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* ''{{X-Factor}}'' opens up with Rictor on the roof about to jump. Madrox sends one of his dupes to convince him not to, with a little help from Wolfsbane yelling from the street, but [[spoiler:the dupe pushes him off anyway. Don't worry. He's saved by Monet St. Croix.]]

* {{X-Factor}} opens up with Rictor on the roof about to jump. Madrox sends one of his dupes to convince him not to, with a little help from Wolfsbane yelling from the street, but [[spoiler:the dupe pushes him off anyway. Don't worry. He's saved by Monet St. Croix.]]

* The entire premise of "Then Came Bronson" is the title character riding around the country on the motorcycle purchased from the widow of his friend who killed himself.

* TexMurphy: Overseer (which is a remake of the original Tex Murphy game, ''Mean Streets'')
* GodOfWar starts off with Kratos stepping off of a cliff.

* ''BattlestarGalactica'' has, near the beginning of ''"Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I,"'' Gaius Baltar persuading Boomer to kill herself. She doesn't succeed, but it's the beginning of BreakTheCutie for Boomer.
** The plot of {{Caprica}} is set off by a suicide bombing in the first few minutes that starts off the entire plot.
* The narrator of ''DesperateHousewives'' commits suicide at the start of the series
* An episode in Season 5 of ''{{House}}'' starts out with one of the main characters doing this. ''For no reason''. (It was actually because the actor decided to quit the show.)

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* ''Call Of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth'' begins [[spoiler: and ends]] with the protagonist in an asylum attempting to hang himself in his cell. [[spoiler: While it's not completely confirmed, apparently he succeeds.]]
* ''{{Persona 3}}'' apparently begins with Yukari attempting to commit suicide with a gun... but it doesn't take long for it to become clear that she's only trying to gather the courage needed to evoke her Persona. The gun doesn't even [[AbnormalAmmo shoot bullets]].
* TexMurphy: Overseer (which is a remake of the original Tex Murphy game, ''Mean Streets'')
* GodOfWar starts off with Kratos stepping off of a cliff.

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* averted in the opening scene of BreakingBad pilot; what do you do when you, the protagonist, until that moment a law abiding citixen, a trusted and respected member of his community, a loving husband and father, end up in your underwear in the middle of the desert, driving a mobile meth-lab chased by police cars that get closer and closer? You leave a videotaped farewell message to the loved ones then proceed to confront the police with a gun in your hand ready to shoot.
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* ''{{Head}}'' starts off (and ENDS) with TheMonkees Mickey Dolenz jumping off a bridge...which makes the whole film arguably his near-death hallucination.

* Pictured above: ''SerialExperimentsLain'' kicks off when middle schoolder Chisa Yomode jumps off a building. It then follows up with the girl's internet conversation: "How does it feel to die?" "It really hurts :-)"

* The InNameOnly ''[[IRobot I, Robot]]'' movie.

* In the film inspired by CirqueDuSoleil's ''{{Alegria}}'', the story starts with street performer Frac attempting suicide by lying down on train tracks. He's only stopped from going through with it when his [[Main/InnocentFlowerGirl abused urchin friend]] Momo lies down beside him with the ''same intent''.

* ''{{Head}}'' starts off (and ENDS) with {{The Monkees}} Mickey Dolenz jumping off a bridge...which makes the whole film arguably his near-death hallucination.

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* ''[[AgathaChristie The Murder of Roger Ackroyd]]''

A story starts off with someone attempting or committing [[SuicideIsPainless suicide]]. And the rest of the story goes from there. If it's the main character, expect a DeadToBeginWith story, often with an IronicHell or MundaneAfterlife. If it's a mystery story, such opener often implies the character was DrivenToSuicide.

* Subverted in ''{{Spiral}}: Suiri no Kizuna.'' It's [[spoiler:a murder staged as a suicide--or, in the anime, attempted murder staged as attempted suicide]].

* ''Wristcutters:ALoveStory''

* ''Wristcutters: A Love Story''

* ''SayonaraZetsubouSensei''

** The 2009 episode ''Illegitimate'' begins with the perplexing case of a cop committing suicide by cop. The rest of the episode deals with the detectives tracing down why he did it.

* An early episode of ''LawAndOrder'' has a cop's suicide start an investigation that eventually leads to uncovering the cop and many of his childhood friends had been sexually abused by the neighborhood priest.

* {{X-Factor}} opens up with [[spoiler:Rictor]] on the roof about to jump. Madrox sends one of his dupes to convince him not to, with a little help from Wolfsbane yelling from the street, but [[spoiler:the dupe pushes him off anyway. Don't worry. He's saved by Monet St. Croix.]]

** The 'Complex' part of the Second Season begins proper with the mass suicide of an Individual Eleven cell, who commit Hari-Kiri on the roof of a skyscraper.