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If the ledge is high enough, a [[Disney Villain Death]] may occur.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
* Subverted in ''[[My-HiME]]'', where Natsuki fires at Nagi and he appears to have fallen victim, at least until his rail-clinging hands become visible.▼
* ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'': {{spoiler|Tenma shoots Roberto off of a balcony in a library. He survives.}}▼
== [[Film]] ==
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* A nameless Indian in ''[[The Last of the Mohicans|Last of the Mohicans]]'' is shot far into the air above a cliff because of [[Ledge Gravity]], uttering a [[Wilhelm Scream]] on the way down.
* Happens in ''[[Austin Powers]]'' a few times, which makes sense considering it's a ''[[James Bond]]'' parody.
▲== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
▲* Subverted in ''[[My-HiME]]'', where Natsuki fires at Nagi and he appears to have fallen victim, at least until his rail-clinging hands become visible.
▲* ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'': {{spoiler|Tenma shoots Roberto off of a balcony in a library. He survives.}}
== [[Literature]] ==
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* There's a variant in ''The Wrath of God'' by Jack Higgins (writing as James Graham) when [[Boxed Crook]] Janos leans out of a tower window to fire a submachine gun at some bandits. As the narrator points out, it's a bad mistake, because the bandits are shooting back by that point. Janos abruptly slumps across the windowsill, and then, because he's very fat, his weight pulls him all the way out and twenty feet down to the cobblestones. The movie gave him a [[Taking You with Me|much cooler death involving a hand grenade at pointblank range]].
== [[Live
* The two-story saloon version is parodied in a dream/fantasy sequence in an episode of ''[[Family Matters]]'', in which Carl Winslow mortally wounds a bandit version of Urkel on the first floor of the establishment, who then dramatically makes his way around the set, climbing up the stairs, only to fall through the railing into a table on the ground level right next to where he started.
* Although he survives with minor injuries, this happens to Silar in the ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' episode ''Upgrades'', when Jack O'Neill accidentally pushes him off the stairs and over a railing. (Silar is also played by the series stunt coordinator)
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* In the ''[[Hitman]]'' series of games (Or ''Blood Money'' at least) pushing someone into a railing causes them to fall over it, and their death will be considered an accident by anyone discovering the body (no matter how many other 'accidental' or overtly-suspicious deaths may have occurred on the premises since your arrival). It kills them even when [[Death by Falling Over|the rail is three feet off the ground]].
* In ''[[Star Wars: Dark Forces|Jedi Academy]]'', one mission starts with Force-pushing a rock out of the way. The rock then flies right into someone who falls over a small ledge in this way.
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** In ''[[Star Wars: Dark Forces|Jedi Outcast]],'' in the Nar Shadda level, shooting down a rooftop sniper will cause him to plummet from the roof down through a window on the building in front of him.
*** The game's coding would deliberately make any enemy near a cliff tumble off of it. This can have amusing results when a stormtrooper is incredibly far away from a ledge, but seems to leap off of it anyways.
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