Killed Mid-Sentence/Playing With

Basic trope: A character was in the middle of saying, but Death won’t let him finish his thought.

• Straight: Bogged down in the middle of a trench fight, Frank’s last words are “I think we need to get over there and-”
• Exaggerated: Every single Red Shirt dies this way.
• Downplayed: Frank says “I wanted you to know that…” right before he dies of lung cancer.
• Justified: It’s not like everyone gets to go out with a set of Famous Last Words.
• Inverted: Frank was killed while somebody else was in the middle of talking to him.
  • Pre-Mortem One-Liner
  • Bond One-Liner
• Parodied: Frank’s overused catchphrase is cut off.
  • Alternately, in a foreign film, both Frank and his subtitler are killed at the same time, and the rest of the film is not subtitled because of the subtitler's apparent death.
  • Frank is shot in the middle of his sentence, but he was holding a sign that says the end of the sentence.
• Subverted: Frank is shot in the middle of his sentence, but he actually manages to say “Ow! That…really hurt!” before dying.
  • Alternately, Frank is cut off by being shot, but it turns out he’s only unconscious…
• Double Subverted: …until he dies in the hospital during surgery.
• Averted: Frank is not killed in the middle of his sentence, dying either before he can speak, or after he spoke.
  • Frank neither dies nor is in danger of dying.
• Enforced: To prove that Anyone Can Die.
• Invoked: Frank’s assassin deliberately waits until he is saying something important to kill him, just to screw around with the witnesses.
• Defied: Frank stays alive long enough to finish his sentence.
• Lampshaded: “Jesus Christ, that guy didn’t even finish his sentence!”
• Discussed: “And then Frank said something I’ll never forget: ‘I wanted you to know…’” “Know what?” “That was it. He never finished his sentence. Took a bullet to the head.”
• Conversed: “Damn! That guy just got slaughtered mid-sentence!”