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-->'''Dino Geist:''' "Life is a treasure, you say? Then I can't let you have this life of mine!"
%%* ''Anime/CodeGeass:'' Lelouch threatens to do this if CC doesn't let him attack Cornelia in s1e7, who is trying to lure out his alter ego Zero after he killed her brother Claudius and defeated the Brittanian army at Shinjiku. He justifies this on the spot by stating he was dead before CC gave him his power (due to the inability to achieve his goals, though he stated he intended to strive to achieve them before gaining the power anyway), and to die would be to revert to that state (which he wouldn't mind if he cannot achieve his goals of destroying Brittania, avenging his mother's death and building a better world for his sister to live in since it would revert things to the previous status quo, he sees no point in living ). This occurs after CC threatens to shoot him in the leg to prevent him from doing it since CC needs him alive to fulfill the "contract" they made (the same one through which he gained his power). She relents, partially because she believes he would go through with it, and partially because she sympathises with him for having lived a life without a purpose, which is elaborated on much later on. In the end, Cornelia out-gambits him and CC saves him from a close call, proving his overconfidence and cockiness wrong.

* ''ComicBook/TheDarkKnightReturns'': After Batman nearly breaks Joker's neck, Joker finishes the job himself after the only witnesses have fled, [[ThanatosGambit leaving Batman to be accused of murder]].

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': At the climax of ''ComicBook/EndsOfTheEarth'', [[spoiler:Rhino deliberately drowns himself [[TakingYouWithMe and Silver Sable]] to spite Spider-Man, knowing his GuiltComplex will make him blame himself for their deaths.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' episode "Video Ouija", Shake kills himself just so that he can haunt Meatwad through the latter's new video game that apparently allows him to talk to the dead. Unfortunately, [[AllForNothing Meatwad had already lost interest and moved on to a new game]], causing him to order Frylock to find a way to bring him back to life.
* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': After the hospitalized [[spoiler:Cotton]] repeatedly fakes his death by slowing his heart to the point of flatlining the monitor, purely for the sake of {{troll}}ing everyone who came to visit him, Peggy rips into him with a vicious TheReasonYouSuckSpeech about how he's a miserable, evil old man living in a hell of his own making and how [[CruelMercy she hopes he lives forever just so he can suffer more]]. [[spoiler:Cotton]] just says "Do ya now?", then promptly forces himself to die for real, just to spite his [[spoiler:daughter-in-law]] one last time. Afterwards, Peggy spins a lie to spare Hank's feelings.
* The ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'' episode "''[[Recap/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012S3E24DinosaurSeenInSewers Dinosaur Seen In Sewers]]''" ends with this. After Zog's beacon to call his fellow Triceratons is destroyed (after spending the majority of the episode trying to activate it), he fights with the turtles until he winds up hanging over the edge of the top of the Statue of Liberty. [[SaveTheVillain When Raph tries to save him]]. Zog only has this to say:
-->'''Zog''': Long live the Triceraton empire.

* Margaret Allingham's ''Literature/AlbertCampion'' novel ''Police at the Funeral'' takes this to an extreme, with the solution that the first victim not only killed himself in such a way as to fake it as murder and disrupt his family's lives with an investigation, but also filled the house they all shared with booby traps that killed or injured several of them.

* In G K Chesterton's ''Literature/FatherBrown'' story "The Strange Crime of John Boulnois", a man commits suicide and makes a crude attempt to frame another man, purely out of rage that the targeted man [[UnknownRival failed to notice that he was trying to anger him]].
* The ''Literature/HerculePoirot'' story "Wasp's Nest" has a man named Harrison plot to destroy a romantic rival's life by committing suicide and making it look like a murder (Harrison has terminal cancer anyway). Fortunately, over the course of a conversation with him (having anticipated the plot), Poirot is able to switch out the poison with baking soda, ending with the would-be murderer tearfully thanking Poirot.

* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': In the Season Five finale, Adrian Chase holds Oliver's son hostage, while he himself is tied to a DeadMansSwitch that is rigged to cause the island (which Oliver's friends are on) to blow up if he dies. He forces Oliver to make a SadisticChoice, save his son by killing Chase which will cause his friends to die, or let Chase kill his son and save his friends. Oliver tries to TakeAThirdOption and knock Chase aside. Chase does not accept this and proceeds to shoot himself in the head to set off the explosions, all to spite Oliver one final time.

* The ''Series/Charmed1998'' episode "Sin Francisco" deals with this trope. A demon infects people around San Francisco with concentrated representations of the SevenDeadlySins; when the Charmed Ones and Leo try to stop him, he zaps the four of them with a sin each. [[TheLeader Prue]] is infected with {{Pride}}, which manifests as her natural headstrong attitude becoming increasingly worse until she's deliberately putting herself in dangerous situations. Towards the end of the episode, the demon captures Prue and plans to throw her into a swirling vortex that will lead straight to Hell...only for her to jump ''herself'' while declaring "You lose, I win!" Thankfully, the others (now sin-free) show up, and while Phoebe and Piper vanquish the demon, Leo manages to save Prue. The trope is then [[DiscussedTrope discussed]] when he, Phoebe, and Piper reveal how they cured themselves of their own afflictions: by committing truly selfless acts. Prue protests that her attempted suicide would have saved the whole city and thus should have counted, but her sisters realize that the ''real'' motivation for said attempt was just to spite the demon and make herself look good, thus negating its potential selflessness.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': At the end of the Series 3 finale, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords Last Of The Time Lords]]", a fatally-wounded Master refuses to regenerate and lets himself die solely to make the Doctor suffer as [[LastOfHisKind the last Time Lord in the universe]], his last words simply being "I win" as the Doctor begs him to live.
* One episode of ''Series/{{Elementary}}'' has Sherlock and Watson investigating what seems to be an open-and-shut murder case, only to discover the victim actually killed herself in such a way as to [[FramingTheGuiltyParty frame]] the man [[ConvictedByPublicOpinion she believed]] murdered her sister. [[spoiler:It turns out that [[ProperlyParanoid she was actually right about the man she was trying to frame]], even if the attempted framing was fairly inept. All it accomplishes is getting Sherlock onto the killer's trail.]]
** Another episode has a man who plots his own death by hiring a hitman with himself as the target. He doesn't advance his death by much since he's already terminally ill, but the way he orchestrates it makes the blame fall on his wife's lover - or it would have, if not for a bit of bad luck and Sherlock's instinct.

* In the ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' episode "Ham Radio", Frasier has organised an old-fashioned murder mystery radio drama, broadcast live and starring himself, which quickly goes OffTheRails due to unforeseen problems with the rest of the cast. Niles, who has been roped into playing multiple characters, finally brings the whole thing to an end by having one of his characters grab the gun, kill all the other characters, and finally shoot himself specifically to prevent Frasier's detective from ever figuring out what his motive was.
-->'''Niles''': And of course, one final bullet for myself, so that the mystery will die with me. ''Ha.''

* ''Series/LawAndOrder'':
** In one episode a man commits suicide solely in order to frame his unfaithful wife and her lover for the crime.
** In the SVU episode "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS12E18Bully Bully]]", the owner of a wine company who was exposed as [[MeanBoss a tyrant to her employees]], gives a spiteful press conference in which [[NeverMyFault she blames everyone else for her downfall]] before taking out a gun, putting it under her chin on live TV, and pulling the trigger.
* ''Series/MurderSheWrote'': The victim in "To The Last Will I Grapple With Thee", after learning that he had an incurable cancer, [[SuicideNotMurder committed suicide and framed an old enemy of his for murder.]]
* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'', "[[Recap/SherlockS02E03TheReichenbachFall The Reichenbach Fall]]": After Moriarty explains how he's ruined Sherlock's life, there's a HopeSpot where it seems like Sherlock might have a chance of persuading or manipulating Moriarty into fixing things or at least giving Sherlock an opening -- which Moriarty deliberately punctures by [[AteHisGun killing himself]]. Even worse, Moriarty had sent out three assassins to kill Dr. Watson, Inspector Lestrade, and Mrs. Hudson, who were told only to break off their attacks on Moriarty's orders, or if Sherlock dies. With Moriarty dead, Sherlock has only [[HeroicSacrifice one option]].

-->''I guess this is our last goodbye''\\
''But you don't care, so I won't cry''\\
''And you'll be sorry when I'm dead''\\
''And all this guilt will be on your head''\\
''I guess you could call it suicide''\\
''But I'm too full to swallow my pride''

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* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': After the hospitalized [[spoiler:Cotton]] repeatedly fakes his death by slowing his heart to the point of flatlining the monitor, purely for the sake of {{troll}}ing everyone who came to visit him, Peggy rips into him with a vicious TheReasonYouSuckSpeech about how he's a miserable, evil old man living in a hell of his own making and how [[CruelMercy she hopes he lives forever just so he can suffer more]]. [[spoiler:Cotton]] just says "Do ya now?", then promptly forces himself to die for real, just to spite his [[spoiler:daughter-in-law]] one last time.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Killzone}}'' 2: At the end of his boss battle, Colonel Radec shoots himself in the head to deny the main characters the satisfaction of killing him.

* ''[[VideoGame/FatalFury Real Bout Fatal Fury]]'': In Terry and Andy’s endings, [[BigBad Geese]] [[TheRival Howard]] is accidentally knocked off his tower during the ensuing FinalBoss battle. Terry or Andy tries to save him by grabbing his arm, but Geese refuses, wrestling himself free from their grasps and proceeding to [[EvilLaugh laugh at the Bogards the whole way down]]. The story canon, where the brother that did the deed was Terry, actually doubled the spite: Geese has a neglected son with the name Rock, and he also killed the Bogard family patriarch Jeff, orphaning Terry and Andy. By putting Geese in a position to choose death, he aimed to get the last laugh beyond his death by burdening Terry with the guilt of orphaning Geese's son the same way he orphaned Terry.

* ''VideoGame/Transformers2004'': At the end of the game, a defeated Megatron nearly falls into his erupting volcano base. Optimus Prime [[SaveTheVillain grabs his hand]], only for Megatron to sneer that Prime "doesn't even know when he's won" and then spitefully jerk his hand so that Prime will drop him, [[DisneyVillainDeath sending him plummeting to his death]].
* ''VideoGame/Uncharted2'': Flynn betrays Drake at the start of the game and works with the BigBad Lazarevic for most of the plot. At the end, Lazarevic pulls a YouHaveFailedMe and mortally wounds him. When the protagonists run into him afterward, they try to help. But, being an utterly prideful dick, he refuses their aid and opts to try and kill them with a grenade, taking his own life just to satisfy some shred of his ego.
* ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'': In skirmish games, near dead heroes will often run into the closest creep camp and fight them. If the creeps kill the hero, the chasing player doesn't get the experience for it.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' episode ''Video Ouija'', Shake kills himself just so that he can haunt Meatwad through the latter's new video game that apparently allows him to talk to the dead. Unfortunately, [[AllForNothing Meatwad had already lost interest and moved on to a new game]], causing him to order Frylock to find a way to bring him back to life.

* ''[[Manwha/IllRaiseYouWellInThisLifeYourMajesty I'll Raise You Well in This Life, Your Majesty!]]'': The series opens with this, as Empress Consort Ellisa's attempts to secure the throne for her son Leon only make him resentful of his mother to the point that he commits suicide in front of her. Leon deliberately does so only ''after'' she has succeeded at putting him on the throne, what he calls the happiest day of his mother's life, for the express purpose of making her efforts AllForNothing. When Ellisa finds herself in the past, back when Leon was still a sweet little boy, she resolves to make up for her prior misdeeds by raising her son to be happy instead of powerful.

* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': After the hospitalized [[spoiler:Cotton]] repeatedly fakes his death by slowing his heart to the point of flatlining the monitor, purely for the sake of {{troll}}ing everyone to came to visit him, Peggy rips into him with a vicious TheReasonYouSuckSpeech about how he's a miserable, evil old man living in a hell of his own making and how [[CruelMercy she hopes he lives forever just so he can suffer more]]. [[spoiler:Cotton]] just says "Do ya now?", then promptly forces himself to die for real, just to spite his [[spoiler:daughter-in-law]] one last time.

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'': At the climax of ''Ends Of The Earth'', [[spoiler:Rhino deliberately drowns himself [[TakingYouWithMe and Silver Sable]] to spite Spider-Man, knowing his GuiltComplex will make him blame himself for their deaths.]]

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': At the end of the Series 3 finale, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords Last Of The Time Lords]]", a fatally-wounded Master refuses to regenerate and lets himself die solely to make the Doctor suffer as the last Gallifreyan, his last words simply being "I win" as the Doctor begs him to live.

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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': At the end of "The Last Of The Time Lords", a fatally-wounded Master refuses to regenerate and lets himself die solely to make the Doctor suffer as the last Gallifreyan, his last words simply being "I win" as the Doctor begs him to live.

* A deleted scene from ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'' reveals that Zira was going to do this to Kiara. After Zira gets stuck hanging precariously from the edge of a cliff over a raging flood beneath her, Kiara offers to give her another chance at fixing her life by making peace with Simba and the reformed outlanders ([[HeelFaceTurn who had just turned on Zira]] after a speech Kiara had given earlier). Zira however, [[MonsterFanGirl being a devoted follower of Scar]], chose death over peace, and lets herself fall to her death, all with a smile on her face.

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