History Main / FallingChandelierOfDoom

* In ''VideoGame/SunsetRiders'', a game set in the WildWest, the fourth stage with the {{mad bomber}}s features a huge chandelier that dangles around and can be used by {{mooks}} as shooting platforms. The heroes climb on it and either give it the same use or simply hang from it to dodge the bombs tossed by the bosses. [[spoiler: In a subversion, it stays in its place through the whole stage and, when the bosses are killed, it's "peacefully" taken away.]]

* In ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion1'', when the mansion is first entered, walking straight ahead (directly under the chandelier) results in it falling. However, the game gives you time to move, and only happens once.

* In ''VideoGame/PaperMario64'', opening a particular treasure chest in the Boo's Mansion will cause a chandelier to fall down on Mario, [[BaitAndSwitch but stop just before crushing him]]. The opened chest resets itself upon leaving the room, allowing the player to revisit the near-death experience at their leisure.

* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'': Yukiko's Shadow can attack with this.
* In ''VideoGame/Persona5Strikers'', three chandeliers decorate the boss arena for the third story boss, Mariko Hyodo/Ice Queen Hyodo. While you can use them immediately, a gimmick this boss has is that she will [[EatenAlive eat one of your party members]], and the fastest way to make her spit them back out is with the chandeliers.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'' inverts it with the first fight against Bowser: You fight him ''on the chandeliers''. You win by severing the chain on his. In the following cutscene, Bowser cuts down Mario's chandelier, and they fall together long enough for Bowser to rant at you before Mario shows off his [[GoombaStomp incredible jumping skills]] yet again.
* The boxing ring in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros for Nintendo 3DS/Wii U'' has one that falls after being hit enough times.

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

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Strings1991}}'': Played for laughs, as it's not a grand chandelier, but the ceiling light fixture in the old man's apartment, which comes crashing down on his string quartet as they're playing. (A leak from the apartment above has rotted the ceiling.)
* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' has a variant with a giant disco ball. [[spoiler:Except that the ball drops too late and crushes Rusty Venture.]]

* At the climax of ''Film/{{Unconscious}}'', León and Dr. Pardo get killed by one. Since it gets knocked down by a bullet fired from León's gun, it counts as a KarmicDeath at least in part.

* Norwegian author Jens Bjørneboe is supposed to have tried to kill his parents this way when he was 8 years old.

* Cruelly parodied in ''Film/MarsAttacks!'', as this is how the First Lady (Creator/GlennClose) dies:

Compare ChandelierSwing -- you can pretty much [[ChekhovsGun guarantee]] that any prominently featured chandelier will result in one of these tropes -- or both, if someone cuts a convenient supporting rope and uses the falling chandelier as a counterweight.

Generally, it's a subtrope of DeathByLookingUp. It might overlap with ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice. Compare ChandelierSwing. In a few older movies, results in OutOfTheInferno because chandeliers used to feature ''actual candles''.

* 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 [[MirrorMagic 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.

* In one stage of ''VideoGame/GhostTrick'', you have to drop a chandelier on Emma, the bossy red-haired lady who lives next door to Lynne, so that she gets stuck and can't stop her daughter Amelia from calling her father. If you mistime the drop, Emma does a rather impressive dodge move.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Strings}}'': Played for laughs, as it's not a grand chandelier, but the ceiling light fixture in the old man's apartment, which comes crashing down on his string quartet as they're playing. (A leak from the apartment above has rotted the ceiling.)

* Downplayed in ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', Shrek drops a chandelier on the Dragon, but it doesn't kill her, instead falling around her neck like a collar and tying her up long enough for the main characters to escape.

* In ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'', when the mansion is first entered, walking straight ahead (directly under the chandelier) results in it falling. However, the game gives you time to move, and only happens once.

* Happens to Ash and Pikachu in the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' episode "The Tower of Terror". They die... [[OurSoulsAreDifferent sort of]]. Well, since their souls were literally ''pulled out'' by a Haunter, it was probably a case of OnlyMostlyDead.

* These randomly appear in ''VideoGame/SweetHome'' as a hazard of walking through certain halls/rooms.

* In ''Manga/HaikaraSanGaTooru'', [[spoiler: local IllGirl Larissa dies as she pulls a DivingSave to rescue Shinobu from one and gets hit instead.]]

* 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 required to get the best ending and the secret ending.]]