History Main / HeroicSuicide

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-->'''Young Joe:''' ''[voiceover]'' Then I saw it. I saw a Mom who would die for her son; a man who would kill for his wife; a boy, angry and alone, laid out in front of him the bad path. I saw it. And the path was a circle, round and round. So I changed it.

* ''Manga/FairyTail'':
** [[spoiler:[[AnIcePerson Invel]] uses his [[MindRape mag]][[PeoplePuppets ic]] to force Gray and Juvia to [[InvoluntaryBattleToTheDeath fight to the death]], with Grey being the obvious victor. Seeing no other way out, as Invel outright states the only way they'll be free is when one dies and they can't attack him, they simultaneously muster the last of their resistance to kill themselves, Juvia in order to spare Gray from living with the sin of killing her, and Gray in order to save Juvia's life. However, both of them survive; Gray because Juvia gave him an emergency blood transfusion before collapsing, and Juvia because her and Gray's guildmate Wendy managed to heal her in time]].

** [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho018TheStonesOfVenice "The Stones of Venice"]]: Duchess Estella reveals at the end that her "magic" (actually SufficientlyAdvancedAlien Technology) runs on the principle of EquivalentExchange; that the extended lifespans of herself and her husband Duke Orsino have come about at the expense of the accelerated decay of the city of Venice itself. Thus, the only way that they can save the city is to kill themselves.

* In ''Manhwa/ShinAngyoOnshi'' Kye Wol Hyang was a victim of a vicious sadistic choice by resident BigBad [[PhysicalGod Aji Tae]], either she got to live as a zombie and serve him while he committed untold horrors, or she killed her beloved Munsu, and Aji Tae restored her to normal. She took a third option and killed herself in front of Munsu a second time, pulling Munsu out of the HeroicBSOD he was in, causing a massive failure in the curse that Munsu was suffering, making him invincible against Aji Tae, and ensuring that in the long run, the former would bring down the later.

* In ''Manhwa/ShinAngyoOnshi'' Kye Wol Hyang was a victim of a vicious sadistic choice by resident BigBad [[PhysicalGod Aji Tae]], either she got to live as a zombie and serve him while he committed untold horrors, or she killed her beloved Munsu, and Aji Tae restored her to normal. She took a third option and killed herself in front of Munsu a second time, pulling Munsu out of the HeroicBSOD he was in, causing a massive failure in the curse that Munsu was suffering, making him invincible against Aji Tae, and ensuring that in the long run, the former would bring down the later.

* The majority of Kenny's HeroicSacrifices from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' qualify as this. He's aware of his [[TheyKilledKenny reoccurring deaths]], and would rather earn himself another round of it than leaving others to die. The best example is his death (as Mysterion) in R'lyeh, where he impales himself on a set of spikes so he could revive back in the real world to go get help for his friends, who were also trapped there.

** ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'' has [[spoiler:Kokichi Oma, who lets Kaito Momota crush him with a hydraulic press in chapter 5 to create an unsolvable murder by faking evidence to make it seem equally as likely that Kaito is the victim, and making it impossible to tell if the poison killed the victim or the hydraulic press did, where the killer would be either Maki or Kaito/Kokichi, depending on who the actual victim is. If not even the mastermind knows who the true killer and victim are, then the killing game could be unable to continue. Subverted by Shuichi solving the case anyways.]]