1 | ->''"You choose death! Wise. But first, a little chi-chi!"'' |
2 | -->-- '''Really old joke''' |
3 | |
4 | An index for tropes dealing with suicide. |
5 | ---- |
6 | [[index]] |
7 | !!Tropes about suicide: |
8 | [floatboxright: |
9 | '''UsefulNotes:''' |
10 | + {{UsefulNotes/Suicide}} |
11 | |
12 | '''Sub-categories:''' |
13 | + MurderBySuicide |
14 | ] |
15 | * AccidentalSuicide: Killing yourself unintentionally. |
16 | * ActionBomb: Someone who blows themselves up, often killing themselves in the process. |
17 | * AteHisGun: Someone commits suicide by firing a gun after putting it in their mouth. |
18 | * AttackingThroughYourself: The only way to harm an enemy is by harming yourself (such as shooting yourself so that the bullet passes through your body into theirs). |
19 | * BarefootSuicide: Someone kills themselves while barefoot. |
20 | * BathSuicide: Someone commits suicide in the bathtub. |
21 | * BetterToDieThanBeKilled: A character commits suicide rather than fall into the hands of someone trying to kill them. |
22 | * BulliedIntoDepression: Bullying can possibly lead someone to commit suicide. |
23 | * BungledSuicide: A (failed) suicide attempt. |
24 | * CutTheSafetyRope: Two characters are in peril. One character chooses to die so that the second can be saved. |
25 | * CyanidePill: A means of suicide carried on one's person in the event one is captured. |
26 | * DeathBeforeDishonor: A character commits suicide rather than do something immoral or against their moral code. |
27 | * DeathIsTheOnlyOption: The only way to achieve victory is to die. |
28 | * DeathSeeker: A suicidal character seeks out dangerous situations without regard for their survival. |
29 | * DressingToDie: The character picks out a special outfit before killing himself. |
30 | * DrivenToSuicide: A bad event leads a character into committing suicide. |
31 | * DyingAsYourself: A character trapped in circumstances that will permanently alter their basic personality, humanity, or dignity may choose to kill themselves before the transformation is complete. |
32 | * ElectrifiedBathtub: If the death by active electronics being dropped into the tub while bathing was deliberately done by the person bathing. |
33 | * FaceDeathWithDignity: A doomed character accepts their death with serenity. |
34 | * FakeAssistedSuicide: A character assists another character in killing themselves only to sabotage the attempt. |
35 | * ForgivenessRequiresDeath: In order to be forgiven of their crimes, the character must die. |
36 | * GayngstInducedSuicide: A character commits suicide because of issues around their homosexuality. |
37 | * GoingDownWithTheShip: The commander of a vessel chooses to remain on said vessel as it is destroyed. |
38 | * GoodbyeCruelWorld: A character leaves a goodbye note before committing suicide. |
39 | * HangingAround: A character commits suicide by hanging themselves. |
40 | * HappilyFailedSuicide: A character fails a suicide attempt, but is happy about it. |
41 | * HereditarySuicide: Suicide and/or suicide attempts run in families. |
42 | * HeroicSacrifice: Sacrificing your own life for the greater good. |
43 | * HeroicSuicide: Killing oneself is regarded as a heroic act in the story. |
44 | * HonorableWarriorsDeath: A warrior attempts to die in battle or by using some method considered worthy of a warrior in their culture. |
45 | * ICannotSelfTerminate: A character is literally unable to end their own existence. |
46 | * ImNotHungry: If someone refuses to eat food to the point that they let themselves starve to death. This has been the fate of some political protesters who went on hunger strikes. |
47 | * InterruptedSuicide: A character's suicide attempt is interrupted. |
48 | * IndirectSerialKiller: Some serial killers kill people by making them commit suicide. |
49 | * JumpingOnAGrenade: Sacrificing oneself by using one's own body as a shield against a deadly threat in hopes of sparing others |
50 | * KryptoniteRing: A character gives another character a special deadly weapon. |
51 | * LastSurvivorSuicide: Someone kills themselves over being upset that they're the last one left alive. |
52 | * LeaveBehindAPistol: Giving the option of suicide before dishonor. |
53 | * MainCharacterFinalBoss: The main character finally snaps and becomes the final boss, leading to the party ending their life. |
54 | * MercyKill: If a suicidal person begs another person to put them out of their misery. |
55 | * MercyKillArrangement: A character plans their own euthanization. |
56 | * MidSuicideRegret: A character decides they want to live in the middle of a suicide attempt. |
57 | * MilesToGoBeforeISleep: A character determines they will kill themselves once a list of tasks is complete. |
58 | * MistakenForSuicidal: A character is thought to be suicidal when they're really not. |
59 | * MoreExpendableThanYou: A group of people have to sacrifice one of themselves. Everyone else volunteers because they don't want one member to die. |
60 | * MurderSuicide: Someone kills another person before killing themselves. |
61 | * MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: A character deliberately kills themselves in order to start an even more lethal chain of events. |
62 | * NeverSuicide: A murder victim is covered up by making it look like a suicide. |
63 | * NothingLeftToDoButDie: Someone kills themselves out of boredom and/or satisfaction, believing they've accomplished or done everything they want and have nothing left to live for. |
64 | * OrderedToDie: Ordered to kill themselves by someone with authority. |
65 | * PainlessDeathForAPrice: Someone on death's doorstep is offered a MercyKill in exchange for something valuable. |
66 | * PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou: Character permits another character to kill them. |
67 | * PsychicAssistedSuicide: Using mind control to make a person kill themselves. |
68 | * PreludeToSuicide: A character exhibits signs of being suicidal before they attempt. |
69 | * RussianRoulette: You pull the trigger on yourself, and there is a one-in-six chance that you die. |
70 | * SeenItAllSuicide: Someone kills themselves after concluding they've seen everything they ever could. |
71 | * SelfImmolation: Lighting oneself on fire as a means of suicide. Sometimes done as an extreme form of political protest. |
72 | * SelfSacrificeScheme: A plan by a character to sacrifice their life for someone or something else. |
73 | * {{Seppuku}}: Ritualized suicide to avoid disgrace. |
74 | * SpitefulSuicide: A character kills themselves/gets themselves killed to spite someone else. |
75 | * SpurnedIntoSuicide: A character kills themselves because they were rejected by a love interest. |
76 | * StartsWithASuicide: When a show starts with a character committing suicide. |
77 | * StopOrIShootMyself: Threatening suicide in order to end a conflict. |
78 | * StrikeMeDownWithAllOfYourHatred: You provoke your enemy to kill you. |
79 | * SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum: A character decides to kill themselves and everyone else. |
80 | * SuicidalGotcha: An apparent suicide turns out to be a preplanned form of escape. |
81 | * SuicidalLemmings: Lemmings off themselves by way of jumping off of cliffs. |
82 | * SuicidalSadisticChoice: A SadisticChoice where one option is death. |
83 | * SuicideAsComedy: When suicide is {{Played for|Laughs}} BlackComedy. |
84 | * SuicideAttack: An attack on an enemy that will almost certainly lead to one's own demise. |
85 | * SuicideByAssassin: Hiring someone to kill you. |
86 | * SuicideByCop: You provoke someone into killing you. |
87 | * SuicideByPills: A character intentionally overdosing on medication in pill form to kill themself. |
88 | * SuicideBySea: Committing suicide by calmly and deliberately walking into a body of water and drowning. |
89 | * SuicideBySunlight: A vampire (or another supernatural creature) can be [[WeakenedByTheLight destroyed by stepping into sunlight]], and does so voluntarily. |
90 | * SuicideDare: Telling someone to kill themselves. |
91 | * SuicideForOthersHappiness: A character wants to take their own life because they believes that other people will be happier if they were dead. |
92 | * SuicideIsPainless: A suicide method that doesn't inflict any pain. |
93 | * SuicideIsShameful: Suicide is seen as morally detestable. |
94 | * SuicideNotAccident: A character arranges their suicide to look like an accident or its mistaken for an accident. |
95 | * SuicideNotMurder: A character arranges their suicide to look like a murder or its mistaken for a murder. |
96 | * SuicidePact: A group of characters agree to commit suicide. |
97 | * SuicideWatch: A person is monitored to prevent them from killing themselves. |
98 | * SymbolicSereneSubmersion: A character is revealed to have drowned themself by a shot of their body floating in the water. |
99 | * TagTeamSuicide: A character commits suicide under the mistaken belief that their loved one is dead. The loved one learns of the character's death and kills themselves for real. |
100 | * TakingTheBullet: A character deliberately places themselves in front of a lethal threat intended for someone else. |
101 | * TakingYouWithMe: A person who gets killed makes it so that their killer dies with them. |
102 | * TalkingDownTheSuicidal: A character tells someone not to kill themselves. |
103 | * TeenageDeathSongs (a subcategory of it): Songs about the tragic death of a young person (sometimes by suicide), often meant as a cautionary tale. |
104 | * TemporalSuicide: Killing your past or future self. |
105 | * TongueSuicide: A character bites off their tongue to commit suicide. |
106 | * WeWillHaveEuthanasiaInTheFuture: Society has progressed ([[CrapsackWorld or devolved]]) to the point of allowing its citizens to kill themselves without intervening. May also be a society in which social engineering has determined that all citizens must die at a specific age/circumstance (with or without the consent or knowledge of the citizens) to maintain stability. |
107 | * WhoWantsToLiveForever: If an {{immortal|ity}} being grows so sick of eternal life that [[DeathSeeker they just want it to end already]]. |
108 | |
109 | !!Metaphorically about suicide: |
110 | * MartyrdomCulture: A society that encourages people to die for a purpose. |
111 | * ResurrectionGambit: A character plans their own death, with contingencies that should, in theory, result in their resurrection. |
112 | * SuicidalOverconfidence: Video game enemies rush in to attack the player character, despite the fact that they are clearly hopelessly outmatched. |
113 | * SuicidalPacifism: A character believes so strongly in pacifism that they refuse to harm others even in self-defense. |
114 | * SuicideMission: A mission will almost certainly end in death for whoever accepts it. |
115 | [[/index]] |
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