History Main / DeathByFallingOver

** In "The Fall," a movie producer died in suspicious circumstances so the detectives think someone pushed him, but it turns out that his death really was an accident: his wife had put him on a diet, so he was reaching up for a secret candy stash on the balcony, but he'd been drinking so he lost his balance and fell.

** The first VictimOfTheWeek in "Death in Disguise" dies after a StaircaseTumble.
** As does the first VictimOfTheWeek in "Left for Dead".

** Parodied in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E14TheNextDoctor "The Next Doctor"]], where the 10th Doctor meets what he thinks is a future incarnation of himself. He starts to ask how he died, then says he doesn't want to know because it would be embarrassing if he had "tripped over a brick".

* It was probably Dr Woodrue's intention to kill Pamela Isley this way in ''Film/BatmanAndRobin''. Instead she became a mix between a plant and a drag show reject. When will they ever learn?

* ''Almost'' happens in the ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' manga, when Tohru Honda falls off a cliff during her final confrontation with Akito. Both of them get better later: Tohru survives the fall and recovers nicely, Akito has a HeelFaceTurn.

* In the first Fey Kingdom sketch in ''Manga/{{Nichijou}}'', SmugSnake Dolph believes his rebellion's success is in his grasp. Then he trips over his own feet and gets declared dead on the spot.

** Iselina stood on top of a ship, about to (try to) shoot Amuro to avenge Garma, when she randomly faints, falls off the ship, and dies.
* ''Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam'': This is how Chronicle Asher dies. More exactly, during the GrandFinale he escapes from his destroyed mobile suit, only to end up splattered against a piece of the Angel Halo..

* ''Film/ForceOfNatureTheDry2: [[spoiler:Alice dies after [[AccidentalMurder Lauren shoves her over]] when after catching her attempting to abandon the group and she hits her head on a rock. Alice was still alive when Lauren left her, but suffered a TimeDelayedDeath.]]

* Damian Wayne/Robin, in a rage, caused this to happen to Nightwing in the ''ComicBook/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'' tie-in comic. In a rage, he threw a rock at Dick Grayson, striking him in the head; severely concussed, Grayson was unable to catch himself and landed on his neck, breaking it and killing him instantly.

* In the turning point of the 1940 film version of ''Film/{{Rebecca}}'', Rebecca is revealed to have died this way. While trying to provoke her husband, Maxim de Winter, into killing her, she stumbled and struck her head on some heavy ship's tackle. (In the book by Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca succeeds in provoking Maxim into shooting her, but the Hollywood Production Code would have required that he be brought to justice for murder, so her death was re-written to be a freak accident.)