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9	* This trope is one of the many reasons why ''Literature/AiNoKusabi'' ends as a {{Tragedy}}.
10	* In the anime of ''Manga/{{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.
11	* In Extra Chapter 3 of ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'', [[spoiler: Azusa planned this with her loan sharks, if Korosensei never showed up for her to kill.]]
12	* In the fourth season of ''Anime/{{Bakugan}}'', [[spoiler:[[BigBad Mag Mel]] tries this after being beaten by Dan and Drago, revealing that all the energy he's absorbed means his death will result in it all being released in a massive explosion, which he attempts to use to kill them all. They survive, though.]]
13	* ''Manga/BlackClover'': Each of the members of the [[CoDragons Third Eye]] attempts to blow themselves up and destroy their opponents when they're on the verge of defeat:
14	** [[HopeCrusher Vetto]] is stopped by Yami, who uses [[DimensionalCutter his newest spell]] to [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe cut him down]] from a distance before he can finish.
15	** [[MisanthropeSupreme Fana]] is first stopped by Asta's AntiMagic. When she tries again, she's stopped by [[ChildhoodFriend 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]])]].
16	** When [[NotSoStoic Rhya]] tries to blow himself up in order to kill [[WorldsStrongestWoman Mereoleona]], Asta becomes sick of this trope and uses his AntiMagic to disperse Rhya's mana before [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan slugging him in the face and telling him not to throw his life away]].
17	* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
18	** Yamamoto -- the last captain standing -- tries to do this to Aizen in an extreme example that would not only take out them, but EVERYONE ELSE in the area. [[ChessMaster Naturally, it fails]], as Aizen [[CrazyPrepared made one of his minions specifically able to]] [[PowerNullifier cancel]] that ability. Sort of justified, because as {{pride}}ful as Aizen is, he even outright admits that Yamamoto would beat him in a fair fight. Then a severely wounded Yamamoto tries it ''again'' when Aizen moves to finish him off, casting the level 96 Kidou "Single Blade Cremation", which uses his own body as a catalyst.
19	** Baraggan tried and failed to do this to Aizen as he was [[HoistByHisOwnPetard dying from his own power]].
20	** [[PoisonousPerson Askin Nakk Le Vaar]] pulls this off as he dies: his Gift Ball Deluxe increases in potency and begins poisoning Urahara and Grimmjow to death. In this particular instance, however, Askin notes [[PowerIncontinence it's more a result of him no longer having the strength to restrain his own power]].
21	* In ''Manga/CaseClosed'', [[spoiler: Midori Ozaki]] attempts to do a mix of this and ThanatosGambit when [[spoiler: she tries to put the poison in Rika Okano's flowers as part of her revenge for causing her beloved older sister's ruin and suicide when her rival stole her Ikebana techniques, and when the flowers bloom, the poison will spread and it will kill her and Rika. However, Conan stops this just in time before she can do so.]]
22	* Non-fatal version in ''Anime/CodeGeass'', where C.C. uses the Gawain, running low on power, to grapple Jeremiah and his Siegfried and forces both of them to the bottom of the ocean. Non-fatal since C.C. is immortal while Jeremiah, who was altered by Britannia in an attempt to recreate C.C., is insanely tough; both characters return for the second season.
23	** In the episode before, Nina tried to use a Sakuradite-bomb to blow up the whole Tokyo settlement as an attempt [[spoiler:to kill Zero to avenge Euphemia's death at the hands of Zero]].
24	** In the same episode, Lelouch straps a liquid sakuradite to his chest and threatens Suzaku that if he shoots it, they, along with Kallen, will die. Suzaku manages to get it off him without it detonating.
25	** Some episodes earlier, Suzaku turns the tables on Zero and holds him in headlock, awaiting Schneizel's command to take out the both of them. Considering Suzaku's [[DeathSeeker death wish]], this would kill two birds with one stone. Lelouch, being fully aware of this, gets out of this situation by placing a "Live!" command on him.
26	** At the start of the second season, one of the Four Holy Swords tries to take down Rolo this way. Even though it violates internal consistency somewhat, Rolo's Geass allows him to escape death.
27	** In the second season, Lelouch goes into the Sword of Akasha after his father, then destroys the gateway from the inside, effectively trapping them forever. He even gets to say SeeYouInHell:
28	--->"Now, let us suffer together in this eternal repentance!"
29	*** Considering Lelouch wasn't a code bearer and the emperor was, Lelouch would eventually die of thirst if things had gone according to plan. TheEmperor [[AndIMustScream wouldn't have been so fortunate.]]
30	*** Ultimately subverted. While it implicitly would have trapped them both, it couldn't stop C.C. from moving to and from the other world at will, so Lelouch had to finish the job anyway.
31	* A [[ItsPersonal definitive]] example occurs in Episode 5 of ''Anime/CowboyBebop'', "[[Recap/CowboyBebopSession5BalladOfFallenAngels Ballad of Fallen Angels]]". 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]].
32	* 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.
33	* ''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.
34	* 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.
35	* ''Manga/DenjinN'': Following [[spoiler:Sudou's plan, Tadahiro grabs his evil LiteralSplitPersonality N and destroys himself with him]].
36	* In ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', Apocalimon was willing to kill himself and destroy everything in the process.
37	** This trope was also evidenced during the final fight on Infinity Mountain, where Angemon fought Devimon.
38	** In ''Anime/DigimonFusion'', Beelzebumon pulled this on Lilithmon.
39	* Occurs several times in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', with most attempts being unsuccessful (since success would instantly remove a major villain or hero from the story). We start off with Goku holding Raditz in place for Piccolo to blast them both away (which was actually successful). Then there's the Saibaman (who is a mook and thus disposable) who blows up Yamcha, Chiaotzu who tries it against Nappa (unsuccessfully), Android 16 who tried it against Cell (unsuccessfully), Cell who attempts to blow himself up along with the Earth after being beaten by Gohan (unsuccessfully due to Goku's intervention; though in consolidation he kills Goku, King Kai and his companions; destroys King Kai's planet; and is able to regenerate from the destruction even stronger than before), Vegeta who blows himself up in an attempt to kill Buu (unsuccessfully), then Buu who blows himself up trying to kill Gohan (though Buu is able to regenerate and it's later revealed he was only trying to buy time). Somewhat subverted with Frieza who tries to blow up Namek, seemingly to take Goku with him, but he then says that he's able to survive in space while he knows Goku cannot.
40	** This trope also plays a pivotal (albeit non-lethal) role in Universe 7's performance in the Universal Survival arc of ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', with Tien using his clones to bring down his opponent while being ringed out himself, Frieza blasting Gohan and Dyspo off the arena while the former holds down the latter, and finally, [[spoiler:Goku and Frieza grappling Jiren as they drop out of the arena, leaving Android 17 the sole remaining fighter (and thus, Universe 7 victorious)]]. There are also some failed attempts, like Nink attempting to drag Goku out with him, only for Goku to use Super Saiyan Blue to break his hold at the last second, leaving Quitela annoyed that Nink just cost their team a fighter.
41	** ''Anime/DragonBallSuperSuperHero'' has Gamma 2 pull off an ExplosiveOverclocking attack to try and kill Cell Max in a do-or-die divebomb attack towards [[AttackItsWeakPoint its head]]. Though Gamma 2's Core Breaker attack doesn't kill Cell Max, [[AnArmAndALeg it does cleave off its arm]] and severely weakens its frame, preventing it from being a SenselessSacrifice and giving Gohan and the others the edge they needed to finally put down the beast.
42	* Dewey from ''Anime/EurekaSeven'' has a DeadMansSwitch 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.
43	* ''Manga/FairyTail'':
44	** The Tartaros arc begins with one of these in the form of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Tempester]], blowing himself up into a deadly and rapidly-spreading cloud of poisonous particles after his defeat at the hands of Laxus and the Raijin Tribe. In a desperate bid to save the lives of the citizens of Hargeon, Laxus makes a HeroicSacrifice by inhaling as much of the poison as possible as his Dragon Slayer powers enable him to do. [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat He and his team all survived]], albeit with a strong possibility of being permanently weakened, and Tempester's poison still managed to kill over a hundred Hargeon inhabitants. Of course, since Tartaros can [[ResurrectiveImmortality revive their fallen]], this was only a temporary setback for Tempester.
45	** Pulled again by fellow Tartaros member Jackal after Natsu cleans his clock, only in his case he decides to [[MadBomber use his Explosion Curse]] on himself to create a town-destroying bomb. Happy is able to avert destruction by [[RelocatingTheExplosion flying him into the sky before he explodes]]. Like Tempester, Jackal is revived at his guild, pissed off that even his final move was foiled.
46	** Downplayed at the end of the arc, as [[spoiler: Acnologia]] shows up at the end and is confronted by [[spoiler: Igneel]]. [[spoiler: Acnologia]] is still alive after killing him, but [[spoiler: Igneel]] used his dying breath to tear [[spoiler: Acnologia's]] arm off.
47	* In ''Literature/FateApocrypha'', Frankenstein [[spoiler:unleashes her [[ShockAndAwe Blasted Tree]] Noble Phantasm, which at full power consumes her as well in a massive explosion of lightning]] in order to defeat Mordred. [[spoiler:It doesn't work in either the light novel or the anime due to Mordred's Master Kairi either teleporting her out of the blast with a Command Spell in the former or empowering her defense with one to counter Frankenstein's Master Caules's own Command Seal boosting the attack in the latter, which cancels out the boosts and leaves Mordred injured but alive.]]
48	* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'':
49	** Double subverted with Fu, who intended to blow himself up and take Wrath with him...but then Wrath just sliced up the explosives and ran 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.
50	---> '''Buccaneer''': Old man, we'll walk him down the path to Hell together.\
51	'''Fu''': Yes, thank you.
52	** In ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'', [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Kimbley]] turns Al into a bomb shortly before he dies from the mortal wound Scar inflicted on him. Unfortunately for him, Scar manages to deactivate the bomb by giving Al his right arm, turning him into the new Philosopher's Stone and saving his life.
53	* In the Season 1 finale of ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'', Gauron attempts to do this to Sousuke while they're in their HumongousMecha. He sets his AS to self destruct in 2 minutes, and pins Sousuke down. Right before the dramatic explosion, he takes the opportunity to [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove confess his love for Sousuke]], which sort of [[MomentKiller falls flat]] when Sousuke blasts him off the ship they're on so only Gauron's AS explodes. In season 3, Gauron lives up to his legend of [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat being impossible to kill]] by showing up alive again.
54	* In the middle of the Konan/Kutou war in ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'', Tamahome tells Miaka, "If I die, I'm taking them with me, but I ''won't'' let you die!"
55	** Played tragically straight with Chiriko's death, a case in which the hero ''does'' take the villain with him at the cost of his own life.
56	* The BigBad of ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar'' attempts this by grabbing Cure Egret and Cure Bloom and trying to pull them into the attack that's destroying him. However, Michiru and Kaoru grab them and keep them out, breaking the villain's last hopes and allowing himself to be destroyed.
57	* ''Manga/FutureDiary'': After having a hand blown off, being shot in the gut, and lost ''a lot'' of blood as a result, [[MadBomber Minene]] reveals she has a heartbeat bomb on her person, and [[HeroicWillpower heroically]] ([[BlackAndGrayMorality for this series anyway]]) [[HeroicWillpower wills]] herself to stay alive long enough so it can be used to blow the door to Eleven's vault/hiding place, so Yukiteru can kill him.
58	* This is how ''Anime/FZeroGPLegend'' ends. Rick Wheeler is able to destroy Black Shadow's DoomsdayDevice which, upon GoingCritical, pulls Black Shadow and Captain Falcon's machines into the ensuing explosion. Falcon [[PassingTheTorch passes the title of Captain Falcon to Rick]] before Black Shadow attempts to escape. However, Falcon ejects from his racer and performs a Falcon Punch, knocking them both back into the explosion.
59	* In most ''Manga/GetterRobo'' adaptations, this is how Musashi Tomoe goes out. Most iterations have Musashi rip out Getter's Getter Core and crush it, detonating it and taking out as many [[{{Robeast}} Mechasauruses]] as possible, though the original anime has him fly Lady Command into the mouth of the Dinosaur Empire's main unit, destroying it and the leadership along with it.
60	* Done several times in ''Manga/GingaNagareboshiGin''.
61	** The Iga dogs seem somewhat fond of this: both Tsukikage and Hayato meet their makers this way.
62	** Ben attempts to do this with Sniper. ''Both'' of them survive, though.
63	** Benizakura kills Mosa in this fashion.
64	** Akakabuto ''rises from the dead'' to take Gohei, Riki and Gin with him. Thanks to Gin, though, he doesn't succeed. [[spoiler:At least not entirely, as he ''did'' manage to kill Riki.]]
65	** In the wolf arc of the manga, Thunder Wolf manages to render Mukonga's front paws, his most effective weapons, useless. In response to this Mukonga ''tears his nonfunctional paw off and skewers Thunder Wolf with the bone of his leg'' before succumbing to his own wounds shortly after.
66	* Sir Penwood from ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' was presented as being mostly an incompetent ModernMajorGeneral at best. But then, after nearly being assaulted by Millennium infiltrators, he reveals himself as a CowardlyLion and offers to remain behind in the complex the SS Waffen vampires were bound to attack to give time for the rest of the staff to flee. Nobody takes him up on this offer; they all stay behind with him. After the attack has killed everybody, he waits until the vampires are too deep into the complex to escape, and pulls out a thin cylinder. He laughs right in the enemy commander's face...and reveals the stacks of C4 he'd wired into the building. He gets shot. Twice. And he still presses the detonator.
67	* In the eleventh volume of ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'', Shalba Beelzebub was getting curb stomped badly by [[TheHero Issei]] that he had to resort to use a poison specifically effective for dragons. End result, while Shalba does die, he does have the honor of [[OurHeroIsDead killing the main protagonist]]. Sadly for him, though, [[DeathIsCheap it just doesn't stick]].
68	** In the third season of the anime after Issei is mortally wounded by Fenrir, a grief-stricken Rias forces her powers into overdrive in an attempt to bring down Loki with her. Finding a covalently Phoenix Tear is what keeps her from going through with it.
69	* ''Manga/HunterXHunter'': President Netero, nuking himself along with the Chimera Ant King.
70	* ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'':
71	** Naraku ''orders'' Kanna to do this, after she sustains heavy damage from protecting her Mirror-Demon. Although Kanna fails to take anyone with her, in her final moments, she {{Heel Face Turn}}s slightly, and manages to tell Kagome how to defeat Naraku. In the anime, it is shown quite clearly that Kanna completely refuses to do this.
72	** Naraku himself also tried this when his time came, to the point that he was willing to subject himself to a FateWorseThanDeath if that meant that the protagonist's girlfriend [[SealedEvilInADuel comes with him.]]
73	** After being fatally injured by her lover, Inuyasha, the priestess Kikyou attempts to take him with her with her last breath. She had softened at this point, though, and used a sealing spell that freezes him in time so he would never decompose or age instead of killing him.
74	* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
75	** At the end of ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Phantom Blood]]'', [[TheHero Jonathan]], lethally injured and with no chance of survival, decided to take [[BigBad Dio]] with him, trapping him in a sunken boat in the middle of the Atlantic. [[spoiler:This works out for quite a while, that is, until Dio eventually manages to escape nearly 100 years later]].
76	** ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Battle Tendency]]'':
77	*** Stroheim attempts to perform this on Santana by blowing himself up while Santana is inside him. [[spoiler:He fails, though unlike most examples, [[DisneyDeath Stroheim]] [[WeCanRebuildHim also]] [[{{Cyborg}} survives]]]].
78	*** [[spoiler:Esidisi tries to perform this on Joseph at the end of their battle. It doesn't work, and Esidisi is reduced to a brain and forced to [[PuppeteerParasite take control of Suzi Q's body]] to survive]].
79	** In ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'', after being lethally injured, [[StarterVillain Gray Fly]] attempts to pull this on the heroes by crashing the plane they're on before it can reach Egypt. Unfortunately for him, Joseph manages to land the plane safely, with his actions only [[SmallRoleBigImpact extending the length of the journey from a simple plane ride to a country-hopping adventure]].
80	** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Golden Wind]]'':
81	*** Pesci attempts this at the end of the fight against him. [[spoiler:After having his neck broken by Bruno, Pesci attempts to use the last of his strength to smash Coco Jumbo, killing the rest of Team Bucciarati. Luckily, Bruno stops him before he can do this]].
82	*** Doppio[[spoiler:/Diavolo]]'s fight against Risotto Nero goes in the latter's favor until Doppio [[HoistByHisOwnPetard makes use of Risotto's]] [[FightingSpirit Stand]], [[ExtraOreDinary Metallica]], to manipulate him into being shot by Narancia's Stand, Aerosmith, which detects people through carbon dioxide and doesn't detect Doppio due to Risotto having sucked the iron out of his blood. As [[spoiler:Diavolo]] is standing over him, Risotto then attempts to use Metallica to make Aerosmith shoot them both, but [[spoiler:Diavolo uses his own Stand, King Crimson, to delete the point in time that he was/will be shot so that only Risotto gets hit]].
83	** ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]'':
84	*** Highway to Hell, Thunder [=McQueen=]'s Stand, is based around this trope. Highway to Hell allows [=McQueen=] to [[{{Synchronization}} share self-inflicted injuries]]. The catch? [=McQueen=] is [[DeathSeeker extremely suicidal]].
85	*** It's implied that [[spoiler:this was Emporio's plan during his LastStand against Pucci, as the poison air would eventually kill him as well. Luckily, he survives thanks to the [[ResetButton universal reset]]]].
86	* ''Manga/JujutsuKaisen'':
87	** 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.
88	** [[spoiler:After Maki [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge wipes out the Zen'in clan]], Naoya barely manages to survive. As he stumbles across the clan's compound, however, he's stabbed InTheBack by Maki's mother, who is also dying after Maki slit her throat, and plans to make sure Naoya and the rest of the clan dies with her as payback for their abuse towards herself and her daughters, [[WhatYouAreInTheDark whom she secretly loves]].]]
89	* ''Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaAkiraHimekawa'': In the adaptation of ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames Oracle of Ages]]'', 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.
90	* ''Anime/MacrossPlus'' has Guld going up against the [[AttackDrone Ghost X-9]] alone. Despite his SuperPrototype CoolPlane, he's clearly outmatched... until [[LimitBreak he switches his plane to]] HeroicRROD and [[RammingAlwaysWorks rams the sucker into the Ghost]]. In the [=OVAs=], they both explode on impact; in the movie, Guld's fighter survives but he's [[NauseaFuel plastered]] [[EyeScream all over]] [[BloodFromTheMouth the cockpit]] due to [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome G-forces]].
91	* After being defeated, the Satellite Cannon Type Iris Unit in ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaDetonation'' attempts to blow up Nanoha with its self-destruct mechanism. It doesn't kill her, [[spoiler:though it does blow off her right arm and damage her right eye bad enough that they both have to be replaced with cyborg replicas.]]
92	* In ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'', Eagle Vision uses this trope as his plan for Cephiro: the overuse of mental energy, what powers machines in his world of Autozam, is slowly killing him. Not wanting the same tragedy that befell Cephiro befall it again, he plans to become the Pillar of Cephiro and promptly die, taking the world with it so it would never harm another living person again.
93	* ''Manga/MajinTanteiNougamiNeuro'': The titular character takes down the BigBad because he wants to protect his food supply, even if he ends up dying. The logic is a typical MindScrew but he IS a demon. [[spoiler:Subverted when [[UnexplainedRecovery he gets better.]]]]
94	* ''[[Franchise/{{Gundam}} Mobile Suit Gundam]]'':
95	** [[DarkMessiah Paptimus Scirocco]] does this in ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'', in a rare villainous example that works. When his The-O Mobile Suit is impaled by the Zeta Gundam, [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice he gets the lower half of his torso crushed by the nose of the Zeta itself]]. With his dying breath, [[DyingCurse he curses his killer]], [[TheHero Kamille Bidan]], and using his [[PsychicPowers newtype abilities]], [[MindRape mentally lobotomizes]] Kamille. His The-O then explodes, and Kamille is left blabbering like a five-year old. [[DownerEnding This is how the series ENDS.]] It takes Kamille almost the whole sequel, ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ Gundam ZZ]]'', to start getting better.
96	*** In TheMovie, this doesn't happen. Kamille not only doesn't get mind-fried, but he [[EarnYourHappyEnding is perfectly okay in the end and reunites with his girlfriend Fa and his friends]].
97	** In ''Gundam ZZ'', Mashymre Cello pulls this trope when he uses his Newtype powers to help detonate his damaged Hamma-Hamma when he gets captured.
98	** In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn'', Yonem Kirks attempts to set off his Zaku I Sniper's backup generator by slamming his beam sniper rifle through its torso and pulling the trigger. Sadly, the attempt failed when Londo Bell's three-man Jesta team, the Tri-Stars, sliced off its arms, then shot it down without hitting its generators.
99	** Attempted and failed by Duo Maxwell in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'', when surrounded by OZ mecha and his Gundam is badly damaged. He even gets a SeeYouInHell ("Tag along...on my journey to hell!"), but the SelfDestructMechanism fails due to the damage and he gets captured, which results in him getting his MidSeasonUpgrade.
100	** In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'', [[SergeantRock Natarle Badgiruel]] commands her crew to AbandonShip as she locks herself and [[HateSink the loathsome]] [[FantasticRacism Muruta Azrael]] on the bridge. She refuses to open the door for him, even as he puts an entire magazine into her, and they're both incinerated by the Archangel's WaveMotionGun. While Azrael goes out [[VillainousBreakdown terrified and screaming]], Natarle [[GoOutWithASmile accepts her death with a smile]].
101	---> '''Natarle Badgiruel''' to '''Azrael''': [[YouMonster You're a monster that deserves to die]], right here with me.
102	*** [[spoiler:The same series culminates with Rau Le Creuset, an OmnicidalManiac, 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.]]]]
103	* Johan of ''Manga/Monster1994'', in a non-literal, very extreme variation of the trope. He knows he has to die, and he's going to take everyone with him.
104	* ''Anime/MyHime'': The second-to-last episode has Natsuki [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificing herself]] against her [[PsychoLesbian love-crazed best friend Shizuru]] by blasting Shizuru's CHILD (Kiyohime) while her own CHILD (Duran) is in Kiyohime's clutches, which destroys both [=CHILDs=] and kills them both. To further [[TearJerker drive the point home]], Natsuki tells Mai ahead of time that she knows she's not going to make it, and when she actually [[ShootTheDog does so]], hugs Shizuru for the first (and last) time as they both disappear, taking Shizuru with her (though they ultimately [[DisneyDeath get better]]). It's worth noting that this is a rare case of TYWM that is not motivated by vengeance or hatred, but is actually done out of love.
105	* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', 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]].
106	** At the end of the Rescue Gaara arc, after losing both of his arms Deidara exploited this trope by replacing himself with an explosive clone. The Konoha shinobi assumed he had really blown himself up in an attempt to take them out with him, while Deidara himself escaped to fight another day.
107	** Sasuke himself attempts this when the Raikage is about to crush him and he makes a fire shield, but Gaara stops them both.
108	** Danzo attempts this on both Tobi and Sasuke using a sealing technique, but they both managed to avoid it. However, the threat of it did give him enough time to destroy the eyes of his which Tobi was after.
109	** In Part 1, Zabuza also succeeds at this against Gato during the Land of Waves arc.
110	** Also in the original, the Third Hokage tries this against Orochimaru with the Reaper Death Seal. It works at first, but Orochimaru manages to stop the reaper from pulling out his soul at the last minute and ends up ultimately surviving, albeit heavily crippled and forced to obtain a new body very quickly. The Third, however, was not so lucky.
111	** In the past, the Fourth Hokage (who died in his 20s and thus was outlived by the Third) did a variation of this to seal the Nine-Tailed Fox inside his son, Naruto, who was only just born. Due to both Naruto being born only a few minutes ago and the lack of any other viable hosts, the Fourth was forced to use the Reaper Death Seal to keep the fox down, as an infant wouldn't likely be able to handle a Tailed Beast if even the smallest part of it were allowed influence over their body.
112	* In the Festival Arc of ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', [[ColdSniper Mana]] goes around sniping people with bullets that send whatever they hit three hours into the future, so that they cannot interfere with Chao's plan, as she would have already won. When she shoots Kaede, Kaede manages to grab her, warping her three hours into the future as well and neutralizing her for the rest of the battle.
113	* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' shows this during the flashback to the fight with an Angel in the previous episode (the first, to be precise). After Unit 01 goes berserk and beats the crap out of the Angel, the Angel latches onto it, and blows itself up. While this damages the Eva, it doesn't kill it.
114	** In ''The End of Evangelion'', [[spoiler:Ritsuko tries to pull this on Gendo, [[WomanScorned as revenge for manipulating her and then betraying her by throwing her before SEELE for a humiliating interrogation]], by rigging the Magi's self-destruct mechanism to blow up NERV HQ at her command. Her attempt fails when she forgets to account for [[AIIsACrapshoot the Magi having a will of its own]]]].
115	** Rei Ayanami also does this to take out the 16th Angel and save Shinji, and [[BloodKnight Mari]] does this in ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' to take out the 3rd Angel. Whilst Mari survives, her Eva certainly doesn't.
116	** The manga version of [[spoiler: the invasion of [=NERV=] features a wounded Misato waiting with a primed grenade for the soldiers tracking her]].
117	* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
118	** Don Krieg tried this on Luffy, when the RubberMan had just kicked his ass and they were falling. Krieg throws a metal net around Luffy so that he drown due to Luffy's WeaksauceWeakness to water, but the attempt fails as Luffy smashes him into the ground.
119	** [[ChefOfIron Sanji]] pulls one against [[GodGuise Eneru]] when the villain's death fortress is rising into air, Sanji messing around with it beforehand. Eneru fries Sanji with a lightning blast [[TakingTheBullet which was meant for Usopp and Nami]], Eneru then realizes Sanji has done something to ship and curses him. Sanji survives by Usopp returning to the ship to pick up him.
120	** During the Enies Lobby Arc, Franky subverts this by saying he's going to blow himself up, taking Enies Lobby and everyone else in a three-kilometer-wide explosion with him. While all of the Marines are trying to escape he grabs Robin and [[{{Fartillery}} explosively farts]] his way out of the building, in an attempt to escape.
121	** The [[KangarooCourt court]] of Enies Lobby also has this in the form of its "[[JokerJury Eleven Just Jurymen]]". The Jury consists of pirates who have been sentenced to death, so they pronounce every criminal who comes to Enies Lobby guilty to drag as many people down with them as possible.
122	** After the TimeSkip, Brook, now a famous rock star, tells his managers that he plans to return to his pirate life. It doesn't take long for the Navy to show up.
123	--->'''Manager:''' Your popularity is still on the rise! We could've made a fortune off you! But you betrayed us! Our company is dissolved! Let's all die together, Soul King!
124	** Another example occurred way back on Drum Island when Dalton planned on stopping Wapol doing this, via going into Wapol's castle with a load of dynamite strapped to him. However, he never gets the chance to try, as Luffy had already forcibly banished Wapol by the time he arrived.
125	** [[spoiler:Caesar Clown]], having been defeated by Luffy and on the verge of death, attempts to do this with [[spoiler:Smoker]] by [[spoiler:stabbing his heart, which was given to him by Law]]. The issue is that it wasn't [[spoiler:Smoker's heart that Law gave him]]. It was [[spoiler:his secretary Monet's]], who was planning a similar attempt in destroying the entire island. Needless to say, the chance to do so never comes.
126	** [[spoiler:Pedro]] pulls this off in Chapter 877; he already knew his life was nearly over. So in an echo of Dalton, he blows himself up in an attempt to take Perospero -- whose powers are currently putting the Straw Hats on the verge of defeat -- down with him.
127	* Hilda from ''Anime/OutlawStar'', upon realizing she's caught in a star's gravity pull and that there was no way her crew could save her, decides to go down like the badass she is, grabbing one of the BigBad's CoDragons with a metal clamp and blowing up the both of them with the explosive equivalent of a CyanidePill.
128	* ''Anime/PacificRimTheBlack'': In the Season 2 finale, the protagonists' Jaeger Atlas Destroyer is critically damaged in a fight with the Category VI Kaiju Breacher, and can't fight anymore. In a last ditch effort to save them, [[BenevolentAI Loa]] ejects Taylor and Hayley from the Jaeger and then triggers the SelfDestructMechanism, killing herself but taking out Breacher as well.
129	* In ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', during Ash's battle with Katie in the Hoenn League, Katie has her Misdreavus use Destiny Bond when it gets hit by Glalie's Headbutt, resulting in the Face Pokémon being knocked out as well. Later in "Bewitch, Battle, and Bewilder!", Cynthia's Spiritomb uses Destiny Bond when Pikachu strikes it with an Iron Tail as part of a BatmanGambit by Cynthia to leave Ash without his ace.
130	* In ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', Kyoko does this when she gives Sayaka a MercyKill, to save both of them from TheCorruption and [[YouAreNotAlone to make sure she doesn't die alone.]]
131	** In episode 13 of ''VideoGame/MagiaRecordPuellaMagiMadokaMagicaSideStory'', as the Memory Museum collapses upon her, Holy Mami yanks Iroha down the same bottomless chasm she fell in.
132	** In the above anime's finale, Alina wastes no strength in using her last moments as a Magical Girl to [[spoiler:sell the others out to Kyubey by [[NoOntologicalInertia shattering the Doppel barrier]] once she becomes a Witch to turn all humanity into Witches]].
133	* ''Anime/RahXephon'' has Kuki cornering Kunugi in TERRA's control center. Kunugi is heavily injured, his opponent is inside a huge, invincible Dolem that just laid waste to the entire island. His solution? Activate a failsafe in the teleporter between the control center and the Xephon's holding pen that causes the entire island to erupt into a second [[SphereOfDestruction Tokyo Jupiter]]. Cue Kuki going OhCrap when he sees his opponent's half-smile that just reeks of saying "Checkmate, sucker."
134	* In ''WesternAnimation/RobotechTheShadowChronicles'' Alex Romero dies this way taking many of enemy fighters with him.
135	* ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'': When opium dealer Kanryuu Takeda was caught by the police and knew there was no way he could avoid death penalty, he tried to exact revenge on Megumi Takani, who made opium for him until she decided to leave his service, by denouncing her as a member of his drug ring but Kenshin told the police she was an innocent whose medical knowledge led Takeda to try to force her to make opium.
136	* ''Anime/SailorMoon'': Sailor Jupiter [[TearJerker does this]] near the end of the first season, [[HeroicSacrifice electrocuting herself]] along with the DD Girl who captured her. Sailor Venus takes out another in a similar way, with a powerful kamikaze overload of her Crescent Beam attack, and Sailor Mars [[KillItWithFire completely immolates]] the last with the remainder of her power. "Fire... '''SOUL!'''" They all got a DyingMomentOfAwesome.
137	** Sailor Moon herself does so in the first series's finale, overloading the Silver Crystal and unleashing its full powers to destroy both Queen Beryl and Queen Metallia despite knowing that it will kill her.
138	** In the [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]], as Prince [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Diamond]] has a VillainousBreakdown possibly from getting kicked out of the position as the BigBad when [[BigBadDuumvirate Black Lady and Wiseman]] show up AND having had to kill his brother Sapphire, he snaps and tries to [[EarthShatteringKaboom put the two Silver Imperium Crystals together]], which would [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt undo time itself]]. Unfortunately for him and luckily for the rest of the universe Pluto reacts faster than he does, [[HeroicSacrifice breaks a taboo, and stops time]].
139	** Back to the anime, Berthier of the Ayakashi Sisters in ''Sailor Moon R'' tried to pull this, intending on freezing herself and Sailor Mercury via a game of chess.
140	* ''Manga/SaintSeiya'': In the first case, Ikki uses this to defeat [[EyesAlwaysShut Virgo Shaka]], but WorthyOpponent Shaka is so impressed by his courage that with the help of Aries Mu, he brings Ikki back to the Sanctuary and does a HeelFaceTurn. On the other hand, both Shiryu and Siegfried from the Asgard Saga try this on Capricorn Shura and Siren Sorrento, respectively, by holding them and ascending to space with them. The latter fails since Sorrento survives, and the former succeeds (but ultimately [[BackFromTheDead returns]]). Gemini Kanon takes it one step further on Wyrvern Radamantys by ascending to space AND using his Galaxian Explosion at the same time.
141	** Many instances in ''Manga/SaintSeiyaTheLostCanvas'' from both Saints and Specters alike, with varying degrees of success. Special mention goes to [[SacrificialLion Pisces Albafica]] and [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Cancer Manigoldo]].
142	* Jin from ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo'' has a specific technique, handed down from his sensei, for taking down an opponent who completely outclasses him: he [[DeliberateInjuryGambit creates an intentional opening in his defense, and fatally strikes the opponent once he's fully committed to his attack]]. The technique generally leads to the death of both the user and the opponent, and Jin is lucky to make it out with only a grievous but non-fatal wound.
143	** Likewise, after Mugen slays his brothers and fails to die to a gunshot, Toube waits until just before Mugen staggers to him before detonating a cache of explosives hidden in his wheelchair. Mugen survives this too, because [[MadeOfIron he's invincible]].
144	* ''Manga/SkipBeat'' has a moment where Ren Tsuruga, in his Cain Heel role, is holding co-actor Murasame in a choke-hold off of an unsecured ledge. Murasame notices that he can't get himself out of the hold and thinks that, if he's going to die here, he'll take Cain Heel along with him, and pulls him off the ledge. Kyoko's intervention and Ren's quick thinking lead to both of them surviving.
145	* [[NightOfTheLivingMooks The Mariages]] of ''AudioPlay/StrikersSoundStageX'' will [[ShapeshifterWeapon liquefy its entire body]] into a combustible liquid that will turn the area they're in into a raging inferno in an attempt to incinerate their enemy together with them if they've been subdued and unable to retaliate in any other way.
146	* In ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'', during the Aincrad arc, Kirito manages to resist his death animation long enough to land the last hit on the final boss, freeing everyone else from the system. [[spoiler:Kayaba lets him and Asuna, also recently killed, [[VillainsDyingGrace survive anyway]].]]
147	* In ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'', once Ryoko is freed from Ayeka and she returns to Ryo-Ohki, she takes control of her ship, slams it into Ryu-Oh and drags it through the atmosphere and down to Earth. Ayeka panics and demands Ryu-Oh's shell be jettisoned, the force throwing Ryo-Ohki off-course, slamming the ships into the Great Seto Bridge and landing them back in the Masaki Shrine. The only one to die and Ryo-Ohki, and she respawns the next episode.
148	* The first ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' [[TheMovie movie]], ''Tenchi Muyo In Love'': villain Kain, while being sucked into an alternate dimension, exclaims "If I have to go... I won't go alone!" and grabs the hero's parents. He tries it again near the end, attempting to keep Tenchi's mom in the alternate universe when the reality-destroying cannon is set to fire.
149	* Speaking of Clamp, in ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'': Near the end of the Celes arc, Fai tries to kill Ashura and himself with an explosion of killer magic, but both survive (for the moment). (If you've read ''all'' of the Celes arc, then you see why Fai didn't just do it from a distance, so it's more of a Broken Character Wants To Die And Save His Friends via This Trope.)
150	* In ''Anime/UmiMonogatari'', in the finale, Sedna tries this on her host body, Urin.
151	* ''Manga/UshioAndTora'':
152	** The last remaining member of the [[FlyingFace Gamin-Sama]] tries to use what's left of his strength to, at least, take "Hizaki Mikado" down with him: before he can bite Mayuko, Ushio finishes him off with the Beast Spear.
153	** When Fusuma is fatally stabbed through the neck by the Beast Spear, he wraps his limbs around the airplane even more, screaming that if he has to die, then all the humans on the plane will go to Hell with him. Luckily enough, Ushio and Tora manages to sever his limbs and detatch him from the airplane in time.
154	** The Kudagitsune Izuna sacrifices himself to help Ushio defeat the MasterSwordsman Blood Robe, by letting himself being impaled on his naginata, only to wrap his tail around the blade and shatter it, forcing Blood Robe to rely on his folded bow turned into a sharp ''bokken'' for the rest of the fight. Subverted in that Izuna survives the experience.
155	** In a heroic example, Hyo finally avenges his family and slays the despicable Guren by tricking him into eating his magical crystal eye, overloaded with Guren's own lightning and Qi, alongside Hyo's arm, filled with paper talismans he can remotely detonate: before a terrified Guren can kill him, Hyo activates the talismans, blowing his nemesis up from the inside down before succumbing to his wounds.
156	* ''Manga/{{X 1999}}'' has Karen Kasumi do this with a combination of this and a straightforward HeroicSacrifice, complete with explosive SuperpowerMeltdown.
157	** TheMovie takes it a step further: nearly half of the heroic Dragons of Heaven perform {{Heroic Sacrifice}}s to kill the villainous Dragons of Earth. It's difficult to tell in many cases just who sacrificed him/herself to kill whom, given the way the movie keeps throwing out such moment over and over and over again. The first combatants on either side die mere moments after the opening credits.
158	** The abovementioned Karen and Shogo Asagi in TheMovie deserve special mention: Shogo hits Karen with a ''train''. And pays for it dearly, since Karen meets it with a fireball massive enough to blow herself, Shogo, ''and'' the train all to kingdom come.
159	** Seiichiro Aoki's death also specifically invokes this: he grabs onto Nataku and uses his wind powers to accelerate them straight downward from a considerable height into the pavement, with the following FinalSpeech:
160	--->'''Aoki:''' Maybe you're right. Yes, maybe the Earth should be destroyed. But even then, I will protect those that I love, and that's why I'll defeat you at the cost of my life!
161	* Yawaragi from ''Anime/YashahimePrincessHalfDemon'' tries to kill the evil demon Konton in this way. She holds him so that a sword attack hits them both. But it fails and Konton can teleport to safety.
162	* ''Franchise/YuGiOh'':
163	** In [[Anime/YuGiOh the original series]], this technically happens twice. First by [[spoiler: Pharaoh Atem when he took Zorc's soul with him into the seal on the Millennium items]], and attempted a second time at the end of season 5, when [[spoiler: Atem regains his name, summons Horakhty, and Zorc says this word for word to Atem, attempting to grab him before being consumed by light.]]
164	** In ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'', Professor Satou tried to do this in his duel with Judai, using his Scar Knight's effect, which would have ended the duel in a draw and possibly killed them both due to their D-Belts. However, Judai used a card to protect himself, and only Satou took the damage. [[spoiler:And then fell into a crevice when his D-Belt activated; he was presumed to have died in the fall.]]
165	** In ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'', after his defeat at Yusei's hands, Rudger detonates his [[ArtificialLimb robotic arm]], destroying the bridge they were duelling on, and sending Yusei plummeting into the depths of Old Momentum. Sore loser.
166	*** The dub had to change this as Rudger/Roman's arm detonation was technically suicide. It was changed so that Earthbound God Uru's destruction blows up the bridge.
167	*** This trope is also invoked during Jack's duel with D-Carly. Jack plans to activate a trap that will [[TogetherInDeath take them both down at once]]. This is, however, foiled by Carly, who manages to gain control of herself at the last minute and knocks her own life points down to zero in order to save Jack's life.
168	** In Episode 42 of ''Anime/YuGiOhVRAINS'', Revolver uses the effects of Topologic Gumblar Dragon and Drop Draco to bring both his own and Playmaker's LP to zero after [[spoiler:he notices his father's heartbeat dropping to zero.]]
169	* Yusuke tries this a couple of times in ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', but it's subverted both times. His first usage of this is when he uses almost all of his life energy to kill Suzaku, and is revived by Kuwabara before the rest of his life fades away. The second time is in his fight against Jin, where Yusuke was about to fire a Spirit Gun into a point-blank Tornado Fist, which would have created a tornado of spirit energy that would kill both of them. Luckily, Jin noticed this and decided to dodge instead.
170	** One fight later after the Yusuke/Jin battle the exact same thing happens: a heavily wounded and near exhausted Kuwabara attempts to do this while fighting against Risho to allow one final win for his allies in the current round of the Dark Tournament. He even says the line, "It doesn't matter if I die, as long as I take you with me!" Like in Yusuke's case it gets completely subverted: Yukina happens to show up in the audience and thanks to ThePowerOfLove he has for her, Kuwabara instantly regains all his energy and defeats Risho in one hit.
171	** Kuwabara is perhaps the first character in the series to attempt this, during the Saint Beasts arc. [[spoiler: Upon noticing Byakko's destroyed every platform in the Room of Hell he could jump to, Kuwabara leaps for the one Byakko is on and uses his Spirit Sword as a pole-vault. This gives him the leverage and momentum needed to land a huge flying punch on Byakko, sending him plummeting into the boiling acid pool underneath, with Kuwabara falling behind him. Luckily, one of his bandages snags on a crack in the platform... And ''Byakko [[MadeOfIron survives the bath]]'', albeit heavily wounded.]]
172	* ''Manga/ZekkyouGakkyuu'' has this being pulled off in ''The Truth About Yomi'', which serves as a background for the series' narrator. Back then, her name was Yumi Akimoto, and she was severely bullied in school. When she decided she couldn't take it anymore, she caused an explosion in the Home Ec room that killed her, along with the leader of the girls bullying her.
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