Looks like the LD50 for them is higher than for humans though, for us it’s 8 feet.
A big part of that is back then violence in movies was much more theoretical than shown on screen. So you didn’t usually see characters die on screen, it was more an implied death than a visual one.
Disney’s Goofy yell:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOqbMSzd7Yg
Goofy yell in the Emperors New Groove:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEOi1uMZFzA
That’s because they make the mistake of looking down. The Cartoon Laws of Physics clearly state that gravity only takes effect after a character looks down.
There is always a lot of villains accidentally meeting their comeuppances. It is a way of defeating the villain without turning the protagonist into a killer.
Counting Pixar? Don’t forget the villain from “Up.”
Also the Ducktails Movie.
Also, Jaffar disintegrated rather horribly when his magic lamp was thrown into hot lava by Llago in Aladdin 2.
You forgot Bambi’s Mother. I think the Hunter used an AR-15.
Fewer villains die by falling than parents of the hero die for whatever reason before the movie starts. It must be some Disney rule that nobody has two parents.