Suicide by Cop/Playing With

Basic Trope: A depressed individual wants to end his/her own life by the hands of another individual.
 * Straight: Bob pulls his gun on Officer Alice, who shoots him with her own gun.
 * Exaggerated: Bob storms an army base, intending to be killed by the base guards.
 * Downplayed: Officer Alice shoots Bob after he pulls a gun on her, but the wounds gravely injure rather than kill him.
 * Justified: Bob wants his heirs to collect his life insurance. Or he's too cowardly to commit suicide himself. Or he (or his religion/moral code) sees suicide as wrong.
 * Inverted: Bob goads the police officer into killing innocent bystanders.
 * Bob shoots the police officer.
 * A depressed cop attempts suicide by gangster.
 * Subverted: Bob can't go through with this method of suicide either.
 * Or Officer Alice uses a taser or pepper spray instead.
 * Double Subverted: Officer Alice sees Bob draw his gun and shoots him before he can put it away.
 * Parodied: Bob tries to commit suicide by mall-cop. He only succeeds in getting banned from the mall.
 * Deconstructed: Officer Alice ends up traumatized when she realizes later that Bob's weapon was fake/unloaded and he needed help.
 * Reconstructed: Officer Alice realizes Bob's intention and escorts him to a hospital for help, where he gets better.
 * Averted: Bob commits suicide at his own hands.

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