Tropescilloscope: Disney Villain Death

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

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