Driven To Suicide / Video Games

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Times where somebody is Driven to Suicide in Video Games.

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• In one of the secret endings of Arfenhouse 3, Licorice Guy, the arch-nemesis of Candyland, throws himself over the waterfall, overcome both by the shame of having killed his mother there and by the realization that he's in an Arfenhouse game. Joseph, tired of being the Only Sane Man in the party, then decides to follow his example.
• Assault Suits Valken includes a suicide scene late in the game that was removed from the American release Cybernator, in which a character puts a gun to their head and shoots themselves. The President of the enemy nation is the one to do this when he realizes the war is lost and decides he would rather die than let himself be put on trial for his crimes.
• Bio Inc/Bio Inc Redemption: In the Death campaign, a secret and easier way of killing the patient, rather than having them succumb to diseases, is to give them the workaholic risk factor, then inflict major depression upon them, followed by dementia. This combination, if not cured by the doctor, will cause the patient to die by their own hand, complete with an animation of them crying, putting a revolver to their temple, and pulling the trigger!
• From the BioShock franchise:
  • Happens in both BioShock and BioShock 2. Andrew Ryan mind-controls the player into killing him, but a quick look at audio diaries, corpse placement, and a few other things will show that quite a few people in Rapture elected that way out. One of the easiest examples to find is in the apartments. Some girls, their parents, and a jar of poison while the TV shows "please stand by".
  • In BioShock Infinite, human enemies hit with the Possession vigor will kill themselves when it expires. It's not quite clear whether the mind control is instructing them to do so or whether they just can't live with themselves after being being controlled by the man they've been told is The Antichrist.
• Blank Dream opens with Mishiro attempting suicide, transporting her to the purgatory-like Mirror Realm. In order to get closer to granting her wish, she needs to find all of the mirrors holding her reflection, relive the memories inside, and find some way of killing herself within them.
• Bloodborne: Give Gascoigne's elder daughter her sister's bloodstained ribbon and she'll throw herself out of a window of her house.
• Brutal Orchestra: Nowak meets several denizens who are implied to have ended their lives that led to them being in Purgatory, and recruiting Dimitri involves pulling him out of the firepit he's trying to burn himself alive in. One of the bosses, Trigger Fingers, is also shakingly holding a gun to his own head. Later on, Bosch tells Nowak that Nowak jumped to his death, though how intentional it was is somewhat ambigious as Nowak can't remember the specifics and Bosch says it doesn't matter anymore.
• In Camp Sunshine, a survival horror slasher game, the supernatural killer's backstory eventually shows that his father, Jacob, was forced to kill him a couple of years ago when he went on his first murder spree. Jacob was so distraught at this that he killed himself soon afterward.
• A central element of the plot of The Cat Lady, which kicks off (no pun intended) with Susan, the main character, killing herself by overdosing on sleeping pills.
• At the end of Chicken Feet, Sebastian kills himself after realizing that he is human and hence is similar to his hated foe Eric.
• In Chulip, Mr. Yamada steals Mr. Suzuki's Love Letter Set as his severance pay because he isn't being paid his salary because the students have stopped coming and aren't paying tuition. The next day, you learn that you are considered to be Yamada's partner in the theft, even though Suzuki should very well have told whoever it is that you didn't have anything to do with it. In Jamesman's Let's Play of it, this revelation drives him to take the player character to the ledge that requires 17 hearts to survive jumping (since it does 16 hearts of damage) and jump off with only 13.
• Clarence's Big Chance: Clarence in the Worst Ending. Subverted, however; he survives due to his Super Not-Drowning Skills.
• In The Classroom Trilogy this happen multiple times.
  • On the fourth day of the first game, a student "can't take it any more" and throws themselves out of the window.
  • On the Last day of the first game, A student arrive and unexpectedly pulls a gun on the teacher and shoots him and an other student, before shooting themselves.
  • Once you complete the game, Alex snaps after escaping the shooting and walks out onto the street. Though the first car misses them for what looks to be a Happily Failed Suicide, the second car doesn't , he still survive though.
  • At the end of the second game Mr. Henderson throw himself out of the window like the student from the first game, Samuel note that it must be a déjà vu for Alex.
• In The Council of Hanwell, at least one of the titular Council members kills herself probably to avoid being murdered by an anomaly. You find Taylor Walsh hanging from the ceiling in her office in the hospital.
• Cry of Fear has suicide being the Central Theme of the game, as Simon comes across a few bodies that have clearly taken their own lives. Some of the enemies will also kill themselves, and one of them tries to force Simon to turn the gun on himself. It's revealed that in the real world, Simon is heavily considering committing suicide after becoming paraplegic, and goes through with a Murder-Suicide in three of the endings, though the good ending has him being admitted to a hospital to get the help he needs.
• In Cyberpunk 2077, Evelyn Parker kills herself after a horrible combination of having her mind fried by the Voodoo Boys and later being raped and tortured, and this is after you've spent a good chunk of the story trying to find and rescue her. In one of the endings V shoots themselves in the head both out of despair and not wanting anyone else to die, but this has the non-surprising effect of hurting V's friends (and outright hate, in Panam's case). For Judy, this is the second time this has happened to her and she completely breaks down at what V did.
• A possibility for depressed or particularly ancient immortal characters in Crusader Kings is to commit suicide. This can actually be useful if the depressed character is utterly incompetent, but has an excellent heir waiting in the wings. The event text for doing so, however, is chilling enough that even veteran Crusader Kings players hesitate to use it.
• Darkest Dungeon: The Ancestor shoots himself in the beginning cutscene, in a mix between Go Mad from the Revelation and avoiding the lynch mob outside his manor. Some afflicted heroes, particularly Hopeless and Masochist ones, will sometimes Self-Harm out of suicidal despair, and they can end up killing themselves as a result of it. The Heir commits suicide after the final boss fight, having been broken by the words of the Heart of Darkness and all the terrifying things they'd seen.
• Dead Island has several examples, from a couple in one of the trailers to Jin essentially attempting Suicide by Cop.
• Dead Rising 2:
  • Brandon Whittaker slits his throat with a shard of glass after getting bitten by a zombie he kept in a bathroom stall to "spread the goodwill".
  • Leon Bell lit himself on fire for quadruple points rather than get killed by Chuck.
  • Amber or Crystal Bailey, depending on which one you kill.
• The Dead Space franchise:
  • In the original Dead Space, several members of the USG Ishimura crew who already haven't been turned into Necromorphs commit suicide; examples include the man who headbutts a bulkhead until his head is pulped, the woman in the medical bay who severs her throat with a surgical saw, and a woman in Doctor Challus Mercer's evil Unitology Room Full of Crazy who blasts her own head off. Challus Mercer himself, after a fashion; he's convinced exposing himself to an Infector will turn him into some kind of godlike being, so he intentionally does just that — and suffers the same fate as everyone else. Also, Isaac's girlfriend Nicole killed herself via lethal injection before the game began; Isaac just doesn't realize it until the end.
  • Dead Space 2:
    • The Unitology cathedral contains groups of dead bodies with plastic bags over their heads and an empty chalice nearby. It's implied that they committed mass suicide so they could be reborn as Necromorphs.
    • This can also happen to Isaac himself near the end, if you let Nicole grab him. And, like every other death scene, it's... not pretty, to say the least. He puts himself out with the javelin gun. TO THE HEAD.
• Demon's Souls:
  • Mistress Astria will kill herself if you manage to kill her loyal guard first, and considering the game this is actually the easier path. It can turn the whole thing into an Anti-Climax Boss depending on how you take out the guard, as you can wear enchantments and stand just out of his sight and make a cloud of poison to slowly kill him.
  • Ostrova, son of the king, will be driven to this no matter what, at least if you don't kill him first anyway. You have to face his vengeful/sorrowful spirit later.
• The Game Over sequence in the old management game Detroit, which happens if you end your year in the red too many times, shows your CEO drinking a last glass of water and climbing out of a skyscraper window.
• The Dragon Age franchise:
  • Dragon Age: Origins:
    • If the Warden sides with Caridin in the quest, he gives the Warden a crown before jumping to his death from a high ledge, into a river of lava, to atone for making golems from living dwarves.
    • Branka does the same as Caridin if the Warden sides with her and then convinces her to destroy the Anvil rather than continuing to make golems.
    • Hespith apparently commits suicide offscreen, understandably as she was in the process of being turned into a Broodmother.
    • Zathrian can be persuaded to end his life—which ends the curse on the werewolves, and frees the Lady of the Forest—in "Nature of the Beast". It's considered the best ending, being a third option between killing all the werewolves and killing all the elves.
  • Dragon Age II:
    • Depending on how Hawke handles the quest "Night Terrors", Feynriel may beg Hawke to kill him in order to end his suffering. While this isn't a completely straight example since this actually causes Feynriel to become tranquil (although he most likely didn't know this), choosing this option will also result in Feynriel's grief-stricken mother Arianni committing suicide by poison.
    • Anders very clearly has a death wish by the end of the game, and it is both creepy and heartbreaking.
• Drakengard has two examples.
  • The first one is Leonard, who comes home to see his family dead and his home razed by the evil Empire. Feeling that he has failed to protect them, he gets very close to cutting his own throat, only being stopped by a malicious fairy.
  • The second is the protagonist's sister, who, due to Mind Rape and her brother being disgusted by her incestuous feelings for him, commits suicide to escape disgrace.
• In the secret ending of the DS game based on Duck Amuck, Daffy, reprising the gag at the end of Show Biz Bugs, kills himself by consuming gasoline, C4, uranium, and a match to be rid of the constant torment you’ve put him through. Dark, isn’t it?
• Duke Nukem 3D has a hanged monk in Deathrow as a reference to Rise of the Triad as well as a literal hung jury in Pigsty.
• The Longing allows the shade to throw themselves off of a cliff, if they so choose.
• The Elder Scrolls franchise:
  • In The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, you can find the corpse of a troll floating in a river with a badly written suicide note about how it couldn't get people to pay its bridge toll, so it was going to get drunk and kill itself. Possibly Played for Laughs, considering that they're not usually that kind of troll.
  • In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim:
    • If Nilsine Shatter-Shield dies, her mother Tova will commit suicide.
    • Astrid. She sells the player out to Commander Maro in order to save the sanctuary, but he sends his forces to attack anyway. Badly burned in the attack, she uses the last of her energy to perform the Black Sacrament with her own body to put a contract on herself, acknowledging her failings.
    • Sudi, a member of the massacred Redguard family that owned Frostflow Lighthouse. She cut her wrists to avoid a Fate Worse than Death at the hands of the Falmer.
• EXTRAPOWER: Attack of Darkforce: By the time V is met in the story, he has already lived a life of hardship: regularly fighting off agents of the demon Malice who seek to use the power of his ore heart, and losing the life of his sister in one such struggle. Losing his Morality Pet and motivation for living, he beseeches the great being Magma-O of Magarda Volcano to take his heart into the lava. Melting the heart would permanently keep it out of demonic hands, but also kill him, a fact he readily accepts. Magma-O denies him, citing the doubt remaining in V's eyes, and Zophy later convinces V that he should continue to live so to help others.
• In Fallen London at one point Seekers will need to commit suicide to advance the Seeking Mr Eaten's Name storyline by jumping down a well made of jagged glass. If you fail it, you bleed out from being torn open by the fall and if you succeed you survive the fall and drown yourself. This isn't even the most horrifying thing that happens in that story.
• Fallout:
  • You can talk the Big Bad Load-Bearing Boss of the first game into activating the Self-Destruct Mechanism of his Supervillain Lair, thus committing suicide, by bringing evidence that as Super Mutants are infertile, his plan to have them be the wasteland's dominant species will fail; he realizes that it was "madness" to do such horrific things "in the name of progress and healing," and asks you to leave his lair "while you still have hope".
  • Fallout 3:
    • You can also talk the Big Bad Load-Bearing Boss into activating the Self-Destruct Mechanism of his Supervillain Lair, thus committing suicide.
    • Rivet City has Mister Lopez, a suicidal senior whose family was killed by Raiders, standing at the top of the Bridge Tower. You can either convince him to jump to his death (bad Karma), or talk him out of it (good Karma).
    • Rivet City also has Mei Wong, an escaped slave. She's terrified of a man named Sister who's a former slaver and thinks he's coming after her. You can either give her money to buy a gun for protection (good Karma), or tell Sister (who doesn't really care) she's a slave and let Mei know you told him, causing her to kill herself (bad Karma).
    • In the add-on "Operation Anchorage", if you have a high enough level in Speech you can prompt General Jingwei to commit suicide by falling on his own sword, after he decides he would rather die than be captured.
    • You can sometimes come across skeletal remains with bloodstains caked into the walls and guns lying next to them. Presumably when the nuclear holocaust happened, some people decided to die on their own terms.
  • Fallout: New Vegas:
    • If you tell Ranger Chief Hanlon that you know he's the one behind the bizarre intelligence reports to get the Rangers out of what he considers a Hopeless War, he'll excuse himself, announce his misdeeds to Camp Golf over the PA system, and shoot himself in the head.
    • Captain Curtis, a Legion mole in Camp McCarran, also kills himself after you report him to Colonel Hsu, providing you didn't kill him yourself.
    • In the Dead Money DLC, when the security came on-line at the Sierra Madre Casino, some of the guests killed themselves to avoid dying of starvation or being killed by security. This was the ultimate fate of Vera Keyes, the singer for whom the casino was built.
    • If General Oliver was talked down in the House ending, Mr. House will state that Oliver has a roughly 40% chance of committing suicide since he'll be publicly disgraced and held responsible for losing the war once he returns to NCR territory, with his hopes of pursuing a political career dashed to the ground. The same probably applies in the Independent Vegas ending.
    • If you turn Arcade Gannon into a slave for Caesar's Legion, and win the game for the Legion, the ending narration says that after years of unwilling servitude, he saw an opportunity to off himself when nobody was looking and took it, disemboweling himself with a surgical scalpel. Since he was the Legion's only doctor (which is why they wanted him as a slave in the first place), they weren't able to save him.
    • Near the end of Dead Money, Dog decides to kill himself to stop his Split Personality from constantly nagging him. Unfortunately, his method involves blowing himself up and taking the whole Sierra Madre Casino with him. You must stealthily turn off the three gas valves in the area and then talk to him, at which point you can either convince him to kill himself by snapping his own neck instead, cause either personality to do a Split-Personality Takeover, or cause a Split-Personality Merge. If you don't have the Speech skill for any of that, you will have to fight him and kill him yourself.
    • If you convince Boone to become vengeful over the events at Bitter Springs and win the game for the NCR, the ending narration says that Boone went back to California to track down the officer who ordered the Bitter Springs attack, and brought along a pistol loaded with only two bullets. If you make him vengeful but win the game for the Legion, the ending says that Boone committed Suicide by Cop, recklessly slaughtering as many Legionaries as he could until he was inevitably captured and crucified.
    • The player can get Frank Weathers to commit suicide if they convince him that his family will never love him again and he has nothing to live for, with him then saying that it's unfortunate that he will never see his kids grow up, but they are better off without him, before blowing his head off with a shotgun.
  • Fallout 4 has Liam Binet, a mole for the Railroad working for the Institute. If the player sides with the Railroad and destroys the Institute, he kills himself out of the grief of his family having been murdered and leaves behind a "The Reason You Suck" Speech directed at the player in the form of a suicide note.
• Happens a few times in the Fatal Frame series:
  • Lord Himuro kills himself after slaughtering everyone else in the mansion when the Calamity happened.
  • Yae Munakata hung herself after her daughter went missing. Years later, her granddaughter Miyuki does the same when she's no longer able to cope with seeing spirits.
  • It's unclear if Sae Kurosawa hung herself or if the priests hung her, but Sae knew she was going to die and accepted it, certainly putting it close to suicide. To make matters worse, she's Yae's twin sister. They died the exact same way.
  • Itsuki Tachibana hangs himself after an attempt at helping Yae and Sae escape, not wanting to see them suffer the way he did after he killed his twin brother.
  • The fifth game, Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water, has suicide as a prominent theme, seeing as how the cursed setting this time is a suicide hotspot, and how the ritual of the past involved shrine maidens witnessing suicides.
• The Final Fantasy franchise:
  • Twice possible in Final Fantasy VI:
    • If you fail to save Cid after The End of the World as We Know It, Celes, having lost everything, decides to climb a cliff to leap off onto the rocks below (which, according to Cid, all other survivors in the island had done when they succumbed to despair). She survives on a miracle, sees Locke's bandanna wrapped around a pigeon's wing, and regains her will to live.
    • Shadow does this in his segment of the game's ending if you have him in your party. To sum up his motivations, he'd let a friend die a very painful death instead of finishing him himself and has carried the guilt for years with him. With the world saved, he stays in the collapsing final dungeon to die and join his friend in death. Complete with him telling his dog to go on without him. Tear Jerker, ahoy.
  • In Final Fantasy VII, when Barret confronts his old friend Dyne, they duke it out. After defeat brings him back to his senses, Dyne realizes the horrible things he's done and tells Barret to keep taking care of Marlene, who was his child by birth, saying his hands are too stained to carry her anymore. Then he drags himself to a cliff and throws himself off it. The game conveniently forgets that he actually survived that same drop years before.
  • Final Fantasy XIII has Sazh almost doing this after his 6-year old son gets turned into crystal, and upon learning that his partner Vanilie was involved with his son's fate.
• Fire Emblem:
  • In Genealogy of the Holy War, Arvis and Azelle's father Lord Victor of Velthomer committed suicide when Arvis was a pre-teen and Azelle was a little boy. Arvis started raising his half-brother from then on.
  • Several examples in The Blazing Blade.
    • The ultimate fate of Priscilla and Raven's parents, Lord and Lady Cornwell. For worse, Raven believes they were murdered, thus fueling his desire for Revenge.
    • Also, it's hinted that Ninian and Nils seriously considered killing themselves at some point, driven into despair after being summoned, captured and hunted down by the Black Fang. Thankfully, they don't go through it.
    • In the English version of the same game, the ending for Karla and Barte mentions that Karla dies of an illness. Afterwards her husband Barte gives their child to a relative and kills himself. However, the Japanese ending implies no such thing, and Bartre killing himself directly contradicts The Binding Blade, where he appears alive and well.
  • Fire Emblem: Awakening:
    • Someone killing themselves is actually a plot point in this game. The dead person is Chrom's sister Emmeryn, who throws herself off a cliff to avert a war between Plegia and Ylisse that would tear the world apart. This selfless Heroic Suicide raises the Ylissean cause and causes almost everyone to desert Gangrel, the King of Plegia. Subverted later: Emmeryn is found to have survived (though at the cost of suffering Trauma-Induced Amnesia) and can be recruited as a playable character.
    • In a more traditional manner, Henry commits suicide in his ending if he's unmarried. Then again, it's Henry we're talking about, so no one (even in-universe) is surprised.
  • There are a couple of instances in Fire Emblem Fates.
    • In the Birthright route, after the player defeats Flora, Felicia's sister, she sets herself on fire due to her sadness and guilt of double-crossing the Avatar. Later on, after accidentally killing Elise, Xander falls into despair and commits Suicide by Avatar.
    • From the Conquest route:
    • Takumi is manipulated into jumping off the Great Wall of Suzanoh by the Big Bad. This then has further consequences as the Greater-Scope Villain fully possesses Takumi's corpse and uses it as the Final Boss.
    • At the end of Chapter 25, Ryoma commits Seppuku to prevent the Avatar from killing him. Unlike Flora, this counts as a Heroic Suicide, as he wants to prevent Garon from executing the Avatar for not carrying out his order to execute Ryoma.
    • In the Revelation route, Gunter attempts this after the Greater-Scope Villain possesses him and forces him to attack the party, but the Avatar saves him and convinces him to atone with his life instead of his death.
  • In Fire Emblem: Three Houses Marianne will not appear at any point in the second half of the game if they were not recruited to your class, and there's an extra chair in their room when you go check it out... Her A-Support with the protagonist has her mention that she was praying every day... for her own death.
• The whole goal of Five Minutes To Kill Yourself is to commit suicide using the various items and events provided.
• Tai Kaliso in Gears of War 2, after being rescued from Locust torture, is given a shotgun for the purpose of defending himself from the incoming Locust reinforcements. Without a word, he puts it to his chin instead and blows his brains out. One of the comics focuses on Tai's time in captivity, where Tai's narration states that he was tortured so badly that his soul felt the need to escape his body. And since his religion considers a body with no soul to be just a useless empty husk, well...
• Genshin Impact: In Shenhe's backstory, when her mother died of an illness, her father attempted to sacrifice Shenhe as part of a failed ritual to bring her back to life, then hung himself out of grief.
• In Gleaner Heights you can drive the mayor to suicide if you expose his relationship with a deceased underage girl.
• God of War starts with Kratos throwing himself off a cliff, with the game being a How We Got Here. The Gods decide that You Kill It, You Bought It and therefore promote him as the new God of War. This turns out badly for them when they renege on this decision.
• Grand Theft Auto:
  • At the end of Toshiko's series of missions in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, which she has Toni perform against her husband Kazuki in revenge for neglecting her, culminating in his death, she realizes that she has lost everything, and commits suicide by defenestration as Toni watches.
  • In Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony, Tony tries to shoot himself, but the gun ends up being empty.
• In Growing Up, Nathan Prior is found dead in his apartment in his route's bad ending. He committed suicide because he couldn't handle the stress of living alone and failed to cope with his parents' breakup.
• Cliff from Harvest Moon: Back to Nature is implied to be suicidal. This was toned down in future games.
• When you scare someone too much in Haunt the House, they will run to the nearest window and jump out.
• Heavy Rain:
  • Ethan Mars kills himself in three of his possible endings. They all require him to survive the main storyline but fail to rescue his son, Shaun.
  • Jayden will kill himself via drug overdose if he survives the storyline but Shaun dies.
• Hitman 3 has a rather surprising example during the Dartmoor mission. Your mission is to assassinate Alexa Carlisle in her manor and uncover her ties to Providence, and one path to this is to have Agent 47 play detective and investigate her twisted family history, with one discovery being that she killed one of her brothers decades ago to claim the estate. Look even deeper and you'll find a missing letter from said brother, revealing that he loved her to the point that he was going to leave her the estate anyway, and stitching together this info with the recent death of her other brother, you can convince her that she was responsible for their senseless deaths. Wracked with horrified guilt, she takes a step outside, then leans off the balcony to her death. This is the only deliberate suicide kill in the whole franchise, and given how the series is all about killing targets yourself (usually with a hint of morbid Black Comedy), it's a rather shocking and rather unsettlingly dark moment.
• In Horizon Forbidden West, Walter Londra's AI, Nova, is driven to suicide by asking Aloy to deactivate it permanently after being mind raped by Londra for over a millenia, seeing death as a much more preferable alternative.
• In Illusion of Gaia, Will is forced into a game of Russian Roulette using a poisoned drink. Will's psychic powers allow him to dodge the poison, but the other player, Straw Hat, drinks the poisoned shot anyway, out of sheer wounded pride. After this, you read a letter from him telling you he had a terminal disease and was playing the Russian Glass Game so that his pregnant wife would be financially secure after his death. He had nothing to lose by drinking the poison.
• I Was a Teenage Exocolonist:
  • Tang and Dys's mother Besk couldn't handle raising them from birth and resorted to drinking and neglecting them and eventually taking her own life.
  • In the "Tangent's Cure" ending, Instance kills herself after seeing the horrific mass extinction of Vertumnan wildlife by the virus she and Tang were forced to make by Lum.
• Implied at the very end of Jim's Computer. Jim's paranoia gets so bad he'd rather die than face off his imagined threat. The black square in Jim’s hand reveals to be a gun. He eventually points it to his chin, and the game ends there.
• The concept of freeware puzzler Karoshi is that the player character has been driven to suicide, and the goal is to kill him to advance to the next level.
• In Kindergarten, Cindy's mission involves dropping a bucket of blood on her regular bullying victim Lily. Go through with this and Lily will decide she can't take Cindy's constant harassment anymore and jump into the Nugget Cave, an incredibly deep pit in the sandbox.
• Kingdom Hearts:
  • In the epilogue of Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, Aqua ends up all alone in the realm of darkness and seriously considers fading into the darkness. She thankfully snaps out of it due to Terra and Ven's keyblades appearing, but if they hadn't...
  • In Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days Xion is Driven To Assisted Suicide when she realizes that she and her friends will never have the happy, normal life they've been wishing for, and that her mere existence is slowly killing Roxas.
• HK-47 jokes about this in Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, however he cannot self-terminate.
  HK-47: Statement: Oh, yes. My master had quite the collection of tortured individuals that seemed unable to confront their basic personality conflicts. Let me cite some specific examples. Mockery: [mimicking Carth's voice] "Oh, master, I do not trust you! I cannot trust you or anyone ever again!" Mockery: [mimicking Bastila's voice] "Oh, master, I love you but I hate all you stand for, but I think we should go press our slimy, mucus-covered lips together in the cargo hold!" Conclusion: Such pheromone-driven responses never cease to decrease the charge in my capacitors and make me wish I could put a blaster pistol to my behavior core and pull the trigger.
• Kind of a fact of life in The Last of Us. Many people in the zombie-infected wasteland you encounter choose to kill themselves rather than succumb to the infection. Part of a consequence of living in a Crapsack World. Just a few of these:
  • At the very beginning you run into a man who is trapped and has a broken mask, exposing him to spores. He begs you to kill him so he doesn't turn. Whether you grant his request is up to you.
  • Your partner, Tess, gets infected early on and chooses to die in a blaze of glory, rather than succumb to infection.
  • You come across Bill's partner, Frank, who killed himself after getting bitten.
  • Henry kills himself after crossing the Despair Event Horizon once he is forced to kill his infected brother.
  • Through letters you find in a sewer, you learn the story of a failed colony that got overrun by infected. One of the colonists chose to kill himself and his kids to spare them from a fate worse than death. You find the message "they didn't suffer" carved into the floor near the bodies.
• The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV: After the final time Class VII defeats both Lechter and Claire, they both decide to kill themselves for all the damage that they have done and the guilt that they carry to commit to the world war. Ash and Musse made sure to disarm them as quickly as possible.
• A rare variation of this happens in The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero since it happens not to a conventional living being. Demiourgos, Sept-Terrion of Mirage capable of manipulating knowledge and perception, realized that "her" attempt at guiding humanity through her power was abused by the civilization she intended to guide. Thus, she erased her own existence in order to prevent further misuse, starting the 1200-year legacy of attempts at recreating said treasure.
• Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards: Larry commits suicide with a gun once the sun rises. Weirdly enough, the sun is smiling as he does it.
• The Lemme Fatale enemy in Lemmings Chronicles drives Lemmings who get near her to suicide.
• Kate Marsh from Life Is Strange will try and kill herself in Episode 2. How that turns out is determined by the player's choices.
• In the pirated game The Lion King 5 Simba, Timon and Pumbaa will do this on the game over screen. Timon's and Pumbaa's are at least kinda comical, but Simba just plain hangs himself. And they sold this to kids?
• In LISA, there are several characters who do this.
  • The most important instance of suicide in the game is performed by Lisa herself, after her abuse by Marty in The First gets too much for her. Her suicide ends up influencing the motivations for Brad (and especially Buzzo), and constantly haunts these two characters for the next two games.
  • There are a few occasions where random background characters will commit suicide; sometimes, the protagonists can meet and speak with them, and shortly afterwards, they can return and find the aforementioned characters dead, such as Widdly 2 Diddly in The Painful. An optional fight in The Painful takes place against a man who shoots himself in the face on the first turn.
  • Fan Sequel LISA: The Hopeful also has two instances where characters hang themselves. The first, a Sportster who failed in his attempt, is Played for Laughs. The second, Lanks, is very much not.
• Live A Live: Alethea, the princess Oersted still has faith in even after being branded as a demon king, kills herself with a dagger after seeing Streibough killed by Oersted. This causes Oersted to fall beyond the Despair Event Horizon and become Odio, Lord of Dark.
• The Long Dark: Implied. Sometimes you will find a dead body with a bottle of painkillers on or near the body. Of course, if the Survivor's circumstances have deteriorated badly enough, it might be tempted to end the frustration by jumping off a cliff, walking up to a bear or wolf and not fighting back, or simply walking out on a winter's night and curling up in some place to sleep and fade into the Long Dark...
• Semolina from Magical Starsign allows herself to be eaten by a heterotrophous plant. It's partly Heroic Sacrifice, but mostly this. If Semolina didn't, Sorbet WOULD have. Yeah...
• In the My-HiME video game, if the main player gets Natsuki Kuga as a love interest, Natsuki's best friend Shizuru Fujino will go mad and kill herself.
• Erica in the backstory for Malicious. Weak and frail, the girl was in the middle of a grand-scale war started by her own father King Eldrake, a tyrant who corrupted his own kingdom and had his wife, Queen Ashlelei, imprisoned. When Erica and her brother freed their mother to start a revolution, Eldrake started an alliance with barbarians. In the battlefield, Erica could not fight, so she chose to hurt her father by killing herself in front of him. This was to no avail, as King Eldrake felt not remorse at the sight of his daughter taking her own life before him.
• Mass Effect:
  • The original Mass Effect:
    • Fai Dan shoots himself to escape the Thorian's mind control.
    • Saren can be talked to this during his Villainous BSoD.
  • In Mass Effect 2, Ronald Taylor can be left a pistol with which to kill himself.
  • In Mass Effect 3 loves this trope. The characters listed below? That's not even half the number that this can happen to. For understandable reasons.
    • Tali can commit suicide if the geth destroy the entire Migrant Fleet.
    • Samara will do so if she's forced to make a choice between obeying the Justicar Code or killing her daughter.
    • Like Saren before him, The Illusive Man can also be convinced to kill himself to escape Reaper indoctrination in the Grand Finale.
    • Clone Shepard does this in the Paragon Ending of the Citadel DLC, refusing to take Shepard's hand and letting themselves fall from the edge of the Normandy ramp. It's implied that their Despair Event Horizon came after Shepard's friends rushed to save them from falling, while s/he was callously left to die by Brooks, thus answering their earlier rant "What makes you so damn special?" Shepard has friends.
      Shepard: Take my hand, and you can live.
      Clone Shepard: For what?
    • At one point, when you meet Dr. Archer from the Ovelord DLC of 2. Depending on several factors, including whether or not you've done the Grissom Academy sidequest in time or whether or not you've dealt with the Geth at that point, he may take out a pistol and walk away so he can end it all.
      Archer: God be with you, Commander. He was never with me.
    • Glyph and Liara have a conversation about the colony world of Tyvor, with the latter wondering why they stopped reporting in. Glyph informs her that the colonists detonated nuclear bombs in all of their cities rather than be captured by the Reapers, making this a planet-wide example.
• Metal Gear:
  • Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty:
    • It's revealed that Otacon's father drowned himself after finding out that his wife (Otacon's stepmother) and son were having an affair.
    • Fortune's mother committed suicide after her husband's death and her son-in-law's imprisonment.
  • In Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, it's implied that the reason why the Cobra Unit was still utilizing their microbombs essentially dealt with this trope.
  • In Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Vamp and Naomi go out this way after disabling the nanomachines keeping them alive.
• Claus, a.k.a. the Masked Man, commits suicide by reflecting a lightning attack off of Lucas's Courage Badge at the end of Mother 3, shortly after he comes to his senses.
• In Myst III: Exile, if you make the crueler choice at the end, it is implied Saavedro kills himself.
• This happens if you scare the teddy bears enough in Naughty Bear.
• Not for Broadcast: Depending on your actions in Day 296, Jeremy Donaldson may fatally shoot himself on air after taking the studio hostage if you don't cut to the ad.
• No Umbrellas Allowed: On Thursday of the final week, Bokho comes back and gives you a cryptic task to tell his friend Nari that he's "sorry". Deep down, he blames himself for getting her Fixed as punishment for getting revenge on Mr. Gong over scamming and attacking him before Bokho can enter the Bunker of Freedom. If Nari isn't cured by Prof. Choi's antidote, or you don't tell Bokho that she's been cured, he will leave sadly and push the Stabilizer into the sea before jumping in himself.
• In ObsCure II, Kenny drives Corey to kill himself right before the Final Battle after the latter's girlfriend, and most of his friends, have been killed in the "incident" at the school. (By incident we mean the survival horror plot.) The sequel is Darker and Edgier than the original, which is no small feat seeing as in the first game everyone dies in horrible experiments except for the playable characters.
• The second Oddworld game has several kinds of Mudokons working as slaves for the evil meat-making corporation. In-between others there are hyperactive ones who you have to slap to snap them back to sanity, and depressed mopey ones who need to be cuddled to bring up their spirits. But slap a depressed one and watch as he goes over the edge, and repeatedly hits himself in the head until he dies.
• Okaeri: After opening the case and finding the debt inside, the girl can go down to the living room to find her mom hanging from a noose.
  • The girl then hangs herself in the woods at the end of the game.
• OMORI:
  • Sunny and Basil passed off the former's Accidental Murder of Mari as this. Not that it helped them both.
  • Should Sunny abandon Basil during the final sleepover, Basil guts himself out of sheer despair.
  • The titular Omori is an outright Anthropomorphic Personification of Sunny's death wish, and spends the entire final Hopeless Boss Fight trying to convince Sunny to kill himself. In the Bad Ending, he succeeds.
• In Orwell: Ignorance is Strength, Raban Vhart kills himself after it is revealed he did not save any students at a school he was principal of.
• Peret em Heru: For the Prisoners: As can be inferred from her demeanor, her tendency to hurt herself, and possessing the only Suicide Attack in the game, Saori has suicidal thoughts. She eventually attempts to kill herself twice via both running into a Gas Chamber and then jumping off a balcony — while the first is automatically prevented, your actions determine whether she's able to go through with the second. Or, for that matter, the third.
• Randal's Monday: Matt is constantly brought to this during the loops. He thrusts himself into an oven, a blender, the fridge...
• Rave Heart: After the party escapes from the Galactic Enforcers on Planet Kardel, Veronica's mother, Ethyl, is so distraught over her troubled past and current fugitive status that she jumps out of the shuttle into the cold vacuum of space.
• RealityMinds: Kvena was ostracized by her peers and fell into despair when even her lover, Revethor, stopped seeing her. She jumps to her death, but is brought back as a ghost by Ridgefern. Revethor himself committed suicide out of guilt for abandoning her.
• Receiver 2: The Threat's greatest weapon is its ability to corrupt media and cause people to have intrusive thoughts, including making normal people turn on each-other and cause depression to the point where they try to kill themselves. The Treat will also try to do this to you. If you collect a tape of someone's last words, The Threat will force you to turn your own gun on yourself. There's only one defense against this attack.
• Rehm in The Reconstruction after passing the Despair Event Horizon, though he isn't even able to finish it; some Nalian Officers find him and sell him into slavery instead.
• In RefleX, Raiwat commander-in-chief Tsukikagerou is so utterly ashamed of failing to capture the ZODIAC Ophiuchus and being forced to retreat that he kills himself.
• In Remember Me, one of Nilin's memory remixes makes Forlan believe that he killed his wife, causing him to commit suicide.
• Resident Evil:
  • There is a series-long tradition of people, when faced with either being killed by undead mutants or dying by their own hand, almost always take the latter. Oddly enough, this has never happened on screen.
  • In Resident Evil: Outbreak, certain members of your team will commit suicide if they have a gun and have been cornered by zombies or have incurred too much damage. Also, in the first level, you can recruit a sick (infected) security guard named Bob; if you help him up to the roof, he says something akin to the hunger being too painful and that he can't go on, then blows his brains out.
• Red Dead Redemption:
  • John admits to Bonnie that he may have gotten himself intentionally shot when going to Fort Mercer for the first time, which is somewhat understandable, given the mission he was forced into taking (tracking down his three former friends who are all extremely dangerous with literally no intel outside of their general location or any decent weaponry on hand), was pretty much a suicide mission to begin with.
  • Dutch commits suicide than allow John to bring him in.
• In Robot Alchemic Drive, Nanao kills herself if the building where she works is crushed too many times.
• Seedship: One event has a premature revival of some of your colonists. If conditions with the ship's systems are bad enough, the revived colonists may end up killing themselves.
• In the Serial Experiments Lain Playstation game, Lain shoots herself at the end.
• Shadow Warrior (1997) has a humorous version: the standard mooks that shoot Uzis at the player character seem to have a high enough sense of honour that they'll take their failure to kill him in the only way an honourable warrior would: by eating their gun and shooting half their skull off. Then again, they might just be completely insane — occasionally they eat their guns for no apparent reason at all, sometimes at the mere sight of the player.
• Shadow the Hedgehog has 10 possible endings, one Hero or Dark ending for a spectrum of 5 character alignments from Pure Hero to Pure Dark. The Semi-Hero/Hero Ending has Shadow declare himself an experiment gone wrong that should never have been created. While it doesn't outright show him committing suicide, it's very strongly implied that he does. Vector the Crocodile's response sounds like he's trying to talk him out of it, but he rejects his words and walks away. Also, one of the story paths to get to this ending is Shadow's Second Death...?.
• Shin Megami Tensei:
  • Persona 2: Innocent Sin:
    • The heroes meet a ghost of a teacher who threw himself into the gears of the school's clock tower. Officially it was ruled a suicide, as he had just gone through a very acrimonious divorce and was showing signs of depression. His ghost says that he was trying to prevent the end of the world, having interpreted an obscure prophecy as alluding to the clock signaling the beginning of the end, and he thought that if he killed himself in the tower the school would turn it off permanently. It was a little of both and then some, because he was haunted by the Big Bad, had his life ruined, and finally at the end was given a little "push".
    • If you end up making the wrong choice at a certain point, Anna Yoshizaka will commit suicide by jumping off a bridge.
  • In Persona 3, the method of summoning Personas by firing a remarkably-realistic gun replica at one's own head is not at all subtle in its symbolism of teen suicide. Judging by the way the user's head jerks back when they fire the Evoker, along with Yukari breaking down and being unable to pull the trigger in the opening, it's obvious the Evokers are a bit more than just toy guns^note The Evokers are used to forcibly manifest a Persona, by firing a "bullet" of concentrated emotional pain and trauma into the mind of the user. It's dangerous at best, and it's clear by the end of the game that everyone is incredibly messed up by it. It's implied that the party are all at least just a bit suicidal (at least, before Character Development helps them over some of their issues), and in the case of poor Ken, it's all but explicitly stated. By the end of the game, the only actual suicide that occurs is an injured Jin blowing himself up when Shadows begin attacking him.
  • In both the Law and Chaos paths of Shin Megami Tensei IV, you will fight Isabeau. In both cases, you manage to beat them. Saddened both of your paths diverge so wildly, and lamenting they could not remain together, they slit their throat. In the White/Emptiness/Bad Ending, you are convinced by the White that nothing will ever change and that everyone will be better off dead, combining this with Put Them All Out of My Misery.
  • Persona 4: Dancing All Night's story mode begins with a girl hanging herself. Over the course of the plot, she's revealed to be Yuko Osada, an Idol Singer who could no longer handle the pressures of her job.
  • Persona 5:
    • While Coach Kamoshida is already a serious asshole who exploits those around him and literally strikes down anyone who resists, he takes it even further by blackmailing Ann into paying a "visit" to him by putting her friend Shiho's spot on the volleyball team at risk. When Ann turns it down... well, it's implied that Shiho was assaulted by Kamoshida both physically and sexually, resulting in her taking a dive off the roof of Shujin Academy. Shiho survives, but she's out of commission for a good long time.
    • In the story arc right after the above-described one, the Phantom Thieves are asked to take down a famous artist, Ichiryuusai Madarame, by a former pupil of his. This pupil tells the thieves that one of Madarame's other students killed himself due to Madarame plagiarizing his work, and he's concerned that eventually Madarame's current (and only) student, future party member Yusuke, might have the same fate if he isn't rescued from the situation in time.
    • After you beat the Big Bad's Shadow and he realizes he is about to have his heart changed, he does a unique variant where he takes some pills that will temporarily kill him in the hopes of collapsing his Palace with the Phantom Thieves in it.
• Silent Hill:
  • Silent Hill 2:
    • In one of the game's Multiple Endings, James drowns himself so that he can be Together in Death with his wife, Mary.
    • It's heavily implied, if not stated, that Angela commits suicide by walking into the burning staircase.
    • None other than Pyramid Head in their last confrontation with James after the latter discovers the truth.
  • Richard Grady from Silent Hill: Origins committed suicide as a result of his wife's madness.
  • In Silent Hill: Downpour, JP Sater commits suicide due to the guilt he was feeling as a result of the Devil's Pit accident. Murphy also attempts this in the "Full Circle" ending to avoid his Fate Worse than Death, but it doesn't work.
• Sonic CD Alternative Ending: Sonic hangs himself from a tree after seeing Tails and Amy dead from the collapse of Little Planet in Ending B. Sonic also tries to jump into the spike pit in Ending C, but was saved just in time by Knuckles.
• Spec Ops: The Line:
  • Konrad, before the events of the game.
  • Walker will do this in one of the game's endings, if the player shoots their own reflection, or makes no input during their last confrontation with Konrad. Another ending has Walker pull a Suicide by Cop instead.
  • Adams is last seen making a likely-fatal Last Stand, and seems in no doubt that he deserves to die by that point.
• In The Spectrum Retreat, it's heavily implied that Alex would've killed himself if Maddie didn't put him in the Penrose.
• In S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, if you manage to solve the mystery behind the missing stalkers in the first map, you'll find that The Medic from the main wrecked ship was responsible for their deaths. He explains that he used to work in a surgeon's clinic and became terrified of seeing his patients undergo gruesome procedures. Over time, however, he developed a clinical condition that causes him to crave the taste of blood and made him lose his sanity. When he came to the Zone, he snapped from the inside and started to secretly murder stalkers when they least expected it and disguised them as bloodsucker attacks. After he tells his story, he guns himself on his chin. However, you can avert this by shooting him yourself, though you have a couple of seconds to do it before he offs himself.
• StarCraft: Gerard DuGalle commits suicide after his defeat, in remorse over his gullibility and murder of Alexei Stukov.
• Starflight
  • In 2, the free Leghk killed themselves than be subjected to Uhl's influence.
  • If you have a G'nunk crewmember and speak to another alien in a weak manner, she'll kill herself rather than be stuck on your ship.
• M. Bison's fate in Street Fighter II according to C. Viper's segment in Aftermath (this event being canon is unknown due to Capcom not mentioning it in any other media). After being defeated by the World Warriors, M. Bison was forced to surrender by Guile, along with Guile stating that Shadaloo is no more. M. Bison, instead of surrendering, decides to blow himself up using his Psycho Power to kill everyone. Everyone survives, but M. Bison instantly dies from his own explosion. This would eventually lead to M. Bison's transfer to a new body in Street Fighter IV.
• Many, many examples can be found in The Suffering:
  • At the beginning of the game, for example, several inmates in Cell Block T hang themselves following the earthquake.
  • In a vision of the past, a military commander shoots himself rather than face a court-martial.
  • Another flashback reveals that in 1681, three little girls hurled themselves off a cliff after realising that their seemingly harmless prank had resulted in the execution of eleven innocent people. Unfortunately, they don't stay dead.
  • Hermes Haight, the prison's most infamous executioner, killed himself in the gas chamber; according to his poisonous ghost, this was the final step in a very long obsession with learning what his victims felt.
  • A heroin addict blows his brains out with a shotgun, apparently unable to "weather the low."
  • Three inmates in solitary confinement at East Baltimore Correctional committed suicide rather than spend another six months alone in the darkness.
  • It's revealed that inmate Ranse Truman tried to slit his wrists with a sharpened spoon after spending a few months on Carnate Island and exploring its unique history. When you meet him in the second game, he appears to have tried to cut his throat at some point.
• In Sunless Sea, if you kill a thalatte you can try to render it edible. Failing causes the crewmember that tried it to kindly excuse themselves, then walk into a furnace to erase all memory of the taste.
• In Super Mario RPG, Boomer, the second-to-last boss to fight before entering The Gate to Smithy's world, ends the fight before Mario and co. attempt to finish him off, saying he'd rather kill himself than lose to them. Mario tries to talk him out of it, but Boomer refuses to take his sympathy. With one swing, Boomer hits Chandeli-Ho, who releases the chandelier and sends him plummeting to his doom... or so we'd think, if that same Chandeli-Ho didn't say he wouldn't be killed by the impact, or even harmed for that matter right afterwards.
• In the end of Super Robot Wars Original Generation 2 (and Advance too), being the "only survivor" of the Shadow Mirror, Lamia Loveless thinks that she has failed her mission, killed her teammates and superiors, and is a defective product all around, and thus she attempts to self destruct... only to be stopped by her new teammates just in time and be persuaded to live her life in the current world. She actually has more self-destruct attempts throughout the series, but only this occasion fits the trope.
• Super Fire Pro Wrestling Special features a story where, about halfway through, things get worse, and worse, and worse... First, you suffer a string of defeats. Then, your coach winds up dead. Then, you accidentally kill your opponent in one match. Then, your girlfriend leaves you. Then, your opponent for the championship, a Ric Flair Expy, kills your tag-team partner AND reveals that he was the one who killed your coach. Once you defeat the murderer and take the championship for your own, though, the hero realizes that it really is lonely at the top. He shoots himself in the head three days later. Would it be any surprise that this particular game's story was written by a rookie Suda51?
• Unsurprisingly, it happens in The Suicide of Rachel Foster. Rachel jumped off a cliff after her relationship with Leonard got revealed. Or at least that's what everyone believes. Subverted as she was actually murdered by Claire. After this revelation, Irving and Nichole play the trope straight.
• In Sword of the Stars, Liir Black Swimmers who have had to put enemy civilians to the torch usually pilot their spacecraft into nearby stars after hostilities conclude.
• In the 2012 reboot of Syndicate, it's possible to hack other people's DART chips to force them to kill themselves.
• At the end of Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow, Shen Rei shoots himself to prevent his capture and interrogation.
• System Shock 2:
  • Dr. Janice Polito was driven to suicide when she found out that she unleashed SHODAN. You find her corpse in her office, and her suicide note in the Rickenbacker church.
  • A "ghost" crew member snaps under the horror of what's happening, says sorry to his wife and children, and shoots himself. Several corpses are found sitting with a gun in their hands, implying they've chosen the same way out.
• Telling Lies: David kills himself in an act of eco-terrorism, in what is chronologically the last video of the game.
• If you go bankrupt in Theme Park, the game shows a cutscene of the park owner jumping from a window while a family photograph fades, and Chopin's Funeral March plays. Though it turns out he was actually jumping out of a first-story window, as he turns around, grabs the windowsill, and pulls himself back up. As it was a game for all ages, even joking about suicide was pretty controversial. It even describes what will happen if you go bankrupt in the manual. It's actually pretty creepy; watch at your own risk. The Mega Drive/Genesis version contains only a still image of that scene, which happens to be the park owner in mid jump.
• In The Thing (2002), if your teammates get scared enough, they will pull out a pistol and shoot themselves in the head. Meanwhile, the captain of the team that you were sent to save blows his brains out when he realizes he's been infected and doesn't want to turn into a monster.
• In This War of Mine, any survivors that delve too far into depression without any respite will eventually take their own lives.
• One popular backstory of the Touhou Project character Yuyuko Saigyouji is her committing suicide after learning about her power evolving from controlling dead spirits into invoking the death of anything. Fortunately (?) Yukari ensured her spirit could never "cross over" completely, allowing her to continue existing as a Cute Ghost Girl. Many popular Yuyuko/Yukari fan works have the two be friends, or even a couple, back when Yuyuko was still human. This delves far past Tear Jerker and into soul-crushing territory when you realize Yuyuko doesn't seem to remember anything about her past life, or Yukari. Indeed, some of Yukari's personality characteristics, such as constant sleeping and over-friendliness, are symptoms of depression.
• In Town of Salem, if the Vigilante role shoots and kills another town player, they will be unable to shoot again in the following night and kill themselves by the end of it, with the message that they died of guilt come the next morning.
• Transistor has a few cases.
  • Asher and Grant Kendrall kill themselves before you can fight them, after the former confesses to their crimes.
  • In the end, Red does this herself to be in the Transistor with her boyfriend.
• In Turgor the Nameless Sister does this about halfway into the game. Some of the Void dwellers think it was murder, a Heroic Sacrifice, or simply a Senseless Sacrifice.
• Twisted Metal:
  • In 4, the Joneses ending has them wish for Sweet Tooth to be their driver on their road trip. Needless to say, Sweet Tooth can take only so much of the dysfunctional family's antics before he steers their RV over a cliff.
  • In the 2012 reboot ofthe original ending to Dollface's campaign would've had her taking off her mask and being beautiful, only for her imagination to exaggerate every tiny imperfection to horrific extremes. She puts the mask back on and lets herself get run over rather than let anyone see her "hideous" face.
  • In Black, Preacher lets himself fall backwards off of a building after learning he was never possessed and killed the people in that church himself.
• Uncommon Time has three examples:
  • In Ending 6, Meirin is absolutely distraught after the party fails to save her Love Interest, and kills herself in the hotel room the next day.
  • In Ending 4, Saki and Meirin both commit suicide. In his suicide note, Saki explains that he's terminally ill, and preferred to die by his own hand rather than let it catch up to him. Meirin's reasoning is less clear; presumably, she couldn't bear to live without him.
  • In Aubrey's Uncommon Time, we learn that their decision to participate in the hibernation experiment was effectively this; their depression was so extreme they felt that the only way they could have worth was to sacrifice themselves for Altair's success.
• Undertale:
  • Implied to be the fate of Dr. Alphys in certain Neutral endings. Broadly speaking, this usually occurs if you kill Undyne or Mettaton. Does not occur in the Golden Ending, but on the way there, you'll have a conversation with that character, after learning just why they might have "done something... cowardly" even if you did everything right.
  • Also a part of Flowey's backstory. After awaking as a flower in Asgore's garden, he eventually found that he couldn't feel any love or warmth from his parents. Not wanting to live in a world without love, he committed suicide. The only reason he is still alive is because, during his attempt, he realized he was afraid of actually dying, and that unwillingness to die caused him to wake back up in the garden as though nothing had ever happened. This is how he discovered his ability to save and load.
  • If you fight Asgore again (before befriending Alphys) and spare him again, he will kill himself in order for you to take his soul.
  • Asriel also wonders if this might be the reason the protagonist climbed Mt. Ebott at the start of the game.
    Frisk... Why did you come here? Everyone knows the legend, right...? "Travellers who climb Mt. Ebott are said to disappear." ... Frisk. Why would you ever climb a mountain like that? Was it foolishness? Was it fate? Or was it... Because you...?
    • Chara might have been the same case, as they apparently climbed Mt. Ebott for an "unhappy reason".
• Late in Valkyria Chronicles II, when the Rebels actually succeed in completely taking over Gallia, the sheer hopelessness of the situation causes Lanseal's headmaster to have a mental breakdown that ultimately culminates in him shooting himself in the mouth.
• In Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, you can help Imalia, a fallen idol turned Nosferatu, to exact revenge on her old rival, Tawni Sessions, who became a mainstream model after some time in the pornographic industry. After the player installs a bunch of webcams in Tawni's apartment, the press gets ahold of footage featuring Tawni, her boyfriend, and a llama having sexual intercourse. When the player visits Imalia again, she gleefully reports that Tawni committed suicide using pills and alcohol.
• If Joshua has failed to save both of his Unlucky Childhood Friends in Vandal Hearts 2, he will arrive at the parapets of his third Unlucky Childhood Friend and love Adele's castle just in time for her to say she's had enough of being used and leap off.
• Fairly late in The Way 2, the main character comes across a guy threatening to jump off a cliff. Given the proper dialogue choices, you can talk him down or convince him to jump, or, if you're feeling really cruel, push him off yourself.
• At the end of When The Darkness Comes the player is presented with a noose and given the option to hang themselves. Of course, they also have the option to turn around and seek help.
• When Geralt meets the Bloody Baron Philip Strenger in The Witcher 3, he's hired by the Baron to track down his wife and daughter in exchange for information about Ciri. His daughter ran off to join the Church of the Eternal Fire and refuses to return, resenting him for his alcoholism and wife-beating. His wife Anna made a pact with a coven of witches known as the Crones to have them abort her unborn daughter, but in exchange they forced her into slavery and drove her mad. If Geralt saves the children they were going to kill, then the Crones turn Anna into a Water Hag and she dies in front of the Baron and their daughter Tamara. The Baron later hangs himself from the tree in front of their castle.
• In The Works of Mercy, the protagonist hangs themselves in the bathroom at the very end.
• The World Ends with You:
  • Joshua, supposedly. He's likely to be lying, but if it was suicide it didn't occur recently.
  • It's implied somewhat that Shiki committed suicide too.
• Yandere Simulator:
  • Yandere-chan can lower the reputation of a rival within the school to dire levels with malicious gossip either at school or on the internet, which will lead to the girl suffering serious bullying. If you lower a girl's reputation to -100, Senpai will reject her Love Confession, which is enough for Yandere-chan to eliminate her as a rival for his affection. Lowering her reputation even further than that is a pure exercise in cruelty, and will eventually make things so bad for her that not only does the entire school hate her, but they want her to die, which ultimately results in the poor girl hanging herself.
  • Yandere-chan can also stage her murders as suicides by pushing girls off the roof and leaving their shoes and forged suicide notes above their bodies. The suicide notes all include a unique instigating cause for the suicide (e.g. sexual abuse, drug use), which Yandere-chan must obtain through eavesdropping earlier on.
  • Furthermore, Yandere-chan can kidnap students and quite literally torture them until they are broken mind slaves who will commit murder-suicide on Yandere-chan's command.
  • The Promo Concept video hints that Yandere-chan herself could be driven to this should someone else confess to Senpai before she can, but so far it's just a concept.
• The YAWHG:
  • While visiting the Arena, you may discover another fighter taking a Fantastic Drug. Expose them and they get banned from competing for life, which leads to them hanging themselves in the Forest.
  • Along similar lines, if you win one of the competitions at the Tavern, specifically the lute-playing contest, your defeated opponent will fall into despair. You can come across them in the Forest, alongside their broken lute.
• Yes, Your Grace: If the Player Character doesn't figure out how to help a certain recurring petitioner, said petitioner will eventually take his own life.
• Yomawari: Midnight Shadows: After years of living in a dysfunctional and even abusive family, her best friend Haru moving away soon, and one of her dogs dying, Yui crosses the Despair Event Horizon. When she buries her deceased dog in the mountains, the voice of Malice, posing as the tutorial, guides the suicidal Yui to use her dog's leash as a noose and hang herself with it in the First-Episode Twist of the game.
• Yume Nikki: After dropping the 24 effects off in the Nexus, Madotsuki wakes up from her dream, walks out onto the balcony... and leaps off the edge. Cut to black and a bloody red smear on the canvas.

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