I Cannot Self-Terminate: Difference between revisions

*** Poor Suzaku, who wants to die so badly… in ''Suzaku of the counterattack'', at one time the easiest way to save the universe is him absorbing immortality power!

** C.C., being immortal, fit this trope until near the end of the series. In fact, the "contract" she makes turns out to be {{spoiler|"evolve your geass fully so you can kill me and take my code", the same as the witch before her did to her}}.

** Well, to be fair, {{spoiler|they weren't actually [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] so much as just [[People Puppets]], although given that their bodies only followed orders rather than being controlled directly, that definition is not true either. The end result was that they were almost entirely locked inside their own mind, with their bodies outside of their control, rather than simply being conditioned. Genki just managed to destroy the [[Puppeteer Parasite|control devices]] implanted on them without killing them.}}

* Early on in ''[[Bleach]],'' Orihime's Hollow-fied older brother Sora has a flash of [[Heroic Willpower]], removes his Hollow mask and asks Rukia to perform konsou on him before he hurts anyone else. (Mild subversion, since technically he's already dead, but the afterlife concept in ''Bleach'' is weird as hell anyway.)

** At the end of the series' take of the tragedy of Orpheus and Eurydice, Orpheus is beset upon by the furies and reduced to an [[Oracular Head]]. He requests that his father Morpheus kill him, because as a divine being he can't die naturally or be killed by a mortal. Morpheus denies him and leaves him alive as a severed head. {{spoiler|The two eventually reconcile some two-and-a-half thousand years later and Morpheus fulfils his request, in the process setting in motion the events of the comic's final arc.}}

* In an old [[Batman]] comic, Batman is possessed by Manuel, a dead Satanic-worshipping pirate, who's trying to bring himself and those stuck in purgatory back to the real world. Batman pleas with [[The Flash]] to kill him before that happens. Luckily, the Flash chooses to [[Take a Third Option]].

* In ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'', Professor X had been mostly transformed into an alien Brood (the Brood life cycle: an implanted embryo takes over the host's mind and eventually transforms their body) but when the X-Men managed to take him down he had enough control to beg Cyclops to kill him. Cyclops' response was essentially "Screw that, I'm [[Take a Third Option|Taking A Third Option]]."

* ''[[2000 AD|2000 AD's]]'' ''[[Rogue Trooper]]'' encounters a subverted version of this trope. Having thought that he was the last remaining super-soldier, he is amazed to find a much older prototype living as a hermit on the poison-choked planet Rogue roams. The old man says he is waiting to die and that he feels like nature is going to take its course very soon. When enemy troops approach, Rogue's friends - personality-chips of fallen comrades embedded in his helmet and gun -- vote to leave the old man to his fate. Rogue declines -- the old man wants to die with ''dignity'' -- and his already impressive abilities are ramped up to eleven in order to massacre the enemy patrol and give the old man something Rogue hopes to have himself one day.

* In the climactic scene of ''[[Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn]]'', when the [[Big Bad]] Storm King is in the process of being summoned back into the world, [[Unwitting Pawn|King Elias]] (who has been an unrepentant [[Jerkass]] to this point), has an [[Oh Crap]] moment when he realizes that his promised [[Immortality]] will come about thanks to [[Demonic Possession]], condemning him to an eternity of [[And I Must Scream]]. In his very last moments of sanity prior to being taken over completely, his daughter Miriamele {{spoiler|shoots him with the [[Chekhov's Gun|White Arrow]], killing him}}. Later, Miriamele laments to Simon that she saw in his eyes that he wanted her to do it.

* In [[Neil Gaiman]]'s short story "Feeders and Eaters", {{spoiler|a man crushes a literally half-eaten cat with his boots; he says "It may have been a cat, but I knew what it wanted. It was in it's eyes." and then later on this character seems to imply that he's in the same position.}}

* In Andy Hoare's [[White Scars]] novel ''Hunt for Voldorius'', the Bloodtide tells the Raven Guard and White Scar scouts that it can not kill itself, but they can [[Kill It with Fire]].

* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s [[Conan the Barbarian]] story "The Devil In Iron" Octavia beg to escape an unspecified [[Fate Worse Than Death]].