Taking You With Me / Live-Action Films

---

• 12 Rounds: Wounded and trapped on a damaged helicopter that is out of control, Miles activates the timer on the explosive vest he had earlier had on Molly and then throws away the only means of deactivating it in an attempt to take Danny and Molly with him.
• The 14 Amazons has the Last Stand of General Chiao of the Ming Army, who had sworn to give his life to defeat the invading Tanguts, willingly staying behind to destroy a dam and cause a Giant Wall of Watery Doom that wipes out over 200 Tangut reinforcements. He even name-drops the trope by saying he's "willing to die if he can take a few hundred enemies with him to his grave".
• 300: Presumably what Leonidas was attempting with his last act, hurling a spear up at Xerxes. Subverted because the spear narrowly misses, however it does nick his cheek and disfigure his face, as a humbling lesson towards an arrogant king who considered himself a god.
• At the end of 1408, Mike Enslin is informed that his only way out of the evil room is suicide, and helpfully provided with a noose. Deciding he'd rather go out on his own terms, he makes a Molotov Cocktail out of a bottle of cognac, sets the bed on fire, then - with some appropriate final words - smashes the window, causing a backdraft to destroy the room. (Whether or not Enslin himself survives depends which ending you're watching.)
• The murderer in After the Thin Man threatens this when finally exposed, planning to kill the object of his obsession, along with himself and anyone else who gets in the way. (He gets thwarted.)
• In Aladdin (2019), the evil sorcerer Jafar was tricked by the hero Aladdin into wasting his last wish into becoming 'the most powerful being in the universe', which allowed Genie to exploit those words in order turn Jafar into a genie himself, knowing that he would be bound to a lamp as punishment for his crimes against Agrabah. Upon realizing this too late and witnessing his pet parrot Iago trying to escape, Jafar angrily grabs Iago out of spite as he is being sucked into the lamp.
  Jafar: (being sucked into his lamp) I will not forget you, boy! Mark my words: I will NOT forget what you have done to me!!
  Iago: (trying to fly away) Goodbye, Jafar!!
  Jafar: (angrily) PARROT!!! YOU'RE COMING WITH ME!! (grabs Iago as he is finally pulled into the lamp)
• Alien:
  • Lieutenant Gorman and Private Vasquez in Aliens.
  • The Queen also tries this when Ripley attempts to blow her out of the airlock.
  • When an infant xenomorph queen started to hatch from Ellen Ripley's chest at the end of Alien³, Ripley took a swan-dive into a vat full of molten metal and took the queen with her.
  • An alien-infested guy named Purvis in Alien: Resurrection kills the Corrupt Corporate Executive of the episode Dr. Wren, by pressing the latter's head to his chest as the alien inside him is about to hatch so that it hatches through Wren's head.
• Alien Nation: When George Francisco is raiding the club where the alien drug dealer with his horrible drug was hiding, he held a plastique explosive charge in his hand (minions of the said dealer wanted to wire it to his partner's car earlier) and declared, that taking out the dealer and his drug is even worth dying for... Considering the side effects and the use of the drug back in his slave time, this is understandable.
• Subverted in the B-movie Anacondas: Trail of Blood, when a Mook faced with a nigh-unstoppable giant snake pulls the pins from his grenade-belt and waits for it to swallow him, so they'll blow up together. Hot on the scent-trail of someone else, the snake slithers right past the guy, who's so dumbfounded that he forgets to throw the grenades away and blows himself up.
• The Devil in the form of the Antichrist Franco Maccalusso in the Apocalypse film series knows he's doomed for the Lake Of Fire, and so decides to take as many souls with him in the Tribulation through the Mark of the Beast.
• Bangkok Dangerous 2008 has Joe committing suicide to kill his target, Surat, by putting their heads together.
• In John Wayne's film version of the Battle Of The Alamo, the hero manages to touch off the fort's powder storage, annihilating the victorious Mexican troops. In the real battle, a soldier tried this but was killed in the attempt.
• Beetlejuice — when Charles Deetz ineffectually tries to stand up to wife Delia's decorating plans, she vows, voice rising to a psychotic shriek, that if she can't gut the house and make it her own, "I will go insane, AND I WILL TAKE YOU WITH ME!!!"
  'Charles: *Beat* "Yeah, well... Why don't we just leave this room like it is, okay?"
• A silent version in Bumblebee. With Shatter smacking down Bumblebee in rage after Charlie disabled the signal to call in the Decepticons, she vows to kill Charlie after she's finished with the battered Bumblebee. This drives Bumblebee to fire one last shot at the dry dock's gates they're fighting in, causing a barge to come racing towards them as it floods. Bumblebee grabs the surprised Shatter to prevent her from dodging, causing a panicked Shatter to say that they'll both die. The meaningful look he gives Charlie as the barge slams into them makes it clear without words that's an acceptable outcome to save Charlie.
• Subverted in The Cabin in the Woods. A security officer blows himself up with a hand grenade as he's being gutted by Scary Scarecrows, but the blast stuns a nearby colleague armed with a submachine gun, leaving him helpless against a monster that crawls slowly towards him.
• Christine is capable of self-restoration, and thus damages herself multiple times while killing Buddy's gang. Most noticeably is when she blows up the gas station while she's inside, effectively turning herself into a driving fireball.
• Clash of the Titans (2010): The Djinn pulls one on the Medusa when she constricts around the creature and tries to turn it to stone. The Djinn explodes in a magical fireball- it does not manage to kill the Medusa, but buys precious time for Perseus to finish the job.
• Dave has a non-violent version, with the eponymous Dave who has been pretending to be US President Mitchell after the real Mitchell had a debilitating stroke firing Mitchell's Chief of Staff Bob Alexander after Dave starts doing things Bob hadn't intended him to do. Bob then brings to the press evidence that Mitchell was involved in a savings and loan scheme to push for Congress to impeach "Mitchell"; combined with an angling to get Vice President Nance declared mentally unfit for office, and it's clear Alexander is attempting to run for President himself. Dave, as President Mitchell, responds by calling a joint session of Congress where he admits to Mitchell's involvement but at the same time implicates Bob in the same scheme so that he can't run for President either, while also absolving Nance of any involvement before faking a stroke and leaving the Oval Office to Nance.
• Demon Knight, a movie produced under the Tales from the Crypt banner. A seriously maimed mother type and the deputy who loves her decide to go out big-grenade style in order to destroy many of the monster's minions.
• Devil Hunters, second movie of the Killer Angels series, ends with the main villain, Shing, choosing to blow up a set of gas tanks rather than facing arrest from the protagonists. He ultimately fails as the film's Power Trio, played by Moon Lee, Sibelle Hu and Ray Lui, managed to jump off the balcony they're on.
• In Diary of the Dead, when Samuel is bitten by a zombie, he impales himself and the zombie through the head with a scythe in one move.
• At the end of Dog Soldiers, Sarge — who's slowly turning into a werewolf himself — triggers a gas explosion, blowing up the cabin in order to kill both himself and the rest of the werewolf pack.
• In the film of Double Indemnity, after being shot by Phyllis, Neff kills her before going to record his confession.
• The film Dragonslayer has sacrifice as the way to, well, slay the dragon.
• In Dr. Strangelove, the Soviets build a cobalt bomb capable of annihilating all life on Earth. It will be set off automatically if anyone makes a nuclear attack on the USSR. Unfortunately, they forget to tell anyone (they were planning on announcing it on the following Monday, because "the Premier loves surprises").
• In Dune (2021), Liet-Kynes is fatally stabbed by a group of Sardukar who move in to finish her off. Liet-Kynes proceeds to rhythmically pound her fist in the sand, luring a sandworm which devours her and her killers.
• In Edge of Tomorrow the protagonist, William Cage, observes a soldier strapping a Claymore mine to his chest while suiting up for battle, presumably to do just this if necessary. The soldier dies without getting the chance, but Cage is able to grab the Claymore and detonate it in the face of a charging Mimic. The mine blows him up too, but the alien's blood "infects" him with its time-resetting power. The Claymore then reappears in the final battle, on the same soldier. This time he successfully uses it to stop a charging wave of aliens.
• In Elysium Kruger tries to blow himself and Max up with a grenade at the end of their fight. It doesn't work out as he intended.
• Enter the Eagles: The finale culminates with protagonist Martin blowing up himself with the main villain, when Martin shoves an exposed wire into the helium source on the villain's Cool Airship resulting in the ship exploding.
• Adapting actual legend, the Excalibur movie has a dramatic scene where Arthur successfully runs Mordren through, and Mordred leans forward and pulls the sword deeper as he dies to get close enough to stab Arthur back. Then they both die. This has been said to have happened to Arthur since the seventh century before he was even consistently called Arthur. He and Mordred mutual killed before there was Camelot, or Guinevere, or even Merlin.
• At the end of Flaming Brothers, with the last person that could see Ko prosecuted dead and both Alan and Tin out of options, they charge forward waving their empty guns at Ko and get both themselves and the villain killed by the waiting police.
• In 4Closed, Forrest has rigged the house with explosives with the idea of making it look like Jake, the husband, blew up the house. When the Turners start to escape him, he pushes the switch while still inside, hoping to catch them in the blast.
• In the final battle of 14 Blades, the hero Qinglong is locked in battle against his last enemy, Tuo-tuo. His weapons spent and on the verge of dying, Qinglong decides to trigger his last weapon, a projectile launcher, just as he's holding Tuo-tuo. Resulting in a One-Hit Polykill where Qinglong skewers his enemy and himself at the precise same time.
• In The General's Daughter, the killer deliberately steps on a landmine in an attempt to blow up Brenner and Sunhill along with himself. He's the only one caught in the blast.
• The Godfather Part II has a scene where Michael Corleone realizes that investing in Cuba may not be such a good idea...
  Michael: I saw an interesting thing happen today. A rebel was being arrested by the military police, and rather than be taken alive, he exploded a grenade he had hidden in his jacket. He killed himself, and took a captain of the command with him. Right, Johnny.
  Johnny Ola: Those rebels, you know, they're lunatics.
  Michael: Maybe so — but it occurred to me. The soldiers are paid to fight — the rebels aren't.
  Hyman Roth: What does that tell you?
  Michael: They can win.
• In The Great Santini, gentle and kindly Toomer is shot by Red, a racist redneck who'd been harassing him for his entire life. Toomer, knowing he's dying, gets payback for a lifetime of harassment by stumbling to his front door and opening it just before passing out from blood loss. He wasn't trying to get help, he opened the door to release his pack of extremely vicious dogs. Said dogs proceed to rip Red to pieces. Red's face, when he sees Toomer stumbling to the door and knows exactly what's about to happen, is nothing but pure Oh, Crap!. He knows he's a dead man.
• The Grey Zone: Oberscharfuehrer Muhsfeld expresses this attitude about the genocide he's a part of after shooting Hesch, fully cognizant of the fact that the war is going to end badly for the Nazis.
  Muhsfeld: That is how it will go for all of us. First you, then us. The last thing to do is smile. We will dispose of as many of you as we can before they do the same to us. Your bombers only speed it all up!
• Harry Potter: Two examples with Harry and Voldemort that don't occur in the books. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets has a dying Harry (from basilisk venom) realize that the memory of Tom is linked to the diary that is on the ground next to Ginny's body. Before Tom realizes it, Harry stumbles over and stabs the diary with one of the Basilisk fangs, destroying the image of Riddle. Later done in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, when Harry attempts this at one point during the final battle, attempting to throw himself and Voldemort off of a rampart to their death.

  Harry: Come on, Tom. Let's finish this the way we started... together!

• The final shootout of Hero (1997) sees the protagonist (played by Takeshi Kaneshiro) and his follower facing down the main villain's legion of 200-odd mooks. But it turns out several of the good guys, Kaneshiro himself included, have dynamites strapped to their waists - many of them deliberately grabs hold on enemy shooters and forcing them to pull the trigger, resulting in an explosive mess with a lot of redshirts blowing themselves up while inflicting heavy casualties on enemies.
• Hobo with a Shotgun ends with the Hobo poised to be fired upon by every cop in the city as he stands over the corrupt crime lord who put the city through Hell. He pumps his shotgun and blows him away, letting the dirty cops kill him as well.
  "We're taking a car ride to Hell, AND YOU'RE RIDING SHOTGUN."
• In Horrors of the Black Museum, Rick's final act is to take Bancroft with him. He leaps off the Ferris wheel, being shot by the police in the process, but landing on top of Bancroft and plunging his knife into the heart as he dies.
• Cato in the climax to the film adaptation to The Hunger Games does a variation of the trope. During the final battle between him, Peeta, and Katniss, Cato attempts to use Peeta as a Human Shield against Katniss, and is trying to goad her into shooting him, implying that by that point, he doesn't really care anymore if he survives the games or not.
  • In The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, Katniss tells Snow that this is what would happen to him, "If we burn, you burn with us". This is quoted in District 7 when they ambush the Peacekeepers. Later District 5 literally does this by destroying a hydroelectric plant that kills power at the capital on a suicide mission.
  • In Part 2, [[ President Snow telling Katniss it was President Coin who bombed her sister and the Xapitol children can be interpreted as this If so, he is succesfull.]]
• In the 2007 film version of I Am Legend, Neville sets off a grenade that kills himself and a horde of invading infected.
• Russell Casse from the movie Independence Day pulls one of these with his fighter on an alien ship's core after his missile failed to fire, and proceeds to take the entire ship with him. By hitting the ship's charging weapon. "Hello, boys! I'm baacck!".
  • Independence Day: Resurgence has Thomas Whitmore exploding his ship with a fusion bomb while facing the invaders' queen. "In the name of the people of Earth... Happy Fourth of July!"
• An unrelated 1983 drama called Independence Day had a victim of Domestic Abuse (Dianne Wiest) facing her husband by opening the gas on their house and lighting a match.
• Kingsman: The Golden Circle: Merlin, upon stepping on a land mine, lures the henchmen to him with a badass rendition of "Country Road, Take Me Home" before setting it off, taking the henchmen out with him.
• Near the end of Kiss the Girls, Casanova attacks Kate in her own house and tries to rape her, but she successfully fights him off. He tears out the gas tubes in her kitchen and grabs a lighter so he can off them both, but Cross arrives on the scene and manages to distract Casanova long enough to kill him safely.
• In Kong: Skull Island, Earl Cole pulls the pins off two grenades and tries to goad Ramarak into eating him. It fails because Ramarak notices something is wrong and swats him away with its tail, which kills him and makes the grenades explode far away.
• In Lake Placid 3, Reba kills the croc that kills her...with a hunting knife. As if she wasn't Badass enough as it was.
• Near the end of Left Behind: World At War, President Gerald Fitzhugh attempts to take down Nicolae Carpathia by having a missile being fired directly toward him while he was meeting Carpathia in his office. Unfortunately, Carpathia survives.
• The Lord of the Rings:
  • In The Fellowship of the Ring, the villainous Balrog takes Gandalf down with him. Since Gandalf is one of the good guys, he comes back.
  • Also from The Fellowship of the Ring: As Boromir is shot with multiple arrows he continues to fight, killing a half-dozen more Uruk-hai before being overwhelmed.
  • Treebeard in The Two Towers suggests this when the Ents make their "last march" on Isengard. But Saruman's massive army is actually at Helm's Deep and Isengard is just protected by a skeleton garrison, so it just results in a Curb-Stomp Battle for the Ents.
  • Saruman also threatens a version of this in The Two Towers when Gandalf tries to break the wizard's hold on King Théoden: "If I go, Théoden dies." It's a bluff.
• In The Lost World (1998), Malone detonates a pocket of swamp gas in order to destroy the Tyrannosaurus that had eaten Djena. However, the end of the film reveals that he had survived the explosion and is still living in the lost world..
• Lycan: At the end Isabella (while losing in a fight with her adopted mother) severs the house's gas line, which blows them both away. This insures neither of them can harm anyone else as well.
• Marvel Cinematic Universe:
  • In Iron Man 2 upon his defeat, Whiplash's armor's chestpiece begins blinking red, as do the ones on all the Hammer Drones. Granted, Tony and Rhodey get out in time but the ensuing explosions destroy most of Flushing Meadows.
  • In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Arnim Zola orders a missile strike on the bunker where he is stored so S.H.I.E.L.D can eliminate Captain America and Black Widow there as well.
  • Captain America: Civil War: Crossbones uses these exact words on Cap in the Action Prologue. He actually succeeds in catching Cap off guard by messing with his head, but Wanda is more on top of things and contains the explosion... only for things to go wrong in a different way instead.
  • In Thor: Ragnarok, Surtur is prophesied to bring about "the end of everything" during Ragnarok. He's deliberately summoned because the destruction of Asgard will also save the surviving Asgardians from Hela. He knows that annihilating Asgard will kill him, too, but he doesn't care.
• Mad Max: Fury Road:
  • After Furiosa kills Immortan Joe, Nux allows Max, Furiosa, and the Wives to escape in Joe's vehicle while he crashes the Rig to kill Rictus and to prevent more of Immortan Joe's men from pursuing the heroes.
  • Earlier in the movie another Warboy, Morsov, gets shot in the head and chest with crossbow bolts. He uses the last of his strength to grab some grenade-tipped spears and leap onto the vehicle containing the person that shot him. The grenades detonate on impact, killing Morsov and his shooter.
• In The Magnificent Seven (2016), Josh Faraday does this when he lights a stick of dynamite to take out the enemy and their Gatlin gun.
• In Man of Steel, Colonel Nathan Hardy crashes the airplane carrying Kal-El's ship onto the Kryptonian one. Double as Faora was just about to attack him — and he says the very same Pre-Mortem One-Liner told by her earlier.
• Miss Sloane: Sloane ultimately goes to prison, but not before revealing the bribery of Senator Sperling by Dupont, ruining the careers of both.
• In The Neverending Story Atreyu tells his nemesis Gmork that if the Nothing is going to kill him anyway then he's taking Gmork with him.
• Toward the end of Night of the Demon, Holden catches up with Karswell in a train compartment. Convinced by this point that Karswell has summoned a demon to destroy him in a matter of minutes, he declares that he wants Karswell close by to be sure whatever happens does so to both of them.
• Oblivion (2013). Jack Harper (actually his clone) and Malcolm Beech smuggle the nuclear bomb to the Tet, blowing it up and dying in the process. However, their sacrifice saves what is left of humanity.
• Pacific Rim:
  • When the Kaiju decompose on death, they release an agent called "Kaiju Blue" which emits toxic vapors capable of leaving an entire city uninhabitable. This appears to be Alien Blood mixed with an aversion of No Biochemical Barriers instead of a deliberate attack.
  • With Striker Eureka crippled and the bomb release damaged, Pentecost and Chuck Hansen bait two Kaiju towards them and then detonate their nuke.
  • While its pilots escape, Gipsy Danger is sacrificed to blow up the rift and the Kaiju's creators.
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest ends with Jack charging at the Kraken as it attacks the Black Pearl.
  • And the fifth film, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales ends with Hector Barbossa himself jumping off the anchor chain of the Black Pearl, slashing Salazar In the Back with it, and then plummeting into the sea with him, using his final moments to look up at his daughter Carina one last time. Since Barbosssa only has one leg at this point in the timeline, he won't be able to swim back onto the Pearl. What makes this noteworthy is that Barbossa has come back from the dead before, but since the person who brought him back was a goddess locked in human form, and that goddess is now free, there's no guarantee that the heroes will be able to bring him back a second time. And Barbossa's old frenemy, Jack, recognizes what Hector's trying to do, and throws him his sword before he makes his sacrifice.
• Predator. One of the key things about the creature is that it has a nuclear bomb in its watch thing, which it activates if it thinks it's near death.
  • Barely averted in Predator 2. The wounded City Hunter falls off the roof of the slaughterhouse but manages to grab Harrigan's arm, then activates its bomb. However, Harrigan manages to grab the Predator's smart disc, which was conveniently lodged in the wall beside him, and use it to sever the arm of the City Hunter, preventing the bomb from going off.
  • In Predators, Nikolai takes the pin off a mine while facing a Predator to blow up both of them. While telling it it's an ugly bastard.
  • Going back to the nuclear bomb, the Predator initiates in AVP: Alien vs. Predator this to destroy their Xenomorph quarry in the event of an unsuccessful hunt.
• Leon: The Professional has its title character doing this to Stansfield in the climax: He hands Stansfield a grenade pin. "This is from... Mathilda." BOOM!
• In Resident Evil: Extinction, a sniper gets swarmed and bitten by several zombies. He throws himself off the tower and drags all the zombies with him, and they all go splat.
• Scanners II: The New Order. After Commander Forrester's plan is definitively foiled, he makes one last attempt to kill David by grabbing one of the police officer's shotguns. David stops him with his powers and nearly kills him in return.
• Scarecrows: During the final battle with the last of the undead on the plane, a mortally wounded Corbin pulls the pin on a grenade and wraps his arms around the undead; blowing both of them up.
• The Scavengers: When Polie is shot and impaled with a ramrod, he wraps his hands around the neck of the soldier who shot him and announces "Now we're both dead!" He then strangles the soldier to death before keeling over himself.
• In Shanghai Knights, Chon Wang is clearly outmatched by Lord Rathbone, so he cuts the ropes supporting the platform they are both standing on and sends both of them through the glass face of Big Ben. Chon is caught by Roy O'Bannon, who was knocked through the same glass a little earlier.
• In Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, as Holmes and Moriarty prepare to fight each other atop Reichenbach Falls, they both use Awesomeness by Analysis to calculate their strategies in the upcoming fight, and both conclude that a victory for Moriarty is almost inevitable due to Holmes suffering a crippling shoulder wound. Upon realising this, Holmes pulls the one move Moriarty didn't anticipate: blowing pipe ash in Moriarty's face to distract him, then dragging both of them over the edge of the falls.
• In Skyfall, Silva tries to get a dying M to shoot them both through the head, but Bond intervenes by killing Silva with a throwing knife.
• Happens near the end of the otherwise subpar Soulkeeper (2001). One of the protagonists while trapped in the grip of the demonic Big Bad sets off a bomb right in its face, killing them both.
• A version of this occurs at the end of Stargate: Continuum when Teal'c is mortally wounded during the final battle and primes a grenade as his opponents stand over him gloating.
  Teal'c: I think not, Quetesh... I die free!
• Star Trek:
  • Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan has a defeated Khan use Ahab's lines as he attempts to destroy Enterprise along with himself.
  • Star Trek III: The Search for Spock:
    • Kruge attempts to do this to Kirk in , but "I... have HAD... enough of YOU!"
    • Kirk himself pulls a variant before this: With Enterprise disabled after a lucky hit knocks out the automation running the ship and leaving her dead in space, he activates the ship's auto-destruct to ensure that the Klingons who board her are killed as well. Kirk and crew beamed down to the surface of Genesis first, and Kruge didn't join the boarding party as Kirk hoped.
  • In Star Trek: First Contact, Worf tries to pull this when the Defiant's shields fail during the Battle of Sector 001, right before they are saved by the arrival of the Enterprise-E
    Worf: Then perhaps today is a good day to die! Prepare for RAMMING SPEED!
  • In Star Trek Into Darkness, with his crew apparently dead and the Vengeance in no shape to escape or fight, Harrison decides to just ram the thing into Starfleet headquarters. Fortunately for Starfleet, the engine cuts out early and Harrison merely wipes out a small selection of buildings along the coast. Harrison also survived thanks to his enhancements, but Spock knew he would.
• Attempted as a last-ditched effort to buy Han Solo some time by Lando Calrissian in Return of the Jedi once the second Death Star is revealed to be "fully armed and operational":
  Lando: Yes, I said closer! Move as close as you can, and engage those Star Destroyers at point-blank range!
  Admiral Ackbar: At that close range, we won't last long against those Star Destroyers!
  Lando: We'll last longer than we will against that Death Star! And we might just take a few of them with us!
  • Arvel Crynyd (the doomed A-Wing pilot) in Return of the Jedi. Definitely a Dying Moment of Awesome, since in crashing he kills not only himself but Admiral Piett (the film's fourth-ranked villain, or maybe fifth if you count Jabba the Hutt) and his entire crew, deals a mortal blow to Darth Vader's Super Star Destroyer Executor^note  Which is pretty symbolic in itself since Vader himself had been mortally wounded and regained the Light Side shortly before this, and sends the ship crashing into the by-then unprotected second Death Star, bringing it that much closer to its imminent destruction and doubtlessly annihilating more than a few stormtroopers.
  • It's likely that Darth Vader knew that lifting up Emperor Palpatine and tossing him into a pit would result in himself dying from his suit getting electrocuted, but he didn't care as long as it saves Luke's life.
  • The 2017 version of Battlefront II brings us Operation: Cinder, a plan by Palpatine to devastate various worlds after his death.
  • The Last Jedi has Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo of the Resistance turn her doomed, evacuated cruiser about and ram the pursuing First Order flagship - at hyperspeed. The devastation it wreaks upon the First Order fleet is phenomenal.
  • In Death Star, TIE pilot Vil Dance calls it the WBD — We Both Die.
  • In the game Rogue Squadron II, you can do the same to the Star Destroyer on Razor Rendezvous; due to a glitch, you don't lose a life from it.
• Stealth employed this. The AI plane used this as the Last Act of Sacrifice against a North Korean helicopter. Immediately charged up to hypersonic and boom goes the helicopter. Final words: "Goodbye."
• Shredder, at the end of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze, drinks the mutagen, which transforms him into Super Shredder, and starts wrecking the supports of a pier and, in a panic, Leonardo tells him to stop or he'll kill them all. Super Shredder lifts the turtle up and roars "Then so be it!" All he ends up doing is killing himself, though.
• Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines has the T-850 destroying the T-X by removing his "fuel cell" (which gets unstable and explodes outside his body) and putting it in her mouth ("You are terminated!"). Apparently self-termination is only possible by employing this.
• In Thor: Ragnarok, Surtur is so dedicated to destroying Asgard he's perfectly willing to use an attack that will destroy himself along with it. The heroes had actually evacuated it beforehand, so he wasn't actually taking anybody but the Big Bad with him, but fortunately, he didn't appear to notice.
• The Tournament: Knowing that he is fatally wounded, Joshua shoves a tracking device down Powers' throat, and then wraps his arms about him, keeping them both in position till the time runs out and they both explode.
• In Tremors, Crazy Survivalist Burt plans to do this when the graboids have them treed and it seems likely they'll all starve; walk out with the fuse lit on a stick of dynamite and "let 'em take me. Boom." And that gives Val a good idea.
• The final four survivors in John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) realize they have no hope of winning against the alien organism in their camp, and to allow it to retreat as it tries to would mean the end of the world (and presumably every other world it plans to infect). MacReady tells the remaining survivors that none of them are going to make it out of this alive, but "neither is that thing." They decide to blow up their entire camp, ensuring their own deaths in a last-ditch attempt to kill it before it can freeze itself back into the ice until it can infect the incoming rescue team, which would then infect them and everything they come into contact with afterward without anyone's knowledge. After MacReady detonates the cave The Thing is hiding in with a Moment of Awesome "Yeah, fuck you too!" The two survive the blast itself, but as one character says in the final scene as they realize they're no longer in any shape to fight, the fires are going to go out eventually, and so there's no ambiguity that they'll eventually freeze to death long before the rescue team arrives. Finally, because they both realize that it's still possible one of them is infected, they agree that it's for the best that they both die with it, to make sure that it's truly dead.
• Richter from the original Total Recall (1990) tries to pull one of these on Quaid. Come to think of it, a taxicab tries to pull it on him, too. Neither works.
• Tower Heist: At the end of the film, Josh Kovaks ensures Arthur Shaw's downfall alongside his own by handing the FBI the latter's ledger containing enough evidence to lock Shaw away for the rest of his life, accepting a reduced sentence for himself and enabling the rest of the heist team to walk free.
• In United 93, this comes from both sides. The hijackers are going to kill the passengers on their suicide mission, and the passengers are going to attempt to save themselves while also stopping the terrorists from reaching their final destination. It also counts as a Real Life example since the passengers actually did prevent the al-Qaeda hijackers from reaching Washington D.C. and taking many more lives.
• In Universal Soldier: The Return, Luc had a partner named Maggie, who spent most of the time protecting Luc's daughter Hilary from ruthless Uni Sols (led by the maniacal computer system S.E.T.H.). However, Maggie gets killed by S.E.T.H.'s right-hand man Romeo (who tried to rape her earlier), and her body was taken to the Uni Sol building, where she is revived as a Uni Sol to serve S.E.T.H., much to Luc's grief. Even when an angry Luc manages to destroy S.E.T.H., he ends up being defeated by Romeo, who intends to kill him. However, being freed thanks to S.E.T.H.'s demise, Maggie shoots Romeo in the chest while letting Luc escape with Hilary, telling Luc to destroy the building with herself and the other Uni Sols inside as she won't live the rest of her life as a killing machine. Luc reluctantly obliges to this after bidding Maggie farewell, and Maggie quietly accepts her fate perishing in the explosion, taking Romeo and the remaining Uni Sols with her in revenge for her horrible fate.
• The end of the Wild Wild West movie has Arliss Loveless in a position where he could very well survive along with the hero but also has the option of pulling this on him, leaving him feeling genuinely conflicted about the issue.
  "I'm facing a very difficult problem here. On the one hand, I have an overwhelming love for myself... and on the other, the raw, seething hatred that I have for you. I could kill you very easily, Mr. West, just by pulling on this lever. But I would die along with you, hence my conflict."
  • West makes the choice for him, pulling the lever and sending both down into a very deep chasm. Only West has the option of grabbing a chain.
• In The Wraith, the title character actually allows his own car to be struck and blown up 3 times. He also drives it into the chop shop and blows the place sky-high with it. Packard was also worried that he was trying to do this by firing his shotgun inside the chop shop, mentioning that it was full of volatile chemical fumes. At the end of the movie, Packard tries unsuccessfully to do this to the Wraith.
• In The Wrath of God, one of the "heroes" is mortally wounded but grapples his killer — then brings up one hand holding a grenade. Grinning into the other man's horrified face (at about four inches), he says, "Life is just full of surprises!" before pulling the pin with his teeth and holding the grenade alongside their heads. Boom.
• X-Men Film Series
  • X-Men: First Class:
    • What Bob Hendry tries to do with Shaw with a grenade. He doesn't know about Shaw's mutation and what he can do with all of that energy.
    • Beast uses this against Azazel when he tries his Tele-Frag trick, grabbing hold of him so they'll die together if Azazel doesn't teleport to safety.
  • Implied with Bishop in X-Men: Days of Future Past, while reaching critical mass when he rises to his feet and reaches outward, directing his explosion towards the three Sentinels that 'killed' him.

---