History ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill / ComicBooks

* ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'': Wraight had several soldiers shoot Wolverine with a strenght to demolish a building. Justified case, as with his healing factor it's the only way to take him down for some minutes. What a pity for his little friend...

* On occasion, Frank ''ThePunisher'' Castle will do this, when an enemy is just too dangerous [[ChunkySalsaRule to leave solid.]]

** Joker just seems to be DC's go-to guy for being absolutely thorough in making sure a character is KilledOffForReal. Plus he was REALLY pissed that he didn't get in on the whole ''InfiniteCrisis'' schtick.

** SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker is sometimes known to do this; [[ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily 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...]]

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

--> '''Punisher:'''The Soviet Dushka's are just like are fifty cal. Really only meant to be used on aircraft. You use it on people, you turn them into ''[[LudicrousGibs paint.]]''

--> '''Punisher:'''The Soviet Dushka's are just like are fifty cal. Really only meant to be used on aircraft. You use it on people, you turn them into [[''LudicrousGibs paint'']]

--> '''Punisher:'''The Soviet Dushka's are just like are fifty cal. Really only meant to be used on aircraft. You use it on people, you turn them into [[LudicrousGibs ''paint'']]

--> '''Punisher:'''The Soviet Dushka's are just like are fifty cal. Really only meant to be used on aircraft. You use it on people, you turn them into [[LudicrousGibs''paint'']]

--> '''Punisher:''' ....but if you use it on a man? ''You turn him into paint.''

* ''SinCity'':

* 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 be (and we the readers/viewers know in a few cases, definitely ''is'') 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.

* 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.

* In a possible LampshadeHanging, ComicBook/{{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.

* Preacher: Pretty much Standard Operating Procedure for the Saint of Killers, whose standard response to just about everything is to get to work with two Angel-forged Walker Colts that never misfire, never miss, and never need to be reloaded.

* ''Preacher'': Pretty much Standard Operating Procedure for the Saint of Killers, whose standard response to just about everything is to get to work with two Angel-forged Walker Colts that never misfire, never miss, and never need to be reloaded.

* ''ComicBook/Preacher'': Pretty much Standard Operating Procedure for the Saint of Killers, whose standard response to just about everything is to get to work with two Angel-forged Walker Colts that never misfire, never miss, and never need to be reloaded.

* ''Comicbook/Preacher'': Pretty much Standard Operating Procedure for the Saint of Killers, whose standard response to just about everything is to get to work with two Angel-forged Walker Colts that never misfire, never miss, and never need to be reloaded.

* Comicbook/Preacher: Pretty much Standard Operating Procedure for the Saint of Killers, whose standard response to just about everything is to get to work with two Angel-forged Walker Colts that never misfire, never miss, and never need to be reloaded.

* ComicBook/Preacher: Pretty much Standard Operating Procedure for the Saint of Killers, whose standard response to just about everything is to get to work with two Angel-forged Walker Colts that never misfire, never miss, and never need to be reloaded.

* ''Preacher'': Pretty much Standard Operating Procedure for the Saint of Killers, whose standard response to just about everything is to get to work with two Angel-forged Walker Colts that never misfire, never miss, and never need to be reloaded.

* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''TheInvisibles'':

* One of ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'s enemies is a cyborg named Overkill.