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* In ''Hannibal'', Mason Verger is eaten by the killer pigs he had been training to eat Hannibal Lecter. There's even a bit of [[The Dog Bites Back]] added in for good measure.
{{quote|'''Hannibal''': Hey, Cordell. Why don't you push him in? You can always say it was me.}}
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** The bridgekeeper in ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'':
{{quote|'''Bridgekeeper:''' What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
'''King Arthur:''' What do you mean? African or European?
'''Bridgekeeper:''' I don't know that! AAAAAAGGHHHH!!!! }}
:* The high priest in ''[[Monty Python's Life of Brian]]''; after sentencing a man to death by stoning, the victim only makes the rabid crowd angrier by pleading his case, and they ''really'' want to let him have it. However, said high priest won't let them until he finishes reading the accusation, and learns the hard way what happens to [[Too Dumb To Live|someone who threatens and insults an angry mob carrying rocks.]]
* In ''[[Help! I'm a Fish]]'', [[Big Bad|Joe]] the pilot fish dies ([[Nightmare Fuel|rather]] [[Family-Unfriendly Death|horribly]]) when he drinks too much of the Anti-Fish potion, effectively turning into a human. Whilst underwater. He drowns.
* ''[[The Avengers (1998 film)|The Avengers 1998]]''. While Sir August is fighting Steed, he's stabbed through the chest with his own fighting staff and then hit by a bolt of lightning from his [[Weather Control Machine]] and killed.
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* In ''[[Muppet Treasure Island]]'', the first step of Silver's planned mutiny is convincing First Mate Mr Arrow to leave the ship in a leaky lifeboat, causing the rest of the crew to assume he drowned. When the plan fails and Silver winds up in the brig, he escapes and flees the ship... in a lifeboat which later turns out to be incredibly leaky.
* ''[[Weekend at Bernie's]]'' starts this way: Bernie defrauds his own insurance company and rewards the two employees that discovered it with a weekend retreat at his place. He intends for the mob to off them; [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|the mob offs]] ''[[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|him]]'' [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|instead.]] [[Hilarity Ensues]]!
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* At the end of ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White and
* In ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'' Frollo, while trying to kill the heroes, keeps hacking the stone gargoyles they are clinging to with a sword. The
* Invoked in ''[[The Big Red One]]'' where a character discusses what a bother it is to set a Bangalore Torpedo(several tubes filled with explosives and fitted together to make a kind of snake-like petard).
* Mr. Barron, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children]]''. A demonic shapeshifter, he tried to kill [[The Hero|Jake]] by assuming Jake's form, hoping to fool the other children into killing the real Jake. But he forgets to tell his henchman the Hollow about this plan, and the Hollow kills ''him'', assuming he's Jake. Hollow, in turn, is slain by the real Jake.
* In ''[[Lord of Illusions]]'' after the sorcerer Nix is resurrected, he opens up a chasm to show off his power and reveal the wisdom of the grave. With Swann's help, Harry D'Amour knocks Nix into the chasm he opened up where he crashes through the bottom and into a magma pit. Once he's destroyed the chasm seals up.
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