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[[File:NedBuck 9791.jpg|link=X-Men (Comic Book)|frame|Emma Frost shows us how a psychic mutant pulls off a [[Klingon Promotion]]]]

{{quote|''"Stand right where he can see you... ''and blow your brains out''."''
|'''Psycho Mantis''', ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]''}}

One of the most dangerous weapons in a [[Psychic Powers|psychic's]] arsenal—the ability to make your enemies [[Driven to Suicide|kill themselves]]. While [[Mind Rape]] is good for torture, this is a much more permanent solution to your problems. Usually, it requires a [[Compelling Voice]], although there are ways to do it with [[Phlebotinum]] or [[Artifact of Doom|Artifacts Of Doom]]. The victim can even [[And I Must Scream|remain fully conscious and aware]] of what they're being made to do, while bereft of any [[Heroic Willpower]] to [[Fighting From the Inside|fight it off]].

Much like a [[Compelling Voice]], this is usually a [[Villain]] or [[Anti-Hero]] power. If caused by [[Power Incontinence]], expect a [[My God, What Have I Done?]]. It should be noted, however, that simply [[Word Power|saying "Die!"]] and having your opponent drop dead doesn't count if he doesn't actually take his own life.

There ''are'' times where flat-out telling someone "kill yourself" won't work, or in a video game, you won't be able to target yourself. With a little careful wording or maneuvering, however, it can still be possible to force someone to take their own life.

See also [[Compelling Voice]], the supertrope for "orders that cannot be refused," and [[Driven to Suicide]] for people being driven to suicide through normal means. A [[Demonic Possession|possession]] may lead to it directly or just by leaving a victim who [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|outlived its usefulness]] in dangerous situation.

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Lelouch Lamperouge of ''[[Code Geass]]'' does this a lot throughout the series. Typically only on mooks, because main characters are simply more useful under mind control.
** Some [[All There in the Manual|side-materials]] say that  {{spoiler|Mao did this to a whole village in China, exposing their darkest secrets and then driving them to kill each other over them.}}
* In ''[[Death Note]]'', "suicide" is considered an acceptable cause of death with the titular book. Light uses it to get rid of {{spoiler|Naomi Misora (in such a way as for her body not to be discovered) and Kiyomi Takada (self-immolation)}}.
* In ''[[Eternal Sabbath]]'', the immature ultra-powered boy antagonist, Izaku, used this on people that annoyed him.
* Legato Bluesummers in ''[[Trigun]]'' is fond of this, as well. In the manga it's less psychic and more body control through electrical impulses from tiny wires.
* In ''[[StrikerS Sound Stage X]]'' of the ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' franchise, all the murder victims were killed by being psychically forced to stab their own throats. Even worse, the victims were fully aware of it happening and could do nothing but scream for help.
* In ''[[Darker than Black]]'' a [[Grand Theft Me|possessor]]-type Contractor killed people by taking over one's body, then standing on the edge of a roof or something and snapping back to his old body, leaving the dazed victim to fall.
** And in the [[interquel]]s and second season, {{spoiler|Yin's [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]}} makes Contractors turn their powers against themselves. {{spoiler|The (chronological) first time it happened, it was a ''[[Mind Control]]'' power; she hijacked it so an attacker mind-controlled himself into shooting himself in the head for a double whammy of this trope.}}
* In ''[[MPD Psycho]]'', a [[Body Surf|body surfing]] serial killer forced his host to blow his own brains out.
* In the ''[[Read or Die]]'' OVA, the evil plan of the [[Big Bad]] is to  {{spoiler|use a composition of music called the Suicide Symphony as a [[Brown Note]] to make everyone in the world kill themselves so it can be repopulated by the people who were strong enough to resist.}}
* [[Complete Monster|Johan,]] from ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'', is so very very good at this despite not being psychic. He just gets himself into the head of his "friend" or his target, [[Mind Rape]]s them with his oh-so-reasonable voice and then hands them the pistol. His crowning moment would probably be convincing  {{spoiler|an entire village to wipe itself off the map.}}
* The [[Evil Eye|doujutsu]] from ''[[Basilisk]]'' (used by Hyouma and Gennosuke) works by turning '''homicide''' to '''suicide''', meaning that it only works when the target is trying to kill the user.
* The witches from ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' get more powers from pretty much brainwashing people into committing suicide via their "witch kiss". One has even been shown pulling this on a fairly large group of people, forming a ritual suicide cult à la ''Heaven's Gate''. Since witches live in (and never leave) "barriers", tiny parallel dimensions that can only be accessed by Kyubey, his Magical Girls and other people he chooses, this is the only threat they pose to normal, non-magical humans. {{spoiler|Unless the witch in question is called [[Fusion Dance|Walpurgisnacht]], who can manifest in the real world and physically attack normal people, or [[Lotus Eater Machine|Kriemhild Gretchen]], who just absorbs everything into her barrier.}}
* Used with a dash of [[Suicide by Cop]] on a mook by The Major in ''[[Ghost in the Shell]]'', simply through a perfectly normal telephone call.
** [[Stand Alone Complex]] has computer-virus-induced suicide. As most people are cyborgized, this presents a significant problem.
* The "latchers" of ''[[Ga-Rei Zero]]'' attach themselves to the heads of their victims and have the ability to reanimate dead corpses or control a living being. In the first episode, one gets a hold of {{spoiler|Mami}}, has her kill her commander, mock her soon to die comrades and then finally shooting herself.
* Used at the beginning of ''[[Kurobara Alice]]''.  {{spoiler|Dimitri, who has just acquired his [[Compelling Voice]] power after being turned into a vampire, accidentally drives his audience and then one of his girlfriends to kill themselves for him. He later uses it deliberately towards his friend and love rival Theo.}}
* In the manga version of ''[[Tokko]]'', Yukino is introduced when a phantom [[Puppeteer Parasite]] tries to make her commit suicide. She gets a different introduction in the anime version.
* In the [[Bleach]] manga, when Numb Chandelier notices that Orihime and Tatsuki can sense her, she first [[People Puppets|forces Tatsuki, Chizuru and several others]] to beat Orihime up, then [http://www.mangareader.net/94-496-8/bleach/chapter-42.html tells both girls that she'll pull this on Orihime for interferring]:
{{quote|'''Numb Chandelier''': "One: suicide by hanging yourself after the school boys rape you in turns. Two suicide by cutting the rope after stripping naked and hanging from the school roof..."}}
* In ''[[Jojo's Bizarre Adventure]]'', Enya Giel's stand, Justice enters an enemy's body and controls his/her movements, until they eventually die. She often uses this to torture the victim, but she attempts to force Hol Horse to kill himself as punishment for allowing J. Geil to die.

== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In ''[[Ultimate X-Men]]'' #47, Mr. Sinister [[Compelling Voice|tells Warren Worthington to choke himself.]] Angel survives, and as punishment, [[Enemy Within|Lord Apocalypse]] (who was depicted as just Mr. Sinister's hallucination [[The End - or Is It?|up until this moment]]) has him do the exact same thing while he's in prison. {{spoiler|Despite the cliffhanger, a later crossover reveals S.H.I.E.L.D. stops his suicide attempt and he survives too}}.
* In an issue of ''[[Alias (Comic Book)|Alias]]'', [[Complete Monster/Marvel|Killgrave the Purple Man]] walks into a Denny's and [[Nightmare Fuel|orders 34 people to stop breathing so he can enjoy his eggs in peace.]]
** In ''[[New Avengers]]''' 2nd issue, a cliffhanger occurs during the breakout of The Raft: Killgrave orders [[Luke Cage, Hero for Hire]] to kill all the heroes, then kill himself. {{spoiler|The next issue reveals it didn't work because Killgrave's been pumped with drugs to suppress his powers.}}
* In ''[[The Umbrella Academy]]'': Dallas, The Seance does this to  {{spoiler|Hazel and Cha Cha}}. Later in the series, The Rumor does a similar thing to  {{spoiler|President Kennedy, making the back of his head explode}}
** "Look at me! I'm a ''total'' idiot!"
* ''[[X-Men]]'' villainess Emma Frost, in alliance with Sebastian Shaw, took control of Ned Buckman, leader of the Hellfire Club, and had him gun down the other members before pointing the gun at his own head (though Shaw deals the killing blow himself).
* In ''[[Justice League of America]]'': ''[[Brightest Day|Generation Lost]]'', Maxwell Lord finished off a weakened Magog by forcing him to blow up his own head with his energy staff.
* Copycat of [[Gen 13|DV8]] demonstrates it by mimicking the action of putting a gun to her head, forcing a security guard to do the same for real. ''[[Nightmare Fuel|CLICK.]]''
* In ''[[Iron Man]]'', [[Technopath]]-assisted suicide occurs when Ultron takes control over the Church of Yinsen via the S.K.I.N. technology (liquid metal nanites coating their skin) and he makes one adherent shape her hand into a metal blade and impale herself on it.
* While not a psychic, Wallflower in ''[[House of M]]'' [[Beware the Nice Ones|uses her pheromone powers]] [http://i27.tinypic.com/2z3ub5t.jpg to make Quentin Quire so depressed that he telepathically killed himself using the same technique he'd just threatened to use on Laurie's brain.]
* ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)|Preacher]]'': A [[Corrupt Hick]] sheriff commits suicide after Jesse Custer uses his [[Compelling Voice]] on him in the [[Squick]]iest way possible.

==  [[Fan Works]] ==
* In the ''[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]'' fanfic ''[[Forward]]'', the "Inducer" psychics are capable of forcing this on people, though it takes time and effort on their part, as they have to drive the victim to deep despair to the point that they kill themselves.
* [[Defied Trope|Defied]] in ''[[Ponies Make War]]'' by Nihilus, who inflicts Rainbow Dash with a [[Compelling Voice]] and gives her the specific order "Do not attempt to take your own life." Played straight on one occasion when she temporarily retracts this order to make a point ("Stop breathing").

== [[Film]] ==
* In 1994's ''[[The Shadow (film)|The Shadow]]'' this is an often used technique by the villain, Shiwan Khan. Interestingly, The Shadow himself uses this to off [[The Dragon|Claymore]].
* The Pushers in ''[[Push]]'' use this as one method of dispatching their foes. Shown to be used as Psychic Assisted Suicide or Homicide.
* ''[[X Men Origins: Wolverine]]'' (2009). Silverfox makes Colonel Stryker put the muzzle of his [[It Works Better with Bullets|empty revolver]] under his chin, but doesn't make him pull the trigger, instead telling him to walk away until his feet bleed. As the film is a prequel to [[X2: X-Men United]], [[Doomed by Canon|his attempt is averted]].
* ''[[Village of the Damned]]'' is about women who give birth to [[Complete Monster]]s who cause the populace to torture themselves on their own whims. In the remake, one girl causes her own mother, Christopher Reeve's wife, to walk off a cliff to her death.
* Goes back to the silent era with ''[[Dr. Mabuse the Gambler]]''.
* Suggested but ultimately subverted in ''[[Constantine]]'': at first, it looks as though the demon Mammon made Isabel commit suicide. However, it's revealed ([[Walk Into Mordor|via a visit to Hell]]) that Isabel knew she was going to be possessed for a vital role in an apocalyptic plot, and killed herself of her own free will.
* In ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (film)|Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'', Ivan Ooze takes control of the minds of Angel Grove's adults, who are then commanded to "leap to their doom" into a massive hole on a construction site. Bulk and Skull rally the kids to save the adults as the Rangers battle Ooze, with one of the kids holding them back with a water cannon, but it's not until Ooze's demise that his spell is broken and the adults are returned to normal.
* ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'' has Thulsa Doom demonstrate the power of his will by commanding a follower to "come to him"... when she's standing on the side of a cliff, and he's on the ground below.
* Darryl Revok, the villain of ''[[Scanners]]'', makes one ConSec agent crash his car into a wall (where it [[Every Car Is a Pinto|promptly explodes]]) and another shoot two allies and then himself.
** Also happens in ''Scanners 2'', when Peter Drak forces the police chief to eat his own gun.
** And used again ''Scanners 3''. Helena directs a corporate enemy of hers to jump of his pool's diving board. It's empty.
* In ''[[Hocus Pocus (film)|Hocus Pocus]]'' the head witch magically commands the adults to dance until they die (the magic wears off in the morning, but [[Fridge Horror|hopefully, none of them had weak hearts]]).
* In ''[[The Ring]] Two'', a Samara-possessed Aidan psychically forces a child psychologist to commit suicide by air embolism.
* A man under the mind control of future One Nation Earth agents in the ''[[Apocalypse]]'' film series movie ''Tribulation'' is driven to throw himself out of the window of a high-rise apartment building after Tom Canboro prevents him from killing his wife, who is a Christian.
* This is inverted at the end of ''[[Gamer]]''. {{spoiler|Castle has Kable under his control, when Kable tells Castle to think of Kable stabbing him. Castle does just that, unconsciously, and gets himself killed. It's The Game used for ''murder''.}}
* In ''[[Tamara]]'', the title character forces her [[Abusive Parents|alcoholic father]] to kill himself by eating a glass beer bottle, tearing his throat and esophagus apart from the inside.
* The titular fallen angel Azazel of ''[[Fallen]]'' possesses several people throughout the film, making some of them kill themselves in ways to frame the protagonist for their "murders"; he makes one commit [[Suicide by Cop]] by pointing and shooting a gun filled with blanks at the protagonist.

== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Larry Niven]]'s novel ''[[Known Space|World of Ptavvs]]'': About one billion years in the past, the Thrint used their telepathic mind control powers to become the rulers of the Milky Way by enslaving all other sentient life forms in the galaxy. When the slave races rebelled, the thrint used telepathic amplifiers to order them to commit suicide. ''All of them. Everywhere. Including Thrint.'' No, the Thrint weren't exactly the sharpest tool in the galactic-conqueror shed.
** It's notable that they did consider that someone might find a way to hide from the command. (And some did!) So they rigged their weapon to go into stasis and come out every once in a while and do it again. It has lost effectiveness over time. It now only works on developed brains. But still blasts the Galaxy every so often.
* The Skavis family of the [[Emotion Eater|White Court]] of vampires in ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' use this as their M.O.
* In ''Those Who Walk In Darkness'' by [[John Ridley]], this is why psychics are considered to have won the [[Superpower Lottery]]. Their standard method is to have targets shoot themselves, "the ultimate fuck-you."
* In ''[[Forgotten Realms|Tangled Webs]]'' one guy got his severed hand [[Organ Theft|replaced with a slave's]] by his [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder|drow]] "ally". When he tried to disagree with her, the reason of this generosity became clear—the new hand snatched his own knife and put it to his throat. Just to make a point.
* In ''[[Animorphs]],'' Visser One does the possession variety - her last command to a host she needs to dispose of is to breathe (they're underwater at the moment.)
* A villain in ''[[Fingerprints]]'' tries forcing this on Rae. Rae only survives because the villain's desire for [[Disproportionate Retribution]] leads to them trying to inflict a long, slow [[Death of a Thousand Cuts]] instead of [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?|just shooting her]].
* It seems that the titular aliens in Robert Silverberg's ''Passengers'' sometimes do this to the people whose bodies they possess.
* This is Despaire's power in ''[[The Faerie Queene]].''
* In a scene from the book of the movie ''[[The Shadow (film)|The Shadow]]'', the villain is on the roof of the Empire State building when he's mocked by a sailor for his strange clothes. So he makes the sailor [[Nightmare Fuel|climb the fence and jump.]] It's particularly horrible because the sailor is screaming that he doesn't understand what's happening.
** In the movie, it's actually [[Played for Laughs]] immediately afterward; we cut to our heroes walking down the street and Lamont, beginning to suss out Shiwan's evil plans, says "It's all falling into place". The Empire State Building is in view and as soon as he says that the sailor bounces off one of it's ledges like a ball.
* [[Terry Goodkind|Kahlan Amnell]], upset at the nature of a man's crimes, once told him to die. And he did. Just to make her happy.
* In Dan Simmons's ''Carrion Comfort'', the [[Our Vampires Are Different|mind vampire]] villains make a game out of forcing people to kill themselves.
* The villain in ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20110108110855/http://www.webscription.net/10.1125/Baen/0671318470/0671318470__11.htm Rogue Psi]'' by [[James H. Schmitz]] does this to any lesser telepaths who [[He Knows Too Much|become aware of his location]].
* In [[Sergey Lukyanenko]]'s ''[[Autumn Visits]]'', the Envoys can ''lead'' most people into following their commands. This usually makes the person incapable of complex independent thought. This power is most used by Mary, the Envoy of Good, who uses it to force others to do her bidding and then kill themselves, all in the name of Good. In fact, at one point she tells the driver of a car she stopped to get a lift to drop them off and then accelerate to 200 kph and slam into a gas station. Obviously, she believes in [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]], as this would also kill numerous innocent bystanders. Mary's justification? They're all going to Heaven for their sacrifice. There is a reason why all the other Envoys consider her to be the most dangerous of them all, and two of them used to be [[Joseph Stalin]] and [[Adolf Hitler]]!
* In ''[[Genome|Dances on the Snow]]'', another of [[Sergey Lukyanenko|Lukyanenko]]'s books, the [[Big Bad]] tries this with the protagonist and a girl by using [[Compelling Voice]] to force them to jump into molten metal. Captain Stas, a [[Star Wars|Jedi]]-like Knight of Avalon, uses the same voice to countermand her orders, turning it into a tug-of-war of sorts. They [[Big Bad]] ends up dying before the teens can jump.
* In [[Stephen King]]'s novel ''[[Firestarter]]'' the head of a fictional secret U.S. government intelligence agency muses about using the protagonist's powers of mental domination to "suggest in a low voice of utter conviction that suicide was the best answer" to Teddy Kennedy.
* Averted in ''[[StarCraft]] Ghost: Nova'', where the gang leader obtains through a friend a psychic blocker to prevent Nova from doing exactly that. Unfortunately, he never reads the manual which prohibits the use of the device for more than 18 hours at a time, as it can lead to unbalanced psyche. [[Time Skip]] a year, he ''hasn't taken it off since he put it on''. Now, he's completely off the reservation, shooting underlings for a tiny infraction, even ones he imagines. In the end, Nova does a variation of this by using her powers to make the gang leader's remaining lieutenant shoot him.
* In ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (novel)|Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]'', Voldemort forces Wormtail to strangle himself with his new silver hand.
** And in ''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (novel)|Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]'', a young Tom Riddle uses his power to control animals to make a boy's rabbit hang itself from the rafters.
** Mentioned in ''Goblet of Fire'', when Moody highlights the horror of the Imperius curse by offering to make the spider he's controlling jump out the window or drown itself.
* In the ''[[Fear Street|Ghosts of Fear Street]]'' book ''Horror Hotel Part 1,'' a ghost mistakes the protagonist for his murderer due to [[Uncanny Family Resemblance]], and possesses him every night to try to force him to kill himself. The possession only lasts from midnight to 12:15, however, since that was how long it took the ghost to die.
* Proving [[Andre Norton]] understood that [[Good Is Not Soft]], Jaelithe in ''[[Witch World]]'' used her powers to make an enemy shoot himself. [[Asshole Victim|He'd]] been intending to [[Virgin Power|rape her]]....
* The Mouths of ''[[The Grimnoir Chronicles]]'' can't make people do things they would never do. {{spoiler|Too bad for the Imperium elite suicide over perceived dishonor ''is'' something they'll do.}}

== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* The Sycorax threatened the Earth with this in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Christmas Invasion": they took control of about a third of the Earth, made them all march to the nearest high place, and were going to order them to jump if their demands weren't met. {{spoiler|It turned out to be a bluff--the form of mind control couldn't overcome the survival instinct.}}
** Also, in "The Green Death," the BOSS computer brainwashes people into committing suicide.
* Eden attempts this on Sylar in ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', and her backstory involves [[Power Incontinence|accidentally]] doing it to her [[Abusive Parents|abusive stepmother]].
** Doyle, the [[People Puppets|puppetmaster]], uses this ability several times in a tie-in graphic novel displaying his backstory. When the [[Power Nullifier]]s short out, the first thing he does is make his jailer [[Frickin' Laser Beams|shoot himself]].
**  {{spoiler|Matt}} attempts to do this to  {{spoiler|Sylar}} while  {{spoiler|Sylar is [[Grand Theft Me|in control of Matt's body]] and Matt is partially in control of his own mind}}, with a healthy dash of  {{spoiler|[[Suicide by Cop]]}} thrown in.
** Sylar attempted this in his first appearance, by telekinetically making Matt's partner turn the gun to her head. Matt interrupts before s/he can pull the trigger though.
* Used in ''[[The X-Files]]'' with serial killer Robert Patrick Modell ("Pusher" and "Kitsunegari"). Modell possesses the ability to "push" his will onto others, and demonstrates it several times. When captured by police, he causes his driver to crash into an oncoming truck; later, he talks an armed soldier into dropping his weapon, picking up a can of gasoline, dousing himself and the surrounding area with it, and lighting himself on fire. He doesn't even have to be there in person - he talks the lead detective hunting him down into a heart attack over the phone. At the climax of "Pusher", he talks Mulder into playing Russian roulette, which Mulder obeys - but shoots Modell as soon as Modell makes him pull the trigger on Scully.
* Lyta of ''[[Babylon 5]]'' forces a Drazi hit man to do this when he tries to kill her. It shows her increasing power after she was [[Touched by Vorlons]].
* A [[Monster of the Week]] sandman on ''[[Special Unit 2]]'' once used the possession variety.
* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'': During the season 2 finale "All Hell Breaks Loose", the Winchesters, Ellen, and Bobby go up against Jake, the last of Azazel's psychics {{spoiler|besides Sam}}. Jake effectively holds Ellen hostage by using [[Compelling Voice]] powers to make her hold her gun to her own head.
** In the earlier episode "Simon Said", Dean was about to shoot himself in the head because of Webber's mind control until Andy shot Webber. Webber also made other people kill themselves.
* The Despair Squid from ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' releases some sort of hallucinogen which causes anything exposed to it to fantasise a reality which ultimately [[Driven to Suicide|convinces them to end their lives]]. Even works on ''fish''.
* On ''[[The 4400]]'':
** [[Enfant Terrible|Uber-powerful psychic infant]] Isabelle Tyler saves her father from a pair of murderous anti-4400 fanatics by making one shoot the other and then shoot himself.
** [[Serial Killer]] Oliver Knox carried out his second wave of murders by using his new [[Mind Control]] powers to convince [[Jack the Ripoff|other random persons to imitate his crimes]] and made the first one write a suicide note confessing to the crime before hanging himself.
* The Watcher on ''[[No Ordinary Family]]'' uses a telekinetic variant; forcing  {{spoiler|Dr. Chiles}} to ingest a fatal dose of medication and write a suicide note with his hand.
* In ''[[Kamen Rider Agito]]'', the Overlord of Darkness can force the Lords to kill themselves if they violate the taboo to not kill normal humans.
* Anyone confessed in ''[[Legend of the Seeker]]'' can be ordered to off themselves. While this normally doesn't happen, a variant happens in the series finale, where Kahlan, who is herself confessed by Nicci, confesses four Mord-Sith and orders them to kill each other. They do so in unison.
* ''[[Alphas]]'':
** The Ghost does this twice during the premiere episode. He forced one victim to jump off a building and a minion who [[You Have Failed Me...|was 4 minutes late to a meeting]] to [[Nightmare Fuel|drink bleach]]! He also carried out assassinations offscreen by using proxies to cause a fatal accident such as by crashing their car into his target, killing both.
** In "Bill and Gary's Excellent Adventures", Nina reveals that {{spoiler|she was afraid that she did this to her ex-boyfriend when she yelled in anger for him to kill himself. Fortunately, it's revealed at the end that it wasn't her, he was just [[Driven to Suicide]] instead.}}
* ''[[Dollhouse]]:'' {{spoiler|Boyd is hit by a mind-wiping device and given a personality that obeys Echo's order to strap himself up in explosives and blow up Rossum HQ.}}
* ''[[Smallville]]'':
** Molly Griggs developed a mind control computer program and could email instructions to a person to kill someone. At first, she wasn't powerful enough to override the human survival instinct to make them commit suicide but in "[[Expanded Universe|The Vengeance Chronicles]]" {{spoiler|she tries to make Lex Luthor kill himself using the program.}}
** In the episode "Persuasion", [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|CEO Bob Rickman]] ends an investigation of his company when he used his handshake-induced mind control power to make an agent of an EPA-like organization who was onto his corrupt practices jump out of a window. Later, {{spoiler|he and Kyle Tippet, who has the same power, wrestle for control over a handgun while engaged in a battle-of-wills using their powers to make the other commit Psychic-Assisted Suicide, a battle which Bob loses.}}

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* In ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'', psykers with mind-controlling or compelling abilities can force people to kill themselves. No model on the tabletop can do it, although there is a daemon special character and an Apocalypse strategic asset that forces a unit to shoot other friendly units.
* ''[[New World of Darkness]]'' games mostly [[Averted Trope|averts this]]&mdash;it's made ''very'' clear that the human survival instinct is too strong to just willingly give into commands that are blatantly suicidal ("Blow your brains out") without immense amounts of power.
** Then again, they may be willing to obey commands with a little bit of leeway ("Drop your weapon in the middle of this firefight."). Also, there is no penalty for making them do something REALLY fucking stupid. Moon a Wolverine, incite them to ignore a cop's orders, flip a vampire the bird... provided it does not borderline ensure death, you can get away with it.
** There ''are'' a few powers across game lines that do this. ''[[Vampire: The Requiem]]'' features a [[Prestige Class|bloodline]] known as the Children of Judas (typically Embraced right before—or in rare cases, right ''after''—committing suicide) who have a bloodline-based Discipline that allows them to drive people to despair and, in time, suicide attempts.
** [[Geist: The Sin Eaters|Sin-Eaters]] can do the same thing with the highest ranks of the Stygian Curse.
* In ''[[In Nomine Satanis/Magna Veritas|In Nomine Satanis Magna Veritas]]'' (precursor to ''[[In Nomine]]''), the Demon Prince of [[Heavy Metal]] and his followers have this as a specific power: The victim will execute any order, but it ''must'' finish by committing suicide.
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' has a power in the ''Psionic Handbook'' called "Death Urge". As the name implies, it activates a latent suicidal impulse, causing the victim to immediately turn their weapons upon themselves. There are also powers that disrupt the victim's autonomic processes, so that they have to actively make themselves breathe - if they forget to, they start suffocating.
** [http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=6968457#post6968457 This Play By Post] deserves mention, if only for the sheer levels of [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|Overkill]] involved.<ref>Because the attack(s) from Death Urge is an automatic critical hit and the opponent has an ability that grants him an extra attack upon scoring a critical hit, he is forced to continue attacking until he runs out of ammo</ref>
** The psion class in Fourth Edition has several powers that force an enemy to attack any creature of his choice. This includes making them attack themselves.
* Plutomancers in ''[[Unknown Armies]]'' can give someone a sudden urge to hurt themselves. Appropriately for their school's money-based theme, the spells used for this are called Mercenary Will and Bankrupt Will.
* An image of a Mind Melter in ''[[Rifts]]'' shows him standing behind a soldier on his knees, soaked in gasoline, and holding a match with a dazed look in his eyes.

== [[Video Games]] ==
* Psycho Mantis of ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' tries this, and succeeds if you don't knock Meryl out before she does it.
* There's an [[Easter Egg]] scene in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' involving some Mind-Controlled ogres. One will sometimes break free, be mind-controlled again, and forced to jump off a cliff.
** A Priest can replicate this, though it doesn't work on [[NPC]]s under most circumstances, and when it does work the affected characters usually die by falling. [[Player Versus Player|PvP]] on the other hand...
* In ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines]]'', the 3rd and 5th level Dominate abilities involve this. One is single target, the other gets people to do it en masse.
* In ''[[Clive Barker's Undying|Undying]]'', the spell Invoke allows you to reanimate monsters and destroy undead. If you use it on a living human being, they will jerkily turn their weapon on themselves as they beg for their life in terror, slitting their own throat or blowing their brains out.
* In the MUD ''[[Achaea]]'' a few Classes have the ability to briefly take control of other players - the Serpents via hypnosis, and the Monks via telepathy. Both styles are mostly used for theft, by forcing players to hand over their backpack - but can also be used to force people to commit suicide, most popularly by making them kick the nearest (unbelievably overpowered) city-guard.
* ''[[Second Sight]]'' doesn't allow this directly, but nothing prevents you from jumping off a cliff while possessing someone. The game even tracks how many times you've killed a host.
** Like the ''[[Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy]]'' example below, start shooting at an enemy while possessing someone. Eventually one of them will die, and the other will be weakened enough to be easily dispatched.
* Nick Scryer, the protagonist in ''[[Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy]]'' can do this with mind control
** A secret key combination can make the put their gun in their mouth as well.
* In the ''[[Oddworld]]'' series, there are two ways to release control of possessed enemies—either release control and make them explode violently, or make them find the nearest [[Bottomless Pit]], landmine, meat grinder, or other deathtrap.
* The intro to ''[[BioShock 2]]'' involves Sophia Lamb taking control of Subject Delta and ordering him to commit suicide.
** And of course, in the first game, there was Code Yellow.
** "{{spoiler|[[Arc Words|Would you kindly]]}} go get stepped on by a [[Lightning Bruiser|Big Daddy]]."
* The [[The Hypnotoad|Dnyarri]] in ''[[Star Control]] 2'' have the limitation that, if anyone ''actively'' under their compulsion is hurt, they will feel it. What ''can'' happen, and will if you confront one without [[Power Nullifier|protection]], is forcing you to go "get lost in a bad neighborhood".
* Bishamon from ''[[Darkstalkers]]'' has a special move that makes the opponent catch his blade and is then forced to commit suicide with it. Of course, like many of his moves that cut the opponent in two, it doesn't stick unless you end the match with it.
* In ''[[Knights of the Old Republic (video game)|Knights of the Old Republic 2]]'', in Nar Shadda, if you've taken the proper powers, you can force two mercenaries to give you all their items and then go jump off the walkway to their deaths.
** Starkiller can also cause Imperial Stormtroopers to do this in ''[[Star Wars]]: [[The Force Unleashed]] II''.
* This is a fairly viable tactic in the ''[[X-COM]]'' games, if you can find a Psi-vunerable foe with a blaster bomb launcher or the aquatic equivalent.
* In ''[[Dead Space 2]]'', it appears that Nicole, an apparition of the marker, tries to kill Isaac, but in reality it's trying to use this trope.
* Idunna, an "apostitute" at the Blooming Rose in ''[[Dragon Age II]]'', tries to do this to Hawke but fails.
* Shown in the trailer for the upcoming ''[[Deus Ex: Human Revolution]]''.
** This happens in a cutscene. The culprit is a hacker remotely guiding the augmented thug. When discovered by Adam, he overrides the thug's augmentations, forcing the guy to shoot himself.
* In ''[[Mortal Kombat 9]]'', Shang Tsung {{spoiler|and Quan Chi}} can take possession of opponents and manipulate them into [[Neck Snap|breaking their own necks]].
* In the remake of the classic ''[[Syndicate]]'' you can perform this in two ways. The ''suicide'' power forces the targeted enemy soldier to pull the pin from a grenade and stand there screaming and holding it, with predictably messy results; it's best used when soldiers are part of a group. (We aren't told what happens if the target doesn't have grenades to pull pins from; no enemy you can inflict ''suicide'' on doesn't). And then you have ''persuade'', which forces the targeted enemy soldier to fight on your side. If their former allies don't manage to kill them, when the effect ends they'll shoot themselves in the head - while screaming, natch. Granted, you aren't doing this as a psychic - rather, you are [[It Makes Sense in Context|hacking chips implanted in their brains]], but still.

== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Girl Genius]]'', Other!Agatha stumbles across her [[The Dragon|Dragon]] Vrin, shackled to a post. Deciding that she can't let Vrin be captured, Agatha simply says "Vrin, die." Which she promptly does, [[Gory Discretion Shot|off panel, with a choked gurgle.]]
** A popular [[Epileptic Trees|theory]] is that the voice is also what killed Omar von Zinzer, rather than Agatha's locket. Made worse by the fact that he was told to die "slowly, like the rats you are!" After all, you can never tell without a weasel, and those were introduced much later.
* In ''[[Charby the Vampirate]]'', Kavonn threatens a gun-toting character by making him turn his gun on himself.
* ''[[MS Paint Adventures]]'' has the stump, across multiple adventures. A peculiar aura of misery surrounds it. There seems to be some powerful cosmic magnetism towards suicide which surrounds the stump.
** ''[[Homestuck]]'' has resident psychic psychopath Vriska force Tavros to jump off a cliff. [[Evil Gloating|Do you want to flyyyyyyyy, Pupa?]]. She also {{spoiler|forces Terezi to stare at the sun until she goes blind}}.
* In ''[[Shadowgirls]]'', Max was once ordered to "put that gun against your head and pull the trigger until it goes click".  {{spoiler|Fortunately, her arm has a mind of its own.}}
* ''[[Dilbert]]'' (of all places), [http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-11-03 after] Dilbert gave the [[Pointy-Haired Boss]] neural interface.
{{quote|'''Dilbert''': Would that be murder or suicide?
'''Alice''': All we need is reasonable doubt. }}

== [[Web Original]] ==
* Apparently a common act of Dr Bright of the [[SCP Foundation]]: "On 01/██/20██, Dr. Jack Bright was 'given the bird' on his way to the movies by a passing motorist. As is fairly normal for Dr. Bright, he tracked down the owner of the vehicle through the car's license plate, then proceeded to drive the gentleman to suicide via the use of SCP-720."
* In ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDX1m0Y2Vkg Pokémon Apokelypse]'', Mewtwo can be seen doing this to Officer Jenny.
* In Book VI of ''[[Tasakeru]]'', {{spoiler|this almost happens to [[The Hero|Zero]] under the influence of one of the [[Mind Control Device|mind-control bracelets.]]}}
* ''[[Vigor Mortis]]'':
** Shortly after Ars is freed from his restraints, he kills a High Templar by making his victim stab himself in the head.
** [[Puppeteer Parasite|Penta]] has on at least one occasion temporarily left her sapient host, [[Willing Channeler|Vita]], to force something that was trying to kill Vita to mortally wound and cripple itself.

== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'', The Mad Hatter once told two thugs who were attempting to mug him to "go jump in the river." Since it was in a kid's cartoon, Batman caught them right before they jumped off the bridge, but it still counts.
* In ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'', the Intangible Fancy does this in ''The Revenge Society.''
* When Everybody Loves Hypnotoad is interrupted in the ''[[Futurama]]'' movie "Bender's Big Score" the title character forces the producer to kill himself.
* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', Hama has the ability to control other people by bending the water in their bodies, she forces Sokka and Aang to attack each other, forcing Katara to learn blood-bending to make her stop. While not psychically powered, it's generally the same thing in practice.
* [[Averted Trope|Averted]] in the ''[[Batman: The Brave and the Bold]]'' [[Musical Episode]], when [[The Music Meister]] [[Compelling Voice|compels]] his brainwashed slaves into dancing into a rocket ship's blast. [[Batman]], who's not affected, has to stop them, allowing the villain to make his getaway (which was his real plan all along).
{{quote|''And now that Batman's been delayed, [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|your usefulness has passed]]
A [["Friend or Idol?" Decision|distraction]] is what I need, so kick into that blast!'' }}
* In ''[[Young Justice (animation)|Young Justice]],'' [[God Save Us From the Queen|Queen Bee]] threatens to make [[Cheerful Child|Garfield]] "damage himself" to keep [[The Chick|M'Gann]] in line.

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