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* The second and third ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' both have this.

None can illustrate villain death trends like Gaston!]][[note]] he's especially good at his [[BackstabBackfire backstab failings!]] [[OverlyLongGag My what a guy, that Gaston!]] [[/note]] '']]-]

* In the climax of ''Literature/WhereAreTheChildren, Carl Harmon falls through the railing around The Lookout's widow's walk and into the sea below. The police manage to fish him out alive, but he soon dies from his injuries sustained in the fall.

* ''Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaAkiraHimekawa'': In the adaptation of the ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]]'', Goron Link wrangles Goht and throws the monster off the mountainside.

* In the [[Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaAkiraHimekawa manga adaptation]] of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'', Goron Link wrangles Goht and throws the monster off the mountainside.

!!As this is a DeathTrope, [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff all spoilers will be unmarked]] ahead in the examples below. [[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned Beware!]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie''/Rugrats: 360 3-D: Scar Snout the Vasto Wolf is dragged off the bridge (cliff in Rugrats: 360 3-D) by Spike, and while Scar Snout falls into the water below, (pulls the last car of the tram and tries to eat the passengers from the tram after failing to get the Rugrats from the cliff but gets his neck snapped by the Reptar by bashing him into a canyon wall multiple times in Rugrats: 360 3-D), Spike is thought to be dead too until it's revealed [[DisneyDeath he's in the rafters]].

* At Ride/Rugrats:3603-D:
** The Juvenile V-Wolf gets crushed by a boulder by the Reptar and gets thrown down a cliff.
** The Bull V-Wolf gets it's jaws pried apart and snapped by the Reptar.
** Scar Snout (the main antagonist of The Rugrats Movie and the attraction) gets his neck snapped and was thrown into the river by the Reptar by bashing him into a canyon wall multiple times while trying to eat the guests from the tram after failing to get the babies up the cliff.

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* ''Fanfic/OldWest'': A subverted example occurs with [[PsychoForHire Henry]] when [[BigBad Dufayel]] turns [[ShootTheDangerousMinion against him]]. With some assistance from [[TheDragon Ramirez Arvenga]], the fox shoots the kingsnake [[DestinationDefenestration out of his office window]]. Dufayel and Arvenga assume Henry to have died, but he survives and discreetly flees to have his revenge another day.

* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}''. The film ''starts'' with the titular VillainProtagonist seemingly falling to his death, before flashing back to his StartOfDarkness and explaining [[HowWeGotHere how he got there]]. By the time it catches up, not only is he [[HeelFaceTurn no longer a villain anymore]], he also figures out a way to survive the fall.

None can illustrate villain death trends like Gaston!]][[note]] he's especially good at his [[BackstabBackfire backstab failings!]] [[OverlyLongGag my what a guy that Gaston!]] [[/note]] '']]-]

None can illustrate villain death trends like Gaston!]][[note]] he's especially good at [[BackstabBackfire backstab failings!]] [[OverlyLongGag my what a guy that Gaston!]] [[/note]] '']]-]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie'': Scar Snout the Wolf is dragged off the bridge by Spike, and while Scar Snout plummets into the water below, Spike is thought to be dead too until it's revealed [[DisneyDeath he's in the rafters]].

None can illustrate villain death trends like Gaston!]]'']]-]

[-[[caption-width-right:350: [[MemeticMutation No one screams as they fall to their death like Gaston!]]]]-]

* ''Literature/TheBloodGuard'': Legion and several of the Bend Sinister agents fall victim to this when Greta's Pure soul being expulsed blasts them off the rooftop. Head Truelove willingly falls to his death shortly afterwards.

# It serves the seemingly contradictory needs of both allowing the audience to reasonably believe "Yup, he's ''[[NoOneCouldSurviveThat definitely]]'' dead" and also [[NeverFoundTheBody leaving the door open]] for a villain's return, if they are [[JokerImmunity particularly popular.]] (Obviously, this one applies primarily to long-running series more so than single installments.)

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}'', Steele falls off the side of a cliff while trying to kill Balto, hitting cliffs on the way down. However, he manages to survive and continue to cause Balto trouble. However, it's ultimately averted at the end of the movie where Steele not only survives the movies events, but is ultimately branded as a hated outcast by the entire village once all of his crimes are finally exposed.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}'', Steele falls off the side of a cliff while trying to kill Balto, hitting cliffs on the way down. However, he manages to survive and continue to cause Balto trouble.

* ''Literature/WordsOfRadiance'' (book two of ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive''): In the final battle, Adolin headbutts Eshonai into a chasm. She's wearing [[PoweredArmor Shardplate]] at the time, so she probably survived the actual fall, but [[HostileWeather a Highstorm and an Everstorm]] [[YinYangBomb crashed into each other right above her head]], so her survival remains ambiguous. The next book confirms her death (against all fan expectations) when her sister Venli finds the body.

* In the 95th issue of ''ComicBook/JourneyIntoMystery'', the villain is Professor Zaxton, who uses an invention of his to create an EvilKnockoff of Thor. Zaxton ultimately [[SelfDisposingVillain causes his own death]] when he tries to reach for his machine, only to fall to his death while the contraption is destroyed, leaving behind [[MorallySuperiorCopy a benign clone]].