“ | I don't know what's scarier. The fact that everyone in this kingdom wants to run a sword through my heart... Or that sometimes I just wanna let 'em. | „ |
~ Nimona telling Ballister Boldheart about her suicidal ideation caused by years of being demonized and labeled as a "monster" by other people. |
“ | Gurgi not let his friend die. Taran has many friends. Gurgi has no friends. | „ |
~ Gurgi about to sacrifice himself to the Black Cauldron to save Taran. |
“ | The gods of Olympus have abandoned me, now there is no hope. | „ |
~ Kratos on attempting to end his internal remorseful misery. |
Heroes who have either attempted to take their own lives or succeeded in taking their own lives, or have been overly eager in the face of death. There can be several different reasons for this, often including "honor", sacrificing oneself for their greater cause/allies, or even a redeeming sacrifice done out of remorse. Other more negative reasons may include despair, the hero being an insane nihilist, their lives being terrible or ostensibly worthless, hoping they'll take the villains down with them or avoiding a horrible fate.
Examples of successful suicides include Jesus Christ (sacrificing himself to give up his life for humanity sins), Kerchak (he took a blow from Clayton's gun to save his adopted son, Tarzan), Stoick the Vast (he sacrificed himself to give up his life for his son), Kratos (his suicide was an example of a redeeming one), and Cole MacGrath (he chose to activate RFI to destroy the near-immortal Beast once and for all as well as fulfill his future self Kessler's dead wish, which the RFI's wave of energy not only destroy the Beast, but also kill most Conduit-gene bearer including himself).
However, some of these characters have attempted their sacrifice for their greatest cause, but they were saved by unexpected circumstances: Eren Yeager sacrificed himself to save Armin Arlert at his seemingly dying moment due to his injuries by letting himself devoured by a soulless Titan, but survived when he ended up awakening his Titan Shifting powers, Wreck-It Ralph sacrificed himself by throwing himself down into the volcano to save Sugar Rush and the entire arcade from viruses, but got rescued by Vanellope von Schweetz at the last minute, Hercules (from Disney) nearly sacrificed his own life to retrieve Megara's soul from the Underworld, but survived by earning his godhood and WALL-E held up the holo-detector for EVE to put in the plant and got badly damaged.
It is important to note that if the hero does take their own life, it must be ON PURPOSE to qualify as Suicidal. Heroes who accidentally killed themselves do not count, as with heroes who only faked their own deaths.
Many of these heroes can be tragic because suicide is depicted honestly or even sympathetically in both fiction and real-life, so there is no question that the majority of these heroes have had such experiences that have pushed them over the edge of suicide. Despite this, some of these heroes can be Pure Good because they can take their lives in extremely selfless or benevolent ways, many of the ones where they try to take down the villains with them or even take their lives in a heroic or humble way to save someone they love and sometimes even a whole world or universe (e.g. Doctor Octopus (Raimiverse), Queen Anna, Po, Anne Boonchuy, Eleven and Rosalina)
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