Tropescilloscope: Killed Mid-Sentence

Character unexpectedly dies before finishing a statement. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Gratuitous English Moment Killer Author Avatar Star-Crossed Lovers Hong Kong Films Animal Title Index The '70s Face–Heel Turn The Hero Dies Roaring Rampage of Revenge One Steve Limit 20 Minutes into the Future Big Bad Duumvirate Armor-Piercing Question Refuge in Audacity Dirty Cop My Greatest Failure Kill It with Fire Chewing the Scenery Bilingual Bonus Not What It Looks Like Cold-Blooded Torture Death by Adaptation Bottomless Magazines Overly Long Gag Psychopathic Manchild Expy Plucky Comic Relief Names to Run Away from Really Fast Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Idiot Ball Grievous Bottley Harm Gorn Fate Worse than Death Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Silence Is Golden Hair-Trigger Temper Offscreen Teleportation Antagonist Title Alliterative Name Token Minority Papa Wolf Pretty in Mink Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Friend to All Children Arc Words Bring My Brown Pants Framing Device Not Quite Dead Lighter and Softer Creepy Child Depraved Bisexual The Dreaded Sports Stories Heroes Want Redheads Not So Different Funny Background Event Off with His Head! There Is No Kill Like Overkill Music Stories A Minor Kidroduction Dumb Blonde Creator Cameo Shout-Out Half the Man He Used to Be Artistic License – History Italian Films Mexican Standoff Bound and Gagged Mind Screw Retired Badass Adaptation Expansion BFG Country Matters Stealth Pun Diabolus ex Machina Improbable Aiming Skills Rule of Three Beware the Nice Ones Establishing Character Moment Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Heel Realization Dull Surprise Morality Pet timeperiod Yandere Dual Wielding Mood Whiplash Mercy Kill Nothing Is Scarier Faux Affably Evil Even Evil Has Loved Ones Ugly Guy, Hot Wife The '50s MacGuffin Death by Irony Big Eater Riddle for the Ages Mad Scientist Pyrrhic Victory Those Wacky Nazis Big Bad Easily Forgiven Dark Is Not Evil You Killed My Father Rule of Funny Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Cain and Abel Super Strength The Lancer How We Got Here Oh, Crap! "Shaggy Dog" Story Leitmotif Action Prologue Japanese Films Black Dude Dies First After the End Honor Before Reason Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Get Out! It Will Never Catch On Historical In-Joke Adaptational Villainy He Who Fights Monsters I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Calling the Old Man Out No Ending Batman Gambit Animated Credits Opening Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Redemption Equals Death Wounded Gazelle Gambit Ghost Fiction Reasonable Authority Figure Evil Is Hammy Anti-Villain Obstructive Bureaucrat Damsel in Distress Homage Scenery Porn Kids Are Cruel Sir Swears-a-Lot Last-Name Basis Foreshadowing Drives Like Crazy Rape as Drama Badass Grandpa Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality All for Nothing As Himself Drowning My Sorrows Anti-Hero Film Noir Rich Bitch Bond Villain Stupidity The Dog Bites Back Jerk Jock The Dragon Bloodier and Gorier Bury Your Gays Unusual Euphemism Asshole Victim Insistent Terminology Parental Incest Film Noir Index It's Personal Wicked Cultured One-Word Title Chiaroscuro Red Right Hand Gender Flip Meaningful Echo The Cavalry "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Decoy Protagonist Mr. Fanservice Rousing Speech Ship Tease The Film of the Book Roger Ebert: Great Movies List The Big Guy Documentary Failed a Spot Check Never My Fault The Chessmaster "The Reason You Suck" Speech The Oner Every Car Is a Pinto Plot Hole Bullying a Dragon Race Against the Clock Anachronism Stew Blackmail Ambiguous Ending Badass Longcoat No Antagonist My God, What Have I Done? Fatal Family Photo No OSHA Compliance Gone Horribly Right Eyepatch of Power Dramatic Gun Cock Truth in Television Back from the Dead Fanservice Extra Christmas Movies Index Woman Scorned Rated M for Manly Curb-Stomp Battle Tranquil Fury The Cameo Bittersweet Ending Parental Neglect Big "NO!" Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Smug Snake The Bully Freudian Excuse Malevolent Masked Men Blatant Lies Anguished Declaration of Love Coming-of-Age Story Early-Bird Cameo Killed Mid-Sentence Screw the Money, I Have Rules! German Films Major Injury Underreaction Men Are the Expendable Gender Frame-Up Immune to Bullets Precision F-Strike Captain Obvious Soundtrack Dissonance Say My Name Central Theme Determinator aka: The Determinator Death by Sex The Voiceless Handicapped Badass Grey and Gray Morality Tap on the Head Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Babies Ever After Imagine Spot Public Domain Feature Films Not So Stoic Dark Action Girl Manly Tears Affably Evil Ms. Fanservice Disproportionate Retribution Advertised Extra Canon Foreigner Chase Scene Crazy-Prepared I Have Your Wife The Casanova Brainless Beauty Film Series The Ditz She Cleans Up Nicely Deconstruction Madness Mantra Scary Black Man Death Seeker Fan Disservice Worthy Opponent Made of Explodium Mr. Exposition Meaningful Name Novelization Award-Bait Song Does Not Like Shoes Psycho for Hire Real Life Aside Glance Rewatch Bonus Badass Normal Take a Third Option Lampshade Hanging Take That! Jerkass Kubrick Stare Stealth Hi/Bye Accidental Misnaming Naïve Newcomer Put on a Bus Monumental Damage Crucified Hero Shot Brother–Sister Incest Scare Chord Shoot the Shaggy Dog Vampire Fiction Visual Pun Suspiciously Specific Denial Book-Ends Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Our Zombies Are Different Wrong Genre Savvy Break the Cutie Only in It for the Money Dropped a Bridge on Him Hooker with a Heart of Gold Man on Fire Nice Guy Getting Crap Past the Radar Intergenerational Friendship Dutch Angle Agony of the Feet Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday N-Word Privileges Artistic License – Gun Safety Affectionate Parody Fantasy Films Broken Aesop Funny Foreigner O.O.C. Is Serious Business Amusing Injuries Adorkable Famous Last Words Cowboy Cop Bowdlerise Does This Remind You of Anything? Unresolved Sexual Tension Deliberate Values Dissonance Insult Backfire War Is Hell Sequel Hook Male Frontal Nudity Villainous Breakdown Blood from the Mouth Creative Closing Credits Naked People Are Funny Made of Iron The Mole Hypocritical Humor The Alcoholic Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Apocalypse How Mama Bear Captain Ersatz She's Got Legs Anyone Can Die Fatal Flaw Instant Death Bullet Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Actually Pretty Funny Random Events Plot Off-into-the-Distance Ending Hollywood Darkness Fiery Redhead Based on a True Story The Quiet One Ass Shove Hoist by His Own Petard My Beloved Smother The Power of Love Gold Digger Accidental Murder The Smurfette Principle Stylistic Suck Boom, Headshot! The End... Or Is It? Historical Hero Upgrade Credits Gag Hidden Depths Rule of Symbolism Tagline The Ghost Storming the Castle Vitriolic Best Buds Demoted to Extra Bond One-Liner Punch-Clock Villain Politically Incorrect Villain Distracted by the Sexy Loads and Loads of Characters Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Retcon The Great Depression Pay Evil unto Evil Suspiciously Similar Substitute Cool Old Guy Mystery and Detective Films Karma Houdini Cruel and Unusual Death Betty and Veronica Up to Eleven Chekhov's Gunman Fingore Death of a Child Dirty Coward Pimped-Out Dress The Reveal Extreme Doormat Sexy Discretion Shot Evil Plan Loophole Abuse Catapult Nightmare Would Hit a Girl Time Skip Vomit Discretion Shot Fourth Date Marriage Pragmatic Villainy The Alleged Car Dwindling Party Danny Peary Cult Movies List Alpha Bitch Rasputinian Death Self-Deprecation Shower Scene Drill Sergeant Nasty Bare Your Midriff Death Glare Driven to Suicide Beauty Is Never Tarnished Show Within a Show Sassy Black Woman Artistic License – Biology Married to the Job Needs Wiki Magic Love Bavarian Fire Drill Beard of Evil Good Is Not Nice Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Big-Bad Ensemble Action Survivor Manchild Big Damn Heroes Epic Fail Brick Joke Crazy Jealous Guy Artistic License – Geography Improvised Weapon Bad Boss Dissonant Serenity Earn Your Happy Ending Insane Troll Logic Victoria's Secret Compartment Villain Protagonist Rule of Cool Camera Abuse Disney Death The X of Y British Films Pet the Dog Large Ham Not Even Bothering with the Accent Took a Level in Jerkass I Did What I Had to Do Totally Radical Hero Antagonist Bland-Name Product Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Military and Warfare Films Small Name, Big Ego Vomit Indiscretion Shot Disappeared Dad Curse Cut Short Bi the Way The Sociopath Author Appeal Bloodless Carnage Playing Gertrude Index of Film Westerns Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Red Herring Ironic Echo Adaptation Distillation Laser-Guided Karma Blonde, Brunette, Redhead An Aesop Big Brother Instinct For the Evulz Zombie Stories Recycled IN SPACE! Evil-Detecting Dog Adaptational Badass Unwitting Instigator of Doom Video Credits Only Sane Man Four-Temperament Ensemble All Men Are Perverts The Smart Guy Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies The '80s Those Two Bad Guys Destination Defenestration The Mafia Meaningful Background Event Beta Couple The Musical Big Fancy House Evil Is Petty Faking the Dead Karmic Death And I Must Scream Character Development Deliberately Monochrome Unusually Uninteresting Sight Aluminum Christmas Trees Very Loosely Based on a True Story Evil Sounds Deep Sanity Slippage Canadian Movies Horror Films Mistaken for Gay Downer Ending Eiffel Tower Effect Manipulative Bastard Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Lock and Load Montage Hate Sink The Atoner Hypocrite One-Man Army Heroic BSoD Offscreen Moment of Awesome Jerkass Has a Point The Place Too Dumb to Live Hell Is That Noise Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Dies Wide Open Fantastic Racism Eye Scream Disguised in Drag Arranged Marriage Same Language Dub Translation Convention Word of God La Résistance Happily Married Fish out of Water Combat Pragmatist Suddenly SHOUTING! Peek-a-Boo Corpse Ascended Extra I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Would Hurt a Child Re-Cut Artistic License – Physics And the Adventure Continues Fake Shemp Guns Akimbo Stalker with a Crush Television Movie Index All Girls Want Bad Boys Implacable Man Male Gaze Retirony The Faceless An Axe to Grind Defrosting Ice Queen Reckless Gun Usage Thriller Adaptation Name Change Match Cut Here We Go Again! Ripped from the Headlines Fainting Didn't Think This Through Dressing as the Enemy Mighty Whitey Heroic Sacrifice Cool Car Crapsack World Black and Gray Morality Shipper on Deck No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Empathic Environment Knife Nut Knight Templar Even Evil Has Standards Love Triangle Continuity Nod The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Works Set in World War II Love at First Sight Broken Bird Daylight Horror More Dakka Shell-Shocked Veteran Cassandra Truth Horror Comedy Stock Footage Reality Ensues Light Is Not Good Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil From Nobody to Nightmare I Need a Freaking Drink Police are Useless Older Than They Look Romantic Comedy Dying Moment of Awesome Dark Reprise Motor Mouth Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Non-Indicative Name Bait-and-Switch Double Entendre Bunny-Ears Lawyer Gory Discretion Shot Girl-on-Girl Is Hot The Lost Lenore Attempted Rape "Awesome McCool" Name Enemy Mine Intrepid Reporter Parental Substitute Serial Killer Chekhov's Skill Due to the Dead The Stoner The Load Deal with the Devil Amoral Attorney In Name Only Cat Fight Henpecked Husband Adapted Out Call-Forward Trailers Always Spoil Punctuated! For! Emphasis! As You Know Serious Business Black Comedy No Name Given Improbable Weapon User Ungrateful Bastard Adaptational Heroism Fire-Forged Friends Took a Level in Badass You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Training Montage Interrupted Suicide The Brute Children Are Innocent Real Life Writes the Plot Break the Haughty Parental Abandonment Obfuscating Stupidity Humans Are Bastards folderlabel Abusive Parents Have a Gay Old Time Irony You Have Failed Me Darkest Hour Taking You with Me Your Cheating Heart Shut Up, Hannibal! Kill 'em All Fun with Acronyms Brutal Honesty Once More, with Clarity! Epic Movie The Stinger Eagleland World of Ham Important Haircut The Remake Setting Update All Just a Dream Exact Words Freeze-Frame Bonus Jump Scare Ax-Crazy Demonic Possession Butt-Monkey Artistic License – Law Twist Ending Big Applesauce Sacrificial Lion Vacation Films Martial Arts Movie Product Placement Pretty Little Headshots Bald of Evil Science Fiction Films Guile Hero Hero of Another Story What Happened to the Mouse? Defiant to the End Annoying Younger Sibling Heel–Face Turn Ambiguously Gay Adaptational Attractiveness Red Oni, Blue Oni Domestic Abuse Animal Motifs Foil Outrun the Fireball Overprotective Dad Biopic Black Comedy Rape Genre Savvy Title Drop As the Good Book Says... Reality Has No Subtitles And Starring Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Cat Scare Missing Mom Dark and Troubled Past No-Sell Mooks Undying Loyalty This Is Gonna Suck Leaning on the Fourth Wall Cool Guns Action Girl Broken Pedestal Hope Spot Only Known by Their Nickname Dirty Old Man Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Slashed Throat Pre-Mortem One-Liner Flashback Noodle Incident The '60s Flipping the Bird The Vamp It Can Think Never Found the Body Genre Shift Poor Communication Kills Badass Boast Pragmatic Adaptation Femme Fatale Villain Song Final Girl Jitter Cam Tempting Fate Comically Missing the Point Awesome, but Impractical Ambiguous Disorder Neck Lift Well-Intentioned Extremist Expository Hairstyle Change Alas, Poor Villain Covers Always Lie Air-Vent Passageway Cool Shades Nice Hat The Bad Guy Wins Determinator Our Vampires Are Different I'm a Humanitarian Drugs Are Bad Card-Carrying Villain Costume Porn Celebrity Paradox Punny Name "Well Done, Son!" Guy From Bad to Worse Bar Brawl Exactly What It Says on the Tin Abhorrent Admirer In the Back Sinister Minister Revenge Manic Pixie Dream Girl Wham Line The Chick Despair Event Horizon Sealed Evil in a Can Contrived Coincidence Unspoken Plan Guarantee Conspicuous CG Historical-Domain Character Sequel Escalation Maybe Ever After Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Ominous Latin Chanting Australian Movies Whole Plot Reference Badass Bookworm No Celebrities Were Harmed Developing Doomed Characters Sole Survivor Adaptation Dye-Job Mugging the Monster Hollywood Law Narrator Extremely Short Timespan An Arm and a Leg Not So Above It All Bolivian Army Ending Corrupt Corporate Executive Red Eyes, Take Warning Skewed Priorities Psychological Thriller Spanner in the Works A Father to His Men Fanservice Spiritual Successor Throwing Your Sword Always Works Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Sci-Fi Horror Only One Name Blood Knight The '90s Russian Films Room Full of Crazy Call-Back Fat Bastard The Stoic Superhero You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Sadistic Choice Groin Attack Together in Death No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Camp Gay Daddy's Girl Body Horror Green-Eyed Monster Scenery Gorn Neck Snap Shown Their Work Evil Brit Breaking the Fourth Wall Heterosexual Life-Partners Protagonist Title All There in the Manual Deadpan Snarker Logo Joke Wretched Hive Line-of-Sight Name Left the Background Music On Stepford Smiler Be Careful What You Wish For Berserk Button Cloudcuckoolander Slap-Slap-Kiss Red Shirt Reality Is Unrealistic Age Lift Better to Die than Be Killed Soft Glass Taking the Bullet Not Using the "Z" Word Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Becoming the Mask Kick the Dog Evil Laugh Authority Equals Asskicking Mundane Made Awesome Arch-Enemy Foregone Conclusion Early Installment Weirdness The Hero Eldritch Abomination A Date with Rosie Palms May–December Romance Leave the Camera Running Your Head A-Splode In Medias Res Villain Opening Scene Make It Look Like an Accident Face Death with Dignity Only a Flesh Wound Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer A God Am I Spiteful Spit Toplessness from the Back Humiliation Conga NO INDOOR VOICE Auto Erotica Evil Counterpart Redshirt Army Impaled with Extreme Prejudice The Ace Artistic License – Military Obviously Evil Mythology Gag Slasher Movie The Starscream Facial Horror Adults Are Useless Bad "Bad Acting" He Knows Too Much Catch-Phrase Five-Man Band Actor Allusion Department of Redundancy Department Composite Character Greater-Scope Villain Market-Based Title Jerk with a Heart of Gold Laughing Mad Bloody Hilarious Dramedy Those Two Guys A.I. Is a Crapshoot '80s Hair Deus ex Machina Unreliable Narrator French Films Silent Movie As Long as It Sounds Foreign Gilligan Cut Kick the Son of a Bitch Chekhov's Gun Spell My Name with an "S" Properly Paranoid Dramatic Irony Genre Throwback Gainax Ending Woman in White Car Fu Wham Shot Never Trust a Trailer Corpsing Anachronic Order Slasher Smile Black Best Friend Meet Cute For Want of a Nail Straight Gay Race Lift Everyone Has Standards Badass in a Nice Suit What You Are in the Dark Running Gag Posthumous Character Casting Gag What the Hell, Hero? Paper-Thin Disguise Informed Ability Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Police Brutality B-Movie It's All About Me Historical Villain Upgrade Villain Ball Evil vs. Evil Disney Villain Death Let's Get Dangerous! Eureka Moment Action Genre Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Almost Kiss Stuff Blowing Up Shirtless Scene Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Villain with Good Publicity Smoking Is Cool Did Not Get the Girl Double-Meaning Title Darker and Edgier Dogged Nice Guy Adult Fear Spared by the Adaptation True Companions Cool Old Lady Closed Circle Belligerent Sexual Tension Really Gets Around The Un-Reveal All There in the Script Cluster F-Bomb Romantic False Lead