History Main / CollapsedMidSpeech

* In Creator/NgaioMarsh's ''The Nursing Home Murder'', an ailing and unpopular Prime Minister collapses while speaking in the House of Commons. He's sent to a private hospital for an emergency appendectomy, but doesn't survive the procedure.

* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': After the ordeal in Sturmhalten Agatha [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070216 passes out mid rant when the stimulants that have been keeping her awake for the past few days wear off.]]

-->Gladiator knelt down to support Carol in one arm, Ronan’s weapon in his other hand. "Can you speak, Ca-Rol? Are you conscious?"

* An entire mob of grown-ups pass out during a speech in the ''Film/SpyKids'' movie.

KilledMidSentence is when the speaker dies, instead of just being knocked out.

Compare to KilledMidSentence, AlmostDeadGuy and HisNameIs.

RuleOfDrama - collapsing in public is a pretty spectacular way to go.

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* An entire mob of grown-ups pass out during a speech in the ''Film/SpyKids'' movie.
* Deliberately invoked at the end of ''Film/{{Dave}}''. Main character Dave is an IdenticalStranger to the President and was hired to be the President's BodyDouble while the President goes out of town to carry on an affair. The President suffers a stroke while away and the phenomenally corrupt administration is terrified of the honest Vice President, who will probably throw them all in jail given the chance, so they have Dave continue pretending to be President, with the intent of making him a PuppetKing. Dave refuses to continue going along with them, however, and near the end gives a big speech to Congress and the Senate, where he confesses to all the President's crimes and blows the lid off the corrupt conspirators by implicating them too. After hitting the important confession Dave suddenly starts stuttering, then stumbles and collapses, as if he's had a stroke. Afterwards the real President (who has been on life support the entire time) is switched back in, while Dave walks away.
* Alex in ''Film/{{A Clockwork Orange}}'' falls face-first into his pasta after being slipped a mickey by the writer whose wife he and the Droogs gang-raped in the beginning of the film.

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* ''Series/TheMentalist'': A chef collapses in the middle of his speech.
* ''Series/BabylonFive'' discusses and subverts this. Londo and Vir plan to assassinate the mad emperor. Londo worries that the Emperor will give a deathbed speech. The "almost" instantaneous poison is supposed to stop this. Vir jokes that maybe the Emperor will have just enough time to shout "Kill Londo!", a thought which does not amuse Londo. [[spoiler:Vir ends up being the one who stabs the Emperor with the poison needle. The Emperor's last words are simply "I was to be a god." Vir, being a relative innocent in a very dirty world, soon turns to DrowningMySorrows to deal with it.]]
* ''Series/GilmoreGirls'': Rory's grandfather has a heart attack and goes down in the middle of a lecture, but he makes it.
* Played with in ''Series/{{Buffy The Vampire Slayer}}'': The Mayor starts his Ascension in the middle of his speech to the graduating students, which causes him strong pains. However, he knew that it would happen and his collapse last few moments before he turns into a demonic snake. He only complains that he doesn't have time left to talk about civic pride.

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* In ''Theatre/InheritTheWind'', Matthew Harrison Brady is giving his closing speech, which his old and weary voice tries and fails to make sound passionate. After the microphone is taken away from him, he desperately tries to continue, but suddenly falls silent and collapses. As he is carried out of the courtroom in a semi-conscious state, he strangely starts speaking on being inaugurated as President. He dies offstage soon after.

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* Mardi Gras Indian "chief of chiefs" and New Orleans cultural icon Allison "Tootie" Montana had a fatal heart attack in the middle of a speech he was giving to the New Orleans City Council to protest police brutality.

* Deliberately invoked in ''Film/{{Dave}}'' where Dave (impersonating the president who has been incapacitated by a stroke) gives a big speech to congress and the senate, then stutters, stumbles and collapses just after the important confession part, supposedly with a stroke so they can switch the real president back in.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Visionaries}} episode "Horn of Unicorn, Claw of Dragon", this happens to Cryotek, Feryl and Galadria as they are struck down by the [[MysticalPlague Magical Plague]] which is sweeping Prysmos.

* In the {{Hetalia Bloodbath 2011}}, it happens to two characters. First, Seychelles experiences this as she's a nation-tan with a tropical climate and yet she's trouncing around in ''snow'' to join the others. Later, we find out that [[spoiler: a pre-teen!Holy Roman Empire experienced this ''and'' BloodFromTheMouth when he had a seizure during a Germanic states reunion, and his caretaker Hungary has to carry him in her arms.]]

* An entire mob of grown-ups pass out during a speech in the ''SpyKids'' movie.
* Deliberately invoked in ''{{Dave}}'' where Dave (impersonating the president who has been incapacitated by a stroke) gives a big speech to congress and the senate, then stutters, stumbles and collapses just after the important confession part, supposedly with a stroke so they can switch the real president back in.

* This happens to Jefferson Smith at the climax of ''MrSmithGoesToWashington'', although in that case it's not so much that he doesn't get through his speech as that [[HoldingTheFloor he keeps speaking until he collapses]].

* ''Series/BabylonFive'' discusses and subverts this. Londo and Vir plan to assassinate the mad emperor. Londo worries that the Emperor will give a deathbed speech. The "almost" instantaneous poison is supposed to stop this. Vir jokes that maybe the Emperor will shout "Kill Londo!", Londo is not amused. [[spoiler:Vir ends up stabbing the Emperor with the poison needle. His last words are simply "I was to be a god."]]

* ''TheMentalist'': A chef collapses in the middle of his speech.

* ''GilmoreGirls'': Rory's grandfather has a heart attack and goes down in the middle of a lecture, but he makes it.

* In ''InheritTheWind'', Matthew Harrison Brady is giving his closing speech, which his old and weary voice tries and fails to make sound passionate. After the microphone is taken away from him, he desperately tries to continue, but suddenly falls silent and collapses. As he is carried out of the courtroom in a semi-conscious state, he strangely starts speaking on being inaugurated as President. He dies offstage soon after.

* On the very first page of ''KeychainOfCreation'', Secret collapses out of breath in the process of saying her OverlyLongName.

Compare to KilledMidSentence, AlmostDeadGuy.

* Vizzini from ''PrincessBride'' collapses after a short speech, in the middle of his EvilLaugh.

* Mardi Gras Indian "chief of chiefs" and New Orleans cultural icon Allison "Tootie" Montana had a fatal heart attack in the middle of a speech he was giving to the New Orleans City Council to protest to police brutality.

* In ''InheritTheWind'', Matthew Harrison Brady is giving his closing speech, which his old and weary voice tries and fails to make sound passionate. After the microphone is taken away from him, he desperately tries to continue, but suddenly falls silent and collapses. As he is carried out of the courtroom in a semi-conscious state, he strangely starts speaking on being inaugurated as President. He dies offstage soon after.
** It's not all that strange -- Brady is [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed based on William Jennings Bryan]], who made three unsuccessful runs for the Presidency.

* On the very first page of ''KeychainOfCreation'', Secret collapses out of breath in the process of saying her OverlyLongName.

* In NgaioMarsh's ''The Nursing Home Murder'', an ailing and unpopular Prime Minister collapses while speaking in the House of Commons. He's sent to a private hospital for an emergency appendectomy, but doesn't survive the procedure.

* In the SailorMoon R TV series, Rei is attacked in the middle of her school concert. She transforms into Sailor Mars when everyone but the Senshi are knocked out, but since she had a good part of her LifeEnergy stolen by the MonsterOfTheWeek, she almost passes out in the middle of her InTheNameOfTheMoon speech.