History ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill / AnimeAndManga

** Wing Gundam's Buster Rifle. So powerful that it can blow up a colony or planetoid in one shot, and mobile suits often explode just from being ''near'' the beam. Heero usually uses it against small numbers of mobile suits. In TheMovie, Tallgeese III has a similar weapon.

** In Episode 31, the AGE-3 Fortress' most powerful attack involves combining the energy of all 4 of its {{BFG}}s into one huge blast, leveling a large part of the desert in its wake.

** [[BeyondTheImpossible Never! You can never have enough dakka. Not even when you have turned a weaponized Big Bang against the enemy.]]

** Then Goku goes on to [[BeyondTheImpossible violate the laws of physics]] when his Spirit Bomb kills Kid Buu dead with no chance of regeneration by destroying every atom he is made of. It's a trend too; Gohan took care of Cell in much the same way, except with a Kamehameha.

** Konan, the Patron Saint of this trope, has brought this trope UpTo11 and BeyondTheImpossible Levels at the same time. [[spoiler: For a battle she prepared six hundred ''billion'' explosive tags. Enough to fill a ''lake'' and explode continuously for ''ten minutes straight'']]. And this was all to target ''a single man''.

** And this isn't even mentioning the two ancient super-weapons we haven't seen yet, either of which apparently make the aforementioned island-destroying bombardments look like [[BeyondTheImpossible pea shooters]] by comparison.

* ''Anime/RoninWarriors'':

** Half-way through the first main story arc, [[BigBad Talpa]] orders his evil spirits to create [[spoiler:a massive, organic bomb-like sphere of energy(called the matrix).]] Its purpose? [[spoiler:To kill Rowan of Strata, who's ''asleep'' in ''space''.]]

** ''{{Appleseed}}'' has the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L4S7YtA0eM Mobile Fortresses]]: Massive six-legged {{Spider Tank}}s the size of several building blocks. They have a BFG that is longer than it's own chasis length and dozens of multi-barreled auto cannons all over the places. Oh, and Olympus has 10 of them, protecting the city.

* ''EatMan'', what with all the {{BFG}}s. And in the Mira/Misha arc, Bolt is stabbed through the heart with a ''missile''.

* ''{{Anime/Slayers}}'':

* ''Anime/FullMetalPanic'':

** The [[EmpathicWeapon Lambda Driver]] functioning off of Sousuke's emotional state also leads to one instance of battlefield overkill: in ''The Second Raid'', Sousuke blasts the BigBad so hard that he and his HumongousMecha completely disintegrate... along with a hundred-meter long trench cut into the street. Through [[HumanShield Clouseau]]. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Without harming him.]] Clouseau's response in the English dub is a deathly-scared "[[LampshadeHanging That was OVERKILL, sergeant!]]"

* ''[[LyricalNanoha Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]''
** In ''[[NanohaAs A's]]'', Reinforce uses a city-sized Starlight Breaker in an attempt to take out the heroes. (Due to its [[AwesomeButImpractical excessively long casting time]], it fails to do the job.)

* ''{{Hellsing}}'''s [[{{Dracula}} Alucard]] will often use far more bullets and/or physical force than necessary to kill his opponents. Conversely, what ''seems'' like overkill from the other side is never enough to kill him.

* ''DragonBall Z'':

* In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'' a character, after he '[[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness is no longer needed]]', is dropped out of a high flying plane... and the woman who dropped him (Lady Une in [[SplitPersonality full-on buns-and-glasses mode]]) then shoots him in the head on the way down. This is made even more ludicrous by her stated reason: she didn't want to soil the plane with his blood.

** Virtue, Nadleeh, and Seravee all qualify. Virtue is your average heavy-assault mecha with an incredibly destructive particle bazooka (Shown in one of the first episodes to not destroy the enemy, but break them down into particles). Nadleeh is slightly less bulky, and more mobile, but can dual-wield Virtue's shoulder mounted cannons as were they handguns. Seravee, well, it can wield 6 particle bazookas, each more powerful than Virtue's single bazooka. And if it is forced into melee combat, it can just wield 6 beam sabers instead. The movie went further and gave us the Gundam Zabanya, an upgraded version of the Gundam Dynames, and is more focused on precision, rather than fire-power, and yet it still has 20 Bits and 78 missile launchers built into its frame. And then there's the Gundam Harute, which in its own right is pretty all-round... Until Hallelujah and Soma Peries awake, at which point it is controlled by the two most powerful Super Soldiers ever created.
** Also from TheMovie: the Gadelaza. Here is all you need to know about its overkill weaponry: '''154 bits'''... and a WaveMotionGun for good measure.

** Deidara can be stealthy and use his explosives like a fine scalpel... and then there's his C4 attack which creates a massive golem of himself which scatters into a countless number of microscopic bombs that cause any living being within range to ''dissolve into dust''. And his sole reason for creating it was because he didn't like Itachi.

*** Not to mention in the previous chapter, [[spoiler: Gai and Kakashi are greeted with 5 Bijuudamas... ''at point-blank range''.]]

* ''[[Manga/{{Gunnm}} Battle Angel Alita]]'':
** It is famous for ramping up the characters to untold proportions where everything they do is essentially another shot on overkill... At least until the other person comes up with something that is EVEN MORE overkill.
** During Alita's fight with Sachumudo, Sachumudo has nanomachine dust that breaks EVERYTHING apart making him nearly completely invincible... Until Alita learns to use Plasma to burn it like gas only for Sachumudo to reveal that he can control magnetic fields and creates a giant ball of plasma that can incinerate Alita 100 times over... Only for Alita to turn THAT over again by using her Hertza Haeon to blast the entire sphere into Sachumudo. And proceeds to tear the living crap out of him UNTIL HE REVERTS INTO AN INFANT FORM.

* Somewhat averted in ''Anime/BlackLagoon'' during the Hansel and Gretel arc. A group of bounty hunters guns down a car they believe is carrying the twins by not only shooting it with an RPG but also by riddling it with so many bullets that there is literally no part for the car without a bullet hole in it. But given that the twins hired two orphans to act as a decoy you have the overkill part just not the kill part, unless you count the two children in the car.

** Epically done by Yami, after Yugi's soul is taken by the Oricalchos. Inspector Haga ''[[BullyingADragon taunts]]'' the guilt-wracked and now rather unstable Yami by tearing up a card in front of him after claiming Yugi's soul was in it and that [[DeaderThanDead tearing it up erased him]], "[[MoralEventHorizon as a joke]]". Yami... well, he goes [[UnstoppableRage totally and utterly apeshit]]. Using a spell card which allows him to attack as long as he continues to draw monster cards, Yami defeats Haga by drawing two monster cards, which are enough to drop Haga's lifepoints to zero. However, the enraged Yami then continues bashing at Haga by drawing at least '''six''' more monster cards in a row, each hitting for 1500 points each. He would've kept going too, if Anzu hadn't stopped him. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYx_sJRmgeY Here's the scene]]... Not pretty.

** And from an early episode of ''YuGiOhGX'', Judai and Kaibaman face off, and the latter has Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon on his side, breathing down the former's powerful but much weaker Bladedge. Judai looks ready to turn things, as well as this trope, around by springing a trap that would destroy Kaibaman's ultimate monster at the cost of his own, with the added effect of taking out the latter's life points equivalent to the just destroyed monster... only for Kaibaman to chain De-Fusion and split the ultimate dragon back into its 3 only somewhat weaker counterparts. Judai, left with nothing on his side of his field, can only watch as Kaibaman launches his attack with ALL 3 of his Blue-Eyes, [[LargeHam shouting, to maximum effect: "Kyojin! Muteki! Saikyou! Funsai! Gyakusai! Daikasai!" ("Giant! Invincible! Strongest! Pulverize! Honorable Defeat! Big Applause!")]]

** In ''YuGiOhZexal'', [[spoiler: IV uses his ''jumbo-sized shredder puppet '' to grind two monsters into submission, then "holographically" blasts their owners off the ground with the laser cannon coming out of it.]] He then tells them their suffering is not over yet, and [[spoiler: proceeds to repeat the process by reviving the shredded monsters and grinding them over.]] But of course, [[spoiler: How could be be done without ''some whipping?'']]

** There is ''very'' little left of [[spoiler:Unit-02, and by extension Asuka]] by the time [[spoiler: the Mass Production EVAS]] are through with them in ''[[NeonGenesisEvangelion End of Evangelion]]''.
** Essentially, [[spoiler: Shinji does this]] in End of Evangelion and it's manga equivalent. At the end of it all, [[spoiler: Shinji]] is left bitter, disillusioned and depressed. Problem: Your friends are gone. You're sure they left because you injured and killed your other friends, or let them die. There's nobody left who appreciates the sacrifices you've made or gives you thanks for what you've done, there's nobody to talk to and nobody understands what you've been through... because you failed them. [[spoiler: Solution: [[KillEmAll Kill everyone.]] [[AllOfThem ''Everyone''.]]]]

* Yasuo Umetsu's ''Kite'' manages to top a lot. [[spoiler:However, one sequence deserves special mention: After Sawa assassinates a particular target, one of the bodyguards she had dealt with earlier (by shooting him a bunch of times) tackles her out of the window of a multi-story skyscraper. She manages to turn it around so she's hiding next to his chest, making his wild retaliatory pistol shots useless, and the two of them fall and fall and land on a car on an elevated freeway...]]''[[spoiler:making the car fall through the freeway]]'' [[spoiler:and land on a truck in the street, making]] ''[[spoiler:that]]'' [[spoiler:fall through the street and into a subway station. As Sawa clings to the edge of the pit leading up to the normal street level, a falling electrical sign shaped like an arrow falls and crushes the bodyguard and causes the two vehicles to [[MadeOfExplodium f*** ing explode]].]]
* The Egrigori of ''ProjectARMS'' are shown to have no problem offing large groups of witnesses and using their many government and police connections to hush it up. When two agents attempt to blow up a high school (simply because they themselves had been picked on in school), one points out that they could do whatever they liked and get it all passed off as a gas leak. One of the ARMS teens tells how, to get to him, the Egrigori blew up, burned down, and gunned his entire town (the same town was blown up, burned down, and gunned ''again'' when the protagonists return for answers). Later, the Red Caps basically cut off all possible escape routes from a town so the ARMS can't escape and holds the entire town hostage ([[spoiler:thankfully it more or less turns out well]]). A flashback shows that Keith White had no problem having his soldiers ''machine gun a group of children''. Oh, and the big climactic battle involved [[spoiler:Black Alice seizing control of nuclear missiles and lobbing them at America while the Jabberwock goes on rampage, blowing everything up]]. Baked Apple indeed...
* ''Jagd Mirage'', a heavy artillery [[HumongousMecha Mortar Headd]] from TheFiveStarStories, whose main armament is a ''[[WaveMotionGun Twin Towers]]'' [[WaveMotionGun buster launcher]]. That is, a double-barreled [[MagneticWeapons railgun]] friggin' ''200 meter long'', capable of hurling 3-meter-wide [[WeaponOfMassDestruction antimatter shells]] to orbit ''[[MoreDakka on full auto]]''. Luckily, it was so AwesomeButImpractical that only two of them were ever built, but when they were used on full power, it ended in an EarthShatteringKaboom. And if THAT's not an overkill, then what is?

* ''{{Macross}}'':

** In the ''Akira'' manga, the General at one point calls in an orbital strike on a ''mugger.''

** People are rarely killed in ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}''. [[spoiler:Enter Pokémon Hunter J]], who is one of the few characters portrayed as being purely evil. So how do we dispose of her when karma catches up to her? [[spoiler:Why, having her airship blasted by Future Sight, falling into a giant whirlpool in the middle of a lake. As the airship gets submerged, have the windows break causing hundreds if not thousands of pounds of water rush in to crush her. If that didn't kill her, the airship exploding will]]. ''Pokémon'' may not kill often, but damned if they don't know how to make sure you die.

* ''FullmetalAlchemist'':

* [[DigimonAdventure Myotismon]] has proven extremely hard to kill. They've destroyed him twice but he comes back in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' for round three. So how do you finally kill this sadistic CompleteMonster off for good? [[spoiler: [[DeaderThanDead Blow up his soul]] with the [[AllYourPowersCombined combined light of every Digivice on Earth]] fired from a {{BFG}} that shoots ''dark matter''. To put this in perspective, just the light of ''eight'' Digivices completely negated an explosion that could completely destroy two dimmensions. Myotismon's soul got hit with the light of ''millions'' of Digivices in one, concentrated blast fired out of a darkmatter cannon. And this is one of those cases were the victim in question was just that hard to kill considering how they'd already vaporized him twice already and he keeps coming back. Since this particular Myotismon never comes back, it worked.]]

* [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Akemi Homura]] lives and breathes this trope in every meaning of the word. [[spoiler: At one point, she uses approximately $18 million in military hardware (including ''cruise missiles'') to kill one witch, because it HAD to be dead. The kicker? She's supposed to be a 14 years old ''MagicalGirl''. Rambo, eat your heart out.]]
* [[FistoftheNorthStar Hokuto no Ken]] is pretty much the martial arts equivalent of "overkill", considering just about every move ends with a part of your opponent violently exploding in a wave of gore, with what exactly explodes being dependent on the attack used.
* In ''ToAruMajutsuNoIndex'', the organization GREMLIN wants to kill Touma Kamijo. They want to kill him so bad that they are willing to ''wipe out the human race'' just to be sure he's dead.

* In ''GundamWing'' a character, after he '[[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness is no longer needed]]', is dropped out of a high flying plane... and the woman who dropped him (Lady Une in [[SplitPersonality full-on buns-and-glasses mode]]) then shoots him in the head on the way down. This is made even more ludicrous by her stated reason: she didn't want to soil the plane with his blood.
* ''GundamSEED'':

** His [[GundamSeedDestiny successor]], Djibril, picks up the reins and does things more or less the same way. He tries to {{nuke|Em}} the Plants right at the start of the war, uses the [[WeaponsOfMassDestruction Destroy]] Gundam to crush local revolts in Eurasia, and fires [[WaveMotionGun Requiem]] at ZAFT in a last bid to kill them all.

** Also in ''GundamSeedDestiny'', in a duel between Kira and Athrun, during a blade-lock, Kira cut off Athrun's Savior's arms, literally disarming it, and then proceeded to chop it into pieces in a rain of scrap metal, making sure that Gundam wasn't going to come back.

* ''{{Gundam 00}}'':

* ''GundamAGE'':

* In {{Anime/Naruto}}:

* Mangas by Masamune Shiro:

** People are rarely killed in {{Anime/Pokemon}}. [[spoiler:Enter Pokémon Hunter J]], who is one of the few characters portrayed as being purely evil. So how do we dispose of her when karma catches up to her? [[spoiler:Why, having her airship blasted by Future Sight, falling into a giant whirlpool in the middle of a lake. As the airship gets submerged, have the windows break causing hundreds if not thousands of pounds of water rush in to crush her. If that didn't kill her, the airship exploding will]]. ''Pokémon'' may not kill often, but damned if they don't know how to make sure you die.

** People are rarely killed in Anime/Pokemon. [[spoiler:Enter Pokémon Hunter J]], who is one of the few characters portrayed as being purely evil. So how do we dispose of her when karma catches up to her? [[spoiler:Why, having her airship blasted by Future Sight, falling into a giant whirlpool in the middle of a lake. As the airship gets submerged, have the windows break causing hundreds if not thousands of pounds of water rush in to crush her. If that didn't kill her, the airship exploding will]]. ''Pokémon'' may not kill often, but damned if they don't know how to make sure you die.

* '' VisualNovel/UminekoNoNakuKoroNi''. [[{{Gorn}} Happy Halloween]] [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel For Maria]]

* ''Eat-Man'', what with all the {{BFG}}s. And in the Mira/Misha arc, Bolt is stabbed through the heart with a ''missile''.

* The Egrigori of ''Project ARMS'' are shown to have no problem offing large groups of witnesses and using their many government and police connections to hush it up. When two agents attempt to blow up a high school (simply because they themselves had been picked on in school), one points out that they could do whatever they liked and get it all passed off as a gas leak. One of the ARMS teens tells how, to get to him, the Egrigori blew up, burned down, and gunned his entire town (the same town was blown up, burned down, and gunned ''again'' when the protagonists return for answers). Later, the Red Caps basically cut off all possible escape routes from a town so the ARMS can't escape and holds the entire town hostage ([[spoiler:thankfully it more or less turns out well]]). A flashback shows that Keith White had no problem having his soldiers ''machine gun a group of children''. Oh, and the big climactic battle involved [[spoiler:Black Alice seizing control of nuclear missiles and lobbing them at America while the Jabberwock goes on rampage, blowing everything up]]. Baked Apple indeed...

* ''{{Film/Akira}}''

* [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Akemi Homura]] lives and breathes this trope in every meaning of the word. [[spoiler: At one point, she uses approximately $18 million in military hardware (including ''cruise missiles'' to kill one witch, because it HAD to be dead. The kicker? She's supposed to be a 14 years old ''MagicalGirl''. Rambo, eat your heart out.]]

* [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Akemi Homura]] lives and breathes this trope in every meaning of the word. [[spoiler: At one point, she uses approximately $18 million in military hardware to kill one witch, because it HAD to be dead.]]

* ''{{Anime/Yu-Gi-Oh}}'':

** An example that also doubles as a CrowningMomentofAwesome takes place in ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds}}'' when Jack Atlas [[spoiler: summons Red-Nova Dragon for the first time. Both he and his opponent have 200 life points left, and Jack, after turning the Big Bad into a card purely with the power of his own hot-blooded awesomeness, proceeds to summon said card and steamroll his opponent for almost 2000 points of Battle Damage.]]

* GundamAGE:

** Episode 26. [[spoiler:Asemu versus Desil. After Woolf dies from [[TakingTheBullet taking Desil's beam saber thrust]] for Asemu, he goes full out against Desil. First by taking off the Khronos's legs, then its arms and its remaining shoulder cannon. Then he bisects the mobile suit, and finishes it off by firing his Hyper DODS cannons at the two halves, leaving the Khronos and its pilot as space dust. Considering [[AxCrazy the type]] [[BloodKnight of guy]] [[CompleteMonster he was]], [[MomentOfAwesome it was a long time coming]] -- and [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap redeemed Asemu in the eyes of Western fans.]]

** When Grimmjow kills Luppi. Grimmjow first thrusts his arm through the chest, which would probably have meant that Luppi would have just bled to death if he let him, but then decides to go and blast off his upper body with a cero.

** When Grimmjow kills Luppi. Grimmjow first punches him through the gut, which would probably have meant that Luppi would have just bleed to death if he let him, but then decides to go and blast off his upper body.
** The Soukyouku used for the execution of serious criminals. Not only is it quite a spectacle - being a phoenix - it incinerates the target's soul, meaning they cannot be reincarnated into the living world.

** Its [[ThisIsADrill Giga Drill Breaker]]. Its [[MidseasonUpgrade various permutations]] only get stronger from there. Then there's the one-off Giga Drill Maximum, which involves attaching a Giga Drill to every point physically possible and shooting them out to wipe out enemies in all directions.

* ''{{Manga/Hellsing}}'''s [[{{Dracula}} Alucard]] will often use far more bullets and/or physical force than necessary to kill his opponents. Conversely, what ''seems'' like overkill from the other side is never enough to kill him.
** Seras Victoria likes this trope as well. Lacking Alucard's capacity for physical force and regeneration, she dual-wields 30mm autocannons and uses them against human-sized targets. [[LudicrousGibs Splat.]]

* ''Manga/DragonBall Z''
** To make sure Frieza is finally dead after chopping him in half with his sword Trunks proceeds to chop off his limbs and tail, chop his two halves into smaller pieces, and finishes it by incinerating his remains with a ki-blast. Given he survived a beating from Goku, getting cut in half, and being on an exploding planet, it probably seemed like a sensible precaution.
** From the same show, a subversion of the trope occurs during the Majin Buu arc. Gotenks has just blown Super Buu apart with several Kamikaze Ghosts. He and Piccolo then proceed to disintegrate the chunks of Buu's body (Piccolo saw Buu regenerate from getting blasted apart before, and wanted to take no chances). Why a subversion then? Because despite being disintegrated (i.e. his body was reduced to the atomic level), Majin Buu still manages to [[FromASingleCell re-form his body]]. Specifically, Gotenks and Piccolo incinerate the leftover chunks of Buu. Buu then manages to reform himself from the SMOKE.
** Then Goku goes on to [[BeyondTheImpossible violate the laws of physics]] when his Spirit Bomb kills Buu dead with no chance of regeneration by destroying every atom he is made of. It's a trend too; Gohan took care of Cell in much the same way, except with a Kamehameha.

** Nearly every fight boils down to this when it comes to fighting the homunculi. Mustang [[spoiler: [[KillItWithFire burns Lust]] well over a dozen times and later Envy.]] The trope is played with and subverted sometimes, such as when the main villain Father [[spoiler: can withstand mortar fire, spears, explosions, and gunfire from all sides, all at once, and without even moving a muscle]].
** And then there is the battle at Briggs, where [[spoiler: all of the Dracma army is destroyed in minutes!]]
** Not to Mention the Ishbal Massacre where State Alchemists were deployed to the front lines with Philosopher Stones to be used as human weapons. After deployment, the entire war was over in ONE DAY. [[spoiler: Mustang is seen using alchemy to reduce an entire city to rubble with a single snap of his fingers.]]

** In ''[[NanohaAs A's]]'', Reinforce uses a city-sized Starlight Breaker in an attempt to take out the heroes. (Due to its [[AwesomeButImpracticle excessively long casting time]], it fails to do the job.)

* The main character of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' follows the philosophy of doing everything with "[[CatchPhrase Maximum Power!]] ([[OneHitKill Total Annihilation!]])". Exhausted DarkMagicalGirl who had been rendered defenseless with binds? Bring out [[FinishingMove Starlight Breaker]]! Someone trying to run away and is in the middle of a teleport spell? Let's try out the [[BiggerStick shiny new]] WaveMotionGun! A SmugSnake support mage who has little to no direct combat experience? Five [[WaveMotionGun Divine Busters]] combined into a huge beam [[DungeonBypass that can blast through an entire]] CoolShip should do the trick!

* ''{{Literature/Baccano}}'':