Falling Chandelier of Doom: Difference between revisions

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"[[Genre Savvy|That looks like an accident waiting to happen if ever I saw one]]", she mumbled.''|''[[Discworld/Maskerade|Maskerade]]'' }}

 

== [[Film]] -- Animated ==

* Subverted in ''[[The Emperor's New Groove|The Emperors New Groove]]'', where [[Punch Clock Villain]] Kronk tries to drop a chandelier on his boss Yzma, but she's so skinny [[By Wall That Is Holey|she slips through a hole in it]] and emerges unscathed.

'''Yzma:''' And so does this! (drops Kronk down a [[Trap Door]]) }}

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

* In ''[[Die Another Day]]'', [[James Bond]] casually shoots down a chandelier made of ice which lands on [[The Dragon]] 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.

* In Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of ''[[Hamlet]]'', Hamlet (Branagh) drops a chandelier on Claudius (Derek Jacobi) during the final battle, in addition to poisoning and stabbing him. [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|Uh...]] [[Rasputinian Death|Yeah]]

* ''[[Clue (film)|Clue]]'' has an accidentally-dropped chandelier--the maid accidentally shoots the rope holding it up while trying to shoot the lock on a door. One of the three endings drops the other chandelier in the hall in a similar, but even funnier, manner.

* In ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' (1939), the Scarecrow drops one onto the Wicked Witch of the West's Winkie soldiers.

* In ''[[Godzilla (film)|Godzilla]]'' (1998) the heroes clear a path through a host of baby Godzillas by shooting down a succession of chandeliers.

* Cruelly parodied in ''[[Mars Attacks!]]!'', as this is how the First Lady of USA (Glenn Close) dies:

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

* Non-fatal version in ''[[Demolition Man]]''. Phoenix is hiding behind an information terminal with a very large, cone shaped ceiling light overhead and a glass floor beneath (it was an underground exhibit). Spartan shoots the line holding the fixture up, causing it to land near Phoenix and drop him into the exhibit.

* In ''[[Killers]]'', Spencer shoots the rope for an antler decoration, causing it to swing and impale the hitwoman strangling him.

* Done in ''[[The Three Musketeers (1993 film)|The Three Musketeers 1993]]'', with [[Boisterous Bruiser|Porthos]] riding the chandelier down:

'''Porthos:''' Oh, drat. I was trying to hit Rochefort. }}

* As in the book, Dobby drops a chandelier on Bellatrix (or tries to) in ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter]] and the Deathly Hallows Part 1''. Being a house-elf, he doesn't mean to ''kill'' Bellatrix, only to maim...or seriously injure.

* ''[[Harry Potter]] and the [[Deathly Hallows]]'' has Dobby dropping the Malfoy's chandelier over them and Bellatrix.

** 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:

* One gets pulled down intentionally during the ''[[Legacy of the Force]]'' novels (''Exiles'' by [[Aaron Allston]], page 285). Of course, nobody dies, since there are two telekinetics in the room, but it was a good diversion.

* Much of the [[Dean Koontz]] novel ''Forever Odd'' takes place in the ruins of the Panamint Resort and Spa, which was severely damaged by an earthquake. Several people were killed in the ballroom when a massive chandelier fell on them during the quake; although this was an accident, it happened because the builders cut corners and suspended the chandelier from a wooden beam rather than a steel beam.

== [[Music]] ==

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

* A scene in the [[Meat Loaf]] video "I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)" has a chandelier fall on the cops searching the castle. The Literal Video version has [[Teen Girl Squad]] type commentary "CHANDELIER'D!" "Ow! My only scene!"

 

* In ''[[Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box]]'', the falling chandelier doesn't kill anyone, but it does lead to the rickety old mansion [[Collapsing Lair|collapsing.]]

* During the course of ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines]]'', 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''...

* ''[[Splatterhouse]]'' had this happen at the end of one [[Boss Battle]], with said chandelier [[One-Hit Kill|killing you instantly]] if you're under it when it drops.

* In ''[[Batman: Arkham Asylum]]'' Batman can drop a chandelier at one point, although there it's a means to smash the glass floor of the room and save two hostages from [[The Joker|Joker]].