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| 11 | '''As a {{Death Trope|s}}, expect spoilers, both marked and unmarked.''' |
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| 13 | Times where somebody is DrivenToSuicide in LiveActionTV series. |
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| 16 | * The entire premise of the first season of Netflix's [[Series/ThirteenReasonsWhy adaptation]] of ''Literature/ThirteenReasonsWhy'' are the reasons why OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Hannah Baker killed herself by slitting her wrists. The scene was shown in excruciating detail from the show's premiere to 2019 when they removed the scene because of concerns of it romanticizing suicide. |
| 17 | * In ''Series/{{The 100}}'', [[spoiler: pre-teen Charlotte (the youngest of the young convicts sent to Earth), guilt-ridden over having killed Wells in a misguided attempt to quiet her inner demons and unwilling to be the cause of any more bloodletting, jumps off a cliff to her death.]] |
| 18 | * ''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'': |
| 19 | ** In "Weight of the World", Jordan Collier's secretary Devon Moore attempts suicide by overdosing on pills after she learns from Shawn that Jordan is sleeping with the pop star Chloe Granger, a new student at the 4400 Center. When Shawn visits her at her parents' home, Devon tells her that she is madly in love with Jordan and can't stand the idea of him being with anyone else. |
| 20 | ** In "Mommy's Bosses", Dr. Max Hudson shoots himself in the head as he could no longer live with the guilt of developing the promicin inhibitor. The inhibitor had the unintended side effect of creating a deadly illness among the 4400. Although it is clear to the audience that Hudson committed suicide, both Tom and Diana suspect that Dennis Ryland [[NeverSuicide arranged his death and made it look like a suicide]]. |
| 21 | ** In "Gone, Part II", Tom is driven to attempt suicide by hanging himself not because he wants to die but because he can't think of any other way to contact the people from the future. Having learned in "Life Interrupted" that they need him, he gambles that they will not let him die. Fortunately, the gamble pays off and is transported to the future to speak the woman who posed as Sarah Rutledge. |
| 22 | * ''Series/YediYuz'': After months of harassment, Aytaç takes his own life, hanging himself in the bathroom ("Büyük Günahlar"). |
| 23 | * ''Series/{{Accused}}: ''In "Frankie's Story" Frankie's friend Peter is bullied ruthlessly by the other soldiers, led by their corporal, after he cracks under fire. This leads to him shooting himself. In "Tina's Story" Stephen Cartwright reappears when he enters a juvenile prison to start his time. After only a short time, he hangs himself. This spurs the episode's plot, as Tina blames another guard who didn't move him to a cell with another prisoner where he could be watched as she asked. |
| 24 | * ''Series/{{Andor}}'': In "[[Recap/AndorS1E8Narkina5 Narkina 5]]" one prisoner deliberately leaves his cell and steps barefoot onto the electrified floor, which kills him. This is simply the latest suicide, judging by the prisoners' comments. |
| 25 | * ''Series/TheAndromedaStrain'': People infected by [[ThePlague Andromeda]] tend to be driven insane and they off themselves in many grotesque ways, such as setting themselves on fire or cutting off their heads with ''chainsaws''. Later, even the birds that were infected by a mutated strain of Andromeda start suiciding themselves into a river in order to spread the virus further. |
| 26 | * ''Series/AndThenThereWereNone2015'': [[spoiler:Vera Claythorne kills herself by hanging at the end.]] |
| 27 | * ''Series/{{Angel}}'' |
| 28 | ** In "[[Recap/AngelS02E16Epiphany Epiphany]]", Kate overdoses on pills after her career ends. Angel is able to miraculously revive her. |
| 29 | ** In "[[Recap/AngelS05E03Unleashed Unleashed]]", Nina's so depressed over having become a werewolf that she's fully prepared to let Jacob Crane and his clients eat her at a fancy dinner. After Angel saves her, she grows out of it. |
| 30 | * ''Series/{{Barry}}'': Stovka, the legendary assassin whom the Chechen Mafia sends over, is tired of his life spent killing. Rather than kill Fuches, he shoots himself. |
| 31 | * ''Film/BatesMotel1987'' has the titular motel's first guest intend to kill herself, because she's been divorced three times and has no kids. She gets talked out of it by some teenagers who show up at the hotel, [[spoiler:and turn out to be the spirits of teenagers who've all committed suicide years before, and are now thoroughly regretting their decision, with the implication that they've been [[BarredFromTheAfterlife condemned to purgatory]] for doing so.]] |
| 32 | * ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'': |
| 33 | ** Boomer begins having suicidal thoughts when she begins to suspect that she's a Cylon, and Baltar - who knows for a fact that she is - pushes her over the edge, causing her to shoot herself. She ends up jerking the gun away and letting the bullet pass through her cheek, leading her to wonder later whether her programming prevented her from killing herself until after her mission was accomplished, or if she was just a lousy shot. |
| 34 | ** In later seasons, this also happens. [[spoiler:Dualla]] shoots herself after returning from the nuked Earth. |
| 35 | ** In the finale [[spoiler:Brother Cavil, upon seeing that his plans have been ruined, simply yells "FRAK!", [[AteHisGun shoves a gun into his mouth and pulls the trigger.]]]] That last one is subject to AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: [[spoiler: Cavil had gotten so used to resurrection that he instinctively tried to kill himself as a VillainExitStageLeft. In the heat of the moment, he completely forgot that he couldn't resurrect anymore. Oops.]] |
| 36 | ** D'Anna Biers is DrivenToSuicide for a different reason: after her first death, she becomes obsessed with the "place between life and death" and begins to kill herself... [[ImmortalLifeIsCheap over and over]] in hopes of glimpsing into something she isn't supposed to know. She gets an actual one [[spoiler: after the Fleet comes across the nuked remains of Earth]]. She chooses to stay behind and presumably dies. Since she was [[spoiler: the only living Number Three at the time, this action also [[StealthPun ends her line]]]]. |
| 37 | * ''Series/BetterCallSaul'': |
| 38 | ** [[spoiler:Chuck]], in the Season 3 finale, lights his house on fire while still inside. |
| 39 | ** [[spoiler:Nacho shoots himself rather than be killed by the Salamancas once he realizes he truly has no way of ever escaping the cartel.]] |
| 40 | * ''Series/BlackMirror'': |
| 41 | ** [[Recap/BlackMirrorTheNationalAnthem "The National Anthem"]] has an odd one. After kidnapping a member of the royal family, getting the UK in an uproar and blackmailing the Prime Minister to have sex with a pig on live TV he decides to kill himself. Seems it was all just a big stunt and presumably he killed himself to avoid capture although he might have got away with it... his suicide and motive is never properly explained. |
| 42 | *** An alternate explanation of why the artist in the above episode killed himself is that he never expected his plan to work - the idea that he could blackmail the PM into having sex with a pig was absurd. When the artist's plan actually succeeded, he was so horrified that he decided this was not a world that he wanted to live in, and killed himself. |
| 43 | ** The series 2 episode [[Recap/BlackMirrorWhiteBear "White Bear"]] opens up on a failed attempt on this, presumably she attempted to take her own life after the mysterious broadcast made everybody turn nuts. [[spoiler: Well actually she didn't attempt to commit suicide, that was a set up. Her boyfriend did though and she really does wish for death by the end of the episode.]] |
| 44 | * In ''Series/BoysFromTheBlackstuff'', Yosser tries to drown himself in a lake after successively losing his job, his wife, his kids and his house. |
| 45 | * ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'''s SlasherMovie episode "[[Recap/BoyMeetsWorldS5E17AndThenThereWasShawn And Then There Was Shawn]]" has Jack doing this after Eric and Feffy are killed, thinking he'll be unable to pay the rent for their apartment and face the prospect of being evicted. Jack tries to jump out of [[ThePrecariousLedge the second-floor library window]], but [[TalkingDownTheSuicidal Angela stops him in time and reminds him that Shawn is still his roommate and they can still afford the rent]]. However, before Angela and Jack can go back inside, the killer shoves them out the window, causing them to fall to their deaths. Luckily, it as AllJustADream. |
| 46 | * ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': |
| 47 | ** A favorite tactic of the First Evil is to use its shapeshifting powers to play mind games to trick heroes into destroying themselves. It actually talked potential Slayer Chloe into hanging herself in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E15GetItDone Get It Done]]", and only was only stopped from successfully pulling it off with Angel through possibly divine intervention. |
| 48 | ** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E11Doomed Doomed]]", Spike tried to kill himself after he got chipped, though it seems to be played for laughs from the way he delivers his line in the scene. |
| 49 | ** PlayedForLaughs again with Spike in Season 9 after Faith and Giles' spinster aunts knock Spike back, Faith wants a shag but Creator/DanielCraig, not him, and he's called boring. He contemplates a stake because it's quick and sunlight because 'going out in flames' seems like an apt metaphor. |
| 50 | ** In the comic, Merrick kills himself before Lothos can turn him and force him into giving out Buffy's location. |
| 51 | * ''Series/TheCallOfWarr'': In Vid's backstory, the decline of his church and the misery spread by the Warr finally got to him, and he was about to kill himself with poison...but chose to pray first, and when he prayed to the "unknown spaces of the universe", he got a response and was able to rebuild his church. |
| 52 | * In ''Series/{{Caprica}}'' this was the apparent fate of [[spoiler: Amanda Greystone]] at the first mid-season CliffHanger. That same episode, [[spoiler: Zoey Greystone/U-87 also embraced this trope]], given that it involved a [[EveryCarIsAPinto fiery car crash]]. ''Also'' that same episode, [[spoiler: Tamara Adama shot herself, though she knew she wouldn't die from it.]] |
| 53 | * In the ''Series/Charmed1998'' episode "Murphy's Luck", a darklighter tries to drive a future whitelighter to suicide, since the only way to keep a person from becoming a whitelighter is to have them take their own life. Then he turns his powers on one of the main characters... |
| 54 | ** Later on, Cole wanted to kill himself and had tried many times but can't because he's too powerful, leading to a great line: |
| 55 | --->'''Cole:''' ''[conjuring a guillotine]'' I can't wait to see how I survive this. |
| 56 | * In ''Series/{{Chernobyl}}'', Legasov is shown hanging himself in the very first episode, two years after the disaster before we get to see what happened prior. |
| 57 | * On ''Series/TheColbertReport'', Stephen illustrated the 'mixed messages' within a Presidential speech by playing a series of clips, then cutting back to the desk in between. Good news - "Yaaay!" Bad news - "Boooo." Good news - sucks on cigar. Bad news - sucks on gun barrel. (Luckily, the next clip was good enough to dissuade him from going through with it.) This upset a few fans... |
| 58 | * There have been occasions in ''Series/ColdCase'' where the cause of death has been this instead of murder. "Daniela" and "Two Weddings" are among the more prominent examples. |
| 59 | ** In "Fly Away" and "Best Friends", a mother and her young daughter and two interracial lesbian lovers respectively attempt to perform a TogetherInDeath version of this. [[spoiler:In both cases, only one dies, while the other lives with the guilt of sending their child/girlfriend to their deaths]]. |
| 60 | ** In "Schadenfreude", it's not the ''victim'' who attempts to do this, but rather her husband due to the stress of losing his business and guilt for having an affair behind his wife's back. She manages to talk him down and the two end up reconciling with each other. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, she is soon killed by her friend whom she had planned to commit insurance fraud with using the gun her husband planned to kill himself with, resulting in the husband being put away for the murder for 23 years.]] |
| 61 | ** In "Slipping", it originally appears that this is what happened to the victim. [[spoiler:It turns out that her husband was ''trying'' to do this, but when she caught on, he ended up killing her outright and staging the scene to look like a suicide.]] |
| 62 | * ''Series/{{Colony}}'': At the end of "Panopticon" [[spoiler: Jennifer]] overdoses on pills. |
| 63 | * ''Series/TheConfessionsOfFrannieLangton'': Marguerite kills herself by overdosing with laudanum after falling into depression as a result of being trapped in a loveless marriage and miscarrying another baby. |
| 64 | * ''Series/{{CSI}}'': |
| 65 | ** In the episode "Unleashed", a pregnant teenage high school student named Maria Diorio (played by Brooke Anne Smith) committed suicide by hanging herself with her lover's belt after various traumatic factors, such as her father's death, her pregnancy, her lover's refusal to help her at her time of need, and especially the fact that an AlphaBitch and her friends, out of resentment that her lover, the homecoming king, dumped her for Maria, decided to get back at her by making obscene posts en masse, create a website where they planted Maria's face onto a Donkey with a caption stating "I'm a stupid bitch!", as well as a viral video that allegedly had her saying in cheerleading cheers that she was a whore, getting over 1,000,000 hits. |
| 66 | ** In the episode "Goodbye and Good Luck" returning characters Marlon West and his ChildProdigy sister Hannah are the prime suspects again at their university when Marlon's girlfriend is found dead after being pushed out a window four floors up. [[spoiler:As the case goes on both Marlon and CSI Sara Sidle believe Hannah killed Marlon's girlfriend on her own accord while purposefully framing him and try to get a recorded confession from her when she next visits him in jail. Hannah is too clever to reveal she did it, but she does tell Marlon that him being imprisoned on a life sentence means she can be sure he'll never have other girls or anyone else in his life. Recognizing that being under her control was what she planned all along, Marlon hangs himself in his cell]]. |
| 67 | * ''Series/CrazyExGirlfriend'': [[spoiler:In Season 3's "Josh Is Irrelevant", after she realizes that her mother has been giving her anti-anxiety meds secretly, Rebecca finally snaps and boards a plane again, this time, with nowhere to go back to, she tries to overdose herself with the medication. As she starts to lose conscience, however, she finally asks for the help of a flight attendant and is send to the hospital in time]]. |
| 68 | * ''Series/DarkDesire'': |
| 69 | ** Brenda is found dead in the second episode, having apparently slit her wrist in the bath. It's soon believed she was murdered, however, with it made to look like suicide. [[spoiler:Later it turns out Brenda really did kill herself over her love for Esteban, after realizing they would never be in a true relationship.]] |
| 70 | ** DarĂo's father was convicted of a crime he swore he'd been tortured into confessing to, and then shot himself after grabbing a guard's gun as DarĂo watched with his mother. |
| 71 | * ''Series/DarkMatter2015'': |
| 72 | ** Memory flashbacks reveal that [[spoiler:Six]] tried to kill himself after learning that he had been tricked into aiding a mass murder. However, his gun was empty from executing his comrades, and clicked empty when he pulled the trigger. |
| 73 | ** The android Anya kills herself by electrocution in anxiety over the fact that she's broadcasting her location with a subspace transponder, endangering her fellow rogue androids. |
| 74 | * ''Series/DarkWinds'': James Tso shoots himself offscreen near the end of Season 1, saying his cause will have a martyr by him doing so. |
| 75 | * On ''Series/DeadLikeMe'', the main characters take and guide the souls of people dying from "external influences", including suicides. One notable subversion, however, comes when Daisy's target seems to be on the verge of suicide: [[TheWoobie Unfunny, unattractive and leaving a speed-dating session with]] ''[[TheWoobie no]]'' [[TheWoobie names]], he is standing on a roofs' ledge and looking down. As Daisy approaches him for the Reap, the camera pans down to reveal that he is ''already'' dead, with his body lying on the distant pavement. His soul comments that he slipped. |
| 76 | * In ''Series/DegrassiHigh'' [[spoiler: Claude Tanner]] commits suicide because [[spoiler: Caitlin]] doesn't love him. This lead to either episodes 25 and 26 (Showtime part 1 and 2) or just episode 26 being cut. |
| 77 | ** In ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'' episode "Bitter Sweet Symphony", [[spoiler:Campbell Saunders]] commits suicide, with the most visible factors being [[spoiler: feeling pressured to continue his hockey career despite wanting to quit and Zig calling him a psycho and to get out of Maya's life forever. In fact, Cam's character was planned to commit suicide since he was conceived by the writers. Nearly all episodes and stories revolving around Cam were ultimately to lead to and foreshadow his death.]] |
| 78 | ** Cam's girlfriend Maya in ''Degrassi: Next Class'' season 3, after being diagnosed with depression again and being obsessed over death after the Degrassi bus accident, tries to commit suicide by downing a lot of pills. She's found before it succeeds. |
| 79 | ** Esme's mother committed suicide via overdose when Esme was 10 years old and found her dead body, and Esme's father blamed Esme for her death. |
| 80 | * ''Series/DeathInParadise'': |
| 81 | ** The episode "Stumped in Murder" sees a man found dead in the middle of a cricket pitch; it is initially presented as murder based on the evidence, but the subsequent investigation reveals that [[spoiler:the victim had actually committed suicide because a 'friend' had been blackmailing him for some time by faking evidence that the victim was responsible for the car crash that left his son paralyzed from the waist down, when in reality it was just basic mechanical failure]]. |
| 82 | ** The episode "Hidden Secrets" features what initially looks like a LockedRoomMystery but fairly quickly is revealed as a failed attempt to stage a suicide to look like a robbery gone wrong (for insurance purposes). [[spoiler: ''Driven'' to suicide is unusually apt -- the victim's doctor had deliberately misdiagnosed him with an incurable degenerative disease, using the supposed treatment to fake symptoms, all in a bid to encourage the victim to kill himself.]] |
| 83 | * In the first few minutes of the ''Series/{{Decoy}}'' episode "Earthbound Satellite," a man shoots himself in the head because he can't pay off his gambling debts. He dies in the hospital the next day. |
| 84 | * ''Series/TheDevilJudge'': |
| 85 | ** Ga-on's father killed himself after his money was stolen by a con artist. |
| 86 | ** K's father killed himself after being framed. |
| 87 | ** Minister Cha kills herself after her crimes are revealed. |
| 88 | ** Sun-ah kills herself in the final episode. |
| 89 | * ''Series/{{Dexter}}'': |
| 90 | ** [[spoiler:A psychiatrist causes the deaths of his clients by withdrawing their medication and then encouraging them to kill themselves.]] |
| 91 | ** [[spoiler: Dexter's adoptive father Harry killed himself after witnessing the results of training his son to be a vigilante murder machine]]. |
| 92 | ** In Season 4, [[spoiler: Christine Hill, who was the Trinity Killer's daughter, kills herself when Arthur rejects her and Debra won't accept her apology for killing Lundy.]] |
| 93 | ** There was a man who committed suicide by [[spoiler:jumping in front of a truck]] in season 7. |
| 94 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': |
| 95 | ** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E4TheSunMakers "The Sun Makers"]], Leela spots the first person they see on Pluto — going to throw himself off a building. |
| 96 | ** A [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E6Dalek Dalek]] chose to blow itself up rather than become tainted with human DNA. The only time the word "[[IronicEcho EXTERMINATE]]" could ever be turned into a sad moment. |
| 97 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E5EvolutionOfTheDaleks "Evolution of the Daleks"]]: The Doctor has a moment of this after Solomon is exterminated after trying to negotiate with the Daleks, shouting at them to kill him if it'll stop their attack. It seems that watching a good man the Doctor had grown to respect get killed after trying to appeal to a better nature [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Daleks]] just don't have was too much for him that day. He survives thanks to a different factor. |
| 98 | ** In [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned "Voyage of the Damned"]], one woman makes a not-entirely-necessary HeroicSacrifice shortly after her husband dies in front of her, and even more shortly after the Doctor promised to save her and she responded "What for? What am I going to do without him?" It's not ''quite'' the same as jumping in front of a truck, but, well, there are ways of dealing with MechaMooks that don't involve [[spoiler: throwing a rope around one and jumping into a reactor with it.]] |
| 99 | ** It's heavily implied in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E11TurnLeft "Turn Left"]] that the Doctor simply let himself drown with the Racnoss when Donna wasn't there. |
| 100 | ** And then there's Adelaide Brooke in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E16TheWatersOfMars "The Waters of Mars"]], who [[spoiler:committed suicide because her death was a fixed point in time necessary to ensure the spacefaring future of the human race]]. |
| 101 | ** [[spoiler:Amy]] in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E7AmysChoice "Amy's Choice"]], after [[spoiler:Rory dies in the dream world]]. Although Amy, the Doctor, and Rory [[spoiler:are given a choice between two worlds and must figure out which is real, Amy chose Leadworth as the false world while having no way of knowing because either way she’d be with Rory, saying if this was reality, she didn't want it (the only way to leave the false world is to ''die.'' Die in the false world, wake up in reality; ask what happens if you die in reality.[[note]]You ''die,'' stupid. That's why it's called "reality".[[/note]]) She basically smashes her car into a wall at maximum speed to be with Rory]]. |
| 102 | ** [[spoiler:Rory]] in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E5TheAngelsTakeManhattan "The Angels Take Manhattan"]]. [[spoiler: He'd rather kill himself rather then have to age to death in the Angel's farm without Amy. Plus it helps that it creates an Angel destroying paradox.]] |
| 103 | ** [[spoiler:The Half-Face Man]] in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath "Deep Breath"]]. Although it could be seen as an AmbiguousSituation, [[spoiler:as the Twelfth Doctor tries to drive the droid to suicide while they're both flying over London on the droid's ship, the Half-Face Man claims that suicide is against his basic programing, and the Doctor claims that murder was against his, but one of them was lying. The scene cuts and, when we get back to it, the droid has fallen off the ship and is impaled on the spire of Big Ben, leaving the viewer to wonder [[RiddleForTheAges whether or not the droid jumped by himself]].]] |
| 104 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E6Extremis "Extremis"]]: Anyone who reads ''[[TomeOfEldritchLore The Veritas]]'' is [[GoMadFromTheRevelation driven]] to kill themselves due to the [[ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow truths]] revealed in the book. [[spoiler:The world they're living in is actually a computer simulation run by an alien race preparing to invade the Earth, and every person is just a program running in the simulation. As proof, ''Veritas'' invites the reader to think of a sequence of random numbers. As computers are bad at random number generation, everyone will get the same numbers every time. Death is the only escape from the simulation.]] |
| 105 | *** [[spoiler:The suicides double as a HeroicSacrifice, as anyone who kills themselves denies the aliens the ability to collect data from them to harm their real world counterparts.]] |
| 106 | *** [[spoiler:The simulation was [[NiceJobFixingItVillain a little too perfect]], however. The simulated Doctor was programmed to be clever enough that he knew to secretly record the aliens' plans on his sonic sunglasses and send the recording in an email to the real world Doctor, warning him about the impending invasion.]] |
| 107 | * ''Series/EmeraldCity'': |
| 108 | ** In [[Recap/EmeraldCityS1E3MistressNewMistress "Mistress - New - Mistress"]], three women, West's girls, appear on top of a statue and perform a magical ritual to kill themselves in a manner similar to a hanging. [[spoiler:It turns out the magic they used came from the Beast Forever]]. |
| 109 | ** At the beginning of [[Recap/EmeraldCityS1E4ScienceAndMagic "Science and Magic"]], [[spoiler:Tip]] contemplates jumping off a bridge [[spoiler:after accidentally killing Jack]] in the previous episode. |
| 110 | ** In [[Recap/EmeraldCityS1E8LionsInWinter "Lions in Winter"]], [[spoiler:West]] slits her wrists after thinking [[spoiler:Tip died from drinking her sister's spell]]. After [[spoiler:Tip]] revives, in the next episode [[Recap/EmeraldCityS1E9TheVillainThatsBecome "The Villain That's Become"]] he heals her and [[spoiler:West]] recovers. |
| 111 | * On an episode of ''Series/{{Emergency}}'' Gage and [=DeSoto=] are called by a woman whose roommate has taken a bottle of barbiturates. When they arrive, the woman is conscious, and refuses treatment. The roommates begs them to do something, but they tell her as long as the woman is conscious and refusing treatment, they can't intervene. Once she passes out, they can try to revive her, but by then, it may be too late. While the woman is still conscious, she explains to them why she's been driven to suicide by all the horrible things in her life, none of which are very bad, just to make the point to the audience that suicide is a bad choice. Gage and [=DeSoto=] had their equipment ready, in the woman's room, watching her become less and less alert until she passes out on her bed. Then they give her oxygen and drugs to counteract the barbiturates, and rush her to the hospital, but she dies anyway. There's a not-so-subtle PSA regarding the right of a conscious person to refuse treatment. It was a concern a lot of people had with the new profession of paramedic. There was also a sub-textual PSA that went something like "Don't say 'No' to a paramedic!" |
| 112 | * ''Series/EnemyAtTheDoor'', set in German-occupied territory during World War II, had multiple characters driven to end it all. |
| 113 | ** The German pilot in "Steel Hand From the Sea", who has come to doubt both the usefulness of his past actions and Germany's chances against the British air force. Kluge suggests that he has become a DeathSeeker and recommends that, if so, he should kill himself properly because seeking death by British airman would be unfair on the rest of the crew of his plane. Near the end of the episode he is shown contemplating Kluge's advice, but events intervene before he comes to a decision whether to take the plunge. |
| 114 | ** In "V for Victory", an islander is presented with a choice: he will be sent to a labor camp on the mainland unless he gives up a friend who has been leaving subversive messages around town (which will get the friend the death penalty). These, the Germans tell him, are his only two options. Rather than accept either, he kills himself. |
| 115 | ** At the end of "Call of the Dead", Clare Martel attempts SuicideBySea, haunted by the actions she has had to take to survive. She lives, but goes off to convalesce in a convent and disappears from the series. |
| 116 | * On ''Series/{{ER}}'', Gant's death is seen as this, though it's never established for certain whether he accidentally fell or deliberately jumped onto the tracks, but Carter seems to feel that the latter is the case, as Gant was depressed and being subjected to relentless criticism from his superior. |
| 117 | * ''Series/{{Everwood}}'': Reid, Ephram and Bright's room-mate from season 4 eats pills and is found unconscious when he flunks out of medical school. He couldn't deal with the amount of work and cheated on a test, got caught and was expelled. His friends all feel guilty for not realizing that Reid was depressed. Upon recovery, Reid pretends everything is fine which understandably upsets them and Amy calls him on it. |
| 118 | * ''Series/TheFactsOfLife'': Season 2's "Breaking Point," where one of Blair's rivals, Cynthia, who had just beaten her in a class president election, takes a whole bottle of sleeping pills and never awakens. None of the girls, particularly Blair (who thought she had everything going for her), can make sense of what happened, but they are able to figure out what may have been based off some clues: Cynthia was the daughter of a diplomat, meaning they had to move constantly and her life (and ability to make and keep friends) was unstable at best; and that her mother was not joining her husband on his latest assignment in West Germany (i.e., they were in the middle of a bitter divorce). That, plus Mrs. Garrett's revelation of Cynthia suffering from depression provides some insight as to what may have driven her to suicide and the moral: One never really knows what's going on. The girls resolve to avert this trope in the future for their fellow Eastland students by setting up a crisis hotline. (In the same story, Jo reveals that a friend of hers at a previous school had committed suicide and never got any answers as to why.) |
| 119 | * ''Series/TheFamily2016'': {{Subverted}}. Hank planned to kill himself in prison over serving a life sentence for a murder he didn't commit, but couldn't go through with it. |
| 120 | * ''Series/FellowTravelers'': |
| 121 | ** "Your Nuts Roasting on an Open Fire" [[StartsWithASuicide opens with]] a gay employee killing himself by walking into traffic as he's about to be outed and ruined. It's also mentioned there's an average of one suicide each week among fired government employees due to this. |
| 122 | ** Senator Smith shoots himself rather than resign when he's told his son's arrest on a "morals charge" for having sex with a man will be exposed if he won't, while leaving a suicide note that denounces [=McCarthyism=]. |
| 123 | * ''Series/TheFirstLady'': Betty Ford's friend Nancy loses her husband to suicide, which causes Betty to reflect on her own dad killing himself years before. |
| 124 | * ''Series/AFrenchVillage'': Mrs. Cohen killed herself after Judith (at the end of her rope too) said she couldn't see her daughter due to being "hysterical". Another Jewish couple also killed themselves after learning they would be going to Poland. Josephine, Raymond's second wife, throws herself from a window after she's threatened by the police. |
| 125 | * ''Series/{{Friends}}'': |
| 126 | ** Phoebe's adoptive mother, Lily, killed herself via drug poisoning when Phoebe and her twin sister Ursula were 14, as Phoebe had stated multiple times throughout the series. |
| 127 | ** In "The One Where Rosita Dies", an unlucky man (portrayed by Creator/JasonAlexander) considers suicide due to being ignored by everyone at his office...[[TalkingDownTheSuicidal until Phoebe snaps him out of it.]] |
| 128 | ** {{Played For Laughs}} in the {{Series Finale}} where Joey tries to jump off Monica's balcony after saying goodbye to Rachel who is moving to Paris for a new job. |
| 129 | * On ''Series/{{Fringe}}'', a man that Walter describes as a "reverse-empath" can project his self-loathing and suicidal thoughts onto other people, making them commit suicide. It may be a TakeThat to ''Film/TheHappening''. |
| 130 | ** Dr. Sanjay Patel shoots himself in the episode "The Cure". |
| 131 | * ''Series/{{From}}'': Frank chooses to let himself be put defenseless in the Box and left out for the monsters to kill him because he can't live with himself after the death of his family. Sure enough, he's killed during the night by a group of the creatures. |
| 132 | * ''Series/GameOfThrones'': |
| 133 | ** Young King Tommen Baratheon spends most of his reign a powerless PuppetKing controlled by everyone around him. It all comes to a head when he sees The High Sept of Baelor utterly destroyed in wildfire, which also kills his wife, his entire royal court, and The High Sparrow, all victims of [[MyBelovedSmother his mother Cersei]]'s machinations. Dumbfounded, he stares at the ruin for several moments. He then takes off his crown and sets it aside for anyone stupid enough to want it for themselves, then climbs into the window frame and calmly and quietly dives to his death. |
| 134 | ** Selyse can't live with herself after Shireen's demise, and chooses to hang herself in the forest. |
| 135 | * ''Series/GeneralAndI'': |
| 136 | ** He Xia's mother kills herself when she thinks Chu Bei Jie has killed her husband. |
| 137 | ** Chu Bei Jie's mother was forced to commit suicide or her son wouldn't have been allowed to grow up in the palace. |
| 138 | ** Chancellor Zhang kills himself after his schemes fail. |
| 139 | ** Consort Zhang kills herself after her plot is revealed and she's made a prisoner in the palace. |
| 140 | ** Yao Tian poisons herself after He Xia seizes her throne. |
| 141 | * Happened on ''Series/GilligansIsland'', of all places. When a radio news report said that the authorities were now holding the captain of ''The Minnow'' responsible for its disappearance, the Skipper had a practical nervous breakdown. (And Gilligan could hardly blame him; as he told the other castaways, it would ruin his career even if they ''were'' rescued.) Gilligan had to stop him from trying to hang himself ''and'' jump off a cliff, at which point the Professor suggested reenacting the voyage to prove it wasn't his fault. They did, but while it did indeed seem to exonerate the Skipper, it suggested that a mistake Gilligan had made had caused the wreck. All of a sudden, ''he'' was the one whom the ''Skipper'' had to stop from killing himself. The crisis was ended by a second news report claiming that a second look by those in charge had found that the local weather report that day had been inaccurate, which exonerated both members of the crew. |
| 142 | * On ''Series/{{Glee}}'', [[spoiler:Dave Karofsky]] tries to kill himself after [[spoiler:being outed at his new school, then viciously bullied there and on Facebook]]. |
| 143 | * ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'': Sophia's friend Martha decides to kill herself after the funeral of her best friend Lydia, who had suffered through many health problems prior to her death, and because Martha too has many health problems and wanted to go out on her own terms. She only tells Sophia and asks her to be with her when she does so she won’t die alone. [[spoiler: Sophia does go but is able to get Martha to change her mind.]] |
| 144 | * ''Series/GoodbyeMyPrincess'': |
| 145 | ** Xiao Feng's mother killed herself after Li Dynasty invaded Xizhou. Xiao Feng only learns about this long afterwards. |
| 146 | ** The empress hangs herself after her plots are revealed and she loses her position. |
| 147 | ** Ming Yue stabs herself after the emperor kills her father. |
| 148 | ** Xiao Feng [[SlashedThroat cuts her own throat]] to escape her marriage to [[AxeCrazy Cheng Yin]]. |
| 149 | * ''Series/GossipGirl'': |
| 150 | ** Serena van der Woodsen returns home from a year at boarding school because of her brother's attempt at suicide. |
| 151 | ** [[spoiler:Chuck Bass had to be talked down from the edge by Blair, following the sudden death of his father.]] |
| 152 | * ''Series/{{Gotham}}'': |
| 153 | ** [[spoiler:Mr Freeze's dying wife Nora]] kills herself by switching the cartridges on his gun. When he shot the gun [[spoiler:intending to preserve her body until she can be cured]] he inadvertently killed his wife [[spoiler:as the cartridge included the faulty formula which caused the bodies to melt.]] |
| 154 | ** [[spoiler:Mr. Freeze]] decides to kill himself [[spoiler:after Nora's death]]. He fails [[spoiler:due to his body having grown resistant of the cold]]. |
| 155 | * ''{{Series/Guilt}}'': After he confesses to [[spoiler: murdering Molly]], Luc kills himself. |
| 156 | * ''Series/{{Hacks}}'': Off-screen, a guy who Ava hooks up with in Las Vegas kills himself on the next morning as he turns out to be a fugitive facing prison over his embezzlement from elderly people. |
| 157 | * ''Series/TheHandmaidsTale'': |
| 158 | ** The first Offred hanged herself because she couldn't take it in the house. Offred two uses this as an impetus for Fred to let her go outside again. |
| 159 | ** [[spoiler: Janine. [[BungledSuicide It doesn't take.]]]] |
| 160 | * An episode of the ''Series/HawaiiFive0'' remake featured a suicide by jumping in front of a truck. |
| 161 | ** It also turned up on [[Series/HawaiiFiveO the original show]], such as in "To Kill Or Be Killed" [[spoiler: (a soldier who falls to his death from a hotel balcony jumped because he couldn't face returning to Vietnam)]], "I'll Kill 'Em Again" [[spoiler: (the murderer who's been playing with [=McGarrett=] jumps out of a window rather than go to jail)]], and "Death With Father" [[spoiler: (which ends with [[TakingYouWithMe a criminal blowing up himself and his cop father]])]]. |
| 162 | * ''Film/HeavenKnowsWhat'': At the beginning of the film, Harley asks if killing herself will atone for some wrong she has committed to her cruel boyfriend Ilya. He gives her a BluntYes and goads her to go through with it. She finally slashes her wrist, causing Ilya to freak out and hysterically scream for an ambulance. |
| 163 | * ''Series/HigherGround'': Isaac kills himself through taking barbiturates he smuggled in that Rebecca missed while checking his things. His dad blames her, but his mom says later he had tried to kill himself before because of his depression. Every time, his dad had covered it up and didn't get Isaac help. Frank also relates to the boys that his son did the same thing. At first Frank told himself it was accidental. |
| 164 | * ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'': |
| 165 | ** Crosetti commits suicide early on in Season 3. His motives are never revealed, and his partner Lewis spends the rest of the series [[ItsAllMyFault blaming himself for being unable to figure out that Crosetti was planning to kill himself.]] |
| 166 | ** At the end of "Heartbeat", Joseph Cardero [[BuriedAlive entombs himself behind a brick wall]] out of guilt for having done the same thing to a man decades prior. |
| 167 | ** In "In Search of Crimes Past", Lewis investigates a man who had committed suicide, and finds that the man confessed to a murder [[MiscarriageOfJustice that the wrong man had been convicted for.]] |
| 168 | ** Lorenzo Molera commits suicide at the end of "Son of a Gun", due to being unable to cope with his divorce. |
| 169 | * ''Series/HoratioHornblower'': |
| 170 | ** Horatio himself feels suicidal after he joined the Navy and is pursued by a particularly nasty bully. As a DeathSeeker, he decides to challenge him to a DuelToTheDeath. Either outcomes are good -- kills the bully or be killed. Both will free him. |
| 171 | ** After a couple of years in a Spanish prison, five failed escape attempts, and a month in an oubliette, Archie Kennedy is pushed over the brink by Horatio's arrival (likely because it brought back memories of his old tormentor Simpson, who he didn't know was dead -- after all, immediately after Horatio's arrival Archie started having seizures again, which had only happened around Simpson before). He tries to starve himself to death and Horatio notices just in time to save him. |
| 172 | * ''Series/{{House}}'': |
| 173 | ** While Dr. House is a self-destructive bastard with a death wish, the only time he's ever properly tried this is in "Merry Little Christmas", when the Tritter deal got too much for him to handle and he ended up overdosing on a dead patient's meds. He also once electrocuted himself specifically in order to undergo a near-death experience. |
| 174 | ** In "Simple Explanation" ,[[spoiler:Dr. Kutner kills himself]]. And nobody has any idea why. In RealLife, however, ''everybody'' [[RealLifeWritesThePlot knows why]]. [[spoiler:Kal Penn got a job with the Obama Administration, and you can't be a TV regular and work for the White House at the same time]]. |
| 175 | ** It's been strongly hinted throughout the series that Taub tried to kill himself in medical school because of the pressure. |
| 176 | ** The patients of the week in "Unwritten" and "Painless" attempted to take their own lives in their respective episodes' opening scenes. |
| 177 | * ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' provides a version of this trope being PlayedForLaughs. |
| 178 | ** Barney Stinson attempts to jump off Robin's balcony when he hears that Brover (his new dog/wingman) has to be returned to its true owner. |
| 179 | ** Parodied when Barney reacts to Ted and Robin acting like SickeninglySweethearts in front of him[[note]] while Ted and Robin are dating[[/note]] by miming different ways he'd off himself: [[AteHisGun placing his fingers into his mouth and "pulling the trigger"]], [[HangingAround pantomiming hanging himself]], and imitating {{Seppuku}}. |
| 180 | * In ''Series/IClaudius'', numerous people commit suicide, as in [[UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire Rome]], suicide is viewed as an honorable act. Some examples (and subversions) include: |
| 181 | ** Lollia stabs herself during a dinner party as the conclusion to her story about how the Emperor Tiberius sadistically raped her after she offered herself up in the place of her young daughter, who had originally caught his attention. |
| 182 | ** Claudius's mother Antonia very matter-of-factly kills herself after seeing so much upheaval and so many horrific intrigues within the Imperial Family that she doesn't want to live any longer. |
| 183 | ** Claudius's adulterous wife Messalina is offered the option to kill herself rather than be executed. Her mother encourages her to do so, but she ultimately can't manage it and is beheaded, begging them not to. |
| 184 | ** Piso is accused of killing Germanicus. Livia advises his wife that there'll be far less problems for the family if he does so, so she tries to convince him to join her in a fake suicide pact. When he opts out of it at the last second, she stabs him. |
| 185 | * ''Series/InspectorGeorgeGently'': The VictimOfTheWeek in [[spoiler:"Breathe in the Air"]] is a doctor who was driven to suicide as a result of harassment from a corporation when she attempted to expose their corrupt practices that were given their workers cancer. |
| 186 | * In the Spanish series ''Series/ElInternado'', [[spoiler:Fernando]] tries to [[BathSuicide kill himself]], so that [[spoiler:Amelia doesn't have to work for Camilo and Noiret to keep him alive anymore]]. He succeeds on his second attempt, [[spoiler:driving a car off a cliff]]. |
| 187 | ** [[spoiler:[[JerkassWoobie Elsa]]]] tries to overdose on pills after [[spoiler:she miscarries and Hector divorces her]]. |
| 188 | * ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': |
| 189 | ** "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E1InThroesOfIncreasingWonder In Throes of Increasing Wonder...]]": Paul de Pointe du Lac commits suicide by jumping off the roof of the family mansion on the morning after his sister Grace's wedding. |
| 190 | ** "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E6LikeAngelsPutInHellByGod Like Angels Put in Hell by God]]": Lestat de Lioncourt recounts to Louis and Claudia that his maker Magnus had died by throwing himself into a fire. |
| 191 | * ''Series/InTheDark'': [[spoiler:Dean]] kills himself rather than go to prison for his crimes. |
| 192 | * Kieren on ''Series/InTheFlesh'' after [[spoiler: Rick is killed in action]]. [[BackFromTheDead He got better.]] [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Sort of.]] |
| 193 | * ''Series/InTheHeatOfTheNight'' had one where a young beauty pageant contestant takes sleeping pills when her secret past of drug use and pornography comes back to haunt her. Another episode had one where a respected teacher was falsely accused of sexual abuse by a student [[spoiler: who was upset about being disciplined by said teacher over a classroom prank]]. He was cleared but was found dead in his car from carbon monoxide poisoning when Tibbs comes to tell him the news. |
| 194 | * Frank tries to hang himself more than once in the ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' episode "The Great Recession". |
| 195 | * In a Christmas episode of ''Series/TheJackBennyShow'', Jack drives a department store clerk (Creator/MelBlanc!) to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miAlz1lCgZ4 shoot himself offscreen]] through endless pestering demands to repackage a gift. Jack's reaction to this is quite the CrossesTheLineTwice moment for '50s television. |
| 196 | * ''Series/JupitersLegacy'': |
| 197 | ** Chester Sampson jumped off his building after the 1929 Wall Street crash. |
| 198 | ** After speaking with Sheldon about his visions, Old Man Miller shoots himself (after previously having [[MurderSuicide murdered his wife]]). |
| 199 | * On ''Series/{{Justified}}'', [[spoiler: Mags Bennett poisons herself at the end of Season 2 because two of her three sons are dead, she hates her only remaining son, and her surrogate daughter hates ''her'' for murdering her father during the beginning of the season.]] |
| 200 | * ''Franchise/KamenRider'': |
| 201 | ** Takeshi Asakura /Kamen Rider Ouja from ''Series/KamenRiderRyuki'' is a violent sadistic criminal, whose biggest rival is Shuichi Kitaoka, the lawyer who was asigned to his case, but refused to defend him, causing Asakura to receive a harsh prison sentence. Said lawyer also joined the Rider Battle as Kamen Rider Zolda. In the final episode, Asakura thinks he has his deciding battle against Kitaoka, only to discover that Kitaoka had already passed away peacefully, and the Zolda suit was donned by Kitaoka's butler. Being denied his desired victory, he angrily runs into a squad of armed policemen and pulls a SuicideByCop. |
| 202 | ** ''Series/KamenRider555'' has one at the beginning of the show. Yuji Kiba is a young man who has everything a man can desire; a happy family, a nice girlfriend and a bright future. This all falls apart after a car accident, which kills of his parents and leaves him in a coma for two years. After waking up, he discovers his girlfriend left him and his uncle took over his parent's company. In desperation, he tries to kill himself by jumping off a high building...only to discover he can't die that easily, due to having evolved into the next stage of human evolution; an Orphnoch. |
| 203 | ** On ''Series/KamenRiderBlade'', [[spoiler:Hajime is forced to become his Joker self and begin TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. After trying several times to resist it, he ultimately finds that it's impossible, so he tries to kill himself with his own weapon to stop it. It fails, because as an Undead, he's immortal. Later, he attempts to force Kenzaki to seal him, an act which could be considered simular to suicide, but Kenzaki [[TakeAThirdOption finds another way]]. Both of these also count as attempting]] [[HeroicSacrifice Hero]][[spoiler:[[HeroicSacrifice ic Sacrifice]], as he was trying to save the world in the process.]] |
| 204 | ** ''Series/KamenRiderGaim'': This having happened to his father is one of the catalysts for Kaito's MightMakesRight worldview. When the MegaCorp Yggdrassil started buying out the local companies of Zawame city, Kaito's father lost his job and started drinking heavily, which culmulated in a suicide. Being unable to prevent his father's decline and eventual death made Kaito feel weak, which fueled his desire for power. |
| 205 | ** In the backstory of ''Series/KamenRiderBuild'', Shinobu Katsuragi, Takumi's father and head of the Mars expedition that brought back Pandora's Box, committed suicide after being harassed from all sides following the Skywall incident. [[spoiler:Subverted when it turns out Shinobu was just FakingTheDead in order to work with the BigBad responsible for the incident while secretly figuring out how to defeat him.]] |
| 206 | ** ''Series/KamenRiderGeats'': The titular character is a reincarnator trying to find the mother of his first incarnation, who he still considers his true mother and was ripped away from him in traumatic fashion when he was a child. When pressed on the matter, Ace eventually admits that his first incarnation's life ended when he realized he would never see his mother again. |
| 207 | * ''Series/KillingEve'': [[spoiler: Anna]], Villanelle's former lover, shoots herself rather than shooting Villanelle. |
| 208 | * ''Series/TheKingsWoman'': |
| 209 | ** Min Dai and Lady Chu both commit suicide after trying and failing to save their homelands. |
| 210 | ** Gongsun Li kills herself after she discovers how Ying Zheng has spied on and deceived her. |
| 211 | * ''Series/LaRosaDeGuadalupe'': Robertito from the episode "Volar un papalote", is fed up with the bullying, abuse, and apathy he was put through and [[spoiler:decides to throw himself off the balcony.]] However, the way the scene was played led to it becoming a meme. |
| 212 | * Many people throughout the ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'' franchise (especially ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit''), but notably in the ''Series/LawAndOrder'' episode that introduces Det. Lupo: His brother is one of a number of people who were helped to commit suicide, and he's looking for their "helper". [[spoiler:That person's father, a Dr. Kavorkian expy, takes responsibility before dying of his own poison.]] |
| 213 | * ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'': Often spurred by somebody crossing the DespairEventHorizon; most often a victim who's given up on seeing justice done or a former suspect who couldn't take the team's usual methods of interrogation. |
| 214 | ** A big one is [[spoiler: the mentally ill witness in "Noncompliance" whom Olivia bullies, browbeats and pressures into temporarily modifying his medical routine so he can testify in an especially difficult case. She later finds the dude's lifeless body, as he has hung himself due to both her abusive behavior towards him and the side-effects of said med changes]]. |
| 215 | ** Another one is "Haystack" - [[spoiler:a child goes missing and his mother hangs herself after an overzealous reporter accuses her of murdering her child during an interview. Stabler promptly chews the reporter out on live TV after the child is found alive. The beginning of this episode eerily mirrors the [[RippedFromTheHeadlines Melinda Duckett case with the reporter being a Expy of Nancy Grace.]]]] |
| 216 | ** In the episode "Starved" a SerialRapist manipulates his abused wife (who he married at the last minute to keep her from testifying against him) into attempting suicide, which results in her becoming a vegetable. He then fights with the courts and her mother to have her feeding tube removed, and after he gets his way he smugly reveals to the detectives that he's [[BlackWidow entitled to a $1.5 million settlement from the insurance company]].[[note]]The horror of this is at least slightly lessened by the fact that, whatever the husband's intention, the detectives find independent evidence that this was what she would have wanted.[[/note]] |
| 217 | ** Miranda Cole, one of the victims in "Weak", is a schizophrenic who's been hanging by a thread for years until she's raped by a man who specifically targets the disabled. Her recollections prove critical in tracking down the rapist, but the final scene of the episode has her doctor telling Benson and Stabler that Miranda had committed suicide. |
| 218 | ** In the episode "Bully", a corporate boss shoots herself after video footage of her abusing a timid business partner is leaked and her business is ruined. She [[NeverMyFault castigates her late partner, the media, her employees and police]] at a press conference before killing herself, saying it was their fault. It's possibly a reference to the public suicide of former Pennsylvania treasurer R. Budd Dwyer, who shot himself during a press conference (his behavior was more contrite however). This inspired the song "Hey Man Nice Shot" by {{Music/Filter}}. |
| 219 | ** "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS4E21Fallacy Fallacy]]" sees Eddie kill himself over finding out Cheryl's transgender. |
| 220 | * ''Series/LawmenBassReeves'': Sherill shoots himself when his leg gets caught in a trap, knowing it would be a slow death for him otherwise. |
| 221 | * ''Series/LegendOfTheSeeker'': The conjurer Cormac in "Desecrated", having unleashed an ancient mummy to kill the sons of the men who let his own sons die for them, kills himself to be reunited with them. |
| 222 | * ''Series/Liar2017'': |
| 223 | ** Andrew's wife's death was ruled suicide, allegedly due to depression. Laura suspects he really murdered her. [[spoiler: It turns out that she did kill herself, over the {{awful truth}} her husband's a serial rapist, and he goaded her into doing this.]] |
| 224 | ** Andrew's son Luke tried to kill himself as well by jumping into the ocean [[spoiler:over the same revelation.]] [[BungledSuicide He survived however]]. |
| 225 | ** Carl considers this after [[spoiler:killing Andrew, or so he thinks]]. He changes his mind in the last instant. |
| 226 | * ''Series/{{Lost}}'' is a fairly suicide-heavy show. In addition to Sawyer's father's murder-suicide (in flashbacks), we've seen Locke, Jack, and Michael on the verge of suicide. In Jack and Locke's cases, they were [[InterruptedSuicide interrupted]] before actually making the attempt. Michael tried at least three times unsuccessfully. Richard has also tried, but his immortality also extends to a inability to kill himself. |
| 227 | * ''Series/TheLWord: [[SequelSeries Generation Q]]'' reveals that Jenny actually died from suicide. |
| 228 | * [[spoiler:Lane Pryce]] of ''Series/MadMen'' gets in trouble with [[spoiler:[[IntimidatingRevenueService British Inland Revenue]] for not paying his British taxes]], and ends up embezzling from SCDP. He tries killing himself by asphyxiation in the Jaguar his wife had bought him, but [[spoiler:[[BlackComedy the electrical system doesn't work]]--[[BrickJoke a common Jaguar problem often discussed but heretofore never actually shown]], leading him to try and fix the thing. Unable to do so, he goes to his office and hangs himself instead--leaving a SuicideNote that [[StiffUpperLip consists of a boilerplate resignation letter]].]] |
| 229 | ** In the first season, [[spoiler:Adam Whitman, Don Draper's half-brother, hangs himself in his hotel room after Don pays him to leave town and never contact him again.]] He had been hoping to find Don for years, and was horrified to be callously turned away. |
| 230 | * ''Series/TheMagicians2016'': |
| 231 | ** All of the Travelers kill themselves (except Penny) due to the Beast's threats. |
| 232 | ** Kady later attempts suicide when she fails to save Penny. Julie revives her though, and it turns out that Penny isn't dead, as he was an AstralProjection at the time. |
| 233 | ** The fourth magical key attempts to do this to whoever holds it, creating a hallucination of the user that embodies all their negative traits. The hallucination then tries to talk the user into committing suicide. It varies in effectiveness based on the person. It succeeds in driving Benedict to kill himself by throwing himself overboard, at which point a sea serpent eats him. |
| 234 | ** The alternate Quentin, after realizing what he did without a shade. |
| 235 | * ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'': PlayedForLaughs. |
| 236 | ** During the episode "[[PirateEpisode Peggy and the Pirates]]": |
| 237 | *** Several ship crew members do this for having to endure the (supposedly long) singing from the dreadful pirate, Ruvio the Cruel. Apparently ship wayfarers consider musical-version performances to be FateWorseThanDeath... |
| 238 | *** Fluvio threatens to throw three girls to sharks if they don't have sex with him; the three girls jump to the sharks without hesitation. |
| 239 | ---->'''Captain Courage''': Fluvio, how many times do I have to tell you? Don't give them a choice! |
| 240 | ** As Jefferson espouses [[HowWeGotHere the events that would lead to his hospitalization]] in the episode "Agony and the Extra C", an unnamed patient, who's on life support while lying in bed next to Jefferson, unplugs his own life support at one point to make sure he won't have to listen to any more of the story. |
| 241 | * In the ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode "[[Recap/MastersOfHorrorS1E13Imprint Imprint]]", the disfigured prostitute claims first that this was what happened to Komomo, who hanged herself when Christopher failed to return. After Christopher says he doesn't believe her, she admits that [[spoiler:she actually killed Komomo (and was also the one that committed the robbery and falsely accused Komomo in the first place)]]. |
| 242 | * In "Tundra", Howard of ''Series/TheMightyBoosh'' thought his friend Vince was dead and he couldn't face the prospect of life without him, so he wandered out into the snow in hopes of freezing or starving to death. Despite being a comedy, it wasn't played for laughs, but MoodWhiplash was provided by showing scenes of Vince alive and happily playing with a polar bear to keep the scenario from getting too sad. |
| 243 | * ''Series/AMillionLittleThings'': One of the story arcs of the first season is what caused one of the cast ensemble Jon Dixon to kill himself [[StartsWithASuicide in the first episode.]] In the same episode, another one of them, Rome, was just about to commit suicide via pills at his home when he answered the phone (and only after being annoyed by multiple calls trying to reach him) informing him about Jon’s death, causing him spit out all the pills. |
| 244 | ** Season 2 features P.J., a teenage boy who befriends Rome after relating to Rome's film script about Rome's depression and suicidal feelings, and who later believes Jon may have been his biological father (his mother is the mysterious beneficiary from Jon's will and he recently feels a huge disconnect with his father). When it’s revealed that neither his father nor Jon are his biological father, he feels lost and his suicidal feelings relapsing, and he goes to the roof of a building complex ready to jump, but Rome is able to talk him out of it. |
| 245 | * ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': |
| 246 | ** In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS1E0 The Killings at Badger's Drift]]", Phyllis kills herself in custody… believing herself to have committed a murder which was in fact done by the Laceys. |
| 247 | ** At the end of "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS3E1 Death of a Stranger]]", facing utter ruin and broken by the truth about his parentage as well as losing his child and the woman he loves, Grahame Tranter hangs himself before Barnaby can catch up to him. |
| 248 | * ''{{Series/Misfits}}'': When [[VampiricDraining drained]] by the [[LifeDrinker life force vampire]] in 5.6, people completely lose the will to live, attempting suicide, with one succeeding. |
| 249 | * ''Series/MondayMornings'': |
| 250 | ** Subverted in the pilot episode when a patient was brought and everybody assumed it was an attempted suicide by crushing a car. However, she's soon diagnosed as having a stroke and that it was an accident. |
| 251 | ** One patient is brought badly hurt, and everybody assumes he was a jumper because he was found under the window. The team are reluctant to treat him, but they do nevertheless. He might end up an organ donor but they actually [[BillyNeedsAnOrgan need organs]] for him. [[spoiler:The team's attitude changes when they find that he in fact did ''not'' try to commit a suicide, but was pushed. Dr. Hooten calls them on it later and is extremely harsh on them, because suicidal people are considered ill, not losers unwilling to live. Well-played, Dr. Hooten.]] JerkassHasAPoint in this series for a reason, and he was not a jerkass at this matter at all. |
| 252 | * In a ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' link, watching the Dance of the CampGay Sugar-Plum Fairies drives a cartoon everyman to kill himself. He shoots his eyeball out and it [[IFellForHours falls for hours]]. |
| 253 | * ''Series/MurderInTheFirst'': When Erich Blunt is finally nailed at the end of the first season, he hangs himself in his jail cell rather than accept life imprisonment. His maternal grandfather had done the same thing, dying of cancer and facing arrest himself, which Blunt praised previously. |
| 254 | * On ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode 819, "Invasion of the Neptune Men", a giant nude statue of Bobo is more than Pearl and Observer can take, so much so that they tussle over who gets the noose -- until they realize that they have to fix the timestream to save Chicken in a Biskit. |
| 255 | * ''Series/{{NCIS}}''. One of Gibbs' flashbacks in the episode "Hiatus" shows him sitting on the beach where he shared happy times with his wife and daughter with a gun in his hand, clearly contemplating blowing his head off following their tragic deaths. |
| 256 | * ''Series/NeverWipeTearsWithoutGloves'': [[spoiler:Bengt]] after getting his AIDS diagnosis. [[CampGay Paul]] in a moment of GallowsHumor bitches about the unkindness of not letting the disease waste him away but leaving a heavy body for his equally sick and weak friends to carry when they served as pall-bearers at the funeral. |
| 257 | * In ''Series/NipTuck'', Sean helps a cancer patient end her own life. |
| 258 | * Happens early on in ''Series/{{NUMB3RS}}'' with Finn Montgomery, a [=CalSci=] student who Charlie knew peripherally. Charlie spends half the episode trying to prove that Finn was murdered before a letter he had mailed to his parents just before his death proves that it really was a suicide. |
| 259 | ** Two later episodes have the agents investigating apparent suicides that turn out to have been murders: |
| 260 | *** "Guns and Roses": Nikki Davis, Don's ex-girlfriend, has apparently shot herself in the head. Don is suspicious, especially when he finds out she tried to call him just before she died. Charlie is able to prove that a second person was in the room with her, and DNA helps them determine who. From there, they're able to get motive, which lets them piece together the rest. |
| 261 | *** "Democracy": An old college friend of Charlie's turns up dead in an apparent suicide just after telling him she was afraid for her life after three of her colleagues had all died within a few days of each other. Because of this statement and because of the statistical unlikelihood of four specific people all dying so close together, he requests a second autopsy. Fortunately (for the investigation, at least), it turns out the killer got impatient; he had dosed her with enough alcohol and pills to kill her, but he wanted to be sure she was dead and didn't want to wait, so he smothered her while she was unconscious. |
| 262 | ** Though he has no way of confirming it, Colby Granger at one point tells another agent that he believes his father's death (in a single car wreck) may have been a suicide rather than an accident, as his father had recently been depressed over losing his job. |
| 263 | * ''Series/OnceUponATime'': Dr. Whale, in actuality [[spoiler:Victor Frankenstein]], attempts to kill himself due to how everyone sees him as a monster and there is no way for him to return home. He's saved by Ruby. |
| 264 | * In season 3 of ''Series/TheOrville'', [[spoiler:Isaac fries his own circuits with a precision EMP after realizing that most of the crew hates him. The trigger is Marcus wishing he was dead. He's later revived because Isaac is the Union's best hope for a defense against the Kaylon]]. |
| 265 | * ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': |
| 266 | ** In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S5E9WhatWillTheNeighborsThink What Will The Neighbors Think?]]" Mona is so horrified thinking the voices have returned at the end that she jumps to her death. |
| 267 | ** In [[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S6E15TheGrid "The Grid"]], Eileen Brennan commits suicide as she can no longer stand the voices of the computer in her mind, especially since it had earlier forced her to kill her husband Peter. |
| 268 | * ''{{Series/Outlander}}'': {{Discussed}} by [[spoiler:Roger]] and [[spoiler:Ian]] after the first stops the latter's attempted suicide. Since he had nearly died by hanging, [[spoiler:Ian]] asks [[spoiler:Roger]] what he saw. [[spoiler:Roger]] says he saw his wife, which [[spoiler:Ian]] interprets as there being an afterlife. He is disappointed, stating that he'd hoped it would be over (it turns out his attempt was due to losing a woman). |
| 269 | * ''Series/TheOutpost'': It's mentioned as part of the backstory that Commander Calkussar's wife killed herself rather than live with what her husband had done. Specifically, and quite plot relevant, she couldn't live with [[spoiler: allowing their own daughter to be executed in Princess Rosmund's place]]. |
| 270 | * ''Series/{{Oz}}'': |
| 271 | ** After becoming a PariahPrisoner despised by the rest of the prison after ratting out SaĂŻd to the guards, Huseni Mershah is unable to take the isolation and constant ridicule and slits his own throat. |
| 272 | ** After going on a shooting spree, [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Guillaume Tarrant]] sees the SORT team closing in on him and chooses to [[AteHisGun eat his gun.]] |
| 273 | * ''Series/ThePath'': Eddie's brother hanged himself in the past, which led to him finding and joining Meyerism. |
| 274 | * ''Series/PennyDreadful'': In "Above the Vaulted Door", [[spoiler:Gladys Murray]] is driven insane by the witches. She eventually hallucinates her children rising from their graves, leading her to kill herself. |
| 275 | * ''Series/PerryMason2020'': |
| 276 | ** Perry and Pete discover that one of the kidnappers appears to have shot himself in remorse. However, further investigation reveals that the suicide was staged. |
| 277 | ** E.B. gasses himself after being blackmailed to lose the case by Maynard Barnes. |
| 278 | * ''Series/PleaseLikeMe'': The protagonist's depressed mother tries to commit suicide in the first episode [[spoiler:and repeats her attempt - yet again unsuccessfully - in the first series finale]]. |
| 279 | * In ''Series/{{Powers}}'' [[spoiler: Krispin]] apparently kills himself at the end of season 2's first episode. |
| 280 | * An episode of ''Series/ThePretender'' involved Jarod investigating the suicide of a military recruit who was given an experimental drug that brought about an intense feeling of despair. As usual, Jarod gave the man responsible a taste of his own medicine (literally in this case), but also as usual, stopped short of killing him - he gave him a reduced dose that was enough to make him cry like a bitch for a few hours, but not enough to make him take his own life. |
| 281 | * ''Series/Preacher2016'': Subverted; [[spoiler:Donny's aforementioned DisabilityImmunity]] is set up as if he's realizing the futility of [[spoiler:the assault on the church]] and deciding to end it all in an oddly convoluted way. Tracy also attempted suicide, followed by Eugene, but both survived, leaving her in a coma and him disfigured. |
| 282 | * ''Series/PrincessAgents'': |
| 283 | ** Bai Sheng commits suicide after her family are murdered. |
| 284 | ** Consort Wei drinks the poison meant for Yuan Chun. |
| 285 | * ''Series/PrincessSilver'': |
| 286 | ** Ning Qian Yi kills himself when his schemes fail. |
| 287 | ** Fu Yuan kills herself after her son dies and her revenge plan is thwarted. |
| 288 | * ''{{Series/Quantico}}'': Eric kills himself in guilt after thinking his secret was discovered: having the Malawi girl he got pregnant get an illegal abortion, which she died undergoing. It was not even true -- Caleb didn't know about it. |
| 289 | * ''{{Series/Rake}}'': |
| 290 | ** Attorney General Joe Sandilands throws himself off a cliff after scandalous media revelations about his brothel visits. [[MoodWhiplash He is shown cheerfully whistling to some Gilbert & Sullivan in his car only moments before]]. |
| 291 | ** [[spoiler: Malcolm]], after his plans on the outside fall through, jumps from a freeway overpass because he feels like there is nothing left for him, despite Cleaver pleading with him not to. |
| 292 | * The ''Series/RedDwarf'' episode "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVBackToReality Back to Reality]]" features the Despair Squid, a genetically engineered predator which uses hallucinogenic ink to induce suicidal depression in its victims, including ''fish''. Even the entirely electronic Rimmer and Kryten are affected. |
| 293 | * ''Series/TheRiseOfPhoenixes'': The series end with Zhi Wei jumping off a cliff. |
| 294 | * Happens to more or less half the cast of ''Series/{{Rome}}'', in some cases because a character is based on a historical figure who took their own life. Some of the more notable ones include: The death of [[spoiler:Niobe, who throws herself off a balcony so that Vorenus won't have to take her life]] in season one, the fate of both [[spoiler:Antony and Cleopatra]] in the series finale, [[spoiler:Brutus walking in among the enemy soldiers in a suicide-by-making-them-kill-me fashion]] in mid-season two, followed by [[spoiler:Servilia and her slave]] in the next episode. |
| 295 | * ''{{Series/Salamander}}'': A number of people kill themselves due to blackmail. |
| 296 | * ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'': |
| 297 | ** Ted, the hospital's lawyer, who is eternally depressed and contemplating suicide. Typically he stays on the roof of the building, looking down, waiting to gain enough courage to take the final step, often while Dr. Kelso watches in sadistic amusement. Something always happens that prevents him from jumping, to Kelso's chagrin... except one time when he's about to turn back, but accidentally falls down (Dr. Kelso came up onto the roof blasting an air horn, the surprise causing him to fall). He survives as he lands on a large pile of garbage bags the AlmightyJanitor had put there (the whereabouts of which had been part of another plot). He then gives Ted advice on a location to 'jump' from that will be successful. |
| 298 | ** Elliot confesses that she once tried to drown herself, although this wasn't played for laughs. It was actually mostly ignored after that episode, as all the characters [[{{Flanderization}} became generic sitcom characters]]. |
| 299 | ** Played for laughs once. Elliot admitted that she didn't try to stick her head in an oven. When her head gets really hot, she pisses herself and she didn't want to be found in a puddle of her own urine. |
| 300 | ** Dr. Cox unknowingly transplants rabies-infected organs into 3 patients, killing them and driving him to nearly drink himself to death. |
| 301 | * Even ''Series/SesameStreet'' had this in an animated short called "King Minus". If he touches anything at all, it is immediately annihilated. [[spoiler:This includes the DamselInDistress he meant to save. He can't live with himself after that.]] |
| 302 | * On ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'', this was Moriarty's plan for [[spoiler:Sherlock]]. |
| 303 | * [[spoiler: Tommy]] from ''Series/TheShield'' shoots himself after having his ex-wife and son murdered and losing his job. |
| 304 | * ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' is very fond of having its characters give this a shot. |
| 305 | ** Lionel sticks a gun in his mouth after he is diagnosed with a terminal illness, but reconsiders. |
| 306 | ** Lex collapses the Fortress of Solitude down over him and a depowered Clark. |
| 307 | ** Davis drowns himself in a Kryptonite shower, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero but this just ends up making him immune to Kryptonite.]] |
| 308 | ** [[spoiler:[[ComicBook/GreenArrow Oliver Queen]]]] tries to blow himself up with a death trap someone was already trying to murder him with. He [[UnexplainedRecovery gets better]], sort of... |
| 309 | * Subverted in ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'' when [[spoiler:the incarcerated Otto]] - who had nothing going for him - slashed his wrists. It was later revealed that not only did he not succeed, but he never meant to - it was a gambit to [[spoiler:get into the infirmary in order to kill the man who tried to kill Jackson]]. |
| 310 | ** [[spoiler:Juice tried to kill himself and it ''really'' looked as if he succeeded until the next episode revealed otherwise. He tries again later, this time with a handful of pills, but he gets saved by Gemma and Nero.]] |
| 311 | * In one episode of ''Series/{{Southland}}'', a teenage boy tries to commit suicide after his [[TeensAreMonsters classmates torment him for being gay.]] Cooper and Tang ''barely'' manage to save him. [[spoiler: At the end of the episode, he talks a hospital orderly into undoing his restraints, then jumps off the roof.]] |
| 312 | * ''Series/{{Spectreman}}'': Dr. Gori, from the very first episode, has been trying to take over the Earth after being exiled from Planet E for being too violent. When his last friend, La, dies, he is too miserable to keep living and kills himself in front of Spectreman. |
| 313 | * ''Series/SquidGame'': In episode 3, Player 119 in the DeadlyGame loses the round, but manages to get a gun from one of the guards and holds him hostage. When he orders the guard to take his mask off, 119 is shocked to see an ordinary-looking young man, and turns the gun on himself in despair. |
| 314 | -->'''119:''' You're just a kid. What did they do to you?! |
| 315 | * ''Series/StarFleet'': In the twelfth episode [[spoiler:Captain Carter]], after being freed from Imperial Alliance control, cannot live with the evils deeds that he was forced to do against his allies. He is driven to SuicideByCop, [[spoiler:by firing at Shiro, giving him no choice but to shoot back at his mentor. He dies in Shiro's arms. ]] |
| 316 | ** Another example in the twenty-second episode, when [[spoiler:Captain Orion]] is mortally wounded by a falling beam, and is determined to die a warriors death. He steals a drone craft and goes on a suicide mission against X-Bomber. [[spoiler:After a lengthy attack on X-Bomber, Orion's drone craft is shot down. Orion purposely drives the drone craft into X-Bombers side, proclaiming "Long Live the Imperial Alliance!". He fails to destroy the ship outright, but does significantly damage it.]] |
| 317 | * The Franchise/{{Stargate Verse}} has a few examples: |
| 318 | ** The ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "The Light" deals with a Goa'uld discovery that's described as being similar to an opium den. Upon discovering it, the people who witnessed the titular light go into "withdrawal" when they return home, and attempt suicide. (A one-off character kills himself with the kawoosh and Daniel unsuccessfully tries to jump off his balcony.) The situation was resolved, though. |
| 319 | ** An episode of ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' had a society where people were required to commit suicide at the age of twenty-four; this turned out to be a form of population control designed by the Ancients to keep the population contained within the field of the protective shield that hid them from the Wraith. |
| 320 | ** A later episode actually had Sheppard drive another man to suicide, specifically "suicide by being fed on by starving Wraith", since he was responsible for [=McKay's=] sister being infected with deadly nanites. The Wraith was the only one competent enough to deactivate them in time, but was too malnourished to do the job. |
| 321 | ** In ''Series/StargateUniverse'', Spencer is driven to suicide through the combination of withdrawal from sleeping pills and the stress of being stranded on ''Destiny''. |
| 322 | * ''Franchise/StarTrek'': |
| 323 | ** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' dealt with suicide in every way you could possibly imagine: |
| 324 | *** Klingons were known to engage in ritual suicide if disability forced them to be a burden on their families. When Worf was badly injured in an accident, he asked Commander Riker to serve the role. Riker heatedly refuses, [[WhatTheHellHero castigates Worf for choosing not to fight to survive like so many of their comrades did]], and points out that Worf's son Alexander is old enough to perform the ritual instead. Specifically, Klingons can't kill themselves under such conditions as it's dishonorable, so asking a family member to do it is a way around this. In a ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' episode Worf's brother Kurn asked him to perform this duty after his family had been stripped of their titles and honor by Chancellor Gowron. When Worf is prevented from going through with killing Kurn, and various efforts by Kurn to [[SuicideByCop die in the line of duty]] fail, Worf comes across his brother drunk with a disrupter in his hand, trying to work up the courage to shoot himself in the head, which would mean eternity in Klingon hell, "but at least I would be with other Klingons." |
| 325 | *** However, in the ''Next Generation'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E7Reunion Reunion]]" Riker notes that Klingons consider suicides that in addition [[TakingYouWithMe cause the death of an enemy]] to be an honorable way to die. |
| 326 | *** Worf tried to kill himself in the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E17NightTerrors Night Terrors]]" due to severe REM sleep deprivation when the ''Enterprises'' attempt to escape the Tyken Rift failed. |
| 327 | *** One planet had every member of its society committing suicide when they reached the age of sixty. |
| 328 | *** Suicide as a result of Psychological Interferrence was the subject of "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E19EyeOfTheBeholder Eye Of The Beholder]]", where empathic impressions from a past suicide caused two empathic individuals - namely Lt. Daniel Kwan and Deanna Troi - in the ''Enterprise'' crew to experience hallucinations forcing them to attempt the same thing. While Kwan was successful in taking his own life Troi was stopped from doing so by Worf. |
| 329 | *** "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E20TinMan Tin Man]]" had a lonely spacefaring creature trying to kill itself by sticking around a star about to go nova. Only to be subverted by finding companionship from a telepath, so that [[LastOfHisKind Tin Man]] would no longer be alone and the telepath [[PowerIncontinence only heard Tin Man's singular voice]]. |
| 330 | *** In one episode, even Data mentioned that during his early formative phases, he found the process of becoming sentient so difficult that he considered deactivating himself, an act other crew members equated to suicide. |
| 331 | *** After Q is [[BroughtDownToNormal stripped of his powers]] in "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E13DejaQ Deja Q]]", he finds life as an ordinary human increasingly intolerable and becomes mired in self-loathing after Data risks himself to save him and he [[HeelRealization realizes]] that he is too selfish and cowardly to do likewise if the situation had been reversed. He flies off in a shuttlecraft so that some of the beings he's antagonized with his JerkassGod ways will [[DrawAggro kill him]] and leave the ''Enterprise'' alone. Fortunately for him, his peers then decide to restore his powers. |
| 332 | ** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' |
| 333 | *** In the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E19HardTime Hard Time]]", O'Brien gets implanted memories of spending a 20 year prison sentence as part of punishment for a crime. In these fake memories he killed his cell mate over some food (that the cell mate was going to share with O'Brien anyway). O'Brien has such a hard time dealing with his actions, even though they weren't real, that he nearly commits suicide and Bashir has to talk him out of it. |
| 334 | ---->'''Dr. Julian Bashir''': The Argrathi did everything they could to strip you of your humanity. And in the end, for one brief moment, they succeeded. But you can't let that brief moment define your entire life. If you do, if you pull that trigger, then the Argrathi will have won - they will have destroyed a good man. You cannot let that happen, my friend. |
| 335 | *** Also on ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', Weyoun (his 6th clone, anyway) is DrivenToSuicide. |
| 336 | ** Suicide was occasionally portrayed as early as ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': |
| 337 | *** In "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E7WhatAreLittleGirlsMadeOf What Are Little Girls Made Of?]]", Dr. Korby kills himself after Kirk forces him to face his morality-warping artificial nature. |
| 338 | *** In "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E6TheDoomsdayMachine The Doomsday Machine]]", Commodore Decker is driven mad with guilt after watching as the titular weapon obliterates a planet he evacuated his crew to, killing them all. After his attempt to use the ''Enterprise'' to destroy the machine is stopped by Kirk, Decker takes control of a shuttlecraft and rams it down the machine's throat, though it doesn't kill it. |
| 339 | *** In the episode [[Recap/StarTrekS1E29OperationAnnihilate "Operation: Annihilate!"]], an unarmed Denevan pilot, driven mad by pain caused by the parasite he's infected by, flies his ship into the sun. [[note]]Although it's questionable whether or not the pilot actually intended to commit suicide or just wanted to kill the parasite in him. [[/note]] |
| 340 | *** It's implied that Spock was about to commit suicide in "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E1AmokTime Amok Time]]", as he believes he has killed [[TheNotLoveInterest Captain Kirk]] in Pon-Farr induced madness. Fortunately for all concerned, the ruse is revealed in time and Spock immediately goes back to his usual emotionless self...at least, tries to do so. |
| 341 | * ''Series/StElsewhere'': In "Family Affair", Bobby Caldwell plans to commit suicide with 50 ccs of curare and half a liter of IV saline as he was [[spoiler:diagnosed with AIDS]] in the previous episode "Family Feud". However, his [[InterruptedSuicide attempt is interrupted]] by water leaking into his apartment from upstairs. His young neighbor Cynthia frantically knocks at his door and asks for his help in cleaning up her apartment, which was flooded when the bath overran in her parents' absence. |
| 342 | * On ''Series/{{Succession}}'', a Waystar employee kills himself at his desk (offscreen) in the second season, prompting an office-wide evacuation. In the same episode, Kendall appears to be flirting with the idea of throwing himself off the building's roof, but he is barred from the possibility when the company erects barriers to prevent another suicide. |
| 343 | * While ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'''s Dean selling his soul so his brother can live again in "All Hell Breaks Loose" might look like a HeroicSacrifice at first glance, it's really, really not. He still thinks he should have died at the beginning of the season, he has a massive guilty conscience about failing to protect his brother, you only have to watch the rest of the season to know that he hasn't been in the best of places for a good, long time and Azazel even says he has a pathetic, self-loathing desire to sacrifice himself for his family. In "Dream a Little Dream of Me", he finally seems to get over his suicidal nature and realises he doesn't want to go to hell. [[spoiler:Too bad he's doomed anyway.]] That's not the only time he's been driven to try (it just succeeded that time). There's "Faith" where he accepts his impending death and lets the reaper try and take him. There's "Dream A Little Dream Of Me" where he takes his rage out on what looks like himself and shoots the doppelganger dead. There's "Croatoan" where Sam might turn violent due to infection and instead of running away, he locks himself in there with him, and then there's "What Is And What Should Never Be" where his perfect girlfriend definitely looks like the Reaper in "My Time Of Dying", his greatest wish is to get some rest (it's unclear whether he just wants a bit of peace or, um, forever rest) and he needs to kill himself to get out of his dreamworld but is perfectly fine with the other option which is dying for real. Oh, ''Dean''! |
| 344 | ** In the season 5 finale, Dean [[spoiler:would rather die with his brother than not be there for him when Lucifer has taken over Sam's body and all hope of stopping him seems gone.]] He was lost enough throughout the season that he [[spoiler:nearly said "yes" to let Michael possess him so Michael could kill Lucifer even though that would raze the world.]] |
| 345 | *** Sam was suicidal throughout season five as well, first [[spoiler:preferring death to possession,]] then playing out a SelfSacrificeScheme to [[spoiler:[[MustMakeAmends lock Lucifer back up]] by saying "yes" to let Lucifer possess him and walking into the Cage. If Sam ''[[HeroicSacrifice succeeded]]'', he'd be trapped with a vengeful Lucifer to be [[FateWorseThanDeath tortured for eternity by him]].]] The whole [[PsychoSerum demon blood]] thing the season before only came about because [[DespairEventHorizon Dean died]] and Sam thought he had to use enough blood-fueled power to [[HeroicRROD kill himself]] killing Lilith to prevent the Apocalypse. This is well after he tried to get Dean to kill him so he wouldn't become a monster. |
| 346 | *** For various reasons, Dean's behavior in most of Season 7 was borderline suicidal. |
| 347 | ** Castiel, filled with regret over his decisions regarding Crowley and the souls in Purgatory, admits to Dean in season 8 that he can't go back to Heaven, because if he sees what his actions have done to it, he may "kill himself". |
| 348 | ** Another episode featured a monster that drove people to suicide by [[spoiler:mimicking their dead loved ones and telling them to kill themselves so they can be together again.]] |
| 349 | ** The episode "Wishing Well" played this for laughs with a [[spoiler:teddy brought to life by a little girl's wish]] that attempts to blow his own head off with a shotgun. He fails. |
| 350 | ** Castiel becomes so depressed in season 11 that he [[spoiler:offers himself as Lucifer's vessel]], which is tantamount to suicide. He ''was'' also desperate enough to hope it would solve the current crisis, but he appears to grow even more depressed as [[spoiler:the possession]] goes on, to the point where when Sam and Dean try to make contact with him via Crowley, he shows no real interest in [[spoiler:kicking Lucifer out]], and seems to feel that he might as well stay where he is and at least be useful one last time. |
| 351 | ** And on later on in Season 11, when Dean believes that Sam is dead, he outright '''commits suicide''' by overdosing on sleeping pills in order to make a deal with a Reaper (Sam lives in exchange for Dean). Thankfully, he learned that Sam wasn't [[DisneyDeath actually dead]] and managed to return to his body, but this is the first time on the show a major character was shown killing themselves by their own hand. |
| 352 | * In ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'' John, Derek, Riley, and ''[[RobotGirl Cameron]]'' all appear to contemplate or attempt suicide. [[spoiler: Cameron, on the other hand, prevents John from stopping a teenage girl from killing herself, since it would draw attention to him and get their pursuers on their tail.]] |
| 353 | * In the ''Series/{{Terriers}}'' episode "Change Partners" a masochistic banker who forces his wife to [[spoiler: indulge his cuckolding fantasies]] by having affairs is DrivenToSuicide when he [[spoiler: realizes that his actions are hurting her]]. His suicide note reads [[spoiler: "I only meant to hurt myself."]] |
| 354 | * In ''Series/TheTudors'', the series version of Cardinal Wolsey perfectly illustrates this trope. Historically, he's said to have died of illness and exhaustion while being detained (and that is already quite ugly), but since he was a) stripped of all titles, offices and incomes, b) kicked out of the royal council, c) sent to jail, d) separated from his beloved Joan and their two children (Yeah, children. So what ? Priests must not ''marry''. That's all), and e) waiting to be tried for treason, the issue of said trial quite painfully obvious, the suicide option seems sadly logical. Maybe this is a case of TruthInTelevision, we'll never know. |
| 355 | * ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': |
| 356 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E37TheChangingOfTheGuard The Changing of the Guard]]", after being forced to retire by the board of the Rock Spring School for Boys, Professor Ellis Fowler becomes convinced that he has accomplished nothing in his life and plans to shoot himself. However, the ghosts of seven of his former students intervene and assure him that his teachings made a real difference in their lives. |
| 357 | ** The fate of Chief Bell in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S4E2TheThirtyFathomGrave The Thirty-Fathom Grave]]". Seeing ghosts of his dead crewmates from a sunken submarine which he served on in World War II and experiencing massive SurvivorGuilt, Bell flings himself off the side of the ship and drowns. |
| 358 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S4E16OnThursdayWeLeaveForHome On Thursday We Leave for Home]]", nine people have committed suicide in the last six months in order to escape the hellish conditions of V9-Gamma. |
| 359 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E11AShortDrinkFromACertainFountain A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain]]", Harmon Gordon has reached the point where he is contemplating suicide as he is madly in love with his much younger wife Flora, but she can't stand to be around him. He tells his brother Raymond that he will jump off the balcony if he does not inject him with the experimental youth serum. |
| 360 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E17Number12LooksJustLikeYou Number 12 Looks Just Like You]]", Marilyn Cuberle's father Jack committed suicide five years earlier as he believed that the Transformation had robbed him of his identity. |
| 361 | * ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': |
| 362 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E22 Devil's Alphabet]]", Deaver commits suicide by shooting himself after losing everything that he owns in a card game in October 1896. On November 2, his ghost attends the meeting of the Devil's Alphabet Society with the six surviving members because of [[DutyThatTranscendsDeath a bargain that they made at their last meeting before graduation in 1876]]. One year later, Andrew hangs himself from a high ceiling but [[PsychicAssistedSuicide it is unclear how he did so as no chair was found near his body]]. That night, Andrew's ghost appears to Grant at the meeting and Grant likewise hangs himself. On November 2, 1898, Cornelius and Frederick are the last two surviving members of the society as Brian and Eli were killed the previous year. Unable to face what awaits him at that night's meeting, Cornelius shoots himself. |
| 363 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S2E10 Time and Teresa Golowitz]]", the Prince of Darkness tells Bluestone that the title character committed suicide by throwing herself in front of a bus after leaving Mary Ellen Cosgrove's party in October 1948. She was depressed because no one at the party even talked to her, a regular occurrence because of her unpopularity. At the Prince's urging, Bluestone [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong manages to convince Teresa]] that she can get people to notice her through her excellent singing voice and promises to work with her in order to perfect it. This changes history so that Teresa becoming a famous singer with six $1,000,000 albums by 1987. She collaborated with Bluestone on at least one of them. |
| 364 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S3E6 Memories]]", the law in the AlternateUniverse allows people to commit suicide if they are not happy in their current lives. Some kill themselves because they can't handle the [[PastLifeMemories memories of the terrible pain and grief that they suffered in their past lives]]. Others do so in the hope that their next life will be better. |
| 365 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S3E9 The Call]]", the struggling artist Mary Ann Lindeby committed suicide because of her overwhelming depression and loneliness. After her death, her spirit [[HauntedFetter inhabits her last piece]], a bronze sculpture of herself, in the Civic Art Gallery. She becomes concerned that Norman Blane may be planning to kill himself too as he feels just as hopeless as she did towards the end of her life. |
| 366 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S3E25 Rendezvous in a Dark Place]]", Barbara [=LeMay=] tells [[TheGrimReaper Death]] that she considered overdosing on pills so that he would take her with him but that it seemed too forward. |
| 367 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S3E27 Love is Blind]]", the man who killed his wife and [[BlindMusician blinded the musician]] by shooting them hanged himself in jail one week later. |
| 368 | * ''Series/TheTwilightZone2019'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone2019 Ovation]]", Fiji is so overwhelmed with fame that doesn't want to live anymore, giving the medallion to Jasmine and stepping out to be hit by a bus. |
| 369 | * In ''Series/UpstairsDownstairs'' there's James Bellamy, Emily the Maid, and, in the reboot, Lady Persephone. |
| 370 | * In ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'' it happens a bit too often with the Salvatore brothers, but always averted. First both of them wanted to die instead of drinking human blood and becoming vampires. Stefan changed his mind and conned Damon into following suit. Then when Stefan "fell off the wagon" and started drinking human blood again... well, that didn't work either. |
| 371 | ** And in the first season finale Jeremy. Sort of. |
| 372 | ** According to the Season 4 premiere, Elena's actions in the S3 finale were a result of this. |
| 373 | * ''Series/{{Vera}}'': In "The Moth Catcher", one suspect hangs herself in the barn when it becomes obvious that she is going to be exposed as a hit-and-run driver. Which solves one of the deaths Vera is investigating, but not the other. |
| 374 | * ''Series/VeronicaMars'': |
| 375 | ** "Clash of the Tritons": [[spoiler:Logan's mother]] having taken all she can from her cheating husband, abandons her car on a bridge and jumps to her death - apparently. [[spoiler:Logan]] [[HesJustHiding refuses to believe it]], and they NeverFoundTheBody. |
| 376 | ** A season and a half later, the BigBad [[spoiler:Cassidy Casablancas]] leaps to his death after having his crimes and FreudianExcuse (sexual abuse which he was trying desperately to keep secret) made public. |
| 377 | ** Logan in the season 1 finale, but unlike the previous 2 examples, [[InterruptedSuicide he wasn't able to go through with it.]] |
| 378 | * This has occurred several times in ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger''. Some cases involve an innocent person unable to deal with the stresses of life, at which point the eponymous law enforcement officer [[InterruptedSuicide interrupts the suicide attempt]] and tries to [[TalkingDownTheSuicidal talk down the victim before they make that decision]], and others involve a villain deciding it's [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled better for them to die than be either killed or arrested]]. |
| 379 | ** The tear-jerking final act of Season 4's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS4E13Flashpoint Flashpoint]]", where Walker and Trivette [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles protect Irish militant-turned-peacemaker Adam McGuire backing a peace treaty from assassination by IRA Terrorists]]. After its leader, Gavin Malloy, is killed by the Rangers and [=McGuire=], his son, Derek and his (Derek's) lover, Tracy O'Neill, decide that rather than give themselves up, they kill themselves, [[DestinationDefenestration doing so by]] [[SuperWindowJump jumping out the window]] of the tall office building they've holed themselves up in. A rare example of a SympatheticMurderer on this show. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50BMU5NnuB4 This song]] [[MelancholyMusicalNumber pretty much explains it all.]] |
| 380 | ** In Season 5's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS5E4TheBrotherhood The Brotherhood]]", Walker and Trivette take on [[DirtyCop a trio of police officers]] [[VigilanteExecution who resolved to]] [[KillerCop kill criminals]] who managed to get themselves [[OffOnATechnicality off on technicalities]], upon which Walker warns them one of these days, their malicious and extremist actions would result in an innocent person being killed, and that victim is the son of one of his close friends, a Marine Corps recruit who had recently been exonerated of a rape charge, but the officers didn't check, at which point Walker plans to have arrest warrants issued for them, but they weren't willing to go down without a fight. After one officer is [[BulletproofHumanShield killed by one of his fellow officers by accident while attempting to snipe Walker]], [[spoiler:he retreats to police headquarters to kill himself.]] |
| 381 | ** Season 5's "Lucky" had Walker talk down the VictimOfTheWeek, a homeless Vietnam vet, from killing himself by jumping off the roof. He succeeds. |
| 382 | ** While having been successful in saving a homeless man from suicide in "Lucky", Walker was far from successful in Season 8's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS8E10RiseToTheOccasion Rise to the Occasion]]". The start of the episode had 12-year-old middle school student Henry Monroe doing this by jumping from the roof of the school after being [[BullyBrutality bullied]] just one too many times due to his poverty-stricken life. Walker attempts to talk Henry down. Henry seems to change his mind, but Walker quickly fails miserably when Henry accidentally slips and falls anyway. Walker finds it hard to forget the sheer look of hopelessness he had before he ended his life that [[ManlyTears it made even]] ''[[ManlyTears him]]'' [[ManlyTears cry]], but later decided to turn his sorrow into action in trying to have the school improve its image. |
| 383 | ** Near the end of "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS9E2DeadlySituation Deadly Situation]]" in Season 9, [[spoiler:Lieutenant Shell, a leading detective of the Sage City, Texas, Police Department, turns out to be the mastermind behind a group of [[VillainWithGoodPublicity dirty detectives]] who participated in a drug ring and framed rookie officer Glenn Cooper (who is a descendant of the legendary Ranger Hayes Cooper and therefore, a distant cousin of Walker's and an aspiring Ranger himself) and his partner (whom he has killed) for stealing evidence from a recent bust after his three accomplices were busted by Glenn two nights prior, to which they set him up to silence him after [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Glenn gave Shell the original copies of the evidence]], only for them to eventually be arrested by Gage and Sydney before they got the chance to [[DestroyTheEvidence steal and destroy the extra photos]] Glenn hid at a library. While Trivette, Gage and Sydney arrest the drug dealer behind the operation, Lieutenant Shell knows he's been caught and goes home, but when his boss, Captain Ryder, and Walker corner him there so they can arrest him, they find he hung himself.]] |
| 384 | --->'''Captain Ryder:''' Somebody get up here and cut this man down! |
| 385 | * In ''Series/{{Westworld}}'', suicide seems to occur frequently for both host and human characters as they were unable to accept the hardships of reality: |
| 386 | ** Ford reveals that his former partner, Arnold, killed himself before the opening of the park. It turns out the truth is much more complicated [[spoiler:because Arnold actually arranged his suicide by forcing Dolores to shoot him in the head before shooting herself in the head as an attempt to shut down the park]]. |
| 387 | ** After losing her daughter at the hands of the Man in Black, Maeve goes hysterical during maintenance leading Ford to issue a command to calm her down. However, Maeve goes against it by slitting her own throat. |
| 388 | ** William's wife, Juliet, kills herself by overdose while sitting on the bathtub after she saw her husband's profile in Westworld where he committed a lot of terrible things, much to her horror. |
| 389 | * ''Series/TheWheelOfTime2021'': |
| 390 | ** Thom relates to Rand how his nephew Owyn, once he was [[DePower gentled]], killed himself later as he couldn't stand to live without touching the One Power, which is a common reaction. He insists as a result that they have to keep Mat (whom Thom believes can channel) away from the Aes Sedai since they would gentle him too, with the same possibility of suicide resulting. |
| 391 | ** Stepin kills himself after he's lost Kerene, whom he bonded to. It's implied this is a common result for a Warder losing an Aes Sedai. |
| 392 | * ''Series/WildBill'': Kelsey tried to kill herself with pills before the events of the series after a boy she sent nude photos shared them around, though she survived. |
| 393 | * On ''Series/{{Wiseguy}}'', crime boss [[spoiler: Sonny Steelgrave]] chooses this over the imminent humiliation of arrest, prosecution, and lethal injection. His nervy exit scene actually rates as an Expiring Moment of Awesome. |
| 394 | * ''Series/YTheLastMan2021'': Marla, the former First Lady and Kimberly’s mother, kills herself by jumping from the roof of the White House due to being devastated after her husband's death. |
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