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It's just a movie.
But he didn't directly fall, he hit rocks with made him lose momentum.

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We all know when a villain falls, it means 'they ded'. Steele broke this tradition and it confused me greatly the first time I saw it as a kid, because I have NEVER seen an an animated villain fall down a cliff and live to tell the tale. Disney's Hidden text : click to show all have falling-villain deaths, and those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head LOL. 8 FALLIN DEAD VILLAINS.

Oh man and it's not just Disney. I think Don Bluth did that too in the Hidden text : click to show .

Steele is soooo lucky he lived, he is a statistical anomaly. The writers for children's films are really homicidal maniacs who just relish throwing characters to their dooms.

You kinda just said it. It's Disney. Balto is Universal though.

Though it's ironic you should bring that up. And I do think that they should think of a more unique death.
They probably use the 'falling to their dooms' death for it's not gore-y and they can still get the point across that they're done for.
Hidden text : click to show

Haha oh if only an animated film would show an on-screen stabbing, just once. xD In 3D, with blood flying at the screen.

The Road to El Dorado also has a falling villain that survives, now that I think about it. Maybe Disney is just a more blood-thirsty company that wants to kill all evil? :9

^ Scary thought o_o
Though what's more terrifying. The villains always dying, or coming back?
I think Disney's probably being more merciful in that view.

The witch was not only thrown off a cliff, she was crushed by a gigantic boulder >>



Clayton did not only fall, he was hanged by a bunch of vines >>



Lucifer was a cat and probably landed on his feet. He's shown alive in everything else, not that I believe the sequels are canon of anything.



A rat fell off the London tower which is a 384 ft drop. So that's equivalent to Steele falling about.....20 times the height he fell, minus the branches and stuff there to break his fall.



Gaston fell off a huge castle to land in a river, with rocks and probably a 5 foot depth xD



Frollo fell about 200 ft onto pavement. Not only pavement, but burning hot liquid xD



Yea, he exploded, among other things.



McLeech fell down a friggen waterfall, which was also hundreds of feet high, and besides that he probably drown and had even more water smashed on top of him xD



In conclusion, sorry but Steele's fall was no where near as lethal as the other villains'. And the whole point of the villain dying in these movies is "you get what you deserve" by karma or whatever. So yea. Sorry to burst your bubble, but not really

Aaaa you're right! Sorry, I meant Sleeping Beauty. The princess films all just run together in my tiny brain. ;_; All those blondies with polite, gracious attitudes confuse me.

Wow, Cat. I'm glad I seen all of those.

yeah!!!!

Definitely Cat. I'm in awe of your knowledge of the falling death villains... are you going to be an animator? Please say yes

But what I meant was, when I was 3 and my brain was all mushy, and I saw Steele teetering on the edge I gripped onto my popcorn and was like "O MAN THIS IS IT. this gaston clone is going to dieeeeee, in similar fashion. *munch munch*"

Of course, universal proved me wrong in 5 or 6 seconds...

Well five year olds don't exactly know physics or the thousands of ways a person can or can't die xDDD

Just the same, the fact that he didn't die makes it all the more interesting. He's a bad guy who lived, and its awesome.

Definitely. I love Steele and I love that he wasn't killed Disney fashion... he just got slapped in the face and a door shut on him, haha.

And then he was never seen or spoken of again! haha.