# Movies in which the main character commits suicide (spoilers, duh)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-main-character-commits-suicide-spoilers-duh/404420
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 17, 2007, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-main-character-commits-suicide-spoilers-duh/404420 "2007-05-17T07:15:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-main-character-commits-suicide-spoilers-duh/404420/21 "2007-05-17T14:30:20Z")
What about Terminator 2? The T-1 **had** to off himself, and was as much a main character as anyone.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-main-character-commits-suicide-spoilers-duh/404420/22 "2007-05-17T14:54:04Z")
Silent Running
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### Author:  [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-main-character-commits-suicide-spoilers-duh/404420/23 "2007-05-17T15:49:06Z")
Depending on whom you consider to be the main character: [The Heart is a Lonely Hunter](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0063050/).
And if self-sacrificial death counts, [The Boys in Company C](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0077270/).
There’s a suicide in [The Last of the Mohicans](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0104691/) but not the main character.
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### Author:  [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-main-character-commits-suicide-spoilers-duh/404420/24 "2007-05-17T15:53:12Z")
**Dead Poets Society**
And in a way, **Donnie Darko**.
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### Author:  [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-main-character-commits-suicide-spoilers-duh/404420/25 "2007-05-17T16:25:33Z")
[QUOTE=Beadalin]
**Dead Poets Society**
And in a way, **Donnie Darko**.
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Yes. Donnie Darko is definitely a suicide.
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### Author:  [@Manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manatee)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-main-character-commits-suicide-spoilers-duh/404420/26 "2007-05-17T16:29:22Z")
Keanu’s character in **The Devil’s Advocate**.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_Hildo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Hildo)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-main-character-commits-suicide-spoilers-duh/404420/27 "2007-05-17T16:55:16Z")
Just remembered Lon Chaney in [The Ace of Hearts](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0011904/) from 1921. Probably one of the earliest cinematic depictions of a suicide bomber.
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### Author:  [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-main-character-commits-suicide-spoilers-duh/404420/28 "2007-05-17T16:56:01Z")
The last _Death Wish_ movie (#5?) ends with Bronson committing suicide-by-cop.
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-main-character-commits-suicide-spoilers-duh/404420/29 "2007-05-17T17:07:40Z")
**On the Beach**
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### Author:  [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-main-character-commits-suicide-spoilers-duh/404420/30 "2007-05-17T17:27:05Z")
Oh, and here’s a shocker: **The Virgin Suicides**.
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### Author:  [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-main-character-commits-suicide-spoilers-duh/404420/31 "2007-05-17T17:32:23Z")
**Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid**
Although you get the impression that _they_ thought they had a chance.
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### Author:  [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-main-character-commits-suicide-spoilers-duh/404420/32 "2007-05-17T17:34:16Z")
**The Shootist** , sorta.
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### Author:  [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-main-character-commits-suicide-spoilers-duh/404420/33 "2007-05-17T17:37:03Z")
**The Butterfly Effect**
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-main-character-commits-suicide-spoilers-duh/404420/34 "2007-05-17T17:58:31Z")
[The End](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077504/), if attempted suicides count.
[QUOTE=Antinor01]
**The Butterfly Effect**
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Only in the Director’s Cut, though.
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### Author:  [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-main-character-commits-suicide-spoilers-duh/404420/35 "2007-05-17T17:59:29Z")
[QUOTE=Lute Skywatcher]
Only in the Director’s Cut, though.
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Really? That must be the one I saw then. I didn’t see it in the theater.
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-main-character-commits-suicide-spoilers-duh/404420/36 "2007-05-17T18:09:41Z")
[QUOTE=Antinor01]
Really? That must be the one I saw then. I didn’t see it in the theater.
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The theater release ends with Evan going back to a (birthday?) party where he meets Kayleigh for the first time. The three-year-old Evan scares Kayleigh into avoiding him like the plague, thus ensuring all the problems resulting from her wanting to be near him never happen. Evan then burns all his journals; the final scene has adult Evan and Kayleigh crossing paths in Manhattan.
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### Author:  [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-main-character-commits-suicide-spoilers-duh/404420/37 "2007-05-17T18:17:00Z")
If you stretch the rules of ‘suicide’ slightly, the original British ending of _The Descent_
has the main character awakening from her imagined ‘escape’ from the cave, only to realize that she’s still trapped and the crawlers (evil monsters) are headed for her. She makes no further attempts to escape, but merely sits still and hallucinates her daughter blowing out the candles on her birthday cake as the crawlers close in on her.
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### Author:  [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-main-character-commits-suicide-spoilers-duh/404420/38 "2007-05-17T18:48:18Z")
It’s a bit of a stretch, but Spock in **Wrath of Khan**.
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-main-character-commits-suicide-spoilers-duh/404420/39 "2007-05-17T18:50:48Z")
There was Vesper in _Casino Royale_.
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-main-character-commits-suicide-spoilers-duh/404420/40 "2007-05-17T20:38:44Z")
[QUOTE=lieu]
There was Vesper in _Casino Royale_.
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Isn’t this thread about the main character?
James Bond did not commit suicide.
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