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* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': Variation during the third season. Mac had been forced to arrest a DirtyCop and as a result, several cases, including a serial killer's, were overturned. The killer claims another victim, and Mac chases him up to a rooftop. He does get the guy cuffed, but then the guy jumps over the edge to his death. He wasn't trying to kill Mac, but he wanted to take him with metaphorically-he hoped the suicide would look like Mac had gotten angry and pushed him over, ruining his career and possibly sending him to prison. Naturally, Mac gets his name cleared, although he annoys the heck out of his bosses in the process when he realizes they're railroading him to make themselves look good and he calls them out on it.

* ''Series/AshesToAshes2008'': Done particularly viciously in the season finale, when the car bomb that killed Alex's parents turns out to have been planted by her father, who'd suffered a psychotic break after his wife cheated on him; it was originally intended to take out ''all three'' of them, and ten-year-old Alex only escaped by accident, having gotten out of the car at the last moment to chase after a lost balloon. And Future!Alex gets there ''just'' in time to see it all happen.

** Jeffrey Sinclair at the Battle of the Line ("[[
Film/BabylonFiveInTheBeginning In the Beginning]]", "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS01E08AndTheSkyFullOfStars And the Sky, Full of Stars]]"), declaring "I'm taking you bastards with me!" as he prepares to ram a Minbari ship. Instead, his fighter is stopped by a Minbari tractor ray, and he is taken captive.

* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': Variation during the third season. Mac had been forced to arrest a DirtyCop and as a result, several cases, including a serial killer's, were overturned. The killer claims another victim, and Mac chases him up to a rooftop. He does get the guy cuffed, but then the guy jumps over the edge to his death. He wasn't trying to kill Mac, but he wanted to take him with metaphorically-he hoped the suicide would look like Mac had gotten angry and pushed him over, ruining his career and possibly sending him to prison. Naturally Mac gets his name cleared, although he annoys the heck out of his bosses in the process when he realizes they're railroading him to make themselves look good and he calls them out on it.

** Jeffrey Sinclair at the Battle of the Line ("[[Recap/BabylonFiveFilm01InTheBeginning In the Beginning]]", "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS01E08AndTheSkyFullOfStars And the Sky, Full of Stars]]"), declaring "I'm taking you bastards with me!" as he prepares to ram a Minbari ship. Instead, his fighter is stopped by a Minbari tractor ray, and he is taken captive.

* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': Variation during the third season. Mac had been forced to arrest a DirtyCop and as a result, several cases, including a serial killer's, were overturned. The killer claims another victim, and Mac chases him up to a rooftop. He does get the guy cuffed, but then the guy jumps over the edge to his death. He wasn't trying to kill Mac, but he wanted to take him with metaphorically-he hoped the suicide would look like Mac had gotten angry and pushed him over, ruining his career and possibly sending him to prison. Naturally, Mac gets his name cleared, although he annoys the heck out of his bosses in the process when he starts thinking they're railroading him to make themselves look good.

*** In "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E12WakingMoments Waking Moments]]", Chakotay beams down to a planet after having ordered the Doctor to destroy the cavern with a photon torpedo [[IfIDoNotReturn if he doesn't call back in five minutes]], killing him... and all the aliens who had been plaguing the ship with narcolepsy (they can trap you in a shared dream they generate, ''forever'') unless he's awake to shut it off.

** Captain John Sheridan, on the Shadow planet of Z'ha'dum. Unable to escape the Shadows' city after blasting his way out of an attempted {{brainwashing}}, he calls down the White Star on his position [[NukeEm carrying two half-gigaton thermonuclear warheads]] (he gets better later).
** Also Jeffrey Sinclair at the Battle of the Line ("In the Beginning", "And the Sky Full of Stars"), declaring "I'm taking you bastards with me!" as he prepares to ram a Minbari ship. Instead, his fighter is stopped by a Minbari tractor ray and he is taken captive.
** When Babylon 5 is attacked by President Clark's forces in "Severed Dreams", one of the Omega destroyers that has arrived to help defend the station is so heavily damaged that her crew cannot even get to the life pods. Her captain (who, somewhat ironically, happens to be of Japanese descent) decides to [[RammingAlwaysWorks take one of the opposing destroyers with her]].

** All of them are easily one-upped by [[PresidentEvil Earth President Clark]], who, when facing arrest for his innumerable crimes, overrides the Earth defence grid to obliterate all life on the planet and then shoots himself. He's foiled only by Sheridan's alliance destroying the satellites.
** {{Invoked}} in the ''Series/{{Crusade}}'' episode "[[Recap/CrusadeS01E07TheRulesOfTheGame The Rules of the Game]]". Eilerson uses an alien choke-collar once used to restrain criminals to ensure that if Mueller, a LoanShark, ever comes anywhere near him or his ex-wife Cynthia, or has them killed, he dies, too.

* ''Series/{{Being Human|UK}}'': Herrick is about to be ripped apart by George. He is reconciled to his fate because he believes that, by killing him, George will lose his last shred of humanity. If Herrick's going to Hell, he's taking George with him.

** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E7Reunion Reunion]]" Riker notes that Klingons consider it an honorable way to die to commit suicide in a manner that takes an enemy with them.
** In the ''TNG'' episode "Power Play", to stop three criminals who have pulled a GrandTheftMe on Data, Miles O'Brien and Troi from escaping with the rest of their (disembodied) gang, Picard threatens to launch them and their hostages (himself, Worf and Keiko O'Brien) out of the shuttlebay. The criminal possessing Troi is incredulous they would go along with such a thing, but Keiko says [[MamaBear she would do so to protect her newborn child]] while Worf tells her that [[AGoodWayToDie dying to protect his friends and crew is a dream of all Klingons]]. Picard even points out that the crewmen they took over would be more than willing to go along with it.
** In ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' this was a common tactic of Jem'Haddar - [[RammingAlwaysWorks their ships crashed into their enemies ships and self-destructed, taking both]].
** When in one episode ''Defiant'' is captured, Sisko rigs it so when the occupants enter warp, the ship will blow, killing everyone on board.
*** Sisko later kills Dukat in that manner, though he ascends as an apparent reward for his vigilance.
** This one not involving ships, Agent Sloan of [[NoSuchAgency Section 31]] is captured and subjected to mind probes to find a cure for ThePlague sicced by said agency on Odo so as to wipe out the Changelings. First, Sloan takes a CyanidePill, but Bashir buys some time allowing them to still probe him, so Sloan tries for the trope, hoping his brain dies with them in it. He ''almost'' succeeds by presenting secrets of TheConspiracy to Bashir, but O'Brien manages to convince him to cut loose in time.
** One of Riker's plans to defeat the Borg after Picard's assimilation was to crash the ''Enterprise'' into the cube.
** In ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', said ship once self-destructed, taking a Vidian ship with it -- the episode had created a "copy" of the ship. At the end of "Year Of Hell", Janeway took ''Voyager'' and rammed a Timeship, destroying both -- and activating a ResetButton.
** In the series finale, Admiral Janeway (from an alternate future) sacrifices herself to infect the Borg with a virus that destroys the Transwarp Hub.
*** And in one novel Admiral Janeway, assimilated by another Borg group, sabotages their firewall, allowing another virus to work.
** In one episode, Chakotay beams down to a planet with a photon torpedo rigged to detonate, killing him...and all the aliens who had been plaguing the ship with narcolepsy (they can trap you in a shared dream they generate. ''Forever.'') unless he's awake to shut it off.
** In [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries the original series]], the captain of a ship previously destroyed by the MonsterOfTheWeek figures out that its innards aren't as impenetrable as its hull. He drives a shuttlecraft right down the critter's maw! [[spoiler: Which doesn't work. However, they realized it had some effect, and if they used something bigger... say, the remains of his ship, remote-piloted, with its engines rigged to blow once it was in the center... it would do the job just fine.]]

--->'''Worf''': "Perhaps today ''is'' a good day to die. PREPARE FOR '''RAMMING SPEED!'''"

** Also attempted by [[BaldOfAwesome General Hammond]] in the ''Prometheus'' during Anubis' attack on Earth. After exhausting all missiles and with shields nearly exhausted, Hammond orders the pilot to set a [[RammingAlwaysWorks collision course]] for Anubis's mothership. While the collision is averted by said mothership being destroyed by other means, Hammond's line describes this trope perfectly.

* ''Series/LaCasaDePapel'':
** After the government's illegal torture of Rio while he was extrajudicially detained is exposed, [[IceQueen Sierra]] is [[TheScapegoat made to take sole responsibility]] for the whole situation. However, bitter at being hung out to dry, she instead uses the press statement she's forced to attend to make it clear that all her superiors were aware and fully supportive of her actions, tarnishing all of them as well.
** During the midpoint climax of Season 5, Tokyo is seriously injured by [[PsychoForHire Gandia and the special forces soldiers]]. Unable to escape due to her wounds, she instead waits for them to get close to finish her off, then pulls the pins of every grenade on her bandolier, wiping out most of the squad.

* ''Series/LaCasaDePapel'': After the government's illegal torture of Rio while he was extrajudicially detained is exposed, [[IceQueen Sierra]] is [[TheScapegoat made to take sole responsibility]] for the whole situation. However, bitter at being hung out to dry, she instead uses the press statement she's forced to attend to make it clear that all her superiors were aware and fully supportive of her actions, tarnishing all of them as well.

-->'''Gwynn''': [[FamousLastWords You lose, Yavalla. Die, you witch!]]

** [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned "Voyage of the Damned"]]: When Foon decides to [[DrivenToSuicide kill herself]] after her husband's death, she takes a robotic Host with her into the nuclear storm drive.

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*** Much of season 3's beginning was concerned with Colonials suicide bombing their Cylon occupiers.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': This is referenced in the Season One Finale "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E12ProphecyGirl Prophecy Girl]]". When Buffy goes to confront the Master, knowing there is a prophecy she will die, she explicitly states 'maybe he'll kill me, but I'm betting I can take him with me.'

** In ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', said ship once self-destructed, taking a Vidian ship with it--the episode had created a "copy" of the ship. At the end of "Year Of Hell", Janeway took ''Voyager'' and rammed a Timeship, destroying both--and activating a ResetButton.

* ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'': In "Stress Position", Goren, Logan, and their witness are trapped in a prison lockdown and cornered by the very guards they're trying to build a case against. When the leader of the group threatens them, Logan replies that if they do carry out their threat, "we're gonna take one of you with us". Ends up being only an InvokedTrope, as Goren manages to get them out of the situation without violent confrontation.

* ''Series/ColdCase'': This exchange from the episode ''Knuckle Up'': "If you do this... you're going down." "Then you're coming with me." This is followed by the confession that implicated the one making the threat.

* In "Battleground", the first episode of the miniseries ''Literature/{{Nightmares and Dreamscapes}}'', based on Creator/StephenKing short stories, a hitman's apartment becomes the scene of a bloody battle between himself and a set of living toy soldiers. After killing all the regular soldiers, he battles a previously unseen commando in the elevator and eventually crushes him between the doors. However, moments later something falls out of the commando's hand and an explosion follows. It then cuts to the box the soldiers came in and we see that it contains two bonus items: "1 Commando, 1 Tactical Nuclear Explosive".

* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': Variation during the third season. Mac had been forced to arrest a DirtyCop and as a result, several cases, including a serial killer's were overturned. The killer claims another victim, and Mac chases him up to a rooftop. He does get the guy cuffed, but then the guy jumps over the edge to his death. He wasn't trying to kill Mac, but he wanted to take him with metaphorically-he hoped the suicide would look like Mac had gotten angry and pushed him over, ruining his career and possibly sending him to prison. Naturally, Mac gets his named cleared, although he annoys the heck out of his bosses in the process when he starts thinking they're railroading him to make themselves look good.

* In ''Series/Dracula2020'', the ''Demeter'''s mortally wounded captain claws his way into the ship's hold to set off a jury-rigged bomb that sinks the ship before Dracula reaches England. Meanwhile, Agatha Van Helsing keeps the Count distracted long enough for the captain to do his part, dying [[GoOutWithASmile with a smile on her lips]] in the ship's destruction.

** Walt, knowing by he is surely dying of cancer, does this in the series finale, by setting up an automatic machine gun in the boot of his car to kill himself and the neo-Nazis who stole his meth business and murdered his brother-in-law.