History DeathByIrony / LiveActionFilms

** Nick also knocks out [[spoiler:"Lurch" by a TapOnTheHead...with a potted ''peace'' lily. Angel's ex (and the film) used the plant as evidence of how he's MarriedToTheJob and doesn't really care about anyone else, and Angel destroys it with a one-liner. Because he became friends with Danny, and watched a lot of action movies with him, and Danny loves those movies. But first, Angel distracts Lurch with a plush monkey...which he won for Danny. It's ''another'' symbol of how he's opening up.]]

** In the ''Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart2'', the good guys defeat and depose President Snow. His replacement Alma Coin lets Katniss execute him. Earlier, Coin said that the revolution will make the ''Capitol leadership's'' children participate in the Hunger Games, instead of the Districts'. Katniss has also learned that Coin (accidentally) killed Katniss' little sister in a FalseFlagOperation. Katniss realizes she's pointing her bow at the wrong dictator, and shoots Coin, at Coin's moment of triumph. As the crowd surges forward to rip Snow apart, he can only laugh at the irony of his worst enemy choosing ''not'' to kill him. Especially after Coin's last words.

* ''Film/CoronerCreek'': While trying to escape from Chris, Younger Miles falls off a ladder and dies when he lands on the same knife that Chris's fiancee and used to commit suicide after being raped by him.

*** Corvus Glaive dies on his own glaive, at the hands of the being he spent the whole movie trying to kill, in the same way he tried to do to his target: surprise backstab through the heart.

*** Proxima Midnight gets dispatched by one of the very machines she ordered out (as a distraction), by someone whose powers were created by the item she's fighting to get. She was also killed by the woman SHE spent the whole movie trying to kill, like her husband Corvus Glaive. That woman is the girlfriend of Corvus' target, and survived (both attacks) because she had unexpected backup.

* Subverted in ''Film/HotFuzz''. Skinner kills a guy with a church steeple and in the climax [[spoiler: gets impaled on a model steeple. [[EverybodyLives He does not actually die, however.]]]]

** Genaro, the lawyer that left Lex and Tim to their fate when the ''Tyrannosaurus'' got out and hid in a nearby bathroom stall so that he could not get eaten. After the ''T.rex'' chases Malcolm, it destroys the bathroom stall, and [[AnArmAndALeg eats most]] of [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe Genaro]].

* In ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', Thanos used the Infinity Gauntlet and a BadassFingersnap to reduce half the universe to dust. In ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', [[spoiler: a past version of Thanos gets reduced to dust by Tony Stark doing the same thing.]] This is a running theme with him;

** Loki, a literal trickster god and master of manipulation, is done in when Thanos sees through his guise and uses his own word choice against him. Thanos himself even points out that this may not have been the best place to use the word “undying.”

*** Proxima Midnight gets dispatched by one of the very machines she ordered out, by someone whose powers were created by the item she's fighting to get. She was also killed by the woman SHE spent the whole movie trying to kill, like her husband Corvus Glaive.

* Koba in ''Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' is killed by being thrown from a massive height after pleading with his enemy Caesar to spare his life -- the exact same way he killed BigBad Jacobs in the previous movie, ''Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes''.

* The villains in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''. Walter Donovan wanted the Holy Grail so he could become immortal. However, Elsa Schneider selects a fake grail for him to drink from in the secret chamber. He dies by aging rapidly to death - exactly the opposite of what he expected to happen. This death is made even more ironic by the fact that earlier in the movie, Walter Donovan told Indy not to trust anybody, and then chose to trust Schneider when he made it clear he had no way of choosing the correct grail. Schneider’s own ironic death comes moments later. Refusing to heed an obvious warning by the grail’s guardian, she triggers a CataclysmClimax by attempting to take the grail anyway. Indiana saves her from falling in a chasm but when she spots the grail below, she irrationally pulls a hand free to reach it. Her obsession to reach the cup that gives eternal life results in her falling to her death.

* The last thing the Joker says in ''Film/Batman1989'' before his DisneyVillainDeath is, "Sometimes I just kill myself!!" This likewise results in Batman anchoring Joker to a gargoyle with his harpoon gun, and then eventually being forced to plunge to his death due to the heaviness of the gargoyle statue that broke him. And he wouldn't have died in the first place if he didn't call a chopper for pickup. The chopper he needed because he dropped a bell on Batman, which destroyed the staircase down.
* ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods''. After spending the entire film wishing he could see a merman, Hadley is finally done in when a merman enters the control room and chews his face off. Hadley is pretty aware of the irony, too; his last words are "Oh, come on!"

** In ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', ''lots'' of [[Characters/MonsterVerseMonarch Monarch]]'s people are awestruck by the {{Kaiju}} that they study, so it's especially tragic that a lot of those people are massacred by those very same creatures when [[OmnicidalManiac King Ghidorah]] awakens them all and they fall under his thrall. One of the most ironic deaths in the movie is that of Serizawa, [[spoiler:established in ''Film/Godzilla2014'' to be a Hiroshima survivor: in this film, he dies in the blast of a nuclear bomb that he manually primed in order to save Godzilla so that the latter could save the world, representing Japan finally coming to terms as a country and people with nuclear power and the atomic age]].

** In ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', ''lots'' of [[Characters/MonsterVerseMonarch Monarch]]'s people are awestruck by the {{Kaiju}} that they study, so it's especially tragic that a lot of those people are massacred by those very same creatures when [[OmnicidalManiac King Ghidorah]] awakens them all and they fall under his thrall. One of the most ironic deaths in the movie is that of Serizawa, [[spoiler:established in ''Film/Godzilla2014'' to be a Hiroshima survivor: in this film, he dies in the blast of a nuclear bomb that he manually primed in order to save Godzilla so that the latter could save the world, representing Japan finally coming to terms as a country and people with nuclear power and the atomic bomb]].

* In ''Film/TheFinal'', Parker, the [[TheVietnamVet Vietnam veteran]], gets hit by a double-dose of this when he's taken out by a punji stake trap. First, this was a notorious trap employed by [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar the Vietcong]] against American soldiers. Second and, more importantly, earlier in the film he'd given tips to [[BigBad Dane]] on how to improve the traps he was laying around the ranch to catch runaways. (However, he manages to crawl away from it and kill two of the guards, and his ultimate fate is uncertain.)
* ''Film/FullMetalJacket'': Gunny Hartman. More emphasis on this in the book than in the movie. In the book, when he gets shot, before he dies, he says "Private Pyle, I'm so proud." He's glad that was finally able to make him a killer which he had been struggling to do all through boot camp.
* Used to surprisingly good effect in Creator/TheAsylum's [[{{Mockbuster}} version]] of ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009''. The factory owner who put bars on the inside of his windows to keep his illegal workers in? Can't get out when the monster comes to eat him.
* ''Film/LandOfTheDead'' does this with the electric fence. Zombies are shown in one scene getting fried on the electric fence that borders the city of Pittsburgh, while humans on the other side of the fence laugh at them. Later on, that same electric fence ends up becoming a deathtrap as a large group of refugees trying to escape end up trapped between it and the zombies.
* In ''Film/SnakesOnAPlane'', one character throws a small dog to a snake to try and escape. However, when the others gasp at his brutality, he stops to chastise them saying "Oh what, you'd have done it too!" But this is just long enough for the snake to eat him alive... and in the end, his corpse gets sucked out of a window into the engine. The moral of this story: if you kill a puppy, God kills ''you''.
* Most of the victims in ''Film/TheatreOfBlood'', most notably George Maxwell, a pompous egotist who is killed in the manner of UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar (and who wouldn't have even been present at the murder scene if he hadn't allowed his vanity to override his common sense); Oliver Larding, TheAlcoholic, who is drowned in a barrel of wine in the style of Clarence in ''Theatre/RichardIII''; and Chloe Moon, a vain woman who ends up electrocuted at her hair salon.
* In ''Film/{{Collateral}}'', Vincent will talk at length about the need to change, adapt, and roll with whatever life throws at you, yet he shoots entirely by rote. He always uses the Mozambique Drill: two shots to the chest and one to the head. The police note he uses the same misdirection tactics to frame innocent patsies for his murders. In the climactic shootout at the end of the film, which takes place in a blackout and aboard a subway train, not a single one of his shots hit Max. They all plunk dead-center into a set of sliding metal doors. Max fires randomly and kills Vincent with a lucky shot.

* In ''Film/MissNobody'', Sarah Jane started her malicious, {{serial kill|er}}ing ways by accidentally killing the executive she worked as a secretary for. She dies when her own secretary accidentally serves her the drug-tainted water she had prepared for Ormsby.
* In ''Film/TheSeventhSeal'', Death chops the tree an actor is hanging on. "But I have a play tomorrow!" "The play will be canceled due to the main actor's death".
* In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', Judge Doom, who plans to obliterate Toontown and all Toons with the Dip, is revealed to actually be a Toon himself. Guess what Eddie Valiant ultimately uses against Doom to vanquish him for good?

* In ''Film/{{Heathers}}'', J.D. is responsible for killing several other teenagers throughout the film and sets the murders up to look like suicides. After failing to blow up the school, he commits suicide by blowing himself up with his own bomb.
* ''Film/MulhollandFalls'' culminates with the bad guy being tossed off the plane, the same way he murdered his victim.

* In ''Film/TheHungerGames'', Head Gamemaker Seneca Crane revokes the both-can-win rule, meaning that only Katniss or Peeta can survive. But instead, they almost commit suicide with poisonous berries, until they are declared the winners to prevent this. As punishment for this unprecedented screw-up, he is locked in a room with... the same kind of poison berries.
** In the ''Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart2'', the good guys defeat and depose President Snow. His replacement Alma Coin lets Katniss execute him. Earlier, Coin said that the revolution will make the ''Capitol leadership's'' children participate in the Hunger Games, instead of the Districts'. Katniss has also learned that Coin (accidentally) killed Katniss' little sister in a FalseFlagOperation. Katniss realizes she's pointing her bow at the wrong dictator, and shoots Coin, at Coin's moment of triumph. As the crowd surges forward to rip Snow apart, he can only laugh at the irony of his worst enemy choosing ''not'' to kill him. Especially after Coin's last words.
-->'''Coin:''' May your aim be as true as your heart is pure.
* In ''Film/DodgeballATrueUnderdogStory'', it's lampshaded with [[spoiler: Patches O'Houlihan's]] death by the "Luck o' the Irish" sign.
* The villains in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''. Walter Donovan wanted the Holy Grail so he could become immortal. However, Elsa Schneider selects a fake grail for him to drink from in the secret chamber. He dies by aging rapidly to death - exactly the opposite of what he expected to happen. This death is made even more ironic by the fact that earlier in the movie, Walter Donovan told Indy not to trust anybody, and then chose to trust Schneider when he made it clear he had no way of choosing the correct grail. Schneider’s own ironic death comes moments later. Refusing to heed an obvious warning by the grail’s guardian, she triggers a CataclysmClimax by attempting to take the grail anyway. Indiana saves her from falling in a chasm but when she spots the grail below, she irrationally pulls a hand free to reach it. Her obsession to reach the cup that gives eternal life results in her falling to her death.
* In ''Film/TheWolfman2010'', Dr. Hannigan claims that Lawrence will no more likely change into a werewolf than he is likely to sprout wings and fly out the window! He doesn't sprout wings at any rate...
* ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': Sebastian Shaw. Magneto kills him to avenge his mother's death. This is made possible because Magneto had taken Shaw's helmet that was manufactured to protect Shaw from telepaths like Charles Xavier. Ironically, this is what prevented Charles (who could not release the dangerous Shaw from his telepathic grasp) from stopping Shaw's death at the hands of the newly-helmeted Magneto.
** In ''Film/XMenApocalypse'', Angel, whose power is [[WingedHumanoid to fly]], is killed in a plane crash.
* Koba in ''Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' is killed by being thrown from a massive height after pleading with his enemy Caesar to spare his life -- the exact same way he killed BigBad Jacobs in the previous movie, ''Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes''.
* ''Film/DawnOfTheDead2004'': It's [[NotUsingTheZWord impossible]] to know that there is a ZombieApocalypse going on yet, but Anna's neighbor keeps a loaded gun and tells bloodied people to stay away from him. He's run over by an ambulance.

* In ''Film/MacheteKills'', El Chameleon is an assassin who specializes in LatexPerfection disguises to get close to his targets. He gets the drop on Machete by disguising himself as a Mexican, but while chasing him, he runs into a bunch of racist rednecks who threaten to shoot him for being a Mexican. While pleading for his life, he removes his fake mustache, talks in his regular accent, and says he is from Ontario, only for the rednecks to say they hate Canadians too and shoot him anyway.
* In ''Film/JurassicPark1993'', it happens less so than in [[Literature/JurassicPark the book,]] but it does happen:
** Denis Nedry shut down the park's security systems, everything from surveillance, to the electric fences so that he could steal some frozen dinosaur embryos and deliver them to his contact as soon as possible. While trying to deliver the embryos, he crashes his car and gets eaten by a ''Dilophosaurus'' that got out after the electric fences were turned off.
** Genaro, the lawyer that left Lex and Tim to their fate when the ''Tyrannosaurus'' got out and hid in a nearby bathroom stall so that he could not get eaten. After the ''T.rex'' chases Malcolm, it destroys the bathroom stall, and [[AnArmAndALeg eats most]] of [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe Genaro]].
* In the Bond film ''Film/GoldenEye'', a key enemy for Bond is [[TheBaroness Xenia Onatopp]], a sadistic and sexy Georgian assassin whose favorite method of assassination is seducing her victim and then crushing them to death with her MurderousThighs. Bond disposes of her by shooting her helicopter while she is in the middle of crushing him, causing it to crash while her harness is still strapped to it. She is flung several feet in the air and crushed to death against a tree. Bond, famously never letting a moment like this go by unmarked, quips [[BondOneLiner "She always did enjoy a good squeeze."]]

* ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'':
** At the end of ''Film/TheTerminator'', the titular antagonist - a [[{{Determinator}} relentless, unstoppable machine]] - is ultimately crushed and destroyed by another relentless, unstoppable machine (in this case, a hydraulic press).
** In ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'', the antagonist is the liquid metal T-1000 that proves capable of regenerating from anything the heroes throw at it. [[spoiler:It's destroyed when it's blasted into a pool of molten steel]].

* Although it doesn't stick, in ''Film/MissPeregrinesHomeForPeculiarChildren'' the pyrokinetic Olive is frozen to death.

* In ''Film/{{Antebellum}}'', [[spoiler: PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Elizabeth has been running a plantation staffed by kidnapped slave labour so she can live life as it it were the antebellum South. She dies while [[WhatADrag being dragged behind Veronica's horse]] and he head slams into the base of a statue of General Robert E. Lee]].
* The first victim in ''Film/FinalDestination4'' is a [[DeathByRacism white supremacist]] who attempts to burn a cross on a Black man's lawn. His death involves him getting dragged behind his truck and set on fire as it rolls away -- a known (if uncommon) method of lynching, as seen with the murder of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Byrd_Jr James Byrd, Jr.]] For bonus points, his truck's stereo starts playing Music/{{War|Band}}'s anti-racism anthem "Why Can't We Be Friends?" before it explodes.
* In ''Film/TheGodfather'', in some ways, the Corleone men all died in a manner befitting of how they lived.
** Vito, a man devoted to his family and benevolent to the people around him, died relatively peacefully in his home with a loved one present.
** Sonny, whose explosive temper often got him into trouble, died in an extremely violent manner.
** Fredo, the weakest and most incompetent of his siblings, died passively and pathetically.
** Michael, a man who chased his loved ones away due to his brutal methods, died alone and broken.
* ''Film/CoronerCreek'': While trying to escape from Chris, Younger Miles falls off a ladder and dies when he lands on the same knife that Chris's fiancee and used to commit suicide after being raped by him.
* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' is famous for his radiation powers. He died after absorbing so much radiation he suffered a meltdown/heart attack in ''Film/GodzillaVsDestoroyah''.
* ''Film/GunsGirlsAndGambling'': Multiple characters comment on the irony of [[ElvisImpersonator Gay Elvis]] being shot to death while [[TheCanKickedHim sitting on the toilet]].
* ''Film/{{Barbarian}}'': [[spoiler:Andre]], who doesn't even get to ''finish'' his spiel about how [[spoiler:the Mother hasn't found his hiding place in fifteen years and isn't about to]] before he's violently slaughtered by [[spoiler:her.]]
* ''Film/Ghosted2023'': Right after "God" the bounty hunter says his senses are honed to great heights, he gets run over by a car that he'd not seen or heard coming.

* The last thing ComicBook/TheJoker says in ''Film/Batman1989'' before his DisneyVillainDeath is, "Sometimes I just kill myself!!" This likewise results in Batman anchoring Joker to a gargoyle with his harpoon gun, and then eventually being forced to plunge to his death due to the heaviness of the gargoyle statue that broke him. And he wouldn't have died in the first place if he didn't call a chopper for pickup. The chopper he needed because he dropped a bell on Batman, which destroyed the staircase down.

* ''Film/{{Constantine}}''. Two characters are killed by TheDragon in an ironic way.

* In ''Film/JurassicPark,'' it happens less so than in [[Literature/JurassicPark the book,]] but it does happen:

** Genaro, the lawyer that left Lex and Tim to their fate when the ''Tyrannosaurus'' got out and hid in a nearby bathroom stall so that he could not get eaten. After the ''T.rex'' chases Malcolm, it destroys the bathroom stall, and [[AnArmAndALeg eats most]] of [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe Genaro.]]

** Nick also knocks out [[spoiler:"Lurch" by a TapOnTheHead...with a potted ''peace'' lily. Angel's ex (and the film) used the plant as evidence of how he's MarriedToTheJob and doesn't really care about anyone else, and Angel destroys it with a one-liner. Because he became friends with Danny, and watched a lot of action movies with him.]]

* ''Franchise/{{Terminator'':

* At the end of ''Film/TheTerminator'', the titular antagonist - a [[{{Determinator}} relentless, unstoppable machine]] - is ultimately crushed and destroyed by another relentless, unstoppable machine (in this case, a hydraulic press).

* In ''Film/TheTerminator'', the antagonist is an unstoppable and remorseless {{Cyborg}} assassin from the future [[spoiler:that finally meets its end when heroic waitress Sarah Connor lures it through a factory and into an industrial press, where she crushes it.]]
* In ''FilmTerminator2JudgmentDay'', the antagonist is the liquid metal T-1000 that proves capable of regenerating from anything the heroes throw at it. [[spoiler:It's destroyed when it's blasted into a pool of molten steel]].

* ''Film/Barbarian'': [[spoiler:Andre]], who doesn't even get to ''finish'' his spiel about how [[spoiler:the Mother hasn't found his hiding place in fifteen years and isn't about to]] before he's violently slaughtered by [[spoiler:her.]]

* In ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet4TheDreamMaster'', one of Freddy's teenage victims is a tough girl who is afraid of bugs. He [[BalefulPolymorph slowly and painfully transforms her into a helpless cockroach]] and then he crushes her to death in his hand.