Suicide by Cop/Playing With
Basic Trope: A depressed individual wants to end his/her own life by the hands of another individual.
- Straight: Bob pulls his gun on Officer Alice, who shoots him with her own gun.
- Exaggerated: Bob storms an army base, intending to be killed by the base guards.
- Downplayed: Officer Alice shoots Bob after he pulls a gun on her, but the wounds gravely injure rather than kill him.
- Justified: Bob wants his heirs to collect his life insurance. Or he's too cowardly to commit suicide himself. Or he (or his religion/moral code) sees suicide as wrong.
- Inverted: Bob goads the police officer into killing innocent bystanders.
- Bob shoots the police officer.
- A depressed cop attempts suicide by gangster.
- Subverted: Bob can't go through with this method of suicide either.
- Or Officer Alice uses a taser or pepper spray instead.
- Double Subverted: Officer Alice sees Bob draw his gun and shoots him before he can put it away.
- Parodied: Bob tries to commit suicide by mall-cop. He only succeeds in getting banned from the mall.
- Deconstructed: Officer Alice ends up traumatized when she realizes later that Bob's weapon was fake/unloaded and he needed help.
- Reconstructed: Officer Alice realizes Bob's intention and escorts him to a hospital for help, where he gets better.
- Averted: Bob commits suicide at his own hands.
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