Death by falling

We finally saw Up with the kids, and aside from being a great movie with strong themes of love, loss, grief, and moving on, and employing a wonderful metaphor of how Carl's house, and the baggage that goes with it, literally weighs him down, it also features the Death By Falling of the main antagonist.  While appropriate for this particular movie, I hope that Pixar doesn't slide into this Disney trap.


With help from the repository of all knowledge, I compiled the following list of villain deaths** in Walt Disney Animation Studio movies. 

1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; the Queen; DbF
2. Cinderella; Dragon Lucifer, the cat; DbF
3. Sleeping Beauty; Maleficent; sword in the heart
4. The Great Mouse Detective; Ratigan; DbF
5. Oliver and Company; Sykes; DbF (assisted by train impact and drowning in Hudson river)
6. The Little Mermaind; Ursula; bowsprit in the heart
7. Rescuers Down Under; McLeach; DbF
8. Beauty and the Beast; Gaston; DbF
9. The Lion King; Scar; eaten by hyenas after falling (Mufasa also DbF, assisted by trampling)
10. The Hunchback of Notre Dame; Frollo; DbF
11. Mulan; Shan Yu; pyrotechnics
12. Tarzan; Clayton; hanging assisted by fall
13. Dinosaur; Carnotaurus; DbF
14. Atlantis: the Lost Empire; Rourke; crystal slash to arm(? I haven't seen this one, so am going by the Wikipedia description)
15. The Princess and the Frog; Facilier; dragged to underworld 
16. Tangled; Gothel; old age (with gratuitous fall thrown in)

I count falls involved in the death scenes of 11 of 16 villains, and it's only the last 10-15 years that they've really starting to move away from DbF as the preferred method of removing the hero as the agency of death.  






** I'm ignoring the existence of the Black Cauldron, and discounting the rat in Lady and the Tramp and the Titans in Hercules.  I also haven't seen Treasure Planet, and can't figure from its Wikipedia description whether there is a villain.