Taking You With Me / Anime & Manga

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• This trope is one of the many reasons why Ai no Kusabi ends as a Tragedy.
• In the anime of AKIRA when Tetsuo is being sucked into the portal summoned by Akira after he became a giant blob when his power became too much for his body to handle, as he's being pulled in, he grabs a hold of Kaneda and takes him with him, Kyoko, Masaru, and Takashi then go inside to get Kaneda out.
• In Extra Chapter 3 of Assassination Classroom, Azusa planned this with her loan sharks, if Korosensei never showed up for her to kill.
• In the fourth season of Bakugan, Mag Mel tries this after being beaten by Dan and Drago, revealing that all the energy he's absorbed means his death will result in it all being released in a massive explosion, which he attempts to use to kill them all. They survive, though.
• Black Clover: Each of the members of the Third Eye attempts to blow themselves up and destroy their opponents when they're on the verge of defeat:
  • Vetto is stopped by Yami, who uses his newest spell to cut him down from a distance before he can finish.
  • Fana is first stopped by Asta's Anti-Magic. When she tries again, she's stopped by Mars embracing her and bringing her back to her senses (in reality allowing the human Fana to break free of being possessed by her elf counterpart).
  • When Rhya tries to blow himself up in order to kill Mereoleona, Asta becomes sick of this trope and uses his Anti-Magic to disperse Rhya's mana before slugging him in the face and telling him not to throw his life away.
• Bleach:
  • Yamamoto — the last captain standing — tries to do this to Aizen in an extreme example that would not only take out them, but EVERYONE ELSE in the area. Naturally, it fails, as Aizen made one of his minions specifically able to cancel that ability. Sort of justified, because as prideful as Aizen is, he even outright admits that Yamamoto would beat him in a fair fight. Then a severely wounded Yamamoto tries it again when Aizen moves to finish him off, casting the level 96 Kidou "Single Blade Cremation", which uses his own body as a catalyst.
  • Baraggan tried and failed to do this to Aizen as he was dying from his own power.
  • Askin Nakk Le Vaar pulls this off as he dies: his Gift Ball Deluxe increases in potency and begins poisoning Urahara and Grimmjow to death. In this particular instance, however, Askin notes it's more a result of him no longer having the strength to restrain his own power.
• In Case Closed, Midori Ozaki attempts to do a mix of this and Thanatos Gambit when she tries to put the poison in Rika Okano's flowers as part of her revenge for causing her beloved older sister's ruin and suicide when her rival stole her Ikebana techniques, and when the flowers bloom, the poison will spread and it will kill her and Rika. However, Conan stops this just in time before she can do so.
• Non-fatal version in Code Geass, where C.C. uses the Gawain, running low on power, to grapple Jeremiah and his Siegfried and forces both of them to the bottom of the ocean. Non-fatal since C.C. is immortal while Jeremiah, who was altered by Britannia in an attempt to recreate C.C., is insanely tough; both characters return for the second season.
  • In the episode before, Nina tried to use a Sakuradite-bomb to blow up the whole Tokyo settlement as an attempt to kill Zero to avenge Euphemia's death at the hands of Zero.
  • In the same episode, Lelouch straps a liquid sakuradite to his chest and threatens Suzaku that if he shoots it, they, along with Kallen, will die. Suzaku manages to get it off him without it detonating.
  • Some episodes earlier, Suzaku turns the tables on Zero and holds him in headlock, awaiting Schneizel's command to take out the both of them. Considering Suzaku's death wish, this would kill two birds with one stone. Lelouch, being fully aware of this, gets out of this situation by placing a "Live!" command on him.
  • At the start of the second season, one of the Four Holy Swords tries to take down Rolo this way. Even though it violates internal consistency somewhat, Rolo's Geass allows him to escape death.
  • In the second season, Lelouch goes into the Sword of Akasha after his father, then destroys the gateway from the inside, effectively trapping them forever. He even gets to say See You in Hell:
    "Now, let us suffer together in this eternal repentance!"
    • Considering Lelouch wasn't a code bearer and the emperor was, Lelouch would eventually die of thirst if things had gone according to plan. The Emperor wouldn't have been so fortunate.
    • Ultimately subverted. While it implicitly would have trapped them both, it couldn't stop C.C. from moving to and from the other world at will, so Lelouch had to finish the job anyway.
• A definitive example occurs in Episode 5 of Cowboy Bebop, "Ballad of Fallen Angels". Finishing the the firefight inside the chapel, Vicious lifts Spike off of the veranda floor, smothering him in the process. Before Spike suffocates, Vicious decides "to force him out of Heaven", and he throws him outside the chapel through its stained-glass window. Spike leaves behind a live grenade to say goodbye.
• Hilarious subversion: A Heterodyne tries to do this in Dai-Guard while it is falling into the ocean by grabbing the eponymous robot's arm, so Akagi just detaches it.
• Darker than Black: Huang deliberately got into a car chase with Syndicate agents so he could lure them off and blow them up with a bomb he'd planted in his car. And November 11 took down his boss and a roomful of bodyguards (probably even more, since he made it out of the building before the bullet wound got to him). And he did it with a bottle of bourbon.
• In Deadman Wonderland, Nagi does this with Genkaku, holding him down so that Ganta can kill him. His words: "I'm your guide to hell." Genkaku really doesn't seem to mind, and appears pretty happy.
• Denjin N: Following Sudou's plan, Tadahiro grabs his evil Literal Split Personality N and destroys himself with him.
• In Digimon Adventure, Apocalimon was willing to kill himself and destroy everything in the process.
  • This trope was also evidenced during the final fight on Infinity Mountain, where Angemon fought Devimon.
  • In Digimon Fusion, Beelzebumon pulled this on Lilithmon.
• Occurs several times in Dragon Ball Z, with most attempts being unsuccessful (since success would instantly remove a major villain or hero from the story). We start off with Goku holding Raditz in place for Piccolo to blast them both away (which was actually successful). Then there's the Saibaman (who is a mook and thus disposable) who blows up Yamcha, Chiaotzu who tries it against Nappa (unsuccessfully), Android 16 who tried it against Cell (unsuccessfully), Cell who attempts to blow himself up along with the Earth after being beaten by Gohan (unsuccessfully due to Goku's intervention; though in consolidation he kills Goku, King Kai and his companions; destroys King Kai's planet; and is able to regenerate from the destruction even stronger than before), Vegeta who blows himself up in an attempt to kill Buu (unsuccessfully), then Buu who blows himself up trying to kill Gohan (though Buu is able to regenerate and it's later revealed he was only trying to buy time). Somewhat subverted with Frieza who tries to blow up Namek, seemingly to take Goku with him, but he then says that he's able to survive in space while he knows Goku cannot.
  • This trope also plays a pivotal (albeit non-lethal) role in Universe 7's performance in the Universal Survival arc of Dragon Ball Super, with Tien using his clones to bring down his opponent while being ringed out himself, Frieza blasting Gohan and Dyspo off the arena while the former holds down the latter, and finally, Goku and Frieza grappling Jiren as they drop out of the arena, leaving Android 17 the sole remaining fighter (and thus, Universe 7 victorious). There are also some failed attempts, like Nink attempting to drag Goku out with him, only for Goku to use Super Saiyan Blue to break his hold at the last second, leaving Quitela annoyed that Nink just cost their team a fighter.
  • Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero has Gamma 2 pull off an Explosive Overclocking attack to try and kill Cell Max in a do-or-die divebomb attack towards its head. Though Gamma 2's Core Breaker attack doesn't kill Cell Max, it does cleave off its arm and severely weakens its frame, preventing it from being a Senseless Sacrifice and giving Gohan and the others the edge they needed to finally put down the beast.
• Dewey from Eureka Seven has a Dead Man's Switch embedded in his chest that will activate the necklaces that Anemone and Eureka wear to prevent them from becoming the next Coralian hive mind. Fortunately for them, it doesn't work too well, and they both survive, if in a very bad way immediately afterwards.
• Fairy Tail:
  • The Tartaros arc begins with one of these in the form of Tempester, blowing himself up into a deadly and rapidly-spreading cloud of poisonous particles after his defeat at the hands of Laxus and the Raijin Tribe. In a desperate bid to save the lives of the citizens of Hargeon, Laxus makes a Heroic Sacrifice by inhaling as much of the poison as possible as his Dragon Slayer powers enable him to do. He and his team all survived, albeit with a strong possibility of being permanently weakened, and Tempester's poison still managed to kill over a hundred Hargeon inhabitants. Of course, since Tartaros can revive their fallen, this was only a temporary setback for Tempester.
  • Pulled again by fellow Tartaros member Jackal after Natsu cleans his clock, only in his case he decides to use his Explosion Curse on himself to create a town-destroying bomb. Happy is able to avert destruction by flying him into the sky before he explodes. Like Tempester, Jackal is revived at his guild, pissed off that even his final move was foiled.
  • Downplayed at the end of the arc, as Acnologia shows up at the end and is confronted by Igneel. Acnologia is still alive after killing him, but Igneel used his dying breath to tear Acnologia's arm off.
• In Fate/Apocrypha, Frankenstein unleashes her Blasted Tree Noble Phantasm, which at full power consumes her as well in a massive explosion of lightning in order to defeat Mordred. It doesn't work in either the light novel or the anime due to Mordred's Master Kairi either teleporting her out of the blast with a Command Spell in the former or empowering her defense with one to counter Frankenstein's Master Caules's own Command Seal boosting the attack in the latter, which cancels out the boosts and leaves Mordred injured but alive.
• Fullmetal Alchemist:
  • Double subverted with Fu, who intended to blow himself up and take Wrath with him...but then Wrath just sliced up the explosives and ran him through. It looked like a Senseless Sacrifice until Buccaneer — himself heavily wounded — stabbed Wrath through Fu's body, finally landing a hit that weakened Wrath enough for Scar to finish him off later.
    Buccaneer: Old man, we'll walk him down the path to Hell together.
    Fu: Yes, thank you.
  • In Fullmetal Alchemist (2003), Kimbley turns Al into a bomb shortly before he dies from the mortal wound Scar inflicted on him. Unfortunately for him, Scar manages to deactivate the bomb by giving Al his right arm, turning him into the new Philosopher's Stone and saving his life.
• In the Season 1 finale of Full Metal Panic!, Gauron attempts to do this to Sousuke while they're in their Humongous Mecha. He sets his AS to self destruct in 2 minutes, and pins Sousuke down. Right before the dramatic explosion, he takes the opportunity to confess his love for Sousuke, which sort of falls flat when Sousuke blasts him off the ship they're on so only Gauron's AS explodes. In season 3, Gauron lives up to his legend of being impossible to kill by showing up alive again.
• In the middle of the Konan/Kutou war in Fushigi Yuugi, Tamahome tells Miaka, "If I die, I'm taking them with me, but I won't let you die!"
  • Played tragically straight with Chiriko's death, a case in which the hero does take the villain with him at the cost of his own life.
• The Big Bad of Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash★Star attempts this by grabbing Cure Egret and Cure Bloom and trying to pull them into the attack that's destroying him. However, Michiru and Kaoru grab them and keep them out, breaking the villain's last hopes and allowing himself to be destroyed.
• Future Diary: After having a hand blown off, being shot in the gut, and lost a lot of blood as a result, Minene reveals she has a heartbeat bomb on her person, and heroically (for this series anyway) wills herself to stay alive long enough so it can be used to blow the door to Eleven's vault/hiding place, so Yukiteru can kill him.
• This is how F-Zero: GP Legend ends. Rick Wheeler is able to destroy Black Shadow's Doomsday Device which, upon Going Critical, pulls Black Shadow and Captain Falcon's machines into the ensuing explosion. Falcon passes the title of Captain Falcon to Rick before Black Shadow attempts to escape. However, Falcon ejects from his racer and performs a Falcon Punch, knocking them both back into the explosion.
• In most Getter Robo adaptations, this is how Musashi Tomoe goes out. Most iterations have Musashi rip out Getter's Getter Core and crush it, detonating it and taking out as many Mechasauruses as possible, though the original anime has him fly Lady Command into the mouth of the Dinosaur Empire's main unit, destroying it and the leadership along with it.
• Done several times in Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin.
  • The Iga dogs seem somewhat fond of this: both Tsukikage and Hayato meet their makers this way.
  • Ben attempts to do this with Sniper. Both of them survive, though.
  • Benizakura kills Mosa in this fashion.
  • Akakabuto rises from the dead to take Gohei, Riki and Gin with him. Thanks to Gin, though, he doesn't succeed. At least not entirely, as he did manage to kill Riki.
  • In the wolf arc of the manga, Thunder Wolf manages to render Mukonga's front paws, his most effective weapons, useless. In response to this Mukonga tears his nonfunctional paw off and skewers Thunder Wolf with the bone of his leg before succumbing to his own wounds shortly after.
• Sir Penwood from Hellsing was presented as being mostly an incompetent Modern Major General at best. But then, after nearly being assaulted by Millennium infiltrators, he reveals himself as a Cowardly Lion and offers to remain behind in the complex the SS Waffen vampires were bound to attack to give time for the rest of the staff to flee. Nobody takes him up on this offer; they all stay behind with him. After the attack has killed everybody, he waits until the vampires are too deep into the complex to escape, and pulls out a thin cylinder. He laughs right in the enemy commander's face...and reveals the stacks of C4 he'd wired into the building. He gets shot. Twice. And he still presses the detonator.
• In the eleventh volume of High School D×D, Shalba Beelzebub was getting curb stomped badly by Issei that he had to resort to use a poison specifically effective for dragons. End result, while Shalba does die, he does have the honor of killing the main protagonist. Sadly for him, though, it just doesn't stick.
  • In the third season of the anime after Issei is mortally wounded by Fenrir, a grief-stricken Rias forces her powers into overdrive in an attempt to bring down Loki with her. Finding a covalently Phoenix Tear is what keeps her from going through with it.
• Hunter × Hunter: President Netero, nuking himself along with the Chimera Ant King.
• Inuyasha:
  • Naraku orders Kanna to do this, after she sustains heavy damage from protecting her Mirror-Demon. Although Kanna fails to take anyone with her, in her final moments, she Heel Face Turns slightly, and manages to tell Kagome how to defeat Naraku. In the anime, it is shown quite clearly that Kanna completely refuses to do this.
  • Naraku himself also tried this when his time came, to the point that he was willing to subject himself to a Fate Worse than Death if that meant that the protagonist's girlfriend comes with him.
  • After being fatally injured by her lover, Inuyasha, the priestess Kikyou attempts to take him with her with her last breath. She had softened at this point, though, and used a sealing spell that freezes him in time so he would never decompose or age instead of killing him.
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
  • At the end of Phantom Blood, Jonathan, lethally injured and with no chance of survival, decided to take Dio with him, trapping him in a sunken boat in the middle of the Atlantic. This works out for quite a while, that is, until Dio eventually manages to escape nearly 100 years later.
  • Battle Tendency:
    • Stroheim attempts to perform this on Santana by blowing himself up while Santana is inside him. He fails, though unlike most examples, Stroheim also survives.
    • Esidisi tries to perform this on Joseph at the end of their battle. It doesn't work, and Esidisi is reduced to a brain and forced to take control of Suzi Q's body to survive.
  • In Stardust Crusaders, after being lethally injured, Gray Fly attempts to pull this on the heroes by crashing the plane they're on before it can reach Egypt. Unfortunately for him, Joseph manages to land the plane safely, with his actions only extending the length of the journey from a simple plane ride to a country-hopping adventure.
  • Golden Wind:
    • Pesci attempts this at the end of the fight against him. After having his neck broken by Bruno, Pesci attempts to use the last of his strength to smash Coco Jumbo, killing the rest of Team Bucciarati. Luckily, Bruno stops him before he can do this.
    • Doppio/Diavolo's fight against Risotto Nero goes in the latter's favor until Doppio makes use of Risotto's Stand, Metallica, to manipulate him into being shot by Narancia's Stand, Aerosmith, which detects people through carbon dioxide and doesn't detect Doppio due to Risotto having sucked the iron out of his blood. As Diavolo is standing over him, Risotto then attempts to use Metallica to make Aerosmith shoot them both, but Diavolo uses his own Stand, King Crimson, to delete the point in time that he was/will be shot so that only Risotto gets hit.
  • Stone Ocean:
    • Highway to Hell, Thunder McQueen's Stand, is based around this trope. Highway to Hell allows McQueen to share self-inflicted injuries. The catch? McQueen is extremely suicidal.
    • It's implied that this was Emporio's plan during his Last Stand against Pucci, as the poison air would eventually kill him as well. Luckily, he survives thanks to the universal reset.
• Jujutsu Kaisen:
  • Megumi Fushiguro's Ten Shadows technique allows him to summon 10 different Shikigami after taming them by defeating them in combat. Other people can be included in the fight, but the Shikigami will only be tamed if it's defeated alone. One particular Shikigami is so powerful that not a single Ten shadows user could tame it. As a last resort, Megumi can summon this Shikigami and include his opponent into the exorcism ritual, making it attack them both. Megumi has attempted this multiple times, but was either interrupted or decided against it, before finally using it against an enemy sorcerer after being gravely wounded. However, Sukuna showed up and defeated it before Megumi died.
  • After Maki wipes out the Zen'in clan, Naoya barely manages to survive. As he stumbles across the clan's compound, however, he's stabbed In the Back by Maki's mother, who is also dying after Maki slit her throat, and plans to make sure Naoya and the rest of the clan dies with her as payback for their abuse towards herself and her daughters, whom she secretly loves.
• The Legend of Zelda (Akira Himekawa): In the adaptation of Oracle of Ages, after taking a mortal wound from Link, Veran tries to blow both herself and the hero up with a bomb. Raven comes to the rescue at the last second.
• Macross Plus has Guld going up against the Ghost X-9 alone. Despite his Super Prototype Cool Plane, he's clearly outmatched... until he switches his plane to Heroic RRoD and rams the sucker into the Ghost. In the OVAs, they both explode on impact; in the movie, Guld's fighter survives but he's plastered all over the cockpit due to G-forces.
• After being defeated, the Satellite Cannon Type Iris Unit in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Detonation attempts to blow up Nanoha with its self-destruct mechanism. It doesn't kill her, though it does blow off her right arm and damage her right eye bad enough that they both have to be replaced with cyborg replicas.
• In Magic Knight Rayearth, Eagle Vision uses this trope as his plan for Cephiro: the overuse of mental energy, what powers machines in his world of Autozam, is slowly killing him. Not wanting the same tragedy that befell Cephiro befall it again, he plans to become the Pillar of Cephiro and promptly die, taking the world with it so it would never harm another living person again.
• Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro: The titular character takes down the Big Bad because he wants to protect his food supply, even if he ends up dying. The logic is a typical Mind Screw but he IS a demon. Subverted when he gets better.
• Mobile Suit Gundam:
  • Paptimus Scirocco does this in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, in a rare villainous example that works. When his The-O Mobile Suit is impaled by the Zeta Gundam, he gets the lower half of his torso crushed by the nose of the Zeta itself. With his dying breath, he curses his killer, Kamille Bidan, and using his newtype abilities, mentally lobotomizes Kamille. His The-O then explodes, and Kamille is left blabbering like a five-year old. This is how the series ENDS. It takes Kamille almost the whole sequel, Gundam ZZ, to start getting better.
    • In The Movie, this doesn't happen. Kamille not only doesn't get mind-fried, but he is perfectly okay in the end and reunites with his girlfriend Fa and his friends.
  • In Gundam ZZ, Mashymre Cello pulls this trope when he uses his Newtype powers to help detonate his damaged Hamma-Hamma when he gets captured.
  • In Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, Yonem Kirks attempts to set off his Zaku I Sniper's backup generator by slamming his beam sniper rifle through its torso and pulling the trigger. Sadly, the attempt failed when Londo Bell's three-man Jesta team, the Tri-Stars, sliced off its arms, then shot it down without hitting its generators.
  • Attempted and failed by Duo Maxwell in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, when surrounded by OZ mecha and his Gundam is badly damaged. He even gets a See You in Hell ("Tag along...on my journey to hell!"), but the Self-Destruct Mechanism fails due to the damage and he gets captured, which results in him getting his Mid-Season Upgrade.
  • In Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, Natarle Badgiruel commands her crew to Abandon Ship as she locks herself and the loathsome Muruta Azrael on the bridge. She refuses to open the door for him, even as he puts an entire magazine into her, and they're both incinerated by the Archangel's Wave-Motion Gun. While Azrael goes out terrified and screaming, Natarle accepts her death with a smile.
    Natarle Badgiruel to Azrael: You're a monster that deserves to die, right here with me.
    • The same series culminates with Rau Le Creuset, an Omnicidal Maniac, attempting this on the entire human race. As a defective clone, his constant seizures were actually a symptom of his dying body. Unable to find meaning in his short life and convinced that Humans Are Bastards, he escalates the war to see if he's right that we'd wipe ourselves out given sufficient hatred and the means to do so. Unfortunately, we try. Really, really hard.
• Johan of Monster, in a non-literal, very extreme variation of the trope. He knows he has to die, and he's going to take everyone with him.
• My-HiME: The second-to-last episode has Natsuki sacrificing herself against her love-crazed best friend Shizuru by blasting Shizuru's CHILD (Kiyohime) while her own CHILD (Duran) is in Kiyohime's clutches, which destroys both CHILDs and kills them both. To further drive the point home, Natsuki tells Mai ahead of time that she knows she's not going to make it, and when she actually does so, hugs Shizuru for the first (and last) time as they both disappear, taking Shizuru with her (though they ultimately get better). It's worth noting that this is a rare case of TYWM that is not motivated by vengeance or hatred, but is actually done out of love.
• In Naruto, Deidara fights Sasuke, and when he loses the use of his legs and realizes his opponent can cancel out the effect of his Earth-based attack with lightning, he opts to swallow the exploding clay and set it off inside himself (where it can't be rendered useless) so he wouldn't be taken alive. It didn't work due to Sasuke summoning a giant snake, going inside it, which shielded him from the most of blast, and had the snake teleport another location.
  • At the end of the Rescue Gaara arc, after losing both of his arms Deidara exploited this trope by replacing himself with an explosive clone. The Konoha shinobi assumed he had really blown himself up in an attempt to take them out with him, while Deidara himself escaped to fight another day.
  • Sasuke himself attempts this when the Raikage is about to crush him and he makes a fire shield, but Gaara stops them both.
  • Danzo attempts this on both Tobi and Sasuke using a sealing technique, but they both managed to avoid it. However, the threat of it did give him enough time to destroy the eyes of his which Tobi was after.
  • In Part 1, Zabuza also succeeds at this against Gato during the Land of Waves arc.
  • Also in the original, the Third Hokage tries this against Orochimaru with the Reaper Death Seal. It works at first, but Orochimaru manages to stop the reaper from pulling out his soul at the last minute and ends up ultimately surviving, albeit heavily crippled and forced to obtain a new body very quickly. The Third, however, was not so lucky.
  • In the past, the Fourth Hokage (who died in his 20s and thus was outlived by the Third) did a variation of this to seal the Nine-Tailed Fox inside his son, Naruto, who was only just born. Due to both Naruto being born only a few minutes ago and the lack of any other viable hosts, the Fourth was forced to use the Reaper Death Seal to keep the fox down, as an infant wouldn't likely be able to handle a Tailed Beast if even the smallest part of it were allowed influence over their body.
• In the Festival Arc of Negima! Magister Negi Magi, Mana goes around sniping people with bullets that send whatever they hit three hours into the future, so that they cannot interfere with Chao's plan, as she would have already won. When she shoots Kaede, Kaede manages to grab her, warping her three hours into the future as well and neutralizing her for the rest of the battle.
• Neon Genesis Evangelion shows this during the flashback to the fight with an Angel in the previous episode (the first, to be precise). After Unit 01 goes berserk and beats the crap out of the Angel, the Angel latches onto it, and blows itself up. While this damages the Eva, it doesn't kill it.
  • In The End of Evangelion, Ritsuko tries to pull this on Gendo, as revenge for manipulating her and then betraying her by throwing her before SEELE for a humiliating interrogation, by rigging the Magi's self-destruct mechanism to blow up NERV HQ at her command. Her attempt fails when she forgets to account for the Magi having a will of its own.
  • Rei Ayanami also does this to take out the 16th Angel and save Shinji, and Mari does this in Rebuild of Evangelion to take out the 3rd Angel. Whilst Mari survives, her Eva certainly doesn't.
  • The manga version of the invasion of NERV features a wounded Misato waiting with a primed grenade for the soldiers tracking her.
• One Piece:
  • Don Krieg tried this on Luffy, when the Rubber Man had just kicked his ass and they were falling. Krieg throws a metal net around Luffy so that he drown due to Luffy's Weaksauce Weakness to water, but the attempt fails as Luffy smashes him into the ground.
  • Sanji pulls one against Eneru when the villain's death fortress is rising into air, Sanji messing around with it beforehand. Eneru fries Sanji with a lightning blast which was meant for Usopp and Nami, Eneru then realizes Sanji has done something to ship and curses him. Sanji survives by Usopp returning to the ship to pick up him.
  • During the Enies Lobby Arc, Franky subverts this by saying he's going to blow himself up, taking Enies Lobby and everyone else in a three-kilometer-wide explosion with him. While all of the Marines are trying to escape he grabs Robin and explosively farts his way out of the building, in an attempt to escape.
  • The court of Enies Lobby also has this in the form of its "Eleven Just Jurymen". The Jury consists of pirates who have been sentenced to death, so they pronounce every criminal who comes to Enies Lobby guilty to drag as many people down with them as possible.
  • After the Time Skip, Brook, now a famous rock star, tells his managers that he plans to return to his pirate life. It doesn't take long for the Navy to show up.
    Manager: Your popularity is still on the rise! We could've made a fortune off you! But you betrayed us! Our company is dissolved! Let's all die together, Soul King!
  • Another example occurred way back on Drum Island when Dalton planned on stopping Wapol doing this, via going into Wapol's castle with a load of dynamite strapped to him. However, he never gets the chance to try, as Luffy had already forcibly banished Wapol by the time he arrived.
  • Caesar Clown, having been defeated by Luffy and on the verge of death, attempts to do this with Smoker by stabbing his heart, which was given to him by Law. The issue is that it wasn't Smoker's heart that Law gave him. It was his secretary Monet's, who was planning a similar attempt in destroying the entire island. Needless to say, the chance to do so never comes.
  • Pedro pulls this off in Chapter 877; he already knew his life was nearly over. So in an echo of Dalton, he blows himself up in an attempt to take Perospero — whose powers are currently putting the Straw Hats on the verge of defeat — down with him.
• Hilda from Outlaw Star, upon realizing she's caught in a star's gravity pull and that there was no way her crew could save her, decides to go down like the badass she is, grabbing one of the Big Bad's Co-Dragons with a metal clamp and blowing up the both of them with the explosive equivalent of a Cyanide Pill.
• Pacific Rim: The Black: In the Season 2 finale, the protagonists' Jaeger Atlas Destroyer is critically damaged in a fight with the Category VI Kaiju Breacher, and can't fight anymore. In a last ditch effort to save them, Loa ejects Taylor and Hayley from the Jaeger and then triggers the Self-Destruct Mechanism, killing herself but taking out Breacher as well.
• In Pokémon: The Series, during Ash's battle with Katie in the Hoenn League, Katie has her Misdreavus use Destiny Bond when it gets hit by Glalie's Headbutt, resulting in the Face Pokémon being knocked out as well. Later in "Bewitch, Battle, and Bewilder!", Cynthia's Spiritomb uses Destiny Bond when Pikachu strikes it with an Iron Tail as part of a Batman Gambit by Cynthia to leave Ash without his ace.
• In Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Kyoko does this when she gives Sayaka a Mercy Kill, to save both of them from The Corruption and to make sure she doesn't die alone.
  • In episode 13 of Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story, as the Memory Museum collapses upon her, Holy Mami yanks Iroha down the same bottomless chasm she fell in.
  • In the above anime's finale, Alina wastes no strength in using her last moments as a Magical Girl to sell the others out to Kyubey by shattering the Doppel barrier once she becomes a Witch to turn all humanity into Witches.
• RahXephon has Kuki cornering Kunugi in TERRA's control center. Kunugi is heavily injured, his opponent is inside a huge, invincible Dolem that just laid waste to the entire island. His solution? Activate a failsafe in the teleporter between the control center and the Xephon's holding pen that causes the entire island to erupt into a second Tokyo Jupiter. Cue Kuki going Oh, Crap! when he sees his opponent's half-smile that just reeks of saying "Checkmate, sucker."
• In Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles Alex Romero dies this way taking many of enemy fighters with him.
• Rurouni Kenshin: When opium dealer Kanryuu Takeda was caught by the police and knew there was no way he could avoid death penalty, he tried to exact revenge on Megumi Takani, who made opium for him until she decided to leave his service, by denouncing her as a member of his drug ring but Kenshin told the police she was an innocent whose medical knowledge led Takeda to try to force her to make opium.
• Sailor Moon: Sailor Jupiter does this near the end of the first season, electrocuting herself along with the DD Girl who captured her. Sailor Venus takes out another in a similar way, with a powerful kamikaze overload of her Crescent Beam attack, and Sailor Mars completely immolates the last with the remainder of her power. "Fire... SOUL!" They all got a Dying Moment of Awesome.
  • Sailor Moon herself does so in the first series's finale, overloading the Silver Crystal and unleashing its full powers to destroy both Queen Beryl and Queen Metallia despite knowing that it will kill her.
  • In the manga, as Prince Diamond has a Villainous Breakdown possibly from getting kicked out of the position as the Big Bad when Black Lady and Wiseman show up AND having had to kill his brother Sapphire, he snaps and tries to put the two Silver Imperium Crystals together, which would undo time itself. Unfortunately for him and luckily for the rest of the universe Pluto reacts faster than he does, breaks a taboo, and stops time.
  • Back to the anime, Berthier of the Ayakashi Sisters in Sailor Moon R tried to pull this, intending on freezing herself and Sailor Mercury via a game of chess.
• Saint Seiya: In the first case, Ikki uses this to defeat Virgo Shaka, but Worthy Opponent Shaka is so impressed by his courage that with the help of Aries Mu, he brings Ikki back to the Sanctuary and does a Heel–Face Turn. On the other hand, both Shiryu and Siegfried from the Asgard Saga try this on Capricorn Shura and Siren Sorrento, respectively, by holding them and ascending to space with them. The latter fails since Sorrento survives, and the former succeeds (but ultimately returns). Gemini Kanon takes it one step further on Wyrvern Radamantys by ascending to space AND using his Galaxian Explosion at the same time.
  • Many instances in Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas from both Saints and Specters alike, with varying degrees of success. Special mention goes to Pisces Albafica and Cancer Manigoldo.
• Jin from Samurai Champloo has a specific technique, handed down from his sensei, for taking down an opponent who completely outclasses him: he creates an intentional opening in his defense, and fatally strikes the opponent once he's fully committed to his attack. The technique generally leads to the death of both the user and the opponent, and Jin is lucky to make it out with only a grievous but non-fatal wound.
  • Likewise, after Mugen slays his brothers and fails to die to a gunshot, Toube waits until just before Mugen staggers to him before detonating a cache of explosives hidden in his wheelchair. Mugen survives this too, because he's invincible.
• Skip Beat! has a moment where Ren Tsuruga, in his Cain Heel role, is holding co-actor Murasame in a choke-hold off of an unsecured ledge. Murasame notices that he can't get himself out of the hold and thinks that, if he's going to die here, he'll take Cain Heel along with him, and pulls him off the ledge. Kyoko's intervention and Ren's quick thinking lead to both of them surviving.
• The Mariages of StrikerS Sound Stage X will liquefy its entire body into a combustible liquid that will turn the area they're in into a raging inferno in an attempt to incinerate their enemy together with them if they've been subdued and unable to retaliate in any other way.
• In Sword Art Online, during the Aincrad arc, Kirito manages to resist his death animation long enough to land the last hit on the final boss, freeing everyone else from the system. Kayaba lets him and Asuna, also recently killed, survive anyway.
• In Tenchi Muyo!, once Ryoko is freed from Ayeka and she returns to Ryo-Ohki, she takes control of her ship, slams it into Ryu-Oh and drags it through the atmosphere and down to Earth. Ayeka panics and demands Ryu-Oh's shell be jettisoned, the force throwing Ryo-Ohki off-course, slamming the ships into the Great Seto Bridge and landing them back in the Masaki Shrine. The only one to die and Ryo-Ohki, and she respawns the next episode.
• The first Tenchi Muyo! movie, Tenchi Muyo In Love: villain Kain, while being sucked into an alternate dimension, exclaims "If I have to go... I won't go alone!" and grabs the hero's parents. He tries it again near the end, attempting to keep Tenchi's mom in the alternate universe when the reality-destroying cannon is set to fire.
• Speaking of Clamp, in Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE-: Near the end of the Celes arc, Fai tries to kill Ashura and himself with an explosion of killer magic, but both survive (for the moment). (If you've read all of the Celes arc, then you see why Fai didn't just do it from a distance, so it's more of a Broken Character Wants To Die And Save His Friends via This Trope.)
• In Umi Monogatari, in the finale, Sedna tries this on her host body, Urin.
• Ushio and Tora:
  • The last remaining member of the Gamin-Sama tries to use what's left of his strength to, at least, take "Hizaki Mikado" down with him: before he can bite Mayuko, Ushio finishes him off with the Beast Spear.
  • When Fusuma is fatally stabbed through the neck by the Beast Spear, he wraps his limbs around the airplane even more, screaming that if he has to die, then all the humans on the plane will go to Hell with him. Luckily enough, Ushio and Tora manages to sever his limbs and detatch him from the airplane in time.
  • The Kudagitsune Izuna sacrifices himself to help Ushio defeat the Master Swordsman Blood Robe, by letting himself being impaled on his naginata, only to wrap his tail around the blade and shatter it, forcing Blood Robe to rely on his folded bow turned into a sharp bokken for the rest of the fight. Subverted in that Izuna survives the experience.
  • In a heroic example, Hyo finally avenges his family and slays the despicable Guren by tricking him into eating his magical crystal eye, overloaded with Guren's own lightning and Qi, alongside Hyo's arm, filled with paper talismans he can remotely detonate: before a terrified Guren can kill him, Hyo activates the talismans, blowing his nemesis up from the inside down before succumbing to his wounds.
• X/1999 has Karen Kasumi do this with a combination of this and a straightforward Heroic Sacrifice, complete with explosive Superpower Meltdown.
  • The Movie takes it a step further: nearly half of the heroic Dragons of Heaven perform Heroic Sacrifices to kill the villainous Dragons of Earth. It's difficult to tell in many cases just who sacrificed him/herself to kill whom, given the way the movie keeps throwing out such moment over and over and over again. The first combatants on either side die mere moments after the opening credits.
  • The abovementioned Karen and Shogo Asagi in The Movie deserve special mention: Shogo hits Karen with a train. And pays for it dearly, since Karen meets it with a fireball massive enough to blow herself, Shogo, and the train all to kingdom come.
  • Seiichiro Aoki's death also specifically invokes this: he grabs onto Nataku and uses his wind powers to accelerate them straight downward from a considerable height into the pavement, with the following Final Speech:
    Aoki: Maybe you're right. Yes, maybe the Earth should be destroyed. But even then, I will protect those that I love, and that's why I'll defeat you at the cost of my life!
• Yawaragi from Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon tries to kill the evil demon Konton in this way. She holds him so that a sword attack hits them both. But it fails and Konton can teleport to safety.
• Yu-Gi-Oh!:
  • In the original series, this technically happens twice. First by Pharaoh Atem when he took Zorc's soul with him into the seal on the Millennium items, and attempted a second time at the end of season 5, when Atem regains his name, summons Horakhty, and Zorc says this word for word to Atem, attempting to grab him before being consumed by light.
  • In Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Professor Satou tried to do this in his duel with Judai, using his Scar Knight's effect, which would have ended the duel in a draw and possibly killed them both due to their D-Belts. However, Judai used a card to protect himself, and only Satou took the damage. And then fell into a crevice when his D-Belt activated; he was presumed to have died in the fall.
  • In Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds, after his defeat at Yusei's hands, Rudger detonates his robotic arm, destroying the bridge they were duelling on, and sending Yusei plummeting into the depths of Old Momentum. Sore loser.
    • The dub had to change this as Rudger/Roman's arm detonation was technically suicide. It was changed so that Earthbound God Uru's destruction blows up the bridge.
    • This trope is also invoked during Jack's duel with D-Carly. Jack plans to activate a trap that will take them both down at once. This is, however, foiled by Carly, who manages to gain control of herself at the last minute and knocks her own life points down to zero in order to save Jack's life.
  • In Episode 42 of Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS, Revolver uses the effects of Topologic Gumblar Dragon and Drop Draco to bring both his own and Playmaker's LP to zero after he notices his father's heartbeat dropping to zero.
• Yusuke tries this a couple of times in YuYu Hakusho, but it's subverted both times. His first usage of this is when he uses almost all of his life energy to kill Suzaku, and is revived by Kuwabara before the rest of his life fades away. The second time is in his fight against Jin, where Yusuke was about to fire a Spirit Gun into a point-blank Tornado Fist, which would have created a tornado of spirit energy that would kill both of them. Luckily, Jin noticed this and decided to dodge instead.
  • One fight later after the Yusuke/Jin battle the exact same thing happens: a heavily wounded and near exhausted Kuwabara attempts to do this while fighting against Risho to allow one final win for his allies in the current round of the Dark Tournament. He even says the line, "It doesn't matter if I die, as long as I take you with me!" Like in Yusuke's case it gets completely subverted: Yukina happens to show up in the audience and thanks to The Power of Love he has for her, Kuwabara instantly regains all his energy and defeats Risho in one hit.
  • Kuwabara is perhaps the first character in the series to attempt this, during the Saint Beasts arc. Upon noticing Byakko's destroyed every platform in the Room of Hell he could jump to, Kuwabara leaps for the one Byakko is on and uses his Spirit Sword as a pole-vault. This gives him the leverage and momentum needed to land a huge flying punch on Byakko, sending him plummeting into the boiling acid pool underneath, with Kuwabara falling behind him. Luckily, one of his bandages snags on a crack in the platform... And Byakko survives the bath, albeit heavily wounded.
• Zekkyou Gakkyuu has this being pulled off in The Truth About Yomi, which serves as a background for the series' narrator. Back then, her name was Yumi Akimoto, and she was severely bullied in school. When she decided she couldn't take it anymore, she caused an explosion in the Home Ec room that killed her, along with the leader of the girls bullying her.

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