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* ''Literature/KingsGame'': In the first novel, Shouta uses his authority as King to order Daisuke to hang himself. The game then reveals that [[MortonsFork if Daisuke ignores the order, he will die at the end of the day]]. Spurred by his lack of choice, some of his classmates decide to wait the day out with him to show that neither the King nor the game have to be followed. Just when they think they've beat the clock, Daisuke goes missing and Nobuaki finds his corpse handing in another room. It turns out there was a ClockDiscrepancy of about 5 minutes , so he was compelled to die after all.

* ''Literature/KingsGame'', Shouta uses his authority as King to order Daisuke to hang himself. The game then reveals that [[MortonsFork if Daisuke ignores the order, he will die at the end of the day]]. Spurred by his lack of choice, some of his classmates decide to wait the day out with him to show that neither the King nor the game have to be followed. Just when they think they've beat the clock, Daisuke goes missing and Nobuaki finds his corpse handing in another room. It turns out there was a ClockDiscrepancy of about 5 minutes , so he was compelled to die after all.

* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': Already on a tight schedule, [[BigBad Lucrezia]] decides she doesn't have the time to help Lady Vrin and [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness callously commands her to die]]. Because the Geisterdamen are physically unable to disobey the voice of Lucrezia (and [[DesignerBabies her daughter Agatha's]], [[GrandTheftMe whose body she is occupying]]), [[CruelAndUnusualDeath Vrin's body acts against her will and chokes to death]]. When a Wulfenbach soldier checks on Vrin a few minutes later, he only finds her corpse.

* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': Already on a tight schedule, [[BigBad Lucrezia]] decides she doesn't have the time to help Lady Vrin and callously commands her to die. Because the Geisterdamen are physically unable to disobey the voice of Lucrezia (and [[DesignerBabies her daughter Agatha's]], [[GrandTheftMe whose body she is occupying]]), [[CruelAndUnusualDeath Vrin's body acts against her will and chokes to death]]. When a Wulfenbach soldier checks on Vrin a few minutes later, he only finds her corpse.

* ''Anime/FateStayNightUnlimitedBladeWorks'': While Shirou is fighting Archer, Kotomine uses one of his Command Seals to force his Servant Lancer to kill himself so that he would not be able to interfere with the antagonists' plans (as a few times before Lancer was willing to help the protagonists). It ends up backfiring spectacularly on him, as Lancer is NotTooDeadToSaveTheDay; he ends up killing Kotomine, scaring away Shinji, and freeing Rin all before he expires.

** Earlier on, Don Krieg, infuriated by his lieutenant Gin's decision to spare Sanji, orders Gin to throw away his gas mask immediately before bombarding the area with poison gas. Gin complies, and when Luffy throws him and Sanji gas masks (forgetting to keep one for himself), Gin throws his back to Luffy, resulting in him being ([[UncertainDoom possibly fatally]]) poisoned.

Compare PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou, where it's the character volunteering to die, and LeaveBehindAPistol, for when they are ''allowed'' to kill themselves as a way out. Telling someone to kill themselves without having the authority to expect them to obey is a SuicideDare, and can end in DrivenToSuicide. A culture built around thise trope is a MartyrdomCulture.

Compare PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou, where it's the character volunteering to die, and LeaveBehindAPistol, for when they are ''allowed'' to kill themselves as a way out. Telling someone to kill themselves without having the authority to expect them to obey is a SuicideDare, and can end in DrivenToSuicide.

* In the backstory of ''Opera/MadamaButterfly'', Cio-Cio-San's father was somehow disgraced and ordered by the Mikado to commit {{Seppuku}}. At the end of the opera, by her own choice, Cio-Cio-San kills herself with the same dagger.

* In the backstory of ''Opera/MadameButterfly'', Cio-Cio-San's father was somehow disgraced and ordered by the Mikado to commit {{Seppuku}}. At the end of the opera, by her own choice, Cio-Cio-San kills herself with the same dagger.

* The origins of [[ComicBook/NewGods New Goddess]] Granny Goodness are a variant. In the hell world of Apokolips, she was selected as a warrior and was given a pup to raise, which was her closest and most faithful companion for years as her training progressed. Then, during an inspection, her instructor ordered her to kill the dog. Instead, she killed the instructor. When Darkseid appeared, he inquired why she had done so. She replied that to do so would have wasted a tremendous asset, as she had trained the dog to obey him first and foremost, even above her, who had raised and trained him. Interested, Darkseid ordered the dog to kill her. It immediately attacked and ''then'' she killed the dog. Impressed with her ability to inspire the fanatical devotion he wants, the tyrant awarded her full marks for the exercise and had her promoted.

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* Voldemort in ''Fanfic/TheRigelBlackChronicles'' gets rid of [[spoiler: the Basilisk, by ''repeatedly ordering it to bite itself''. For extra horror, it pleads with him to make the pain stop while it's happening]].

* At the start of ''LightNovel/NoGameNoLife Zero'', Riku orders Ivan to sacrifice himself to allow Riku and Alei to escape. Ivan accepts unquestioningly, asking Riku to look after his daughter, and Riku later reveals that he has done this dozens of times before.

* The origins of [[ComicBook/NewGods New Goddess]] Granny Goodness are a variant. In the hell world of Apokolips, she was selected as a warrior and was given a pup to raise, which was her closest and most faithful companion for years as her training progressed. Then, during an inspection, her instructor ordered her to kill the dog. Instead, she killed the instructor. When Darkseid appeared, he inquired why she had done so. She replied that to do so would have wasted a tremendous asset, as she had trained the dog to order him first and foremost, even above her, who had raised and trained him. Interested, Darkseid ordered the dog to kill her. It immediately attacked and ''then'' she killed the dog. Impressed with her ability to inspire the fanatical devotion he wants, the tyrant awarded her full marks for the exercise and had her promoted.

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'' Vanilla Ice cutting off his own head to give Dio his blood out of BlindObedience might count, as he had no idea he could be revived and become a vampire. ''Might'' -- maybe [[TooDumbToLive he's just too dense to realize decapitation is a fatal sacrifice]], or that he didn't have to give Dio ''all'' of his blood.
* At the start of the ''LightNovel/NoGameNoLife'' movie, Riku orders Ivan to sacrifice himself to allow Riku and Alei to escape. Ivan accepts unquestioningly, asking Riku to look after his daughter, and Riku later reveals that he has done this dozens of times before.
* ''Manga/OnePiece''

* In the opening sequence of ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', Bane and his men are kidnapping a scientist from a plane, [[FakingTheDead while making it appear as though the scientist died in the plane crash]]. Bane orders one of his men to remain behind on the crashing plane, as the authorities will find it suspicious if they can't find any bodies of the prisoners. His man obeys immediately.