesn't know. Throughout the film, he takes one deadly risk after another and during the climax [[spoiler:he gives Maria Hill the order to have the carriers fire on each other -- despite him still being on one of them -- and seems to resign himself to going down with the ship. He only springs back into action when he sees Bucky trapped under one of the girders, and when Bucky tries to kill him, he refuses to fight back.]]
* ''Film/TheLastSamurai'':
** Nathan Algren, due to the massacres of the Indians he had to carry out previously, which still haunt him. While training the fledgling modern Japanese army, he gets on the firing range and orders a recruit to shoot him (only to miss, predictably) to prove a point about the soldiers not being ready for combat yet. Later in Katsumoto's mountain village, he doesn't even react when a Samurai warrior threatens to decapitate him.
** Katsumoto labels himself as one as well.
* [[VillainousBreakdown The reckless]] [[TheBerserker and rage-filled]] way [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader/Anakin]] dueled with Obi-Wan Kenobi at the end of ''Revenge of the Sith'' could be explained by a combination of this trope and being [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide drunk on the dark side]]. There were several times during that duel that Obi-Wan could have taken advantage of Anakin's complete lack of self-preservation [[spoiler: before he actually did.]]
* [[EvilFormerFriend Loki]] shows shades of this in ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld''. When his former friends and his [[CainAndAbel brother]] threaten to kill him [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder if he betrays Thor]], he responds to their threats with [[StepfordSnarker superficially]] [[ThreatBackfire unconcerned one-liners]], and later, when he sees that his brother is losing a battle against [[spoiler: Kurse]], he risks his life to save him, [[spoiler: [[FakingTheDead appearing to get]] [[RedemptionEqualsDeath mortally wounded in the process.]]]] Merely minutes before that, he saved Jane's life's without a second thought and would have most definitely been sucked into the black-hole grenade in the process if it hadn't been for Thor. Possibly still a subverted trope, as [[ConsummateLiar how injured]] [[MasterOfIllusion he actually was in the battle]] hasn't yet been explained.
* The War Boys in ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' believe that an impressive death is the way to Valhalla - such as hurling themselves onto an enemy vehicle holding a grenade-fitted spear while high as a kite on chrome spray paint and bellowing "WITNESS ME!" at the top of their lungs. Given that most of them have cancer or some other unpleasant side-effects of the post-apocalyptic setting - Nux makes reference to "night fevers", has visible tumours on his neck, and is in such bad shape early in the film that he needs to have [[ABNegative Max's Type O blood]] piped in from the front of his car during the initial pursuit of Furiosa's war rig - it would probably be a comparatively noble way of sparing themselves a slow, painful death, if they weren't serving a weapons-grade asshole like [[BigBad Immortan Joe]]. [[spoiler:Nux, unlike the others, gets his death in the form of a HeroicSacrifice after his HeelFaceTurn.]]
* In ''Film/TheLastWitchHunter'', Kaulder, especially in the flashbacks, seeks death to reunite with his deceased wife and child. Unfortunately for him, he's immortal, but in the present day, he seems to have come to terms with this.
* ''Film/MurderInTheFirst'': Young asks Stamphill to change his plea to guilty and get him the death penalty several times, as he's afraid of going back into solitary otherwise, which he views (with reason) as a FateWorseThanDeath.
* ''Film/BlazingSaddles'' features a variation. After nearly gunning down a kid, Jim gave up gun-fighting and tried to drink himself to death.
-->'''Bart:''' A man drink like that and he don't eat, he is going to die.\\
'''Jim:''' (wistfully) When?
* ''Film/{{Gettysburg}}'' doesn't go into the details of the matter (see the Literature entry for ''The Killer Angels'' for that) but still clearly depicts Confederate general Dick Garnett as determined to die on the field of battle. General Armistead, aware of this, tries to get his superiors to intervene, but they can't decently do so because the Confederate officership is so obsessed with personal honor. Garnett nearly reaches "The Angle" and then appears to deliberately ride down a Union cannon; the next shot is of his horse, riderless.[[note]]The details are that Garnett had been accused of cowardice by his previous commander, Stonewall Jackson. Garnett then insisted on riding a horse when partaking in Pickett's Charge, which made him a sitting duck.[[/note]]
* ''Film/FalconRising'': At the start of the film, John is suicidal, both considering using a gun on himself and interrupting a liquor store robbery by taunting one of the robbers to shoot him.
* ''Film/TheyLookLikePeople'': Both Wyatt and Christian have shades of this.
** At one point, Wyatt puts the barrel of nailgun in his mouth as if on a whim and pauses for a long time before taking it out. He tries to put a nail through his hand, but the nailgun jams.
** Christian admits to contemplating suicide in the previous year before seeing a therapist for a single session. In the climax, [[spoiler:he volunteers to let Wyatt tie him up and gag him, knowing that Wyatt might murder him in a fit of paranoid psychosis]].
* ''Film/Fearless1993'': After narrowly surviving the plane crash, Max believes that he's not truly alive. He keeps gambling with his life to test out his hypothesis, such as walking into traffic, dangling off the edge of a rooftop, and eating food that he's deathly allergic to. He only recovers at the end after going through a second NearDeathExperience.
* Solomon Lane, the BigBad of ''Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation'', becomes this in ''Film/MissionImpossibleFallout'' after having been tortured and interrogated for two years. During the chase in Paris, he doesn't flinch when Ilsa tries to shoot him and in the climax, [[spoiler: he stays behind rather than escape on a helicopter with Walker, planning to die when the nuclear bombs detonate.]]
* At the start of ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', Clint Barton [[spoiler:loses his entire family when Thanos "snaps" half the universe out of existence. The five-year TimeSkip shows Clint has now become the masked Ronin, dishing out brutal attacks on surviving crime cartels. It's obvious that Clint is risking his life so much on the hopes he dies and can be with his family. In fact, when Scott Lang warns of the dangers of a time travel experiment, Clint volunteers without hesitation, showing he doesn't mind if he doesn't come back. He even tries to sacrifice himself for the Soul Stone, arguing that after all he's done, he doesn't deserve to be happy with his family again.]]
* ''Film/VioletAndDaisy'': The Guy it turns out actually wants to die, as he's dying of terminal cancer. Because of that he stole from a criminal gang, knowing they'd have him killed for it.
* From ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'', the Beast becomes this after Belle leaves. When the castle is under attack, he outright says "Let them come." and it's only when he sees that Belle has returned that he fights back against Gaston.
* In ''{{WesternAnimation/Igor}},'' Scamper is a rabbit that Igor gave intelligence and immortality--to his annoyance, since Scamper ''wants'' to die. He gets grievously harmed numerous times throughout the movie, all while [[DeadpanSnarker snarking about it]], but winds up appreciating life more by the end.
* Tigger becomes this in ''Disney/TheTiggerMovie'' when Rabbit points out it's not safe to be in the snow.
-->'''Rabbit:''' Are you crazy? It's not safe out here.\\
'''Tigger:''' Exactakly! That's why you should all go home where it is safe. But I've got to wait here in my family tree for [[PunctuatedForEmphasis MY! REAL! FAMILY!]]
* In ''{{WesternAnimation/Up}}'', there's a kind of variation — WordOfGod said Carl's motivation was originally supposed to be using the balloons so he could basically be with Ellie "in heaven." Of course, you couldn't actually have him kill himself and there wasn't much of a story you could get of him just floating around in the sky being sad, so the plot gradually changed to him trying to reach Paradise Falls (where he and Ellie always dreamed of visiting) while finding new meaning for his life.
* Peter B. Parker in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'' has elements of being the death-seeker; thinking that he's ruined any hope of a future with his MJ, he's more than willing to stay behind to shut down the super-collider and send the other Spider-people home, even knowing that he won't survive long in this universe. Miles Morales manages to convince him to go home.
!Live-Action
* ''Film/ForrestGump'' has Lt. Dan, who has ancestors who have fought, and died, in every major American war. He winds up making it out of UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar alive and becomes one of these, feeling like he's a failure for not continuing the "family tradition", so to speak. [[spoiler: He gets over it after surviving Hurricane Carmen.]]
** In the book's sequel ''Gump and Co.'', [[spoiler: he gets killed by friendly fire during Operation Desert Storm.]]
* Nick in ''Film/TheDeerHunter'' is a ShellShockedVeteran traumatized by the terrors of the Vietnam war. He never recovered from an incident where he was forced to play a game of RussianRoulette for the amusement of his Viet Cong capturers. He ends up as an EmptyShell living out his life doing Russian Roulette for money in Saigon.
* ''Film/JamesBond'' movie ''Film/{{Skyfall}}''. Oh yes, Bond killed the villain, but it's made fairly clear that Raoul Silva would've killed himself after completing his revenge on M.
-->'''Silva:''' So, I had only one thing left. My cyanide capsule in my back left molar. You remember, right? So, I broke the tooth and bit into the capsule. It...burned all my insides, but I didn't die. Life clung to me like a disease. And then I understood why I had survived. I needed to look in your eyes one last time.
* Sgt. [=McCron=] in ''Film/TheThinRedLine'' after his entire squad dies. (In the novel, he merely has a nervous breakdown.)
* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen''. The Baron doesn't mind death. In fact, he recommends it.
-->'''Baron:''' And that was only one of the ''many'' occasions on which I met my death, an experience which I don't hesitate ''strongly'' to recommend!
* In the various ''Film/TheProphecy'' movies, fallen angel Gabriel's unwillingly-revived henchpeople fall into this category: when one them gets (re-)fatally shot by a protagonist, his last comment is a sincere "Thanks pal, you're a sport!"
* Doc Holliday in ''Film/{{Tombstone}}.'' "Whelp...got the consumption...might as well shoot at people."
* Also Bodhi in ''Film/PointBreak1991'', to an extent.
* John Ryder from ''Film/TheHitcher''. [[spoiler:As the plot uncovers, he repeatedly asks Jim Halsey to kill him in cold blood (after their first encounter when Jim picked up Ryder as an unsuspecting hitchhiker). When Jim fails to do so, John proceeds to go on a path of carnage]].
* ''Film/{{Stargate}}'': Following his son accidentally shooting himself with Jack's gun, Jack O'Neill undertakes what he figures is probably a suicide mission.
-->'''Dr. Daniel Jackson:''' [to Colonel O'Neil] I don't want to die. And your men don't want to die, and these people certainly don't want to die. It's a shame you're in such a hurry to.
%%* ''Film/DancesWithWolves''
* Riggs in ''Film/LethalWeapon'' films start out this way, but his partnership with Murtaugh changes him for the better.
* Louis, in the film version of ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire'', becomes this when his young wife dies in childbirth and the baby doesn't survive either. His willingness to die leaves him open to Lestat's machinations. Note that this is a complete change from the original novel, in which Louis was unmarried.
* Plot of ''Film/FrankensteinMeetsTheWolfMan'' is set in motion when Larry Talbot (the WolfMan) is accidentally resurrected and sets out to find the way to keep himself dead permanently.
* Miles Tuck in ''Film/TuckEverlasting'', due to losing his wife and children. He's fought in every war he can find and regularly picks fights, trying ([[WhoWantsToLiveForever unsuccessfully]]) to die.
* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest'': Of the commanding officer's SurvivorGuilt/[[ShellShockedVeteran Shell-Shocked Veteran]] variety, we have James Norrington in the opening. He'd deliberately steered his ship into a hurricane while chasing Jack Sparrow, resulting in the loss of the ship and most of the crew, and having to resign his commission. The next time we see him, he's a grimy drunk who seemed to be pretty zealous about his bar fights.
* The WWI pilot in ''Film/TheMummy1999'' wants to go out in a blaze of glory like the rest of his deceased war buddies. [[spoiler:Seeing as he dies fighting a giant face made of sand while successfully escorting Rick and Johnathan to Hamunaptra, it's probably safe to say that he succeeded. His last words?]]
-->"[[spoiler:Here I come, laddies]]!" ''[huge laugh]''
** Hell, it's how they sell him on taking the mission in the first place.
-->'''Winston:''' So, what's your little problem got to do with His Majesty's Royal Air Corps?\\
'''Rick:''' Not a damn thing.\\
'''Winston:''' Is it dangerous?\\
'''Rick:''' Well, you probably won't live through it.\\
'''Winston:''' By Jove! Do you really think so?\\
'''Jonathan:''' Well, everybody else we've bumped into has died. Why not you?
* Much like [[ComicBook/TheDarkKnightReturns one of its main inspirations]], ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' puts Batman firmly in this territory. His world, his future, and his entire life has been shattered, so despite being [[DentedIron in bad physical shape]], he puts the cowl back on and throws himself into a fight with a much tougher opponent rather than find a way to live as Bruce Wayne. [[spoiler:He finds his "fear of death" again and by the end of the film, he's able to give up being Batman and find a life for himself]].
* Sir Lancelot in ''Film/{{Excalibur}}''. He's more of a defeat seeker than a death seeker though, having traveled around looking for a King who was good enough to beat him and thereby win his fealty. He claims he was CursedWithAwesome.
* J.B. Books in ''Film/TheShootist''. The death that was coming for him, though, was far worse than the death he sought.
* In ''Film/ManOfSteel'', [[spoiler:Zod admits straight up he has nothing more to live for and goads Superman several times during their fight that he will have to kill him or be killed. Even his final act -- trying to fry innocents with HeatVision while in a choke hold -- is basically pleading for Kal-El to end it.]]
* Subtly hinted at with Riddick in ''Film/PitchBlack''. That trait is (mostly) ditched in later incarnations.
* In ''Film/TheGreyZone'', most of the Sonderkommando can't live with what they've been forced to do -- assisting the Nazis in disposing of the bodies from the gas chambers by cremating the bodies of other Jews, or they'll be killed as well. Simon discusses this quite extensively with Dr. Nyizli, stating that he doesn't want to live after everything is done. [[spoiler:He chooses to die in the explosion which destroys the crematoria.]]
* ''Film/TheNatureOfTheBeast'' has this trait as a reveal in the final act. The main characters are a serial killer and a white-collar embezzler who know each other's secret. It seems like the meek wage-slave is the embezzler and the brash vagabond is the killer. However, [[spoiler:it turns out that the vagabond is the embezzler, and he's been tormenting the serial killer wage-slave because he wants to be killed by him]].
* ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' ominously implies this about, of all people, ''Captain America''. His [[HumanPopsicle 70-year sleep]] has robbed him of his entire world; he's a 20-something WWII vet stuck in an era where the girl he loves is [[spoiler: 90 years old, long married, and is bedridden and suffering from Alzheimer's]] and later he finds [[spoiler: he may have "died" for nothing -- Hydra is alive and at the heart of SHIELD, and his childhood friend has been turned into a mindless weapon]]. When Sam Wilson asks him what makes him happy, Steve candidly tells him he doesn't know. Throughout the film, he takes one deadly risk after another and during the climax [[spoiler:he gives Maria Hill the order to have the carriers fire on each other -- despite him still being on one of them -- and seems to resign himself to going down with the ship. He only springs back into action when he sees Bucky trapped under one of the girders, and when Bucky tries to kill him, he refuses to fight back.]]
* ''Film/TheLastSamurai'':
** Nathan Algren, due to the massacres of the Indians he had to carry out previously, which still haunt him. While training the fledgling modern Japanese army, he gets on the firing range and orders a recruit to shoot him (only to miss, predictably) to prove a point about the soldiers not being ready for combat yet. Later in Katsumoto's mountain village, he doesn't even react when a Samurai warrior threatens to decapitate him.
** Katsumoto labels himself as one as well.
* [[VillainousBreakdown The reckless]] [[TheBerserker and rage-filled]] way [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader/Anakin]] dueled with Obi-Wan Kenobi at the end of ''Revenge of the Sith'' could be explained by a combination of this trope and being [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide drunk on the dark side]]. There were several times during that duel that Obi-Wan could have taken advantage of Anakin's complete lack of self-preservation [[spoiler: before he actually did.]]
* [[EvilFormerFriend Loki]] shows shades of this in ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld''. When his former friends and his [[CainAndAbel brother]] threaten to kill him [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder if he betrays Thor]], he responds to their threats with [[StepfordSnarker superficially]] [[ThreatBackfire unconcerned one-liners]], and later, when he sees that his brother is losing a battle against [[spoiler: Kurse]], he risks his life to save him, [[spoiler: [[FakingTheDead appearing to get]] [[RedemptionEqualsDeath mortally wounded in the process.]]]] Merely minutes before that, he saved Jane's life's without a second thought and would have most definitely been sucked into the black-hole grenade in the process if it hadn't been for Thor. Possibly still a subverted trope, as [[ConsummateLiar how injured]] [[MasterOfIllusion he actually was in the battle]] hasn't yet been explained.
* The War Boys in ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' believe that an impressive death is the way to Valhalla - such as hurling themselves onto an enemy vehicle holding a grenade-fitted spear while high as a kite on chrome spray paint and bellowing "WITNESS ME!" at the top of their lungs. Given that most of them have cancer or some other unpleasant side-effects of the post-apocalyptic setting - Nux makes reference to "night fevers", has visible tumours on his neck, and is in such bad shape early in the film that he needs to have [[ABNegative Max's Type O blood]] piped in from the front of his car during the initial pursuit of Furiosa's war rig - it would probably be a comparatively noble way of sparing themselves a slow, painful death, if they weren't serving a weapons-grade asshole like [[BigBad Immortan Joe]]. [[spoiler:Nux, unlike the others, gets his death in the form of a HeroicSacrifice after his HeelFaceTurn.]]
* In ''Film/TheLastWitchHunter'', Kaulder, especially in the flashbacks, seeks death to reunite with his deceased wife and child. Unfortunately for him, he's immortal, but in the present day, he seems to have come to terms with this.
* ''Film/MurderInTheFirst'': Young asks Stamphill to change his plea to guilty and get him the death penalty several times, as he's afraid of going back into solitary otherwise, which he views (with reason) as a FateWorseThanDeath.
* ''Film/BlazingSaddles'' features a variation. After nearly gunning down a kid, Jim gave up gun-fighting and tried to drink himself to death.
-->'''Bart:''' A man drink like that and he don't eat, he is going to die.\\
'''Jim:''' (wistfully) When?
* ''Film/{{Gettysburg}}'' doesn't go into the details of the matter (see the Literature entry for ''The Killer Angels'' for that) but still clearly depicts Confederate general Dick Garnett as determined to die on the field of battle. General Armistead, aware of this, tries to get his superiors to intervene, but they can't decently do so because the Confederate officership is so obsessed with personal honor. Garnett nearly reaches "The Angle" and then appears to deliberately ride down a Union cannon; the next shot is of his horse, riderless.[[note]]The details are that Garnett had been accused of cowardice by his previous commander, Stonewall Jackson. Garnett then insisted on riding a horse when partaking in Pickett's Charge, which made him a sitting duck.[[/note]]
* ''Film/FalconRising'': At the start of the film, John is suicidal, both considering using a gun on himself and interrupting a liquor store robbery by taunting one of the robbers to shoot him.
* ''Film/TheyLookLikePeople'': Both Wyatt and Christian have shades of this.
** At one point, Wyatt puts the barrel of nailgun in his mouth as if on a whim and pauses for a long time before taking it out. He tries to put a nail through his hand, but the nailgun jams.
** Christian admits to contemplating suicide in the previous year before seeing a therapist for a single session. In the climax, [[spoiler:he volunteers to let Wyatt tie him up and gag him, knowing that Wyatt might murder him in a fit of paranoid psychosis]].
* ''Film/Fearless1993'': After narrowly surviving the plane crash, Max believes that he's not truly alive. He keeps gambling with his life to test out his hypothesis, such as walking into traffic, dangling off the edge of a rooftop, and eating food that he's deathly allergic to. He only recovers at the end after going through a second NearDeathExperience.
* Solomon Lane, the BigBad of ''Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation'', becomes this in ''Film/MissionImpossibleFallout'' after having been tortured and interrogated for two years. During the chase in Paris, he doesn't flinch when Ilsa tries to shoot him and in the climax, [[spoiler: he stays behind rather than escape on a helicopter with Walker, planning to die when the nuclear bombs detonate.]]
* At the start of ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', Clint Barton [[spoiler:loses his entire family when Thanos "snaps" half the universe out of existence. The five-year TimeSkip shows Clint has now become the masked Ronin, dishing out brutal attacks on surviving crime cartels. It's obvious that Clint is risking his life so much on the hopes he dies and can be with his family. In fact, when Scott Lang warns of the dangers of a time travel experiment, Clint volunteers without hesitation, showing he doesn't mind if he doesn't come back. He even tries to sacrifice himself for the Soul Stone, arguing that after all he's done, he doesn't deserve to be happy with his family again.]]
* ''Film/VioletAndDaisy'': The Guy it turns out actually wants to die, as he's dying of terminal cancer. Because of that he stole from a criminal gang, knowing they'd have him killed for it.
