THE DISNEY VILLAIN FALL THEORY

[CMYK]

This is something I did for fun. Im curious of what you think.
I didn't watch all these movies, I just did a lot of research... (Still working on the Simpsons timeline)


THE DISNEY VILLAIN FALL THEORY

TEST:
My theory is simple, a large percentage of the Disney Antagonists have been defeated by falling. If its falling to their death or fall to their doom. I’d have to watch and research the all of the Disney theatrical animated features to date.


RESULTS:
Disney theatrical animated features released to date: 49

Fall related demise:12
Not fall related: 21
Antagonists demise unknown: 6

Films not applicable to Antagonists: 11

CONCLUSION:
My theory was wrong and my experiment was a fail. But alas a good percentage of Disney Villains did fall to their doom. But After the year 2000, they all ended differently.
NO, not all Disney villains fall to their death.

Don’t believe me? Check out my hard work down bellow….










DATE- FILM - PRIMARY ANTAGONIST -

CHARACTERS ENDING


1937 - 2010


1937, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - The Queen 1

The Queen, Snow White’s stepmother falls off a Cliff in a storm, during a conflict with the Seven Dwarfs.

1940, Pinocchio - Stromboli / Honest John ? 1

Unknown.

1940, Fantasia - (N/A) 1

-

1941, The Reluctant Dragon - (N/A) 2

-

1941, Dumbo - The Ring Master ? 2

Unknown.

1942, Bambi - MAN ? 3

Unknown.

1942 Saludos Amigos - (N/A) 3

-

1944 The Three Caballeros (N/A) 4

-

1946, Make Mine Music (N/A) 5

-

1947, Fun and Fancy Free (N/A) 6


1948, Melody Time (N/A) 7

-

1949, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (N/A) 8

-

1950, Cinderella -Lady Tremaine & Stepsisters ? 4

Unknown.

1951, Alice in Wonderland - Queen of hearts ? 5

Unknown.

1953, Peter Pan - Captain Hook 2

Hook eventually falls off the ship during a duel with Pan. He doesn’t die, but gets chased away by the crocodile with his crew.

1955, Lady and the Tramp - Aunt Sarah and Si & Am ? 6

Unknown.

1959, Sleeping Beauty - Maleficent 3

While in the form of a dragon, Stabbed by Prince Phillip causing Maleficent to fall to her death from a cliff.

1961, One Hundred and One Dalmatians - Cruella de Vil 4

In a car chase after the Dalmatians, Cruella collides with her cronies and drives her Car off and falls into a ravine.

1963, The Sword in the Stone - Madam Mim X 1

While in a fight with Merlin, defeats Mim by transforming himself into a germ and infecting her. (NOT FALL RELATED)

1967, The Jungle Book - Shere Khan X 2

Mowgli ties a branch of fire to Shere Khan’s tail. The Tiger runs off. (NOT FALL RELATED)

1970, The Aristocats - Edgar X 3

The Butler gets booted by a horse into a trunk and sent to Timbuktu. (NOT FALL RELATED (Although he does fall into the trunk.))

1973, Robin Hood - Prince John X 4

Sentenced to goal. (NOT FALL RELATED)

1977, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh - (N/A) 9

-

1977, The Rescuers - Madame Medusa X 5

In a boat chase, she crashes into a ship. (NOT FALL RELATED)

1981, The Fox and the Hound - Amos Slade X 6

Slade got his leg stuck in an animal trap. (NOT FALL RELATED)

1985, The Black Cauldron - The Horned King X 7

After Gurgi sacrifices himself, The Horned King get’s sucked into The Black Cauldron (NOT FALL RELATED)

1986, The Great Mouse Detective - Ratigan 5

During a fight in the Big Ben Clock, Basil and Ratigan fall, yet Basil gets the upper hand and flies to safty as Ratigan plunges to his death.

1988, Oliver and Company - Sykes X 8

In a car chase, Skyes is hit by the subway in his car. (NOT FALL RELATED)

1989, The Little Mermaid - Ursula X 9

Enraged within the fight Ursula enlargens herself engulfed with the tridents power but she dies when Eric drives a Ship into her. (NOT FALL RELATED)

1990, The Rescuers Down Under - Percival McLeach 6

McLeach escaping crocodiles, falls off a waterfall to his presumed death.

1991, Beauty and the Beast - Gaston 7

After wining the fight, the Beast spares Gaston and Climbs to Belles aid yet to be stabbed in the back by Gaston, but slips and falls to his death.

1992, Aladdin - Jafar X 10

Jafar tricked, turns himself into a Genie and gets Imprissoned into the Lamp. (NOT FALL RELATED)

1994, The Lion King - Scar 8

Simba wins the battle between Scar gets kicked and falls off a small cliff. He survives the fall but gets attacked by the resentful hyenas.

1995, Pocahontas - Ratcliffe X 11

Ratcliffe sent back to England for punishment on high treason. (NOT FALL RELATED)

1996, The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Frollo 9

Frollo Attacks Quasimodo with his cape causing the two to slip of the top of Notre Dame. Frollo gets a hold of a stone gargoyle, but slips and falls.

1997, Hercules - Hades 10

Hercules punches Hades where he falls into the River Styx, eventually getting dragged to the down by feirous souls.

1998, Mulan - Shan Yu X 12

Mushu the dragon sends Shan Yu into a tower of fire works while getting distracted by Mulan, dying in the explosion. (NOT FALL RELATED (it was more of a thrust))

1999, Tarzan - Clayton 11

Tarzan battles Clayton through the trees, eventually in his rage to kill Tarzan, ignoring the vine wrapped around his neck, Clayton falls to his death and gets hanged, trying to free himself from the branchs.

1999, Fantasia 2000 - (N/A) 10

-

2000, Dinosaur - Carnotaur 12

In a fight with the Dinosaurs, the Carnotaur gets forced on a cliff edge that collapses, sending it plummenting to its death.

2000, The Emperor’s New Groove - Yzma X 13

Yzma gets turned into a cat. (NOT FALL RELATED)

2001, Atlantis: The Lost Empire - Rourke X 14

Milo while trying to save Atlantis engaged in battle with Rourke, hits him with a crystal, crystallizing Rourke. He gets caught up with a propeller, falls to piece of crystal and dies.
(NOT FALL RELATED)

2002, Lilo & Stich - Captain Gantu X 15

Captain Gantu gets retired by the Grand Councilwoman after he fails to capture Stich. (NOT FALL RELATED)

2002, Treasure Planet - Long John Silve X 16

Silver befriends Jim and leaves. (NOT FALL RELATED)

2003, Brother Bear - Denahi X 17

Kenai turns back into a human from a Bear in order to save Koda, from Denahi.
Denahi stops hunting Kenai when he reliazes hes brother was the Bear. (NOT FALL RELATED)

2004, Home on the Range - Alamida Slim X 18

Slim is arrested by Police (NOT FALL RELATED)

2005, Chicken Little - Foxy Loxy X 19

Her mind is altered and turns nice. (NOT FALL RELATED)

2007, Meet the Robinsons - Bowler Hat Guy X 20

Lewis goes back in time and prevents Goob from becoming evil, turning him into the Bowler Hat Guy. (NOT FALL RELATED)

2008, Bolt - (N/A) 11

(No Antagorist)

2009,The Princess and the Frog - Doctor Facilier X 21

Gets Dragged into a spirt world (NOT FALL RELATED)


Only Walt Disney Animated Classics have been rated.
Pixar (Toy Story, Bugs Life and Wall-E) and DisneyToon Studios (DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp, A Goofy Movie and The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea) do not count.

[Real Melvin]

I'd say you proved your theory. If falling is a relatively un-thought-of demise, then 1/3 of known demises seems to be a "large percentage", or at least a significant one, no?

Nice hunch you had. And I appreciate the factity.

[Jye]

Good theory though, I enjoyed reading this. I just think a 'Falling Death' is easy for Disney to do seeing as you don't actually see the character die, but everyone naturally assumes and knows what has happened.

[Moe Nopoly]

thanks for the interesting list, seems especially the 90's were a deathly decade for villains. I also agree that "falling" is the easiest way to handle a death, also because the hero/heroine doesn't have to be actively part of the death in that situation. It's more an accident.

[Wavy Gravy]

Fuck. So much for going into The Princess and the Frog spoiler-free. I gotta stop myself from reading too far ahead. (I inadvertently ruined Cars for myself the same way.)

[cinco]

Sadly, also some good guys tend to fall to a gruesome death.



Still the most brutal moment in Disney animation-history.

[Real Melvin]

I hid under my seat at the movie theater the moment I saw that.

[Dark Homer]

i remember they mentioned this in an issue of disney adventures and inadvertently gave away the ending to hunchback of notre dame

[Mt. Doom]

I wouldn't expect anything more from Disney Adventures

Interesting theory you had here. Honestly I would've guessed more than 11 died that way

[General Jack D. Ripper]

Disney needs to have more deaths wherein a character is brutally and violently torn to shreds. That would really teach those kids a lesson about the real world.

[CMYK]

I agree.

Did you know that Simba was practically the only one who actually tried to kill the villain.
I should of did the rate of accident deaths...

Edit: Wait hang on, Eric purposely killed Ursula in the Little Mermaid.

[Drew]

3 people in a row and I have no fuckin clue who any of you are. Might as well be your first post. Fuckin name changes.

Falling to your death is a lot nicer than getting disemboweled or shot in the face. So I'd say it's the clean death. Maybe the next Disney villain will OD.

[Kang's Bastard Spore]

Maybe the next Disney villain will OD.

on sunshine.

[cinco]

Did you know that Simba was practically the only one who actually tried to kill the villain.

GO SIMBA !

[Jye]

I guess you could say the Dwarfs were trying to kill the Queen in Snow White as well.

[ridley01]

I do believe that the Villain in Pinnochio is Monstro the giant whale that swallows Pinnochio and Geppeto then crashes into a cliff, mater of fact most Disney Villains dye either by a cliff or on it lol

[bartyboy]

Not n/a for fun and fancy free

[TriforceBun]

Hey, this topic can be updated now that it's a year later.

I'd also be interested in reading a list of which heroes/movies actively tried to kill their protagonists (rather than it being something of their own accord, like Gaston, Frollo, Clayton).

[Redem]

Well if Pocahontas is any indication the disney-verse has a unusually large number of cliff

[D DEBBS]

Interesting....now the next Disney-related subject can be the number of lead characters who do NOT
have a mother/father:

Snow White-no mom (she dies after giving birth), has wicked step-mother

Cinderella-also no mom (again, wicked step-mom) father dies

Bambi-Mom gets shot

Lion King-father murdered by uncle

Fox and The Hound-Fox's mom dies, is taken care by human.

Aladdin-no mom, later find out from made-to-video movie that dad is alive

Beauty and the Beast-Belle is motherless.

Little Mermaid-Ariel motherless (from made-to-video movie)

That's all I can think of for now.

[TriforceBun]

Nearly every lead in a Disney movie is missing at least one parent by the end of the film. The only two I can think of that aren't are the characters in 101 Dalmations, and Rapunzel from Tangled.

[hughes]

i never saw the black cauldron but i absolutely loved that book series in middle school...so gurgi sacrificing himself? whafuck?

[cinco]

Tangled can be added in the list of the original post.