Tropescilloscope: Death Seeker

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

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Is a Crapshoot Badass Normal Camp Gay German Films French Films Hypocritical Humor Aside Glance Stock Footage Big Eater Police are Useless And Starring Vitriolic Best Buds Police Brutality Defrosting Ice Queen Toplessness from the Back Sexy Discretion Shot Rule of Symbolism The Chessmaster Only One Name Destination Defenestration NO INDOOR VOICE Double Entendre Nice Guy Disguised in Drag Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Dissonant Serenity Karma Houdini Ripped from the Headlines Sacrificial Lion Aluminum Christmas Trees Closed Circle Parental Abandonment Every Car Is a Pinto Sci-Fi Horror You Killed My Father Downer Ending In Name Only Non-Indicative Name Chiaroscuro Real Life Red Herring As Himself Captain Obvious Expository Hairstyle Change Dramedy Adaptational Badass Beauty Is Never Tarnished A Date with Rosie Palms Straight Gay Disney Villain Death Villain Protagonist A God Am I My Greatest Failure Recycled IN SPACE! 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I'm a Humanitarian Evil Sounds Deep Manic Pixie Dream Girl Unspoken Plan Guarantee Genre Throwback Dropped a Bridge on Him Hoist by His Own Petard Unwitting Instigator of Doom For Want of a Nail Deal with the Devil No-Sell My Beloved Smother Cool Old Guy Dark and Troubled Past Punch-Clock Villain Small Name, Big Ego Eldritch Abomination Russian Films Extreme Doormat Spiritual Successor Karmic Death Unusual Euphemism Re-Cut Meaningful Background Event Car Fu Anyone Can Die Badass Boast Sanity Slippage Brainless Beauty Evil Counterpart Throwing Your Sword Always Works Scary Black Man Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Mr. Exposition Make It Look Like an Accident Sports Stories Implacable Man Beard of Evil Freeze-Frame Bonus She Cleans Up Nicely Stealth Pun O.O.C. Is Serious Business Even Evil Has Standards Token Minority Demoted to Extra The Ditz Worthy Opponent Dirty Coward Greater-Scope Villain Bond Villain Stupidity Truth in Television Composite Character Not What It Looks Like Wretched Hive Curse Cut Short The Place Rated M for Manly Christmas Movies Index All Girls Want Bad Boys Match Cut '80s Hair Dramatic Gun Cock And I Must Scream Country Matters Martial Arts Movie Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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Properly Paranoid Here We Go Again! Adaptation Dye-Job Faking the Dead Those Two Bad Guys Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Villain Ball An Aesop The Un-Reveal Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas It's All About Me Authority Equals Asskicking Left the Background Music On Artistic License – Military Shell-Shocked Veteran Stuff Blowing Up Shout-Out Disproportionate Retribution Green-Eyed Monster Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Rape as Drama Take a Third Option Distracted by the Sexy Epic Movie Hope Spot Offscreen Moment of Awesome Establishing Character Moment Asshole Victim Fate Worse than Death Animal Motifs Honor Before Reason Woman in White Artistic License – Geography Children Are Innocent Horror Films Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Author Appeal Bring My Brown Pants Fun with Acronyms Big Applesauce Up to Eleven Twist Ending Face Death with Dignity Heel Realization Anachronic Order The Reveal Friend to All Children