History Main / MurderSuicide

** Note that this is a [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids TV-Y7]] show and ''FamilyGuy'', a show '''KNOWN''' for graphic violence[[note]]also note that it's an adult show[[/note]], hasn't done this.

** Note that this is a [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar TV-Y7]] show and ''FamilyGuy'', a show '''KNOWN''' for graphic violence[[note]]also note that it's an adult show[[/note]], hasn't done this.

* In ''TheLegendOfKorra'' Tarrlok does this to his brother Noatak, AKA [[BigBad Amon]], when the two are escaping Republic city in the boat after the latter's defeat, using one of the Equalists' shock gloves to ignite the boat's fuel supply.

** Note that this is a [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar TV-Y7]] show and ''FamilyGuy'', a show '''KNOWN''' for graphic violence[[note]]also note that it's an adult show[[/note]], has done this.

* SouthPark did this in the episode in which the kids pretend to be detectives and actually join the real thing. Towards the end, two of the coos were in with the mob where they see thim. then one of them killed his partner and then himself. Though it was because he was dumb, not any real drama.

** Note that this is a [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar TV-Y7]] show and that neither ''FamilyGuy'' or ''SouthPark''; shows '''KNOWN''' for graphic violence[[note]]also note that these are adult shows[[/note]], have done this.
** SouthPark actually did this in the episode in which the kids pretended to be detective and actually join the real thing. Towards the end, two of the coos were in with the mob where they him him, then one of them killed his partner and then himself. Though it was because he was dumb then any real drama.

** Note that this is a [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar TV-Y7]] show and that neither ''FamilyGuy'' or ''SouthPark''; shows '''KNOWN''' for graphic violence[[note]]also note that these are adult shows[[/note]], have done this.

* In ''TheLegendOfKorra'' Tarrlok does this to his brother Noatak, AKA [[BigBad Amon]], when the two are escaping Republic city in the boat after the latter's defeat, using one of the Equalists' shock gloves to ignite the boat's fuel supply.

* In [[TheLegendOfKorra "The Legend of Korra,"]] Tarrlok does this to Amon when the two are escaping Republic City in a boat after the latter's failed revolution.

* In [[TheLegendOfKorra "The Legend of Korra," Tarrlok does this to Amon when the two are escaping Republic City in a boat after the latter's failed revolution.

-->'''SantaClaus''': "Looks like it's time for a good old murder-suicide."

A character kills one or more victims and then kills themselves at the end, either because they planned to from the beginning to avoid the inevitable consequences, because they've gone on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge and they have nothing left to live for, or because they were DrivenToSuicide and decided that they were TakingYouWithMe.

** Attempted by Asuka's mother Kyouko, except the "Asuka" that was murdered was the rag doll that Kyoko thought to be Asuka. It's not clear whether Asuka's more angry that her mother committed suicide or that she didn't get to die along with her.

* ''{{Titanic}}'': William Murdoch shoots and kills a fictional third class Irish passenger, then commits suicide from guilt. A [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade Historical Villain Upgrade]], as the real William Murdoch was regarded as a hero and was last seen helping passengers.

** In ''{{The ABC Murders}}'', the murderer tries to commit suicide, but Poirot prevents it, because he doesn't believe that the murderer deserves an easy death.

* In ''{{Othello}}'', Othello stabs himself after he realizes that his wife who he just killed wasn't actually cheating on him.

* ''{{Webcomic/Bug}}'' has an example where it's played for laughs when the bug [[http://www.bugcomic.com/comics/website-woes/ exacts revenge on his web server]] by doing this.

* Generally played straight on ''{{CSI}}'', though it was inverted in one episode where a stalker attempted suicide in his crush's house, resulting in three people dying.
* A number of killers in ''CriminalMinds'' do this rather than be caught.

* AgathaChristie often uses this trope to deliver KarmicDeath to particularly nasty murderers:

* ''GunslingerGirl'': Elsa murdered her handler and then killed herself because she felt that he could never love her the way she did him.

** Attempted by Asuka's mother, except the "Asuka" that was murdered was the rag doll that Kyoko thought to be Asuka. It's not clear whether Asuka's more angry that her mother committed suicide or that she didn't get to die along with her.

** ''AndThenThereWereNone'': Judge Wargrave commits suicide after arranging the deaths of everyone else, as he felt himself to be no better than his victims.

* The horror anthology ''The Hunger'' has this in its second-season premiere "Sanctuary" as the backstory of its host character, MadArtist Julian Priest: having lost his audience via his increasingly grisly performance art, even his agent no longer believed in him. Julian murdered the agent in anger, but his subsequent suicide was not to escape the consequences of his act -- rather it was to the immortality he sought as an artist by turning his own demise into a work of art. Indeed, taking another life may have been a way to further ensure such "immortality".

* In ''Anime/DeathNote: Literature/AnotherNote'', Beyond Birthday is his own final victim.

* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': [[spoiler: Mami]] [[BewareTheNiceOnes of all people]] attempts this [[spoiler: in episode 10. In one of the alternate timelines, she completely snaps when she finds out Magical Girls eventually become witches. She succeeds in killing Kyouko, but is then [[MercyKill mercy killed]] by Madoka]].

* In ''{{Remember11}}'', [[spoiler:Utsumi does this in two {{Bad End}}s, killing Keiko and then herself (and Satoru in the second one).]]

* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': Mami [[BewareTheNiceOnes of all people]] attempts this in episode 10. In one of the alternate timelines, she completely snaps when she finds out Magical Girls eventually become witches. She succeeds in killing Kyouko, but is then [[MercyKill mercy killed]] by Madoka.

* In ''DeathNote: AnotherNote'', Beyond Birthday is his own final victim.

-->'''SantaClaus'': "Looks like it's time for a good old murder-suicide."

* ''{{Othello}}'' stabs himself after he realizes that his wife who he just killed wasn't actually cheating on him.

* In ''DeathNote: Another Note'', Beyond Birthday is his own final victim.

* ''DeathNote'': Another Note, Beyond Birthday is his own final victim.

* ''PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': Mami [[BewareTheNiceOnes of all people]] attempts this in episode 10. In one of the alternate timelines, she completely snaps when she finds out Magical Girls eventually become witches. She succeeds in killing Kyouko, but is then [[MercyKill mercy killed]] by Madoka.