History Main / DisneyVillainDeath

* On ''Las Vegas'', Monica Mancuso [[hottip:*villain of a TyrantTakesTheHelm story arc]] 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.

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* On ''Las Vegas'', [[TheUmbridge Monica Mancuso]] 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.

* Yzma falls in ''TheEmperorsNewGroove'' -- but there's a hilarious twist to that...

* ''{{Commando}}''. When interrogating a major mook, John Matrix holds him over a cliff. When he finishes, he just lets go.

** Also happens to his sidekick Fidget, who is ironically a bat. That didn't stop ''DisneyAdventures'' from doing a comic story where he had apparently survived and also did a HeelFaceTurn, though.

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** Falling is the most common way for villains in Sherlock Holmes films to go out, as Moriarty himself fell three different times in the Rathbone-Bruce films (thrown off a tower, fell 60 feet into the sewers, and plummeted off a high rise after the pipe he was hanging on to broke). However, in 1985's Young Sherlock Holmes, Rathe falls into a frozen river only to survive, after which it was revealed that he was Moriarty the whole time.

* Here's an obscure early one. An old Sunday comic serial had a [[http://disneycomics.free.fr/Mickey/show.php?num=9&loc=ZM004 giant] and his [[http://disneycomics.free.fr/Mickey/show.php?num=4&loc=ZM004 vulture]] get an early version of this!

* Here's an obscure early one. An old Sunday comic serial had a [[http://disneycomics.free.fr/Mickey/show.php?num=9&loc=ZM004 giant]] and his [[http://disneycomics.free.fr/Mickey/show.php?num=4&loc=ZM004 vulture]] get an early version of this!

** You know, we can't bring up ''Lost'' without mentioning [[WhamEpisode what Locke's father did to him]] can we? [[DefenestrationDestination Although it doesn't qualify as "Death"]], it broke his spine.

->"VILLAIN JOB: Crave control of universe, keep nose in air, be either [[VillainousGlutton huge]] or [[LeanAndMean emaciated]], collect mortal souls, perish by falling."

* ''OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'': Cruella de Vil crashes her CoolCar into her goons' truck sending them both plummeting off the cliff they were on. Oddly, despite the fact that the cars are totaled at the bottom of the ravine, all three are alive and Cruella is in good enough shape to throw a hissy-fit. Apparently, she survives in the [[AdaptationDisplacement book]] as well, so this is one of the rare cases where [[TheyJustDidntCare Disney Just DID Care]] about the original story. What weirds us out is this: According to Disney, you can do acts of unspeakable evil to Gargoyles, Humans, monsters, aliens, demons, lions, ect., but if you hurt ''puppies'', your fall will ''not'' kill you. [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman We are]] [[WhatMeasureIsANonCute not sure]] [[InfantImmortality what to make of this]].

* Hades' defeat in ''{{Disney/Hercules}}'' might be considered an inversion. As a god, he can't die, but he was defeated by being [[strike: thrown]] [[MegaTonPunch MegaTonPunched]] into the river Styx, where the souls of the dead dogpiled him. He couldn't fall to his death, so he fell ''into'' a bunch of other people's.

** ''KingKong'': "It wasn't the fall. It was the beauty who killed the beast."

* Averted in ''Fullmetal Alchemist'' when Wrath is defeated in Episode 58 of Brotherhood. He manages to swim to safety, although he remains weak enough for Scar to quickly kill him a little while afterwards.

** In ''{{Moonraker}}'', Bond throws Chang (the first TheDragon) through a glass window and he falls to his death, by ''impaling a piano''.

* Happens to all three of the main villains in the RushHour series of movies, though usually with a bit more proof they didn't survive the impact than at Disney. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] during the blooper reel of ''Rush Hour 2''.

* Another good guy ([[HeelFaceTurn technically]]) example: in the season five finale of ''{{Lost}}'' ([[{{ABC}} technically by Disney too]]), Juliet bows out in a way very similar to [[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]]...

** You know, we can't bring up ''Lost'' without mentioning [[WhamEpisode what Locke's father did to him]] can we? Although it doesn't qualify as "Death", it broke his spine.

* ''OurManFlint''. Flint knocks two Galaxy security guards off a catwalk to their deaths on the ground below while fighting them.

** Then again, this being [[BackFromTheDead Rasputin]] here...

* The first ''RoboCop'' film ends with the CorruptCorporateExecutive Dick Jones falling to his death -- ''after'' [=Robocop=]'s shot him around half a dozen times.

* In ''TheScorpionKing'' the villain Memnon gets his DVD (as in "Disney Villian Death," ''not'' "Digital Video Disc") only after getting shot in the chest with an arrow, falling backwards off a really high building, THEN getting engulfed in the flames of an explosion, and then finally crashing into the ground. Interesting to note that he's still alive and screaming up until he splats on the ground. Talk about overkill.

* Gollum falls to his death in ''TheLordOfTheRings''. Justified because it is ''the'' essential part of the eucatastrophe, as this accident also takes One Ring into the Cracks of Doom, destroying it.

* Another good guy ([[HeelFaceTurn technically]]) example: in the season five finale of ''{{Lost}}'' ([[{{ABC}} technically by Disney too]]), Juliet bows out in a way very similar to [[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]]...

* In [[Superman II]], the Zod Gang gets this death. Superman throws General Zod into an icy abyss in a crevice, Lois punches Ursa into another crevice, and Non, while trying to fly, falls into another crevice, as the Zod Gang's powers have just been taken away. Although there exists a deleted scene where they are arrested by Arctic police, it doesn't explain how they could have survived, so it could be taken as an alternate ending, similar to the Sylvia scenes in [[Ice Age]].

** [[OrSoIHeard I've heard]] that Gaston was actually originally supposed to fall off intentionally after stabbing the beast, [[LaughingMad laughing all the way down]]. Sadly this was [[Bowdlerise changed]] along with several [[NeverSayDie other lines]] as [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel this would've been far too scary for the kids in the audience]]. This would explain why he did [[TooDumbToLive such a risky maneuver after being spared]].

* [[{{BRIAN BLESSED}} Clayton]]'s death in ''Film/{{Tarzan}}'' may be the most violent of all Disney Villain Deaths. Falling out of a tree and accidentally hanging oneself with jungle vines. We even [[NightmareFuel get to hear his neck snap]]...

** I don't know, seeing Char shoot Kycilla Zabi's head off seems a pretty good example of seeing someone die horribly. And I don't see how getting vaporized, getting killed by explosion, getting crumped by a giant robot, or just plain shot is symbolic the way you mean it.

* In the sequel ''The Snow Queen's Revenge'', the Snow Queen falls into the lava. (Her body is still intact afterwards, but is as still as a statue and presumably dead)