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Sometimes, a fatal wound will be inflicted upon the villain just before taking the plunge (whether caused by the hero or by [[Hoist by His Own Petard|the villain's own actions]]) just to ensure that he or she is definitely dead. Or, they could have [[Dropped a Bridge on Him|a boulder or similar heavy object falling down with them]], or fall into a deadly substance like lava, molten bronze, or even [[Technicolor Science|flesh-eating green acid]], as [[Soft Water|water alone won't always do it]].
As with other [[Karmic Death
This is usually invoked in order to dispatch the villain [[Gory Discretion Shot|without resorting to a messier and more visible end]] which might upset the kids (or the [[Moral Guardians]]). Please ignore the [[Fridge Logic|uncomfortable realization]] that having the villain meet his or her end as an unquestionably ghastly mess on the floor isn't any less violent than [[And I Must Scream|any]] [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice|of the]] [[Family-Unfriendly Death|alternatives]].
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** Zira in ''The Lion King: Simba's Pride'' falls off a cliff into rapids and drowns. Note that, in the original [[Darker and Edgier]] ending, she was intended to be seen ''letting go'' (Some argue that this is still the case in the release. It's a bit ambiguous), and laughing on the way down.
** Her son Nuka suffers a similar death, but it's [[Not the Fall That Kills You|not just the fall]] that kills him: the logs that fall after him are definitely a factor as well.
* Since he's one of the most downright evil Disney villains of all (although he wasn't too bad in the book), [[Sinister Minister|Judge]] [[Complete Monster|Claude]] [[Big Bad|Frollo]]'s demise in ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'' is particularly spectacular. He stands atop a gargoyle and is about to kill Quasimodo and
{{quote|'''Frollo:''' And [[God|He]] shall smite the wicked and [[Karmic Death|plunge them into the fiery pit!]]}}
** An article in the ''[[Disney Adventures]]'' issue on the movie mentions some of the previous Disney Villain Deaths. When it comes to Frollo, they mention that would spoil the movie.
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* Emperor Zurg falls down an elevator shaft in ''[[Toy Story]] 2'', yet somehow survives to play catch with his son. [[It Makes Sense in Context|It's a long story...]]
* Apparently part of its effort [[Cliché Storm|to cover every trope overused by Disney]], ''[[Dinosaur]]'' has Aladar ram one of the [[Carnivore Confusion|Carnotaurs]] (specifically, the one that's the film's [[Big Bad]]) off a cliff. Under circumstances that are ''very'' similar to those in ''The Land Before Time'' (detailed below).
* Yzma falls in ''[[The Emperor's New Groove|The Emperors New Groove]]''
{{quote|'''Guard:''' For the last time, we did not order a giant trampoline!
'''Delivery Man:''' You know, pal, you could have told me that before I set it up!
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* Subverted in ''[[Dead Silence]]''. As screaming in the presence of Mary Shaw's ghost results in a painful, gruesome death, it isn't the ''fall'' that kills [[Bad Cop, Incompetent Cop|Detective James Lipton]] - just the fact that he can't help but scream on the way down, resulting in him dying before he hits the ground.
* In the latest version of ''[[Brighton Rock]]'', Pinkie suffers death by gravity from the Seven Sisters cliffs. He stumbles over the edge after acid is splashed onto his face and eyes, causing horrific burns. All this is true to the book - although the entirely [[Subverted Trope|un-Disney-death-detail]] of a shot of his broken body and mutilated face lying in the wash at the bottom of the cliff is a new addition.
* As the leader of Future Villain Band in ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band|Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band]]'' is choking Billy Shears, the latter's sweetheart Strawberry Fields manages to pull him
* [[Ice Age]] has a non-villainous, non-conflict related variation. One of the animals is asking where Fred (presumably a member of their herd) is, to which another states that he isn't coming along as he had an "evolutionary breakthrough." It then shows an animal of the same species (implied to be Fred) running full steam towards a cliff and he starts yelling "I'm FLYING!!" as he's falling before he lands and is implied to be killed, to which one of the herd says "Some breakthrough."
* An assassin in ''Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol'' is kicked through a window of the Burj Khalifa. For those not in the know, [[No One Could Survive That|that's the tallest known building in the entire world.]]
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* In ''[[The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle]]'', {{spoiler|Captain Jaggery falls to his death off of the bowsprit after cornering Charlotte up there in an attempt to kill her.}}
* Gollum falls to his death in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''. Justified because it is ''the'' essential part of the eucatastrophe, as this accident also takes the One Ring into the Cracks of Doom, destroying it.
* In the [[Sherlock Holmes]] story ''[http://sherlock-holmes.classic-literature.co.uk/the-final-problem/ The Final Problem]'' (link goes to the E-book), Professor Moriarty falls off a
* [[Older Than Radio]]: Magua dies this way at the end of ''[[The Last of the Mohicans|Last of the Mohicans]]''.
** Interestingly, in [[The Last of the Mohicans|the movie version]], Chingachgook will not dignify Magua's body with a Disney Villain Death, since the heroes are the ones who fall heroically off the cliff.
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** Hell, technically, Buffy ''herself'' gets this treatment at the end of the episode, as her [[Disney Death]] doesn't take place until the following season.
* Also from [[Joss Whedon]], the torturer from the ''[[Firefly]]'' episode ''War Stories'' falls into the abyss after being shot to death.
* Another good guy ([[Heel Face Turn|technically]]) example: in the season five finale of ''[[Lost]]'' ([[ABC|technically by Disney too]]), Juliet bows out in a way very similar to [[Atlantis: The Lost Empire|Helga Sinclair]]. She falls down a deep
** In the [[Series Finale]], {{spoiler|this is how The Man in Black goes out, when he is shot by Kate and kicked off the cliff by Jack.}}
** You know, we can't bring up ''Lost'' without mentioning [[Destination Defenestration|what Locke's father did to him]] can we? Although it doesn't qualify as "Death", it broke his spine.
* On ''Las Vegas'', Monica Mancuso <ref>
** And in the season five premiere, Sam's kidnapper falls out of his airplane to his death.
* In ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]'', Sydney faces off against her mother, Irina Derevko in the series finale. After a rather brutal showdown, the fight ends on a rooftop, where Irina ends up falling through a skylight to her death. Mmmm, closure.
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* This trope nearly happened to Rouge in ''[[Sonic Adventure 2]]''. After a fight with Knuckles over the Master Emerald, she loses her footing and falls towards a pit of lava. Knuckles grabs her hand at the last minute, "saving her life", even though, as a bat, [[Acrophobic Bird|she could have just flown back up]]... She still could have used the updrafts to glide back up or glided to one of the girders. Most likely, she was exhausted from her fight with Knuckles. Another subversion occurs in ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball]]'', with Dr. Eggman himself. Sonic falls with him, but is saved by Tails. Eggman survives though.
* At the end of GBA RPG ''[[Golden Sun]]: The Lost Age'', primary villain Alex meets his end when he falls into the crack in the earth that destroyed Mt. Aleph. The main villains from the first game met a similar fate when they fell into the well of the Venus Lighthouse.
* ''[[Final Fight]]'' games have a tendency to end this way. In fact, the endboss' AI (at least in ''Final Fight II'', and the first, probably in the third as well) is set so that when he is at critically low health, he suddenly jumps to and stubbornly insists on staying on the side of the screen with the obvious window (complete with a [[Turns Red|special otherwise-unseen form of ass kicking]] [[Berserk Button|if you attempt to get behind him]]
** ''[[Final Fight]] 3'''s last boss stubbonly stands next to a power switch on the roof of city hall. He is electrocuted when you land the final blow, and you character escapes off the roof as it explodes. But he doesn't fall.
* [[Fatal Fury|Geese Howard]] gets his at the end of ''Real Bout'', complete with a rejection of Terry's outstretched hand and evil laughter as he plummets toward the ground. Geese, of course, also gets this at the end of [[Fatal Fury]]. Assuming you beat him. Otherwise, he sends YOUR character to a Disney Villain Death.
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* Happens to the psychotic hitchhiker at the end of the ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' movie "How I Spent My Summer Vacation". But being a [[Friday the 13th (film)|Jason Voorhees]] [[Expy]], it doesn't stop him from reappearing in the finale.
* In ''[[Ice Age]] 3'', Rudy is shoved off a cliff by Momma. Rudy survives to see the end credits, however.
* In the [[Direct to Video]] ''[[An American Tail]]: The Treasure of Manhattan Island'', two of the villain's underlings die by falling down an underground chasm ''and'' being drowned by a flood of water, being the only bad guys in any of the ''An American Tail'' movies that die. The three main villains of the movie, however, are the only villains in ''An American Tail'' who turn out to be [[Karma Houdini
* At the end of the fourth season of ''[[Winx Club]]'', the Winx fairies and the warrior fairy Nebula use coverage to freeze the three remaining fairy hunters in the Omega dimension. After being frozen, the three evil wizards fall into a hole as the cave starts collapsing.
* Double Subverted in the second season finale of ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]''. [[The Dog Bites Back|Terra]] throws [[Big Bad|Slade]] off a cliff and into a river of lava, but he catches himself on the rock, pulls himself back over the edge, and grabs her by the throat, at which point she ''blasts'' him over the edge with her full powers unleashed, and just so we know he's dead, we then see his mask dissolving in the lava. {{spoiler|Of course, he comes back from that too, courtesy of the show's [[Satan]]-[[Expy]], but that's not for another season. He outright said he would've been [[Killed Off for Real]] if Trigon hadn't intervened though.}}
* Ineptly used for the villain of ''[[The Adventures of the American Rabbit]]'' ...who's a bird. They do show that he's gotten very tired and his wings are covered with snow, but he falls/glides ''very slowly'' about twenty feet, lands in snow, and the sound effect when he hits is a gentle "puff". Um... I guess he's dead?
* The Mouse King in ''[[The Nutcracker Prince]]'' fits the bill as he was struggling to almost kill Clara, he loses strength and falls from the balcony and falls downward into his watery doom in the waters below Gingerbread Castle. After a splash, his crown is seen floating before it sinks back into the waters.
* In ''[[Star Wars: Clone Wars|Star Wars Clone Wars]]'', Anakin's fight with Asajj Ventress ends with Anakin pummelling on Ventress with a lightsaber,<ref>
* Played with in ''[[Chicken Run]]'', where the villainess is defeated by falling off an airplane. She survives the fall itself, but is (possibly) killed by the effects of it; the fall triggers a massive explosion, which destroys a barn, which causes the door of said barn to fall on top of her.
* In ''[[Regular Show]]'', this happens to {{spoiler|Susan}} in "Benson Be Gone". {{spoiler|After she goes [[One-Winged Angel]], a one shot character named Utopia performs a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to send her falling into a pit back into Hell.}}
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