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* ''Literaure/AtlasShrugged'': Eric Starnes, one of the three siblings who ran the 20th Century Motor Company into the ground. As described by a character in-universe:

* The ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' episode "Sin Francisco" deals with this trope. A demon infects people around San Francisco with concentrated representations of TheSevenDeadlySins; when the Charmed Ones and Leo try to interfere, he zaps the four of them with a sin each. [[TheLeader Prue]] is infected with {{Pride}}, which manifests as her natural headstrong attitude becoming increasingly worse until she's deliberately putting herself in dangerous situations. Towards the end of the episode, the demon captures her and plans to throw her into a swirling vortex that will lead straight to Hell...only for her to jump ''herself'' while declaring "You lose, I win!" Leo manages to save her in time. The trope is then [[DiscussedTrope discussed]] when he, Phoebe, and Piper reveal how they cured themselves of their own afflictions: by committing a truly selfless act. Prue protests that her attempted suicide would have saved the whole city and thus should have counted, but her sisters realize that the ''real'' motivation for said attempt was just to spite the demon and make herself look good, thus negating its potential selflessness.

* This is the motivation for the killer in one episode of ''Series/DiagnosisMurder'': The killer works at a dating agency and begins targeting men who dated a specific woman, murdering them in ways that look like suicides. Once caught she reveals that this is because of her ex-husband. After their divorce he was forced to take out a life insurance policy with her as the beneficiary when he learns about the incontestable clause; the insurance company can refuse to pay out if certain conditions are met, including the subject committing suicide within the first two years, prompting him to wait until the two years have almost paused and then killed himself, just to deny his ex-wife the payout. The killer then committed a series of lookalike killings in hope of getting her husband's suicide declared a murder, at which point the insurance company would have to pay out [[note]]For the record, the reason she was targeting men who'd dated the specific woman, aside from her having dated her ex husband, was because she had an Ex-boyfriend who assaulted anyone who tried to date her, and thus was a useful scapegoat for the murders.[[/note]].

* ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' has Luke Skywalker pretty much at a WalkThePlank moment after fighting Darth Vader and losing his right hand. Vader offers Luke a chance to join him and accede to the Dark Side of the Force. Rather than submit, Luke chooses to perish and allows himself to plummet into the near-bottomless shaft. Only the peculiarity of Cloud City's conduit system saves Luke from falling to his doom.

* ''[[VideoGame/Fatal Fury Real Bout Fatal Fury]]'': In Terry and Andy’s endings, [[BigBad Geese]] [[TheRival Howard]] is accidentally knocked off his tower during the ensuing FinalBoss battle. Terry or Andy try to save him by grabbing his arm, but Geese refuses, wrestling himself free from their grasps and [[EvilLaugh laughing at the Bogards the whole way down]].

* ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'' pretty much ends this way. Masamune/Kamen Rider Cronus, the BigBad, has [[AGodAmI a god complex]] that causes him to think only he gets to judge and decide people's life. After he is defeated in the final battle, he decided to kill himself so that others cannot judge him for his crimes.

* ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'' pretty much ends this way. After he is defeated in the final battle, Masamune/Kamen Rider Cronus, the BigBad, decided to kill himself so that he cannot be judged for his crimes.

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': In the end of the Deidara vs Sasuke fight, the latter chooses to use a DangerousForbiddenTechnique: [[SuicideAttack turning himself into a high yield bomb]]. Not necessarily to kill Sasuke, mind you, but just to spite him because he didn't take Deidara's "art" (of explosions) seriously.

The opposite of HeroicSacrifice, a character, who is usually a villain, JerkAss, or some other unsavory character kills themselves solely to make things harder for the other characters. One reason may be that they want to frame them for something. Another reason might simply be because the character is a Jerkass and this is their way of getting the last laugh. The other common reason is that the character wants to avoid being interrogated and does this to deny their captors the precious information. Related to the previous one, if a certain group/person [[IWantThemAlive wants them alive]] for some reason and they know it, then they may kill themselves to deny their potential captors that opportunity.

Often done as part of a ThanatosGambit.

* ''Series/LawAndOrder'': In one episode a man commits suicide solely in order to frame his unfaithful wife and her lover for the crime.

* Ragyo in ''Anime/KillLaKill'' takes her own life rather then surrendering to the humans she looked down on after Ryuko defeats her. Pulling out her own Life-Fiber infused heart and crushing it while promising that the Life Fibers will return someday.

* ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'': The Gung Ho Guns were created with the express purpose of making Vash suffer as he was taught that all life was precious, even those that are utterly immoral to boot. A good chunk of them are NotAfraidToDie and more than willing to kill themselves when defeated. Probably the most notable being TheDragon of the bunch, Legoto Bluesummers, who goes out via SuicideByCop explicitly to prove Vash's ideals are wrong after putting him in an unwinnable situation where someone had to die.

-->''Hmm, I feel that they have finally summoned the dragon. Would be a ''reeeeeeal'' dick move to die right now... ''hruuurgh!''''

The opposite of HeroicSacrifice, a character, who is usually a villain, JerkAss, or some other unsavory character kills themselves solely to make things harder for the other characters. One reason may be that they want to frame them for something. Another reason might simply be because the character is a Jerkass and this is their way of getting the last laugh. The other common reason is that the character wants to avoid being interrogated and does this to deny their captors the precious information. Related to the previous one, if a certain group/person [[IWantHimAlive wants them alive]] for some reason and they know it, then they may kill themselves to deny their potential captors that opportunity.

The opposite of HeroicSacrifice, a character, who is usually a villain, JerkAss, or some other unsavory character kills themselves solely to make things harder for the other characters. One reason may be that they want to frame them for something. Another reason might simply be because the character is a Jerkass and this is their way of getting the last laugh. The other common reason is that the character wants to avoid being interrogated and does this to deny their captors the precious information.

The opposite of HeroicSacrifice, a character, who is usually a villain, JerkAss, or some other unsavory character kills themselves solely to make things harder for the other characters. One reason may be that they want to frame them for something. Another reason might simply be because the character is a Jerkass and this is their way of getting the last laugh.

* ''Manga/ThePromisedNeverland'': Ray's original plan to help Norman and Emma escape the [[PeopleFarms orphanage]] was to [[HeroicSacrifice burn himself alive as a distraction]] the night before he would be eaten by the demons. He spent his entire life building himself up as the most valuable product that would only be eaten by the demon leadership. Burning himself would destroy all of his value and Norman and Emma's escape meant there would be no replacement. He could have come up with any other plan, but chose this one because it screwed over everyone involved in the orphanage. Thankfully, [[TheSmartGuy Norman]] figured out Ray's plan and came up with a new one that only required faking his SelfImmolation and allowed all the kids over four to escape.
* ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'': The Gung Ho Guns were created with the express purpose of making Vash suffer as he was taught that all life was precious, even those that are utterly immoral to boot. A good chunk of them are NotAfraidToDie and more then willing to kill themselves when defeated. Probably the most notable being TheDragon of the bunch, Legoto Bluesummers, who goes out via SuicideByCop explicitly to prove Vash's ideals are wrong after putting him in a unwinnable situation where someone had to die.

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* ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' has Luke Skywalker pretty much at a WalkThePlank moment after fighting Darth Vader and losing his right hand. Vader offers Luke a chance to join him and accede to the Dark Side of the Force. Rather than submit, Luke chooses to perish, and allows himself to plummet into the near-bottomless shaft. Only the peculiarity of Cloud City's conduit system saves Luke from falling to his doom.
* This is a WhatCouldHaveBeen for ''Film/FatalAttraction''. Glenn Close, the {{Yandere}}, kills herself with a knife which has Michael Douglas' fingerprints on it, to frame him. Test audiences didn't like it and demanded "That BITCH has to die!"

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*** In "Justice Be Done", Jack and Trixie attend the reading of the will of an occasional client Mordecai Brasseau. Mordecai's will asks Jack and Trixie to determine who poisoned him to make sure his murderer gets none of the inheritance. The catch is that none of the suspects, Mordecai's son, daughter, lawyer, and most recent wife, were around him enough to perform the very gradual poisoning that killed him, and for the most part loathed one another too much to work together. The detectives realize that the only one with enough access to Mordecai to poison him was Mordecai himself, that his death was a suicide designed to teach his ungrateful heirs a lesson about how they took him for granted.

* Played with in ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3'' in that it's a {{Jerkass}} screwing with everyone to save them. Kokichi disables the hidden cameras monitoring everyone, and forces Kaito to murder him in a press and then hide in an Exisal so that the killer and victim cannot be determined. During the trial, Kaito impersonates Kokichi to further obfuscate his identity and complicate things. The entire point of it was to make the case impossible to solve while simultaneously ensuring Monokuma could not judge it fairly, thereby ending the killing game. While it's possible he was lying, Kokichi stated his reason for doing so was because he hated the killing game and especially the audience watching it, so he wanted to ruin it for everyone.

* ''Webcomic/CyanideAndHappiness'': In one strip, a death row inmate receives his last meal in the form of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich from a prison guard, the latter expressing his desire to personally execute a CompleteMonster. But the inmate gleefuly reveals that he has peanut allergy, basically committing suicide by peanut butter on the spot [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled just to spite the guard]].