Top 20 Accidental Movie Deaths

Life's a fragile thing here one minute you're chewing on a burger the next minute you're dead meat welcome to watch Mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the top 20 accidental movie deaths anybody I get close to dies if I were you I'd run for this list we're looking at the most notable cases where a film character's demise came inadvertently whether it was by their own hand or by someone else's however we won't be including animated movies on this list beware of Major Spoilers ahead did you know of any other misfortunate deaths in movies share them with us in the comments below number 20. stunned and done the Naked Gun from the files of police squad the Naked Gun follows Lieutenant Frank drepin played by the late great Leslie Nielsen as he stumbles his way through a case so what are you gonna do about it copper why should I tell you maybe this will help I still don't think I should tell you can you spot me a 20. how about now all right I'm going down to Ludwig's office I'll find out if you're telling the truth given all the over-the-top slapstick gags running throughout the film it should come as no surprise that the villain's death is played up for Laughs during the climax drebin wounds Ludwig with his wrist Gadget Leave the Girl Alone I am I'm going to kill you I see [Music] he then plainly states that the antagonist is only stunned and will be fine seconds before he goes down over a ledge he's just stunned he'll be all right in a couple of minutes fall like likely does the trick but in typical Naked Gun fashion it doesn't stop there a bus a steamroller and a marching band all play a part in solidifying his death number 19 Cliffside drop Casper despite being based on a friendly cartoon character this Casper adaptation features some pretty devious characters are you trying to tell me that I just spent the last two days holding his clammy hand waiting for him to kick in all I get in return is one lousy piece of property no it was lousy 50 years ago now it's condemned one of them is Kerrigan the Pampered owner of the Mansion trying to locate its hidden treasure once she realizes that having a ghost on her side would make things easier she attempts to use her car to kill her attorney and Minion dibs foreign she gets what's coming to her when she misses collides with a tree and steps right off the edge of a cliff however unlike most deaths that doesn't cut her screen time short indeed Kerrigan gets a ghost on her side herself not so fast little man [ __ ] needless to say the price was steeper than she intended number 18 Luck of the Irish dodgeball A True Underdog Story there's nothing like the death of a mentor to give a sports movie an extra dose of drama I wasn't born expecting the world to do me any favors I earned this body and I build this Temple out of nothing more than a little can-do attitude and some elbow grease and yes a large inheritance from my father Earl Goodman dodgeball took that expectation and crushed it under the massive weight of comedic irony with his Jam about to be swallowed up by a corporate giant Pete and his friends enter a dodgeball competition to save it they're helped by patches oh Houlihan an Irate and eccentric legend of the game played by Rip Torn we're gonna learn to be true large bowlers then you've got to learn the five D's of dodgeball Dodge duck dip dive and Dodge if you master the five D's no amount of balls on Earth can hit you Patch's methods are certainly abnormal but they work wonders for the team just when things are looking up and directly after Pete says patches gives them a great shot at winning the coach is crushed by a casino sign reading the Luck of the Irish tomorrow we're gonna pecker slap those global gym bastards yeah you really think we can be Global gympiece as long as we got Patches we got a shot questions talk about an unlucky twist of fate number 17 Friendly Fire Starship Troopers Friendly Fire is an unfortunate reality of military combat but we doubt any viewer was expecting it during a training sequence in a simulated combat environment you will exercise Extreme Caution on my assault course do you get me in this sci-fi satire humankind clashes with a deadly species of giant extraterrestrial bugs as such Earth's military forces take things pretty seriously especially training during combat practice the troops are given live ammo with their targets firing lasers back at them feeling a need to earn the best score protagonist Rico's team shows no patience when fellow trainee breckenridge's helmet causes him to mess up it's my helmet don't screwed up unfortunately Rico removes the helmet and as an inattentive ally is hit with a laser she accidentally strikes Breckenridge yikes are you rated to repair the M3 tactical helmet Rico [Music] sir no sir then why did you order your man to remove his helmet during a live fire exercise sir I needed everyone in my squad operational sir number 16 Sydney behringer's complicated fall Magnolia featuring a massive group of characters who are all unknowingly connected Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia is a brilliant study in coincidence in fact the opening illustrates how strange and unlikely things can happen through three Tales of improbable chance one of these concerns Sydney Behringer a young man who tries to take his own life at the same time young Sydney stood on the ledge of this nine-story building an argument swelled three stories below after he jumps his mother inadvertently discharges a weapon aimed at his father thinking it was unloaded she misses and instead fires out the window right where her son who had ironically loaded the weapon happens to be falling and it was not uncommon for them to threaten each other with a shotgun or one of the many handguns kept in the house [ __ ] you and when the shotgun accidentally went off [Music] Sydney just happened to pass while a safety net would have saved his life from the jump he couldn't survive that he is killed instantly but continues to fall only to find five stories below a safety net installed three days prior for a set of window washers that would have broken his fall and saved his life number 15. rat poison Dumb and Dumber even if Harry and Lloyd did intend to murder someone we highly doubt they'd be clever enough to pull it off most of Dumb and Dumber hinges on the bad guys believing the two to be much smarter than they are it must have been following us for weeks what do you say gas man how the hell do they know that I got gas they got to be Pros after all that's why henchman mental initially wants to harm them with rat poison the Goon however has an ulcer he treats with pills which is more consequential than it sounds where the hell you figure this guy's working for anyway I don't know the Elsa I'll live when the always clueless Harry and Lloyd load his food up with peppers as a joke things go badly and fast actually trying to help Harry then grabs what he thinks are mentals meds for him only for them to turn out to be the aforementioned poison ing number 14 poor aim the other guys when danger comes to New York City it falls to an unsuspecting Duo of Misfit officers to stop it but only because the traditional hero cops accidentally ended their own lives someone call 9-1 holy [ __ ] Alan and Terry pale in comparison to egotistical detectives Danson and Highsmith played to a t by Dwayne Johnson and Samuel L Jackson respectively we couldn't do our job to work for you guys doing all the paperwork answering the phones all that stupid [ __ ] that we don't like to do all the gun fights all the car chases all the sex we don't want to have with women but we have to all do to what you guys do thank you as parodies of Unstoppable Heroes Danson and Highsmith think they can survive anything life throws at them during a high stakes chase the duo plans to catch up to the criminals by jumping from a rooftop they have a plan but it's a bad one you think of what I'm thinking partner aim for the bushes that may have worked in a traditional action movie but here their poor aim results in them going Splat number 13 bad Under Pressure World War Z after a zombie virus outbreak the US government begins bringing together the necessary Minds to develop a vaccine one such mind belongs to virologist Andrew fasbach who travels with Brad Pitt's Jerry and others to South Korea where the outbreak was first documented the analogy I keep coming back to this Spanish Flu Spanish Flu it didn't exist in 1918 but by 1920 it killed three percent of the world he's our best bet at figuring out what this thing is fastbach believes pinpointing its source is the key but it seems he isn't great when it comes to dealing with high pressure situations your finger on the trigger okay as soon as any Undead show their faces he runs back into the group's aircraft only to lose his balance fall and mistakenly fire his weapon at himself it's an almost weirdly comical death in a fairly serious movie and he seems so smart beforehand number 12. Mighty machete Walk Hard the Dewey Cox Story Walk Hard spoofs a great deal of things from the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line This seemingly includes the traumatic childhood death of Cash's brother do you hear them angels I can hear them Jack they're so beautiful while in one movie it's a horrific accident cash was made to feel guilty for in the other it's a Macabre joke as the young Dewey Cox spends time with his brother Nate the two begin to play fight with their father's machetes I challenge you to a do sir I don't know Nate oh my pockets when we played with his machetes come on Dewey there's nothing wrong with little machete fighting now oh God as Dewey winds up for a swing the sheath flies off and poor Nate suffers the consequences even though he should have died instantly Nate's upper half stays alive long enough to have a conversation with his sibling Dewey I'm cutting half pretty bad in case I don't like it then you have to be double great for the both of us well that's a lot of pressure Nate you can handle it do we talk about being cut down in your prime number 11 death by Steamroller Austin Powers international Man of Mystery although this death seems entirely avoidable the punch line is that it isn't while making what should be a thrilling Escape super spy Austin Powers and his partner Vanessa commandeered the slowest getaway vehicle imaginable a steamroller it watch out move move move as Austin yells at guards to get out of the way one becomes Frozen in fear and repeatedly screams as he's about to die [Applause] watch out in a wonderful case of comedic framing we see that not only is there plenty of time for the man to move out of the way but also plenty of space for Austin to avoid him of course neither do what they should resulting in one of the more memorable jokes in the movie [Applause] foreign double tap Meet Joe Black it doesn't matter how cute the person you just met at a coffee shop is don't stop for one last look in the middle of a busy Street [Music] [Music] take this entry as a cautionary tale after flirting in a coffee shop Brad Pitt's character is nearly run over by one car crisis averted right well not quite as he's then promptly bounced between two others it's obviously meant to be dramatic especially as death itself later takes over the deceased's body death death that's me but honestly the two characters constantly looking back at one another and the ragdoll physics at play make the whole scene pretty humorous just ask the internet number nine a very real explosion Tropic Thunder film history is filled with directors who would do anything to accomplish their vision and Tropic Thunder takes great fun in showing how horribly that could go wrong the film is already rumored to be one month behind schedule just five days into shooting the reason fingers are pointed at rookie director Damien cockburn with his movie's budget inflating and the egos of his cast uncontrollable director Damien cockburn needs a quick solution so he puts his cast in the wilderness using covert cameras to finish filming we have rigged this entire Valley of Death with hidden cameras and I will be shooting as well from unseen Vantage points so that every glorious moment is captured on film unfortunately the place he takes them to is occupied by a violent gang it isn't long before Damien takes a wrong step onto a landmine and well he doesn't survive let's go and make the greatest war movie ever yeah [Applause] yeah oh tragically hilarious the group believes it to be another ruse and continues acting accordingly number eight reactionary violence Burn After Reading Joel and Ethan Cohen know how to make death funny and the demise of Brad Pitt's Chad in Burn After Reading is irrefutable proof pit plays one of two clueless gym workers who stumble upon what they believe to be confidential CIA Intel I'm not touching this I want this out of here just throw it out no you can't do that you should put up a note in the lady's locker room put up a note highly classified [ __ ] found their exploitation plans hit a snag when Chad breaks into analyst Osborne Cox's home while he's there Osborne's wife's secret and paranoid lover Harry shows up finding Chad in a closet Harry completely freaks out and takes him out in a rather grisly way it's definitely a shocking murder but it isn't intentional or premeditated [Music] is it just us or does that somehow make it worse number seven unnecessary Mayhem Tucker and Dale vs Evil there's probably no topping Tucker and Dale vs Evil when it comes to Accidental deaths the titular country bumpkins are only interested in fixing up their new vacation home oh my God it's perfect and what they call this a fixer-upper all right let's go check it out inside but a few run-ins with college kids who have seen too many scary movies leads to deadly disaster when one of the students gets hurt Tucker and Dale take her to safety Tucker and I brung you here last night why but because you were about to go swimming with your friends and then you climbed up onto a bunch of rocks and you slipped and fell and banged your head and then you fell into the water and then uh dove in and rescued you since the group thinks the duo were really dangerous they waste no time mounting an assault the giant misunderstanding leads to numerous inadvertently self-inflicted and rather gruesome deaths from self-impailment to a wild wood chipper based demise most of the deaths throughout the film happen entirely by accident it's truly an unhinged sight to behold some kid did you he just hooked himself right into the wood chipper what head first right into the wood chipper from his shoes and his pants it looked like it might have been one of the colors number six a piercing demise Spider-Man we love the comedic timing of vulture's accidental incineration of shocker and homecoming they were I can't afford that damn but if we can only pick from one of spidey's Big Screen Adventures we're going with Sam raimi's groundbreaking 2002 flick during the climactic fight between Spider-Man and Green Goblin AKA Norman the hero gains the upper hand but Norman didn't get to be known as Peterson Nemesis for nothing give me your hand believe in me as I believed in you I've been like a father to you be a son to me now he puts on a sad face and pretends to be remorseful while secretly preparing to take Peter out unfortunately for Norman who clearly didn't think about where his glider would end up the protagonist's spider sense kicks in godspeed Spiderman [Music] oh with one swift backflip the villain's reign of terror unexpectedly comes to a piercing end number five an unfortunate gift Happy Gilmore Revenge can make a pretty sweet gift but there's no denying happy should have thought things through here in this 90s Sports comedy the titular ill-tempered golfer is taught by Chubbs Peterson a retired Pro whose hand was bitten off by an alligator and alligator bit my hand off oh my God yeah Tournament down in Florida I hooked my ball in the rough down by the lake and alligator just popped up cut me down on my Prime he got me throughout the movie Chubbs shares his wisdom with happy which is greatly beneficial to show how grateful he is happy takes out the alligator responsible for ruining his mentor's career and delivers his head to him I got something for you too bro what yeah I I mean I figured if it wasn't for you none of this would have happened right so I want to show my appreciation naturally the present comes as a pretty big shock that sends Chubbs fatally stumbling backward I got his head it's pretty surprising and though happy is understandably upset it's the push he needs to win in the end number four fun with gasoline Zoolander in the world of Zoolander the male models aren't exactly the smartest Bunch how can we be expected to teach children to learn how to read if they can't even fit inside the building Derek it's just I don't want to hear your excuses that's why they make perfect Pawns in criminal dealings but before any of that their low levels of intelligence are expertly showcased in one of the funniest death scenes ever put to film with Derek Zoolander down on his luck his like-minded pal suggested joyous outing to take his mind off things Noah could really help you sort through these important issues what orange mocha Frappuccino their fun culminates in a play fight at a gas station things escalate as they go from using squeegees to gas hoses with whams Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go playing throughout it's an exceptionally silly scene until one of them decides to have a smoke leaving Derek without any friends to lean on [Music] number three the witch melts The Wizard of Oz If ever there was a villain who got what was coming to her it's the wicked witch from The Wizard of Oz I'll do my pretty and your little dog too [Music] [Applause] he spends much of the movie tormenting Dorothy and her friends and being particularly nasty to the brainless scarecrow all for a pair of shoes though the wizard sets our group on a mission to retrieve the antagonist's broomstick things don't go as planned how much longer you've got to be alive I can't wait forever to get those shoes Dorothy and Company wind up within the villain's grasp the witch takes the time to light the Scarecrow Up in Flames only to bring about her own downfall when Dorothy saves him with one Splash from a bucket of water she becomes nothing more than a harmless puddle number two an ill-advised practical joke Zombieland throughout their Journey Tallahassee Columbus Wichita and Little Rock come across countless zombies what do you think zombie kill of the week close but no cigar but that's to be expected in a film like this what none of them and no moviego were expected however was to hang with Bill Murray the group crashes at the comedian's Mansion once they make it to Los Angeles what's with the the get up oh I do it to blend in you know you know zombies don't mess with other zombies after geeking out over Murray who disguises himself as a zombie so he can go out Tallahassee and Wichita encourage him to prank the nervous Columbus this goes about as well as one might guess ending with a fatal hole in the actor's chest is that how you say hello where you come from oh my God oh my God I can't believe I shot that Murray hey we feel bad if we mistakenly killed Bill Murray too but since this is fictional we can say that the character's last moments are hilarious before we continue be sure to subscribe to our Channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos you have the option to be notified for occasional videos or all of them if you're on your phone make sure you go into your settings and switch on notifications number one Marvin's bad luck Pulp Fiction when going into a Quentin Tarantino movie you can expect a sizable amount of brutal deaths this has always been true and one of the most well-timed demises is found in Pulp Fiction and I will strike down upon thee with great engines and Furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brother while obtaining their boss's briefcase from a group of double crossers Vincent and Jules are surprised to find one foe's bullets miss them entirely they then grab Survivor Marvin and flee the crime scene while debating divine intervention I'm telling Marcellus today I'm through but why don't you tell them at the same time why don't worry I will yeah and I bet you ten thousand dollars he laughs his ass off I don't give a damn if he does at an impasse Vincent turns to get Marvin's take on the question before unintentionally firing his weapon at the poor guy Marvin what do you make all this I don't even have an opinion well you gotta have an opinion everything from the camera position to the mid-sentence accident to the Duo's reaction to Marvin's fate is delightfully dark did you enjoy this video check out these other clips from WatchMojo and be sure to subscribe and ring the bell 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Length: 24min 45sec (1485 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 09 2023