Taking You With Me / Real Life

Warfare and Politics

• This is the whole point of "active" countermeasures like flares, which force a Homing Projectile to hit the decoy instead of what deployed it.
• When the Persians bypassed Thermopylae through the secret pass revealed by Ephilates, the Spartans decided to continue fighting and take as many Persians to the grave with them as possible before being annihilated.
• Fighter pilots often crashed their crippled planes into their intended target. The Japanese kamikaze (actually pronounced "kah-mee-kah-zeh") intentionally set out to do this, flying planes packed with explosives specifically for that purpose.
  • During the Battle of Midway, The crew of the IJN Carrier Akagi had a close call when a badly damaged B-26 Marauder attempted to crash into the ship's bridge. Though the suicide run failed, it was a nasty shock for the Japanese; The Americans weren't supposed to be that brave. Admiral Nagumo was particularly worried, not only because he'd been on the bridge when the attack happened, but it was also becoming apparent that Japanese Intelligence (and Propaganda) had underestimated the Americans.
  • The Soviets were masters on the taran attacks, ramming an enemy airplane with one's own. Exchanging a dated I-153 or I-16 fighter to a new Ju 88 is actually a good deal, and there are always chances of parachuting.
  • Eventually, tactics were developed so that the ramming attack doesn't necessarily kill the pilot who attempts it. Some pilots added steel edges on their propellers turning them effectively into flying buzzsaws, One Soviet pilot, Boris Kobzan, actually managed to do it four times.
  • One German fighter group, the Sonderkommando Elbe, tried out a slightly less suicidal version against massed American bomber raids. Instead of ramming a ship with a bomb-laden plane, they'd use their craft to deal enough damage to a bomber to knock it out of the sky—along with their own craft—hopefully bailing out just before or after impact.^note It was fully expected that this would be unlikely, but unlike Japan, Germany did not have a cultural tradition of Heroic Suicide. But bravely going into a battle that you were likely to die in was very much within German cultural tradition, so that was a distinction that made the concept more palatable to the pilots. Aside from a few notable instances, it was not effective at all—only the fact that decent German fighter pilots were far rarer than a German fighter plane by that point in the war made this tactic have any degree of practicality whatsoever.
  • British reports from the Battle of Britain tell that some Polish fighter pilots, in an apparent nationalistic rage against their Nazi combatants, intentionally rammed their planes into the German bombers.
• Jan van Speyk was a Dutch naval commander, who fought against the Belgian Revolution. In 1831, Belgians captured his boat and demanded him to take the Dutch flag down. He said "Rather to blow up then!" and fired a pistol into a barrel of gunpowder, destroying his boat, and killing dozens (including most of his own crew).
• The British destroyer Glowworm rammed the German heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper in WWII, heavily damaging the German ship. The commander of the Glowworm was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross, partly due to the recommendation of the German captain of the Hipper, who wrote of the incident to the British authorities via the Red Cross.
• The Russian bylina tales tell of Chuds (Baltic Finno-Ugric peoples), who rather committed mass suicides than surrendered to invading Russians. They dug underground dungeons, took their valuables and possessions there, and then collapsed the structures when the Russians came to loot, killing themselves and the attackers both. Such caves have been found.
• Kashmir separatists and Pakistani Taliban often launch suicidal attacks, with 'fedayeen' fighters, a small unit of 5-10 soldiers sent deep into enemy territory and attack targets with abandon until stopped and killed by the response.
  • Islamic terrorism, in general, is infamous for this, to the point where many associate suicide bombings with Islam itself.
• The strategy of "mutually assured destruction" (a.k.a. MAD). Basically if a nuclear weapon is launched, the target will send their entire nuclear reserve at the sender, making nuclear war inadvisable in all circumstances aside from a Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum.
  • The Soviets' 'Dead Hand' system was the best example of this: it made certain that in the event of a catastrophic attack crippling the government, nukes would be automatically fired at the United States and its allies. It's most probably still in place today. Interestingly, the system was apparently set in the first place as a safety device because no matter how edgy or jingoistic the KGB, Party, or Military got (political life in the USSR after Stalin was a constant three-way tug of war), the system would only go off after a confirmed nuclear detonation and the chain of command had been cut.
• The Fire of Moscow. The Russians burned their own city to deny it to the French invaders.
• Spetsnaz, the Russian special forces soldiers, always keep at least one grenade on them for this exact purpose in combat.
• The Samurai had an expression for doing just this: "Taking a souvenir to Hell."
• The Russian folk hero Ivan Susanin allegedly led a squad of Polish invaders into the frozen thickets to die along with him, after being hired to guide them to the residence of the Russian tsar they intended to assassinate (his real-life prototype was tortured to death but refused to serve as a guide alltogether). During World War 2 the deed was reenacted by another peasant, Matvey Kuzmin. The Nazis who occupied his village demanded he leads them around the Soviet defenses. He pretended to agree, but instead secretly sent his grandson to warn the Soviets, and then led the Nazis into an ambush. The Nazis were massacred, but not before their officer shot Matvey. He was buried with military honors and became the oldest holder of the Hero of the Soviet Union order.
• This happened unintentionally during an attack on the convoy SC 107 during WWII. The German submarine U-132 torpedoed the British freighter SS Hatimura, setting off a cargo of ammunition, and sank after getting pelted with debris.
• Stevan Sinđelić, Serbian revolutionary commander during the rebellion against the Ottoman rule. During the Battle of Čegar Hill in 1809, he and the Resava Brigade found themselves surrounded by the Ottomans. Encircled and without much chance of survival, Sinđelić ignited the gunpowder kegs in the powder cave, creating an enormous explosion that killed him, all of the Serb and Ottoman soldiers.
• The Israeli "Samson Option". While Israel's official policy is to never confirm nor deny that they have nuclear weapons, it is speculated that they have enough to make a last stand with them if the worst comes to pass. The Samson Option comes into play in a scenario where an enemy state has either invaded or destroyed much of the country, and will entail launching every last nuke they have at the enemy as a last resort. Either the enemy is destroyed and Israel survives, or Israel is destroyed but takes the enemy with them.
• World War II inverted this. Western Allies often regarded this as senseless spite in Germans and Japanese toward the end of the war. This is Moral Myopia as they found it easier to understand in those times when their own team did such things earlier in the war. Though they could at least say that the war wasn't so obviously lost for them at the time and in that context it served a purpose in weakening the enemy for future campaigns, putting a kink in his time schedule and so forth; and was therefore not just Honor Before Reason, though the latter motive was not unknown among them either. Allies attributed it to fascist indoctrination(with a considerable degree of truth) when their enemies did it, though it can sound slightly ungracious from the comfortable context of peace. They did have a point; everyone wanted to go home to their families by then after all. In any case, it was another excuse to be angry at their enemies so no one seemed to mind. Considering this the influence of Those Wacky Nazis was not illogical in Germany at least. Before World War II German soldiers were brave enough, but their governments were more willing to make terms, soldiers didn't fight any longer than tradition demanded, and honor did not abolish reason. Furthermore, a number of old-school German soldiers really preferred it this way even during World War II and were motivated by the Party's idea of encouragement to fight longer than they would otherwise have. In any case, it is less heroic when one considers that it was often more at the orders of people living in luxury who mainly wished to delay their appointment with the hangman, then at the will of those who were actually fighting.
  • It did not help that as early as Operation Torch, the Allies and Roosevelt, in particular, was vocal about an unconditional surrender. Not only did the call for no terms not work, there was also the leaked Morgenthau Plan (Splitting Germany up and turning it back into farmland) This revelation crossed over the lines and it was all that was needed to convince the Party, the Wehrmacht and common citizenry of Germany to fight until the very end.
    • Consider Germany's history. In World War I, they had performed as they had been expected to: Fight while there is hope, make peace when there is no more. When the German government asked for an armistice German troops stood in Northern France and were slowly withdrawing while still inflicting significant casualties. There were no foreign troops on German soil and it was dubious whether there would be in 1919 if the war had gone on. At Versailles Germany lost 10% of its people and 13% of its area; 80% of its iron ore, around 15% of its agriculture, etc. Probably the harshest peace terms any European nation had faced in a long time. And no imagine knowing that you have already fought well beyond reasonable time against an enemy who already hated you last time. Wouldn't you be willing to believe that there is genocide in the cards, too?
  • One of Hitler's last orders was to destroy the public infrastructure of Germany since, in his Social Darwinist mindset, Germany's defeat at the hands of Slavs and Anglo-Saxons meant that the Germanic Race was clearly inferior to them and not worthy to be the Master Race after all and as such did not deserve to exist. Albert Speer took on the responsibility for carrying it out but didn't.
• Related to the above example is the thesis of the book Empire by Niall Ferguson, which argues that Churchill's entire strategy in WWII was a kind of national self-sacrifice which involved exhausting the British Empire and probably causing its breakup, if only to deny the far more atrocious imperial powers of Japan and Nazi Germany an ultimate victory. In short, 400 years of the British Empire was expended in a last great hurrah to destroy perhaps the greatest evil the world has ever known. The Realm Abides.
• Sun Tzu also talked this on the flip side of To Win Without Fighting. "If you're surrounded with no hope of victory, cut off your escape routes to encourage your men to fight to the death."
  • Conversely, he advised against cutting off the opponent's line of retreat. If his only option is to fight, you have no idea what he might do when he starts losing.
    • Mongols were adept at exploiting this. In several battles (e.g. Battle of Sajo River), Mongols deliberately opened up what seemed to be a possible escape route for their enemies, only to have those escape routes turn into traps once their losing adversaries took to flight in disarray.
  • Sun Tzu sought victory, not death, and the Art of War expects that troops will be disloyal and desert at the earliest opportunity. When confronted by superior opposition, moving to ground that offered no escape wasn't meant to invoke this trope. It was meant to make it clear to your subordinates there was no way out but through, making them absolute hellions in defense. If there is no retreat, rout is impossible, and the enemy encountering your own unbreakable troops might well panic.
• Had the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis escalated into general war and the US launched an invasion of Cuba, Fidel Castro stated in a 1992 interview that he would have recommended to the Soviet advisors the use of some 100 tactical warheads (that US intelligence did not know about) against the invasion, knowing that doing so would result in the destruction of Cuba and the likely deaths of some 100 million civilians each in the US and Soviet Union from the massive nuclear exchange that would follow.
• The entire Philippine campaign in 1941 from the American point of view. American contingency plans, despite fifty years of preparation for war with Japan, couldn't figure out how to prevent the Philippines from being captured. Yet no one could abandon them as, if one is going to be an imperialist, one should at least protect one's charges from other imperialists. In a strange sort of way, it was an American version of Bushido. Be that as it may, the Philippines took a long time and interfered with the Japanese schedule considerably.
• A western spy in the Soviet Union nearly did this when, after being captured, he used his suicide capsule. Not only did the pill kill him, fumes from it nearly killed the doctors trying to save him.
• The USS Chevalier went out this way in WWII. Fatally damaged by a torpedo from the Japanese destroyer Yuugumo, the crew fired one last torpedo before abandoning ship, which struck Yuugumo and caused her to explode and sink.
• What would you do if you were a soldier in Syria who's job was to identify targets for airstrikes and you were surrounded by ISIS fighters? For Alexander Prokhorenko, the answer was "order an airstrike on his own location". He even quoted this trope word-for-word in the order:
  "I am surrounded, they are outside, I don’t want them to take me and parade me, conduct the airstrike, they will make a mockery of me and this uniform. I want to die with dignity and take all these bastards with me. Please my last wish, conduct the airstrike, they will kill me either way. This is the end commander, thank you, tell my family and my country I love them. Tell them I was brave and I fought until I could no longer. Please take care of my family, avenge my death, goodbye commander, tell my family I love them"
• Lieutenant John R. Fox, an artillery observer assigned to the 92nd Infantry Division, had his observation post in northern Italy become surrounded by German soldiers on 26 December 1944. He called in a strike on his own position, telling his friend Otis Zachary on the other end of the line, "Fire it! There's more of them than there are of us. Give them hell!" Fox was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross in 1982 (the original recommendation had been lost), and then the Medal of Honor in a special ceremony in 1997 along with six others (one living, five besides Fox posthumously), to rectify the fact that no African-American had previously received the MoH for service in World War II.
• A career death case: once Eduardo Cunha, who was president of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, was going through a process that would take out his representative seat on corruption charges, he chose to open one of the impeachment processes against President Dilma Rousseff that were going through Congress, downright guaranteeing the Head of State had her job on the line as much as his (Cunha denied opening the process on personal motivations, but considering the Congress' usual speed is "no need to hurry", with proposed laws at times going years before being voted...). And indeed, by the following year both had been removed from office (with Cunha getting arrested as well).

Crime

• The Hashashin, from whom we've derived the term "assassin," were known for attacking targets with ritual daggers, usually in a suicidal assault, to ensure that their victims would not escape.
  • It's also possible that instead of their suicidal attacks to ensure the victim dies, it's to ensure that the killer also dies, seeing as how their suicidal attacks show how dedicated to the cause the Hashashin is.
    • And it likewise ensures they'd never be interrogated, to the benefit of their superiors whose secrets would be protected, and possibly to themselves if interrogation entailed torture.
    • It also makes the assassination plan much simpler and more effective: The hardest part of most assassination plans is the assassin's escape afterward, and it is also the part most likely to cause the kill to not happen.
• The entire concept of murder-suicides.
  • This has happened to several families in the wake of the recession. For example, a Seattle woman, Chhouy Harm, shot and killed her son-in-law and two of her granddaughters before taking her own life. In many cases, including this one, the killer was already depressed and/or mentally ill, and the economic crisis was the last straw.
  • School shootings (most infamously the Columbine massacre) are infamous for this, although the causes are disputed, ranging from bullying to mental illness.
• The Kray twins, London's most notorious gangsters, were considered untouchable until Reggie Kray stabbed small-time gang member Jack "the Hat" McVitie to death in October 1967. The London underworld began to turn against the Krays - gang members who feared meeting the same fate left the gang and agreed to testify to the police, giving them enough evidence to finally arrest the Krays and their associates. Reggie was ultimately sentenced to life imprisonment for McVitie's murder, while Ronnie and the other members were sentenced for various other crimes that the turncoat gang members had told them about. This wasn't intentional on McVitie's part, but the fact remains that his death almost single-handedly triggered the collapse of the Krays' entire organization.
• One of the hijacked planes to be used in the 9/11 attacks, United Airlines Flight 93, failed to reach its intended destination due to the passengers on board fighting back against the terrorists to regain control of the plane. After a struggle, the terrorists on board put the plane into a dive and crashed it into a field, killing themselves and everyone else on board. The passengers have since been commemorated for their Heroic Sacrifice. On the other side, the hijackers themselves were willing to die to cause as much destruction to their American targets as possible (something which was nearly unprecedented at the time, as previous terrorist attacks on aircraft had involved planting a bomb on a plane that the terrorist would not board, while hijackings usually resulted in hostage situations; this is a large part of the reason why aviation was so underprepared for the 9/11 terrorists' attacks).
• This is a theorized reason for why Andreas Lubitz crashed Germanwings Flight 9525. He had already been diagnosed with severe depression and had been deemed unfit to fly earlier, but for whatever reason, he hid this information from his employers. When his co-pilot left the cabin, he locked the door and set the plane into landing mode early, taking 149 other people with him.
  • Sadly, he, was not the first.
• The death of "Pretty Boy" Floyd: when FBI agents tried to capture him, he retaliated with gunfire, and even after being gunned repeatedly by the agents that he was facing off against, he still managed to fatally wound two of them.
• On April 11, 1986 the FBI tried to arrest multiple murderers and bank robbers William Russell Matix and Michael Lee Platt. During the resulting gunfight Platt was shot a total of seven times but managed to kill Special Agents Benjamin Grogan and Jerry Dove before succumbing to his wounds. Matix also died, though he only managed to get off two shots before being taken out of the fight. As a result the FBI changed it's requirements for handguns to have more “stopping power” particularly after going through automobile glass.
• Nicky Barnes was the founder and leader of the Harlem-based crime organization "The Council", which controlled much of the New York drug trade. When he was arrested and sent to prison, his former allies in the Council's leadership took control of his assets and left him to rot; one of them even started sleeping with his girlfriend. In revenge, Nicky turned government informant and helped dismantle the entire criminal empire he'd spent years building, sending his former friends to prison.

Animals

• Many small animals are highly poisonous or make very loud noises or even start to glow brightly when attacked by a predator to attract even more predators. While this doesn't really do anything to save themselves specifically, it teaches the predator species to leave their kind alone in the future.
  • There's a type of quail whose meat becomes toxic after it eats certain plants. Anything that eats the meat becomes violently ill and may end up with kidney failure.
  • Exploding ants.
  • Honey bees have barbs on their stingers, which lodge in the body of their target and are ripped out of the abdomen of the bee while continuing to pump venom. Unfortunately for the honey bee, the injury caused by doing this is fatal and they die soon afterward.
    • It is a rather sad subversion actually. A bee can sting another insect and kill it without any harm to itself, but to a bigger animal, its Last Breath Sting will most likely not be lethal, except maybe someone allergic to its venom and who is stung by many of them.
• Many an animal mortally wounded by a hunter has had time enough to return the favor (or attempt to) before finally succumbing.
  • Brown Bears and African Cape Buffalo are both particularly infamous for this.
  • This is the reason boar spears have the lugs at the head; not only does the weapon injure or kill the boar, it keeps the animal at bay and stops it from physically working its way up the weapon to attack the hunter.
• There is footage of a caiman fatally wounding an electric eel only for the eel to electrocute it to death.
• Large constrictors, usually anacondas and pythons, run afoul of this trope quite frequently when they target other predators such as crocodiles or big cats. Often as not, they're mortally wounded by the time their would-be meal is suffocated or crushed to death.
  • There are cases where the snake managed to consume a Not Quite Dead caiman or crocodile and later be found with the prey bursting through its body cavity. For example, in 2005, a python ate an alligator and then exploded.
  • Sometimes a snake's eyes will simply be bigger than its stomach, or more accurately, its esophagus and it winds up blocking its own airway and choking itself to death.
  • An African rock python successfully attacked and consumed a porcupine, quills and all. Three guesses as to what happened next. Give up? The quills punctured the python's digestive tract in multiple places and it internally bled to death.
  • This sometimes gets inverted in the case of reticulated pythons, the preferred prey of king cobras. The cobra will bite the python and then retreat to let its venom finish the other snake off, but sometimes isn't fast enough and ends up constricted for its efforts.
  • Experienced herpetologists and snake breeders or owners strongly advise against keeping two or more king snakes in the same habitat since, being both highly territorial and cannibalistic snake-eaters, they will literally kill each other.
• A man found a mouse in his home and threw it out on his burn pile. The terrified flaming mouse survived long enough to run back inside the house and burn the entire thing to the ground.
• After cutting off a cobra's head to cook the rest of it, a Chinese Chef gets bitten by the severed head and dies from the venom.
• A Doberman fought off 4 cobras to protect its 8 masters. It continued to fight despite being bitten many times and only succumbed to the venom once all 4 cobras were dead.

Medicine and Science

• Out of all the various designs created for dealing with space debris, some methods involve physically capturing it, then the capturing satellite would either deorbit itself, at which point the heat and friction of atmospheric entry would vaporize both the satellite and its prey, or attach a smaller drone, bug off, then have said drone do the deed while the satellite hunts for another piece of debris.
• Sir Terry Pratchett once stated that he planned on doing this to his Alzheimer's, via assisted suicide panels in the UK. He died before he got the chance.
  "I decided that I was going to make Alzheimer's sorry it had caught me."
• When the Sun dies in about 5 billion years, its transformation into a red giant will actually destroy a large portion of our Solar System.
  • In general, any large enough Stars, from our humble sun to the supergiants, will wreak havoc to their vicinity in their death throes. Whereas our sun will only ravage our solar system^note The outer Solar System, however, is expected to survive (emphasis on that) the ordeal, big enough stars that manage to become supernovae can send massive amount of charged, irradiated particles up to thousands of light years away. A supernova happening within about 150 light years away from earth could still be strong enough to noticeably damage the ozone layer, with the damage becoming worse the closer it happened, resulting in Disaster Dominoes that could end in a civilization collapse and mass extinction. That's to say nothing if the dying star(s) ends up firing gamma ray burst; not only GRB retains much of its lethality for much longer distance (a GRB could conceivably cause a mass extinction on earth from 6000 light years away), it's much harder to detect since GRB moves at the speed of light compared to supernova charged particles which sail the space at barely a fraction of that speed.
• Even your own body cells exhibit this trope. In the midst of an infection, Neutrophils, the front line of the body's defense, will spill their contents out as a Neutrophil Extracellular Trap (NET), designed to stop pathogens in their tracks and leave them defenceless against other white blood cells.
  • Neutrophils are also full of enzymes and reactive compounds that damage both animal cells and bacteria. When killed, these enzymes can leak and non-specifically start tearing apart everything in the area. Additionally, leaked cellular communication molecules called cytokines can leak and lead to significant inflammation. This process creates a lined cavity called an abscess which is filled with liquified tissue and bacteria, aka pus.
  • Any cell infected with a virus or which has lost control of its own reproduction (I.E. risks becoming part of a tumor) has a good chance to commit programmed cell death, or apoptosis, in order to cease being a virus/tumor factory. At other times, cells combine this with Suicide by Cop, as they change their surface markers to mark themselves for destruction by the immune system (The Needs of the Many, of course). The mechanisms are quite complex.
• In one hand, galaxy clusters are very unhealthy for spiral galaxies like ours^note Since, for example, interactions with the hot gas that fills the space between the galaxies on them strips the interstellar gas of a galaxy quenching star formation, but not before going out with a burst of newly made stars in some cases. On the other, when two spiral galaxies collide they get very messed up, including to form a lot of new stars before merging to form a larger one. Meet UGC 6697, a system where it's believed two galaxies are colliding and wrecking themselves apart while falling into a galaxy cluster that is stripping their gas... at the same time they're making stars galore^note Science Marches On. This is likely a single galaxy that on said infall had an interaction with a nearby smaller galaxy, suffering both enhanced gas stripping and star formation as a result. An even finer example of this is the pair F0237 in the distant A2744 galaxy cluster, with two almost Milky Way-sized galaxies destroying themselves apart while plunging there.
• In the very early moments of the Universe, just after the Big Bang, quarks and antiquarks combined to form baryons and antibaryons^note What makes atomic nuclei (protons, neutrons, and their antimatter equivalent), that proceeded to annihilate themselves. We are made of the small percentage of matter that survived it^note Why was created more matter than antimatter is one problem still unsolved in physics, but as the laws of physics are known to affect particles and antiparticles differently, there are working hypotheses.
• People who die as a result of getting cancer effectively kill their cancer by starving it of any living oxygenated blood supply, and bring it screaming into the abyss with them. It's a comforting and triumphant thought.
  • As the late comedian Norm Macdonald put it, anyone who dies from cancer achieves this (which would include himself). After all, if the cancer kills the host, the cancer dies also. No one ever actually loses a fight to cancer, at worst they fight it to a draw.

Other

• A child or teen facing punishment may claim others were involved in the hopes that said (real or imagined) conspirators too get punished.
• Several examples can be found in sports, one would be the final round of the 2010-11 Danish Superliga, where one of the matches were between Randers and Esbjerg in Randers, two teams struggling against relegation. Randers had originally said that they would not bring scores from other matches over the speakers, but when Lyngby got a 2-0 lead against Odense in the 80th minute (a result that meant Esbjerg were relegated for sure), Randers were leading 2-1 and the stadium speaker said what the score was in the other match. Tim Janssen, Dutch Esbjerg striker, scored in the 89th minute, relegating both teams.
  • Another example would be the World Cup qualifying match between USMNT and Trinidad and Tobago on 10 October 2017 (the last day of the Hex). With a win, the United States would have qualified automatically to the World Cup. A draw would have very likely qualified the US via goal difference. Trinidad and Tobago were already eliminated, and had almost nothing to play for besides revenge for Paul Caligiuri's infamous goal in 1989, which allowed the US to qualify in Trinidad's place. The games played out and the US gives up an own goal 17 minutes in and then lets in another goal from Alvin Jones, whose father was a member of the Trinidad squad that lost in 1989, before halftime. They pull back one goal, but lose 2–1. Meanwhile, Panama beat Costa Rica 2–1 and Honduras beat Mexico 3-2. This caused the USMNT to miss the World Cup for the first time since 1986.
  • During the group stage of the 2018 World Cup, South Korea had lost its first two matches meaning there was no way for it to advance to the knockout portion of the tournament. In the final match of the first stage, Germany expected South Korea would put in a halfhearted showing to provide an easy win and advancement to the next round. Instead, the South Koreans played ferociously — with goalkeeper Jo Hyeon-woo being compared to a brick wall — and won 2-0, knocking the Germans out alongside them^note this also resulted in the South Korea becoming extremely popular in Mexico, because the match allowed the Mexican team to advance.
• Danish cyclist Michael Rasmussen was fired from Rabobank in 2007. Come 2013, he's taking his former team to court with a claim that the team shouldn't have fired him, because they knew exactly what he was doing and that he was doping.
  • Furthermore, he's now working with several anti-doping organizations, telling them everything he knows.
• Nonlethal example: LowTierGod was permanently banned from competitive Street Fighter after making transphobic remarks about fellow player CeroBlast. Almost immediately after the ban was made official, he posted a video of CeroBlast using the N-word repeatedly during one of their streams, which led to them being banned as well.

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