Self-Immolation: Difference between revisions

== Film ==

* Parodied (of course) in ''[[Airplane!]]'', where Ted's boring stories cause people to want to kill themselves. A turbaned man douses himself with some flammable liquid, and lights a match, but just then Ted finishes his story and leaves. The man puts out the match, sighs... and ''Whooomph!''.

* The main character in the film ''[[Dagon]]'' attempts to kill himself by this method after learning that his family hailed from to the [[Fish People|town of Imboca]]. It doesn't take, however, as he is pushed into a nearby pool to douse the flames.

* In ''[[Mary Shelley's Frankenstein]]'', {{spoiler|Elizabeth}} does this after seeing how {{spoiler|Victor had brought her back from the dead as a hideous mangled monster sewn together with pieces of her best friend's corpse.}}