History BetterToDieThanBeKilled / AnimeAndManga

** Shin [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TckUHouRbvY hurls himself off of a building]] rather than succumb to Kenshiro's attack after their final battle. In the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 FightingGame, Shin actually has this as a self-inflicted [[FinishingMove Fatal KO]] that can be used if he's losing, complete with the same dialogue. Considering though that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8zx9qxCSvM it has the same musical accompaniment as a regular Fatal KO]]...
** In the Raoh Den OVA, Souther does this for pretty much the same reasons as Shin.

* In ''Anime/{{Daltanious}}'', when the Zaal Empire destroyed the Helios Empire, many Heliosians committed suicide to avoid a FateWorseThanDeath at their hands. Of course, when you find out the AwfulTruth of the Zaal's motives, it's not hard to blame them....

* ''Anime/KillLaKill'': After Ryuko defeats BigBad Ragyo Kiryuin in the ultimate battle above Earth, she asks her to come back to Honnouji as a daughter would (since, [[ItWasHisSled you know]], she's actually her mother). In response, Ragyo [[IncrediblyLamePun kill-la-kills]] herself by ''tearing her own heart out'' and ''crushing it'' in order to negate her defeat and also to spread the remaining Life Fiber spores into the void of space.

* Subverted in ''LightNovel/{{Campione}}''. Duke Voban has Mariya kidnapped to be his slave. Having once been his slave four years ago, she says she refuses to go through that again and threatens to kill herself. Voban comments it would be pointless, because [[{{Necromancer}} he can just bring her back as a zombie like he does to his defeated foes]], so she quickly aborts that plan. She is rescued by the heroes.

* In ''LightNovel/KinosJourney'', Kino happens upon the corpse of a traveler in an area inhabited by herds of man-eating sheep. She sees his car stopped at the edge of a cliff, and notices that he'd broken his shin and was unable to walk anymore. She then notices a persuader (i.e. handgun) in his hand, and while she doesn't say her conclusion out loud, the implication is clear.
* In ''LightNovel/RollOverAndDie'', this scenario was used to begin the protagonist Flum's journey. After being betrayed and sold into slavery, the slave merchant realizes that Flum has no value as a slave. He throws her into a prison along with other slaves he deems to be worthless. Afterwards, he releases three ghouls to eat them while giving the slaves the chance to pick up a cursed weapon that would most likely kill them if they touch it. Flum decides to take her chances because she would rather die by her own choice rather than let the ghouls eat her. It is then that she finds out that her supposedly useless affinity Reversal, allows her to use cursed weapons which allow her to turn the tables and kill the ghouls along with the slave merchant.

* Non-lethal example PlayedForLaughs in ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline''. When Kirito and Leafa are ambushed by a squad of Salamanders in ALO, Kirito decides to use his illusory Spriggan powers to turn himself into a giant monster, and proceeds to kill them off in a matter of seconds, even ''[[EatenAlive eating]]'' a few of them. By the time the group's leader is left with only one more member, he's so terrified of Kirito that he jumps off the bridge into the river below, preferring to die by the underwater monsters.

* In both the manga and anime of ''Manga/AkameGaKill'', [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking General Esdeath]], after being fatally injured by Akame's [[PoisonedWeapons Murasame]], chooses to [[LiterallyShatteredLives freeze herself solid and shatter her body into nothing]] rather than let the poison finish her off, as she would rather die by her own terms. The only difference between the two media is that [[TogetherInDeath she froze Tatsumi's corpse alongside herself]] in the anime, while in the manga [[SparedByTheAdaptation he was still alive]]. Failing to gain his affection was a failure she bemoaned as her only regret, just before ending her own life.

** Dr. Hiruluk in ''Manga/OnePiece'' chooses to do this for a number of reasons: First, he was [[IncurableCoughofDeath dying of an unknown disease]]. Chopper, in an attempt to cure him, accidentally poisons him. Finally, he had walked into an [[SchmuckBait obvious trap]] laid by King Wapol to catch the only remaining free doctors on his island. Rather than be captured, and to avoid letting Chopper live with the guilt of killing his father, [[TearJerker he chose to kill himself.]]
** The people of Fishman Island invoke this when Hody Jones is moments away from killing King Neptune. They beg for Straw Hat Luffy to hurry up and destroy Fishman Island as Madame Shyarly predicted since they would rather let their home be destroyed than see it twisted under Hody's reign.

* Kisame in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' kills himself via his own summoned shark to keep from being interrogated any more than he already was.