History Main / OneHitPolykill

* In ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies II'', the Bloomerang's projectiles will damage the three closest zombies, and the Laser Bean's lasers will damage every zombie in the row.

* ''Film/VillaRides'': Charles Bronson executes 3 captured Mexican soldiers with a single bullet by having them standing in a straight line and firing at the first.

** It helps that your soldiers can still hear targets they can't see. The game displays a red outline where the enemy is supposed to be with an "ear" bubble. However, the outline is always standing even if the {{Mook}} isn't.

* In ''{{WebAnimation/DeathBattle}}'s'' 136th episode ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', after Church, [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy rather predictably]], misses all his shots on Donut, he throws his sniper rifle to the ground, allowing [[TeamKiller Caboose]] to pick it up and attempt to help Church despite his very vocal rebuttals, culminating in Caboose firing a round that, through multiple richochets, manages to kill Agent Texas, Donut, Tucker and Church himself, leaving Caboose and Sarge as the only ones left.

* ''Film/TheMightyOne'': In the final battle, the Water Knight throws a spear through ''five'' mooks, killing all and causing the remaining mooks to promptly go ScrewThisImOuttaHerre

* At one point in ''Series/{{TheOffice|US}}, an irritated Michael claims if he had two bullets and was stuck with Hitler, Bin Laden, and Toby, he would shoot Toby twice. The other employees saying he went to far with the joke has him amend it so he shoots Toby and Hitler. After further complaints, Dwight claims that they could use one bullet to kill all three by lining them all up and shooting them though the throat.

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}'', where Rango claims to have killed the Jenkins brothers with one bullet only to find out there were ''seven'' of them. He then has to make up an incredibly contrived tale of how such a thing could possibly happened. [[spoiler:And they believe him.]]

* In one of the [[{{Franchise/Futurama}} Futurama]] movies, [[Recap/FuturamaM2TheBeastWithABillionBacks The Beast with a Billion Backs]], Bender engages in a duel against Calculon, both of them using weapons called [[NoKillLikeOverkill planetary annihilators]]. Bender cheats and shoots his weapon early, completely disintegrating Calculon's left arm, as well as '''''several buildings''''', which presumably had people inside (though only one death was shown on screen).

* In the Indian film ''Bollywood/{{Magadheera}}'', during the 100-on-1 fight scene, at one point the warrior Bhairava skewers two enemy soldiers in a single file with a flung spear.

* ''VideoGame/SniperEliteV2'' grants an achievement ("Double Dose") for killing two opponents with one shot. Given that the game's main selling point is realistic bullet physics, we shouldn't be surprised the devs included this.

** An episode of ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' featured main character Yusei in a 4-way Battle Royale duel. The rules of said duel allowed for any player to attack any other, although nobody could attack until a full round has passed. Yusei used his turn to set up a play. His opponents used their turns to hit him with [[LoopholeAbuse burn damage]], each turn stacking up with the previous turn (given they were all playing for the same side, this was intentional). Yusei then beats each one of them on his very next turn; I repeat, he took 3 players from 4000 life points to zero (12000 total) in the space of a single turn. Marco dubs it "One-Turn Three Kill".

** The same thing happened a couple times in ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV''. Most notably when Shun Kurosaki went up against the LDS Trio. Only that time his opponents actually had wiped clean his field ''and'' hand ''and'' 3990 of his Life Points. ''And he won as soon as he got his second turn using only the card he drew to Summon his ace monster, who's ability brought it up to 16,400 ATK!!!

* Some weapons in ''VideoGame/CaveStory'' can do this, most notably the Spur, which functions as a FrickinLaserBeam or a WaveMotionGun depending on how long you charge it.

* In ''Videogame/{{Warframe}}'', Punch-through mods like "Shred" grant this effect for weapons and are absolutely crucial for Defense and Survival missions, where enemies will spawn in bunched-up fireteams, or when making a fighting retreat in narrow corridors to the extraction point. Some weapons, like the Lanka energy sniper and Miter DeadlyDisc launcher, have innate punch-through ability up to several meters.

** Dolphins in ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2'' also have this trait due to practically using the exact same code as the above Distruptor, just with a ''very'' short firing time to give the illusion of a projectile rather than a focused beam. Much like them and the railguns, force-firing past targets will allow you to deal more damage through multiple ships (and squids), especially against shipyards since the pulses travel through rather than stop in the middle

** Dolphins in ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2'' also have this trait due to practically using the exact same code as the above distruptor, just with a ''very'' short firing time to give the illusion of a projectile rather than a focused beam. Much like them and the railguns, force-firing past targets will allow you to deal more damage through multiple ships (and squids), especially against shipyards since the pulses travel through rather than stop in the middle

** The ''Ballistic Weapons'' mod takes this one step further: the Tactical Infantry Cannon (big-ass scoped railgun), at full charge and using the scope, can shoot through the entire map and still ''overpenetrate a tank'', insta-killing both the tank and whoever was standing behind it. And that's a man-portable weapon we're talking about here. Now imagine [[LudicrousGibs what it does against man-sized targets]] or lighter vehicles...