Fiction Fictional Characters Who Committed Suicide
In fiction we see characters go through the worst experiences of their lives. Sometimes they lose everything, from all their wealth to the love of their lives. Sometimes they have to deal with a great deal of adversity. Every character deals with their problems in their own unique way. While some fictional characters fight hard to fix their life’s problems, others are swallowed up by them. In those cases, sometimes the fictional characters choose to end their own lives. The characters on this list, from books, movies, TV, plays, and other sources, all committed suicide. In the works of William Shakespeare, many characters choose to commit suicide to end their suffering, such as Romeo and Juliet. A lot of classic books and plays end with amain character’s death, such as Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina. Television and movies sometimes kill off a character for a shocking moment, such as in the case of "House" and "Mad Men."
Tom Islava added Quasimodo
Quasimodo is the Notre Dame cathedral's deformed bellringer and the title character from Victor Hugo's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". Heartbroken by the death of the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda, he carries her body to a mass grave to be buried. Never leaving her side, he dies of starvation with Esmeralda, the only person who has shown him kindness, in his arms.
Appears In: The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Esmeralda, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Hunchback, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, + more
Neil Perry
Appears In: Dead Poets Society
Jean Grey
Appears In: Marvel Universe
Powers & Abilities: Extrasensory perception, Flight, Psychokinesis, Telepathy, Eidetic memory, + more
Also Ranked
#14 on The Top Marvel Comics Superheroes
#25 on The Best Comic Book Superheroes of All Time
#98 on The Greatest Female Characters in Film History
#7 on The Best Female Comic Book Characters
Lady Macbeth
Appears In: Macbeth
Also Ranked
#3 on The Best Female Characters in Literature
#5 on The Greatest Fictional Queens
#3 on The All-Time Best Shakespeare Characters
#2 on The Greatest Shakespearean Villains, Ranked