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== Disney examples, in rough chronological order ==
* 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!
* The Queen/Witch in ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]]'' gets the ground she's standing on struck by lightning ''and'' falls off a cliff ''and'' the huge boulder she was trying to use to kill the Dwarfs instead falls down the cliff after her ''and'' she gets [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|eaten by vultures off-screen]].
* Though it did not happen in ''[[Pinocchio (Disney film)|Pinocchio]]'', [[Karma Houdini|The Coachman]] gets kicked down a cliff by Pinocchio in the SNES game.
* Subverted in ''[[Bambi]]'' where Ronno actually survives being pushed off a cliff and into a river by Bambi while they are both fighting over Faline.
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** The third movie has the Stepmother and Drizella both get turned into frogs after a spell they try to cast on Cinderella, the Prince, and Anastasia is reflected back onto them. When they are turned back, it is implied that they will be servants in the castle. Anastasia does dodge punishment, but then she actually is a lot nicer and decides to help Cinderella in the sequels.
* At the end of ''Lambert the Sheepish Lion'', the wolf actually ends up being bumped off a cliff by the titular lion. However, it's then revealed that the wolf actually survived the fall since he immediately grabbed onto a nearby branch with berries growing on it.
* Subverted in ''[[Peter Pan (Disney film)|Peter Pan]]''; Captain Hook does fall, directly into the jaws of a crocodile, but he bursts out and [[WalkWalking Onon Water|runs]] [[Villain Exit Stage Left|away]] [[Exit, Pursued by a Bear|yelling]]. He makes it into the sequel, too. Played straight with one of his henchmen, however, after he messes up Hook's song at one point.
* Maleficent in ''[[Sleeping Beauty (Disney film)|Sleeping Beauty]]'' pulls her [[One-Winged Angel]] act, is killed by Prince Philip with a [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works|thrown sword]] ([[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|but it's okay because she's a dragon]]), and falls off a cliff that also is burning at the bottom.
* ''[[101 Dalmatians|One Hundred and One Dalmatians]]'': Cruella de Vil crashes her [[Cool Car]] 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. She survives in [[The Hundred and One Dalmatians|the book]] as well.
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* In ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'', [[Mook]] Crown gets this death by plummeting into Earth's gravity while piloting his Zaku. Ramba Ral also suffers this fate as he falls with a grenade in his hand onto the Gundam's hand.
* [[Averted]] in ''[[Life (manga)|Life]]''. One of the antagonists appears to die from falling from several stories however it's a [[Disney Death]], and he's just severely wounded and taken to a hospital.
* Averted several times with [[Joker Immunity|Team Rocket]] in Pokemon. Some of their "blasting off" scenes involve them falling into a gorge, and at least two falls were ones that they themselves thought would kill them (once in ''Haunter Versus Kadabra'', and again in the second movie). But the one that takes the cake for inverting this trope in the name of [[Joker Immunity]] is in the episode ''Shell Shock'', in which a boulder (which would have killed Ash and the gang) is thrown off a cliff by the Machoke, sending James falling into the gorge [[Dropped a Bridge on Him|WITH THE BOULDER STILL ON TOP OF HIM]] (the same kind of fall that killed the [[Big Bad]] of [[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Disney's first animated film]]), yet he turns up unharmed in his next scene.
* Naga in ''[[Monster Rancher]]'' is defeated by Mocchi, hanging onto the edge of his castle. Despite the Searchers' [[Save the Villain|attempt to save him]], he [[Self-Disposing Villain|lets go]] and falls to his death.
* This troper remembers [[Monster of the Week|Yokozuna Demon Beast Blocky]] carelessly breaking off a piece of the cliff that Stone Kirby is standing on to trick him and use his weight against him, causing them both to plunge into the sea in the second episode of ''[[Kirby Right Back At Ya]]''. Kirby, of course, swims back up to the surface and everybody other than Dedede and Escargoon cheers for him. Blocky, on the other hand, is too heavy to swim and thus is stuck sinking to the bottom of the sea.
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* The first ''[[RoboCop]]'' film ends with the [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] Dick Jones falling to his death -- ''after'' Robocop's shot him around half a dozen times. The edited for television version just has him getting blown out the window by Robocop with one burst after getting fired by the Old Man.
* In ''[[Star Trek III: The Search For Spock|Star Trek III the Search For Spock]]'' the Klingon commander Kruge gets a Disney villain death when he is kicked off by Admiral Kirk.
** The Reman Viceroy gets a similar death when he is kicked by Commander Riker in ''[[Star Trek: Nemesis]]''.
** As does the Borg Queen in ''[[Star Trek: First Contact|Star Trek First Contact]]'', although in her case, she falls into a cloud of corrosive gas that dissolves her organic flesh.
*** Though this doesn’t kill her; Picard snapping her spine afterward does.
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* In ''[[The Lovely Bones]]'' film, Harvey stumbles over a cliff to his death, possibly caused by the deceased protagonist.
* ''[[Wild Wild West (film)|Wild Wild West]]''. Dr. Loveless falls to his doom at the bottom of a cliff.
* Averted in the movie version of ''[[Angels and& Demons]]''. In [[Dan Brown|Dan Brown's]] book the Hassassin is thrown off a balcony in the Castel Sant'Angelo by being overpowered by [[Non-Action Guy|non-combat scholar hero]] Robert Langdon and [[Waif Fu|Yoga Fu empowered]] Vittoria Vetra. In the movie, the Hassassin (now "Mr. Gray") makes a "you're not armed, and I wasn't paid to kill you, but don't follow me" speech. Free to leave, he locates his getaway car and final payment and is promptly [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|killed by a car bomb]].
* In ''[[The Scorpion King]]'' the villain Memnon gets his Disney Villain Death 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. [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|Talk about overkill]].
* Imhotep gets this in ''[[The Mummy Trilogy|The Mummy Returns]]'' though he falls into the seemingly endless pit of Hell.
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** "When You Wish Upon a Hogg" begins with Hughie tricking Boss into believing in the power of an oil lamp ... and ends with Bo and Luke having their hands full trying to save Hughie from tumbling (in his van) over a cliff; Hughie initially balks, afraid of what he thinks the Duke boys will do to him and wanting to save all his ill-gotten money. In the end – of course – Bo is able to pull Hughie from the van, just as it begins to topple from the cliff. (BTW, the beautiful "genie" that was "in the lamp" – the shockingly beautiful Trixie, was not harmed; she was already being held in jail as Hughie's accomplice.)
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'':
** In ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S14 E2/E02 The Hand of Fear|The Hand of Fear]]'', the villain falls down a deep black pit after being tripped up with the fourth Doctor's scarf. Being a being of stone, the Doctor suggests he may have survived.
** In ''[[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/NS/S2 E6/E06 The Age of Steel|The Age of Steel]]'', Dr Lumic falls to his doom after Pete Tyler cuts the ladder he was climbing. [[Lava Pit|The place he's seen falling towards happens to be on fire]].
** Yet strangely averted in ''[[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/NS/S2 E7/E07 The IdiotsIdiot's Lantern|The Idiot's Lantern]]'', despite the finale taking place on Alexandra Palace Radio Tower. Then again, the villain wasn't exactly physical to begin with.
** A heroic version in ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S1 E2/E02 The Daleks|The Daleks]]'' when a character brings it on himself as a [[Heroic Sacrifice]], as he's dangling over a ravine attached to a rope that's pulling his comrades over the edge too. The sight of him disappearing into blackness, coupled with the thunderous noise as he hits the bottom, is quite shocking for a young viewer.
** The Master suffers something similar in [[Doctor Who/Recap/TVM the TV Movie/Recap|the TV Movie]], when he falls into the Eye of Harmony. The Doctor's partly responsible, since he shines a light in the Master's face as he leaps at him and causes him to overshoot, but does offer him a hand. {{spoiler|(Of course, he's revived to fight again in the Time War, which he also survives)}}
** The earliest villain example (or at least [[The Dragon|Dragon]] example) comes in Season One's ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S1 E6/E06 The Aztecs|The Aztecs]]'', when Ixta gets kicked off the top of a temple whilst trying to kill Ian. First [[Big Bad|main villain]] example comes in Season Two's ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S2 E3/E03 The Rescue|The Rescue]]'', where Bennett is so shocked by the appearance of the people he thought he'd killed that he backs away over a cliff edge.
** The [[Big Bad|Sycorax Leader]] from ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/2005 CS the Christmas Invasion/Recap|The Christmas Invasion]]'' tries to underhandedly kill the Tenth Doctor but he [[Edible Ammunition|throws a satsuma]] at a button on the Sycorax ship, which causes a part of the ship to open up. This part of the ship just ''happened'' to be right underneath where the Leader was standing and so he falls to his epic fail death.
* On ''[[24]]'', Habib Marwan, main baddie on Day 4, decides to go out this way, plummeting off a parking garage.
* Lionel Luthor is taken out of the show this way in ''[[Smallville]]'', also an example of [[Klingon Promotion]] and [[Dying to Be Replaced]].
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