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See also [[Black Comedy]]. Compare [[Seen It All Suicide]], [[Black Comedy Rape]].
 
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== Anime and Manga ==
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* ''[[Harold and Maude]]'' plays Harold's regular apparent suicides for dark humour.
* [[Life of Brian|We are the Judean People's Front]] [[Literal Minded|crack suicide squad!]]
* [[Penn and& Teller]]'s 1989 [[Black Comedy]] ''[[Penn and Teller Get Killed (Film)|Penn and Teller Get Killed]]'' ends with a string of suicides, the motivation for which gets [[Up to Eleven|increasingly ridiculous]]. The first couple can be taken perfectly seriously, and individually most of them probably could, but when they're all in a row like that, they become so absurdly over-the-top that they become [[Crowning Moment of Funny|hilarious]].
* In one film, [[Harold Lloyd]] attempted suicide by gunshot. It turned out to be a water pistol. He then stood in the way of a trolley--which took a different track. This was quite common in silent films.
* In the French film ''[[Delicatessen]]'', one of the characters repeatedly attempts suicide using large Kafkaesque machines, however these attempts always fail.
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== Newspaper Comics ==
 
* ''[[Pearls Before Swine]]'' used to have Alphonse the depressed porcupine do this, but author Stephen Pastis discontinued the character because of too many [[Dude, Not Funny]] responses. (Despite the fact that the window Alphonse was threatening to jump from was, visibly, on the first story, and barely any taller than the character himself. And yes, he only had time to try it once before the fandom backlash forced him out of the strip.)
 
== Professional Wrestling ==
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== Web Comics ==
 
* ''[[Ansem Retort]]'' deliberately invokes this trope when, after being confronted by a patient he turned into a cookie, [[Morally -Ambiguous Doctorate|Zexion]] declared that if he slit his wrists right then, it'd be "the tastiest suicide EVER."
* ''[[Suicide for Hire]]'' occasionally does one-shots that are like this, but the story arcs are more serious (unless the client is a complete asshole).
* The suicide girl strips of ''[[Sexy Losers]]''. She usually stopped because a guy joked about raping her corpse, [[Necromantic|except he wasn't really joking.]]
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* Scamper the rabbit from ''[[Igor]]''. He often succeeds, but his [[Healing Factor]] prevents him from staying dead for long.
* Moe from ''[[The Simpsons (Animation)|The Simpsons]]'', to the point where one of his Christmas traditions is his annual suicide attempt.
** [[Dude, Not Funny|Disturbingly averted]] by Bart in "The Boys of Bummer".
** A classic from "Three Men and a Comic Book," when Bart and Lisa discuss [[Only Six Faces|the resemblance]] between [[Casper the Friendly Ghost|Casper]] and [[Richie Rich]].
{{quote| '''Bart:''' Wonder how Richie died.<br />
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