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Consequently, they travel, seeking greater and greater enemies to fight, hoping to find a [[Worthy Opponent]] [[Strike Me Down|to finally kill them.]] Sometimes they'll fail to die so spectacularly and repeatedly that they acquire riches, renown, ranks or romance as a result of their exploits. This rarely, but sometimes, stops them.
If a villain is one of these, it's sometimes mixed with shades of [[Nietzsche Wannabe]] or [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: they want to die, and they don't care if they have to drag the rest of creation down with them to do it. The worst of them ''want'' to destroy everything else too.
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* In ''[[Corsair]]'', [[The Atoner|Canale]] is a former assassin who made a promise not to kill himself, but wishes to die because he thinks he brings misery and destruction wherever he goes. Early on he begs Ayace to do so, but Ayace refuses. Later Ayace makes a promise that if Canale brings destruction on Preveza he ''will'' kill him, so until then he should try living normally, which reassures Canale greatly.
* ''[[Madoka Magica]]'': {{spoiler|Sayaka}} does not react well to [[Awful Truth|finding out that]] {{spoiler|[[Soul Jar|her soul had been moved into]] her [[Transformation Trinket|Soul Gem]].}}
* ''[[One Piece]]'':
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** Long before him, Nico Robin loses her last hope and purpose to life at the end of Arabasta arc. It needs two [[Unwanted Rescue|unwanted rescues]] until she is ready to admit in the middle of [[Rescue Arc|Enies Lobby arc]] that she has found her [[Worth Living For|reason to live]] and that she [[I Don't Want to Die|doesn't want to die.]]
** Trying to kill himself has become a sort of macabre hobby for [[World's Strongest Man| Kaido]]. He seems immortal and unable to die, something he sees as a curse. He spends much of his time trying to think up new ways to do it, but all fail. For instance, one notable time he jumped from 10,000 meters from the sky onto the ground, creating a massive shockwave strong enough to sink a large ship nearby. All he got from it was a headache.
* {{spoiler|Johan Liebert}} in ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'' near the end.
* [[Black Butler|Grell]] when we first meet her.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* In ''[[The Goon]]'' comics the immortally weary Buzzard agrees to go kill a monster terrorizing the countryside, hoping it will be able to kill him. When he arrives he learns that the ancient creature was doing this with the hope that they would fight back and kill it. They agree to fight it out and let fate decide which on of them...wins.
* This, ''not'' vengeance against criminals like the ones who killed his family, has been [[The Punisher]]'s true goal his entire career. That's the reason he's so reckless and cares little about the consequences of his actions. He hopes that someday he'll be killed in action so that he can finally be at peace, but if he can take as much scum off the street as he can before that happens, all the better.
* From ''[[X-Men]]'' comics; [[Blessed With Suck]] doesn't even begin to describe Professor Xavier's son David, aka Legion. While his omega-level mutant powers let him manifest virtually any super-power he wants, each use causes his already fractured mind to [[Multiple Personalities| develop a new personality]], and he has developed hundreds, [[Mind Hive| possibly thousands of them]]. While his father's [[Psychic Powers]] were able to keep them in check for a while, Xavier's death opened a floodgate, making his entire life a constant struggle to keep them in check. David has prayed for death for years, and has attempted to kill himself many times, but each attempt only kills one of his personalities, often spawning more in the process. After years of this hellish existence, poor David doesn't even know if it is ''possible'' for him to die.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* For ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'', in Kasuto of Kataan's "[https://web.archive.org/web/20160914005458/http://kasuto.net/fanfic.php?main=fanfic%2Feternity.html&top=fanfic%2Feternitymenu.html Eternity]", the villain is attempting to kill herself with a special spell {{spoiler|which would happen to kill several million bystanders}} after realizing that immortality is actually a curse since the world is boring after living for a really long time. She had already tried every other conventional method and failed.
** Being the author of this story, I'm flattered that I'm listed on this site. But to contribute, this story was a [[Shout-Out]] and [[Homage]] to ''[[The X-Files|X-Files]]'' season 6 episode 10 [http://in-the-x-i-believe.blogspot.com/2007/08/season-6-tithonus-6x09.html "Tithonus"].
* In ''[[The Hill of Swords]]'', a crossover between ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' and ''[[The Familiar of Zero]]'', Shirou [[Up to Eleven|outperforms]] Saito's [[Last Stand]], {{spoiler|and ends up dying after having pretty much wiped out an army of 70,000 soldiers.}} He went into the battle for this reason:
{{quote|{{spoiler|And as he stood upon the battle fields, she thought back to his oath: [[I Will Wait for You|to be reunited with his love upon a hill of swords.]] To be reunited with his lover. His lover was dead. [[Together in Death|And it was only through battle that he could finally join her again. When he too was dead]].}} }}
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* The WWI pilot in [[The Mummy Trilogy|The Mummy]] wants to go out in a blaze of glory like the rest of his deceased war buddies. {{spoiler|Seeing as he dies fighting a giant face made of sand while successfully escorting Rick and Johnathan to Hamunaptra, it's probably safe to say that he succeeded. His last words?}}
{{quote|{{spoiler|"Here I come, laddies!" and a huge laugh.}}}}
* The Joker from ''[[The Dark Knight Saga|The Dark Knight]]''. There has been several occasions where he puts his life on the line for his cause.
* Sir Lancelot in ''[[Excalibur (film)|Excalibur]]''. He's more of a defeat seeker than a death seeker though, having traveled around looking for a King who was good enough to beat him and thereby win his fealty. He claims he was [[Cursed with Awesome]].
* J.B. Books in ''[[The Shootist]]''. The death that was coming for him, though, was far worse than the death he sought.
== [[Literature]] ==
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* One of the characters in Peter David's black comedy fantasy novel ''[[Sir Apropos of Nothing]]'' was a Death Seeker whose reckless deeds resulted in him becoming the most highly respected knight in all the land. At that point he realised that he actually quite liked being alive, hung up his sword and retired behind a mantle of [[Obfuscating Stupidity|obfuscating senility]].
* Colbey, the main character of the ''[[The Last of the Renshai|Renshai]]'' novels, is a follower of the Norse gods, and must die in battle to reach Valhalla. (Dying while refusing to fight all-out doesn't count, and would get him damned to Hel.) He's in his ''eighties'' by the end of book 1, the oldest person his tribe has ever had, and the best swordsman in history. He's even given the title "Deathseeker" by some. {{spoiler|Eventually, it's discovered that he became "semi-mortal" in his sixties (meaning he can't grow any older) and eventually becomes a god. He still rejoices in a challenging fight centuries later, mind you...}}
* Himei starts out as this in ''[[Sailor Nothing]]'', before [[The Power of Friendship]] gives her something to live for. The premier example, however, is {{spoiler|Dark General Argon. Because of his nature as [[The Heartless]] he's unable to kill himself directly, so he instead ensures that the protagonist will unleash her [[Unstoppable Rage]] on him -- in some of the worst ways possible.}}▼
* Brox (Broxigar [[First-Name Basis]]) of the [[War of the Ancients]] [[Warcraft]] novels trilogy fits this trope perfectly, after being the sole survivor of his squad. {{spoiler|He actually gets his wish in the end by performing a [[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}
* Eowyn in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', whose courageous ride to the Battle of the Pelennor Fields has also been described as a lovesick suicide attempt.
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** Another example from ''Animorphs'' is [[Sixth Ranger Traitor|David]] by the end of his last book. Abandoned by Crayak, betrayed by his henchmen and still condemned to [[Fate Worse Than Death|live out the rest of his days as a rat]], he tearfully begs Rachel to end his misery.
* In ''[[The Inheritance Cycle]]'', Galbatorix became one after the death of his first dragon, but then stopped after he got the idea that he might be able to convince the elders to give him another dragon. And once, that didn't work, [[Big Bad|well...]]
* In the opening chapters of ''[[The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax]]'', the first ''[[Mrs. Pollifax (franchise)|Mrs. Pollifax]]'' novel by [[Dorothy Gilman]], the title character, weighed down by being a suburban widow with no real meaning to her life, shows signs of this -- she very nearly commits suicide at one point, and even when trying to realize a childhood dream by applying for a job as a spy with the CIA emphasizes how she is expendable and can be sacrificed to save the life of a younger, better-trained agent. Fortunately, once she finds herself in real danger, this part of her personality vanishes and she becomes supremely competent at staying alive.
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In ''[[Angel]]'', the Groosalugg was so "hideous" that he sought monsters to destroy him. He failed to die so incredibly he got made his kingdom's champion.
** Faith is a Death Seeker when she appears in late first season, kidnapping Wesley and torturing him all to get Angel angry enough to kill her. Back in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', she had done a similar thing with Buffy, though then her motive was that, by killing her, [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him|Buffy would become like her]], which would be a sort of "post-death revenge" on Buffy by Faith.
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{{quote|'''Loa:''' You risk your life, human, calling on the loa. Perhaps what you really seek is death. The pain in your heart begs for it.}}
** It's strongly hinted, as the series progressed, that Buffy herself had tendencies in this direction, particularly by Spike, who is [[Living Lie Detector|never wrong]] about these sorts of things. Season 6 made this characteristic much more explicit.
* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]''
** Arguably Claire.
* When Mack "[[Fan Nickname|iMack]]" Hartford of ''[[Power Rangers Operation Overdrive]]'' [[Tomato in the Mirror|realizes he's an android,]] he at first has a classic [[Heroic BSOD]], but comes out of it rather quickly... only to put himself in the line of fire more and more in an attempt to engineer a [[Heroic Sacrifice]]. It ''starts'' with pushing a [[Humongous Mecha]] toward [[Explosive Overclocking|overload]] and goes from there.
* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'''s Dean is this in a nutshell. Notice how whenever he gets the choice to die or keep living, the choice is always ambiguous. After his Dad dies for him, he's too tired of this life and as the Crossroad Demon says in "Crossroad Blues", his first thought in the morning is "I can't do this anymore." It finally comes to a head in the Season Two finale when Sam dies and Dean sells his soul to get him back, for a whole bunch of messed up reasons. For the first half of Season Three, he doesn't seem to mind if he goes downstairs ahead of schedule but finally, ''finally'' in "Dream a Little Dream of Me" he realizes the obvious fact that he doesn't ''deserve'' eternity in hell. Except his martyrdom comes back in full-force in ''No Rest For The Wicked'' {{spoiler|and he still thinks he doesn't deserve to live in ''Lazurus Rising''}} so you can't help but still think his sole goal for himself is death.
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** Marcus is explicitly described as a death seeker. He gets his wish.
** With at least six attempts at heroic sacrifice or suicide and the mother of all unaddressed guilt complexes, Delenn is an implicit embodiment of this trope.
* In [[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|the re-imagined ''
** The sanguine manner in which he {{spoiler|meets his execution by firing squad}} seems to confirm this.
* ''[[House (TV series)|House]]''. While not as actively suicidal as some of the other examples, his self-destructiveness is leading him towards an early death, his curiosity exceeds his regard for his own life, the issue of him not caring if he dies and not feeling like he deserves to live (or be happy) has come up several times and he even says he would rather be dead than deal with all the crap in his life anymore in the Season Four finale.
* ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]'': Little John, whose motto is "Today is a good day to die", as a result of guilt and grief over abandoning and losing his family. {{spoiler|In the season 2 finale, he finally declares that it is NOT a good day to die; it remains to be seen if this marks a turning point for his Deathseeking ways.}}
* In an episode of ''[[Dollhouse]]'', Echo is sent to protect a singer from a crazy stalker who's trying to kill her. It turns out that {{spoiler|the singer and the stalker have been in contact, and she sees being murdered in the middle of a show as both freedom from life and a way to become "immortal" in people's minds}}.
* Detective Inspector William "Jack" Frost in ''[[A Touch of Frost]]'' tried and failed to commit suicide by confronting an armed criminal. He got the George Cross for his troubles.
* Godric, a 2,000-year-old vampire from ''[[True Blood]]'', surrenders himself to a group of religious fanatics, hoping they will crucify and burn him, but he is saved by his vampire pals. After speechifying to the Fellowship of the Sun, he attracts a suicide bomber to his home that still fails to kill him. Later, he commits old fashioned vampire suicide by meeting the sun.
* Opie becomes this in the second season of ''[[Sons of Anarchy]]'' {{spoiler|after his wife Donna's death}}
* Logan Echolls of ''[[Veronica Mars]]'' has something of a death wish, highlighted most obviously in 1x22 'Leave It To Beaver' and 3x20 'The Bitch Is Back.' But with his background, can you blame him?
* There was an episode of ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]'' which included a Chinese-American soldier trying to get himself killed in battle because he identified both as a Chinese person and an American and thus hated himself for "being
* ''[[Star Trek]]'' has the [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Klingons]], whose religion holds that to get into Sto-Vo-Kor (their equivalent of Heaven...or more accurately, Valhalla) one has to die in honorable combat. "Today is a good day to die" is basically the motto of the entire species. A Klingon warrior who lives to old age will tend to get more extreme about this. A specific example of this is shown late in ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'', with [[Old Master|Dahar Master]] Kor. During the Dominion War arc he desperately wants to be sent into combat so that he can have a chance to die honorably, but he's made so many enemies over the years that nobody is willing to let him join the war.
** Like the Vikings below, there ''are'' loopholes. For example, when Jadzia dies her Klingon husband, Worf, collects friends and goes into battle in her honor, which in Klingon religion can earn the deceased passage to Sto-Vo-Kor. (Paralleling the medieval Christian doctrine of substitution, wherein if you had committed more sin than you could do penance for in a lifetime, you could work it off by various more active things, like crusading or helping to build a church, which devolved into the outright-purchase papal indulgences Luther found so offensive. Or someone else could transfer ''their'' merit to you, which is why rich people endowed monasteries and where that 'pray for the souls of the dead' thing originates. [[And Now You Know]].)
* The Sontarans of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' are similarly eager to die in honorable combat, a trait [[Planet of Hats|brought forward particularly]] in the new series. This trope is played with in the episode "A Good Man Goes To War" when a Sontaran slowly dying of a painful wound quips that the experience is not quite as glorious as he anticipated. Of course, he's a nurse.
* ''[[Human Target]]'': people from [[The Atoner|Christopher Chance]]'s [[Career Killers|old life]] are ''constantly'' accusing him of being this, often using this exact phrase. Given his new line of work, they sort of have a point. His clients sometimes ask him the same question, too:
{{quote|'''Mrs. Pucci''': "Everyone's afraid to die, Mr. Chance... unless, of course, for some reason they think they deserve it."}}
* [[Doctor Who|The Ninth Doctor]] shows some signs of this. From Dalek: "You survived {{spoiler|the time war}}." "Not by choice."
** [[Doctor Who|The Tenth Doctor]] also practically personifies it. It's pretty much stated in ''Turn Left'' that he'd just let himself die if it weren't for Donna.
* ''[[CSI: Crime Scene Investigation]]'' has a guy ironically wearing a [[Red Shirt]] who is the criminal of the day. I don't remember the episode, but he thinks he killed his girlfriend, and wants to join her in death. The catch? Even in a gun store filled with armed people, all shooting at him and no one else, the man won't die. Even when he jumps off a building at the end, he's caught in a safety trampoline.
== [[Music]] ==
* The song
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▲* The song ''Across the Rainbow Bridge'' by Swedish melodic death metal band Amon Amarth is written from the perspective of an aging Norse warrior setting out to find an honourable death and so enter Valhalla.
* The name comes from Death Seekers of the Lion Clan in [[Legend of the Five Rings]]''.
** The Damned of the Crab Clan are the 'diseased' variation. They are victims of the corruption they fight, and seek to do more damage to their enemy than they would giving into the Taint.
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*** Although in the fluff, death is not the only way to regain the lost honour of their packs. They deliberately seek out the largest opponents not only to seek an honorable death, but also to use it as an opportunity to regain the honor of his pack. Rarely this succeeds, but sometimes they do return victorious and the avenging of the pack fulfilled. These usually get initiated into their respective Wolf Guards. This manifests in an extra re-roll against some of the stronger units on the tabletop, encouraging players to target these units with the Lone Wolf.
** The Imperial Guard has the Penal Legions. Having committed some sin against the Emperor, they are deployed [[Zerg Rush|en masse]] with even less armor and weaker weapons than the standard Guardsman; they aren't really meant to survive, just to swamp the enemy with their numbers or to clear minefields for the [[Tank Goodness|tanks]].
** The non-canon Chapter the [http://www.fightingtigersofveda.com/ Fighting Tigers of Veda] have a similar system with the Grey Tigers, complete with a [https://web.archive.org/web/20130622054233/http://www.fightingtigersofveda.com/GT1.html short story] about the redemption of Sudra Patel.
* One of the example villains in the old edition of ''[[GURPS]]'' Supers was a disgraced sumo wrestler who couldn't commit seppuku due to his [[Nigh Invulnerability]]. Thus, he sought out other supers to goad them into killing him. His sympathetic backstory, and his history of tracking down and defeating violent supers, make him more of an [[Anti-Villain]].
** There's also a [[Point Build System|disadvantage]] called 'On The Edge', that basically allows you to play your character as a Death Seeker. It makes you passively suicidal. You won't off ''yourself'', but if you're, say, [[Curb Stomp Battle|facing down an entire biker gang while armed with a toothbrush]]...
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== [[Theatre]] ==
* Posthumous Leonatus of [[Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Cymbeline]]'' becomes one in his regret over having had Imogen killed. He first strips himself of his armor and fights against the heavily-armed Roman soldiers. He successfully fends them off and rescues the king. He then dresses up as a Roman soldier and tries to get killed in battle, but is instead captured. He's scheduled for hanging, but the King spares him. Poor guy just can't catch a break...
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* Urick from ''[[Drakengard]] 2'' got his butt royally kicked by Caim, but was so terrified of dying that he made a pact with a Reaper, rendering him all but unkillable. But he felt so bad about failing in his duties and letting his General get killed that finding a way to break his pact, and therefore die, is pretty much his sole reason for living. And despite the incredible [[Wangst]] potential of all this, he's actually a pretty [[Nice Guy]].
** {{spoiler|He eventually gets his wish when he runs into Caim again. Caim ''beats the pact out of him''.}}
* {{spoiler|The Shadowlord}} in ''[[
* Albedo from ''[[Xenosaga]]''. Since his unique genetic makeup makes it literally impossible to die (as in, his head can be ripped off with no ill effects whatsoever), he gets very upset when he finds out that his two brothers don't have the same ability. This becomes the main driving force behind his actions throughout the first two games—he wants to [[Sealed Evil in a Can|unseal]] the [[Cosmic Horror]] because it's the only thing capable of killing him and ensuring that he and his brothers can be together forever.
* Tsugumi of ''[[Ever 17]]'' leaps into a dangerous situation to save the hero's life, not because she cares about his wellbeing, but because she's hoping it will kill her. {{spoiler|Unfortunately for her, her [[Healing Factor]] makes her more or less immortal.}}
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* The new player character of ''[[Prototype 2]]'', Sgt. James Heller, hoped to die fighting the infection in Manhattan after losing his family while he was fighting overseas. After being infected with the Blacklight Virus which, if the trailer is anything to go by, will eventually turn him into a [[Nigh Invulnerable]] immortal monster that can ''never'' die, his new goal is to kill the one he blames for denying him the death he craves: Alex Mercer.
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable]]: The Gears of Destiny'' has the Unbreakable Darkness, an [[Eldritch Abomination]] [[Walking Wasteland]] who hates the fact that she can't stop herself from destroying everything and seeks death because of this. Unfortunately, in addition to the power to destroy several worlds in an instant, she's also too [[Nigh Invulnerable]] to receive the death she wants.
* Krieg the Psycho in ''[[Borderlands]] 2'' has [[Split Personality|two distinct personalities]]: the dominant one is [[The Berserker|a raving maniac who only feels truly alive when rushing into combat with reckless abandon while suffering copious amounts of life-threatening injuries]], and the second one is a rational man who hates the mutated monster he has become and considers death the second best thing that could happen to him, the first one being [[I Just Want To Be Normal|reverting back to a normal human]]. His playstyle reflects this, rewarding the player for playing highly aggressively and taking damage on purpose with an impressive amount of self-sustain to live through situations that would kill any other [[Player Character|Vault Hunter]], the Mania skill tree being particularly notable for the ludicrous durability it gives and the suicidal gameplay it encourages.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* {{color|green|D}}{{color|white|o}}{{color|green|c Scratch}} of ''[[Homestuck]]'' has accomplished his life's purpose, and as such, wants his life to end. He's a [[Physical God|First Guardian]]. You can see why he's having trouble dying.
** There's also Scratch's {{spoiler|adopted daughter, the Handmaid, aka Aradia Megido's ancestor}}. In her case, she's immortal thanks to {{spoiler|a curse Lord English put on her, and can only die once she's completed her tenure}}. Thanks to Scratch's [[Abusive Parents|conditioning]], she desperately wants to die.
* The title character of ''[[Nodwick]]''. Being a henchman is a difficult and thankless job, and results in him being brutally killed - and then resurrected by [[White Mage| Piffany]] - countless times. He has often expressed a desire to stay dead, but he cannot. As stated in his contract (which he wisely always keeps with him) states that if his physical body dies he is required to "remain on this plane of existence even if all pulmonary and cardio-vascular functions cease, so long as hope of revivication exists or until one year after date of death, whichever is ''longer''."
== [[Web Original]] ==
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* It's been implied that [[The Nostalgia Critic]] is this. Leaving the room that the bad movie is in vs. shooting yourself in the head... what would you pick?
* While [[The Nostalgia Chick]]'s never said that she ''wants'' to die, it's pretty easy to infer from her growing alcoholism that she wouldn't really mind it.
* Salem, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[RWBY]]'', was made immortal by the gods thousands of years ago, of the [[From a Single Cell]] variety, and is willing to bring about the end of the world of Remnant if it will mean she can finally die.
▲* Himei starts out as this in ''[[Sailor Nothing]]'', before [[The Power of Friendship]] gives her something to live for. The premier example, however, is {{spoiler|Dark General Argon. Because of his nature as [[The Heartless]] he's unable to kill himself directly, so he instead ensures that the protagonist will unleash her [[Unstoppable Rage]] on him -- in some of the worst ways possible.}}
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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'''Grandpa''': That's the spirit, tubby! }}
** Played straight in the ''Coon and Friends Trilogy'', when Mysterion (aka {{spoiler|[[They Killed Kenny|Kenny]]}}) confronts [[Eldritch Abomination|Cthulhu]] both to save his friends and in the apparent hope of finally being [[Killed Off for Real]].
== [[Real Life]] ==
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* John Henry "Doc" Holliday, dentist turned infamous gunfighter and gambler of the old west, is a perfect real life example of this trope. Diagnosed with tuberculosis in his early twenties Doc Holliday went out west, hoping the drier climate would ease his ailment. However, his hot temper and belief that death by gun or knife was far better than by tuberculosis, led him to a life of adventure, taking part in many shoot outs including the famed OK corral and Wyatt Earp's Vendetta Ride. Despite this lifestyle, his extreme skill, and more-so his reputation of extreme speed, with a revolver kept him alive, he eventually died of his illness at age 36 in the bed of a sanitarium. His famous last words, upon looking at his bare feet in bed, were "Now, that's funny."
* According to contemporary records, Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary was strongly implied to have become this towards the later years of his life, going so far as to practically mention this trope by name. Then again, after having to deal with the deaths of all those around him, including his brother (Maximilian; killed by firing squad in Mexico), wife (Elisabeth/Sissi; killed by an Italian anarchist), son/heir (Rudolf; the Meyerling Incident) and successor (Franz Ferdinand; assassinated in Sarajevo, sparking [[World War I]]) and watching his Empire slowly fall apart from war, [[Iron Woobie|one has to wonder]].
* Witnesses believe that the personal combat action of Admiral Walter Cowan (a man old enough to have been an Admiral in [[World War I]]) when he was in his 70s during [[World War II]] was part of him seeking a heroic death. His actions include personally providing anti-aircraft fire, and attempting to take out a tank solo using only his revolver. If true, he failed as he survived the war and lived till 1956.
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