Killed
Shut off
Shut off verb - To bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end.
Both terms in one sentence
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I Did What I Had to Do: Future Julian, as Theseus, insists that it is better that the "chipped" prisoners in the factories are shut off and killed before the factories are destroyed.
Source: Series / Continuum -
In BioShock, Atlas/Frank Fontaine bursts into an Evil Laugh once you have killed Andrew Ryan and shut off the self-destruct.
Source: Evil Laugh / Video Games -
Bittersweet Ending: On one hand, the droids have been shut off permanently, Amerika and Yolandi are killed, crime is still pretty rampant in Joburg and Chappie is seen as a monster by the public.
Source: Film / Chappie
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