Break
Dies
Both words in one sentence
- The lovers finally break up, the heroes get captured, a beloved character dies, The Bad Guy Wins... and after the smoke clears, one of the characters suddenly remembers that today is their birthday.
Source: A Birthday, Not a Break -
Also, perhaps even more famously, if you take a week-long break during the battle with The End, a photosynthetic sniper who is over 100 years old, he dies of old age.
Source: Anti-Poop Socking - He dies when He-Man is forced to break the Eye of Thundera when it shoots a beam at him.
Source: Famous Last Words / Death Battle
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