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[Reelya]

I honestly can't remember any other characters who *actually* died by falling, in any work.

Clayton in Disney's Tarzan (1999). That's the only one I can think of where it was specifically the fall that did the killing and not whatever was down there.

Really obvious one here: Die Hard. Another one comes to mind, the original (UK) House of Cards.
Falling deaths are more common than you're making out, unless you mean hitting "the ground" as "whatever was down there" doesn't count as falling being the cause of death.

We've all probably seen more of those deaths than we recall. Consider this scene: person falls off building, hits roof of car, denting that and shattering the glass: car alarm blaring as camera pans over the wreckage, making it clear that they're dead. Don't tell me you haven't seen this shot, probably over and over in movies.

There's a watchmojo top 10 video about movie falling deaths, but I hate that content mill Watchmojo and you should too.

[Teneb]

I honestly can't remember any other characters who *actually* died by falling, in any work.

Clayton in Disney's Tarzan (1999). That's the only one I can think of where it was specifically the fall that did the killing and not whatever was down there.

Really obvious one here: Die Hard. Another one comes to mind, the original (UK) House of Cards.
Falling deaths are more common than you're making out, unless you mean hitting "the ground" as "whatever was down there" doesn't count as falling being the cause of death.

We've all probably seen more of those deaths than we recall. Consider this scene: person falls off building, hits roof of car, denting that and shattering the glass: car alarm blaring as camera pans over the wreckage, making it clear that they're dead. Don't tell me you haven't seen this shot, probably over and over in movies.

There's a watchmojo top 10 video about movie falling deaths, but I hate that content mill Watchmojo and you should too.

Reelya, they're obviously referring to scenes where a character falls down a pit or whatever but we never see them hitting the ground or something else. Just falls down pit and then cut.

[hector13]

Would Steven Segal in Executive Decision count as that? He fell out a plane.

[Iduno]

"Getting stabbed and pushed out a window, the Eric Draven story."

[Reelya]

I honestly can't remember any other characters who *actually* died by falling, in any work.

Clayton in Disney's Tarzan (1999). That's the only one I can think of where it was specifically the fall that did the killing and not whatever was down there.

Really obvious one here: Die Hard. Another one comes to mind, the original (UK) House of Cards.
Falling deaths are more common than you're making out, unless you mean hitting "the ground" as "whatever was down there" doesn't count as falling being the cause of death.

We've all probably seen more of those deaths than we recall. Consider this scene: person falls off building, hits roof of car, denting that and shattering the glass: car alarm blaring as camera pans over the wreckage, making it clear that they're dead. Don't tell me you haven't seen this shot, probably over and over in movies.

There's a watchmojo top 10 video about movie falling deaths, but I hate that content mill Watchmojo and you should too.

Reelya, they're obviously referring to scenes where a character falls down a pit or whatever but we never see them hitting the ground or something else. Just falls down pit and then cut.

But what they said was they can't recall any character who ever died by falling. If you exclude all falling deaths where they are shown to be dead afterwards, then conclude falling deaths are always a fake-out, then that's entirely circular.

Or, it's a very pointless tautology: characters who aren't actually shown to die usually aren't dead.

[Rolan7]

That's not a tautology, but yeah.  Deaths which aren't explicitly shown are often fake-outs.  Falling "deaths" are just a common mechanism for that.  It's still funny to me since the height can be extremely lethal, but the character probably isn't really dead somehow (I'm counting Palpatine despite the technicality).

[Kagus]

You're a tautology!

[scriver]

Maul died from the light sabre strike, but survived the fall

The reason he survived the fall was that he was already dead from getting cut in half, so the fall couldn't kill him

He was able to glitch out the star wars universe, that's how he lived

[itisnotlogical]

I'm enjoying Season 7 of The Clone Wars, but maybe it's just rebound from forcing myself to enjoy Rebels. If you liked the other six seasons of Clone Wars you'll probably like S7, even though the Bad Batch was obviously supposed to be Delta Squad in an earlier draft of the script

[Eschar]

I honestly can't remember any other characters who *actually* died by falling, in any work.

Clayton in Disney's Tarzan (1999). That's the only one I can think of where it was specifically the fall that did the killing and not whatever was down there.

The Man in Black from S6 of Lost

The wife in Vertigo

[Enemy post]

The Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 1 is out.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

oh shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit! Thanks for the heads up!!!

[RedKing]

Just finished it. The krayt dragon fanservice was *air kiss of perfection*.

[Enemy post]

Spoiler: Spoilers (click to show/hide)

With Boba Fett reconfirmed to be alive and Revan confirmed canon, I feel like I've finally got back what I wanted from the pre-Disney EU.

All the callbacks were great too. R5, the podracer engine, the KOTOR dragon hunt...

[scriver]

Just finished it. The krayt dragon fanservice was *air kiss of perfection*.

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