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Compare KilledMidSentence. It can lead to MoodDissonance.

!!'''As a DeathTrope, all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware.'''

* ''VideoGame/AmongUs'': The popular Proximity Chat mod, which allows voice chat during rounds for players sufficiently close to each other, very often produces friendly conversations between Impostors and Crewmates that abruptly end when the moment arrives for the former to press the kill button.

* ''VideoGame/AmongUs'': The popular Proximity Chat mod, which allows voice chat during rounds for players sufficiently close to each other, almost inevitably leads to Impostors talking with Crewmates right up until the moment arrives to press the kill button.

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* In ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'', during a flashback to the first meeting between Dan and Dark Pegasus, DP [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_923.php kills a girl with a blast of magic in mid-sentence]]. See page quote.

* [[Recap/TheSopranosS1E1Pilot The pilot episode]] of ''Series/TheSopranos'' had one of these. Christopher Soprano shoots Emil Kolar in the back of the head after a while of polite discussion.

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* Seishirou in ''Manga/TokyoBabylon'' and then in ''Manga/{{X1999}}''. Or, second thought, the whole cast of ''X''. They fight while exchanging pleasantries all the time. Seishirou is especially bad, though. See the end of Tokyo Babylon. He'd kill someone while wondering aloud about tomorrow's weather or something. Or how cigarettes can kill you. (he did this)

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* In ''{{Film/Gigli}}'', Al Pacino's Italian-Jewish mob boss (Starkman) lulls his henchman into a state of complacency, then asks him if he'd like to "go to medical school?" Bang.

* In ''Film/LAConfidential'', Dudley Smith shoots Jack Vincennes mid-conversation without so much as a word of warning.

* ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'': the T-1000, disguised as John's foster mother, is talking to him on the phone, when the foster father interrupts her about their [[EvilDetectingDog madly barking dog]] in the backyard. It promptly skewers him through the mouth with its [[PartialTransformation morphing swordlike arm]].
* Francis Walsingham in ''Film/{{Elizabeth}}'' pulls a reversal of this on a young man guarding him after a few philosophical words on [[CrapsackWorld the ugliness of the world]]. Walsingham is philosophizing while looking out the window when the young man pulls a knife on him. He then calmly talks the man out of stabbing him, gets him to look out the window himself, then calmly slits his throat without changing the tone of his voice.
* ''Film/FromParisWithLove''
* In ''Film/PulpFiction'', while Justin Whaley's character is trying to explain away his and his cohorts' actions, [[Creator/SamuelLJackson Jules]] casually walks up to one of the cohorts and shoots him.
--> '''Jules:''' Oh, I'm sorry. Did I break your concentration?

* In ''Film/MulhollandDrive'', a hitman and his alleged friend are having a cheerful talk in an office, when former draws a silenced gun and puts a bullet through his pal's temple.
* In the opening scene of ''ComicBook/SinCity'', when Creator/JoshHartnett's character embraces the LadyInRed and confesses his love to her and then kills her with his silenced gun the very next moment.
* In ''Film/DieHard'', when the terrorists enter the Nakatomi tower, they seem to be casually talking about the Los Angeles Lakers, the discussion is a distraction to let them get close to the receptionist and kill him, along with a BondOneLiner:
-->'''Theo''': Boom, two points!

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* This happens in the end of ''Literature/OfMiceAndMen''. George is calmly talking to Lennie about the farm they've always dreamed of; he asks Lennie to close his eyes while talking, and George pulls out a gun and shoots him in the head. A non-villainous version, as George is doing this so that Lennie will die calm and happy.
* In ''Literature/TheBigSleep'', Philip Marlowe overhears a conversation with Harry Jones, an informant, and [[TheDragon a gangster named Canino.]] Canino makes sure Harry has a good stiff drink-- which is poisoned.

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* In Nimdok's scenario in the videogame adaptation of ''VideoGame/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream'', Nimdok can talk with the anesthetist who wants him to perform mundane operations on a child, but after getting info from the anesthetist, he can exit the conversation without performing the operation, then grab the scalpel near him and kill the anesthetist with it. Given the anesthetist was trying to get Nimdok to perform a surgery that would cripple a child for life, Nimdok would the hero in this scenario.
* In the NES game ''VideoGame/DayDreaminDavey'', many knights in the Medieval stages can talk in YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe and give out info before Davey can kill them.
* Subverted in ''VideoGame/BushidoBlade'': the final boss doesn't actually draw his sword until he's done monologuing, so while it's ''possible'' to kill him at any time, invoking this trope would be indirectly considered a dishonorable act (killing an unarmed opponent), netting you an {{N|onstandardGameOver}}SGO instead of an actual ending for your troubles getting there.