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* Out of all the various designs created for dealing with space debris, some methods involve physically capturing it, then the capturing satellite would either deorbit itself, at which point the heat and friction of atmospheric entry would vaporize both the satellite and its prey, or attach a smaller drone, bug off, then have said drone do the deed while the satellite hunts for another piece of debris.
* Many small animals are highly poisonous or make very loud noises or even start to glow brightly when attacked by a predator to [[SummonBiggerFish attract even more predators.]] While this doesn't really do anything to save themselves specifically, it teaches the predator species to leave their kind alone in the future.
** There's a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_quail#Poisoning type of quail whose meat becomes toxic after it eats certain plants]]. Anything that eats the meat becomes violently ill and may end up with kidney failure.
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camponotus_saundersi Exploding ants]].
** Honey bees have barbs on their stingers, which lodge in the body of their target and are ripped out of the abdomen of the bee while continuing to pump venom. Unfortunately for the honey bee, the injury caused by doing this is fatal and they die soon afterward.
*** It is a rather sad subversion actually. A bee can sting another insect and kill it without any harm to itself, but to a bigger animal, its [[LastBreathBullet Last Breath Sting]] will most likely not be lethal, except maybe someone allergic to its venom and who is stung by many of them.
** Many an animal mortally wounded by a hunter has had time enough to return the favor (or attempt to) before finally succumbing.
*** Brown Bears and African Cape Buffalo are both particularly infamous for this.
*** This is the reason [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar_spear boar spears]] have the lugs at the head; not only does the weapon injure or kill the boar, it keeps the animal at bay and stops it from physically working its way up the weapon to attack the hunter.
** There is footage of a caiman fatally wounding an electric eel only for the eel to electrocute it to death.
** Large constrictors, usually anacondas and pythons, run afoul of this trope quite frequently when they target other predators such as crocodiles or big cats. Often as not, they're mortally wounded by the time their would-be meal is suffocated or crushed to death.
*** There are cases where the snake managed to consume a NotQuiteDead caiman or crocodile and later be found with the prey bursting through its body cavity. For example, [[http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1006_051006_pythoneatsgator.html in 2005, a python ate an alligator and then exploded.]]
*** Sometimes a snake's eyes will simply be bigger than its stomach, or more accurately, its esophagus and it winds up blocking its own airway and choking itself to death.
*** An African rock python successfully attacked and consumed a porcupine, quills and all. Three guesses as to what happened next. Give up? [[spoiler: The quills punctured the python's digestive tract in multiple places and it internally bled to death]].
*** This sometimes gets inverted in the case of reticulated pythons, the preferred prey of king cobras. The cobra will bite the python and then retreat to let its venom finish the other snake off, but sometimes isn't fast enough and ends up constricted for its efforts.
** Experienced herpetologists and snake breeders or owners strongly advise against keeping two or more king snakes in the same habitat since, being both highly territorial and cannibalistic snake-eaters, they will literally kill each other.
* Many small animals are highly poisonous or make very loud noises or even start to glow brightly when attacked by a predator to [[SummonBiggerFish attract even more predators.]] While this doesn't really do anything to save themselves specifically, it teaches the predator species to leave their kind alone in the future.
** There's a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_quail#Poisoning type of quail whose meat becomes toxic after it eats certain plants]]. Anything that eats the meat becomes violently ill and may end up with kidney failure.
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camponotus_saundersi Exploding ants]].
** Honey bees have barbs on their stingers, which lodge in the body of their target and are ripped out of the abdomen of the bee while continuing to pump venom. Unfortunately for the honey bee, the injury caused by doing this is fatal and they die soon afterward.
*** It is a rather sad subversion actually. A bee can sting another insect and kill it without any harm to itself, but to a bigger animal, its [[LastBreathBullet Last Breath Sting]] will most likely not be lethal, except maybe someone allergic to its venom and who is stung by many of them.
** Many an animal mortally wounded by a hunter has had time enough to return the favor (or attempt to) before finally succumbing.
*** Brown Bears and African Cape Buffalo are both particularly infamous for this.
*** This is the reason [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar_spear boar spears]] have the lugs at the head; not only does the weapon injure or kill the boar, it keeps the animal at bay and stops it from physically working its way up the weapon to attack the hunter.
** There is footage of a caiman fatally wounding an electric eel only for the eel to electrocute it to death.
** Large constrictors, usually anacondas and pythons, run afoul of this trope quite frequently when they target other predators such as crocodiles or big cats. Often as not, they're mortally wounded by the time their would-be meal is suffocated or crushed to death.
*** There are cases where the snake managed to consume a NotQuiteDead caiman or crocodile and later be found with the prey bursting through its body cavity. For example, [[http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1006_051006_pythoneatsgator.html in 2005, a python ate an alligator and then exploded.]]
*** Sometimes a snake's eyes will simply be bigger than its stomach, or more accurately, its esophagus and it winds up blocking its own airway and choking itself to death.
*** An African rock python successfully attacked and consumed a porcupine, quills and all. Three guesses as to what happened next. Give up? [[spoiler: The quills punctured the python's digestive tract in multiple places and it internally bled to death]].
*** This sometimes gets inverted in the case of reticulated pythons, the preferred prey of king cobras. The cobra will bite the python and then retreat to let its venom finish the other snake off, but sometimes isn't fast enough and ends up constricted for its efforts.
** Experienced herpetologists and snake breeders or owners strongly advise against keeping two or more king snakes in the same habitat since, being both highly territorial and cannibalistic snake-eaters, they will literally kill each other.
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* The Hashashin, from whom we've derived the term "assassin," were known for attacking targets with ritual daggers, usually in a suicidal assault, to ensure that their victims would not escape.
** It's also possible that instead of their suicidal attacks to ensure the victim dies, it's to ensure that the killer also dies, seeing as how their suicidal attacks show how dedicated to the cause the Hashashin is.
*** And it likewise ensures they'd never be interrogated, to the benefit of their superiors whose secrets would be protected, and possibly to themselves if interrogation entailed torture.
*** It also makes the assassination plan much simpler and more effective: The hardest part of most assassination plans is the assassin's escape afterward, and it is also the part most likely to cause the kill to not happen.
* The entire Philippine campaign in 1941 from the American point of view. American contingency plans, despite fifty years of preparation for war with Japan, couldn't figure out how to prevent the Philipines from being captured. Yet no one could abandon them as, if one is going to be an imperialist, one [[HonorBeforeReason should at least]] protect one's charges from other imperialists. In a strange sort of way, it was an American version of Bushido. Be that as it may, the Philipines took a long time and [[SpannerInTheWorks interfered with the Japanese schedule considerably]].
** It's also possible that instead of their suicidal attacks to ensure the victim dies, it's to ensure that the killer also dies, seeing as how their suicidal attacks show how dedicated to the cause the Hashashin is.
*** And it likewise ensures they'd never be interrogated, to the benefit of their superiors whose secrets would be protected, and possibly to themselves if interrogation entailed torture.
*** It also makes the assassination plan much simpler and more effective: The hardest part of most assassination plans is the assassin's escape afterward, and it is also the part most likely to cause the kill to not happen.
* The entire Philippine campaign in 1941 from the American point of view. American contingency plans, despite fifty years of preparation for war with Japan, couldn't figure out how to prevent the Philipines from being captured. Yet no one could abandon them as, if one is going to be an imperialist, one [[HonorBeforeReason should at least]] protect one's charges from other imperialists. In a strange sort of way, it was an American version of Bushido. Be that as it may, the Philipines took a long time and [[SpannerInTheWorks interfered with the Japanese schedule considerably]].
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* The entire concept of [[MurderSuicide murder-suicides]].
** This has happened to several families in the wake of the recession. For example, a Seattle woman, Chhouy Harm, shot and killed her son-in-law and two of her granddaughters before taking her own life. In many cases, including this one, the killer was already depressed and/or mentally ill, and the economic crisis was the last straw.
** School shootings (most infamously the UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} massacre) are infamous for this, although the causes are disputed, ranging from bullying to mental illness.
** This has happened to several families in the wake of the recession. For example, a Seattle woman, Chhouy Harm, shot and killed her son-in-law and two of her granddaughters before taking her own life. In many cases, including this one, the killer was already depressed and/or mentally ill, and the economic crisis was the last straw.
** School shootings (most infamously the UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} massacre) are infamous for this, although the causes are disputed, ranging from bullying to mental illness.
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* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_of_Moscow_(1812) The Fire of Moscow.]]
* Sir Creator/TerryPratchett once stated that he planned on doing this to his Alzheimer's, via assisted suicide panels in the UK. He died before he got the chance.
-->"I decided that I was going to make Alzheimer's sorry it had caught me."
* Sir Creator/TerryPratchett once stated that he planned on doing this to his Alzheimer's, via assisted suicide panels in the UK. He died before he got the chance.
-->"I decided that I was going to make Alzheimer's sorry it had caught me."
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* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_of_Moscow_(1812) The Fire of Moscow.]]
* Sir Creator/TerryPratchett once stated that he planned on doing this]] The Russians burned their own city to his Alzheimer's, via assisted suicide panels in deny it to the UK. He died before he got the chance.
-->"I decided that I was going to make Alzheimer's sorry it had caught me."French invaders.
* Sir Creator/TerryPratchett once stated that he planned on doing this
-->"I decided that I was going to make Alzheimer's sorry it had caught me."
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* If the Sun dies in about 5 billion years, its transformation into a red giant will actually destroy a large portion of our Solar System.
** In general, any large enough UsefulNotes/{{stars}}, from our humble sun to the supergiants, will wreak havoc to their vicinity in their death throes. Whereas our sun will only ravage our solar system, big enough stars that manage to become supernovae can send massive amount of charged, irradiated particles up to thousands of light years away. A supernova happening within about 150 light years away from earth could still be strong enough to noticeably damage the ozone layer, with the damage becoming worse the closer it happened, resulting in DisasterDominoes that could end in a civilization collapse and mass extinction. That's to say nothing if the dying star(s) ends up firing gamma ray burst; not only GRB retains much of its lethality for much longer distance (a GRB could conceivably cause a mass extinction on earth from 6000 light years away), it's much harder to detect since GRB moves at the speed of light compared to supernova charged particles which sail the space at barely a fraction of that speed.
* Several examples can be found in sports, one would be the final round of the 2010-11 [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball Danish Superliga]], where one of the matches were between Randers and Esbjerg in Randers, two teams struggling against relegation. Randers had originally said that they would not bring scores from other matches over the speakers, but when Lyngby got a 2-0 lead against Odense in the 80th minute (a result that meant Esbjerg were relegated for sure), Randers were leading 2-1 and the stadium speaker said what the score was in the other match. [[LaserGuidedKarma Tim Janssen, Dutch Esbjerg striker, scored in the 89th minute, relegating both teams]].
** Another example would be the World Cup qualifying match between USMNT and Trinidad and Tobago on 10 October 2017 (the last day of the Hex). With a win, the United States would have qualified automatically to the World Cup. A draw would have very likely qualified the US via goal difference. Trinidad and Tobago were already eliminated, and had almost nothing to play for besides revenge for Paul Caligiuri's infamous goal in 1989, which allowed the US to qualify in Trinidad's place. The games played out and the US gives up an own goal 17 minutes in and then lets in another goal from Alvin Jones, whose father was a member of the Trinidad squad that lost in 1989, before halftime. They pull back one goal, but lose 2–1. Meanwhile, Panama beat Costa Rica 2–1 and Honduras beat Mexico 3-2. This caused the USMNT to miss the World Cup for the first time since 1986.
** During the group stage of the 2018 World Cup, South Korea had lost its first two matches meaning there was no way for it to advance to the knockout portion of the tournament. In the final match of the first stage, Germany expected South Korea would put in a halfhearted showing to provide an easy win and advancement to the next round. Instead, the South Koreans played ferociously -- with goalkeeper Jo Hyeon-woo being compared to a brick wall -- and won 2-0, knocking the Germans out alongside them[[note]]this also resulted in the South Korea becoming extremely popular in Mexico, because the match allowed the Mexican team to advance[[/note]].
** In general, any large enough UsefulNotes/{{stars}}, from our humble sun to the supergiants, will wreak havoc to their vicinity in their death throes. Whereas our sun will only ravage our solar system, big enough stars that manage to become supernovae can send massive amount of charged, irradiated particles up to thousands of light years away. A supernova happening within about 150 light years away from earth could still be strong enough to noticeably damage the ozone layer, with the damage becoming worse the closer it happened, resulting in DisasterDominoes that could end in a civilization collapse and mass extinction. That's to say nothing if the dying star(s) ends up firing gamma ray burst; not only GRB retains much of its lethality for much longer distance (a GRB could conceivably cause a mass extinction on earth from 6000 light years away), it's much harder to detect since GRB moves at the speed of light compared to supernova charged particles which sail the space at barely a fraction of that speed.
* Several examples can be found in sports, one would be the final round of the 2010-11 [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball Danish Superliga]], where one of the matches were between Randers and Esbjerg in Randers, two teams struggling against relegation. Randers had originally said that they would not bring scores from other matches over the speakers, but when Lyngby got a 2-0 lead against Odense in the 80th minute (a result that meant Esbjerg were relegated for sure), Randers were leading 2-1 and the stadium speaker said what the score was in the other match. [[LaserGuidedKarma Tim Janssen, Dutch Esbjerg striker, scored in the 89th minute, relegating both teams]].
** Another example would be the World Cup qualifying match between USMNT and Trinidad and Tobago on 10 October 2017 (the last day of the Hex). With a win, the United States would have qualified automatically to the World Cup. A draw would have very likely qualified the US via goal difference. Trinidad and Tobago were already eliminated, and had almost nothing to play for besides revenge for Paul Caligiuri's infamous goal in 1989, which allowed the US to qualify in Trinidad's place. The games played out and the US gives up an own goal 17 minutes in and then lets in another goal from Alvin Jones, whose father was a member of the Trinidad squad that lost in 1989, before halftime. They pull back one goal, but lose 2–1. Meanwhile, Panama beat Costa Rica 2–1 and Honduras beat Mexico 3-2. This caused the USMNT to miss the World Cup for the first time since 1986.
** During the group stage of the 2018 World Cup, South Korea had lost its first two matches meaning there was no way for it to advance to the knockout portion of the tournament. In the final match of the first stage, Germany expected South Korea would put in a halfhearted showing to provide an easy win and advancement to the next round. Instead, the South Koreans played ferociously -- with goalkeeper Jo Hyeon-woo being compared to a brick wall -- and won 2-0, knocking the Germans out alongside them[[note]]this also resulted in the South Korea becoming extremely popular in Mexico, because the match allowed the Mexican team to advance[[/note]].
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* Even your own body cells exhibit this trope. Post-apoptosis, dying neutrophils can release their DNA and chromatin to entrap bacteria as a final attack to protect the body.
** Neutrophils are also full of enzymes and reactive compounds that damage both animal cells and bacteria. When killed, these enzymes can leak and non-specifically start tearing apart everything in the area. Additionally, leaked cellular communication molecules called cytokines can leak and lead to significant inflammation. This process creates a lined cavity called an abscess which is filled with liquified tissue and bacteria, aka pus.
** Any cell infected with a virus or which has lost control of its own reproduction (I.E. risks becoming part of a tumor) has a good chance to commit programmed cell death, or apoptosis, in order to cease being a virus/tumor factory. At other times, cells combine this with SuicideByCop, as they change their surface markers to mark themselves for destruction by the immune system (TheNeedsOfTheMany, of course). The mechanisms are quite complex.
* The Kray twins, London's most notorious gangsters, were considered untouchable until Reggie Kray stabbed small-time gang member Jack "the Hat" [=McVitie=] to death in October 1967. The London underworld began to turn against the Krays - gang members who feared meeting the same fate left the gang and agreed to testify to the police, giving them enough evidence to finally arrest the Krays and their associates. Reggie was ultimately sentenced to life imprisonment for [=McVitie=]'s murder, while Ronnie and the other members were sentenced for various other crimes that the turncoat gang members had told them about. This wasn't intentional on [=McVitie=]'s part, but the fact remains that his death almost single-handedly triggered the collapse of the Krays' entire organization.
* Danish cyclist Michael Rasmussen was fired from Rabobank in 2007. Come 2013, he's taking his former team to court with a claim that the team shouldn't have fired him, because they knew exactly what he was doing and that he was doping.
** Furthermore, he's now working with several anti-doping organizations, telling them everything he knows.
* Had the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis escalated into general war and the US launched an invasion of Cuba, Fidel Castro stated in a 1992 interview that he would have recommended to the Soviet advisors the use of some 100 tactical warheads (that ''US intelligence did not know about'') against the invasion, knowing that doing so would result in the destruction of Cuba and the likely deaths of some 100 million civilians each in the US and Soviet Union from the massive nuclear exchange that would follow.
* A man found a mouse in his home and threw it out on his burn pile. The terrified [[ManOnFire flaming mouse]] survived long enough to run back inside the house [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4593682.stm and burn the entire thing to the ground]].
* One of the hijacked planes to be used in the 9/11 attacks, United Airlines Flight 93, failed to reach its intended destination due to the passengers on board fighting back against the terrorists to regain control of the plane. After a struggle, the terrorists on board put the plane into a dive and crashed it into a field, killing themselves and everyone else on board. The passengers have since been commemorated for their HeroicSacrifice. On the other side, the hijackers themselves were willing to die to cause as much destruction to their American targets as possible (something which was nearly unprecedented at the time, as previous terrorist attacks on aircraft had involved planting a bomb on a plane that the terrorist would not board, while hijackings usually resulted in hostage situations; this is a large part of the reason why aviation was so underprepared for the 9/11 terrorists' attacks).
** Neutrophils are also full of enzymes and reactive compounds that damage both animal cells and bacteria. When killed, these enzymes can leak and non-specifically start tearing apart everything in the area. Additionally, leaked cellular communication molecules called cytokines can leak and lead to significant inflammation. This process creates a lined cavity called an abscess which is filled with liquified tissue and bacteria, aka pus.
** Any cell infected with a virus or which has lost control of its own reproduction (I.E. risks becoming part of a tumor) has a good chance to commit programmed cell death, or apoptosis, in order to cease being a virus/tumor factory. At other times, cells combine this with SuicideByCop, as they change their surface markers to mark themselves for destruction by the immune system (TheNeedsOfTheMany, of course). The mechanisms are quite complex.
* The Kray twins, London's most notorious gangsters, were considered untouchable until Reggie Kray stabbed small-time gang member Jack "the Hat" [=McVitie=] to death in October 1967. The London underworld began to turn against the Krays - gang members who feared meeting the same fate left the gang and agreed to testify to the police, giving them enough evidence to finally arrest the Krays and their associates. Reggie was ultimately sentenced to life imprisonment for [=McVitie=]'s murder, while Ronnie and the other members were sentenced for various other crimes that the turncoat gang members had told them about. This wasn't intentional on [=McVitie=]'s part, but the fact remains that his death almost single-handedly triggered the collapse of the Krays' entire organization.
* Danish cyclist Michael Rasmussen was fired from Rabobank in 2007. Come 2013, he's taking his former team to court with a claim that the team shouldn't have fired him, because they knew exactly what he was doing and that he was doping.
** Furthermore, he's now working with several anti-doping organizations, telling them everything he knows.
* Had the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis escalated into general war and the US launched an invasion of Cuba, Fidel Castro stated in a 1992 interview that he would have recommended to the Soviet advisors the use of some 100 tactical warheads (that ''US intelligence did not know about'') against the invasion, knowing that doing so would result in the destruction of Cuba and the likely deaths of some 100 million civilians each in the US and Soviet Union from the massive nuclear exchange that would follow.
* A man found a mouse in his home and threw it out on his burn pile. The terrified [[ManOnFire flaming mouse]] survived long enough to run back inside the house [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4593682.stm and burn the entire thing to the ground]].
* One of the hijacked planes to be used in the 9/11 attacks, United Airlines Flight 93, failed to reach its intended destination due to the passengers on board fighting back against the terrorists to regain control of the plane. After a struggle, the terrorists on board put the plane into a dive and crashed it into a field, killing themselves and everyone else on board. The passengers have since been commemorated for their HeroicSacrifice. On the other side, the hijackers themselves were willing to die to cause as much destruction to their American targets as possible (something which was nearly unprecedented at the time, as previous terrorist attacks on aircraft had involved planting a bomb on a plane that the terrorist would not board, while hijackings usually resulted in hostage situations; this is a large part of the reason why aviation was so underprepared for the 9/11 terrorists' attacks).
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** Neutrophils are also full of enzymes and reactive compounds that damage both animal cells and bacteria. When killed, these enzymes can leak and non-specifically start tearing apart everything in the area. Additionally, leaked cellular communication molecules called cytokines can leak and lead to significant inflammation. This process creates a lined cavity called an abscess which is filled with liquified tissue and bacteria, aka pus.
** Any cell infected with a virus or which has lost control of its own reproduction (I.E. risks becoming part of a tumor) has a good chance to commit programmed cell death, or apoptosis, in order to cease being a virus/tumor factory. At other times, cells combine this with SuicideByCop, as they change their surface markers to mark themselves for destruction by the immune system (TheNeedsOfTheMany, of course). The mechanisms are quite complex.
* The Kray twins, London's most notorious gangsters, were considered untouchable until Reggie Kray stabbed small-time gang member Jack "the Hat" [=McVitie=] to death in October 1967. The London underworld began to turn against the Krays - gang members who feared meeting the same fate left the gang and agreed to testify to the police, giving them enough evidence to finally arrest the Krays and their associates. Reggie was ultimately sentenced to life imprisonment for [=McVitie=]'s murder, while Ronnie and the other members were sentenced for various other crimes that the turncoat gang members had told them about. This wasn't intentional on [=McVitie=]'s part, but the fact remains that his death almost single-handedly triggered the collapse of the Krays' entire organization.
* Danish cyclist Michael Rasmussen was fired from Rabobank in 2007. Come 2013, he's taking his former team to court with a claim that the team shouldn't have fired him, because they knew exactly what he was doing and that he was doping.
** Furthermore, he's now working with several anti-doping organizations, telling them everything he knows.
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* One of the hijacked planes to be used in the 9/11 attacks, United Airlines Flight 93, failed to reach its intended destination due to the passengers on board fighting back against the terrorists to regain control of the plane. After a struggle, the terrorists on board put the plane into a dive and crashed it into a field, killing themselves and everyone else on board. The passengers have since been commemorated for their HeroicSacrifice. On the other side, the hijackers themselves were willing to die to cause as much destruction to their
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* After cutting off a cobra's head to cook the rest of it, [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2732523/Chef-dies-spitting-cobra-cooking-bit-hand-20-minutes-cut-head-off.html a Chinese Chef gets bitten by the severed head and dies from the venom]].
* A child or teen facing punishment may claim others were involved in the hopes that said (real or imagined) conspirators too get punished.
* A child or teen facing punishment may claim others were involved in the hopes that said (real or imagined) conspirators too get punished.
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* This is a theorized reason for why Andreas Lubitz crashed Germanwings Flight 9525. He had already been diagnosed with severe depression and had been deemed unfit to fly earlier, but for whatever reason, he hid this information from his employers. When his co-pilot left the cabin, he locked the door and set the plane into landing mode early, taking 149 other people with him.
** Sadly, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_350 he]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAM_Mozambique_Airlines_Flight_470 was]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Maroc_Flight_630 not]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Air_Lines_Flight_773 the]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1771 first]].
* In one hand, galaxy clusters are ''very'' unhealthy for spiral galaxies like ours[[note]]Since, for example, interactions with the hot gas that fills the space between the galaxies on them strips the interstellar gas of a galaxy quenching star formation, but not before going out with a burst of newly made stars in some cases[[/note]]. On the other, when two spiral galaxies collide they get ''very'' messed up, including to form a lot of new stars before [[FusionDance merging]] to form a larger one. [[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001A%26A...377..745G Meet]] [[http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2005/u6697/ UGC 6697]], a system where it's believed two galaxies are colliding and wrecking themselves apart while falling into a galaxy cluster that is stripping their gas... at the same time they're making stars galore[[note]]ScienceMarchesOn. This is [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06241 likely a single galaxy that on said infall had an interaction with a nearby smaller galaxy, suffering both enhanced gas stripping and star formation as a result]][[/note]]. An even finer example of this is the pair [[http://iopscience.iop.org/2041-8205/750/1/L23/downloadHRFigure/figure/apjl428464f2 F0237]] in the distant A2744 galaxy cluster, with two almost Milky Way-sized galaxies destroying themselves apart while plunging there.
* In the very early moments of the Universe, just after the Big Bang, [[FusionDance quarks and antiquarks combined]] to form [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryogenesis baryons and antibaryons]][[note]]What makes atomic nuclei (protons, neutrons, and their antimatter equivalent)[[/note]], that proceeded to annihilate themselves. We are made of the small percentage of matter that survived it[[note]]''Why'' was created more matter than antimatter is one problem still unsolved in physics, but as the laws of physics are known to affect particles and antiparticles differently, there are working hypotheses[[/note]].
* The death of "Pretty Boy" Floyd: when FBI agents tried to capture him, he retaliated with gunfire, [[MultipleGunshotDeath and even after being gunned repeatedly by the agents that he was facing off against]], he still managed to fatally wound two of them.
* On April 11, 1986 the FBI tried to arrest multiple murderers and bank robbers William Russell Matix and Michael Lee Platt. During the resulting gunfight Platt was shot a total of seven times but managed to kill Special Agents Benjamin Grogan and Jerry Dove before succumbing to his wounds. Matix also died, though he only managed to get off two shots before being taken out of the fight. As a result the FBI changed it's requirements for handguns to have more “stopping power” particularly after going through automobile glass.
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicky_Barnes Nicky Barnes]] was the founder and leader of the Harlem-based crime organization "The Council", which controlled much of the New York drug trade. When he was arrested and sent to prison, his former allies in the Council's leadership took control of his assets and left him to rot; one of them even started sleeping with his girlfriend. In revenge, Nicky turned government informant and helped dismantle the entire criminal empire he'd spent years building, sending his former friends to prison.
* People who die as a result of getting cancer effectively kill their cancer by starving it of any living oxygenated blood supply, and [[DyingMomentOfAwesome bring it screaming into the abyss with them]]. It's a comforting and triumphant thought.
** As the late comedian Creator/NormMacdonald put it, anyone who dies from cancer achieves this (which would include himself). After all, if the cancer kills the host, the cancer dies also. No one ever actually loses a fight to cancer, at worst they fight it to a draw.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pWrfpacFKc A Doberman fought off 4 cobras to protect its 8 masters]]. It continued to fight despite being bitten many times and only succumbed to the venom once all 4 cobras were dead.
** Sadly, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_350 he]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAM_Mozambique_Airlines_Flight_470 was]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Maroc_Flight_630 not]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Air_Lines_Flight_773 the]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1771 first]].
* In one hand, galaxy clusters are ''very'' unhealthy for spiral galaxies like ours[[note]]Since, for example, interactions with the hot gas that fills the space between the galaxies on them strips the interstellar gas of a galaxy quenching star formation, but not before going out with a burst of newly made stars in some cases[[/note]]. On the other, when two spiral galaxies collide they get ''very'' messed up, including to form a lot of new stars before [[FusionDance merging]] to form a larger one. [[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001A%26A...377..745G Meet]] [[http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2005/u6697/ UGC 6697]], a system where it's believed two galaxies are colliding and wrecking themselves apart while falling into a galaxy cluster that is stripping their gas... at the same time they're making stars galore[[note]]ScienceMarchesOn. This is [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06241 likely a single galaxy that on said infall had an interaction with a nearby smaller galaxy, suffering both enhanced gas stripping and star formation as a result]][[/note]]. An even finer example of this is the pair [[http://iopscience.iop.org/2041-8205/750/1/L23/downloadHRFigure/figure/apjl428464f2 F0237]] in the distant A2744 galaxy cluster, with two almost Milky Way-sized galaxies destroying themselves apart while plunging there.
* In the very early moments of the Universe, just after the Big Bang, [[FusionDance quarks and antiquarks combined]] to form [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryogenesis baryons and antibaryons]][[note]]What makes atomic nuclei (protons, neutrons, and their antimatter equivalent)[[/note]], that proceeded to annihilate themselves. We are made of the small percentage of matter that survived it[[note]]''Why'' was created more matter than antimatter is one problem still unsolved in physics, but as the laws of physics are known to affect particles and antiparticles differently, there are working hypotheses[[/note]].
* The death of "Pretty Boy" Floyd: when FBI agents tried to capture him, he retaliated with gunfire, [[MultipleGunshotDeath and even after being gunned repeatedly by the agents that he was facing off against]], he still managed to fatally wound two of them.
* On April 11, 1986 the FBI tried to arrest multiple murderers and bank robbers William Russell Matix and Michael Lee Platt. During the resulting gunfight Platt was shot a total of seven times but managed to kill Special Agents Benjamin Grogan and Jerry Dove before succumbing to his wounds. Matix also died, though he only managed to get off two shots before being taken out of the fight. As a result the FBI changed it's requirements for handguns to have more “stopping power” particularly after going through automobile glass.
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicky_Barnes Nicky Barnes]] was the founder and leader of the Harlem-based crime organization "The Council", which controlled much of the New York drug trade. When he was arrested and sent to prison, his former allies in the Council's leadership took control of his assets and left him to rot; one of them even started sleeping with his girlfriend. In revenge, Nicky turned government informant and helped dismantle the entire criminal empire he'd spent years building, sending his former friends to prison.
* People who die as a result of getting cancer effectively kill their cancer by starving it of any living oxygenated blood supply, and [[DyingMomentOfAwesome bring it screaming into the abyss with them]]. It's a comforting and triumphant thought.
** As the late comedian Creator/NormMacdonald put it, anyone who dies from cancer achieves this (which would include himself). After all, if the cancer kills the host, the cancer dies also. No one ever actually loses a fight to cancer, at worst they fight it to a draw.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pWrfpacFKc A Doberman fought off 4 cobras to protect its 8 masters]]. It continued to fight despite being bitten many times and only succumbed to the venom once all 4 cobras were dead.
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[[folder:Crime]]
* The Hashashin, from whom we've derived the term "assassin," were known for attacking targets with ritual daggers, usually in a suicidal assault, to ensure that their victims would not escape.
** It's also possible that instead of their suicidal attacks to ensure the victim dies, it's to ensure that the killer also dies, seeing as how their suicidal attacks show how dedicated to the cause the Hashashin is.
*** And it likewise ensures they'd never be interrogated, to the benefit of their superiors whose secrets would be protected, and possibly to themselves if interrogation entailed torture.
*** It also makes the assassination plan much simpler and more effective: The hardest part of most assassination plans is the assassin's escape afterward, and it is also the part most likely to cause the kill to not happen.
* The entire concept of [[MurderSuicide murder-suicides]].
** This has happened to several families in the wake of the recession. For example, a Seattle woman, Chhouy Harm, shot and killed her son-in-law and two of her granddaughters before taking her own life. In many cases, including this one, the killer was already depressed and/or mentally ill, and the economic crisis was the last straw.
** School shootings (most infamously the UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} massacre) are infamous for this, although the causes are disputed, ranging from bullying to mental illness.
* The Kray twins, London's most notorious gangsters, were considered untouchable until Reggie Kray stabbed small-time gang member Jack "the Hat" [=McVitie=] to death in October 1967. The London underworld began to turn against the Krays - gang members who feared meeting the same fate left the gang and agreed to testify to the police, giving them enough evidence to finally arrest the Krays and their associates. Reggie was ultimately sentenced to life imprisonment for [=McVitie=]'s murder, while Ronnie and the other members were sentenced for various other crimes that the turncoat gang members had told them about. This wasn't intentional on [=McVitie=]'s part, but the fact remains that his death almost single-handedly triggered the collapse of the Krays' entire organization.
* One of the hijacked planes to be used in the 9/11 attacks, United Airlines Flight 93, failed to reach its intended destination due to the passengers on board fighting back against the terrorists to regain control of the plane. After a struggle, the terrorists on board put the plane into a dive and crashed it into a field, killing themselves and everyone else on board. The passengers have since been commemorated for their HeroicSacrifice. On the other side, the hijackers themselves were willing to die to cause as much destruction to their American targets as possible (something which was nearly unprecedented at the time, as previous terrorist attacks on aircraft had involved planting a bomb on a plane that the terrorist would not board, while hijackings usually resulted in hostage situations; this is a large part of the reason why aviation was so underprepared for the 9/11 terrorists' attacks).
* This is a theorized reason for why Andreas Lubitz crashed Germanwings Flight 9525. He had already been diagnosed with severe depression and had been deemed unfit to fly earlier, but for whatever reason, he hid this information from his employers. When his co-pilot left the cabin, he locked the door and set the plane into landing mode early, taking 149 other people with him.
** Sadly, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_350 he]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAM_Mozambique_Airlines_Flight_470 was]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Maroc_Flight_630 not]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Air_Lines_Flight_773 the]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1771 first]].
* The death of "Pretty Boy" Floyd: when FBI agents tried to capture him, he retaliated with gunfire, [[MultipleGunshotDeath and even after being gunned repeatedly by the agents that he was facing off against]], he still managed to fatally wound two of them.
* On April 11, 1986 the FBI tried to arrest multiple murderers and bank robbers William Russell Matix and Michael Lee Platt. During the resulting gunfight Platt was shot a total of seven times but managed to kill Special Agents Benjamin Grogan and Jerry Dove before succumbing to his wounds. Matix also died, though he only managed to get off two shots before being taken out of the fight. As a result the FBI changed it's requirements for handguns to have more “stopping power” particularly after going through automobile glass.
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicky_Barnes Nicky Barnes]] was the founder and leader of the Harlem-based crime organization "The Council", which controlled much of the New York drug trade. When he was arrested and sent to prison, his former allies in the Council's leadership took control of his assets and left him to rot; one of them even started sleeping with his girlfriend. In revenge, Nicky turned government informant and helped dismantle the entire criminal empire he'd spent years building, sending his former friends to prison.
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[[folder:Animals]]
* Many small animals are highly poisonous or make very loud noises or even start to glow brightly when attacked by a predator to [[SummonBiggerFish attract even more predators.]] While this doesn't really do anything to save themselves specifically, it teaches the predator species to leave their kind alone in the future.
** There's a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_quail#Poisoning type of quail whose meat becomes toxic after it eats certain plants]]. Anything that eats the meat becomes violently ill and may end up with kidney failure.
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camponotus_saundersi Exploding ants]].
** Honey bees have barbs on their stingers, which lodge in the body of their target and are ripped out of the abdomen of the bee while continuing to pump venom. Unfortunately for the honey bee, the injury caused by doing this is fatal and they die soon afterward.
*** It is a rather sad subversion actually. A bee can sting another insect and kill it without any harm to itself, but to a bigger animal, its [[LastBreathBullet Last Breath Sting]] will most likely not be lethal, except maybe someone allergic to its venom and who is stung by many of them.
* Many an animal mortally wounded by a hunter has had time enough to return the favor (or attempt to) before finally succumbing.
** Brown Bears and African Cape Buffalo are both particularly infamous for this.
** This is the reason [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar_spear boar spears]] have the lugs at the head; not only does the weapon injure or kill the boar, it keeps the animal at bay and stops it from physically working its way up the weapon to attack the hunter.
* There is footage of a caiman fatally wounding an electric eel only for the eel to electrocute it to death.
* Large constrictors, usually anacondas and pythons, run afoul of this trope quite frequently when they target other predators such as crocodiles or big cats. Often as not, they're mortally wounded by the time their would-be meal is suffocated or crushed to death.
** There are cases where the snake managed to consume a NotQuiteDead caiman or crocodile and later be found with the prey bursting through its body cavity. For example, [[http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1006_051006_pythoneatsgator.html in 2005, a python ate an alligator and then exploded.]]
** Sometimes a snake's eyes will simply be bigger than its stomach, or more accurately, its esophagus and it winds up blocking its own airway and choking itself to death.
** An African rock python successfully attacked and consumed a porcupine, quills and all. Three guesses as to what happened next. Give up? [[spoiler: The quills punctured the python's digestive tract in multiple places and it internally bled to death]].
** This sometimes gets inverted in the case of reticulated pythons, the preferred prey of king cobras. The cobra will bite the python and then retreat to let its venom finish the other snake off, but sometimes isn't fast enough and ends up constricted for its efforts.
** Experienced herpetologists and snake breeders or owners strongly advise against keeping two or more king snakes in the same habitat since, being both highly territorial and cannibalistic snake-eaters, they will literally kill each other.
* A man found a mouse in his home and threw it out on his burn pile. The terrified [[ManOnFire flaming mouse]] survived long enough to run back inside the house [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4593682.stm and burn the entire thing to the ground]].
* After cutting off a cobra's head to cook the rest of it, [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2732523/Chef-dies-spitting-cobra-cooking-bit-hand-20-minutes-cut-head-off.html a Chinese Chef gets bitten by the severed head and dies from the venom]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pWrfpacFKc A Doberman fought off 4 cobras to protect its 8 masters]]. It continued to fight despite being bitten many times and only succumbed to the venom once all 4 cobras were dead.
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[[folder:Medicine and Science]]
* Out of all the various designs created for dealing with space debris, some methods involve physically capturing it, then the capturing satellite would either deorbit itself, at which point the heat and friction of atmospheric entry would vaporize both the satellite and its prey, or attach a smaller drone, bug off, then have said drone do the deed while the satellite hunts for another piece of debris.
* Sir Creator/TerryPratchett once stated that he planned on doing this to his Alzheimer's, via assisted suicide panels in the UK. He died before he got the chance.
-->"I decided that I was going to make Alzheimer's sorry it had caught me."
* If the Sun dies in about 5 billion years, its transformation into a red giant will actually destroy a large portion of our Solar System.
** In general, any large enough UsefulNotes/{{stars}}, from our humble sun to the supergiants, will wreak havoc to their vicinity in their death throes. Whereas our sun will only ravage our solar system, big enough stars that manage to become supernovae can send massive amount of charged, irradiated particles up to thousands of light years away. A supernova happening within about 150 light years away from earth could still be strong enough to noticeably damage the ozone layer, with the damage becoming worse the closer it happened, resulting in DisasterDominoes that could end in a civilization collapse and mass extinction. That's to say nothing if the dying star(s) ends up firing gamma ray burst; not only GRB retains much of its lethality for much longer distance (a GRB could conceivably cause a mass extinction on earth from 6000 light years away), it's much harder to detect since GRB moves at the speed of light compared to supernova charged particles which sail the space at barely a fraction of that speed.
* Even your own body cells exhibit this trope. Post-apoptosis, dying neutrophils can release their DNA and chromatin to entrap bacteria as a final attack to protect the body.
** Neutrophils are also full of enzymes and reactive compounds that damage both animal cells and bacteria. When killed, these enzymes can leak and non-specifically start tearing apart everything in the area. Additionally, leaked cellular communication molecules called cytokines can leak and lead to significant inflammation. This process creates a lined cavity called an abscess which is filled with liquified tissue and bacteria, aka pus.
** Any cell infected with a virus or which has lost control of its own reproduction (I.E. risks becoming part of a tumor) has a good chance to commit programmed cell death, or apoptosis, in order to cease being a virus/tumor factory. At other times, cells combine this with SuicideByCop, as they change their surface markers to mark themselves for destruction by the immune system (TheNeedsOfTheMany, of course). The mechanisms are quite complex.
* In one hand, galaxy clusters are ''very'' unhealthy for spiral galaxies like ours[[note]]Since, for example, interactions with the hot gas that fills the space between the galaxies on them strips the interstellar gas of a galaxy quenching star formation, but not before going out with a burst of newly made stars in some cases[[/note]]. On the other, when two spiral galaxies collide they get ''very'' messed up, including to form a lot of new stars before [[FusionDance merging]] to form a larger one. [[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001A%26A...377..745G Meet]] [[http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2005/u6697/ UGC 6697]], a system where it's believed two galaxies are colliding and wrecking themselves apart while falling into a galaxy cluster that is stripping their gas... at the same time they're making stars galore[[note]]ScienceMarchesOn. This is [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06241 likely a single galaxy that on said infall had an interaction with a nearby smaller galaxy, suffering both enhanced gas stripping and star formation as a result]][[/note]]. An even finer example of this is the pair [[http://iopscience.iop.org/2041-8205/750/1/L23/downloadHRFigure/figure/apjl428464f2 F0237]] in the distant A2744 galaxy cluster, with two almost Milky Way-sized galaxies destroying themselves apart while plunging there.
* In the very early moments of the Universe, just after the Big Bang, [[FusionDance quarks and antiquarks combined]] to form [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryogenesis baryons and antibaryons]][[note]]What makes atomic nuclei (protons, neutrons, and their antimatter equivalent)[[/note]], that proceeded to annihilate themselves. We are made of the small percentage of matter that survived it[[note]]''Why'' was created more matter than antimatter is one problem still unsolved in physics, but as the laws of physics are known to affect particles and antiparticles differently, there are working hypotheses[[/note]].
* People who die as a result of getting cancer effectively kill their cancer by starving it of any living oxygenated blood supply, and [[DyingMomentOfAwesome bring it screaming into the abyss with them]]. It's a comforting and triumphant thought.
** As the late comedian Creator/NormMacdonald put it, anyone who dies from cancer achieves this (which would include himself). After all, if the cancer kills the host, the cancer dies also. No one ever actually loses a fight to cancer, at worst they fight it to a draw.
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[[folder:Other]]
* A child or teen facing punishment may claim others were involved in the hopes that said (real or imagined) conspirators too get punished.
* Several examples can be found in sports, one would be the final round of the 2010-11 [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball Danish Superliga]], where one of the matches were between Randers and Esbjerg in Randers, two teams struggling against relegation. Randers had originally said that they would not bring scores from other matches over the speakers, but when Lyngby got a 2-0 lead against Odense in the 80th minute (a result that meant Esbjerg were relegated for sure), Randers were leading 2-1 and the stadium speaker said what the score was in the other match. [[LaserGuidedKarma Tim Janssen, Dutch Esbjerg striker, scored in the 89th minute, relegating both teams]].
** Another example would be the World Cup qualifying match between USMNT and Trinidad and Tobago on 10 October 2017 (the last day of the Hex). With a win, the United States would have qualified automatically to the World Cup. A draw would have very likely qualified the US via goal difference. Trinidad and Tobago were already eliminated, and had almost nothing to play for besides revenge for Paul Caligiuri's infamous goal in 1989, which allowed the US to qualify in Trinidad's place. The games played out and the US gives up an own goal 17 minutes in and then lets in another goal from Alvin Jones, whose father was a member of the Trinidad squad that lost in 1989, before halftime. They pull back one goal, but lose 2–1. Meanwhile, Panama beat Costa Rica 2–1 and Honduras beat Mexico 3-2. This caused the USMNT to miss the World Cup for the first time since 1986.
** During the group stage of the 2018 World Cup, South Korea had lost its first two matches meaning there was no way for it to advance to the knockout portion of the tournament. In the final match of the first stage, Germany expected South Korea would put in a halfhearted showing to provide an easy win and advancement to the next round. Instead, the South Koreans played ferociously -- with goalkeeper Jo Hyeon-woo being compared to a brick wall -- and won 2-0, knocking the Germans out alongside them[[note]]this also resulted in the South Korea becoming extremely popular in Mexico, because the match allowed the Mexican team to advance[[/note]].
* Danish cyclist Michael Rasmussen was fired from Rabobank in 2007. Come 2013, he's taking his former team to court with a claim that the team shouldn't have fired him, because they knew exactly what he was doing and that he was doping.
** Furthermore, he's now working with several anti-doping organizations, telling them everything he knows.
* Nonlethal example: WebVideo/LowTierGod was permanently banned from competitive ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' after [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor making transphobic remarks]] about fellow player [=CeroBlast=]. Almost immediately after the ban was made official, he posted a video of [=CeroBlast=] [[NWordPrivileges using the N-word repeatedly]] during one of their streams, which led to them being banned as well.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Crime]]
* The Hashashin, from whom we've derived the term "assassin," were known for attacking targets with ritual daggers, usually in a suicidal assault, to ensure that their victims would not escape.
** It's also possible that instead of their suicidal attacks to ensure the victim dies, it's to ensure that the killer also dies, seeing as how their suicidal attacks show how dedicated to the cause the Hashashin is.
*** And it likewise ensures they'd never be interrogated, to the benefit of their superiors whose secrets would be protected, and possibly to themselves if interrogation entailed torture.
*** It also makes the assassination plan much simpler and more effective: The hardest part of most assassination plans is the assassin's escape afterward, and it is also the part most likely to cause the kill to not happen.
* The entire concept of [[MurderSuicide murder-suicides]].
** This has happened to several families in the wake of the recession. For example, a Seattle woman, Chhouy Harm, shot and killed her son-in-law and two of her granddaughters before taking her own life. In many cases, including this one, the killer was already depressed and/or mentally ill, and the economic crisis was the last straw.
** School shootings (most infamously the UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} massacre) are infamous for this, although the causes are disputed, ranging from bullying to mental illness.
* The Kray twins, London's most notorious gangsters, were considered untouchable until Reggie Kray stabbed small-time gang member Jack "the Hat" [=McVitie=] to death in October 1967. The London underworld began to turn against the Krays - gang members who feared meeting the same fate left the gang and agreed to testify to the police, giving them enough evidence to finally arrest the Krays and their associates. Reggie was ultimately sentenced to life imprisonment for [=McVitie=]'s murder, while Ronnie and the other members were sentenced for various other crimes that the turncoat gang members had told them about. This wasn't intentional on [=McVitie=]'s part, but the fact remains that his death almost single-handedly triggered the collapse of the Krays' entire organization.
* One of the hijacked planes to be used in the 9/11 attacks, United Airlines Flight 93, failed to reach its intended destination due to the passengers on board fighting back against the terrorists to regain control of the plane. After a struggle, the terrorists on board put the plane into a dive and crashed it into a field, killing themselves and everyone else on board. The passengers have since been commemorated for their HeroicSacrifice. On the other side, the hijackers themselves were willing to die to cause as much destruction to their American targets as possible (something which was nearly unprecedented at the time, as previous terrorist attacks on aircraft had involved planting a bomb on a plane that the terrorist would not board, while hijackings usually resulted in hostage situations; this is a large part of the reason why aviation was so underprepared for the 9/11 terrorists' attacks).
* This is a theorized reason for why Andreas Lubitz crashed Germanwings Flight 9525. He had already been diagnosed with severe depression and had been deemed unfit to fly earlier, but for whatever reason, he hid this information from his employers. When his co-pilot left the cabin, he locked the door and set the plane into landing mode early, taking 149 other people with him.
** Sadly, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_350 he]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAM_Mozambique_Airlines_Flight_470 was]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Maroc_Flight_630 not]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Air_Lines_Flight_773 the]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1771 first]].
* The death of "Pretty Boy" Floyd: when FBI agents tried to capture him, he retaliated with gunfire, [[MultipleGunshotDeath and even after being gunned repeatedly by the agents that he was facing off against]], he still managed to fatally wound two of them.
* On April 11, 1986 the FBI tried to arrest multiple murderers and bank robbers William Russell Matix and Michael Lee Platt. During the resulting gunfight Platt was shot a total of seven times but managed to kill Special Agents Benjamin Grogan and Jerry Dove before succumbing to his wounds. Matix also died, though he only managed to get off two shots before being taken out of the fight. As a result the FBI changed it's requirements for handguns to have more “stopping power” particularly after going through automobile glass.
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicky_Barnes Nicky Barnes]] was the founder and leader of the Harlem-based crime organization "The Council", which controlled much of the New York drug trade. When he was arrested and sent to prison, his former allies in the Council's leadership took control of his assets and left him to rot; one of them even started sleeping with his girlfriend. In revenge, Nicky turned government informant and helped dismantle the entire criminal empire he'd spent years building, sending his former friends to prison.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Animals]]
* Many small animals are highly poisonous or make very loud noises or even start to glow brightly when attacked by a predator to [[SummonBiggerFish attract even more predators.]] While this doesn't really do anything to save themselves specifically, it teaches the predator species to leave their kind alone in the future.
** There's a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_quail#Poisoning type of quail whose meat becomes toxic after it eats certain plants]]. Anything that eats the meat becomes violently ill and may end up with kidney failure.
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camponotus_saundersi Exploding ants]].
** Honey bees have barbs on their stingers, which lodge in the body of their target and are ripped out of the abdomen of the bee while continuing to pump venom. Unfortunately for the honey bee, the injury caused by doing this is fatal and they die soon afterward.
*** It is a rather sad subversion actually. A bee can sting another insect and kill it without any harm to itself, but to a bigger animal, its [[LastBreathBullet Last Breath Sting]] will most likely not be lethal, except maybe someone allergic to its venom and who is stung by many of them.
* Many an animal mortally wounded by a hunter has had time enough to return the favor (or attempt to) before finally succumbing.
** Brown Bears and African Cape Buffalo are both particularly infamous for this.
** This is the reason [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar_spear boar spears]] have the lugs at the head; not only does the weapon injure or kill the boar, it keeps the animal at bay and stops it from physically working its way up the weapon to attack the hunter.
* There is footage of a caiman fatally wounding an electric eel only for the eel to electrocute it to death.
* Large constrictors, usually anacondas and pythons, run afoul of this trope quite frequently when they target other predators such as crocodiles or big cats. Often as not, they're mortally wounded by the time their would-be meal is suffocated or crushed to death.
** There are cases where the snake managed to consume a NotQuiteDead caiman or crocodile and later be found with the prey bursting through its body cavity. For example, [[http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1006_051006_pythoneatsgator.html in 2005, a python ate an alligator and then exploded.]]
** Sometimes a snake's eyes will simply be bigger than its stomach, or more accurately, its esophagus and it winds up blocking its own airway and choking itself to death.
** An African rock python successfully attacked and consumed a porcupine, quills and all. Three guesses as to what happened next. Give up? [[spoiler: The quills punctured the python's digestive tract in multiple places and it internally bled to death]].
** This sometimes gets inverted in the case of reticulated pythons, the preferred prey of king cobras. The cobra will bite the python and then retreat to let its venom finish the other snake off, but sometimes isn't fast enough and ends up constricted for its efforts.
** Experienced herpetologists and snake breeders or owners strongly advise against keeping two or more king snakes in the same habitat since, being both highly territorial and cannibalistic snake-eaters, they will literally kill each other.
* A man found a mouse in his home and threw it out on his burn pile. The terrified [[ManOnFire flaming mouse]] survived long enough to run back inside the house [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4593682.stm and burn the entire thing to the ground]].
* After cutting off a cobra's head to cook the rest of it, [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2732523/Chef-dies-spitting-cobra-cooking-bit-hand-20-minutes-cut-head-off.html a Chinese Chef gets bitten by the severed head and dies from the venom]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pWrfpacFKc A Doberman fought off 4 cobras to protect its 8 masters]]. It continued to fight despite being bitten many times and only succumbed to the venom once all 4 cobras were dead.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Medicine and Science]]
* Out of all the various designs created for dealing with space debris, some methods involve physically capturing it, then the capturing satellite would either deorbit itself, at which point the heat and friction of atmospheric entry would vaporize both the satellite and its prey, or attach a smaller drone, bug off, then have said drone do the deed while the satellite hunts for another piece of debris.
* Sir Creator/TerryPratchett once stated that he planned on doing this to his Alzheimer's, via assisted suicide panels in the UK. He died before he got the chance.
-->"I decided that I was going to make Alzheimer's sorry it had caught me."
* If the Sun dies in about 5 billion years, its transformation into a red giant will actually destroy a large portion of our Solar System.
** In general, any large enough UsefulNotes/{{stars}}, from our humble sun to the supergiants, will wreak havoc to their vicinity in their death throes. Whereas our sun will only ravage our solar system, big enough stars that manage to become supernovae can send massive amount of charged, irradiated particles up to thousands of light years away. A supernova happening within about 150 light years away from earth could still be strong enough to noticeably damage the ozone layer, with the damage becoming worse the closer it happened, resulting in DisasterDominoes that could end in a civilization collapse and mass extinction. That's to say nothing if the dying star(s) ends up firing gamma ray burst; not only GRB retains much of its lethality for much longer distance (a GRB could conceivably cause a mass extinction on earth from 6000 light years away), it's much harder to detect since GRB moves at the speed of light compared to supernova charged particles which sail the space at barely a fraction of that speed.
* Even your own body cells exhibit this trope. Post-apoptosis, dying neutrophils can release their DNA and chromatin to entrap bacteria as a final attack to protect the body.
** Neutrophils are also full of enzymes and reactive compounds that damage both animal cells and bacteria. When killed, these enzymes can leak and non-specifically start tearing apart everything in the area. Additionally, leaked cellular communication molecules called cytokines can leak and lead to significant inflammation. This process creates a lined cavity called an abscess which is filled with liquified tissue and bacteria, aka pus.
** Any cell infected with a virus or which has lost control of its own reproduction (I.E. risks becoming part of a tumor) has a good chance to commit programmed cell death, or apoptosis, in order to cease being a virus/tumor factory. At other times, cells combine this with SuicideByCop, as they change their surface markers to mark themselves for destruction by the immune system (TheNeedsOfTheMany, of course). The mechanisms are quite complex.
* In one hand, galaxy clusters are ''very'' unhealthy for spiral galaxies like ours[[note]]Since, for example, interactions with the hot gas that fills the space between the galaxies on them strips the interstellar gas of a galaxy quenching star formation, but not before going out with a burst of newly made stars in some cases[[/note]]. On the other, when two spiral galaxies collide they get ''very'' messed up, including to form a lot of new stars before [[FusionDance merging]] to form a larger one. [[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001A%26A...377..745G Meet]] [[http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2005/u6697/ UGC 6697]], a system where it's believed two galaxies are colliding and wrecking themselves apart while falling into a galaxy cluster that is stripping their gas... at the same time they're making stars galore[[note]]ScienceMarchesOn. This is [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06241 likely a single galaxy that on said infall had an interaction with a nearby smaller galaxy, suffering both enhanced gas stripping and star formation as a result]][[/note]]. An even finer example of this is the pair [[http://iopscience.iop.org/2041-8205/750/1/L23/downloadHRFigure/figure/apjl428464f2 F0237]] in the distant A2744 galaxy cluster, with two almost Milky Way-sized galaxies destroying themselves apart while plunging there.
* In the very early moments of the Universe, just after the Big Bang, [[FusionDance quarks and antiquarks combined]] to form [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryogenesis baryons and antibaryons]][[note]]What makes atomic nuclei (protons, neutrons, and their antimatter equivalent)[[/note]], that proceeded to annihilate themselves. We are made of the small percentage of matter that survived it[[note]]''Why'' was created more matter than antimatter is one problem still unsolved in physics, but as the laws of physics are known to affect particles and antiparticles differently, there are working hypotheses[[/note]].
* People who die as a result of getting cancer effectively kill their cancer by starving it of any living oxygenated blood supply, and [[DyingMomentOfAwesome bring it screaming into the abyss with them]]. It's a comforting and triumphant thought.
** As the late comedian Creator/NormMacdonald put it, anyone who dies from cancer achieves this (which would include himself). After all, if the cancer kills the host, the cancer dies also. No one ever actually loses a fight to cancer, at worst they fight it to a draw.
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* A child or teen facing punishment may claim others were involved in the hopes that said (real or imagined) conspirators too get punished.
* Several examples can be found in sports, one would be the final round of the 2010-11 [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball Danish Superliga]], where one of the matches were between Randers and Esbjerg in Randers, two teams struggling against relegation. Randers had originally said that they would not bring scores from other matches over the speakers, but when Lyngby got a 2-0 lead against Odense in the 80th minute (a result that meant Esbjerg were relegated for sure), Randers were leading 2-1 and the stadium speaker said what the score was in the other match. [[LaserGuidedKarma Tim Janssen, Dutch Esbjerg striker, scored in the 89th minute, relegating both teams]].
** Another example would be the World Cup qualifying match between USMNT and Trinidad and Tobago on 10 October 2017 (the last day of the Hex). With a win, the United States would have qualified automatically to the World Cup. A draw would have very likely qualified the US via goal difference. Trinidad and Tobago were already eliminated, and had almost nothing to play for besides revenge for Paul Caligiuri's infamous goal in 1989, which allowed the US to qualify in Trinidad's place. The games played out and the US gives up an own goal 17 minutes in and then lets in another goal from Alvin Jones, whose father was a member of the Trinidad squad that lost in 1989, before halftime. They pull back one goal, but lose 2–1. Meanwhile, Panama beat Costa Rica 2–1 and Honduras beat Mexico 3-2. This caused the USMNT to miss the World Cup for the first time since 1986.
** During the group stage of the 2018 World Cup, South Korea had lost its first two matches meaning there was no way for it to advance to the knockout portion of the tournament. In the final match of the first stage, Germany expected South Korea would put in a halfhearted showing to provide an easy win and advancement to the next round. Instead, the South Koreans played ferociously -- with goalkeeper Jo Hyeon-woo being compared to a brick wall -- and won 2-0, knocking the Germans out alongside them[[note]]this also resulted in the South Korea becoming extremely popular in Mexico, because the match allowed the Mexican team to advance[[/note]].
* Danish cyclist Michael Rasmussen was fired from Rabobank in 2007. Come 2013, he's taking his former team to court with a claim that the team shouldn't have fired him, because they knew exactly what he was doing and that he was doping.
** Furthermore, he's now working with several anti-doping organizations, telling them everything he knows.
* Nonlethal example: WebVideo/LowTierGod was permanently banned from competitive ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' after [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor making transphobic remarks]] about fellow player [=CeroBlast=]. Almost immediately after the ban was made official, he posted a video of [=CeroBlast=] [[NWordPrivileges using the N-word repeatedly]] during one of their streams, which led to them being banned as well.
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** In general, any large enough UsefulNotes/{{stars}}, from our humble sun to the supergiants, will wreak havoc to their vicinity in their death throes. Whereas our sun will only ravage our solar system, big enough stars that manage to become supernovae can send massive amount of charged, irradiated particles up to thousands of light years away. If a supernova were to happen within about 150 light years away from earth, it would still be strong enough to significantly damage the ozone layer, resulting in DisasterDominoes that could end in a civilization collapse and mass extinction. That's to say nothing if the dying star(s) ends up firing gamma ray burst; not only GRB retains much of its lethality for much longer distance (a GRB could conceivably cause a mass extinction on earth from 6000 light years away), it's much harder to detect since GRB moves at the speed of light compared to supernova charged particles which sail the space at barely a fraction of that speed.
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* This is the whole point of [[MisguidedMissile "active" countermeasures]] like flares, which force a HomingProjectile to hit the decoy instead of what deployed it.
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* When the Persians bypassed Thermopylae through the secret pass revealed by Ephilates, the Spartans decided to continue fighting and take as many Persians to the grave with them as possible before being annihilated.
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*** This is the reason [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar_spear boar spears]] have the lugs at the head.
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** Another example would be the World Cup qualifying match between USMNT and Trinidad and Tobago on 10 October 2017 (the last day of the Hex). With a win, the United States would have qualified automatically to the World Cup. A draw would have also qualified the US unless Panama defeated Costa Rica by an 8-goal difference and Honduras beat Mexico by 13 goals. Trinidad and Tobago were already eliminated, and had almost nothing to play for besides revenge for Paul Caligiuri's infamous goal in 1989, which allowed the US to qualify in Trinidad's place. The games played out and the US gives up an own goal 17 minutes in, and lets in a second goal from Alvin Jones, whose dad was part of the 1989 squad that lost to the USMNT, before halftime. They pull back one goal, but lose 2–1. Meanwhile, Panama comes back from 1–0 down to beat Costa Rica 2–1 and Honduras comes back from 2–1 down to beat Mexico. This caused the USMNT to miss their first World Cup since 1986.
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** Another example would be the World Cup qualifying match between USMNT and Trinidad and Tobago on 10 October 2017 (the last day of the Hex). With a win, the United States would have qualified automatically to the World Cup. A draw would have also very likely qualified the US unless Panama defeated Costa Rica by an 8-goal difference and Honduras beat Mexico by 13 goals.via goal difference. Trinidad and Tobago were already eliminated, and had almost nothing to play for besides revenge for Paul Caligiuri's infamous goal in 1989, which allowed the US to qualify in Trinidad's place. The games played out and the US gives up an own goal 17 minutes in, in and then lets in a second another goal from Alvin Jones, whose dad father was part a member of the 1989 Trinidad squad that lost to the USMNT, in 1989, before halftime. They pull back one goal, but lose 2–1. Meanwhile, Panama comes back from 1–0 down to beat Costa Rica 2–1 and Honduras comes back from 2–1 down to beat Mexico. Mexico 3-2. This caused the USMNT to miss their first the World Cup for the first time since 1986.
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*** There are cases where the snake managed to consume a NotQuiteDead caiman or crocodile and later be found with the prey bursting through its body cavity. For example, [[http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1006_051006_pythoneatsgator.html In 2005, a python ate an alligator and then exploded.]]
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* The Russian bylina tales tell of Chuds (Baltic Finno-Ugric peoples), who rather committed mass suicides than surrendered to invading Russians. They dug underground dungeons, took their valuables and possibles there, and then collapsed the structures when the Russians came to loot, killing themselves and the attackers both. Such caves have been found.
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** During the group stage of the 2018 World Cup, South Korea had lost its first two matches meaning there was no way for it to advance to the knockout portion of the tournament. In the final match of the first stage, Germany expected South Korea would put in a halfhearted showing to provide an easy win and advancement to the next round. Instead, the South Koreans played ferociously -- with goalkeeper Jo Hyeon-woo being compared to a brick wall -- and won 2-0, knocking the Germans out alongside them[[note]]this also resulted in the South Korea becoming extremely popular in Mexico, because the match allowed the Mexican team to advance[[/note]].
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* A ''career'' death case: once Eduardo Cunha, who was president of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, was going through a process that would take out his representative seat on corruption charges, he chose to open one of the impeachment processes against President Dilma Rousseff that were going through Congress, downright guaranteeing the Head of State had her job on the line as much as his (Cunha denied opening the process on personal motivations, but considering the Congress' usual speed is "no need to hurry", with proposed laws at times going years before being voted...). And indeed, by the following year both had been removed from office (with Cunha getting arrested as well).
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* One of the hijacked planes to be used in the 9/11 attacks, United Airlines Flight 93, failed to reach its intended destination due to the passengers on board fighting back against the terrorists to regain control of the plane. After a struggle, the terrorists on board steered the plane down and crashed it into a field, killing themselves and everyone else on board. The passengers have since been commemorated for their HeroicSacrifice. On the other side, the hijackers themselves were willing to die to cause as much destruction to their American targets as possible (something which was nearly unprecedented at the time, as previous terrorist attacks on aircraft had involved planting a bomb on a plane that the terrorist would not board, while hijackings usually resulted in hostage situations; this is a large part of the reason why aviation was so underprepared for the 9/11 terrorists' attacks).
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* On April 11, 1986 the FBI tried to arrest multiple murderers and bank robbers William Russell Matix and Michael Lee Platt. During the resulting gunfight Platt receiving a fatal chest wound then killed Special Agents Benjamin Grogan and Jerry Dove. Matrix also died. As a result the FBI changed it's requirements for handguns to have more “stopping power” particularly after going through automobile glass.
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