History DrivenToSuicide / WesternAnimation

** "[[Recap/SouthParkS11E2CartmanSucks Cartman Sucks]]": Numerous boys in the [[CureYourGays gay conversion camp]] that Butters is sent to end up doing this. Butters' "accountabili-buddy" Bradley attempts this as well, but is talked down by Butters. The saddest part is that this is TruthInTtelevision.

* In the "Night of the Living Pets" segment from the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode "Toons from the Crypt", two of Elmyra's pets are shown to have died this way. Elmyra screamed in the ear of a horse named Flicka, frightening her and causing her to jump off a cliff. Another photo shows her playing with a dog that is about to get hit by a car.

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** After realizing he's the villain, Magnus Hammersmith stabs himself in the chest.

** In Creator/ChuckJones' "Cheese Chasers", a pair of mice decide to [[SuicideByCop commit suicide-by-cat]] after having eaten themselves sick on cheese and decide that there's nothing left to live for since they'll never be able to enjoy cheese again. They only succeed in driving the ''cat'' to suicide as well. The dog being provoked to kill the cat tries to find logic in the scenario, but he ends up snapping and chasing after the local city dog catcher.
--->'''Dog:''' HEY! WAIT FOR ME! WAIT FOR BABY!\\
'''Cat:''' Hey, wait for me! You gotta massacre me!\\
'''Mice:''' Wait, you cowardly cat!

* Would you believe that ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' does this sometimes?
** There's one episode--"WesternAnimation/BlueCatBlues"--in which a Jerry voiceover details Tom's slip from love into debt, drink, and finally, a long wait on the train tracks. At the end of the episode, [[spoiler:Jerry's girlfriend leaves him, so he joins Tom]].
** In another, the young duck tries to get Tom to eat him because he's "ugly."

* In the "Night of the Living Pets" segment from the WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures episode "Toons from the Crypt", two of Elmyra's pets are shown to have died this way. Elmyra screamed in the ear of a horse named Flicka, frightening her and causing her to jump off a cliff. Another photo shows her playing with a dog that is about to get hit by a car.

** "[[Recap/SouthParkS11E7NightOfTheLivingHomeless Night of the Living Homeless]]": A man tries "to take the easy way out" by shooting himself. He shoots himself over and over again, destroying his body further, but not dying. This is also an example of CrossingTheLineTwice.

** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E13HomerAndApu Homer and APU]]", after Apu is fired from his job at the Kwik-E-Mart by a group of executives for violating the Health Code, he tries to commit suicide by ''eating one of the store's hot dogs'' (he's a vegan, and the hot dogs are of questionable quality). He has to be restrained by the same executives who fired him, who start pleading with him that it isn't worth it.

** In the episode "Ghost Princess", [[OneShotCharacter Clarence]] after accidentally killing his girlfriend (who became the titular princess) becomes a depressed hobo who ultimately died by forcefeeding himself liquid cheese until exploding.
** In the episode "Princess Cookie", this happens to Baby Snaps. His desperate attempts to become a princess culminate in holding hostages to obtain the crown from Princess Bubblegum, which gets him in trouble. She sends guards after him, and rather than getting caught, Baby Snaps decides to purposefully and blissfully fall off a cliff. However, since he's a cookie, the fall simply causes him to break into several still-living pieces which are reassembled in a hospital.
** In "Dad's Dungeon," Finn tries to eat a poisoned apple after he becomes convinced that his adopted dad Joshua hated him and thought he was a sissy.

--->'''Stan:''' "Oh, god, it's the gay call! I've been dreading this for years!" ''(begins powering an entire bottle of pills)'' "...Oh, he's just barricaded himself in your office and won't leave?" ''(his mouth begins to froth; he glances offscreen)'' "Dave! Antidote!"

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Samurai Jack}}'', Jack meets a Viking king who was defeated by Aku years ago and cursed with immortality in the body of a rock monster. Tired of his years of suffering, the warrior is desperate to be killed by a WorthyOpponent. Jack eventually grants the warrior his fate.

*** In “Reaper Madness”, after Homer kills the Grim Reaper, he briefly creates a world without death. Frankie the Squealer is being gunned down by his gang and obviously survives. Moe hangs from a noose while a customer berates him, culminating in Moe saying “that’s why I’m up here”.
** Frank Grimes, sadly, wasn't so lucky. Although with Frank it wasn't so much "driven to suicide" as "driven stark raving bonkers and unable to recognize that yes, electricity does kill you if you approach it the wrong way".
** Themes of suicide have been seen as far back as Season 1, and it came with the third episode, "Homer's Odyssey." After he is fired from his job at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant – one of multiple times he's lost his job there – Homer is unable to find a new job and, believing his life to be worthless, decides to jump off a bridge and end it all. His family saves him in time.
** In the episode where Apu is fired from his job at the Kwik-E-Mart by a group of executives for violating the Health Code, he tries to commit suicide by ''eating one of the store's hot dogs'' (he’s a vegan and the hot dogs are of questionable quality). He has to be restrained by the same executives who fired him, who start pleading with him that it isn't worth it.
** The episode where the Simpsons had 25 puppies subverted this. When it turned out that the Simpsons' dogs were world champions and had earned Mr Burns millions after he adopts them for free, we see what looks to be Homer hanging himself. Marge is horrified, only for the scene to show he was just batting a lightbulb while hanging by his arm on the rafters.
--->'''Homer''': Marge, you know batting this lightbulb is the only thing that cheers me up after losing those million-dollar Greyhounds! ''(the bulb hits Homer in the head, causing him to lose his grip and fall off)''
** Similarly, in an episode parodying 24, driven to guilt from [[spoiler:acting as Jimbo's inside man]] Martin gets on a stool and is seen hanging when he knocks it over. A pull back of the camera shows he just wedgied himself.
** In "Lisa's Sax", a five-year-old Bart is having a very rough time in school and draws a crude picture of himself impaled with a knife with "blood" trickling down.
** In the infamous episode "The Boys of Bummer", Bart gets harassed by everyone in town when he causes his team to lose the Little League championshp and because of it, goes crazy and jumps from the town's water tower. He survives.
** In "Million Dollar Abie", Homer's dad inadvertently ruins the town's shot at getting their own football team, causing him to become a depressed pariah. His friends then recommend assisted suicide (which is a parody of the Home process from ''Film/SoylentGreen''), but the law allowing it is overturned before he can go through with it. He gets better.
** In "No Loan Again, Naturally", when it looks like the Simpsons are going to move away when the house is put up for auction, Homer attempts to hang himself from a tree. His weight ends up taking the tree down, and to add insult to injury, the tree smashes his car.
** In "The Man Who Grew Too Much", Sideshow Bob is driven to leap off the Springfield Dam after realizing the genetic modification he has given himself [[WhatHaveIBecome has made him a monster]]; unfortunately, he survives, as [[GoneHorriblyRight he also gave himself gills.]]
** In the Treehouse of Horror XXI segment “Master and Cadaver”, Marge and Homer kill an innocent man after mistaking him for the person who poisoned the pies. Unable to live with the guilt, Marge kills herself. Turns out this story was just Maggie’s twisted imagination.
** In “Hex and the City”, Homer’s friends and family are cursed by a gypsy. Bart’s neck becomes so long that he can barely hold his head up. Eventually, he can’t take it anymore and drowns himself in his breakfast.
** In “The Others”, the Simpson home is haunted by the ghosts of their 1980s counterparts. Modern-era Marge is jealous of 80s Marge and commits suicide by burning her head in the oven so Modern-era Homer will pay attention to her again. This leads to the mass murder of the modern-era Simpson family (except for Maggie, who was killed by Groundskeeper Willie). The segment ends with a tribute to the “Family Photo” short.
** In “Mmm... Homer”, Homer is left home alone and attempts to cook a hot dog. However, he accidentally slices off his finger and the hot dog is stolen by Santa’s Little Helper. He reluctantly decides to eat his finger and discovers that it is delicious. Later, Homer is invited over to Ned’s house for lunch but is disgusted by the food, which Ned is concerned about. Homer then becomes so addicted to eating himself that he consumes 20 pounds worth of his body parts. Bart and Lisa become suspicious when they notice Homer’s oven mitts and the fact that he is limping. Later that night, Marge catches Homer cooking his own severed leg and is shocked. The two go to counselling the next day, with Homer missing his entire lower body. Marge tearfully leaves him when he tries to saw off his arm. Later, Mario Batalli offers to cook Homer’s head. When Homer is finally dead, Mario opens a bunch of Homer-themed restaurants where the customers eat the remaining body parts, along with parts of Barney Gumble, Comic Book Guy, and horse meat. Up in heaven, Angel Homer eats his own wings, to which Jesus says “you know you don’t get more of those”.
** In "Viva Ned Flanders," a drunken bender in Las Vegas have Homer and Ned end up married to a local woman each. Homer tries to argue that they're already married, but the Vegas gals won't hear of it, claiming they're stuck to them until "death do they part." The view pans to show Ned fashioning a noose as he says, "I'm working on it." Homer stops him ("Think of your wives!").

** "Something Wal-Mart This Way Comes": The owner of the local Wal-Mart faces an angry mob of townspeople fed up with its influence, nervously going back and forth between lauding its qualities and expressing his own negative yet defeated opinion of it. During the conversation, he writes and shows a note telling the crowd to meet him outside. After then townspeople leave the office confused and disappointed, [[spoiler:the owner suddenly jumps through the window, hanging by a noose. Seconds later, [[NoDeadBodyPoops he craps his pants, proving Cartman right about the phenomenon]] to his satisfaction.]] The same thing happens later with [[spoiler:the founder of Wal-Mart, who shoots himself. And then [[RunningGag craps his pants]].]]
** "Die Hippie, Die": Mayor [=McDaniels=] shoots herself in the temple when [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone the hippie music festival she authorized turns South Park into the hippie capital of the world]]. [[spoiler:She survives.]]
** "Britney's New Look": Music/BritneySpears blows her head off... and lives. So, the cult which apparently everybody in the country belongs to, decides they need to try harder. "It's gonna be a goooood harvest." The episode is a parody of ''Literature/TheLottery'', comparing the book's sacrifices to how the U.S builds up and then tears down celebrities.
** "Night of the Living Homeless": A man tries "to take the easy way out" by shooting himself. He shoots himself over and over again, destroying his body further, but not dying. This is also an example of CrossingTheLineTwice.
** "Elementary School Musical": Cartman tries to kill himself after watching the latest [[HypeBacklash "cool"]] movie, ''Film/HighSchoolMusical''. Unfortunately, his mom drives a hybrid car, which doesn't produce enough carbon monoxide to do the job.
** "Cash For Gold": After discovering how his vulnerable, Alzheimer's-stricken grandfather was being screwed over, Stan repeatedly tells the host of a home shopping network to kill himself in an epic case of {{Deadpan Snark|er}}. [[spoiler:He finally does it, after getting the same calls from his former clients.]]
** In "Pinewood Derby", Mr. Hollis blows his brains out [[SeriousBusiness when his son loses a Pinewood Derby race]].
** In "Coon vs. Coon and Friends", Kenny/Mysterion attempts to goad Cthulhu into either removing his curse of immortality or simply killing him once and for all. After a particularly irksome situation where a mysterious stranger behind a CGI portal gives a speech about powers, destiny, an extraterrestrial origin etc. only to find out he's talking about Mintberry Crunch, who then disappears along with Cthulhu and Cartman, Mysterion goes back to headquarters/Cartman's basement after Mintberry Crunch saves the world. There, he tells his gleeful superhero buddies that he wants to "take a nap" then promptly shoots himself. For the third time in the trilogy.

** "Space Pilot 3000": Bender meets Fry while waiting in line to use a suicide booth, later revealing that [[GoMadFromTheRevelation discovering his primary function was to build the suicide booths]] was what drove him to the decision.
** "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back": Hermes threatens to jump off the Planet Express balcony after being demoted by the Central Bureaucracy. However, since he didn't file the proper Suicide papers, doing so would have caused him to be demoted even further.
** "Less Than Hero" ([[SubvertedTrope Subversion]]): Fry and Leela, having [[AppliedPhlebotinum gained superpowers]] earlier in the episode, are in the Mayor's office getting surface passes for Leela's mutant parents when he's trying to summon their superheroic alter egos. After Leela and Bender make up excuses to leave, Fry just yells, "And I just can't take life anymore!" and leaps out the window, only to [[ThereWasADoor break through an adjacent window moments later as Captain Yesterday]].
** "Ghost in the Machines": After Fry saves a paleontologist from a deadly parade float, Bender becomes so upset over Fry's [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman choice of the human]] [[FantasticRacism over the robot]] that he threatens to kill himself, something he has [[CryingWolf done many times before]]. Only this time he [[CassandraTruth actually does it]]. [[spoiler: But after spending most of the episode as a digital ghost he gets better.]]
** "Overclockwise": Fry decides, after Farnsworth gets arrested and Leela decides to leave Planet Express and move to another planet, to kill himself by jumping down Niagra Falls in a barrel. It [[InterruptedSuicide doesn't quite work]], as it turns out.
** In ''Bender's Big Score'', a time-traveling Bender mistakes a phone booth for a suicide booth. He asks for "Electrocution, please. Side order of poison." (Neither of which are deadly to robots!)
** Serious example: feeling SurvivorGuilt in "The Sting" for [[spoiler:the death of Fry]], Leela decides after a long string of {{Mind Screw}}s and ItWasAllJustADream that the only way to keep her sanity in check for good is to eat enough space honey to fall into a permanent sleep. [[spoiler:Thankfully the whole ordeal was just AdventuresInComaLand and she comes back to reality afterwards, the Fry she was envisioning being the real Fry sitting at her bedside, pleading for her to wake up]].
** In the final episode, "Meanwhile", Fry proposes to Leela, and tells her to meet him on the roof of the Vampire State Building at 6:30 if she accepts. When she doesn't show up, Fry decides to kill himself and jumps off the roof... only to see Leela arriving: Fry had been fooling around with the Professor's latest invention, a button that rewinds time by ten seconds, which had caused his watch to run late (as it ran normally despite the rewinding of time), and tries to reset time to before he jumped before he hits the ground. Problem is, he'd been falling for more than 10 seconds! Fry falls to his death several times before his suicide is ultimately prevented.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': In "Day of the Samurai", Batman fights a skilled ninja named Kyodai, who is his longtime rival. As they fight on top of an exploding volcano, a river of lava separates them both, and strands Kyodai on a melting rock. Batman still attempts to save him by throwing a Batarang to him, but he tosses it into the lava and silently bows to Batman before being killed by the lava. He did this because he knew he could never defeat Batman, and could never be the best, but at least he showed respect to Batman, who he considered a worthy adversary.
* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'', Mr. Freeze, having returned to his villainous ways following an attempted return to a normal life, lets himself be killed by an explosion rather than be saved by Batman. He had already been pretty badly injured by Blight, but his choice was more out of despair than any sense of inevitability. When Batman screams at him to run, telling him he'll be killed, Freeze tells him, "Believe me, you're the only one who cares."

** Stewie decided to kill himself over his fear of the cover of Music/{{Queen}}'s ''Music/{{News of the World|Queen}}'' album, getting as far as putting the gun in his mouth before Brian slapped it away.

** Jack himself becomes this over the TimeSkip in the fifth season after having spent fifty years trapped in the BadFuture without aging, having become TheAgeless as a result of being flung through time by Aku, and considers committing {{Seppuku}} to end his misery. [[spoiler: {{Subverted|Trope}} when Ashi, the SoleSurvivor of the Daughters of Aku who pulled a HeelFaceTurn, [[TalkingDownTheSuicidal snapped him out of it.]]