This is a list of incidents of suicide — the intentional killing of oneself — depicted in fictional works, including films, television series, anime and manga, comics, novels, etc. Also, self-sacrifices are included as they give up their own lives.
Alice (The Other Mrs.), after years of struggling with fibromyalgia, hangs herself in the attic with the help of her daughter Imogen.
László Almásy (The English Patient), pushes several vials of morphine toward Hana, telling her he has had enough, and she grants his wish and administers a lethal dose.
Maureen Alvorson (The Institute), already dying of cancer, hangs herself to avoid interrogation.
Misa Amane (Death Note), unknown cause. In the anime, she is last seen standing at the top of a very tall building; it is assumed that she jumps. In the manga it is suggested that she hangs herself.[2]
Alexander Argent (Teen Wolf), shoots himself in the head to avoid turning into a werewolf after being bitten by Deucalion.
Victoria Argent (Teen Wolf), with the help of her husband Chris, stabs herself in the chest to avoid turning into a werewolf after being bitten by Derek Hale.
Arrack (Detective Conan), uses a poison capsule hidden in his teeth.
Axel (Kingdom Hearts), channeling all his power into the Eternal Flames for a suicide attack to clear Betwixt and Between of countless Dusks, dies (as a Nobody) from overexertion.
Azala (Chrono Trigger), refuses Ayla's offer to save her and allows herself to be killed by Lavos.
Alphys (Undertale), Commits suicide in some of the endings (neutral and genocide).
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Kittan Bachika (Gurren Lagann), uses his Gunman's Drill Break to destroy the Death Spiral Machine in a suicide attack, dying in the resulting explosion.
Baek Noa (Pachinko), who changes his name to Nobuo Ban, shoots himself.
İsmail Bağcı (Family Secrets), after losing all his property due to the debts, shoots his daughter Doğa and himself in a murder–suicide; also shoots his wife Filiz, who survives after a six-month coma.
Selyse Baratheon (Game of Thrones), consumed by grief for allowing her daughter Shireen to die, hangs herself in a copse of trees near the Baratheon camp.
Massoud Behrani (House of Sand and Fog), in the book, suffocates both himself and his wife Nadereh, who had been asleep in the bedroom; in the film, laces his wife's tea with pills, tapes a plastic dust cover over his head, and asphyxiates himself while clutching his wife's hand.
Anne Boonchuy (Amphibia), uses the power of all three Calamity Gems to defeat the Core, resulting in her body disintegrating. Not long afterwards, she is resurrected in an identical new body.
Brenda and Jasmine deliberately crash the car they are driving, killing themselves and their seven children, in Stephen King's "Herman Wouk Is Still Alive".
Sergeant Brodski (Jason X), maneuvers himself and Jason Voorhees into the atmosphere of Earth Two, incinerating them both.
Brünnhilde (Götterdämmerung), rides on horseback into her husband Siegfried's funeral pyre.
Bill Buchanan (24), wrestles a gun from a Sangalan insurgent and ignites an explosion in the White House presidential bunker by shooting the gun in the gas-filled room in a suicide attack.
Howard W. Campbell Jr. (Mother Night), hangs himself.
Jericho Cane (End of Days), impales himself on a sword.
At the beginning of Outland, Cane, under the influence of drugs, enters an elevator that goes through vacuum without his spacesuit, resulting (unrealistically) in his death from explosive decompression.
Claus (Mother 3), after realizing what he has done and what he has become, he attacks his brother Lucas with lightning, knowing it will kill when Lucas's Franklin Badge reflects it back at him.
Geoffrey Clifton (The English Patient), upon learning of his wife Katharine and friend Almásy's affair, crashes his plane in a botched double murder–suicide's attempt, killing himself and badly injuring Katharine, who later succumbs to the injuries.
Marilyn Lee Cross ("The Cold Equations"), allows herself to be jettisoned from a spacecraft; it is debated whether this is a suicide due to the narrative's similarities to the tunnel problem.
Donnie Darko (Donnie Darko), realizing he was supposed to have been killed by a jet engine that fell through the roof onto his bed at the beginning of the movie, allows that to happen as the month since then reverses itself.
Barton George Dawes (Roadwork), sets off his explosives, destroying the house and killing himself.
Jason "J.D." Dean (Heathers), blows himself up (The film's outwardly happy original ending subtly suggests that all the other characters were killed in the explosion).
At the end of James Caan's novel Double Indemnity, Walter Huff and Phyllis Nirdlinger are preparing to jump off the ferry and die in the water rather than spend the rest of their lives in Mexico fearing capture (At the end of the film version, he is narrating the story into a Dictaphone, having suffered a lethal gunshot wound after having shot her)
Humpty Dumpty (Puss in Boots), sacrifices himself by letting go of a rope and falling to his death to save San Ricardo.
Tayyar Dündar (Black Money Love), after Ömer gives him a choice to kill himself or be killed by him, he chooses the first and hangs himself in a loop made of his own belt in his prison cell by Ömer.
Michael "Mike" Enslin (1408), dies from a fire he set in his hotel room in an attempt to destroy the haunted room in the director's cut and second alternate endings. In the theatrical, third alternate endings and short story from Blood and Smoke, he is alive.
Eleking (Ultra Fight), shoots himself in the head after killing Alien Icarus and Kiyla.
Elif (Heart Wound), drowns herself in the sea to prevent her cousin Ayşe from donating her a kidney.
Sheila Eliot (Homecomings[15]), overdoses on sleeping pills.
Prince Ellidyr (The Black Cauldron), throws himself into the Black Cauldron to destroy it, sacrificing his life.
ATN employee (Succession), shoots himself in his office due to the bullying within workplace environment.
Çağatay Erkmen (The Circle), after being trapped in the locked office alongside his brother Kaan Karabulut and Cihangir Tepeli, all three decide to destroy The Circle by burning down its archive, killing themselves in the fire.
Dr. Thelonious "Monk" Ellison's father (American Fiction), method is unknown.
Camilla Figg (Dexter), already dying of lung cancer, eats a slice of key lime pie with euthanizing agents inside, served to her by Dexter at her own request.
Gibreel Farishta (The Satanic Verses), kills himself after hurling Allie off a high rise.
Mags Flanagan (Catching Fire), walks into a poisonous fog, sacrificing herself to allow Finnick to save the weakened Peeta.
Isobel Flemming (The Vampire Diaries), removes her lapis lazuli necklace and burns to death in the sunlight while under compulsion from Klaus Mikaelson.
John Flory (Burmese Days), shoots his pet dog and then himself with his pistol.
Floyd (Jet Force Gemini), sacrifices himself to destroy an asteroid heading towards Earth.
Flying Snow (Hero), impales herself with her own sword.
Captain Gates (Gray Lady Down), wedges his submersible under the submarine during a gravity slide long enough to keep the sub level and allow all the crew to be rescued, but making it impossible for him to resurface.
Jack Gates (Family Affairs), asphyxiates himself on his car fumes after smothering his wife, Elsa, with a pillow.
Vanessa Gayle (Dexter), shoots herself; psychologically manipulated into killing herself by her psychiatrist Emmett Meridian.
Gelato (Golden Wind), chokes himself on a gag while watching his partner, Gelato, being butchered.
General (Mega Man X4), throws himself into the Final Weapon's cannon to stop it from destroying the Earth.
Ghazan (The Legend of Korra), deliberately causes a cave-in to preclude him from inevitably returning to prison once again, and in an unsuccessful attempt to kill both Mako and Bolin.
Edwin Gibbs (Darkest Fear), or Nathan Mostoni, commits suicide in prison.
Cathrin Gordon (Black Mirror II: Reigning Evil), grabs onto her daughter Angelina and forces them both to fall into the lava, sacrificing herself to save her son Darren from Angelina.
Samuel Gordon (The Black Mirror), jumps from the top of the mansion, falling onto the same spiked fence which killed his grandfather William.
Tony Gordon (Coronation Street), walks back into a burning building set ablaze by himself and is killed when the building explodes.
Scott Gorman (Aliens), activates a grenade, killing himself and Vasquez as the aliens approach.
Delbert Grady (The Shining), kills his two daughters with an axe, shoots his wife and then shoots himself in the head in a triple murder–suicide.
Jack Grady (Fail Safe), explodes nuclear bombs inside his aircraft.
Stewart Graff (Earthquake), chooses to die with his wife in the flooded sewer rather than climb to safety.
Carl Grimes (The Walking Dead), shoots himself after being bitten by a walker while bringing Siddiq to Alexandria. In the comic series, Carl is still alive.
Peter Grimes (Peter Grimes), scuttles his fishing boat far from land.
Gavriel ("Throne of Glass") sacrifices himself to protect Orynth from Erawan's forces. His son, Aedion Ashryver, and Gavriel's closest friends were devastated. He was buried with other noblemen from Terrasen.
Lorraine Harvey (American Horror Story: Murder House), immolates herself and her daughters Margaret and Angela in the house after her husband Larry confesses he is leaving them for Constance Langdon, and wants the house so he can be with her.
Kalil Hassan (24), drives his car into an oncoming cement truck.
Zac Hobson (The Quiet Earth), overdose of sleeping pills out of guilt over the research project he was working on the night before the Effect.
Caledon Hockley (Titanic), shoots himself through the mouth.
Opal Hodiak (Aquarius), drinks several bottles of vodka and takes a vial of diazepam.
Hodor (Game of Thrones), while keeping holding the door to give Meera Reed time to escape with the still unconscious Bran Stark, sacrifices his life and allows the wights to tear him apart in their attempt to break out of the cave.
Imhotep (The Mummy Returns), who is holding on for dear life from being dragged down into a pit to the underworld, willingly lets go when he sees that his lover has forsaken him.
James O. Incandeza (Infinite Jest), places his head in a microwave oven.
Dayna Jurgens (The Stand), smashes her head through a glass window and thrashes her head around so that the sharp edges of the glass cut open her jugular vein.
A junior officer in Gray Lady Down helps Captain Blanchard close a waterproof door from the opposite side after a hull breach to the submerged submarine, trapping himself on the water-filled side and drowning.
Katerina Kabanova (The Storm), throws herself into the Volga.
Kaioh (Fist of the North Star), allows himself to be covered in lava, while holding Hyoh in his arms.
Kanjigar the Courageous (Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia), throws himself into the daylight to keep the Trollhunter amulet out of Bular's hands.
Kaan Karabulut (The Circle), after being trapped in the locked office alongside his brother Çağatay Erkmen and Cihangir Tepeli, all three decide to destroy The Circle by burning down its archive, killing themselves in the fire.
Niyazi Karaçam (Family Secrets), throws himself in front of a speeding truck to avoid arrest for killing Engin Tilmen.
Ece Karan (Don't Let Go of My Hand), shoots herself in the head.
Kasili (the Book and the Sword), stabs herself after she finds the conspiracy of Qianlong Emperor, and tells her lover Chen Jialuo "Do not trust the emperor", by writing with blood.
Dr. Khatri (Fortitude), fires a flare gun in the helicopter after she realizes the mercenary from the extraction team flying it has been ordered to kill her, causing an explosion that destroys the helicopter and kills them both.
Erik Killmonger (Black Panther), real name N'Jadaka, pulls a knife out of his chest and bleeds to death knowing that he can be saved with advanced medical technology.
Nagito Komaeda (Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair) commits suicide by causing someone to unintentionally murder him in an attempt to create an unsolvable crime.
Kowalski (Vanishing Point), deliberately drives onto two bulldozers.
Matt Kowalski (Gravity), while in space, to prevent dragging Dr. Stone with him, detaches the cable attached to the back of his MMU that Stone is holding onto, presumably suffocating in the subsequent few minutes after detaching.
Millicent Kramer (Everyman), overdoses on sleeping pills.
Paige Krasikeva (Teen Wolf), already dying after rejecting an Alpha Werewolf's bite, asks Derek Hale to end her suffering, and he snapps her spine on the roots of the Nemeton.
Kaltain Rompier ("Throne of Glass") destroys a third of Morath with her magic along with herself.
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Leaf (Game of Thrones), sacrifices herself by letting the wights get close to her, where they stab her multiple times, and activates explosive device, setting a small section of the wights aflame, but also killing herself in the process.
Lelouch Lamperouge (Code Geass), plans his own martyrdom by having Suzaku disguised as Zero impale him when he is parading through the streets.
Dick and Emmeline Lestrange, along with their child, eat poisonous berries at the end of The Blue Lagoon (the ending makes it ambiguous, but the sequel, The Garden of God, makes clear that they died while the child survives. The 1949 and 1980 film adaptations preserve the ambiguity).
Kevin Lomax (The Devil's Advocate), shoots himself to prevent being forced to create an heir, but is still alive after John Milton loops him back to the courthouse bathroom.
Mary Ann Lomax (The Devil's Advocate), cuts her throat with the shards of a broken mirror.
Oscar "Manny" Manheim (Runaway Train), releases the railway coupling of a runaway train connecting the engine and the freight and soon crashes to his death.
Elliott Mantle (Dead Ringers), disemboweled by his brother Beverly at his own request. The end of the film suggests Beverly then purposely overdoses.
Lt. Col. Matthew Andrew Markinson (A Few Good Men), shoots himself.
Elsa Mars (American Horror Story: Freak Show), realizing that her career is nearly over, agrees to perform on Halloween, knowing this will summon Edward Mordrake; as she performs, Mordrake and his coterie appear and take her to the afterlife.
Kate Marsh (Life Is Strange), if the player chooses not to save her she will jump off the school roof.
Benigno Martín (Talk to Her), overdoses on sleeping pills.
Habib Marwan (24), while hanging from the upper floors of a parking structure, separates himself from a Jack Bauer who is trying to pull him up to safety, falling to his death.
Mary ("Happy Endings"), overdoses on sleeping pills and aspirins in plot B.
Mr. Mason (Ax 'Em) shoots himself after killing his wife and two of his children.
George Mason (24), who has no more than a few hours to live due to exposure to plutonium radiation, convinces Jack Bauer to let him finish flying a plane carrying a live nuclear warhead into the Mojave Desert, dying from the blast.
Kenny McCormick (South Park), sacrifices himself via electrocution while turning on a hospital generator in an attempt to revitalize Dr. Mephesto; sacrificially smacks his head into the conch shell containing Moses to free him; as Mysterion, shoots himself in the head on two separate occasions; as Mysterion, impales himself in a pit of spikes in R'yleh in order to reincarnate back on Earth.
Doğukan Mert (The Pit), mistakenly believing he was responsible for his father's killing, twists Yamaç's car steering wheel off to fell off to the abyss.
Harry Morgan (Dexter), ashamed of what he had trained Dexter to do, deliberately overdoses himself on his medication.
Kendrix Morgan (Power Rangers Lost Galaxy), sacrifices herself to destroy the Savage Sword, but is killed by the resulting explosive backlash. Is resurrected at the end of the series.
Robert Neville (I Am Legend), takes cyanide pills to avoid brutal execution from his zombified captors. In film, he sacrificed himself by detonating himself alongside infected humans to save two uninfected humans. In comics, he was killed by mutated-but-retained humans.
Newt (The Death Cure), begs Thomas to kill him so that he does not have to succumb to the Flare virus.
Nicholas (The Walking Dead), shoots himself to prevent himself getting devoured by a large group of walkers.
The Pianist (Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom), suddenly realises with horror what atrocities are being committed and, climbing out, throws herself to her death.
Yvette Gessard-Picard (Star Trek: Picard), hanged herself in the solarium. Her son Jean-Luc discovered her body, and blamed himself for her death for decades afterward.[39]
Eugene Pontecorvo (The Sopranos), hangs himself after being denied the chance to move to Florida by both Tony Soprano and the FBI.
Edna Pontellier (The Awakening), drowns herself in the Gulf of Mexico.
Robert Queen (Arrow), shoots his bodyguard Dave Hackett before turning the gun on himself after making it to a life raft with his son Oliver as there was not enough food or water for all three of them to survive.
In Bret Easton Ellis's novel The Rules of Attraction, Sean's unnamed admirer slits her wrists in the bathtub after she comes to believe Sean is in love with Lauren.
Ryosuke (Oshi no Ko), kills himself through an undisclosed method after stabbing Ai Hoshino in her apartment in front of her children and calling her out for her deception in relation to her idol career before running away in regret.[42]
Daniel Grant Showalter (Six Feet Under), upset over his recent firing, shoots three of his former colleagues in the office before shooting himself in the head.
Hareli-Frodlin-Sirinial (Animorphs #18, The Decision), initiates the self-destruct sequence of the Ascalin, killing himself and every other Andalite aboard.
Sitka (Brother Bear), sacrifices himself to save his younger brothers Denahi and Kenai from a bear.
Waylon Smithers (The Simpsons), after coming out of his coma, Bart tells Lisa he has discovered how everyone will die, and, according to it, Smithers will jump into the Power Plant cooling towers after Mr. Burns marries Angelina Jolie.
Spock exposes himself to lethal radiation in order to restore the Enterprise's warp drive in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (he is resurrected in the next film).
Virginia St. John (The Vampire Diaries), bits her tongue off and bleeds to death.
Tarrlok (The Legend of Korra), commits a fratricidal murder-suicide as a means of atoning for the innumerably abysmal transgressions he and his brother Noatak/Amon committed during their respective earthly sojourns.
Cihangir Tepeli (The Circle), after being trapped in the locked office alongside Kaan Karabulut and Çağatay Erkmen, all three decide to destroy The Circle by burning down its archive, killing themselves in the fire.
Clark Terrell (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan) disintegrates himself with his own phaser when he cannot otherwise resist the creature controlling him after Khan orders him to kill a fellow Starfleet officer.
Thanos (Thanos: The Infinity Relativity), decapitates himself.[48]
Olenna Tyrell (Game of Thrones), as Jaime Lannister seizes control of Highgarden on Cercei's orders, he granting Olenna a painless death by poison, putting it in her cup of wine as she watches; she drinks the cup all at once and then admits her responsibility for Joffrey's death, wanting Cersei to know who had done it.
The Thirteen ("Throne of Glass") sacrifice themselves to the yielding in order to destroy Erawan's witch towers to help defend Orynth. Manon Blackbeak-Crochan is devastated with the deaths of the Thirteen.
Dr. Wanless (Firestarter) puts on his wife's underwear and puts his arm down the garbage disposal, eventually bleeding to death (in the film adaptation, this is not shown, merely described).
Traveler 3569, also known as Marcy Wharton (Travelers), self-inflicted gunshot to prevent Traveler 001 from acquiring code for communicating with the director in Marcy's brain. A timeline reset later in the episode caused the chain of events leading to her suicide to never occur, and she is seen alive at the end.
George Williams (Desperate Housewives), after Bree broke off their engagement, commits fake suicide attempt to win her back and overdoses himself on sleeping pills; as he shows no remorse for killing Rex, Bree wants to revenge him and lies that she had called the ambulance while he was sleeping, and then sats and watches him die.
Hoyt Woodworth (Six Feet Under), shoots himself in the mouth upon seeing his wife Barb listening in his admit to Nate about his affair with the late Lisa, Nate's wife and Barb's sister.
Kazuhiko Yamamoto (Battle Royale), throws himself off a cliff alongside Sakura Ogawa.
Matvey Yarovoy (Torgsin), shoots himself upon discovering his wife Anna was dead.
Gisele Yashar (Fast & Furious 6), while trying to get back onto a car harpooned to the wing of a plane trying to take off, lets go of Han Lue's hand to shoot an oncoming thug and save him, falling to her death in a suicide attack.
Alaska Young (Looking for Alaska), drives straight into a police car while drunk; it is debated whether it was a suicide or not.
Beth Young (Desperate Housewives), shoots herself in the head in the hospital after making sure her kidney will go to Susan after her death.
Mary Alice Young (Desperate Housewives), gunshot to the head; the suicide enables the character to portray the role of narrator of the series from a dead point of view.
Pastor Young (The Vampire Diaries), while under compulsion from Atticus Shane, blows up the farmhouse, killing himself and 11 other members of the Council.
Z-one (Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds), sacrifices himself to stop the Divine Temple from destroying New Domino City by ramming himself into the Divine Temple's reactor.
Zordon (Power Rangers In Space), commands Andros to shatter his energy tube, which kills him and releases a wave of pure good energy that destroys the United Alliance of Evil while purifying Astronema, Rita, Zedd, and Divatox.
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