Times where somebody is Driven to Suicide in Comic Books.
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- In All Fall Down, Portia experiences this when it becomes painfully clear she is never getting her powers back. She steps off a tall building. (She is saved by the Ghoul.)
- The Beauty: A religious anti-Beauty protestor wakes up one morning and discovers he has The Beauty. His final scene is of him putting a gun to his head.
- Disney Mouse and Duck Comics:
- In Carl Barks' "Dangerous Disguise", when a foreign spy fails his mission and realizes that his totalitarian leader will now send him to salt mines, he chooses to finish himself by jumping out of window.
- In an infamous series of Mickey Mouse comic strips (the idea for which was suggested by Walt himself!), Mickey attempts suicide several times after being dumped by Minnie (only to have each attempt comedically foiled). These strips are among Cracked's 6 Insane Disney Comics You Won't Believe Are Real
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- Diablo House: The protagonist of the fourth issue's back-up story "The Art of the Deal" is an unlucky author who's so desperate for cash that he works as a ghostwriter for an unnamed Trumplica. After seeing that his book has resulted in his client becoming President of the United States, he decides to jump out of his apartment window to his demise.
- The F1rst Hero: In the "Fight For Your Life" storyline, Cooper has become so deep in debt with the mafia that he let them run an illegal cage fighting ring out of one of his warehouses, tried to sell Jake to them to get out of debt, and killed Rodney in the heat of escaping from the mafia and the Extrahuman Task Force. By the end, he invites Jake to his house and tells him he has nothing left, before pointing the gun under his chin and blowing his own brains ons.
- Susan Smith of Funky Winkerbean attempted suicide when she realized that the teacher she had a crush on loved someone else. She's probably contemplating it again. Also had another character commit suicide when he realized he wouldn't make valedictorian. What is it with Batuik wanting smart people to kill themselves?
- In one early series of strips, Garfield actually tried to do himself in by sticking his head in the oven because Jon was going to have him declawed. (Fortunately for him, it was an electric stove.)
- Implied at the end of Ghost World. Enid feels completely isolated from everything and everyone she ever cared about; she is last seen catching a bus, a common metaphor for suicide.
- Inspector Canardo:
- One A Suivre comic has an aged Canardo commit suicide. The next story features his son's transformation into his image.
- At the end of The Suave Death, Canardo leaves his gun near a suffering Lili. Once he's far away, he hears her shooting herself.
- Nny, the protagonist of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, regularly attempts to end his life, though he is always stopped by one thing or another. He does eventually end up killing himself... though he didn't mean to. It was through a suicide machine designed to kill him when he answers his phone. Guess what happens for the first time ever?
- Wobbly-Headed Bob, a character created by Jhonen Vasquez is a Philosopher with a talent for driving the blissfully ignorant creatures of his world into suicide by telling them about how the world is supposed to be a crappy place and they're all stupid for being happy. He gets called out by this... To which he drives the critic to suicide as well. Nonetheless, it seems for the most part the suicide part is unintentional, with Bob merely trying to get others to wise up in his mind.
- In Jupiter's Circle, when blackmailed by J. Edgar Hoover to reveal the identities of the Union, Blue-Bolt attempts suicide; via downing some pills and slitting his wrists in the bathtub, rather than betray his friends. He survives and Skyfox figures out enough of what's going on to take care of it for his friend.
- In Love and Rockets, Tonantzin burns herself alive outside a US embassy somewhere in the world, as a result of depression manifesting as political despair.
- In Mélusine, Cancrelune felt responsible for her best friend's death sentence, Mélusine. Driven by guilt and memories of everyone hating her for her clumsiness, she hangs herself. Because suicide is a sin, Cancrelune's soul end up in Hell.
- Paperinik New Adventures: Another proof that Disney comics can do this, too.
- Grrodon is the last Evronian on Earth... and he has been for the last three hundred years. When he fails to transform the hero into a Slave Mook in the future in order to change the past (it's Time Travel. It's complicated) he decides he can't keep going on, so he steals a flying car and travel to space, knowing that the Explosive Decompression will destroy the car and kill him.
- Later we have Xadhoom, who kills herself in order to become a sun to allow her people to survive. It later turns out that she didn't die, but was actually exploding thousands of times per second and putting herself back together to do it again, having fully intended to do this forever. Which some would argue is worse.
- In this Peanuts strip (of all places), Linus tries to catch pneumonia on purpose when he's convinced Ms. Othmar doesn't like him anymore. Lucky for him, he really doesn't like having to get wet to do so.
- In Persepolis, Marjane attempts suicide. She recovers.
- At the end of the third Sasmira book, Sasmira burns down the library where Prudence wrote her memories. The latter, horrified, decides to throw herself in the fire.
- Pictured above from the Spider-Man storyline Kraven's Last Hunt: Kraven the Hunter's last moments. After shooting Spider-Man with a powerful tranquilizer, burying him, and masquerading as him for a time, Kraven feels that he has made the greatest accomplishment of his life, proving his superiority over Spider-Man once and for all. To drive the point home, he releases the cannibal villain Vermin from prison and has him fight Spider-Man, who had come to confront Kraven. After Spider-Man leaves to pursue Vermin, Kraven reflects on how he feels at peace for once in his life before sitting in a coffin and eating his rifle.
- Star Wars Tales:
- After being stranded on a deserted island thanks to his son Jar-Jar's antics, as well as being forced to put up with those same antics while waiting for rescue, George R. Binks puts his blaster to his head. It turns into a Bungled Suicide when his wife tried to talk him out of it, though he pulled the trigger when she mentions Jar-Jar.
- In one story, after Vader beats him and the Jedi younglings he was meant to protect are killed, a Jedi kills himself with his own lightsaber.
- Star Wars: Legacy: After being outsmarted by Admiral Gar Stazi of the Galactic Alliance, One Sith Admiral Dru Valan decided to end his own life rather than face the wrath of his Sith superiors for allowing Stazi to escape.
- The Ten-Seconders: After the recently empowered Malloy brings Kane's dead family back to life because he thought it would make him happy, it turns out they Came Back Wrong and are just mindless bodies. Kane is so distraught by this realization that they're gone for good that he shoots himself to rejoin them. Then Malloy immediately brings Kane back to live as a mindless simpleton himself.
- Transformers:
- The Transformers: All Hail Megatron: Sunstreaker. After stupidly trusting Starscream and getting himself and his fellow Autobots stranded on Cybertron in imminent danger of death, and after watching Mirage beaten up in his place by Ironhide as a suspected traitor, Sunstreaker can't take it any more and just wants to die. Which he apparently does by detonating an explosive to destroy a bridge he's on while surrounded by the mutant Insecticon Swarm. All Hail Megatron #14 indicates that he might have survived. Ironhide #3 confirms it, though he's badly damaged and his mind really messed up. Understandable after what he's been through.
- The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers: Played for Laughs when Kup shares a story about how Prowl once caught a Decepticon criminal and began reading out a list of all the Decepticon's transgressions. At some point on the third day, Prowl realized that said criminal had shut down his own brain module. Prowl had bored him to death.
- Several characters in The Walking Dead, including Hershel Greene, Maggie Greene, Chris, Julie, Douglas, and Carol. Carol is the only one to go through with it unassisted.
- In W.I.T.C.H., Prince Phobos ends up throwing himself off the edge of the Citadel of Kandrakar after his last plan blows up in his face. The fact that there's nothing beyond the Citadel means he'll be falling for a long time... so he's probably dead.
