History Main / KilledMidSentence

* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' has a similar scenario. The visiting princess can be killed while giving speech on a parapet, either by falling stone gargoyle, arrow, or spell.

-->'''Guy:''' Oh no! A giant laser! Help me super guy! Nothing to fear! With my powers, I can stop anything in the world, just as long as it isn’t a las-AAAGH!*KILLED BY LASER** ''WebAnimation/TheDementedCartoonMovie'' has multiple scenes ends with a character being blown up in mid-sentence, often along with [[EarthShatteringKaboom the world]].

** When Pharma [[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor makes light of Ambulon's grisly death]] at Pharma's own hand (well, [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]]), he's only allowed to get up to "Your face! It was an absolute pic-" before First Aid, a 'bot with a very ''proactive'' approach to being TheMedic, [[MoreDakka blows his head off with a minigun]].

* In ''ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers'', Snare dies in mid-sentence ''while asking for a MercyKill.''

--> [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 You are ded!]] [[BondOneLiner Not big surprise.]]

--> [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 DED!]] [[BondOneLiner Not big surprise.]]

* In Disney's ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'', [[BadBoss Captain Hook]] shoots one of his own men mid-''song''. (The singing was getting annoying.)

** In the [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist 2003 anime version]], there's Yoki, the soldier Sloth kills and one of Greed's men.

* Tyki almost does this to Tokusa by chopping both his arms off while Tokusa was ranting about how he loves "serving the lord" to Allen. Justified in that the job of killing the foes was already done and he was in all right to feel perfectly safe when Tyki literally appeared out of nowhere.

* Possibly the case for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Ney Marshal Ney]]; depending on the author, his last words were either: "Soldiers, aim for the heart!" or "I protest against my condemnation. My honour..."

* In ''ComicBook/TheStarWars'', one of the Imperials is killed by Luke before he could finish his words.

* Played for drama in ''FanFic/ThundercrackersGlory'' when Thundercracker gets ahold of his sister's journal. The last entry ends mid-sentence, indicating she was writing in said journal right before the Autobot attack that claimed her life.
* ''FanFic/TimeLordsAndTerror'', a ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''/''Series/DoctorWho'' crossover, has this done to '''the Doctor''' of all people.

* While Superman is holding her, Svetlana from ''WesternAnimation/SupermanRedSon'' dies of illness mid-sentence.

* Robert Barnes, a captured contact in the UsefulNotes/{{Nintendo 64}} version of ''VideoGame/MissionImpossible1997'', falls over dead when you try to talk to him. There's even a LampshadeHanging:

--->'''Guy:''' Oh no! A giant laser! Help me super guy! Nothing to fear! With my powers, I can stop anything in the world, just as long as it isn’t a las-AAAGH!*KILLED BY LASER** ''WebAnimation/TheDementedCartoonMovie'' has multiple scenes ends with a character being blown up in mid-sentence, often along with [[EarthShatteringKaboom the world]].

--->'''Roman''': As for me, I'll do what I do best: lie, steal, cheat, and SURVIVE- ''(is swallowed whole by a Grimm as Ruby looks on in shock)''

* In the final scene of ''Theatre/WestSideStory'', as Tony [[DiedInYourArmsTonight lies mortally wounded in Maria's arms]], she begins hopefully singing one last reprise of "Somewhere" sans orchestral accompaniment, and Tony begins to sing along with her, only to expire after the third-to-last line, "Someday..." Maria's voice also falls silent after singing the following word, "Somehow..." The orchestra steps in to complete the musical phrase with a wordless "Somewhere."

* Happens quite a few times in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars''.

* ''FanFic/{{Hivefled}}''; [[StealthPun Orphaner Dualscar]]: "[[OrphanedPunchline So then the seadweller says-]]"

--> '''Broclotron''': ''"Choo, choo, all above the pain train. Next stop, Bento Banana-" *whacked in the head by Plumpy*''

* ''Series/BreakingBad'' Gets two with the final season.

* Aerith tries to tell Cloud that "[[CatchPhrase All is forgiven]]" when he's nearly mind controlled into killing her in episode 25 of ''Machinima/FinalFantasyVIIMachinabridged'', only for Sephiroth to run her through before she can finish the last word.

* ''[[Machinima/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers SMG4 series]]'':

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'':

** [[Machinima/RedVsBlue Church]]: "Son of a bi-" and then [[TeamKiller Caboose's]] ricocheting sniper round, which had already killed Tex, Tucker and Donut, hits him in the head.

%%* Monica from ''Anime/CodeGeass'': "It's Suzaku Kururu-!"

* [[https://labas.livejournal.com/849314.html One Russian joke poem]] describing a RagsToRichesToRags guy who ended up with a New Guinea tribe after running away ends (roughly translated) with the words "He smoked and went to dance with them and he was missing Annie, he thought them vegetarians, it turned out they were canni..."

-->'''Green:''' Hi I'm a Pokémon Jr. ranger and I've that heard you've been killing people. You need to stop this because... ''(Cue BoomHeadshot from Oak's gun)''

* Kevin Cosgrove, while on the phone with 911 dispatchers, was cut off when the North Tower collapsed around him, cutting mid-scream: “We’re overlooking the Financial Center. Three of us. Two broken windows. Oh god! Oh-“
* The last words from the American submarine USS Thresher, in communication with a surface ship just before sinking, were "...exceeding test depth...".
* Frederick III of Germany was dying of throat cancer and could not speak in his last days. He started writing, "Victoria, me, the children..." before lapsing into unconsciousness and dying.
* William Travis, one of the defendants of the Álamo, was said to have been killed so early in battle his last words were "Here come the Mexic—!".

* Happened to the crew of a news helicopter in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyQygLTqDUo a mid-air collision over Phoenix]].
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* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_B._Fall#Death Bernard Fall]] was a historian and a war correspondent, specializing on Indochina. He was killed in 1967, when he stepped on a land mine. He was dictating into a tape recorder which captured his last words: "We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—"
* Possibly the case for Marshal Ney; depending on the author, his last words were either: "Soldiers, aim for the heart!" or "I protest against my condemnation. My honour..."
* Albert Parsons, one of four men hanged in the aftermath of the Haymarket Affair, was in the process of uttering what would've been his FinalSpeech when the trapdoor opened underneath him and the other three.

* In ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'', this happens to the villain Kamdor after he thinks he's slain the Ranger fighting him no less.
-->'''Kamdor''': "Finally! Now, to find the-AAARGH!"
-->'''Will''': "[[WorthyOpponent That was one tough hombre!]]"