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== Fan Fiction ==
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* ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'' has {{spoiler|Ryouko Asakura}} asking Kyon to kill her, mentioning the trope name word by word, because [[First Time Feeling|she can't stand feeling guilty]] due to putting Kyon's sister in peril.
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* In ''[[Kamen Rider Kuuga]]'', Yuusuke requests that if he cannot control the power of Ultimate Kuuga and becomes the '[[Ultimate Evil|Ultimate Darkness]]', his friend Ichijo to shoot him through the [[Transformation Trinket|Arcle]] and kill him. Thankfully he doesn't become evil, just [[Badass]].
* In ''[[Maddigans Quest|Maddigan's Quest]]'', Timon begs Garland to shoot him after narrowly avoiding a trip over the [[Moral Event Horizon]], explaining that next time he's asked to kill someone, he won't be able to stop himself. Boomer approves of the idea, but the answer's ultimately a no.
* Mitchell, in ''[[Being Human (UK)]]'', ''begs'' his best friend George to stake his heart before his [[Horror Hunger]] makes him kill anyone else. After they introduce the next season's [[Big Bad]] by way of him threatening to kill George if Mitchell doesn't leave with him (and help him commit further horrible crimes), George does it. Of course, [[Contractual Immortality|he'll probably be back]]...
* An episode of the ''Outer Limits'' remake featured a scientist who tinkered with nanotechnology, and made himself nearly invincible. Unfortunately, the techniques his body used to protect him gave him a monstrous appearance, and proved potentially harmful to those around him.
* In ''[[Community]]'', Abed is incapable of stopping himself from humiliating others, he has too give out "destruct codes" for himself.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* Dwarfs in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' are an interesting example, in that their culture allows for death to atone for a terrible shame or failure, but is strictly opposed to killing oneself- according to some sources, dwarfs are mentally incapable of suicide. Instead, a suicidal Dwarf becomes a ''Troll Slayer'', which mostly entails dyeing their hair and beard, cutting it into a mohawk, and going out to [[Death Seeker|find something really nasty to kill them in battle]]. And since Dwarfs are similarly opposed to throwing a fight, the more successful (or ''un''successful, depending on how you look at it) Slayers are fearsome warriors indeed.
** Amusingly enough, the normally-branching "career paths" detailed in the Warhammer RPG handbooks break down slightly for Trollslayers. A Trollslayer's only "exit career" is "Giantslayer," and a Giantslayer's only possible exit career is "Daemonslayer," each one describing a correspondingly higher level of Awesome. And under the listing for "exit careers" for Daemonslayers...? "A glorious death."
* The Sisters Repentia from ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' are similar to the Trollslayers. They are made up of Sororitas who have somehow shamed themselves and seek redemption through death in battle. They are essentially naked women toting [[BFS|gigantic]] [[Chainsaw Good|chainsaw swords]] whose only purpose is to charge the nearest enemy and cut it to pieces.
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