Tropescilloscope: Death Seeker

A character wishes to die but can't simply kill him- or her-self. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Disproportionate Retribution Demoted to Extra Stealth Hi/Bye Drives Like Crazy Driven to Suicide Abusive Parents Major Injury Underreaction Not Quite Dead Yandere Bring My Brown Pants Take a Third Option Curse Cut Short Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Composite Character Vomit Discretion Shot Sealed Evil in a Can N-Word Privileges Easily Forgiven More Dakka The Starscream Hollywood Law Bowdlerise Light Is Not Good In the Back Bilingual Bonus Not What It Looks Like Combat Pragmatist Names to Run Away from Really Fast Attempted Rape Big "NO!" Captain Obvious Affectionate Parody Fingore Ms. Fanservice Funny Background Event Big Damn Heroes Neck Snap Drowning My Sorrows Even Evil Has Loved Ones Soundtrack Dissonance Eyepatch of Power Destination Defenestration Chekhov's Gun Anyone Can Die Establishing Character Moment Defrosting Ice Queen Totally Radical He Knows Too Much Crazy Jealous Guy Distracted by the Sexy Product Placement Eldritch Abomination The Stoic Novelization Decoy Protagonist Insult Backfire Television Movie Index Camp Gay Funny Foreigner Death by Adaptation Woman Scorned Handicapped Badass Laughing Mad Defiant to the End Outrun the Fireball Darker and Edgier The Quiet One The Smart Guy Scenery Gorn Blood Knight Dumb Blonde Insane Troll Logic One Steve Limit Tempting Fate Our Vampires Are Different Daylight Horror What Happened to the Mouse? Cluster F-Bomb Sacrificial Lion Artistic License – Geography The Casanova Police Brutality Anti-Hero Parental Substitute Those Wacky Nazis Motor Mouth Enemy Mine No Celebrities Were Harmed Double Entendre Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Rule of Three Bunny-Ears Lawyer Friend to All Children The Stoner Self-Deprecation Heterosexual Life-Partners Shoot the Shaggy Dog Twist Ending Kill It with Fire Let's Get Dangerous! Heel–Face Turn Smoking Is Cool Body Horror Heroic BSoD Fanservice All There in the Script Shower Scene Rape as Drama Line-of-Sight Name Large Ham Dwindling Party Bloodier and Gorier Heel Realization Ass Shove Bald of Evil Frame-Up Catch-Phrase Danny Peary Cult Movies List Bound and Gagged Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Evil Plan Psycho for Hire Straight Gay Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Drugs Are Bad Translation Convention Daddy's Girl Improbable Aiming Skills Psychological Thriller Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Failed a Spot Check No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Domestic Abuse The Smurfette Principle You Killed My Father As Long as It Sounds Foreign Papa Wolf Covers Always Lie Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Laser-Guided Karma Author Appeal She Cleans Up Nicely The Stinger Non-Indicative Name Foil Sir Swears-a-Lot Flashback Stuff Blowing Up Slashed Throat Tagline French Films Chekhov's Gunman Madness Mantra Stealth Pun Fake Shemp Music Stories Flipping the Bird A Father to His Men Unreliable Narrator Super Strength Bond One-Liner Hidden Depths Apocalypse How Grey and Gray Morality Monumental Damage All Men Are Perverts Berserk Button Empathic Environment Cain and Abel My God, What Have I Done? Extreme Doormat Didn't Think This Through Shown Their Work Shirtless Scene Only One Name Imagine Spot Never Found the Body Determinator Big Applesauce Only Known by Their Nickname The End... Or Is It? Serial Killer Pet the Dog Visual Pun Be Careful What You Wish For Not Using the "Z" Word Playing Gertrude Ambiguously Gay Rated M for Manly Fantastic Racism Crucified Hero Shot Meaningful Echo Alas, Poor Villain The Cameo Rewatch Bonus folderlabel Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Public Domain Feature Films Badass in a Nice Suit Cassandra Truth Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Sequel Escalation Green-Eyed Monster Bloody Hilarious Early-Bird Cameo Historical Villain Upgrade Famous Last Words Parental Abandonment Together in Death Demonic Possession Chiaroscuro Superhero Training Montage The Great Depression Award-Bait Song Meaningful Background Event Wham Shot Evil Brit Running Gag Depraved Bisexual Epic Movie Male Gaze German Films Dies Wide Open Black Dude Dies First The '70s Naked People Are Funny Mexican Standoff It's Personal Leaning on the Fourth Wall Our Zombies Are Different The Load Fire-Forged Friends Title Drop Death by Irony Hero Antagonist Would Hit a Girl Getting Crap Past the Radar Have a Gay Old Time Gone Horribly Right Kick the Son of a Bitch Nice Guy Card-Carrying Villain Crapsack World Jump Scare Parental Neglect Accidental Misnaming The Un-Reveal Whole Plot Reference Contrived Coincidence Extremely Short Timespan Gilligan Cut Sanity Slippage Jerk Jock He Who Fights Monsters Villain with Good Publicity Mind Screw Pragmatic Villainy In Medias Res Alliterative Name Trailers Always Spoil Serious Business Sole Survivor Based on a True Story Star-Crossed Lovers British Films Action Genre Genre Throwback Pay Evil unto Evil Science Fiction Films Video Credits Dirty Cop Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun I'm a Humanitarian Sexy Discretion Shot Obfuscating Stupidity Romantic Comedy Lock and Load Montage Cat Scare Leave the Camera Running Dramatic Irony Freeze-Frame Bonus Market-Based Title Skewed Priorities Villain Protagonist No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Properly Paranoid Cool Old Lady A.I. Is a Crapshoot The '90s Peek-a-Boo Corpse Central Theme Red Eyes, Take Warning Bad Boss NO INDOOR VOICE Evil vs. Evil Setting Update Precision F-Strike Disguised in Drag Hooker with a Heart of Gold The Power of Love Make It Look Like an Accident Bloodless Carnage Romantic False Lead Would Hurt a Child Vampire Fiction Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality The Dreaded It Can Think Diabolus ex Machina Unwitting Instigator of Doom Karmic Death Faking the Dead The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite World of Ham Dropped a Bridge on Him Smug Snake Gold Digger Idiot Ball Earn Your Happy Ending Downer Ending Animal Motifs Men Are the Expendable Gender She's Got Legs Adaptation Expansion Big Bad Duumvirate Artistic License – History Broken Aesop Babies Ever After Bare Your Midriff Conspicuous CG Arch-Enemy As Himself Hypocritical Humor Punch-Clock Villain Hong Kong Films The Dog Bites Back Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Your Cheating Heart Break the Cutie Wretched Hive Taking the Bullet Suspiciously Specific Denial Nothing Is Scarier Obviously Evil Back from the Dead Hell Is That Noise Big-Bad Ensemble Jerk with a Heart of Gold Silent Movie Arc Words Brick Joke Love at First Sight The Ditz Martial Arts Movie Nice Hat Dirty Coward Blackmail Closed Circle Film Noir Action Survivor Death by Sex Hope Spot Token Minority Evil Cannot Comprehend Good timeperiod Bi the Way Bar Brawl Amusing Injuries Exactly What It Says on the Tin Villain Opening Scene Determinator aka: The Determinator Knife Nut Bitch in Sheep's Clothing BFG Really Gets Around "Awesome McCool" Name Knight Templar Auto Erotica Guns Akimbo Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Fate Worse than Death Time Skip Humiliation Conga No-Sell The Lancer Made of Explodium Faux Affably Evil Black Best Friend Naïve Newcomer Japanese Films Artistic License – Biology Real Life Race Lift Malevolent Masked Men Eiffel Tower Effect Actor Allusion Badass Bookworm Mooks Meet Cute Poor Communication Kills Intergenerational Friendship Vitriolic Best Buds Suspiciously Similar Substitute Fourth Date Marriage A Minor Kidroduction From Nobody to Nightmare The Lost Lenore Dark Is Not Evil Big Bad Vacation Films Ship Tease Femme Fatale The Mafia O.O.C. Is Serious Business Breaking the Fourth Wall Beware the Nice Ones Cruel and Unusual Death No Name Given Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Half the Man He Used to Be Did Not Get the Girl Ambiguous Disorder Not So Above It All Does This Remind You of Anything? Mighty Whitey Male Frontal Nudity Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass It Will Never Catch On Adaptation Dye-Job Karma Houdini Alpha Bitch Mr. Exposition Anguished Declaration of Love Fatal Family Photo Mundane Made Awesome Disappeared Dad Canon Foreigner The Vamp Action Girl Black and Gray Morality Well-Intentioned Extremist Creative Closing Credits Fun with Acronyms Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Tranquil Fury Adult Fear Corrupt Corporate Executive And I Must Scream Greater-Scope Villain Reality Is Unrealistic Beauty Is Never Tarnished Casting Gag Cool Car Historical-Domain Character Evil Is Petty Black Comedy Rape Wrong Genre Savvy MacGuffin Sadistic Choice Wicked Cultured Cool Guns Reality Ensues The Hero Dies Advertised Extra Ghost Fiction For Want of a Nail Russian Films Bavarian Fire Drill Dark Action Girl Loophole Abuse Grievous Bottley Harm Corpsing Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Film Series Victoria's Secret Compartment Say My Name Improbable Weapon User Bad "Bad Acting" May–December Romance The Film of the Book Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Eureka Moment Worthy Opponent Shout-Out Morality Pet Darkest Hour The Alcoholic Ascended Extra Fanservice Extra Batman Gambit Evil-Detecting Dog Bullying a Dragon Evil Counterpart Taking You with Me Shipper on Deck No OSHA Compliance Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! True Companions Deadpan Snarker Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Pre-Mortem One-Liner As the Good Book Says... Despair Event Horizon You Have Failed Me Foreshadowing Spiteful Spit Adaptational Villainy The Chessmaster Hair-Trigger Temper Captain Ersatz Broken Pedestal Storming the Castle Bond Villain Stupidity Off with His Head! Insistent Terminology Fiery Redhead Lampshade Hanging Undying Loyalty Roaring Rampage of Revenge From Bad to Worse The '50s Heroic Sacrifice The Brute Match Cut Not So Different Authority Equals Asskicking Dual Wielding All Just a Dream Silence Is Golden Eagleland Biopic Celebrity Paradox Rule of Symbolism Never Trust a Trailer Truth in Television You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! The Bad Guy Wins The X of Y Adults Are Useless Kids Are Cruel The Remake Action Prologue Immune to Bullets Intrepid Reporter Manly Tears Face–Heel Turn Ominous Latin Chanting Obstructive Bureaucrat Almost Kiss Same Language Dub Film Noir Index Throwing Your Sword Always Works Not So Stoic Improvised Weapon Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Race Against the Clock Ripped from the Headlines And the Adventure Continues Pretty in Mink Damsel in Distress Annoying Younger Sibling Eye Scream I Need a Freaking Drink Antagonist Title Moment Killer The Reveal Deus ex Machina Honor Before Reason Dressing as the Enemy Refuge in Audacity Every Car Is a Pinto Catapult Nightmare Gainax Ending Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Belligerent Sexual Tension Genre Savvy Amoral Attorney Costume Porn Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Foregone Conclusion Genre Shift Logo Joke Unresolved Sexual Tension Author Avatar Bottomless Magazines Disney Death Age Lift Noodle Incident Sci-Fi Horror Rule of Funny Call-Forward Ambiguous Ending For the Evulz Face Death with Dignity A God Am I Creator Cameo One-Word Title Bolivian Army Ending Betty and Veronica Dramatic Gun Cock Disney Villain Death Mood Whiplash Sports Stories Red Oni, Blue Oni Chekhov's Skill Evil Sounds Deep Ungrateful Bastard Mystery and Detective Films Deal with the Devil Epic Fail An Arm and a Leg Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Awesome, but Impractical Random Events Plot Retcon Vomit Indiscretion Shot Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Spell My Name with an "S" Mr. Fanservice Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Dramedy Deconstruction Mugging the Monster Never My Fault Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas The Chick Slasher Smile Big Fancy House Red Herring Stock Footage Fish out of Water Re-Cut Dying Moment of Awesome Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 20 Minutes into the Future Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Blatant Lies Leitmotif Mama Bear This Is Gonna Suck Offscreen Moment of Awesome Last-Name Basis Book-Ends Military and Warfare Films Adaptational Badass Death of a Child The Cavalry Manipulative Bastard Too Dumb to Live All for Nothing Needs Wiki Magic Love Redshirt Army Dirty Old Man Artistic License – Law Only Sane Man Sinister Minister Broken Bird Spared by the Adaptation Soft Glass Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Does Not Like Shoes An Aesop Toplessness from the Back Important Haircut Final Girl Hero of Another Story Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Wham Line Cowboy Cop Comically Missing the Point Scary Black Man Jitter Cam Drill Sergeant Nasty The '60s Dissonant Serenity Lighter and Softer Brainless Beauty The Mole The Faceless Christmas Movies Index Abhorrent Admirer Jerkass Psychopathic Manchild Good Is Not Nice Fainting Up to Eleven Due to the Dead Here We Go Again! Cool Old Guy Neck Lift Unusually Uninteresting Sight Animal Title Index Adorkable Adaptational Attractiveness "The Reason You Suck" Speech Not Even Bothering with the Accent Rule of Cool Dull Surprise Real Life Writes the Plot Oh, Crap! Blood from the Mouth Spanner in the Works All Girls Want Bad Boys Suddenly SHOUTING! Armor-Piercing Question Curb-Stomp Battle Gory Discretion Shot Deliberate Values Dissonance Camera Abuse Hate Sink Offscreen Teleportation Fatal Flaw Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Irony Overprotective Dad Left the Background Music On "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue I Have Your Wife Historical In-Joke Parental Incest Adaptation Distillation Maybe Ever After Bait-and-Switch I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Call-Back Red Shirt Everyone Has Standards Zombie Stories One-Man Army Punny Name Bland-Name Product Rousing Speech You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Gratuitous English Horror Comedy Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Narrator Adapted Out The Bully Butt-Monkey Reasonable Authority Figure Ironic Echo Protagonist Title Redemption Equals Death Badass Boast "Shaggy Dog" Story Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Affably Evil Henpecked Husband Ugly Guy, Hot Wife B-Movie Developing Doomed Characters The Hero '80s Hair Cloudcuckoolander Took a Level in Badass Homage Fat Bastard Hypocrite Rasputinian Death Air-Vent Passageway Bittersweet Ending Manic Pixie Dream Girl Only a Flesh Wound Deliberately Monochrome Country Matters My Greatest Failure Kill 'em All Plot Hole Paper-Thin Disguise Car Fu The Ace Cat Fight Crazy-Prepared Jerkass Has a Point Very Loosely Based on a True Story How We Got Here Children Are Innocent Hollywood Darkness Chewing the Scenery Overly Long Gag Riddle for the Ages Hoist by His Own Petard Took a Level in Jerkass Killed Mid-Sentence Villain Ball Fantasy Films Scare Chord Badass Grandpa It's All About Me Character Development Politically Incorrect Villain The Dragon Those Two Guys Woman in White Continuity Nod Dark and Troubled Past Reality Has No Subtitles Guile Hero Posthumous Character Big Brother Instinct Dogged Nice Guy Loads and Loads of Characters Rich Bitch I Did What I Had to Do Works Set in World War II The Big Guy Artistic License – Military A Date with Rosie Palms Plucky Comic Relief Even Evil Has Standards Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Stylistic Suck My Beloved Smother Sassy Black Woman Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Big Eater Stalker with a Crush Beard of Evil Department of Redundancy Department Your Head A-Splode Brother–Sister Incest Revenge Off-into-the-Distance Ending After the End Gorn Framing Device I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Put on a Bus "Well Done, Son!" Guy As You Know Manchild What the Hell, Hero? Credits Gag Calling the Old Man Out Pretty Little Headshots Only in It for the Money Villain Song Pimped-Out Dress Those Two Bad Guys War Is Hell Artistic License – Physics Index of Film Westerns Kick the Dog Police are Useless Man on Fire Aluminum Christmas Trees Thriller Unspoken Plan Guarantee Word of God Mercy Kill No Ending Chase Scene Adaptation Name Change Aside Glance The Atoner Instant Death Bullet Becoming the Mask Recycled IN SPACE! Black Comedy Animated Credits Opening Dutch Angle And Starring Unusual Euphemism Gender Flip All There in the Manual Once More, with Clarity! Boom, Headshot! Villainous Breakdown Mad Scientist Facial Horror Anachronic Order La Résistance Badass Longcoat Happily Married Dark Reprise Actually Pretty Funny Anachronism Stew Cold-Blooded Torture Accidental Murder Heroes Want Redheads Adaptational Heroism Break the Haughty Wounded Gazelle Gambit Australian Movies Stepford Smiler In Name Only Reckless Gun Usage An Axe to Grind Beta Couple Made of Iron The Sociopath Informed Ability No Antagonist Slasher Movie Death Glare Kubrick Stare Missing Mom Bury Your Gays Slap-Slap-Kiss Red Right Hand Double-Meaning Title Shut Up, Hannibal! Ragtag Bunch of Misfits What You Are in the Dark The Musical Implacable Man Four-Temperament Ensemble The '80s Take That! Death Seeker Ax-Crazy There Is No Kill Like Overkill Room Full of Crazy Arranged Marriage Badass Normal Scenery Porn Humans Are Bastards Married to the Job Sequel Hook Agony of the Feet Mythology Gag The Alleged Car Better to Die than Be Killed Retirony Historical Hero Upgrade Artistic License – Gun Safety Expository Hairstyle Change The Oner Small Name, Big Ego Exact Words Creepy Child Fan Disservice Evil Laugh The Voiceless Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Asshole Victim Retired Badass Groin Attack Horror Films Canadian Movies Interrupted Suicide Older Than They Look Meaningful Name Spiritual Successor Tap on the Head Brutal Honesty Early Installment Weirdness Show Within a Show Coming-of-Age Story Anti-Villain Freudian Excuse Five-Man Band Pyrrhic Victory Get Out! Love Triangle Documentary Evil Is Hammy Mistaken for Gay Shell-Shocked Veteran Italian Films The Ghost Cool Shades Expy The Place Pragmatic Adaptation