History Main / BungledSuicide

* Stalin's son also attempted suicide, IIRC.
** He did. Stalin, [[TheUnfavorite who didn't like him]], noted that he couldn't even get ''suicide'' right.

* This pops up in ''UltimateFantasticFour'' as part of deconstructing the Thing's BlessedWithSuck/CursedWithAwesome powers. He's a huge, freakish rock monster, stands out anywhere, has to be careful about crushing anything he touches, has almost no sense of touch. In the 616 MarvelUniverse, this is played for drama now and then but sometimes falls into {{Wangst}} territory. In the UltimateMarvel universe, which is both DarkerAndEdgier and is earlier in the characters' timelines, he tried to kill himself several times but has not found anything that can break his skin.

-->'''Aramis:''' [[ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder I'm genious, not an engineer!]]

* Mithridates, the king best known for taking minimal doses of poison every day to avoid being poisoned, also faced defeat. so he... poisoned himself. [[SarcasmMode Astoundingly enough]], this failed to work (almost as if he had built up his body's resistance to poison somehow) so he got one of his retainers to kill him with a sword.

* [[ShockSite Rotten.com's "Motorcycle" guy,]] who blew his face off with a shotgun and apparently survived, giving himself a FateWorseThanDeath.

* In the ''Superman The Musical'' TV Special, Superman was depressed after Metropolis shunned him. So, he tried to kill himself by tying an anchor to his foot and jumping off of a bridge. Did I mention that this is the 'Man of Steel'?

* In the fratboy comedy ''Bachelor Party'', a supporting character, despondent over his girlfriend dumping him, tries to slash his wrists...with an electric shaver.

* Steve Carrell's character in "Little Miss Sunshine" comes into the fill fresh out of one of these.

* The short lived TV News Show Drama ''Live Shot'' had a character about to shoot himself in the head. We get a GoryDiscretionShot of a bullet cracking the glass on a picture on his wall, followed by the attempted suicidee lamenting that "I missed. How did I miss?"

** [[OrSoIHeard Or So You Heard]]

* ''ParanoiaAgent'' has an episode dealing with 3 people who had made a suicide pact over the internet. Over the course of the episode, all of their attempts to kill themselves (jumping in the path of a subway train, hanging) are thwarted, and it's all PlayedForLaughs. Subverted in that at the end it's revealed that they're all dead anyway.

* [[PlanescapeTorment The Nameless One]] can actually stage these as a means to at least two ends, thanks to his immortality. First to knock a suicidal Dustman back on his rails in the Hive and then, if you wish, to discredit a lecturer's claims of afterlife during your stay at the Civic Festhall.

* In ''Duma Key,'' this is Wireman's story. After his wife and daughter died, he decided to shoot himself in the head and actually went through with it. Instead of killing him, the bullet lodged in his brain, causing him trouble later.

ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin - this is when someone [[DrivenToSuicide attempts to kill themself]], and fails. This may lead to them trying to kill themselves again, or maybe they'll see it as a sign and go their merry way. It's not InterruptedSuicide; they go through with it... they just don't die, for whatever reason. It may be because of some kind of immortality, or maybe they were just incompetent. People who are physically not able to die for some reason often cannot kill themselves no matter how hard they try. If done well, this can be either [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming touching]] or [[TearJerker tearjerking]]... and if done badly, it can just seem like a the writers didn't have the guts to kill a character off.