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*** [[spoiler:The same series culminates with [[CharClone Rau]] [[BigBad Le]] [[OmnicidalManiac Creuset]] attempting this on the entire human race. As a defective clone, his constant seizures were actually a symptom of his [[CloneDegeneration dying body]]. Unable to find meaning in his short life and convinced that HumansAreBastards, he escalates the war to see if he's right that [[InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves we'd wipe ourselves out]] given [[FantasticRacism sufficient hatred]] and [[WeaponOfMassDestruction the means to do so]]. [[VillainHasAPoint Unfortunately, we try. Really, really hard.]]]]

* In the [[Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaAkiraHimekawa manga adaptation]] of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames'', after taking a mortal wound from Link, Veran tries to blow both herself and the hero up with a bomb. Raven comes to the rescue at the last second.

** Double subverted with Fu, who intended to blow himself up and take Wrath with him...but then Wrath just sliced up the explosives and runs him through. It looked like a SenselessSacrifice until Buccaneer -- himself heavily wounded -- stabbed Wrath ''through Fu's body'', finally landing a hit that weakened Wrath enough for Scar to finish him off later.

* ''Manga/JujutsuKaisen'': Megumi Fushiguro's Ten Shadows technique allows him to summon 10 different Shikigami after taming them by defeating them in combat. Other people can be included in the fight, but the Shikigami will only be tamed if it's defeated alone. One particular Shikigami is so powerful that not a single Ten shadows user could tame it. As a last resort, Megumi can summon this Shikigami and include his opponent into the exorcism ritual, making it attack them both. Megumi has attempted this multiple times, but was either interrupted or decided against it, before finally using it against an enemy sorcerer after being gravely wounded. However, Sukuna showed up and defeated it before Megumi died.

* In ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', [[MercyKill Kyoko does this to Sayaka,]] [[FateWorseThanDeath to save both of them]] [[DyingAlone and to make sure she doesn't die alone.]]

** [[TheBerserker Vetto]] is stopped by Yami, who uses [[DimensionalCutter his newest spell]] to [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe cut him down]] from a distance before he can finish.

* In ''Anime/{{Akira}}'' when Tetsuo is being sucked into the portal summoned by Akira after he became a giant blob when his power became too much for his body to handle, as he's being pulled in, he grabs a hold of Kaneda and takes him with him, Kyoko, Masaru, and Takashi then go inside to get Kaneda out.

* A [[ItsPersonal definitive]] example occurs in Episode 5 of ''Anime/CowboyBebop''. Finishing the [[BloodstainedGlassWindows the firefight inside the chapel]], Vicious [[FacePalmOfDoom lifts Spike off of the veranda floor]], smothering him in the process. Before Spike suffocates, Vicious decides "[[ArcWords to force him out of Heaven]]", and he [[DestinationDefenestration throws him outside the chapel through its stained-glass window]]. [[OhCrap Spike leaves behind a live grenade to say goodbye]].
* Hilarious subversion: A Heterodyne tries to do this in ''Anime/DaiGuard'' while it is falling into the ocean by grabbing the eponymous robot's arm, so Akagi just detaches it.
* ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack''. Huang deliberately got into a car chase with Syndicate agents so he could lure them off and ''blow them up'' with a bomb he'd planted in his car. And November 11 took down his boss and a roomful of bodyguards (probably even more, since he made it out of the building before the bullet wound got to him). And he did it with a bottle of bourbon.
* In ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland'', Nagi does this with Genkaku, holding him down so that Ganta can kill him. His words: "I'm your guide to hell." Genkaku really doesn't seem to mind, and appears pretty happy.

* ''Manga/DenjinN'': Following [[spoiler:Sudou's plan, Tadahiro grabs his evil LiteralSplitPersonality N and destroys himself with him]].
* Dewey from ''Anime/EurekaSeven'' has a dead mans switch embedded in his chest that will activate the necklaces that Anemone and Eureka wear to prevent them from becoming the next Coralian hive mind. Fortunately for them, it doesn't work too well, and they both survive, if in a very bad way immediately afterwards.

*** [[spoiler:The same series culminates with [[CharClone Rau]] [[BigBad Le]] [[OmnicidalManiac Creuset]] attempting this on the entire human race. As a [[CloningBlues defective clone]], his constant seizures were actually a symptom of his [[CloneDegeneration dying body]]. Unable to find meaning in his short life and convinced that HumansAreBastards, he escalates the war to see if he's right that [[InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves we'd wipe ourselves out]] given [[FantasticRacism sufficient hatred]] and [[WeaponOfMassDestruction the means to do so]]. [[VillainHasAPoint Unfortunately, we try. Really, really hard.]]]]

* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}} Shippuden'' Deidara fights Sasuke, and when he loses the use of his legs and realizes his opponent can [[ElementalRockPaperScissors cancel out the effect of his Earth-based attack with lightning]] he opts to swallow the exploding clay and set it off inside himself (where it can't be rendered useless) [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled so he wouldn't be taken alive]]. It didn't work due to [[spoiler:Sasuke summoning a giant snake, going inside it, which shielded him from the most of blast, and had the snake teleport another location]].

** In the original series, Zabuza also succeeds at this against Gato during the Land of Waves arc.

** [[MisanthropeSupreme Fana]] is first stopped by Asta's AntiMagic. When she tries again, she's stopped by Mars embracing her and [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight bringing her back to her senses]] [[spoiler:(in reality allowing the human Fana to break free of [[GrandTheftMe being possessed by her elf counterpart]])]].