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== Other ==
* '''[[Driven to Suicide|Scorpions]]:''' ''"I'm doomed. Better to end it before they torture me to death."'' These characters are usually found (and quickly die) in [[Crapsack World]] settings, or early in some horror movies as [[Foreshadowing|an indication that things will not]] [[Downer Ending|end well for the protagonist]]. Scorpions are not suicidal out of depression or glamorizing death. They've discovered the world, or even just them, is slated for utter destruction or a fate worse than death, or they may have done it out of insanity from discovering [[These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know|something man was not meant to know]]. In short, they choose to die out of fear for a [[Fate Worse Than Death]]. Comes from the myth that scorpions will sting themselves to death when surrounded by fire.
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