History Main / SuicideAttack

->''"Suicide fucking bombing, there's a bright idea! Everytime there's a bang, the world's a wanker short...I want to see the instructor: 'Right lads, I'm only going to show you this once!' Fucking pricks."''

* The Japanese Red Army, a Marxist terrorist group operating in Lebanon in the 70's, allegedly developed this as one of the attackers in the Lod Airport Massacre reportedly killed himself with a grenade launcher. They are thought to have introduced suicide bombing to the Middle East by training and inspiring their allies the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, who in turn trained and inspired others until it reaches Hamas and Al-Qaeda.

* During UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, German and Italian pilots would sometimes launch their aircraft in such attacks. Differently from their Japanese counterparts, these attacks were spur-of-the-moment actions from pilots of already crippled aircraft or that otherwise felt that ramming their plane on an enemy one was worth its loss and their lives, and they would sometime try and bail out (unless already mortally wounded). It wasn't unknown for Soviet pilots, out of ammo or flying crippled planes, to launch last-ditch ramming attacks on Axis aircraft so as to take one of the enemy with them. It helped that Soviet aircraft were built to be robust and take punishment: at least one Soviet pilot survived more than one ramming attack and was able to bail out afterwards. This practice was so common it had a name; ''taran''. Soviet Air Forces statistics list 636 known taran attacks: 233 of those pilots survived, a 33% survival rate.

* ''Film/WrongIsRight''. The Eye of Gaza terrorists have plastic explosive surgically implanted beneath their skin so they can smuggle bombs onto airplanes. They start blowing themselves up in front of news cameras as a political protest, and their leader announces that a demonstration will take place in Washington D.C.. The city is locked down, only for a stolen police helicopter to turn up and three women to parachute out and blow themselves up in mid-air, one of them a female American terrorist the IntrepidReporter interviewed earlier in the movie.

* ''Fanfic/AncientSins'' has Humane Pinkie Pie, who later gains the power to create explosions without the need for sugar, but she learns she can still detonate it. During a ''FinalBattle'' with Dante, she latches onto him and prepares to explode the sugar inside her blood and Dante's. Despite dying, she's brought back and later learns to do this without dying, but is left comatose for a week.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', [[TropeOverdosed naturally]]. A small minority of Tau commander battlesuits are equipped with bombs. The Tau themselves consider this "the greatest expression of the Greater Good one can make". This isn't used ''en masse'' because [[CombatPragmatist battlesuits - and good commanders - take a long time to produce]]. The Tau otherwise do not have suicide attacks in their army, and view suicidal last stands as foolish; they prefer to feign retreat, or really retreat, then come back when the situation is more favorable.

* Played straight twice, in rapid succession, at the climax of ''Anime/FZeroLegendOfFalcon''. As the Dark Reactor is GoingCritical, [[spoiler:Captain Falcon]] rams his machine into [[spoiler:Black Shadow's]], preventing the latter from driving away but ensuring that both machines get caught in the ensuing explosion. [[spoiler:Black Shadow]] then ejects from his machine, attempting to jump away from the explosion while [[VillainousBreakdown ranting about how he won't allow his dream to end]]; [[spoiler:Captain Falcon's]] response is to eject from ''his'' machine and deliver a ShutUpHannibal MegatonPunch, causing the both of them to fall into and be engulfed by the explosion.

*** [[spoiler: Vice-Admiral Amilyn Holdo buys time to the Resistance remnants in spectacular fashion by turning her command ship's hyperdrive on... right in the face of the Supremacy, Supreme Leader Snoke's monstrous flagship, and ramming it at lightspeed. The resulting blast cuts said ship in half and destroys about half the surrounding First Order fleet.]]
* ''Film/{{Contact}}''. A religious fundamentalist blows up the [[FasterThanLightTravel FTL]] machine.

* ''Film/IndependenceDay'': The good guys have an epiphany over the alien ship's weak point, but nobody has any missiles left - save for one, which malfunctions. With no other choice to stop the all-destroying enemy attack, the pilot of the malfunctioning jet pilots it straight in said weak point. Boom go the missile, the jet, the pilot and the gigantic alien ship.

* In ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'' the "Judean People's Front's Crack Suicide Squad" committed mass suicide by killing themselves with swords. Famous last line: "That will show em!"

* {{WebVideo/Shaun}}: In ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCRTgtpC-Go Dropping the Bomb: Hiroshima & Nagasaki]]'' the fact that Japanese pilots late in the war were mostly reduced to suicide attacks due to limited resources and the depletion of their well trained pilots is brought up while discussing the many factors that led up to the decision to drop nuclear bombs on two civilian cities.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheMask'' features this. In less of an example of GettingCrapPastTheRadar and more in the vein of smashing the radar to pieces with relish, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything "Cookie Baboom"]] decides to launch a suicide attack after her boyfriend, who happens to be the mayor, breaks up with her. How? By wearing nothing but a crude and skimpy bikini made entirely of dynamite.

* The first chapter/episode of ''Manga/AsssassinationClassroom" has Nagisa walk up to Koro-sensei before seemingly attacking him with a knife. This is actually a decoy; seconds after, he hugs Koro-sensei, catching him off-guard so Terasaka can push the detonator for the bomb filled with anti-sensei bbs around his neck. [[spoilers: Thanks to Koro-sensei's quick thinking and once-monthly molting ability, Nagisa turns out relatively unharmed. However, he is absolutely furious at Terasaka, Yoshida and Muramatsu for peer-pressuring him and not taking Nagisa's safety into account, though it does turn out to be a rather heartwarming lesson about believing in one's self-worth.]]

* Pretty much ordered by Jakobs military command in ''[[FanFic/SovereignGFCOrigins Origins]]'', a ''Franchise/MassEffect''[=/=]''Franchise/StarWars''[=/=]''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}''[[spoiler:[=/=]''[=Halo=]'']] MassiveMultiplayerCrossover--pitting a pair of destroyers against a huge, advanced [[TheBattlestar super-dreadnaught]] isn't considered a sound tactic. Those under Jakobs' command know this is what will happen, but go with it because [[MyMasterRightOrWrong My Company, Right or Wrong]].

* The Techies have ''VideoGame/Dota2'' merely have a Suicide Attack to fall back on if they don't get the time to lay down traps, but it deals massive damage to compensate. To make this skill less painful to use on the long term, it also halves their respawn time and gives them the kill experience reward if their attack kills.

* What does the suicide bomber instructor say to his class? "Pay attention, I'm only going to do this once."
** Er, by the way, [[https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/11/world/middleeast/suicide-bomb-instructor-accidentally-kills-iraqi-pupils.html?_r=0 truth is stranger than fiction.]]

* A "bomb" type monster in ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series sometimes grow larger when it's attacked or when it targets a party member before it explodes. The damage dealt is usually lethal, like the Mom Bomb in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' and some other bombs in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'', in which an explosion can kill your entire party in a second if the attack is not guarded.

** In ''GT'' Goku attempted a suicide attack on Omega Shenron which appeared to be a mixed of Chiaotzu and Vegeta's suicide attacks, he grabbed Omega and was going to release all the energy in his body at once. He was stopped by Vegeta who reminded him of his own lack of success with that technique.

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* According to ''[[LetsPlay/{{Dream}} Dream's]]'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oySp75huAp8 explanation video of the Minecraft Manhunt grand finale video,]] [[spoiler: Sapnap was trying to use the bed to explode Dream before he could kill the dragon, but instead, he exploded himself and Dream got the achievement.]]

* According to ''[[LetsPlay/{{Dream}} Dream's]]'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oySp75huAp8 the explanation video of the Minecraft Manhunt grand finale video,]] [[spoiler: Sapnap was trying to use the bed to explode Dream before he could kill the dragon, but instead, he exploded himself and Dream got the achievement.]]