Suicide by Sunlight: Difference between revisions

Braced against the beauty of another perfect day

[[No Body Left Behind|As I go to pieces]] and the [[Dramatic Wind|breeze blows me away]]

 

Vampires who want to commit suicide tend to do it by waiting for the dawn or walking into sunlight.

 

Contrast [[Kryptonite-Proof Suit]]. See also [[Undeath Always Ends]] and [[Weakened by the Light]]. Not to be confused with [[Disappears Into Light]], which is about characters who dissolves into light after dying.

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== [[Comic Books]] ==

* In ''[[X-Men]] Annual'' #6, Rachel Van Helsing has been turned into a vampire by [[Dracula]]. She asks [[Wolverine]] to kill her. He hugs her and stabs her with a stake. Before she dies, she sees one last sunrise which turns her to ash.

* A ''[[Hellblazer]]'' two-parter had the King of the Vampires palling around London with some of his undead, murderous buddies, and breaking away from the group to harrow a drunk and desperate John. When John gets a second wind and drags the King out into the sunlight, one of his buddies feels the King's death, leading another to say he's going for a walk. "And I may be some time."

* The very opening of ''[[Daybreakers]]'' has a [[Undead Child|preteen vampire girl]] commit suicide this way because she was not able to grow up.

* In ''[[Let the Right One In]]'', one of Eli's victims does this to herself.

* In ''[[The Chronicles of Riddick]]'' there's the [[Last of His Kind|Furyan]] Necromonger "The Purifier". Not really a vampire (but possibly could be considered "undead" due to his religion): he commits suicide by walking out into the sunlight of Crematoria. Of course, Crematoria is basically Mercury, so anyone caught in the open would burn like a vampire. Much in line with the rest of this trope, he walked into the sun after explaining to Riddick that he was tired of the brainwashing the Necromongers used to force him to serve them, and trusted Riddick (a fellow Furyan) to avenge their people.

 

* A vampire does this in book two of the ''[[The Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries]]''.

* In "Passionato" by Sharon Lee, an artist accepts an invitation to become a vampire because being immortal will give her more time to master her art, and then learns too late that this form of immortality includes [[Creative Sterility]].

** Relatedly, there's a pair of [[White Wolf]] vampire short stories having to do with artists. One kills himself before he can be made into a vampire, in order to avoid [[Creative Sterility]] and/or having to give up the sun. One who is already a vampire then becomes obsessed with sunlight and starts staying up late every dawn to try and watch it rise, only barely managing to drag herself away with growing burns each time. The implication is that eventually it will become this trope.

* In ''[[The Vampire Chronicles]]'', Lestat tries at one point, but at that point he's actually too powerful to die and just develops a permanent tan. Louis tries it too, but again is so powerful that his friends get the chance to save him before it can outright kill him.

* In ''[[Fevre Dream]]'', Joshua York tries this after his [[Horror Hunger]] gets the better of him. He chains himself up outside, throws the key out of reach, and waits for the sun to come up. It's an excruciating process that takes several hours. He changes his mind halfway through, [[Life or Limb Decision|severing one of his hands to get away in time]]. Despite being very badly burned, he recovers over the course of a week, and even regrows his hand, much to his surprise.

 

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': Angel tries to do this, but a miraculous snow shower clouds the sky so the sun doesn't show.

* On ''[[Forever Knight]]'', the female vampire that turned Vachon and his enemy the Inca into vampires committed suicide by sunlight soon afterward.

** Nick Knight attempted suicide this way once, only to pull back as he started to burn.

** A Vietnamese vampire who LaCroix brought over so he could get revenge on the army troop who slaughtered his village does this after the last one is dead (also by suicide over regret of the massacre).

** In the fourth season, a witch tries to make every vampire in Bon Temps do this. She succeeds with a few nameless extras, but most strapped themselves down and rendered themselves immobile to avoid this fate.

* ''[[The Vampire Diaries]]'': Stefan attempts this in the first season, but is persuaded not to do it by Elena.

 

== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* Black Luther from ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade Redemption]]'' ties himself to a cross and asks the [[Player Character]] to open the church's windows so the sun's rays can burn him to dust.

* In ''[[Castlevania (Nintendo 64)]]'', Rosa tries this in her second appearance before Reinhardt stops her. This causes [[Fridge Horror]] when you consider that you only see her once as Carrie.

 

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