History Main / AteHisGun

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZbsXFoCHks E3 announcement trailer]] for ''VideoGame/ZombiU'' has a nameless British office worker preparing to do this (around the 1:10 mark) when it becomes quite clear that no amount of pills or injections will stem the tide of his infection. After a glass of liquor and a sad look at a photo of his wife and child, we see that in spite of his expression, he has already pulled the trigger because of the incoming horde of zombies mere feet from where he sits. The next tableau on the bridge shows that it ''really'' didn't work -- he became a zombie himself.

Police officers ''really'' do not like these kinds of suicides. The result is ''always'' very messy and gory, and can leave nightmares to anyone who has to witness this kind of suicide happening, or its aftermath.

Blow my [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] brains out\\

* In ''{{Manga/Shiki}}'', Seishirou does this after Natsuno bites and commands him to betray and attack the other Kirishikis. Understandable in that he is fiercely loyal to them, both as one of the family’s heads (second only to Sunako) and Chizuru’s husband. This only happens in the manga. Unfortunately for Yoshie, however, she still manages to get shot by him in both the anime and manga.

* ''LightNovel/AllYouNeedIsKill''. Immediately after waking in the past [[GroundhogDayLoop after dying in battle for the fourth time]], the protagonist asks for his friend's service pistol, sticks it in his mouth and pulls the trigger [[DeathIsCheap just to find out if he really is time-looping]].

* Done literally in ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'' with Gastro, one of the assassins from the "Assassination Island" arc. He has an odd habit of tasting his gun, even mixing it with actual food.

* A literal example in the old George Reeves ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSuperman'' serial. A clown was coming up with a new routine wherein he was a hero. He handed the prop gun to Clark Kent and explained there was no need to be bulletproof: his superpower was that he would just eat the gun. And he took a bite out of it to show everyone. Evidently, it was delicious.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''Theatre/TheTrailToOregon!'' where the [[ExtremeOmnivore son]] literally tries to eat his gun, with the muzzle in his mouth and his finger on the trigger

* Taken literally in the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' film "Dripalong Daffy." Daffy points a pistol in the face of outlaw Nasty Canasta, who proceeds to bite off and eat the gun barrel.
-->'''Daffy:''' Probably didn't have his iron today.
** Inversion: in the follow-up "My Little Duckaroo," Canasta is playing poker with Daffy. Daffy has 51 cards to Canasta's one, and when Daffy calls, Canasta rams his gun in Daffy's mouth ("I got a three o' clubs." Daffy: "Beats me!"). Similarly, in the director's cut of 1943's "Hare Ribbin'", after the dog wishes he were dead, Bugs Bunny shoves a gun in the dog's mouth and fires.

* While this never actually happens in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', the game allows you to rename weapons with the use of purchasable name tags. A fairly common name for the Shotgun is "[[Music/{{Nirvana}} Kurt Cobain's]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice Microphone]]".

* ''Film/{{Apparitional}}'': In a flashback, a man is shown sticking a gun in his mouth, and them firing.

* The Neutral ending to Jacob's loyalty quest in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' has Shepard and Jacob [[LeaveBehindAPistol leaving behind a pistol with one shot]] for Jacob's father Ronald as the people he abused and forced to eat toxic food close in on him intent on revenge, with the intention of making him do this to [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled spare himself from what they will do to him]].

* Done as one of the possible endings to Jacob's loyalty quest in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''.

* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'':
** F8 terminates himself with a laser welder.
** One of the Zhat Vash shoots herself with a disruptor after experiencing the Admonition.
** Rios' former captain, Alonzo Vandermeer, blew his own brains out after carrying out Starfleet's orders to assassinate two people.

There are lots of ways to [[ChoosingDeath do yourself in]]: jump off a bridge, hanging, stick your head in the oven. One popular method in the USA and Hollywood is to wrap your lips around the barrel of your favorite firearm, and pull the trigger.[[note]]This being part of the reason why they have fewer suicidal and depressed people than all other developed countries - their average suicide attempt is about 50% lethal, versus less than 10% for the rest of the developed world (deliberate drug overdose having an average lethality of 2-3%, versus bullet to the brain at 90%+). This is because ''half'' their suicide attempts are with firearms, this rate also mirroring their rate of firearms-ownership (about half, versus 15% for Australia and less for countries like Poland where they don't have [[DeathWorld cane toads, rabbits, crows, dingos, foxes, and crocs to deal with]]). Funnily enough, despite the impression given by the many drive-by-shootings and school shootings it's actually suicide and not murder that makes up the majority of their 15,000 annual firearms-deaths.[[/note]] One obvious reason for this: [[NoRangeLikePointBlankRange not a lot of room for error]]. Of course, some people still [[BungledSuicide survive the attempt]], often by not actually aiming at their brain — even the woman in the page image isn't doing so.

* Once on ''Series/{{The Incredible Hulk|1977}}'' a guy with NapoleonDelusion thought he was Creator/ErnestHemingway and was acting out scenes from his (Hemingway's) life; his friend didn't see any harm in a little {{LARP}}ing until Banner pointed out that Hemingway killed himself.
* On ''Series/TheITCrowd'' had Douglas pull the trigger of a gun ''[[TooDumbToLive while it was in his mouth]]'' to check if it was loaded.

A SubTrope of AttackTheMouth (just the attacker is oneself).

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation has [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2076 SCP-2076]] ("Shooting Yourself Can Increase Your Bullet Resistance"), a phenomenon where posters appear across Illinois, appearing to be some publicity campaign preaching MeaninglessMeaningfulWords or just BlatantLies that [[BrownNote readers take at face value]].

** Even the [[UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen Queen of England]] does it after [[CurbStompBattle the British invasion fleet gets destroyed]] in "The Snuke".

** In the 2003 anime version of ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'', a [[HeroicBSOD seriously traumatised]] Roy Mustang is crying TearsOfRemorse as he gets ready to do this, and has to be stopped by his partner Hughes from going through with it. The reason Roy is suicidal is that he killed Winry Rockbell's parents, Sara and Urey, under orders of the higher-ups.

* In ''[[Literature/JediAcademyTrilogy I, Jedi]]'' it's mentioned that the husband of one of the {{Big Bad}}s suffered some kind of stroke or fit and was paralyzed. He worked for months at physical therapy until he regained the use of his hands - which one character muses must have been a goal of his, because he immediately performed this trope with a blaster.

* ''Father's Day'' (see below) is a ForeignRemake of the 1983 French movie ''Film/Les Comperes''. The same scene, played by Pierre Richard, happens there too, although he doesn't keep the gun in his mouth as long.

* An ImpliedTrope for a character's mindset in ''Literature/TimeEnoughForLove'': Lazarus Long mentions, repeatedly, that a marriage between a '[[TimeAbyss Howard]]' and '[[WeAreAsMayflies ephemeral]]' is a bad idea. Then he tells a story about the one time he broke this rule, on a world with a "Wild West" society... and he fell in love with her. When she dies of old age... [[TearJerker what was he thinking before he calls his sons into the room]]?

* A possible resolution of the ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' sidequest "Return to Sender". [[spoiler:You discover that Chief Hanlon has been sabotaging NCR communications by doing things such as forging bogus field reports like Great Khans using trained Deathclaws in battle, sending shitloads of ammo to a Ranger station that desperately needs a restock on their drinking water, sending shitloads of medical supplies to a Ranger station that desperately needs more ammo, and more. Confront him and he gives his MotiveRant: He feels that the war with Caesar's Legion is never going to end, and he's trying to frustrate the NCR enough so that they pack up and leave before too many more soldiers get killed. If you decide to turn him in, he locks himself in his office and gives a [[TearJerker heartbreaking speech]] over the intercom before putting a bullet in his head. [[MoodWhiplash Then you can go in and nab that nice Ranger Sequoia he used used to do the deed]].]]