Villains' Defeats

"This is the price of eternal life, Max Moron!"

- The Chief Mummy telling Max Mordon about how his greed has gotten the better of him.

Villains' Defeats are series of extreme events for a villain or an antagonist's loss/defeats. This can be occured in the climax or even in flashback in the fictions where they appeared. Known forms of the villains' defeats could be either:


 * Realized being outsmarted by the heroes.
 * Ultimately struck down and instantly killed by the heroes after the tense battle.
 * Weakened and on the heroes' mercy.
 * Exposed by the heroes.

If the villain was unable to cope with his/her defeat, this likely led to Villainous Breakdown. Otherwise would occure however, if villains that suffer this decided to accept their defeat (notable those with honor).

Literature

 * Esplin 9466: After realized that he was defeated in the war and his host body knocked out by Ax, he decided to left his fate on his foes, which led into trial where he eventually incarcerated inside a purple cube prison.
 * Lord Voldemort: He eventually struck down by Harry Potter's Disarming Charm where the said spell also rebound his Killing Curse (with help of Voldemort's own Elder Wand that refused to kill it's potential new master Harry), in which resulting his death. Whereas his body still intact in the book that allow him to get his funeral, this not apply on film as his body destroyed and reduced into dust.

Film

 * Dylan Gould: Electrocuted by Sam with a space-bridge pillar, one of the known dissappointing comeuppance.
 * Indominus Rex: When I.Rex goint to deliver the final blow on Rexy, Delta interferes and the Raptor and the tyrannosaurus battered I.Rex, but in spite of her injuries, I.Rex still at her full strength angrily roar of them before began to counter-attack, only to failed to realized that a Mosasaurus jumped and pulled her underwater. Had Mosasaurus' bite-force may too weak to killed her underwater, drowning may surely killed her.
 * Raoul Silva: After a knife is thrown at him by Bond, Silva tries to resist but ultimately succumbs to his wound and dies at Bond's feet.
 * Judge Doom: Doom is melted by his own Dip before turning into a pool of his melted self but not before emitting a few terrible screams.
 * Green Goblin: After receiving the beating of his life from Spider-Man, Norman hangs onto dear life but not before attempting to kill the Spider with his glider however he was able to suspect this and was able to get out of the way but not after the glider impales the Green Goblin.
 * Dick Jones: After being outed as the criminal he is, Jones takes the Old Man hostage to avoid being arrested by Robocop however with Directive 4 in place the cyborg can't do anything however once the Old Man fires Jones and is free Robocop shoots the corrupt businessman and sends him plummeting to his demise.
 * Hans Gruber: At the top of the building McClaine unshackles the handcuff connecting the two and causes Hans to fall to his death.
 * Smaug: Bard shoots the dragon where his armour is the weakest, killing Smaug and sending him down to Laketown. The are slight differences of his defeat if compared with in book version:
 * In book version, Smaug's weakest spot was his underbelly scales that not covered by diamonds, jewels, rubys, and golds that forcefully embedded by Smaug himself on them as means to compensate his weakness. In film, due to Smaug's design by filmmakers was having his underbelly scales more durable than in book version, they only had one of his said underbelly scales missing instead, that serves as his weakest spot.
 * Due to the changes above, the way the heroes learned about Smaug's weakest spot was different: In books, when Bilbo and Dwarves discusses about their discovery where they notice Smaug's exposed underbelly scales that not covered by gold and jewels, a thrush bird overheared them and later revealed this on Bard, allowed the man to killed Smaug. In film, Bard claims that his ancestor whom fighting Smaug was notice that one of the dragon's underbelly scales was missing, and Bilbo only confirmed this later on. His claims that the dragon's weakness was the spot where the scale was missing proved true as when he shot Smaug on that spot with a black arrow, where the dragon eventually dying and killed upon impact on the land.
 * John Doe: Doe uses the death of Detective Mills wife to motivate him to kill him, just before being shot in the head and again multiple time he closes his eyes and accepts it.
 * Harold Attinger: Attinger corners Cade while Optimus Prime and Lockdown continue their brawl. Attinger continues to lecture Cade how he betrayed the human race by siding with the Transformers only for Optimus to shoot him and at the same time, avenges all the Autobots and including the humans (except the Decepticons) he had murdered on Earth.
 * Keizer Ghidorah: Has one of his three heads blown off by Godzilla's Atomic Breath. Godzilla then makes one of his other heads blast another off itself. Godzilla then throws him, stomps on him, kicks him, slams him twice into the ground, throws him and blasts him with his Red Spiral Ray, destroying him.
 * Le Chiffre: After a failed torture attempt, Le Chifffe prepares to castrate Bond however his employer kills his guards and shoots Le Chiffre in the head for him failing his organisation.
 * Emperor Palpatine: When Luke Skywalker rejected his offer to become his apprentice, Palpatine responds by sadistically and wrathfully torturing him. However this only enrages his former apprentice Darth Vader who is also Luke's father. Vader lifts Palpatine and throws him into the power centre of the Death Star which kills him.
 * Koba: Defeated and weakened, Koba meets with Caesar while hanging on for dear life. In a pathetic attempts he begs for his life by reminding him of the apes number one rule "ape not kill ape." Caesar seemingly agrees to help by grabbing Koba's hand and lifting him up. However to a shock to us all, Caesar coldly looks at his former friend and menacingly replied "you are not ape." Now terrified, Ceaser releases Koba allowing him to fall to his death and avenges both deaths of the humans and apes he has caused.
 * The Joker (Nolanverse): With his plan ruined Batman seemingly allows the Joker to fall to his death however before he could hit the ground, Batman grabs him by the leg and pulls him to the surface a is left at the hands of the GCPD. However despite his capture the Joker won and was able to get Harvey Dent to become a criminal and on some level proving his cynicism was right.
 * Bullseye: After being injured by Daredevil, Bullseye pleads for his life before he is thrown out of a cathedral and lands on a police car which he survives.
 * Sentinel Prime: With his Space Pillars destroyed and him badly injured Sentinel tries to weasel his way out but Optimus Prime states that he didn't betray the Autobots only himself despite his pleas Optimus kills the treacherous Prime in cold-blood.
 * Ronan The Accuser (Marvel Cinematic Universe):
 * M.U.T.O.: The male slammed by Godzilla on the building, impaled him with the debris that pierced his vital organs. The female also had her throat blasted by Godzilla's atomic breath, resulting the chain reaction that resulting a fiery decapitation. Their defeat, and also with Ford's action in destroying their egg, effectively avenge their victims and prevent them to wipe out humanity and all life on Earth.
 * Edgar the Bug: After being blasted in half by K from the inside after founding his gun inside the bug, the top half of him is still alive and tries to eat J and K, but Laurel Weaver kills the Bug by using J's gun from the bug's stomach.
 * Van Pelt: After Alan Parrish rolls the dice while about to be killed by Van Pelt, Alan wins the game by shouting out "Jumanji!" as Van Pelt and all of the jungle elements are sucked back into the board game.
 * Major Chip Hazard: Alan Abernathy manages to destroy Major Chip Hazard by jamming him into the powerline, terminating him and all of the Commando Elite soldiers including the mutant Gwendy dolls.
 * Two-Face: After Two-Face decided to flip his coin, Batman throws several identical coins at Two-Face and Two-Face begins to panic and fell into the watery bed of spikes.
 * T-1000: After the T-800 shoots his last grenade from his grenade launcher at the T-1000 to save John Connor and his mother, Sarah, the T-1000's body had exploded and falls into the molten steel to be melted completely.
 * Judge Doom: After turning into a toon and fighting Eddie Valiant, Doom punches the tank full of dip and melts in the dip.

Cartoons

 * The Joker (Return of the Joker): Joker finally has Batman at his mercy and gives the newly transformed, Tim Drake (who he renamed Joker Junior after placing him under weeks of intense torture) the opportunity to kill his former mentor. After laughing in a deranged tone Tim suddenly shoots the Joker with his final words being "that's not funny", he tries to speak again but collapses before he could get the words out.
 * Tirek (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic): Imprisoned in a cage in Tartarus guarded by cerberus by protagonists.
 * Malachite: Defeated by Lapis Lazuli inside her, whom forced the entity to imprisoned inside the ocean. This also practically resulting Jasper's own defeat.
 * Bill Cipher: Punched by Stan and obliterated within his mind as it gets erased, erasing Bill along with it.
 * Earl of Lemongrab:
 * Malware:
 * Slade:

Animated Films

 * Steele (Balto): Reduced into outcast as his breakdown ultimately exposed his evil plan to get rid of Balto that would causing deaths of sick children.
 * Mother Gothel A dying Flynn Rider cuts off Rapunzel's hair, the source of Gothel's youth. This caused her to age rapidly. As she looked at her face in the broken mirror, she was horrified, and Pascal used Rapunzel's hair to trip her out of the tower. As she fell, she disintegrated into dust, leaving behind her cloak.
 * Prince Hans: With both his plans failed and later punched by Anna, Anna and her friends have arranged the corrupt prince to return to his kingdom for his punishments.
 * Yokai: After Big Hero 6 stripped him from his nanobots, he was eventually defeated and arrested by the police, but not before he learned that his actions turned out, led Baymax and Hiro to save Abigail from the void which costs Baymax's first body.
 * Sa'Luk: He boasted his victory when he got Hand of Midas on Aladdin and his father, only torealized that he has recklessly held the hand in the wrong spot and turned into gold in process.
 * Archibald Snatcher: Declaring that he has finally won by capturing Winnie, Snatcher enters the tasting room, where he forces Eggs, Fish, and Portley-Rind to introduce a new brand of cheese that he wants to taste. Just as Snacther is about to taste a small piece of the cheese, Winnie manages to wriggle out of Snatcher's grasp by biting him on the hand. Eggs tries to convince Snatcher to let go of his lust for power, but the evil exterminator refuses and eats the cheese. At first, Snatcher finds the taste of the cheese to be delicious, but then seconds later, his allergy finally sets off and he explodes to his death in a yellow slimy mess.
 * Gaston: After being granted mercy by his foe, the Beast, Gaston takes the opportunity to (literally) stab him in the back however the reaction causes Gaston to lose his balance, sending the arrogant hunter to his death into the moat below.
 * Jafar (Disney): After wishing to become an all-powerful Genie by Genie, Aladdin informs Jafar that if he want to be a genie, everything goes with it as Jafar is sucked into his lamp along with Iago. At the climax of the sequel, Jafar traps our hero in a lava pit, only to eventually have the reformed Iago kick his lamp into the lava, causing Jafar to electrocute, then explode into nothingness, destroying him forever.
 * Lotso: While attempting to escape from the dump Lotso is discovered by a garbageman who binds him to the grill of his truck. The other toys trapped advise Lotso to keep his mouth shut.
 * Nigel (Rio): After being jettisoned out of a plane and plucked of nearly all his feathers, Nigel walks away from the crash only to be caught on camera by Mauro.
 * Merlock: During a scuffle mid-air Scrooge McDuck was able to grab his magical talisman which causes him to transform back into his original self and fall to his doom.
 * General Mandible: Outraged by his second-in-command, Colonel Cutter betraying him, Mandible utterly snaps and attempts to attack him only for the protagonis, Z, to take the shot. The two begin to fall, Z lands safely lands into the water but Mandible lands on an upturned root, killing him on impact.
 * Dag: After a failed attempt to kill the protagonist, Otis warns the evil coyote to never come back beofre kicking him out of his junkyard.
 * Thrax: Claiming that he has won, Thrax gloats over a seemingly dying Osmosis Jones that he will kill his victims' daughter but this only distracts him and he doesn't realise that his claw is trapped in Shane's false eyelash. The eyelash breaks off and causes Thrax to land in a beaker of rubbing alcohol which kills him before he could attempt to escape.
 * Hopper: After cornering Flik and strangling him, Hopper notices a bird which he thinks is another fake one however he soon realises that it is very real and it hovers over it's nest where to his terror it feeds him to ir's chicks, ending the villainous grasshopper's reign.
 * Judge Claude Frollo: Having lost whatever remained of his sanity, Frollo decides to take a final attempt to murder the gypsy girl, Esmeralda ontop of Notre Dame but before he can land the finishing strike, the gargoyle that Frollo was standing breaks and causes him to plummet to his demise and into the molten copper below.
 * Syndrome: After an attempt to kidnap Mister Incredible's son, Jack-Jack, Syndrome attempts to make an escape on his jet however Incredible hurtles a car towards the supervillain causing him to land in the jet engine despite his desperate attempts to escape, Syndrome's cape snagged on the blades causing him to be sucked in and killed, avenged the death of his superhero victim and put an end of his genocide.
 * Scar (The Lion King): Just after being outcasted by his own nephew Scar is greeted by his stooges, the Hyenas however when they overheard him trying to pin the blame over his brothers killing on them they were outraged. Soon the entire hyena pack surround their former boss, Scar desperately attempts to beg his way out only for his cries to fall on solid ground and he is devoured by the hyenas while fire engulfs Pride Rock.
 * Percival C. Mcleach: After being thrown into a lake, McLeach proudly fends off a swarm of alligators only for him to be distracted by the waterfall behind him, McLeach tries to fight the current but it is too strong and he is thrown over the waterfall, to his death.
 * Drago Bludvist: With his Bewilderbeast overpowered by Toothless, Drago (with his prosthetic arm blasted off) and his minion are casted out into the sea.
 * Soto: After Soto seemingly kills Diego (though is revealed to be only unconscious), Manny is enraged and knocks the sabre against an ice wall which causes the icicles above to fall, impaling Soto in the process.
 * Scroop: Scroop is levitated above the atmosphere because of his ships anti-gravity where he suffocates.
 * Charles Muntz: Inside Carl's house, Muntz takes one more attempt to kill Kevin, Dug and Russell however Carl uses chocolate to lure Kevin away, Muntz tries to follow but his leg snags on a ballon wire, it snaps and causes the explorer to fall to his doom.
 * Rasputin (Anastasia): Anastasia destroys Rasputins source of his powers and also his soul which causes him to literally decompose into a green ash.
 * Clayton (Tarzan): During Tarzan and Clayton's brawl atop the trees, Clayton is tangled and in a blind rage severs the vine that was holding him up(against Tarzan's protests), causing him to fall. However before he could hit the ground the vine around his throat tightened and shattered his neckbone, hanging Clayton and only leaving a shadow in the wind (though there's a chance that the process also caused the decapitation).
 * Hades (Hercules): After Hercules was transformed into a God, he punched Hades into the River Styx where the damned souls drag him to the bottom.
 * Shan Yu: Atop the Emperor's palace Shan Yu and Mulan continue their brawl and Mulan uses his sword to pin him down, Mushu then sets off a massive firework that carried Shan Yu to a firework tower which explodes on impact, killing the Hun leader.
 * Turbo/King Candy: Wreck-it-Ralph erupts Diet Cola Mountain and Candy's Cy-Bug army hypnotically go into the light to their incineration, being half Cy-Bug himself so does Candy despite Turbo's rejections and dies screaming before entering his death.
 * Gorgon: Having Patchi knocking out some of his teeth and breaking his right arm with the hole in his frill, forced him to retreat and dying to his wounds.
 * Sharptooth: Briefly incapacitated by Littlefoot's mother, but finally killed for good once Cera drop a boulder on him. Had the boulder not killed him, drowning may killed him insteadthe time his body reach the bottom of the lake as the boulder impact has shattered his bones, causing him unable to swim to surface.
 * Charles Muntz: When Muntz realizes that he has been duped by his minions, he leaps out of the window in an attempt to get back to his airship, but his foot gets tangled up in some balloon strings and they snap and he falls thousands of feet below to his death.
 * Kent Mansley: After snatching the missile from General Rogard and Kent launched the missile as he believed that the Giant is still a threat, the General informs him that Rockwell and the Giant will be destroyed when the missile re-enters the orbit. Kent decides to flee after refusing to take note of the town's fate, but the Giant stops him and allows the army to arrest or kill Kent for his crimes and treachery.
 * Sid Phillips: After seeing his Mutant Toys come to life and Woody scaring him, Sid runs back into his house and tells his sister, Hannah that his toys have come to life, but Hannah scares him with her Sally doll as Sid runs upstairs, believing that Hannah's Sally doll is gonna come to life.
 * Scar Snout: After Spike bites Scar Snout's tail, he loses his grip and falls into the river.
 * Shere Khan: After attacking Baloo, Mowgli ties up a burning tree branch on his tails and runs away, being humiliated.
 * Ludmila (Bartok The Magnificent): Realizes the potion turns her into a dragon, and falls with the crumbling tower below full of water.

Anime & Manga

 * Frieza: After escaping Future Trunks' blast, Future Trunks slices Frieza in half and destroys him.
 * Cell: Destroyed by Gohan's Kamehameha Wave.
 * Kid Buu: Destroyed by Goku's Spirit Bomb.

Live-Action TV

 * Jerome Valeska: Stabbed by Theo Galavan to death on the neck before he could murder Bruce Wayne, though not without left a legacy where it's only a matter of time before the emergence of Joker, the Clown Prince of Crime.
 * Joffrey Baratheon: Dying due to Tyrion's poisoned wine, where before he died, he accused Tyrion.

Videogames

 * Joker (Arkhamverse):  Foolishly stabbed Batman when he hestitates whether to save him or not, which turned out to be a fatal mistake as the latter accidently dropped the antidote and ruined his chance to survive, much to Batman's dismay whom later carried his body for proper funeral.
 * Father Mathias: Shot by Lara Croft off the edge of a cliff, and eventually falls to his death in process.

Internet

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