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He intended to kill himself too as penance for his father's creation of GENESIS, but his Love Interest Cagalli convinces him not to. Later in the series, he plans on self-destructing the Justice Gundam to take out GENESIS. It would have worked if not for an Ass Pull explanation. In Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, Athrun uses the Aegis Gundam's self-destruct mechanism to take out an enemy ( Kira and the Strike Gundam) after Aegis has run out of ammunition and energy.In spite of this, the self-destruct mechanisms never kill the pilots either. Somewhat subverted by Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz, where it's revealed that the Gundams' self-destruct mechanisms were intended not to destroy them, but to kill the pilots in order to preserve confidentiality. The self-destruct mechanism plays a prominent role in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, most famously the moment when the main character blows himself up.See also Cyanide Pill, Self-Destructing Security, and This Page Will Self-Destruct.

Overclocking Attack takes this to the next step. Simply releasing all of the antimater from whatever containment system is used keep it from coming into contact with matter can quite reasonably be expected cause extreme damage to the spaceship, even if there's not enough antimatter to outright annihilate it.

This can also apply when Antimatter is used as fuel, weaponry or both. Marginally more forgivable in the case of advanced spaceships the Kzinti Lesson, 'A reaction drive's efficiency as a weapon is in direct proportion to its efficiency as a drive', can be made to apply just as well to the ship itself as to other ships. Real world self destructs do exist, such as special microwave ovens for destroying integrated circuits, electrically self-frying storage media, and self erasing disks are used in many intelligence situations in all cases 'won't smoke excessively, no toxic smoke, won't damage the vehicle or occupants' are pretty hard and fast contractual requirements. Persons working with sensitive equipment are often provided with a more practical 'self-destruct mechanism' to use if capture is a possibility a large hammer, fire axe, or other heavy implement used to smash the equipment and thus stop it being reverse-engineered. In the real world, scuttling a large ship is a complicated process involving detonating explosive charges at various points on the superstructure for obvious reasons, these charges are not in place and armed at all times, but are usually placed just before the fact if it becomes necessary to destroy a ship. If the countdown can't be stopped, then this functions similarly to a Collapsing Lair, and it's up to the heroes to get out of Dodge and/or rescue whoever else is in danger. Either way, the stopping always happens Just in Time.

Other times it's simply a question of getting back to where the switch is. Depending on the situation, the off switch may be uncooperative (or there may not be an off switch) this often results in a Wire Dilemma. Sometimes the heroes change their minds, or they weren't the ones who started the countdown.

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