Murder-Suicide: Difference between revisions

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[[Super-Trope]] of [[Pater Familicide]], where a parent kills their partner and children. Not to be confused with the mutually-consensual [[Suicide Pact]]. This does not count if the murderer attempts to get away with their crimes and continue their life. It has to be part of the same crime, not a later attempt to avoid guilt or punishment.

Though this is [[Truth in Television]], [[No Real Life Examples, Please]].

** Attempted by Asuka's mother Kyouko, except the "Asuka" that was murdered was the rag doll that Kyoko thought to be Asuka. It's not clear whether Asuka's more angry that her mother committed suicide or that she didn't get to die along with her.

** Naoko Akagi also may have killed herself after murdering Rei Mark I, though it's also possible that Gendo was the culprit.

* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'': The titular hero attempted to do this on a [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] Tuxedo Kamen, but fortunately, neither died. (He was protected by [[Pocket Protector|his watch]], she by the just-manifested [[MacGuffin]].)

* Minai from ''[[Shikabane Hime]]'' did this in her backstory. She killed her boyfriend after being beat and abused by him and then committed suicide, only to come back to become a Shikabane Hime.

== Film ==

* ''[[Full Metal Jacket]]'': After Private Pyle kills [[Drill Sergeant Nasty|Sgt. Hartman]], he seems to realize that he'll be severely punished, perhaps even executed, for his crime, and [[Ate His Gun|shoots himself in the mouth]].

* [[Exaggerated Trope]] for laughs: At the end of ''Penn and Teller Get Killed'', Teller accidentally kills Penn, then shoots himself. A guy who was just an actor, hired by Penn to play a trick on Teller to make it look like someone was trying to kill Penn, realizes that What With One Thing And Another there was no proof that it wasn't him, so he kills himself. Then his friend and a friend of his show up, whom he had invited to party with P&T after the planned [[Reveal]] to Teller. They kill themselves because there was nothing to prove that ''they'' didn't do it. Then the cops come in, see the situation, and off themselves too. A long [[Zoom]] Out occurs, as more and more people come in, discover all the dead bodies, and shoot themselves. We hear these rather than see them. [[The End]].

== Literature ==

** In ''[[The ABC Murders]]'', the murderer tries to commit suicide, but Poirot prevents it, because he doesn't believe that the murderer deserves an easy death.

** ''[[And Then There Were None]]'': Judge Wargrave commits suicide after arranging the deaths of everyone else, as he felt himself to be no better than his victims ''and'' he was fatally ill anyway.

** In ''Appointment with Death'', the perpetrator commits suicide to avoid exposure and prosecution.

* ''[[Brave Story]]'', Mitsuru's father killed Mitsuru's mother and sister and then himself, which is Mitsuru's [[Freudian Excuse]] for being a complete dick. Another character also attempts murder-suicide, but fortunately doesn't succeed at either.

* In ''[[The Great Gatsby]]'', George Wilson shoots himself over the death of his wife Myrtle, taking Gatsby with him.

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