History ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill / ComicBooks

* After her creator/mother helped her escape and turned loose against the Facility, Laura Kinney aka {{X-23}} could easily have killed Zander Rice in less than a second with her claws. However such a quick, clean death was ''way'' too good for him after the [[BreakTheCutie thirteen years of physical and emotional abuse he put her through]]. Cue Laura putting up the claws to beat him for ''ten minutes'' before leaving him to be blown up by the bombs she placed to destroy the building.

* At the climax of the ''ComicBook/{{X-Men}}'''s "DarkPhoenixSaga'', when the Dark Phoenix suddenly reemerges, Empress Lilandra desperately invokes Plan Omega: destroy the entire solar system and pray they can kill Dark Phoenix in the process. At that point, Xavier has no choice but to order his X-Men to kill Jean themselves to preempt this measure/

* AlanMoore's ''[[TopTen Top 10]]:'' "Permission to use extreme force, sir?" "Kick her !@#$%ing ''ass,'' son."

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* In the opening sequence of the first issue of ''SoftDesire'', we meet a woman who is trying to steal a mysterious box. Because of this, a fight ensues with a guy who just won't die.

* At the climax of ''TheXMen'''s "DarkPhoenixSaga'', when the Dark Phoenix suddenly reemerges, Empress Lilandra desperately invokes Plan Omega: destroy the entire solar system and pray they can kill Dark Phoenix in the process. At that point, Xavier has no choice but to order his X-Men to kill Jean themselves to preempt this measure/

-->'''Punisher''': [[EveryCarIsAPinto It]] was enough to kill most men, but with him it was just unfinished business. Barracuda was dead when you shot him to bits and shot the bits and burned them. [[TheOnlyWayToBeSure Anything less just left nagging doubt.]]

* After her creator/mother helped her escape and turned loose against the Facility, Laura Kinney/{{X-23}} could easily have killed Zander Rice in less than a second with her claws. However such a quick, clean death was ''way'' too good for him after the [[BreakTheCutie thirteen years of physical and emotional abuse he put her through]]. Cue Laura putting up the claws to beat him for ''ten minutes'' before leaving him to be blown up by the bombs she placed to destroy the building.

* At the climax of ''TheXMen'''s "DarkPhoenixSaga'', when the Dark Phoenix suddenly reemerges, Empress Lilandra desperately invokes Plan Omega: destroy the entire solar system and pray they can kill Dark Phoenix in the process. At that point, Xavier has no choice but to order his X-Men to kill Jean themselves to preempt this measure

* {{Batman}}:

*** This troper thinks that the demons should hardly count, as they were [[SealedEvilInACan powerless prisoners]] while she was attacking them, and even with her overkill level at the time, they likely would have torn her apart if they had their powers.
*** This troper also thinks her 'planetary siege wand' is a much better example. She literally carves a rune visible from space into a continent in order for her father to cast a mass sleep spell that affects everything (up to and including orbiting sentient space fortresses) on and around the planet that isn't a member of their family. All just to affect one [[OmnicidalNeutral crazy]] patriarch who was immune to everything else.

*** This troper also thinks her 'planetary siege wand' is a much better example. She literally carves a rune visible from space into a continent in order for her father to cast a mass sleep spell that affects everything (up to and including orbiting sentient space fortresses) on and around the planet that isn't a member of their family. All just to affect one [[OmnicidalNeutral crazy]] [[precursors old]] patriarch who was immune to everything else.

** Speaking of the Dynasty, they certainly follow this trope. The War Wind disables/destroys all of a planet's active defenses. Rio (the aforementioned crazy old patriarch) takes this a step further with the Shield of the Patriarch, which protects him from [i]all[/i] attacks coming at him through normal space.

* Comicbook/WarMachine's Mark IV armor can add more weapons to his armor (by using a complex system of powerful magnetic fields he can literally rip his opponents weapons apart and freely integrate them with himself); his image is at the top for a reason. But even this form doesn't hold a candle to the armor he used against the Skrull fleet: an entire ''transforming orbital weapons platform/base''. When you've got a cannon on your ''shoulder'' that can spit unstoppable plasma death into the face of an oncoming alien battle cruiser, then that, my friends, is ''overkill''.

* This appears to be at least part of the attitude behind the use of Sentinels in Franchise/{{X-Men}} across media. In this case, it's fuelled by ignorance and fear. A mutant who looks innocent could (and we the readers/viewers know, definitely is in a few cases) be able to rewrite the very fabric of reality to suit their wishes. Of course, that may very well lead to Taunting Cthulhu or (in Harry Potter terms) tickling a sleeping dragon.

* In one ''LuckyLuke'' album, Joe planned to do this to Luke (although he obviously didn't execute it): "One bullet for every day we had to spend behind bars!"

* This appears to be at least part of the attitude behind the use of Sentinels in {{X-Men}} across media. In this case, it's fuelled by ignorance and fear. A mutant who looks innocent could (and we the readers/viewers know, definitely is in a few cases) be able to rewrite the very fabric of reality to suit their wishes. Of course, that may very well lead to Taunting Cthulhu or (in Harry Potter terms) tickling a sleeping dragon.

* In a possible LampshadeHanging, HYDRA (from NickFury comics) calls its superweapon The Overkill Horn. Its function? Remotely activating every single nuclear weapon on the surface of the planet the whole world over.

** SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker is sometimes known to do this; most notably with Jason Todd (the second Robin), in which, after smacking him across the face with a gunbutt (causing him to cough up blood), then kicking him in the face, having him roughed up by two muscle bound henchmen, and beating him brutally with a crowbar to the point where the Joker was literally covered in Jason's blood, he finally finished him by blowing him up with a bomb. [[FirstLawOfResurrection It should also be noted that he came back from the bomb, too...]]

** More recently, [[ItGotWorse the Overkill Horn has become the sentient Overkill Mind]]. Because that's going to end well.

* This appears to be at least part of the attitude behind the use of Sentinels in {{X-Men}} across media. In this case, it's fuelled by ignorance and fear. A mutant who looks innocent could (and we the readers/viewers know, definitely is in a few cases) be able to rewrite the very fabric of reality to suit their wishes. Of course, that may very well lead to Taunting Cthulhu or (in Harry Potter terms) tickling a sleeping dragon.

** TheJoker is sometimes known to do this; most notably with Jason Todd (the second Robin), in which, after smacking him across the face with a gunbutt (causing him to cough up blood), then kicking him in the face, having him roughed up by two muscle bound henchmen, and beating him brutally with a crowbar to the point where the Joker was literally covered in Jason's blood, he finally finished him by blowing him up with a bomb. [[FirstLawOfResurrection It should also be noted that he came back from the bomb, too...]]

** Her sister Gina is also fond of this trope at times, if less so.

* Comicbook/WarMachine's armor can add more weapons to his armor, his image is at the top for a reason.

* This appears to be at least part of the attitude behind the use of Sentinels in X-Men across media. In this case, it's fuelled by ignorance and fear. A mutant who looks innocent could (and we the readers/viewers know, definitely is in a few cases) be able to rewrite the very fabric of reality to suit their wishes. Of course, that may very well lead to Taunting Cthulhu or (in Harry Potter terms) tickling a sleeping dragon.

* In the German comic ''ComicBook/{{Werner}}'': In "Lehrjahre sind keine Herrenjahre 3: Knallhart verrissen!", Röhrich loads his front-loader rifle with everything he can find in his workshop to kill the rats in his pigeon shack. He fires it and destroys everything from his pigeons to [[NakedPeopleAreFunny his clothes]] to every single window pane in sight. [[EpicFail Needless to say he doesn't even manage to harm a single rat]]. %% This entry was added automatically by FELH2. In case the wording doesn't make sense, rewrite it as you like, remove this comment and tell this troper.

* Comicbook/WarMachine's armor can add more weapons to his armor, his image is at the top for a reason.