History Main / PsychicAssistedSuicide

* ''LightNovel/FateApocrypha'': After Darnic does a FusionDance with Vlad III and forces him to become the vampire Dracula and start attacking everyone, Ruler tries to make him kill himself with a Command Spell, but the merged being has become so powerful that he can ignore it.

* ''LightNovel/FateZero'':

* This trope is in the center of the first chapter of ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'': the story opens with several schoolgirls throwing themselves off a particular abandoned building to their death, without any clear indications of their reasons. Shiki eventually discovers that a spirit haunting the building was magically compelling them to do so.

* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Bee]] threatens to make [[CheerfulChild Garfield]] "damage himself" to keep [[TheChick M'gann]] in line. The tie-in comic reveals that she killed Gar's mother, Marie, by compelling her to drive her car off a cliff.

Subtler variations use types of psychic power other than straightforward {{mind control}}. One option is to use [[MasterOfIllusion illusions]] to [[TrickedToDeath trick the target]] into [[ThisIsNotAFloor doing something lethal]]. Another is to [[EmotionBomb afflict the target]] with [[DespairEventHorizon crushing despair]] and make him ''want'' to kill himself. There can also be cases of MoreThanMindControl, where the psychic exploits that the target already is struggling with depression and/or has toyed with the idea of suicide before.

* ''Manga/TheEnigmaOfAmigaraFault'': The titular fault is a rock face covered in thousands of human-shaped holes. Each of these holes, despite being millennia old, seem tailor-made to fit the outlines of living people. Anyone who sees their hole on the fault, even for a second, will not only feel compelled to seek it out, but feel they have no choice but to enter it. This isn't a case of losing free will; the people are otherwise completely lucid and even scared out of their minds about it likely killing them, yet they'll still feel they ''have'' to go in. [[spoiler: Also somewhat subverted, as it turns out the holes don't exactly kill those who enter...]]

* The "latchers" of ''Anime/GaReiZero'' attach themselves to the heads of their victims and have the ability to reanimate dead corpses or control a living being. In the first episode, one gets a hold of [[spoiler:Mami]], has her kill her commander, mock her soon to die comrades and then finally shooting herself.

* The witches from ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' get more powers from pretty much brainwashing people into committing suicide via their "witch kiss". One has even been shown pulling this on a fairly large group of people, forming a ritual suicide cult à la ''Heaven's Gate''. Since witches live in (and never leave) "barriers", tiny parallel dimensions that can only be accessed by Kyubey, his Magical Girls and other people he chooses, this is the only threat they pose to normal, non-magical humans. [[spoiler:Unless the witch in question is called [[FusionDance Walpurgisnacht]], who can manifest in the real world and physically attack normal people, or [[LotusEaterMachine Kriemhild Gretchen]], who just absorbs everything into her barrier.]]

* In ''Manga/RonKamonohashiDerangedDetective'', the eponymous detective is compelled to order the culprits he's apprehended to go and kill themselves whenever he's solved a case. For some reason, they always comply to his commands, as though hypnotized.

* In '' Fanfic/{{Crucible|MassEffect}}'', it's revealed that [[Franchise/MassEffect Shepard's ability to talk her enemies to death]] isn't just because she is a good talker but also due to her tight link to [[spoiler: her father, Death]]. She can control people to not kill themselves in few cases and actually point a gun to their own head in other cases. However, even if she wants her enemies to live but [[spoiler: her father]] wants otherwise then there's nothing she can do about it.

* In a sidestory of ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'', a Shiny Aegislash named Dainsleif uses its MindControl abilities on half the inhabitants of a village, ordering them to slaughter the other half [[ForTheEvulz for its own amusement]]. Once it's done toying with the survivors, it tells them to kill themselves.

* Siryn in ''Fanfic/TheLastSon'', upon awakening her CompellingVoice mutant powers for the first time, ordered her abusive babysitter to kill herself by jumping off a window. It's later hinted she might have done the same to her parents, after she forced them to cede control of their company and assets to her.

** {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors'', when Kirsten dreams of having her arm slashed by Freddy in the bathroom, only to be wakened up from sleepwalking by her mother and realize she's cut her wrist with a razor blade. Presumably if Mom ''hadn't'' interrupted, she'd have been a victim of this trope.

** Minions sent by Deryni often have death-triggers or death-compulsions implanted in their minds. To give only one example, (from ''King Kelson's Bride'') the assassins who attacked Kelson and Liam outside the Hort of Orsal's palace both had these, as well as mind-wipes to prevent anyone from reading their memories after they died.

* In ''Literature/ForcedPerspectives'' by Creator/TimPowers, the villain is guardian to a pair of psychic twins who have an ability to mentally compel others. It's revealed that he gained guardianship of them by manipulating them into mentally compelling their parents to commit suicide.
* ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'': In ''Tangled Webs'', one guy got his severed hand [[OrganTheft replaced with a slave's]] by his [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder drow]] "ally". When he tried to disagree with her, the reason of this generosity became clear--the new hand snatched his own knife and put it to his throat. Just to make a point.
* In ''Literature/{{Genome}}: Dances on the Snow'', another of [[Creator/SergeyLukyanenko Lukyanenko's]] books, the BigBad tries this with the protagonist and a girl by using CompellingVoice to force them to jump into molten metal. Captain Stas, a [[Franchise/StarWars Jedi]]-like Knight of Avalon, uses the same voice to countermand her orders, turning it into a tug-of-war of sorts. They BigBad ends up dying before the teens can jump.

* This trope is in the center of the first chapter of ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'': the story opens with several schoolgirls throwing themselves off a particular abandoned building to their death, without any clear indications to their reasons. Shiki eventually discovers that a spirit haunting the building was magically compelling them to do so.

* ''Literature/MedusasWeb'' revolves around a form of GeometricMagic that can be used for, among other things, temporarily possessing the bodies of others. Some of the practicioners who abuse the power will finish up by forcing their hosts to kill themselves, either to stop them being a problem later or just to have the thrill of taking a lethal action without consequences. The villain of the novel tries to deal with one of the protagonists this way, which leads to her realizing that [[spoiler:he's already successfully murdered his own mother, who unexpectedly "committed suicide" at the beginning of the novel, using the same method]].

* In a scene from the book of the movie, ''Film/TheShadow'', the villain is on the roof of the Empire State building when he's mocked by a sailor for his strange clothes. So he makes the sailor climb the fence and jump. It's particularly horrible because the sailor is screaming that he doesn't understand what's happening. In the movie, it's actually PlayedForLaughs immediately afterward; we cut to our heroes walking down the street and Lamont, beginning to suss out Shiwan's evil plans, says "It's all falling into place." The Empire State Building is in view, and as soon as he says that, the sailor bounces off one of the ledges like a ball.

* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': A young Hego Damask (who grows up to be the titular ''Literature/DarthPlagueis'') does this to a youth that he disliked. When the youth pushes past Hego, Hego touches his arm, locks eyes with him and tells him to jump out the window. They later discover his broken body in the courtyard.

** Jervis Tetch frequently hypnotizes people to either kill themselves or [[MurderSuicide others and then themselves]]. One of his prospective victims was Jim Gordon, but he eventually managed to snap out of it by HeroicWillpower.

* ''Series/TheHauntingOfHillHouse'': Hill House/Olivia's ghost uses an illusion to make Nell think she's putting on a necklace, only for it turn out to be a rope, resulting in her being hanged.

* ''{{Series/Legion|2017}}'': When Charles Xavier is being choked to death by a Nazi soldier, he implants the telepathic command "Kill yourself" into his attacker's mind as a form of self-defense. The Nazi then lets go of Xavier's neck, picks up the latter's service pistol and [[BoomHeadshot blows his brains out]].

* ''Series/OctoberFaction'': Alice makes people shoot themselves on different occasions through controlling them with {{telekinesis}}.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': {{Implied|Trope}} in "Devil's Alphabet". On November 2, 1897, Andrew hanged himself from a high ceiling in his house. However, there was no chair found in the room so it is a mystery how he reached the rafters. The implication is that he was assisted by the occult forces with which he and the other six members of the Devil's Alphabet Society had unwittingly entered a [[DutyThatTranscendsDeath bargain that transcends death]].

** This is used by the serial killer Robert Patrick Modell (episodes "[[Recap/TheXFilesS03E17Pusher Pusher]]" and "[[Recap/TheXFilesS05E08Kitsunegari Kitsunegari]]"). Modell possesses the ability to "push" his will onto others and demonstrates it several times. When captured by police, he causes his driver to crash into an oncoming truck. Later, he talks an armed SWAT team officer into dropping his weapon, picking up a can of gasoline, dousing himself and the surrounding area with it, and lighting himself on fire. He doesn't even have to be there in person - he talks the lead detective hunting him down into a heart attack over the phone. At the climax of "Pusher", he talks Mulder into playing Russian roulette, which Mulder obeys-but shoots Modell as soon as Modell tries to make him pull the trigger on Scully.

** Generally averted with most form of mind-control, with which obviously self-destructive orders won't be followed. And even if never instructed to, dominated characters will still fulfill their basic survival needs, like eating or sleeping. It is still quite possible to cause harm indirectly, though, for example by forcing them to attack dangerous monsters.

* {{Inverted}} in ''VideoGame/MassEffect'' with [[spoiler: Fai Dan]] and [[spoiler: [[BigBad Saren]]]]. Both are BrainwashedAndCrazy by the [[spoiler: Thorian]] and [[spoiler: [[EldritchAbomination Sovereign]]]] respectively and are trying , or can be [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath persuaded]] in the case of the later, to kill themselves as a form of HeroicSacrifice so they can't hurt others.

* The Witch and Coven Leader in ''VideoGame/TownOfSalem'' can pull it off in specific cases, as they can order a Vigilante to kill himself, or a Vigilante to kill another town member, which will cause them to commit suicide out of [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone guilt]]. Another variant is to send someone [[SuicideByCop into an Alert]] [[ShellShockedVeteran Veteran]]. The Witch actually has an achievement for forcing a Vigilante to execute a townie, and another on for forcing 3 townies to die by visiting an Alert veteran in the same game.

* This happens twice accidentally in ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'', in a weird sort of way. [[spoiler: An entity with MediumAwareness and a limited ability to alter the game's contents is trying manipulate the player's choice of which characters to [[RomanceGame romance]]. One thing the entity does is modify some of the characters' personalities, making their negative traits stronger in an effort to drive the player away from them. Unfortunately, with one character suffering from depression and another one having a propensity for SelfHarm, exaggerating their traits to the point of SanitySlippage drives both of these two to kill themselves, one crying and the other [[LaughingMad laughing]].]]

* ''Webcomic/MSPaintAdventures'' has the stump, across multiple adventures. A peculiar aura of misery surrounds it. There seems to be some powerful cosmic magnetism towards suicide which surrounds the stump.

** That or just have them walk into an electric wall.

* Hexers in ''VideoGame/EtrianOdyssey'' have the ability Evil Eye, which grants them control over an enemy. Once dominated, they can follow up with Suicide Word, which forces the victim to attack itself.

* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' has this happen to [[spoiler: Prince Takumi]] in the ''Conquest'' path. Made worse because [[spoiler: he had been under MoreThanMindControl for a while already before the GreaterScopeVillain, Anankos, forced him to kill himself to later use him and his dead body as the FinalBoss]].
** It's also speculated that [[spoiler: Gunter's InterruptedSuicide in ''Revelations'' was actually Anankos's last shot at him after he managed to ''break off'' from his MoreThanMindControl. In any way, it fails]].

** Lelouch Lamperouge's first use of [[CompellingVoice Geass]] in both seasons is making a whole squad of soldiers kill themselves. Both were only used on mooks because main characters are simply more useful under mind control.
** A {{cruel|Mercy}} {{inver|tedTrope}}sion happens when [[spoiler: Lelouch geasses Suzaku and orders him to "live" in the middle of battle, attempting to save himself from what would've been a suicidal attack. Not only is Suzaku a DeathSeeker, the Geass compels him to do awful things to save his own life]].
** Another inversion happens with [[spoiler: Shirley]], who Lelouch begs to live after she was shot. [[spoiler: ''It fails.'']]
** Some [[AllThereInTheManual side-materials]] say that [[spoiler: Mao did this to a whole village in China, exposing their darkest secrets and then driving them to kill each other over them]].
* ''Anime/CodeGeassAkitoTheExiled'' has this as Shin's Geass power; he can use his Geass to implant the desire to die in people. [[spoiler: The catch is that he has to love them to some extent; as this power is born from his belief that living is hell and you can only find peace in death.]]

'''Laurie:''' So that's how you would kill yourself if you were suicidal? Then do it. You're feeling very...depressed. Life's been unkind to you. No one here likes you.\\

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* Creator/RalphBakshi's animated feature film ''WesternAnimation/FireAndIce'' has a delegation from Firekeep visit the ice palace of Queen Juliana and her son, Nekron. When Nekron rejects their peace offer, the Firekeep delegation foolishly draws swords. Nekron uses his wizard powers to compel the delegates to skewer themselves with their own blades.

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* In ''Film/BlackWidow2021'', [[BigBad Dreykov]] hacks into the suit of one of his Black Widows and activates her "terminate" function, remotely forcing her to kill herself [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness for being expendable to him.]]

* In ''Film/{{Conan the Barbarian|1982}}'', Thulsa Doom shows off his hypnotic powers to Conan by making one of his own followers jump off a cliff to her death.
* Suggested but ultimately subverted in ''Film/{{Constantine}}'': at first, it looks as though the demon Mammon made Isabel commit suicide. However, it's revealed ([[WalkIntoMordor via a visit to Hell]]) that Isabel knew she was going to be possessed for a vital role in an apocalyptic plot and killed herself of her own free will.

* In ''Film/DarkShadows'' Angelique compels Josette to kill herself with a spell so she'll have Barnabas all to herself.

* In ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'', [[spoiler:Sinister Strange]] concluded all of his alternate selves were miserable and a threat to the multiverse, so he started dreamwalking into them and then jumping their possessed bodies off buildings.

* This is inverted at the end of ''Film/{{Gamer}}''. [[spoiler:Castle has Kable under his control when Kable tells Castle to think of Kable stabbing him. Castle does just that, unconsciously, and gets himself killed. It's The Game used for ''murder''.]]

* In ''Film/HocusPocus'' the head witch magically commands the adults to dance until they die (the magic wears off in the morning, but [[FridgeHorror hopefully, none of them had weak hearts]]).

* In ''Film/LemonTreePassage'', the ghost psychically compels [[spoiler:Maya]] to commit '[[SuicideBySea suicide by lake]]': making her walk off the end of a jetty and into a lake, where she sinks like a stone. [[spoiler:She survives]].

** Subverted in ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors'', when Kirsten dreams of having her arm slashed by Freddy in the bathroom, only to be wakened up from sleepwalking by her mother and realize she's cut her wrist with a razor blade. Presumably if Mom ''hadn't'' interrupted, she'd have been a victim of this trope.

* The Pushers in ''Film/{{Push}}'' use this as one method of dispatching their foes. Shown to be used as Psychic Assisted Suicide or Homicide. To elaborate, a Pushers main power is to implant (or "push") false memories in a person's mind. Such as one where the gun they're about to shoot themselves with is unloaded...

* In 1994's ''Film/TheShadow'' this is an often-used technique by the villain, Shiwan Khan. Interestingly, The Shadow himself uses this to off [[TheDragon Claymore]].

* ''Film/{{Village of the Damned|1960}}'' is about women who give birth to evil children who cause the populace to torture themselves on their whims. In both the original and its remake, the psychic children often forced people to kill themselves in various ways if they displeased the children--such as putting their hands in boiling water or garbage disposals or being forced to shoot themselves in the head. In the [[Film/VillageOfTheDamned1995 1995 remake]], one girl causes her own mother, Christopher Reeve's wife, to walk off a cliff to her death.

* ''Film/WitchWayLove'': under the MindManipulation of evil sorcerer Molok, Mr. Nguyen (the second person to be born under a specific constellation that the good witch Morgane needs for her ritual) shoots himself in the head with a revolver in front of a photo of his children.
* Threatened but not gone through with, or maybe genuinely considered in ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine''. Silverfox makes Colonel Stryker put the muzzle of his [[ItWorksBetterWithBullets empty revolver]] under his chin, but doesn't make him pull the trigger, instead telling him to [[CruelMercy walk away until his feet bleed]] [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment and then keep walking]]. As the film is a prequel to ''Film/{{X2|XMenUnited}}'', [[PlotArmor she couldn't have]] [[DoomedByCanon killed him anyway]].

** A {{cruel|Mercy}} {{inver|tedTrope}}sion happens when [[spoiler: Lelouch geasses Suzaku and orders him to "live" in the middle of battle, attempting to save himself from what would've been a suicidal attack. This, because what Suzaku wants the most [[DeathSeeker is to]] ''[[DeathSeeker die]]'', and the Geass compels him to do awful things to save his own life]].

* Like in the New World of Darkness examples above, ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' long held to the rule that Dominate powers cannot be used to make a target willingly harm themselves. However, 5th edition brings this into play with the high-level Dominate power The Terminal Decree, which allows a vampire to command somebody to harm or kill themselves.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Reboot}}'': [[WellIntentionedExtremist Daemon's]] ultimate plan is to do this to ''the entire Net'', subsuming everybody with her PsychicPowers and ordering them all to self-destruct as a twisted MercyKill.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Reboot}}'': [[WellIntentionedExtremist Daemon's]] ultimate plan is to do this to ''[[KillEmAll the entire Net]]'', subsuming everybody with her PsychicPowers and ordering them all to self-destruct as a twisted MercyKill.

* In ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'' a variant occurs in which it's possible for the PlayerCharacter to hack a {{cyborg}}'s nervous system and force them to kill themselves with whatever they have on hand. It's only partial MindControl as while the cybernetic body is under your control, their conscious mind is aware of what's happening [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential and powerless to do anything about it]].

* ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'': A CorruptHick sheriff commits suicide after Jesse Custer uses his CompellingVoice on him in the {{Squick}}iest way possible, telling the guy to [[CruelAndUnusualDeath go fuck himself.]]

* In the ''Film/{{Star Trek|2009}}'' follow-up comic ''Star Trek Ongoing'', Gary Mitchell, after being raised UpToEleven by the Galactic Barrier, kills his friend Lee Kelso by using telekinesis to have Kelso point his own phaser at his own temple and fire. It's not clear if the phaser is set to "stun" or "kill", but it doesn't matter at point-blank range. In the original timeline, Mitchell remotely chokes Kelso with some cables. It seems Kelso just can't catch a break in any timeline.

** Scylla later casts a spell on [[spoiler: her ex-boyfriend, Porter,]] which makes him jump to his death off a building.
** In "[[Recap/MotherlandFortSalemS3E4HappyYule Happy Yule!]]" Viva used a spell to force Sterling into fatally stabbing himself with a knife.

Subtler variations use types of psychic power other than straightforward {{mind control}}. One option is to use [[MasterOfIllusion illusions]] to [[TrickedToDeath trick the target]] into [[ThisIsNotAFloor doing something lethal]]. Another is to [[EmotionBomb afflict the target]] with [[DespairEventHorizon crushing despair]] and make him ''want'' to kill himself. There can also be cases of MoreThanMindControl, where the psychic exploits that the target already is struggling with depression and has toyed with the idea of suicide before.

-->-- '''''ComicBook/HouseOfM'''''

* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' has resident psychic psychopath Vriska force Tavros to jump off a cliff. [[EvilGloating Do you want to flyyyyyyyy, Pupa?]]. She also [[spoiler:forces Terezi to stare at the sun until she goes blind]].
** A straighter example would be the numerous trolls Vriska mind controls off a plank, into the mouth of her hungry GiantSpider [[RaisedByWolves of a mother]]. [[spoiler: Or the numerous [[DeaderThanDead ghosts]] she forces to serve as bait for the BigBad while [[AntiHero she tries to find a way to defeat him]].]]

* ''{{Series/Legion|2017}}'': When Charles Xavier is being choked to death by a Nazi soldier, he implants the telepathic command "Kill yourself" into his attacker's mind as a form of self-defense. The Nazi then lets go of Xavier's neck, picks up the latter's pistol and [[BoomHeadshot blows his brains out]].

* In ''VideoGame/{{Control}}'', this is an implied punishment if [[EldritchAbomination The Board]] finds someone wanting if they pick up the Service Weapon. [[spoiler: It's deliberately unclear what happened to Director Trench, if it was The Board doing it, or if [[BigBad The]] [[EldritchAbomination Hiss]] did it, or if a Hiss-possessed Dylan made Trench do it.]]

* ''Series/Legion2017'': When Charles Xavier is being choked to death by a Nazi soldier, he implants the telepathic command "Kill yourself" into his attacker's mind as a form of self-defense. The Nazi then lets go of Xavier's neck, picks up the latter's pistol and [[BoomHeadshot blows his brains out]].