List of suicides in fiction

This is a list of incidents of suicide — the intentional killing of oneself — depicted in fictional works, including movies, television series, anime and manga, comics, novels, etc.

A

• Mona Aamons Monzano (Cat's Cradle), swallows ice-nine
• Abigaille (Nabucco), poisons herself.
• Adric (Doctor Who), blows up the spaceship he is in to save the Earth in Earthshock.
• Aegeus, a character from Greek mythology, drowns himself after mistakenly believing that his son Theseus was dead^[1]
• Aida (Aida), hides in the vault where Radamès has been imprisoned in order to die buried alive with him.
• Ajax the Great, a character from the Greek mythology, stabs himself with a sword (his death is described by Sophocles, Pindar and Ovid; the suicide is, however, only implied in Homer when, in the Odyssey, the ghost of Ajax refuses to speak to Odysseus in Hades).^[2]
• Al (Divergent), jumping into the chasm.
• Alby (The Maze Runner), allows himself to be killed by Grievers.
• Misa Amane (Death Note), unknown cause. In the anime, she was last seen standing at the top of a very tall building; it is assumed that she jumped. In the manga it was suggested that she hanged herself.^[3]
• Cathy Ames (East of Eden), takes a lethal dose of morphine.
• Anck-Su-Namun (The Mummy), stabs herself.
• Andrea (The Walking Dead), shoots herself.
• Angelica (Suor Angelica), poisons herself.
• Cesare Angelotti (Tosca) poisons himself offstage.
• Brigham Anderson (Advise and Consent), slits his throat.
• 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.^[4]
• Antiope (Wonder Woman), jumps in the way of a bullet to save Diana Prince.
• Arrack (Detective Conan), uses a poison capsule hidden in his teeth.
• Saren Arterius (Mass Effect), self-inflicted gunshot.
• Alia Atreides (Dune), defenestration^[5]
• 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.

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.
• Hannah Baker (Thirteen Reasons Why), swallows a handful of pills (in the TV show, she slits her wrists).
• Tommen Baratheon (Game of Thrones), jumps out of a castle window.
• Sammy Barnathan (Synecdoche, New York), jumps off of a building.
• Bloody Baron (Harry Potter), stabs himself.
• 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.
• Val Beckett (Solo: A Star Wars Story), blows herself up in a suicide attack.
• Massoud Behrani (House of Sand and Fog), suffocates himself.
• Jacqueline de Bellefort (Death on the Nile), shoots herself.
• Georg Bendemann (The Judgment), throws himself off a bridge.^[6]
• Creighton Bernette (Treme) throws himself off a ferry.
• Billy Bibbit (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest), slits own throat.
• John Billings (The Patriot), shoots himself.
• Warren A. "Blackie" Black (Fail Safe), stabs his finger with a poisoned needle.
• Carlton Bloom (Black Mirror), hangs himself.
• Clifford Blossom (Riverdale), hangs himself.
• Sarah Borden (The Prestige), hangs herself.
• Emma Bovary (Madame Bovary), ingestion of arsenic.^[7]
• 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.
• Rick Brogan (Surviving: A Family in Crisis), suffocates himself inside a car with Lonnie.
• 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.

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.
• Calvados (Detective Conan), shoots himself in the head
• Howard W. Campbell Jr. (Mother Night), hangs himself
• Jericho Cane (End of Days), impales himself on a sword
• Juliet Capulet (Romeo and Juliet), stabs herself upon discovering that Romeo Montague has poisoned himself.^[8]
• María Cardenal (Matador), shoots herself.
• 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.
• 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.
• Laura Chase (The Blind Assassin), drives her car off a bridge.
• Chloe (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), hangs herself.
• Ch'u Sing (Romeo Must Die), shoots himself^[9]
• Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly), seppuku;^[10] and Kim in the contemporary adaptation Miss Saigon (gunshot)^[11]
• Rosa "Miss Rosa" Cisneros (Orange Is the New Black), drives a van into a quarry.
• Morgan Clark (Babylon 5), shoots himself.
• Vera Claythorne (And Then There Were None), hanged herself after going mad
• Ramos Clemente (The Twilight Zone), shoots himself.
• 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]
• Eliza Connor (The Water Diviner), drowns herself.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

D

• Gianna D'Antonio (John Wick: Chapter 2), slits her wrists.
• 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.
• Oswald Danes (Torchwood), blows himself up.
• Nathan Dawkins (Beyond: Two Souls), shoots himself.
• Jason "J.D." Dean (Heathers), blows himself up.
• Denethor II (The Lord of the Rings), sets himself on fire.
• Thelma Dickinson (Thelma & Louise), agrees to ride off Grand Canyon cliff side with Louise to escape arrest.
• Martha Dobie (The Children's Hour), hangs herself.
• Carrie Dollanganger (Petals on the Wind), ingestion of arsenic-laced doughnuts.
• Don Jaime (Viridiana), hangs himself.
• Maya Driscoll (24), slits her wrists.
• Anastasia "Dee" Dualla (Battlestar Galactica), shoots herself.
• Dyne (Final Fantasy VII), jumps off a cliff.

E

• Ed ("What We Talk About When We Talk About Love"), shoots himself in the mouth.
• Eduardo (The Exterminating Angel), likely ingests poisonous pills.
• Jimmy Edwards (One Tree Hill), shoots himself in the chest.
• Eleking (Ultra Fight), shoots himself in the head after killing Alien Icarus and Kiyla.
• Sheila Eliot (Homecomings^[15]), overdose sleeping pills.
• Julian English (Appointment in Samarra), carbon monoxide in garage.
• 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.

F

• Tarin Faroush (24), drives his car of the top level of a parking structure to his death.
• Felix the Cat, drinks gasoline after the love of his life announced that the two 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.
• Theodore Finch (All the Bright Places), drowns himself
• Flora (Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright), self-immolation.
• Flying Snow (Hero) impales herself with her own sword.
• Adam Forsythe (Emmerdale), hangs himself.
• William "D-Fens" Foster (Falling Down), suicide by cop.
• 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.
• Tylendel Frelennye (Magic's Pawn), the life-bonded of Vanyel Ashkevron, jumps off a tower.^[17]

G

• Hedda Gabler (Hedda Gabler), shoots herself offstage.^[18]
• Rene Gallimard (M. Butterfly), seppuku.
• Gamera (Gamera the Brave), self-destructs in order to kill Gyaos.
• Royce Garrett (Vertical Limit), tells his son to cut the rope suspending him and falls to his death.
• Ghazan (The Legend of Korra), commits suicide by deliberately causing a cave-in in order to preclude him from inevitably returning to prison once again, and in an unsuccessful attempt to kill both Mako and Bolin.
• Maria Gibson ("The Problem of Thor Bridge"), shoots herself.
• Edwin Gibbs (Darkest Fear), or Nathan Mostoni, commits suicide in prison.
• Gilda (Rigoletto), allows herself to be assassinated in her lover’s place.
• Gioconda (La Gioconda), stabs herself.
• Seymour Glass (A Perfect Day for Bananafish), shoots himself.
• Godric (True Blood/Southern Vampire Mysteries novels), "meets the sun", which as a vampire is fatal.
• Scott Gorman (Aliens), activates a grenade, killing himself.
• Jack Grady (Fail Safe), explode nuclear bombs inside his aircraft.
• Carl Grimes (The Walking Dead), shot 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.
• Maurice Guest (Maurice Guest), shoots himself.
• Gullberg (The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest), shoots himself.

H

• Clu Haid (The Final Details), gunshot in the head.
• Edward Hall (The Twilight Zone), possible defenestration.
• Chuck Hansen (Pacific Rim) detonates a bomb inside the Striker Eureka in a suicide attack.
• Col. Nathan Hardy, (Man of Steel), crashes a Kryptonian ship into a terraforming drill.
• Violet Harmon (American Horror Story), intentional pill overdose.
• John Hartigan (Sin City), shoots himself.
• 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.
• Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights), starves himself to be with his deceased love, Cathy.
• Grace Heke (Once Were Warriors), hangs herself.
• Kurt Hendricks (Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol), jumps to his death.
• Henry (The Last of Us), shoots himself in the head after being forced to kill his brother, who became an Infected.
• Avery Hill (Maurice Guest) drowning.
• Richard Hillman (Coronation Street), attempted to kill his wife and her family by driving into a canal, but he was the only fatality.
• Caledon Hockley (Titanic), shoots himself through the mouth.
• Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo (Star Wars: The Last Jedi), rams the Resistance MC85 Star Cruiser Raddus at the First Order Mega-class Star Dreadnought Flagship Supremacy.
• 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.
• 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.
• Húrin (The Silmarillion) casts himself into the sea
• George Hurstwood (Sister Carrie), inhales gas fumes.
• Hyo-shin (Memento Mori), jumps from a building.

I

• 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.
• Gina Inviere (Battlestar Galactica), manually detonates a nuke in space.
• Iván (Julia's Eyes), slits his own throat with a knife.
• Nikolai Ivanov (Ivanov), shoots himself.

J

• Jae-yeong (Samaritan Girl), defenestration.
• Javert (Les Misérables), jumps off bridge and drowns.^[19]
• Albert Jerska (The Lives of Others), hangs himself.
• Jihei (The Love Suicides at Amijima), hangs himself.
• Jocasta (Oedipus Rex), hangs herself.
• Young Joe (Looper), shoots himself.^[20]
• 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^[21]
• Johnny (The Room), shoots himself.
• Joker (The Dark Knight Returns), snaps his own neck.
• Joseph (Contact), a religious fanatic, blows himself up, destroying "the machine."
• 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.
• Juxian (Farewell My Concubine), is found dead, method unknown.

K

• K (Kokoro), slits his throat.
• Anna Karenina (Anna Karenina), steps into the path of a train.^[22]
• Father Damien Karras (The Exorcist), defenestration.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Charles Kingshaw (I'm the King of the Castle), drowns himself.
• George Kirk (Star Trek), dies aboard the USS Kelvin in a suicide attack on the Narada.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Millicent Kramer (Everyman), overdose on sleeping pills.
• Yoji Kuramuto (Battle Royale), in the film, hangs himself alongside his girlfriend Yoshimi Yahagi.
• Lawrence Kutner (House), dies of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.^[23][24]

L

• 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), uses repeatedly 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.
• 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^[25]
• Leonard "Gomer Pyle" Lawrence (Full Metal Jacket), self-inflicted gunshot wound after murdering his drill instructor.
• Georges Leblanc (Elle), hangs himself.
• 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.
• Leonora (Il Trovatore), poisons herself.
• Myra Lester (Waterloo Bridge), walks into path of a moving truck.
• Hu Li (Rush Hour 2), blows herself up.
• Su Lin (Enter the Dragon), stabs herself with a shard of glass.
• Lionel (Kind Hearts and Coronets), stabs himself with a dagger to escape his poverty.
• Bonnie Lisbon (The Virgin Suicides), hangs herself.^[26]
• Cecilia Lisbon (The Virgin Suicides), jumps out of her bedroom window.^[27]
• Lux Lisbon (The Virgin Suicides), poisons herself with carbon monoxide.^[28]
• Mary Lisbon (The Virgin Suicides), overdoses on sleeping pills.^[29]
• Therese Lisbon (The Virgin Suicides), overdoses on sleeping pills.^[30]
• Tom Lister (Brute Force), hangs himself
• Little Father Time (Jude the Obscure), hangs himself.
• Gordon Livesy (Emmerdale), hanged himself one day into an 18-year prison sentence for sexually abusing his son
• Liù (Turandot), stabs herself.
• Joy Lobo (3 Idiots), hangs himself.
• Willy Loman (Death of a Salesman), car crash^[31]
• 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.
• Ilse Lubin (Midnight's Children), drowns herself.
• Don Luis (Belle Epoque), hangs himself.

M

• M ("Men Without Women"), unspecified.
• M.C. (Cabaret), in the 1998 revival, is taken to a concentration camp, where he throws himself onto the electric fence.
• Lady Macbeth (Macbeth), method unspecified, "Who, as 'tis thought, by self and violent hands took off her life"^[32]
• Madotsuki (Yume Nikki), throws herself off her apartment balcony.
• Maedhros (The Silmarillion), casts himself into a fiery chasm
• Majid (Caché), slits his throat.
• Prince Mamuwalde (Blacula), intentionally exposes himself to sunlight
• 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.
• Lt. Col. Matthew Andrew Markinson (A Few Good Men), shoots himself.
• 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.
• 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.
• Yuko Matsunaka ("A Shinagawa Monkey"), slits her wrists.
• Kenny McCormick (South Park), sacrifices himself via electrocution while turning on a hospital generator in an attempt to revitalize Dr Mephesto.
• 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 being 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.
• Raul Menendez (Call of Duty: Black Ops II), self-immolation.
• Julia Milliken (24), shoots herself.
• Teru Mikami (Death Note), commits suicide in prison.
• Mirror SpongeBob (SpongeBob SquarePants), smashes himself with a hammer.
• Naomi Misora (Death Note), commits suicide.
• Jacob Mitchell (A Simple Plan), tells his brother to shoot and kill him, threatening to shoot himself if he brother does not comply.
• Peggy Mitchell (EastEnders), intentionally overdoses on medication.
• Mitsuhirato (The Blue Lotus), commits seppuku.
• Miura (The Bad Sleep Well), runs in front of a moving truck.
• Kyuzo Miyabe (The Eternal Zero), kamikaze.
• Romeo Montague (Romeo & Juliet), takes poison after finding Juliet whom he believed to be dead.^[33]
• "Papa" Monzano (Cat's Cradle), swallows ice-nine
• Morao (Celda 211), slits his wrists.
• Tom Morgan (Eagle Eye), rams his car into a large piece of metal in a suicide attack.
• Jerome Morrow (Gattaca), sets himself on fire in the incinerator in his house.
• James "Jim" Moriarty (Sherlock), shoots himself.
• 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

• Nanny (The Omen), publicly hangs herself.
• Naoko (Norwegian Wood) commits suicide; her older sister also committed suicide before the action of the novel.
• Robert Neville (I Am Legend), takes cyanide pills to avoid brutal execution from his zombified captors.
• Newt (The Death Cure), begs Thomas to kill him so that he does not have to succumb to the Flare virus.
• 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.
• 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

• Helen O'Loy ("Helen O'Loy"), a metallic robot, with the assistance of a human, dissolves herself in acid.
• Simon O'Neill, (Battlestar Galactica: The Plan), rigs an airlock outside of resurrection range, dying in space.
• 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.
• Jacopo Ortis (The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis), stabs himself.
• Ophelia (Hamlet), drowning (ambiguous)^[34]
• John Osborne (On the Beach), suicide pill. Julian Osborne, the same character in the 1959 film, commits suicide via carbon monoxide poisoning.
• Othello (Othello), stabs himself.^[35]
• Owlman (Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths), allows himself to be blown up by his own planet-destroying bomb.
• Olya (The Adolescent^[36]), hanging.

P

• Walter Paisley (A Bucket of Blood), hangs himself after committing multiple murders.
• Henry L. Palmetto (The Great Gatsby), jumps in front of a subway train.
• Parone (Saga), hangs himself.
• Gabriel Pasternak (Wild Tales), rams an airplane into his parents' house.
• 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.
• Petunia (Happy Tree Friends), skins herself with a potato peeler.
• Phoenix I, in the form of Jean Grey (Uncanny X-Men), telekinetically activates an energy cannon that disintegrates her.^[37]
• Edna Pontellier (The Awakening), drowns herself in the Gulf of Mexico.
• Frederick Pope (The Red Violin), poisoning or drowning.
• Portia (Julius Caesar), "swallows fire"
• Predator (Predator), blows itself up in an attempt to finish Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer.
• Margaret Prior (Affinity), drowns.
• 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.^[38]

R

• Daisy Randone (Girl, Interrupted), method is unknown in the novel^[39] while in the movie, she hangs herself and cuts her wrists.
• 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.
• 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
• Richard (Go Tell It on the Mountain), slits his wrists
• 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
• Brig.-Gen. Jack D. Ripper (Dr. Strangelove), shoots himself.
• Ellen Ripley (Alien 3), throws herself to blast furnace and a Queen Chestburster emerges from her chest.
• Rodolfo (Luisa Miller), poisons himself after poisoning Luisa.
• Fedora Romazoff (Fedora), poisons herself.
• Sol Roth (Soylent Green), ingests poison.
• Brock Rumlow (Captain America: Civil War), Vest explosion.
• Ryoma (Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest), seppuku.
• 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.
• 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.
• Sayori (Doki Doki Literature Club!), hangs herself in her room.
• Yuko Sakaki (Battle Royale), jumps from a lighthouse.
• Stefan Salvatore (The Vampire Diaries), burns in hell fire.
• Hector Salamanca (Breaking Bad), bombs himself in a successful attempt to kill Gus Fring.
• Sang-hyun (Thrist), a vampire, exposes himself to the sun.
• Gen. Alexei Sarov (Skeleton Key), shoots himself^[40]
• Campbell Saunders (Degrassi), methods unknown.
• Louise Sawyer (Thelma & Louise), drives off a Grand Canyon cliff.
• Hanna Schmitz (The Reader), method unknown.
• 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.
• Daisuke Serizawa (Godzilla), dies of asphyxiation after cutting off his air support in the ocean.
• Maj. Kendra Shaw (Battlestar Galactica: Razor), manually detonates a nuke 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.^[41]
• Shouan (Sword of the Stranger), hangs himself.
• Shun (Children Who Chase Lost Voices), jumps from a ledge.
• Christa-Maria Sieland (The Lives of Others), runs in front of a moving truck.
• Ira Silverstein (The Woods), gunshot in the mouth.^[42]
• David Sinclair (Permanent Record), jumps off a cliff
• Sindel (Mortal Kombat), method unclear.
• John Singer (The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter), shoots himself.
• Ethel Skinner (EastEnders), assisted suicide by drug overdose.
• 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.
• Mimi Slocumb (Igby Goes Down), colludes with her son Ollie to feed her poisonous yogurt.
• Smerdyakov (The Brothers Karamazov), hanging^[43]
• Septimus Warren Smith (Mrs Dalloway), jumps out of a window
• Dr. Ward Smith (Stranger in a Strange Land), slits his throat with a scalpel.
• Snow White (Avengers Grimm), stabs herself with an icicle.
• Sorais (Allan Quatermain), stabs herself.
• 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.
• Molly Stearns (The Ides of March), possible overdoses on pills.
• Grace Stewart (The Others), shoots herself.
• Moritz Stiefel (Spring Awakening), shoots himself.
• "Junior" Stillo (The Last House on the Left), shoots himself in the head with a handgun.
• Trevor Strathmore (Digital Fortress), explosion.
• Sue-Shaun (Battlestar Galactica), tells Starbuck to destroy her life support machine rather than try to save her.
• Holly Summers (No More Heroes), places a grenade in her mouth
• Svidrigailov (Crime and Punishment), gunshot to the head^[44]
• Cynthia Swann (The First Wives Club), throws herself off her apartment balcony
• Sylvester (Scaredy Cat), shoots himself with a gun.

T

• 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.
• Gen. Wilhelm Tanz (The Night of the Generals), shoots himself.
• Tarrlok (The Legend of Korra), commits a fratricidal murder-suicide as a means of atoning for the innumerably abysmal transgressions he and his brother Amon and/or Noatak committed during their respective earthly sojourns.
• Yousuke Tateishi (Death Parade), defenestration.
• Bob Taylor (Prisoners), gunshot in the mouth.
• Captain Clark Terrell (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan), shoots himself with a phaser.
• Eddie Thawne (The Flash), shoots himself.^[45]
• Thee (Ladda Land), shoots himself.^[46]
• Éponine Thenardier (Les Misérables), takes a musket ball for Marius Pontmercy.
• Tim "Ben" Thomas (Seven Pounds), releases a box jellyfish inside a tub of water with him inside, succumbing to the stinging wounds.
• Mike Timlin (Inside Llewyn Davis), method unclear.
• Floria Tosca (Tosca), jumps from Castle Sant'Angelo.^[47]
• Col. Towers ("The Long Watch"), shoots himself.
• Alfredo Traps (A Dangerous Game), hangs himself.
• Konstantin Gavrilovich Treplyov (The Seagull), shoots himself.
• Steve Trevor (Wonder Woman), shoots flammables in a back of an airplane, dying in the subsequent explosion.
• 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.
• Pete Tyler (Doctor Who), dies in the episode "Father's Day."

U

• Ugolin (Manon of the Spring), hangs himself.
• Stanley Uris (It), slits his wrists, writing "IT" on the wall with his own blood.
• Yondu Udonta (Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2), takes off his spacesuit in outer space and gives it to Peter Quill.

V

• Sibyl Vane (The Picture of Dorian Gray), drinks poison.
• Jenette Vasquez (Aliens), activates a grenade, killing herself.
• 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.
• 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.
• "Walter" (Get Out), shoots himself in the head.
• Justice Lawrence Wargrave (And Then There Were None), self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head
• Harry Waters (In Bruges), shoots himself in the head.
• Krystal Weedon (The Casual Vacancy), intentional overdose of heroin.^[48]
• Werther (The Sorrows of Young Werther) and (Werther), gunshot to the head; the fictional suicide touched off a wave of copycat suicides in Europe^[49]
• Mr. White (Spectre), 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.
• Campbell Williams (Cold Sassy Tree), shoots himself.
• Sasha Williams (The Walking Dead), ingests cyanide.
• William 'Bill' Willoughby (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), shoots himself.
• George Wilson (The Great Gatsby), shoots himself.
• 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.
• Sid Worley (An Officer and a Gentleman), hangs himself.
• May Wright (EastEnders), fills a room with gas and lights a cigarette, causing an explosion.

X

• Xander (Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright), suicide by cop.
• Xiaodouzi (Farewell My Concubine), real name Cheng Dieyi, stabs himself with a sword.

Y

• Yoshimi Yahagi (Battle Royale), in the film, hangs herself alongside Yuji Kuramuto.
• Kazuhiko Yamamoto (Battle Royale), throws himself off a cliff alongside Sakura Ogawa.
• Gisele Yashar (Fast & Furious 6), while a 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.^[50]
• Alaska Young (Looking for Alaska), drives straight into a police car while drunk; it is debated whether it was a suicide or not
• 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.
• Phil Young (The Bill), fed exhaust fumes into his car.
• Goro Yoshida (The Man with the Red Tattoo), seppuku.
• Yuma (Saga), self-immolation.
• Yuri (Doki Doki Literature Club!), stabs herself.

Z

• Zane (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu), sacrifices himself to stop and defeat The Overlord.
• Sophie Zawistowska (Sophie's Choice), ingests sodium cyanide.
• Zerkow (Greed), jumps into the San Francisco Bay.
• Zia (Wristcutters: A Love Story), slits his wrists.
• Bertrand Zobrist (Inferno), jumps to his death from Badia Fiorentina.

See also

• List of suicides

References