Tropescilloscope: Disney Villain Death

Character dies by falling off-screen to their death. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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More Tropes Pragmatic Villainy Biopic Hero Antagonist Half the Man He Used to Be Cloudcuckoolander Broken Bird Chase Scene Motor Mouth Air-Vent Passageway The Big Guy Ass Shove Love Triangle Blood Knight Costume Porn Hong Kong Films Interrupted Suicide Your Head A-Splode Funny Background Event Epic Fail Dark Is Not Evil Genre Savvy Affectionate Parody From Nobody to Nightmare Adaptation Distillation Handicapped Badass The Starscream Bond Villain Stupidity Bring My Brown Pants Mr. Exposition Nice Hat I Have Your Wife Body Horror Pretty in Mink Unreliable Narrator Drill Sergeant Nasty BFG Only One Name Camera Abuse NO INDOOR VOICE Canadian Movies Took a Level in Jerkass Central Theme 20 Minutes into the Future The '80s Refuge in Audacity Oh, Crap! Scenery Porn Call-Forward Actually Pretty Funny Stuff Blowing Up Fiery Redhead Earn Your Happy Ending Kick the Son of a Bitch Foreshadowing Loads and Loads of Characters And Starring Femme Fatale Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Heroic Sacrifice Mr. Fanservice Ambiguous Ending Death by Sex Your Cheating Heart Brainless Beauty Evil Is Petty Author Appeal Author Avatar Throwing Your Sword Always Works Epic Movie Decoy Protagonist Alliterative Name Demonic Possession Mugging the Monster Armor-Piercing Question Black Dude Dies First Undying Loyalty Reasonable Authority Figure The X of Y Sexy Discretion Shot Sir Swears-a-Lot Only Sane Man Adaptational Attractiveness Sacrificial Lion Historical-Domain Character Jerk with a Heart of Gold Race Lift Soft Glass I Need a Freaking Drink Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Morality Pet Becoming the Mask Humiliation Conga Almost Kiss I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Unspoken Plan Guarantee The Lancer Crazy-Prepared The Dreaded Crapsack World Humans Are Bastards No Ending Only a Flesh Wound Improvised Weapon Break the Cutie Villain Ball Berserk Button Dirty Coward Ripped from the Headlines Eiffel Tower Effect Hypocritical Humor Say My Name Cruel and Unusual Death Sassy Black Woman Jerkass Line-of-Sight Name Star-Crossed Lovers Alpha Bitch Action Girl Four-Temperament Ensemble Due to the Dead It Can Think The Stinger Apocalypse How Needs Wiki Magic Love Green-Eyed Monster Slasher Movie Camp Gay Foil Bittersweet Ending Awesome, but Impractical Index of Film Westerns Rousing Speech MacGuffin Sealed Evil in a Can Fish out of Water Kubrick Stare Villain Song Rich Bitch Exactly What It Says on the Tin Eldritch Abomination Mighty Whitey Gorn Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Bullying a Dragon Those Two Guys Butt-Monkey Affably Evil Not Using the "Z" Word In the Back Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Kill It with Fire Poor Communication Kills Meaningful Background Event Dark Action Girl Meaningful Echo Informed Ability Male Gaze Fantastic Racism Award-Bait Song From Bad to Worse Action Prologue Composite Character Leaning on the Fourth Wall Accidental Murder Dull Surprise Would Hurt a Child Ungrateful Bastard Chekhov's Gun Important Haircut Evil Cannot Comprehend Good He Who Fights Monsters Five-Man Band Word of God The Un-Reveal Outrun the Fireball Never Found the Body Would Hit a Girl Wrong Genre Savvy Not Quite Dead Actor Allusion Character Development Music Stories The '60s Woman in White Guile Hero Taking the Bullet Hooker with a Heart of Gold Ghost Fiction Age Lift Captain Ersatz Idiot Ball Roaring Rampage of Revenge How We Got Here Adaptational Heroism Framing Device Yandere Only Known by Their Nickname Adults Are Useless Empathic Environment Self-Deprecation Laser-Guided Karma Twist Ending Brutal Honesty Mad Scientist The Cameo No Antagonist Posthumous Character In Name Only Pay Evil unto Evil My Beloved Smother Eureka Moment Woman Scorned Pretty Little Headshots She Cleans Up Nicely Jerk Jock Straight Gay Fainting Batman Gambit Make It Look Like an Accident Ms. Fanservice Death Seeker Wham Line Historical In-Joke Bolivian Army Ending Stealth Hi/Bye Psychological Thriller Product Placement Wounded Gazelle Gambit Disproportionate Retribution Artistic License – Law Random Events Plot All Girls Want Bad Boys Parental Substitute Hidden Depths The Lost Lenore Visual Pun Trailers Always Spoil Sole Survivor Mistaken for Gay Heroes Want Redheads Shower Scene The Alcoholic The Oner Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Rule of Cool Early-Bird Cameo Unresolved Sexual Tension Works Set in World War II Intergenerational Friendship Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Badass Grandpa Enemy Mine Even Evil Has Standards Dramatic Irony No Name Given The End... Or Is It? Eyepatch of Power Damsel in Distress Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Evil vs. Evil Insult Backfire Mood Whiplash Abusive Parents Redemption Equals Death Bait-and-Switch Arranged Marriage Determinator aka: The Determinator Freudian Excuse The Hero Dies Totally Radical Retired Badass Knife Nut Disappeared Dad Rule of Three Evil Brit Eye Scream Meaningful Name Cool Car Nothing Is Scarier Plot Hole Early Installment Weirdness Freeze-Frame Bonus One-Man Army timeperiod Ambiguous Disorder Evil Laugh Zombie Stories Developing Doomed Characters Male Frontal Nudity Badass Normal Show Within a Show Not What It Looks Like The Musical Rated M for Manly Betty and Veronica Continuity Nod May–December Romance French Films My Greatest Failure Storming the Castle Cool Old Guy Big Brother Instinct Eagleland What the Hell, Hero? Noodle Incident Wretched Hive Adaptational Villainy Stock Footage Pyrrhic Victory Insane Troll Logic folderlabel The Chick No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Amoral Attorney Downer Ending Obfuscating Stupidity Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Made of Iron Big Fancy House Car Fu Fingore Flipping the Bird The Dragon Curb-Stomp Battle Evil Sounds Deep Mind Screw No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Creative Closing Credits Russian Films Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Television Movie Index Pet the Dog The Chessmaster Department of Redundancy Department Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Peek-a-Boo Corpse Imagine Spot Missing Mom Didn't Think This Through Skewed Priorities Redshirt Army Re-Cut Gory Discretion Shot Faux Affably Evil Taking You with Me Depraved Bisexual Based on a True Story Real Life Dramedy Book-Ends Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Film Noir Index Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Easily Forgiven Anachronism Stew And the Adventure Continues Closed Circle Destination Defenestration Death by Irony Animated Credits Opening Psychopathic Manchild The Power of Love All Men Are Perverts Cold-Blooded Torture Black and Gray Morality Greater-Scope Villain The Remake Ax-Crazy For Want of a Nail Vomit Indiscretion Shot Grey and Gray Morality She's Got Legs Bond One-Liner Moment Killer Parental Incest Spiteful Spit Ship Tease Shirtless Scene Kids Are Cruel As You Know Bloody Hilarious Hollywood Law Protagonist Title Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Made of Explodium Advertised Extra Immune to Bullets Bilingual Bonus Parental Abandonment Monumental Damage Sinister Minister Papa Wolf The Stoic Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Soundtrack Dissonance Aluminum Christmas Trees Conspicuous CG Race Against the Clock Shoot the Shaggy Dog A.I. Is a Crapshoot Brother–Sister Incest Card-Carrying Villain Bowdlerise Failed a Spot Check Time Skip Evil Counterpart Took a Level in Badass Better to Die than Be Killed Translation Convention Superhero It's All About Me Ascended Extra Establishing Character Moment The Faceless The '90s Dissonant Serenity Asshole Victim Let's Get Dangerous! Mexican Standoff Agony of the Feet The Ditz Celebrity Paradox Obviously Evil Auto Erotica Historical Villain Upgrade Friend to All Children World of Ham Darkest Hour Left the Background Music On Have a Gay Old Time Silent Movie Evil Plan Last-Name Basis Punch-Clock Villain Anyone Can Die Reality Has No Subtitles Grievous Bottley Harm Japanese Films Here We Go Again! Malevolent Masked Men Shell-Shocked Veteran Double-Meaning Title N-Word Privileges Manchild The Load I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Fire-Forged Friends Daylight Horror Red Herring Adapted Out Chewing the Scenery Cat Fight Very Loosely Based on a True Story Cowboy Cop Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Psycho for Hire Darker and Edgier Our Vampires Are Different Scare Chord I'm a Humanitarian Gender Flip Parental Neglect The Hero Dirty Cop Getting Crap Past the Radar "Shaggy Dog" Story Calling the Old Man Out Fate Worse than Death Broken Aesop Disguised in Drag Fan Disservice Vampire Fiction All Just a Dream No Celebrities Were Harmed The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Arch-Enemy Light Is Not Good The Mafia The Bad Guy Wins Action Genre Naked People Are Funny Red Right Hand Logo Joke All for Nothing Call-Back It Will Never Catch On Sci-Fi Horror An Arm and a Leg No-Sell Running Gag Casting Gag He Knows Too Much Deal with the Devil Unwitting Instigator of Doom Rasputinian Death Adaptational Badass Really Gets Around Stylistic Suck Demoted to Extra Heterosexual Life-Partners Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Artistic License – Geography Never Trust a Trailer Sadistic Choice Narrator My God, What Have I Done? Paper-Thin Disguise Dirty Old Man Attempted Rape Setting Update Rule of Symbolism Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Non-Indicative Name Big "NO!" Get Out! Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Fantasy Films Exact Words Dropped a Bridge on Him The '70s Bloodier and Gorier Bare Your Midriff Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Suddenly SHOUTING! B-Movie Mooks Gratuitous English Anti-Hero Offscreen Teleportation Gilligan Cut Heroic BSoD '80s Hair Room Full of Crazy Same Language Dub Military and Warfare Films Badass Bookworm Catch-Phrase Shown Their Work The Quiet One Overprotective Dad Sequel Escalation Lampshade Hanging Happily Married Shout-Out A Father to His Men Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Maybe Ever After Diabolus ex Machina British Films Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Naïve Newcomer Cassandra Truth Artistic License – Biology Badass in a Nice Suit Suspiciously Specific Denial Implacable Man Novelization Plucky Comic Relief Dual Wielding Dumb Blonde Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Kick the Dog Black Best Friend Film Noir Pre-Mortem One-Liner Frame-Up Flashback As the Good Book Says... Anachronic Order Our Zombies Are Different A Minor Kidroduction Dark Reprise Unusually Uninteresting Sight Those Wacky Nazis Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Hair-Trigger Temper Manly Tears Tagline Gold Digger After the End Badass Longcoat Super Strength Villain Protagonist The Stoner Hell Is That Noise Offscreen Moment of Awesome Retcon Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Combat Pragmatist Reality Ensues Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor The Smart Guy Fourth Date Marriage Ironic Echo Names to Run Away from Really Fast Improbable Aiming Skills Playing Gertrude Anguished Declaration of Love Victoria's Secret Compartment Not So Above It All Black Comedy Disney Death Hollywood Darkness Contrived Coincidence Madness Mantra Corpsing Up to Eleven Break the Haughty Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Toplessness from the Back Animal Motifs Hero of Another Story Australian Movies A God Am I Accidental Misnaming Adaptation Dye-Job Bunny-Ears Lawyer The Voiceless Vacation Films Artistic License – History Foregone Conclusion You Have Outlived Your Usefulness I Did What I Had to Do Famous Last Words The Casanova In Medias Res Defrosting Ice Queen Older Than They Look Mystery and Detective Films Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Beta Couple A Date with Rosie Palms Heel Realization What You Are in the Dark Riddle for the Ages The Smurfette Principle Villain with Good Publicity The Atoner Neck Snap Mercy Kill Retirony Neck Lift Killed Mid-Sentence Married to the Job Credits Gag Red Eyes, Take Warning Fake Shemp Slashed Throat The Vamp War Is Hell Spanner in the Works Silence Is Golden Scenery Gorn Token Minority And I Must Scream Disney Villain Death Gainax Ending Defiant to the End Cat Scare Expository Hairstyle Change You Killed My Father Not So Stoic The Great Depression Slasher Smile The Dog Bites Back Insistent Terminology Blood from the Mouth Bloodless Carnage Scary Black Man Manipulative Bastard The Mole Belligerent Sexual Tension Facial Horror Creator Cameo Suspiciously Similar Substitute Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Reality Is Unrealistic La Résistance Smoking Is Cool Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Mundane Made Awesome Overly Long Gag The Ace Cool Shades Unusual Euphemism Italian Films You Have Failed Me Dark and Troubled Past Stalker with a Crush Big-Bad Ensemble Meet Cute "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Fat Bastard Hate Sink Politically Incorrect Villain "The Reason You Suck" Speech This Is Gonna Suck Good Is Not Nice Every Car Is a Pinto Christmas Movies Index Fanservice Dwindling Party Big Bad Duumvirate Bar Brawl Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Put on a Bus Wicked Cultured Despair Event Horizon Funny Foreigner Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Serial Killer Video Credits Faking the Dead Ominous Latin Chanting Antagonist Title Nice Guy Bavarian Fire Drill Big Eater Tranquil Fury Romantic Comedy Never My Fault The Ghost Death of a Child Jitter Cam The Brute Pimped-Out Dress Properly Paranoid Once More, with Clarity! Children Are Innocent Does Not Like Shoes Rule of Funny Captain Obvious Big Damn Heroes Wham Shot Bottomless Magazines Alas, Poor Villain Genre Throwback Homage Romantic False Lead Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Lock and Load Montage Danny Peary Cult Movies List Ambiguously Gay Heel–Face Turn Action Survivor Daddy's Girl Catapult Nightmare Dogged Nice Guy Police are Useless Arc Words Big Bad Spared by the Adaptation Drugs Are Bad Martial Arts Movie Leave the Camera Running Fanservice Extra Spell My Name with an "S" Coming-of-Age Story Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Red Oni, Blue Oni Adaptation Name Change Horror Comedy Chekhov's Gunman All There in the Script Mythology Gag The Place Creepy Child Driven to Suicide Shut Up, Hannibal! One Steve Limit Beware the Nice Ones Aside Glance As Himself Does This Remind You of Anything? Pragmatic Adaptation Irony Corrupt Corporate Executive Adaptation Expansion Smug Snake Beauty Is Never Tarnished Well-Intentioned Extremist Vitriolic Best Buds Cain and Abel Dying Moment of Awesome The Cavalry Death by Adaptation Badass Boast Sequel Hook Extremely Short Timespan Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Face Death with Dignity Deadpan Snarker Final Girl Bury Your Gays Improbable Weapon User Deliberately Monochrome Together in Death Amusing Injuries Adorkable Be Careful What You Wish For Small Name, Big Ego Red Shirt Rewatch Bonus Bald of Evil Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Market-Based Title Dressing as the Enemy Cool Old Lady Henpecked Husband Face–Heel Turn Deus ex Machina Honor Before Reason Authority Equals Asskicking Sports Stories For the Evulz Drives Like Crazy Kill 'em All Animal Title Index The Reveal Knight Templar Bad "Bad Acting" Blackmail Fun with Acronyms Jump Scare More Dakka Tap on the Head One-Word Title Villain Opening Scene Anti-Villain Fatal Flaw Worthy Opponent Chiaroscuro Deliberate Values Dissonance Sanity Slippage Shipper on Deck Domestic Abuse Horror Films Loophole Abuse Cluster F-Bomb Artistic License – Gun Safety Crucified Hero Shot Match Cut Death Glare Expy What Happened to the Mouse? The '50s Bound and Gagged Beard of Evil Dutch Angle Dramatic Gun Cock Rape as Drama Man on Fire Hoist by His Own Petard It's Personal Stealth Pun Off with His Head! Bitch in Sheep's Clothing An Aesop You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Spiritual Successor Karmic Death Public Domain Feature Films Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Tempting Fate Curse Cut Short Broken Pedestal Intrepid Reporter Laughing Mad The Film of the Book Reckless Gun Usage Deconstruction Hope Spot Evil Is Hammy Extreme Doormat All There in the Manual Off-into-the-Distance Ending O.O.C. Is Serious Business Instant Death Bullet Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Too Dumb to Live Cool Guns Real Life Writes the Plot Take a Third Option The Bully Gone Horribly Right Bland-Name Product The Alleged Car Leitmotif Science Fiction Films Only in It for the Money Manic Pixie Dream Girl Title Drop Crazy Jealous Guy Not So Different Hypocrite Even Evil Has Loved Ones Training Montage Adult Fear Covers Always Lie Country Matters Whole Plot Reference Take That! Distracted by the Sexy Not Even Bothering with the Accent Drowning My Sorrows Genre Shift Breaking the Fourth Wall Jerkass Has a Point German Films Revenge Double Entendre There Is No Kill Like Overkill Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Blatant Lies Comically Missing the Point Artistic License – Military Large Ham Guns Akimbo Back from the Dead Chekhov's Skill Evil-Detecting Dog An Axe to Grind Villainous Breakdown Fatal Family Photo True Companions Lighter and Softer Abhorrent Admirer Black Comedy Rape Groin Attack Love at First Sight Historical Hero Upgrade Bi the Way Major Injury Underreaction Mama Bear No OSHA Compliance Precision F-Strike Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Those Two Bad Guys Bad Boss Did Not Get the Girl "Awesome McCool" Name Artistic License – Physics Annoying Younger Sibling Punny Name Documentary Karma Houdini Thriller Serious Business Vomit Discretion Shot Babies Ever After "Well Done, Son!" Guy Recycled IN SPACE! Everyone Has Standards Film Series Slap-Slap-Kiss Determinator As Long as It Sounds Foreign Stepford Smiler The Sociopath Brick Joke Truth in Television Canon Foreigner Police Brutality Men Are the Expendable Gender Big Applesauce Boom, Headshot! Obstructive Bureaucrat Dies Wide Open