Bungled Suicide: Difference between revisions

 

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== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[Paranoia Agent]]'' has an episode dealing with 3 people who had made a suicide pact over the internet. Over the course of the episode, all of their attempts to kill themselves (jumping in the path of a subway train, hanging) are thwarted, and it's all [[Played for Laughs]]. Subverted in that at the end it's revealed that they're [[Dead All Along]].

* One of the characters in ''[[Life (manga)|Life]]'' attempts to kill herself by jumping from a school balcony, but only ends up fracturing her foot and hurting herself.

* In the very beginning of the [[Manhwa]] ''My Lovable Fatty'' the protagonist tries to hang herself but ends up breaking the rope.

 

== Comic Books ==

* Richie in ''[[The Royal Tenenbaums]]'' cuts his wrists after learning the romantic history of {{spoiler|Margot, with whom he is in love}}. Complete with [[Important Haircut]] and some great music.

* In ''[[Bringing Out The Dead]]'', the main character—a paramedic—responds to a suicide attempt where the victim has sliced his veins horizontally rather than vertically, thus ensuring that he's got plenty of time to be healed. Since the main character is going through something of a nervous breakdown at that point, he merely uses this as the starting off point for a rant in which he instructs the surprised and now-terrified victim how to do it ''correctly'' next time.

* In ''[[S.O.B.]]'', Felix Farmer makes multiple attempts to kill himself only to have each of them unintentionally thwarted. He ultimately ends up committing [[Suicide by Cop]] almost accidentally.

* Chuck of ''[[Cast Away]]'' tries to commit suicide when stranded on an island by hanging himself but the rope snapped.

 

== Literature ==

* ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' Classic episode "Escape Clause". A man makes a [[Deal with the Devil]] for immortality, and tests the pact by trying to commit suicide. Eventually he starts doing so for money by threatening to sue companies for accidents he caused.

* ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'' episode "Something to Live For:" the person Earl's helping this week, Earl had regularly stolen the gasoline out of his car. Problem was, the guy was trying to kill himself by running his car engine and piping the exhaust into the passenger compartment every night, but since Earl kept stealing his gas he kept running out of gas before he died.

* Discussed in ''[[The Wire]]'': Omar's brother "No Heart" Anthony got his nickname from bungling his suicide attempt when he was sentenced to several years in prison. He attempted to shoot himself in the chest, but came away with only "a contact wound and a new nickname".

* Neil's hapless attempt in ''The Young Ones''.

 

 

* Warbot from ''[[Warbot in Accounting]]''... though he's also a robot.

* Happens several times in the early strips of the "Suicide Girl" storyline of the extremely NSFW comic ''[[Sexy Losers]]'', though she eventually does end up offing herself when she mistakes a handgun that she bought to protect herself from the lecherous Shiunji (who wants to have sex with her dead body) for a hairdryer. [[It Got Worse|Things get worse from there]].

 

== Western Animation ==

** Another one played for laughs is Mr. Burns' in "The Fool Monty", where he survives an airplane hitting him, then slamming against pine tree branches and whacked away by a bear.

* An Eastern European cartoon humorously showed a despondent man trying suicide and failing repeatedly...until he's held up at gunpoint, and abruptly fearing death, gives away his money as well as all his clothes. It ends with him naked and loving life.

 

== [[Urban Legends]] ==