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* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''

* Early in ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'', Sango, unable to free her little brother Kohaku from MindControl, plans to MercyKill him and then herself. Thankfully, she's stopped before she can carry out the act.

* This comes up in a few Literature/LordPeterWimsey books:
** In ''Whose Body?'', Peter stops the exposed murderer from committing suicide, so he can stand trial.
** Conversely, in ''Murder Must Advertise'', he reluctantly encourages the murderer to take actions that are tantamount to suicide (going out alone at night when there's a gang of drug smugglers who want to kill him) to prevent his inevitable exposure from ruining the lives of his family.

* ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryDoubleFeature'': After Mickey goads her into taking [[FantasticDrug the Muse]] as part of a SadisticChoice (the other option having been to be devoured by the [[LooksLikeOrlok Pale Ones]]), Karen kills him in retaliation by ripping his throat out. She then, not being willing to live as a vampiric sociopath, slits her own wrists and walks into the sea.

** The CreepyChild killed her parents, her parents who adopted her and her own family, and then herself.
** At the orphanage, Mrs. Gire killed three orphans before committing suicide.

* One flashback in ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'' shows us that William Murderface's parents died this way; his father killed his mother with a [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]], then killed himself. With the same weapon. [[{{Gorn}} By cutting off his own limbs. And face]].

This is TruthInTelevision, and [[NoRealLife/TooCommon it has happened ''way'' too many times]]. This falls among tropes with '''Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease''' [[noreallife]]

** Mami [[BewareTheNiceOnes of all people]] attempts this in episode 10. In one of the alternate timelines, the poor girl completely snaps when she finds out that Magical Girls eventually become the witches they fight, which makes her believe that she and her friends should die before this happens. (And it's not helped by ''how'' she finds out: via Sayaka becoming a witch and having to be put down.) With her mind completely shattered, Mami succeeds in killing Kyouko via shooting off her Soul Gem and is ''this'' close to doing the same to Homura, but is then {{mercy kill}}ed by Madoka who shatters ''Mami's'' Soul Gem with her beam arrows before she can kill everyone and herself, and then collapses in tears due to the trauma.

* Avoided in ''Manga/GoodnightPunpun''. Late into the series we learn Punpun's mom wanted to commit this with him as a child. His father stopped her, however Punpun came it at the wrong moment and it looked like his dad was abusing her. This caused them to divorce. Punpun's dad was also charged by the police.

* Nahiro from volume 3 of ''AudioPlay/YandereHeaven'' threatens to do this to him and his sister if she apposes him or doesn't return his feelings.

* A man catches his wife cheating on him. He take his revolver, puts two bullets in it, and holds it to his temple. The wife starts laughing, and he snarls "Keep laughing, bitch, the next one's for you!"

* ''Film/TheHazing'': Hack House, the supposedly HauntedHouse where the pledges have to spend Halloween night, was the scene of a grisly murder/suicide 60 years earlier. Jeremiah Hackford came home to find [[ADeadlyAffair his wife in bed with the stable boy]]. He then went on rampage: killing his wife, her lover and everyone else in the house before killing himself.

* ''Film/{{Star 80}}'' is the dramatization of an infamous real life case, where a CrazyJealousGuy raped and shot [[IfICantHaveYou his Playmate ex]] before offing himself.

** The protagonist, Unity, kills Louise and then herself at the end of the film. Everyone thinks it was in revenge for Louise beating her up three years ago, however John and Stella know better. Unity was trying to protect them from Louise.
* At the end of ''Film/TheStrangeLoveOfMarthaIvers'', Walter shots Martha and then kills himself.
* ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'': William Murdoch shoots and kills a fictional third class Irish passenger, then commits suicide from guilt. A HistoricalVillainUpgrade, as the real William Murdoch was regarded as a hero and was last seen helping passengers.

* ''Literature/JohannesCabalTheNecromancer'': At the novel's climax, Cabal has been driven to utter villainy to get souls signed over to Satan (for most of the book his victims were going to hell anyway) and Horst's brother is disgusted by this, disgusted that he was a part of it. He reveals to Cabal that he had stolen a contract (planning to get it signed for Cabal if he was doing it the right way) but Horst considers his brother too far gone. They have a brief conversation and Horst realizes he can't make Johannes understand his position, and vice-versa. Horst doesn't actually kill Cabal himself, but knows that losing his wager with Satan means Cabal will die all the same-Horst considers it a kind of KarmicDeath, since Cabal was responsible for Horst becoming a vampire himself, a kind of death itself. This is ultimately subverted since while Horst does kill himself by walking into a sunlight field, Cabal is able to outsmart the Devil in the end but it still stands since Horst and Cabal were both believed he would die.

** In ''Literature/CrookedHouse'' [[spoiler: the SerialKiller is revealed to be a child. Her terminally ill great-aunt decides to committ a murder-suicide to spare the child from a life in a mental asylum (or worse, committing more murders as she grows up) and take the full blame for the murders to avoid the scandal.]]

* Near the end of ''Literature/TheBadSeed'', Christine decides to do this with her EnfantTerrible eight year old daughter after finding out that she murdered two people, [[spoiler:one right in front of her]] at that. She shoots herself and overdoses her daughter on sleeping pills. [[spoiler:Christine]] ends up dying however [[spoiler:Rhoda]] survives. Subverted in the 1956 adaptation. UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode had a rule that antagonists could not get off scot-free. As a result, [[spoiler:Rhoda]] was KilledByTheAdaptation by [[DeusExMachina getting hit by lightning]] at the end while [[spoiler:Christine]] was SparedByTheAdaptation.

* The ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode "Cigarette Burns". At the end Kirby kills his late girlfriend Annie's murderously unhinged father under the evil film's effects because they both keep bringing her back with their remaining love for her. Moments afterwards he eats his own gun after pleading at another vision of her that he's sorry for everything.

* ''Series/{{Harrow}}'': In "Mens Rea" ("Guilty Mind"), Harrow is on duty when a murder/suicide pair is dropped off at the morgue. Harrow when the murdered half turns out to be a colleague of his. He is the shocked when the 'suicide' half [[WakingUpAtTheMorgue wakes up]] and proceeds to hold him hostage.

* ''Series/TheILand'': [[spoiler:K.C.]] killed her sons, and then tried to kill herself, though she survived, ending up in prison.

* ''Literature/Nos4a2'': Bing tries to kill himself and Manx by destroying the Wraith in a crusher. Wayne stops him however.

* ''Theatre/KingLear'': Goneril stabs herself off-stage after an MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment after poisoning her younger sister Regan out of jealousy and lust for Edmund during the final scene.

* In the last level of ''[[VideoGame/TheClassroomTrilogy The Classroom 1]]'', A student come late in the classroom and pull a gun on the teacher and an other student, before shooting himself. He does not actively tries to kill you but you have to be careful to not be between him and his target.

* In ''VideoGame/Persona3'', during the night of the Full Moon operation against the Strength and Fortune Shadows, Ken confronts Shinjiro, intending to kill Shinjiro for causing his mother's death two years ago. Takaya claims that Ken was planning on killing himself after the murder, since he felt he had nothing left to live for. The claim about Ken being suicidal seems to be proven when Ken, after learning that Shinjiro is SecretlyDying, [[IAmSpartacus falsely claims to be the Persona-user who's helping S.E.E.S. find and defeat the Full Moon Shadows]] knowing that Takaya will kill him. Instead, [[HeroicSacrifice Shinjiro sacrifices himself to save Ken]], who, after a days-long HeroicBSOD, regains his will to live for his mother and Shinjiro's sake.

* ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'': What [[spoiler: Sayo]] was planning to do, though the Ushiromiya siblings end up killing each other (and everyone else on the island except for [[spoiler: EVA and Battler]]) while they laid unconscious from a (blank) gun going off in their face. [[spoiler: Sayo still ends up committing suicide out of guilt over planning and setting up the events which lead to the incident.]]

* The Bad Seeds in ''Literature/{{Twig}}'' do this to the parents of the children they've [[KillAndReplace replaced]], essentially single use assassination weapons in the forms of children.

** Baby Doll does this again in "Love is a Croc". After discovering that Croc never loved her, she tricks him into helping her blow up the nuclear power plant, intending to kill herself, Croc and all of Gotham.

* One flashback in ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'' shows us that William Murderface's parents died this way; his father killed his mother with a [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]], then killed himself. With the same weapon. [[{{Gorn}} By cutting off his own limbs]]. [[UpToEleven And face]].

* In ''LightNovel/EvilFoodEaterConchita'' from the Franchise/EvilliousChronicles, Carlos Marlon attempts this after becoming afraid of [[ImAHumanitarian what]] his beloved Banica had become. It didn't work out as planned. Namely, [[spoiler: he tried to poison both of them and she was at that point immune to all poison.]]

* A number of killers in ''Series/CriminalMinds'' do this rather than be caught.

-->--'''Annie Wilkes''', ''Film/{{Misery}}''

* This is Richard's plan in ''Film/DeadMansShoes''.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': In "Baby-Doll", the title character kidnaps the rest of the cast of her old show and gathers them around a cake with a DynamiteCandle, with no sign that she intends to get out of the blast range. Fortunately, one of the captives is a disguised Robin ready for his BigDamnHeroes moment.

* ''Manga/FullMetalAlchemist'': DiscussedTrope when Riza tells Roy that she is willing to keep her word and shoot him if there is no other option, but then she'll kill herself once the battle is over as [[SubordinateExcuse she sees no point in living without him]].

This is TruthInTelevision, and it has happened ''way'' too many times. This falls among tropes with Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease. [[noreallife]]

* ''Literature/TheAliceNetwork'': [[spoiler: Eve]] planned to kill herself after shooting [[spoiler: Rene]]. However, [[spoiler:Finn and Charlie]] stopped her.