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* Lord Emp, founder of Wildstorm superhero team ''Wildcats'', needs to ditch his corporeal body in order to complete his [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence|ascension]] into an [[Energy Beings|energy being]], but the rules dictate that he [[I Cannot Self-Terminate|can't do it himself]]. Because the process of ascending releases enough energy to incinerate the killer, Emp tries to trick his long-time nemesis into killing him, thereby killing two birds with one stone. However, it turns out the nemesis is apparently so obsessively attached to their ongoing rivalry that, unable to accept the situation, he [[Driven to Suicide|kills himself]] instead, so Emp moves on to plan B, getting his [[Nigh Invulnerable]] android buddy to do the deed instead.
* Citizen Soldier, a constantly-reincarnating [[Captain America (comics)]] [[Expy]] from ''Stormwatch: Team Achilles''. Anticipating that the protagonists, who know about his reincarnation cycle, will put him in cryogenic suspension, he arranges for someone less knowledgeable to find out his location and kill him right as the protagonists are about to take him into custody.
* [[Marvel Universe|Marvel Comics']] Defenders originated as a result of this sort of plan by a forgotten enemy of Dr. Strange, who had created a technomagical device that would destroy the Earth if he
* A recurring villain in ''[[Tom Strong]]'', Paul Saveen, does this.
{{quote|'''Denby Jilks:''' Do you think Paul Saveen will let being dead stop him?}}
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* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'': According to Phyrexian myth/propaganda, Yawgmoth killed himself for various reasons that make sense only to Phyrexians. The true story is very different.
** Also, this is the point of the "double" spells from the joke set Unglued, which affect the next game you and your opponent play. So, you might lose the current game, but win the next one.
* In [http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/859 Illuminati], one power (The Servants of Cthulhu) can win by committing suicide. Each player has one main group (Illuminati) and over the course of the game can control, neutralize, or destroy various subordinate groups. In addition to the general victory
* In the backstory of [[Warhammer 40000]], the psychic powered shamans of ancient times realized that their power was beginning to wane. In order to preserve their power, every single shaman congregated to a single place and simultaneously committed ritual suicide. In doing so, their powers were combined and and placed within the body of a single human being who would later become the God Emperor of Mankind.
* ''[[Exalted]]'': The First Age Solars, who by that point had gone [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|cuckoo for cocoa puffs]], were killed during the Usurpation, and as their souls settled into the Underworld, they finally realized [[Death Equals Redemption|what sort of atrocities they'd committed]]. That is, save for 13 Solar ghosts who still raged at their betrayal... and who were all too happy to accept the deal the [[Eldritch Abomination|Neverborn]] offered them. Thus were the Deathlords
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* Subverted in ''[[Goblins]]'', when Thaco the Goblin finally defeats Dellyn Goblinslayer, the ranger who captured and tortured him years before. Dellyn takes great delight in telling Thaco how his name will go down in legend among the goblins because of his glorious death at Thaco's hands. Things [http://www.goblinscomic.com/06292009/ do not turn out like he hoped].
* [[Suicide for Hire]]: One client wanted to die because of the constant harassment after he was involved in a classmate's accidental death by alcohol poisoning. Hunter helped him assemble evidence of every instance of harassment (copies of the threatening letters and emails, photos of the defacement of his dorm room, etc), resulting in lawsuits between both sets of grieving parents after the suicide was completed.
* ''[[Dragon Mango]]'': A shapeshifted fortune teller explains she's doing
* ''[[Axe Cop]]'': In "The Dogs", [[It Makes Just As Much Sense in Context|the witch doctor cats, Iggy and Willy, let the superhero dogs kill them on purpose so that they can be resurrected as mummies and turn the whole world into cats]].
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