Aside from Disney, the James Bond movies might be the most iconic examples of this trope, be it due to the villains' incompetence or Bond's own actions.
- Dr. No: The Three Blind Mice, henchmen of the titular villain, give chase to Bond on a hearse after botching an earlier attempt to kill him. In a dramatic car chase, Bond outruns them by driving through a construction site on a hill, causing the hearse to veneer off course, fall into a ravine and explode for no reason while trying to avoid construction equipment. When a nearby construction worker asks Bond what happened, 007 states the Mice "were on their way to a funeral," or rather, their own doom.
- Goldfinger: Kisch is thrown over a railing to his doom inside the Fort Knox gold vault by Oddjob to prevent him from turning off the nuclear device.
- As for the titular villain, he makes the mistake of taking his gun onboard a plane that Bond takes after his attempted scheme. Bond wrestles with him, gets ahold of the gun, and fires it, breaking a window and causing decompression that sucks Goldfinger out though said window. When asked by Pussy Galore about Goldfinger, Bond states that he's "playing his golden harp."
- Thunderball: Quist is sent by Largo to murder Bond in his Nassau hotel suite, but blundered into a booby-trap the spy had prepared and quickly overpowered. For bungling the job, Largo tosses him into a Shark Pool.
- On Her Majesty's Secret Service: When Bond escapes from Piz Gloria, Bond uses one of his skis to send one of the skiing SPECTRE mooks to his death off a cliff. He also chokes another SPECTRE mook before sending him falling over the cliffs.
- Bond tosses a SPECTRE mook off a railing in Diamonds Are Forever.
- During the fight between Bond and Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd, 007 first neutralizes Kidd by dousing cognac on the flaming skewers, setting him on fire. Within seconds, Kidd is engulfed in flames, and in desperation, he jumps overboard. However, he was not on fire for that long and he landed in the sea upon jumping off the edge so his ultimate fate is unclear.
- Also in the same scene, Tiffany Case throws a cake at Wint, but she misses and this reveals a bomb hidden in the cake. Using this as a distraction, Bond gains the upper hand against Wint, pulling the villain's coat-tails between his legs, and tying his hands and the bomb together with them. Bond then tosses Wint overboard, and the bomb explodes and kills him moments before he hits the water.
- Live and Let Die: In the film, Bond throws Tee-Hee Johnson out the window of a speeding train.
- In The Spy Who Loved Me, a henchman is almost falling, if not for holding Bond's tie. After 007 gets useful info outta him, he causes the henchman to fall to his death. Who'd have thought the Roger Moore era would have one of the nastiest bits of cold-blooded kill committed by Bond in the series?
- Giving chase to Bond's Wet Nellie (a Lotus Esprit S1), a motorbike assassin tries to kill 007 and Anya Amasova with a warhead sidecar. While Bond manages to swerve Wet Nellie in time and avoid a collision with a truck carrying mattresses, the sidecar explodes into the rear of the truck full of pillows, causing the assassin to be momentarily distracted, lose control and plunge into a ravine with feathers on his face. "All those feathers and he still can't fly."
- Also during the chase scene, Jaws and a carload of assassins attempt to shoot at Bond, who is able to throw off their pursuit using the Wet Nellie's defenses. The car ends up down a cliff and into the roof of a small hut, but Jaws just walks out unscathed, dusting himself as if nothing odd happened.
- Moonraker:
- In The Teaser, Bond is thrown out of an airplane with no parachute. He is able to intercept a mook, fight him in midair, and take his parachute, leaving the mook to die on impact. Jaws also ends up falling without a parachute, but lands on a circus tent.
- Bond throws Chang (the first Dragon) through a glass window. He falls to his death by impaling a piano with a loud clang. "Play it again, Sam."
- Near the climax, Bond overcomes the Big Bad Drax by shooting him with a poisoned dart and then ejecting him out the airlock and into space. Dr. Holly Goodhead asks where he is after and Bond simply responds: "Oh he had to fly".
- For Your Eyes Only:
- A Lawyer-Friendly Cameo of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Bond's Arch-Enemy and the former head of SPECTRE, fakes a message from Bond's office and sends a helicopter to pick him up, then assumes remote-control of the chopper after killing the pilot. Taunting Bond, he causes the chopper to make several near misses on high buildings before steering it into a disused factory where it will inevitably crash. Bond (naturally) manages to regain control of the helicopter before the crash, then hooks up Blofeld's wheelchair by the chopper's skids, then unceremoniously dumps him down a tall smokestack to his death, all the while Blofeld begs 007 to spare him ("Mr. Bonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd!"). Bond Villain Stupidity + Karma Houdini Warranty = Killed Off for Real.
- The hitman Locque is in his car dangling over the side of a cliff. Bond tells him "You forgot this" (he had just killed the Bond girl) and tosses him his own calling card, an ironic Dove of Peace pin. Locque breathes a sigh of relief when the expected Last Straw reaction doesn't occur. Bond then KICKS the car hard, sending it tumbling off the cliff. "He had no head for heights", indeed.
- A mook named Apostis tries to cut Bond from scaling the mountain where the Big Bad's lair is and make him suffer this. Bond is able to throw a knife on him and cause him to fall. We also get to see his body land in front of Bond's comrades.
- Erich Kriegler follows the trope perfectly: he is shoved out a window and falls off the mountain to his death, but we don't see him land.
- Octopussy: Gobinda, Kamal's dragon, gets a airplane antenna in the face courtesy of 007, and this causes him to lose his grip and fall off the top of the plane.
- A View to a Kill: Max Zorin falls off the Golden Gate Bridge after trying to hack Bond to death with a fire axe.
- During the meeting that is taking on Zorin's blimp, a disgruntled investor who wants nothing with Zorin's project is literally thrown from a Zeppelin: as he climbs down the stairs to the lower level of the cabin, a trapdoor opens at the bottom — revealing that the Zeppelin is airborne — and Mayday activates a Surprise Slide Staircase. "Anyone else want to drop out?"
- The Living Daylights:
- An assassin cuts an MI6 agent's rock-climbing rope at the start.
- Toward the end, Bond tosses Necros, another assassin, out of a plane. "He got the boot."
- Licence to Kill: Two of Sanchez's enforcers go sailing off of a cliff in their truck. While the truck is on fire.
- GoldenEye: Alec Trevelyan meets his end this way, being dropped by Bond right onto the surface of the antenna cradle. We see him land hard on the surface, but his actual death doesn't come until the entire antenna comes crashing down upon him.
- Tomorrow Never Dies: Bond punches a mook off a catwalk, and he falls into a printing press. "They'll print anything these days."
- Die Another Day: Colonel Tan-Sun Moon apparently plunges to his death in a waterfall. But it turns out he survived and used plastic surgery to alter himself into Gustav Graves.
- Three of Gustav Graves/Colonel Tan-Sun Moon' North Korean henchmen are sucked out of Graves' plane.
- Skyfall: Bond tries a High-Altitude Interrogation on Patrice, who refuses to talk and falls, seemingly voluntarily, to his death.
- Spectre: There's several cases here:
- In The Teaser, Marco Sciarra and the helicopter pilot are chucked off by Bond from a chopper mid-flight.
- Bond tosses a guard away from a balcony after bailing out of the Spectre meeting.
- C/Max Denbigh falling from the top of his own HQ building. In the latter case we do see the initial slip and the body, but not the fall itself. As with the above example with Janus, Denbigh kind of had it coming.
- Played With in No Time to Die. Valdo Obruchev is kicked off a platform by Naomi after he threatened to wipe out her African race with the Heracles, but what actually kills him is landing in an Acid Pool that poisoned him alive.
