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Collapsed Mid-Speech
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For whatever reason, victims of poison always seem to have some big speech to give while the poison kicks in. The poor sucker will stumble around, lose his train of thought, start sweating heavily, sway a little—maybe take a few slugs from the (poisoned!) water bottle. The crowd, without fail, will suddenly become blurry and indistinct. A common variant has the victim simply having a heart attack, fainting, or falling ill without poison. Killed Mid-Sentence would also apply if the speaker dies, instead of just being knocked out. Also note Almost Dead Guy and His Name Is.... Rule of Drama - collapsing in public is a pretty spectacular way to go. Examples |
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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 a pre-teen!Holy Roman Empire experienced this and Blood from the Mouth when he had a seizure during a Germanic states reunion, and his caretaker Hungary has to carry him in her arms. | |
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Wonder Woman (2006): Maxi Man gets knocked out by a piece of debris just as he starts ranting at the two agents set to protect him, both of whom had just decided their job was a degrading waste of time. | |
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Gilmore Girls: Rory's grandfather has a heart attack and goes down in the middle of a lecture, but he makes it. | |
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An entire mob of grown-ups pass out during a speech after they toast in Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams. | |
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Judge Dee: "The Haunted Monastery" has an abbot who delivered a profound sermon before his assembled acolytes and then willingly ascended to Heaven before their very eyes. The judge works out that the abbot was actually poisoned with a hallucinogenic substance and the sermon was actually him rambling in mystical terms before falling asleep for good. | |
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Snow White with the Red Hair: While Zen is ordering Obi and Mitsuhide to get their wounds seen to after the battle at Sereg he passes out from his own injuries and the knock-out drug/poison he'd been exposed to during the fight. Obi manages to catch him from where he was crouched to prevent Zen's head from hitting the stone. | |
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Vizzini from The Princess Bride collapses after a short speech, in the middle of his Evil Laugh. | |
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In Power Girl fanfic A Force of Four, Kara faints while speaking right after the final battle. | |
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On the very first page of Keychain of Creation, Secret collapses out of breath in the process of saying her Overly Long Name. | |
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This happens to Jefferson Smith at the climax of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, although in that case it's not so much that he doesn't get through his speech as that he keeps speaking until he collapses. | |
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Girl Genius: After the ordeal in Sturmhalten Agatha passes out mid rant when the stimulants that have been keeping her awake for the past few days wear off. Tarvek gets up to yell at Gil while he is very ill due to his family's latest attempt on his life and end up falling unconscious and flat on his face mid sentence. |
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In the Visionaries episode "Horn of Unicorn, Claw of Dragon", Cryotek, Feryl and Galadria pass out in mid-sentence as they are struck down by the Magical Plague which is sweeping Prysmos. | |
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The Bible: King Herod (the one who beheaded James the apostle) is said to have been struck down by God during a public appearance. | |
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Alex in 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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Deliberately invoked at the end of Dave. Main character Dave is an Identical Stranger to the President and was hired to be the President's Body Double 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 Puppet King. 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. | |
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In Inherit the Wind, 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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In the Sailor Moon 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 Life Energy stolen by the Monster of the Week, she almost passes out in the middle of her In the Name of the Moon speech. | |
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At the end of season 2 of Only Murders in the Building, the eventual victim for season 3 is performing a play, but stumbles and then falls down dead while attempting to deliver his opening lines. | |
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Played with in 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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The Mentalist: A chef collapses in the middle of his speech. | |
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Babylon 5 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. 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 Drowning My Sorrows to deal with it. | |
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A victim in the Alex Rider series goes out this way. | |
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A variation in Starship Troopers has Rico protesting against his commander's decision to activate a post-hypnotic suggestion for him to sleepnote They are on a Bug-occupied planet, Rico feels he should be awake and alert to lead his men, his commander feels he should take the chance to rest while it's quiet and be rested and alert for trouble later. The twist being that Rico doesn't immediately realize anything has happened, except for his commander's confused reaction to Rico picking up on their discussion mid-sentence, several hours later. | |
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