List of suicides in fiction

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

A

 * 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)
 * Naoko Akagi (Neon Genesis Evangelion), jumps off a control tower after murdering Rei I
 * Misa Amane (Death Note), unknown cause. In the anime, she was last seen standing at the top of a very tall building; it is assumed that she jumped. In the manga it was suggested that she hanged herself.
 * Alia Atreides (Dune), defenestration

B

 * John Barton (Looking For Alibrandi), slit his wrists
 * Jacqueline de Bellefort (Death on the Nile), shoots herself after killing her lover Simon to escape justice
 * Georg Bendemann (The Judgment), threw himself off a bridge
 * Emma Bovary (Madame Bovary), ingestion of arsenic.

C

 * Juliet Capulet (Romeo and Juliet), knife wounds
 * Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly), seppuku; and Kim in the contemporary adaptation Miss Saigon (gunshot)
 * Richard Cory (Richard Cory), gunshot to the head
 * Quentin Compson (The Sound and The Fury), drowning

D

 * Daisy (Girl, Interrupted), method was unknown in the novel while in the movie, she hangs herself and cuts her wrists

E

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

G

 * Hedda Gabler (Hedda Gabler), shoots herself offstage<, ref>Hedda Gabbler synopsis at gradesaver.com

J

 * Javert (Les Misérables), jumped off bridge and drowned
 * John the Savage (Brave New World) hangs himself

K

 * Anna Karenina (Anna Karenina), steps into the path of a train

L

 * Willy Loman (Death of a Salesman), car crash

M

 * Lady Macbeth (Macbeth), method unspecified, "Who, as 'tis thought, by self and violent hands took off her life"
 * Romeo Montague, (Romeo & Juliet), takes poison after finding Juliet whom he believed to be dead.

O

 * Ophelia (Hamlet), drowning (ambiguous)
 * Othello (Othello), stabs himself
 * Okonkwo (Things Fall Apart), hangs himself out of despair

P

 * Phoenix I, in the form of Jean Grey (Uncanny X-Men), telekinetically activates an energy cannon that disintegrates her.
 * Madelyne Pryor, mentally commits suicide by forcing her mind to shut down.

Q

 * Quasimodo (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), exact cause is unknown as his remains are not found until many years later, with his skeleton hugging the skeleton of Esmeralda.

S

 * Shin (Hokuto no ken),Jumped from the peak of his tower
 * Smerdyakov (The Brothers Karamazov), hanging
 * Svidrigailov (Crime and Punishment), gunshot to the head

T

 * Floria Tosca, in Puccini’s opera Tosca, jumps from castle rampart

W

 * 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