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* [[Suicide Byby Cop]]

* ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou Sensei-sensei]]''. At least, he ''tries'' to. Until one of his students saves him.

* One episode of ''[[Ghost in Thethe 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 {{spoiler|mutually decapitate each other on the roof of a skyscraper. Hideo Kuze, the initial protagonist, doesn't go through with it.}}

* The ''[[Detective Conan]]'' [[Non -Serial Movie]] ''Phantom of Baker Street'' starts with the suicide of {{spoiler|[[Child Prodigy|Hiroki]]}}.

* Subverted in ''[[Spiral]]: Suiri no Kizuna.'' It's {{spoiler|a murder staged as a suicide -- or, in the anime, attempted murder staged as attempted suicide}}.

* The first ''[[Kara no Kyoukai:]]'' movie starts with the latest of several suicides.

* 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 Onon 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 {{spoiler|the dupe pushes him off anyway. Don't worry. He's saved by Monet St. Croix.}}

* ''[[Constantine (Film)|Constantine]]'' starts with the apparent suicide of Angela's twin sister.

* ''Devil in Miss Jones'' -- An—An otherwise saintly woman commits suicide and is therefore damned, but gets one last wish before she goes to hell for all eternity. It's a porno movie, so guess what that wish is.

* The [[In Name Only]] ''[[I, Robot (Filmfilm)|I Robot]]'' movie.

* The first ''[[Lethal Weapon (Film)|Lethal Weapon]]'', opens with a girl jumping off a high building.

* ''[[The Omen (Film)|The Omen]]''

* ''[[Head (Film)|Head]]'' starts off [[Book Ends|(and ENDS)]] with [[The Monkees (Musicband)|The Monkees]]' Micky Dolenz jumping off a bridge...which makes the whole film arguably his near-death hallucination.

* The horror movie ''[[T HeyThey]]'' begins with the public suicide of the protagonist's childhood friend.

* [[Agatha Christie (Creator)|Agatha Christie]]

* 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. {{spoiler|One of the victims was Detective Mike Logan.}}

** The 2009 episode ''Illegitimate'' begins with the perplexing case of a cop committing [[Suicide Byby Cop]]. The rest of the episode deals with the detectives tracing down why he did it.

* ''Call Of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth'' begins {{spoiler|and ends}} with the protagonist in an asylum attempting to hang himself in his cell. {{spoiler|While it's not completely confirmed, apparently he succeeds.}}

* ''[[God of War (Video Gameseries)|God of War]]'' starts off with Kratos stepping off of a cliff.

* ''[[Justice League: theThe New Frontier]]'' opens with the writer of a children's book, whose sensitivity picks up on the emergence of the Centre. He tries to put everything down in a story, then, overwhelmed by despair at the coming catastrophe, picks up a gun and aims it straight at the viewer, since we see everything from his perspective. He then pulls the trigger, and the opening credits start to roll.

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