List of suicides in fiction  

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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.

Suicides in fiction

A

• Aegeus, a character from Greek mythology, drowns himself after mistakenly believing that his son Theseus was dead
• Ajax the Great, a character from the Greek mythology, stabs 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)<ref>http://seco.glendale.edu/ceramics/suicideofajax.html</ref>
• Naoko Akagi (Neon Genesis Evangelion), jumps off a control tower after murdering Rei I<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 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.<ref>Death Note: How to Read 13. VIZ Media. 117.</ref>
• Princess Ashe ("Final Fantasy XII") Sorrow of kingdoms defeat. Method not specified.
• Alia Atreides (Dune), defenestration<ref>Herbert, Frank: "Children of Dune", page 394. Ace Books, 1987</ref>
• Duke Leto Atreides, (Dune), poison gas capsule

B

• Lily Bart (The House of Mirth), overdoses on chloral hydrate (possible suicide)
• John Barton (Looking For Alibrandi), slit his wrists <ref>http://moore.portlandschools.org/pemaquid/aheatley2/reading%20reflection</ref>
• 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 <ref>Gray, Richard T. "Zum Schiff." A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia. 2621. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005. Print</ref>
• Emma Bovary (Madame Bovary), ingestion of arsenic.<ref>Madame Bovary, Francis Steegmuller translation, page 360</ref>
• Sammy Bushey (Under the Dome), shoots herself

C

• Jericho Cane (End of Days), impales himself on a sword
• Juliet Capulet (Romeo and Juliet), knife wounds<ref>Shakespeare, William. (1936). The Complete Works of Shakespeare, New York: Doubleday, pg 349.</ref>
• Castel (The Bourne Identity), defenestration
• Chloe (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), hanged herself after being convinced to by The First
• Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly), seppuku;<ref>Libretto, Madama Butterfly</ref> and Kim in the contemporary adaptation Miss Saigon (gunshot)<ref>stageagent: Miss Saigon</ref>
• Mallorie "Mal" Cobb (Inception), jumping from heights<ref>[1]</ref>
• Richard Cory (Richard Cory), gunshot to the head<ref>Barnes and Noble: "The Treasury of American Poetry", page 327. Barnes and Noble Books, 1993</ref>
• Quentin Compson (The Sound and The Fury), drowning<ref>Faulkner, Williams. (1929). The Sound & The Fury, New York: Random House</ref>

D

• Daisy (Girl, Interrupted), method was unknown in the novel<ref>Kaysen, Susanna: "Girl, Interrupted", page 35. Vintage Books, 1993</ref> while in the movie, she hangs herself and cuts her wrists

E

• Julian English (Appointment in Samarra), carbon monoxide in garage, ch. 9

F

G

• Hedda Gabler (Hedda Gabler), shoots herself offstage<ref>Hedda Gabbler synopsis at gradesaver.com</ref>
• Godric (True Blood/Southern Vampire Mysteries novels), "meets the sun", which as a vampire is fatal
• Gullberg (The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest), shoots himself after shooting Galachenko

H

• Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights) Hanged himself to be with his deceased love, Cathy.
• Ray Huizanga (Cell (novel)) shoots himself

I

J

• Javert (Les Misérables), jumped off bridge and drowned <ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=4MhcAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA418&lpg=PA418&dq=Javert+Suicide&source=bl&ots=H2L-IybP0y&sig=DYJAikRFxhMp6o2-QJmYi8WNtSc&hl=en&ei=17APTIbTG4H88AbJ67GBCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CBcQ6AEwATge#v=onepage&q=Javert%20Suicide&f=false</ref>
• John the Savage (Brave New World) hangs himself <ref>http://www.huxley.net/studyaid/index.html</ref>
• Dayna Jurgens (The Stand), smashes her head through a glass window and thrashes her head around so that the sharp edges of the glass cut open her jugular vein.

K

• Anna Karenina (Anna Karenina), steps into the path of a train<ref>Anna Karenina summary at gradesaver.com</ref>
• Father Damien Karras (The Exorcist), defenestration.
• Katsumoto (The Last Samurai), seppuku
• Gabriel Kent (The Bill), jumped off the top of a building
• Lawrence Kutner (House), dies of a self-inflicted gunshot wound and is found in "Simple Explanation" by colleagues. <ref>Ausiello, Michael. "'House' exclusive: The shocking story behind last night's big death" Entertainment Weekly, 2009-04-07. Retrieved 2009-04-07.</ref><ref name=nydailynews>Hinckley, David, "Actor Kal Penn's death as 'House' character Dr. Lawrence Kutner shocks fans" New York Daily News, 2009-04-07. Retrieved on 2009-04-08.</ref>
• Yoji Kuramuto (Battle Royale), in the film, hangs himself alongside his girlfriend Yoshimi Yahagi

L

• Harold Lauder (The Stand), shoots himself in the head.
• Leonard "Gomer Pyle" Lawrence (Full Metal Jacket), self-inflicted gunshot wound after murdering his commanding officer<ref>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093058/synopsis</ref>
• Su Lin (Enter the Dragon), stabs herself with a shard of glass.
• Willy Loman (Death of a Salesman), car crash<ref>Death of a Salesman, Bellmore-Merrick study guide</ref>

M

• Lady Macbeth (Macbeth), method unspecified, "Who, as 'tis thought, by self and violent hands took off her life"<ref>Macbeth, Act 5, scene 8</ref>
• Lt. Col. Matthew Andrew Markinson (A Few Good Men), shoots himself
• Romeo Montague, (Romeo & Juliet), takes poison after finding Juliet whom he believed to be dead.<ref>Shakespeare, William. (1936). The Complete Works of Shakespeare, New York: Doubleday, pg 348.</ref>
• Darren Mullet (Tormented), hangs himself

N

• Samuel Norton (The Shawshank Redemption) shoots himself

O

• Sakura Ogawa (Battle Royale) throws herself off a cliff alongside Kazuhiko Yamamoto
• Ophelia (Hamlet), drowning (ambiguous)<ref>Shakespeare, William. (1936). The Complete Works of Shakespeare, New York: Doubleday, pg 770.</ref>
• Othello (Othello), stabs himself<ref>Shakespeare, William. (1936). The Complete Works of Shakespeare, New York: Doubleday, pg 979.</ref>
• Okonkwo (Things Fall Apart), hangs himself out of despair

P

• Neil Perry (Dead Poet's Society), shoots himself
• Phoenix I, in the form of Jean Grey (Uncanny X-Men), telekinetically activates an energy cannon that disintegrates her.<ref>Claremont, Chris. Uncanny X-Men #137 (September 1980)</ref>
• Madelyne Pryor, mentally commits suicide by forcing her mind to shut down.<ref>Claremont, Chris. X-Factor #38 (March 1989).</ref>

Q

R

S

• Yuko Sakaki (Battle Royale) jumps from a lighthouse
• Hannah Schmitz (The Reader)
• Shin (Hokuto no ken),Jumped from the peak of his tower
• Smerdyakov (The Brothers Karamazov), hanging<ref>The Brothers Karamazov, Constance Garnett translation, page 736</ref>
• Septimus Warren Smith (Mrs Dalloway), defenestration
• Holly Summers (No More Heroes), places a grenade in her mouth
• Svidrigailov (Crime and Punishment), gunshot to the head<ref>Crime and Punishment, Constance Garnett translation, page 440</ref>

T

• General Tanz (The Night of the Generals), shoots himself
• Captain Clark Terrell (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan), shoots himself
• Floria Tosca, in Puccini’s opera Tosca, jumps from castle rampart<ref>Tosca synopsis</ref>

U

V

W

• Justice Lawrence Wargrave, (And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie), self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head after murdering nine people on an island
• Werther, in The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe and the subsequent opera by Massenet; gunshot to the head; the fictional suicide touched off a wave of copycat suicides in Europe<ref>Siebers, Tobin, The Werther effect: the esthetics of suicide.</ref>
• Dallas "Dally" Winston (The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton), suicide by police after robbing a grocery store

X

Y

• Yoshimi Yahagi (Battle Royale), in the film, hangs herself alongside Yuji Kuramuto.
• Kazuhiko Yamamoto (Battle Royale), throws himself off a cliff alongside Sakura Ogawa.
• Adam Yates (The Innocent), gunshot.
• Mary Alice Young in Desperate Housewives; gunshot to the head; the suicide enables the character to portray the role of narrator of the series from a dead point of view.

Z

See also

• List of suicides