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{{trope}}
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 performed (in fiction) by someone undergoing a seizure, although in this case the concern is being swallowed, not bitten off (although this is [https://health.clevelandclinic.org/2014/06/swallowing-your-tongue-and-other-epilepsy-myths/ a myth]).
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Mentioned as a course of action in episode 25 of ''[[Kill la Kill]]''.
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** 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 ==
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* In ''[[The Silence of the Lambs]]'', Hannibal induced Miggs to commit suicide by swallowing his own tongue.
* 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 a 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. [https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/440626/Mugger-kills-himself-avoid-jail-biting-off-his-tongue He then choked to death on his own blood.]
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[[Category:Mouthful of Index]]
[[Category:Death Tropes]]
[[Category:Choosing Death]]
[[Category:Suicide]]
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