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.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

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

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  • 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 in order 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), apshyxiates himself on his car fumes after smothering his wife, Elsa with a pillow.
  • 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.
  • Tony Gordon (Coronation Street), walked back into a burning building started by himself and was killed when the building exploded.
  • Scott Gorman (Aliens), activates a grenade, killing himself and Vasquez as the aliens approach.
  • Jack Grady (Fail Safe), explode nuclear bombs inside his aircraft.
  • Stewart Graff (Earthquake), chooses to die with his wife in the flooded sewer rather than climb to safety.
  • Vincent Grey (The Sixth Sense), breaks into main character Malcolm Crowe's house and then shoots himself.
  • 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.
  • Wanda Gruz (Ida), defenestration.
  • Maurice Guest (Maurice Guest), shoots himself.
  • Gullberg (The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest), shoots himself.

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  • M ("Men Without Women"), unspecified.
  • At the end of the original Star Trek episode "The Ultimate Computer", the title character, M-5, shuts itself down and drops all the ship's defenses in the face of an oncoming attack after Captain Kirk convinces it that it has committed murder and must be punished.
  • M.C. (Cabaret), in the 1998 revival, is taken to a concentration camp, where he throws himself onto the electric fence.
  • Lady Macbeth (Macbeth), off-stage, method unspecified, "Who, as 'tis thought, by self and violent hands took off her life"[32]
  • Stu Macher (Scream), accidentally stumbles over a couch while chasing protagonist Sidney Prescott, hitting a table and causing a television to fall on his head, electrocuting him.
  • 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
  • Norman Maine (A Star Is Born), drowns himself by getting inebriated and walking into the ocean.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Traveler 3569, aka "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.
  • 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.
  • Matsumoto ("The Silence"), jumps in front of a train.
  • 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.
  • Metal Sonic (Sonic the Hedgehog (OVA)), refuses help from the real Sonic and chooses to be killed by rising magma.
  • 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.
  • I. J. "Multiple" Miggs (The Silence of the Lambs), gets talked into killing himself by Hannibal Lecter.
  • Julia Milliken (24), shoots herself.
  • Teru Mikami (Death Note), commits suicide in prison.
  • Mirror SpongeBob (SpongeBob SquarePants), smashes himself with a hammer.
  • Mighty (Bomberman Jetters), critically wounded, goes on a mission to destroy a Hige-Hige base, dying in the explosion.
  • Naomi Misora (Death Note), commits suicide.
  • Stanley "Stan" Mitchell (Stan), drowns himself and his pregnant girlfriend in a murder–suicide by driving his car off a bridge.
  • 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.
  • Kojiro Miyawaki (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle), hangs himself.
  • Natsuko Miyawaki (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle), hangs herself.
  • Romeo Montague (Romeo and Juliet), takes poison after finding Juliet whom he believed to be dead.[33]
  • "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.
  • 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.

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