History Quotes / ThereisNoKillLikeOverkill

--> WebOriginal/NerdCubed Voyager Elite Force Part 16, after using a photon torpedo launcher on what is basically a cockroach.

->Because nothing says mock battle like DUAL [[WaveMotionGun STARLIGHT BREAKER]]!
-->--[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cywgWa3WBrE Youtube Comment]] on ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid''

-->[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cywgWa3WBrE Youtube Comment]] on ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid''

-->'''[[Blog/WhatIf Randall Munroe]]'''

->If you were standing in the path of the beam [focusing all of the Sun's energy output into a cross-section of about 1 meter], you would obviously die pretty quickly. You wouldn't really die ''of'' anything, in the traditional sense. You would just stop being biology and start being physics.

->There's [[DefeatMeansFriendship Befriending]] levels of firepower, and then there's "You made me fight my own daughter, you [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch BITCH!]]" levels of firepower.\\

->'''Doctor Girlfriend:''' You should have replaced his [[BloodyMurder blood with acid]]'' after ''this part. The [[SharkTank sharks]] won't touch him.

->There is no overkill, ever. You may need to reload on ammunition, [[UnfriendlyFire friends]], [[DestructiveSavior infrastructure]], [[SoWhatDoWeDoNow enemies]], [[HeroWithBadPublicity political goodwill]], [[EscortMission or the VIP you were supposed to protect]], but a kill is not an overkill.

->''"I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."''
-->-- '''Ripley''', ''Film/{{Aliens}}''

->'''Black Mage''': First I will murder him and then I will ''kill'' him.\\
'''Black Mage''': Then? Then I will go to work on him.
-->--''Webcomic/EightBitTheater''

->''"Overkill is underrated."''

->''"If it's worth doing, it's worth over-doing!"''
-->-- '''Adam Savage''', ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}''

'''GM:''' With a f***ing ''siege weapon''?\\

'''GM:''' Ok, there's gotta be a rule against this. ''(Checking rulebook)''. Well... there's nothing against it in the rules. ''(Sighs)'' I can't believe I'm doing this. ''(Rolls a critical hit)''. Well, that's 264 points of damage. [[LudicrousGibs You splatter Hunk all over the common room. The patrons shriek in horror and run out of the inn, occasionally slipping on blood and entrails. You're now alone in a room that looks like a vat of beef stroganoff exploded in it.]]

->'''Kiva:''' ''(watching as Coop plants one bad guy with countless targets)'' Coop, overkill?
->'''Jamie:''' Yeah, do more!!!
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR''

->''"[B]ut if you have to fight, you need to convince your opponents that [[DisproportionateRetribution you're about to bring a level of violence totally out of proportion to the situation.]]"''

->''"If you're gonna do it, overdo it."''
-->-- '''Music/AniDiFranco''', ''Puddle Dive''

->''"Never do an enemy a ''small'' injury."''
-->-- '''Takashi Shimazu''', ''FanFic/DevaSeries'', quoting Creator/NiccoloMachiavelli

->'''#6''' If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.
->'''#34:''' If you're leaving scorch marks, you need a bigger gun.
->'''#37:''' There is no "overkill." There is only [[MoreDakka "open fire" and "I need to reload]]."
-->-- ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', "The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries"

->''"Subtlety is a thing for philosophy, not combat. If you're going to kill someone, you might as well kill them a whole lot."''
-->-- '''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid Vulcan Raven]]''', ''TheLastDaysOfFoxhound''

->''"There is no overkill, ever. You may need to reload on ammunition, friends, infrastructure, enemies, political goodwill, the VIP you were supposed to protect, but a kill is not an overkill."''
-->-- '''Unknown'''

->What is victory? Is it to defeat your enemy on the field of battle? Is it to simply repulse his armies and slay his misguided warriors? No, this is only the beginning!

->True victory is to crush your foe utterly, to shatter his armoured legions and run down his fleeing troops as they scatter. Pursue them to their lairs and burn them out. Burst into his unholy temples, smash down his icons and topple his foul idols. Burn his heretical works and leave no stone upon stone. Slaughter his followers, their families and their livestock lest any of their taint remain. And when that is done, put the ruins to the torch.

->Any that have dealt with them or given them succour must be obliterated, for memory is insidious and though you have crushed their will and their bodies they may yet return. Send warrior scribes to [[{{Unperson}} excise the records of their name, expunge their deeds from the annals of history and remove even the memory of your foe's existence]]. Only then have you truly won.

->''That'' is the meaning of victory.

->I have at my command an entire battle group of the Imperial Guard. Fifty regiments, including specialized drop troops, stealthers, mechanized formations, armored companies, combat engineers and mobile artillery. Over half a million fighting men and thirty thousand tanks and artillery pieces are mine to command. Emperor show mercy to the fool that stands against me, for I shall not.
-> ''– at the outset of the Salonika Crusade, 733.M38''
-->-- ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''

->''"I'm gonna stomp 'em to dust. I'm gonna grind their bones. I'm gonna burn down dere towns and cities. I'm gonna pile 'em up inna big fire and roast 'em. I'm gonna bash 'eads, break faces, and stomp on da bits dat are left. An' den I'm gonna get ''really'' mean."''
-->-- '''Grimgor Ironhide,''' Black Orc Warboss, ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}''

->''"AK-47. The very best there is. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherfucker in the ''room'', accept no substitutes."''
-->-- '''Creator/SamuelLJackson''' in ''Film/JackieBrown''

->Eighth Fleet had deployed almost eight thousand pods. Those pods launched 69,984 missiles. Of that total, 7,776 were Apollo birds. Another 8,000 were electronic warfare platforms. Which meant that 54,208 carried laser heads - laser heads which homed on Genevieve Chin's ships with murderously accurate targeting.

->Fifth Fleet's missile defenses did their best.

->Their best was not good enough.

->Fifth Fleet stopped almost thirty percent of them, which was a truly miraculous total, under the circumstances. But over thirty-seven thousand got through.

->It was, she decided coldly, a case of overkill.
-->-- ''[[Literature/HonorHarrington At All Costs]]''

->'''Sgt. Zim:''' If you wanted to teach a baby a lesson, would you cut its head off?
->'''Ted Hendrick:''' Why... no sir!
->'''Sgt. Zim:''' Of course not. You'd paddle it. There can be circumstances when it's just as foolish to [[NukeEm hit an enemy city with an H-bomb]] as it would be to spank a baby with an ax.
-->-- '''Creator/RobertAHeinlein''' expressing his disapproval of this trope in ''Literature/StarshipTroopers''

->''"A little collateral damage, but what the heck?"''
-->-- '''Drew Lansing/Kamen Rider Torque''', ''Series/KamenRiderDragonKnight''

->'''Dalton:''' Uh, yes, but... The Order of Taraka, I mean... isn't that overkill?
->'''Spike:''' No, I think it's just enough kill.
-->-- ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''

->'''Dr. Wilson:''' George, if you were making a dinner and wanted to kill a fly, what would you use?
->'''George Green:''' Probably a flyswatter or some spray.
->'''Dr. Wilson:''' And what would be "overkill?"
->'''George Green:''' Probably a mallet.
->'''Dr. Wilson:''' And what would be "extreme overkill?"
->'''George Green:''' Probably a sledge hammer.
->'''Dr. Wilson:''' What Dr. Sign did goes way beyond "extreme overkill." It was the equivalent of using nuclear weapons to get rid of flies.
-->-- ''The Gatekeeper: The Gate Contracts''

->''"Infantry weapons never work well against starfighters. The reverse is not true."''
-->-- '''Wedge Antilles''', ''[[XWingSeries Isard's Revenge]]''

->''"Fuck this, I'm getting the bazooka!"''
-->-- '''D'amico Family Bodyguard''', ''Film/KickAss''

->''"You don't know what a delightful dilemma it was: trying to decide on the most appropriate method for your demise. I had so many ingenious ideas, I didn't know which to choose. So I decided to use them all!"''
-->-- '''Prof. Ratigan''', ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective''

->'''Doctor Girlfriend:''' You should have replaced his [[BloodyMurder blood with acid]]'' after ''this part. The [[ThreateningShark sharks]] won't touch him.
->'''The Monarch:''' Thanks, Doctor Girlfriend; ''now'' you tell me. '''[[ElectrifiedBathtub Lower the giant hairdryer]]!'''
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', "The Trail of the Monarch"

->''"I am going to kill you and kill you and [[RuleOfThree kill you.]]"''

->''"First I'm gonna **** him, then I'm gonna kill him, then I'm gonna [[BondOneLiner make a joke]], then I'm gonna **** him again."''
-->-- '''The Captain''', ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}''

->'''LetsPlay/{{slowbeef}}:''' That was needless, but whatever...
->'''Diabetus:''' This is a farce at this point.
->'''slowbeef:''' Basically, yeah.
-->-- [[http://bd.baldurk.org/2162#title Slowbeef's]] LetsPlay of DeadToRights: Retribution

->'''Ammand:''' Shoot him!
->'''Jocard:''' Cut out his tongue!
->'''Jack:''' Shoot him ''and'' cut out his tongue, then shoot his tongue. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And trim that scraggly beard.]]
-->-- ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd''

->''"When you need it and don't have it, you'll be singing a different tune."''
--> '''Burt Gummer''', ''Film/Tremors2Aftershocks''

->'''Leyte:''' It disappeared.
->'''Lordgenome:''' Be careful. The enemy is using a random Schrödinger warp to approach.
->'''Dayakka:''' I'm begging you, say that in layman's terms!
->'''Lordgenome:''' The Multiple Dimension probability fluctuation is controlled by them. While shifting through Space-Time, they will approach and attack.
->'''Dayakka:''' Like I said, I don't understand!
->'''Attenborough:''' It doesn't matter! Let's beat the crap out of them!
->'''Lordgenome:''' Understood. Prepare for simultaneous decimation of all the weak points in responsive Space-Time. We will trace down the enemies.
->'''Dayakka:''' The Time-Range is expanding?
->'''Lordgenome:''' Calculating Space-Time for possibility of enemy existence.
->''(Cut a half a minute forward)''
->'''Random crew member:''' The gauge is empty... Something about Time Levels...
->'''Leeron:''' Don't worry about it, just go ahead and lock onto them. It just means we can [[ATeamFiring shoot randomly]] and it'll still hit them!
--> ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', the Dai-Gurren Brigade shortly before making one of the biggest overkills ever.

->''"When you've helped blow up planets and kill gods, overkill ceases to exist."''

->''"[[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Tomoe-san]], [[LampshadeHanging that's overkill]]. Three quarters of your shots missed. [[AwesomeButImpractical It's effective, but a waste of ammunition]]."''
-->-- '''[[Manga/DeathNote L]]''', ''FanFic/AsTimeDivergesTheMitakiharaCase''

->''"There's [[DefeatMeansFriendship Befriending]] levels of firepower, and then there's 'You made me fight my own daughter, you [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch BITCH!]]' levels of firepower.\\
And brother, did [[SmugSnake Quattro]] -ever- fit into that second category."''
-->-- [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDbtwnH6oBU&feature=related A comment under ''Nanoha StrikerS - Episode 25 Ownage [DVD Version]'']] on Website/YouTube

->''"If they can still stand, then you gotta keep pulling the trigger till they lie down."''
-->-- '''John "Sleepy" Estes''', aka ''Manga/MadBull34''

->'''Kit:''' ''Any minute now I expect Peri Peri to walk through the door and tell us about how he miraculously survived the battle.''
->'''Ashes:''' ''He was crushed, drowned and frozen. I'm pretty sure he's dead.''
-->-- Kit's Emerald Nuzlocke.

->'''1.''' Bring a gun. Preferably, bring at least two guns. Bring all of your friends who have guns.
->'''2.''' Anything worth shooting [[DoubleTap is worth shooting twice.]] Ammunition is cheap; life is expensive.
->'''7.''' In ten years nobody will remember the details of caliber, stance, or tactics. They will only remember who lived.
->'''10.''' Someday someone may kill you with your own gun, but they should have to beat you to death with it because it is empty.
->'''24.''' Do not attend a gunfight with a handgun, [[HandCannon the caliber of which starts with anything smaller than "4".]]
-->-- Drill Sergeant Joe B. Frick's Rules For A Gunfight

->''"I'm going to kill you '''so''' much."''
-->-- '''[[PlayerCharacter The Lone Wanderer]]''', ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}''

->'''Cain''': "Says here that Penlan accidentally shot a Traitor Marine," I said, waving the dataslate in his general direction. "Lustig shot it in the face with a bolter. Six times, according to this."
->'''Jurgen''': "Only six?"
->'''Cain''': "He would have gone on, but apparently he ran out of face."
-->-- '''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5427778/1/ Emperor's Ward]]''', a ''Literature/CiaphasCain'' fanfic.

->''Another (nuke) targets the city itself: high-energy x-rays are absorbed by nearby atoms, then emitted with less energy to be absorbed again and so on and so on, creating an expanding sphere of nearly-uniform high-temperature air, which is ultimately responsible for the blast wave that contains the majority of the damage. While close to the bomb, the temperature is magnitudes above that of the surface of the sun; there's not much thermal energy far from the blast point, but because the blast destroys things, buildings and the like are reduced to kindling that can be easily ignited, leading to gigantic firestorms. Various forms of radiation are released: the aforementioned gamma rays, and also high-energy neutrons, with other kinds released but inconsequential until the fallout takes place. Any three can kill in small amounts. These are all being done in overkill so excessive, it'd be funny if it wasn't so sad: this is like killing a daddy long-legs with a stick of dynamite.''

->''Because [[SummonMagic sending]] a [[{{Kaiju}} giant]] [[LostTechnology ancient]] [[HolyHandGrenade holy war machine]] (Alexander), a group of religious soldiers ([[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Crusader]]), [[InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons a dragon]] [[ScifiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale the size of moon]] ([[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Bahamut ZERO]]), a giant warship ([[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX Ark]]) or a chained [[BuffySpeak soul... thing...]] ([[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX Anima]]) after them [[SerialEscalation just isn't enough]]. Neither is [[SlapOnTheWristNuke blowing up the solar system]] ([[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII SuperNova]]). No, you need a [[RealityWarper reality-bending]] CosmicEntity [[RuleOfCool that uses a planet as a gun]].''
-->-- ''' A random YouTube commentator''', about [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Eden]]

->"After that, I went around the warehouse and methodically put another half-dozen rounds into the head of each and every fallen <Fomor>. And I used a can of paint thinner I found in a corner to set their master on fire, just to be sure. There’s no such thing as overkill."
-->-- '''Karrin Murphy''', ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' "Aftermath"

->[On seeing a bunch of enemy zombies getting vaporized by anti-ship cannons on the ''Touch and Go'']\\
'''Civilian:''' This "overwatch" of yours obviously got its "over" from "overkill".\\
'''Ennesby:''' "Overkill" wasn't using it, since there's no such thing.
-->-- ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-07-04 July 4th, 2012]]

->''That's why I love hanging out with you guys. Why shoot something once, when you can shoot it 46 more times?''
-->-- '''Urdnot Wrex''', ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'': ''[[DownloadableContent Citadel]]''

->([[ItMakesSenseInContext After skeet-shotting a skateboarding assassin and his blow-up doll]] [[StuffBlowingUp into fiery, bite-sized pieces]] [[CrazyPrepared with a quadruple-barreled rocket launcher packed inside a briefcase]])\\
'''Jade:''' ...The ''[[BazookaFrenzy bazooka]]'', Rowdy?\\
'''Rowdy:''' [[ATeamFiring It's the only gun I can hit a moving target with]].
-->-- ''Film/HardTicketToHawaii'', at the end of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAaPeMMJLgs this scene]]

-> ''We attacked Japanese company positions with brigades fully supported by artillery and aircraft, platoon posts by battalions. Once when I was studying the plan for an operation of this kind submitted by the local commander, a visiting staff officer of high rank said, 'Isn't that using a steam hammer to crack a walnut?"''
-> ''"Well", I answered, "if you happen to have a steam hammer handy and you don't mind if there´s nothing left of the walnut, it's not a bad way to crack it."''
-->-- Field Marshal '''William Slim'''

->*Raoul Silva blows up a part of subway tunnel*\\
'''James Bond:''' I do hope that wasn't for me.\\
'''Silva:''' No, but that is!\\
* Subway train comes crashing down where Bond is standing*
-->-- ''Film/{{Skyfall}}''

->'' "'''GO All OUT!?''' He ripped off my arms, then calmly proceeded to thrust my own spear into me while I was on the ground incapacitated. Is that what it means for Mega Man to "'''''Go all out?"'''''''
-->-- '''Yamato Man''', ''Manga/MegaManMegamix''

-->-- '''The Captain''', ''{{Nextwave}}''

-->-- 'The Gamers''

-->-- '''AniDifranco,''' ''Puddle Dive''

-->-- '''SFDebris''', detailing the nuclear attack in ''TheDayAfter''

-->-- '''Karrin Murphy''', ''DresdenFiles'' "Aftermath"

-->-- ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean''

--> '''Burt Gummer''', ''Film/{{Tremors}}''

->This is why I love hanging out with you guys. Why shoot something once, when you can shoot it 46 more times?

-->-- '''Prof. Ratigan''', ''TheGreatMouseDetective''

-->-- '''D'amico Family Bodyguard''', ''Film/{{Kick-Ass}}''

-->-- '''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5427778/1/ Emperor's Ward]]''', a ''CiaphasCain'' fanfic.

--> ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-07-04 July 4th, 2012]]

Jade: "...The ''[[BazookaFrenzy bazooka]]'', Rowdy?"\\
Rowdy: "[[ATeamFiring It's the only gun I can hit a moving target with]]."
--> ''Film/HardTicketToHawaii'', at the end of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAaPeMMJLgs this scene]]

-->-- '''SamuelLJackson''' in ''Film/JackieBrown''

-> "I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
--> '''Ripley''', {{Aliens}}

-->--''Film/{{Skyfall}}''

-->-- Yamato Man, Manga/MegaManMegamix

'''James Bond:''' Was that for me?\\