Basic Trope: A character kills one or more characters and then kills themselves.
- Straight: Seth kills Reese and then kills himself.
- Exaggerated: Seth kills the entire human race and then kills himself.
- Downplayed:
- Seth injures Reese, and then breaks his own leg.
- Seth guns down Reese in front of his bodyguards, who promptly gun him down.
- Seth hires a hitman to kill a number of people, and adds himself to the list.
- Seth pushing Reese of a balcony was not intentional, but he then throws himself off after in a fit of guilt.
- Seth chooses not to seek treatment for the wounds Reese inflicted while fighting back.
- Justified:
- Seth wants to avoid the consequences of his murder.
- Seth was on a quest to avenge Janice, who was killed by Reese, but after killing him, he realizes that revenge left him unsatisfied.
- Seth was planning suicide, but decided to pull a Taking You with Me for whatever grudge he may have.
- Seth was a hit man hired by someone who wants to remain unknown. By killing himself, he reduces the chances of Reese's murder being traced back to the guy who wanted him dead.
- Seth killed Reese in a fit of rage. After coming back to his senses and seeing what he has done, he kills himself out of guilt.
- Inverted:
- Seth, a skeletal necromancer, revives Reese, and then revives himself.
- Seth, being very badly wounded, gets over his injuries and pulls himself and Reese, his comrade who was barely alive as well, to safety.
- Subverted:
- Seth kills Reese, and then points his gun at himself, and throws it on the floor, deciding he cannot self-terminate.
- Seth stabs himself non fatally, to make himself look like a fellow victim.
- Double Subverted:
- Upon returning home, he goes up to the attic, and jumps out the window.
- Deciding he can't kill himself, instead he commits Suicide by Cop.
- When Seth is sentenced to death, he does not contest the verdict, and requests that be carried out shortly.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Seth doesn't kill himself after killing Reese.
- Seth and Reese are both alive.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Bob threatens Seth's family and forces him to act as a "suicide hitman".
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Seth kills Reese, and walks out of the scene, never appearing again.
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