11 Distressed Movie Characters Who Couldn't Kill Themselves To End Their Pain

8. Tolian Soran - Star Trek Generations

Ironically for a man whose only fear is death itself, he spends most of Star Trek Generations on what amounts to a death wish to get back into the Nexus, which for all intents and purposes is an utopian after-life. Despite the spectacular failings of the property's flirtations with spirituality in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Generations again plum the same mine (albeit in a less obvious way) to explore notions of death and the afterlife. The worst revelation for McDowell is that he does get his wish twice - first before he is rescued by the Enterprise B, and then when his plan actually does come off and he is transported back into the Nexus, along with Picard who had been doing his best impression of Winnie The Pooh stuck in the rabbit hole, he is screwed by a technicality that allows Picard to reverse the Nexus rules, and go back in time. All Soran wants is to "die" and enter the Nexus and taste his own personal Heaven again, alongside his killed family, and he is robbed of his suicide by Picard and Kirk wanting to save everyone on Veridian III and the Enterprise D from being burned up in a giant interstellar fireball. Spoil sports.