List of suicides in fiction

This is a list of incidents of suicide — the intentional killing of oneself — depicted in fictional works, including films, television series, anime and manga, comics, novels, etc. Also, self-sacrifices are included as they give up their own lives.

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  • 1 (9), allows himself to be absorbed by the Fabrication Machine, saving 9 from said fate in the process.
  • Player 069 (Squid Game), hangs himself.

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  • Hedda Gabler (Hedda Gabler), shoots herself offstage.[19]
  • Rene Gallimard (M. Butterfly), seppuku.
  • An unnamed gander (Animal Farm), eats nightshade berries.
  • Gamera (Gamera the Brave), self-destructs to kill Gyaos.
  • Hohannes Gardashian (America America), jumps off a ship.
  • Royce Garrett (Vertical Limit), tells his son to cut the rope suspending him and falls to his death.
  • Yuno Gasai (Future Diary), stabs herself.
  • Captain Gates (Gray Lady Down), wedges his submersible under the submarine during a gravity slide long enough to keep the sub level and allow all the crew to be rescued, but making it impossible for him to resurface.
  • Jack Gates (Family Affairs), asphyxiates himself on his car fumes after smothering his wife, Elsa, with a pillow.
  • Vanessa Gayle (Dexter), shoots herself; psychologically manipulated into killing herself by her psychiatrist Emmett Meridian.
  • Gelato (Golden Wind), chokes himself on a gag while watching his partner, Gelato, being butchered.
  • George ("Grey's Anatomy"), walks into an oncoming bus.
  • Ghazan (The Legend of Korra), deliberately causes a cave-in to preclude him from inevitably returning to prison once again, and in an unsuccessful attempt to kill both Mako and Bolin.
  • Edwin Gibbs (Darkest Fear), or Nathan Mostoni, commits suicide in prison.
  • Maria Gibson ("The Problem of Thor Bridge"), shoots herself.
  • John Gilbert (The Vampire Diaries), sacrifices himself to bring his daughter Elena back to life with the spell, which needs to bind his soul for her.
  • Gilda (Rigoletto), allows herself to be assassinated in her lover's place.
  • Gioconda (La Gioconda), stabs herself.
  • The Girl (Moon), throws herself off the tower and into the water.[20]
  • Seymour Glass ("A Perfect Day for Bananafish"), shoots himself.
  • Godric (Southern Vampire Mysteries novels / True Blood), "meets the sun", which is fatal for a vampire.
  • Cathrin Gordon (Black Mirror II: Reigning Evil), grabs onto her daughter Angelina and forces them both to fall into the lava to their deaths.
  • Samuel Gordon (The Black Mirror), jumps from the top of the mansion, falling onto the same spiked fence which killed his grandfather William.
  • Tony Gordon (Coronation Street), walks back into a burning building set ablaze by himself and is killed when the building explodes.
  • Scott Gorman (Aliens), activates a grenade, killing himself and Vasquez as the aliens approach.
  • Delbert Grady (The Shining), kills his two daughters with an axe, shoots his wife and then shoots himself in the head in a triple murder–suicide.
  • Jack Grady (Fail Safe), explodes nuclear bombs inside his aircraft.
  • Stewart Graff (Earthquake), chooses to die with his wife in the flooded sewer rather than climb to safety.
  • Dorian Gray (The Picture of Dorian Gray), in an effort to destroy the picture, stabs himself in the heart.
  • Vincent Grey (The Sixth Sense), breaks into main character Malcolm Crowe's house and then shoots himself.
  • Meg Griffin (Grimm Job (Family Guy)), hangs herself.
  • Carl Grimes (The Walking Dead), shoots himself after being bitten by a walker while bringing Siddiq to Alexandria. In the comic series, Carl is still alive.
  • Peter Grimes (Peter Grimes), scuttles his fishing boat far from land.
  • Sonny Grotowski (Monster's Ball), shoots himself.
  • Karl Grove (Why Women Kill), already dying of AIDS, is euthanized by injection by wife Simone at his own request.
  • Wanda Gruz (Ida), defenestration.
  • Maurice Guest (Maurice Guest), shoots himself.
  • Gullberg (The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest), shoots himself.
  • Gavriel ("Throne of Glass") sacrifies himself to protect Orynth from Erawan's forces. His son, Aedion Ashryver, and Gavriel's closest friends were devastated. He was buried with other noblemen from Terrasen.
  • Jean Guthrie (Sunset Song), poisons herself and two of her children when she realises that she is pregnant.

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