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'''Nick:''' Ex... Terminate? ''([[{{Pun}} Dalek kills him]])''

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'''Nick:''' Ex... Terminate? ''([[{{Pun}} ''([[NoSenseOfHumor Dalek kills him]])''
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* ''Lou''. The title character is shown burning classified documents and film before putting a rifle under her chin with the intention of committing suicide. [[InterruptedSuicide The events of the film intervene]], and we later discover it was blackmail material she was using against the CIA, after having worked for them as a field agent. Ironically at the end of the movie the CIA are still searching for this material long after it's been destroyed.

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* ''Lou''.''Film/Lou2022''. The title character is shown burning classified documents and film before putting a rifle under her chin with the intention of committing suicide. [[InterruptedSuicide The events of the film intervene]], and we later discover it was blackmail material she was using against the CIA, after having worked for them as a field agent. Ironically at the end of the movie the CIA are still searching for this material long after it's been destroyed.
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** Percival, the [=MI6=] station chief for Berlin, has the cover of a blackmarket dealer in goods from the West, and burns his stash when the Berlin Wall falls.

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** Percival, the [=MI6=] station chief for Berlin, has the cover of a blackmarket dealer in goods from the West, and West. He burns his stash when the Berlin Wall falls.falls, making the goods all but valueless and everything he's done as a spy meaningless.
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* ''Film/AtomicBlonde''
** Lorraine claims not to have known Gascoigne well, but is shown burning a photo of them together after being informed of his PlotTriggeringDeath.
** Percival, the [=MI6=] station chief for Berlin, has the cover of a blackmarket dealer in goods from the West, and burns his stash when the Berlin Wall falls.
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* ''Anime/YuGiOh'': This was [[Characters/YuGiOhSetoKaiba Seto Kaiba]] plan for Battle City, destroying his father's island and (attempting to) reclaim his title from Yugi. It's practically his way of life: if there is ''anything'' tying him down, be it a grudge, a favor, or even the most meager stain on his pride, he will go out of his way to rectify it with an unhealthy and ruthless obsession. This causes a ''lot'' of problems with anyone bringing up his Egyptian incarnation because as far as he's concerned, it's not his problem and can stay the hell out of his life.
** By the Battle City Finals, he cites this as the reason he's so obsessed with defeating Yugi, besides reclaiming his title. He sees Dark Yugi's desire to reclaim his lost past as an ultimately futile effort that will keep him from moving forward as he himself does, forgetting that before the Nameless Pharaoh can move on, whether in life or into the afterlife, he ''needs'' to know [[AmnesiacHero who he is]]. His obsession with destroying all traces of his past begins to worry Mokuba during the duel as the elder brother gives the impression that the good times the two did have, in the orphanage before Gozaburo ever came into the picture, weren't worth cherishing.
** At the same time, his attempts at actually ''doing'' this fails because for all of Kaiba's posturing, he's among the ''most'' motivated by his past. He's unable to ''genuinely'' move forward because he's still driven by the pain caused by Gozaburo and his defeats to Yugi. As such, his attempts at trying to ignore his past for the future comes off more as him trying to run away from his problems or pain rather than face it.
** The manga film ''The Dark Side of Dimensions'' has the plot be driven by Kaiba's obsession to resurrect Atem after the latter has finally passed on to the afterlife, going so far as to excavate the Millennium Puzzle, as well as successfully create technology that is implied to allow him to reach beyond the living realm.
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* The first arc of the 2014 ''ComicBook/TheDeadBoyDetectives'' miniseries ends with St. Hilarion's, the boarding school Edwin and Charles attended where they both ended up killed, burning to the ground. Neither Edwin nor Charles are particularly upset that St. Hilarion's is no more.

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* The first arc of the 2014 ''ComicBook/TheDeadBoyDetectives'' miniseries series by Toby Litt ends with St. Hilarion's, the boarding school Edwin and Charles attended where they both ended up killed, burning to the ground. Neither Edwin nor Charles are particularly upset that St. Hilarion's is no more.

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