History Main / DisneyVillainDeath

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':

* ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'': Freya slaps Ishtar across the face to knock her off the edge of a building. Ishtar is a goddess, but as a GodInHumanForm, the fall kills her mortal body and sends her back to Heaven.

* ''GuillermoDelTorosPinocchio'': Count Volpe suffers this fate when he's wrestling with his much-abused monkey Spazzatura, sending them both plunging off a cliff. Spazzatura lands in the water; Volpe lands on the rocks. In a particularly gruesome subversion of this trope's usual offscreen nature, though, there's no GoryDiscretionShot applied. We see Volpe hit the rocks and die, brutally.

* Subverted in ''Literature/StarWarsKenobi''. It appears that [[spoiler:Orrin Gault]] falls to his death when his speeder drives off a cliff, but he survives... [[spoiler:paralyzed from the waist down, and [[FateWorseThanDeath is put to work by the Tuskens he tried to have killed]].]]

* ''Manga/DragonBall'':
** During a filler scene in the first episode, a sebrtooth tiger ends up falling off a cliff while trying to eat Goku.

** Several subversions appear through ''Manga/DragonBallSuper'''s "Universal Survival" saga, as the warriors participating in the Tournament of Power are eliminated only by getting thrown off the stage (which is a floating arena in a void), to which they are teleported to spectator stands.

* ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'',

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: At one point before her HeelFaceTurn Paula gets shot off a wall and falls headfirst into a rocky bit of coastline. She of course appears again later.

** For the other villainous character of the fic itself, however, this is ''[[LudicrousGibs horrifically averted]]''. He's graphically torn to ribbons and devoured by the ''UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex'' babies from the third ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' movie instead.

* Hyoyeon in ''Fanfic/KillOrBeKilled'', whose seat gives way on the rollercoaster. Ryeowook stops her from falling immediately, but ultimately decides to let her go.

* During the climax of the Ultima Interlude of ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'', the SerialKiller known as the "Bloodliner Hunter" falls off a cliff into the sea. However, when Looker meets with Ultima to ask her about this, he reveals that [[NeverFoundTheBody the search parties haven't found his corpse to confirm his death.]]

* Envy in ''Fanfic/TheApprenticeTheStudentAndTheCharlatan''. [[spoiler:She survives.]]

-->'''Bartok:''' [[PreMortemOneLiner See ya next fall!]]
* In the cult animated feature ''WesternAnimation/RockAndRule'', the MagnificentBastard Mok, an aging rock star with dark magical power, summons a demon with an evil song sung by the captive CatGirl Angel (this is another very weird kind of movie). Angel's repentant boyfriend shows up just in the nick of time and they banish both the demon and Mok down an interdimensional pit with [[ThePowerOfRock a good song]].
* Happens to Frog Lip at the end of ''Literature/ThePrincessAndTheGoblin''.

* The Wicked Wazir from the ''WesternAnimation/MrMagoo'' film "1001 Arabian Nights", after getting fed up with Magoo evading his death traps he attacks him with a flail, but Magoo ducks causing him to miss and fall from his castle into the waiting jaws of the sharks he had the genie summon earlier.

* [[BigBad General Shanker]] from ''WesternAnimation/EscapeFromPlanetEarth''
* In ''WesternAnimation/SupermanDoomsday'', the Evil Superman drops Toyman to his death. In front of the whole city.
* ''Anime/PatemaInverted '': Given the premise, it is not too surprising that the BigBad ends up dying by falling ''up''.

* Middle-earth books:

** Glorfindel and the Balrog fought and fell off a cliff together in ''The Silmarillion'' years before Creator/JRRTolkien decided to have Gandalf and another Balrog do the same (some 7,000 years before, in-universe).

* At the end of ''ComicBook/{{Dinocorps}}'', Icks or Blix (it was never specified) is kicked off a skyscraper to his death, shortly after Jarek's defeat.

** ComicBook/TheTransformersMarvel'': Issue #8 had Ratchet and the Dinobots defeat Megatron in this style. Ratchet manages to knock Megatron over a cliffside they're fighting on, sending Megatron tumbling down the cliff to his apparent demise. Subverted, however, as it later turns out he survived.

* [[BigBad General Shanker]] from ''WesternAnimation/{{Escape From Planet Earth}}''

* Given the premise of ''Anime/PatemaInverted '', it is not too surprising that the BigBad ends up dying by falling ''up''.

# When the fall is [[SelfDisposingVillain the direct result of something the villain did]] (and it usually is), it [[ThouShaltNotKill makes his death his own fault and not the hero's]]. Heck, they may even cry "TakeMyHand!" as they (futilely) attempt to SaveTheVillain. Their hands left bloodless and the land saved, the hero and heroine can get married and live happily ever after and whatnot.

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'':

* Waclaw, from ''Machinima/WaterHuman'', falls from a cliff while running from his [[HeelFaceTurn former partner]].

** At the climax of ''The End'', Simba ends the FinalBattle with [[spoiler:[[UltimateEvil The Writer]]]] by grabbing him and jumping off of Pride Rock, mortally wounding them both. [[spoiler:The Writer dies first, allowing the universe to reboot, healing Simba in the process.]]

* Subverted in ''Literature/StarWarsKenobi''. It appears that [[spoiler:Orrin Gault]] falls to his death when his speeder drives off a cliff, but he survives... [[spoiler:parylyzed from the waist down, and [[FateWorseThanDeath is put to work by the Tuskens he tried to have killed]].]]

* Subverted in ''Literature/StarWarsKenobi''. It appears that [[spoiler:Orrin Gault]] falls to his death when his speeder drives off a cliff, but he survives... [[spoiler:parylyzed from the waist down, and [[FateWorseThanDeath is put to work by the Tuskens he tried to have killed]].]]

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* ''ComicBook/BatmanGordonOfGotham:'' When Gordon’s ally, Sheriff "Shotgun" Smith, is captured and tortured, he throws himself against his main captor, knocking them both out of a third floor window. The villain, [[spoiler:Captain Daugherty's son,]] dies in the process of breaking Smith's fall.

** Subverted ''and'' inverted in ''The Ghost in the Third Row''. The villain, Lydia Crane (real name: Lydia Heron) survives falling off a balcony, albeit with several broken bones. It’s the heroic ''Pop'' (AKA Edward Parker, the man whom she believed had framed her father for the crime he committed), who tried to pull her back when she was about to fall and went over the edge with her, who dies from the fall.
** Also subverted in ''The Ghost Wore Gray''. While Porter Markson falls into what was believed to be Captain Gray’s grave, he survives the fall itself, turning over and trying to climb forward to get out. He’s finished off when the tombstone falls forward onto him.

* {{Averted|Trope}} in ''Manga/{{Life}}''. One of the antagonists appears to die from falling from several stories; however, it's a DisneyDeath, and he's just severely wounded and taken to a hospital.

** Two downplayed examples occur with [[KnifeNut Kepper]] and Dufayel himself during the FinalBattle. Kepper's shot in the heart by Delilah Rangler, and he falls off a balcony. Dufayel's filled with bullets by Rattlesnake Jake, after which he falls into a dark engine pit of his car hideout.

* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': At the end of "The Pit" arc, disgraced ex-Judge Hal Jordan is killed off after he kidnaps Judge [=DeMarco=] during a massive riot so he can extort money from her (she is the heiress to a big fortune), but is kicked out off the hovercar by [=DeMarco=]. He falls to his death while [[DeathByMaterialism clutching a bag of money]], crushing two rioters in the process.

* Issue 8 of Marvel's ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformers Transformers]]'' comic had Ratchet and the Dinobots defeat Megatron in this style. Ratchet manages to knock Megatron over a cliffside they're fighting on, sending Megatron tumbling down the cliff to his apparent demise. Subverted, however, as it later turns out he survived.
** Later, ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'' had [[spoiler:Pharma]] meet this fate in issue 5. It's played with, though, as one of the heroes purposefully causes it to happen, something this trope was implicitly designed to avoid.

* In ''{{ComicBook/Violine}}'', [[spoiler:Muller]] falls to his apparent death in a trapdoor leading to a moat full of crocodiles, but he survives and comes back with a vengeance.

It appears that villains in the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon have an especially curious tendency to exit the film by falling off or out of things. Unfortunately for them, even though they ''are'' animated characters, [[GravityIsAHarshMistress they cannot defy gravity]].

* ''Fanfic/RiseOfTheGaleforces'': Simultaneously played straight and subverted in the fic itself, as [[spoiler:[[RaptorAttack Veloci]][[MagnificentBastard ripper]] meets his end, complete with a BigNo, by being dropped by Adam and Violet off the edge of the harbor pier... [[JustDesserts directly into a mosasaur's waiting maw]].]] This death is [[SubvertedTrope undone]], however, in the events in the setting of the WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum following the sporking of the fic [[OldShame by its own author]], who apparently felt sorry for [[spoiler:Velociripper]] after the fact. Thus, [[spoiler:the mosasaur vomits [[StrippedToTheBone his skeleton]] back out after it gets nauseated by being transported across dimensions by Falchion, the (newest) [[AuthorAvatar self-insert]] of his creator, and after his HealingFactor previously demonstrated in the fic itself brings him BackFromTheDead, Falchion talks him into pulling a HeelFaceTurn and the two of them make amends.]]
** For the other villainous character of the fic itself, however, this is ''[[LudicrousGibs horrifically averted]]''. [[spoiler:He's graphically torn to ribbons and devoured by the ''UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex'' babies from the third ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' movie instead.]]

* The ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'' side collection ''7 Dreams/Nightmare'' has this happen to the de facto BigBad of Clover's story: [[spoiler:the Diamond Dog FluffyTheTerrible (yes, really) is about to kill her in a shack atop the Canterhorn, when the dragon Bahamut [[AccidentalHero happens to land directly atop of them]], sending the whole shack, and Fluffy, tumbling off the side of the mountain]]. Clover later finds what's implied to be his remains at the bottom of the mountain.
** According to LooseCanon, the G1 villain [[spoiler:[[WickedWitch Somnambula]]]] ultimately met her end this way when [[spoiler:G1 Shady accidentally knocked her off of a opera theater balcony,]] sending her falling to her death.

** [[spoiler:Margareta Piel]] in ''Literature/DoubleShot'' is shot in the novel's climactic six seconds, and falls screaming through a window to the street below.

[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* On ''Series/TwentyFour'', Habib Marwan, main baddie on Day 4, decides to go out this way, plummeting off a parking garage.
** In ''Live Another Day'', Jack Bauer kills [[DiscOneFinalBoss Margot Al-Harazi]] and her son Ian by throwing them out a window to their deaths.
* The NinetiesAdventureShow ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSinbad'' was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aFauWqEkl4 extremely]] fond of this trope.
* In ''Series/{{Alias}}'', Sydney faces off against her mother, Irina Derevko, in the series finale. After a rather brutal showdown, the fight ends on a rooftop, where Irina ends up falling through a skylight to her death. Mmmm, closure.
** In an earlier episode, Sydney throws a foe out a plane. He doesn't get to hit the ground, however, as he is sucked into the wing turbine.
* In the second episode of ''Series/Batman1966'', "Smack In The Middle", the Riddler's moll and GirlOfTheWeek Molly tries to shoot the Caped Crusader in the Batcave, but winds up falling into the atomic reactor to her death ("What a way to go-go") -- the ''only'' time a woman is killed in the entire series.
* ''Series/TheBlacklist'':
** Reddington kills [[BigBad the Director]] by throwing him off a plane to his death. Played with in that we actually see the end result, as he falls through the roof of some family's house.
** Lady Ambrosia also meets her end by being thrown down a well by her mentally handicapped son, who finally realized that she'd been emotionally abusing and manipulating him.
** [[spoiler: [[TheStarscream Mr. Kaplan]]]] ultimately chooses to throw herself off the bridge Reddington has cornered her on, in order to both spite him and [[DeadMansSwitch trigger]] the contingency plan she had in place to ensure his downfall.
* ''Series/BlakesSeven'' has a couple of [[CruelAndUnusualDeath nasty ones]].
** In "Star One", [[TheDragon Travis]] finally meets his end when he's shot and falls screaming into a [[BottomlessPits reactor well]].
** In "Volcano", a MookLieutenant is blown off the volcano's crater rim by a grenade and falls screaming into the lava.
* On ''Series/{{Bones}}'', [[SerialKiller Howard Epps]] hangs off a balcony and [[SaveTheVillain Booth grabs his hand and tries to stop Epps from falling the 50 ft. to his death]]. It fails, however, and Bones and Booth watch Epps fall and hit the pavement, ridding them of a major antagonist.
* On ''Series/BreakoutKings'', BigBad serial killer Damien Fontleroy is finally pushed off a roof and onto the hood of a car. Considering that the show was cancelled after that season, it made for a pretty spectacular ending.
* In the season five finale of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', Buffy has a two second fight with [[TheDragon Doc]] that ends this way. Technically, Buffy ''herself'' gets this treatment at the end of the episode, as her DisneyDeath doesn't take place until the following season.
* The ''Series/ColdCase'' writing staff has this as the preferred method of killing off the VictimOfTheWeek.
* In ''Series/CrossingJordan'', the title character's half-brother threw himself from a third story window into the Charleston River when cornered by the police, taking all his secrets about their mother's murder with him. Though his body was never recovered, he never appeared on the show again, so it's a pretty safe assumption he's good and gone.
* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'':
** During the StoryArc toward the end of season 3, Mac is chasing a serial killer across a rooftop. The killer feigns surrender, then attacks Mac, steals his handcuffs, cuffs himself, and [[NeverGoingBackToPrison tosses himself off the building]] onto a police car below. Disney Villain Suicide?
** Also, BigBad Shane Casey [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat falls from a lighthouse]] near the end of "Vacation Getaway" but returns to wreak more havoc.
* ''Series/TheDevilJudge'': A non-villainous example. K is kidnapped then dropped from a height.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** A heroic version in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks The Daleks]]" when a character brings it on himself as a HeroicSacrifice, as he's dangling over a ravine attached to a rope that's pulling his comrades over the edge too. The sight of him disappearing into blackness, coupled with the thunderous noise as he hits the bottom, is quite shocking for a young viewer.
** The earliest villain example (or at least [[TheDragon Dragon]] example) comes in Season One's "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E6TheAztecs The Aztecs]]", when Ixta gets kicked off the top of a temple whilst trying to kill Ian.
** First [[BigBad main villain]] example comes in Season Two's "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E3TheRescue The Rescue]]", where Bennett is so shocked by the appearance of the people he thought he'd killed that he backs away over a cliff edge.
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E2TheHandOfFear The Hand of Fear]]", the villain falls down a deep black pit after being tripped up with the fourth Doctor's scarf. Being a being of stone, the Doctor suggests he may have survived.
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E5TheBrainOfMorbius The Brain of Morbius]]", the now mindless Morbius is forced off a cliff by the [[TorchesAndPitchforks torch-wielding Sisterhood]].
** The Master suffers something similar in [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie the TV Movie]], when he falls into the Eye of Harmony. The Doctor's partly responsible, since he shines a light in the Master's face as he leaps at him and causes him to overshoot, but does offer him a hand. [[spoiler:(Of course, he's revived to fight again in the Time War, which he also survives.)]]
** The Sycorax Leader from "[[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion The Christmas Invasion]]" tries to underhandedly kill the Tenth Doctor, but he [[EdibleAmmunition throws a satsuma]] at a button on the Sycorax ship, which causes a part of the ship to open up. This part of the ship just ''happens'' to be right underneath where the Leader is standing, and so he falls to his {{epic fail}} death.
** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E6TheAgeOfSteel The Age of Steel]]": Cyber-Lumic falls to his doom after Pete Tyler cuts the ladder he was climbing. [[LavaPit The place he's seen falling towards happens to be on fire.]]
** Yet strangely averted in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E7TheIdiotsLantern The Idiot's Lantern]]", despite the finale taking place on Alexandra Palace Radio Tower. Then again, the villain wasn't exactly physical to begin with.
** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E1PartnersInCrime Partners in Crime]]": Miss Foster, levitated to the height of the top of the Adipose Industries building, plummets to her death with a SPLAT! when her employers shut the levitation beam off to eliminate the evidence.
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E3RobotOfSherwood Robot of Sherwood]]", the villain is dueling with Robin Hood on a beam. Robin pulls the move the Doctor used on him earlier, knocking his opponent off the beam, from which he falls into the vat of molten gold below. The villain is given a dramatic falling shot, and soon after the camera shows he reached out and grabbed the lip of the vat before the gold hardened.
** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E1TheWomanWhoFellToEarth The Woman Who Fell to Earth]]" plays with it: At the climax, after the villain, Tzim-Sha, activates DNA bombs that, unbeknownst to him, the Doctor tricked him into absorbing, and he begins to dissolve, the Doctor slaps his recall device onto his chest. Then Karl, Tim Shaw's intended victim, kicks him off of the crane they're on top of, and Tim disappears in midair. [[spoiler:It's revealed in the season finale, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E10TheBattleOfRanskoorAvKolos The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos]]", that Tim survived, but was teleported to the wrong planet.]]
* ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'': Averted several times:
** "Goodbye, General Lee": It almost is for the show's signature (and heroic) car, when Boss Hogg, tired of the Duke boys constantly foiling his schemes (and perceiving the General Lee's "sheer power" in always playing a key role), picks up on Luke's off-handed remark that the General Lee isn't what it used to be. At one point, the trope kicks into effect when Rosco, having earlier locked up the Dukes on a minor traffic charge, and having impounded the General Lee has the car driven out to the country, places the car's transmission in neutral, and pushes it down the hill... toward a cliff. Cooter is conveniently nearby, sees what's going on, and manages to stop the General Lee (by using his tow truck as a "brake") but then Cooter has his own hands full when he has trouble stopping the truck. (Not to worry, Cooter got his tow truck to stop just at the very edge of the cliff!)
** In "The Great Insurance Fraud", a pair of con artists out to take advantage of Boss Hogg's insurance scam stage an accident by having one of the accomplices drive his car over a cliff, after getting "fake Duke" Coy to engage him in a chase. Coy is led to believe that the other driver failed to escape his car before falling over the cliff, leading to his crushing (and fiery) death.
** "Sitting Dukes": Uncle Jesse and Daisy are forced to drive a stolen vehicle (a laundry truck, taken by two escaped convicts that were that week's villains of the week) to try to divert attention of authorities who are pursuing the criminals and the Duke boys; the authorities are unaware (or, in Sheriff Little's case, uncaring) that Bo and Luke have been taken hostage and made at gunpoint to cooperate. Jesse and Daisy eventually decide to drive the truck to a winding road and jump out before the vehicle plummets into a ravine and bursts into flames, in their own attempt to get the authorities off their trail. (It didn't work, as Sheriff Little still takes them in for questioning.) Meanwhile, Bo and Luke are told -- at gunpoint by their desperate captors -- to drive the General Lee through a raging forest fire to get the authorities off their trail, putting everyone's life in extreme danger.
** "When You Wish Upon a Hogg" begins with Hughie tricking Boss into believing in the power of an oil lamp... and ends with Bo and Luke having their hands full trying to save Hughie from tumbling (in his van) over a cliff; Hughie initially balks, afraid of what he thinks the Duke boys will do to him and wanting to save all his ill-gotten money. In the end Bo is able to pull Hughie from the van, just as it begins to topple from the cliff. (BTW, the beautiful "genie" that was "in the lamp" – the shockingly beautiful Trixie, was not harmed; she was already being held in jail as Hughie's accomplice.)
* A particularly chilling example with WickedStepmother Stella Crawford in ''Series/EastEnders''. She utters "Watch me daddy" before leaping from a very high roof to her death.
** [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Yusef Khan]] is trapped in a burning house when the floor collapses beneath him and he falls into the flames.
** Sadistic pimp Rob gets a Sherlock Holmes style death when he fights Ryan, the big brother of Whitney, whom Rob had tried to force into prostitution. Ryan throws himself at Rob and they fall from a pier into the ocean. Ryan lives, Rob doesn't.
** Joe Macer (who had accidentally killed Pauline, then tried to murder Dot, the only person who knew about it) was killed falling out of a window and crashing through a market stall that happened to be underneath.
* In the ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' episode "The Choice", recurring villain Xhalax Sun leaps from a balcony rather than wait to painfully bleed to death after being shot.
* Also from Creator/JossWhedon, the torturer from the ''{{Series/Firefly}}'' episode "War Stories" falls into the abyss after being shot to death.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** In Season 6, Balon Greyjoy is thrown from a bridge by Euron after several seasons of being SparedByTheAdaptation.
** Lysa Arryn is thrown out the Moon Door.
** {{Deconstructed|Trope}} by the Hound, who must beg his companion to make an end of him after he is broken falling off a cliff. Also {{subverted|Trope}} when he's later shown to have survived thanks to timely medical help [[spoiler: and then eventually played straight when he kills his brother by [[TakingYouWithMe tackling him]] out the side of a crumbling castle into an inferno below]].
** Myranda falls to her death after being pushed off a balcony by Theon.
* ''Series/GeneralAndI'': He Xia dies when he gets pushed off a tower... and lands on a spear.
* In the season one finale of ''Series/{{Gotham}}'', the climactic showdown between the Penguin and Fish Mooney ends with the former pushing the latter off a rooftop and into the waters below. However, whether the fall actually killed her or not is left ambiguous.
* On ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', Nathan falls off a rooftop in his final appearance on the show.
** Kaito Nakamura is tossed to his death off of the Deveaux rooftop by [[spoiler:Adam Monroe]].
* ''Series/{{Hunter|1984}}'': The bad guy in the pilot episode accidentally jumps off a building when he charges Rick Hunter during a final RooftopConfrontation.
* In ''Series/{{Justified}}'', Raylan has to confront Coover in [[GrowingTheBeard Brother's Keeper]], leading to Coover's plunge down the mine shaft.
* Doctor Shinigami[=/=][[OneWingedAngel Ikadevil]] in the original ''Series/KamenRider''. Gets tossed off a cliff by Rider 1 ([[{{Narm}} all while EEEEEEIIIIIII'ing]]) then, when he recovers from the fall, he immediately [[MadeOfExplodium explodes]].
** Colonel Zol in his [[OneWingedAngel Gold Werewolf]] form is punched off a cliff by Kamen Rider 2 and explodes on impact.
** Many decades later, ''Series/KamenRiderGaim'' villain Sengoku Ryouma is the first in a long time to receive this death, tripping off the edge of a skyscraper while he's not transformed. Since what caused him to stagger over to the rooftop edge in the first place was taking a punch straight in the chest from a demigod, he's shown to die of his injuries before he hits the ground.
* On ''Series/LasVegas'', Monica Mancuso [[note]]villain of a TyrantTakesTheHelm story arc[[/note]] stands on the rooftop of the Montecito in season three and rants about how, one day, she will own the entire Las Vegas strip. Then, in a bizarre twist, a huge gust of wind catches her ridiculous outfit and she flies off the roof and into a shoe store. Possibly a CastingGag since she was played by the notoriously skinny Lara Flynn Boyle.
** And in the season five premiere, Sam's kidnapper falls out of his airplane to his death.
* ''Series/{{Leverage}}'': [[spoiler:Ruthless investor Latimer and the team's first client/target fall off a ledge while fighting over a gun, which goes off before a splash is heard. Unlike the above, their bodies aren't seen but it's highly unlikely they survived... probably]].
* Happens to the White Witch in the BBC version of ''Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe''... but not in the book or, ironically, the [[Film/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe Disney version]] where she gets mauled to death by Aslan (although we're spared the details). Apparently that was considered a bit strong for [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids Sunday tea time]] viewing, so Aslan simply roars at her, causing her, either through magic or simple fear, to fall to her death.
* Another good guy ([[HeelFaceTurn technically]]) example: in the season five finale of ''Series/{{Lost}}'' ([[Creator/{{ABC}} technically by Disney too]]), Juliet bows out in a way very similar to [[WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire Helga Sinclair]]. She falls down a deep pit -- and survives. In a final HeroicSacrifice, she triggers a bomb that was tossed in the pit earlier and then there's a [[CliffHanger fade to white]]... though she dies in the following episode from her fall-related injuries.
** In the SeriesFinale, [[spoiler:this is how The Man in Black goes out, when he is shot by Kate and kicked off the cliff by Jack]].
** You know, we can't bring up ''Lost'' without mentioning [[DestinationDefenestration what Locke's father did to him]], can we? Although it doesn't qualify as "Death", it broke his spine.
* ''Series/MacGyver1985'': In "Black Rhino", the EvilPoacher Ladysmith attempts to tip Mac over the edge of a dam only to end up going off the edge himself and plunging to his death atop his boat full of stolen rhino horn.
** Murdoc also fell to what seemed like certain death three times- once off a cliff after Mac tricked him into cutting his own cable, once down a mineshaft after a cable wrapped around his leg, and once down a hill in a jeep while trying to run Mac over. However, he has a pretty big case of JokerImmunity, so he survived all three times.
* In the finale of ''Series/MaddigansQuest'', Ozul and Maska follow CircusBrat Garland out onto the high wire rather than waiting at either end to trap her there. The result is rather predictable.
* ''Series/TheMagician'': The mastermind in "The Manhunters" plunges to his death when he is washed over a spillway while trying to escape from Blake.
* In the ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road", the villain Moonface meets his end after the heroine knocks him out of his mountain cabin and he falls into a ravine.
* ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'' -- Aredian the Witchfinder dies by falling out a window rather than being killed by Merlin like most of the villains.
* In the season 2 finale of ''Series/{{Nikita}}'', [[spoiler:this is how Nikita and [[BigBad Percy]]'s final confrontation ends. As Percy's about to make his grand escape, he attempts to kill Nikita, and in their struggle, he falls over the edge of Division's missile silo. Nikita grabs him, but ultimately lets him drop. Ironically, when he hits the bottom, he crashes into the glass prison cell he spent the first half of the season locked up in]].
* [[UltimateEvil Queen Bansheera]] in ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'' is karate kicked through a portal into Hell, where she is set upon by her own minions.
* ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'': After being revealed as A, [[spoiler:Mona Vanderwaal]] falls off a ledge during a struggle with Spencer. Spencer even [[TakeMyHand reaches out to try and pull her back]], but isn't able to. In a {{subversion}}, [[spoiler:Mona]] lives through the fall and is eventually found criminally insane and confined to an insane asylum for treatment.
* The third season finale of ''Series/{{Primeval}}'' has a double-villain death. Helen Cutter is pounced on by a Velociraptor while standing near the edge of a very high cliff, pushing her off and resulting in the deaths of both her and the raptor.
* ''Film/ReignOfTheGargoyles'': After Volthron is stabbed with the Spear of Destiny, he and all his gargoyles turn to stone and start plummeting to the Earth.
* ''Series/{{Revenge}}'': It doesn't kill her, but in Season 3, after [[spoiler:Daniel]] shoots Emily, she falls from the top of the boat and into the ocean.
** He doesn't exactly fall from a high location, but [[spoiler:Pascal]] is pushed backwards into helicopter rudders by Conrad and killed on impact.
** [[spoiler:Lyman Ellis']] is true to the firm though. He struggles with [[spoiler:his sister Louise]] over the [[spoiler:flashdrive of info he stole from Nolan]]. He slips and goes over the Bluffs.
* Lionel Luthor is taken out of the show this way in ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', also an example of KlingonPromotion and DyingToBeReplaced.
* In ''Series/StargateAtlantis'', Michael returns in the final season to kidnap Teyla's son. MamaBear instincts kick in, and she ultimately throws him off the top of Atlantis' central spire. And that is NOT a short drop by any stretch of the imagination.
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' -- Michael Jonas falls to plasma in engineering and dies in his attempt to kill Neelix.
* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' -- During Seven and Nerissa's battle, Nerissa goes over a parapet and falls into the bowels of the Borg cube.
* ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' -- as Zareh and Book duke it out in the open turbolift car, Zareh makes the mistake of [[BerserkButton insulting Book's cat]]. Book promptly flings him out the door and he plummets into the massive turbolift shaft expanse that [[BiggerOnTheInside somehow exists inside ''Discovery'']] and has artificial gravity for some reason.
* In season one of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', the Meg Masters demon is thrown out a seven story window. Being a demon, she survives. However, after the demon is purged from Meg's body, the girl dies from the wounds given to her from the fall that happened a few episodes ago.
* ''Series/ThirdWatch'': Though drug kingpin Donald Mann (played by Gene Simmons) went down in a pool after being shot three times, right before the confrontation that leads to his death, he chucks a subordinate off the building roof, and we see the sod embedded into the roof of a car on the street below as Yokas and Cruz arrive on scene.
* ''Series/VeronicaMars'': At the end of Season 2, [[spoiler:Cassidy Casablancas is unmasked as being the bus bomber.]] When Veronica and Logan get the upper hand, [[spoiler:he]] calmly jumps from the roof and only the car alarm is heard.
* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'': In an episode of season 9, Daryl and [[NumberTwo Beta]] face off against each other. Daryl manages to trick Beta into falling down an elevator shaft, and that seems to be the end of the Whisperer. Then the end of the episode reveals that he's [[MadeOfIron subverted this]], since he's shown to have actually [[NoOneCouldHaveSurvivedThat survived the fall]].
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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The Fourth Doctor dies this way in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E7Logopolis Logopolis]]". Of course, being a Time Lord, he soon [[TheNthDoctor regenerates]].
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* Subverted in the ''WesternAnimation/AroundTheWorldWithWillyFog'' episode "Below Zero". While attempting to follow Fog and his party across Niagara Falls, Transfer becomes caught in the current and goes plunging over the edge to his apparent death. He even lampshades the fact that "no-one's ever survived Niagara Falls." However, the following episode reveals that he ''did'' survive and is still out to try and stop Fog from completing his journey in time.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', a tyrannosaurus rex falls off a cliff while trying to eat another dinosaur.
* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': While stopping Chin the Conqueror and creating Kyoshi Island, Avatar Kyoshi causes Chin to fall to such a death when he stands on the newly-formed cliff, refusing to accept his defeat, and the rock crumbles. However, Kyoshi makes it very clear that she doesn't see the difference between a Disney Villain Death and killing him herself; the end result was that she was responsible for Chin's death.
** Azula looks like she is going to get one when she is knocked off her airship, complete with helpless rag doll flailing involved. So naturally, the Gaang is upset when she rockets to the nearby cliff by way of firebending, in a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome way no less.
*** The final battle against Ozai could count as an aversion as well, given that it takes place upon a series of massive pillars that seem perfectly designed for [[BigBad Ozai]] to fall to his doom after attempting to backstab Aang. He does indeed attempt to backstab Aang after Aang spares his life... but Aang [[TakeAThirdOption finds another way to stop him]].
* This is how the main villain of ''WesternAnimation/{{Bandolero|Animation}}'', Don Rodrigo, meets his fatal fate, as he was thrown by the protagonist into a cliff.
* In an alternate future episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', the Joker once again falls off something tall, this time a bridge. He survives and returns years later, even lampshading his ludicrous survival rate, but the fall left him crippled and reduced to using a hover-chair to get around.
* In ''WesternAnimation/BlazingDragons'', [[BigBad Count Geoffrey]] is accidentally knocked out the tallest window in Camelhot by Sir Loungelot. Although it is debatable whether the fall kills him, we never see him again for the rest of the series.
* In the GrandFinale of ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'', the last we see of the Delightful Children is them falling from a broken roller coaster and into a giant broken toilet, sure victims of this trope. Incidentally, [[TheManBehindTheMan Father]] seemingly meets his demise by also falling into a giant pit earlier in the same episode (but not before [[OneWingedAngel transforming into]] TheDragon), but in his case it is subverted by showing him to be alive and well in the framing story.
* One of the WesternAnimation/ComiColorCartoons, Balloon Land, features an almost proto-example for animation, as the villain of the picture, the Pincushion Man, is trapped in a ball of tree sap and is sent rolling to his doom, falling off a cliff into the lands tens of thousands of feet below...
* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' pulled this on part of Courage's rogues' gallery at the end of a VillainTeamUp episode "Ball of Revenge". Just as they have Courage cornered, Courage, at Muriel's urging, [[MakeMeWannaShout screams so loudly]] that the floor gives way and the affected villains (Katz, Cajun Fox, The Clutching Foot, and the Queen of the Black Puddle) all plummet into a chasm.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Curbside}}'', an unsuccessful pilot revolving around an AnimatedAnthology starring revamped Creator/{{Terrytoons}} characters, hinted at this trope in the ''WesternAnimation/MightyMouse'' segment, where just before it cuts back to [[WesternAnimation/HeckleAndJeckle Jeckle]] and Dinky Duck [[ShowWithinAShow reading the story from a book]], the villain the Creeper can be seen starting to lose his balance in a way that implies he's about to fall to his doom.
* In ''WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines'', the sheen number of times Dick Dastardly ends up plummeting vertically downwards from substantial heights after the critical failure of yet another improbable aircraft -- sometimes saved by Muttley, sometimes not.
* Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse:
** In the ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries New Batman Adventures]]'' episode "[[Recap/TheNewBatmanAdventuresE21MadLove Mad Love]]", ComicBook/TheJoker mock-subverts this trope. He jumps from one rooftop to another, but falls off and lets out a horrified scream as the camera cuts away. Cut back to him standing on the roof of a train that had been passing under him and yelling: "MADE YOU LOOK!" After a fist-fight with the dark knight atop the train, he does, however, fall into a normal false death.
** The Joker actually gets this a lot. He has fallen off trains, rooftops, roller coasters, and everything else that is more than ten feet off the ground. Besides him, most of the other Batman villains have suffered this fate at least once. Bane fell off a boat, Freeze fell in ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanAndMisterFreezeSubZero SubZero]]'', and Two-Face nearly fell off a building to save his coin (but was saved by Batman). However, these villains were shown to have survived every single time.
** Speaking of which, Harley seemingly gets this in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' as both Batgirl and she are thrown over a cliff during their fight. Batgirl tries to save her but is holding her by the cuffs on her costume with tear and send Harley plummeting into the abyss. It's mentioned they did search for her, but NeverFoundTheBody. [[spoiler: Subverted later on in the movie as we see an elderly Harely alive and well berating her nieces, the Dee Dees.]]
** The episode "Sneak Peek" in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' had a nifty variation. The episode introduced a muckraking journalist [[{{intangibility}} who could control his tangibility]]; he could sneak into locked rooms and spy on people unseen. Sadly, he [[SuperpowerMeltdown lost the ability to control his powers]] and fell '''through''' the building! The sequence is brilliantly animated, though there's a bit of uncomfortable FridgeLogic when Bruce wonders aloud if the poor guy is doomed to fall to the Earth's core; kind of a harsh punishment for a relatively minor baddie.
** In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "The Enemy Below", Aquaman fights his evil brother Orm on an ice bridge dangling over a deep abyss. The bridge crumbles under Orm and leaves him dangling, and Orm then begs to be saved. Aquaman simply picks up his stolen trident and says "I believe this is mine" as the edges crumble and Orm falls down. The writers admitted they [[UncertainDoom purposely left his doom ambiguous enough in case they wanted to bring him back in the future]].
* The ''WesternAnimation/DCNation'' short "Strange Days", which was one of two shorts made to celebrate Batman's 75th anniversary, ended with Professor Hugo Strange falling to his apparent death.
* In the season 3 finale of ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'', [[spoiler:[[BigBad Viren]] is thrown off the top of the Storm Spire, a mountain that's several thousand meters tall.[[note]]It's so tall that non-dragons will collapse from oxygen deprivation well before reaching the top unless [[BlowYouAway Sky Arcanum magic]] is used as an oxygen supplement, implying well in excess of 6,000 meters if the atmosphere is the same as on Earth.[[/note]] The final scene of the episode makes it seem like a Subversion when Viren wakes up none the worse for wear and asks if he somehow survived the fall, until his daughter Claudia tells him that [[{{Necromancy}} he didn't survive]]]].
* ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'' TOS.
** "Monster in the Monastery". Jonny bursts some bags of oil with a bow and arrows. A villain wearing a yeti costume slips on the oil, rolls down some stairs, and then over the edge of a cliff to his death.
** "Dragons of Ashida". One of the dragons chases Race Bannon out of a cave mouth. Race jumps up and grabs a tree branch and the dragon falls to its death at the base of a cliff.
* Subversion in ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures''. During the episode "In the Realm of the Condor", the villain of the episode battles Johnny on a bridge and they ''both'' fall off. Johnny grabs onto the ledge and the villain grabs onto Jonny. As you would expect, she loses her hold and falls down into the gorge. However, '''we actually see her''', screaming all the way down, as she is seconds away from being splattered onto the sharp rocks below. (At least they didn't show the actual landing...)
** Another example. "Ndovu's Last Journey" had a fight in an elephant graveyard. A villain falls and we see (from his point of view, no less) him fall towards the business end of an elephant skeleton tusk. The view cuts away before impact, but we do hear a rather nasty sound effect and see other characters flinch.
** In the episode with the Philosopher's stone, the bad guy is attacked by a magical hawk (really) and is trapped inside the building with his two henchmen as his equipment is destroyed and the building explodes. Jonny, Jessie, and Hadji, meanwhile, escape just in time.
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' and ''WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies'': Countless animated shorts have featured the villains suffering their last defeat by tumbling over a cliff, crashing over a waterfall, getting mauled by lions, and an endless number of other indignities. The most famous victim: Wile E. Coyote, of course!
* ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'':
** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTVSpecials'': In ''Escape from Catrina'', the eponymous villain very narrowly dodges this -- she ends up being knocked into the very same well she threatens to throw people in throughout the short, but the ponies and Rep save her after she agrees to destroy the witchweed potion machine and thus the source of her insanity.
** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
*** At the end of the season 2 finale, Queen Chrysalis and her changelings are hit with a powerful magic spell and are sent flying over the edge into the distance. This seems fairly [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Team Rocket]] style, but the distance they must have fallen exceeds both distances Twilight nearly fell in the second and fifteenth episodes put together. Judging by the fact they don't bother putting the shield back up, it's fair to assume the heroes at least believe it took her out for now. Eventually, the ExpandedUniverse IDW comics and the season 6 finale do depict her return (and the comic explicitly shows her [[NoOneShouldSurviveThat surviving her fall]]).
*** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E8TheLostTreasureOfGriffonstone The Lost Treasure of Griffonstone]]" had this happen in the past, showing an [[{{Cyclops}} Aprimaspi]] stealing the titular lost treasure before falling into the Abysmal Abyss. In the present day, the characters find his skeleton halfway down the chasm, confirming that it did kill him.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'':
** The MusicalEpisode "See Me, Feel Me, Gnomey" has this happen to the title villain, who, in the only dialogue in the episode that isn't sung, makes a final speech on the way down.
** The episode "Power-Noia" had Him battling the girls in DreamLand, where he was defeated and thrown over a ledge into a bottomless abyss by Buttercup. Being a recurring villain who can exist AsLongAsThereIsEvil, he survived, but that did defeat him for the time being.
** Also in "Insect Inside", after the girls destroy his cockroach army, Roach Coach falls off a building into the streets below. Blossom is horrified and when the girls examine his body, they discover that he was a robot controlled by a super intelligent cockroach, which ''did'' survive.
* In ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', this happens to Susan in "Benson Be Gone". After she goes OneWingedAngel, a one shot character named Utopia performs a HeroicSacrifice to send her falling into a pit back into Hell.
* ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan'': The traitor during the invasion of Galaluna is stabbed through the gut by Lance and topples over the edge of a bridge to his death.
* This is the final fate of [[spoiler:Dr. Victor Falco/The Rat King]] in the second season of ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'', after Splinter blinds him and gets him to fall off a 1,000 foot cliff in the Undercity. [[spoiler:His corpse's appearance in "Darkest Plight" in Season 4 confirms his demise]].
* Double Subverted in the second season finale of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''. [[TheDogBitesBack Terra]] throws [[BigBad Slade]] off a cliff and into a river of lava, but he catches himself on the rock, pulls himself back over the edge, and grabs her by the throat, at which point she ''blasts'' him over the edge with her full powers unleashed, and just so we know he's dead, we then see his mask dissolving in the lava. [[spoiler:He comes back from that too, courtesy of the show's {{Satan}}-{{Expy}}, but that's not for another season. He outright said he would've been dead if Trigon hadn't intervened though.]]
* {{Inverted|Trope}} and {{subverted|Trope}} in the ''WesternAnimation/{{ThunderCats|2011}}'' episode "Old Friends" where heroic OldSoldier Panthro [[{{flashback}} flashes back]] to the battle where the BigBad and TheDragon presumed him dead. Panthro's [[AmbitionIsEvil power-hungry]] friend Grune, offered a position as SorcerousOverlord Mumm-Ra's right hand, begins to fight when Panthro declines his WeCanRuleTogether. Grune knocks Panthro off the edge of a platform in Mumm-Ra's lair, sending him falling into a dark pit. Later, when pursuing his EvilFormerFriend, Panthro sourly rants about how difficult it was to climb out.
* Happens to the psychotic hitchhiker at the end of the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' movie ''[[WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventuresHowISpentMyVacation How I Spent My Summer Vacation]]''. But being a [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]] {{Expy}}, it doesn't stop him from reappearing in the finale.
* Scorponok and Terrorsaur were removed from ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}: WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' this way. The last we see of them is Terrorsaur's outstretched hand sinking into lava. This death was originally intended for [[TheChewToy Waspinator]], whose [[EnsembleDarkHorse popularity]] saved him at the last minute.
** This may be a ShoutOut to the first season finale of ''Transformers'', where after the rest of the Decepticons fell into the magma, Megatron went out the same way. (For a minute, anyway).
** Speaking of which, this appears to happen to ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' Megatron when he takes the spark of G1 Megatron. Tarantulas and Quickstrike rebel against him and throw him into the lava and his apparent death, though he comes back, even better than before.
** And then in the sequel series ''WesternAnimation/BeastMachines'', both Optimus Primal and Megatron are destroyed when they fall down a shaft in a slightly similar fashion to the main reactor of the Death Star.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Trollhunters}}'': This is the final fate of [[TheQuisling Queen Usurna]], as her own soldiers turn on her and force her off a cliff to fall into a swampy marsh and sink to her doom, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard after her own]] EvilGloating reveals to them that she's been selling their tribe out to Gunmar for centuries.
* In ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'', the Galra soldier Haxus falls from a high catwalk after Pidge trips him up. He tries to grab Rover for support, but Rover deactivates and they both fall to their presumed deaths.
* At the end of the fourth season of ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'', the Winx fairies and the warrior fairy Nebula use coverage to freeze the three remaining fairy hunters in the Omega dimension. After being frozen, the three evil wizards fall into a hole as the cave starts collapsing.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has many subversions.
** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E16SonicRainboom Sonic Rainboom]]", Rarity, in a ShoutOut to Icarus, flies too close to the sun, burns her wings, and falls, inadvertently taking the Wonderbolts with her. Thanks to Rainbow Dash and her Sonic Rainboom, however, this ends a bit differently than the tale of Icarus.
** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E23TheCutieMarkChronicles The Cutie Mark Chronicles]]", Fluttershy falls all the way from Cloudsdale (a city in the sky) and is saved because she lands on a swarm of ''butterflies''. Not only is she fine, but it's also when she discovered her status as FriendToAllLivingThings and by extension got her cutie mark.
** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E10SecretOfMyExcess Secret of My Excess]]", Rarity once again nearly falls to her doom, this time along with Spike after he, in his giant form capturing Rarity with his tail, returns to his original form. They are saved by Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy.
** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E7WonderboltsAcademy Wonderbolts Academy]]", Lightning Dust's tornado nearly sends Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, and Rarity falling to their doom, but other pegasi save them.
** There's also two lesser instances of Twilight Sparkle nearly falling to her doom. "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E2ElementsOfHarmony Elements of Harmony]]" has Nightmare Moon send her falling off a cliff, but Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy catch her; "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E15FeelingPinkieKeen Feeling Pinkie Keen]]" has her jump off a cliff from a violent Hydra, and would have been killed if a bog bubble didn't appear under her to bounce her up to the other side of the cliff.
* Inverted in ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries The New Batman Adventures]]'' episode "Over the Edge". Scarecrow knocks ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} off a building to her death, but we see her injuries and she has time to say her FinalSpeech. [[spoiler:Fortunately, it was AllJustADream.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': in the episode "Fandom Pains", Tristan, a character from the ShowWithinAShow ''The Vampires of Melancholia'', dies when he falls off a cliff.
* Subverted in the series finale of ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower''. When Horde Prime's own clone rebels against him, the rogue throws his master off a balcony to fall to his death... and Prime just {{Body Surf}}s into said clone's mind and resumes his EvilPlan like nothing happened.
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* Zig-zagged in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening''. It appears that Gangrel attempts to invoke this, and in fact Emmeryn falls off the cliff. [[spoiler: Subverted in that Emmeryn actually ''survived''.]]
* In ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureACrackInTime'', [[spoiler:Ratchet falls off a platform after being shot in the chest by Alistar.]]
* People can be thrown out of Dio's hideouts and the Kennedy Space Center in ''VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureAllStarBattle'' as part of their Situation Finishes.
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'':
** This is how [[spoiler:Tarquin Victus]] dies at the end of his mission.
** [[spoiler:Tali dies this way, too, if you fail to establish peace between the geth and quarians, and side with the geth in the resulting battle -- [[CurbstompBattle the quarian fleet is wiped out]] and Tali commits suicide by throwing herself from a nearby cliff.]]
** [[spoiler: Grunt]] dies like this in a cutscene by charging an enemy and pushing them off the cliff in order to give Shepard and company time to escape. However, if his loyaly mission was completed in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', [[DisneyDeath he shows up alive]] when you get back to your shuttle, battered, bloody, and [[CoveredInGunge covered in alien guts]].
* In the bonus chapter of ''Videogame/{{Cursery}}: The Crooked Man'', this is a given since the villain of the chapter is Humpty Dumpty. [[spoiler:He falls to his death from a windmill after being sprayed in the face with a noxious perfume when a cat appears out of nowhere and blinds him with its claws.]]
* ''VideoGame/CorpseParty'' Sakutaro Morishige goes mad from realizing that he has accidentally been fetishizing Mayu's remains. He screams horribly then jumps out of the window. He is never seen again.
* [[TheHero Aleph]] in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiII'' gets thrown off of the top of a high building, and [[SubvertedTrope survives]]... twice. He doesn't even [[MadeOfIron take any damage]].
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* In the bug-themed ''Manga/{{Arachnid}}'' manga, [[JapaneseBeetleBrothers Kabutomushi]] uses her horn-shaped spear to swat several villains out of the school building the story takes place in, including [[spoiler:the real boss of the assassin organization]] in a dramatic fashion, which was even foreshadowed beforehand.

** Oh, and said Mimete? [[AndIMustScream Probably wishes her fall into the void inside the TV she teleported into had killed her]]…

** This was the fate of Professor Cobra in the original although in the dub he kind of...[[SpecialEffectFailure exploded or something]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan 2013}}'', Clayton and Smith are last seen plunging to their deaths in an out of control helicopter.

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# In cases where the fall is [[SelfDisposingVillain the direct result of something the villain did]], it [[ThouShaltNotKill makes his death his own fault and not the hero's]]. Heck, they may even cry "TakeMyHand!" as they (futilely) attempt to SaveTheVillain. Their hands left bloodless and the land saved, the hero and heroine can get married and live happily ever after and whatnot.