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A type of suicide
▲A type of suicide that sometimes shows up in eastern works. Need to kill yourself in a hurry without using your hands? Just bite your tongue ''really'' hard! It’s like having a stored a [[Cyanide Pill]] in your mouth, but you don’t need to prepare in advance. This probably works better in fiction than real life.
An involuntary similar action might be
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Mentioned as a course of action in episode 25 of ''[[Kill la Kill]]''.
* ''[[One Piece]]''
** A slave does this while he
** After being caught after an escape attempt, Mr. 3 suspects he’ll be tortured and says he’ll bite off his tongue.
* In the 15th episode of the
* In ''[[Naruto]]'', the character Tsunami volunteers to be taken hostage by Gato’s men and tells them if they touch her son then she’d kill herself by biting her tongue.
* Misa from ''[[Death Note]]'' tried to kill herself while restrained. L ordered that she be prevented from biting her tongue and Misa's attempt was foiled.
** However, another character tried to shoot himself. When he was stopped from doing this, he made no attempt to bite his tongue.
* In ''[[Another (Manga)|Another]]'', Keiko Numata was caught by Chibiki, who tied her up. So what did she do? Commit suicide by biting her tongue off.
== Film ==
* In ''[[Million Dollar Baby]]'', {{spoiler|Maggie}} does this so she can bleed to death.
* In ''[[Kill Bill]]'', the Bride {{spoiler|bites Jasper's tongue.}}
== Literature ==
* In chapter 6 of ''[[I Reincarnated For Nothing]]
* In chapter 651 of ''[[The Final Desperate Struggle!]]'',
▲* In [[I Reincarnated For Nothing]], during Chapter 6, the two heroes, Artpe and Maetel, encounter a Mimic. Who let out a brief cry, before it died, the Mimic bit its' tongue.
* In ''[[Filth (novel)|Filth]]'', Bruce kills Gorman by biting out the latter's tongue.
▲* The Final Desperate Struggle!, chapter 651 in another Wuxia novel, Cang Yue threatens the Palace Chief Dongfang, stating that if the chief arrests and jails both the Empress and , they will bite their tongues to commit suicide.
* In ''[[
* In the book, ''[[Like Hot Knives to the Brain]]'', four characters bite their tongues off, since they have self-defeating behaviors that were fostered through Life.
* In ''[[Blood of Aenarion]]'' N'kari tortures a bunch of elves. One of them tries to swallow and choke on his tongue, but N'kari thwarted the attempt.
== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'', book 4, when Colonel Ceeta decides to kissed Captain Tagon before {{spoiler|General Xinchub has Tagon and crew killed}}, Tagon's response was [https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2004-03-05 "I'd sooner bite off my own tongue and bleed out than kiss you, Jevee."] He's presumably being hyperbolic, but the "fine, gravitic control of the battleplate ''Tunguska''" is sufficiently fine that he doesn't get a choice in the matter anyway.
== Real Life ==
* In China sometime in 2015, a man named Wei Su was trying to steal
▲* In China sometime in 2015, Wei Su was trying to steal some woman's handbag, when he was caught by two [[Good Samaritan|good Samaritans]]. Su began to bite his tongue so he won't be arrested and go to jail.
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