Kill
Kill verb - To deprive of life.
Wake up
Wake up verb - Stop sleeping.
Both terms in one sentence
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This may not qualify under the trope, since Oy has to die to buy the Gunslinger time to wake up and kill Mordred.
Source: Franchise / The Dark Tower - In the feature film adaptation of Shane Acker's 9, 7 asks 9 this after 9 put the talisman into the machine, causing it to wake up and kill 2.
Source: What Were You Thinking? - It turns out that Mal was insane and convinced that after having spent fifty years in a dreamworld, she was still dreaming and needed to wake up - and the only way to "wake up" is to kill yourself.
Source: Miscarriage of Justice
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