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* In one of ''[[WebVideo/{{Dream}} Dream's]]'' videos, during a 1v3 Minecraft Manhunt, in the Nether, this trope is what the hunters thought happened when [[spoiler:Dream leaps into a lava lake. What actually happened was Dream was drinking a Fire Resistance potion during his fall. The funny thing is, [[TooDumbToLive one of the hunters actually leapt in the lava pool with him before dying]] and the trio of hunters realizing what just happened.]]
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* This is a common way for [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos the Slender Man's]] victims to die, and [[FateWorseThanDeath very,]] ''[[AndIMustScream very]]'' much preferable to being taken. It has been demonstrated [[WebVideo/TribeTwelve several]] [[Blog/HikingFiend times]] that this doesn't always work [[spoiler:and, more chillingly, ''[[BackFromTheDead it's completely pointless.]]'']]
* In on of ''[[LetsPlay/{{Dream}} Dream's]]'' videos, during a 1v3 Minecraft Manhunt, in the Nether, this trope is what the hunters thought happened when [[spoiler:Dream leaps into a lava lake. What actually happened was Dream was drinking a Fire Resistance potion during his fall. The funny thing is, [[TooDumbToLive one of the hunters actually leapt in the lava pool with him before dying]] and the trio of hunters realizing what just happened.]]
* In on of ''[[LetsPlay/{{Dream}} Dream's]]'' videos, during a 1v3 Minecraft Manhunt, in the Nether, this trope is what the hunters thought happened when [[spoiler:Dream leaps into a lava lake. What actually happened was Dream was drinking a Fire Resistance potion during his fall. The funny thing is, [[TooDumbToLive one of the hunters actually leapt in the lava pool with him before dying]] and the trio of hunters realizing what just happened.]]
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* This is a common way for [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos the Slender Man's]] victims to die, and [[FateWorseThanDeath very,]] very]], ''[[AndIMustScream very]]'' much preferable to being taken. It has been demonstrated [[WebVideo/TribeTwelve several]] [[Blog/HikingFiend times]] that this doesn't always work [[spoiler:and, more chillingly, ''[[BackFromTheDead it's completely pointless.]]'']]
* In on of ''[[LetsPlay/{{Dream}} Dream's]]'' videos, during a 1v3 Minecraft Manhunt, in the Nether, this trope is what the hunters thought happened when [[spoiler:Dream leaps into a lava lake. What actually happened was Dream was drinking a Fire Resistance potion during his fall. The funny thing is, [[TooDumbToLive one of the hunters actually leapt in the lava pool with him before dying]] and the trio of hunters realizing what just happened.]]pointless]].'']]
* In on of ''[[LetsPlay/{{Dream}} Dream's]]'' videos, during a 1v3 Minecraft Manhunt, in the Nether, this trope is what the hunters thought happened when [[spoiler:Dream leaps into a lava lake. What actually happened was Dream was drinking a Fire Resistance potion during his fall. The funny thing is, [[TooDumbToLive one of the hunters actually leapt in the lava pool with him before dying]] and the trio of hunters realizing what just happened.]]
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A small number of actual criminals would rather die than be taken to prison ("You'll never take me alive, copper!") -- for the most part, people tend to treat these cases a lot less sympathetically than other examples of this trope, as it's seen as a cowardly way to escape justice. The criminal may even make one last shot at a BlastOut, meaning either a bloody escape, or more likely, SuicideByCop. If there's a ledge nearby, you can bank on a HighDiveEscape.
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A small number of actual criminals would rather die than be taken to prison ("You'll never take me alive, copper!") -- for the most part, people tend to treat these cases a lot less sympathetically than other examples of this trope, as it's seen as a cowardly way to escape justice. The criminal may even make one last shot at a BlastOut, meaning either a bloody escape, or more likely, SuicideByCop. If there's a ledge nearby, you can bank on a HighDiveEscape.
HighDiveEscape. Might be the result of a NotHowImDyingDeclaration.
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* Believe it or not, in the French UsefulNotes/MP3 saga ''Les Aventuriers du Survivaure'', the Captain actually says "Better to die than to die!". Lampshaded would be an understatement: he can NeverLiveItDown. Actually, the OnlySaneMan lampshades it just in time to prevent the captain from saying it ''again''.
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* Believe it or not, in the French UsefulNotes/MP3 Platform/MP3 saga ''Les Aventuriers du Survivaure'', the Captain actually says "Better to die than to die!". Lampshaded would be an understatement: he can NeverLiveItDown. Actually, the OnlySaneMan lampshades it just in time to prevent the captain from saying it ''again''.
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* Believe it or not, in the French UsefulNotes/MP3 saga ''Les Aventuriers du Survivaure'', the Captain actually says "Better to die than to die!". Lampshaded would be an understatement: he can NeverLiveItDown. Actually, the OnlySaneMan lampshades it just in time to prevent the captain from saying it ''again''.
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* Almost played straight, then averted completely in ''Roleplay/ShadowhunterPeril'': When Umbra's physical form is destroyed by Lilith, he is sent back to Hell in the presence of all his demon brothers and sister, who, unlike him, are completely evil. Asmodeus, Umbra's eldest half-brother and the King of Hell, offers Umbra the chance to give them information about the Resistance before Umbra gets his punishment (which is likely to be a long, torturous death). Umbra responds with this:
--> ''"God? You think I'm doing this for God? I don't even know if God exists, but if He does... ever since He can remember, people have died in His good name. Long before that September. Long before hijacking planes. He's lost the will, He can't decide. He doesn't know who's right or wrong, but there's one thing that He's sure of: This has been going on too long. I do this for my friends. And yes, I HAVE FRIENDS. Good people, who were thrust into this mortal conflict you demons have interfered with. I do this for them. And I will not betray my friends."''
** He ends up being tortured by demons, only to be rescued by Arthur, a fallen angel.
*** His speech is also a ShoutOut to Music/LilyAllen, for some reason.
* Towards the end of ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest V1'', two characters are involved in a car chase across the island. At the culmination of this chase, one has been killed, and the other - Jeremy Torres has crashed his car into the side of a warehouse, which at the time, is a dangerzone. Rather than allowing himself to be killed up by his collar, the barely living character shoots himself as a final act of defiance. [[EveryCarIsAPinto His car then blows up]], igniting chemicals in the warehouse and resulting in a massive explosion.
** And near the end of V3, Quincy Archer takes one look at his sword, remembers that most of the remaining students have guns now, and promptly slits his own throat.
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* Believe it or not, in the French UsefulNotes/MP3 saga ''Les Aventuriers du Survivaure'', the Captain actually says "Better to die than to die!". Lampshaded would be an understatement: he can NeverLiveItDown. Actually, the OnlySaneMan lampshades it just in time to prevent the captain from saying it ''again''.
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* Almost played straight, then averted completely in ''Roleplay/ShadowhunterPeril'': When Umbra's physical form is destroyed by Lilith, he is sent back to Hell in the presence of all his demon brothers and sister, who, unlike him, are completely evil. Asmodeus, Umbra's eldest half-brother and the King of Hell, offers Umbra the chance to give them information about the Resistance before Umbra gets his punishment (which is likely to be a long, torturous death). Umbra responds with this:
--> ''"God? You think I'm doing this for God? I don't even know if God exists, but if He does... ever since He can remember, people have died in His good name. Long before that September. Long before hijacking planes. He's lost the will, He can't decide. He doesn't know who's right or wrong, but there's one thing that He's sure of: This has been going on too long. I do this for my friends. And yes, I HAVE FRIENDS. Good people, who were thrust into this mortal conflict you demons have interfered with. I do this for them. And I will not betray my friends."''
** He ends up being tortured by demons, only to be rescued by Arthur, a fallen angel.
*** His speech is also a ShoutOut to Music/LilyAllen, for some reason.
* Towards the end of ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest V1'', two characters are involved in a car chase across the island. At the culmination of this chase, one has been killed, and the other - Jeremy Torres has crashed his car into the side of a warehouse, which at the time, is a dangerzone. Rather than allowing himself to be killed up by his collar, the barely living character shoots himself as a final act of defiance. [[EveryCarIsAPinto His car then blows up]], igniting chemicals in the warehouse and resulting in a massive explosion.
** And near the end of V3, Quincy Archer takes one look at his sword, remembers that most of the remaining students have guns now, and promptly slits his own throat.
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* In the Volume 8 finale of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', [[spoiler:the Winter Maiden]] is mortally wounded, and asks [[spoiler:Jaune]] to finish her off so that she can ensure her magic goes to the person she chooses, rather than [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt the person who wounded her]]. He reluctantly fulfills her request.
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* In the Volume 8 finale of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', [[spoiler:the Winter Maiden]] is mortally wounded, and asks [[spoiler:Jaune]] to finish her off so that she can ensure her magic goes to the person she chooses, rather than [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt the person who wounded her]]. He reluctantly fulfills her request.
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* ''Website/SCPFoundation'', [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1341 SCP-1341 ("JUNGLE IN A JAR")]]. During an experiment with SCP-1341, the jungle it creates takes over the testing facility and traps the experimenters, killing most of them. The last survivor says [[ThatWasTheLastEntry in the last entry in his experimental log]] that he's going to commit suicide rather than let an enemy kill him.
* The ''Website/{{Snopes}}'' [[http://www.snopes.com/military/flagball.asp version]] of the "Flagpole ball has a pistol for suicide" {{Urban Legend|s}}.
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* In the fifth episode of ''Franchise/DragonAge: WebAnimation/WardensFall'', Cyril — who was working for [[HumanoidAbomination the Mother]] and had led numerous refugees to their deaths — opts to leap off a roof rather than be interrogated by Kristoff, the main character. His terror at meeting one of The Mother's servants in an earlier episode suggests he was afraid of what the Mother would do to him.
* In Creator/TomSka's short film ''WebVideo/HitIt'', John states that he only attempted suicide because [[spoiler:he was being threatened with someone who had resources to kill him and his girlfriend]].
* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic is very suicidal in WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee, but refuses to hand himself over to be tortured and killed by Turrell and Zod, preferring instead to drive into the PlotHole and be at peace that way. Seeing how pathetic Turrell is, it's not hard to see where he's coming from.
* This is a common way for [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos the Slender Man's]] victims to die, and [[FateWorseThanDeath very,]] ''[[AndIMustScream very]]'' much preferable to being taken. It has been demonstrated [[WebVideo/TribeTwelve several]] [[Blog/HikingFiend times]] that this doesn't always work [[spoiler:and, more chillingly, ''[[BackFromTheDead it's completely pointless.]]'']]
* In on of ''[[LetsPlay/{{Dream}} Dream's]]'' videos, during a 1v3 Minecraft Manhunt, in the Nether, this trope is what the hunters thought happened when [[spoiler:Dream leaps into a lava lake. What actually happened was Dream was drinking a Fire Resistance potion during his fall. The funny thing is, [[TooDumbToLive one of the hunters actually leapt in the lava pool with him before dying]] and the trio of hunters realizing what just happened.]]
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* ''Website/SCPFoundation'', [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1341 SCP-1341 ("JUNGLE IN A JAR")]]. During an experiment with SCP-1341, the jungle it creates takes over the testing facility and traps the experimenters, killing most of them. The last survivor says [[ThatWasTheLastEntry in the last entry in his experimental log]] that he's going to commit suicide rather than let an enemy kill him.
* The ''Website/{{Snopes}}'' [[http://www.snopes.com/military/flagball.asp version]] of the "Flagpole ball has a pistol for suicide" {{Urban Legend|s}}.
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* In the fifth episode of ''Franchise/DragonAge: WebAnimation/WardensFall'', Cyril — who was working for [[HumanoidAbomination the Mother]] and had led numerous refugees to their deaths — opts to leap off a roof rather than be interrogated by Kristoff, the main character. His terror at meeting one of The Mother's servants in an earlier episode suggests he was afraid of what the Mother would do to him.
* In Creator/TomSka's short film ''WebVideo/HitIt'', John states that he only attempted suicide because [[spoiler:he was being threatened with someone who had resources to kill him and his girlfriend]].
* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic is very suicidal in WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee, but refuses to hand himself over to be tortured and killed by Turrell and Zod, preferring instead to drive into the PlotHole and be at peace that way. Seeing how pathetic Turrell is, it's not hard to see where he's coming from.
* This is a common way for [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos the Slender Man's]] victims to die, and [[FateWorseThanDeath very,]] ''[[AndIMustScream very]]'' much preferable to being taken. It has been demonstrated [[WebVideo/TribeTwelve several]] [[Blog/HikingFiend times]] that this doesn't always work [[spoiler:and, more chillingly, ''[[BackFromTheDead it's completely pointless.]]'']]
* In on of ''[[LetsPlay/{{Dream}} Dream's]]'' videos, during a 1v3 Minecraft Manhunt, in the Nether, this trope is what the hunters thought happened when [[spoiler:Dream leaps into a lava lake. What actually happened was Dream was drinking a Fire Resistance potion during his fall. The funny thing is, [[TooDumbToLive one of the hunters actually leapt in the lava pool with him before dying]] and the trio of hunters realizing what just happened.]]
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* This happens several times in the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' comics released by Dark Horse Comics as most humans would rather die than be torn apart by the Xenomorphs or be impregnated by a facehugger.
* It happens twice in ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns''. First, an army general caps himself when Batman discovers about his illegal arms dealing, and then the Joker [[NeckSnap twists his own neck and kills himself]] (thereby making everyone think that Batman finished him off) when Batman paralyzes him but can't bring himself to go all the way.
* Subverted in ''Comicbook/{{WITCH}}'': [[BigBad Phobos]] decides to jump off Kandrakar, apparently meaning he's going to fall in infinity forever instead of being captured, but he simply needed to avoid being captured to activate his plan B.
* ''ComicBook/{{Maus}}'': Vladek's sister-in-law learns that the Jews in her town are being rounded up and shipped out to the camps, so she kills herself with poison... and takes the children in her care, including Vladek's first son, with her, insisting that her children will not die in the camps. Also functions as a RealLife example.
* ''Comicbook/TopTen'' has robot cop Joe Pi talk the disgraced superhero Atoman into killing himself rather than losing his powers and going to prison as a pedophile, where the villains he'd jailed would undoubtedly show him a very bad time. "[[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome It turns out I am not suited to be a negotiator]]."
* ''ComicBook/TransformersGeneration2'': Running out of energy battling [[Franchise/GIJoe Cobra]], Autobot Hot Spot explosively self-destructs to prevent the terrorist organization from [[ImportedAlienPhlebotinum reverse-engineering his body for their tech]] like they've done to other [[MechanicalLifeforms Cybertronians]] in the past.
* Happens to a mook who attempts to assassinate Ozymandias in ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}''. Turns out the guy wasn't actually willing to die for the cause, but Ozymandias ordered the hit upon himself and then forced the capsule into the mook's mouth during the struggle.
* Comicbook/{{Wolverine}} offers this option to Mystique out in the desert at the end of the post-''[=Messiah CompleX=]'' comic ''Get Mystique''--either take the gun with one bullet he leaves next to her and put herself out of her misery, or slowly bleed out to death from getting stabbed in the side by his claws before she can reach medical help.
* In ''ComicBook/AllFallDown'', Siphon chooses this when she realizes she can't stop AIQ Squared from killing the Pantheon from inside its deathtrap.
* In the ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' book ''Recap/TintinLandOfBlackGold'', Dr. Muller attempts to shoot himself in the head to avoid being captured... but his gun (which was given to him by [[RoyalBrat Abdullah]]) turns out to only squirt ink.
* A non-fatal version of this becomes a recurring gag in some of the ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' books involving the pirates that Asterix and Obelix often encounter in their travels; certain stories feature the pirates, upon realising that the aforementioned Gauls are on the ship they're about to attack, decide to scuttle their own ship themselves, reasoning that destroying it themselves spares them a few knocks and amounts to the same thing in the end. This becomes particularly amusing in tales such as ''Recap/AsterixAtTheOlympicGames'' and ''Recap/AsterixAndTheMagicCarpet'', when the pirates scuttle ship when the Gauls weren't going to attack them (in the first case, attacking the pirates would have increased the costs of their current hired boat, and in the second the Gauls were just looking for food).
* In ''ComicBook/SerenityLeavesOnTheWind'', the Operative surrenders rather than fight another Parliamentary operative, Kalista. She asks him how he prefers to die, and he says, "Honorably." She allows him to take up his sword so he may fall on it. [[spoiler:Which is when ''Serenity'' shows up with [[BigDamnHeroes a small army of New Resistance browncoats.]]]]
* A ''ComicBook/WerewolfByNight'' story set in TheDeepSouth features a group of people with anti-werewolf beliefs, who have harassed a local werewolf girl for years. They do so again when [[PunnyName Jack Russell]] is there to witness it, not knowing he is a werewolf too -- one can change at will, no less. Jack transforms, and one of the men is so terrified he turns his shotgun on himself.
* ''ComicBook/{{Aquila}}'': Nero takes advantage of Aquila fighting a guard to give himself a painless poison that will also salvage his soul from Ammit's clutches. Aquila, however, gets to him before the poison finishes its work and kills him quite painfully.
* During Orion Asante's reign in ''ComicBook/{{Grendel}}'', "Death before undeath" was part of the creed of his elite warriors. Battling vampires, they were conditioned and obligated to kill themselves immediately if infected.
* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': Defied by the Justice Department. They actually have a special morgue to store the bodies of criminals who might one day be revived thanks to future advances in medicine. Not even death is an escape from the Law.
* ''ComicBook/{{Raptors}}'': When the vampires attacked Don Molina's castle, his wife Dona Anna set herself on fire in front of their enemies rather than give them the pleasure of letting them kill her.
* Played with in an issue of ''ComicBook/AmericanFlagg'': Reuben Flagg hits a terrorist in the face, inadvertently breaking the poison capsule she had concealed in her mouth. Before she dies, she complains that he robbed her of the chance to prove she had the guts to bite it herself.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]:
** When ComicBook/{{Cheetah}} realizes that Wonder Woman escaped her Death Trap and has tracked her down she jumps into a fire rather than be captured. While she was at the time considering death preferable to being publicly outed as a supervillain and defeated by Wonder Woman she ended up using the opportunity to escape instead.
** When Diana and ComicBook/SteveTrevor manage to capture the Saturnians' submarine-spaceship by tying the magic lasso to its nose and then to Diana's CoolPlane most of the Saturnians choose to leap to their deaths rather than be captured.
* ''ComicBook/BatmanBlackAndWhite'': In "Fat City," a freak accident gives a puddle of grease sentience, and it becomes a monster that kills people by [[VampiricDraining sucking all of the fat from their bodies]]. Every attempt to kill the creature fails until Batman gets help from Chloe Willow, "Gotham's fattest woman." The plan is for her to be TheBait for the beast, which Batman will then kill from a distance using a phosphorous bomb. But when the grease monster shows up early and starts attacking more civilians, Chloe takes the bomb from Batman. She explains that her heart is failing, with doctors warning her that her death is only days away. Instead of going slowly or letting herself be sucked dry, though, she opts to [[HeroicSacrifice blow herself and the monster up]], reasoning "At least I can go knowing I took this fat ''freak'' with me!" Batman praises Chloe for her courage and swings away, leaving her to detonate the bomb and save all of Gotham in her final moments.
** Another, more villainous example comes in a story narrated by "Do-Boy," a small-time thug who is rising up the Penguin's ranks. He's determined to go out in a blaze of glory by standing up to Batman, and when it seems like all is lost, he jumps for a window, reasoning that at least he can say he died rather than let the Caped Crusader take him to prison, or worse. Unfortunately, Batman's [[ThouShallNotKill no-killing rule]] kicks in, and he saves Do-Boy--though it's clear that the Dark Knight ''knew'' what the crook was trying to do and takes special delight in cheating him of his dream.
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* This happens several times in the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' comics released by Dark Horse Comics as most humans would rather die than be torn apart by the Xenomorphs or be impregnated by a facehugger.
* It happens twice in ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns''. First, an army general caps himself when Batman discovers about his illegal arms dealing, and then the Joker [[NeckSnap twists his own neck and kills himself]] (thereby making everyone think that Batman finished him off) when Batman paralyzes him but can't bring himself to go all the way.
* Subverted in ''Comicbook/{{WITCH}}'': [[BigBad Phobos]] decides to jump off Kandrakar, apparently meaning he's going to fall in infinity forever instead of being captured, but he simply needed to avoid being captured to activate his plan B.
* ''ComicBook/{{Maus}}'': Vladek's sister-in-law learns that the Jews in her town are being rounded up and shipped out to the camps, so she kills herself with poison... and takes the children in her care, including Vladek's first son, with her, insisting that her children will not die in the camps. Also functions as a RealLife example.
* ''Comicbook/TopTen'' has robot cop Joe Pi talk the disgraced superhero Atoman into killing himself rather than losing his powers and going to prison as a pedophile, where the villains he'd jailed would undoubtedly show him a very bad time. "[[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome It turns out I am not suited to be a negotiator]]."
* ''ComicBook/TransformersGeneration2'': Running out of energy battling [[Franchise/GIJoe Cobra]], Autobot Hot Spot explosively self-destructs to prevent the terrorist organization from [[ImportedAlienPhlebotinum reverse-engineering his body for their tech]] like they've done to other [[MechanicalLifeforms Cybertronians]] in the past.
* Happens to a mook who attempts to assassinate Ozymandias in ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}''. Turns out the guy wasn't actually willing to die for the cause, but Ozymandias ordered the hit upon himself and then forced the capsule into the mook's mouth during the struggle.
* Comicbook/{{Wolverine}} offers this option to Mystique out in the desert at the end of the post-''[=Messiah CompleX=]'' comic ''Get Mystique''--either take the gun with one bullet he leaves next to her and put herself out of her misery, or slowly bleed out to death from getting stabbed in the side by his claws before she can reach medical help.
* In ''ComicBook/AllFallDown'', Siphon chooses this when she realizes she can't stop AIQ Squared from killing the Pantheon from inside its deathtrap.
* In the ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' book ''Recap/TintinLandOfBlackGold'', Dr. Muller attempts to shoot himself in the head to avoid being captured... but his gun (which was given to him by [[RoyalBrat Abdullah]]) turns out to only squirt ink.
* A non-fatal version of this becomes a recurring gag in some of the ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' books involving the pirates that Asterix and Obelix often encounter in their travels; certain stories feature the pirates, upon realising that the aforementioned Gauls are on the ship they're about to attack, decide to scuttle their own ship themselves, reasoning that destroying it themselves spares them a few knocks and amounts to the same thing in the end. This becomes particularly amusing in tales such as ''Recap/AsterixAtTheOlympicGames'' and ''Recap/AsterixAndTheMagicCarpet'', when the pirates scuttle ship when the Gauls weren't going to attack them (in the first case, attacking the pirates would have increased the costs of their current hired boat, and in the second the Gauls were just looking for food).
* In ''ComicBook/SerenityLeavesOnTheWind'', the Operative surrenders rather than fight another Parliamentary operative, Kalista. She asks him how he prefers to die, and he says, "Honorably." She allows him to take up his sword so he may fall on it. [[spoiler:Which is when ''Serenity'' shows up with [[BigDamnHeroes a small army of New Resistance browncoats.]]]]
* A ''ComicBook/WerewolfByNight'' story set in TheDeepSouth features a group of people with anti-werewolf beliefs, who have harassed a local werewolf girl for years. They do so again when [[PunnyName Jack Russell]] is there to witness it, not knowing he is a werewolf too -- one can change at will, no less. Jack transforms, and one of the men is so terrified he turns his shotgun on himself.
* ''ComicBook/{{Aquila}}'': Nero takes advantage of Aquila fighting a guard to give himself a painless poison that will also salvage his soul from Ammit's clutches. Aquila, however, gets to him before the poison finishes its work and kills him quite painfully.
* During Orion Asante's reign in ''ComicBook/{{Grendel}}'', "Death before undeath" was part of the creed of his elite warriors. Battling vampires, they were conditioned and obligated to kill themselves immediately if infected.
* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': Defied by the Justice Department. They actually have a special morgue to store the bodies of criminals who might one day be revived thanks to future advances in medicine. Not even death is an escape from the Law.
* ''ComicBook/{{Raptors}}'': When the vampires attacked Don Molina's castle, his wife Dona Anna set herself on fire in front of their enemies rather than give them the pleasure of letting them kill her.
* Played with in an issue of ''ComicBook/AmericanFlagg'': Reuben Flagg hits a terrorist in the face, inadvertently breaking the poison capsule she had concealed in her mouth. Before she dies, she complains that he robbed her of the chance to prove she had the guts to bite it herself.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]:
** When ComicBook/{{Cheetah}} realizes that Wonder Woman escaped her Death Trap and has tracked her down she jumps into a fire rather than be captured. While she was at the time considering death preferable to being publicly outed as a supervillain and defeated by Wonder Woman she ended up using the opportunity to escape instead.
** When Diana and ComicBook/SteveTrevor manage to capture the Saturnians' submarine-spaceship by tying the magic lasso to its nose and then to Diana's CoolPlane most of the Saturnians choose to leap to their deaths rather than be captured.
* ''ComicBook/BatmanBlackAndWhite'': In "Fat City," a freak accident gives a puddle of grease sentience, and it becomes a monster that kills people by [[VampiricDraining sucking all of the fat from their bodies]]. Every attempt to kill the creature fails until Batman gets help from Chloe Willow, "Gotham's fattest woman." The plan is for her to be TheBait for the beast, which Batman will then kill from a distance using a phosphorous bomb. But when the grease monster shows up early and starts attacking more civilians, Chloe takes the bomb from Batman. She explains that her heart is failing, with doctors warning her that her death is only days away. Instead of going slowly or letting herself be sucked dry, though, she opts to [[HeroicSacrifice blow herself and the monster up]], reasoning "At least I can go knowing I took this fat ''freak'' with me!" Batman praises Chloe for her courage and swings away, leaving her to detonate the bomb and save all of Gotham in her final moments.
** Another, more villainous example comes in a story narrated by "Do-Boy," a small-time thug who is rising up the Penguin's ranks. He's determined to go out in a blaze of glory by standing up to Batman, and when it seems like all is lost, he jumps for a window, reasoning that at least he can say he died rather than let the Caped Crusader take him to prison, or worse. Unfortunately, Batman's [[ThouShallNotKill no-killing rule]] kicks in, and he saves Do-Boy--though it's clear that the Dark Knight ''knew'' what the crook was trying to do and takes special delight in cheating him of his dream.
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* Princess Bubblebum from ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' keeps cyanide-laced gum under the table in her meeting room, and advises another character to eat it if raiders break in. Yes, ''really''.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' episode "Unmasked", after Batman defeats all his mooks, the leader of Kobra throws himself into his own [[SharkPool cobra pit]].
* ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'': In Season 4, Issac storms Carmilla's castle, overwhelms her forces, and finally corners and repeatedly injures her. Being DefiantToTheEnd, she refuses to give him the satisfaction of killing her, instead promising to [[SeeYouInHell wait for him in Hell]] before stabbing herself in the heart.
** In an earlier episode, two of the vampire Chō's former PraetorianGuard recount how she used to toy with her victims. One of them, a would-be vampire killer come to slay her, attempted to commit ritual suicide to maintain his honor. Chō stopped him, and gave him a dishonorable death for her own amusement.
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': Played with in "[[Recap/DuckTalesS1E53HeroForHire Hero for Hire]]". Launchpad yells to the cops that "you'll never take me alive!", but he's really setting up FakingTheDead.
* ''WesternAnimation/FollowTheSun'': A bag of popcorn, faced with the situation of their brethren worshipping an incoming heatwave as a god, decides to instead [[EyeScream stab themselves repeatedly in the eye]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'':
** In Episode 77, Stumpy decides to hang himself when he finds out that the planet is going to be destroyed. Of course, [[BungledSuicide he fails]] [[RunningGag as usual]].
** In Episode 215, Mr. Cat convinces everyone in Smileyland that the end of the world is happening that day, causing multiple background characters to commit suicide before the apocalypse can get them. Of course, being ''Kaeloo'', this is PlayedForLaughs.
* Played for laughs in the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon "Life With Feathers". Sylvester refuses to eat a suicidal bird because he thinks the bird is poisoned. The bird cajoles Sylvester with a cooking radio show and a cookbook until Sylvester, virtually skin and bones, gives in.
-->'''Sylvester:''' All right... I'll do it. I'd rather die than starve to death!
* Double subverted in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Night of the Living Homeless" -- When a scientist tries to kill himself before the homeless break down the door to his lab, he ends up non-fatally shooting himself in the head several times before finally hitting the mark.
* At the end of season 3 of the ''Comicbook/{{Spawn}}'' animated series, Sam and Twitch give Chief Banks the choice of either killing himself or be disgraced once his link with Jason Wynn is exposed to the public and having his family dragged into such a dirty mess. Chief Banks chooses to kill himself.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': In [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS1E13FireAcrossTheGalaxy "Fire Across the Galaxy"]], the Inquisitor, after being defeated by Kanan, accepts his death calmly and falls to his demise, rather than facing the wrath of Darth Vader.
-->'''Inquisitor:''' You have no idea what you've unleashed here today. There are some things far more frightening than death.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsResistance'': In [[Recap/StarWarsResistanceS1E5TheChildrenFromTehar "The Children from Tehar"]], the older of the titular kids, Kel, expresses this sentiment when the First Order tries to capture him and his sister, before they apparently jump to their deaths in the ocean below the Colossus. However, it turns out to be a FakingTheDead ploy Kaz came up with to save the kids.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ToadPatrol'', Elf Cup, Fur Foot, and Puffball get stranded on a rock in the middle of a pond in "Castaway". A hungry fish stalks the waters below, and then Medea, the show's angry hungry hawk, flies in and starts slowly circling in on the group. All hope seems lost, and Elf Cup says this:
-->'''Elf Cup:''' Oh, maybe we should just throw ourselves into the chilly wet.
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* Garrick Pierce from ''VisualNovel/TyrionCuthbertAttorneyOfTheArcane'' is revealed to have thought this, towards the end of Case 5. Rather than face execution for his earlier murder, be killed by Celeste as part of Eris' scheme, or be taken out by Aster for knowing that Celeste is a dragon, he decides to commit suicide so he can die by his own hand.
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** Granny Smythe, the BigBad of "The Last Aristocrat", has her BattleButler shoot herrathher rather than be captured by the Italian authorities.authorities. This also part of a ThanatosGambit.
** Granny Smythe, the BigBad of "The Last Aristocrat", has her BattleButler shoot her
