Disney Villain Death: Difference between revisions

{{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.

{{quote|'''Panic:''' He's not gonna be happy when he gets outta there...

'''Pain:''' You mean ''"if"'' he gets outta there.

* [[Brian Blessed|Clayton]]'s death in ''[[Tarzan (Disney film)|Tarzan]]'' [[Family-Unfriendly Death|may be the most violent of all Disney Villain Deaths.]] Falling out of a tree and accidentally hanging oneself with jungle vines. We even get to hear his neck snap...The storm makes it possible to see the shadow of his dangling body for a second, just to drive the point home that [[Never Found the Body|yes, he died and the corpse is there if they want to check]].

** An alternate ending averts the trope, but is arguably ''less'' gruesome than the one that made it to theaters. In this ending, Tarzan confronts Clayton on Clayton's junk. A small fire breaks out when Tarzan frees all the gorillas that the hunter had captured. Tarzan then pins Clayton's shirt sleeve to an oil barrel with a knife (after choosing not to simply cut out his heart) and leaves him there as the oil from the barrel seeps towards the flames. The last shot is of the ship exploding. (This ending was cut as the filmmakers felt it went against Tarzan telling Clayton "I'm not a man like you").

* 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]]''—but there's a hilarious twist to that...

* In ''[[Rambo|First Blood]]'', sadistic head deputy Art Galt, ignoring Chief Teasle's orders to capture Rambo alive, tried to shoot him from a helicopter. After being cornered in a cliff, Rambo threw a rock at it, causing the helicopter to pitch heavily and drop Gault to his death into the gorge. Unlike Disney, we are shown proof-positive that Galt ain't coming back when Rambo picks him up to steal his gear and sees his face turned to hamburger.

** This also happens to the equally sadistic torturer Sergeant Yushin in ''Rambo: First Blood Part 2''. Rambo throws him out of a helicopter.

* [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]] commented on this when discussing Walker's death in ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (film)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] III'':

{{quote|"Now, how many times have you seen this shot in a movie? TOO MANY FUCKING TIMES! This was one of the biggest cliches of the time. What happens at the end of ''[[Batman (film)|Batman]]''? The Joker falls! What happens at the end of ''[[Dick Tracy (film)|Dick Tracy]]''? Big Boy falls!"}}

*** The holiday special opens with a dream sequence where a ''giant'' Tai Lung shows up, prompting Po to say "I thought you were d-" [[Never Say "Die"|before getting cut off]]. Of course, that only points to what Po ''thought'' was true...

* Several [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] villains have fallen to their deaths.

** In ''[[The Spy Who Loved Me]]'', a mook is almost falling, if not for holding Bond's tie. After 007 gets useful info outta him, he lets the henchman fall to death.

*** Scratch "lets", substitute "actually cuts the tie the mook is holding onto and." Who'd have thought the Roger Moore era would have one of the nastiest bits of cold-blooded murder committed by Bond in the series?

* 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]]''.

*** Though this doesn’t kill her; Picard snapping her spine afterward does.

* Henry Evans from ''[[The Good Son]]''. It's made chilling when you take into account that the character was a ''kid'' played by Macaulay Culkin. Additionally, his mother deliberately dropped him rather than just falling off. She could only keep hold of one of them though, and Henry honestly [[Karmic Death|had it coming]].

* In ''[[Mystery Men]]'', the main villain, Casanova Frankenstein meets his end when Mr. Furious throws him off a ledge into his own Doomsdaydevice. {{spoiler|It's not the fall itself that kills him but the machine, and in a rather graphic way.}}

* In the beginning of the first ''[[Hellboy (film)|Hellboy]]'', Rasputin (Yes, [[Rasputinian Death|THAT]] Rasputin) is sucked through a portal into another dimension (so a sideways version of this), of course the collapsing portal happens to be smaller than his body... Ouch.

* ''[[Our Man Flint]]''. While fighting two Galaxy security guards, Flint knocks them off a catwalk to their deaths on the ground below.

* ''[[Tremors]]''. Graboids are sensitive to loud noise and stampede away from them. Valentine detonates a bomb and sends the last Graboid over the edge of a cliff to its death.

* ''[[Discworld]]'' examples:

** At the end of ''[[Discworld/Wyrd Sisters|Wyrd Sisters]]'', after Duke Felmet has gone over the edge and started believing himself to be a ghost, he [[Incredibly Lame Pun|literally goes over the edge]] of a parapet while dramatically ranting to [[The Grim Reaper|Death]] about how he plans to haunt Lancre Castle.

** In ''[[Discworld/Hogfather|Hogfather]]'' Teatime's first death comes about from a fall. However, it's one he suffered when hanging on to Susan's leg, who asked herself "Is this guy crazy enough to kill the person holding him?" and based on the obvious answer, kicked him.

* [[Redwall]] has a variation. So far, in 21 books, [[Ancestral Weapon|The Sword of Martin the Warrior]] has only been used ''twice'' to directly kill the [[Big Bad]], and once in the most recent book, ''The Sable Quean''. They still can get crushed under giant bells (Cluny, ''Redwall''), Drown (Tsarmina, ''Mossflower''), Fall down a hole (Slagar, ''Mattimeo''), etc.

** Colonel Zol in his [[One-Winged Angel|Gold Werewolf]] form is punched off a cliff by Kamen Rider 2 and explodes on impact.

* In ''[[CSI New York]]'', Mac is chasing a serial killer across a rooftop. The killer feigns surrender, then attacks Mac, steals his handcuffs, cuffs himself, and tosses himself off the building onto a police car below. Disney Villain Suicide?

* In ''[[Crossing Jordan]]'', the title character's half-brother threw himself from a third story window into the Charleston River when cornered by the police, taking all his secrets about their mother's murder with him. Though his body was never recovered, he never appeared on the show again, so it's a pretty safe assumption he's good and gone.

* In ''[[Justified (TV series)|Justified]]'', Raylan has to confront Coover in [[Growing the Beard|Brother's Keeper]], leading to Coover's plunge down the mine shaft.

** The whole fight against Meta-Ridley at the start of Metroid Prime 3 is played entirely in free fall. As such, when you deliver the final blow, you're saved by a fellow bounty hunter, but Ridley isn't so lucky, plummeting to his death, though he eventually returns thanks to Phazon corruption.

* Two of the possible deaths for {{spoiler|Scott Shelby}} in ''[[Heavy Rain]]''.

* ''[[The Force Unleashed]]'' calls it "Long fall" and gives you extra forcepoints for throwing mooks into pits.

** Rahm Kota gets this honor but returns later on. Also, Starkiller throws Shaak Ti in the Sarlacc and thinks he is done but she back out very fast.

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