Tropescilloscope: Killed Mid-Sentence

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

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