Exit, Pursued by a Bear

The graphic novelLa Débauche. The fact that it isset in a zoo provides a convenient tiger.

Doctor Doom once got assaulted by his own attack dogs, because he got in the way of a fox and them, long long long story, because Doom was fighting aBatman analogue he'd lost part of his armor, so he instead fell off a cliff.

Film

InA Bug's Life, the ants discover that main villain Hopper is afraid of birds, so they build a fake one to try and scare him away. He sees right through their ploy; so when Flik and Princess Atta lead him to anactual bird in the finale, he doesn't realize it's not a trick until it's too late.

InRock-a-Doodle, a shrunken Grand Duke is chased by his own nephew.

Captain Hook, from Disney's original film ofPeter Pan, exits pursued by the crocodile. Depending on which sequel you go by (the animated sequel orHook), it may have gone badly forthe crocodile.

InAll Dogs Go to Heaven, Carface is chased by theBig Lipped Alligator. Next time we see himhe's inFluffy Cloud Heaven.

At the end ofWatership Down,Big Bad General Woundwort is last seen facing down one of the dogs that was killing the rest of his warren. He leaps at the dog, and then the narrator says "And General Woundwort's body was never found."

Invoked inSouth Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, whereSaddam Hussein is mentioned to have been killed by a pack of wild boars (just to clear things up, the movie came out 5 years before the invasion of Iraq).

Botticelli fromThe Tale of Despereaux is ultimately done in by his own pet cat.

Happens to Felicia near the end ofThe Great Mouse Detective.

In the Nicolas Cage/Samuel L. Jackson filmAmos & Andrew, the bloodhounds from earlier in the movie go chasing after the police chief near the end.

InThe Naked Gun 2 1/2, Robert Goulet's character survives a fall from a building unscathed, only to be mauled by a lion seconds later.

The climax fromAce Ventura: When Nature Calls seems to imply the villain is not so much pursued by the gorilla aspursued by it.

Happens to a minor Villain inTrading Places.

Galaxy Quest: Fred uses the transporter to bring the rock monster on board the ship to attack Serras' minions.

Jurassic Park, which ended with the raptors getting eaten by the T. Rex from earlier in the movie.

Mula Ram, the villain ofIndiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, falls into a river full of crocodiles and gets torn to bits.

Literature

InThe Druid of Shannara,Psycho for Hire Pe Ell is killed by the Koden, a gigantic bear. It's implied to have been set up by the King of the Silver River, as revenge for the death of his daughter. InHigh Druid of Shannara, theShapeshifting Moric is last seen lying on the ground as an actualDragon approaches it. Meta-irony much?

Happens inThe Space Trilogy, of all places, with Mr Bultitude, an actual bear.

TheJudge Dee storyThe Haunted Monastery ends like this,involving an actual bear.

In Kenneth Oppel's novelAirborn,Szpirglas, the infamous Sky Pirate, is killed, not by the main character, Matt Cruse, but by a pride of the huge, flying, predatory felines aptly named 'Cloud Cats'. Interestingly, despite pursuing some of the protagonists, never seriously injured any of the "Good Guys".

The villainous bandit Dorath is torn apart by wolves just as he's about to"remove the charms" of the princess Eilonwy inThe Chronicles of Prydain.

In theDoc Savage storyFortress of Solitude, the escaping John Sunlight is followed to a point where his tracks meet those of a polar bear next to an open lead in the ice. Since there's a lot of blood and no tracks leading away, they draw the obvious (and incorrect) conclusion.

At the end ofHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Umbridge is captured and carried away by a herd of centaurs. Dumbledore somehow persuades them to let her go between chapters, and she turns up in the hospital wing relatively unharmed (though she jumps if someone mimics the sound of hooves). When she tries to sneak out of the castle, Peeves catches on and she ends up exiting, Pursued by a Poltergeist with a Walking Stick.

At the end ofPeter and the Sword of Mercy,O'Neal and Nerezza are eaten by the giant crocodile Mr. Grin.

In theSister Mary Helen mysteryDeath of an Angel, the B plot covers an alumna's plan tomurder her domeineering, abusive mother.Her plan for disposing of the body is to underfeed her mother's standard poodles, and then set them on the dead body so that there will be nothing to implicate her. However, in the confrontation, Mama injures her face. Then the rapist-murderer from the A plot invades the house, and thenthe two nuns who are the amateur sleuths in the series arrive, as do the police. The rapist is stopped but then dogs come from the basement and smell the blood on Angelica's face and attack her. Inspector Gallegher shoots them dead, but Angelica is mortally wounded and succumbs to her injuries the next morning.

InThe Cat Who Said Cheese,an abusive ex-husband trackshis ex-wife to Moose County,using the fact that back in the navy he saved a shipmate's life (said shipmate still suffered brain damag)e as leverage to coerce the local, now a beekeeper into becoming an accessory to the bombing of said frightened ex's hotel room. When he comes back to try and cover his tracks and finish the job--the intended target was out and about but someone else died--the beekeeper inadvertently gives him a wool blanket and the bees swarmthe murderer, who is found dead the next morning.

Live-Action TV

Buffy the Vampire Slayer:

In "The Zeppo", the villain is making a speech about how he will be coming back, when he opens a door on Werewolf Oz. He is not seen again, and in the next scene Human Oz remarks that he feels full for some reason.
In "The Pack", the evil zookeeper ends up being eaten by hyenas after Buffy hurls him into the hyena pit. Knowing her, she probably didn't mean for him to end upin the pit, but she doesn't shed any tears about it later.

The Master and The Rani end one episode ofDoctor Who trapped in a malfunctioning TARDIS with a rapidly-growing T. Rex bearing down on them.They come back later with no explanation,natch.

In theMerlin episode "Lancelot and Guinevere", Hengist is trapped in the widderen's cage and eaten alive before he can pursue the main characters.

Helen Cutter's death inPrimeval is between this and aShut UP, Hannibal. HerHannibal Lecture to Danny is rudely interrupted by a velociraptor which knocks her over a cliff.

Theatre

TheOlder Than Steam Trope Namer is Antigonus fromWilliam Shakespeare'sThe Winter's Tale. Though not truly the villain, he is dispatched in this manner. (And unlike most of the other examples on this page, the bearliterally comes out ofnowhere just for this scene.)^[1]

Lucius Malfoy gets attacked by Werewolf!Lupin and dragged into the Forbidden Forest inA Very Potter Sequel.

The crocodile finally gets Hook in the climactic scene ofPeter Pan.

Video Games

InTurok: Evolution, Tal Set defeats Bruckner but will not kill him because he "does not deserve a warrior's death." The compsognathus eat him instead.

Mr. Kincaid inPokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia is pursued by a Wailord.

During the credits ofMega Man 9, you see what happened to the 8 Robot Master bosses; theMighty Glacier Concrete Man is seenchasing Dr. Wily. Whether his programming would allow him to actually hurt the weak, human man remains to be seen.

InPaper Mario, Chapter 2's boss,Tutankoopa, exits pursued by his pet Chain Chomp.

Kinnikuman: Muscle Fight

If Kendaman loses a match, he immediately gets up and gets chased out of the ring by Neptuneman. Neptuneman is going to punish Kendaman for breaking the Perfect Choujin rules. This is a reference to his loss with Screw Kid to the 20 Million Powers tag-team.
If Woolman sometimes wins a match, Woolman changes into a sheep, and a dingo or a shark chases him out of the ring.

Western Animation

In an animated version of one ofThe Brothers Grimm's lesser known fairy tales, "Jorinda and Joringle", the witch is subject to aBaleful Polymorph into a rat andpursued offscreen by her Right-Hand-Cat.

AWhere on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? episode had Zack and Ivy chased by jaguars in a Mayan temple before running into VILE henchmen. The bad guys ended up at the bottom of a pit with the jaguars drawing near.

Snidley Whiplash ends one episode ofDudley Do-Right being pursued by the rotating blade ofhis own sawmill.

Considering thatWild Kratts is a lighthearted kids show focused on animals, this happens all the time to the three main villains.

A couple ofKim Possible episodes end withDr. Drakken fleeing from an enragedShego.

In an episode ofGarfield and Friends, Garfield is working on a movie as a stunt cat and put in several dangerous stunts. Garfield looks through the script to see what's next and finds out it involves him apparently being mauled by abear. Garfield pours honey on the director's chair and when he sits down he gets stuck. The bear is attracted by the honey and chases director who has to hop off set.

TheVeggie Tales short "The Yodeling Veterinarian of the Alps" literally has a bear chasing the titular character (played by Larry) off the stage at the end.Because singing to him didn't cure the bear trap on his paw.

↑A side note: there was a popular bear-baiting ring right next to the Globe theater where Shakespeare worked, so it's possible that he (or his producer) randomly decided to borrow a bear for a crowd-pleasing cameo. (Though one can imagine the villain might not have been the only individual pursued by a bear in that event.)

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