Suicide by Cop: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Code Geass]]'' has Lelouch and Suzaku playing this, with Lelouch as the victim and Suzaku as the cop. This is the last part of Lelouch's own last [[Xanatos Roulette]], actually. What's more, Suzaku becomes Zero (Lelouch's alternate persona) from that moment, so effectively, Lelouch ''does'' kill himself. And he also uses one legend he created ([[The Empire|Lelouch the tyrannical Emperor]]) to reinforce the other one (the [[La Résistance|freedom fighter Zero]]), [[My Death Is Just the Beginning|pushing the entire world in the direction he wanted]]. At the same time, this is a suicide played straight, as Lelouch crafted it after falling out of hope following Nunnally's apparent demise and the Black Knights' betrayal.

** Suzaku's [[Death Seeker|general attitude]] is this.

* ''[[Madlax]]'' has a war-tired general who realizes that the war plaguing his country is orchestrated by [[The Syndicate]] (and he is but their pawn, too) and hires the eponymous [[Action Girl]] to assassinate him in broad daylight as his final act of defiance. The episode also serves to introduce [[The Rival]] to the girl, [[Dark Action Girl]] Limelda, who was assigned to protect the general.

* ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' has a variation in ''Black Dog Serenade'' which is suicide by ex-cop. Jet's old partner threatens to shoot him: the gun is empty and [[Redemption Equals Death|he just wants Jet to kill him]].

** Sounds like this plot was "borrowed" from ''The Odd Job'', originally a half-hour comedy playlet starring [[Ronnie Barker]] and later remade as a movie starring [[Graham Chapman]]. In both versions the man changes his mind and tries to persuade the hitman not to kill him. The man eventually succeeds, but then falls victim to one of the hitman's death traps anyway.

** Sound like ''that'' Plot was "borrowed" from the [[Jules Verne]] book ''Tribulations of a Chinaman y China'' where an aristocrat who loses his fortunes buys a life insurance and asks his butler to kill him, but then recovers it and changes his mind. In his story, however, in the end everything is well and the character learns a valuable lesson. Can we say "[[Older Than They Think]]"?

** Similarly, previously suicidal Rictor goes up against a horde of cops, armed with only a paintball gun. Later, Guido calls him on it.

* In ''[[Y: The Last Man]]'', Alter does something similar, murdering Agent 355 in order to bait Yorick into avenging her. Yorick sees through her and leaves her alive. The twist is Alter insists her death be at a man's hands - a good deal of the conflict in the series wouldn't have happened if she'd just been alright letting another woman kill her.

*** He even has a couple of possibly-hallucinatory [[Talking to the Dead]] moments with Zach later on.

** Before resorting to turning into a spectacularly ugly chimaera he tried to get Zach to kill him as part of their oath to "destroy anything that threatens the world." Zach had attacked him a while back when he believed he'd murdered his own mother, but since that and his going AWOL were really the only things to make Zach think he'd gotten himself an [[Evil Mentor]] and he'd just been disabused of the mistake, it didn't go well. Afterward they have a heartfelt [[Take Up My Sword]]—the iconic buster blade Zach passes on to Cloud at the end of the game.

* The entire plot of the ''[[.hack GU Games|.hack//G.U.]]'' games basically revolves around this. [[The Chessmaster]] Ovan effectively manipulates Haseo into killing him, because only if Ovan's (extremely high-level) PC is killed by Haseo's special PC, his special ability will be activated, resetting the entire internet and cleansing it of the corruption that has been sending gamers (including [[Ill Girl|Ovan's own sister]]) into coma.

* Andrew Ryan in ''[[BioShock (series)]]'' pulls a Suicide By Cop, by manipulating Jack into bludgeoning him to death with a trigger phrase.

{{quote|'''Blackarachnia''': You'll regret this!

'''Rampage, softly''': I regret ''everything'', my dear. }}

 

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