Aborted
Cut off
Cut off verb - To bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end.
Both terms in one sentence
- Leo has been aborted from time and recovered, only to head back in time and cut off both his past self's arms.
Source: Negative Continuity -
In A Meeting By Moonlight, Luna and Twilight do this after Luna's Aborted Declaration of Love is cut off by their discovery that Spike is listening to them.
Source: Change the Uncomfortable Subject - Unlike Cannot Spit It Out or Aborted Declaration of Love, this trope is when a declaration of love is cut off by something outside the character's control.
Source: Interrupted Declaration of Love
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