History Main / FallingChandelierOfDoom

** So does Peeves to Umbridge. McGonagall, in a CrowningMomentofFunny and a CrowningMomentofAwesome, whispers some advice:
-->'''McGonagall:''' It unscrews the other way.

** And in book 5, Peeves is trying to drop one at Hogwarts. Professor [=McGonagall=] quietly gives him some advice when he's not getting it.

* As in the book, Dobby drops a chandelier on Bellatrix (or tries to) in ''Film/HarryPotter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1''. He doesn't mean to [[FunnyMoment KILL Bellatrix, only to maim...or seriously injure.]]

* ''{{Splatterhouse}}'' had this happen at the end of one BossBattle.

* In the Kenneth Branagh film of ''{{Hamlet}}'', Hamlet (Branagh) drops a chandelier on Claudius (Derek Jacobi) during final scene, in addition to poisoning and stabbing him. [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill Uh...]] [[RasputinianDeath Yeah]]

* As in the book, Dobby drops a chandelier on Bellatrix (or tries to) in ''{{Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows}}'' [[TheFilmOfTheBook Part 1]].
** Course, he never meant to [[FunnyMoment KILL Bellatrix, only to maim...or seriously injure.]]

* Played with in ''Digimon V-Tamer'', where Taichi has his partner Zeromaru make a chandelier fall not for death and destruction, but so that the noise of it breaking breaks through a sonic attack in action.

* An epsisode of ''TheDingoPrinciple'' featured a parody of ''ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' where someone was killing members of the Liberal Party by dropping chandeliers on them.

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* In one commercial, a woman faced an animated chandelier DRAGON!

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* At the Theatre-Lyrique in Paris (an opera house), some portions of the glass chandelier fell on the audience, but no one was killed. (Novello, 'The Musical World'). Then in October 1888, according to 'The Times', one of the chandeliers fell and did kill a man.
* From http://www.musicandhistory.com/pdf/m/february.pdf: On February 2, 1795, Haydn was giving a concert at the King's Theatre, London. At one point, several patrons left their seats to get a better view of Haydn. Not long thereafter, a chandelier crashed to the floor where they had just been sitting. Very cinematic!
* Norwegian author Jens Bjørneboe is supposed to have tried to kill his parents this way when he was 8 years old.

* In ''DieAnotherDay'', Bond casually shoots down a chandelier made of ice which lands on [[TheDragon]] after a long battle trough a melting ice palace in cars, armed with stinger missiles and mounted machine guns. The water turns red almost immediately.

* ''BatmanAndMisterFreezeSubZero'': Freeze uses his... uh, FreezeRay on a chandelier to cover his escape.
** His colleague, Dr. Belson [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath dies screaming as he's crushed under a burning oil rig.]]

* ''ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' is probably the MostTriumphantExample of this, and might or might not be the TropeMaker. (The page-quote is from a book which is largely a parody of ''Phantom of the Opera'')

* In one episode of ''TheAvengers'', ''Death's Door'', a potentially world-changing conference, is put on hold when a key delegate pulls out, having had a bizarre recurring dream in which a chandelier falls on his head. He interprets this (with good reason) as a warning not to attend the conference, lest he meet his demise in this manner.

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* As in the book, Dobby drops a chandelier on Bellatrix (or tries to) in ''{{HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows}}'' [[TheFilmOfTheBook Part 1]].

* Subverted in ''The War of the Roses'': Barbara (Kathleen Turner) prepares to drop a chandelier onto her husband, Oliver, but he moves out of the way before she can drop it. [[spoiler:It ends up killing them both when, during a later fight, they both get on top of it and the supporting cables snap. This may not count, since they're both on top of the chandelier at the time.]]

* ''The International'' (2009). The museum shootout is brought to an end by dropping a chandlier-like construction that suspends several projection screens on a couple of mooks.

** In a SaturdayNightLive parody of Broadway, the Phantom loses patience with his fellow Broadway characters, and uses his light fixture collapsing power on them. However since they are in a diner, the results are unimpressive.

* In the fine {{Sierra}} tradition of EverythingTryingToKillYou, LauraBow in ''The Colonel's Bequest'' can be killed by a falling chandelier if she steps on the wrong part of the hallway.
* {{Braid}} requires the player to [[spoiler:kill the game's Bosses]] by creatively manipulating such chandeliers. And drop a single chandelier on a boss several times.
* Final Fight's last stage featured falling chandeliers. Which contained.. Turkeys, radios and two by fours..?
* In House of the Dead: Overkill you can create one on a bunch of mutants as they break into Papa's house of Pain.
* YouHaveToBurnTheRope. Doing that will means a OneHitKill on the boss.

* The third NancyDrew game is actually won by dropping a chandelier on the villain. If you drop it at any other time than when he's directly below it, you get a NonstandardGameOver.

* During the course of VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines, the player encounters one of these in the Ocean House Hotel quest, though it can be pretty easily avoided. And when compared to the ''elevator''...

* In BatmanArkhamAsylum Batman can drop a chandalier at one point, although there it's a means to smash the glass floor of the room and get below while not to hurting anyone.

* KimPossible's Brothers try to drop the chandelier on the escaping villain, only to have the wrong chandelier drop on the stolen WaveMotionGun. They get it right the second time.

* BatmanAndMisterFreezeSubZero: Freeze uses his... uh, FreezeRay on a chandelier to cover his escape.

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* In the Arbiter's Grounds stage of TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess, you can drop a chandelier on ''yourself'' at one stage, if you're not careful. Later, you must ''actually'' drop a chandelier on yourself in order to progress.
** The latter is actually standing in the hallow middle of the chandelier otherwise link is reduced to a 2-dimensional object in the process

* ''{{Castlevania}}'': Appears multiple times as an obstacle in richly-adorned environments.

* Subverted in ''[[TheEmperorsNewGroove The Emperor's New Groove]]'', where PunchClockVillain Kronk tries to drop a chandelier on his boss Yzma, but she's so skinny she slips through a hole in it and emerges unscathed.

* One of Peter Schickele's P. D. Q. Bach performances was supposedly in a (fictitious) castle in an advanced state of disrepair.

* In the Arbiter's Grounds stage of [[TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess]], you can drop a chandelier on ''yourself'' at one stage, if you're not careful. Later, you must ''actually'' drop a chandelier on yourself in order to progress.

* In the first ''{{Futurama}}'' movie, ''Bender's Big Score,'' [[spoiler:Hermes' time clone body is destroyed by a flling chandelier. This leads Lars (actually an aged time clone Fry) to realize that he is just as doomed as Hermes' body.]]

* In BatmanArkhamAsylum Batman can drop a chandalier at one point, although there it's a mean to crush the floor of the room and get below and not to hurt anyone.

* ''{{Anastasia}}'': Rasputin sends a chandelier crashing to the ballroom floor in the party scene at the beginning of the movie.