Tropescilloscope: Disney Villain Death

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

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