Impaled by a rake, electrocuted by a hairdryer, tumbling...

BEING killed off is a hazard of appearing on a soap, and the best you can hope for is a memorable exit. Corrie fans were left baffled and bemused after Monday's episode, with Rob's life on the line when he bounced off a wall and somersaulted over a balcony after his sister Carla pushed him down some stairs.

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Though we have since found out Rob survived the fall, fans took to social media straight away in disbelief: "It's like a Harry Hilly TV burp sketch," one person wrote, while others called it a "farce". EastEnders has been rocked this week by an explosion at the Queen Vic, leaving fans fearing who might have died.

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And Emmerdale is showing a limo crash storyline that has left at least one person dead and more characters lives hanging in the balance. While they are both plausible ways for someone to be killed off, not every soap death is. From being killed by garden tools to landing in a bin, The Sun looks at soap land's strangest deaths over the years.

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Families are known for having secrets, and Ronnie Mitchell (Samantha Womack) spent time hiding that she killed sister Roxy's ex-boyfriend Carl White (Daniel Coonan). EastEnders' bosses decided against a classic murder with a knife or a gun. Instead, they had Ronnie slam Carl's head with a car boot which, somehow, killed him.

Image Credit: The Sun [Silas from Hollyoaks killing Heidi.]

The killer blow came after Carl attacked Ronnie on New Year's Eve. She then put his body into the car boot before taking it to be crushed. It's certainly a memorable way to go. Hollyoaks has been lauded for dealing with serious issues like eating disorders and abusive relationships.

Image Credit: The Sun [Heidi Costello, dressed as Catwoman, accidentally strangled.]

But when it came to their serial killer storyline in 2011 with Silas Blissett (Jeff Rawle) things took a turn for the absurd. During his killing spree, he accidentally strangled his daughter Heidi Costello (Kim Tiddy) to death while she was dressed as cat woman after mistaking her for Lynsey Nolan (Karen Hassan).

Image Credit: The Sun [A man and woman kissing in a shed.]

Silas grabbed Heidi as she was walking in the skintight catsuit, high heels and mask to The Loft club. She took her final breath just under the balcony to the venue as friends were unaware of what was happening just below them. In another ridiculous death, EastEnders' bosses decided to kill off Trina Johnson (Sharon Duncan Brewster) using a gardening tool.

Image Credit: The Sun [Trina Johnson, from EastEnders, impaled by a rake.]

During an argument with ex-husband Lucas Johnson (Don Gilet), he shoves her off him when she tried to kiss him - behind the back of his current partner Denise Fox (Diane Parish). The shove saw her forced onto the prongs of a rake, which punctured her throat, and she collapsed to the floor before dying.

Image Credit: The Sun [Stephen punching Leo, causing him to fall into a bin.]

To cover up his murder, Lucas used her drug addiction and set it up to look like an overdose. Unbelievably, it worked and police later ruled her death as accidental due to her use of recreational drugs. The most you can hope for on Coronation Street is a dignified death if you're chosen to be killed off.

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But Leo Thompkins (Joe Frost) got one of the most undignified murders possible, as it saw him land directly into a large bin. The civil engineer placed himself in Stephen Reid’s sites after realising he was telling lies and planning to steal a large sum of cash from Audrey (Sue Nicholls).

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During a heated argument outside Underworld, Stephen (Todd Boyce) whacked Leo in the head causing the civil engineer to plummet to his death and land in an industrial waste bin. To add to the indignity of being bumped off, Leo's body was then hauled out of the trash and moved to another location while Stephen attempted to cover up his crime.

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What’s the best way to take out resentment on your nearest and dearest? According to Chris Tate (Peter Amory) it’s to commit suicide and then frame them for it. In one of the strangest plots in the dale, partially paralysed Chris decided to get back at his cheating wife Charity Dingle (Emma Atkins) by framing her for murder.

Image Credit: The Sun [Black and white photo of Anne Reid as Valerie Barlow in a scene from the Coronation Street TV show.]

First, he spent all of his money to make sure the scheming spouse would be left with nothing. Then, he invited his estranged wife over, having poisoned his glass of champagne. In an odd exchange, he toasts to the death of their marriage before collapsing and dying in the same spot as his dad six years earlier.

Image Credit: The Sun [Valerie Barlow electrocuting herself with a hairdryer.]

His final words to Charity were “whore”. Charity is arrested and eventually sent down for his murder - although in an even more bizarre twist she gives birth to Chris’s baby in jail and is then released in return for handing the newborn to his younger sister Zoe (Leah Bracknell).

Image Credit: The Sun [Deborah Sheridan-Taylor as Saskia and Martin Kemp as Steve in a scene from *EastEnders*.]

Chris will likely have turned in his grave after seeing Charity get off the charges. Before Ken (William Roache) and Deirdre Barlow (Anne Kirkbride), there was Ken and Valerie Barlow (Anne Reid) who were happily married. In 1971, the couple were planning to relocate to Jamaica with their children, Peter and Susan, but tragedy struck.

Image Credit: The Sun [A scene from EastEnders showing a woman being attacked by two men.]

After attempting to fix her hairdryer's dodgy plug by tightening it with a screwdriver, she plugged it in and was electrocuted. As she fell to the floor, she knocked over an electric heater into a packing crate causing a fire - which was a full blaze by the time help arrived.