History KarmicDeath / AnimatedFilms

** [=McLeach=], the villainous poacher in ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder'', seems to avoid his karmic death by escaping a pack of crocodiles, only to be swept over the InevitableWaterfall seconds later.

''[[IronicEcho New arrival...!]]"

* ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride''. Barkis Bittern, who lured Emily to her doom so many years ago for her money and then attempted to do the same to Victoria, makes a sneering toast to her at her and Victor's interrupted wedding ceremony and downs the goblet of poisoned wine that Victor was going to (willingly) drink. Once dead, he is left at the mercy of enraged corpses.

%%** Ursula from ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 The Little Mermaid]]'' gets this when Eric rams a ship through her stomach, causing her to perish.
** Gaston of ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' fell off of the castle after one final attack on the Beast. (This coming ''after'' the Beast spared his life.)
** [=McLeach=], the villainous poacher in ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder'', seemed to avoid his karmic death by escaping a pack of crocodiles, only to be swept over the InevitableWaterfall seconds later.

*** Zira in ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'' died because of her own stubbornness and refusing the help from Kiara to save her life.
** At the climax of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'', [[KnightTemplar Judge Claude Frollo]] raises his sword to strike the defenseless heroes, bellowing, "''[[DeathByIrony And He shall smite the wicked and plunge them into the fiery pit!]]''", but [[DisneyVillainDeath falls into said fiery pit of molten lead himself after the stone gargoyle he's standing on breaks.]]
*** For extra delicious karma, it doesn't just spontaneously break -- it cracks because Frollo had damaged it while hacking away at Quasimodo and Esmeralda with a sword.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'''s Clayton fell off a tree while attacking Tarzan with a machete, and has his neck snapped by vines despite Tarzan's attempt to warn him (also a DeathByIrony after saying "Africa was made for me...!").
** In ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', Commander Rourke, a mercenary who's out to exploit Atlantis's resources, betrays his ''entire'' team (including the members who remained loyal to him), and nearly dooms Atlantis by stealing Princess Kida, who's bonded with the sentient and ''angry'' mother crystal keeping Atlantis from fully dying out. Then one of his team destroys the balloon he was escaping on, and when he [[TakingYouWithMe tries to kill Milo anyway]], he gets graphically transmuted into crystal by Kida's power. [[AndIMustScream He's still alive long enough to get shredded by his balloon's propeller.]]
** Toward the end of ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'', the villain Scroop is literally thrown out of an airlock and into outer space by Jim as revenge for killing a character named Mr. Arrow (who was literally tossed into outer space and ''into a black hole'' by Scroop) earlier in the film.

* Ruber in ''WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot'' meets his brutal demise by disintegration caused by the stone's magic when he tries to impale both Kayley and Garrett with Excalibur, but they moved at the right time and he sends the sword back into the stone. What proved to be Ruber's fatal flaw is by forging the sword to his own arm with his magic potion.

* In the climax of ''[[WesternAnimation/TadTheLostExplorer Tad the Lost Explorer: The Secret of King Midas]]'', once he gets to wear King Midas' full necklace, Jack Rackham tries to kill the main characters with lightning bolts. Every hit with these causes part of the cave to crumble, which ends up killing him and all of his {{Mooks}} who remained up at that point.

** ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'''s Clayton fell off a tree while attacking Tarzan with a knife, and has his neck snapped by vines despite Tarzan's attempt to warn him (also a DeathByIrony after saying "Africa was made for me...!").

** Ursula from ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 The Little Mermaid]]'' gets this when Eric rams a ship through her stomach, causing her to perish.

** ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'''s Clayton fell off a tree while attacking Tarzan with a knife, and has his neck snapped by vines despite Tarzan's attempt to warn him (also a DeathByIrony after saying "Africa was made for me...!").

** After his attempt to use his army of undead soldiers reanimated by the titular [[WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron Black Cauldron]] is thwarted, the Horned King is sucked into the Cauldron himself (and horrifically ''[[BodyHorror stripped to the bone]]'' in the process).
** In ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'', Ratigan uses a hand-bell as a summons for his hungry cat to eat any mouse that displeases him. At the climax, Basil swipes the bell and rings it just before Big Ben chimes, shaking Ratigan off to his death.
** In ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'', when Dr. Facilier's demonic amulet gets shattered, that's considered to his Friends on the Other Side as breaking their contract, causing the shadowy demons that once worked for him to drag him into a gaping mouth to the Other Side, [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic all the while singing the exact song he was when he was cursing Naveen]].
** At the end of ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'', [[EvilPoacher the hunter]] that supposedly killed the titular character's [[MissingMom mother]] is actually implied to have been burned alive in the forest fire he caused. Walt had at one point planned to show the guy's body, but after an animator cheekily asked "Well-done or medium rare?" shelved the idea as tasteless.

** In the climax of ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', Gothel undergoes RapidAging when Eugene cuts Rapunzel's hair with a mirror shard, turning it brown and powerless, meaning Gothel can no longer use Rapunzel to stay young forever, allowing Rapunzel her freedom while Gothel is ReducedToDust.

* Happens more often than you might think to the villains in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Barbie}} films.