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** Walt does this in the series finale, by setting up an automatic machine gun in the boot of his car to kill himself and the neo-Nazis who stole his meth business and murdered his brother-in-law.

* In ''Series/Dracula2020'', the ''Demeter'''s mortally wounded captain claws his way into the ship's hold to set off a jury-rigged bomb that sinks the ship before Dracula reaches England. Meanwhile, Agatha Van Helsing keeps the Count distracted long enough for the captain to do his part, dying [[GoingOutWithASmile with a smile on her lips]] in the ship's destruction.

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':
** This was a common tactic of Jem'Haddar - [[RammingAlwaysWorks their ships crashed into their enemies ships and self-destructed, taking both]].

** In the original series, the captain of a ship previously destroyed by the MonsterOfTheWeek figures out that its innards aren't as impenetrable as its hull. He drives a shuttlecraft right down the critter's maw! [[spoiler: Which doesn't work. However, they realized it had some effect, and if they used something bigger... say, the remains of his ship, remote-piloted, with its engines rigged to blow once it was in the center... it would do the job just fine.]]

* ''Series/KamenRiderBuild'': [[TheHero Sento]] [[{{Determinator}} Kiryu]] comes up with a [[DespairEventHorizon final]] plan to stop [[EldritchAbomination Evolt]] before he creates a black hole and destroys the world. Said plan revolves around essentially turning himself into impromptu nuke and blasting them both to oblivion. It doesn't work out only because of some quick thinking on [[BodySnatcher Evolt]]'s part.

** In the three-part story occurring just before the series finale, Crichton builds a ''nuclear bomb'', wearing it on his belt ([[TheSimpsons which was the style at the time...]]) and linking its trigger to about two dozen different signs of life (body temperature, heart rate, etc.), including some even ''he'' wasn't aware of, before crashing a conference attended by his two biggest enemies. It goes off, but not while it's attached to him; still, the threat is definitely there.

** In one episode, Chakotay beams down to a planet with a photon torpedo rigged to detonate, killing him...and all the aliens who had been plaguing the ship with narcolepsy (they can trap you in a shared dream they generate. ''Forever.'')

** Played completely straight in the third season finale. In order to stop the Peacekeepers' wormhole project, Crais and Talyn initiate starburst while still inside the command carrier. The resulting energy dispersion causes the carrier to implode but tears Talyn to pieces with Crais onboard.

** Gregor kills Oberyn before succumbing to poison shortly after.

** In addition to this at the series finale: After every single living character has seemingly just been killed off, Avon levels his weapon at the Federation troops holding him at gunpoint. He grins, and the screen turns black. The last thing the audience hear is apparently him opening fire and then being gunned down himself.

** Played completely straight in the third season finale. In order to stop the Peacekeepers' wormhole project, Crais and Talyn initiate starburst while still inside the command carrier. The resulting energy dispersion causes the carrier to implode, but tears Talyn to pieces with Crais onboard.

* In one episode of ''Series/FoylesWar'', a bomb-detonating engineer named Hammond and his crew succumb to temptation and steal a load of embezzled cash from a factory. A few days later, one of them is murdered, and they realize that the owners are going to kill them one by one in retaliation. Hammond arranges to return it on his own. When he gets there, the owners have brought their goons. After giving a small speech in which he points out that he doesn't know how he's lasted nine months in his job when the average lifespan of a bomb engineer is seven weeks, Hammond is shot, and uses his last words to urge them to count the cash. As soon as they open the briefcase it explodes--he had rigged it up with a [=UXB=] he'd kept from one job, knowing that the owners were going to kill him anyway. Foyle and Milner arrive just in time to see the fireball.
* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': InvokedTrope by Chandler and Monica in one episode, Chandler reveals Monica's embarassing secret, Monica retaliates by revealing his and Chandler throws in Joey's as well, yelling "If I'm going down I'm taking everybody with me!" Referring to comedy rather than killing though.

* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': Matt Parkman gets possessed by Sylar, who is going to use Matt's powerful psychic abilities to get his bloody revenge on everybody who tried to erase his memories in the previous season finale. But Matt pulls one last psychic gambit, and forces his own SuicideByCop to try and kill Sylar once and for all. It's a shame he's in a series where DeathIsCheap, or it might have actually worked.

* ''Series/KamenRiderBuild'': [[TheHero Sento]] [[{{Determinator}} Kiryu]] comes up with a [[DespairEventHorizon final]] plan to stop [[EldritchAbomination Evolt]] before he creates a black hole and destroys the world. Said plan revolves around essentially turning himself into impromtu nuke and blasting them both to oblivion. It doesn't work out only because of some quick thinking on [[BodySnatcher Evolt]]'s part.

* ''Series/PersonOfInterest'': Agent Snow is locked into a bomb vest by Kara, who uses the threat of detonating it to make him work for her. Ultimately she starts the timer anyway, thinking he'll try to have it deactivated. Instead Snow hides in her car so that he can take her down with him.

** This was a common tactics of Jem'Haddar - [[RammingAlwaysWorks their ships crashed into their enemies ships and self-destructed, taking both]].

** Midway through the fifth season, Jo is mortally injured by Hellhounds and offers to stay behind to blow them up with improvised explosives, in order to buy the others time to go after Lucifer. Her mother, Ellen, stays behind with her, and is the one who ends up setting the explosives off.
** In the climax of the fifth season, Sam manages to take himself, Lucifer, Michael and Adam all into a cage of Hell to avert the apocalypse.

* ''Series/{{Titus}}'': Subverted. In a flashback one of Ken's past wives says that she's breaking up with him and is "taking everything with me" when she shows up with a bomb strapped to her waist. Ken asks her if she can at least get him a beer. She obliges and promptly blows up in the kitchen.

'''The Great Intelligence:''' Not at all. It will kill me. It will destroy ''you.''
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E5Oxygen "Oxygen"]]: The Doctor threatens this in order to save the day, by slaving the coolant system for mining station ''Chasm Forge''[='s=] nuclear reactor to the life signs of himself, his companions and the two surviving workers. Since the workers were killed by their suits as a cost-saving measure, this makes them more valuable alive than dead.

** Also attempted by [[BaldOfAwesome General Hammond]] in the ''Prometheus'' during Anubis's attack on Earth. After exhausting all missiles and with shields nearly exhausted, Hammond orders the pilot to set a [[RammingAlwaysWorks collision course]] for Anubis's mothership. While the collision is averted by said mothership being destroyed by other means, Hammond's line describes this trope perfectly.
--> '''George Hammond''': If we go, they go.

** {{Subverted|Trope}} in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E9TheSatanPit "The Satan Pit"]], when the Doctor decides to send the [[BigBad Beast]] into a black hole. Before [[SugarWiki/MomentofAwesome the TARDIS can appear and save him]], he proclaims that:

* ''Series/AshesToAshes'': Done particularly viciously in the season finale, when the car bomb that killed Alex's parents turns out to have been planted by her father, who'd suffered a psychotic break after his wife cheated on him; it was originally intended to take out ''all three'' of them, and ten-year-old Alex only escaped by accident, having gotten out of the car at the last moment to chase after a lost balloon. And Future!Alex gets there ''just'' in time to see it all happen.

* ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'': In "Stress Position", Goren, Logan, and their witness are trapped in a prison lockdown and cornered by the very guards they're trying to build a case against. When the leader of the group threatens them, Logan replies that if they do carry out their threat, "we're gonna take one of you with us".

* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': In the third season finale, Mikhail is impaled on a spear, but turns out to be NotQuiteDead and [[ActionBomb blows himself up]], indirectly taking Charlie with him.

** Captain John Sheridan, on the Shadow planet of Z'ha'dum. Unable to escape the Shadows' city after blasting his way out of an attempted {{brainwashing}}, he calls down the White Star on his position [[NukeEm carrying two half-gigaton thermonuclear warheads]]. (He gets better later.)

* ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'': In the finale, [[TheStarscream Darkonda]] stabs [[BiggerBad Dark Specter]] in the figurative back with a planet-destroying missile, twice, since Dark Specter is just that powerful, although the second blast was meant for [[BigBad Astronema]] and [[TheDragon Ecliptor]]. Dark Specter pulls this on Darkonda by intercepting the second blast and swallowing him just as he's exploding. An odd case where both killed were irredeemably evil villains.

--->'''The Gamemaster:''' Oh my masters... you can kill me, for I have brought your destruction.

-->'''Worf''': "Perhaps today ''is'' a good day to die. PREPARE FOR '''RAMMING SPEED!'''"

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E5TheTimeMonster "The Time Monster"]], the Third Doctor is willing to destroy himself and the Master by initiating a Time Ram- two [=TARDISes=] materialising in exactly the same place and time as each other- to prevent the Master taking control of Kronos, greatest of the Chronovores.

** A Dalek tries to do this to the Doctor in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E1AsylumOfTheDaleks "Asylum of the Daleks"]] using its self-destruct, but only manages to blow up a roomful of other Daleks instead.

* In "Battleground", the first episode of the miniseries ''Literature/{{Nightmares and Dreamscapes}}'', based on Creator/StephenKing short stories, a hitman's apartment becomes the scene of a bloody battle between himself and a set of living toy soldiers. After killing all the regular soldiers, he battles a previously unseen commando in the elevator and eventually crushes him between the doors. However, moments later something falls out of the commando's hand and an explosion follows. It then cuts to the box the soldiers came in and we see that it contains two bonus items: "1 Commando, 1 Tactical Nuclear Explosive".

** In the classic series [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E7TheWarGames "The War Games"]], the Doctor essentially risked this; although he had forced the Aliens to end the War Games, he didn't have the resources to send all the abducted humans back to their own time periods, so he was forced to contact his people, the Time Lords, for help. This resulted in the Time Lords sentencing him to regeneration and exile, but when he made that decision he had no guarantee that the Time Lords wouldn't condemn him just as harshly as the War Lords.

** In the modern series [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E3TheUnquietDead "The Unquiet Dead"]], Gwyneth and the Doctor realize that since the Gelth are using Gwyneth to enter our universe, she must sacrifice herself to stop them coming. The Doctor tries to talk her out of it, but she refuses. She closes the rift and destroys the malevolent gaseous beings by igniting the gas-filled (thanks to a previous attempt to stop the Gelth) air with a match, blowing up the house, the creatures and herself.
** A variant occurs in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E12BadWolf "Bad Wolf"]]. The Gamemaster is teleported aboard a hidden Dalek ship, after bringing the Doctor on board the Gamestation and giving him a clue to reveal their location. Her last words before being exterminated are:
-->'''The Gamemaster:''' My masters... you can kill me, for I have brought your destruction.

-->'''The Doctor:''' This is your freedom! Free to die! You're going into the black hole and I'm riding with you!

-->'''Guido:''' We... are... VENETIAN!

-->'''The Doctor:''' It will destroy you!\\

** In the eighth season, Prometheus, having just been shot with a permenantly fatal arrow from Artemis, manages to push the arrow further through his chest, thus killing Zeus, who was using him as a human shield.