History Main / KilledByRequest

* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': Robert Beltran hated playing Chakotay and expressed a preference to not be on the show any more, demanding more and more money in the hopes that they'd get rid of him; but they just kept meeting his demands so he was forced to continue.

** Creator/HarrisonFord also wanted Han Solo killed off in the Original Trilogy. [[spoiler:Which didn't happen, instead in the first movie of the Sequel Trilogy.]]

* Creator/JamieLeeCurtis appeared in ''Film/HalloweenResurrection'' on the condition that Laurie Strode be killed off - so she wouldn't have to star in another ''Halloween'' movie.

* ''Series/TwentyFour'' had at least two actors who requested their characters to get killed off. In Season 3, actress Vanessa Ferlito, who plays Claudia, was committed to filming the Tommy Lee Jones movie Man of the House. In Season 6, actor Eric Balfour, who played Milo Pressman, a recurring character from Season 1, specifically requested to get killed off in the show so he could film another TV pilot with Dean Cain.

* This is forced for all actors who play Doctors in ''Series/DoctorWho'', as by the [[TheNthDoctor basic concept of the show]] the only way they can leave is for the Doctor to suffer something fatal to force him to regenerate.

* Jessalyn Gilsig asked to be killed off of ''Series/Vikings'' because she could no longer cope with the long filming periods in Ireland away from her family.

* ''Film/JamesBond''. Creator/SeanConnery equally hated the character of and playing James Bond. He wanted to have him killed off not only so he wouldn't have to play him ever again, but so that he wouldn't have to hear or see about him ever again, either.

* It's been reported that Anya, the only regular character to die permanently in the GrandFinale of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', was selected because Emma Caulfield had no interest in playing the character again in any other series within the franchise. (Spike's death was known by the entire audience to be impermanent, as his status as a regular character in the next season of ''Angel'' had already been announced.)

* Creator/NancyAllen hated the script for ''Film/Robocop3'' so much that she agreed to return on the condition that her character be killed off.

* ''Series/{{24}}'' had at least two actors who requested their characters to get killed off. In Season 3, actress Vanessa Ferlito, who plays Claudia, was committed to filming the Tommy Lee Jones movie Man of the House. In Season 6, actor Eric Balfour, who played Milo Pressman, a recurring character from Season 1, specifically requested to get killed off in the show so he could film another TV pilot with Dean Cain.

* Creator/SigourneyWeaver wanted Ripley to do three things in ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' - not handle a weapon, make love to an alien and die. She did all three in ''Film/Alien3''.

* Roman Wilhelmi, who played the role of the tank commander in the Polish series ''Czterej pancerni i pies'' (Four Tank-men and a Dog), apparently found the character bland, so once a WrittenInInfirmity plot was written where the tank is hit and the crew ended up in the hospital, he asked to become a fatality instead.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': The actress playing Tasha Yar wasn't interested in continuing with the series, and requested to be killed off during the first season. She later regretted this choice, and came back as a guest star several times.

* As ''{{Series/Angel}}'''s finale approached, Joss Whedon asked Alexis Denisof what he should do with his character Wesley. It was his suggestion to kill Wesley off in the finale.

* This is forced for all actors who play Doctors in ''Series/DoctorWho'', as by the [[TheNthDoctor basic concept of the show]] the only way they can leave is for the Doctor to suffer something fatal to force him to regenerate.

* In ''Series/Supernatural'', Rachel Miner had to leave the series because she suffered from Multiple Sclerosis. Her character the demon Meg was killed off at her request despite the fact that [[TheNthDoctor demons can change vessels]] (and Miner was Meg's second actress).

* Mitchell, the vampire protagonist of the first three series of ''Series/BeingHuman'', was staked through the heart in the final episode of series 3, which also established that staking would destroy a vampire so thoroughly that there could be no possibility of them resurrecting. Reportedly, this was because Mitchell's actor, Aiden Turner, had a scheduling project between the show and filming for ''Film/TheHobbit'', and had asked to be killed off in a way which meant he wouldn't be expected to return.

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* There is ''Literature/TheDarkHalf'', where an author writes [[MagnumOpusDissonance extremely popular books which he personally dislikes]] under a pseudonym. Eventually, he arranges a fake funeral for said pseudonym.
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Compare FranchiseZombie, where a creator (such as an author) is forced to continue producing a popular series of works. Can overlap with BusCrash or BackForTheDead in cases where the character was handed a bus ticket while the producers tried to work things out with the actor.

Actors usually like the characters they play, otherwise they wouldn't choose to play them... [[MoneyDearBoy unless it's for money]]. Some still don't like either their character or the work they're in (or both) enough to be tempted by cold, hard, cash, and go on the record saying that they wish their character would be killed off already so that they can quit with no chance of the bus coming back.

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* There is ''Literature/TheDarkHalf'', where an author writes [[MagnumOpusDissonance extremely popular books which he personally dislikes]] under a pseudonym. Eventually, he arranges a fake funeral for said pseudonym.

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* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': The actress playing Tasha Yar wasn't interested in continuing with the series, and requested to be killed off during the first season. She later regretted this choice, and came back as a guest star several times.