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* In ''{{WesternAnimation/Tangled}}'', after being lethally stabbed by Gothel, Eugene decides to cut Rapunzel's hair, the only thing keeping Gothel young, rather than allow Rapunzel to use her hair to heal him -- effectively ending Gothel's life.

** And in the ''Adventure Comics'' tie-in, SelfDemonstrating/SuperboyPrime decides that if he's going to be killed by Black Lanterns, he's going to [[RageAgainstTheAuthor kill everybody at DC Comics first.]]

* ''Fanfic/AncientSins'' has Humane Pinkie Pie do this during a ''FinalBattle'' with Dante. Using her explosion powers to detonate the sugar inside their blood, she blows up both of them.

* In ''Theater/{{Hamlet}}'', the titular character, already dying from poison, stabs King Claudius with the poisoned foil then forces him to drink the equally poisonous goblet, making sure he dies before he passes on.

** In the ''ComicBook/SuicideRun'' storyline, the Punisher has just finished killing all the heads of the big Mafia families from around the world (again). He is helped by the fact he's carrying a dead man's trigger in his left hand, connected to a huge bomb in the otherwise empty building. But wait... there's one guy left. A jerk-ass nobody who runs some gangs out of New York. The punk points out it's just him and the Punisher and maybe both could walk away. Nope. No deal. BOOM.

** ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman'' ends this way. The entire JLA has thrown everything they have at Doomsday, who has even brushed Superman aside in its attempt to obliterate Metropolis. At the very last, Superman decides that the only way to stop the creature is to plant himself directly in its path and beat it to beat with his bare hands, knowing that he's going to take incredible (ultimately, fatal) damage in return.

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->''"From hell's heart, I stab at thee; for hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee."''
-->-- '''Captain Ahab''', ''Literature/MobyDick'' [[note]]quoted by '''Khan''', in similar circumstances, in ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan''.[[/note]]

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* ''TabletopGame/NuclearWar'' has the "Retaliatory Strike" rule where a player who has lost the last of his population may immediately launch all of his missiles and warheads at whomever he likes. If one of his targets is eliminated in the process, then that nation may make a retaliatory strike of his own. It's possible to launch the unique 100 Megaton warhead in the hopes of getting a lucky roll and destroying the world in the process.

* ''We Didn't Playtest This At All'' features one card that reads that everyone loses by the end of the turn.

* ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'':
** In the ''ComicBook/SuicideRun'' storyline, the Punisher has just finished killing all the heads of the big Mafia families from around the world (again). He is helped by the fact he's carrying a dead man's trigger in his left hand, connected to a huge bomb in the otherwise empty building. But wait... there's one guy left. A jerk-ass nobody who runs some gangs out of New York. The punk points out it's just him and the Punisher and maybe both could walk away. Nope. No deal. BOOM.
** In [[ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX the MAX series]] arc "Six Hours to Kill", Punisher is poisoned and told to kill someone to get the antidote. Instead, he kills the person who poisoned him and pulls out his list of scumbags, going through the methodically before the poison kills him. He actually runs out of targets before he runs out of time.

* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'':
** ''ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'': After her plan to destroy Worldkiller-1 -a body-snatching, genocidal alien abomination- fails, Supergirl decides that the only way to kill it is killing herself while it is trying to steal her body, so [she removes her [[Franchise/GreenLantern Red Ring]], which usually results in instant death of the bearer.
** ''ComicBook/DemonSpawn'': Once her plan fails, villain Nightflame's world starts dying. And she is dying together with it. So Nightflame attempts to destroy Supergirl to kill them both.
--->'''Nightflame:''' I have failed to gain your powers, my world is at an end! There, I do not wish to live! By destroying you... I destroy myself!
** At the end of ''ComicBook/NewKrypton'', Reactron attempts to do this to Supergirl. He fails, but he takes her mother, her race and ''her planet'' with him.
* In the Archie ''[[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' series -- technically, the side-sides starring Knuckles the Echidna -- Tobor (a former Guardian who was unknowingly replaced by a member of the Dark Legion thanks to an accident during battle) emerged from the Legion's former prison with Kragog back into the real world and proceeded to slam themselves into an energy cannon being used by the Legion. This turns into a StupidSacrifice when you realize that the energy cannon was being used to ''rescue'' the trapped citizens of Echindaopolis on Knuckles' orders.
* ''ComicBook/TheJoker'' is often so AxeCrazy that he's willing to include himself among his victims if that will get his point across. In the ''Spider-Man/Batman'' crossover, for example, he couldn't bear the thought of [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou Carnage killing Batman]], and threatened to spring a lethal virus that would have likely killed everyone in the city - himself included - unless Carnage backed off. (And neither Batman nor Spider-Man thought for a second that he was bluffing.)

** In ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'', this is how Kyle Rayner takes out the Black Lanterns assaulting the Green Lantern Central Power Battery-- he traps them in a forcefield with him and an Alpha Lantern Battery on the verge of GoingCritical.

* ''ComicBook/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Mirage}}''-the original Eastman and Laird series is far more brutal than the cartoons or movies made in its name. In its climactic Turtles vs Foot Clan scene, the Foot Clan is slashed to pieces (with blood and severed limbs all about) and Shredder beaten to a gasping pulp. Leonardo offers him a dagger with which to perform seppuku, so he could go out like the samurai he dresses like. Instead, Shredder pulls out a grenade and attempts to perform this trope.
* In ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'', Batman, about to be hit with ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}'s [[FateWorseThanDeath Omega Sanction]], shoots the literal GodOfEvil with a radion bullet, killing his physical body, starting the process of his final defeat.
** The actual story of ''Final Crisis'' is Darkseid attempting to do this ''to all of reality.''
* In ''ComicBook/XMen'', at the end of the Inferno arc, Madelyne Pryor tries to trap ''ComicBook/JeanGrey'' in her dying mind and thus take her with her, recreating the incident that awakened Jean's powers in the first place (Jean nearly died inside the mind of her friend Annie, who was run over -- Madelyne was given this memory by Sinister). Madelyne would succeed if it weren't for the Phoenix Force offering Jean the opportunity to live if she absorbs both Phoenix and Madelyne's personalities.
* Creator/WarrenEllis and Creator/JuanJoseRyp's ''ComicBook/BlackSummer'' has Tom Noir use his old girlfriend's gun to blow up a cemetery, taking both John Horus and Frank Blacksmith with him, thus taking out the main people behind the whole situation.

* In the prologue to ''ComicBook/DCTheNewFrontier'', John Cloud jumps into the mouth of the Tyrannosaurus Rex that killed the rest of his unit while holding two live grenades. It's currently the Page Image for DyingMomentOfAwesome. King Faraday takes his place in the AnimatedAdaptation.

* From ''ComicBook/TheDarkness'':
-->'''Jackie:''' I don't suppose you'd let me have OneLastSmoke... [[StuffBlowingUp Say, do you smell gasoline?]]

* ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'':
** In ''Convergence #3'', ComicBook/{{Earth 2}} Thomas Wayne blowing himself up for killing several pre-ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}} Gotham's villains.
** Happens twice in ''Convergence: ComicBook/SuicideSquad #2''. First Star Sapphire to Cyborg Superman to avenge the destruction of Coast City. At the end Amanda Waller blows herself up to destroy New Oa with Alan Scott and take out Captain Boomerang, who'd turned traitor.
* In the original ''ComicBook/MenInBlack'' comics, Agent Jay was set to be disintegrated by [[SpacePolice the Arbiter Doran]]. At the last second, Jay pulled {{Jerkass}} Agent Kay in with him. They both die, and are subsequently reformed as clones. Kay is led to believe he was talked into willingly dying alongside Jay, and wipes his partner's memory of the event.
* ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'':
** ''ComicBook/{{Shakara}}'': After Shakara sabotages the [[DoomsdayDevice Apocalypse core]] on the Succubi starship, sending them crashing down onto the planet [[PlanetLooters they were in the process of harvesting]], their commander orders the creature responsible found. He knows that they're already doomed because the planet is about to explode anyway, he just wants the consolation of killing him first.
** ''ComicBook/ButtonMan'': After Harry fatally wounds another Button Man, he tries to kill them both with a grenade, but Harry jumps out of the way in time.
* In the ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' storyline ''ComicBook/TheJudasContract'', when Terra believes she's been betrayed by Deathstroke, she flips out and begins trying to kill everyone - Deathstroke, the Titans, even H.I.V.E. - in her rage and taking them with her. All she ends up doing is killing herself.
* ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'': In issue #20, Princess Celestia ''tries'' to kill her mirror-world EvilCounterpart (which, due to {{synchronization}}, would have meant ''her'' death, as well) after the latter [[BerserkButton hurts both versions of Luna]]. She doesn't manage to do so only because of mirror-King Sombra putting up a magical barrier.

* In ''ComicBook/BatmanDamned'', [[spoiler: it is revealed that the Joker died when Batman had the opportunity to give him his hand, only to retract his hand after realizing that the Joker (supposedly) mortally wounded him.]]
* ''ComicBook/StarWarsKanan'': In issue 11 Coburn Sear sets himself on fire attempting to kill Caleb. He fails and Caleb decapitates him.
* ''ComicBook/SherlockHolmesAndTheHorrorOfFrankenstein'': When Dr. Pretorious suffers his VillainousBreakdown he sets the electrical equipment in his lab to overload and blows up his castle in an attempt to take Holmes, Watson and the monsters with him.

* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur}}'', as the Carnotaurus is about to fall into the ravine, he immediately bites onto Aladar's leg, but the Iguanodon manages to shake him off before climbing back up.

** Having been somehow formed almost exclusively by Jenova, they were actively dissolving in the purifying rain--explosion unrelated. Still, the were avenging Sephiroth, Jenova, and Kadaj by killing Cloud even as they went down, so it still counts. Only Cloud had a Get Out of Death Free card for world-saving, apparently.

* In the ''ComicBook/DCTheNewFrontier'' DVD, Agent Faraday has just enough strength to grab and unpin two grenades before the monster swallows him. The Martian Manhunter is moved by his HeroicSacrifice and subsequently [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge goes on a nice little rampage]]. In the comic the film is based on, the action was done by John Cloud instead. While it was insanely awesome, the subplot had little to do with the plot, so it was cut, and the moment was integrated into Faraday's HeroicSacrifice.

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDarkApokolipsWar'' sees a crapton of this:
** ComicBook/{{Shazam}} calls out his namesake word to take out the Paradooms attacking him.
** Likewise, the last members of the ComicBook/SuicideSquad and ComicBook/LoisLane blow up Lexcorp Tower to stop the Paradooms from getting to Superman's team.
** ComicBook/{{Raven}} ''wants'' ComicBook/JohnConstantine to kill her if she can't control Trigon to ensue Trigon can't escape. However, Constantine simply knocks the gem off and lets Trigon out to take on Darkseid.
** Trigon himself grabs ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} to ensue both get sucked into the Boom Tube ComicBook/{{Cyborg}} opened to suck in Apokolips. Might count for Cyborg himself as he can't leave thanks to Darkseid fusing him to the planet's systems.

* In the ''Podcast/RedPandaAdventures'' episode "The Gadget", the Red Ensign, an ally of the Red Panda, has at his mercy the man he holds responsible for much of the pain he's endured in his life, fugitive Nazi scientist Friedrich von Schlitz. The Red Ensign bodily carries him to the atom bomb testing site in Trinity New Mexico so that they can both die together. The act merits SilentCredits at the end of the episode.
-->'''von Schlitz:''' Please! Please! I will give you anything you want!\\
'''Red Ensign:''' ''This'' is what I want.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Chronopia}}'' allows mages to perform such a manoeuvre. By expending all their remaining Wisdom points (the mana of the game), which is instant death by itself, they get to spend half their maximum Wisdom points ''as well'', using it ''all'' to power a ''single'' spell without the usual skill penalties for using high-level magic. While it's still possible to fumble the skill throw and not all spells are suitable for a suicide casting like this, a spell like ''Explosion'' is sure to cause some severe damage to the topography and anyone unlucky enough to be caught within the blast radius...

* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_(party_game) Mafia]]'': More complex versions of the game (as well as its variations, like ''Werewolf'') will often include a "killing role" character, such as Hunter or Rambo. Rules for these characters vary, but their usual role is to take a set number of other players down with them when they're killed.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': Dragon-Bloods have access to a series of Charms with the Martyr keyword, which becomes significantly more terrifying when they're used by a dying man, many of which are combat effects. The most notorious is the Essence 7 elemental nuke called As In The Beginning, so a dying DB gets to take ''entire battlefields'' with him.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Earthdawn}}'': An optional rule allows players to do a "dying act". The character is allowed to spend all of their karma dice on a single roll, after which he or she is [[DeaderThanDead dead beyond the reach of any resurrection magic.]] If the roll in question is a damage roll, it becomes this trope.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'' encourages this, even above and beyond survival (because clones mean DeathIsCheap anyway): "What's more important -- that you survive, or that your enemy gets his?" Especially if you're on your last clone anyway, and thus (at least personally) have nothing left to lose: "Friend Computer, I wish to make a full confession. All the charges leveled against me are true. And all the ''other'' charges that Suck-R knows about and hasn't mentioned yet are true. And all the vidtape footage that Gone-R collected and hid in his locker is accurate..." Of course, there are no such charges and no such footage, but how would the Computer know that? If you're lucky and/or amuse the GM enough, It may even forgive or forget about you as It focuses on these other traitors.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': If a bastion archon is killed by an evil creature, it explodes in a powerful burst of holy light that consecrates an area of forty feet around it, quite possibly killing whatever entity managed to slay it while simultaneously healing any surviving allies.
* ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'':
** The memetic player character ''Fanfic/OldManHenderson'', upon finally being targeted personally by the Hastur cultists with a siege of zombies and shoggoths, holed up with his allies in a skating rink and rigged it with "enough explosives to make Michael Bay blush", thus taking the cultists, monsters, allies, and the ''[[LoopholeAbuse Yellow King himself]]'' with him in a literal blaze of glory.
** ''TabletopGame/ArkhamHorror'' has an item called a time bomb. You place up to 3 clue tokens on it, and when it detonates, everything in that neighborhood dies, including players. This is why you can put no clue tokens on it and just have it detonate immediately in your hands, killing your character but taking everything nearby out. This can be incredibly taxing on your efforts and a worse idea the further into the game you get, but early-on if you're facing a situation where the Terror Track will rise or some other awful thing will happen, just blow the monsters up.
* ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'': Being a game of supremely high stakes, often high-energy magic, and doomed romanticism, ''Mage'' and its spin-offs maybe encourage this sort of mindset. Notably, the Renaissance-period version, ''Mage: The Sorcerers Crusade'' featured references to High Artisan Magistrate Roland Hoffmann, whose artillery was crucial to the defeat of Infernal powers at the Battle of Harz. And when the enemy got through to his guns, Hoffmann and his crews detonated their gunpowder stores, taking down everything on that side of the battlefield.

* Directly invoked by Enjolras and the other revolutionaries in ''Theatre/LesMiserables''; when they realize that no one is coming to help them and that they are going to die, they promise to "make them bleed while we can". Given how quickly they go down, they likely weren't too successful.
* In ''Theater/{{Hamlet}}'', the titular character, already dying from poison, stabs King Claudius with the poisoned foil then forces him to drink the equally poisonous goblet, making sure he dies before he passes on.

* Melina Frost from ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' kills Beth Vanallen this way. After the latter stabbed another almost fatally and left her to die in quicksand, the former grabbed hold of her hair in her last act and dragged Beth under with her, killing them both.

* In the finale of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue: Revelation'', as the Meta is being dragged to his death by a Warthog jeep over a cliff, he grabs Grif along the way down. Sarge starts [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat delivering a eulogy]] even after Tucker suggests that maybe Grif [[LiteralCliffHanger caught a branch on the way down]]. He did... in the form of embedding the Meta's Brute Shot's blade into the side of the cliff and "dangling on the job again I see" as Sarge puts it.

* The character Riot Breaker in The Guildhall D&D podcast. Notably, he's used this strategy ''twice'', somehow managing to survive both attempts. The first time was against a robotic dragon that, if not for his (attempted) HeroicSacrifice would have killed the party almost definitely. The second time, a dawning realization of just how badly he'd messed up pushed him beyond the DespairEventHorizon, and as a result, he intended to drag the villain into the murky depths with him.
* In ''Literature/LookToTheWest'', Fox does this to Hoche.
* Lord Slug tells Goku this in ''[[WebVideo/DragonBallAbridged Lord Slug Abridged]]''.
* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': This is the reason for the Star Stalker's creation, on a cosmic scale: if the invading Elder Gods couldn't be stopped, the Destroyer's mission was to destroy '''everything''', in all dimensions, everywhere. Sara has refrained from explaining this to Billie for the sake of her sanity.

* At the very end of ''[[LetsPlay/{{Dream}} Dream's]]'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tylNqtyj0gs Minecraft Manhunt grand finale,]] [[spoiler: Sapnap tries to kill Dream as a last-ditch effort by exploding a bed next to him. Sapnap thought blowing up the bed would either blow up the dragon (killing it before Dream could), or kill Dream himself. Both possibilities would result in the hunters winning. What happened instead was that the game gave the "Free the End" achievement to Dream (meaning that no matter what really happened the proof was in Dream's favor), and the bed only blew up Sapnap]].

*** In the last episode of season 3, Ghazan chooses this over going back to prison - and collapses a cave on himself, Bolin and Mako. They make it out, he doesn't.

* ''Fanfic/CodePrimeR1Rebellion'': During the Black Rebellion, Cliffjumper is mortally wounded by Luciano Bradley. But using the last of his strength, he then drags the Knight of Ten's Knightmare onto a generator, frying the bastard.

* {{Creator/madsthenerdygirl}}'s ''Fanfic/MCURewrites'': In ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/11652651 Avengers: Civil War]]'', Zemo plans on blowing both himself and the Avengers up with pressure-sensitive explosives so that the Avengers will be killed and two of their own members: Wanda Maximoff and Bucky Barnes (whom Zemo had framed for an attack on the United Nations Complex) will be held responsible, thus ruining the Avengers' legacy. Fortunately, everyone escapes and Wanda manages to contain the explosion and T'Challa takes Zemo into custody for his crimes ([[YouKilledMyFather one of which was killing his father in the UN Complex explosion]]).

-->"--I'm goin' to Hell for that bit. And ''you're all comin' with me!'' 'We didn't laugh at that bit Jesus, pleeeaase!' 'Shut up! Get on the bus with Leary and [[Creator/MartinScorsese Scorcese]]; you're goin' right to fuckin' Hell!' "

* ''ComicBook/ThePunisher''

** ''Comicbook/DemonSpawn'': Once her plan fails, villain Nightflame's world starts dying. And she is dying together with it. So Nightflame attempts to destroy Supergirl to kill them both.

* In the Archie ''[[Comicbook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' series -- technically, the side-sides starring Knuckles the Echidna -- Tobor (a former Guardian who was unknowingly replaced by a member of the Dark Legion thanks to an accident during battle) emerged from the Legion's former prison with Kragog back into the real world and proceeded to slam themselves into an energy cannon being used by the Legion. This turns into a StupidSacrifice when you realize that the energy cannon was being used to ''rescue'' the trapped citizens of Echindaopolis on Knuckles' orders.
* ''Comicbook/TheJoker'' is often so AxeCrazy that he's willing to include himself among his victims if that will get his point across. In the ''Spider-Man/Batman'' crossover, for example, he couldn't bear the thought of [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou Carnage killing Batman]], and threatened to spring a lethal virus that would have likely killed everyone in the city - himself included - unless Carnage backed off. (And neither Batman nor Spider-Man thought for a second that he was bluffing.)

* ''Comicbook/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Mirage}}''-the original Eastman and Laird series is far more brutal than the cartoons or movies made in its name. In its climactic Turtles vs Foot Clan scene, the Foot Clan is slashed to pieces (with blood and severed limbs all about) and Shredder beaten to a gasping pulp. Leonardo offers him a dagger with which to perform seppuku, so he could go out like the samurai he dresses like. Instead, Shredder pulls out a grenade and attempts to perform this trope.
* In ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'', Batman, about to be hit with {{ComicBook/Darkseid}}'s [[FateWorseThanDeath Omega Sanction]], shoots the literal GodOfEvil with a radion bullet, killing his physical body, starting the process of his final defeat.

* In ''ComicBook/XMen'', at the end of the Inferno arc, Madelyne Pryor tries to trap ''Comicbook/JeanGrey'' in her dying mind and thus take her with her, recreating the incident that awakened Jean's powers in the first place (Jean nearly died inside the mind of her friend Annie, who was run over -- Madelyne was given this memory by Sinister). Madelyne would succeed if it weren't for the Phoenix Force offering Jean the opportunity to live if she absorbs both Phoenix and Madelyne's personalities.

** ''Comicbook/KryptoniteNevermore'': Before Superman arrests him, a terrorist releases a hydrogen bomb, hoping that the explosive hits a magma pocket and destroys the world.

** In ''Convergence #3'', Comicbook/{{Earth 2}} Thomas Wayne blowing himself up for killing several pre-ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}} Gotham's villains.

* ''FanFic/TheMissionStaysTheSame'': [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 The Eldar]] do this at the end of their LastStand against [[Franchise/MassEffect the Reapers]]; they pour their psychic energy into their homeworld's star, causing it to go nova and vaporize most of the invading fleet, along with all remaining traces of the Eldar race.

* In ''FanFic/MegaManRecut'', Ice Man tries this to both Wily and Mega Man, though he fails. It gets him killed.
* In ''FanFic/MegaManDefenderOfTheHumanRace'', Metal Man tries to do this to [=ProtoMan=] in episode 9.

* ''FanFic/AgesOfShadow'': During the FinalBattle, when [[FallenHero Jade]] is being permanently [[SealedEvilInACan sealed away]] by [[TheHero Trace]], she grabs [[LoveInterest Mildred]] and threatens to drag her into the Netherworld with her if the spell isn't stopped. Fortunately, [[SpiritAdvisor Cheherezad]] swoops in to save her, allowing Jade to be safely sealed.

* ''VisualNovel/MajiDeWatashiNiKoiShinasai'' has Cookie, the robot, who gets ensnared in several ropes against class S in the Kawakami War. As a last-ditch move, he releases his remaining energy to shock the students holding the ropes, then shuts down.

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-->'''Tim:''' You know, I hear the Great Grimaldis' in town. You should go see him, cheer yourself up\\

** The SequelSeries, ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' had Lin Bei Fong attempt this in [[Recap/TheLegendOfKorraS1E10TurningTheTides Turning The Tides]], when she ordered Tenzin to go on without her as she attacked the airships, leaving her to go down with them. In a double subversion, she fails to take down the second one, although she manages to stop their pursuit of Tenzin and his family.

*** In "The Battle of Zaofu", Varrick of all people tries to do this to the people holding him captive. He manages to blow up the train, preventing Kuvira from getting the spirit vine technology, and only lives because Bolin saved them both.

* Demona and Macbath from ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' had a curse placed on them that made them both immortal. The only way either one can die is through the use of this trope, i.e. one must kill the other, which will result in both of their deaths.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MarchOfTheDinosaurs'', the ''Albertosaurus'' tackles the old bull ''Edmontosaurus'', biting down on his neck. During their fight, both dinosaurs come towards a cliff, about to fall off to their deaths. Similar to both [[WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime Sharptooth]] and [[WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur}} the Carnotaurus]], except that while both of the above failed to take their prey (Petrie and Aladar) down with them, the Albertosaurus [[spoiler:''SUCCEEDED.'']]

* ''WebAnimation/GamingAllStars'': [[spoiler: [[GreaterScopeVillain Andross]] utters his “If I go down, I’m taking you with me!” line from ''VideoGame/StarFox64'']] in ''The Ultimate Crossover'' and ''Remastered'' when [[spoiler: [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]], [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]], and [[VideoGame/CrashBandicoot Crash]] prepare their combined [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Final]] [[OneWingedAngel Smash]] attacks against him just before [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask the moon]] explodes]].

* In Franchise/MarvelUniverse fanfiction "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20090303083032/http://darkmark90.tripod.com/darkmark2.html Fire]]", Red Skull devises a ploy to kill himself and ComicBook/CaptainAmerica simultaneously, reasoning that their conflict will only end when both of them are dead.

** The memetic player character FanFic/OldManHenderson, upon finally being targeted personally by the Hastur cultists with a siege of zombies and shoggoths, holed up with his allies in a skating rink and rigged it with "enough explosives to make Michael Bay blush", thus taking the cultists, monsters, allies, and the ''[[LoopholeAbuse Yellow King himself]]'' with him in a literal blaze of glory.

* ''Fanfic/AncientSins'' has Humane Pinkie Pie do this during a ''FinalBattle'' with Dante. Using her explosion powers to detonate the sugar inside thier blood, she blows up both of them.

** Likewise, the ComicBook/LexLuthor, ComicBook/SuicideSquad, and ComicBook/LoisLane blow up Lexcorp Tower to stop the Paradooms from getting to Superman's team.
** ComicBook/{{Raven}} ''wants'' ComicBook/JohnConstantine to kill her if shr can't control Trigon to ensue Trigon can't escape. However, Constantine simply knocks the gem off and lets Trigon out to take on Darkseid.