History Main / LastSurvivorSuicide

** The winner of Season 1, [[spoiler:Grian]], gives a heartfelt goodbye to his friends and the audience before jumping off a mountain to his death. This is done immediately after [[spoiler:beating his closest friend and ally to death in a not-so-voluntary death match.]]
** The winner of Season 2, [[spoiler:Scott]], tells his pet axolotl that there's "only one thing left to do now", and starts making his way to higher ground. [[spoiler:Grian kills him with commands before he can actually kill himself, though.]]
** The winners of Season 3 are a variation, as the season's main gimmick is {{synchronization}} between soulmate pairs that result in CantLiveWithoutYou. While [[spoiler:Scott and Pearl]] are the last two survivors and are technically co-winners, [[spoiler:Scott]] ends up placing down TNT and detonating himself, killing himself and [[spoiler:Pearl]] by proxy, because he believes that [[spoiler:Pearl]] "deserves it more" than he does.
** Subverted in Season 4, as all players have 24 hours to live and will inevitably die at the end of the season anyway, and the winner ultimately chooses to wait for their life-timer to run out.
** Also subverted in Season 5, as despite the tradition, [[spoiler:Scar]] ends his series very much alive. In Martyn's "Eyes and Ears" continuity, [[spoiler:[[GodIsEvil the Watchers]] ensure this is {{defied|Trope}} by making him respawn on half a heart if he ever tries to go through with this, all to draw out and [[EmotionEater feast on]] his [[GoMadFromTheIsolation suffering]].]]

'''WARNING: This is a DeathTrope, expect unmarked spoilers ahead.'''

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** Also subverted in Season 5, as despite the tradition, [[spoiler:Scar]] ends his series very much alive. In Martyn's "Eyes and Ears" continuity, [[spoiler:[[GodIsEvil the Watchers]] ensure this is {{defied|Trope}} by making him respawn on half a heart if he ever tries to go through with this, all to draw out and [[EmotionEater feast on his suffering]].]]

** Also subverted in Season 5, as despite the tradition, [[spoiler:Scar]] ends his series very much alive. In Martyn's "Eyes and Ears" continuity, [[spoiler:[[GodIsEvil the Watchers]] ensure this is {{defied|Trope}} by making Scar respawn on half a heart if he ever tries to go through with this, all to draw out and [[EmotionEater feast on his suffering]].]]

* The winners of the ''WebVideo/LifeSMP'' tend to go out this way.

** Subverted in Season 4, as all players have 24 hours to live and will inevitably die at the end of the season anyway, and the winner ultimately chooses to wait for his life-timer to run out.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' uses this as a frequent gag/Deus ex Machina.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' once made a ripoff of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' that ended with Marge (portraying Gertrude) killing herself not to clean up all the mess.

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* The last character to die in ''Manga/DeathNote'', [[spoiler: Misa Amane]], commits suicide.

* In the ''Manga/CaseClosed'', "Moonlight Sonata Murder Case", the murderer tries to invoke the trope by [[spoiler: trying to make it look like their last murder victim was in fact the murderer and committed suicide instead of being murdered]]. When the identity of the real murderer is revealed, the real murderer [[spoiler: commits suicide]].

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* Not shown but strongly implied in the movie version of ''Creator/{{Clamp}}'''s "X" (the manga and the series left much more people alive).

* ''Film/OpenWater''. [[spoiler: Susan]] gives up and drowns [[spoiler:herself]] after [[spoiler:her husband Daniel]] dies.

* ''Series/TheXFiles'': The last of a group of astronauts who had been traumatized during their mission chooses to kill himself after various gruesome deaths (including other suicides) take out the rest of them.

* [[spoiler:Frobisher]] kills his family and then himself in ''Series/TorchwoodChildrenOfEarth''.

* Creator/WilliamShakespeare, of course, used this trope in his tragedies:
** ''Theatre/{{Othello}}'': Othello stabs himself.
** ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'': Brutus kills himself in the end by running himself on another's sword (since his Stoic philosophy forbade him from directly committing suicide), though it's unknown how many of the other conspirators were hunted down and killed off hand.
** ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' narrowly averts this (or maybe it subverts it); at the end, Hamlet's friend Horatio is so overwhelmed by the events of the plot that he tells a dying Hamlet that he's going to kill himself; Hamlet tells him not to, he needs to be the SoleSurvivor to tell Fortenbras that he (Fortenbras) is now the king of Denmark.

* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', if you side with the geth over the quarians, the Migrant Fleet will be wiped out. Tali, with Shepard at the time, kills herself, and not even the Paragon interrupt can save her.
* The last death on the eponymous GhostShip of ''VideoGame/ReturnOfTheObraDinn'', [[spoiler:Captain Robert Witterel]], shoots himself in the chest.

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* The winners of the ''LetsPlay/LifeSMP'' tend to go out this way.

* ''Music/UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny'' ends with [[spoiler: Mr. Rogers]] committing seppuku.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''Webcomic/{{Jailbreak}}''. After a series of escapades trying to escape the prison, you finally escape, but leave all of your fellow prisoners (not to mention a guard and a whale) dead, including one guy you escaped with. Filled with despair, you take out the gun you've been carrying and kill yourself out of despair near a tree stump, leading to a GameOver.

* One of the endings of ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine''. Going by the Steam statistics, it's also the one most players went with.

->''"One little Indian boy left all alone''
->''He went and hanged himself, and then there were none."''

** The winner of Season 1, [[spoiler:Grian]], gives a heartfelt goodbye to his friends and the audience before jumping off a mountain to his death.

{{Tragedy}} (or BlackComedy) wouldn't be the same without a final death to close the series of murders. When the last character doesn't find death on the battlefield or by the hands of their nemesis, they can still kill themselves to ensure drama and catharsis.

See also DrivenToSuicide, AnyoneCanDie (when they actually do) and GottaKillEmAll. Can be part of a ThanatosGambit. An EveryoneDiesEnding story might end this way. Sometimes triggered by BetterToDieThanBeKilled, or by SurvivorGuilt. If the suicide attempt fails, then we have a SoleSurvivor.

* In the ''Manga/CaseClosed'', "Moonlight Sonata Murder Case", the murderer tries to invoke the trope by [[spoiler: trying to make it look like their last murder victim was in fact the murderer and committed suicide instead of being murdered]]. When the identity of the real murderer is revealed, the real murder [[spoiler: commits suicide]].

* Frank Castle kills himself at the end of ''Comicbook/ThePunisherKillsTheMarvelUniverse'' after realizing that he's the only superhuman who hasn't been killed, and out of guilt for killing Daredevil who turned out to be his childhood friend.

* ''Film/TheTheatreBizarre'': In "I Love You", upon discovering that he has murdered his lover Mo, CrazyJealousGuy Axel kills himself kills himself: not wanting to allow her to escape him even in death.

* ''Series/CriminalMinds'' episode "Reckoner" played with this trope. A HangingJudge organized the murders of some {{Karma Houdini}}s that had managed to evade justice, and put [[spoiler: his own name on the list because he was going to die anyway of cancer]]. In the end, [[spoiler: he didn't kill himself but was sniped by the mobster he had hired to kill the other victims]].

** ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'': Brutus kills himself in the end through running himself on another's sword (since his Stoic philosophy forbade him from directly committing suicide), though it's unknown how many of the other conspirators were hunted down and killed off hand.
** ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' narrowly averts this (or maybe it subverts it); at the end Hamlet's friend Horatio is so overwhelmed by the events of the plot that he tells a dying Hamlet that he's going to kill himself; Hamlet tells him not to, he needs to be the SoleSurvivor to tell Fortenbras that he (Fortenbras) is now the king of Denmark.

* In the siege of Masada the residents of the Masada decided to kill each other because they didn't want to be taken prisoner. They killed each other instead of themselves because suicide is a grave sin in Judaism (their religion). Predictably may have left one guy left who had to kill himself (most notably, at the Siege of Yodfat, the historian Flavius Josephus was able to do some ''very'' [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus_problem complex math]] on the fly and positioned himself in such a way that he was the last man standing, Josephus later surrendered to the Romans). It may be noted that there were far fewer skeletons found in Masada then the stated number of people who killed themselves, so the mass suicide thing might just be a myth.

** The winner of Season 2, [[spoiler:Scott]], tells his pet axolotl that there's "only one thing left to do now", and starts making his way to higher ground. [[spoiler:Grian kills him with commands before he can actually kill himself though.]]

* In 1817, Princess Charlotte, the only child of [[UsefulNotes/HouseOfHanover King George IV]], gave birth to a stillborn child and died hours later. A few months later, the doctor who attended them killed himself out of shame for his failure. The death of the mother, child, and practitioner subsequently became known as the "triple obstetrical tragedy".[[note]]Princess Charlotte was the only legitimate living grandchild of King George III, and her death triggered a succession crisis that was resolved when UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria took the throne.[[/note]]

See also DrivenToSuicide, AnyoneCanDie (when they actually do) and GottaKillEmAll. Can be part of a ThanatosGambit. A KillThemAll story might end this way. Sometimes triggered by BetterToDieThanBeKilled, or by SurvivorGuilt. If the suicide attempt fails, then we have a SoleSurvivor.

* The winners of the ''LetsPlay/LastLifeSMP'' tend to go out this way.
** The winner of season 1, [[spoiler:Grian]], gives a heartfelt goodbye to his friends and the audience before jumping off a mountain to his death.
** The winner of season 2, [[spoiler:Scott]], tells his pet axolotl that there's "only one thing left to do now", and starts making his way to higher ground. [[spoiler:Grian kills him with commands before he can actually kill himself though.]]

* In the ''Manga/DetectiveConan'', "Moonlight Sonata Murder Case", the murderer tries to invoke the trope by [[spoiler: trying to make it look like their last murder victim was in fact the murderer and committed suicide instead of being murdered]]. When the identity of the real murderer is revealed, the real murder [[spoiler: commits suicide]].