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| 12 | ->''"A murder-suicide is all about trust."'' |
| 13 | -->-- ''Series/TheXFiles'', "[[Recap/TheXFilesS06E06HowTheGhostsStoleChristmas How the Ghosts Stole Christmas]]" |
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| 15 | Suicide pacts are when two or more people all decide to kill themselves at the same time, based upon a pre-determined plan that determines how, where, and when. They're different from mass suicides (such as when 960 Jews killed themselves rather than submit to being captured by the Romans at Masada back in 73 AD) because generally only a handful of people are involved; similarly, they differ from [[{{Cult}} cult suicides]] because there's no dogmatic reason for the suicide itself[[note]]Especially given that the surviving members of Jonestown considered the deaths not a mass suicide but mass murder[[/note]]. Suicide pacts, rather, usually involve small groups of people (such as married or romantic partners, family members, or friends) whose motivations are intensely personal and individual. |
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| 17 | At least one episode of ''every forensic investigation drama series ever'' has revolves around the plot of a suicide pact gone wrong. |
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| 19 | Compare DrivenToSuicide. This is sadly TruthInTelevision. |
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| 21 | !!As this is a {{Death Trope|s}}, [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff unmarked spoilers abound]]. [[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned Beware]]. |
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| 23 | !! Examples: |
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| 26 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 27 | * The plot of ''Manga/BlackParadox'' is kicked off when the four protagonists meets on an online chat room - the titular Black Paradox - and decide to meet up in the city's outskirts, and kill themselves over various reasons. However their suicide attempts (both of them) are interrupted by their doppelgangers. |
| 28 | * A RunningGag in ''Manga/BungouStrayDogs'' is [[SuicideAsComedy Dazai]] constantly wanting to do this with a beautiful lady. |
| 29 | * [[spoiler:Rei and Fukiko]] from ''Manga/DearBrother'' create one as children to end their lives before the world can corrupt them, which fails and creates the rift between them through the rest of the series. At some point, [[spoiler: Rei is very feverish and overloaded with drugs... and tries to kill herself and Nanako, the girl who's in love with her, under the belief that Nanako is Fukiko; Nanako manages to stop her, and Rei collapses in tears.]] |
| 30 | * The second episode of ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'' features one of these made over the internet, though unbeknownst to poor [[spoiler:Rio Kamichika]], it's really [[{{Troll}} Izaya]] setting her up [[ItAmusedMe for his own amusement]]. Yeah, Izaya is an asshole. In the manga, he does the same, except he meets two girls at a karaoke bar -- and then drugs their drinks and insinuates that he's going to murder them and stuff their corpses into suitcases as they're succumbing to the effects of the drug. He wasn't actually planning to kill them (he had Celty deliver the unconscious girls to their homes afterwards), but it was an incredibly dick move nonetheless. |
| 31 | * In ''Manga/FutureDiary'' Yuno and Yuki, being the last two contestants left in the game, decide on a suicide pact as neither wants to become God and live in a world without the other, although this will mean the destruction of the universe. [[spoiler: However, before they can go through with it, Yuki discovers that Yuno is actually Yuno from [[{{AlternateUniverse}} a parallel universe]]; as in this universe, she and her world's Yuki were the last two left in the game and decided on a suicide pact. Things went wrong and Yuno survived, leaving her as winner of the game and the new God of Time and Space; since she couldn't resurrect her world's Yuki, she instead used her powers to create this universe, killed this world's version of herself and took her place in the game, in order to be with Yuki once again. [[{{Yandere}} She then plans to murder Yuki and do the whole thing all over again just to be with him some more.]]]] |
| 32 | * ''Manga/GhostInTheShellSAC2nd Gig''. The Individual Eleven decapitate each other with swords in front of media cameras as a political protest, though Hideo Kuze, realising the others have been influenced into this act by a virus, changes his mind at the last moment and survives. |
| 33 | * A variation occurs in ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'' when the fratello of Jose and Henrietta vow to, instead of killing themselves to keep from falling into enemy hands, to kill ''each other''. [[spoiler: They eventually do, after a berserk Henrietta accidentally shoots Jose.]] |
| 34 | * [[spoiler:Akira Otobe of [[AlternateUniverse Yoigoshi-hen]]]] of ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' made one of these. He chickened out. The other members of the group didn't. |
| 35 | * The first chapter of ''Manga/TheKurosagiCorpseDeliveryService'' has the main characters find the corpse of a man who killed himself as part of one of these. His wish is to be reunited with his lover, the other member of the pact. Turns out she was an IdolSinger who killed herself along with him when her father forced them to break up, and daddy's pulling a MummiesAtTheDinnerTable. |
| 36 | * A few different variations pop up in ''Manga/LoneWolfAndCub,'' most especially with members of the Kurokuwa ninja clan. After Ogami manages to kill his way through the entire active duty list of the Kurokuwa, Retsudo bullies a group of ''retired'' Kurokuwa into going after him. They each individually assess him in disguise, sizing him up more accurately than any assassin before them had bothered to do. They discuss it, and conclude that they had a chance at succeeding despite Ogami's prowess and multitude of hidden weapons. But they can't shake one nagging thought: that Ogami and Daigoro are around the age of the children and grandchildren that the ninja life had denied them. In the end they link hands and walk into the sea as a group, never to be seen again. |
| 37 | * Between [[spoiler:Amamiya Yuuhi and Asahina Samidare at the end of]] ''Manga/TheLuciferAndBiscuitHammer''. It's a suicide pact, but made to save each other's lives - [[spoiler:Yuuhi]] promises [[spoiler:his beloved Sami]] that she will never be alone, even in death, because he "lives for" her - as in, he will kill himself if she dies before him. This draws [[spoiler:Samidare]] back from the brink. |
| 38 | * Used in ''Manga/MPDPsycho'', with the mass suicide of Lucy Monostone and his fanatical followers in a church. |
| 39 | * ''Anime/ParanoiaAgent:'' "Happy Family Planning." |
| 40 | * The second episode of ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei.'' |
| 41 | * The whole point of ''Manga/SuicideClub'', which is based on the movie of the same name. |
| 42 | * ''Literature/WelcomeToTheNHK'' featured a group that went to a remote island to throw themselves off a cliff to their death, but eventually one of them hesitated at last second, resulting everyone reconsidering their reasons, and finally giving up on the thought, after their loved ones also show up. |
| 43 | ** There's also an interesting variation at the end where [[spoiler: Satou and Misaki make each other promise they will not commit suicide without each other, so that neither will end up doing so.]] ItMakesSenseInContext. |
| 44 | [[/folder]] |
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| 46 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 47 | * In the ''[[ComicBook/ChickTracts Chick Tract]]'' "No Fear?", Lance and Dolly forge a suicide pact where Lance will kill himself first, then Dolly will kill herself during Lance's funeral. Lance kills himself and ends up in hell. However, Dolly's suicide is [[Main/InterruptedSuicide interrupted]] by a BadassPreacher [[Main/OpenSaysMe kicking her door in]], and she is talked into [[Main/EasyEvangelism accepting Jesus]]. |
| 48 | * ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': A flight attendant heard her pilot and co-pilot talking about a suicide pact before takeoff but thought they were joking, when it turns out they were both serious and successful she grabs quietly grabs the famous pilot they just happen to have as a passenger, ComicBook/SteveTrevor, in order to try to prevent panic. Luckily by this point Steve had plenty of experience flying commercial planes as he'd left the air force over a decade prior. |
| 49 | * The first issue of ''ComicBook/TheWickedAndTheDivine'' opens with the final four members of the 1923 Pantheon blowing themselves up on the last day of their [[ShortLivedBigImpact two years of godhood]]. [[spoiler:Issue #35 reveals that at the last second Minerva backed out of killing Susanoo and blocked Amaterasu's attempt to kill her. This was all a ploy so she could take Susanoo's head for her renewal ritual.]] |
| 50 | * Chris and Julie in ''Comicbook/{{The Walking Dead}}'' try to pull this off, intending to shoot each other simultaneously after they have sex for the first time as as to be {{together in death}}. Unfortunately, Chris shoots a second earlier than Julie, leaving her dead and himself alive. [[{{Papa Bear}} Tyreese]] response by strangling Chris to death, then letting him come back as a zombie in order to kill him again. |
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| 53 | [[folder:Fan Fiction]] |
| 54 | * ''Fanfic/CheckmateAnlaShok'': Mags' second year as a mentor is the first year with the landmines and countdowns. Her male tribute (who was forced to volunteer by the peacekeepers in lieu of being executed for trying to destroy her career academy) makes a speech about the injustice of the Games and then he and his three allies all use the mines to blow themselves up. After a brief stunned paused, one of the other tributes follows their example. |
| 55 | * ''Fanfic/{{Paragon|KimPossible}}'' ends with Ron killing himself because he can't stand living a lie in Josh Mankey's body. Kim kills herself alongside him. |
| 56 | * In ''Fanfic/SouthParkMonogatari'', Stan and Kyle try to abide by this by jumping off of the bridge where Kenny drowned in the episode "The Tooth Fairy's Tats 2000" when Stan's parents argued too often and when Kyle's pushed him too hard to study. It's thwarted because A. new student Hiromi (known from then on as Nekagi) saves Kyle, and B. the water was too shallow when Stan fell in. |
| 57 | * After Mikuo tries unsuccessfully to commit suicide alone in [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5346699/1/ this]] Music/{{Vocaloid}} fanfic, he and Akaito form one. They never go through with it though, as it's implied by the end that they no longer want to die. |
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| 60 | [[folder:Film]] |
| 61 | * ''Film/{{Aliens}}''. Ripley and Corporal Hicks agree to kill each other rather than be used for hosts by the aliens. Which doesn't happen, though two other soldiers blow themselves up rather than be taken. |
| 62 | * In ''Film/AllTheBoysLoveMandyLane'', Mandy and Emmet enter one of these, killing a number of their classmates and intending to kill each other in order to get themselves immortalized in pop culture. However, Mandy backs out at the last minute. |
| 63 | * Rejected in ''Film/AssaultOnPrecinct131976''. Leigh notes that she has two bullets left in her revolver and suggests she use them to kill herself and Wilson. Wilson is determined to go down fighting, so tells her to shoot the first two gang members who break in "and after that [[ImprovisedWeapon get inventive]]." When the police turn up to rescue the survivors (who have also run out of bullets) they're all holding makeshift clubs while Leigh is [[PistolWhipping holding her revolver by the barrel]]. |
| 64 | * The Korean horror movie ''Film/ABloodPledge'' revolves around a four-person suicide pact in which two people are still alive. |
| 65 | * ''Film/{{Circle}}'': |
| 66 | ** Since there's no way of stopping the elimination process, it's suggested that people volunteer to sacrifice themselves. At least one person suggests that they all do it simultaneously, but since most of them do want to survive, this never transpires. |
| 67 | ** The black man and woman who had an affair decide to step off the platform at the same time. |
| 68 | * In ''Film/GingerSnaps'', sisters Ginger and Bridgette made one when they were eight years old; "Out by sixteen or dead in this scene, but together forever." [[spoiler:They're ultimately unable to keep this promise after Ginger becomes a werewolf, and Bridgette, having finally found the strength to stand on her own, is forced to kill her older sister in self defense.]] |
| 69 | -->'''Bridgette:''' [[spoiler:I'm not dying in this room with you! I'M NOT DYING!]] |
| 70 | * Invoked in ''Film/{{Heathers}}''. What looks like [[GayngstInducedSuicide a suicide pact between two gay lovers]] who were also the stars of the high school's football team is actually a case of murder. Later, [[spoiler:J.D. tries to blow up the whole school and frame it as a mass suicide pact.]] |
| 71 | * ''Film/OnTheCountOfThree'': The suicidal Val breaks his best friend Kevin, who attempted suicide days prior, out of the psych ward for this reason. Initially, Val is convinced and Kevin is skeptical, but [[spoiler:Val changes his mind when he learns about Natasha's pregnancy and Kevin becomes more convinced when he relives his trauma of being sexually abused.]] |
| 72 | * ''Film/OperationDaybreak'' (1975). The last two remaining members of the SOE group that assassinated Reinhard Heydrich, pinned down in a church basement that's being flooded with water, shoot each other rather than face capture and torture by the Nazi occupation forces. |
| 73 | * ''Film/ProfumoDiDonna'': Fausto is an army officer who was blinded in a training accident. He goes on a train journey to visit his army buddy Vincenzo, who was also blinded in the same accident (a bomb went off by mistake). What Fausto's caretaker Giovanni does not know, is that Fausto and Vincenzo have decided to kill themselves rather than live the rest of their lives as blind men. |
| 74 | * In ''Film/TheSeventhContinent'', both parents decide to end their lives. Their little girl consents to the triple suicide, not realizing what she got herself into. |
| 75 | * In ''Film/{{Sightseers}}'', OutlawCouple Chris and Tina decide to go out on a high by jumping from a scenic railway bridge. [[spoiler:However, Tina backs out at the last second.]] |
| 76 | * In the film ''Film/SuicideClub'', 54 schoolgirls leap in front of a subway train all at once. The rest of the film is figuring out why. |
| 77 | * The main characters of ''Film/TuckerAndDaleVsEvil'' come to believe that the college kids that keep dying around them must have some sort of murder-suicide pact going on. In actuality, it's simply stupidity and bad luck on the part of the college kids. |
| 78 | * Near the ending of ''Film/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'', when Captain Nemo was fatally shot and his island base of Volcanus was about to explode, he declared that the ''Nautilus'' would go down for the last time. Nemo's crew, loyal to the end, vowed to go down with him. Ned and his friends, who had been captured by Nemo by force, [[TakingYouWithMe were nearly forced into this as well]], requiring them to fight their way off the sub before it was too late. |
| 79 | * This is how the murder in ''Film/WhiteSands'' is done. The killer convinces the victim that the authorities are onto them, so they should kill themselves. One man shoots himself and the other just walks away. |
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| 82 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 83 | * ''Literature/AtarGull'': The pirate captain Brulart was once a young aristocrat who'd spent most of his young life as TheHedonist, until he finally met the girl of his dreams. They decided to commit a SeenItAllSuicide rather than wait for old age and Brulart's debts to catch up to them... except Brulart's dose wasn't strong enough and he survived, learning the girl had run off to marry a rich banker's son, having never intended to die with him. Brulart kills her lover and flees the country, committing CrimeAfterCrime until he becomes a feared slaver. |
| 84 | * "The Very Gentle Murders" by Creator/RayBradbury plays with this for BlackComedy. An elderly, wealthy pair hate each other's guts, so they try to kill each other by arranging "unfortunate accidents", much to the misfortune of the various people who keep triggering every one of their traps by accident. At the end they ''both'' invoke PoisonedChaliceSwitcheroo, only to realize they're both going to die. Their mutual murders end up being mistaken for this trope. |
| 85 | * In a novelization of the original ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' series two people became fused together at the skull deep in enemy territory, apparently the result of some gruesome experiment. Left to suffer, the two carried out a suicide pact. |
| 86 | * At the end of ''Film/DoubleIndemnity'', the main couple apparently does this after they are found out. |
| 87 | * In ''Literature/HouseOfSandAndFog'', Behrani and his wife agree to commit suicide together. |
| 88 | * In Creator/ArtoPaasilinna's book ''Hurmaava joukkoitsemurha'' ("A Charming Mass Suicide") two men who by coincidence run into each other when both are about to commit suicide instead organize a mass suicide for people who don't want to live longer - they will drive a bus off North Cape. They reason a carefully organized and planned suicide will make everyone involved look better in retrospect. The authorities disagree, and the people gathered take a long way to North Cape. HilarityEnsues - really, but with Paasilinna's [[BlackComedy usual macabre wit]]. |
| 89 | * The Creator/JodiPicoult novel ''Literature/ThePact'' (and the LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek adaptation) is built around a suicide pact that apparently goes wrong. The girl ends up dead. The guy survives, only to be put on trial for contributing to the girl's death. The guy is actually put on trial for murder because [[TraumaInducedAmnesia he doesn't remember]] what happened right before her death and is suspected to be the one who killed her, especially when it's discovered that she was pregnant. |
| 90 | * In ''Literature/TheShatteredKingdoms'', the Shadari priesthood all commit suicide by jumping of the roof of their temple as the Norlanders invade. People tend to assume that the suicide had something to do with the invasion, but it was actually a response to a vision of the future — the priests were trying to remove their knowledge from the world to avert a future in which someone using their powers would cause massive harm. |
| 91 | * ''The Survivalist'' series by Jerry Ahern is set in a post-WorldWarIII United States. In "The Web", the title character John Rourke comes across a peaceful town in the mountains where no-one even mentions the war. It turns out that everyone made an agreement to use up all available resources to keep things going as before, but when the supplies run out they plan to commit mass suicide by blowing up the town. Unfortunately by the time Rourke finds out the truth, the lonely woman he's staying with has drugged and tied him up so she won't die alone. |
| 92 | * In the back of each book of the ''Literature/ToughMagic'' trilogy there are outtakes, with two of them playing the concept of a suicide pact for laughs, having the main characters killing each other for spurious reasons. |
| 93 | * The Lisbon sisters in Literature/TheVirginSuicides. |
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| 96 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 97 | * ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'': In "Lay Down Your Burdens", when the Cylons have them pinned down, Kara and Anders agree to kill each other rather than be captured and be sent to the Cylon breeding farms (which Kara had already experienced). Athena unfortunately doesn't have this option as she'd simply be resurrected as a Cylon. Fortunately, the Cylon forces withdraw instead. |
| 98 | * ''Series/BlakesSeven'': In "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS3E3Volcano Volcano]]", a race of {{Actual Pacifist}}s have set up a DoomsdayDevice which they threaten to use to destroy their planet if any hostile force attempts a landing. Unfortunately, Servalan decides to call their bluff and launches an attack. It's not a bluff. |
| 99 | * One episode of ''Series/ColdCase'' had two high school students decide to do murder-suicide. One of the guys backs out, as his life starts to get better, while the other gets upset and ends up accidentally pushing his friend off of a bridge and gets charged with manslaughter. |
| 100 | * ''Series/{{CSI}}'': In "Forever", a pair of formally dressed teens are found dead in the middle of the desert. This turns out to have been a suicide pact, although a third party was involved with strong motivation to see both of them dead. |
| 101 | * ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': |
| 102 | ** An episode has a group of terminally ill patients all giving each other their ideal deaths. One of them doesn't go through with it. |
| 103 | ** There's an episode where two teenage circus performers who were StarCrossedLovers make one. The boy, who was a contortionist, stuffed himself in a box just like in his act, but in a way that made him suffocate. The girl, who was a trapeze artist, was about to jump off a swinging bar and not let her dad catch her...but she changed her mind, realizing that she had a lot more to live for. The whole case was investigated after the girl discovers her boyfriend's body and buries the box at the beach. |
| 104 | * In an episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'', a man is lured into a car that he thinks will take him to some party when all the others know they are going to park on railroad tracks and go together. |
| 105 | * On one episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', it turns out that a victim wasn't a victim at all; she was attempting suicide when the maids came in early. She later manages to kill herself for real, and the team seems desperate to arrest ''[[ThereShouldBeALaw someone]]'' for it. It turns out she frequented a site that encouraged suicidal people to take the plunge, run by a true believer played by Creator/MarleeMatlin. Matlin's character got the woman to commit suicide by telling her they'd do it together, which she had no intention of fulfilling, leading the team to prosecute her under "Murder by fake suicide pact." |
| 106 | * ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': "Dance with the Dead" begins with what appears to be a suicide pact gone wrong. Of course, being Midsomer, it is NeverSuicide. |
| 107 | * ''Series/MurdochMysteries'': |
| 108 | ** The solution to "Love and Human Remains" ultimately hinges on a decades old suicide pact. |
| 109 | ** "Master Lovecraft": The discovery of a young girl's body and a sketchbook full of grotesque drawings lead Murdoch to a gang of death-obsessed teenagers, young H.P. Lovecraft among them. The solution is a murder-suicide pact, but the guy was rescued by another friend and then backed out. |
| 110 | * The ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' episode "Childhood's End" has the team find a village of kids and young adults who have agreed to kill themselves upon hitting age 25 in a perceived effort to keep The Wraith from "harvesting" the community. The team learns this is needless as the Wraith were kept because of a powering dampening field which was running out of power soon and the sacrifices were thought necessary in the beginning to accommodate the field's limits and they eventually convince the villagers to stop this practice. |
| 111 | * In the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode "[[Recap/SupernaturalS02E09Croatoan Croatoan]]", Dean enters this with Sam when he refuses to kill or abandon his brother despite the fact that Sam has been exposed to the Croatoan virus. Defused by the fact that Sam turns out to be immune to the demonic virus. |
| 112 | * A suicide pact (rather, a murder/suicide pact) is what drives the season 6 Christmas episode of ''Series/TheXFiles'', "[[Recap/TheXFilesS06E06HowTheGhostsStoleChristmas How the Ghosts Stole Christmas]]". Two ghosts who were victims of a murder/suicide pact try to get Mulder and Scully to re-enact it in a HauntedHouse on Christmas Eve. It almost works. |
| 113 | [[/folder]] |
| 114 | |
| 115 | [[folder:Manhua]] |
| 116 | * ''Manhua/OldMasterQ'' have a BlackComedy version PlayedForLaughs in one strip; Master Q, Big Potato and Chin are all jobless and tries seeking help for Chiu, but Chiu has been laid off as well. So they got to a lake, with Master Q, Potato and Chin tying rocks on themselves, and prepares to jump with Chiu putting a revolver to his temple. The next strip ignores the events of this one given the NegativeContinuity nature. |
| 117 | [[/folder]] |
| 118 | |
| 119 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 120 | * Music/{{BIGMAMA}}'s "Swan Song" is about one; though it [[DeadlyEuphemism skirts around saying so outright]], the ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' reference gives it away (translated from [[GratuitousEnglish partial Japanese]] below): |
| 121 | --> ''Romeo and Juliet, take or leave'' |
| 122 | --> ''If even being alive is too painful'' |
| 123 | --> ''Then instead, with our hands joined for eternity...'' |
| 124 | --> ''Fly high and fall into a sleep'' |
| 125 | --> ''Falling down too deep'' |
| 126 | * Music/ParentheticalGirls has "The Four Platitudes" |
| 127 | --> "resigned to take our lives by the age of twenty-five" |
| 128 | * The song "Here in Heaven" by Music/{{Sparks}} features a suicide pact: |
| 129 | --> ''Juliet, you broke our little pact'' |
| 130 | --> ''Juliet, I'm never coming back'' |
| 131 | --> ''Up here in Heaven without you'' |
| 132 | --> ''It is Hell knowing that your health'' |
| 133 | --> ''Will keep you out of here for many, many years'' |
| 134 | * Though the deeper meaning is anyone's guess, the lyrics of the song "Lie, Lie, Lie" by Music/SystemOfADown's Serj Tankian paint a picture of the narrator feigning a suicide pact with his girlfriend but then letting go of her at the last second and happily watching her plummet off the cliff on her own. |
| 135 | * The Therapy? song ''Little Tongues First'' plays with this (as well as naming the album) with the line "Suicide pact - you first". |
| 136 | * A popular live version of Music/TheTragicallyHip's song "Highway Girl" includes Gord Downie telling a (presumably fictional) account of how he and his girlfriend Colleen decided kill themselves, using a shotgun aimed at both of their heads, to be triggered by the next person to enter their apartment. Eventually, after waiting a while, they decide the idea was silly, only for [[spoiler:a passing train to rattle the door open, killing her]]. The monologue ends with Downie declaring "That's my story, and I'm sticking to it." |
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| 138 | |
| 139 | [[folder:Newspaper Comics]] |
| 140 | * This is the shtick of the lemmings from ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'', who gather at the edge of a cliff so they can all jump to their deaths. Whether or not they actually go through with it, on the other hand... (After Stephan Pastis started doing the lemming strips, he started receiving mail saying that the whole "suicidal lemmings" idea is a myth perpetuated by Disney. He then acknowledged this in one strip in which one of the lemmings pointed out that they didn't have to commit suicide. It didn't really change anything.) |
| 141 | [[/folder]] |
| 142 | |
| 143 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 144 | * The two lovers in Sutton Vane's ''Outward Bound'' turn out to be this ... at about the same time the audience (and the passengers) realize that [[spoiler: everyone else on the ship is dead too]]. |
| 145 | * The Cantonese opera ''Princess Chang-Ping'' (''Dai Nui Fa''). Chang-Ping, the exiled daughter of the last Ming-dynasty Emperor, drinks poison with her new husband after settling the political negotiation with the new Munchauian Emperor. |
| 146 | * The two lovers in the opera ''A Village Romeo and Juliet'' by Frederick Delius sink themselves in a boat. |
| 147 | * ''Theatre/{{Rosmersholm}}'': The romantic couple decide to throw themselves in the waterfalls together. Although there is a clear subtext here, it seems they did it on very short notice. |
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| 150 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 151 | * ''VideoGame/TheCaligulaEffect'' had one between Shogo Satake and PosthumousCharacter Ichika Saotome; thirteen years prior to the game, they made a pact to jump off a building together. Shogo backed out at the last second, leaving Ichika to die alone. |
| 152 | * ''VideoGame/DanganronpaAnotherEpisodeUltraDespairGirls'': Towards the end of the game, it's revealed that [[spoiler:the five children who eventually became the [[EnfantTerrible "Warriors of Hope"]] were about to jump to their deaths together to escape their AbusiveParents until [[InterruptedSuicide they were interrupted]] by [[HijackedByGanon none other than the infamous Ultimate Despair]] herself, [[BigBad Junko Enoshima]], who [[TheCorrupter encouraged them to deal with their problem in a much more violent fashion]] as part of her [[HopeCrusher own agenda]]. Though it's later shown that one of those children had no intention of going through with it...]] |
| 153 | * ''VideoGame/Fallout4'': The members of the Ultra-Elite Boylston Club killed themselves at a final party a few days [[AfterTheEnd after]] [[WorldWarIII the bombs fell.]] |
| 154 | * There was a vault in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' that required a sacrifice every year or everyone would die. It went well for a while, but mass riots started breaking out within the vault. After the riots settled down, the 5 people remaining agreed to all die together. It turns out that [[spoiler:not sacrificing anyone opens the vault and lets them leave. 4 out 5 kill themselves anyway]]. |
| 155 | * In ''VideoGame/FatalFrameMaidenOfBlackWater'', a flashback showed that five girls made a promise to all die together and proceeded to [[SuicideBySea drown themselves in a lake]] in Mt. Hikami, a haunted suicide hot-spot. Two of them, Fuyuhi and Haruka, survived it, however, and suffered from SurvivorsGuilt as a result, believing that they failed to uphold their part of the deal [[spoiler: -- until [[SacrificialLamb the malevolent spirits of Mt. Hikami made sure they would die for real later on]].]] |
| 156 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'', this was basically the fate of the [[{{Precursors}} Vultaum]]. [[spoiler:The vast majority of them eventually became convinced that reality was nothing more than a super-advanced virtual simulation that they were trapped in against their will [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall for the amusement of a higher power]], and that a mass suicide of billions of their race would disrupt the system and let them free. At an agreed upon hour, Vultaum everywhere killed themselves with any means available nearby. The few who refused to take part weren't enough to repopulate the species, and they faded into extinction.]] |
| 157 | * ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'': Ashera, known for being an insane BloodKnight even by the standards of soldiers fighting a meaningless ForeverWar, believes that she will soon go insane and have to be put down like a mad dog. [[spoiler:That's what happened [[{{Reincarnation}} every previous time she was reincarnated]]; her first death was so traumatic that she inevitably remembers it and goes insane near the end]]. Eunie promises her that if she goes crazy, she'll be the one to put her down, but she'll do her best to make sure it doesn't come to that. Since Eunie is having her own traumatic memories (though not as bad), Ashera promises the same in turn. Many people noted that [[WackyMarriageProposal the whole situation sounds like a messed-up marriage]]. |
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| 161 | * While it's not outright stated by the parties involved, this is heavily implied (and theorized by at least two of the other characters) to be the truth behind the fourth case in ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair''. [[spoiler:With the students being trapped in a funhouse and being deprived of food until someone commits murder, Gundham Tanaka comes to the realization that everyone seems to be willing to die rather than kill another student. In order to save their lives, he engineers circumstances that allow him and Nekomaru Nidai to meet in private while the other students are ([[SpannerInTheWorks supposed to be]]) sleeping, where the two engage in a DuelToTheDeath. This is where things are left open to interpretation, but it's implied that, despite Gundham never dropping his EvilOverlord persona during their encounter and insisting that he simply wanted to kill out of malice, Nekomaru realized what his true intentions were and agreed with them, which is supposedly the reason that he stayed and fought despite being given the opportunity to run away. Since they both knew that the winner of the duel (which turned out to be Gundham) would be executed if found guilty, the case then becomes a murder-suicide that both the killer and victim consented to. Gundham does try to avoid being caught, coming up with a complex murder plot that only ended up being solvable due to a SpannerInTheWorks, but that is because of his own personal philosophy that one should never give up on life. The moment he falls under suspicion he stops trying to defend himself and [[ShipTease Sonia]] defends him for the remainder of the trial.]] |
| 162 | * In the FanGame ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaAnother'', [[spoiler:this occurs ''three'' times in the game's fourth chapter alone with the final instance being reminiscent of the ''[=DR2=]'' example above. Monokuma [[CallBack trapped the survivors in a ballroom and deprived them of food until someone commits murder]] and even gives them free access to firearms with a soundproof armory before explicitly telling them that [[ICannotSelfTerminate suicide won't count towards saving the others]]. First [[IntrepidMerchant Teruya]] suggests that they publicly draw lots to decide who kills the other, which would free them and bypass the trial entirely. The others attempt to go along with it but [[ByTheBookCop Kinjo]], having gone mad from both starvation and his BlackAndWhiteInsanity, refuses to go along with a plan that involves murder and instead tries to ''force'' everyone into shooting themselves. This results in the others snapping out of it and ganging up on him to tie him up. After (almost) everyone went to bed after this, the lovers [[ImprobablePilotingSkills Haruhiko]] and [[ThePollyanna Satsuki]] felt guilty about eating most of the rations and decided to make up for it with a HeroicSacrifice. In order to get around the "[[ICannotSelfTerminate no suicide]]" rule and resolve their argument over who should kill who, they settle on a TenPacesAndTurn duel. Unbeknownst to Satsuki, Haruhiko [[ThanatosGambit rigged his gun to explode in his hand so that she could live]] and used the last of his strength to create a LockedRoomMystery to help her chances. However, Satsuki confesses her crime at the beginning of the trial [[InspirationalMartyr to make sure the others live to defeat the mastermind]], but because of extenuating circumstances she was unaware of, [[CassandraTruth nobody believes her at first]].]] |
| 163 | * This was abused by Dahlia Hawthorne in the third ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' game, by [[spoiler:tricking Terry Fawles into many things... one of them being committing suicide if he doubted her. And he did, unaware that she wouldn't "follow" him in death.]] |
| 164 | * Abused before the game's events by [[spoiler:Uzune Hitori]] in ''VisualNovel/{{Hatoful Boyfriend}}'', [[spoiler:who had told the real Nanaki Kazuaki that they would commit suicide together. However, Hitori didn't kill himself like he promised- instead, he watched as Kazuaki died, then [[DeadPersonImpersonation took Kazuaki's identity.]]]] |
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| 168 | * ''Webcomic/{{Sonichu}}'' does this in issue 10. When the AuthorAvatar pulls a ThePowerOfRock to destroy a building, two trolls left behind (due to making fun of said person and being homosexual) decide leaping down an elevator shaft is a whole lot better than letting him kill them and hold hands on the way down. |
| 169 | * ''Webcomic/DropOut'' is about the two main characters, Lola and Sugar, taking a suicide pact to jump at the Grand Canyon. Sugar is depressed after her cousin's suicide and knows Lola is also suicidal, and knows they both have struggles, and thinks the two of them committing suicide together will be "so romantic." [[spoiler: What Sugar doesn't realize is that she's unintentionally giving Lola a SuicidalSadisticChoice, seeing as, if Sugar is gone, Lola won't be able to support herself, and might even be blamed for Sugar's death.]] |
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| 173 | * ''WebVideo/SevenSecondRiddles'': In one riddle, a husband and wife both agreed to jump off a building. [[SubvertedTrope However, the wife didn't jump, and the husband brought a parachute.]] The riddle was to determine which of the two spouses was betraying the other for insurance money. [[note]]The husband- his parachute was planned from the start.[[/note]] |
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| 176 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 177 | * The two men investigating Murphy and Sparks's deaths at the end of the ''WesternAnimation/Sealab2021'' episode "The Policy" believe they had come across one of these after finding out about Murphy's massive credit card debt. [[spoiler: In reality, Sparks had tried to kill Murphy to commit InsuranceFraud, and Murphy pulled a TakingYouWithMe.]] |
| 178 | --> '''Frank:''' From all the champagne bottles, I'm thinking they were getting their courage up. A final embrace, then they chuck in the battery. |
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| 181 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 182 | * Happened quite often in the last days of UsefulNotes/NaziGermany during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII: |
| 183 | ** UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler and Eva Braun made a pact to take cyanide together in a locked room as the Allies were marching into Berlin. Supposedly as a final act of cowardice, Hitler shot himself in the temple after taking the cyanide in order to spare himself the rather painful and grotesque death cyanide poisoning brings. With the only bullet on hand. Sorry Eva. |
| 184 | ** Joseph Goebbels had a dentist inject his six children with cyanide, and then he and his wife went to the garden and killed themselves. |
| 185 | ** German Generals Wilhelm Burgdorf and Hans Krebs committed suicide together. |
| 186 | * Inseparable East Village artists Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake killed themselves because they believed they were being persecuted. |
| 187 | * ''Series/{{House}}'' star Creator/HughLaurie has admitted that he and a friend made a suicide pact when they were 18 to kill themselves shortly before their 40th birthdays. Neither went through with it. |
| 188 | * Subversion: Japanese serial killer Hiroshi Maeue lured victims by forging bogus suicide pacts with them, suggesting burning charcoal in a sealed car as a method of exit, only to suffocate his victims with his hands instead. |
| 189 | * When Australia was a penal colony, conditions were so poor that some prisoners would enter a variation on the pact: One prisoner would kill the other, and then [[SuicideByCop allow himself to be executed]] for the murder. |
| 190 | * Fairly early during the UsefulNotes/JewishRevolts, the Jewish commander Josephus and forty men escaped the siege of Jotapata and hid in a cave. Once discovered, they formed a suicide pact, drawing (presumably numbered) lots and having each man kill the third one down the list from himself. [[ImplausibleDeniability According to his own account of the incident]], Josephus survived by luck, talking the second to last man out of killing him and then defecting to the Romans. The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus_problem Josephus Problem]] in mathematics is derived from the cynical presumption that he rigged the contest. |
| 191 | * One of the theories about the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayerling_Incident Mayerling Incident]], with Imperial Crown Prince Rudolf of Habsburg and his mistress Mary Vetsera. Historians and descendants of the Prince haven't reached a consensus, but in 2015 letters from Mary declaring their intention to commit suicide ("For love," wrote she) have been found. For his part, Rudolf wrote farewell letters to his entire family except his father. |
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