History Main / AteHisGun

* In ''VideoGame/ShadowWarrior'', if the basic mooks spend long enough shooting at the player character to no effect, they'll feel so dishonored by their failure they'll put the barrel of their Uzi in their mouth and blow half their skull off.
* In ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'', [[spoiler: Konrad did this shortly after the introductory cutscene. After discovering this, Walker can follow suit.]]

* ''Film/Elves2017'': After Chance has given some information to the girls who have come to her for information, the influence of the elf doll takes her over. She sticks her gun in her mouth, and pulls the trigger.

* [[TheDragon Mr. French]] (Creator/RayWinstone) in ''Film/TheDeparted'', had already been shot and then was trapped in his crashed/burning car, with the State Police closing in. "...fuck it."
* ''Film/{{Downfall}}'':

* One of the titular ''Seven Yakuza'', Yoshiro Ebisu, lost everything when the bubble economy burst and he was fired from his finance job. He spent some months pretending to go to work until his wife eventually confronted him; he snapped and pulled a PaterFamilicide before turning the gun on himself. The bullet went through his cheekbone and he survived with severe disfigurement (missing most of his jaw on that side and speaking/breathing through a tracheotomy tube). A yakuza associate paid his hospital bills and hired him on to mind his safehouse.

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->''Dwayne held the muzzle of his gun in his mouth for a while. He tasted oil. The gun was loaded and cocked. There were neat little metal packages containing charcoal, potassium nitrate and sulphur only inches from his brains. He had only to trip a lever, and the powder would turn to gas. The gas would blow a chunk of lead down a tube and through Dwayne's brains.''

!!'''As a DeathTrope, the major part of the spoilers will be unmarked. Beware.'''

* Martin Riggs in ''Film/LethalWeapon'' contemplates this form of suicide early on in the movie, but can't follow through. He even has a special hollow-point bullet to make sure his brain is sufficiently damaged. But when he's partnered up with Roger Murtaugh, the latter is so exasperated with Riggs' DeathSeeker attitude (which he believes is just a bluff) that he offers him his own revolver to do himself in -- and Riggs promptly presses the barrel to the underside of his throat. Then he moves it to his mouth, because the other position still allowed for error, and very ''nearly'' fires until Murtaugh realizes he's not bluffing. Riggs pulls the trigger, but Murtaugh realizes at the last minute his intention and grabs the gun, catching the hammer before it fires. Had he not, Riggs would have killed himself.

* In ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'', it's mentioned that Caladon Hockley, Rose's asshole fiance played by Creator/BillyZane ended up killing himself this way when the Great Depression drove him into the poor-house.

** Off the same album, "We Call Upon The Author To Explain" has a line about the poet John Berryman, who "went the Heming way". Both Berryman and Hemingway died of this trope.
* Implied in ''The Final'' by Music/DirEnGrey in its original PV, where the protagonist, upon finding his family murdered, is implied to commit suicide in this manner.
* Music/{{Filter}}'s ''Hey Man Nice Shot,'' about the RealLife on-camera suicide of politician Bud Dwyer.
* The end of the music video to Music/{{Disturbed}}'s "Inside The Fire" has the subject (the lead singer) do this with a rifle.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q5pZ49r9aU Ultrasound]] mentions this and a real life example:

* ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'': ComicBook/{{Mysterio}} killed himself this way after finding that Daredevil would not kill him for the death of Karen Page (He also references Kraven's suicide beforehand). [[BackFromTheDead He came back]] but with half of his head missing.

* Sergei Kravinoff committed suicide this way in ''ComicBook/KravensLastHunt'', letting us know that he meant it when he told Franchise/SpiderMan he (Kravinoff) was giving up the hunt for good.

* Mysterio killed himself this way after finding that ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} would not kill him for the death of Karen Page (He also references Kraven's suicide beforehand). [[BackFromTheDead He came back]] but with half of his head missing.

* On ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', Cotton prepared to do this, dressing up in full military uniform with all of his medals, and asking Dale to lend him a single bullet. He is interrupted at the last moment by his wife Didi barging in and telling him to watch their infant son Good Hank for a while since she's been with him all day. Hank gets there just in time to hear the gunshot from outside the door and bursts in to find that Cotton had opted to have GH fire the bullet into a mattress instead, apparently having found some renewed will to live (BabiesMakeEverythingBetter?).

** Inversion: in "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.

** In "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset," Creator/ParisHilton's pet dog kills itself this way.
** And Music/BritneySpears. Not that it had any effect on her mental abilities.
** Even the [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethII Queen of England]] does it after [[CurbStompBattle the British invasion fleet gets destroyed]] in "The Snuke".
** Another example is in the episode "Le Petit Tourette"; this was after an ambushee on Chris Hansen's ''Series/{{Dateline}}'' segment "To Catch A Predator" committed suicide this way, and at the end of the episode, perverts keep showing up at a taping of his new special, then killing themselves this way when they find out it's him.
** Played for laughs in an episode when a scientist shoots himself in the face to prevent from being attacked and joined by the homeless. No matter how many times he shoots himself, he just doesn't die.
** Butters is told to do this by a meme-hating teacher in "Faith Hilling". He ends up frozen in his seat with the gun in his mouth for nearly the entire episode's length.

* Tommy Wiseau's ''Film/TheRoom'' had the main character Johnny take this route when he [[DiedOnTheirBirthday opts to kill himself on his own birthday]], after he found out about his fiancée's affair.

* ''VideoGame/{{Loopmancer}}'' have more than one alternate ending where you kill tyourself via revolver into the mouth, from a ''first-person'' perspective. Your death isn't permanent, though - you're stuck in a GroundhogDayLoop and can reset it only by death.

* A [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor living teddy bear]] on ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' chose this option rather than live in a world that has no place for living teddy bears. It didn't work.

* ''VideoGame/EternalEvil'' have one of the Cross Hotel's survivors who tells you his intentions to kill himself after witnessing the rest of the hotel's occupants turning into monsters, despite your efforts to talk him out. Said survivor had a loaded gun, and as you leave him, you hear a gunshot from behind the door...

* Tommy Wiseau's ''Film/TheRoom'' had main character Johnny go out this way after he found out about his fiancée's affair. Of course, it is only ''after'' his wimpy rage against his home that he goes, "[[Podcast/RiffTrax Oh hai, gun bawwel!]]"