Tropescilloscope: Driven to Suicide

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

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