It's best to take the sequel's word for it.(The comics and sequels, however, show him still alive, minus one life). But their Right-Hand-Cat Lucifer, who is mean even by Disney cat standards, terrorizing the mice and basically doing horrible things when Lady Tremaine isn't available, falls from the window of Cinderella's tower. Lady Tremaine and Cinderella's step sisters don't really get punished at all ( Unless you count Birth By Sleep). A strange thing happens in Cinderella.However, in its theatrical release (As part of Fun and Fancy Free) and at least one television rebroadcast, Willy is shown to have survived.and made it to Los Angeles somehow. In Mickey and the Beanstalk, Willy the Giant falls to his death, just like in the original story.Subverted in Bambi where Ronno actually survives being pushed off a cliff and into a river by Bambi while they are both fighting over Faline.Though it did not happen in Pinocchio, The Coachman gets kicked down a cliff by Pinocchio in the SNES game. The Queen/Witch in Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs gets the ground she's standing on struck by lightning and falls off a cliff and the huge boulder she was trying to use to kill the Dwarfs instead falls down the cliff after her and she gets eaten by vultures off-screen.An old Sunday comic serial had a giant and his vulture get an early version of this! 1 Disney examples, in rough chronological orderĭisney examples, in rough chronological order.See Also: High Altitude Interrogation and Unhand Them, Villain!.Īs a Death Trope, Spoilers ahead may be unmarked. There is also the non-villainous, non-conflict related variation of the trope, where a character decides to jump off a high ledge due to some stupid idea they have (eg, thinking they'd fly). And, of course, you don't have to be a Disney villain to meet your end this way. It seems only good guys get to have those (there is a villainous variant, but Disney doesn't use it often). Ironically, even when this Trope is applied, the survival rate of Disney villains is remarkably low, as even when they Never Found the Body, it is usually highly implied that they perished. Keep in mind that this can also apply to characters other than villains, although it's fair to say that most heroes have ways to survive falls.Įxtremely apparent in Disney's "Bronze Age" (the string of late-80's early-90's hits). Please ignore the uncomfortable realization that having the villain meet his or her end as an unquestionably ghastly mess on the floor isn't any less violent than any of the alternatives. This is usually invoked in order to dispatch the villain without resorting to a messier and more visible end which might upset the kids (or the Moral Guardians). Their hands left bloodless, the hero and heroine can get married and live happily ever after and whatnot. Heck, they may even cry " Take My Hand!" as they fail to Save the Villain. Or, they could have a boulder or similar heavy object falling down with them, or fall into a deadly substance like lava, molten bronze, or even flesh-eating green acid, as water alone won't always do it.Īs with other Karmic Deaths, this is often invoked to conveniently relieve the hero of dispatching the villain himself. Sometimes, a fatal wound will be inflicted upon the villain just before taking the plunge (whether caused by the hero or by the villain's own actions) just to ensure that he or she is definitely dead. Note that none of these cases have to involve a Climbing Climax, though it may involve a One-Winged Angel transformation beforehand (which is by far the second-favorite trope of Disney villains). There is at least one case of a Disney villain meeting his end by falling up ( off a space ship and into space), once sideways ( off the Chinese Imperial Palace by aid of a rocket), and another where a villain falls "out" by being dragged to his doom by demons. The varied list of things to fall from includes cliffs, over waterfalls, out of trees, and off the tops of buildings. Unfortunately for them, even though they are animated characters, they cannot defy gravity. It appears that villains in the Disney Animated Canon have an especially curious tendency to exit the film by falling off or out of things.
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