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* On ''[[Angel]]'' Darla (a vampire) stakes herself so that her and Angel's 100% human son can be born.

* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Waters of Mars", the Doctor changes history to rescue someone doomed to die, which causes him to go totally [[A God Am I]] with megalomania. His rescuee kills herself in order to stop him, after which he snaps out of it.

* {{spoiler|Al Gough}} on ''[[~~Flash Forward 2009~~]]'' learns that in the future an innocent woman will die due to his actions, so he jumps off a building so as to [[Screw Destiny]] so it can never happen.

* {{spoiler|Al Gough}} on ''[[FlashForward]]'' learns that in the future an innocent woman will die due to his actions, so he jumps off a building so as to [[Screw Destiny]] so it can never happen.

* In ''[[Sherlock]]'' Moriarty invokes this {{spoiler|by setting up Sherlock to be "exposed" as a fraud and telling him that if he doesn't commit suicide by jumping off a building, a group of assassins he's hired will kill his friends (Sherlock appears to jump, but he's revealed to still be alive at the very end).}} Also an inversion in that {{spoiler|Moriarty shoots himself to prevent Sherlock from foiling his [[Evil Plan]] by forcing him to call the assassins off.}}

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