History Main / FallingChandelierOfDoom

* ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'' has a funny, non-combat-related version [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnhYzfg7ug4 2:30 here]]. The Trotters are posing as professional cleaners and tasked with cleaning a pair of priceless chandeliers. As Del and Rodney stand ready to catch it their grandfather does upstairs and ends up unscrewing the wrong chandelier which crashes to the ground behind them. This was based on a real-life incident involving John Sullivan's father, who was part of a team of builders who made the same mistake. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome They all got the sack for it]]. The episode was written backwards to get there, and Sullivan senior thankfully saw the funny side of the whole thing when he watched the episode.

** In ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'', Batman can ''hack'' chandelier controls to drop them on unsuspecting mooks.

-->'''Applejack''': Good thinkin', Fluttershy.
-->'''Rarity''': But what a waste of a perfectly beautiful chandelier.

-->'''Kronk:''' [[LampshadeHanging Strange... that usually works]].
-->'''Yzma:''' And so does ''this!'' (''pulls a lever and a TrapDoor opens under Kronk'')
-->'''Kronk:''' Ah. Should've seen that comin'. [''falls''] WHOOOA!!!!
* In ''{{WesternAnimation/Frozen|2013}}'', one of the Duke of Weselton's men tries to shoot Elsa, but Hans grabs the man's arm just as he's releasing his crossbow, leading to the arrow instead flying upwards and cutting the suspension on the chandelier above. Elsa barely avoids it and gets knocked unconscious.
* In the first ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' movie, ''Bender's Big Score,'' [[spoiler:Hermes' time clone body is destroyed by a falling chandelier. This leads Lars (actually an aged time clone Fry) to realize that he is just as doomed as Hermes' body.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndThePea'', Laird has his pet falcon cut a chandelier to fall on Rollo, but Heath pushes him out of the way in time to take the blow instead. [[spoiler: It doesn't kill him.]]

* ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'': One of the bosses of the City of Tears, the Watcher Knights, are [[WolfpackBoss six large beetles fought together]]. Just before their boss chamber, there's a small, well-hidden side path that leads to a chain holding up one of the chandeliers just above their arena. Cutting the chain will send the chandelier falling down crush one of the Knights, [[BossAlteringConsequence permanently bringing down their number to a more manageable five]].

* This is one of the two ways to end the boss battle with Debilitas in ''VideoGame/HauntingGround'', the other one being attacking him until he runs out of HitPoints. [[spoiler:Using the chandelier is the non-lethal option, and is required to get both the best ending and the secret ending.]]

** In ''VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney'', setting a bomb on the rope of a chandelier is one of the ways you can make a 'hit' [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident look like an accident]]. Several missions practically invite you to drop chandeliers on people like this. In one mission, you actually got the chance to murder both a father and his son, by two separate chandeliers.
** ''VideoGame/Hitman2016'' has a ''lot'' of opportunities for this in "The Showstopper", with the winches that control the chandeliers in easy reach, and two feats tied to it - one for each target.
* ''VideoGame/House2020'': A variant with more plot power than normal. [[spoiler:If you do nothing, the chandelier candles will burn through the rope holding the chandelier up — [[NoOSHACompliance bad design there]] — and drop it onto your sister's piano while she's playing, crushing it and killing her instantly. This also dooms the cat to death by fire if it's still alive at this time (at least you can douse the chandelier or the cat with the filled-up bucket after the fact to save the cat, but it's too late for the sister at that point).]]
* In ''VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead: Overkill'' you can create one on a bunch of mutants as they break into Papa's house of Pain.
* In ''VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndTheEmperorsTomb'', Indy sees below him Nazis discussing on a table, with an enormous chandelier above them. No need to describe what happens (BondOneLiner included).

* A very similar variation occurs in the third ''Creature Court'' novel with the mirrored ceiling of the Vittorina Royale theatre. When [[spoiler:Velody and Garnet use the mirror to come BackFromTheDead]], it shatters and rains down on the audience, bringing down most of the roof with it. Many theatregoers are crushed to death or [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaled]] or slashed to pieces by broken glass.