Awesome Kong You Shoot Me Down Song
You're really in trouble now. You've been defeated, captured or otherwise humiliated by your enemies, and are now at their mercy. But you've got one last ace up your sleeve. The only problem is, this final attack is going to spell death for you as well as your enemies.
But hey, you're going to die anyway!.Cue via a by using a involving a into a, or anything that suits your tastes, really. Don't forget, however, to growl in a menacing tone: 'If I'm going to die, I'm Taking You With Me,' or perhaps '.'
When this trope is invoked, the hero usually survives, and the villain nearly always dies, regardless of who is trying to take whom with them. If it's the villain trying to take the hero, the attempt inevitably fails. If it's the hero trying to take the villain, the attempt inevitably succeeds, and it's likely (but not certain) that the hero will find a way to come out of it alive. (Exception: If the hero is a, the attempt inevitably succeeds and.). One form of Taking You with Me is when a villain deliberately sets up a situation, hoping to collapse his lair on the victorious heroes (over cries of 'You'll kill us bothall!' When cornered, one might decide that it's, and take a; too bad that those don't bring down the opponent with you.
Alternatively, the threat of taking an attacker down with you can allow you to achieve a. If this action is taken by a usually stoic villain, may have been preceded by a. If is included with 'you', this becomes a.A is a prolonged version of this, involving more characters.
It may, in fact, have several Taking You with Me incidents in it. This trope often goes hand-in-hand with. See also,.
May occur after crossing the. The is a nonlethal cousin of this trope. May be the purpose of some variants of a. Compare for (not necessarily lethal or even offensive) scripted final actions. Someone pulling the may be doing this if they don't have any means to counteract the poison. A might resort to this if they're upset enough.
Not to be confused with. It also should not be confused with, where the death of the person trying to do a last ditch effort in killing his enemy did not plan the possibility of death when attempting to backstab them after being defeated.As a, all spoilers will be unmarked ahead.
Doomtown has a card called Take Ya With Me. Which was part of a cheesy strategy dubbed 'lose to win' (use it with a to give your opponent a, maybe healing the mook afterward to add insult to injury) until it received that you can only target someone who's more of a mook than one of your dudes getting killed. has the 'Retaliatory Strike' rule where a player who has lost the last of his population may immediately launch all of his missiles and warheads at whomever he likes. If one of his targets is eliminated in the process, then that nation may make a retaliatory strike of his own. In the storyline, the Punisher has just finished killing all the heads of the big Mafia families from around the world (again). He is helped by the fact he's carrying a dead man's trigger in his left hand, connected to a huge bomb in the otherwise empty building.
There's one guy left. A jerk-ass nobody who runs some gangs out of New York. The punk points out it's just him and the Punisher and maybe both could walk away. BOOM. In arc 'Six Hours to Kill', Punisher is poisoned and told to kill someone to get the antidote.
Instead, he kills the person who poisoned him and pulls out his list of scumbags, going through the methodically before the poison kills him. He actually runs out of targets before he runs out of time.
The end of has the Anti-Monitor coming after of Earth-2 one last time, with the words 'Superman. I will not die. Unless you die with me!' . In, Jason Todd sets off a bomb when Clayface is about to kill him.
However, stops Jason from killing himself and saves him from Clayface.:.: After her plan to destroy Worldkiller-1 -a body-snatching, genocidal alien abomination- fails, Supergirl decides that the only way to kill it is killing herself while it is trying to steal her body, so she removes her, which usually results in instant death of the bearer.: Once her plan fails, villain Nightflame's world starts dying. And she is dying together with it. So Nightflame attempts to destroy Supergirl to kill them both.
Nightflame: I have failed to gain your powers, my world is at an end! There, I do not wish to live! By destroying you. I destroy myself!. At the end of, Reactron attempts to do this to Supergirl. He fails, but he takes her mother, her race and her planet with him. In the Archie series — technically, the side-sides starring Knuckles the Echidna — Tobor (a former Guardian who was unknowingly replaced by a member of the Dark Legion thanks to an accident during battle) emerged from the Legion's former prison with Kragog back into the real world and proceeded to slam themselves into an energy cannon being used by the Legion.
This turns into a when you realize that the energy cannon was being used to rescue the trapped citizens of Echindaopolis on Knuckles' orders. is often so that he's willing to include himself among his victims if that will get his point across. In the Spider-Man/Batman crossover, for example, he couldn't bear the thought of, and threatened to spring a lethal virus that would have likely killed everyone in the city - himself included - unless Carnage backed off. (And neither Batman nor Spider-Man thought for a second that he was bluffing.).:.
In, this is how Kyle Rayner takes out the Black Lanterns assaulting the Green Lantern Central Power Battery— he traps them in a forcefield with him and an Alpha Lantern Battery on the verge of. And in the Adventure Comics tie-in, decides that if he's going to be killed by Black Lanterns, he's going to. In the following saga, does this to evil green Martian D'Kay.
Fortunately, the white battery makes him get better.the original Eastman and Laird series is far more brutal than the cartoons or movies made in its name. In its climactic Turtles vs Foot Clan scene, the Foot Clan is slashed to pieces (with blood and severed limbs all about) and Shredder beaten to a gasping pulp. Leonardo offers him a dagger with which to perform seppuku, so he could go out like the samurai he dresses like.
Jackie: I don't suppose you'd let me have.:.: Before Superman arrests him, a terrorist releases a hydrogen bomb, hoping that the explosive hits a magma pocket and destroys the world. In, isn't dying any time soon, but the realization that he's aging normally and his is what drives him to finally 'get serious about killing Superman.' .:. In Convergence #3, Thomas Wayne blowing himself up for killing several pre- Gotham's villains. Happens twice in Convergence: #2. First Star Sapphire to Cyborg Superman to avenge the destruction of Coast City. At the end Amanda Waller blows herself up to destroy New Oa with Alan Scott and take out Captain Boomerang, who'd turned traitor.
In the original comics, Agent Jay was set to be disintegrated. At the last second, Jay pulled Agent Kay in with him. They both die, and are subsequently reformed as clones. Kay is led to believe he was talked into willingly dying alongside Jay, and wipes his partner's memory of the event.:.: After Shakara sabotages the on the Succubi starship, sending them crashing down onto the planet, their commander orders the creature responsible found. He knows that they're already doomed because the planet is about to explode anyway, he just wants the consolation of killing him first.: After Harry fatally wounds another Button Man, he tries to kill them both with a grenade, but Harry jumps out of the way in time. In the storyline, when Terra believes she's been betrayed by Deathstroke, she flips out and begins trying to kill everyone - Deathstroke, the Titans, even H.I.V.E.
in her rage and taking them with her. All she ends up doing is killing herself.: In issue #20, Princess Celestia tries to kill her mirror-world (which, due to, would have meant her death, as well) after the latter. She doesn't manage to do so only because of mirror-King Sombra putting up a magical barrier.: Gah Lak Tus seems to be about to destroy itself to cause a massive destruction. Or is that the plan?. In, it is revealed that the Joker died when Batman had the opportunity to give him his hand, only to retract his hand after realizing that the Joker (supposedly) mortally wounded him.
Kara struggled to bring herself up, to land a last blow that would take Darkseids life. She hated herself for doing it, but if she was to die, she would take the Dark Lord down with her. Several examples in:. Cheetor TRIES to invoke this during his final battle with Spittor; Spittor dies, Cheetor lives.
Depth Charge DOES invoke this during his final fight with Rampage. Early on in Season Three, Depth Charge says that the fight would claim both their lives. Galvatron tries to drag Optimus into the time rift with him, but is stopped by the other Maximals pulling Optimus out and Victoria shooting him in the face.
In, Brock has his Pokemon self-destruct as attempting to take Ash out. Shortly later, he blows himself and Lance up. In fanfiction ', Red Skull devises a ploy to kill himself and simultaneously, reasoning that their conflict will only end when both of them are dead. : Then let me show you a bit of the world below, my friend.
Or, perhaps, only tell you about it. Within this cathedral, at its lowest level, is an incendiary device.: A fire bomb!Red Skull: Do not worry yourself. Less time remains than you would need to reach it. No man remains alive in this structure, other than ourselves. Within seconds, no man will be alive in it at all. I have taken the opportunity to retire us both from battle, Captain.
The conflict is ended. Farewell. Near the end of, Jane's abusive exe Thrax finds her.
He kills her girlfriend and threatens Jane. Cornered, Jane shoots the boxes of nearby TNT, blowing up both her and Thrax.: When the Guardians and Jade attack to rescue Elyon's parents, Drago uses the resulting distraction to break out of his cell. When the heroes and Warden Callisto then to stop him, he reveals that he's triggered a prepared spell to; when it's pointed out that he'd die if that happened, he responds that he's perfectly happy with that if he manages to kill them all too. The others, and Drago gleefully escapes in the chaos as the prison collapses. Joker: I'm your only chance to get out of here!
Let me go or we'll both die!Batman: Whatever it takes!. In, Chakal tries to use his bombs in order to destroy the entire town. Manolo however ends up trapping the both of them inside a bell, containing the explosion to just the two of them. However, Joaquin secretly gave Manolo the Medal of Everlasting Life, which let him survive unscathed. Sitka's method of dispatching the bear that was attacking Kenai (after Kenai for reasons explained earlier) in; they're on top of a glacier, and Sitka drives his spear into the ice, causing a huge block of the glacier to break off and fall into the river below, taking the bear with him. Sitka dies but the bear survives, motivating Kenai to once again track the bear down and slay it in an act of revenge, which in turn invokes the wrath of the Great Spirits and kicks off the rest of the plot. At the end of, as the Carnotaurus is about to fall into the ravine, he immediately bites onto Aladar's leg, but the Iguanodon manages to shake him off before climbing back up.
In, this happens when Loz and Yazoo shoot Cloud through the back whilst he's having a moment, before making a huge explosion. It partly works, killing themselves, but only sending Cloud to for a couple of minutes. Having been somehow formed almost exclusively by Jenova, they were actively dissolving in the purifying rain—explosion unrelated. Still, the were avenging Sephiroth, Jenova, and Kadaj by killing Cloud even as they went down, so it still counts.
Only Cloud had a Get Out of Death Free card for world-saving, apparently. In the climax of Basil manages to defeat Ratigan by activating the chimes on the Big Ben clock tower, the resulting shockwave sends Ratigan falling from the tower he grabs a hold of Basil and takes him with him, Basil manages to survive by grabbing a part of the blimp he was hanging onto and using it like a propeller.: In the opening scene, the Jester ( to the Joker) is cornered by two of the Crime Syndicate. Jester: Okay! I'm down to my last joke anyway.(he pulls out and triggers a grenade)Jester.but this one'll kill ya!. In the DVD, Agent Faraday has just enough strength to grab and unpin two grenades before the monster swallows him.
The Martian Manhunter is moved by his and subsequently. In the comic the film is based on, the action was done by John Cloud instead. While it was insanely awesome, the subplot had little to do with the plot, so it was cut, and the moment was integrated into Faraday's. In, when Po discovers that the Wuxi Finger Hold won't work on the immortal Kai, Po grabs Kai in a bear hug and uses the hold on himself, taking them both into the Spirit Realm. In, Sharptooth grabs Petrie as they plummet into the pond below, though the flyer survives. In, Kludd tries to do this with Soren by dragging him down into a fire in the forest. However, while he's holding onto a branch, he lets go of Soren for a bit.
(thanks to a broken wing) and falls into the fire below. has Spike dangling from the end of a bridge while fighting a. Once the wolf is distracted by Angelica blowing a raspberry at it, Spike grabs the wolf's tail and hurls himself and the wolf off of the bridge. Spike, the wolf.
In the, when Thorn traps the ghost of Sarah Ravencroft back inside her (Sarah's) own spellbook, she takes her great-great-great-grandson Ben with her. 'I'M NOT GOING BACK ALONE!!!' 'If I'm going down, then I'm going down good'.
Similar in spirit, but lacking an actual enemy, in Voltaire's 'The Ship's Going Down'. The ship is utterly destroyed, and the captain takes a small bit of solace in the fact that his crew is going down with him and he's not dying alone. Then he spots the guy no one likes trying to make a getaway on a raft; not having that, he lances a fish-gig into Seaman Shaft's eye.
The song 'If I Fall You're Going down with me' is an of this trope since the song is actually about falling in love as opposed to dying. I'm on my way down now, I'd like to take you with me.
In the full video for ' 'O Valencia!' , Colin Meloy's character meets at a diner with the man who betrayed him and poisons his drink. The man stabs him in the neck just before he dies.
by d.notive. Basically, the whole album is about a police detective who accidentally travelled 30 years back in time and is going to use the opportunity to hunt down and prevent the maniac from murdering his younger sister this time. And this song clearly states his intentions regarding the man he's after, literally qouting the trope. The Russian bylina tales tell of Chuds, when cornered, digging up dungeons, going there with their valuables, women and children, taking their last stand there and then collapsing them, killing themselves along with their enemies. Several such sites have actually been found. Orthodox Christianity states that this is one of major reasons of why demons want to kill us through sins.
They are already doomed, and they want to drag us to the eternal torment, as we are made in Lord's image. In, following Edward's destruction by Magnus, Lydia retaliates by destroying Magnus's body before she turns to ash. He's left inhabiting a mannequin body.
In the episode 'The Gadget', the Red Ensign, an ally of the Red Panda, has at his mercy the man he holds responsible for much of the pain he's endured in his life, fugitive Nazi scientist Friedrich von Schlitz. The Red Ensign bodily carries him to the atom bomb testing site in Trinity New Mexico so that they can both die together. The act merits at the end of the episode. '—I'm goin' to Hell for that bit. And you're all comin' with me!
'We didn't laugh at that bit Jesus, pleeeaase!' Get on the bus with Leary and; you're goin' right to fuckin' Hell!' '.: On wrathful gods: 'If there is a God, IF there is. May he strike this audience dead. Nothing happened.
Okay, if there is a God, may he strike ME dead. Still nothing.' On terrorism: 'I think just the concept that a man can blow up a bomb in a crowded market and kill a couple hundred people is exciting and stimulating and I see it as a form of entertainment. I have always been willing to put myself at great personal risk for the sake of entertainment. I'm also willing to put YOU at great personal risk for the same reason.' .
Quite a lot of beings in tend to follow this trope. The prime culprit in the tabletop game itself is possibly the Eversor assassin, whose body explodes upon suffering sufficient physical trauma, usually taking with him whatever he was fighting at the time. The Super-heavy units in the mass-combat expansion Apocalypse. They'll often take out entire squads if they explode, even if the squad(s) in question wasn't even in close combat with it. Have a special rule called 'reactor meltdown' which causes them to explode with an even bigger blast that's also strength D (auto wound or penetrating hit on anything in range).
An exploding Titan can take every unit on the board with it!. The Brass Scorpion, a Chaos superheavy walker gets +2 on the table that determines the size of the explosion as the daemon controlling it is driven to spill as much blood as possible, even in death. There is also an ability for the Imperial Guard in the upcoming Apocalypse books called 'Fire on my coordinates!' Any Imperial Guard soldier with a radio can roll for a leadership test. If he succeeds, an orbital bombardment is dropped right on top of his own position - assuredly killing himself (and his squad) along with any nearby enemies in the process. For the Imperial Guard - who are renowned for their ability to stoically take massive casualties - this is simply a badass way to go.
The larger ships in Battlefleet Gothic have a chance of opening a portal to hell when their reactors blow, sucking everything nearby in along with it. A few Tau leaders are given a bomb that detonates if the Tau leader is removed as a casualty. This is viewed as 'the greatest expression of the Greater Good one can make' as (depending on the edition) it allowed their squad to escape close combat (which Tau dread) or might tip the close combat their way (current 7th edition, 2016). The Tau otherwise have no suicide attackers and consider suicidal stands to be foolish, favoring feigned retreats and delaying tactics until they can amass massive fire superiority and punch through. After losing one of his two hearts, Space Wolf character Lukas the Trickster had it replaced with a stasis bomb.
If he's ever killed in combat, there's a chance his opponent will be trapped in a stasis field with him for eternity. Taken in that Lukas's stasis bomb can one-shot an!. Tends to be averted by the Eldar, who see this tactic as an act of barbaric cowardice. They also dislike it because they're already on the verge of extinction themselves, even though they believe that their racial demise will awaken the death god Ynnead, who will destroy Chaos forever and play this trope straight. The Grey Knight codex gives us the Brotherhood Champion, an exemplary swordsman of the Chapter capable of going toe to toe with the best fighters of chaos and standing a decent chance of winning. But even when killed, he draws upon all his psychic might and delivers a mutual deathstroke to his foe. This has a fifty-fifty chance of succeeding, and it kills anything, even and.:.
The staves of power, minor artifacts that are a great boon for any spellcaster wielding one of them. In dire straits, their wielder can also break the staff they have. Resulting in a retributive strike, which does vast amounts of damage to almost anything capable of threatening them. There's a possible side-effect of a retributive strike that subverts the trope: A 50% chance of the strike opening a rift and casting you into the astral plane.where a thousand years will pass with you only aging a single day. The Draconians in the old setting were evil creatures magically created by evil clerics from the eggs of metallic (good) dragons to fight in the War of the Lance. When mortally wounded, depending on the type, they tended to go up in flames, emit poisonous gas, trap the killing weapon by turning to stone, explode, go berserk and then explode.
A is not killed permanently until someone destroys its phylactery, at which point it explodes immediately. A campaign run by had a cursed and trapped so while it might be possible to destroy it with ordinary means, it would kill everyone within a 100-mile radius. When a Balor dies, at least in the 3.5 edition, it explodes in a ball of fire that deals 100 points of damage to everyone within 100 feet. Even better, it happens instantaneously, as soon as they drop to 'dead' (-10 hit points). So if you don't kill the sucker from afar, you are faced with a Total Party Kill anyway (if everybody's still clear of 100 HP after a fight with a Balor, you've probably passed the level at which Balors are meant to be a challenge).
The balor is topped by the nuclear elemental from, which exploded for 400 points of untyped damage in a 400 feet radius, and 100 points of untyped damage to those farther than 400 feet away but within a one-mile radius. (Reflex save for half). That, and it also makes a highly radioactive crater. Barring special rules, the Reflex Save for half allows anyone with Evasion to dodge the blast entirely. The 3rd edition splatbook 'The Slayers Guide to Dragons' gives us the new age category 'Dracos Invictus'. When dying, these dragons have death throes that cause 10D6 crush damage, variable explosive damage from 8D6 (white) to 14D10 (red/gold), and can enact a curse so powerful on the PCs that the DM is encouraged to alter the course of the campaign to see that it's fulfilled. There is no save against the curse.
dragonmagic includes 'death matrix'. It needs to be cast only once to ensure that the dragon's body will explode upon death unless disintegrated or something similar.
As an implanted magic ability, it can't be detected or dispelled like normal enchantments. The Red Wizards of Thay have the 'spell lash'. It's a spell that kills the caster and makes their body explode. It was invented during Red Wizards' with the Mulhorand theocracy (the experimental variant 'mark of Gur', naturally, was castable on another guy).
Long before this was 'blood dragon', a spell castable only by an elf (not even half-elf). The caster cuts down him- or herself, and then the eponymous magical construct rises from the spilled blood and attacks the target. If it as much as touches its victim it dissolves their flesh. They were a rather vengeful bunch, those elves.
3.5 edition's has the 'fatal flame' spell which, should its target die before the spell expires, explodes their body in a fireball of power proportional to the target's level. Naturally, it can be used on ally or foe alike. In 4th Edition, there is the low-level Boneshard Skeleton that has an absolutely brutal blast for its level that goes off either when bloodied or when reduced to 0 hit points. Worse, if you have a group of them, it's possible that their blast can cause chain reactions with other Boneshard Skeletons caught in the area, with one blast triggering possibly all of them. In almost any edition, it's become a for a person's dying words to be '.
Canonically, Hastur will then pay a quick visit that results in a good-sized crater where the PC, their party, and whatever they were fighting used to be. The Swedish RPG allowed its mages to perform such a manoeuvre.
By expending all their remaining Wisdom points (the mana of the game)(which is instant death by itself), they get to spend half their maximum Wisdom points as well, using it all to power a single spell without the usual skill penalties for using high-level magic. While it's still possible to fumble the skill throw and not all spells are suitable for a suicide casting like this, a spell like Explosion is sure to cause some severe damage to the topography and anyone unlucky enough to be caught within the blast radius. In anyone who kills a Tomb King is attacked by voracious beetles.
The Heart of Woe also explodes if the wearer is killed, causing a great deal of damage to anyone in range. And Dwarfs have the option to put self-destruct runes on their war machines. An orc and goblins war machine specifically fires goblins at the enemy, goblins line up for the chance to go out in a blaze of glory as living ammunition. Night Gobbins too have their fanatics, almost certainly a death sentence but nothing is more inspiring and magnificent than a tiny goblin whirling a huge ball and chain around its head. There's also a special Orcish amulet that explodes when the bearer dies.
However, it's usually given to goblins, whose default reaction is 'Dat wuz nice o' da boss ter give me dis shiny fing, but why's 'e sendin' me orf alone on dis wolf?' .
This would be the heart of woe - the orc's magic item section includes several items looted from other armies, though only one is called by its proper name. More complex versions of the party game (as well as its variations, like Werewolf) will often include a 'killing role' character, such as Hunter or Rambo. Rules for these characters vary, but their usual role is to take a set number of other players down with them when they're killed. Dragon-Bloods in have access to a series of Charms with the Martyr keyword, which becomes significantly more terrifying when they're used by a dying man, many of which are combat effects. The most notorious is the Essence 7 elemental nuke called As In The Beginning, so a dying DB gets to take entire battlefields with him. An optional rule in allows players to do a 'dying act.' The character is allowed to spend all of their karma dice on a single roll, after which he or she is If the roll in question is a damage roll, it becomes this trope.
encourages this, even above and beyond survival (because clones mean anyway): 'What's more important— that you survive, or that your enemy gets his?' . Especially if you're on your last clone anyway, and thus (at least personally) have nothing left to lose: 'Friend Computer, I wish to make a full confession. All the charges leveled against me are true. And all the other charges that Suck-R knows about and hasn't mentioned yet are true. And all the vidtape footage that Gone-R collected and hid in his locker is accurate.' Of course, there are no such charges and no such footage, but how would The Computer know that?
If you're lucky and/or amuse the GM enough, It may even forgive or forget about you as It focuses on these other traitors. Memetic player character, upon finally being targeted personally by the Hastur cultists with a siege of zombies and shoggoths, holed up with his allies in a skating rink and rigged it with 'enough explosives to make Michael Bay blush', thus taking the cultists, monsters, allies, and the with him in a literal blaze of glory. Speaking of Call of Cthulhu, has an item called a time bomb.
You place up to 3 clue tokens on it, and when it detonates, everything in that neighborhood dies, including players. This is why you can put no clue tokens on it and just have it detonate immediately in your hands, killing your character but taking everything nearby out. This can be incredibly taxing on your efforts and a worse idea the further into the game you get, but early-on if you're facing a situation where the Terror Track will rise or some other awful thing will happen, just blow the monsters up. Being a game of supremely high stakes, often high-energy magic, and doomed romanticism, and its spin-offs maybe encourage this sort of mindset.
Notably, the Renaissance-period version, Mage: The Sorcerers Crusade featured references to High Artisan Magistrate Roland Hoffmann, whose artillery was crucial to the defeat of Infernal powers at the Battle of Harz. And when the enemy got through to his guns, Hoffmann and his crews detonated their gunpowder stores, taking down everything on that side of the battlefield.:. The final choice you make in Unlimited Blade Works route is as follows: After beating the up, a sphere of nothingness begins to swallow him up. He throws out a chain and grabs Shirou; the choices are 'try and break free' or 'take him down with me'. Picking the second one leads to a Bad End. This choice is so obviously dumb that once the starts up, it begins with Taiga beating a Shirou.
They then use it to hint towards a way to get the due to them likely assuming that since the right decision is so obvious that the only reasons someone would do the wrong is is curiosity after beating the route. Just before this moment, there's a subversion when Gilgamesh grabs Shirou with his chain. Shirou assumes that Gilgamesh is trying to pull this trope on him, but Gil is quick to tell him to stay right where he is so that he can pull himself out of the aforementioned sphere of nothingness.
Also in Unlimited Blade Works, Lancer even after being stabbed by Gae Bolg. Justified because one of his abilities is called Battle Continuation;. Heavens Feel has one too in Shirou's fight with Saber Alter if you don't bring Rider along.
Shirou kills himself to stop her, to let Tohsaka proceed without interference. Taiga and Ilya in the Dojo are a bit troubled because they can't really call it a bad end due to beating Saber in a one on one fight, which is pretty damn badass. And in the manual on, El Nahat seems to have this as his shtick. Blowing himself up to kill an enemy.
The Church has captured him and turned his stomach into a weapon. has Cookie, the robot, who gets ensnared in several ropes against class S in the Kawakami War. As a last-ditch move, he releases his remaining energy to shock the students holding the ropes, then shuts down. The Safe Ending in features Snake taking SIX bullets from Ace while the incinerator they are trapped in is about to burn them all to death. He STILL has enough strength to keep Ace inside while the others get away. In one ending of, the two surviving try to take down as many of before ultimately meeting their demise.
Their deaths inspire the other clans to unite against the tyrants and overthrow them. However, this is revealed to be a false ending by your.: In the final battle, Yzin does this. Sort of.) Both Yzin and Alex survive, Alex then pulls this too.
Sort of.). Played for laughs in. Tiren, the heroes', is being beaten. Walter grabs him and jumps off the airship. Tiren and Sue both jump after their respective. Tiren forgot Walter can fly, he grabs her. Sue's sister ends up saving the other two.
The rest of the cast are stunned by the stupidity, except Sal. The Crap Golems of seem to be for this kind of tactic, accompanied by what can only be described as a in. In, Bogroll seems to be pulling this on Ansom.
Bogroll succeeds so amazingly that he levels. Before being killed so hard that even Wanda and an Arkentool can't bring him back.: Zola while dosing herself with the, Movit. K'seliss in, having been cursed with a disease that rots his flesh, of the that cursed him in his final moments.
from to do one of these to when he realizes he might not. It doesn't work though, partly because Grace is fireproof, but mostly due to some good ol'. Later on, Pandora violates immortal law by killing an aberration to save one of her descendants. When an immortal violates immortal law, every other immortal automagically links to the offender and sends energy to force the offender to 'reset'. Pandora can't prevent that (she's powerful, but not that powerful), but before she is reset she is able to briefly reverse the link and send her own energies down it, forcing every single immortal to manifest on the physical plane and cast a massively powerful aberration-destroying spell. Better than 99% of the planet's aberrations are wiped from the world in a single blast.
How the original ended his career.: Wonderella is planning to do this to everyone, by arranging to have sarin gas pumped into the room where her is viewed, as seen in. (Fortunately, at least Rita, who records it, now knows not to show up.). Sepulchritude, 's ultimate attack, which is deployed to take out the. Problem Sleuth lives. A recurring theme for, as in Calliope dies destroying the Green Sun and the outer ring.
At the same time, Vriska uses the Juju to fight. She may have, but if she didn't, she died fighting the way she always did. The embodiment of 2010. In the 'Oceans Unmoving' arc of, Bun-bun pulls this against his nemesis Blacksoul (who's trying to capture him for an unknown purpose), detonating a grenade that launches them both into the timeless waters below into what everyone knows means certain doom. from sent the after Baam after Yuri has him beaten to death. The advises against doing this.: Precious Blood: 'If it's the end for me, I hope you realise I'm the kind of vindictive bastard that's gonna take as many people with him as I can.' .
at the end of his Crazy Castle review. Intends to blow the Nerd up with a bomb, but the Nerd grabs him and holds him in place. 'I don't give a fuck, I'm taking you with me! So you like to play with bombs, huh? Well, BOMBS AWAY YOU WOODY BUNNY FUCKING PECKER PIECE OF SHIT!' .
Premier Jacade in: Card of Ten blows up Planet Gaman and everyone on it (including himself) to stop the rebels from taking power from him. Melina Frost from kills Beth Vanallen this way. After the latter stabbed another almost fatally and left her to die in quicksand, the former grabbed hold of her hair in her last act and dragged Beth under with her, killing them both. Parodied in, when makes clear early on that if the others try to overthrow him, he'll blow up Kickassia and everyone in it (including himself) with twenty tons of dynamite, then later on tries to do just that.
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Pity that disconnected the dynamite when he got exiled. In the finale of: Revelation, as the Meta is being dragged to his death by a Warthog jeep over a cliff, he grabs Grif along the way down.
Sarge starts even after Tucker suggests that maybe Grif. In the form of embedding the Meta's Brute Shot's blade into the side of the cliff and 'dangling on the job again I see' as Sarge puts it. In review of the failed 70s pilot, he sent a copy to (who hanged himself) and invited on the show just to waste his time. 'If I have to suffer, I'm taking every one of you bastards with me.' . The character Riot Breaker in The Guildhall D&D podcast. Notably, he's used this strategy twice, somehow managing to survive both attempts.
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The first time was against a robotic dragon that, if not for his (attempted) would have killed the party almost definitely. The second time, a dawning realization of just how badly he'd messed up pushed him beyond the, and as a result, he intended to drag the villain into the murky depths with him. In, Fox does this to Hoche. Lord Slug tells Goku this in.: This is the reason for the Star Stalker's creation, on a cosmic scale: if the invading Elder Gods couldn't be stopped, the Destroyer's mission was to destroy everything, in all dimensions, everywhere. Sara has refrained from explaining this to Billie for the sake of her sanity. has a purely unintentional example.
When Huey Long votes for the Civil Rights Act as a final political act before killing himself to avoid jail time for corruption, the shock causes his ideological rival Governor Eugene Talmadge to drop dead of a heart attack. Used in the episode 'Smuggler's Gauntlet.' The antagonist of the episode stole some high-end, and the Rangers are sent out to retrieve it. They break into the antagonist's hideout and are surrounded by mooks. Queue Zachary activating a neuron bomb capable of wiping out all life in a city block's radius and threatening to detonate it unless the antagonist backs down.
Goose may have the reputation, but push Zach, and he proves to be crazier.: 'The Boiling Rock' has the warden telling the guards to cut the gondola our heroes are using to escape,. Seems he's really that obsessed with keeping a no-escape record. (On top of that, what's below the gondola? Boiling water. The episode is named after of the setting, and it got its name by being in the crater of a volcano, dormant but with magma near enough to the surface to make sure the water that surrounds the facility is boiling.
Which means to be sure he gets the heroes, he is willing to suffer one of the most horrifically agonizing deaths imaginable.). At least some of the Air Nomads fought back against the before the genocide was completed.
Aang finds the skeleton of his mentor Gyatso next to a pile of enemy corpses. The, had Lin Bei Fong attempt this in, when she ordered Tenzin to go on without her as she attacked the airships, leaving her to go down with them. In a double subversion, she fails to take down the second one, although she manages to stop their pursuit of Tenzin and his family. In the last episode of season 3, Ghazan chooses this over going back to prison - and collapses a cave on himself, Bolin and Mako. They make it out, he doesn't. In 'The Battle of Zaofu', Varrick of all people tries to do this to the people holding him captive.
He manages to blow up the train, preventing Kuvira from getting the spirit vine technology, and only lives because Bolin saved them both. In the episode 'Harlequinade' the Joker plots to level Gotham City with a nuclear bomb. When it's clear that his plan is going to fail due to Batman's interference, he aims the gun turret of the plane he planned to escape with on the bomb, vowing that, 'That bomb's going to go off even if I go with it!' Fortunately, he doesn't succeed. This was the main goal of the in, but on a.
They believed themselves to be superior to all other lifeforms, and after they rendered themselves sterile through generations of inbreeding they couldn't stand the thought of being outlived by 'lesser' races and decided that. Captain Marcus tries to do this in episode 11 of, after his attempt to liberate Earth just results in catastrophic defeat. In that he fails: the Resolute is destroyed before it can ram Phaeton's flagship. In the straight-to-DVD movie Bender's Big Score, Lars, knowing that he's doomed to die eventually, presses Nudar and himself to the duplicate Bender, which was about to self-destruct. His video will reveals that he was actually a duplicate Fry, and wanted to die doing something useful (neatly wrapping up all the movie's loose ends) instead of causing Leela the pain of dying unexpectedly. Demona and Macbath from had a curse placed on them that made them both immortal. The only way either one can die is through the use of this trope, i.e.
One must kill the other, which will result in both of their deaths.: After he's by a passing train car, Agent Mace realizes he's as good as dead and spends his last moments trying to drag MT with him into a set of train wheels because. Unfortunately for him, his injuries make it easy for MT to overpower him and shove him into the wheels alone,.: In 'Only A Dream', Copperhead tries to escape by jumping onto Hawkgirl's back and threatening to bite her with his poison fangs unless she gives him a ride. She simply flies a few hundred feet straight up and points out that. In, the Albertosaurus tackles the old bull Edmontosaurus, biting down on his neck. During their fight, both dinosaurs come towards a cliff, about to fall off to their deaths. Similar to both and, except that while both of the above failed to take their prey (Petrie and Aladar) down with them, the Albertosaurus SUCCEEDED. played with this trope and subverted it and eventually pretended it never happened.
Megabyte is trapped in a by Bob in an early episode (though Bob later becomes retconned into a ), and so Megs uses the last of his strength to self destruct himself using a panel on his forearm that appears to be a to. His chamber of doom is ejected into orbit to keep him from destroying everything. Even though Bob would never do something like this later in the series, and Megabyte turned a sickly black blotch as he prepared to kaboom, the chamber lands on the outskirts of Mainframe and we see Megabyte's fist punch through the chamber door in a (well, by his standards).
The supervirus Daemon has this as her entire purpose. She infects the entire Net and once her personal clock runs out she self-destructs and in sixty seconds everything infected by her gets destroyed as well. In the episode 'The Policy', Murphy pulled this off when Sparks tried electrocuting him for the insurance money: he got close enough to Sparks to electrocute him as well. There seems to be no hard feelings between the two, as they both sit in hell casually comparing punishments.
In episode, 'The Alien Costume, Part 3,' Spider-Man tries to defeat Venom by luring him to the launch site of a NASA rocket. He intends to use the roar of the rocket to force the symbiote off Eddie Brock and then to web the symbiote to the rocket. The plan works perfectly, but Spidey was prepared to go this way if it didn't.
Battle Droid: Do we take prisoners?Hevy: I. Lapis: I'm done being everyone's prisoner. Now you're MY prisoner. And I'm never letting you go! Let's stay on this miserable planet TOGETHER!. An episode of has Rebecca tell Baloo, 'I'm going insane! And I'm taking you with me!'
.: The turtles' Triceraton ally Zog does this to the Shredder by keeping him immobile inside an exploding ship. While he succeeds in his intention of giving the turtles enough time to escape, the Shredder survives, while he himself.doesn't. Villainous example: 2K3 Shredder in made up his mind to end it this way by ending all of existence if only so he could destroy the TMNTs from Turtle Prime/the original Mirage comic. In the episode 'Metalhead Rewired', Metalhead does this. After holding a portal open in order to allow all the mutants to escape (turtles included), Metalhead lets the Kraang all pile onto him and then self-destructs by exploding.:. Done interestingly in.
Megatron knows that if he and Optimus Prime both live, the war will restart and Unicron will be revived. He ends their final battle by allowing himself to be sucked into the space vortex, even shiving Optimus' hand when he tries to stop his fall.
He does it again at the end of the next season,. The fledgling new universe is powered by a 'sun' made of Super Energon and the head of Unicron. Unicron's spark has entered him, but when he realizes he's being used, he enters the Super Energon sun, apparently vaporizing himself, so that Unicron won't return; if Unicron really is alive, there'll be no escaping its gravity.
Interestingly, Megatron returns for, with spiffy new Unicron based armor but not that of Noble Demon-ness that makes him the kind of guy who'd sacrifice himself for the universe. In Cybertron, Unicron does this in a way. The balance of good and evil is disrupted with Unicron gone, so a giant black hole that could consume has formed. If it's not stopped, Unicron will basically have taken all reality with him. The two-part premiere of Transformers: had Megatron transforming to robot mode and risking fatal Energon exposure, in order to blow up Optimus Primal. Neither character dies. For if I must die, I shall take you with me.
Depth Charge goes out this way, taking Rampage with him by stabbing the crab with a spike of raw energon. However, in the of, Optimus grabs Megatron and jumps into a device that turns all of Cybertron into a technorganic paradise, reviving all the sparks Megatron took. Both die, although Optimus's spark appears once to pass the torch to Cheetor before joining the Matrix., in the of, Megatron once again attempts this with Optimus Prime, intending to vanquish his spark in the ensuing Starscream Supreme explosion. Notable in that Megatron did not fully acknowledge Optimus until this episode — it really goes to show how Optimus dug under him and had the show continued, the event is what would fully kick start their legendary rivalry.