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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.}} |
{{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.}} |
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** 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. |
** 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. |
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* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' |
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* Arguably Claire |
** Arguably Claire. There's more than a little suicidal element to the way she repeatedly attempts to kill herself in order to gauge the extent of her powers. |
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** In the online comics Adam Monroe is suggested to have been one at some point, before he got his "Vengeful God" master plan together. During the 1700s he spent a great amount of time fighting battles looking for a worthy opponent as he'd grown bored killing humans. Yeah, the guys got issues. |
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* 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. |
* 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. |
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* ''[[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. |
* ''[[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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** [[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. |
** [[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. |
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* ''[[CSI]]'' 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. |
* ''[[CSI]]'' 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. |
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== Music == |
== Music == |