Tropescilloscope: Driven to Suicide

Events lead a character to kill themself. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Fatal Family Photo Toplessness from the Back Blood Knight Mexican Standoff Scenery Gorn Big Bad Death Glare Ominous Latin Chanting Ambiguously Gay Implacable Man Driven to Suicide Death of a Child Mr. Exposition Japanese Films Zombie Stories Frame-Up Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Redshirt Army Roaring Rampage of Revenge Villain Ball Spared by the Adaptation I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Fan Disservice There Is No Kill Like Overkill The Bad Guy Wins Rule of Three Historical Hero Upgrade Body Horror Together in Death Big Fancy House 20 Minutes into the Future Brick Joke Heel–Face Turn Groin Attack Alpha Bitch Establishing Character Moment Slashed Throat The Hero Dies Jump Scare How We Got Here Unusually Uninteresting Sight Crazy-Prepared Bald of Evil Adaptational Attractiveness Stylistic Suck My Beloved Smother Morality Pet Important Haircut The Big Guy "Shaggy Dog" Story Mr. Fanservice "Awesome McCool" Name Black Best Friend Visual Pun Stepford Smiler Curse Cut Short All There in the Script Heterosexual Life-Partners Evil-Detecting Dog Extreme Doormat Dark and Troubled Past Not Quite Dead Fiery Redhead Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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Adaptation Expansion Serial Killer The Atoner Insane Troll Logic Foreshadowing Scenery Porn Not What It Looks Like Mistaken for Gay Fantastic Racism Badass Longcoat Dissonant Serenity Country Matters Half the Man He Used to Be The Lost Lenore Funny Background Event Took a Level in Jerkass Dirty Coward Taking the Bullet Covers Always Lie Offscreen Moment of Awesome Ascended Extra Older Than They Look Bond Villain Stupidity Arch-Enemy No Ending Breaking the Fourth Wall Male Gaze Running Gag Expository Hairstyle Change Index of Film Westerns Attempted Rape Daylight Horror Celebrity Paradox No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Affably Evil Bloodless Carnage Adaptational Badass Brutal Honesty An Axe to Grind Redemption Equals Death Sacrificial Lion Henpecked Husband Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique The X of Y "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Oh, Crap! 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