'''Basic Trope''': A character is in the middle of saying something, and Death comes a moment too early.
* '''Straight''': Frank is bogged down in the middle of a [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI trench fight]]. He says, “I think we need to get over there and--” but then something kills him.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** ''Every single RedShirt dies this way.''
** ''TheHeroDies this way.''
* '''Downplayed''':
** Frank is killed in the middle of the last word of his sentence.
** Frank is interrupted by a nonlethal event, but doesn’t get the chance to continue before he is killed.
* '''Justified''': [[TruthInTelevision 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''.
** Two dead people are talking in the afterlife, but one of them gets resurrected and returns to the world of the living before they can finish their sentence.
* '''Subverted''':
** Frank is shot in the middle of his sentence, but he 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''':
** He was going to say “That … really hurt my back!”
** He then [[KilledOffForReal dies in the hospital during surgery]].
** Alternatively, Frank is shot and falls over to the floor. A simple check reveals that he’s not breathing, and his heart is not beating. He then gets up to finish his sentence, and then says “Oh, wait, I’m dead. Forg--” before dying for real this time.
* '''Parodied''':
** Frank’s [[OverlyLongGag overused catchphrase]] is cut off.
** Alternately, in a foreign-language film, both Frank ''and'' his subtitler are [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou 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.
** Frank’s killer is known by his tendency to interrupt everything mid-sentence, including his records.
** In a world where DeathIsCheap, being killed mid-sentence is treated like a mundane interruption such as having to answer the doorbell.
** Frank is sent to the afterlife mid-sentence, but not killed.
* '''Zig-Zagged''': Frank lapses in and out of consciousness as he’s speaking.
* '''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 AnyoneCanDie.
* '''Implied''': Frank is heard over the radio, and the communication goes dead abruptly.
* '''Lampshaded''': “Jesus Christ, that guy didn’t even finish his sentence!”
* '''Invoked''': Frank’s killer deliberately waits until he is saying something important to kill him, just to screw around with the witnesses.
* '''Exploited''': Frank’s partner tricks his killer into thinking he killed the one man who was about to give away a secret exit from the base, meaning he’s doomed to be captured or killed himself.
* '''Defied''': Bob disarms Frank’s killer, allowing Frank to finish his sentence.
* '''Discussed''':
-->'''Bob''': And then Frank said something I’ll never forget: “I wanted you to know…”
-->'''Adam''': Know what?
-->'''Bob''': That was it. He never finished his sentence. Took a bullet to the head.
* '''Conversed''': “Damn! That guy just got slaughtered mid-sentence!”
* '''Deconstructed''': Because of the possibility of getting killed before they finish their sentences, the protagonists are forced to engage in nonverbal communication and more physical actions. They have lived in fear since then, as even audible arguments or breaking into a song risks them of getting shot by an assassin or sniper who could hear them.
* '''Reconstructed''': The constant silence proves to be a drawback for the enemies, as they can glean no information from anyone without getting next to the people they’re trying to spy on.
* '''Played for Laughs''': Frank is killed while speaking because of his own fire breath induced by BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce consumed seconds before.
* '''Played for Drama''':
** Frank is the guy who dies first, and is speaking in circumstances where death is inevitable.
** Frank is killed in the middle of communicating vital information to his friends, and they’re so frightened by seeing him die in front of them and preoccupied with trying to figure out what he didn’t get to say that they can’t focus on the threat that is now coming for them.
* '''Played for Horror''': Frank is killed while speaking despite his immediate surroundings apparently being free from anything that could pose an existential threat, which scares the bejabbers out of everyone with him.
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