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* ''Film/DawnOfTheDead1978'': The climax begins with Peter putting a gun to his temple as zombies close in on him, clearly about to [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled shoot himself rather than let them kill him]]. Then he suddenly turns the gun away and shoots one of them in the head.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Icon}}'': The 13th issue has Rocket lament the downsides of her TeenPregnancy and remark that there's only one thing to do as she looks like she's ready to end it all by jumping off a building. She propels herself to safety right before she hits the pavement and her internal narration clarifies that her intended solution is to take out her frustrations on the criminals she fights.
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* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'': An example in which the BaitAndSwitch is entirely InUniverse. Bella has taken up cliff-diving as a hobby after Edward leaves her. Edward's future-seeing sister Alice, who he has tasked to keep tabs on Bella in his absence, gets a vision of Bella leaping off a cliff and jumps to the wrong (albeit, not unreasonable) conclusion. She relays her vision to Edward who ends up calling Bella's house to confirm, as Alice's ability is more like seeing future ''possibilities'' than a definite future. Jacob, who's with Bella at her house, picks up the phone and to the question of where Bella's father Charlie is, replies, [[PoorCommunicationKills "At the funeral."]] Though he meant the funeral of a friend who died, Edward assumes he means Bella's funeral and decides to [[TagTeamSuicide get himself killed]] [[SuicideByCop by the Volturi]].
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* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'': ''Literature/NewMoon'': An example in which the BaitAndSwitch is entirely InUniverse. Bella has taken up cliff-diving as a hobby after Edward leaves her. Edward's future-seeing sister Alice, who he has tasked to keep tabs on Bella in his absence, gets a vision of Bella leaping off a cliff and jumps to the wrong (albeit, not unreasonable) conclusion. She relays her vision to Edward who ends up calling Bella's house to confirm, as Alice's ability is more like seeing future ''possibilities'' than a definite future. Jacob, who's with Bella at her house, picks up the phone and to the question of where Bella's father Charlie is, replies, [[PoorCommunicationKills "At the funeral."]] Though he meant the funeral of a friend who died, Edward assumes he means Bella's funeral and decides to [[TagTeamSuicide get himself killed]] [[SuicideByCop by the Volturi]].
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** In "Bart to the Future," a FutureLoser version of Bart, upon finding himself evicted and penniless, says despondently, "There's only one way out of this mess" and aims a futuristic ray gun at his head. Turns out it's a device for beaming the news directly into your brain and he's just checking his lotto numbers.
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* Invoked In-Universe by [[spoiler:Veronica in order to escape JD at the end of [[VillainSong Meant to be Yours]]]] in ''Theatre/Heathers''. By tying a rope first around the torso and then the neck, [[spoiler:she makes it look like she hanged herself in her own closet, enabling her to take down JD without him anticipating her.]] This also confuses other people in-universe.
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* In the play ''Girls Like That'' by Evan Placey, this happens not once, but ''twice''. The first instance is PlayedForDrama, when [[spoiler:Scarlett disappears after having her new life uprooted by her old school bullies. It is later revealed that she went off to a library to study her ancestry.]] The second time is PlayedForLaughs, when one of Scarlett's former classmates, realizing how stupid and petty all the classism and bullying was, announces during the [[WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue segment explaining what the girls all do after high school]], "I commit suicide." She then clarifies that she meant a ''Facebook suicide'', as in she deleted all social media and went to live in Canada.
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* In the play ''Girls Like That'' by Evan Placey, this happens not once, but ''twice''. The first instance is PlayedForDrama, when [[spoiler:Scarlett disappears after having her new life uprooted by her old school bullies. It is later revealed that she went off to a library to study her ancestry.]] The second time is PlayedForLaughs, when one of Scarlett's former classmates, realizing how stupid and petty all the classism and bullying was, announces during the [[WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue segment explaining what the girls all do after high school]], "I commit suicide." She then clarifies that she meant a ''Facebook suicide'', as in she deleted all social media and went to live in Canada.
* Invoked In-Universe by [[spoiler:Veronica in order to escape JD at the end of [[VillainSong Meant to be Yours]]]] in ''Theatre/Heathers''. By tying a rope first around the torso and then the neck, [[spoiler:she makes it look like she hanged herself in her own closet, enabling her to take down JD without him anticipating her.]] This also confuses other people in-universe.
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** In ''Film/{{Thor}}'', it appears that suicide by collapsing wormhole is [[spoiler: [[AntiVillain Loki]]]]'s response to the realization that [[WellDoneSonGuy his father]] would never condone his actions, and indeed he is assumed dead by his family and the rest of Asgard. However, in TheStinger, he is shown to be alive and well and close to grabbing the Tessaract.
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* ''Film/ForrestGump'': Lieutenant Dan jumps off the shrimp boat, but it turns out he was only going for a swim.
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* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'': After [[{{Invisibility}} Shizuka Joestar]] goes missing in the middle of a lake, [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJosephJoestar Joseph]] says that [[IRegretNothing he's lived a long life]] and proceeds to [[BathSuicide slit his wrist]]. This leaves [[TheHero Josuke]] completely shocked, until it's revealed that it's a ploy to find Shizuka, as Joseph's blood proceeds to disappear around the epicenter of her invisibility.
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* ''VideoGame/Persona3'': In the opening cutscene, Yukari is shown putting a gun-shaped object to her head and contemplating pulling the trigger. It's later revealed that it's not in fact a gun, but an evoker, a device that allows one to summon a Persona, and Yukari was trying to practice summoning hers.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' episode "Rainy Days," when the kids are stuck in the cafeteria during recess because of rain and are bored out of their minds, we see Gus standing on some high spot and threatening to jump, while Mikey begs him not to do it. But when he finally does jump, the camera pans out to reveal he's only standing on a chair and just falls a few inches, hurting his leg.
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* ''Series/ExtraordinaryAttorneyWoo'': In the episode "This Is Pengsoo", the titular character Young-woo appears to do this during the solving of a suicide case-- when her co-worker Jun-ho notices, he immediately rushes into her office to get the noose off, only to accidentally push her off her desk and cause her to fall backwards. After he catches her and the two of them get up off the floor, the whole thing turns out to have been a misguided forensic experiment.
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* Webcomic/{{Lookism}} ends a chapter with Jiho staring at a box-cutter he was holding in his room, after the end of an arc dealing with one of his many screw ups. (In this case, creating a bank account for a fake friend who then pawned it off, and getting into a fake bank account fiasco by proxy.) Next chapter reveals that he was actually planning on getting revenge on said fake friend.
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* ''Manga/DetectiveConan'': In a case where it seemed that a beautiful girl had [[SpurnedIntoSuicide drowned herself after her]] DrJerk [[SpurnedIntoSuicide ex-boyfriend got in an]] ArrangedMarriage, she actually was murdered by said DrJerk [[DeathOfTheHypotenuse so she wouldn't get between him and such a convenient union]].
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** In the ''Series/{{24}}'' parody episode "24 Minutes", after TheMole sells Bart out to the villains, we see a close-up of him kicking a stool out from under himself and his feet suspended in mid-air. It then zooms out to reveal he merely hooked his underpants onto a coat hook and is now giving himself a wedgie as penance.
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You ever thought a character was about to commit suicide, only to find out they were doing something completely different?
If yes, you've fallen for a Bait-and-Switch Suicide.
This trope is mostly used for [[PlayedForDrama dramatic effect]] in that it's a BaitAndSwitch where a character is seemingly about to kill themselves but does something else entirely.
The effect can be relieving or disappointing, depending on whether the character in question is a protagonist or antagonist.
Compare BaitAndSwitchGunshot. May overlap with MistakenForSuicidal if people ''in-universe'' were fooled as well. Will usually cross over with SuicideAsComedy. See also SuicidalGotcha, a subtrope in which a character jumps off a ledge before being saved. Contrast InterruptedSuicide, in which a character ''is'' planning to commit suicide but gets interrupted.
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* ''Manga/DetectiveConan'': In a case where it seemed that a beautiful girl had [[SpurnedIntoSuicide drowned herself after her]] DrJerk [[SpurnedIntoSuicide ex-boyfriend got in an]] ArrangedMarriage, she actually was murdered by said DrJerk [[DeathOfTheHypotenuse so she wouldn't get between him and such a convenient union]].
* ''Anime/KillLaKill'': After Maiko Ogure's plans are foiled by Ryuko, she attempts to get the last laugh by sending Ryuko and Mako back to the starting point to ensure they are late for school. When Ryuko threatens her, she [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled jumps off the platform]] as she says death is worth seeing them fail. As she falls though, she reveals she has a parachute along with saying "Just kidding."
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* ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'': One strip has the Smurfette refuse a Smurf's advances. The Smurf then goes out of the village pulling a rope behind him, finds a tree, [[SpurnedIntoSuicide throws the rope over a branch...]] The horrified Smurfette appears desperately running towards the Smurf, who... turns out to have made a rope swing, and tells the Smurfette that she can go make her own since she didn't want to play with him.
* ''ComicBook/SupermanSecretOrigin'': After a nasty moment with Luthor, Superman comes up to the ''Daily Planet'' roof and finds Jimmy Olsen standing on the edge, his head down. Supes flies toward him, shouting, "Don't jump!" -- but then it turns out that Jimmy wasn't planning on jumping; he was just saying a final, depressed goodbye to Metropolis before his planned departure.
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* ''Film/TheGoonies'': The opening scene shows a man in the county jail hanging in his cell with a note attached. The jail guard approaches and reads the note, only for the man (of the infamous Fratelli gang) to knock him out and escape.
* The end of ''Film/HaroldAndMaude'': Distraught over Maude's fatal overdose, Harold aims his hearse at a cliff and runs it off. The last frame reveals that he got out at the last moment and he walks off playing a banjo.
* In ''Film/KateAndLeopold'' Leopold follows Stuart to the still-under-construction Brooklyn Bridge. Stuart needs to jump off a scaffold to reach the time portal to the future, but of course to Leopold it looks like Stuart is about to commit suicide. Stuart tries to explain, but they struggle and fall into the time portal.
* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
** In ''Film/{{Thor}}'', it appears that suicide by collapsing wormhole is [[spoiler: [[AntiVillain Loki]]]]'s response to the realization that [[WellDoneSonGuy his father]] would never condone his actions, and indeed he is assumed dead by his family and the rest of Asgard. However, in TheStinger, he is shown to be alive and well and close to grabbing the Tessaract.
** [[spoiler: Selvig]] who had been [[spoiler: mind-controlled by Loki for most of the film]]. When Natasha found him after [[spoiler: he was back to normal]], he was looking over the edge of [[spoiler: Stark Tower]] as if he wanted to jump, to which she quickly tried to talk him down. But it turned out he wasn't looking at the ground but at [[spoiler: Loki's scepter a few floors down which was the key to closing the alien portal]].
* ''Film/NineLives'': Tom's son David comes to him in the hospital while he's in his coma to tell him he's going to take a jump from the top of the company building. Tom (who is trapped in the body of his daughter's cat), fears that his son is about to commit suicide. David jumps and Tom (as the cat) follows, only for David to launch a parachute towards the bottom. It turns out he wasn't trying to kill himself, it was a publicity stunt to outshow a competitive company for trying to build a larger HQ.
* ''Film/{{Shame}}'': Subverted. Sissy is established to be unstable and impulsive, possibly suffering from borderline personality disorder and routinely engaging in self-destructive behavior. Near the end of the film, Brandon is on a subway which is abruptly stopped owing to an unspecified incident, and it appears that Sissy may have jumped in front of the train - but she hasn't. [[spoiler:But when Brandon gets home, he finds that she has slit her wrists. Fortunately, he's not too late to save her.]]
* ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'': On Andy's last night in prison, he's seen sitting in his cell holding a rope and looking very nervous. A great deal of {{foreshadowing}} has gone into suggesting that he is about to hang himself... but the next morning he has disappeared from his cell completely. We find that the rope was tied around the bag containing his possessions.
* At the end of ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'', Rose looks like she's about to jump off the ship, but instead [[spoiler:pulls out The Heart of the Ocean and throws it in the ocean.]]
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* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'': An example in which the BaitAndSwitch is entirely InUniverse. Bella has taken up cliff-diving as a hobby after Edward leaves her. Edward's future-seeing sister Alice, who he has tasked to keep tabs on Bella in his absence, gets a vision of Bella leaping off a cliff and jumps to the wrong (albeit, not unreasonable) conclusion. She relays her vision to Edward who ends up calling Bella's house to confirm, as Alice's ability is more like seeing future ''possibilities'' than a definite future. Jacob, who's with Bella at her house, picks up the phone and to the question of where Bella's father Charlie is, replies, [[PoorCommunicationKills "At the funeral."]] Though he meant the funeral of a friend who died, Edward assumes he means Bella's funeral and decides to [[TagTeamSuicide get himself killed]] [[SuicideByCop by the Volturi]].
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* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': The episode "Of Course" begins with Barney jumping into the Hudson River only to be pulled out by the police and fined $500. It turns out he believed doing so would get him arrested [[spoiler:so he could keep his promise to Robin not to sleep with Anita.]]
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* ''WebAnimation/ASDFMovie'': In ''asdfmovie10'', a chubby man tearfully puts a gun to his head, saying he doesn't want to be fat anymore. He [[AteHisGun starts to put the gun in his mouth]] and then [[VisualPun he actually eats it]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In "Crimes of the Hot", Professor Farnsworth confesses to being responsible for global warming, then pulls a ray gun and points it at his head. Fry begs him not to, but it turns out Farnworth is using a ''memory'' ray to recall the events more clearly.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** In the ending of "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds" we are cut to the basement where we see Homer's shadow hanging with Marge walking by, and she starts to panic. Pan over to Homer to show he is just batting a lightbulb.
** In "Dial N for Nerder", after Bart and Lisa believe they have killed Martin, Bart leaves Lisa a note saying he can't take the guilt anymore and that he's going to Martin's house to "end it all". She goes there and sees a shadow of him getting ready to hang himself in the greenhouse, but it turns out he is actually just hanging a lightbulb so he can complete Martin's butterfly project.
** In the ending of "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E9GriftOfTheMagi Grift of the Magi]]", Moe is seen with his head in the oven, invoking the RunningGag around him being suicidal. Then it turns out he's in the oven to pull out a turkey he had cooked for the Simpson's Christmas dinner.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "How to Eat with Your Butt," Cartman is shown writing what appears to be a suicide note. He then takes a gun and puts the barrel in his mouth, but he takes a bite out of it, revealing that it was a chocolate gun.
* ''WesternAnimation/ScreenSongs'': In "By the Light of the Silvery Moon", there is a pan across three lighted windows those silhouettes seemingly depict scandalous actions, but turn out to be innocent. One of them contains what looks like a man hanging himself, but he's really balancing a cane on his nose.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': This happens twice in "Are You Happy Now?". Squidward [[HeroicBSOD has fallen into a depression]] because he can't think of any fond memories he's had. At one point, he sticks his head in his oven, only to pull out a batch of brownies. Later, he stands on a stool and hoists up a rope, but then it's revealed that he's just tying up a birdcage.
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->''"Wait, what's she doing? Rose... what are you...? She's not gonna jump off? [[BigWhat Whaaat?]]"''
-->--[=YouTuber=] [=SebScreen=] doing a ReactionVideo for ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}''
You ever thought a character was about to commit suicide, only to find out they were doing something completely different?
If yes, you've fallen for a Bait-and-Switch Suicide.
This trope is mostly used for [[PlayedForDrama dramatic effect]] in that it's a BaitAndSwitch where a character is seemingly about to kill themselves but does something else entirely.
The effect can be relieving or disappointing, depending on whether the character in question is a protagonist or antagonist.
Compare BaitAndSwitchGunshot. May overlap with MistakenForSuicidal if people ''in-universe'' were fooled as well. Will usually cross over with SuicideAsComedy. See also SuicidalGotcha, a subtrope in which a character jumps off a ledge before being saved. Contrast InterruptedSuicide, in which a character ''is'' planning to commit suicide but gets interrupted.
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''Manga/DetectiveConan'': In a case where it seemed that a beautiful girl had [[SpurnedIntoSuicide drowned herself after her]] DrJerk [[SpurnedIntoSuicide ex-boyfriend got in an]] ArrangedMarriage, she actually was murdered by said DrJerk [[DeathOfTheHypotenuse so she wouldn't get between him and such a convenient union]].
* ''Anime/KillLaKill'': After Maiko Ogure's plans are foiled by Ryuko, she attempts to get the last laugh by sending Ryuko and Mako back to the starting point to ensure they are late for school. When Ryuko threatens her, she [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled jumps off the platform]] as she says death is worth seeing them fail. As she falls though, she reveals she has a parachute along with saying "Just kidding."
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'': One strip has the Smurfette refuse a Smurf's advances. The Smurf then goes out of the village pulling a rope behind him, finds a tree, [[SpurnedIntoSuicide throws the rope over a branch...]] The horrified Smurfette appears desperately running towards the Smurf, who... turns out to have made a rope swing, and tells the Smurfette that she can go make her own since she didn't want to play with him.
* ''ComicBook/SupermanSecretOrigin'': After a nasty moment with Luthor, Superman comes up to the ''Daily Planet'' roof and finds Jimmy Olsen standing on the edge, his head down. Supes flies toward him, shouting, "Don't jump!" -- but then it turns out that Jimmy wasn't planning on jumping; he was just saying a final, depressed goodbye to Metropolis before his planned departure.
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[[folder:Films - Live Action]]
* ''Film/TheGoonies'': The opening scene shows a man in the county jail hanging in his cell with a note attached. The jail guard approaches and reads the note, only for the man (of the infamous Fratelli gang) to knock him out and escape.
* The end of ''Film/HaroldAndMaude'': Distraught over Maude's fatal overdose, Harold aims his hearse at a cliff and runs it off. The last frame reveals that he got out at the last moment and he walks off playing a banjo.
* In ''Film/KateAndLeopold'' Leopold follows Stuart to the still-under-construction Brooklyn Bridge. Stuart needs to jump off a scaffold to reach the time portal to the future, but of course to Leopold it looks like Stuart is about to commit suicide. Stuart tries to explain, but they struggle and fall into the time portal.
* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
** In ''Film/{{Thor}}'', it appears that suicide by collapsing wormhole is [[spoiler: [[AntiVillain Loki]]]]'s response to the realization that [[WellDoneSonGuy his father]] would never condone his actions, and indeed he is assumed dead by his family and the rest of Asgard. However, in TheStinger, he is shown to be alive and well and close to grabbing the Tessaract.
** [[spoiler: Selvig]] who had been [[spoiler: mind-controlled by Loki for most of the film]]. When Natasha found him after [[spoiler: he was back to normal]], he was looking over the edge of [[spoiler: Stark Tower]] as if he wanted to jump, to which she quickly tried to talk him down. But it turned out he wasn't looking at the ground but at [[spoiler: Loki's scepter a few floors down which was the key to closing the alien portal]].
* ''Film/NineLives'': Tom's son David comes to him in the hospital while he's in his coma to tell him he's going to take a jump from the top of the company building. Tom (who is trapped in the body of his daughter's cat), fears that his son is about to commit suicide. David jumps and Tom (as the cat) follows, only for David to launch a parachute towards the bottom. It turns out he wasn't trying to kill himself, it was a publicity stunt to outshow a competitive company for trying to build a larger HQ.
* ''Film/{{Shame}}'': Subverted. Sissy is established to be unstable and impulsive, possibly suffering from borderline personality disorder and routinely engaging in self-destructive behavior. Near the end of the film, Brandon is on a subway which is abruptly stopped owing to an unspecified incident, and it appears that Sissy may have jumped in front of the train - but she hasn't. [[spoiler:But when Brandon gets home, he finds that she has slit her wrists. Fortunately, he's not too late to save her.]]
* ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'': On Andy's last night in prison, he's seen sitting in his cell holding a rope and looking very nervous. A great deal of {{foreshadowing}} has gone into suggesting that he is about to hang himself... but the next morning he has disappeared from his cell completely. We find that the rope was tied around the bag containing his possessions.
* At the end of ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'', Rose looks like she's about to jump off the ship, but instead [[spoiler:pulls out The Heart of the Ocean and throws it in the ocean.]]
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'': An example in which the BaitAndSwitch is entirely InUniverse. Bella has taken up cliff-diving as a hobby after Edward leaves her. Edward's future-seeing sister Alice, who he has tasked to keep tabs on Bella in his absence, gets a vision of Bella leaping off a cliff and jumps to the wrong (albeit, not unreasonable) conclusion. She relays her vision to Edward who ends up calling Bella's house to confirm, as Alice's ability is more like seeing future ''possibilities'' than a definite future. Jacob, who's with Bella at her house, picks up the phone and to the question of where Bella's father Charlie is, replies, [[PoorCommunicationKills "At the funeral."]] Though he meant the funeral of a friend who died, Edward assumes he means Bella's funeral and decides to [[TagTeamSuicide get himself killed]] [[SuicideByCop by the Volturi]].
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* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': The episode "Of Course" begins with Barney jumping into the Hudson River only to be pulled out by the police and fined $500. It turns out he believed doing so would get him arrested [[spoiler:so he could keep his promise to Robin not to sleep with Anita.]]
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* ''WebAnimation/ASDFMovie'': In ''asdfmovie10'', a chubby man tearfully puts a gun to his head, saying he doesn't want to be fat anymore. He [[AteHisGun starts to put the gun in his mouth]] and then [[VisualPun he actually eats it]].
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[[folder:Web Comics]]
* A Redditor took [[https://i.redd.it/lzatenh8ep651.jpg a comic made by another Redditor]] and replaced the words to make it this. Provides the page image.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In "Crimes of the Hot", Professor Farnsworth confesses to being responsible for global warming, then pulls a ray gun and points it at his head. Fry begs him not to, but it turns out Farnworth is using a ''memory'' ray to recall the events more clearly.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** In the ending of "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds" we are cut to the basement where we see Homer's shadow hanging with Marge walking by, and she starts to panic. Pan over to Homer to show he is just batting a lightbulb.
** In "Dial N for Nerder", after Bart and Lisa believe they have killed Martin, Bart leaves Lisa a note saying he can't take the guilt anymore and that he's going to Martin's house to "end it all". She goes there and sees a shadow of him getting ready to hang himself in the greenhouse, but it turns out he is actually just hanging a lightbulb so he can complete Martin's butterfly project.
** In the ending of "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E9GriftOfTheMagi Grift of the Magi]]", Moe is seen with his head in the oven, invoking the RunningGag around him being suicidal. Then it turns out he's in the oven to pull out a turkey he had cooked for the Simpson's Christmas dinner.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "How to Eat with Your Butt," Cartman is shown writing what appears to be a suicide note. He then takes a gun and puts the barrel in his mouth, but he takes a bite out of it, revealing that it was a chocolate gun.
* ''WesternAnimation/ScreenSongs'': In "By the Light of the Silvery Moon", there is a pan across three lighted windows those silhouettes seemingly depict scandalous actions, but turn out to be innocent. One of them contains what looks like a man hanging himself, but he's really balancing a cane on his nose.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': This happens twice in "Are You Happy Now?". Squidward [[HeroicBSOD has fallen into a depression]] because he can't think of any fond memories he's had. At one point, he sticks his head in his oven, only to pull out a batch of brownies. Later, he stands on a stool and hoists up a rope, but then it's revealed that he's just tying up a birdcage.
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