History FamilyUnfriendlyDeath / Film

[[caption-width-right:300:[[BlatantLies I think he just passed out, son. He'll get better. It's okay.]]]]

** In the ending of ''Disney/OliverAndCompany'', Roscoe and DeSoto are knocked off the speeding car onto the subway tracks and electrocuted to death, followed by Sykes plowing head-first into the train, killing him in a fiery blaze. It's telling to note that they switched to the "[[DisneyVillainDeath Villain Falls to His/Her Doom]]" ending for years after this.

*** The original draft of the above scene originally had Eric wrestle the trident from her long enough to "oblige" her when she demands he give it back... by tossing it right through her heart (This scene was Re-used in the second KingdomHearts game, though the trident turned into a beam of light to obfuscate it being an impalement).

*** [[spoiler:Bruton's is even worse. He gets stuck in a cave-in, and struggles to run out while boulders crash down on him. Finally he buried, and Aladar uncovers him only for Bruton to twitch a little, then die.]]

*** Dr. Facilier is ''dragged into voodoo-hell --'' screaming and struggling-- by his "Friends on the Other Side" when it's apparent his plan to pay off his "debt" to them is foiled for good. Then, they go out on their way to show his gravestone, with his face on it. It's even worse if you look at how they animated his eyes during that scene. Most Disney villains meet their end with a little gasp and a look of surprise or a BigNo; as Facilier reacts to his talisman breaking with a LittleNo followed by a BigNo, you can see him realize clearly before his friends even show up that he is about to die horribly. Even to adults, it's incredibly unsettling to watch the man have a VillainousBreakdown and ''beg for his life'' as his "friends" kill him. Even Tiana is visibly horrified as she watches.

** ''Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' has [[spoiler: Rourke is turned to crystal and [[LiterallyShatteredLives shattered to pieces]] by propeller blades. Although some might overlook this compared to how graphic it would have been if he ''hadn't'' been turned to crystal.]]

** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'',[[spoiler:Héctor's death. He is poisoned by his colleague Ernesto, collapses in the street, and dies in what is shown to be a quite painful way.]] What makes this more disturbing is that ''[[GoryDiscretionShot it's all shown on screen.]]''

* For a Creator/{{Disney}} film (and not of a subsidiary, but Disney itself), there's a fair bit of this trope in play, in ''Film/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime''. As with ''RevengeOfTheSith'', this film earns its PG-13 rating.

* ''Animation/LeafieAHenIntoTheWild'' shows the one-eyed weasel dragging the body of [[spoiler:Wanderer's mate]] away by her neck and also has the brutal fight between Wanderer and the one-eyed weasel. Despite this, the English dub still censored the non-graphic ending where [[spoiler:[[TheHeroDies Leafie dies]].]] [[spoiler:[[HeroicSacrifice For a selfless reason]], but still a pretty grim one...!]]
* ''The Mouse and His Child'' is best known for the animated film faithfully based off Russel Hoban's strange, metaphoric novella. Both the book and movie are essentially ''Film/AIArtificialIntelligence'' for kids. In the movie, a pack of nasty Rats have an army of enslaved abandoned wind-up toys. When one of them breaks down, Manny (Peter Ustinov), the Rats' leader, gives the toy a mock-sympathetic speech -- and then, ''as the toy pleads for its life,'' he sends for another Rat to demolish the toy for spare parts!

*** This sequence of events is rather different in the original book. There, the Mouse and his Child got smashed to pieces when an hawk dropped them from a great height. The one who fixed them was Manny Rat! (His HeelFaceTurn is much less ambiguous here than in the film.) As for Muskrat, he was [[HoistByHisOwnPetard squished by the tree he had the mice chop down.]]

* Thrax from ''Film/OsmosisJones'' dies a horrible, melting death in a glass of alcohol (having previously bragged about killing three people, including a little girl!).

* [[Creator/TimCurry Drake]], the main villain of ''WesternAnimation/ThePebbleAndThePenguin'' (also by Creator/DonBluth) was dispatched with a boulder on the head. The boulder crushes him completely. In fact, the underside of the boulder can be seen when it rolls off a nearby ledge. There is nothing on it. Seriously, just imagine this scene being redone, but with blood!

** Scavenger shoots Prowl, the blast going inside him and reaching Prowl's insides, causing him to effectively ''burn from the inside out'' with fire blazing from his mouth endlessly. ''Directly at the camera.''

*** Did everyone forget the first 5 minutes of this movie? An entire planet of robot people, BILLIONS of "men" "women" and "children" are sucked into Unicron's hungry maw, chewn up, and used as fuel! Genocide in my children's film? [[MemeticMutation More likely than you think.]]

** In ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective'', after a drunken henchman calls him a rat, Prof. Ratigan (who insists on being thought of as a "really big mouse") feeds the hapless minion to his enormous (by mouse standards) [[RightHandCat pet cat]]. This is shown by having the henchman just sitting on the ground, singing to himself, as the cat walks up behind him, picks him up, and... [[ShadowDiscretionShot he's devoured]]. He didn't even see it coming. (Granted, he ''was'' drunk...). It cuts to a shot of some of the other henchmen taking off their hats, one even shedding a few tears, while Ratigan wipes his precious kitty's mouth with a hankie and asks if she enjoyed her tasty treat- the 'treat' in question being of a species HE claims to be!
** Sykes and his two Doberman cronies from ''Disney/OliverAndCompany'': The dogs are knocked off the speeding car onto the subway tracks and electrocuted to death, followed by Sykes plowing head-first into the train, killing him in a fiery blaze. It's telling to note that they switched to the "[[DisneyVillainDeath Villain Falls to His/Her Doom]]" ending for years after this.

*** The fight between Simba and Scar ends with Scar being eaten alive (or at the very least being mauled to death) by his hyena henchmen ([[ShadowDiscretionShot cast in shadow]], but still!). The sequel makes it even worse by implying that he might have been burned to death as well.

** Zin's robot shoots Dr. Devlon with its laser, disintegrating him, and we actually see his skeleton briefly before it burns into ashes! [[spoiler:The fact he is at this point supposedly Jessie's ''father'' makes it even more horrible.]]

** Zin kills 427 "for failing" (when it wasn't actually his fault!) by locking him inside a freezing chamber and freezing him solid. When he opens the door, 427 falls out and smashes on the ground.

* ''Film/MyFavoriteMartian'' sees the protagonist's love interest [[VoluntaryShapeshifting turning herself into a giant green bug/lizard...thing]] to save him from two {{Mooks}} delivering a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown. She tosses one thug across the room [[ExplosiveInstrumentation into a computer console that explodes into sparks on impact, obviously killing him]]. And when the second thug panics and tries to run away, she cuts off his escape, still in her alien form...and '''[[EatenAlive freaking swallows the guy whole as he screams his head off]]'''. And then she just lets out a big burp and shrugs it off like nothing happened.

** The sacrifice scene from ''Temple of Doom''. First a poor sap is strapped to a metal grid and gets his heart slowly torn out by the evil priest. Then, while 'still alive'' (the [[BeatStillMyHeart beating heart]] in the hand of the priest), he gets flipped over facing the ground. A trapdoor opens, releasing smoke and red light reminiscent of hellfire. Then he gets lowered into the lava below, and just as he's about to be dipped, the camera switches to the priest's hand; where the heart suddenly ignites and burns to ash as the victim dies. Did we mention that he screamed all the way through the scene?

** Who could forget the Nome King, though, who, after swallowing an egg, which is poison to nomes, sloowly falls apart, eventually becoming a skeleton-like stone before collapsing entirely? And his human-like eye turns into a rock, giving him a creepy blank stare as he's dying...

** This "graveway to hell" sequence may have been borrowed from the Albert Finney musical version 13 years earlier. But, as Charles Dickens himself says in ''Muppet Christmas Carol'', it's all right -- this is culture!

* In ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2014'', to demonstrate the effectiveness of the poison gas to the captive Turtles, Karai forcibly gasses one of the Foot soldiers nearby. The poor guy's skin basically starts melting off as he convulses on the floor!

** How bout that soldier in Lennox's squad who got impaled in his chest by Scorponok?

* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''. Judge Doom gets [[HoistByHisOwnPetard doused by his own "dip"]] and screams in pain and horror as he melts into a puddle of goo...

* A lot during the BadFuture in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast''. [[spoiler: Iceman gets ''[[OffWithHisHead beheaded]]'' and ''melted'', Colossus gets ''[[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe torn in half]]'', Warpath's face is pulled into a heat beam during the FinalBattle. The girls are not spared either, with Storm getting ''brutally'' ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice, and Blink being sliced by a Sentinel's blade from her groin up to her neck. ]]

* ''Animation/LeafieAHenIntoTheWild'' shows the one-eyed weasel dragging the body of [[spoiler:Wanderer's mate]] away by her neck and also has the brutal fight between Wanderer and the one-eyed weasel. Despite this, the English dub still censored the non-graphic ending where [[spoiler:[[TheHeroDies Leafie dies]].]]

** The scene from PSYCHO.

** In ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', [[spoiler:Judge Frollo]] falls to his death off of a crumbling gargoyle and into a pit of molten copper. It may be clouded by smoke, but it is certain that he died from the impact only to have his corpse immolated. Not to mention there are strong implications that this was the result of divine intervention. Of course, knowing [[CompleteMonster how evil]] Frollo is, [[TropesAreTools it might not be so bad after all.]]

* Rasputin's death in ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'' was a serious offender. His body parts '''melt ''' into nasty green ooze and his cloak collapses to the ground. And then his '''skeleton''' emerges, screaming in agony '''while being shocked by green electricity'''. His final death comes as a relief. Oh and it isn't a KarmicDeath, Anastasia knows ''just'' what she's doing when she destroys the [[SoulJar reliquary that is keeping him alive.]]

** In ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective'', after a drunken henchman calls him a rat, Prof. Ratigan (who insists on being thought of as a "really big mouse") feeds the hapless minion to his enormous (by mouse standards) [[RightHandCat pet cat]]. This is shown by having the henchman just sitting on the ground, singing to himself, as the cat walks up behind him, picks him up, and...[[ShadowDiscretionShot gulp.]] He didn't even see it coming. (Granted, he ''was'' drunk...). It cuts to a shot of some of the other henchmen taking off their hats, one even shedding a few tears, while Ratigan wipes his precious kitty's mouth with a hankie and asks if she enjoyed her tasty treat- the 'treat' in question being of a species HE claims to be!

** In ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', [[spoiler:Judge Frollo]] falls to his death off of a crumbling gargoyle and into a pit of molten copper. It may be clouded by smoke, but it is certain that he died from the impact only to have his corpse immolated. Not to mention there are strong implications that this was the result of divine intervention. Of course, knowing Frollo's evilness, [[TropesAreTools it might not be so bad after all.]]

** A WhatCouldHaveBeen example--in ''Kingdom of the Sun'', the prototype for ''Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', Yzma would have received her KarmicDeath by being ''[[KillItWithFire incinerated by the sun itself]]'' and [[NotEnoughToBury reduced to ashes]].

*** Dr. Facilier is ''dragged into voodoo-hell --'' screaming and struggling-- by his "Friends on the Other Side" when it's apparent his plan to pay off his "debt" to them is foiled for good. His gravestone, ''oy''. It's even worse if you look at how they animated his eyes during that scene. Most Disney villains meet their end with a little gasp and a look of surprise or a BigNo; as Facilier reacts to his talisman breaking with a LittleNo followed by a BigNo, you can see him realize clearly before his friends even show up that he is about to die horribly. Even to adults, it's incredibly unsettling to watch the man have a VillainousBreakdown and ''beg for his life'' as his "friends" kill him. Even Tiana is visibly horrified as she watches.

* The film of ''Literature/WatershipDown'', especially the scene at the end when the dog gets loose. What happens when a dog bites into a rabbit mook and shakes it? Blood sprays everywhere, that's what happens. Rated "U -- Universal. Suitable for all" in the UK.

* In ''Film/AgentCodyBanks'', the main villain's head is eaten/melted by raging nanobots which escaped from an icecube placed in his mouth. Since this was a Family Movie, only part of this was shown. Possibly made even nastier by the villain basically being murdered by [[Music/HilaryDuff Lizzie freakin' McGuire]]!

* In Stephen Sommers' adaptation of ''Film/TheJungleBook'', the antagonists suffer rather horrific deaths: the first [[spoiler:sinks in quicksand]], the second [[spoiler:falls and splatters his brains (offscreen)]], the third is [[spoiler:mauled by Shere Khan]], the fourth [[spoiler:gets buried alive in a tomb]] and the main one [[spoiler:dies while being attacked by Kaa underwater.]] A film for the whole family, folks!

* Bruma in ''Animation/ElArca'' is ''crushed to death by a hippoptamus.'' If she was still alive after ''that'', she and said hippo may have drowned instead.

** What about the way those villains die? One is crushed between two cars, and the main one is stabbed through the stomach by a pane of broken glass.
* [[spoiler: Snape]]'s death scene in ''[[Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2]]'' is even more graphic than the book, with Voldemort slashing [[spoiler: Snape]]'s throat open with Sectumsempra then having Nagini finish him, with blood splattering on the walls. And this is coming from filmmakers who cut [[spoiler: Wormtail]]'s death scene due to "suicide" (which it technically wasn't) being too "graphic."

** This film was rated suitable for all. Really.

** The sacrifice scene from ''Temple of Doom''. First a poor sap is strapped to a metal grid and gets his heart slowly torn out by the evil priest. Then, while 'still alive'' (the [[BeatStillMyHeart beating heart]] in the hand of the priest), he gets flipped over facing the ground. A trapdoor opens, releasing smoke and red light reminiscent of hellfire. Then he gets lowered into the lava below, and just as he's about to be dipped, the camera switches to the priest's hand; where the heart suddenly ignites and burns to ash as the victim dies. Did I mention that he screamed all the way through the scene?

** Who could forget the Nome King, though, who, after swallowing an egg, which is poison to nomes, sloowly falls apart, eventually becoming a skeleton-like stone before collapsing entirely? And his human-like eye turns into a rock, giving him a creepy blank stare as he's dying... It's no wonder they cut this scene down when it was on TV!

** [[Film/AttackOfTheClones Jango Fett getting beheaded]] by Mace Windu and having his body slump lifelessly to the ground definitely counts, while [[LegacyCharacter his son]] watches no less!

** [[spoiler:Decepticons KILLING HUMANS. You see corpses of people who were probably commuting on their way to work in train carriages. Humans being skeletonized by Decepticons. One man gets shot by a Decepticon attack ship and all that's left is a skull bouncing along the street.]]

** There was a scene earlier in the film where Doom callously picks up an innocent toon shoe nuzzling his ankle and slowly and tortuously dips it as it whines in terror[[note]] ''and'' that he dipped it in mouth first so that it couldn't scream, but its muted wailing and its eyes still managed to convey its pain quite well, thank you[[/note]], until nothing is left but a smear of red paint on his rubber glove.

*** Dieter is mobbed by compys in an extended sequence that involves them repeatedly swarming over him, complete with closeups of them biting his face (especially his lips!). He manages to shake them off and run away, only to fall behind a fallen log. The compys all swarm over the log and we hear Dieter being attacked and killed behind it, and then see blood flowing out [[BloodIsSquickerInWater through the stream]] behind it. Like Muldoon, he dies cleanly offscreen, but the sequence is so protracted that it's disturbing to watch.

*** The dog! It happens offscreen, but there's something particularly nasty about Benjamin's parents discovering that the escaped father T-rex has eaten their pet.
*** Ludlow. AlasPoorVillain, indeed! The way he pitifully mumbles "Wait, wait!" before the T-rex bites his legs and feeds him to the baby is a bit painful to watch, even if the actual death occurs offscreen.

*** Udesky is attacked offscreen by some raptors. The other characters hear his screams, and when we cut back to him, he's crawling along the ground, obviously injured, and a raptor puts its foot on his back and jabs its toe claw into his spine, making Udesky scream in pain. He's finally finished off when one of the raptors grabs his head in its mouth and twists, [[NeckSnap breaking his neck]] (!).

* In ''WesternAnimation/OsmosisJones'', this happens to Thrax after he fell into the vessel of alcohol where it dissolves him to his death.
* ''WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot'' has Ruber trying to impale Kayley and Garrett with Excalibur that was merged to his hand minutes earlier with his magic potion, but ends up missing the two, because they moved away at the right time, replacing the sword back into the stone for where it came from. The stone's magic and power begins to flare up on Ruber as it rapidly flashes around him. The stone begins to purify Excalibur back to its normal self where the process ends up dangerously disintegrates Ruber to his gory death on-screen. Leaving behind Excalibur for Arthur to reclaim, and one of Ruber's shoulder pads.

** ''JurassicWorld'':

*** Kerchak and Kala's infant son is a little too energetic and curious for his own good when he chases a frog while his parents sleep, and he runs into the leopard Sabor. Sabor pounces on him and the movie cuts to his devastated parents' reaction when he shrieks as Sabor ''kills and devours him.''
*** We see the mother ape happen upon the treehouse Tarzan's family built. She goes in curiously and we find it a bit too quiet. She soon see why, the place has been trashed and the bodies of Tarzan's family are seen next to a set of bloodied pawprints on the floor. After all of that, it's quite satisfiying to see Tarzan kill Sabor as an adult.
*** Clayton (pictured above) get tangled up in a cluster of vines high in the trees, and then proceeds to cut his way out of them, all the while the vines are tightening around his neck. Unfortunately for him, he cuts one too many vines and falls to his death. While the film does cut to a GoryDiscretionShot, lightning flashes and we can see Clayton's hanging silhouette on a nearby tree. No wonder why it's the most disturbing death seen in any animated Disney film!

*** Carnotaurus, before attacking the nest Aladar's egg is located in, actually mauls a Pachyrhinosaurus to death. Another one does this to a RedShirt Iguanodon later in the movie, and you can see it ''devouring the corpse'' while Bruton fights off the second one.

** [[spoiler:Decepticons KILLING HUMANS. You see corpses of people who were probably commuting on their way to work in train carriages. Humans being skeletonized by Decepticons.]]

** Going into ''[[Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar Civil War]]'', many people correctly guessed [[spoiler:based on Arnim Zola's speech in ''[[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier Winter Soldier]]'', that the BrainwashedAndCrazy Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier killed Howard and Maria Stark on HYDRA's orders]], and weren't surprised to see it play out on film... but because it was [[spoiler:passed off as a garden variety car accident]], it still caught them off guard by really, really living up to this trope ([[spoiler:they both survive the accident itself and the camera doesn't cut away at all from their subsequent violent murders, complete with Howard [[TearJerker recognizing his]] [[FamousLastWords old war buddy]]]]).

!! Films -- Animated

!! Films -- Live-Action[[Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen]] [[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ravage_loses_his_spine.JPG]] [[caption-width-right:350:[[BrickJoke Alright son, I lied... He's well and truly dead]]]]

*** Ludlow. AlasPoorVillain, indeed! The way he pitifully mumbles "Wait, wait!" before the father T-rex bites his legs and feeds him to the baby is a bit painful to watch, even if the actual death occurs offscreen.

*** Ludlow. AlasPoorVillain, indeed! The way he pitifully mumbles "Wait, wait!" before the father T-rex bites his legs and feeds him to the baby is a bit painful to watch, even if the actual death occurs offscreen (and the comics amazingly revealed he survived somehow).

*** Carter, who is stepped on by the mother T-rex, crushed, and sticks to the bottom of her foot like a bug.

*** Gennaro is seen shaking in terror sitting in the rain just before the Tyrannosaurus rex grabs him in her mouth. He screams as he's swung around violently like a rag doll, his legs flopping back and forth. It's the only human death that happens completely onscreen, and although it's bloodless, it's still pretty frightening.

*** The Paddock 11 worker who gets killed by the Indominus rex and although it's only shown very quickly, we see her ripping his legs off while she's eating him.

** Don't forget the death of the Nazi commander in ''The Last Crusade'', where the tank he's sitting in the cupola of rolls off a cliff, and we can clearly see his ragdoll-like body being tossed about and bashed against the rocks as the tank bounces to a stop. Earlier, one mook is tossed onto the exposed treads of the tank and promptly rolled to the front like on a conveyor belt and crushed. In ''Raiders'', the driver of the truck carrying the ark was thrown out the front, and we get a view of his body twitching and flailing as the truck runs him over.