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* ''{{Marathon}} 2'' has Durandal in his single stolen Pfhor corvette, vs Admiral T'Fear's entire battlegroup, one of the most feared branches of the Pfhor military. Not even Durandal can beat those odds, and he knows it. So he makes sure to go down fighting, and manages to take half the enemy fleet with him. [[spoiler:Durandal being [[MagnificentBastard Durandal]], though, he finds a way to survive and turn the tables.]]

-->'''Doctor:''' It will destroy you.\\

*** Seing as how that's from a blog that talks about Jews and Jerusalem quite a bit and has a soft spot for far-right politician Geert Wilders it may be worth taking with a pinch of salt. The actual policy is likely more complex than a few underlines in a short article about what a professor says of the policy. Every nuclear armed state has something resembling massive retaliation, the policy is probably closer to that than to "rouge mad dog Jews blow up the world".

* The Israeli 'Samson Option'- if all hope is lost and Israel is about to be defeated, launch nukes at the responsible party or parties.
** Which includes anyone perceived to be hostile, whether or not they're actually attacking. After all, if you're going down in a blaze of spiteful glory, you might as well take revenge for thousands of years of persecution and pogroms Among notable targets is Moscow, which is liable to trigger the [[ApocalypseHow Perimetyr system and cause a Global Thermonuclear War.]]

* In the N64 game ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' Ganondorf does this to you: once you defeat him at the top of his castle, he attempts to use the last of his strength to destroy the castle and crush you and Princess Zelda under it. [[spoiler: All three of you, including Ganondorf, survive.]]

* In VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution, this is how the boss fight against [[spoiler: Barrett ends - he pulls the pins on the grenades still strapped to his body while trying to pull Jensen close enough to take him out too]].

* VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards: Bomb + Rock results in a stick of dynamite that hurts Kirby if he doesn't cover himself with his helmet.

* Yoshimitsu from the SoulCalibur series have some unblockable suicide moves that deal a lot of damage if he hits his opponent with one of these moves. The emphasis is on "if", however, as most of them have short reach. BTW, Yoshimitsu himself suffers about just as much damage from executing these moves, whether they connect with his opponent or not.

* In ''StarControl II'', Shofixti's preferred weapon is a self-destruct switch (promptly called Glory Device). Moreover, when faced with overwhelming odds, they ''turned their own star into supernova'' just to obliterate a part of enemy armada.

* GeorgeCarlin: On wrathful gods: "If there is a God, IF there is...may he strike this audience dead. See? Nothing happened. Okay, if there is a God, may he strike ME dead. Still nothing." On terrorism: "I think just the concept that a man can blow up a bomb in a crowded market and kill a couple hundred people is exciting and stimulating and I see it as a form of entertainment. I have always been willing to put myself at great personal risk for the sake of entertainment. I'm also willing to put YOU at great personal risk for the same reason."

* Just before the end of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'', [[spoiler: [[BigBad Lotso]]]], after [[TheDragon Big Baby]] throws him into a dumpster, actually grabs Woody by the leg and pulls him, Buzz Lightyear, and the rest of Andy's toys into said dumpster just as the garbage truck comes to take them all to the dump.

* Just before the end of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'', [[spoiler: [[BigBad Lotso]]]], after [[TheDragon Big Baby]] throws him into a dumpster, actually grabs Woody by the leg and pulls him, Buzz Lightyear, and the rest of Andy's toys into said dumpster as soon as the garbage truck comes to take them all to the dump.

* In the ''SpiderMan'' storyline, ''ComicBook/EndsOfTheEarth'', the Rhino, [[DespairEventHorizon unable to live on after New Rhino murdered his wife]], ends up pinning Silver Sable to the floor of a flooding floor, the two seemingly drowning as Spidey makes the tough decision to face down Doctor Octopus. (He may not have been successful, however. The seer Madame Webb later told Spider-Man that Sable survived. She may have been lying - she has decieved Spider-Man to manipulate him before - but if it was the truth and Sable ''did'' escape, then it is possible that the Rhino did too.)

* '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.

* ThePunisher, ''Suicide Run'' sub story. 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.

** This turns out to be The Great Inteligence's plan in ''The Name of the Doctor'', to enter the Doctor's timestream so he can torment him throughout his entire life, even at the cost of his own.

** A variant also appears in the 10th doctor story "The Sontaran Stratagem/ The Poison Sky" where [[spoiler: Luke Rattigan uses the Sontaran teleporter to swich places with the Doctor to blow up the Sontaran ship and return the atomsphere back to normal]]
** This turns out to be [[spoiler: The Great Inteligence]]'s plan in ''The Name of the Doctor'', [[spoiler: to enter the Doctor's timestream so he can torment him throughout his entire life, even at the cost of his own.]]

[[spoiler: '''The Great Intelligence]]:''' Wrong. It will only kill me. It will destroy ''you.''

** A Dalek ''tries'' to do this to the Doctor in "Asylum of the Daleks" using its self-destruct, but only manages to blow up a roomful of other Daleks instead.

* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', Yamamoto - the last captain standing - tries to do this to Aizen in an extreme example that would not only take out them, but EVERYONE ELSE in the area. [[ChessMaster Naturally, it fails]], as Aizen [[CrazyPrepared made one of his minions specifically able to]] [[PowerNullifier cancel]] that ability. Sort of justified, because as [[{{Pride}} prideful]] as Aizen is, he even outright admits that Yamamoto would beat him in a fair fight.

* ''Film/{{Terminator}} 3'' has the T-850 destroying the T-X by removing his "fuel cell" (which gets unstable and explodes outside his body) and putting it in her mouth ("[[PreMortemOneLiner You are terminated!]]"). Apparently [[ICannotSelfTerminate self-termination is only possible]] by employing this.

* ''{{Terminator}} 3'' has the T-850 destroying the T-X by removing his "fuel cell" (which gets unstable and explodes outside his body) and putting it in her mouth ("[[PreMortemOneLiner You are terminated!]]"). Apparently [[ICannotSelfTerminate self-termination is only possible]] by employing this.

* This occurs several times in ''Manga/DragonBall Z'', which begins with Goku holding Raditz in place for Piccolo's special attack, which goes through them both. Piccolo knows the heroes will bring him back with the Dragon Balls, and is even prepared to let them so he can have a real fight. Unfortunately, he explains all this to Raditz, who's still transmitting to Vegeta and Nappa...

* [[DragonBallAbridged Lord Slug]] tells Goku this in ''LordSlug''.

* ''[[{{SixteenThirty-Two}} 1633]]'' has two such moments, sort of, in a single battle. First, Eddie Cantrell (accidentally) rams his crippled speedboat into a Danish warship, followed by Hans Richter, wounded and knowing he can't make it to a safe landing, flying his plane into another warship. Hans is immortalized as a war hero. Eddie, surviving by sheer luck, is captured by the Danes. But he eventually hooks up with the Danish king's daughter and gets made an Imperial count, so he wins.

* In a metaphorical sense, oil tycoon Ellis Wyatt from ''AtlasShrugged'', when he sets his oil fields ablaze in response to laws aimed at draining him dry. He even says the trope name in almost so many words beforehand, as foreshadowing.