History Main / SpitefulSuicide

* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': After the hospitalized [[spoiler:Cotton]] repeatedly fakes his death by slowing his heart to the point of flatlining the monitor, purely for the sake of {{troll}}ing everyone who came to visit him, Peggy rips into him with a vicious TheReasonYouSuckSpeech about how he's a miserable, evil old man living in a hell of his own making and how [[CruelMercy she hopes he lives forever just so he can suffer more]]. [[spoiler:Cotton]] just says "Do ya now?", then promptly forces himself to die for real, just to spite his [[spoiler:daughter-in-law]] one last time.

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[[caption-width-right:828:[[DefianttotheEnd This is all to piss off the enemy so they can’t murder him horribly.]]]]

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* ''VideoGame/{{Killzone}}'' 2: At the end of his boss battle, Colonel Radec shoots himself in the head to deny the main characters the satisfaction of killing him.

* ''[[VideoGame/FatalFury Real Bout Fatal Fury]]'': In Terry and Andy’s endings, [[BigBad Geese]] [[TheRival Howard]] is accidentally knocked off his tower during the ensuing FinalBoss battle. Terry or Andy tries to save him by grabbing his arm, but Geese refuses, wrestling himself free from their grasps and proceeding to [[EvilLaugh laugh at the Bogards the whole way down]]. The story canon, where the brother that did the deed was Terry, actually doubled the spite: Geese has a neglected son with the name Rock, and he also killed the Bogard family patriarch Jeff, orphaning Terry and Andy. By putting Geese in a position to choose death, he aimed to get the last laugh beyond his death by burdening Terry with the guilt of orphaning Geese's son the same way he orphaned Terry.

* ''VideoGame/Transformers2004'': At the end of the game, a defeated Megatron nearly falls into his erupting volcano base. Optimus Prime [[SaveTheVillain grabs his hand]], only for Megatron to sneer that Prime "doesn't even know when he's won" and then spitefully jerk his hand so that Prime will drop him, [[DisneyVillainDeath sending him plummeting to his death]].
* ''VideoGame/Uncharted2'': Flynn betrays Drake at the start of the game and works with the BigBad Lazarevic for most of the plot. At the end, Lazarevic pulls a YouHaveFailedMe and mortally wounds him. When the protagonists run into him afterward, they try to help. But, being an utterly prideful dick, he refuses their aid and opts to try and kill them with a grenade, taking his own life just to satisfy some shred of his ego.
* ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'': In skirmish games, near dead heroes will often run into the closest creep camp and fight them. If the creeps kill the hero, the chasing player doesn't get the experience for it.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' episode ''Video Ouija'', Shake kills himself just so that he can haunt Meatwad through the latter's new video game that apparently allows him to talk to the dead. Unfortunately, [[AllForNothing Meatwad had already lost interest and moved on to a new game]], causing him to order Frylock to find a way to bring him back to life.

* ''[[Manwha/IllRaiseYouWellInThisLifeYourMajesty I'll Raise You Well in This Life, Your Majesty!]]'': The series opens with this, as Empress Consort Ellisa's attempts to secure the throne for her son Leon only make him resentful of his mother to the point that he commits suicide in front of her. Leon deliberately does so only ''after'' she has succeeded at putting him on the throne, what he calls the happiest day of his mother's life, for the express purpose of making her efforts AllForNothing. When Ellisa finds herself in the past, back when Leon was still a sweet little boy, she resolves to make up for her prior misdeeds by raising her son to be happy instead of powerful.

* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': After the hospitalized [[spoiler:Cotton]] repeatedly fakes his death by slowing his heart to the point of flatlining the monitor, purely for the sake of {{troll}}ing everyone to came to visit him, Peggy rips into him with a vicious TheReasonYouSuckSpeech about how he's a miserable, evil old man living in a hell of his own making and how [[CruelMercy she hopes he lives forever just so he can suffer more]]. [[spoiler:Cotton]] just says "Do ya now?", then promptly forces himself to die for real, just to spite his [[spoiler:daughter-in-law]] one last time.

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'': At the climax of ''Ends Of The Earth'', [[spoiler:Rhino deliberately drowns himself [[TakingYouWithMe and Silver Sable]] to spite Spider-Man, knowing his GuiltComplex will make him blame himself for their deaths.]]

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': At the end of the Series 3 finale, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords Last Of The Time Lords]]", a fatally-wounded Master refuses to regenerate and lets himself die solely to make the Doctor suffer as the last Gallifreyan, his last words simply being "I win" as the Doctor begs him to live.

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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': At the end of "The Last Of The Time Lords", a fatally-wounded Master refuses to regenerate and lets himself die solely to make the Doctor suffer as the last Gallifreyan, his last words simply being "I win" as the Doctor begs him to live.

* A deleted scene from ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'' reveals that Zira was going to do this to Kiara. After Zira gets stuck hanging precariously from the edge of a cliff over a raging flood beneath her, Kiara offers to give her another chance at fixing her life by making peace with Simba and the reformed outlanders ([[HeelFaceTurn who had just turned on Zira]] after a speech Kiara had given earlier). Zira however, [[MonsterFanGirl being a devoted follower of Scar]], chose death over peace, and lets herself fall to her death, all with a smile on her face.

Note that, while there have been several high profile examples of this trope being carried out in reality, this trope by its very nature is highly controversial, so Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease