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* 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.
* 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 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 Moriarty shoots himself to prevent Sherlock from foiling his [[Evil Plan]] by forcing him to call the assassins off.
* In ''[[Sherlock]]'' Moriarty invokes this 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 Moriarty shoots himself to prevent Sherlock from foiling his [[Evil Plan]] by forcing him to call the assassins off.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[DuckTales (2017)]]'' a bunch of L'il Bulbs were acting like radios. One of them was captured and the message continued to come out of it. It struggled to escape, and when that failed, it killed itself before any sensitive information was heard by its captor.


== [[Video Games]] ==
== [[Video Games]] ==