List of suicides in fiction

This is a list of incidents of suicide–the intentional killing of one's self–depicted in fictional works, including movies, television series, anime and manga, comics, novels, etc.

A - C
A
 * Aegeus, a character from Greek mythology, drowned himself after mistakenly believing that Theseus (his son), was dead
 * Ajax the Great, a character from the Greek mythology, stabbed himself with a sword [his death is described by Sophocles, Pindar and Ovid; the suicide is, however only implied in Homer when, in the Odyssey, the ghost of Ajax refuses to speak to Odysseus in Hades]
 * Naoko Akagi (Neon Genesis Evangelion), jumps off a control tower after murdering Rei I
 * Misa Amane (Death Note), unknown cause. In the anime, she was last seen standing at the top of a very tall building; it is assumed that she jumped. In the manga it was suggested that she hanged herself.
 * Alia Atreides (Dune, defenistration

B


 * Gary Barkovitch (The Long Walk) tears his throat out
 * John Barton (Looking For Alibrandi), slit his wrists
 * Jacqueline de Bellefort (Death on the Nile), shoots herself after killing her lover Simon to escape justice
 * Georg Bendemann (The Judgment), threw himself off a bridge

C


 * Juliet Capulet (Romeo and Juliet), knife wounds
 * Richard Cory (Richard Cory), gunshot to the head

D - F
D
 * Daisy (Girl, Interrupted), method was unknown in the novel while in the movie, she hanged herself and cut her wrists

E
 * Jimmy "Thunder" Early (Dreamgirls), heroin overdose
 * Martin Eden, (Jack London's Martin Eden), drowning
 * Jimmy Edwards (One Tree Hill), shot himself in the chest
 * Nat Emmet (Mr Emmet Takes a Walk) lies in the path of an oncoming train
 * April Ericsson (Rent), slits her wrists after finding out she has AIDS and has infected her boyfriend Roger
 * Anne Ervin (The Chrysalids), hanging
 * Eugene (Wristcutters: A Love Story), pours a can of beer on his guitar during a performance, electrocuting himself
 * Brett Evans (NCIS), shot himself

F
 * Father Time (Jude the Obscure), hanged himself
 * Camilla Figg (Dexter), active euthanasia through Dexter Morgan
 * C. T. Finney (Third Watch), carbon monoxide poisoning
 * Ray Fiske (Damages), shoots himself in the mouth
 * William Foster (Falling Down), suicide by cop
 * Fox (Wanted), shoots herself
 * Rika Furude (Higurashi no Naku Koro ni), stabs herself multiple times in the head
 * Fuyubachi (Paranoia Agent), overdosing or carbon monoxide poisoning

G - I
G
 * Hedda Gabler (Hedda Gabler), shoots herself in the head
 * Michael Garfield (Hallowe'en Party), swallows the poison he had intended for his illegitimate daughter Miranda Butler to drink
 * Anavel Gato (Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory) kamikazes his Neue Ziel into a Federation cruiser
 * Edwin Gibs (Darkest Fear), cyanide poisoning
 * Hans Giebenrath (Beneath the Wheel), drowning (suspicious circumstances)
 * Seymour Glass (A Perfect Day for Bananafish), shoots himself
 * Godric (True Blood), exposes himself to sunlight
 * Frances Goering (Criminal Minds), blows himself up
 * Emily Gold (The Pact), had her boyfriend Chris help her shoot herself.
 * Gorman (Aliens), grenade
 * Okada Gou (Alive: The Final Evolution), kills himself by breaking the promise of his own "Shinigami Contract"
 * Ash Gray (Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray) exits his mobile suit in space without sealing his pilot suit
 * Allan Grey (A Streetcar Named Desire), shot himself
 * Cynthia Swann Griffin (The First Wives Club), jumped from her high rise apartment building
 * Guillame (Heroes), jumps off a mountain

H
 * Sheriff Hague (Planet Terror), blows himself up
 * J.T. Hague (Planet Terror) blows himself up
 * Clu Haid (The Final Detail), shot himself in the head.
 * Vincent Hanlan (NCIS) slits his throat
 * Veronica Harnden (Children of the Dust), drug overdose taken to end her suffering from radiation sickness
 * Katy Harris (Coronation Street), drinks water mixed with sugar (a deadly solution, because of her diabetes)
 * John Hartigan, (Sin City), gunshot to the head
 * Sakumo Hatake (Naruto), committing Seppuku after being looked down on after saving his comrades instead of completing the mission.
 * John Hatcher (Doomsday), shoots self
 * Brooks Hatlen, (The Shawshank Redemption), hanging
 * Ensign Evan Hayes (NCIS), suicide-by-cop
 * Sir Hercules (Sir Hercules), slashing of wrists
 * Captain Hero (Drawn Together), self-inflicted beheading
 * Betty Heslop (Muriel's Wedding), overdoseage on sleeping pills
 * Spencer Hill (Hold Tight), taking vodka and tablets
 * Hina (Yu Yu Hakusho) kills herself after being forced to throw away her male child, Hiei
 * John Hobbes, (Fallen), smokes cigarettes laced with poison
 * Seth "Cherry" Hoffner (Prison Break), hanging
 * Sadojima Hoji (Rurouni Kenshin), slits his throat
 * Mr. Hollis (South Park) shoots himself after losing a pinewood derby car race
 * Midshipsman Hollom (Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World), drowning
 * David Hoope (Death Note) shoots himself, possibly under influence of the Death Note
 * Benjamin Horlacher (NCIS), shoots himself
 * Peter Houghton (Nineteen Minutes), suffocating himself with a sock in his cell
 * Sayuri Houshou (Bloody Monday) a combination of suicide-by-cop and jumping to her death
 * Waring Hudsucker (The Hudsucker Proxy), defenistration
 * Amanda Hunsaker (Lethal Weapon), jumps off her apartment balcony

I
 * Shuji Ikutsuki (Persona 3) jumps to his death
 * James Orin Incandenza Jr. (Infinite Jest) uses a drillbit, hacksaw, and aluminum foil to microwave his own head
 * Celeste Inpax (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice for All), hanging
 * Gina Inviere (Battlestar Galactica), sets off a nuclear warhead
 * Rio Izumi (Full Moon o Sagashite), jumps in front of a train

J - M
J
 * Javert (Les Misérables), jumped off bridge and drowned
 * Carl Jenkins (Oz), hangs himself
 * Albert Jerska (Das Leben der Anderen), hangs himself
 * Alexandra 'Sasha' Jobson (Blassreiter), incinerated with her Bow Rider when it overheats
 * Johann (Blassreiter) hangs himself
 * John the Savage (Brave New World) hangs himself
 * Mrs. Jones (The Happening), smashes her head through the windows of her house
 * Ryu Jose (Mobile Suit Gundam), executes a kamikaze attack with his Core Fighter to destroy Crowley Hamon's Magella Top
 * Josh (Pulse), hangs himself with an Ethernet cable
 * Julian (The Happening), slits his wrists with a shard of glass
 * Julie (The Walking Dead), shot as part of a suicide pact
 * Junior (The Last House on the Left) shoots himself
 * Dayna Jurgens (The Stand), breaks a window and impales herself on the broken glass

K
 * Kamome (Paranoia Agent), jumping or carbon monoxide poisoning
 * Father Damien Karras (The Exorcist) defenistration
 * Kana (Hostel), jumps in front of a train
 * Kana (My Lovely Ghost Kana) stabs herself repeatedly
 * Anna Karenina (Anna Karenina), by throwing herself in the path of a train
 * Katarina (Doctor Who), jettisons herself out of a spaceship's airlock
 * Kawahara (Saikano), shoots himself
 * Chris Keller (Oz), throws himself over a railing
 * Morio Kenichirou (Alive: The Final Evolution), cuts himself with his own wind blade
 * Kim (Miss Saigon), self-inflicted gunshot wound
 * Charles Kingshaw (I'm the King of the Castle), drowned himself because of relentless bullying by Edmund Hooper
 * Aleksei Kirillov (The Possessed), self-inflicted gunshot wound
 * Jeff Kohlver (Hard Candy), hangs himself
 * Major T. J. "King" Kong (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb), "rides" on a dropping nuclear bomb to his death
 * Yoji Kuramoto (Battle Royale film) hangs himself alongside Yoshimi Yahagi
 * Detective Kuroda (Suicide Club), shoots himself
 * Hiroshi Kurokawa (Manhole), swallowed a screw before he was given an MRI exam; the magnetic force from the machine ripped the screw out of his throat
 * Raiga Kurosuki (Naruto), uses lightning to incinerate himself
 * Lawrence Kutner (House), shoots himself
 * Takuto Kira (Full Moon o Sagashite), jumps from the roof of a hospital
 * Kelly (2:37), cuts her wrist

L
 * L (Death Note live-action film) writes his own name in the Death Note
 * Lancelot (Romeo x Juliet), posing as The Red Whirlwind dies through means of self-immolation to avoid capture of himself and Juliet, and to free wrongly accused victims
 * Faldio Landzaat (Valkyria Chronicles), falls to his death, dragging Maximillian with him.
 * Harold Lauder (The Stand), shot himself
 * Jae Lee (Lost) jumps from his apartment building
 * Lee Woo-Jin (Oldboy), shot himself
 * Lee Soo-Ah (Oldboy), threw himself into river
 * Leonard "Gomer Pyle" Lawrence (Full Metal Jacket), shot himself
 * Leopold, Crown Prince of Austria (The Illusionist) shoots himself in the head
 * Lester (Doctor Who, Revenge of the Cybermen), detonates explosive charged backpack
 * Su Lin (Enter The Dragon), stabs herself with a shard of glass
 * Ling-Ling (Drawn Together), seppuku, defenestration
 * Bonnie Lisbon (The Virgin Suicides), hang herself
 * Cecilia Lisbon (The Virgin Suicides), jumped from second story window onto spiked fence.
 * Lux Lisbon (The Virgin Suicides), carbon monoxide poisoning
 * Mary Lisbon (The Virgin Suicides), inhaled gas by placing her head in the oven
 * Therese Lisbon (The Virgin Suicides), overdosed on sleeping pills
 * Little Bill (Boogie Nights), shot himself
 * Willy Loman (Death of a Salesman), exact method not specified, car related
 * Mary Ann Lomax (The Devil's Advocate), slit her throat
 * Louise (Thelma & Louise), drives off of a cliff into the Grand Canyon
 * Foxxy Love (Drawn Together), defenestration
 * Lucie (Martyrs), slits her throat
 * Alvin Lutz (Blassreiter), shot himself
 * Vesper Lynd (Casino Royale), locks herself in underwater cage and drowns (film) or overdoses on painkillers (novel)

M
 * Lady Macbeth (Macbeth), defenstration, unknown if she was pushed, or she jumped
 * Bob Maconel(He Was a Quiet Man) kills himself after realizing that everything he experienced since he killed his fellow co-worker was a delusion
 * Madmoiselle (Martyrs), shoots herself
 * Sara Maguire (30 Days of Night: Dust to Dust) turns to ash upon contact with sunlight
 * Jamal Malik (NCIS), blows himself up in a suicide bombing
 * Mamuwalde (Blacula), intentionally exposes himself to direct sunlight
 * Mark (Possession), jumps from a high floor
 * Lt. Col. Matthew Markinson (A Few Good Men), self-inflicted gunshot
 * Mary (Diary of the Dead) shoots herself
 * Masa (Suicide Club), throws himself off the roof of a building
 * George Mason (24), nuclear explosion on Day 2
 * Eden McCain (Heroes), self-inflicted gunshot
 * Lee McCall (Stander), suicide by cop
 * Kenny McCormick (South Park), drowns himself in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool (see: The episode Super Best Friends)
 * Luke McDonald (True Blood), blows himself up in a suicide bombing
 * Sean McTaggert (The Believers), shot himself
 * Michael (Dawn of the Dead), shoots himself.
 * Michelle (Dante's Cove) stabs herself
 * Mr. Milbauer (Days of Our Lives) shoots himself
 * Teru Mikami (Death Note) stabs himself
 * Julia Miliken (24), self-inflicted gunshot to head after murdering Sherry Palmer in Day 3
 * Min Hyo-Shin (Memento Mori), jumps off the roof of her school
 * Miori Mikage ("Ceres, Celestial Legend"), falls several stories
 * Kiyomitsu Misaki (Alive: The Final Evolution), throws himself down a flight of stairs
 * Mitsuhirato (The Adventures of Tintin comic - The Blue Lotus), commits seppuku
 * Fernand Mondego (The Count of Monte Cristo), gunshot wounds
 * Romeo Montague, (Romeo & Juliet), takes poison after finding Juliet whom he believed to be dead.
 * Anna Morgan (The Ring), jumps from a cliff
 * Harry Morgan (Dexter), overdoses on his medication
 * Jerome Eugene Morrow (Gattaca), self-immolation

N - P
N
 * Neal (Cold Case), shoots himself in a suicide pact
 * Samuel Norton (The Shawshank Redemption), self-inflicted gunshot
 * Princess Nuala (Hellboy II: The Golden Army), stabs herself to kill Nuada
 * Hasan Numair (24), detonates a suitcase nuke to prevent it from being confiscated

O
 * Conan O'Brien (South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut), a real life persona whose fictional counterpart kills himself out of remorse by jumping out of the window of a skyscraper
 * Orgo (Santa Sangre) slits his throat
 * Otto 'Doc Ock' Ocatvius (Spider-Man 2), drowns
 * Okonkwo (Things Fall Apart), hangs himself after he realizes there is no hope for his culture.
 * Sakura Ogawa (Battle Royale), jumps off a cliff in a suicide pact with Kazuhiko Yamamoto
 * Eben Olemaun (30 Days of Night), turns to ash upon contact with sunlight
 * Carlos Olivera (Resident Evil: Extinction), blows himself up with a gas tanker to clear a path for the survivors and to prevent him from transforming into a zombie
 * Ophelia (Hamlet), drowning (ambiguous)
 * Ronald Opus, used as a hypothetical example of a complex death investigation
 * Othello (Othello), stabs himself

P
 * Hoyte Parker (Tell No One), shot himself after killing Griffin Scope
 * Charles "Haywire" Patoshik (Prison Break), jumping
 * Frank Pentangeli (The Godfather Part II), slit wrists
 * Cheryl Perkins (Law & Order) hanged herself
 * Petunia (Happy Tree Friends), slit wrists
 * Phoenix I, in the form of Jean Grey (Uncanny X-Men), telekinetically activates an energy cannon that disintegrates her.
 * Edna Pontellier (The Awakening), drowning
 * Ryan Francis Purdy (Stripper), jumping
 * Phantom (MÄR), forces Purific Ave into his chest
 * Neil Perry (Dead Poet's Society), gunshot
 * Phaedra (Phèdre), poison
 * Dr. Anton Phibes (The Abominable Dr. Phibes), replaces his blood with embalming fluid
 * Emmy Poole (NCIS), slits her wrists
 * Madelyne Pryor, villainess in Marvel Comics, telepathically shuts down her mind

Q - S
Q
 * Quasimodo (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), exact cause is unknown as his remains are not found until many years later, with his skeleton hugging the skeleton of Esmeralda.
 * Quentin (The Sound and the Fury), drowning
 * Quinn (Star Trek: Voyager episode Death Wish), poisoning with the fictional nogatch hemlock

R
 * Ramba Ral (Mobile Suit Gundam), blows himself to prevent capture
 * Rawler (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), castrates himself while sitting on the toilet and bleeds to death
 * Ray (Cell), shoots himself
 * Ellen Ripley (Alien 3), throws herself into a gigantic furnace.
 * General Jack D. Ripper (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb), shoots himself
 * General Alistair Ravenscroft (Elephants Can Remember), shot himself after killing his sister in law Dolly
 * Merritt Rook (Law & Order SVU), jumps into a river handcuffed
 * Sol Roth (Soylent Green), "goes home" (assisted suicide, whilst watching forbidden images of a pristine Earth prior to its ecological destruction)
 * Andrew Ryan (BioShock), forces his brainwashed son with his post-hypnotic activation phrase "Would you kindly..." to beat him to death with a golf club
 * Bernard Ryder/Mr. Blue (Taking of Pelham One Two Three), electrocution to avoid arrest

S
 * Yuko Sakaki (Battle Royale) jumps to her death from a lighthouse
 * Sakyo (Yu Yu Hakusho) stays in the arena he had set to self-destruct
 * Samuel (Diary of the Dead), stabs himself in the face with a sickle
 * Sam (Luster) Unknown
 * Eva Smith (An Inspector Calls), poisoning
 * Searle (Sunshine), stays behind on Icarus I resulting in him being incinerated from exposure to the sun
 * Gary Searle (Give A Boy A Gun), shoots himself
 * Hazel Shade (Pale Fire), drowns herself in frozen lake
 * Elsa de Sica (Gunslinger Girl), shoots her handler and then herself
 * The (nameless) Scientist (9), splits his soul in 9 parts to animate his 9 Homunculi.
 * Ira Silverstine (The Woods), shot himself in the mouth after he attempted to kill Paul Copeland
 * David Sinclair (Permanent Record), jumps off a cliff
 * Dr Soames (The Day of the Triffids), defenestration
 * Smerdjakov (The Brothers Karamazov), hanging
 * Septimus Smith (Mrs. Dalloway), defenestration
 * Wooldoor Sockbat (Drawn Together), defenestration
 * Kyoko Zeppelin Soryu (Neon Genesis Evangelion), hangs herself in her hospital room after becoming mentally unstable during an experiment
 * Nikolai Stavrogin (The Possessed), hanging
 * Terrence Steadman (Prison Break), shoots himself in the head
 * Ms. Stephenson (South Park), jumps to her death
 * Grace Stewart (The Others), self-inflicted gunshot
 * Stevens (King Rat), drowning
 * Moritz Stiefel (Spring Awakening), shot himself
 * Lucy Stiles (24), unknown method to avoid radiation poisoning
 * Greg Stillson (The Dead Zone), shoots himself
 * Naozumi Sudo (Narutaru a.k.a. Shadow Star), starves himself
 * Holly Summers (No More Heroes), places a grenade in her mouth
 * James Sunderland (Silent Hill 2), drives into a lake in the "In Water" ending.
 * Arkady Svidrigailov (Crime and Punishment), self-inflicted gunshot wound
 * Sam ([Luster (film)]) Unknown

T - W
T
 * Taguchi (Kairo), hangs himself
 * Claude Tanner (Degrassi High), shot himself in the head after being rejected by Caitlin
 * General Tanz (The Night of the Generals) shoots himself
 * Tarek (Sof Shavua B'Tel Aviv/For my Father), blows himself up
 * Beatrice Taylor (Ten Little Indians), drowns herself in the river
 * Captain Clark Terrell (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan), self-inflicted phaser shot
 * Thelma (Thelma & Louise) drives off of a cliff into the Grand Canyon
 * Tim Thomas (Seven Pounds), allows himself to be stung by a poisonous jellyfish.
 * Leroy Tidd (Oz), stabbed while defending Kareem Said
 * Toni (Red Dawn), grenade
 * Floria Tosca (Tosca), opera heroine leaps to her death from the walls of the Castel Sant Angelo in Rome to escape Scarpia's henchmen
 * Samuel Travis (NCIS), suffocates himself
 * Trey (Sunshine), slits his wrists
 * Sam Tyler (Life on Mars), jumps off a roof to return to his imaginary life

U
 * Jin-e Udo (Rurouni Kenshin), stabs himself after losing in battle to Kenshin Himura
 * Stan Uris (It), slit wrists in bathtub

V
 * Sibyl Vane (The Picture of Dorian Gray), poisoning
 * Private Vasquez (Aliens), she and Lieutenant Gorman kill themselves with a grenade.
 * Vegeta (Dragonball Z), blew himself up in an unsuccessful attempt to kill Buu
 * Shane Vendrell (The Shield), shoots himself after poisoning his son and pregnant wife
 * Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca (Angels and Demons), self-immolation
 * Jordy Verrill (Creepshow, segment entitled The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill) shoots himself
 * Heloise de Villefort (The Count of Monte Cristo), poisoning
 * Son Vago (The Gang Catastrophe 3), shot himself with AK-47

W
 * Toby Jay Wadenah (The Pledge), shoots himself
 * Judge Lawrence Wargrave (Ten Little Indians), shot himself
 * Garth Watkins (In the Heat of the Night), shot himself
 * Werther (The Sorrows of Young Werther), shot wounds (caused by borrowed pistols)
 * Frank White (King of New York), shot himself
 * Xandir P. Wifflebottom (Drawn Together), stabbed self with sword
 * Eli Wicner (One False Move), shot himself in the mouth with a shotgun
 * George Wilson (The Great Gatsby), gunshot wounds
 * Dallas Winston (The Outsiders), suicide by police
 * Henry Winter (The Secret History) gunshot
 * Charles "Corky" Withers (Magic) knife wounds
 * Frank Wolff (Explorers on the Moon, The Adventures of Tintin), jettisoned himself out of a rocket in outer space
 * Johann von Wolfhausen (Beerfest) pulls the plug on his life support machine
 * Sid Worley (An Officer and a Gentleman), suicide by hanging

X - Z
X Y
 * Yoshimi Yahagi (Battle Royale), in the film, hangs herself alongside Yoji Kuramoto
 * Kazuhiko Yamamoto (Battle Royale), jumps off a cliff in a suicide pact with Sakura Ogawa
 * Yuriko Yamamoto (Revelations: Persona), means unknown
 * Adam Yates (The Innocent), shot himself
 * Dinna Yeller (Drop Shot), shot herself in the head
 * Utsunomiya Yoshikatsu (Alive: The Final Evolution), jumps off a bridge
 * Mary Alice Young (Desperate Housewives), shot herself in the head
 * Meroko Yui (Full Moon o Sagashite),slits wrists

Z
 * Victor Zakhaev (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare), self-inflict gunshot to the head
 * Iya Zetnick (Father), self-inflict gunshot to the head
 * Zia (Wristcutters: A Love Story), slits his wrists
 * Dr. David Ziegler (The West Wing), commits suicide by gas exhaust inhalation after learning that he has terminal cancer