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* [[Suicide by Cop]]
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* ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]]''. At least, he ''tries'' to. Until one of his students saves him.
* One episode of ''[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]'' starts with a montage of gynoids killing themselves.
** The 'Complex' part of the Second Season begins proper with the mass suicide of an Individual Eleven cell, who
* The ''[[Detective Conan]]'' [[Non-Serial Movie]] ''Phantom of Baker Street'' starts with the suicide of
** More than one case in the series begins with someone commiting suicide, and you just ''know'' that said death was caused when someone ruined that person's life. And obviously, whoever is to blame will become the [[Asshole Victim]].
* Subverted in ''[[Spiral]]: Suiri no Kizuna.'' It's
* The first ''[[Kara no Kyoukai:]]'' movie starts with the latest of several suicides.
* The ''[[Animatrix]]'' short ''Kid's Story'' bookends with the same (apparent) suicide, from there it's a [[How We Got Here]] story.
== Comics ==
* [[Sin City|Hell and Back (A Sin City Love Story)]] starts with a attempted suicide.
* One of the first [[X-Men]] stories after the end of John Byrne's run on the book involved the father of a supporting character. Bonus points in this case for being [[Driven to Suicide|driven to it]] by "D'Spayre," the [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of...well...[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|take a wild guess.]]
* ''[[X Factor]]'' opens up with Rictor on the roof about to jump. Madrox sends one of his dupes to convince him not to, with a little help from Wolfsbane yelling from the street, but
== Film ==
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* The horror movie ''[[They]]'' begins with the public suicide of the protagonist's childhood friend.
* ''[[Kick-Ass]]'' starts like this, although the suicide takes place at the chronological end of the movie.
== Literature ==
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* Stephen King's ''[[IT]].''
▲== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'' has, near the beginning of ''"Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I,"'' Gaius Baltar persuading Boomer to kill herself. She doesn't succeed, but it's the beginning of [[Break the Cutie]] for Boomer.
** The plot of ''[[Caprica]]'' is set off by a suicide bombing in the first few minutes that starts off the entire plot.
* The narrator of ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'' commits suicide at the start of the series.
* An episode in Season 5 of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' starts out with one of the main characters doing this. ''For no reason''. (It was actually because the actor decided to quit the show.)
* An early episode of ''[[Law and Order]]'' has a cop's suicide start an investigation that eventually leads to uncovering the cop and many of his childhood friends had been sexually abused by the neighborhood priest.
** The 2009 episode ''Illegitimate'' begins with the perplexing case of a cop committing [[Suicide by Cop]]. The rest of the episode deals with the detectives tracing down why he did it.
* The entire premise of ''Then Came Bronson'' is the title character riding around the country on the motorcycle purchased from the widow of his friend who killed himself.
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== Video Games ==
* ''Call Of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth'' begins
* ''[[Persona 3]]'' apparently begins with Yukari attempting to commit suicide with a gun... but it doesn't take long for it to become clear that she's only trying to gather the courage needed to evoke her Persona. The gun doesn't even [[Abnormal Ammo|shoot bullets]].
* ''[[Tex Murphy]]: Overseer'' (which is a remake of the original Tex Murphy game, ''Mean Streets'')
* ''[[God of War (series)|God of War]]'' starts off with Kratos stepping off of a cliff.
== Western Animation ==
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