History DrivenToSuicide / WesternAnimation

** Jack himself becomes this over the TimeSkip in the fifth season after having spent fifty years trapped in the BadFuture without aging, having become TheAgeless as a result of being flung through time by Aku, and considers committing {{Seppuku}} to end his misery. [[spoiler: [SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when Ashi, the SoleSurvivor of the Daughters of Aku who pulled a HeelFaceTurn, [[TalkingDownTheSuicidal snapped him out of it]].]]

** After Brian explaining death to him, and following it up with his belief that [[CessationOfExistence there is no afterlife]], Stewie becomes despondent and decides to just end it all. First by trying to hang himself, [[TheManTheyCouldntHang which he can't due to his lack of a neck and the football shape of his head]], then by ElectrifiedBathtub, but this fails when the toaster he used just ended up giving him superpowers as "Toasterman". He then tries committing SuicideByCop, but the cop turns out to be Joe, who is also suicidal and tries to get Stewie to shoot him. Finally, he attempts to just [[AteHisGun Eat His Gun]], but is stopped by Brian.

DrivenToSuicide in WesternAnimation.

* ''WesternAnimation/HomeOnTheRails'': The gold prospector kills himself by laying down on the railroad tracks when an encroaching railroad means he can't pan for gold anymore.
* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'', Mr. Freeze, having returned to his villainous ways following an attempted return to a normal life, lets himself be killed by an explosion rather than be saved by Batman. He had already been pretty badly injured by Blight, but his choice was more out of despair than any sense of inevitability. When Batman screams at him to run, telling him he'll be killed, Freeze tells him, "Believe me, you're the only one who cares."
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': In "Day of the Samurai", Batman fights a skilled ninja named Kyodai, who is his longtime rival. As they fight on top of an exploding volcano, a river of lava separates them both, and strands Kyodai on a melting rock. Batman still attempts to save him by throwing a Batarang to him, but he tosses it into the lava and silently bows to Batman before being killed by the lava. He did this because he knew he could never defeat Batman, and could never be the best, but at least he showed respect to Batman, who he considered a worthy adversary.

** Another episode has Klaus look at the camera and tell an aquintance to kill himself because of how cliche and formulaic his life is.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** A RunningGag is that the bartender Moe frequently attempts suicide. It's his holiday tradition for some reason. He's usually accidentally saved.
*** In “Reaper Madness”, after Homer kills the Grim Reaper, he briefly creates a world without death. Frankie the Squealer is being gunned down by his gang and obviously survives. Moe hangs from a noose while a customer berates him, culminating in Moe saying “that’s why I’m up here”.
** Frank Grimes, sadly, wasn't so lucky. Although with Frank it wasn't so much "driven to suicide" as "driven stark raving bonkers and unable to recognize that yes, electricity does kill you if you approach it the wrong way".
** Themes of suicide have been seen as far back as Season 1, and it came with the third episode, "Homer's Odyssey." After he is fired from his job at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant – one of multiple times he's lost his job there – Homer is unable to find a new job and, believing his life to be worthless, decides to jump off a bridge and end it all. His family saves him in time.
** In the episode where Apu is fired from his job at the Kwik-E-Mart by a group of executives for violating the Health Code, he tries to commit suicide by ''eating one of the store's hot dogs'' (he’s a vegan and the hot dogs are of questionable quality). He has to be restrained by the same executives who fired him, who start pleading with him that it isn't worth it.
** The episode where the Simpsons had 25 puppies subverted this. When it turned out that the Simpsons' dogs were world champions and had earned Mr Burns millions after he adopts them for free, we see what looks to be Homer hanging himself. Marge is horrified, only for the scene to show he was just batting a lightbulb while hanging by his arm on the rafters.
---> '''Homer''': Marge, you know batting this lightbulb is the only thing that cheers me up after losing those million-dollar Greyhounds! *the bulb hits Homer in the head, causing him to lose his grip and fall off*
** Similarly, in an episode parodying 24, driven to guilt from [[spoiler: acting as Jimbo's inside man]] Martin gets on a stool and is seen hanging when he knocks it over. A pull back of the camera shows he just wedgied himself.
** In "Lisa's Sax", a five-year-old Bart is having a very rough time in school and draws a crude picture of himself impaled with a knife with "blood" trickling down.
** In the infamous episode "The Boys of Bummer", Bart gets harassed by everyone in town when he causes his team to lose the Little League championshp and because of it, goes crazy and jumps from the town's water tower. He survives.
** In "Million Dollar Abie", Homer's dad inadvertently ruins the town's shot at getting their own football team, causing him to become a depressed pariah. His friends then recommend assisted suicide (which is a parody of the Home process from ''Film/SoylentGreen''), but the law allowing it is overturned before he can go through with it. He gets better.
** In "No Loan Again, Naturally", when it looks like the Simpsons are going to move away when the house is put up for auction, Homer attempts to hang himself from a tree. His weight ends up taking the tree down, and to add insult to injury, the tree smashes his car.
** In "The Man Who Grew Too Much", Sideshow Bob is driven to leap off the Springfield Dam after realizing the genetic modification he has given himself [[WhatHaveIBecome has made him a monster]]; unfortunately, he survives, as [[GoneHorriblyRight he also gave himself gills.]]
** In the Treehouse of Horror XXI segment “Master and Cadaver”, Marge and Homer kill an innocent man after mistaking him for the person who poisoned the pies. Unable to live with the guilt, Marge kills herself. Turns out this story was just Maggie’s twisted imagination.
** In “Hex and the City”, Homer’s friends and family are cursed by a gypsy. Bart’s neck becomes so long that he can barely hold his head up. Eventually, he can’t take it anymore and drowns himself in his breakfast.
** In “The Others”, the Simpson home is haunted by the ghosts of their 1980s counterparts. Modern-era Marge is jealous of 80s Marge and commits suicide by burning her head in the oven so Modern-era Homer will pay attention to her again. This leads to the mass murder of the modern-era Simpson family (except for Maggie, who was killed by Groundskeeper Willie). The segment ends with a tribute to the “Family Photo” short.
** In “Mmm... Homer”, Homer is left home alone and attempts to cook a hot dog. However, he accidentally slices off his finger and the hot dog is stolen by Santa’s Little Helper. He reluctantly decides to eat his finger and discovers that it is delicious. Later, Homer is invited over to Ned’s house for lunch but is disgusted by the food, which Ned is concerned about. Homer then becomes so addicted to eating himself that he consumes 20 pounds worth of his body parts. Bart and Lisa become suspicious when they notice Homer’s oven mitts and the fact that he is limping. Later that night, Marge catches Homer cooking his own severed leg and is shocked. The two go to counselling the next day, with Homer missing his entire lower body. Marge tearfully leaves him when he tries to saw off his arm. Later, Mario Batalli offers to cook Homer’s head. When Homer is finally dead, Mario opens a bunch of Homer-themed restaurants where the customers eat the remaining body parts, along with parts of Barney Gumble, Comic Book Guy, and horse meat. Up in heaven, Angel Homer eats his own wings, to which Jesus says “you know you don’t get more of those”.
* Dinobot in ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}: WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' is seen in his quarters, early in the episode "Code Of Hero", overcome by dishonor and [[{{Seppuku}} holding his sword at his chest]] before tossing it aside in disgust. [[spoiler:Some fans view his HeroicSacrifice later in the episode as suicide, given the odds stacked against him. Complicating the situation is the fact that the Golden Disk says that he is going to die in that battle, something that had been weighing heavily on his mind for a while. There's no clear answer here.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/FollowTheSun'': Happens ''twice'': the first time is an ice-cream dancer hanging herself, and the second is a bag of popcorn attempting this by cutting into it's left eyeball with a potato chip, each cut removing another kernel under the presumption that emptying out all the popcorn will put the bag out of its misery.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
** "Something Wal-Mart This Way Comes": The owner of the local Wal-Mart faces an angry mob of townspeople fed up with its influence, nervously going back and forth between lauding its qualities and expressing his own negative yet defeated opinion of it. During the conversation, he writes and shows a note telling the crowd to meet him outside. After then townspeople leave the office confused and disappointed, [[spoiler:the owner suddenly jumps through the window, hanging by a noose. Seconds later, [[NoDeadBodyPoops he craps his pants, proving Cartman right about the phenomenon]] to his satisfaction.]] The same thing happens later with [[spoiler:the founder of Wal-Mart, who shoots himself. And then [[RunningGag craps his pants]].]]
** "Die Hippie, Die": Mayor [=McDaniels=] shoots herself in the temple when [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone the hippie music festival she authorized turns South Park into the hippie capital of the world]]. [[spoiler:She survives.]]
** "Britney's New Look": Music/BritneySpears blows her head off... and lives. So, the cult which apparently everybody in the country belongs to, decides they need to try harder. "It's gonna be a goooood harvest." The episode is a parody of ''Literature/TheLottery'', comparing the book's sacrifices to how the U.S builds up and then tears down celebrities.
** "Night of the Living Homeless": A man tries "to take the easy way out" by shooting himself. He shoots himself over and over again, destroying his body further, but not dying. This is also an example of CrossingTheLineTwice.
** "Elementary School Musical": Cartman tries to kill himself after watching the latest [[HypeBacklash "cool"]] movie, ''Film/HighSchoolMusical''. Unfortunately, his mom drives a hybrid car, which doesn't produce enough carbon monoxide to do the job.
** "Cash For Gold": After discovering how his vulnerable, Alzheimer's-stricken grandfather was being screwed over, Stan repeatedly tells the host of a home shopping network to kill himself in an epic case of {{Deadpan Snark|er}}. [[spoiler:He finally does it, after getting the same calls from his former clients.]]
** In "Pinewood Derby", Mr. Hollis blows his brains out [[SeriousBusiness when his son loses a Pinewood Derby race]].
** In "Coon vs. Coon and Friends", Kenny/Mysterion attempts to goad Cthulhu into either removing his curse of immortality or simply killing him once and for all. After a particularly irksome situation where a mysterious stranger behind a CGI portal gives a speech about powers, destiny, an extraterrestial origin etc. only to find out he's talking about Mintberry Crunch, who then disappears along with Cthulhu and Cartman, Mysterion goes back to headquarters/Cartman's basement after Mintberry Crunch saves the world. There, he tells his gleeful superhero buddies that he wants to "take a nap" then promptly shoots himself. For the third time in the trilogy.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'':
** The members of Dethklok jokingly tell someone to kill himself. He does.
** Nathan Explosion believes all dentists are suicidal whackjobs. [[spoiler: He's right.]]
** ''All'' Dethklok fans might qualify, since they sign Pain Waivers absolving Dethklok from any responsibility for accidents, injuries, and fatalities during their concerts.
** After realizing he's the villain, Magnus Hammersmith stabs himself in the chest.
* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'':
** When fighting one of the Winged Monkeys in ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', Franchise/TheCrow gives him a depressingly nihilistic monologue that causes the monkey to just hang himself. Cue Crow wiping away a tear.
** The Bloopers show host kills himself at the end of every segment he's in. During the infamous "The Rescue" sketch, the titular Robot Chicken [[InterruptedSuicide interrupts his suicide.]] The host concludes that if someone had the heart to save him, his life must have meaning after all. [[spoiler: Then the chicken crushes his skull.]]
*** The final Bloopers sketch actually has the suicide fail because the host's pregnant, 13-year old daughter refused to help him commit seppuku. It then turns out that there's no one in the studio, and the Host has just been imagining the audience's reaction the whole time.
** The episode "Moesha Poppins" had a Where Are They Now-type sketch concerning girl toys where Venus de Milo, the fifth female turtle from ''Series/NinjaTurtlesTheNextMutation'', was so devastated by her lack of popularity that she killed herself by drowning herself in the toilet.

* Would you believe that ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' does this sometimes?:
** There's one episode--"WesternAnimation/BlueCatBlues"--in which a Jerry voiceover details Tom's slip from love into debt, drink, and finally, a long wait on the train tracks. At the end of the episode, [[spoiler: Jerry's girlfriend leaves him, so he joins Tom.]]
** In another, the young duck tries to get Tom to eat him because he's "ugly."
* In ''WesternAnimation/TwiceUponATime'', the BigBad's lackey Scuzzbopper tries to hang himself after his boss throws out his manuscript for a "great A-Murk-ian novel", but he doesn't quite succeed. Fortunately, the heroes find him, talk him out of it, and [[HeelFaceTurn enlist his aid in thwarting the bad guys]].
* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' features Aelita doing this in the final episode of season 2, but it was [[InterruptedSuicide stopped by Jérémie]]. Her motives here are complex and confusing, blending a bit of GoodbyeCruelWorld with HeroicSacrifice and MartyrWithoutACause. Yes, all of those apply. She did this a ton of times. In "Just In Time", she did this and was brought back to life via backup data.
* Bill Dauterive of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' had periodic bouts with depression turn so bad that he became suicidal especially on Christmas because that was when his wife divorced him. Bill's suicide attempts were played seriously, but his neighbors' reactions to it were not. Hank was annoyed by having to take time off of work to go on "suicide watch", Dale didn't care if Bill died or not and was eager to steal his stuff, and Boomhauer was tired of it eating up so much of his time.
* WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts:
** One of Creator/{{Disney}}'s {{Wartime Cartoon}}s, ''The Old Army Game'', had WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck attempting to shoot himself after he believed he had been sawed in half.
** In an oft-censored scene from "WesternAnimation/{{Donalds Dilemma}}" (seen above), WesternAnimation/DaisyDuck admits to being driven to suicide when [[IdentityAmnesia a blow to the head]] causes Donald to leave her to become a singer.
** The [[WesternAnimation/PlutoThePup Pluto]] short ''Plutopia'' has Pluto's cat servant pointing a shotgun to his head after he spills Pluto's milk, causing Pluto to slap it out of his hand. It was AllJustADream.
** In the Series/WaltDisneyPresents episode "The Goofy Success Story", Goofy nearly throws himself into the sea (in a parody of ''Film/{{A Star Is Born|1954}}'') after getting snubbed at the Oscars.
* The ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' episode "Dennis the Duck" focuses on the eponymous black-and-white duck character, who idolizes Donald Duck and dreams of being as funny as him. Donald spends most of the episode pushing Dennis away, prompting Dennis to conclude that if he isn't funny, there's no point in living. He then erases himself with a pencil eraser, but a repentant Donald arrives just in time and re-draws him before convincing him that his signature sandwich gag really ''is'' funny.
* Though it's not called suicide, nor is [[NeverSayDie death even alluded]], the [[ItsAWonderfulPlot Wonderful Life]] episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' had Timmy eventually concluding that, since everyone's apparently happy in the world where he was never born, he should ''forfeit his own right to exist''. For clarity, this is a ''ten-year-old boy'' who comes to the depressed conclusion that he only causes misery in others so he should just accept being erased from existence. Sure, it's all a SecretTestOfCharacter, but the realization needed to "pass" the test was, for all intents and purposes, "my suicide will make everyone else happy." It's one of two episodes which the showrunners requested not be rerun due to the negative viewer reaction.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** The episode "One Coarse Meal" features a scene in which Plankton lies in the road in an attempt to get run over when Mr. Krabs's "KnightTemplar" tendencies go too far. [=SpongeBob=] defends Plankton and prevents such by trying to tell Mr. Krabs off, but he doesn't listen.
** In "Something Smells," [=SpongeBob=]'s rancid onion breath causes his own reflection to smash itself and two nearby fish to grab onto a fishing hook and get reeled up.
** Subverted in "Are You Happy Now?". When Squidward becomes severely depressed, he sticks his head in the oven... while taking brownies out. In another scene, he hangs a rope from the ceiling and turns out to be hoisting up a bird cage.
** In "Dunces and Dragons" a guard turns his spear on himself but decides not to, saying "Someday, but not today".
* [[spoiler: The BigBad of Season 1, Nox]] in ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'', after he finds that even after slaughtering countless creatures for 200 years to power magic beyond the power of gods, even after performing said magic, that was said to most likely destroy the universe even if it worked at all, perfectly as intended, [[spoiler: and travelling back in time, so that he can save his family... all the reserves of power he stored in 200 years, allowed him to rewind time for only 20 minutes, meaning that both his family and victims of all but the latest of his genocides will stay dead. After that he just lies on the graves of his wife and children and lets the magic that kept him alive go, turning to dust and leaving only his armor and bandages behind]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Samurai Jack}}'', Jack meets a Viking king who was defeated by Aku years ago and cursed with immortality in the body of a rock monster. Tired of his years of suffering, the warrior is desprerate to be killed by a WorthyOpponent. Jack eventually grants the warrior his fate.
** Jack himself becomes this over the TimeSkip in the fifth season after having spent fifty years trapped in the BadFuture without aging, having become TheAgeless as a result of being flung through time by Aku, and considers committing {{Seppuku}} to end his misery. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when Ashi, the SoleSurvivor of the Daughters of Aku who pulled a HeelFaceTurn, [[TalkingDownTheSuicidal snapped him out of it]].]]
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'':
** A Twi'lek slave, having failed to assassinate her master, leaps to her death rather than continue living as a slave.
** In the season 2 episode, ''The Mandalore Plot'', a bomber working for Death Watch commits suicide after being cornered by Obi-Wan Kenobi.
* In the first season finale of ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'', [[spoiler: The Inqusitor, after losing to Kanan, decides to [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled drop himself into a burning reactor to kill himself rather than report his failure to Darth Vader]].]]
* [[EvilTwin Spider]]-[[OmnicidalManiac Carnage]] at the end of ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries''. Completely insane and aware that he cannot drive the symbiote off of him, he hurls himself into an unstable vortex and disintegrates. Horrifyingly, this was probably best for everyone involved, [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds himself included]].

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'':
** In the episode "Ghost Princess", [[OneShotCharacter Clarence]] after accidentally killing his girlfriend (who became the titular princess) becomes a depressed hobo who ultimately died by forcefeeding himself liquid cheese until exploding.
** In the episode "Princess Cookie", this happens to Baby Snaps. His desperate attempts to become a princess culminate in holding hostages to obtain the crown from Princess Bubblegum, which gets him in trouble. She sends guards after him, and rather than getting caught, Baby Snaps decides to purposefully and blissfully fall off a cliff. However, since he's a cookie, the fall simply causes him to break into several still-living pieces which are reassembled in a hospital.
** In "Dad's Dungeon," Finn tries to eat a poisoned apple after he becomes convinced that his adopted dad Joshua hated him and thought he was a sissy.
** Princess Monster Wife, arguably. However, her death was a HeroicSuicide; she killed herself by giving her parts back to the princesses from which the Ice King had stolen them.
** One episode has Princess Bubblegum state that she keeps cyanide pills underneath her table, presumably in case of a worst case scenario.

* In the Polish short ''A Gentle Spirit'', a young woman ran from her husband and jumped out the window.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' episode "Little Bamm-Bamm", when it seems like the Rubbles will not be able to keep Bamm-Bamm, Barney gets ready to do this by tying himself to a boulder and dropping himself in the river. However, when the case is dropped and the Rubbles are allowed to keep Bamm-Bamm, Fred and the others go to stop him just in time. Barney then gives the boulder to Fred, causing him to fall off (lucky for him, the river was shallow).
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' episode "A Change Of Heart", Minx nearly drowns and the experience causes her to change her personality. Her bandmates can't stand how she isn't her confident, arrogant self anymore and kick her out. She turns to Rio when she has nowhere to go but he states he has his own life to live, which upsets her. Saying she has nothing to live for, Minx tries to jump off a building but is stopped by Rio. Later in the same episode it ''appears'' she's going to attempt suicide, but she really just throws one of Rio's instruments off the building in anger and goes back to The Stingers.
* ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'':
** An episode involved Ginger writing a poem called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFgswwugEDs And She Was Gone]]" that the adults at school infer is about suicide. They get worried about her mental health and, despite Ginger insisting that it is ''just'' fiction and that she is perfectly fine, she is sent to the school psychologist.
** A ShowWithinAShow involved a woman jumping out a window, at her daughter's birthday of all things, because she was dumped. It's later shown she survived though.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/BeanyAndCecil'' episode "Ben Hare" a program on tv is shown about a famous rabbit and his many sons, eventually the stork is so tired of delivering the baby rabbits that he shoots himself, his dead body is then shown smiling.

* In the first ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat'' short ''WesternAnimation/FelineFollies'', Felix (then known as "Master Tom") gases himself after learning his girlfriend Kitty White has had [[ExplosiveBreeder over a dozen kittens]].
* During his short film days, ''WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost'' had attempted to do this every so often, only to get not harmed at all, the good-hearted latter being already a ghost.
* In ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'', Nebula decides to stay in the Omega Dimension as it crumbles into nothingness, believing that her quest for vengeance has corrupted her irretrievably. Layla, too, wants to die in the Omega Dimension, ashamed at turning on her friends and filled with misery over [[spoiler: Nabu's death]]. [[spoiler: Bloom convinces them to leave, though.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'':
** In the episode "Shirt Club", when Steven asks the Gems to help him stop some t-shirts from being distributed, they (incorrectly) assume the shirts are dangerous and start making various guesses as to what the threat is. This culminates in Pearl guessing that the shirts cause their wearers to lose the will to live, "thereby shutting down Beach City" via mass suicide.
** In the episode "Buddy's Book", Buddy sticks his head in a lion's mouth and tells it to go ahead and eat him.
** In "Bismuth", Bismuth repositions a weapon in Steven's hand to aim it at [[HeartDrive her own gem]], and tells Steven to [[LiterallyShatteredLives shatter her]]. He refuses.
--->'''Bismuth:''' At least if I were in pieces I wouldn't have to know how little I matter to [Rose].
* "The Bride to Beat" episode of ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' has a depressed raindrop imaginary friend trying to jump off the top of the house after his creator grows up and abandons him. Bloo [[BlackComedy accidentally throws him off the house]]. ''Twice''. He survives both times due to holding onto an umbrella.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'':
** Usually happens to poor [[TheChewToy Stumpy]], who [[BungledSuicide fails all his attempts.]] Reasons include thinking he can't impress a girl he likes and finding out that magic isn't real.
** In one episode, the trope is PlayedForLaughs. [[SurroundedByIdiots Mr. Cat]] gets so fed up with Stumpy's idiocy that he hangs himself. Since DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist, he's alive and well by the next scene.
* At the end of the ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' episode "Auto Erotic Assimilation", after being dumped by [[HiveMind Unity]], Rick becomes so depressed that he attempts to disintegrate himself with a laser, but passes out just before it activates.

* By the end of season 3 of ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'', pretty much everyone in [=BoJack=]'s life has either abandoned him or [=BoJack=] himself has pushed them away: he fired his agent after losing two possible movie roles, Todd is no longer speaking to him after he reveals he slept with his ex-girlfriend, and he attempts to tape a new reboot of ''Horsin' Around'', the sitcom he loved doing, only to succumb to the pressure. In the very end, to the accompaniment of Nina Simone's interpretation of Janis Ian's "Stars", he is driving his Tesla out in the desert at top speed, with the intention of killing himself, but stops when he sees some wild horses running.

** In the episode "Princess Cookie", this happens to a (male) cookie who realized he couldn't be a princess. The cookie held hostages to obtain the crown from Princess Bubblegum, which caused him to get in trouble. She sent guards after him, and rather than getting caught, he decided to purposefully and blissfully fall off a cliff. [[UnexplainedRecovery He got better]].

-_->'''Bismuth:''' At least if I were in pieces I wouldn't have to know how little I matter to [Rose].

** The controversial episode "One Coarse Meal" features a notorious scene in which Plankton lies in the road in an attempt to get run over when Mr. Krabs's "KnightTemplar" tendencies go too far. [=SpongeBob=] defends Plankton and prevents such by trying to tell Mr. Krabs off, but he doesn't listen.

** In the episode "Are You Happy Now?", when Squidward goes into a depression, he sticks his head in the oven but is really taking brownies out. In another part, he throws a rope with a loop in the end over the ceiling but is really hoisting up a bird cage.

** Stewie decided to kill himself over his fear of the cover of Music/{{Queen}}'s ''News of the World'' album, getting as far as putting the gun in his mouth before Brian slapped it away.

** In another, the [[TastesLikeDiabetes young duck]] tries to get Tom to eat him because he's "ugly."

** The controversial episode "One Course Meal" features a notorious scene in which Plankton lies in the road in an attempt to get run over when Mr. Krabs's "KnightTemplar" tendencies go too far. [=SpongeBob=] defends Plankton and prevents such by trying to tell Mr. Krabs off, but he doesn't listen.

** In "Something Smells," Spongebob's rancid onion breath cases his own reflection to smash itself and two nearby fish to grab onto a fishing hook and get reeled up.
** In the episode "Are You Happy Now?" when Squidward goes into a depression he sticks his head in the oven but is really taking brownies out. In another part he throws a rope with a loop in the end over the ceiling but is really hoisting up a bird cage.

* Dinobot in ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}: WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' is seen in his quarters, early in the episode "Code Of Hero", overcome by dishonor and [[{{Seppuku}} holding his sword at his chest]] before tossing it aside in disgust. [[spoiler:Some fans view his HeroicSacrifice later in the episode as suicide, given the odds stacked against him and the fact that the other Maximals were already on their way. There's no clear answer here.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[Creator/{{Disney}} From the Happiest Place on Earth, ladies and gentlemen.]]]]

** In "Million Dollar Abie", Homer's dad inadvertently ruins the town's shot at getting their own football team, causing him to become a depressed pariah. His friends then recommend assisted suicide (which is a parody of the Home process from ''SoylentGreen''), but the law allowing it is overturned before he can go through with it. He gets better.

** Also, in "Mortynight Run", when the duo got surrounded by rescuing a telepathic gaseous organism [[UnfortunateNames Fart]], the latter successfully gets the two off the hook after [[PsychicAssistedSuicide giving one of the cops a vision that his girlfriend is cheating on someone else]], causing him to intentionally crash his vehicle to another, which in turn causes a series of destruction that wipes out everything.

** The controversial episode "One Course Meal" features a notorious scene in which Plankton lies in the road in an attempt to get run over when Mr. Krabs's "KnightTemplar" tendencies go too far.

-->'''Stan:''' "Oh, god, it's the gay call! I've been dreading this for years!" ''(begins powering an entire bottle of pills)'' "...Oh, he's just barricaded himself in your office and won't leave?" ''(his mouth begins to froth; he glances offscreen)'' "Dave! Antidote!"

--> '''Klaus''': Your life has been lived a thousand times! ''Kill yourself!''

--> '''Homer''': Marge, you know batting this lightbulb is the only thing that cheers me up after losing those million-dollar Greyhounds! *the bulb hits Homer in the head, causing him to lose his grip and fall off*

-->'''Dog:''' HEY! WAIT FOR ME! WAIT FOR BABY!\\

-->'''Pepe''': I missed. Fortunately for you.

** A weird example occurs when Orel attempts this twice, not out of any sort of depression, but because an accidental near death experience had him convinced that God is trying to communicate with him, so he attempts suicide to have more near-death experiences. [[spoiler:The last one led to his gnostic revelation that one does not need a church to worship God. Unfortunately, the revelation is literally beaten out of him.]]

--> '''Gear Police:''' My life is a fucking joke!

* ''WesternAnimation/FollowTheSun: Happens ''twice'': the first time is an ice-cream dancer hanging herself, and the second is a bag of popcorn attempting this by cutting into it's left eyeball with a potato chip, each cut removing another kernel under the presumption that emptying out all the popcorn will put the bag out of its misery.

** In the episode where Apu is fired from his job at the Kwik-E-Mart by a group of executives for violating the Health Code, he tries to commit suicide by ''eating one of the store's hot dogs''. He has to be restrained by the same executives who fired him, who start pleading with him that it isn't worth it.

** A RunningGag is that the bartender Moe frequently attempts suicide. It's his holiday tradition. He's usually accidentally saved.

** In "Dirtfoot", Shake killed himself so an old woman's top would dissapear. At least Frylock was happy...

** ''All'' Dethklok fans might qualify, since they sign Pain Waivers absolving Dethklok from any responsibility for accidents, injuries and fatalities during their concerts.

** The bloopers show host kills himself at the end of every segment he's in. During the infamous "The Rescue" sketch, the titular Robot Chicken [[InterruptedSuicide interrupts his suicide.]] The host concludes that if someone had the heart to save him, his life must have meaning after all. [[spoiler: Then the chicken crushes his skull.]]
*** The final Bloopers sketch actually has the suicide fail because the hosts pregnant, 13-year old daughter refused to help him commit seppuku. It then turns out that there's no one in the studio, and the Host has just been imagining the audience reaction the whole time.

** "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back": Hermes threatens to jump off the Planet Express balcony after being demoted by the Central Bureaucracy. However since he didn't file the proper Suicide papers, doing so would have caused him to be demoted even further.

--> '''Stewie''': *freaked out* Okay, red flag, red flag everybody!
** After Brian explaining death to him, and following it up with his belief that there is no afterlife, Stewie becomes despondent and decides to just end it all. First by trying to hang himself, [[TheManTheyCouldntHang which he can't due to his lack of a neck and the football shape of his head]], then by ElectrifiedBathtub, but this fails when the toaster he used just ended up giving him superpowers as "Toasterman". He then tries committing SuicideByCop, but the cop turns out to be Joe, who is also suicidal and tries to get Stewie to shoot him. Finally, he attempts to just [[AteHisGun Eat His Gun]], but is stopped by Brian.
** At the end of "In Harmony's Way", Peter talks about how happy he is to be home with his family after his and Quagmires singing career fell apart, and how "life after fame is always better than before". He then goes straight into his tour bus and shoots himself.
** PlayedForLaughs in “I Dream of Jesus” when Stewie gets so annoyed by Peter singing Surfin’ Bird that he randomly pulls a gun from his booster seat and [[AteHisGun puts the barrel in his mouth]] when he starts singing the song once again.

** "Something Wal-Mart This Way Comes": The owner of the local Wal-Mart faces an angry mob of townspeople fed up with its influence, nervously going back and forth between lauding its qualities and expressing his own negative yet defeated opinion of it. During the conversation he writes and shows a note telling the crowd to meet him outside. After then townspeople leave the office confused and disappointed, [[spoiler:the owner suddenly jumps through the window, hanging by a noose. Seconds later, [[NoDeadBodyPoops he craps his pants, proving Cartman right about the phenomenon]] to his satisfaction.]] The same thing happens later with [[spoiler:the founder of Wal-Mart, who shoots himself. And then [[RunningGag craps his pants]].]]

** "Britney's New Look": Music/BritneySpears blows her head off... and lives. So, the cult which apparently everybody in the country belongs to, decides they need to try harder. "It's gonna be a goooood harvest." The episode is a parody of ''Literature/TheLottery'', comparing the books sacrifices to how the U.S builds up and then tears down celebrities.
** "Night Of The Living Homeless": A man tries "to take the easy way out" by shooting himself. He shoots himself over and over again, destroying his body further, but not dying. This is also an example of CrossingTheLineTwice.

* There was that one time in ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' where Shake killed himself in an over-the-top fashion just so he could haunt Meatwad's video game. And another time where he attempts it because he's disappointed over his [[spoiler:supposed]] son Ezekial's lack of sports skills. Carl was pissed because Shake was using ''his'' car to kill himself.

-->'''Pepe''': I missed. Luckily for you.

* Though it's not called suicide, nor is [[NeverSayDie death even alluded]], the [[ItsAWonderfulPlot Wonderful Life]] episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' had Timmy eventually concluding that, since everyone's apparently happy in the world where he was never born, he should ''forfeit his own right to exist''. For clarity, this is a ''ten-year-old boy'' who comes to the depressed conclusion that he only causes misery in others so he should just accept being erased from existence. Sure, it's all a SecretTestOfCharacter, but the realization needed to "pass" the test was, for all intents and purposes, "[[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop my suicide will make everyone else happy]]." It's one of two episodes which the showrunners requested not be rerun due to the negative viewer reaction.

* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' features Aelita doing this in the final episode of season 2, but it was [[InterruptedSuicide stopped by Jérémie]]. Her motives here are complex and confusing, blending a bit of GoodbyeCruelWorld with HeroicSacrifice and MartyrWithoutACause. Yes, all of those apply. She did this a ton of times. In "Just In Time", she did this and was brought back to life via backup data. Blog/DeadcodersReviews hit it on the head with the phrase: "Aelita is dead again! Everyone do a shot!"