Killed Mid Sentence / Video Games

• Every game that allows the player character to kill AI-controlled NPCs at will (Grand Theft Auto, Saints Row, Postal 2, etc) allows for this, if the non-player characters are engaged in scripted dialogue.
• As if interrupting him mid-speech wasn't rude enough (with a flaming chakram to the face, no less), Axel also cuts Vexen's last words short in Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories.
  Vexen: No! Please don't! I don't want to-!
  Axel: Goodbye. *snap*
  *FWOOSH*
• The player character in Alpha Protocol can do this to a lot of people during the game, depending on dialogue choices. They vary between extremely awesome, or incredibly chilling depending on your relationship with the person in question.
• In one of the later missions of Assassin's Creed II, we see a guard reporting to the Big Bad that "Everything is going according to pla-" before being killed by Ezio, who had secretly replaced one of the others guards.
• Not compulsory, but heavily encouraged at the end of Borderlands 2. After beating the final boss, Handsome Jack goes through a lengthy Villainous Breakdown, which the player can interrupt at any time with a bullet. If you hear him out to the end, and still don't take the hint, Lilith will polish him off herself, but considering everything he's put you through, most players are more than happy to shut him up early.
• In the original Call of Duty, we get this memorable line:
  Medic: Oh man! They're shooting medics too! They're not— (playing by the rules)
• In the Call of Duty: World at War mission "Little Resistance", the landing craft the player character is in gets caught on something. An NPC then shouts "It's the coral! We're stuck on the cor—" * Cue headshot* (A rather gory one at that.)
• In Call of Duty: Black Ops:
  Dr. Clarke: Ah, yes, the numbers. They're the key to— (headshot)
• This happens to Cole near the end of Clive Barker's Jericho:
  "Sir! I believe he is going to channel our powers against us, however, if you're currently in possession of —" *ZAP* "Silence, BITCH!" *SPLAT*
• Dead Space 2 takes the cake; for the first time, you get to see a necromorph infection-and-mutation up Close ANd PERSONAL.
  Franco: You're in terrible terrible dang—AAAUUUGGGHHH! WHOOOO... *Snarl*
• In The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, it is possible for a skilled archer to pick off Mankar Camoran midspeech with one shot if the difficulty level's dialed down far enough and the player's got a 100% Chameleon suit (or spell) to ensure the stealth bonus.
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has a similar scenario. The visiting princess can be killed while giving speech on a parapet, either by falling stone gargoyle, arrow, spell, or...Suplex Finisher.
• This applies to every hero when they are killed while using their ultimate in Overwatch, but most famously, Pharah:
  "Justice rains from AAAUGH!"
  • This tends to happen quite often, especially against heroes with high damage like Widowmaker and Soldier:76. It has since become ingrained in pop culture.
• In Fable II, end boss Lucien rambles on and on for some time after you interrupt his ascension to godhood. The player can kill him mid-sentence, with Reaver thanking them. Alternately, if left to ramble long enough, Reaver will shoot Lucien himself.
• This happens to Ultimecia in Final Fantasy VIII, and again in Dissidia Final Fantasy.
  True Ultimecia: Reflect on your... Childhood... Your sensation... Your words... Your emotions... Time... It will not wait... No matter... How hard you hold on... It escapes you... And...
• A terrified sailor in God of War's first stage:
  "These creatures, they came out of nowhere! Our ships are all destroyed-all hope is lost, Spartan! Even for yo-" *thuk*
• Grand Theft Auto III’s Maria Latore apparently dies like this off screen.
• Half-Life provides this punctual introduction for the assassins:
  Guard: Freeman, right? I got a message for you! Make sure you don't— (silenced gunshot) AGH!
  • Black Mesa also has the commander of a tank that gets destroyed by a Manta flyer's underbelly laser.
    "Back up, back up! BACK THE FU—"
• Kat in Halo: Reach, courtesy of a sniper: "Where does he get off calling a demolition op Priority O-"
• Kid Icarus: Uprising: The trope comes into play depending on which Hewdraw head you face at the end of the level. Upon beating him, he says "Before I die, I just want to say-" and then dies before he can finish. While Pit doesn't seem to care, Palutena becomes curious as to what he was gonna say.
• Infinity Blade: In the second game, this happens to a guard who is ostensibly guarding a seal. He curses Siris for intruding and threatens to kill him before the guard is crushed by a stone demon, the true boss of the area.
  Plated guard: How dare you desecrate this sacred place?! Impudent whelp! I will cut the flesh from your bones! I will - gets crushed by the falling Stone Demon
• In Killer7, Christopher Mills says to Garcian, "30 years ago, you and Harman..." and then somebody shoots him, forcing Garcian to flee the scene, as he thought he was in danger.
• At the end of Killzone 2 Scolar Visari gets shot by Rico in the middle of his third epic speech.
• The Legend of Dragoon: Lavitz Slambert, as he is fatally wounded: "Dart, survive... and..." He dies in Dart's arms before he can finish.
• Mass Effect:
  • "You talk too much." BANG
  • Many, many of the Renegade interrupts in Mass Effect 2 use this, though it doesn't always result in the victim's death. In several cases, Shepard simply punches the person in the face, knocking them unconscious (although this makes it no less of a Moment of Awesome on Shepard's part).
    "There are two ways down..."
  • It's not always Shepard, either:
    Wilson: Miranda! I thought you were— BANG!
    Miranda: ...dead?
  • Depending on your choices, you can have a spectacular one in Mass Effect 3 on Tuchanka. And in this case, it's for a major character.
    Mordin: [singing] I've studied species Turian, Asari, and Batarian.
    My xenoscience studies range from urban to agrarian.
    I am the very model of—(BOOM)
• Minecraft: This is a side effect of the Voice Chat mod, leading players' reactions (usually yelling) to be cut off from others' perspectives.
• Robert Barnes, a captured contact in the Nintendo 64 game version of Mission: Impossible (1996), falls over dead when you try to talk to him. There's even a Lampshade Hanging:
  Ethan: I KNEW he wasn't gonna finish that sentence...
• More of a "killed mid-thought", but during one conversation in Neverwinter Nights I an option for every response is "snap her neck", which interrupts the speaking character rather effectively.
• Not for Broadcast:
  • In Day 912, if you don't support Disrupt's uprising enough, Alan will panic and shout via walkie talkie that Advance will kill them all before he gets cut off mid-sentence by an air strike that kills him and his teammates.
  • In Day 2602, if you killed off Jeremy and kept Alan alive but don't play the leaked tape, Jenny will pull off a "The Reason You Suck" Speech on Alan, who shoots her dead before she can finish.
    Jenny: They see what everyone else sees, Alan. You're a joke. A nut-job. A sad, pathetic—[gets fatally shot mid-sentence]
• Towards the beginning of Penumbra: Black Plague, the player can listen to a cassette tape made by a research member on the main weakness of the Infected. You can hear them growling and approaching as he speaks, and they attack and rip him to shreds right before he says the weakness.
• Saints Row:
  • In the first game, after Tanya Winters double-crosses Warren Williams of the Vice Kings and threatens him at gunpoint, he snaps "Bitch, you better not miss, 'cause..." right before getting shot.
  • Saints Row 2 ends with Dane Vogel getting his slimy ass shot out of his high-rise office window just as he's trying to spin things to his favor.
    Vogel: But you have to look at the positives! You're alive, they're dead, and you have the Saint's number one fan running Ult—
  • Additionally, Aisha dies when the Ronin lieutenant who's waiting to confront her husband Johnny Gat at their house cuts off her head. Her last words? "Johnny! It's a tr-"
• Sengoku Basara:
  • Nobunaga does this to Hideyoshi in the end of his campaign in Sengoku Basara II.
  • Magoichi Saika does this to to Nobunaga himself in one of Magoichi's endings in Samurai Warriors.
• Kung Lao in Mortal Kombat 9. "You see, Raiden? Earthrealm is fr-" *SNAP*
• Partially subverted in Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast. While the Mad Scientist is giving an insane speech about how the galaxy will tremble before him, Katarn casually throws his lightsaber into the ship's shield generator, leaving it wide open to attack. Followed by a cheesy Pre Ass Kicking One Liner.
• In Tales of the Abyss, during the Oracle Knight's attack on the Dreadnought the captain of the ship calling for assistance wasn't exactly able to finish...
• Team Fortress 2 does this in "Meet the Spy", where the Soldier shoots the BLU spy in the head with his shotgun. "He could be you! He could be me! He could even be—" *BOOM*
  "What? It was obvious! He's the RED Spy!"
• The intro cutscene of Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds has a Martian commander blasted mid-sentence while reporting on the poor state of the invasion. The elders change plans accordingly.
• Happens quite regularly in games in the Wing Commander series that have speech, with taunts being cut off by the speaker's ship becoming rapidly expanding ball of plasma, courtesy of your guns.
• World of Warcraft:
  • This is how the leader of the freed slaves in the Pit of Saron bites it. After you've killed the final boss he gives a very flowery speech of gratitude to the players. Right behind him is Sindragosa, Arthas' pet dragon, who kills him and 3/4 of the freed slaves with an Iceball to the face!
  • After accidentally summoning Lord Jaraxxus in the Wrath of the Lich King expansion of the game, the summoner Wilfred Fizzlebang tried to assert that he's in charge, but before he could finish the last word of his sentence, the EREDAR LORD OF THE BURNING LEGION!! blasted him away to oblivion.
• The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past: Your Uncle survives long enough to give you his sword, but dies as he tries to tell you something very important: "Zelda is your..." He gets better along with everyone else killed after you beat the game, presumably because of Link's wish on the Triforce. We never find out what he was going to say, though, until the GBA re-release which alters his "dying" speech and he actually manages to finish what he was saying before dying. In the new version, he basically tells Link that it's his destiny to save Zelda and that he really enjoyed their time together.
• MechWarrior:
  • MechWarrior 2: "It's got a lock on me! It's got a lock on..."
  • Ghost Bear's Legacy: "Neg base, I need units now! Freebirth...!"
• Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway: Garnett dies like this when Leggett's and Allen's argument attracts a German patrol.
  Garnett: Guys, get the fu--(Headshot)
• A genuinely funny moment from the Sega CD adaptation of Space Adventure Cobra occurs when Cobra discovers that the Parrot Grass on his vessel is actually a spy impersonating the plant. When confronted, it reveals its true form and says "My name is—" before getting blasted to smithereens by Cobra's Arm Cannon.
• The Red Queen does this to the Cheshire Cat in American McGee's Alice. Suffice to say if by that point you don't want her dead, you will.
• Medal of Honor: Allied Assault: "We've been trying to find our regiment ever since, but there are snipers every..." Boom, Headshot!.
• Medal of Honor: Airborne: A U.S. paratrooper was telling a joke. "What do you get when you mix a Nazi with a cockroach? You get-" He then gets shot by a Nazi plane before he could say the punchline!^note The punchline is "A Krauton bug," a portmanteau of the now-obscure early 20th century nickname of "Croton bug" for the German cockroach and the derogatory slang word "Kraut" for Germans.
• In Brain Dead 13, this can occur in the final confrontation, after the eyeballs fall from Lance's pocket, but you don't have him pick them up as he starts saying his Pre-Asskicking One-Liner.
• During the final mission briefing of Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, your pilot Bud is shot in the head mid-sentence by the Big Bad, who then steals his chopper.
• Just before the final boss of Plants vs. Zombies, Crazy Dave tries to tell you the boss' weakness, only for a Bungee Zombie to snatch him away before he finishes doing so. Subverted by the music video at the end of the game, in which Dave returns.
• The Witch's House: If you touch the clock on the top floor, it will fall and crush you while the text-box is still loading.
• Every time you kill a student in Yandere Simulator, the event is immediately preceded by a cry of "Hey, what are you—"
• In Gamer 2, Kora is a friendly NPC who's been warning you of upcoming hazards and letting you know where to find useful upcoming items. When you face down Killer Robot ACE, she shows up to explain how to defeat him...
  Kora: Weaken him with the derezzer, then—AAUGHH!
• Kane's now legendary introduction in the original Command & Conquer features him doing this.
  Seth: This is the Pentagon. A full-frontal attack with your strongest forces should render their military center of opera—(*gun appears from offscreen, Boom, Headshot!*)
  Kane: *shoving aside Seth's corpse* Yes, power shifts more quickly than some people think...
• When They Cry:
  • Keiichi Maebara in Higurashi: When They Cry is killed by the Big Bad mid- Kirk Summation. He got back due to time shenanigans
  • In Umineko: When They Cry's second arc, George's last words are inferred to be a pledge of love to Shannon. "I will always —" "YOU THOUGHT I'D LET HIM SAY THAT? IDIOT!" Darn you, Beatrice!
• Kamek in Paper Mario: Sticker Star, near the end of the game:
  "KING BOWSER WILL DESTROY YOU! KING BOWSER WILL DESTROY YOU! KING BOWSER WI-"
• Averted with Larry in Paper Mario: Color Splash, since he and the other Koopalings survived.
• In Paper Mario: The Origami King, as the star-wannabe Rubber Band dies after its battle, it attempts to go out reciting its last words theatrically but dies before it can complete the last rhyme.
  "I wanted to make this place GRAND!
  Eliminate things DULL and bland!
  Alas, this was my FINAL stand.
  It's curtains for poor Rubber-" *gaaasp*
• In The Stanley Parable, in the Museum ending, the female narrator's sentence gets cut off when Stanley is crushed. But, looking into the game files, the full audio file is, indeed, in the game, but it just gets cuts off before she can finish. The full line is as follows:
  Female Narrator: But listen to me, you can still save these two. You can stop the program before they both fail. Press "escape" and press "quit". There is no other way to beat this game. As you as you move forward, you'll be walking someone else's path. Stop now, and it will be your only true choice. Whatever you do, choose it! Don't let time choose for you! Don't let time choose for you!
• In Fredbear and Friends, Chris is snatched up by the Endocluster as he and Thomas are trying to hash out just what is going on.
• Red Dead Redemption II: Happens to Sean MacGuire during Chapter 3:
  Sean MacGuire: Now it don't feel right? I could'a told you that— [cue the Boom, Headshot!]

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