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** ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' is perhaps the most famous example. Juliet takes a sleeping potion as part of a plan for her and Romeo to get out of Verona. Friar Lawrence's information to Romeo explaining the plan never arrives, and when Balthasar tells him of Juliet's apparent death, he buys poison from an apothecary, goes back to Verona and heads for the Capulet tomb to die alongside Juliet, kills Paris who thinks he's there to do the evil version of DueToTheDead, and then poisons himself. Juliet wakes up, finds Romeo dead, and then kills herself with Romeo's dagger.

#AliceAndBob are in love with each other.
#Something happens to Alice that makes Bob [[ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated think she is dead, or otherwise unreachable.]]
#[[DespairEventHorizon In despair]], Bob [[DrivenToSuicide commits suicide.]]
#Alice returns, and then realizing that Bob is dead, ''Alice'' commits suicide.

* Rudolf von Habsburg, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his lover Mary Vetsera killed each other after the emperor demanded they break off their affair. ''Or did they?'' This is the official version, [[note]]and Vetsera's suicide letters have been found[[/note]] but ten thousand theories of varying crackpot-levels have been proposed. Was he killed by the French for being pro-German? The Germans for being pro-French? Did Rudolf murder Vetsera and kill himself in grief? Did the Emperor know? ''Does the Pope know?'' [[UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories It's complicated.]]

As usual, because suicide involves making oneself die, there will be spoilers.

* In ''Film/{{Blackbird}}'', two of the characters do this in a tragic re-enactment of the double suicide of Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet, which the friends have been studying.

Often there can be variations but the end result is often the same. It is usually an example of love but it can also be an occasional example of despair over losing a [[FoeYay valued rival]].

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* In ''Film/{{Blackbird}}'', two of the characters do this in a tragic re-enactment of the double suicide of Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet, which the friends have been studying.

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** ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' is perhaps the most famous example. Juliet takes a sleeping potion as part of a plan for her and Romeo to get out of Verona. Friar Lawrence's information to Romeo explaining the plan never arrives, and when Balthasar tells him of Juliet's apparent death, he buys poison from an apothecary, goes back to Verona and heads for the Capulet tomb to die alongside Juliet, kills Paris who thinks he's there to do the evil version of DueToTheDead, and then poisons himself. Juliet wakes up, finds Romeo dead, and then kills herself with Romeo's dagger.
** Parodied in ''Pyramus and Thisbe'' (the ShowWithinAShow in ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'')

* In the play ''The Servant of Two Masters'', the eponymous servant is trying to hide the fact that he is serving another from his two masters, Florindo and the cross-dressing, in disguise Beatrice. When each (at different times) finds the others belongings mixed in with their own- thanks to a mix up from the sevant- the servant claims he put the items there and that they belong to him, given to him by his recently deceased ex-master. Little does he know, that Beatrice and Florindo are actually lovers trying to find each other (made more difficult by Beatrice's disguise), and so on hearing of their beloved's demise, both decide to end it all... luckily, this is a comedy and they do so by drowning themselves in the same fountain and find each other just in time... leading to even more confusion.

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** Parodied again in "If Romantic Movies Were Real" in the Romeo + Juliet skit, Romeo(Anthony) drinks the poison the same time Juliet wakes up, for Juliet it was the "easiest breakup ever!"

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A plot pattern that occurs frequently in Creator/{{Shakespeare}}'s plays. In modern works, it's often an {{homage}} to ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''. The pattern goes as follows:

* TruthInTelevision: Rudolf von Habsburg, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his lover Mary Vetsera killed each other after the emperor demanded they break off their affair. ''Or did they?'' This is the official version, [[note]]and Vetsera's suicide letters have been found[[/note]] but ten thousand theories of varying crackpot-levels have been proposed. Was he killed by the French for being pro-German? The Germans for being pro-French? Did Rudolf murder Vetsera and kill himself in grief? Did the Emperor know? ''Does the Pope know?'' [[UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories It's complicated.]]

* TruthInTelevision: Rudolf von Habsburg, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his lover Mary Vetsera killed each other after the emperor demanded they break off their affair. ''Or did they?'' This is the official version, but ten thousand theories of varying crackpot-levels have been proposed. Was he killed by the French for being pro-German? The Germans for being pro-French? Did Rudolf murder Vetsera and kill himself in grief? Did the Emperor know? ''Does the Pope know?'' [[UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories It's complicated.]]

* Used in an ''Comicbook/XMen'' storyline that was a homage to Romeo and Juliet, making the rival families one of humans and one of mostly mutants to boot. [[spoiler:He's shot. She kills herself. He proves to have been NotQuiteDead, finds that she ''is'' [[KilledOffForReal Quite Dead]], and tries to kill himself... but the HealingFactor that saved him from the shooting won't let him die. He goes on to become the X-Man Icarus.]]
** And then later on [[spoiler:he dies anyway, killed by the [[CrushKillDestroy Sentinel robot]] Nimrod]].

* [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in ''Film/{{Ophelia}}'', a PerspectiveFlip on ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' that borrows a bit from another of Shakespeare's plays. After her father is [[MurderByMstake accidentally killed]] by her love interest Hamlet and he is subsequently sent away to England, what finally sends Ophelia into her HeroicBSOD is learning that Hamlet was supposedly murdered on the orders of Claudius (unaware that he actually escapes and secretly returns to Denmark). It looks as though this is what precipitates her drowning death...[[spoiler: however, Ophelia then learns from Horatio that Hamlet is still alive, prompting her to [[FakingTheDead fake her death]] to try and reunite with him. Upon digging her up, Horatio tells her that Hamlet has learnt of her 'death' and has been challenged to a DuelToTheDeath with [[KnightTemplarBigBrother her brother Laertes]], with it being inferred that Hamlet feels he's [[DespairEventHorizon got nothing left now]] but getting revenge on Claudius even at the cost of his own life. Ophelia tries to stop him and gets him to realise she's alive, but he still can't let go of his desire for vengeance. He dies, but Ophelia [[DefiedTrope refuses to give into despair]] and [[SparedByTheAdaptation escapes with]] [[EarnYourHappyEnding her life]]]].

* Used in an ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'' storyline that was a homage to Romeo and Juliet, making the rival families one of humans and one of mostly mutants to boot. [[spoiler:He's shot. She kills herself. He proves to have been NotQuiteDead, finds that she ''is'' [[KilledOffForReal Quite Dead]], and tries to kill himself... but the HealingFactor that saved him from the shooting won't let him die. He goes on to become the X-Man Icarus.]]

* TruthInTelevision: Rudolf von Habsburg, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his lover Mary Vetsera killed each other after the emperor demanded they break off their affair. ''Or did they?'' This is the official version, but ten thousand theories of varying crackpot-levels have been proposed. Was he killed by the French for being pro-German? The Germans for being pro-French? Did Rudolf murder Vetsera and kill himself in grief? Did the Emperor know? ''Does the Pope know?'' [[ConspiracyTheory It's complicated.]]

* In the ''{{Anime/Robotech}}'' novelizations Roy Fokker does this after the death of Captain Kramer when he decides life just isn't worth living anymore, pulls out his IV, and leaves the hospital to see Claudia effectively killing himself.

* Played with for laughs in one particular Website/YouTube video by {{SMOSH}}, about Franchise/{{Batman}} and Robin making their own [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIGmZApN9pU YouTube how-to guide]]. It involves a 'euthaniser gun', a rabid dog, and Batsy picking a particularly bad time to pull a particularly JerkAss practical joke... [[spoiler:Subverted, in that discovering his sidekick killed himself [[HoYay out of forbidden, untold love for him]], Bats is completely unconcerned and breaks into a victory dance, because he'll have more hits now than Spiderman's Youtube video will. ''Cape in the crotch! Cape in the crotch!'']]

* In the {{Robotech}} novelizations Roy Fokker does this after the death of Captain Kramer when he decides life just isn't worth living anymore, pulls out his IV, and leaves the hospital to see Claudia effectively killing himself.

* Checker does this after Charlene dies in the incredibly bad Joseph Lai psuedoanime ''SpaceTransformers''.

* Played with for laughs in one particular Website/YouTube video by {{SMOSH}}, about {{Batman}} and Robin making their own [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIGmZApN9pU YouTube how-to guide]]. It involves a 'euthaniser gun', a rabid dog, and Batsy picking a particularly bad time to pull a particularly JerkAss practical joke... [[spoiler:Subverted, in that discovering his sidekick killed himself [[HoYay out of forbidden, untold love for him]], Bats is completely unconcerned and breaks into a victory dance, because he'll have more hits now than Spiderman's Youtube video will. ''Cape in the crotch! Cape in the crotch!'']]