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How many Disney villains actually die by falling?
11/19/17 | Me

Posted on 11/19/2017 8:10:06 PM PST by Simon Green

As TV Tropes puts it...

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. Unfortunately for them, even though they are animated characters, they cannot defy gravity.

To begin with, not every villain in the 56 films of the Disney Animated Canon dies. Quite a few of the films don't even have a villain as such! But here are the fates of the eighteen villains who actually do die:

The Evil Queen - Falls off a cliff
Maleficent - Killed with the Sword of Truth
The Horned King - Disintegrated by the Black Cauldron
Ratigan - Falls off Big Ben
Bill Sykes - Run over by a train
Ursula - Impaled by a ship's bow
Percival C. McLeach - Falls over a watefall
Gaston - Falls off a castle
Scar - Eaten alive by hyenas
Claude Frollo - Falls off Notre Dame
Shan Yu - Killed by the explosion of a giant fireworks rocket
Clayton - Hanged by the neck by jungle vines
Carnotaur - Falls off a cliff
Lyle Tiberius Rourke - Turned into crystal and shattered by a propeller
Scroop - Falls into the void of space
Doctor Facilier - Dragged to Hell
Mother Gothel - Falls off a tower, aging into dust as she does so
Turbo/King Candy - Disintegrated by flaming Mentos

So 8 out of 18 of them actually do die by falling. It's a cliche for a reason!


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1 posted on 11/19/2017 8:10:06 PM PST by Simon Green
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To: Simon Green

Looks like the LD50 for them is higher than for humans though, for us it’s 8 feet.


2 posted on 11/19/2017 8:17:29 PM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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3 posted on 11/19/2017 8:18:05 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

And two seconds later Coyote is right back like nothing happened.


4 posted on 11/19/2017 8:23:41 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: BenLurkin; dfwgator

In real life coyotes run down and eat every roadrunner they see.


5 posted on 11/19/2017 8:26:38 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Headline: Muslims Fear Backlash from Tomorrow's Terror Attack - Mark Steyn)
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To: Simon Green

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.


6 posted on 11/19/2017 8:27:26 PM PST by Svartalfiar
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To: Simon Green

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


7 posted on 11/19/2017 8:28:05 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Simon Green

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.


8 posted on 11/19/2017 8:31:59 PM PST by Flatus I. Maximus (Hillary for Prison!)
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To: dfwgator
And two seconds later Coyote is right back like nothing happened.

Together with his latest Acme road runner catching contraption.

9 posted on 11/19/2017 8:38:54 PM PST by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Coyote Finally Gets The Road Runner (Warning: Language)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQEsbLORkNo


10 posted on 11/19/2017 8:40:22 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Jeff Chandler

[[In real life coyotes run down and eat every roadrunner they see.]]

They don’t eat the ones with switchblades


11 posted on 11/19/2017 8:47:26 PM PST by Bob434
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To: Simon Green

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.


12 posted on 11/19/2017 8:54:39 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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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.

Good point. By my count, only 4 of the 18 villains are actually killed by the actions of the heroes.

13 posted on 11/19/2017 8:58:02 PM PST by Simon Green (<i>)
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To: Svartalfiar
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.

I'm pretty sure Bonnie and Clyde changed that, in 1967.

14 posted on 11/19/2017 9:09:24 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Axenolith

The data is a bit skewed by the large number who slip and fall and bang their heads on a curbstone or some such, statistically, that counts as a fall of zero feet.


15 posted on 11/19/2017 9:12:15 PM PST by null and void (The internet gave everyone a mouth. It gave no one a brain.)
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To: Simon Green

Counting Pixar? Don’t forget the villain from “Up.”

Also the Ducktails Movie.


16 posted on 11/19/2017 9:31:56 PM PST by pcottraux ( depthsofpentecost.com)
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Pixar pictures and straight-to-video/TV do not count as Disney Animated Canon.

http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Disney_Animated_Canon


17 posted on 11/19/2017 9:48:35 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant (I told you so)
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To: Simon Green
Don't forget about Hopper from "A Bugs Life." He ended up getting eaten by some bird chicks.

Also, Jaffar disintegrated rather horribly when his magic lamp was thrown into hot lava by Llago in Aladdin 2.

18 posted on 11/19/2017 9:49:39 PM PST by fidelis (Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

I recall Ducktails Movie getting a theatrical release, though I was really young so who knows.


19 posted on 11/19/2017 10:00:46 PM PST by pcottraux ( depthsofpentecost.com)
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To: pcottraux
According to Wikipedia, you are correct.

"It was paired with the Donald Duck short Dude Duck for its theatrical release."

I do not know why it is not considered canon.

20 posted on 11/20/2017 12:38:22 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (I told you so)
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