History Main / MurderSuicide

* ExaggeratedTrope for laughs: At the end of ''Penn and Teller Get Killed'', Teller accidentally kills Penn, then shoots himself. A guy who was just an actor, hired by Penn to play a trick on Teller to make it look like someone was trying to kill Penn, realizes that What With One Thing And Another there was no proof that it wasn't him, so he kills himself. Then his friend and a friend of his show up, whom he had invited to party with P&T after the planned [[TheReveal Reveal]] to Teller. They kill themselves because there was nothing to prove that ''they'' didn't do it. Then the cops come in, see the situation, and off themselves too. A long {{Zoom}} Out occurs, as more and more people come in, discover all the dead bodies, and shoot themselves. We hear these rather than see them. TheEnd.

'''As a DeathTrope, many if not all spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware.'''

* ''Literature/JohannesCabalTheNecromancer'': At the novel's climax, Cabal has been driven to utter villainy to get souls signed over to Satan (for most of the book his victims were going to hell anyway) and Horst's brother is disgusted by this, disgusted that he was a part of it. He reveals to Cabal that he had stolen a contract (planning to get it signed for Cabal if he was doing it the right way) but Horst considers his brother too far gone. They have a brief conversation and Horst realizes he can't make Johannes understand his position, and vice-versa. Horst doesn't actually kill Cabal himself but knows that losing his wager with Satan means Cabal will die all the same-Horst considers it a kind of KarmicDeath since Cabal was responsible for Horst becoming a vampire himself, a kind of death itself. This is ultimately subverted since while Horst does kill himself by walking into a sunlight field, Cabal is able to outsmart the Devil in the end but it still stands since Horst and Cabal were both believed he would die.

** Asuka's mother Kyouko tried to hang her daughter before doing so to herself. However, Kyouko was so delusion, she thought a rag doll was Asuka and hanged it instead. It's not clear whether Asuka's more angry that her mother committed suicide or that she didn't get to die along with her mother.

** Attempted by Asuka's mother Kyouko, except the "Asuka" that was murdered was the rag doll that Kyouko thought to be Asuka. It's not clear whether Asuka's more angry that her mother committed suicide or that she didn't get to die along with her mother.

This is TruthInTelevision, and [[NoRealLife/TooCommon it has happened WAY too many times]]. This falls among tropes with '''Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease''' [[noreallife]]

* The horror anthology ''Series/TheHunger'' has this in its second-season premiere "Sanctuary" as the backstory of its host character, MadArtist Julian Priest: having lost his audience via his increasingly grisly work, even his agent no longer believed in him. Julian murdered the agent and proceeded to turn his own death into a grisly piece of performance art, figuring he would attain immortality as an artist this way...

** ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone'': [[spoiler:Judge Wargrave]] commits suicide after arranging the deaths of everyone else, as he felt himself to be no better than his victims ''and'' he was fatally ill anyway.

* ''Series/TheFall'': At the end of series three, Spector strangles a fellow patient and then himself, the former act being to hide himself in the man's room where he wouldn't be found right away.

* In the ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' comics, [[spoiler:Sniper]]'s mother [[TheAlcoholic Lar-Nah]] promises to subject her incompetent husband to this once she runs out of wine, which [[INeedAFreakingDrink she's been drowning herself in]] since he destroyed New Zealand and got them locked up in an underwater lab. She's made such a threat so many times Bill-Bel has grown desensitized to it.

* This is actually required for the ''good'' ending of ''VideoGame/{{Rule Of Rose}}''. When Stray Dog (Gregory Wilson) is made to murder the girls in the orphanage, he succeeds, and the following revelation that Wendy was masquerading as Joshua to manipulate him drives him to kill her, then kill himself. The other option is to simply kill him, which results in the [[DownerEnding other ending]].

* In the last level of ''[[VideoGame/TheClassroomTrilogy The Classroom 1]]'', A student comes in late to the classroom and pulls a gun on the teacher and another student, before shooting himself. He does not actively try to kill you but you have to be careful to not be between him and his target.
* Gilius Thunderhead of the ''VideoGame/GoldenAxe'' franchise intends to kill [[BigBad Death Adder]], then promptly kill himself to be with his [[AngstySurvivingTwin dead twin brother]] in death.
* In ''VideoGame/TheSpectrumRetreat'', this was [[spoiler:Alex's]] original plan prior to [[spoiler:his internment at the Penrose - to kill everyone he believed responsible for his son's death]] and finally themselves.
* In ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'', it is possible to [[spoiler:defeat the Transcendent One at the Fortress of Regrets by killing yourself with the Blade of the Immortal, as he will be destroyed if the Nameless One dies permanently.]]
* In ''VideoGame/Persona3'', during the night of the Full Moon operation against the Strength and Fortune Shadows, Ken confronts Shinjiro, intending to kill Shinjiro for causing his mother's death two years ago. Takaya claims that Ken was planning on killing himself after the murder since he felt he had nothing left to live for. The claim about Ken being suicidal seems to be proven when Ken, after learning that Shinjiro is SecretlyDying, [[IAmSpartacus falsely claims to be the Persona-user who's helping S.E.E.S. find and defeat the Full Moon Shadows]] knowing that Takaya will kill him. Instead, [[HeroicSacrifice Shinjiro sacrifices himself to save Ken]], who, after a days-long HeroicBSOD, regains his will to live for his mother and Shinjiro's sake.

* Arguably, Brutus and Cassius in ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'', though the suicides happen well after the murder, not to mention mainly as a result of losing to Marc Antony.

* ''Film/TheBourneSupremacy'': It's revealed that Vladimir Neski's murder by his wife, who then turned the gun on herself, was actually a coverup of Neski's assassination and both Neskis were killed by Bourne who framed it so the police would think his wife was responsible.