List of suicides in fiction

0–9

• 1 (9), allows himself to be absorbed by the Fabrication Machine, saving 9 from said fate in the process.
• Player 069 (Squid Game), hangs himself.

A

• Mona Aamons Monzano (Cat's Cradle), swallows ice-nine.
• Horace Abbeville (Cannery Row), shoots himself.
• Abigaille (Nabucco), poisons herself.
• Adela (La Casa de Bernarda Alba), hangs herself after her lover, Pepe el Romano, is announced killed by her mother.
• Aegeus, a character from Greek mythology, drowns himself after mistakenly believing that his son Theseus was dead.^[1]
• Piyush Aggarwal (Masaan), slits one of his wrists.
• Agnes (Poetry), jumps from a bridge.
• Aida (Aida), hides in the vault where Radamès has been imprisoned to die buried alive with him.
• Akın (Golden Boy), injures his mother Mezide and shoots himself in a botched murder–suicide attempt.
• Al (Divergent), jumping into the chasm.
• Karen Aldrich (Ordinary People), runs her car while in the garage.
• Alec (The Night Watch), cuts his throat.
• Alice (The Other Mrs.), after years of struggling with fibromyalgia, hangs herself in the attic with the help of her daughter Imogen.
• László Almásy (The English Patient), pushes several vials of morphine toward Hana, telling her he has had enough, and she grants his wish and administers a lethal dose.
• Maureen Alvorson (The Institute), already dying of cancer, hangs herself to avoid interrogation.
• Misa Amane (Death Note), unknown cause. In the anime, she is last seen standing at the top of a very tall building; it is assumed that she jumps. In the manga it is suggested that she hangs herself.^[2]
• Amara (The Vampire Diaries), stabs herself in the stomach.
• Cathy Ames (East of Eden), takes a lethal dose of morphine.
• Anck-Su-Namun (The Mummy), stabs herself.
• Andrea (The Walking Dead), shoots herself to prevent herself from turning into a walker after being bitten on the neck by an undead Milton Mamet.
• Angelica (Suor Angelica), poisons herself.
• Cesare Angelotti (Tosca) poisons himself offstage.
• Brigham Anderson (Advise and Consent), slits his throat.
• Lieutenant Hank Anderson (Detroit Become Human), shoots himself off camera.
• An-Mei's mother (The Joy Luck Club), eats Tangyuan laced with opium.
• Anna (The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez), poisons herself in guilt over Willoughby Smith's murder.
• Antigone (Antigone), hangs herself whilst awaiting execution.^[3]
• Antiope (Wonder Woman), jumps in the way of a bullet to save Diana Prince.
• Elena Apostol (The Night Manager), hangs herself.
• Alexander Argent (Teen Wolf), shoots himself in the head to avoid turning into a werewolf after being bitten by Deucalion.
• Victoria Argent (Teen Wolf), with the help of her husband Chris, stabs herself in the chest to avoid turning into a werewolf after being bitten by Derek Hale.
• Arrack (Detective Conan), uses a poison capsule hidden in his teeth.
• Saren Arterius (Mass Effect), self-inflicted gunshot.
• Asgore (Undertale), kills himself to give Frisk his soul in any neutral playthrough after the first, if the player chooses to spare him.
• Alia Atreides (Dune), defenestration.^[4]
• Leto Atreides (Dune), poison gas capsule.
• Axel (Kingdom Hearts), channeling all his power into the Eternal Flames for a suicide attack to clear Betwixt and Between of countless Dusks, dies (as a Nobody) from overexertion.
• Rei Ayanami (Neon Genesis Evangelion), blows up her EVA to kill Armisael.
• Azala (Chrono Trigger), refuses Ayla's offer to save her and allows herself to be killed by Lavos.
• Alphys (Undertale), Commits suicide in some of the endings (neutral and genocide).

B

• Kittan Bachika (Gurren Lagann), uses his Gunman's Drill Break to destroy the Death Spiral Machine in a suicide attack, dying in the resulting explosion.
• Baek Noa (Pachinko), who changes his name to Nobuo Ban, shoots himself.
• İsmail Bağcı (Family Secrets), after losing all his property due to the debts, shoots his daughter Doğa and himself in a murder–suicide; also shoots his wife Filiz, who survives after a six-month coma.
• Michael Baguenault (Seven Poor Men of Sydney), leaps from The Gap.
• Hannah Baker (Thirteen Reasons Why), swallows a handful of pills (in the TV show, she slits her wrists).
• Sedef Baksı (Family Secrets), shortly after giving birth after being raped by Tuğrul, took her own life.
• Selyse Baratheon (Game of Thrones), consumed by grief for allowing her daughter Shireen to die, hangs herself in a copse of trees near the Baratheon camp.
• Tommen Baratheon (Game of Thrones), after being informed of wife Margaery's death, jumps out of the window.
• Hector Barbossa (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales), jumps from the anchor chain of the Black Pearl to save his daughter Carina Smyth from Armando Salazar, knowingly and willingly falling to his death in the process.
• Janet Barlow (Coronation Street), overdosed on sleeping tablets after being rejected by Ken Barlow, her ex-husband.
• Sammy Barnathan (Synecdoche, New York), jumps off of a building.
• Basil (OMORI), stabs himself using handheld gardening shears.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Basil Barrow (Tunes of Glory), gunshot.
• Lily Bart (The House of Mirth), overdoses on chloral hydrate (possible suicide).
• John Barton (Looking for Alibrandi), overdoses on pills.
• Judy Barton (Vertigo), after faking a suicide as Madeleine Elster, jumps from a mission tower after being startled by a nun.
• Béatriz (The Exterminating Angel), likely ingests poisonous pills.
• Fernand de Beaumont (Life: A User's Manual), method unknown.
• Malcolm Beech (Oblivion) detonates fuel cells in an explosion to kill the Tet.
• Val Beckett (Solo: A Star Wars Story), blows herself up in a suicide attack.
• Massoud Behrani (House of Sand and Fog), in the book, suffocates both himself and his wife Nadereh, who had been asleep in the bedroom; in the film, laces his wife's tea with pills, tapes a plastic dust cover over his head, and asphyxiates himself while clutching his wife's hand.
• Ava Bekker (Chicago Med), slits her throat open.
• Jacqueline de Bellefort (Death on the Nile), shoots both Simon Doyle and herself so they may escape the gallows for their crimes.
• Belle-Mère (One Piece), deliberately allows Arlong to kill her to protect her adopted daughters.
• Belkıs (Ramo), after being kidnapped by Şerif, drinks poison hidden in her ring to avoid interrogation.
• Irene Belserion (Fairy Tail), stabs herself.
• Georg Bendemann (The Judgment), throws himself off a bridge.^[5]
• Jill Bennett (Knots Landing), asphyxia from choking on vomit while staging her kidnapping.
• Julius Berman (The Two Jakes) lights a cigarette and smokes it in a room slowly filling with natural gas, triggering an explosion.
• Creighton Bernette (Treme) throws himself off a ferry.
• Lilly Berry (The Hotel New Hampshire), defenestration
• Beyard (Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade), poisons himself.
• Billy Bibbit (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest), slits own throat.
• John Billings (The Patriot), shoots himself.
• Bing Bong (Inside Out), jumps out of the rocket wagon.
• Many characters in Bird Box and Bird Box Barcelona take their own lives through a variety of means.
• Warren A. "Blackie" Black (Fail Safe), stabs his finger with a poisoned needle.
• Black Manta (Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom), allows himself to fall into a fissure.
• Victoria Blessington (Poor Things), to escape husband Alfie's violent and sadistic nature, leaps off the bridge while pregnant.
• Melinda Mary Bloch (Six Feet Under), carbon monoxide poisoning.
• The Bloody Baron (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows), in a moment of blind rage, kills Helena Ravenclaw with a stab-wound to the chest and, overcoming with remorse, stabs himself with the same knife.
• Carlton Bloom (Black Mirror), hangs himself.
• Clifford Blossom (Riverdale), hangs himself.
• May Boatwright (The Secret Life of Bees), drowns herself.
• Bobby (Paper Mario: The Origami King), blows up himself.
• Anne Boonchuy (Amphibia), uses the power of all three Calamity Gems to defeat the Core, resulting in her body disintegrating. Not long afterwards, she is resurrected in an identical new body.
• Sarah Borden (The Prestige), hangs herself.
• Emma Bovary (Madame Bovary), ingestion of arsenic.^[6]
• Roger Bower (Awake), shoots himself.
• Norman Bowker (The Things They Carried), hangs himself.
• Mick Boyle (Youth), jumps from a balcony.
• Elizabeth Bradford (One False Move), jumping.
• Karl-Heinz Bremann (The Remains of the Day), shoots himself.
• Brenda and Jasmine deliberately crash the car they are driving, killing themselves and their seven children, in Stephen King's "Herman Wouk Is Still Alive".
• Sergeant Brodski (Jason X), maneuvers himself and Jason Voorhees into the atmosphere of Earth Two, incinerating them both.
• Rick Brogan (Surviving: A Family in Crisis), suffocates himself inside a car with Lonnie.
• Annie Graham's brother (Hereditary), hangs himself.
• Thirteen's brother (House), already dying of Huntington's disease, is given a lethal dose of drugs by his sister as a method of euthanasia at his own request.
• Hecky Brown (The Front), jumps out of a window.
• Richard Brown (The Hours), jumps out of a window.
• Brünnhilde (Götterdämmerung), rides on horseback into her husband Siegfried's funeral pyre.
• Bill Buchanan (24), wrestles a gun from a Sangalan insurgent and ignites an explosion in the White House presidential bunker by shooting the gun in the gas-filled room in a suicide attack.
• Lamar Burgess (Minority Report), shoots himself.
• Sammy Bushey (Under the Dome), shoots herself.
• Beatrice "Tris" Prior ("Allegiant") takes Caleb's place and survives the death serum, but is fatally shot by David.

C

• Caelia (Tom a Lincoln), drowns herself.
• Nora Caldwell (Seconds Away), shoots herself in the head.
• Caliban (Logan), blows himself up in a truck with two grenades.
• Father Donald Frank Callahan (Wolves of the Calla), jumps out a window.
• Pete Callan (Family Affairs), suicide by police after shooting Trish Wallace.
• Calvados (Detective Conan), shoots himself in the head.
• Alan Campbell (The Picture of Dorian Gray), shoots himself.
• Howard W. Campbell Jr. (Mother Night), hangs himself.
• Jericho Cane (End of Days), impales himself on a sword.
• At the beginning of Outland, Cane, under the influence of drugs, enters an elevator that goes through vacuum without his spacesuit, resulting (unrealistically) in his death from explosive decompression.
• Juliet Capulet (Romeo and Juliet), stabs herself upon discovering that Romeo Montague has poisoned himself.^[7]
• María Cardenal (Matador), shoots herself.
• Ray Carling is revealed in the Ashes to Ashes series finale to have hanged himself in real life.
• Sydney Carton (A Tale of Two Cities), switches clothes with his lookalike Charles Darnay so he gets guillotined in his place.
• Cassidy Casablancas (Veronica Mars), jumps off a roof of a hotel.
• Leslie Abigail Cash (Captain Fantastic), slits her wrists.
• Russell Casse (Independence Day), flies into the beam of the alien destroyer in a suicide attack, dying from the resulting explosion.
• Castel (The Bourne Identity), defenestration.
• Luke Castellan (The Last Olympian), stabs himself.
• James Castle (The Catcher in the Rye), jumps out of a window.
• Captain Denis Cathcart (Clouds of Witness), shoots himself.
• Catherine (Jules and Jim), drives a car into the water.
• John Cavil (Battlestar Galactica), shoots himself in the head.
• Katie Chandler (Stealing Home), shoots herself.
• Tom Chandler (The Bill), gunshot to the head.
• Marjorie "Maude" Chardin (Harold and Maude), overdoses on pills.
• Charlotte (The 100), jumps of a cliff after being hunted for killing someone.
• Adrian Chase (DC Comics), shoots himself.
• Chara ("Undertale"), poisons themself by buttercups
• Laura Chase (The Blind Assassin), drives her car off a bridge.
• Chen Jian-hao (A Sun), jumps from a building.
• Cheon-ji (Thread of Lies), hangs herself.
• Chloe (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), hangs herself.
• Cho Sang-woo, also known as 218 (Squid Game), stabs himself in the neck.
• Ch'u Sing (Romeo Must Die), shoots himself.^[8]
• Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly), seppuku;^[9] and Kim in the contemporary adaptation Miss Saigon (gunshot).^[10]
• Rosa "Miss Rosa" Cisneros (Orange Is the New Black), drives a van into a quarry.
• John Clarke (Brookside), shoots himself after shooting Kate Moses.
• Morgan Clark (Babylon 5), shoots himself.
• Claus (Mother 3), after realizing what he has done and what he has become, he attacks his brother Lucas with lightning, knowing it will kill when Lucas's Franklin Badge reflects it back at him.
• Vera Claythorne (And Then There Were None), hangs herself after going mad.
• Sandor Clegane (Game of Thrones), throws himself and his brother Gregor through a crumbling wall and off the falling tower into the fire.
• Ramos Clemente (The Twilight Zone), shoots himself.
• Geoffrey Clifton (The English Patient), upon learning of his wife Katharine and friend Almásy's affair, crashes his plane in a botched double murder–suicide's attempt, killing himself and badly injuring Katharine, who later succumbs to the injuries.
• Rush Clovis (Star Wars: The Clone Wars), lets go of Anakin Skywalker's hand and falls to his death to save Padmé Amidala.
• Creeper Explodes himself.
• The Clown (Arena), shoots herself through the mouth.^[11]
• Mallorie "Mal" Cobb (Inception), jumping from heights.^[12]
• Annie Collins-Nielsen (What Dreams May Come), method unclear.
• Quentin Compson (The Sound and the Fury), drowning.^[13]
• Connall (Throne of Glass), drives a knife into his heart at Maeve's orders in front of Aelin Galathynius, and his twin brother, Fenrys.
• Eliza Connor (The Water Diviner), drowns herself.
• Roger Corby (Star Trek: The Original Series), disintegrates himself with a phaser.
• Corrado (Il corsaro), leaps from a cliff to his death.
• Richard Cory (Richard Cory), gunshot to the head.^[14]
• Suzie Costello (Torchwood), shoots herself.
• Doug Coughlin (Cocktail), slashes throat with a broken bottle.
• The Count (Berserk), refuses to sacrifice his daughter to save his own life.
• Doris Crane (The Man Who Wasn't There), hangs herself.
• Stella Crawford (EastEnders), jumps off a roof.
• Pietro Crespi (One Hundred Years of Solitude), slits his wrists with a razor.
• Hayley Cropper (Coronation Street), drinks a lethal cocktail.
• Steve Crosetti (Homicide: Life on the Street), drowning.
• Marilyn Lee Cross ("The Cold Equations"), allows herself to be jettisoned from a spacecraft; it is debated whether this is a suicide due to the narrative's similarities to the tunnel problem.
• Nellie Cross (Peyton Place), hangs herself.
• Rayna Cruz (The Vampire Diaries), stabs herself in a ritual to make Bonnie Bennett the next huntress.

D

• Gianna D'Antonio (John Wick: Chapter 2), slits her wrists.
• Admiral Lord Horatio D'Ascoyne (Kind Hearts and Coronets), insists on going down with his ship.
• Max Da Costa (Elysium), a cyborg, tells his friend to activate a program that will kill him.
• Dagonet (King Arthur), breaks the ice-covered lake below him in a battle with an axe in a suicide attack.
• Lt. John Ezra Dahlquist ("The Long Watch"), exposes himself to a lethal amount of radiation in a suicide mission.
• Ken Daley (In Bruges), jumps from a bell tower.
• Fai Dan (Mass Effect), shoots himself so the Thorian can't make him attack Commander Shepard and crew.
• Missy Dandridge (Pet Sematary), hangs herself in the basement due to unbearable pain related to stomach cancer.
• Oswald Danes (Torchwood), blows himself up.
• King Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule (The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker) drowns at his own insistence in a flooded Hyrule despite protests from Link and Tetra.
• Donnie Darko (Donnie Darko), realizing he was supposed to have been killed by a jet engine that fell through the roof onto his bed at the beginning of the movie, allows that to happen as the month since then reverses itself.
• Barton George Dawes (Roadwork), sets off his explosives, destroying the house and killing himself.
• Nathan Dawkins (Beyond: Two Souls), shoots himself.
• Mazey Day (Black Mirror), shoots herself.
• Jason "J.D." Dean (Heathers), blows himself up (The film's outwardly happy original ending subtly suggests that all the other characters were killed in the explosion).
• Commodore Matt Decker (Star Trek: The Original Series), pilots a shuttlecraft down the Doomsday Machine's "throat".
• Denethor II (The Lord of the Rings), sets himself on fire (in the films, he throws himself off of Minas Tirith).
• Sheriff's Deputy (Teen Wolf), hangs himself under the Anuk-ite's influence.
• The Deuce brothers poison themselves at the end of A Zed and Two Noughts.
• Lorna Dickey (Waterloo Road), overdoses on sleeping pills.
• Thelma Dickinson (Thelma & Louise), agrees to ride off Grand Canyon cliff side with Louise to escape arrest.
• Dido (Aeneid) stabs herself with Aeneas' sword.
• Paul Dierden (Orphan Black) detonates a grenade after being mortally wounded.
• Jonathan "Jon" Dixon (A Million Little Things), steps over the edge of a balcony.
• Martha Dobie (The Children's Hour), hangs herself.
• Carrie Dollanganger (Petals on the Wind), ingestion of arsenic-laced doughnuts.
• Dolph (Nichijou), trips over his own feet and snaps his neck.
• Beric Dondarrion (Game of Thrones), while protecting Arya Stark and Sandor Clegane during the Battle of Winterfell, sacrifices himself and allows the wights to stab him.
• Joe Donelli (Coronation Street), shot himself.
• Vicki Donovan (The Vampire Diaries), burns and blows herself up with hellfire.
• Erik Dorf (Holocaust), swallows a cyanide pill.
• At the end of James Caan's novel Double Indemnity, Walter Huff and Phyllis Nirdlinger are preparing to jump off the ferry and die in the water rather than spend the rest of their lives in Mexico fearing capture (At the end of the film version, he is narrating the story into a Dictaphone, having suffered a lethal gunshot wound after having shot her)
• Douglas Douglas (Thinks ...) hangs himself.
• Meghan Dowd (Dexter), shoots herself; psychologically manipulated into killing herself by her psychiatrist Emmett Meridian.
• Dirk Strider ( Homestuck ), Decapitates himself, and later hangs himself publicly in the dubiously canon epilogues.
• Maya Driscoll (24), slits her wrists.
• Anastasia "Dee" Dualla (Battlestar Galactica), shoots herself.
• Daffy Duck (Show Biz Bugs), blows himself up by swallowing explosive substances and a lit match.
• Albus Dumbledore (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince), killed by Severus Snape's killing curse as part of their plan.
• Humpty Dumpty (Puss in Boots), sacrifices himself by letting go of a rope and falling to his death to save San Ricardo.
• Tayyar Dündar (Black Money Love), after Ömer gives him a choice to kill himself or be killed by him, he chooses the first and hangs himself in a loop made of his own belt in his prison cell by Ömer.
• Paul Ronald Duncan (Six Feet Under), an Iraq War veteran and triple amputee, injects himself in the heart with an animal euthanasia drug brough to him by his sister Holly at his own request.
• Tala Durith (Obi-Wan Kenobi), blows herself up with a thermal detonator in a suicide attack.
• Turgut Ali Duymaz (Family Secrets), snatches a policeman's gun and shoots himself during interrogation.
• Eduviges Dyada (Pedro Páramo), method unclear.
• Dyne (Final Fantasy VII), jumps off a cliff.

E

• Ed ("What We Talk About When We Talk About Love"), shoots himself in the mouth.
• Martin Eden (Martin Eden), drowning.
• Eduardo (The Exterminating Angel), likely ingests poisonous pills.
• Jimmy Edwards (One Tree Hill), shoots himself in the chest.
• Selin Egemen (Mrs. Fazilet and Her Daughters), shoots herself in the head.
• Michael "Mike" Enslin (1408), dies from a fire he set in his hotel room in an attempt to destroy the haunted room in the director's cut and second alternate endings. In the theatrical, third alternate endings and short story from Blood and Smoke, he is alive.
• Eleking (Ultra Fight), shoots himself in the head after killing Alien Icarus and Kiyla.
• Elif (Heart Wound), drowns herself in the sea to prevent her cousin Ayşe from donating her a kidney.
• Sheila Eliot (Homecomings^[15]), overdoses on sleeping pills.
• Prince Ellidyr (The Black Cauldron), throws himself into the Black Cauldron to destroy it, sacrificing his life.
• ATN employee (Succession), shoots himself in his office due to the bullying within workplace environment.
• Julian English (Appointment in Samarra), carbon monoxide in garage.
• Junko Enoshima (Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc), willingly executes herself due to enjoying the feeling of despair that came with her losing the final trial.
• Entei (Pokémon 3: The Movie), dies in a suicide attack on the Unown.
• Envy (Fullmetal Alchemist), tears out its Philosopher's Stone core.
• Eon-ju (A Blood Pledge), jumps from the roof of a school.
• Ewa Ericsson (Life: A User's Manual), slits her wrists.
• Sven Ericsson (Life: A User's Manual), method unknown.
• Çağatay Erkmen (The Circle), after being trapped in the locked office alongside his brother Kaan Karabulut and Cihangir Tepeli, all three decide to destroy The Circle by burning down its archive, killing themselves in the fire.
• Anne Ervin (The Chrysalids), hanging.
• Eurydice of Thebes (Antigone), stabs herself.
• Snake Eyes (G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (IDW Publishing)), sacrifices himself to defeat Serpentor by tackling him while armed with a grenade.

F

• Dr. Thelonious "Monk" Ellison's father (American Fiction), method is unknown.
• Camilla Figg (Dexter), already dying of lung cancer, eats a slice of key lime pie with euthanizing agents inside, served to her by Dexter at her own request.
• Gibreel Farishta (The Satanic Verses), kills himself after hurling Allie off a high rise.
• The farmer and his daughter Sally (Game of Thrones), stabs themselves in a murder–suicide.
• Tarin Faroush (24), drives his car off the top level of a parking structure to his death.
• At the beginning of the film version of Walkabout, the children's father shoots himself.
• Felix the Cat, inhales coal gas after the love of his life announces that the two have had kittens in the cartoon "Feline Follies".^[16]
• Ferro Lad (Legion of Super Heroes), real name Andrew Nolan, carries an Absorbatron bomb towards a Sun-Eater to destroy it in a suicide attack.
• Susannah Fincannon (Legends of the Fall), shoots herself.
• Theodore Finch (All the Bright Places), drowns himself.
• Adrian Finn (The Sense of an Ending), cuts his wrists.^{[citation needed]}
• Nina Fisher (Promising Young Woman), method is unclear.
• Mags Flanagan (Catching Fire), walks into a poisonous fog, sacrificing herself to allow Finnick to save the weakened Peeta.
• Isobel Flemming (The Vampire Diaries), removes her lapis lazuli necklace and burns to death in the sunlight while under compulsion from Klaus Mikaelson.
• John Flory (Burmese Days), shoots his pet dog and then himself with his pistol.
• Floyd (Jet Force Gemini), sacrifices himself to destroy an asteroid heading towards Earth.
• Flying Snow (Hero), impales herself with her own sword.
• Warren Ford (Lost), after they were both conned by Anthony Cooper, shoots both his wife Mary and himself in a murder–suicide.
• Alex Forrest (Fatal Attraction), slashes her own wrists to frame Dan for her death (in the film's original ending).
• Adam Forsythe (Emmerdale), hangs himself off-screen while on remand.
• William "D-Fens" Foster (Falling Down), suicide by cop.
• The title character intentionally overdoses on Valium at the end of Fox and His Friends.
• Artemis Fowl II (Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian), closes the second lock on the Berserker's Gate, killing himself in the process.
• Hal Francis (Blue Jasmine) hangs himself in prison.
• Frank (The Last of Us), hangs himself off-screen after being bit by an Infected.
• Frankenstein's monster (Frankenstein), incinerates himself.
• Anne Frankford (A Woman Killed with Kindness), starves herself.
• Marcy Franklin (After Hours), unspecified means (probably intentional overdose), off-camera.
• Tylendel Frelennye (Magic's Pawn), the life-bonded of Vanyel Ashkevron, jumps off a tower.^[17] Myrtle and baby both jump off golden gate bridge

G

• Hedda Gabler (Hedda Gabler), shoots herself offstage.^[18]
• Rene Gallimard (M. Butterfly), seppuku.
• An unnamed gander (Animal Farm), eats nightshade berries.
• Gamera (Gamera the Brave), self-destructs to kill Gyaos.
• Hohannes Gardashian (America America), jumps off a ship.
• Royce Garrett (Vertical Limit), tells his son to cut the rope suspending him and falls to his death.
• Yuno Gasai (Future Diary), stabs herself.
• Captain Gates (Gray Lady Down), wedges his submersible under the submarine during a gravity slide long enough to keep the sub level and allow all the crew to be rescued, but making it impossible for him to resurface.
• Jack Gates (Family Affairs), asphyxiates himself on his car fumes after smothering his wife, Elsa, with a pillow.
• Vanessa Gayle (Dexter), shoots herself; psychologically manipulated into killing herself by her psychiatrist Emmett Meridian.
• Gelato (Golden Wind), chokes himself on a gag while watching his partner, Sorbet, being butchered.
• General (Mega Man X4), throws himself into the Final Weapon's cannon to stop it from destroying the Earth.
• George (Grey's Anatomy), walks into an oncoming bus.
• Ghazan (The Legend of Korra), deliberately causes a cave-in to preclude him from inevitably returning to prison once again, and in an unsuccessful attempt to kill both Mako and Bolin.
• Edwin Gibbs (Darkest Fear), or Nathan Mostoni, commits suicide in prison.
• Maria Gibson ("The Problem of Thor Bridge"), shoots herself.
• John Gilbert (The Vampire Diaries), sacrifices himself by letting Bonnie Bennett cast a spell on him that connects his vital energy with Elena's and brings her back to life.
• Samantha Gilblert (The Vampire Diaries), uses knitting needles to do a lobotomy on herself and bleeds to death.
• Gilda (Rigoletto), allows herself to be assassinated in her lover's place.
• Gioconda (La Gioconda), stabs herself.
• The Girl (Moon), throws herself off the tower and into the water.^[19]
• Seymour Glass ("A Perfect Day for Bananafish"), shoots himself.
• Godric (Southern Vampire Mysteries novels / True Blood), "meets the sun", which is fatal for a vampire.
• Cathrin Gordon (Black Mirror II: Reigning Evil), grabs onto her daughter Angelina and forces them both to fall into the lava, sacrificing herself to save her son Darren from Angelina.
• Samuel Gordon (The Black Mirror), jumps from the top of the mansion, falling onto the same spiked fence which killed his grandfather William.
• Tony Gordon (Coronation Street), walks back into a burning building set ablaze by himself and is killed when the building explodes.
• Scott Gorman (Aliens), activates a grenade, killing himself and Vasquez as the aliens approach.
• Delbert Grady (The Shining), kills his two daughters with an axe, shoots his wife and then shoots himself in the head in a triple murder–suicide.
• Jack Grady (Fail Safe), explodes nuclear bombs inside his aircraft.
• Stewart Graff (Earthquake), chooses to die with his wife in the flooded sewer rather than climb to safety.
• Dorian Gray (The Picture of Dorian Gray), in an effort to destroy the picture, stabs himself in the heart.
• Vincent Grey (The Sixth Sense), breaks into main character Malcolm Crowe's house and then shoots himself.
• Meg Griffin (Grimm Job (Family Guy)), hangs herself.
• Carl Grimes (The Walking Dead), shoots himself after being bitten by a walker while bringing Siddiq to Alexandria. In the comic series, Carl is still alive.
• Peter Grimes (Peter Grimes), scuttles his fishing boat far from land.
• Sonny Grotowski (Monster's Ball), shoots himself.
• Karl Grove (Why Women Kill), already dying of AIDS, is euthanized by injection by his wife Simone at his own request.
• Wanda Gruz (Ida), defenestration.
• Maurice Guest (Maurice Guest), shoots himself.
• Gullberg (The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest), shoots himself.
• Gavriel ("Throne of Glass") sacrifices himself to protect Orynth from Erawan's forces. His son, Aedion Ashryver, and Gavriel's closest friends were devastated. He was buried with other noblemen from Terrasen.
• Guri (Ramo), shoots himself under the chin.
• Jean Guthrie (Sunset Song), poisons herself and two of her children when she realises that she is pregnant.
• Gordon Freeman (All Dogs Go to Heaven 2), hangs himself after realising that he won’t go to heaven, since he is not a dog.

H

• Haemon (Antigone), stabs himself.
• Clu Haid (The Final Details), gunshot in the head.
• Haines (On the Black Hill), shoots his lover Gladys Musker, before turning the gun on himself in a murder–suicide.
• Derek Hale (Teen Wolf: The Movie), sacrifices himself by holding the Nogitsune down so Parrish can burn it.
• Edward Hall (The Twilight Zone), possible defenestration.
• Han Mi-nyeo, also known as 212 (Squid Game), grabs onto Deok-su and forces them to fall to their deaths during the fifth game.
• Chuck Hansen (Pacific Rim) detonates a bomb inside the Striker Eureka in a suicide attack.
• The plot of The Happening revolves around a neurotoxin that induces mass suicide, many of which are shown.
• Col. Nathan Hardy, (Man of Steel), crashes a Kryptonian ship into a terraforming drill.
• Violet Harmon (American Horror Story: Murder House), intentional pill overdose.
• Aunt Harriet (The Chrysalids), drowning.
• Frank Harris (The Day After Tomorrow), sacrifices himself by cutting his rope and falling to his death off-screen to save Jack and Jason.
• Katy Harris (Coronation Street), drinking water mixed with sugar (deadly because of her diabetes)
• John Hartigan (Sin City), shoots himself.
• Lorraine Harvey (American Horror Story: Murder House), immolates herself and her daughters Margaret and Angela in the house after her husband Larry confesses he is leaving them for Constance Langdon, and wants the house so he can be with her.
• Kalil Hassan (24), drives his car into an oncoming cement truck.
• Brooks Hatlen (The Shawshank Redemption), hangs himself.
• Hatsumi (Norwegian Wood), hangs herself.
• Frank Hayden (Montana 1948), slashes wrists with broken glass.
• Delilah Jane Haynes (A Perfect World), hangs herself.
• Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights), starves himself.
• Grace Heke (Once Were Warriors), hangs herself.
• Kurt Hendricks (Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol), jumps to his death.
• Henry (Five Nights at Freddy's), gets his own creation, one of his animatronics to kill him, because he feels he caused Afton's downfall.
• Henry (The Last of Us), shoots himself in the head.
• Nick Henshall (Emmerdale), shoots himself off-screen, gunshot audibly heard.
• Hevy (Star Wars: The Clone Wars), blows himself up in a suicide attack.
• Hideko's aunt (The Handmaiden), hangs herself.
• Hieronimo (The Spanish Tragedy), stabs himself.
• Nora Hildegard (The Vampire Diaries), blows herself up along with Mary Louise to destroy the Phoenix Stone.
• Avery Hill (Maurice Guest), drowns herself.
• Christine Hill (Dexter), after confessing to Debra Morgan that she was the one who shot her and killed Frank Lundy, shoots herself under the chin.
• Richard Hillman (Coronation Street), attempts to kill his wife and her family by driving into a canal, but he is the only fatality.
• Hitchcock ("No Particular Night or Morning"), enters the void of space from a station.
• Zac Hobson (The Quiet Earth), overdose of sleeping pills out of guilt over the research project he was working on the night before the Effect.
• Caledon Hockley (Titanic), shoots himself through the mouth.
• Opal Hodiak (Aquarius), drinks several bottles of vodka and takes a vial of diazepam.
• Hodor (Game of Thrones), while keeping holding the door to give Meera Reed time to escape with the still unconscious Bran Stark, sacrifices his life and allows the wights to tear him apart in their attempt to break out of the cave.
• Sadojima Hōji (Rurouni Kenshin), slits his own throat.
• Vice-Admiral Holdo (Star Wars: The Last Jedi), rams the Resistance MC85 Star Cruiser Raddus at the First Order Mega-class Star Dreadnought Flagship Supremacy.
• Lionel Holland (Kind Hearts and Coronets), stabs himself with a dagger to avoid bankruptcy.
• Midshipman Hollom (Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World), jumps overboard with a cannonball.
• Mary Holmes (On the Beach), suicide pill.
• Peter Holmes (On the Beach), suicide pill.
• Simon Howe (Brookside), asphyxiates himself with exhaust fumes in a car.
• Honey Mustard (Sausage Party), throws himself from the cart.
• David Hoope (Death Note), shoots himself in the head.
• Sherine Hosni (Room 207), slits her wrists.
• Peter Houghton (Nineteen Minutes), suffocates by stuffing a sock down his throat.
• Waring Hudsucker (The Hudsucker Proxy), jumps out the window of a skyscraper.
• Ray Huizanga (Cell), shoots himself.
• Malcolm Hume (Six Years), cyanide.
• Naomi Hunter (Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots), turns off the nanomachines keeping her alive.
• Húrin (The Silmarillion) casts himself into the sea.
• George Hurstwood (Sister Carrie), inhales gas fumes.
• Ellen Hutter (Nosferatu), sacrifices herself to destroy Count Orlok by letting him feed on her blood until sunrise.
• Edward Hyde (Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde), poisons himself.
• Hyo-shin (Memento Mori), jumps from a building.
• Neji Hyuga (Naruto), uses his own body to intercept a barrage of wooden spikes aimed at Naruto and Hinata.

I

• IG-11 (Chapter 8: Redemption (The Mandalorian)), blows itself up in a suicide attack.
• Illusive Man, real name Jack Harper (Mass Effect 3), self-inflicted gunshot.
• Im Sang-jin (Save Me), jumps from a building.
• Imhotep (The Mummy Returns), who is holding on for dear life from being dragged down into a pit to the underworld, willingly lets go when he sees that his lover has forsaken him.
• James O. Incandeza (Infinite Jest), places his head in a microwave oven.
• Celeste Inpax (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney − Justice for All), hangs herself after her fiancé Juan Corrida calls off their wedding.
• The Grand Inquisitor (Star Wars Rebels), lets himself fall into an exploding generator.
• Gina Inviere (Battlestar Galactica), manually detonates a nuclear device in space.
• İsa (The Pit), after it was revealed that he betrayed the Koçovalıs, kills himself with a knife left by Selim.
• Isabella (The Spanish Tragedy), stabs herself.
• Iván (Julia's Eyes), slits his own throat with a knife.
• Nikolai Ivanov (Ivanov), shoots himself.

J

• Jae-yeong (Samaritan Girl), defenestration.
• Don Jaime (Viridiana), hangs himself.
• Eddie Jackson (Shameless), throws himself into frozen water while tied to a cement block.
• Javert (Les Misérables), jumps off bridge and drowns.^[20]
• Henry Jekyll (Jekyll & Hyde), impales himself on John Utterson's swordstick.
• Albert Jerska (The Lives of Others), hangs himself.
• Jester (Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths), blows himself, J'edd J'arkus and Angelique up with a bomb as part of a ploy to give his universe's Lex Luthor time to escape.
• Jiang Kai (Do Not Say We Have Nothing), method unclear.
• Jihei (The Love Suicides at Amijima), hangs himself.
• Carolyn Jillian (Dexter), shoots herself; psychologically manipulated into killing herself by her psychiatrist Emmett Meridian.
• Young Joe (Looper), shoots himself.^[21]
• John ("Happy Endings"), shoots himself in plot C.
• Iron John (Avengers Grimm), collapses a parking garage on himself.
• John the Savage (Brave New World), hangs himself.^[22]
• Johnny (The Room), shoots himself.
• Frank Johnson (The Return of the Living Dead), incinerates himself before he turns into a zombie.
• Larry Johnson (Sally Face), suicided using alcohol with unknown substance.
• Joker (The Dark Knight Returns), snaps his own neck.
• Mr. Jones (Dr. No), swallows a cyanide capsule.
• Jasper Jordan (The 100), overdosing on the tea that he made from the hallucinogenic Jobi Nuts.
• Joseph (Contact), blows himself up.
• Dayna Jurgens (The Stand), smashes her head through a glass window and thrashes her head around so that the sharp edges of the glass cut open her jugular vein.
• Jude (Autopsy), explosion.
• A junior officer in Gray Lady Down helps Captain Blanchard close a waterproof door from the opposite side after a hull breach to the submerged submarine, trapping himself on the water-filled side and drowning.
• Juxian (Farewell My Concubine), is found dead, method unknown.

K

• K (Kokoro), slits his throat.
• Katerina Kabanova (The Storm), throws herself into the Volga.
• Kaioh (Fist of the North Star), allows himself to be covered in lava, while holding Hyoh in his arms.
• Kanjigar the Courageous (Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia), throws himself into the daylight to keep the Trollhunter amulet out of Bular's hands.
• Kaan Karabulut (The Circle), after being trapped in the locked office alongside his brother Çağatay Erkmen and Cihangir Tepeli, all three decide to destroy The Circle by burning down its archive, killing themselves in the fire.
• Niyazi Karaçam (Family Secrets), throws himself in front of a speeding truck to avoid arrest for killing Engin Tilmen.
• Ece Karan (Don't Let Go of My Hand), shoots herself in the head.
• Anna Karenina (Anna Karenina), steps into the path of a train.^[23]
• Haman Karn (Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ), deliberately crashes her mecha.
• Father Damien Karras (The Exorcist), defenestration.
• Toshiko Kasen (Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories), falls out of the window.
• Kasili (the Book and the Sword), stabs herself after she finds the conspiracy of Qianlong Emperor, and tells her lover Chen Jialuo "Do not trust the emperor", by writing with blood.
• Moritsugu Katsumoto (The Last Samurai), seppuku.
• Katsuro (The Human Centipede (First Sequence)), slits his throat with a shard of glass.
• Keita (Sword Art Online), jumps off the edge of Aincrad.
• Joe Keller (All My Sons), shoots himself.
• Kelly (2:37), slits her wrists.
• Joe Kelly (Sayonara), found dead beside Katsumi Kelly, swallows poison.
• Katsumi Kelly (Sayonara), found dead beside Joe Kelly, swallows poison.
• Kenji (Rush Hour 3), separates himself from Lee, falling to his death.
• Obi-Wan Kenobi (Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope), allows Darth Vader to kill him so that Luke Skywalker and his allies can get back on to the Millennium Falcon.
• Gabriel Kent (The Bill), jumps off the top of a building.
• Jonathan Kent (Man of Steel), tells Clark to not save him when an incoming tornado sweeps him up to his death.
• Dr. Khatri (Fortitude), fires a flare gun in the helicopter after she realizes the mercenary from the extraction team flying it has been ordered to kill her, causing an explosion that destroys the helicopter and kills them both.
• Erik Killmonger (Black Panther), real name N'Jadaka, pulls a knife out of his chest and bleeds to death knowing that he can be saved with advanced medical technology.
• Kim Jung-kyu (The Snow Queen), method unknown.
• Kim Jung-sook (Whispering Corridors), hangs herself.
• Kim So-hee (Wishing Stairs), jumps from a hospital window.
• Kim Yong-ho (Peppermint Candy), stands in front of a speeding train.
• Felicia Kimball (Nightmare Alley), shoots herself.
• Rosemary King (Emmerdale), shoots herself off-screen in America.
• Charles Kingshaw (I'm the King of the Castle), drowns himself.
• Alexei Kirilov (Demons (Dostoevsky novel)), shoots himself.
• George Kirk (Star Trek), dies aboard the USS Kelvin in a suicide attack on the Narada.
• Kizuku (Norwegian Wood), carbon monoxide poisoning.
• Makoto Kobayashi (Colorful), overdoses on pills.
• Nagito Komaeda (Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair) commits suicide by causing someone to unintentionally murder him in an attempt to create an unsolvable crime.
• Irina Komarov (A Good Day to Die Hard), dies after failed suicide attack.
• Major Kong (Dr. Strangelove) rides a nuclear bomb after it has been dropped from the bomber.
• Sergei Kostenko (Chernobyl: Zone of Exclusion), during the shootout, his 2013 version shoots his 1986 version and vanishes thin into the air.
• Kowalski (Vanishing Point), deliberately drives onto two bulldozers.
• Matt Kowalski (Gravity), while in space, to prevent dragging Dr. Stone with him, detaches the cable attached to the back of his MMU that Stone is holding onto, presumably suffocating in the subsequent few minutes after detaching.
• Walt Kowalski (Gran Torino), intentionally provokes gang members to shoot him.
• Taheji Koyama (Hitman), hires Agent 47 to kill him.
• Millicent Kramer (Everyman), overdoses on sleeping pills.
• Paige Krasikeva (Teen Wolf), already dying after rejecting an Alpha Werewolf's bite, asks Derek Hale to end her suffering, and he snapps her spine on the roots of the Nemeton.
• Kraven the Hunter (The Amazing Spider-Man), shoots himself.
• Yoji Kuramuto (Battle Royale), in the film, hangs himself alongside his girlfriend Yoshimi Yahagi.
• Asena Kutlusay (My Left Side), hangs herself.
• Lawrence Kutner (House), dies of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.^[24][25]
• Kaltain Rompier ("Throne of Glass") destroys a third of Morath with her magic along with herself.

L

• Leaf (Game of Thrones), sacrifices herself by letting the wights get close to her, where they stab her multiple times, and activates explosive device, setting a small section of the wights aflame, but also killing herself in the process.
• Lelouch Lamperouge (Code Geass), plans his own martyrdom by having Suzaku disguised as Zero impale him when he is parading through the streets.
• Rolo Lamperouge (Code Geass), repeatedly uses his Geass in a suicide rescue to save Lelouch, dying from overexertion.
• John Lancaster (London Has Fallen), forces Jax to shoot him instead of surrendering.
• Nathan Landau (Sophie's Choice), ingests sodium cyanide.
• Alfred Lanning (I, Robot), orders Sonny to throw him from the top floors of the US Robotics headquarters building.
• Claude Lantier (L'Œuvre), hangs himself.
• Latios (Pokémon Heroes) uses all his psychic ability to save Altomare from an oncoming tsunami, dying corporeally from overexertion.
• Harold Lauder (The Stand), shoots himself in the head.
• Laura (The Orphanage), takes an overdose of sleeping pills.^[26]
• Leonard "Gomer Pyle" Lawrence (Full Metal Jacket), self-inflicted gunshot wound after murdering his drill instructor.
• Georges Leblanc (Elle), hangs himself.
• Dick and Emmeline Lestrange, along with their child, eat poisonous berries at the end of The Blue Lagoon (the ending makes it ambiguous, but the sequel, The Garden of God, makes clear that they died while the child survives. The 1949 and 1980 film adaptations preserve the ambiguity).
• Lee Cheon-ji (Thread of Lies), hangs herself.
• Lee Jin-pyo (City Hunter), suicide by secret service.
• Lee Soo-ah (Oldboy), separates herself from her brother Woo-jin trying to pull her up, falling from a dam to her death.
• Lee Soo-hyeok (Joint Security Area), shoots himself in the mouth.
• Lee Woo-jin (Oldboy), shoots himself in the head.
• Johan Leebig (The Naked Sun), poisons himself out of fear of human contact.
• General Leia Organa (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker), uses her remaining strength to reach out to her son Kylo Ren through the Force.
• Leonora (Il Trovatore), poisons herself.
• Ernst Lessner (Land of Mine), walks through a minefield until he detonates a landmine.
• Myra Lester (Waterloo Bridge), walks into path of a moving truck.
• Sarah Lewis (Home and Away), shoots herself.
• Hu Li (Rush Hour 2), blows herself up.
• Liam (My Name Is Joe), hangs himself rather than face retribution from a drugs gang.
• Zuzanna "Zula" Lichoń (Cold War), overdoses on pills.
• Su Lin (Enter the Dragon), stabs herself with a shard of glass.
• Bonnie Lisbon (The Virgin Suicides), hangs herself.^[27]
• Cecilia Lisbon (The Virgin Suicides), jumps out of her bedroom window.^[28]
• Lux Lisbon (The Virgin Suicides), poisons herself with carbon monoxide.^[29]
• Mary Lisbon (The Virgin Suicides), overdoses on sleeping pills.^[30]
• Therese Lisbon (The Virgin Suicides), overdoses on sleeping pills.^[31]
• Tom Lister (Brute Force), hangs himself.
• Little Father Time (Jude the Obscure), hangs himself.
• Liù (Turandot), stabs herself.
• Gordon Livesy (Emmerdale), hangs himself one day into an 18-year prison sentence for sexually abusing his son.
• Livia (Constance), hangs herself.
• Liza (Poor Liza), drowns herself in the lake of the monastery garden.
• Joy Lobo (3 Idiots), hangs himself.
• Willy Loman (Death of a Salesman), car crash.^[32]
• Kevin Lomax (The Devil's Advocate), shoots himself to prevent being forced to create an heir, but is still alive after John Milton loops him back to the courthouse bathroom.
• Mary Ann Lomax (The Devil's Advocate), cuts her throat with the shards of a broken mirror.
• Lonnie (Surviving: A Family in Crisis), suffocates herself inside a car with Rick Brogan.
• Mary Louise (The Vampire Diaries), blows herself up along with Nora Hildegard to destroy the Phoenix Stone.
• Ilse Lubin (Midnight's Children), drowns herself.
• Lucario (Lucario and the Mystery of Mew), takes Ash's aura and uses all of his own to save Mew and the Tree of Beginning and dies of overexertion.
• Don Luis (Belle Époque), hangs himself.
• Vesper Lynd (Casino Royale), overdoses on sleeping pills (in the 2006 film, she drowns herself).
• Garfield Lynns (Arrow), walks into the fire.

M

• M ("Men Without Women"), unspecified.
• M-5 (Star Trek: The Original Series), shuts itself down, believing it deserves to die.
• Maab (Star Trek: The Original Series), deliberately lets the Klingon Kras disintegrate him with a phaser.
• Lady Macbeth (Macbeth), off-stage, method unspecified, "Who, as 'tis thought, by self and violent hands took off her life".^[33]
• Lori Madison (The Deuce), shoots herself in the head in a hotel room.
• Madotsuki (Yume Nikki), throws herself off her apartment balcony.
• Maedhros (The Silmarillion), casts himself into a fiery chasm.
• Magis (Tensou Sentai Goseiger), throws himself and his opponent Kurasuniigo off of a cliff in a futile suicide attack while saving Hyde's life.
• Norman Maine (A Star Is Born), drowns himself by getting inebriated and walking into the ocean.
• Majid (Caché), slits his throat.
• Samuel Maleski (Anatomy of a Fall), jumps off the attic window.
• Prince Mamuwalde (Blacula), intentionally exposes himself to sunlight.
• The Man (The Vampire Diaries), steps onto the road and hit by the truck while under compulsion from Isobel Flemming.
• The Man (The Vampire Diaries), stabs himself in the throat.
• Oscar "Manny" Manheim (Runaway Train), releases the railway coupling of a runaway train connecting the engine and the freight and soon crashes to his death.
• Elliott Mantle (Dead Ringers), disemboweled by his brother Beverly at his own request. The end of the film suggests Beverly then purposely overdoses.
• Sal Marcano (Mafia III), self-inflicted gunshot.
• Marina (The Sinner), kills herself after providing assisted suicide to her boyfriend Alexander.
• Lt. Col. Matthew Andrew Markinson (A Few Good Men), shoots himself.
• Elsa Mars (American Horror Story: Freak Show), realizing that her career is nearly over, agrees to perform on Halloween, knowing this will summon Edward Mordrake; as she performs, Mordrake and his coterie appear and take her to the afterlife.
• Kate Marsh (Life Is Strange), if the player chooses not to save her she will jump off the school roof.
• Hayley Marshall-Kenner (The Originals), burns to death in the sunlight alongside Greta in a murder–suicide, sacrificing herself to save Klaus and Hope.
• Benigno Martín (Talk to Her), overdoses on sleeping pills.
• Habib Marwan (24), while hanging from the upper floors of a parking structure, separates himself from a Jack Bauer who is trying to pull him up to safety, falling to his death.
• Mary ("Happy Endings"), overdoses on sleeping pills and aspirins in plot B.
• Mr. Mason (Ax 'Em) shoots himself after killing his wife and two of his children.
• Bertha Mason (Jane Eyre), sets fire to Thornfield Hall and dies by jumping off the roof of the burning building.
• George Mason (24), who has no more than a few hours to live due to exposure to plutonium radiation, convinces Jack Bauer to let him finish flying a plane carrying a live nuclear warhead into the Mojave Desert, dying from the blast.
• Master Shake (Aqua Teen Hunger Force), jumps into a pool full of piranhas while overdosed on sleeping pills and breathing in carbon monoxide.
• Matsumoto ("The Silence"), jumps in front of a train.
• Yuko Matsunaka ("A Shinagawa Monkey"), slits her wrists.
• Mrs. Mayberry (Helluva Boss), shoots herself.
• M.C. (Cabaret), in the 1998 revival, is taken to a concentration camp, where he throws himself onto the electric fence.
• In Bobbie Gentry's song "Ode to Billie Joe", the title character, Billie Joe McAllister, jumps off a bridge.
• Janet McCardle (Black Mirror), hangs herself.
• Kenny McCormick (South Park), sacrifices himself via electrocution while turning on a hospital generator in an attempt to revitalize Dr. Mephesto; sacrificially smacks his head into the conch shell containing Moses to free him; as Mysterion, shoots himself in the head on two separate occasions; as Mysterion, impales himself in a pit of spikes in R'yleh in order to reincarnate back on Earth.
• Col. McCullough (War for the Planet of the Apes), or simply The Colonel, shoots himself.
• Chuck McGill (Better Call Saul), burns his own house while inside it.
• McWatt (Catch-22), flies his plane into a mountain.
• Meatwad (Aqua Teen Hunger Force), shoots himself in the head.
• Medora (Il corsaro), poisons herself.
• Melisandre (Game of Thrones), removes her magical choker and collapses into dust in her old form.
• Serdengeçti's member (Ramo), shoots himself in the heart pressing the trigger of Ramo's gun to avoid interrogation.
• Raul Menendez (Call of Duty: Black Ops II), self-immolation.
• Michael Mensana (First Reformed), shoots himself.
• Doğukan Mert (The Pit), mistakenly believing he was responsible for his father's killing, twists Yamaç's car steering wheel off to fell off to the abyss.
• Metal Sonic (Sonic the Hedgehog (OVA)), refuses help from the real Sonic and chooses to be killed by rising magma.
• Aura Michibane (Bleach), sacrifices herself to help stop Tokinada's plans, her body disintegrating.
• I. J. "Multiple" Miggs (The Silence of the Lambs), gets talked into killing himself by Hannibal Lecter.
• Mighty (Bomberman Jetters), critically wounded, goes on a mission to destroy a Hige-Hige base, dying in the explosion.
• Elijah and Klaus Mikaelson (The Originals), drove the white oak stakes into each other's hearts at the same moment.
• Teru Mikami (Death Note), stabs himself with a pen.
• Kayleigh Miller (The Butterfly Effect), after Evan made her a recall she was sexually abused as a child by her father George, quarrels with him and commits suicide the same night.
• Julia Milliken (24), shoots herself.
• Miloš (A Serbian Film), fires a fatal shot through himself, son Petar, and wife Marija in a double murder–suicide.
• Naomi Misora (Death Note), hangs herself.
• Jacob Mitchell (A Simple Plan), tells his brother to shoot and kill him, threatening to shoot himself if the brother does not comply.
• Marsha Mitchell (Dexter), suffering from depression following the death of her daughter Vera, jumps off the Collins Canal Bridge.
• Peggy Mitchell (EastEnders), intentionally overdoses on medication.
• Rebecca Mitchell (Dexter), being enough of mental abuse by her mother Sally, slices her femoral artery in a bathtub.
• Stanley "Stan" Mitchell (Stan), drowns himself and his pregnant girlfriend in a murder–suicide by driving off the bridge and into the river.
• Mitsuhirato (The Blue Lotus), commits seppuku.
• Miura (The Bad Sleep Well), runs in front of a moving truck.
• Kyuzo Miyabe (The Eternal Zero), kamikaze.
• Kojiro Miyawaki (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle), hangs himself.
• Natsuko Miyawaki (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle), hangs herself.
• Monitor Kernel Access / Monika.chr / Monika (Doki Doki Literature Club!), deletes self from game.
• Romeo Montague (Romeo and Juliet), takes poison after finding Juliet whom he believed to be dead.^[34]
• Nora Montgomery (American Horror Story: Murder House), shoots both her husband Charles and herself in a murder–suicide.
• "Papa" Monzano (Cat's Cradle), swallows ice-nine.
• Michael Moore (Team America: World Police), blows himself up in a suicide bombing.
• Morao (Celda 211), slits his wrists.
• Harry Morgan (Dexter), ashamed of what he had trained Dexter to do, deliberately overdoses himself on his medication.
• Kendrix Morgan (Power Rangers Lost Galaxy), sacrifices herself to destroy the Savage Sword, but is killed by the resulting explosive backlash. Is resurrected at the end of the series.
• Tom Morgan (Eagle Eye), rams his car into a large piece of metal in a suicide attack.
• James "Jim" Moriarty (Sherlock), shoots himself.
• Deputy Morrow (Teen Wolf), shoots himself in the head under the Anuk-ite's influence.
• Jerome Morrow (Gattaca), sets himself on fire in the incinerator in his house.
• Mehmet İnce's mother (The Trusted), suffering from domestic violence, hangs herself as her husband Yavuz watches.
• Mothra (Godzilla: Final Wars), kamikazes into Gigan; killing both of them in the process.
• Darren Mullet (Tormented), hangs himself.
• Aniki Murakawa (Sonatine), shoots himself in the head.
• Connor Murphy (Dear Evan Hansen), unspecified, but a song that was deleted from the final show alludes to an overdose on pills.

N

• N'Doul (Stardust Crusaders), uses his stand to destroy his brain in order to prevent Joseph Joestar from reading his memories.
• Nana (A Thousand Splendid Suns), hangs herself.
• Nanny (The Omen), hangs herself.
• Naoko (Norwegian Wood), method unclear.
• Nathaniel/John Mandrake (Ptolemy's Gate), collapses a building on himself to destroy Nouda the Terrible.
• Neil Perry (Dead Poets Society), shoots himself.
• Neo (The Matrix Revolutions), allows Agent Smith to assimilate him so the machines can destroy them both.
• Robert Neville (I Am Legend), takes cyanide pills to avoid brutal execution from his zombified captors. In film, he sacrificed himself by detonating himself alongside infected humans to save two uninfected humans. In comics, he was killed by mutated-but-retained humans.
• Newt (The Death Cure), begs Thomas to kill him so that he does not have to succumb to the Flare virus.
• Nicholas (The Walking Dead), shoots himself to prevent himself getting devoured by a large group of walkers.
• Ralph Nickleby (Nicholas Nickleby), hangs himself.
• Niënor Níniel (The Silmarillion), casts herself into a river.
• Nineteen-hundred (The Legend of 1900), or 1900, knowingly stays on a ship rigged to explode.
• Nomad (The Changeling (Star Trek: The Original Series)), blows itself up after being convinced that it is not perfect after all.
• Norma (Norma), immolates herself.
• Samuel Norton (The Shawshank Redemption), shoots himself.
• Hasan Numair (24), detonates an atomic bomb in a suicide terror attack.
• El número (Belle Epoque), shoots himself.
• Nux (Mad Max: Fury Road), crashes his vehicle to collapse a canyon and its vehicles in a suicide attack.

O

• Doctor Octopus (Spider-Man 2), sacrifices himself to save New York City.
• Sakura Ogami (Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc), poisons herself.
• Sakura Ogawa (Battle Royale), throws herself off a cliff alongside Kazuhiko Yamamoto.
• Okonkwo (Things Fall Apart), hangs himself.
• The unnamed old man in A Quiet Place screams to draw the attention of the creatures that killed his wife.
• Helen O'Loy ("Helen O'Loy"), a metallic robot, with the assistance of a human, dissolves herself in acid.
• Olya (The Adolescent^[35]), hanging.
• Kokichi Oma (Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony), asks another character to crush him in a hydraulic press.
• Simon O'Neill, (Battlestar Galactica: The Plan), rigs an airlock outside of resurrection range, dying in space.
• Angela Orosco (Silent Hill 2), unknown cause, though the last she was seen she was walking up a burning staircase.
• Jacopo Ortis (The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis), stabs himself.
• Ophelia (Hamlet), drowning (ambiguous).^[36]
• John Osborne (On the Beach), suicide pill. Julian Osborne, the same character in the 1959 film, commits suicide via carbon monoxide poisoning.
• Mrs. Ota (Thousand Cranes), overdoses on sleeping pills.
• Othello (Othello), stabs himself.^[37]
• Owlman (Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths), allows himself to be blown up by his own planet-destroying bomb.

P

• Charlie Pace (Lost), drowns, sacrificing himself in an effort to save the other survivors.
• Walter Paisley (A Bucket of Blood), hangs himself after committing multiple murders.
• Heinrich and Berta Palitz (Holocaust), poison themselves shortly after Kristallnacht.
• Henry L. Palmetto (The Great Gatsby), jumps in front of a subway train.
• Pandora (God of War III), sacrifices herself to put out the Flame of Olympus, allowing Kratos to open her box.
• Parone (Saga), hangs himself.
• Emir Parkreiner (Killer7), shoots himself after murdering the Killer7.
• Gabriel Pasternak (Wild Tales), rams an airplane into his parents' house.
• Eichen House Patient (Teen Wolf), hangs himself.
• The title character in "Paul's Case" walks in front of a train.
• Serena Pemberton (Serena), set the cabin on fire with herself inside.
• Christine Penmark (The Bad Seed), shoots herself in the head.
• Frank Pentangeli (The Godfather Part II), slits his wrists.
• Stacker Pentecost (Pacific Rim) detonates a bomb inside the Striker Eureka in a suicide attack.
• Neil Perry (Dead Poets Society), shoots himself.
• Pericolo (Golden Wind), shoots himself to prevent interrogation.
• Petunia (Happy Tree Friends), falls into insanity and skins herself with a potato peeler in a futile attempt to remove green sludge from her fur.
• Carol Lee Phillips (Queen Bee), hangs herself.
• Phoenix I, in the form of Jean Grey (Uncanny X-Men), telekinetically activates an energy cannon that disintegrates her.^[38]
• The Pianist (Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom), suddenly realises with horror what atrocities are being committed and, climbing out, throws herself to her death.
• Piccolo (Dragon Ball), takes one of Nappa's attacks to protect Gohan.
• Yvette Gessard-Picard (Star Trek: Picard), hanged herself in the solarium. Her son Jean-Luc discovered her body, and blamed himself for her death for decades afterward.^[39]
• Eugene Pontecorvo (The Sopranos), hangs himself after being denied the chance to move to Florida by both Tony Soprano and the FBI.
• Edna Pontellier (The Awakening), drowns herself in the Gulf of Mexico.
• Frederick Pope (The Red Violin), poisoning or drowning.
• Portia (Julius Caesar), "swallows fire".
• Pepin J. Pound (The Automation), shoots self to free his Automaton.
• Predator (Predator), blows itself up in an attempt to finish Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer.
• Titus Price (Anna of the Five Towns) hangs himself.
• Margaret Prior (Affinity), drowns.
• Scott Pritchard (No Way Out) shoots himself.
• The Protagonist (Persona 3) expends all of their life energy to seal away Nyx and prevent her from destroying humanity.
• Adrian Doyle Pryce (Oldboy), shoots himself.
• Arthur Pryce (Oldboy), unspecified.
• Lane Pryce (Mad Men), hangs himself.
• Madelyne Pryor (X-Men), mentally commits suicide by forcing her mind to shut down.^[40]
• Two Pyramid Heads (Silent Hill 2), both stab themselves in the head with giant spears.
• Pyramus (Pyramus and Thisbe) falls on his sword.

Q

• Rose Quartz (Steven Universe), chooses to get pregnant with and give birth to Steven, knowing doing so will kill her.
• Quasimodo (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame), starves himself to death in the Gibbet of Montfaucon while clutching Esmeralda's corpse.
• Robert Queen (Arrow), shoots his bodyguard Dave Hackett before turning the gun on himself after making it to a life raft with his son Oliver as there was not enough food or water for all three of them to survive.
• Qetsiyah / Tessa (The Vampire Diaries), slits her wrists.
• Quicksilver (Avengers: Age of Ultron), shields Hawkeye and a child from gunfire using his own body.

R

• Admiral Shala'Raan vas Tonbay (Mass Effect 3), self-inflicted gunshot.
• Niall Rafferty (Hollyoaks), throws himself off a cliff.
• Daisy Randone (Girl, Interrupted), method is unknown in the novel^[41] while in the movie, she hangs herself and cuts her wrists.
• Raoh (Fist of the North Star), sends the last of his life energy into the heavens, restoring light to the world,
• Ill Ratt (Death Note), real name Carl Darlingbin, shoots himself in the head.
• Edgardo Ravenswood (Lucia di Lammermoor), stabs himself.
• Susan Rawling (To Room Nineteen), gasses herself.
• Jim Reed shoots himself after mistakenly killing another character in Stephen King's The Regulators
• Red (Red Hot Riding Hood), nicknamed Wolf, shoots himself with two guns.
• Simone Renoir (The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice), a vampire, chooses to see one last sunrise.
• Denholm Reynholm (The IT Crowd), jumps out of a window.
• Maximilien Riccetti (Life: A User's Manual), hangs himself.
• Richard (Go Tell It on the Mountain), slits his wrists.
• Claire Richards (White Oleander), overdoses on pills.
• John Richter (Guttersnipe), suicide by cop.
• Ethan Rickover (Monk) shoots himself in the head after it is revealed that he killed three people including Adrian Monk's wife.
• Ty Riggs (The Last Time We Say Goodbye), shoots himself.
• Ellen Ripley (Alien 3), throws herself into a blast furnace and a Queen Chestburster emerges from her chest.
• Brig.-Gen. Jack D. Ripper (Dr. Strangelove), shoots himself.
• Risa's father (Pachinko), method unknown.
• First RoboCop 2 Prototype (RoboCop 2), shoots himself in the head.
• Second RoboCop 2 Prototype (RoboCop 2), pulls off its helmet, severing its own life support.
• Rodolfo (Luisa Miller), poisons himself after poisoning Luisa.
• Natasha Romanoff (Avengers: Endgame), also known as Black Widow, sacrifices herself for the Soul Stone.
• Fedora Romazoff (Fedora), poisons herself.
• The Romulan commander (in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Balance of Terror")), intentionally blows up his own ship rather than be taken prisoner.
• Rosemary (The Giver), poisons herself.
• Carolyn Baker Rossi (Criminal Minds), fatal overdose of pills.
• Sol Roth (Soylent Green), ingests poison.
• Lydia Rozanova (Two Destinies), locks herself in the apartment with the gas stove burners open, which leads to a lethal poisoning.
• Administer Rubio (Arknights), shoots himself.
• Brock Rumlow (Captain America: Civil War), vest explosion in an unsuccessful attempt to kill Steve Rogers.
• In Bret Easton Ellis's novel The Rules of Attraction, Sean's unnamed admirer slits her wrists in the bathtub after she comes to believe Sean is in love with Lauren.
• Rumpelstiltskin (Rumpelstiltskin), tores himself in two.
• Andrew Ryan (BioShock), orders Jack to kill him.
• Bernard Ryder or Mr. Blue (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three), electrocutes himself. Suicide by cop in the 1998 film. He tempts New York City subway dispatcher Walter Garber to shoot him in the 2009 film.
• Ryoma (Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest), seppuku.
• Ryosuke (Oshi no Ko), kills himself through an undisclosed method after stabbing Ai Hoshino in her apartment in front of her children and calling her out for her deception in relation to her idol career before running away in regret.^[42]
• Ryu's Sister (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance), slits her wrists while in her bathtub.

S

• Sabriya (Damascus – the Smile of Sadness), hangs herself from a lemon tree.
• Elif Şadoğlu (Inconstant Love), believes that her husband Azat will never love her and drowns herself in a river.
• Michiru Saiki (ReLIFE), hangs herself.
• Jeremiah de Saint-Amour (Love in the Time of Cholera), method unspecified.
• Yuko Sakaki (Battle Royale), jumps from a lighthouse.
• Kyoko Sakura (Puella Magi Madoka Magica) sacrifices herself in an attempt to save Sayaka Miki.
• Hector Salamanca (Breaking Bad), bombs himself in a successful attempt to kill Gus Fring.
• Lily Salvatore (The Vampire Diaries), stakes herself in the chest, thinking that she still was linked to Julian and this could kill him.
• Stefan Salvatore (The Vampire Diaries), burns in hell fire.
• Bianca Samson (Shameless), already dying of pancreatic cancer, drowns herself in the ocean in Costa Rica, while vacating there with Frank Gallagher.
• Sang-hyun (Thirst), a vampire, exposes himself to the sun.
• Angelo Sanchez (The Young Pope), a young seminarian, throws himself off the bridge in St. Peter's Square after being denied admittance to the church.
• Esther Sanson (Green for Danger), swallows a lethal dose of pills.
• Gen. Alexei Sarov (Skeleton Key), shoots himself.^[43]
• Sarraf (Ramo), in order to help Ramo reach Cihangir, drinks poisoned water and forces Ramo to shoot him.
• Campbell Saunders (Degrassi), methods unknown.
• Louise Sawyer (Thelma & Louise), drives off a Grand Canyon cliff.
• Eyşan Sayar (You Tell me, the Black Sea), drowns herself.
• Nina Sayers (Black Swan), stabs herself with a large shard of glass from the mirror, thinking she is killing Lily.
• Sayoko ("With the Beatles"), hangs herself.
• Sayori (Doki Doki Literature Club!), hangs herself in her room.
• Hanna Schmitz (The Reader), method unknown.
• Peter Schuler (Breaking Bad), electrocutes himself.
• Schwarz (Sebastian^{[citation needed]}) injects himself with a poison.
• Rufus Scott (Another Country), jumps from the George Washington Bridge.
• Diane Selwyn (Mulholland Drive), shotgun to head.
• Sensei (Kokoro), method unclear.
• Senta (The Flying Dutchman), throws herself into the sea.
• Princess Serenity (Sailor Moon), stabs herself.
• Daisuke Serizawa (Godzilla), dies of asphyxiation after cutting off his air support in the ocean.
• Shadow (Final Fantasy VI), leaves party to remain on Kefka's Tower during its collapse.
• Maj. Kendra Shaw (Battlestar Galactica: Razor), manually detonates a nuclear device in a suicide attack.
• Raymond Shaw (The Manchurian Candidate), shoots himself in the 1962 film, while it is left unclear how he dies in the novel.
• Dr. Sheppard (The Murder of Roger Ackroyd), poison.
• Taeko Shimabara (Noriko's Dinner Table), method unknown.
• Mr. Shimerda (My Ántonia), unspecified.
• Shin (Fist of the North Star), jumps from the peak of his tower.
• Taariq Shirazi (The Bridge), shoots himself in the mouth.^[44]
• Shouan (Sword of the Stranger), hangs himself.
• Daniel Grant Showalter (Six Feet Under), upset over his recent firing, shoots three of his former colleagues in the office before shooting himself in the head.
• Shun (Children Who Chase Lost Voices), jumps from a ledge.
• Shura (Doctor Who), suicide bombing.
• Loretta Smith Sibley (Six Feet Under), intentional drug overdose in front of her son George.
• Christa-Maria Sieland (The Lives of Others), runs in front of a moving truck.
• Ira Silverstein (The Woods), gunshot in the mouth.^[45]
• David Sinclair (Permanent Record), jumps off a cliff.
• Sindel (Mortal Kombat), method unclear.
• John Singer (The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter), shoots himself.
• Hareli-Frodlin-Sirinial (Animorphs #18, The Decision), initiates the self-destruct sequence of the Ascalin, killing himself and every other Andalite aboard.
• Sitka (Brother Bear), sacrifices himself to save his younger brothers Denahi and Kenai from a bear.
• Ethel Skinner (EastEnders), assisted suicide by drug overdose.
• Skipper (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), method is unclear.
• Luke Skywalker (Star Wars: The Last Jedi), expends all of his energy to create a Force projection to confront his nephew Kylo Ren and dies shortly afterwards from overexertion.
• Slater (The Vampire Diaries), stakes himself in the chest while under compulsion from Elijah Mikaelson.
• Mimi Slocumb (Igby Goes Down), colludes with her son Ollie to feed her poisonous yogurt.
• Smerdyakov (The Brothers Karamazov), hanging.^[46]
• Septimus Warren Smith (Mrs Dalloway), jumps out of a window.
• Dr. Ward Smith (Stranger in a Strange Land), slits his throat with a scalpel.
• Waylon Smithers (The Simpsons), after coming out of his coma, Bart tells Lisa he has discovered how everyone will die, and, according to it, Smithers will jump into the Power Plant cooling towers after Mr. Burns marries Angelina Jolie.
• Snow White (Avengers Grimm), stabs herself with an icicle.
• Ben Solo (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker), sacrifices himself by resurrecting Rey through the Force, draining his own life force in the process.
• Sorais (Allan Quatermain), stabs herself.
• Spock exposes himself to lethal radiation in order to restore the Enterprise's warp drive in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (he is resurrected in the next film).
• Virginia St. John (The Vampire Diaries), bits her tongue off and bleeds to death.
• Tjaden Stackfleet (All Quiet on the Western Front), stabs himself in the throat after losing his leg in battle.
• Alex Stafford (Redeeming Love), gunshot after realizing the prostitute he had sex with was his daughter.
• Ace Stamper (Splendor in the Grass), jumps out of a window.
• Harry Stamper (Armageddon), takes A.J.'s place in detonating the bomb to obliterate the asteroid headed for Earth, dying in the blast.
• Stanton (Shameless), assisted suicide.
• Andie Star (The Vampire Diaries), jumps off the stage while under compulsion from Stefan Salvatore.
• Tony Stark (Avengers: Endgame), uses the Infinity Stones to kill Thanos and his army, and is subsequently killed by their power.
• Nikolai Vsevolovich Stavrogin (Demons), hanging.
• Molly Stearns (The Ides of March), possibly overdoses on pills.
• Ivan Stepanov (Family Secrets), snatches a policeman's gun and shoots himself in the head to avoid interrogation.
• Grace Stewart (The Others), smothered her children Anne and Nicholas with a pillow before shooting herself in a murder–suicide.
• Moritz Stiefel (Spring Awakening), shoots himself.
• "Junior" Stillo (The Last House on the Left), shoots himself in the head with a handgun.
• Tim Stoltefuss (The Wave), shoots himself in the head with a handgun.
• Dr. Harold Stoneman (L.A. Noire, The Naked City case), jumps out of the window.
• Straits/Straizo (Battle Tendency), channels Hamon into his body.
• Trevor Strathmore (Digital Fortress), explosion.
• Gordon Stretton (May Day^{[citation needed]}) shoots himself.
• Unnamed Student (The Vampire Diaries), stabs herself in the throat while under compulsion from Nora Hildegard.
• Sue-Shaun (Battlestar Galactica), tells Starbuck to destroy her life support machine rather than try to save her.
• Many characters in the Japanese film Suicide Club take their own lives through a variety of means, often in groups.
• Suldrun (Lyonesse), hangs herself.
• Holly Summers (No More Heroes), places a grenade in her mouth.
• James Sunderland (Silent Hill 2), drowns himself by driving off a cliff and into a lake in the In Water ending.
• Leonid Sundukov (Shameless), drowns himself.
• Sunny (OMORI), stabs himself with a knife or jumps off a rooftop depending on the ending.
• Svidrigailov (Crime and Punishment), gunshot to the head.^[47]
• Cynthia Swann (The First Wives Club), throws herself off her apartment balcony.
• Sylvester (Scaredy Cat), shoots himself with a gun.

T

• T-800 Terminator (Model 101) (Terminator 2: Judgment Day), lowered into a pit of molten steel by John Connor on his own orders, since he cannot self-terminate.
• T-850 Terminator (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines), self-destructs by detonating his nuclear cell to destroy the T-X.
• Suzze T (Live Wire), heroin overdose.
• Kiyomi Takada (Death Note), self-immolation.
• Takumi (Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest), jumps off a rampart.
• Tanida (Letters from Iwo Jima), blows himself up with a grenade.
• Claude Tanner (Degrassi High), shoots himself in the head.
• Gen. Wilhelm Tanz (The Night of the Generals), shoots himself.
• Tarantula I (The Amazing Spider-Man), jumps to his death.
• Tarrlok (The Legend of Korra), commits a fratricidal murder-suicide as a means of atoning for the innumerably abysmal transgressions he and his brother Noatak/Amon committed during their respective earthly sojourns.
• Tasha (Gargoyles: Bad Guys), hangs herself.
• Yousuke Tateishi (Death Parade), defenestration.
• Bob Taylor (Prisoners), gunshot in the mouth.
• Nikolai Tchernyshev (Champion), drowns after falling off the bridge and into the water in a botched attempt to threaten the police with suicide.
• Jax Teller (Sons of Anarchy), crashed into semi-truck.
• John Teller (Sons of Anarchy), crashed into semi-truck.
• Cihangir Tepeli (The Circle), after being trapped in the locked office alongside Kaan Karabulut and Çağatay Erkmen, all three decide to destroy The Circle by burning down its archive, killing themselves in the fire.
• Clark Terrell (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan) disintegrates himself with his own phaser when he cannot otherwise resist the creature controlling him after Khan orders him to kill a fellow Starfleet officer.
• Thanos (Thanos: The Infinity Relativity), decapitates himself.^[48]
• Rob Thatcher (The Bill), suicide by police after shooting Irene Radford, his father's killer.
• Eddie Thawne (The Flash), shoots himself.^[49]
• Thee (Ladda Land), shoots himself.^[50]
• Éponine Thenardier (Les Misérables), takes a musket ball for Marius Pontmercy.
• Kenneth Therriault (Later), a serial bomber, shoots himself in the head in the park after planting one final bomb somewhere in New York City.
• Thisbe (Pyramus and Thisbe), stabs herself with Pyramus' sword.
• Tim (The Wave), shoots himself.
• Tim "Ben" Thomas (Seven Pounds), releases a box jellyfish inside a tub of water with him inside, succumbing to the stinging wounds.
• Harlan Thrombey (Knives Out), slits his own throat.
• Tien Shinhan (Dragon Ball), uses up all of his energy in a suicide attack on Nappa.
• Engin Tilmen (Family Secrets), contracts his own killing to Niyazi Karaçam, who shots him in the heart, to frame Ceylin Erguvan Kaya for the crime.
• Mike Timlin (Inside Llewyn Davis), jumps off the George Washington Bridge.
• Silene “Tokyo“ Oliveira (Money Heist), suicide bombing
• Rogelio Torrez (Machete), commits seppuku.
• Floria Tosca (Tosca), jumps from Castle Sant'Angelo.^[51]
• Col. Towers ("The Long Watch"), shoots himself.
• Alfredo Traps (A Dangerous Game), hangs himself.
• 13 Unnamed Travelers (The Vampire Diaries), burn themselves in a sacrifice ritual.
• Evan Treborn (The Butterfly Effect), strangles himself in the womb with his umbilical cord so as to prevent the multi-generational curse from continuing (Director's cut).
• Konstantin Gavrilovich Treplyov (The Seagull), shoots himself.
• Steve Trevor (Wonder Woman), shoots flammables in a back of an airplane, dying in the subsequent explosion.
• Troglyte "disruptor" (Star Trek: The Original Series), leaps to his death from high altitude.
• Green Pickup Truck (The Brave Little Toaster), deliberately drives onto a car crusher's conveyor belt.
• Bac Hoai Truong (Birds of Paradise Lost), self-immolation.
• Túrin Turambar (The Silmarillion) casts himself onto his sword.
• Col. Turner (Where Eagles Dare), jumps out of a moving airplane.
• Diane Turner (Criminal Minds), kills both herself and Maeve Donovan with a single gunshot.
• Toothy (Happy Tree Friends), He pulled up his eye tree branch and got killed.
• Jojo Turrie (Homefront), suicide by cop.
• Sam Tyler (the British version of Life on Mars), jumps off the roof of Manchester police headquarters.
• Olenna Tyrell (Game of Thrones), as Jaime Lannister seizes control of Highgarden on Cercei's orders, he granting Olenna a painless death by poison, putting it in her cup of wine as she watches; she drinks the cup all at once and then admits her responsibility for Joffrey's death, wanting Cersei to know who had done it.
• The Thirteen ("Throne of Glass") sacrifice themselves to the yielding in order to destroy Erawan's witch towers to help defend Orynth. Manon Blackbeak-Crochan is devastated with the deaths of the Thirteen.

U

• Yondu Udonta (Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2), takes off his spacesuit in outer space and gives it to Peter Quill, causing him to suffocate.
• Ugolin (Manon of the Spring), hangs himself.
• Kosetsu Urabe (Code Geass), causes an explosion by stabbing a nearby enemy Knightmare with his own Knightmare sword.
• Stanley Uris (It), slits his wrists, writing "IT" on the wall with his own blood.

V

• Jerome Valeska (Gotham), chooses to fall to his death from a metal pole when Jim Gordon refuses to rescue him.
• Sibyl Vane (The Picture of Dorian Gray), drinks poison.
• Nacho Varga (Better Call Saul), shoots himself in the head.
• Various (Mortal Kombat: Deception), method varies from character to character.
• Jenette Vasquez (Aliens), activates a grenade, killing herself.
• Vasyok (Chernobyl: Zone of Exclusion), after confessing in setting up a fatal car crash for Andrei Vasilenko, shoots himself through the mouth.
• Vegeta (Dragon Ball Z), destroys himself with a suicide attack in an attempt to kill Majin Buu.
• Shane Vendrell (The Shield), self-inflicted gunshot to the head.
• Carlo Ventresca (Angels & Demons), known as Patrick McKenna in the film adaptation, self-immolation.
• Winnie Verloc (The Secret Agent), drowns herself in the English Channel.
• Jordy Verrill (Creepshow and Weeds, shoots himself in the head with his shotgun after being overcome by alien vegetation.
• Mikhail Viktor (Resident Evil 3: Nemesis), blows himself up with a grenade.
• Eustacia Vye (The Return of the Native), drowning (possible suicide).

W

• Toby Jay Wadenah (The Pledge), shoots himself in the head.
• Dave Walker (Attack of the Giant Leeches), hangs himself in jail.
• Molly Walker (Heroes), shoots herself.
• Wally (La Wally), leaps off a precipice.
• Bruno Baskerville Walsh (Six Feet Under), jumps off the roof, landing on a car in a parking lot, while under the influence of LSD.
• "Walter" (Get Out), shoots himself in the head.
• Dr. Wanless (Firestarter) puts on his wife's underwear and puts his arm down the garbage disposal, eventually bleeding to death (in the film adaptation, this is not shown, merely described).
• Justice Lawrence Wargrave (And Then There Were None), self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
• President Earl Warren (Colonization: Aftershocks), kills himself after deciding to allow Indianapolis to be bombed.
• Wiktor Warski (Cold War), overdoses on pills.
• Yukio Washimine (Black Lagoon), pierces her own throat with Ginji's sword.
• Harry Waters (In Bruges), shoots himself in the head.
• Sarah Waybourne (Picnic at Hanging Rock, the novel and all adaptations that include her) jumps out a window.
• Alison Webster (Coronation Street), throws herself in front of a passing truck.
• Krystal Weedon (The Casual Vacancy), intentional overdose of heroin.^[52]
• Elvira Weishaupt intentionally overdoses on drugs at the end of In a Year of 13 Moons.
• Werther (The Sorrows of Young Werther) and (Werther), gunshot to the head; the fictional suicide touched off a wave of copycat suicides in Europe.^[53]
• Traveler 3569, also known as Marcy Wharton (Travelers), self-inflicted gunshot to prevent Traveler 001 from acquiring code for communicating with the director in Marcy's brain. A timeline reset later in the episode caused the chain of events leading to her suicide to never occur, and she is seen alive at the end.
• April Wheeler (Revolutionary Road), attempts to self-abort her pregnancy and dies from blood loss.
• Mr. White (Spectre), shoots himself in the head.
• C.B. Whiting (Empire Falls), shoots himself in the head.
• Montgomery Wick (Vertical Limit), cuts the rope suspending him, falling to his death.
• Eli Wickner (One False Move), shoots himself.
• Wienis (Foundation), shoots himself with an atomic blaster.
• Gil Eavis' wife (Succession), method is unclear.
• Campbell Williams (Cold Sassy Tree), shoots himself.
• George Williams (Desperate Housewives), after Bree broke off their engagement, commits fake suicide attempt to win her back and overdoses himself on sleeping pills; as he shows no remorse for killing Rex, Bree wants to revenge him and lies that she had called the ambulance while he was sleeping, and then sats and watches him die.
• Sasha Williams (The Walking Dead), ingests cyanide.
• William 'Bill' Willoughby (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), shoots himself.
• George Wilson (The Great Gatsby), shoots both Jay Gatsby and himself with a revolver in a murder–suicide.
• Donna Windsor (Emmerdale), jumps from the top of a multi-storey car park.
• Dallas "Dally" Winston (The Outsiders), suicide by police after robbing a grocery store.
• Mr. Wishnow (The Plot Against America), hangs himself.
• Frank Wolff (Explorers on the Moon), throws himself into space.
• Hoyt Woodworth (Six Feet Under), shoots himself in the mouth upon seeing his wife Barb listening in his admit to Nate about his affair with the late Lisa, Nate's wife and Barb's sister.
• Sid Worley (An Officer and a Gentleman), hangs himself.
• Gabriel Wozniak (House), hangs himself after overdosing on aspirin to help protect his heart to donate it for his son Kyle.
• May Wright (EastEnders), fills a room with gas and lights a cigarette, causing an explosion.

X

• Professor X (Age of Apocalypse), takes a psi-knife from Legion to save Magneto.
• Xander (Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright), suicide by cop.
• Xiaodouzi (Farewell My Concubine), real name Cheng Dieyi, stabs himself with a sword.

Y

• Lord Yabu (Shōgun), commits seppuku to atone for a ninja attack and a murder.
• Yoshimi Yahagi (Battle Royale), in the film, hangs herself alongside Yuji Kuramuto.
• Mrs. Yamada (No-No Boy), drowns herself in a tub.
• Kazuhiko Yamamoto (Battle Royale), throws himself off a cliff alongside Sakura Ogawa.
• Matvey Yarovoy (Torgsin), shoots himself upon discovering his wife Anna was dead.
• Gisele Yashar (Fast & Furious 6), while trying to get back onto a car harpooned to the wing of a plane trying to take off, lets go of Han Lue's hand to shoot an oncoming thug and save him, falling to her death in a suicide attack.
• Haruki Yasutani (A Tale for the Time Being), Kamikaze.
• Adam Yates (The Innocent), gunshot.
• Deanna Yeller (Drop Shot), gunshot in the head.^[54]
• Savaş Yıldırım (The Trusted), exposes himself to the sunlight opposite the window in his prison cell, which was fatal due to xeroderma pigmentosum.
• Kerime Yıldız (Mrs. Fazilet and Her Daughters), hangs herself.
• Yiğit Yıldız (My Left Side), slits his wrists.
• Yin Susu (The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber), stabs herself.
• Shinya Yokoyama (Unnatural), falls onto knives in an attempt to frame school bullies of his supposed murder.
• Chisa Yomoda (Serial Experiments Lain), jumps off of a building.
• Goro Yoshida (The Man with the Red Tattoo), seppuku.
• Saki Yoshida (Metamorphosis), overdoses on heroin.
• Alaska Young (Looking for Alaska), drives straight into a police car while drunk; it is debated whether it was a suicide or not.
• Beth Young (Desperate Housewives), shoots herself in the head in the hospital after making sure her kidney will go to Susan after her death.
• Mary Alice Young (Desperate Housewives), gunshot to the head; the suicide enables the character to portray the role of narrator of the series from a dead point of view.
• Pastor Young (The Vampire Diaries), while under compulsion from Atticus Shane, blows up the farmhouse, killing himself and 11 other members of the Council.
• Phil Young (The Bill), feeds exhaust fumes into his car.
• Yuan Yang (Dream of the Red Chamber), hangs herself to fight against arranged marriage.
• Princess Yue (Avatar: The Last Airbender), sacrifices her life to revive Tui the Moon Spirit.
• Yuma (Saga), self-immolation.
• Yuri (Doki Doki Literature Club!), stabs herself.

Z

• Z-one (Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds), sacrifices himself to stop the Divine Temple from destroying New Domino City by ramming himself into the Divine Temple's reactor.
• Louis Zabel (Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps) jumps in front of a subway train.
• Zane (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu), sacrifices himself to stop and defeat The Overlord.
• Sophie Zawistowska (Sophie's Choice), ingests sodium cyanide along with her lover.
• Gordon Zellanby (The Midwich Cuckoos), suicide bombing.
• Zerkow (Greed), jumps into the San Francisco Bay.
• Georgiy Zheltkov (The Garnet Bracelet), shoots himself.
• Zhu Yingtai (Butterfly Lovers), jumps into Liang Shanbo's tomb.
• Zia (Wristcutters: A Love Story), slits his wrists.
• Bihter Ziyagil (Forbidden Love), shoots herself in the heart.
• Bertrand Zobrist (Inferno), jumps to his death from Badia Fiorentina.
• Zog (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), sacrifices himself by jumping into a blazing fire with Shredder.
• Tali'Zorah vas Normandy (Mass Effect 3), jumps off a cliff.
• Zordon (Power Rangers In Space), commands Andros to shatter his energy tube, which kills him and releases a wave of pure good energy that destroys the United Alliance of Evil while purifying Astronema, Rita, Zedd, and Divatox.

See also

• List of suicide crisis lines
• List of suicides

References