History Main / FallingChandelierOfDoom

* ''VideoGame/FinalFight'''s last stage featured falling chandeliers. Which contained... Turkeys, radios and two by fours..?

* ''Franchise/{{Hitman}}

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'': Subverted, as the "victims" in question are sitting astride the chandelier before it falls. Both survive, since the King's mattress broke their fall ([[ImpactSilhouette sort of]]).

* In the Arbiter's Grounds stage of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'', you can drop a chandelier on ''yourself'' at one stage, if you're not careful. Later, you must ''actually'' drop a chandelier on yourself ([[ByWallThatIsHoley standing in a gap in the middle]] so as not to be reduced to a 2-dimensional object) in order to progress.

* Doc in ''VideoGame/{{Desperados}}'' can shoot one down near the end of the Marshal Jackson's hacienda level. However, it simply knocks the target out, which is just as well, since the level requires a PacifistRun.

* ''Literature/HarryPotter'':

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* [[http://www.garfield.com/comics/vault.html?yr=2004&addr=040705 It was a Monday]] and the screws on the chandelier above ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' needed tightening.
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* ''Manga/DetectiveConan''
** In the [[spoiler: Reunion with the Black Organization]] case, it turns out that the victim died by having a huge chandelier fall on him. [[spoiler: More exactly, it was shot off and dropped on him by a high-ranked member of the aforementioned Black Organization, who hoped to MakeItLookLikeAnAccident.]]
** In a later {{filler}} case, a man named Itsuro Soejima dies when a just-as-huge chandelier in his house falls on him. Then there's a DoubleSubversion: first [[spoiler: it looks like Soejima ''shot down'' said chandelier [[TheAlcoholic while drunk]] and that's why it fell on him]], and later it's seen that [[spoiler: Soejima was, in practice, ''killed'' by his sister-in-law Kyouko Takahata: she got him drunk and manipulated him to shoot the chandelier to kill him.]]

* ''VideoGame/StyxMasterOfShadows'' and its sequel ''VideoGame/StyxShardsOfDarkness'': Hanging chandeliers appear commonly, often with a conveniently easy to break chain and several hapless guards standing directly below. They're especially useful for being one of the few ways to kill the games' HeavilyArmoredMooks.

* ''VideoGame/StyxMasterOfShadows'' and its sequel ''VideoGame/StyxShardsOfDarkness'': Hanging chandeliers appear commonly, often with a conveniently easy to break chain and several hapless guards standing directly below. They're especially useful for being one of the few ways to kill HeavilyArmoredMoods.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'': [[WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} "Yaahh-hoo-hoo-hoo-hooey!!!"]]
** Subverted, as the "victims" in question are sitting astride the chandelier before it falls. Both survive, since the King's mattress broke their fall ([[ImpactSilhouette sort of]]).

* In ''Film/WhatAGirlWants'', the chandelier at [[ThemeNaming Peach and Pear's]] coming out party crashes down from the thumping of the rock music and dancing after Daphne livens up the party.
** Made a little funnier when, earlier, Henry tells Daphne not to mention the chandelier within earshot of Peach & Pear's father, as he could tell you the whole story revolving around it. It seems to be a [[PricelessMingVase priceless artifact]].

* ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'' has a funny, non-combat-related version [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnhYzfg7ug4 2:30 here]]. The Trotters are posing as professional cleaners and tasked with cleaning a pair of priceless chandeliers. As Del and Rodney stand ready to catch it their grandfather does upstairs and ends up unscrewing the wrong chandelier which crashes to the ground behind them.
** This was based on a real-life incident involving John Sullivan's father, who was part of a team of builders who made the same mistake. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome They all got the sack for it]]. The episode was written backwards to get there, and Sullivan senior thankfully saw the funny side of the whole thing when he watched the episode.

* ''{{Series/Supernatural}}''. Dean is facing a ghost who naturally is ImmuneToBullets. He shoots the chain holding up a chandelier instead. Being literally MadeOfIron, the chandelier dissipates the ghost.

* ''VideoGame/{{Braid}}'' requires the player to [[spoiler:kill the game's Bosses]] by creatively manipulating such chandeliers. And drop a single chandelier on a boss several times.

* ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'': Appears multiple times as an obstacle in richly-adorned environments. [[StalactiteSpite Tries to fall on you if you walk past them]].

* In ''VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney'', setting a bomb on the rope of a chandelier is one of the ways you can make a 'hit' [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident look like an accident]]. Several missions practically invite you to drop chandeliers on people like this. In one mission, you actually got the chance to murder both a father and his son, by two separate chandeliers.

* In ''VideoGame/MarkOfTheNinja'' this is one method you can use to kill guards. Most notably, you can do this to an elite (who can't be stealth-killed) who brags that he'd love to see a ninja try to take him down.

** In the following cutscene, Bowser cuts down Mario's chandelier, and they fall together long enough for Bowser to rant at you before Mario shows off his [[GoombaStomp incredible jumping skills]] yet again.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'' inverts it with the first fight against Bowser: You fight him ''on the chandeliers''. You win by severing the chain on his.

--> '''[[LetsPlay/MarikPlaysBloodlines Marik:]]''' Why is that doing that? I do not like when that does that! Okay, I'm choosing to believe that this whole house is like that house from Beauty and the Beast and all the furniture is going to start singing at me. Here, watch this - ''Be our guest, be our guest'' - (CRASH) - Oh my god, Lumiere tried to kill me!

* The climax of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Homer of Seville" takes place in an opera house with, as they say in France, ''freaking huuuuuuuge'' chandeliers and an assassin on the loose. To lessen the possibility for danger, the police decide to "pre-crash" them. However, they miss one and the assassin ''does'' get slightly smashed ultimately.

* ''WebAnimation/FilmCow'' uses this in two of the [[spoiler:Westington Manor]] videos for some HorrorComedy by showing just how scary an injury a falling chandelier can cause.

* In the movie of ''Film/{{Stardust}}'', Tristran goes through several different chandeliers before finding the one that will knock Zombie-Septimus out the window; he then uses the momentum from the cut rope as a way to quickly get up the stairs and knock down the witch Lamia.

* In ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesZeroNoKiseki The Legend of Heroes: Trails to Azure]]'', [[spoiler: Shirley]] cuts the chain holding up the massive chandelier [[spoiler: above the Arc en Ciel stage, which falls and severely injures Ilya. This was an act to lure Rixia out so Shirley could fight her.]]

** This was based on a real-life incident involving John Sullivan's father, who was part of a team of builders who made the same mistake. [[RealityEnsues They all got the sack for it]]. The episode was written backwards to get there, and Sullivan senior thankfully saw the funny side of the whole thing when he watched the episode.

* ''VideoGame/YouHaveToBurnTheRope''. Doing that will means a OneHitKill on the boss.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Phoenotopia}}'', chandeliers in the Prince's Tower can be knocked down with the slingshot, which is the easiest way to take out most of the Kobolds.

** In [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix book 5]], Peeves is trying to drop one at Hogwarts. Professor [=McGonagall=] quietly gives him some advice when he's not getting it:
-->'''[=McGonagall=]:''' ''It unscrews the other way.''

* In ''[[VideoGame/ZeroNoKiseki The Legend of Heroes: Trails to Azure]]'', [[spoiler: Shirley]] cuts the chain holding up the massive chandelier [[spoiler: above the Arc en Ciel stage, which falls and severely injures Ilya. This was so that she could get Rixia to fight her.]]

This is most common in film and theater since it creates a visually spectacular effect.

Generally, it's a subtrope of DeathByLookingUp. It might overlap with ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice. Compare ChandelierSwing.

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