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Self-Disposing Villain
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When Bob the hero is spared the burden of dispatching the villain because the villain engineers his own death or defeat. While the monsters of the week have the decency to be sufficiently inhuman and faceless that the heroes feel no guilt over slaying them (so polite!), human enemies are another story. How can Bob bring Cleo the Necromancess to justice when "stealing chunks of soul anatomy from innocent bystanders" is nowhere in Black's Law Dictionary? And even if a high-ranking member of the police is a Secret-Keeper who can get Cleo jailed for other charges, what prison could hold her? Then there are the villains who are remorseless, sociopathic murderers. Nothing but death will prevent Saul Fingerchopper from killing again, but is it right for Bob to stop a killer by becoming a killer himself...? When Bob refuses to take a human life, for any reason, there are ways to work around this. Saul could meet his end at the hands of another villain, an underling he betrayed, or a killer even more evil than he is. He might be sealed away in some extra-legal sense by The Chosen Many Corps or The Men in Black. He might even be dispatched by one of Bob's more pragmatic teammates. But the audience, having seen Saul and Bob finally come to a confrontation, will feel cheated if a third party takes care of the problem, especially if they acted without foreshadowing and/or it's obvious that this happened only so that Bob could keep his hands clean. Fortunately, there is an alternative to having Bob break his code or having someone else do it for him — the soon-to-be-defeated villain can go for the Villain Ball. Instead of begging for mercy and "playing nice" for a few episodes, Saul and Cleo will double down. When Saul is rescued from hanging off the cliff's edge and given a Last-Second Chance, he inevitably takes the opportunity to backstab Bob (who then reacts in self-defense when he cuts Saul down). When Cleo is defeated while holding the Artifact of Doom, she will never simply drop the thing and 'surrender'. She will scream "No! This Cannot Be! I just need more power!!!", bringing on the Superpower Meltdown that destroys her. In short, Bob will not have to bear the burden of killing because these villains will cause their own downfall. Their excessive egos and poor planning will turn on them at exactly the wrong moment and get them Hoist By Their Own Petard, sent to a Fate Worse than Death, or destroyed by their own death traps. They can also take themselves out nonfatally, ending up Depowered, amnesiac, in a Convenient Coma, or trapped in a Tailor-Made Prison. The purpose of this trope is to resolve the villain's menace without going into the moral complexity of what justifies taking a human life. As such, it often appears in series where killing would be wildly inappropriate for the target audience or tone of the setting, such as works for children. When it appears in more adult fare, it is there to enable a certain kind of hero — a Knight in Shining Armor or someone with Incorruptible Pure Pureness — to deal credibly with Cleo and Saul without tarnishing his image, or (if the heroes have no problem with killing people) to simply deliver a particularly Karmic Death and drive home exactly how foolish and self-destructive a villain's brand of evil is. Conveniently, this trope also keeps Bob's secret identity secret if the villain had discovered it. The aftereffects of the Phlebotinum she was using (or even a simple Tap on the Head) will immediately make Cleo forget any damning information she may have uncovered. It might even make her forget she is a villain. A big part of the appeal of this trope is that it makes for a smooth but satisfying resolution. Once Saul has dispatched himself, Bob and his party can walk to the nearest Burger Fool and order a Delicious Extra Meaty without feeling the slightest pang of guilt (well, except maybe over the empty calories in the fries). If they're particularly Nice Guys, they might feel a little sad that Saul got himself killed/trapped/disposed of — but whatever; it's not like he won't be back in the next episode anyway. Compare Disney Villain Death, which oftentimes uses this trope to dispose of a villain for good while leaving the hero's hands clean. If you were looking for the trope about a literally self-disposing body, see No Body Left Behind. Also contrast Self-Punishment Over Failure, when the "punishment" is deliberately self-inflicted. See also Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing for broader examples of victory without having to get one's hands dirty. As a Death Trope, all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware. |
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In The Strange Revenge of Lena Luthor, villain Mind-Bomber loses control of his own telekinetic blast and blows himself up; conveniently for Supergirl, since he had just learned her secret identity. | |
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Kamen Rider Fourze has most of the villains survive the show, as like Double Fourze's attacks are nonlethal, but the two who abused negative cosmic energy for the longest end up disintegrating shortly after their defeat, which one of them remarks is the consequence of forcibly evolving their bodies. | |
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Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): In this Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) fanfiction, Alan Jonah becomes this. It's him keeping San's old severed head around and suffering Brown Note from it that ultimately leads to his downfall as an independent threat, although not before he creates a greater foe and he becomes assimilated as a part of said foe. | |
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: Invoked by Dumbledore. He used the Mirror of Erised, which shows people their deepest desire, to hide the Sorcerer's Stone. Anyone whose deepest desire is to find the stone, will see themselves finding it and thus obtain it; but for anyone who wants to use the stone more than they want to find it, they will only see themselves using it, and how to get it remains hidden from them. |
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Wonder Woman (1942): King Aknaten, who claims himself to be immortal so long as he wishes to live, apparently loses that will when Steve Trevor arrives and frees Wonder Woman, Etta Candy, Bobby Strong, and Glamora Treat, whom Aknaten had just been monologuing to. He and his minions just fade away, and his previously empty sarcophagus suddenly contains his mummy, but all the tech he'd been using as a villain remains in his hideout. | |
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Wonder Woman (1987): The magic the White Magician uses to upgrade his body and powers in order to kill Wonder Woman proves to be too much for his body to handle and after fatally wounding Artemis his fight with Wondy is cut short when he lets out a Big "NO!" and is Reduced to Dust by his own power. | |
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Choujuu Sentai Liveman: While it's Yusuke who stops his Evil Plan and Kemp who disrupts his Giga Brain Wave, Great Professor Bias dies by his own hand when he, rapidly aging and losing his grip on reality, orders his robot henchman to activate the rockets on his downed Space Base, causing it to explode and collapse in on him. | |
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Wormtail is strangled by his own silver hand (which Voldemort gave him) as punishment for showing Harry a small impulse of mercy when reminded that Harry saved his life. This does not happen in the film, and the closest that is implied to a death scene for him is that Dobby killed him, who is on the heroes' side. Vincent Crabbe casts Fiendfyre in an attempt to kill Harry, Ron, and Hermione, unleashes far more flaming destruction than he reckoned on and accidentally incinerates himself (along with one of Voldemort's Horcruxes). Voldemort himself. Harry explains to him that the Elder Wand Voldemort uses is actually Harry's, due to a set of complicated magical rules concerning wand ownership. As a result of this, the Elder Wand will not kill Harry. Despite this explanation and the chance to repent, Voldemort still fires a killing curse at Harry, which reflects back towards him, finishing him once and for all. |
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Twice in Life with Louie recurring villain Glen Glen ends defeating himself: In How to Succeed in Washington Without Really Trying Louie buys speech from Glen Glen for class assigment and it's deemed so good the whole class goes to Washington to present it at national contest in front of the Crongress. Louie ends up confessing on stage, but refrains from naming the person who sold him the speech. Cue Glen Glen getting up and loudly threatening him if he snitches...then realizing he just told on himself in front of everyone. In The Masked Chess Boy when Louie reveals himself as the Masked Chess Boy, Glen Glen immediatelly starts mocking him for liking chess. On a chess tournament full of people who like chess. He ends up pissing up two older, bigger boys, who drag him away. |
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In Digimon Ghost Game, there are several obviously unrepentant Digimon who sabotage and undo themselves rather than the protagonists actively killing them, since they are not keen on killing hostile Digimon. | |
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Happens twice to the same villain within one episode of The Rising of the Shield Hero. Raphtalia is about to kill the noble who enslaved and tortured her, but then she decides If I Kill You, I Will Be Just Like You and spares him. Then the noble trips on his whip and falls out of the window behind him. Then it turns out that he survived that fall, and he releases a monster that was sealed near his mansion. Then, said monster stomps on him. The audience gets the satisfaction of seeing that bastard dead, and Raphtalia gets to keep her moral high ground. | |
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In Darkstalkers, Lord Raptor ends up accidentally killing himself in his character ending by absorbing too much of Jedah's dark power, resulting in him blowing up. | |
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Johan Liebert of Monster holds a boy hostage and forces Tenma to make the Sadistic Choice of killing him or letting the boy die. Then the boy's father conveniently shows up armed and suddenly it's a moot point. | |
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In the Angel episode "Supersymmetry". Fred attempts to kill the villain who, years earlier, had trapped her in Pylea, a demon Hell Dimension, by sending him through one of his own portals. When her boyfriend, Charles Gunn, intercedes, he explains that if she kills him in revenge she will never be the same. Gunn then snaps his neck and throws him into the portal, and they tell the rest of the heroes that this trope happened and he fell into his own portal. | |
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Arrow: In the Season 5 finale, Prometheus shoots himself, as a final "screw you" to Oliver as this triggers his Dead Man's Switch and blows up Lian Yu, with all of Team Arrow still on it. | |
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Justice League of America: The villain Libra built a device that could transfer half the power of anything to the user. After successfully using it on the Justice League, he forgets his Evil Overlord List and uses it on the universe, but is unable to handle the power and dissipates across the cosmos. Darkseid eventually put him back together for Final Crisis. | |
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Disney's Hades Challenge has a rare non-death version of this since Hades is immortal; he's so freaked out on seeing you armed with Zeus's lightning that in trying to fast-talk you, he backs off a cliff and falls into the Styx. | |
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Problem Sleuth: While the heroes manage to dispatch Demonhead Mobster Kingpin, the real Mobster Kingpin doesn't get defeated by Team Sleuth at all. Instead, he is pushed through his Gravity Corset by the moon, ejected from his black hole, and dies via getting his body impaled on the Ham Needle. | |
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In the Thomas & Friends episode "Horrid Lorry", the three Lorries all end up being taken off Sodor after crashing, backing into a harbor, and being overloaded and broken down respectively. Unlike other villains in the series, the engines don’t do a thing to get rid of them. This applies to some other villains as well — for example, in his debut episode, Bulgy ends up getting stuck under a bridge, though he is eventually repaired later in the series. In another episode, Diesel pulls too hard while trying to move some of the Troublesome Trucks and breaks the chain, causing him to fall onto a barge in the harbor. |
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Mr. Bones: The main villain, the vampire DaGoulian, undergoes a Villainous Breakdown after failing to corrupt Mr. Bones and keeps ranting at him even as the latter tries to warn him the sun's coming up behind him, which would naturally be a problem. He refuses to listen and keeps ranting until it's too late, and he's crisped without Mr. Bones having to lift a finger (or wanting to). | |
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Parodied in Nichijou. Dolph stages a rebellion of the Fey Kingdom in order to get the keys to a powerful ancient weapon. As he stalks up to the princess to force her to give him her key, however, he ends up tripping over his own feet, killing himself, to the shock of the princess and his army, the latter of which immediately surrenders. | |
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In Adventures in Odyssey Dr. Blackgaard, already near death due to infection by the virus he had hoped to threaten the world with, stays behind inside the Whit's End building as the bombs he planted there are activated. | |
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Justice League: Darkseid and Lex Luthor both end up killing themselves when they interact with the Anti-Life Equation in an attempt to unlock great knowledge of the unknown universe. In the episode Fury, Aresia ultimately dies in her own doomsday device in a desperate attempt to continue her goal of wiping out all men of the world in order to achieve what she thinks is peace. |
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In Mother 3, Porky seals himself in the Absolutely Safe Capsule during the boss fight. This renders him completely invulnerable, but also a complete non-threat because he can't escape, interact with the outside world, or even die, (when they say absolutely safe, they mean absolutely safe, and outside the capsule is very unsafe) so from an outsider's point of view he's effectively dead, and from Porky's point of view it's probably even worse. Also a "tragic" example with the Masked Man, whom the protagonist cannot even attack against, uses attacks that the Franklin Badge reflects to break Free. | |
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Happens to Lordgenome at the end of the first part of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann after Simon blasted a hole through his chest. After telling him and Nia that he would come to regret this and that something worse was coming in a cryptic way, he jumped off what remained of Teppelin's palace, against his daughter's wishes. Thanks to Rossiu, it didn't stick. | |
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In Atop the Fourth Wall, the King of Worms is killed when he accidentally scares himself to death upon looking into Linkara's mind. | |
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Supergirl: "Supergirl's Big Brother": A conman called Biff Rigger tries to swindle the Danvers out of their money by masquerading as their deceased son Jan. When he finds out that their adoptive daughter Linda is Supergirl, Biff gives up his original plan in lieu of convincing Supergirl to give him superpowers. After managing to talk her into giving him one pill which grants powers for one hour, Biff uses them so carelessly that he burns off his fake birthmark, tipping off Supergirl that he is a fraud. Since his attempt to blackmail her into making him more super-power pills fails, Biff tries to make one pill, but he gets the ingredients wrong and gets killed when his powers wear off too soon. In The Strange Revenge of Lena Luthor, villain Mind-Bomber loses control of his own telekinetic blast and blows himself up; conveniently for Supergirl, since he had just learned her secret identity. |
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ANNO: Mutationem: In the midst of the roofhopping area at Noctis City, Ann encounters a mook in boar armor that immediately attempts to attack her by performing a charging rush attack. Ann immediately dodges it while the mook ends up causing himself to be thrown off the top of the building and fall straight to the ground. | |
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In Monster Rancher, Naga is defeated by Mocchi and is hanging onto the edge of a cliff. The heroes try to save him, but he lets go on purpose. The Fox channel skipped the episode because of this. Ironically they did not skip the episode where Undine jumps into the fire and burns to death. General Durahan is taken out by his own troops who are loyal to Moo, whom Durahan has betrayed. And shortly before that, he kills Lilim. Moo appears to partially self-destruct when he and the Phoenix destroy each other, based on this line: |
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Lampshaded and averted in Darkwing Duck in the episode where the Liquidator debuts, "Dry Hard". When Corrupt Corporate Executive Bud Flood falls into a pool of chemicals, Darkwing tries to reach him with a pole, only for the pole to melt. Darkwing is a little upset about it, but tries to hide it by telling Launchpad that "it saves a lot of time when the villain does himself in like that!" (Bud is not dead, however; the accident turns him into the Liquidator, making him far more of a threat than before.) | |
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force: It's pretty much become a running gag when Master Shake kills himself because of his own stupidity. One time he actually killed himself in an attempt to cheat at a weight loss contest by mishandling a liposuction machine that accidentally killed him in an instant. | |
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Narcos: Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo ends up being the main cause of his own downfall just when he is at the height of his power, having ensured himself the favor of the PRI by helping them rig the 1988 Mexican Presidential election and shipped a record-setting 70 tons of cocaine into the US in one go. However, he overplays his hand when he tips off the US about a Colombian warehouse in Los Angeles to use as leverage against Cali, and orders the murder of Palma's family to scare the Plazas into line. Rather than fall into line like he had hoped, they all break away from the Guadalajara Cartel and start dealing with the Colombians separately. The resulting loss of power ensures that the government withdraws its protection of Felix and has him arrested. | |
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RWBY: In the series finale of Volume 3, Roman Torchwick exits the story when he's gobbled up by a Grimm in the middle of a furious beating punctuated by a rant about the stupidity and pointlessness of Ruby's heroism. Remember that Grimm are attracted to negative emotions. In True Colors, Fennec meets his end by trying to dive at Ghira while he's holding up the collapsing second-story balcony. Blake uses her ribbon to yank her dad out of the way at the last possible moment, and Fennec goes splat. |
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"Supergirl's Big Brother": A conman called Biff Rigger tries to swindle the Danvers out of their money by masquerading as their deceased son Jan. When he finds out that their adoptive daughter Linda is Supergirl, Biff gives up his original plan in lieu of convincing Supergirl to give him superpowers. After managing to talk her into giving him one pill which grants powers for one hour, Biff uses them so carelessly that he burns off his fake birthmark, tipping off Supergirl that he is a fraud. Since his attempt to blackmail her into making him more super-power pills fails, Biff tries to make one pill, but he gets the ingredients wrong and gets killed when his powers wear off too soon. | |
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Wonder Woman: Wonder Woman (1942): King Aknaten, who claims himself to be immortal so long as he wishes to live, apparently loses that will when Steve Trevor arrives and frees Wonder Woman, Etta Candy, Bobby Strong, and Glamora Treat, whom Aknaten had just been monologuing to. He and his minions just fade away, and his previously empty sarcophagus suddenly contains his mummy, but all the tech he'd been using as a villain remains in his hideout. Wonder Woman (1987): The magic the White Magician uses to upgrade his body and powers in order to kill Wonder Woman proves to be too much for his body to handle and after fatally wounding Artemis his fight with Wondy is cut short when he lets out a Big "NO!" and is Reduced to Dust by his own power. |
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In The Hunchback of Notre Dame, right after nearly falling to his death, Big Bad Claude Frollo apparently thinks it's a good idea to not go to the balcony and to instead try to kill the heroes while precariously perched on top of a small gargoyle probably too thin to support a full-grown man's weight, so he falls down with the gargoyle after it breaks. Although Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane applies, as it's ambiguous whether the gargoyle broke because of Frollo's weight (and it coming to life may or may not have been a hallucination), making his death self-disposing all the way through, or if a superior being (either God or the cathedral) made sure that the villain would get what he deserved. Note that this trope only applies to the Disney version. In most other adaptations (and the original novel), Quasimodo outright throws Frollo off of Notre Dame to his death. Even the Disney musical version used the original version. |
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Precia Testarossa from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha meets her (supposed) end by falling into an interdimensional void when her attempts to use the Jewel Seeds cause her fortress to collapse. | |
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In High Anxiety, Nurse Diesel accidentally falls off a high tower when she attempts to jump Dr. Thorndyke in a last-ditch effort to kill him. | |
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Harry Potter: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: Invoked by Dumbledore. He used the Mirror of Erised, which shows people their deepest desire, to hide the Sorcerer's Stone. Anyone whose deepest desire is to find the stone, will see themselves finding it and thus obtain it; but for anyone who wants to use the stone more than they want to find it, they will only see themselves using it, and how to get it remains hidden from them. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: Golderoy Lockhart has his mind wiped by his own Obliviator curse, courtesy of Ron's broken wand. Mild example. Draco is so intent on distracting and taunting Harry during their first Quiddich match, that he himself becomes distracted, losing the match for Slytherin because he doesn't notice the Golden Snitch right behind him. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: Dolores Umbridge finds herself surrounded by Centaurs while trespassing on their land and elects to call them an in-universe slur and threaten them with legal action from an oppressive government. They predictably capture her, freeing the protagonists in the process. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Wormtail is strangled by his own silver hand (which Voldemort gave him) as punishment for showing Harry a small impulse of mercy when reminded that Harry saved his life. This does not happen in the film, and the closest that is implied to a death scene for him is that Dobby killed him, who is on the heroes' side. Vincent Crabbe casts Fiendfyre in an attempt to kill Harry, Ron, and Hermione, unleashes far more flaming destruction than he reckoned on and accidentally incinerates himself (along with one of Voldemort's Horcruxes). Voldemort himself. Harry explains to him that the Elder Wand Voldemort uses is actually Harry's, due to a set of complicated magical rules concerning wand ownership. As a result of this, the Elder Wand will not kill Harry. Despite this explanation and the chance to repent, Voldemort still fires a killing curse at Harry, which reflects back towards him, finishing him once and for all. |
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In Aladdin and the King of Thieves, Sa'Luk accidentally touches the golden edge of the Hand of Midas and is permanently turned into a gold statue. Played with, in that Cassim was counting on Sa'Luk being too short-sighted to recognize the risk and threw the Hand at him with the intent of ultimately killing him. | |
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Used in all three Spider-Man Trilogy movies to remove the villain while technically allowing the main character to keep to his code against killing. Even before any of the supervillains, the accidental but somewhat convenient death of the burglar in the first movie — removing as it does the threat of Spider-Man's identity being compromised right at the start of his crime-fighting career. The first Green Goblin is Hoist by His Own Petard (impaled by his glider as per the comics above), Dr. Octopus and the New Goblin die due to Redemption Equals Death, and Eddie Brock kills himself by diving into the Venom symbiote just as Spidey's about to incinerate it. It's lampshaded by Aunt May in the third entry after Peter thinks he's killed Sandman with water: "Spider-Man doesn't kill people!" |
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Discussed in Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters. After Wong's coup attempt against Phobos fails and he's forced to flee, Lothar comments how it's a shame the two didn't succumb to a Mutual Kill, as that would have saved everyone a lot of trouble. | |
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In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Master Kohga summons a giant spikeball but is too busy gloating about Link's imminent death to actually try crushing Link with it. As a result, the spikeball rolls back towards him and pushes him into the Bottomless Pit. | |
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Cats Don't Dance: Darla Dimple ends up outing herself as the culprit behind the flooded set earlier in the film when she screams at Danny about it, not realizing there's a live microphone strapped to her back. | |
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Jurassic World: The Smug Snake Hoskins is killed by one of the Velociraptors he begged to set loose to hunt the Indominus to begin with (while the protagonist, Owen, was heavily against the idea). | |
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In earlier The Dresden Files books, human villains have a tendency to kill each other, be hoist by their own petard or killed by side characters... so Harry doesn't have blood on his hands and The White Council doesn't get angry at him. | |
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Stargirl (2020): In the Grand Finale, during the climactic battle in a junkyard, Lily Mahkent attempts to hit Wildcat with an ice blast, only to miss and hit a precariously-balanced car that falls and crushes her, Wicked Witch of the East-style. As Wildcat insists to Dr. Mid-Nite, "I didn't do it!" | |
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In King of the Hill, Debbie dies when she accidentally triggers her shotgun at herself while trying to climb into a dumpster in order to surprise attack Buck Strickland and his wife. | |
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Terrorists often martyr themselves in 24, most notably Habib Marwan, the Big Bad of Season 4. | |
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In The Secret Saturdays, the series' main antagonist V.V. Argost is killed when after absorbing the powers of Zak Saturday's Evil Doppelgänger Zak Monday, he attempts to do the same to Zak himself to enhance his already advanced power levels to an even higher god-like strength. Zak Monday in question came from an anti-matter Mirror Universe and since reality is torn apart when matter and anti-matter collide, the combined abilities from both Zaks are too much for Argost to handle, and he is sucked into a vortex created by the dangerous combination of conflicting energies. | |
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The Jackal (Miles Warren) having a meltdown after being unmasked by Gwen Stacy's clone and ending up being killed (along with the Spider-Man clone) by his own bomb at the ending of the original Clone Saga in The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #149. (It was not the last we saw of either). | |
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William James Moriarty of Moriarty the Patriot is the only character who would like for him to die, but if he has to do all the work himself, that's fine with him. His entire plan requires his downfall. | |
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Mortadelo y Filemón: It's a rule in the comics that when a villain really tries to destroy the pair for real, he will fail miserably and get himself owned. A notable example is "El señor todoquisque" the bad guy is a man who can disguise himself and, in the first half of the album, humiliates our heroes in very painful ways. However, when he decides to take care of them himself and goes to the TIA, his plans brutally backfire on him, and, at the end, he goes insane. | |
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In The Book of the Dun Cow, Cockatrice is impaled by Chauntecleer's battle spurs and mortally wounded. He lunges one last time for the rooster and finishes himself off in the process. | |
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In Iron Man 2, Ivan Vanko blows himself up after being defeated by Iron Man, though he could've been taken into custody or attempted an escape, mainly because he was confident in his success and had nothing else to live for. | |
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At the end of the first Golden Sun, Saturos and Menardi throw themselves into Venus Lighthouse rather than accept defeat by Isaac & Friends. Subverted with a vengeance (literally) in The Lost Age when it turns out they weren't exactly villains to begin with. | |
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In the National Theatre's 2014 production of Treasure Island, Jim's confrontation with Israel Hands ends with Hands showing his contempt by casually lighting his pipe and carelessly flicking away the match ... in the direction of the ship's gunpower store, which goes up, taking Hands with it. | |
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The most egregious example is likely Garlic Jr. from the movie Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone and the subsequent filler arc in the anime. He is the first villain in the franchise to successfully use the Dragonballs to give himself Complete Immortality, making him an Invincible Villain the heroes simply cannot kill ever...and when all hope seems lost, he opens up a portal to a void dimension to dispose of the heroes, who of course use it to get rid of him instead. He does this in both of his appearances, despite each time being able to win simply by waiting for everyone to exhaust themselves fruitlessly fighting him. | |
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Supergirl (2015): In the Grand Finale, Lex summons a legion of Phantoms to attack the heroes and lay waste to Earth. Unfortunately for him, Phantoms feed on fear, and the two most fearful beings present are those who have been masking it behind hubris: himself and Nyxly. The Phantoms proceed to seize them both and drag them off to the Phantom Zone. | |
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In Kung Fu Panda 2, Lord Shen rejects Po’s offer of mercy and viciously attacks him. However, his blades cut the ropes holding up his cannon, and it winds up falling on and crushing him. | |
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: Dolores Umbridge finds herself surrounded by Centaurs while trespassing on their land and elects to call them an in-universe slur and threaten them with legal action from an oppressive government. They predictably capture her, freeing the protagonists in the process. |
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In both Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, the character who can most unambiguously be described as a "villain" (Svidrigailov and Smerdyakov, respectively) commits suicide shortly before the climax. | |
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Kamen Rider Drive has the last few surviving Roidmudes turn against their creator when he turns out to be even worse than them, ally with Drive to defeat him, suffer lethal damage in the resulting battle and die. | |
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Kamen Rider Ex-Aid ends with its final villain committing suicide out of spite, taking his power source with him so the heroes can't use it to save the people he took hostage. It takes another five sequel movies for them to figure out another way to rescue the hostages. | |
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Kamen Rider Ghost opens with Arc Villain Saionji attempting to collect all of the Eyecons before the heroes can. Saionji actually gets the full set first and attempts to make his wish, disposing of himself when it turns out you also need a specific device to serve as an interface with the Great Eye or you'll be overwhelmed by its power and die. | |
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The Order of the Stick Subverted when Kubota cleverly surrenders right before Elan is going to kill him as revenge for Therkla's murder. Kubota realizes that he can probably raise sufficient reasonable doubt to get acquitted in a trial and that Elan is too heroic to kill him in cold blood. Double Subverted, however, because Vaarsuvius isn't that heroic. Played With in another strip where it looks like Xykon unknowingly disintegrated himself walking across a booby trap, followed by the rest of Team Evil. Naturally, they're alive, but Belkar isn't fond of the supposed anti-climatic victory. |
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In Schlock Mercenary Nov. 9, 2009 Schlock is trying to subdue some rioters who locked themselves in a storeroom on the ship, so he uses his plasma cannons to cut through the bulkhead. One of the rioters throws a hand grenade at the hole Schlock made, but it misses and bounces off the wall before Schlock can even enter. This lands back on them and explodes. Turns out they were carrying antimatter which also explodes, incinerating all of them. Schlock didn't have to do anything. Mildly injured by the blast, he jokes flatly to his crew-mate Elf, "they committed suicide when they saw me coming," a Call-Back to a colorful description of a self-destruct on a bug. | |
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At the climax of Twilight Watch, powerful magic users across the world are channelling energy into Anton as he faces the Big Bad. Anton takes all this magic and turns it into a simple shield, protecting himself from all physical and magical influences. Anton inwardly notes that he can't let the Big Bad read his mind and understand the flaw that Anton saw in his plan. The Big Bad then proceeds to teleport himself close enough to the International Space Station to be able to visually target a location to teleport directly on board, but as Anton realised, magic doesn't work in space. | |
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Jurassic World Dominion: Dodgson is killed when he tries to escape with the dinosaur embryos by himself after his scheme to cause a world food shortage literally goes up in flames, only for the power to the hyperloop train to get shut off, leaving him trapped inside the tunnel. Then, a pack of Dilophosaurus arrives... | |
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Xenoblade Chronicles: In Xenoblade Chronicles 1, the giant war robot "Metal Face" serves as the Arch-Enemy for Shulk and most of his party for much of the game's first act, having killed countless innocent people including Shulk's Childhood Friend Fiora. But later on, Metal Face is revealed to actually be a Humongous Mecha piloted by a fellow homs named Mumkhar. After Mumkhar's final defeat, Shulk finds himself unable to take his life (reasoning that killing a sentient being is wrong, even if they're a traitorous, murderous sociopath) and actually stands in the way of Dunban (Fiora's brother and Mumkhar's former comrade) when the latter tries to kill him instead. Mumkhar takes this opportunity to fire a blast at the heroes, but he misses and hits a spire that falls down and impales him and pins him to a falling platform, killing him. In Xenoblade Chronicles 3, an already struggling Mobius O and P find out the hard way that staying in Interlink for too long causes an Annihilation Event. Noah and Mio barely have enough time to break the cliff below them in order to get them far enough that the Ouroboros aren't caught in the blast. Mobius D and J meet the same fate when Joran has a Heel–Face Turn and overloads the the Interlink in order take both him and D out. |
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In Maleficent, Stefan self-disposes by trying to kill Maleficent even though she said "it's over", and tried to walk away. Overlaps with Disney Villain Death. | |
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Marvel Universe's Thanos routinely comes dangerously close to complete universal domination, only to screw up in some fashion at the last moment and engineer his own defeat. This behavior is noted by both Vision and Adam Warlock in The Infinity Gauntlet, wherein after taking on almost everyone in the Marvel Universe, including Eternity himself, he decides to become a disembodied presence and leave his body sitting on his throne, allowing his alleged granddaughter to simply grab the titular Cosmic Keystone from his inert form with no resistance at all. Adam Warlock then talked Thanos into making a temporary Heel–Face Turn with a Hannibal Lecture wherein he accused Thanos of deliberately—albeit subconsciously—sabotaging himself and giving up the power he knows he has no right to wield. | |
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Dragon Ball Z Abridged: Mercilessly parodied with their take on Garlic Jr. In Dead Zone Abridged, he's got a bit of a problem with realizing the flaws in his plans just a little too late (he only manages to use the dragon balls after ordering his minions to kill Kami because said minions are too incompetent to do so), and one of said plans is to use the Dead Zone to trap the heroes when it's also the only way of defeating him. In the main series, he comes back and immediately mouths off to Mr. Popo. In the Kai episode that properly abridges his return arc, he claims that he's in therapy due to the events of the movie, and gets a Smart Ball moment and decides to close the portal to the Dead Zone and do the obvious tactic of letting his immortality wear the heroes down. And then Alucard shoots him into the portal. | |
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The Terror: In the end, the Tuunbaq defeats itself by devouring so many diseased or poisoned sailors that it gives itself a near-lethal case of food poisoning, weakening it enough for Crozier to finish it off. | |
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In the episode "Flashpoint" of Walker, Texas Ranger, two rouge Irish terrorists, a man and a woman, jump out a skyscraper window after sharing a kiss, choosing to become martyrs over life imprisonment. | |
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In Captain America: The First Avenger, the Red Skull is teleported to Vormir as a punishment when he tries to handle the Tesseract. | |
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The Marvels (2023): Dar-Benn opens a rift in reality using the Quantum Bands to try and kill Carol, despite warnings that using both was too dangerous. The energy proves to be too much for her to handle, obliterating her. | |
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Batman Beyond: Ra's al Ghul is killed while trying to salvage his only Lazarus Pit while his lair is about to collapse. A stray electric wire falls into the pit, making it explode before he can even react to the ensuing explosion. In the episode "Sneak Peek", Terry and Bruce figure out the Villain of the Week, a reporter who can somehow eavesdrop on even the most secure locations without being detected, is using technology that allows him to pass through walls in order to do it. However, there's not really anything they can do about it, because he's not technically committed any actual crimes (that they knew of at the time...). Even when the reporter discovers that Terry is Batman (and Bruce was Batman) and says he's going to reveal it to the world, they can't really stop him. Fortunately for them, the device that allowed the reporter (which it turns out he stole and killed the creator of) to become intangible is unstable and turns him permanently and uncontrollable intangible, causing him to fall to the centre of the Earth. |
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In A Brother's Price the heroes have no scruples about killing women. However, to kill men would be considered abhorrent. Keifer, the husband of the princesses survives longer than he might have without this advantage, but eventually self-disposes by insisting that they attend an opera in a public opera house, which then explodes, with half of the royal family in it, including him. While the younger princesses grieve for their sisters, they are happy to be rid of him. | |
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In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, fate conspires so that the heroes rarely kill their own big bads. In Iron Man 2, Ivan Vanko blows himself up after being defeated by Iron Man, though he could've been taken into custody or attempted an escape, mainly because he was confident in his success and had nothing else to live for. In Captain America: The First Avenger, the Red Skull is teleported to Vormir as a punishment when he tries to handle the Tesseract. This is set up and subverted in Spider-Man: Homecoming: the Vulture tries to fly off with whatever salvaged bits of stolen technology that he can, unaware that his glider suit is malfunctioning. However, Peter saves him from the ensuing explosion. In Thor: Ragnarok, Surtur destroys himself in the process of destroying Asgard and the actual Big Bad that the heroes summoned him to destroy. The fact that the heroes had evacuated Asgard beforehand, so his Taking You with Me attack doesn't actually take anyone with him other than said Big Bad, doesn't particularly seem to bother him. Spider-Man: Far From Home: Mysterio gets reckless during the final battle and gets himself shot by his own drones. The Marvels (2023): Dar-Benn opens a rift in reality using the Quantum Bands to try and kill Carol, despite warnings that using both was too dangerous. The energy proves to be too much for her to handle, obliterating her. |
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe: There's a story written by Don Rosa where the Beagle Boys are the main characters and decide to break into Scrooge McDuck's money bin once again after stealing the building's original architectural plans. They carry out the scheme while the building is closed at night, but they all gradually end up trapping themselves in various situations with the remaining Beagle Boys deciding to come back for them once they've successfully carried out the heist. The comic ends with the Beagle Boys discovered by a mightily surprised Scrooge and Grandpa Beagle hearing the cops talk about this from his jail cell and muttering that his grandsons can't even beat an inanimate building. | |
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In Thor: Ragnarok, Surtur destroys himself in the process of destroying Asgard and the actual Big Bad that the heroes summoned him to destroy. The fact that the heroes had evacuated Asgard beforehand, so his Taking You with Me attack doesn't actually take anyone with him other than said Big Bad, doesn't particularly seem to bother him. | |
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One of the evil minions in The Eighth Voyage of Sindbad at Universal's Islands of Adventure decides to just jump to his death when faced against both Sindbad and Amoura. | |
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This was very common in the early seasons of Smallville with the krypto-freaks. If they didn't somehow lose their powers they inevitably met a messy end at their own hands. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: Discussed with a past Avatar, Kyoshi, and her defeat of Chin the Conqueror. When he tried to attack her hometown, she used her powers to split the earth and make her home an island, preventing his army from accessing it. When that happened, Chin, standing on the cliff edge, fell to his death. Aang argues that Chin's death was an accident and not really Kyoshi's fault, but Kyoshi replies that she doesn't really see the difference and takes responsibility for it regardless, and further states that if it had come to it, she would have killed Chin directly without hesitation anyway. | |
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In Batman: Arkham City this is The Joker's fate. While Batman goes over the reasons why Joker doesn't deserve to be given the cure for his illness, Joker stabs him and causes the vial to fall to the floor and break. As the Joker lies dying without any hope of a cure, Batman points out the absurdity that despite every evil thing Joker has done, he still would have given him the cure if he'd had the chance, causing the Joker to admit that it's actually sorta funny. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: In The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, Garo Master blows himself up with a bomb to fulfill the Garo law to "die without leaving a corpse". In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Master Kohga summons a giant spikeball but is too busy gloating about Link's imminent death to actually try crushing Link with it. As a result, the spikeball rolls back towards him and pushes him into the Bottomless Pit. |
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In Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl, Cyrus walks into a portal leading to a dimension he possessed Dialga and Palkia to create, despite the fact that the dimension was slowly vanishing due to Dialga and Palkia being released, thus seemingly killing himself. (Even if Dialga and Palkia directly destroyed the dimension sooner than it would have taken to disappear on its own) | |
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Steven Universe: Jasper's defeat happens in a sequence of events, the decisive moment when she's eliminated as a serious threat is the result of her deciding to forcibly fuse with a corrupted monster, infecting herself in the process. | |
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Spider-Man: Far From Home: Mysterio gets reckless during the final battle and gets himself shot by his own drones. | |
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All of the Batman films since 1989 used this trope extensively, at least regarding named villains. Batman and Robin (and later Batgirl) never, ever kill. Their opponents are beaten by falling to their deaths; either trying to escape (The Joker) or trying to kill the heroes (Two Face, in two movies), killed by another villain (Schreck and The Penguin by Catwoman, Bane by a more heroic Catwoman) driven insane from overdosing on Phlebotinum (Riddler), and captured in Tailor Made Prisons (Mr. Freeze, Poison Ivy). The only one who dies (mostly) by Batman's hand is the Two Face from The Dark Knight, but in that case, Batman was only trying to tackle him to stop him from killing a child and he fell as a result. Stretched a bit in Batman Begins, where Batman refuses to deliver a killing blow to Ra's al Ghul but nonetheless leaves him to die as the derailed train on which they're riding crashes, the derailment having been caused by Jim Gordon under instruction from Batman. | |
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Phineas and Ferb: Doofenshmirtz’s evil schemes tend to backfire on him all the time; in fact, there are times when Perry is not around his own inventions get destroyed on their own. Not that it stops him from cursing Perry anyway. | |
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The Flash (2014): Trajectory, who has gained advanced speed powers thanks to a super drug called Velocity, ends up accidentally killing herself by overdosing on the drugs and running so fast that she disintegrates. | |
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In Casper, Carrigan's goal throughout the movie has been to take a "treasure" from the mansion, a goal she continues to pursue after coming back as a ghost. Finally, she does get her hands on the treasure, and she gloats that now that she has it, she has no unfinished business, she has everything—so against her will, she crosses over to the afterlife, as all ghosts must once their unfinished business is complete. | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: Patrick Zala shoots lowly subordinate Ray Yuki for trying to talk him out of firing GENESIS on Earth to wipe out all Natural life on Earth in a fit of rage. Patrick's son Athrun arrives to stop him... just in time to see Ray use the last of his breath to shoot Patrick In the Back multiple times, resulting in the latter's death. | |
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In The Boxtrolls, Archibald Snatcher's obsession with upward nobility and insistence on cheese-tasting despite his violent allergies causes him to explode into a cloud of nasty yellow mist. | |
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Chainsaw Man: The Yakuza to whom protagonist Denji owes an exorbitant amount of money in the first chapter end up disposing of themselves when they make a Deal with the Devil for power, failing to consider the logical result of a pact with a Zombie Devil. | |
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Kamen Rider employs it frequently to deal with major human villains: Kamen Rider Den-O ends with the Big Bad Kai evaporating from overuse of his time manipulation. Kamen Rider Decade has a number of human villains in its Grand Finale movie who dispose of themselves by attempting to unleash the Neo Organism against him, letting Decade fight the resulting monster instead. Kamen Rider Double takes out nearly all of his opponents nonlethally by stripping them of their powers. All of the major villains manage to die anyway by various means, ranging from the consequences of a Deadly Upgrade to going mad and walking into a collapsing building. Kamen Rider Fourze has most of the villains survive the show, as like Double Fourze's attacks are nonlethal, but the two who abused negative cosmic energy for the longest end up disintegrating shortly after their defeat, which one of them remarks is the consequence of forcibly evolving their bodies. Kamen Rider Drive has the last few surviving Roidmudes turn against their creator when he turns out to be even worse than them, ally with Drive to defeat him, suffer lethal damage in the resulting battle and die. Kamen Rider Ghost opens with Arc Villain Saionji attempting to collect all of the Eyecons before the heroes can. Saionji actually gets the full set first and attempts to make his wish, disposing of himself when it turns out you also need a specific device to serve as an interface with the Great Eye or you'll be overwhelmed by its power and die. Kamen Rider Ex-Aid ends with its final villain committing suicide out of spite, taking his power source with him so the heroes can't use it to save the people he took hostage. It takes another five sequel movies for them to figure out another way to rescue the hostages. Kamen Rider Zi-O is a show entirely about a Villain Protagonist disposing of himself through time travel convincing his younger self never to become him. |
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In Brutal Orchestra, enemies with the Withering passive status effect will automatically die when the rest of the enemies perish. Some enemies will also inflict self-damage, meaning that a player can sit back and watch as the enemy kills itself for them. | |
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Dakota North: The villainous Sheik Ibn Bheik is seeking a stolen sample of nerve gas, hidden inside a pen. After he's unconscious and presumed dead, one of his minions claims it. When the Sheik recovers, they scuffle over the pen, it breaks and the gas kills both of them. | |
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The villain Mitch Leary in In the Line of Fire refuses to take his nemesis Frank Horrigan's hand and plunges to his death instead, in an Ironic Echo of an earlier scene in which Leary saves Horrigan from dying the same way. | |
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Jenkins of The Adventure Zone: Balance misses a spell, causing his own monster to turn on him and throw him out the back of the train. | |
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A common theme in the Indiana Jones films as it's more or less the lust for power that does the villain in while Indy wises up and leaves well enough alone. It has been pointed out in some movie reviews that in four out of the five films, Indy could have stayed home and let the villains destroy themselves with no negative repercussions (aside from initially rescuing his father and Marcus in the third film). Raiders of the Lost Ark: Belloq and his Nazi cohorts Toht and Dietrich open The Ark of the Covenant themselves and its powers then disintegrate them in a very painful manner. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: Donovan drinks the wrong chalice (which he let Elsa Schneider, his assistant, choose) and rapidly ages to nothing. Shortly after, Elsa falls to her death in an abyss when she's concerned more about reaching the Holy Grail below her than saving herself. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Colonel Spalko wants unlimited knowledge, and she gets more than she bargained for when she bursts into flames. Happens yet again in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny: the titular Dial is an artifact that allows for time travel, but only by finding specific rifts in space-time. Nazi scientist Voller wanted to use it to go back to 1939 to usurp Adolf Hitler and ensure that the Nazis win the war, but Archimedes programmed the Dial to send whoever uses it back to the Siege of Syracuse, and Voller ends up dying there when his plane crashes. |
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Gundam: Mobile Suit Gundam: While some members of the Zabi family are taken out by our heroes, the rest are done in by their own hubris (and Char). Degwin Sodo Zabi is killed by his eldest son Ghiren, Ghiren is killed by his sister Kycillia and Kycillia is done in by Char. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: Patrick Zala shoots lowly subordinate Ray Yuki for trying to talk him out of firing GENESIS on Earth to wipe out all Natural life on Earth in a fit of rage. Patrick's son Athrun arrives to stop him... just in time to see Ray use the last of his breath to shoot Patrick In the Back multiple times, resulting in the latter's death. |
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Superman: The Composite Superman, a Silver Age enemy of Superman and Batman, possessed all the powers of the Legion of Super-Heroes and knowledge of the heroes' secret identities. He defeated them and demanded that they give up being heroes, but the powers then faded away, leaving him without even the memories of ever having been a villain. Jack Kirby's run on Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen ended with Superman, Jimmy Olsen and the Newsboy Legion confronting a villain called Victor Volcanum, who has a volcano lair and an army of robotic minions. Superman tries to reason with Volcanum and convince him to use his resources and inventions to better the world rather than conquer it, but Volcanum instead spitefully detonates his lair and obliterates himself in the process. |
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In Xenoblade Chronicles 1, the giant war robot "Metal Face" serves as the Arch-Enemy for Shulk and most of his party for much of the game's first act, having killed countless innocent people including Shulk's Childhood Friend Fiora. But later on, Metal Face is revealed to actually be a Humongous Mecha piloted by a fellow homs named Mumkhar. After Mumkhar's final defeat, Shulk finds himself unable to take his life (reasoning that killing a sentient being is wrong, even if they're a traitorous, murderous sociopath) and actually stands in the way of Dunban (Fiora's brother and Mumkhar's former comrade) when the latter tries to kill him instead. Mumkhar takes this opportunity to fire a blast at the heroes, but he misses and hits a spire that falls down and impales him and pins him to a falling platform, killing him. | |
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In Xenoblade Chronicles 3, an already struggling Mobius O and P find out the hard way that staying in Interlink for too long causes an Annihilation Event. Noah and Mio barely have enough time to break the cliff below them in order to get them far enough that the Ouroboros aren't caught in the blast. Mobius D and J meet the same fate when Joran has a Heel–Face Turn and overloads the the Interlink in order take both him and D out. | |
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Kim Possible's Dr. Drakken has done this to himself: In "Rappin' Drakken", he creates mind-control shampoo and tries to sell it in stores. Because of the ominous tagline ("Lather, Rinse, Obey") and the fact that the bottles have his face on them, nobody buys the shampoo. Kim chuckles about Drakken's latest scheme being "Self-foiling" and the remainder of the episode is the mad scientist trying to shill his product on a TV song contest. In "Ron Millionaire", Drakken's latest Doomsday Device ends up destroying itself without Kim's involvement. |
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Kamen Rider Zi-O is a show entirely about a Villain Protagonist disposing of himself through time travel convincing his younger self never to become him. | |
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In Tarzan, the final battle with Clayton sees him wrapped up in vines, and in a rage, he begins to hack himself loose with a machete, not noticing the vine wrapped snugly around his neck. When Clayton cuts the last vine holding him up, he falls through the trees until the vine runs out of slack, breaking his own neck and suffering a Family-Unfriendly Death. | |
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Inuyasha the Movie: Affections Touching Across Time: Ruri copies Miroku's Wind Tunnel for her own use, and this hits her hard when she later deliberately expands it to gain an edge over Miroku, only to quickly lose control of it and be consumed. | |
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The General's Daughter: When Kent reveals himself to have strangled Elizabeth after he found her tied up, then rejected him after he tried to help, he kills himself by stepping on a landmine rather than face justice. | |
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Raiders of the Lost Ark: Belloq and his Nazi cohorts Toht and Dietrich open The Ark of the Covenant themselves and its powers then disintegrate them in a very painful manner. | |
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Cars: Despite Lightning losing the big race at the end of the movie in order to help The King finish his last race, Chick Hicks already ruined his own racing career after his heinous actions during the race, which included causing King to get into a violent crash purely because he didn't want to lose to him again. | |
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: Golderoy Lockhart has his mind wiped by his own Obliviator curse, courtesy of Ron's broken wand. Mild example. Draco is so intent on distracting and taunting Harry during their first Quiddich match, that he himself becomes distracted, losing the match for Slytherin because he doesn't notice the Golden Snitch right behind him. |
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Wakfu: As it turns out, Nox is so ruthlessly effective at taking care of the heroes this ends up being the only possible way he can be stopped: Nox's ultimate downfall comes when he fails to realize he can never attain enough wakfu to go back two-hundred years and instead burns his entire supply going back twenty minutes, just before his victory. Nox freaks at this. | |
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In Dante's Inferno, the Queen of Hell Beatrice, who was preparing to fight her former lover, ends up fainting after remembering her past identity thanks to Dante proving himself to her. | |
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In Les Misérables, Javert's entire worldview is shattered when Valjean saves his life from the rebels. He decides he simply can't live in a world where criminals can be good people, and jumps off a bridge. | |
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Pathfinder: Kingmaker: In the first boss fight against Tartuccio at Old Sycamore, he likes to cast Fireball, which does nasty AOE damage. Due to Artificial Stupidity and the small size of the boss room, he's prone to catching his mooks in the blast as well, and will even try to cast it on the player party if they rush to melee range with him—which with intelligently built characters means he has a tendency to blow himself to bits. | |
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Pokémon: Ghetsis ends up in Villainous Breakdown-induced catatonia after being defeated in Pokémon Black 2 and White 2, for the non-lethal variant. In Pokémon X and Y, Lysandre fires the Ultimate Weapon. Afterward, it's left ambiguous whether he's dead (Y), or immortal and Buried Alive forever (X). |
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This is set up and subverted in Spider-Man: Homecoming: the Vulture tries to fly off with whatever salvaged bits of stolen technology that he can, unaware that his glider suit is malfunctioning. However, Peter saves him from the ensuing explosion. | |
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Golden Wind: Secco threatens to melt Doppio after he's taken him hostage, but Bucciarati punches his arm and he ends up using his melting powers on his throat. He then promptly trips into a garbage truck, coincidentally the same one Cioccolata's mangled corpse is in. | |
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In Mega Man Zero, Hidden Phantom, although not exactly a straight-out villain, detonates his own body when he fails to subdue Zero before he reaches Copy X. More startling is the fact Phantom is the only one of the Four Guardians to try a suicide attack on Zero, indicating he may be the most ruthless of them all combined. | |
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Some of the more evil characters in the Twisted Metal games suffer this fate once Calypso's Jackass Genie tendencies kick in. Mr. Grimm in the second game, for instance, wishes for humanity to start dying faster so that he can consume more souls — causing Calypso to make all humans start killing each other, giving him a short-term glut of souls to feast on followed by starvation once humanity is extinct. In the same game, the egotistical architect Simon Whittlebone wishes for the resources to construct the tallest skyscraper in the world — which he then falls from as he keeps trying to build it ever higher so that nobody else builds one even taller. Given that Calypso is himself evil, however, evil characters are more likely than the good guys to get precisely what they wanted from their wishes. | |
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The 95th issue of Journey into Mystery had Thor fight a scientist named Professor Zaxton, who used an invention of his to create an Evil Knockoff of Thor. The story ends with Zaxton causing his own demise when he falls to his death trying to reach for his invention, which destroys the machine in the process, but not without the contraption first creating a benevolent clone of Zaxton who subsequently takes the deceased scientist's place. | |
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In Mass Effect, if your Paragon or Renegade skill is high enough, you can convince Saren Arterius to kill himself because Sovereign is taking over his mind and it's not too late to help the hero. Though you have to fight his corpse once Sovereign assumes direct control. The same can also occur to The Illusive Man in the third game if you manage to make him have a Heel Realization. | |
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In Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Rameses, though wounded by Nate, shoots the window of an underwater portion of the ship, causing it to flood and drown him. Although Nate is able to escape. | |
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In the last Rebuild of Evangelion movie, Kozo Fuyutsuki pilots a NERV warship into battle himself, despite the fact that it's automated and is entering an area of space that will kill him. He brings with him exactly the set of items that Mari will need for a daring rescue and doesn't even try to struggle against her when she comes to collect them. He offers so little explanation for this that it might even be considered switching sides. | |
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In Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers, the Skull Ghost ends up trapping himself when he opens the safe holding the hidden jewels, burying himself under it while Scooby, Shaggy, and Scrappy stood back at gunpoint. | |
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At the end of Kevin Can F**k Himself, Kevin lights Allison's belongings on fire and then passes out in a drunken bender. The inferno quickly grows out of control and kills him. | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders: Anubis attempts to throw himself at Jotaro and Polnareff when they think he's defeated, but thanks to Iggy interfering, he ends up starting a sequence of events that leads to him being lost at the bottom of the Nile River. Diamond is Unbreakable: Cheap Trick kills whoever its possesses by waiting for someone to look at their backs. Cheap Trick is defeated when Rohan exploits the fact that anyone who looks back while in Reimi's ghost alley will be Dragged Off to Hell and positions himself so that Cheap Trick has to look back towards Koichi in the alley and gets hauled off. Golden Wind: Secco threatens to melt Doppio after he's taken him hostage, but Bucciarati punches his arm and he ends up using his melting powers on his throat. He then promptly trips into a garbage truck, coincidentally the same one Cioccolata's mangled corpse is in. |
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In Stardust by Neil Gaiman, there are two major villains, who effectively and elegantly dispose of each other when the heroes aren't even around. In the film version, three out of the five villains die at each other's hands. | |
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Spider-Man: The original Green Goblin (who was especially dangerous because he knew who Spidey was) getting impaled by his own glider in The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #122, also known as The Night Gwen Stacy Died. (He got better, later). The Jackal (Miles Warren) having a meltdown after being unmasked by Gwen Stacy's clone and ending up being killed (along with the Spider-Man clone) by his own bomb at the ending of the original Clone Saga in The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #149. (It was not the last we saw of either). The burglar conveniently having a fatal heart attack in ASM #200 moments after Spider-Man took off his mask and showed him he was the nephew of the guy he murdered in Amazing Fantasy #15. Carrion (Professor Warren's clone), who also inconveniently knew Spider-Man's secret, killed by his own Spider-Amoeba in Peter Parker the Spectacular Spider-Man #31. |
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Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark: During the Final Battle, the Green Goblin tries to spite Spider-Man by dropping a piano from the top of the Empire State Building onto the bystanders below. However, since Spidey had webbed the Goblin to the piano earlier in the fight, he ends up dragged to his Disney Villain Death. | |
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The burglar conveniently having a fatal heart attack in ASM #200 moments after Spider-Man took off his mask and showed him he was the nephew of the guy he murdered in Amazing Fantasy #15. | |
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Part of the plot of My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! involves this trope. When the universe was just the Romance Game Fortune Lover, Catarina Claes' sense of entitlement and resentment over anyone who would break her control (such as Maria) not only alienated her from most characters but ultimately becomes her undoing, resulting in either her exile or death without Maria (i.e. the player) actually having to do anything to Catarina herself. In the story proper, however, Catarina wakes up to her Past-Life Memories of a Joshikousei of The New '10s Japan who played Fortune Lover hours before her death... | |
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Young Justice (2010): During Season 4's Atlantis Arc, the heroes rush to stop Ocean Master from taking the throne via duplicity, only to fail at the end. When Orm (whose brain was inserted into the cloned body of Arion, former ruler of Atlantis) tries to take Arion's magic crown, though, the Lords of Order, who a. created the crown and b. have a significant grievance against Orm's boss Vandal Savage, immediately kill off Orm and drain the crown of its power. | |
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Happens yet again in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny: the titular Dial is an artifact that allows for time travel, but only by finding specific rifts in space-time. Nazi scientist Voller wanted to use it to go back to 1939 to usurp Adolf Hitler and ensure that the Nazis win the war, but Archimedes programmed the Dial to send whoever uses it back to the Siege of Syracuse, and Voller ends up dying there when his plane crashes. | |
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Just as in the book, in Where Eagles Dare turncoat British officer Colonel Turner opts to jump out of the plane at the end rather than face justice. | |
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Godzilla vs. Kong: Apex Cybernetics wanted to use Mechagodzilla to make humanity the dominant Alpha species over all the Titans, but it was going to end with Apex's own destruction and the ruination of their Evil Plan without any input from the heroes; since they used Ghidorah's remains as the psionic control mechanism for Mechagodzilla, and the moment Mechagodzilla gains a lasting power supply is the moment Ghidorah's remains take control of the Mecha. | |
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In Renegades, it's eventually revealed that rather than getting beheaded by Captain Chromium, Ace Anarchy threw himself off the roof upon realizing that he couldn't win. At the end of the first book, this turns out that the purpose of this was faking his own death, as he actually survived. | |
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In El Goonish Shive, Damien's Villainous Breakdown upon realizing Grace can match his power and he might not be a living god drives him to use his fire powers to immolate himself and Grace. If he is a god, he'll survive it; if he isn't, he doesn't want to. | |
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In SHAZAM! (2019), this trope is subverted as it appears that Envy leaving Sivana's body is going to cause him to plunge to his death. At the last second though Shazam snatches Sivana up before he hits the ground. | |
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Jurassic Park: Happens a lot in the films, where the human antagonists suffer Laser-Guided Karma via dinosaur without the human protagonists really having to do anything. Jurassic Park: Nedry accidentally ends up crashing into the Dilophosaurus exhibit while on his way to deliver the stolen dinosaur embryos to InGen's corporate rival, and is gruesomely mauled to death. The other characters remain completely oblivious to his fate and (once his corporate espionage is discovered) believe he managed to cunningly sneak away. In The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Peter Ludlow is killed by a T. rex after trying to steal its baby in a last-ditch effort of desperation to recover his losses once his scheme to revive Jurassic Park falls apart. Jurassic World: The Smug Snake Hoskins is killed by one of the Velociraptors he begged to set loose to hunt the Indominus to begin with (while the protagonist, Owen, was heavily against the idea). Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom: Mills is killed at the end when he's ripped apart and eaten by the T. rex and a Carnotaurus set loose during the stampede of dinosaurs, because he was so focused on retrieving the Indominus DNA sample that he didn't even notice the meat-eating dinosaurs all around him. Jurassic World Dominion: Dodgson is killed when he tries to escape with the dinosaur embryos by himself after his scheme to cause a world food shortage literally goes up in flames, only for the power to the hyperloop train to get shut off, leaving him trapped inside the tunnel. Then, a pack of Dilophosaurus arrives... |
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Stardust Crusaders: Anubis attempts to throw himself at Jotaro and Polnareff when they think he's defeated, but thanks to Iggy interfering, he ends up starting a sequence of events that leads to him being lost at the bottom of the Nile River. | |
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In The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, Garo Master blows himself up with a bomb to fulfill the Garo law to "die without leaving a corpse". | |
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In The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Peter Ludlow is killed by a T. rex after trying to steal its baby in a last-ditch effort of desperation to recover his losses once his scheme to revive Jurassic Park falls apart. | |
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A Hercule Poirot sketch on That Mitchell and Webb Look had the detective calling the Summation Gathering and eventually pointing out that the perpetrator is the woman who, over the course of the scene, has inexplicably got sexier, started smoking and started speaking in an "evil voice". Ultimately she shoots herself rather than go to jail. "It is better zis way: some courts, zey do not accept ze evil voice as evidence." | |
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The Fox and the Hound: Tod, Copper and Amos can't do anything to seriously hurt him, and it takes him angrily smashing a log that he's standing on to send him falling to his death. | |
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Daredevil had a similar situation as Spidey and the burglar who killed Uncle Ben, as in his very first story, when he caught up to the hired killer who was responsible for killing his father, the latter died from heart failure. Daredevil has varying degrees of culpability for this depending on what retelling of the story you read. | |
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In Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus, when Zim teleports Earth into the path of the Irken mothership while inadvertently opening the titular wormhole, the Tallest are only interested in getting the Earth out of their way and completely ignore the Florpus, even as one of the Irkens on the bridge continuously tries to warn them of the danger it presents, but keeps getting blown off. This ends up resulting in the Irken flagship flying straight into the Florpus, trapping the Irken Armada in its void. | |
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In Dragon Ball, when Staff Officer Black learned that Commander Red, leader of the Red Ribbon Army, was going to use the almighty Dragon Balls to wish himself taller and made all the sacrifices of his men thus far look like they died for the sake of dog crap, it set him off enough to put a bullet right between the commander's eyes in utter disgust for his moronic leader, saving Goku and company the trouble of taking him down. | |
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Jurassic Park: Nedry accidentally ends up crashing into the Dilophosaurus exhibit while on his way to deliver the stolen dinosaur embryos to InGen's corporate rival, and is gruesomely mauled to death. The other characters remain completely oblivious to his fate and (once his corporate espionage is discovered) believe he managed to cunningly sneak away. | |
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In one infamous example on Jonny Quest, General Fong, angered with one of his men for allowing the Quests to escape, shoots him in a rage. Unfortunately, the mook's body then collapses onto a Plunger Detonator for a Sea Mine Fong's boat was directly over. | |
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Kamen Rider Den-O ends with the Big Bad Kai evaporating from overuse of his time manipulation. | |
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Five Nights at Freddy's 3 shows that after seemingly avoiding justice for his crimes for years, William Afton returned to the abandoned Freddy Fazbear's Pizza to dismantle the animatronics, releasing the spirits of his victims and prompting him to hide in his old Spring Bonnie suit. One Evil Laugh later and he's crushed once the suit's springlocks break loose. It's zigzagged, however, in that though he dies, he's not exactly gone for good. Luckily, Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator shows him receiving his final death, after being lured into a building that he knew was probably a trap. | |
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The final battle of Kill la Kill has Ryuko foiling Ragyo Kiryuin's Evil Plan and wanting her to come back to Earth safe since she's her mother. In response, Ragyo rips her own heart out of her chest and crushes it, spreading away the remaining Life Fibers in a possible Sequel Hook. For an anime called KILL la KILL, the heroes sure don't do a lot of killing... Earlier in that episode, Nui Harime decapitates herself in order to be absorbed by the Primordial Life Fiber and power Ragyo up. |
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The Bolt Chronicles: Occurs in the climactic dog fight scene between Bolt and Ike in "The Wind." Bolt, who is beginning to get the worst of the battle, uses a spin move to get out of the way of his antagonist Ike, who charges towards him with head lowered. The latter doesn't realize Bolt has evaded him and crashes full force into a brick wall, breaking his neck with a loud snap. | |
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Sailor Moon: The major villains (Quirky Miniboss Squad and up) have a tendency to either kill each other off for various reasons (You Have Failed Me, You Have Outlived Your Usefulness, Evil Versus Evil) or be destroyed by their own technology/attacks, leaving the Monsters of the Week and Big Bads, who are less human-looking, to be destroyed by the heroes. This is especially true of the Witches 5 from the S season. Eudial is killed by Mimete, Mimete is killed by Tellu, Tellu is killed by her own plant, Viluy is killed by her own nanobots, and the twins Cyprine and Ptilol actually end up killing each other in battle. The Sailor Guardians barely have to do a thing, besides tricking Cyprine and Ptilol into blasting each other. | |
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The third parasite in The Cat Lady forces the cat lady to play the piano before he kills her. Playing the piano is how she tells the neighborhood cats that she's ready to feed them, and they don't take kindly to him threatening her. | |
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The Legend of Korra fanfic Book Five: Legends, the Big Bad of the story, Temuji, is ultimately done in by the bending powers he stole tearing his body apart during the final battle. | |
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In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990), Shredder is done in when he rushes Splinter and falls into a garbage compactor after trying to kill him with a throwing knife when he was on the edge, with the turtle's much less heroic (though still good-hearted) ally Casey Jones flipping the switch. Of course he's Not Quite Dead and comes back for some more shredding in the sequel, and does himself in by turning into Super Shredder via the last vial of the ooze and causing an entire dock to collapse on him while trying to kill the Turtles. | |
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A major trope in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, particularly during the early seasons. Human villains tended to fall into pits of their own monsters while Buffy tried in vain to save them. See especially "The Pack" and "Go Fish". | |
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In the Conan the Barbarian story "At the Mountain of the Moon-God", Conan and a few others are escaping from a mountaintop fortress through a crevice in the floor. The fortress's commander tries to kill them by pouring boiling oil down the crack, but in his haste, he somehow tips the vat the wrong way and spills the oil all over himself. | |
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This a common way for Psychopaths in the Dead Rising series to meet their end after being beaten in a boss fight. For example, Adam from the first game dies via his own chainsaws, Leon from the second burns himself alive and Zhi from the third game chops off his own head. | |
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Superboy (1994): The cruel extraterrestrial slaver Kossak kills himself rather than be taken into custody after he's defeated as he refuses to be chained up or imprisoned under any circumstances. | |
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The Lensman series has a subversion in that it's deliberately engineered by one of the heroes. Nadreck's solution to the problem of a Boskonian base is to get all the Boskonians to kill themselves and/or each other over the course of a few minutes. He is ashamed about it, but it's because he had to personally intervene to kill three of them himself when the shooting was all over; he considers this to be sloppy work. | |
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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom: Mills is killed at the end when he's ripped apart and eaten by the T. rex and a Carnotaurus set loose during the stampede of dinosaurs, because he was so focused on retrieving the Indominus DNA sample that he didn't even notice the meat-eating dinosaurs all around him. | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam: While some members of the Zabi family are taken out by our heroes, the rest are done in by their own hubris (and Char). Degwin Sodo Zabi is killed by his eldest son Ghiren, Ghiren is killed by his sister Kycillia and Kycillia is done in by Char. | |
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The Dayao People from Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin. With considerable territories already conquered and access to ancient online databases, it would have been easy for them to equip a large enough army with high-quality regular weapons. Instead, they decided to focus on the Awesome, but Impractical; namely, an airplane force on a Post-Peak Oil Earth. Apparently, once your food stocks are depleted due to biofuel production, conquest becomes a tiny bit problematic. | |
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In The Killer That Stalked New York, Matt dies by falling to his death after misjudging a jump while trying to escape the police by Roofhopping. | |
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In The Dragon Heir by Cinda Williams Chima, the villain self-disposes by magically attacking someone who is not only immune to magic but sucks magic out of wizards. This effect doesn't kill itself but does cause exhaustion, so the villain falls down, and there's a handy cliff nearby ... | |
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Diamond is Unbreakable: Cheap Trick kills whoever its possesses by waiting for someone to look at their backs. Cheap Trick is defeated when Rohan exploits the fact that anyone who looks back while in Reimi's ghost alley will be Dragged Off to Hell and positions himself so that Cheap Trick has to look back towards Koichi in the alley and gets hauled off. | |
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In Dragon Ball Z, virtually all of Frieza's henchmen are offed by Vegeta except Bund and Vug (killed by Krillin and Gohan), a few mooks who are killed by three Nameks, Blueberry and Raspberry (who are killed by a giant crab), any who remain on Planet Frieza or travel with King Cold (killed by exploding building and Trunks, respectively), and some mooks who are killed by Frieza or Captain Ginyu, which also fits the trope. Dr. Gero has his head crushed by Android 17. Nappa is killed by Vegeta for losing a battle to Goku. Majin Buu kills Babidi when he becomes tired of his abuse. Van Zant is the first victim of Evil Buu. And when he becomes Super Buu, Smitty gets it. Zigzagged with Cell. He self-destructs but is able to regenerate From a Single Cell. The most egregious example is likely Garlic Jr. from the movie Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone and the subsequent filler arc in the anime. He is the first villain in the franchise to successfully use the Dragonballs to give himself Complete Immortality, making him an Invincible Villain the heroes simply cannot kill ever...and when all hope seems lost, he opens up a portal to a void dimension to dispose of the heroes, who of course use it to get rid of him instead. He does this in both of his appearances, despite each time being able to win simply by waiting for everyone to exhaust themselves fruitlessly fighting him. |
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: Donovan drinks the wrong chalice (which he let Elsa Schneider, his assistant, choose) and rapidly ages to nothing. Shortly after, Elsa falls to her death in an abyss when she's concerned more about reaching the Holy Grail below her than saving herself. | |
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From Rurouni Kenshin, Kenshin Himura was usually pretty good about making friends of enemies or convincing them to otherwise not be evil. But when he goes up against foes who are irredeemable, they usually get killed by someone else or wind up dying mid-battle. Most notably, Shishio Makoto unambiguously defeats Kenshin, and then promptly bursts into flames and turns to ash because of his inability to regulate his body temperature combined with fighting well past his breaking point. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager: Being more convenient for the crew not to deal with her, the spy Seska dies from a console overload in "Basics". | |
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RCN: Some Golden Harbor: Daniel is forced to face a Pellegrinian cruiser with an Ax-Crazy captain using only a corvette and a partially manned frigate. The Pellegrinian ends up mistakenly passing too close to Dunbar's World's atmosphere, and while ships in the series can normally fly in air, it's a bad idea with your antimatter-fueled High Drive switched on: given Space Is an Ocean, it's kind of like running aground. Captain ap Glynn blows out his own engines and is forced to make a crash landing, leaving Daniel's side in control of orbit by default. | |
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Colonel Spalko wants unlimited knowledge, and she gets more than she bargained for when she bursts into flames. | |
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In Ella Enchanted, the Big Bad Sir Edgar defeats himself with the poisoned crown he planned on using to kill his nephew and heir by putting it on during his Motive Rant at the end of the movie. | |
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In The Satan Bug by Alistair MacLean, Pierre Cavell gains the upper hand against Enzo Scarlatti aboard a helicopter that's in flight. After some discussion about the trial the villain will face, Scarlatti, rather than face British justice, opts to open the door and jump out to his death. Cavell doesn't try to stop him. | |
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Subverted and inverted in the ending of Super Meat Boy. Dr. Fetus seems to be killed by his own Dying Moment of Awesome, but then he pops up again, only to be crushed helpless by Bandage Girl. | |
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In Pokémon X and Y, Lysandre fires the Ultimate Weapon. Afterward, it's left ambiguous whether he's dead (Y), or immortal and Buried Alive forever (X). | |
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Justified likes to play with this trope. In the opening scene of the series, US Marshal Raylan Givens confronts Tommy Bucks, a Psycho for Hire who tortured and brutally murdered a man in front of Raylan. Raylan has no jurisdiction over the crime and no evidence to arrest Bucks for another crime so he instead told him to leave Miami in 24 hours "or else". Right before the time is up, Bucks pulls out his gun and is subsequently shot down by Raylan. Afterwards, Raylan wonders if he would have been capable of murdering Bucks if Bucks did not draw his weapon and made the shooting 'justified'. Throughout the series, Raylan is faced with moral choices that resolve themselves because the bad guys kill themselves, each other or force him to act in clear self-defense. This culminates in the finale of season 4 where a mobster threatens Rayaln's family but is does not 'self dispose' so Raylan gets a second mobster to kill the first mobster for him. | |
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A non-lethal example in Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed. The Evil Masked Figure trips and hangs over a wire from the grate as he tries to escape, thus allowing his capture. | |
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Kamen Rider Decade has a number of human villains in its Grand Finale movie who dispose of themselves by attempting to unleash the Neo Organism against him, letting Decade fight the resulting monster instead. | |
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Kamen Rider Double takes out nearly all of his opponents nonlethally by stripping them of their powers. All of the major villains manage to die anyway by various means, ranging from the consequences of a Deadly Upgrade to going mad and walking into a collapsing building. | |
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