Falling Chandelier of Doom: Difference between revisions

 

Generally it's a subtrope of [[Death By Looking Up]]. Might overlap with [[Impaled With Extreme Prejudice]].

 

== [[Advertising]] ==

* In the original ''[[Golden Sun (Video Game)|Golden Sun]]'' commercial, a woman faced an animated chandelier [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOvwdVp8Fvo DRAGON!] Years later, it made it into the games themselves as a summon in ''[[Golden Sun Dark Dawn (Video Game)|Golden Sun Dark Dawn]]''.

 

 

 

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

{{quote| '''Kronk:''' Strange... that usually works.<br />

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

* Subverted in ''[[The War of the Roses]]'': Barbara (Kathleen Turner) prepares to drop a chandelier onto her husband, Oliver, but he moves out of the way before she can drop it. {{spoiler|It ends up killing them both when, during a later fight, they both get on top of it and the supporting cables snap. This may not count, since they're both on top of the chandelier at the time.}}

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

{{quote| '''Marsha''': The Nancy Reagan chandelier! Woooooooh! * crash* }}

* ''[[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.

* In ''[[Hitman]]: Blood Money'', setting a bomb on the rope of a chandelier is one of the ways you can make a 'hit' [[Make It Look Like an Accident|look like an accident]]. Several missions practically invite you to drop chandeliers on people like this. In one mission, you actually got the chance to murder both a father and his son, by two separate chandeliers.

* In ''[[Luigis Mansion]]'', 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 ''[[James Bond]]: [[Everything or Nothing]]'', you must drop a whole lighting rig on some bad guys during the second half of "The Kiss Kiss Club" level.

* In the fine [[Sierra]] tradition of [[Everything Trying to Kill You]], [[Laura Bow]] in ''[[The Colonels Bequest]]'' can be killed by a falling chandelier if she steps on the wrong part of the hallway.

* ''[[Final Fight]]'''s last stage featured falling chandeliers. Which contained.. Turkeys, radios and two by fours..?

* In ''[[House of the Dead]]: Overkill'' you can create one on a bunch of mutants as they break into Papa's house of Pain.

* ''[[Castlevania]]'': Appears multiple times as an obstacle in richly-adorned environments. [[Stalactite Spite|Tries to fall on you if you walk past them]]. In ''Castlevania Adventure: Rebirth'' some of the chandeliers can be used to kill enemies.

* ''[[Super Mario RPG (Video Game)|Super Mario RPG]]'' inverts it with the first fight against Bowser: You fight him ''on the chandeliers''. You win by severing the chain on his.

* 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''...

{{quote| [[Marik Plays Bloodlines (Let's Play)|Why is that doing that?]] I do not like when that does that! Okay, I'm choosing to believe that this whole house is like that house from Beauty and the Beast and all furniture is going to start singing at me. Here, watch this - ''Be our guest, be our guest'' - (CRASH) - Oh my god, Lumiere tried to kill me! }}

* 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]].

* ''[[Mickey Mousecapade]]'' has these in the Fun House. They can take out enemies as well as you.