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What can you do when you've seen it all? Not much except kill yourself, apparently. After all, there's nothing in the world you'd really want to see twice.
On its way to becoming a [[Forgotten Trope]], a '''"Seen It All" Suicide''' occurs when a cartoon character, having seen some outrageous sight, proclaims "Now I've seen everything!" and promptly [[Hammerspace|produces a pistol]] and shoots himself on the spot. The reason this might happen is because the character feels they have finally cracked and wish to end their lives before it gets worse. When these old cartoons are reaired nowadays, however, this joke is usually [[Bowdlerise
In [[Real Life]], people sometimes say things like, [[Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter!|"I'm ready, Jesus,"]] if something momentous has just
A subtrope of [[Suicide as Comedy]].
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For the more serious and dramatic situation when a character decides to die because they've seen and done everything and can't see anything in their future but crushing boredom, see [[Nothing Left to Do But Die]].
{{noreallife|there's always something new under the sun, so nobody has ever "Seen It All".}}
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* A random demon audience member in ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' proclaims "Somebody kill me, now I've seen everything!" after witnessing an apparent one-shot kill.
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* Invoked at the end of ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|Shards of Honor]]''. Emperor Ezar Vorbarra, expecting to be dead within the week, engages in a bit of [[Gallows Humor]] with Lord Aral Vorkosigan, who has just suggested the Minister of the Interior as a possible Regent for soon-to-be-Emperor Gregor: "So you do have something good to say for my Ministers after all. I may die now; I've heard everything." He doesn't die immediately, but after he's recruited Aral as Regent, he falls back in exhaustion, implying he's not long for the world. (In ''Barrayar'', Ezar hangs on just long enough to see Aral confirmed as Regent, after which he finally succumbs to his long illness.)
* Subverted in the first [[Erast Fandorin]] novel: this ''looks'' like the cause of the suicide on the first pages, but there is a ''lot'' more to it.
* Played for drama in ''[[Haunted
* In [[The Dark Tower
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
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*** Subverted when Bugs gets the gun and the scene irises out when you hear a bang, the iris reverses to find that Bugs "missed" and hit ''Sam'' instead who is not amused.
** In ''The Grey Hounded Hare'', the race announcer says, "Now I've seen everything!"...and then a gunshot is heard over the P.A. speaker.
** Chuck Jones' ''Cheese Chasers'' uses an extended version of this trope and [[Nothing Left to Do But Die]]. Two mice discover that they have eaten every type of cheese there is and decide to commit suicide by cat. Their efforts cause the cat to go mad and try to commit its own suicide by letting a bulldog "massacre" him, driving the dog mad as well.
** In ''Tortoise Wins By a Hare'', Bugs has made himself a turtle costume so he can beat Cecil Turtle in a rematch race. A group of rabbit gamblers, having bet on Bugs, mistakes him for Cecil (aided by Cecil donning a rabbit costume) and delays him, allowing Cecil to win the race. When Bugs finally makes them realize that '''he''' is the rabbit, they all say "Eh, ''now'' he tells us!" and blow their brains out.
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