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* ''VideoGame/{{ADOM}}''

* ''Literature/{{Limbo}}'', the 1952 science fiction novel by Bernard Wolfe, depicts a future world where young men undergo voluntary amputation as the moral equivalent of war, a case of literal disarmament. Some go to the extent of forsaking prosthetic limbs to spend the rest of their lives being tended like a baby in an adult crib.

* ''Literature/NoOneNeededToKnow': Peter, one of the boys from Donald's special ed program, has bitten his left hand until it's covered in scars.

* Speedball, aka Robbie Baldwin of ''ComicBook/NewWarriors'' wound up needing to do this to use his powers because of his guilt following the disastrous explosion in Stamford Connecticut that claimed the lives of 612 people. For a time he wears a special suit that constantly injures him so he can unlock them and dubs himself Penance, but even after he gets rid of the suit and goes back to his old persona he admits that he still cuts himself to store up the energy he uses as Penance because this power is more useful in a fight, but he realizes how harmful this is and Hank Pym offers to get him help.
* In the first arc of ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', Nico uses a pocket knife to cut her arm, whenever she has to summon the Staff of One (which only appears when she bleeds). Though Nico is a PerkyGoth though, she actually is not normally a cutter. In fact, after the first arc is over, she can't bring herself to use the pocket knife and instead resorts to more imaginative ways to bleed (including making use of that time of the month).

* In ''Film/{{Asylum}}'', Ivy confesses to Madison that she is a self-injurer.

** One of the weirder items in the game, potions of self-mutilation cause a small amount of damage to the drinker (or monster they're thrown at) via, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin well]].

* Wiki/SCPFoundation: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-847 SCP-847]] is a mannequin that shatters parts of itself that a male who spends time with it finds undesirable or outdated.

* Nell in ''Film/DontBotherToKnock'' has wrist scars from a previous suicide attempt. [[spoiler: She tries to slash her throat late in the film, but Jed and Lyn talk her down.]]

* Discussed in ''Film/HighFidelity''. After [[spoiler: Laura's father dies, she has sex with Rob and they get back together.]] She says it's either that or stick her hand in the fire.

* ''Literature/{{Uglies}}'': In ''Pretties'', [[spoiler: Shay]] leads a group of Pretties who cut themselves to focus their minds. In ''Specials'', the Cutters cut themselves, burn themselves, and subject themselves to extreme cold for similar reasons.

* ''VideoGame/Persona3'': [[spoiler: Chidori]] is eventually discovered to do this.

** A "special poem" that can appear in act 2 seems to suggest that [[spoiler:Monika]] tried cutting herself just once, also referring to knowing of [[spoiler:Yuri's]] doing it. She describes it as "exhilarating". The writer of the note doesn't actually identify themselves, and the other person's name is redacted, but it best fits those characters. It may have something to do with how [[spoiler: Monika has been suffering from unbearable feelings of derealisation; she also mentions the possibility of suicide here. WordOfGod [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPw9cMWkAMs confirms]] this.]]

* ''Webcomic/GreyIs'' : [[spoiler: Black]] cuts himself the night after he remembers who White is while thinking about [[spoiler: Ameers death]], White knows and the next day calmly cleans and redresses the wound. White later says that he doesn't get it and asks if it's a new game he's playing, implying that [[spoiler: Black]] didn't self-harm before White left.

* Uncle in season 4 of ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' hits himself with his own two-finger slap, blaming himself for getting Tohru captured by Ikazuki.

** A later episode, ''Numb'', has Orel's mother, Bloberta, do this by [[spoiler: masturbating with power tools--Yes, actual power tools]].

* In the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'' episode [[Recap/StevenUniverseFutureS1E17HomeworldBound "Homeworld Bound"]], Steven's angst and resentment towards [[spoiler: being a Diamond]] boils over into a FreakOut where he bashes his forehead against a pillar [[spoiler: in a symbolic gesture of wishing death upon White Diamond]]. By this point in the series, it is established that his HealingFactor mitigates [[DentedIron but does not prevent]] bone-fracturing injuries he sustains, and judging by the impact crater he left behind, it's likely he struck the pillar with enough force to ''shatter his own skull''.

* Steven Levenkron's ''Literature/TheLuckiestGirlInTheWorld'' is about this trope. The author also wrote a non-fiction book on the subject.