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* One of the end-game reveals in ''Fanfic/DanganronpaParadiseLost'' is that [[StrawNihilist Junpei]]'s plan to kickstart the [[DeadlyGame Killing Game]] and prove his HumansAreBastards mentality right was to deliberately provoke somebody into killing him.
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* ''Literature/GodEmperorOfDune'': God Emperor Leto II's final step in ensuring his Golden Path was, after millennia of setting himself up as the biggest obstacle to humanity's growth and finding a way to block anyone else from abusing an OmniscientMoralityLicense as he has, to drive them to kill him in some twisted combination of MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning and a HeroicSacrifice. Humanity promptly ''explodes'' outward onto the universe with such force that nobody can ever hope to find them all ever again, supposedly ensuring their survival in the upcoming RobotWar and forever afterward.

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* ''Literature/GodEmperorOfDune'': God Emperor Leto II's final step in ensuring his Golden Path was, after millennia of setting himself up as the biggest obstacle to humanity's growth and finding a way to block anyone else from abusing an OmniscientMoralityLicense as he has, to drive them to kill him in some twisted combination of MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning and a HeroicSacrifice. Humanity promptly ''explodes'' outward onto into the universe with such force that nobody can ever hope to find them all ever again, supposedly ensuring their survival in the upcoming RobotWar and forever afterward.afterward.
** It's compounded by the fact that in order to kill him, they had to be able to avoid his ability to scry the future, something he'd been trying to breed into humanity over all this time. It's the combination of these things which brings his plan to fruition, and the scrying-immune catalyst (whose genes will soon be spread through a significant proportion of humanity, making ''them'' undiscoverable also) is [[spoiler:his own distant descendant]].
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* The first stage of ''VideoGame/GladiatorSwordOfVengeance'' ends with Invictus Thrax's death by an unknown assailaint. He then wakes up and realize he's in Elysium, where he comments he's finally free from a life of killing... only for the gods, Romulus and Remus, to inform him "Your work is just beginning!"
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* ''VideoGame/MegaManX5'' has Sigma use this trope as, in a twist on the usual formula, he is the prologue boss...but that was his plan, as it spread the Sigma Virus upon his defeat throughout the world while the Space Colony Eurasia is being dropped on the planet.
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* ''[[WebVideo/MyLittlePonyTheMentallyAdvancedSeries Rainbow Dash Presents]]'': "{{Fanfic/Bittersweet}}", Pinkie Pie (incorrectly) assumes that her diabetic-induced death would cause a massive uproar in the community, resulting in a restructuring of the health care system that cheated her and put her on a leash. [[SubvertedTrope In reality]], no one gives her death the time of day, Twilight and the others were left confused as to what she was even trying to accomplish in the first place by rejecting medical treatment [[PoorCommunicationKills because she never bothered disclosing her plan to anyone else]], and the only one she did confide her plan to was Rainbow Dash, who's too much of a ditz to even realize Pinkie's plan and instead [[ItsAllMyFault becomes guilt-ridden for months]].
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* Attempted in ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy2019'': [[spoiler:Reginald Hargreeves turns out to have killed himself to give an excuse for his children to [[PuttingTheBandBackTogether reunite and stop the apocalypse]]. Unfortunately, their collective dysfunction causes them to [[SelfFulfillingProphecy be the ones that start the apocalypse in the first place]]]].

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* ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions''. Neo knew going in he could not defeat Smith without "balancing the equation", i.e. negating both of them.
* ''Film/{{The Mummy|1999}}'' shows a literal example with Imhotep. Down to carving it in the very coffin he's buried in.

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* ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions''. ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions'': Neo knew going in he could not defeat Smith without "balancing the equation", i.e. negating both of them.
* ''Film/{{The Mummy|1999}}'' shows has a literal example with Imhotep. Down Imhotep, down to carving it in the very coffin he's buried in.



* A literal example of this occurs in the opening scene ''Film/SawIV''. When he finds one of Jigsaw's characteristics microcassettes in the latter's stomach during his autopsy, the coroner Dr. Adam Heffner calls Detective Mark Hoffman in. Hoffman listens to the tape as Jigsaw explains that "it's not over just because [he's] dead", and "the games have just begun". Of course, Hoffman himself ended up taking on his mantle following TheReveal at the end of the movie.

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* A literal example of this occurs in the opening scene of ''Film/SawIV''. When he finds one of Jigsaw's characteristics [[SerialKiller Jigsaw]]'s characteristic microcassettes in the latter's stomach during his autopsy, the coroner Dr. Adam Heffner calls tells a co-worker to call Detective Mark Hoffman in. Hoffman listens to the tape as Jigsaw explains that "it's not over just because [he's] dead", and "the games have just begun". Of course, Hoffman himself ended up taking on his Jigsaw's mantle following TheReveal at the end of the movie.movie.
-->''"I promise that my work will continue. You think it's over, just because I'm dead? It's not over. The games have just begun."''
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* A literal example of this occurs in ''Film/SawIV''. After finding a cassette in the stomach of Jigsaw during his autopsy, the coroner Dr. Adam Heffner calls Detective Mark Hoffman in. Hoffman listens to the tape as Jigsaw explains that his death is just the beginning, and that his work will continue. Of course, a detective ended up taking on his mantle.

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* A literal example of this occurs in the opening scene ''Film/SawIV''. After finding a cassette When he finds one of Jigsaw's characteristics microcassettes in the latter's stomach of Jigsaw during his autopsy, the coroner Dr. Adam Heffner calls Detective Mark Hoffman in. Hoffman listens to the tape as Jigsaw explains that his death is "it's not over just the beginning, because [he's] dead", and that his work will continue. "the games have just begun". Of course, a detective Hoffman himself ended up taking on his mantle.mantle following TheReveal at the end of the movie.
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* A literal example of this occurs in ''Film/SawIV''. After finding a microcassette in the stomach of Jigsaw during his autopsy, the medical coroner calls the police in. They listen to the tape as Jigsaw explains that his death is just the beginning, and that his work will continue. Of course, a detective ended up taking on his mantle.

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* A literal example of this occurs in ''Film/SawIV''. After finding a microcassette cassette in the stomach of Jigsaw during his autopsy, the medical coroner Dr. Adam Heffner calls the police Detective Mark Hoffman in. They listen Hoffman listens to the tape as Jigsaw explains that his death is just the beginning, and that his work will continue. Of course, a detective ended up taking on his mantle.
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* ''VideoGame/OctopathTravelerII'': In the final chapter, [[spoiler: It's revealed the Moonshade Order were dousing the lights of the Sacred Flame by using sacrifices. While some of the members offer up other characters to sacrifice, Ori, Petrichor and Oboro voluntarily commit suicide so as to resurrect Vide. (Well, Ori [[BungledSuicide attempts to kill herself but fails.]])]]
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* ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'': In an alternate universe of the DCU, although ComicBook/TheJoker [[KickTheSonOfABitch was killed off early]] in the game by a grieving Superman for tricking him into killing his wife Lois and nuking Metropolis, the MonsterClown did have the last laugh as his VillainousLegacy of causing Superman's downfall has slowly led to the collapse of everything good in the ''Injustice''-verse, most notably the Justice League falling apart due to the enmity between Batman and Superman. Ironically, [[BatmanGambit this is exactly]] [[ThanatosGambit what Joker wanted]], including the part where it got him killed: to prove that others can have "a really bad day" in his twisted StrawNihilist mindset. Things haven't changed much in [[VideoGame/Injustice2 the sequel]], as although he only appears as a gas-induced hallucination to Harley, he still haunts everybody even from the grave, and many pre-match intros even discuss about the chaos he left. Worse still, Doctor Fate notes that Joker's scheme worked ''so well'' that it's causing [[OrderIsNotGood the Lords of Order]] to give up on humanity and back Brainiac's invasion, believing that he'll restore the balance, ''despite knowing'' the Coluan's countless crimes. Fate also warns that if Batman and Superman keep on fighting each other, then the Lords will back even bigger threats.

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* ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'': In an alternate universe of the DCU, although ComicBook/TheJoker [[KickTheSonOfABitch was killed off early]] early in the game by a grieving Superman for tricking him into killing his wife Lois and nuking Metropolis, the MonsterClown did have the last laugh as his VillainousLegacy of causing Superman's downfall has slowly led to the collapse of everything good in the ''Injustice''-verse, most notably the Justice League falling apart due to the enmity between Batman and Superman. Ironically, [[BatmanGambit this is exactly]] [[ThanatosGambit what Joker wanted]], including the part where it got him killed: to prove that others can have "a really bad day" in his twisted StrawNihilist mindset. Things haven't changed much in [[VideoGame/Injustice2 the sequel]], as although he only appears as a gas-induced hallucination to Harley, he still haunts everybody even from the grave, and many pre-match intros even discuss about the chaos he left. Worse still, Doctor Fate notes that Joker's scheme worked ''so well'' that it's causing [[OrderIsNotGood the Lords of Order]] to give up on humanity and back Brainiac's invasion, believing that he'll restore the balance, ''despite knowing'' the Coluan's countless crimes. Fate also warns that if Batman and Superman keep on fighting each other, then the Lords will back even bigger threats.

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* Desty Nova in ''Manga/BattleAngelAlita''.
** He gets better. More than once. And, currently, has multiple versions of himself around, EACH with separate plans.

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* Friend from ''Manga/TwentiethCenturyBoys'' tries to do one of these by faking his death. Unfortunately, he underestimated one of his subordinates, who seizes the opportunity to kill him for real and take his place in the scheme.
* Desty Nova in ''Manga/BattleAngelAlita''.
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''Manga/BattleAngelAlita''. He gets better. More better -- more than once. And, currently, once -- and currently has multiple versions of himself around, EACH ''each'' with separate plans.plans.
* ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'': Clow Reed only predicted one particular aspect of everything wrong (that Sakura and Yukito would get together), and it was one that didn't have any effect on the plan.
* Miyori Sahara from ''Manga/CeresCelestialLegend'', who kills herself in the most gruesome way she can come up with (by flying to the highest building in her surroundings and throwing herself off there) as revenge against Aya, whose alter-ego Ceres murdered Miyori's beloved mother in her initial RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
* Lelouch vi Brittania to bring about the Zero Requiem in ''Anime/CodeGeass''.



* Masami Eiri in ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain'' throws himself under a train as the last part of his plan to discard the physical body and live on the Wire as God.
** Also, Chisa Yomode throwing herself off a building is what sets almost all the events of the series in motion. Lain doesn't notice anything strange in her life until she and other girls receive e-mails sent ''after Chisa's suicide'' -- and she's the only one who replies to these messages.
* ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'': This ''Anime/{{Mazinger|Z}}'' series gave us a rare heroic example. In the Creator/GoNagai manga, a [[{{Robeast}} Saucer Beast]] cornered [[TheHero Duke Fleed]] and [[TheDragon Blackie]] demanded that he reveal Grendizer’s hideout. He refused to talk and assured that ''[[Anime/MazingerZ all]]'' ''[[Anime/GreatMazinger his]]'' ''[[Manga/GetterRobo friends]]'' would go on fighting until they defeated them using his HumongousMecha.
* Emperor Dornkirk in ''Anime/VisionOfEscaflowne'' as part of his plan to activate his fate engine. Stupid KarmicDeath.

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* Masami Eiri in ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain'' throws In ''Manga/GhostInTheShell: Human Error Processor'', Section 9 investigates a series of ArmsDealer murders, and finds the perpetrator is dead, but left a brainwashing virus on the Net that will compel vulnerable people to murder anyone fitting the target description. [[DownerEnding The virus may still be out there, and may mutate as well, endangering any number of innocent people]].
* Masaki Kihara of ''Manga/HadesProjectZeorymer''. He was killed by Oki before the start of the series. However, by creating clones of
himself under a train with [[DysfunctionJunction personality flaws galore]], an [[ArtificialHuman android with the ability to grow up]] to [[PoweredByAForsakenChild serve as the titular mech's main system]], [[BrainUploading implanting his personality into said mech]] so that he can pull a SplitPersonalityTakeover on one of the clones when the time is right. In his own words: ''he gambled with himself for control of the entire world.'' It was a GambitRoulette in which he was able to bet half of everything on red and the other half on blue. Thankfully for the world, [[SpannerInTheWorks the ball lands on 0]] as a result of one of his clones [[SplitPersonalityMerge overpowering his personality and then incorporating it into himself]], and then blowing the other remaining clone to bits.
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
** In [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Part 5]], Carne approaches the plane the heroes are about to take, apparently unarmed. Mista guns him down on the spot. Unfortunately for the heroes, Carne was something of a suicide bomber -- [[DeathActivatedSuperpower his death was the trigger to awaken Notorious B.I.G.]], one of the most powerful and dangerous Stands in the series. (How powerful? Try ''absolutely indestructible''.)
** [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Part 6]] touches on this again and ends up seemingly turning it into a type of Stand of it's own. Sports Maxx has the Stand ability Limp Bizkit, which takes the form of maggots rooting themselves into corpses. These corpses are then turned into invisible, inaudible zombies. [[spoiler:The user is not exempt from this.]]
* ''Literature/KyoKaraMaoh'': Shinou died to set into motion a great [[AncientConspiracy Conspiracy]] drawn out over a period of ''four millenia'', which involved manipulating the whole of Demon Tribe for all those years in a cycle of incarnations and reincarnations, in order to defeat the BigBad Shoushu. And he managed to do it without being evil... well, at least most of the time!
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'':
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the last part of his plan to discard episodes, Ribbons kills the physical body "twins" Regene Regetta and live on the Wire as God.
** Also, Chisa Yomode throwing herself off a building is what sets almost all the events of the series in motion. Lain doesn't notice anything strange in her life until she and other girls receive e-mails sent ''after Chisa's suicide'' -- and she's the
Tieria Erde, only one who replies to these messages.
* ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'':
find that Regene was manipulating him all along. Regene and Tieria's deaths allow Tieria's consciousness to be uploaded into the supercomputer VEDA, where he works against Ribbons as a benevolent AI.
**
This ''Anime/{{Mazinger|Z}}'' series gave us a rare heroic example. In was also [[TheChessmaster Aeolia Schenberg]]'s backup plan: despite being in cryogenic suspension for two hundred years, his murder at the Creator/GoNagai manga, a [[{{Robeast}} Saucer Beast]] cornered [[TheHero Duke Fleed]] and [[TheDragon Blackie]] demanded that he reveal Grendizer’s hideout. He refused to talk and assured that ''[[Anime/MazingerZ all]]'' ''[[Anime/GreatMazinger his]]'' ''[[Manga/GetterRobo friends]]'' would go on fighting until they defeated hands of Alejandro Corner immediately triggers the Trans-Am program for the Gundams, giving them using his HumongousMecha.
* Emperor Dornkirk in ''Anime/VisionOfEscaflowne'' as part of his plan to activate his fate engine. Stupid KarmicDeath.
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* In the last episodes of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'', Ribbons kills the "twins" Regene Regetta and Tieria Erde, only to find that Regene was manipulating him all along. Regene and Tieria's deaths allow Tieria's consciousness to be uploaded into the supercomputer VEDA, where he works against Ribbons as a benevolent AI.
** This was also [[{{Chessmaster}} Aeolia Schenberg's]] backup plan: despite being in cryogenic suspension for two hundred years, his murder at the hands of Alejandro Corner immediately triggers the Trans-Am program for the Gundams, giving them a critical advantage over their enemies.
* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', the government executes the pirate king, Gold Roger, to send a message of warning to all the pirates in the world. Instead, Roger uses his moment of publicity to announce to the entire world where his treasure can be found, setting off the beginning of the Great Age of Pirates. It's also revealed that Roger planned it this way, rather than just taking advantage of his last moments to screw over his enemies one more time. He turned himself in, knowing it would result in a public execution, because he was [[IncurableCoughOfDeath already dying]] and wanted to make sure his death would mean something.

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* In the last episodes of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'', Ribbons kills the "twins" Regene Regetta and Tieria Erde, only to find that Regene was manipulating him all along. Regene and Tieria's deaths allow Tieria's consciousness to be uploaded into the supercomputer VEDA, where he works against Ribbons as a benevolent AI.
''Manga/OnePiece'':
** This was also [[{{Chessmaster}} Aeolia Schenberg's]] backup plan: despite being in cryogenic suspension for two hundred years, his murder at the hands of Alejandro Corner immediately triggers the Trans-Am program for the Gundams, giving them a critical advantage over their enemies.
* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', the
The government executes the pirate king, Gold Roger, to send a message of warning to all the pirates in the world. Instead, Roger uses his moment of publicity to announce to the entire world where his treasure can be found, setting off the beginning of the Great Age of Pirates. It's also revealed that Roger planned it this way, rather than just taking advantage of his last moments to screw over his enemies one more time. He turned himself in, knowing it would result in a public execution, because he was [[IncurableCoughOfDeath already dying]] and wanted to make sure his death would mean something.



* ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'': Clow Reed. He only predicted one particular aspect of everything wrong (that Sakura and Yukito would get together), and it was one that didn't have any effect on the plan.
* Friend from ''Manga/TwentiethCenturyBoys'' tries to do one of these by faking his death. Unfortunately, he underestimated one of his subordinates, who seizes the opportunity to kill him for real and take his place in the scheme.
* ''LightNovel/KyoKaraMaoh'': Shinou died to set into motion a great [[AncientConspiracy Conspiracy]] drawn out over a period of ''four millenia'', which involved manipulating the whole of Demon Tribe for all those years in a cycle of incarnations and reincarnations, in order to defeat the BigBad Shoushu. And he managed to do it without being evil... well, at least most of the time!
* Miyori Sahara from ''Manga/CeresCelestialLegend'', who kills herself in the most gruesome way she can come up with (by flying to the highest building in her surroundings and throwing herself off there) as revenge against Aya, whose alter-ego Ceres murdered Miyori's beloved mother in her initial RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
* Masaki Kihara of ''Manga/HadesProjectZeorymer''. He was killed by Oki before the start of the series. However, by creating clones of himself with [[DysfunctionJunction personality flaws galore]], an [[ArtificialHuman android with the ability to grow up]] to [[PoweredByAForsakenChild serve as the titular mech's main system]], [[BrainUploading implanting his personality into said mech]] so that he can pull a SplitPersonalityTakeover on one of the clones when the time is right. In his own words: ''he gambled with himself for control of the entire world.'' It was a GambitRoulette in which he was able to bet half of everything on red and the other half on blue. Thankfully for the world, [[SpannerInTheWorks the ball lands on 0]] as a result of one of his clones [[SplitPersonalityMerge overpowering his personality and then incorporating it into himself]], and then blowing the other remaining clone to bits.
* Lelouch vi Brittania to bring about the Zero Requiem in ''Anime/CodeGeass''.
* In ''Manga/GhostInTheShell: Human Error Processor'', Section 9 investigates a series of ArmsDealer murders, and finds the perpetrator is dead, but left a brainwashing virus on the Net that will compel vulnerable people to murder anyone fitting the target description. [[DownerEnding The virus may still be out there, and may mutate as well, endangering any number of innocent people]].



* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': In [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Part 5]], Carne approaches the plane the heroes are about to take, apparently unarmed. Mista guns him down on the spot. Unfortunately for the heroes, Carne was something of a suicide bomber - [[DeathActivatedSuperpower his death was the trigger to awaken Notorious B.I.G.]], one of the most powerful and dangerous Stands in the series. (How powerful? Try ''absolutely indestructible''.)
** [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Part 6]] touches on this again and ends up seemingly turning it into a type of Stand of it's own. Sports Maxx has the Stand ability Limp Bizkit, which takes the form of maggots rooting themselves into corpses. These corpses are then turned into invisible, inaudible zombies. [[spoiler:The user is not exempt from this.]]
* In ''Manga/TokyoGhoul[=:Re=]'', Kishou Arima has spent roughly a decade becoming TheDreaded as part of a larger plan to spark a revolution. As the most powerful servant of the GovernmentConspiracy, anyone that killed him would immediately become a HopeBringer for ghouls and a powerful force capable of opposing his masters in '''V'''. After three years grooming Kaneki into his SuperiorSuccessor, Arima goads him into a brutal final battle and tries to provoke Kaneki into killing him. When he is defeated but spared, Arima commits suicide and requests that Kaneki claim credit for his death. Eto later explains to Kaneki that as Arima's "killer", he is now in the unique position to become the One-Eyed King and lead the revolution that she had planned with Arima.

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* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': In [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Part 5]], Carne approaches ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain'':
** Chisa Yomode throwing herself off a building is what sets almost all
the plane events of the heroes are about series in motion. Lain doesn't notice anything strange in her life until she and other girls receive e-mails sent ''after Chisa's suicide'' -- and she's the only one who replies to take, apparently unarmed. Mista guns him down these messages.
** Masami Eiri throws himself under a train as the last part of his plan to discard the physical body and live
on the spot. Unfortunately for the heroes, Carne was something of a suicide bomber - [[DeathActivatedSuperpower his death was the trigger to awaken Notorious B.I.G.]], one of the most powerful and dangerous Stands in the series. (How powerful? Try ''absolutely indestructible''.)
** [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Part 6]] touches on this again and ends up seemingly turning it into a type of Stand of it's own. Sports Maxx has the Stand ability Limp Bizkit, which takes the form of maggots rooting themselves into corpses. These corpses are then turned into invisible, inaudible zombies. [[spoiler:The user is not exempt from this.]]
Wired as God.
* In ''Manga/TokyoGhoul[=:Re=]'', Kishou Arima has spent roughly a decade becoming TheDreaded as part of a larger plan to spark a revolution. As the most powerful servant of the GovernmentConspiracy, anyone that killed him would immediately become a HopeBringer for ghouls and a powerful force capable of opposing his masters in '''V'''.V. After three years grooming Kaneki into his SuperiorSuccessor, Arima goads him into a brutal final battle and tries to provoke Kaneki into killing him. When he is defeated but spared, Arima commits suicide and requests that Kaneki claim credit for his death. Eto later explains to Kaneki that as Arima's "killer", he is now in the unique position to become the One-Eyed King and lead the revolution that she had planned with Arima.
* ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'': This ''Anime/{{Mazinger|Z}}'' series gave us a rare heroic example. In the Creator/GoNagai manga, a [[{{Robeast}} Saucer Beast]] cornered [[TheHero Duke Fleed]] and [[TheDragon Blackie]] demanded that he reveal Grendizer’s hideout. He refused to talk and assured that ''[[Anime/MazingerZ all]]'' ''[[Anime/GreatMazinger his]]'' ''[[Manga/GetterRobo friends]]'' would go on fighting until they defeated them using his HumongousMecha.
* Emperor Dornkirk in ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'' as part of his plan to activate his fate engine. Stupid KarmicDeath.

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* The first ''Anime/{{Patlabor}}'' film opens with the suicide of a computer scientist. As the police protagonists investigate his death along with the suddenly-destructive behaviour of the Mecha he wrote the operating system for, they reveal a sophisticated plan according to this trope.



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* In DC's ''Film/BlackAdam'', the main villain, Ishmael Gregor/Sabbac wishes to reclaim his legacy through becoming the all-powerful demon king. He does so by threatening Amon, a son figure to the movie's protagonist, Teth-Adam. He kidnaps the boy and holds him at gunpoint. He eventually fires, as Teth-Adam barely manages to vaporize the bullet and prevent Amon's skull from getting drilled open. Then, unable to control himself, Teth-Adam loses it and [[StrikeMeDownWithAllOfYourHatred]] pulverizes Ishmael and all of his lackeys,while also inadvertently hitting Amon and sending him into a coma. The plan works perfectly, as in the moment of being disintegrated by Teth-Adam's lightning Ishmael dons the crown of Sabbac, which short-circuits his brain and wills him back into existence after a while, while also bestowing him with an awesome powerset of ancient demons. Teth-Adam is stricken with guilt over Amon's fate and gives up his powerset, turning himself in. The Justice Society locks him up in the depths of icy Russian waters, triggering the stage for the movie's 3rd act.
* In the Taiwanese film Double Vision (2002), police detective Huang Huo-tu has to confront a girl cult leader who entices him to kill her so that she can achieve immortality.

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* In DC's ''Film/BlackAdam'', ''Film/BlackAdam2022'', the main villain, Ishmael Gregor/Sabbac wishes to reclaim his legacy through becoming the all-powerful demon king. He does so by threatening Amon, a son figure to the movie's protagonist, Teth-Adam. He kidnaps the boy and holds him at gunpoint. He eventually fires, as Teth-Adam barely manages to vaporize the bullet and prevent Amon's skull from getting drilled open. Then, unable to control himself, Teth-Adam loses it and [[StrikeMeDownWithAllOfYourHatred]] pulverizes Ishmael and all of his lackeys,while lackeys, while also inadvertently hitting Amon and sending him into a coma. The plan works perfectly, as in the moment of being disintegrated by Teth-Adam's lightning Ishmael dons the crown of Sabbac, which short-circuits his brain and wills him back into existence after a while, while also bestowing him with an awesome powerset of ancient demons. Teth-Adam is stricken with guilt over Amon's fate and gives up his powerset, turning himself in. The Justice Society locks him up in the depths of icy Russian waters, triggering the stage for the movie's 3rd act.
* In the 2002 Taiwanese film Double Vision (2002), ''Double Vision'', police detective Huang Huo-tu has to confront a girl cult leader who entices him to kill her so that she can achieve immortality.
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* In DC's ''Film/BlackAdam'', the main villain, Ishmael Gregor/Sabbac wishes to reclaim his legacy through becoming the all-powerful demon king. He does so by threatening Amon, a son figure to the movie's protagonist, Teth-Adam. He kidnaps the boy and holds him at gunpoint. He eventually fires, as Teth-Adam barely manages to vaporize the bullet and prevent Amon's skull from getting drilled open. Then, unable to control himself, Teth-Adam loses it and [[StrikeMeDownWithAllOfYourHatred]] pulverizes Ishmael and all of his lackeys,while also inadvertently hitting Amon and sending him into a coma. The plan works perfectly, as in the moment of being disintegrated by Teth-Adam's lightning Ishmael dons the crown of Sabbac, which short-circuits his brain and wills him back into existence after a while, while also bestowing him with an awesome powerset of ancient demons. Teth-Adam is stricken with guilt over Amon's fate and gives up his powerset, turning himself in. The Justice Society locks him up in the depths of icy Russian waters, triggering the stage for the movie's 3rd act.
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* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': The supervillain Judge Death was already an insane HangingJudge when he was alive. His goal of [[OmnicidalManiac destroying his entire homeworld]] in the name of justice required him to die and then be resurrected through dark magic as a zombie, partly so he would become an unstoppable menace, and partly because "kill everyone" would just have been hypocritical if he didn't.

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* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': The supervillain Judge Death was already an insane HangingJudge when he was alive. His goal of [[OmnicidalManiac destroying his entire homeworld]] in the name of justice required him to die and then be resurrected through dark magic as a zombie, partly so he would become an [[YouCantKillWhatsAlreadyDead unstoppable menace, menace]], and partly because "kill everyone" would just have been hypocritical if he didn't.

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