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In the trailer of the game-based anime [Satsuriku no
Tenshi](https://youtu.be/Jrl00eiOfQA?t=68 "Satsuriku no Tenshi Trailer"), at
1:08 Rachel (the blonde little girl) says "私を殺して“. Now, as for my limited
japanese, I would think that she says "I'll kill you", because of the を
particle besides 私. But as I played the game this anime is based on, she
actually wants Zack (the other guy) to kill her.

If so, wouldn't that be "私を殺されて"? As Rachel, who's speaking, wants to
"receive" the killing. But even Google Translate traduces "私を殺して“ as "kill me
please", leaving 殺す, the infinitive, as "I'll kill you".

So, where am I failing at? What would be the correct form to interpret it so I
would understand "私を殺して“ as "kill me please"? Has the te-form have something
to do with my misinterpretation?
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て-form particle-を passive-voice
殺す vs 殺して vs 殺されて confusion
You may be overthinking things.

殺す works pretty much like English 'kill'. 殺して is a request - 'please kill'.

殺される is passive. It works pretty much like English 'be killed'. 殺されて in this
context would be a (rather odd) request - 'please be killed'. It doesn't have
anything to do with adding a 'receiving' meaning - it's just a syntactic
change that shifts participants' grammatical status around. It doesn't change
anything about the action being described, and it doesn't alter the
relationships of the participants to the action.

を marks an object, which is the party affected by an action. If it was 'I'll
kill you', _you_ is the object, and you'd expect 君を殺す. 殺す on its own doesn't
specify anything about who is killing who, and you infer from context. (A side
note - Japanese doesn't really have 'infinitives' in the Indo-European sense,
and 殺す is just the uninflected citation form.)

私を殺されて is possible, but very odd in this usage - when passives in Japanese
take objects, the meaning is one of 'I'm negatively affected by this
happening', which you wouldn't at all expect in a request.
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