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* It's all the more chilling for its quiet, guilt-tinged delivery when Alfred in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' reveals how his mercenary squad finally caught the RobinHood-style bandit they were hunting after they couldn't find him and realized he didn't care about money:
-->'''Alfred:''' We burned the forest down.
* The 2010 LiveActionAdaptation of [[Anime/UchuuSenkanYamato Space Battleship Yamato]] seems to run on this trope. The ship is armed with [[MoreDakka enough gun turrets to throw a wall of bullets in every direction]] and destroys an entire fleet this way. Not to mention the ship's iconic {{BFG}}, the WaveMotionGun is powerful enough to create a massive shockwave that creates a crater when it's fired near the Earth's surface. And that says nothing about the damage it does to the enemy ship on the receiving end. Then there's the powerful tremors felt in the Earth Defense Forces underground base, knocking out nearly all communications.
* As [[Film/TheATeam Hannibal]] so eloquently put it, "overkill is underrated."
* The ''Film/JamesBond'' films are archetypal for their rather messy deaths, although most of them are not caused by Bond himself or are {{Karmic Death}}s. Then ''Film/LicenceToKill'' upped the ante with a DarkerAndEdgier Bond who had no qualms with dispatching enemies in the most violent way possible, culminating with sending the BigBad to Hell via an exploding tanker truck.
** [[ChronicallyCrashedCar Bond's cars]] [[WatchThePaintJob are a special case themselves]] - [[Film/ForYourEyesOnly a self-destructing Lotus]], [[Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough a BMW being sawn in half]], [[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 an Aston Martin that gets rotated 7 times]], [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} a brand-new Lincoln Continental being crushed into a cube]]...
** A prominent example of a villain choosing overkill is [[Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe Karl Stromberg]], who has a table gun in his dining room designed to fire an explosive projectile [[GroinAttack straight into the crotch of whoever's across from him]]. Bond manages to dodge the shot and shoves his PPK into the tube to show him what he thinks of the idea...
** Let's not forget [[Film/{{Moonraker}} Hugo Drax]], who gets shot with a poison dart ''and'' [[ThrownOutTheAirlock ejected into space]], leaving a mystery as to what killed him first - poison or asphyxiation?
** Also, in ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'', Bond just barely talks his way out of being [[ConveyorBeltOfDoom burned in half with a laser]]--[[GroinAttack starting at his crotch]]. Goldfinger, taking no chances the next time, handcuffs him to an [[NukeEm atomic bomb]], which is then locked inside a bank vault, [[ProperlyParanoid just to make sure]].
* ''Film/TheGodfather'':
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJU2cz9ytPQ The death of Sonny Corleone ]] is the straightest example. Ambushed at a toll booth by a dozen [[RareGuns Tommy Gun]]-wielding gangsters, he is 1) shot several dozen times inside his car, 2) then shot some more outside the car, 3) then shot on the ground after he died, then 4) had his face kicked in for good measure. The commentary for the film confirms that this is all a justified trope: they wanted to make sure Sonny ''stayed dead'', given that his elderly father Vito had been repeatedly shot earlier in the film and survived, and that Sonny was known to be a tough bastard. (The generally accepted number of times Sonny had been shot is 147, incidentally.)
** At the end of the movie, [[spoiler:the montage massacre of the heads of the Five Families during the Baptism scene, along with Moe Greene and Tattaglia's mistress who had the misfortune of sharing his bed at the wrong time... and Carlo Rizzi, Michael's brother-in-law, for his role in Sonny's death.]] The body count for the end of Part II is relatively minor compared to Part I [[spoiler:but aside from Hyman Roth's death, there was no real need for Michael to have the other two killed... [[MoralEventHorizon including his own brother Fredo]].]] It would take [[MoreDakka the mob boss massacre orchestrated by Joey Zaza]] in Part III to top the whole trilogy.
** In ''Film/TrainingDay'', [[spoiler:Alonzo Harris is a lesser version of this as a deliberate ShoutOut: first the Russians crash his car, then they shoot him in the car, and after Alonzo leaves the vehicle, battered, he is shot brutally on full-auto.]]
* ''Film/{{Predator}}'' might be a borderline case in that the protagonists are fighting an almost invisible opponent and just happen to have his approximate position known. But then, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ-EOg38t1o the six people are emptying]] two assault rifles, two sub-machine guns, a [[MoreDakka grenade launcher]], and a [[GatlingGood minigun]] at a patch of jungle over the next 40 seconds, all the while reloading and continuing to fire. And they didn't even get a good hit.
** This scene was utterly bizarre for a couple of reasons -1. only one of the characters even saw the creature or even had an idea of where it went. The rest just spend the entire time randomly shooting in the general direction just because Mac was doing so when they arrived. 2. The team was stuck in the jungle with only the resources they were carrying on their back. Considering #1, this seems like a tremendous waste of ammo. However, the very team itself could be considered to be this trope since they seem to be very well armed for what is supposed to be a commando extraction mission on foot. Not only do they have firearms, grenades, etc., they also have a significant amount of claymore mines and other explosives.
* ''Film/RoboCop1987'':
** Just about everything. Giving a security robot ''Gatling guns''? Sure, why not? How about making a new police robot as tall as a auditorium? Sure...
** Given that [=RoboCop=] was [[WeCanRebuildHim rebuilt]] from the remains of a murdered police officer, it was kind of a foregone conclusion that Alex Murphy would die in the line of duty in a very horrific way. When ambushed and taken captive by Clarence Boddicker and his gang in a steel mill, 1) Boddicker shoots Murphy's right hand off with a shotgun at point blank range, 2) Murphy stumbles a bit, clutching the stump with his left hand, 3) Emil Antonowsky shoots Murphy's entire right arm off at the shoulder with another shotgun, 4) Emil and the other gang members - Joe Cox, Steve Minh and Leon Nash - empty their shotguns into Murphy's torso, 5) Murphy is still not dead (probably because he's got a bulletproof vest on), so Boddicker pulls a pistol and puts a bullet in his head at point-blank range (which probably qualifies as a MercyKill at this point).
* Ending of ''Film/BonnieAndClyde'', with the titular characters being ambushed by a posse. Except this is also TruthInTelevision.
* Similarly, most of the hero deaths in ''Film/{{Dillinger}}'' apply, though Pretty Boy Floyd (repeatedly machine gunned as he runs across a field) and Homer Van Meter (shot by a dozen heavily-armed farmers) deserve special mention.
* In ''Film/BigGame'', Hazar seems fond of it.
** He shoots the tour guide with a surface-to-air missile designed to take down passenger planes, blowing up the man and a huge chunk of forest around him.
** The bomb he plants aboard Air Force One vaporizes the entire lake the plane's in -- and it's not like it's a small pond.
* In ''Film/RamboIV'' movie we are introduced to an un-exploded Tallboy bomb as the Mercenaries trek through the jungle toward the massacred Karen village. Later John Rambo sets up a Claymore next to the bomb while Burmese soldiers chase him. The Tallboy was developed by the British in [=WW2=] (more specifically, by Barnes Wallis, he of the Dambusters' Bouncing Bomb) to destroy hardened bunkers and was at the time the single most concentrated repository of High-Explosive in a single weapon. The Claymore by itself is capable of invoking the ChunkySalsaRule on everyone within a dozen yards, when it went off and caused the Tallboy to sympathetically detonate the results were... impressive.
** At one point Rambo commandeers a jeep turret on which sits a Browning A2 ''anti-aircraft'' machine gun. The first thing he does is absolutely ''destroy'' another soldier in the jeep by liberally unloading into him about two dozen rounds, from a gun whose ''each'' bullet will blow a ''big'' hole into a human torso. Sure enough, the soldier's bottom half - and some gore on the gun's shield - are all that's left. Rambo then directs the gun's absurd firepower onto the infantry below, causing LudicrousGibs aplenty.
** During said gunfight Rambo notices a patrol boat and targets it with the machine gun, utterly annihilating the crew and making it wholly inoffensive. The Karen rebels, not quite content with that, blow it sky-high with a rocket launcher.
* ''Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice'': Team America uses machine guns, rocket launchers, and missiles to kill terrorists, even if they are in a crowded city. They wind up destroying all the monuments and destroying the town, but hey, the bad guys are dead!
* In the Robert Rodriguez film adaptation of Creator/FrankMiller's ''Film/SinCity'' the character Hartigan, after knifing one of the primary villains of the piece in the gut and proceeding to [[spoiler:"take his weapons away from him...''[[GroinAttack both]]'' [[GroinAttack of them,]]" graphically and with his bare hands, then begins to brutally beat the bad guy's face in until "After a while all I'm doing is punching wet chips of bone into the floorboards. So I stop."]]
** He ''did'' take Junior's other 'weapon' away once already, ineffectively, some years ago. This time, he was just making sure.
* In ''Film/SukiyakiWesternDjango'', Hiyomuri shoots a boy's father dead in front of him, then shoots him 4 more times once he's hit the ground and his wife is crouching over the body, who he then [[AttemptedRape attempts]] to rape because he likes the look of her bathed in her husband's blood.
* In ''Film/PetSemataryTwo'', after Edward Furlong's father kills the revived corpse of the sheriff, he leaves the house to go to search for his son. But just as he's about to open the door to his pickup, he stops, goes back in the house, empties the clip, ''reloads'', empties the clip ''again'', ''then'' leaves in his pickup! Zombies: Always Make Sure.
* In ''Film/TheGamers'', the protagonists {{backstab}} an old rival with a ballista.
* Mr. Grocer's favorite method of assassination in ''Film/GrossePointeBlank''.
* In ''Film/{{Outlander}}'', Kainan's people do orbital bombardment on a planet just to kill its natural inhabitants. Of course, given the amount of damage a single Moorwen did to the colony, this is perhaps a JustifiedTrope in retrospect.
* ''Film/FreddyVsJason''
** One of Jason's first victims is the {{Jerkass}} Trey, who he impales somewhere around a half-dozen times with his machete. Afterward, noticing Trey's death spasms, Jason sets down his machete, grabs both ends of the bed, and breaks it (and Trey) in half.
** Let's just say it; Jason Voorhees is the patron saint of this trope. Especially when played by Creator/KaneHodder.
** In ''Film/FridayThe13thTheFinalChapter'', Tommy Jarvis hacks Jason Voorhees into little pieces. Then, in ''Part VI'', he comes back, and impales him with a rod. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero That probably wasn't such a good idea.]]
* ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'':
** ''Film/HalloweenTheCurseOfMichaelMyers'' has Michael preparing to kill a bunch of sanitarium employees by overlooking a tray filled with medical tools. At first, it looks like he's going to grab a scalpel, but, having apparently gotten tips from Jason Voorhees, he decides to grab a huge machete (that was there for some reason) instead.
** In Music/RobZombie's ''Film/HalloweenII2009'', Michael stabs a nurse in the back. And then does it again. And again, and again, until after about an entire minute filled with stabbings, he rams the knife into her skull and leaves it stuck there.
* Portrayed in a video game within ''Film/InsideMan''. A young boy makes his alter ego shoot many times at what must be an already dead man's head, and then he puts a grenade in the man's mouth. The lead bank robber, who is chatting with him at the time, is appalled.
* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''
** In ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'', Logan brings down a helicopter and its mutant operator, who is then incapacitated and trapped. He could use his adamantium claws to stab his helpless victim, but decides instead to blow up the entire helicopter in a [[ImpressivePyrotechnics massive display of pyrotechnics]].
** In ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', this seems to be the Future Sentinel’s general philosophy when taking out targets. As such they commit a string of ruthlessly brutal and outright cruel executions during the film, seemingly to ensure their targets are taken out for good. There is some cold justification for this considering how much punishment some mutants can take, though it doesn't make what they do any less horrific.
* ''Film/TheNakedGun''
** In the first movie, [[spoiler:the BigBad falls to his death. Then is run over by a bus. And then crushed by a steamroller. And then trampled by a marching band playing "Louie Louie".]] And Drebin's boss starts to cry, saying "My father went the same way!"
** At the beginning of the same movie, O. J. Simpson's character is shot six times, then hits his head on a pipe, burns his hand on a stove, leans against a freshly painted door, gets his other hand caught in a window, falls face first into a wedding cake, and then steps in a bear trap before finally falling into the harbor. He survives.
** During a rooftop gunfight in the sequel, Nordberg (O. J. Simpson) assembles his weapon: It starts a [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Naked_Gun_2_1/2:_The_Smell_of_Fear_,_The#Desert_Eagle Desert Eagle pistol]], turns into an [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Naked_Gun_2_1/2:_The_Smell_of_Fear_,_The#M60 M60 machine gun]], then a [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Naked_Gun_2_1/2:_The_Smell_of_Fear_,_The#Browning_M1919A4 Browning M1919A4]], and finally a [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Naked_Gun_2_1/2:_The_Smell_of_Fear_,_The#Bofors_40mm_Anti_Aircraft_Gun Bofors 40mm AA gun]]. He fires it once immediately after the gunfight is over, blowing a hole in a building.
* ''Film/StarTrek'':
** The Narada, Nero's ship, is capable of wiping out whole fleets of ''Klingon Warbirds'' and drilling down to a planet's core. (The drill is left over from when it used to be a mining ship.) As soon as he gets his hands on Red Matter, a [[spoiler:substance that can create artificial black holes]], his raging overkill tendencies just get that much worse. [[spoiler:He starts destroying planets with it.]] Just a bit of an OmnicidalManiac.
** At the end of the film, [[spoiler:the ''destruction'' of the Narada is another example. After Spock crashes Spock Prime's ship into the Narada, its payload of Red Matter detonates into a colossal black hole that the Narada is conveniently at the center of. After Nero spits in the face of [[SaveTheVillain Kirk's offer to evacuate his ship]], the Enterprise finishes the job by [[MoreDakka unloading upon the Narada with its entire arsenal]].]]
* ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'': Used multiple times.
** Early in the movie, when the swarm attacks the ''Enterprise,'' thousands of impacts effortlessly overwhelm her shields and systematically strip her of deflectors, phasers, FTL propulsion and impulse drive, forcing her to crash on the planet.
** Kirk gets some payback by [[DroppedABridgeOnHim flipping the entire wrecked saucer on Krall's accomplice responsible for luring the ship to the nebula,]] smashing her like an insignificant bug under the ship's bulk.
** Krall's murder of Ensign Syl using a weapon of mass destruction.
** The even larger swarm attack against Starbase Yorktown
** Kirk finally gets his back when he uses Creator/TheBeastieBoys to [[TitleDrop sabotage]] the swarm with ThePowerOfRock.
** And finally, the same WMD kills off Krall except for the Starfleet emblem that he was wearing on his chest.
* ''Franchise/StarWars''
** ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'': After Aalya Secura is shot by the Clone troopers, they continue to shoot at her dead body afterwards.
** ''Film/ANewHope'' has the [[WaveMotionGun Death Star Superlaser]] The amount of energy required to destroy a planet is some eight - nine orders of magnitude greater than what killed the dinosaurs, and seven - eight more than required to just kill everyone. And the Death Star gives five - six orders of magnitude more than '''that'''. Not to mention, that they could have cracked the surface, or burned away the atmosphere, using a lot less resources (A Hyperdrive with the safety's turned off, for instance).
*** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by the kind of defenses planets in the ''StarWars'' galaxy may have: Alderaan had a planetary shield that survived the Superlaser blast for a tenth of second. The designers ''still'' went overboard, but they had a reason for that.
*** Darth Vader: Don't be too proud of this [[ThatsNoMoon technological terror]] you've created. The ability to [[EarthShatteringKaboom destroy a planet]] is insignificant next to the power of [[SentientCosmicForce the Force.]]
*** Also justified by the fact that it was supposed to be a massively vulgar display of power which would get the attention of anyone even considering revolt. Much of the ExpandedUniverse states that they succeeded, but not quite the way Tarkin had hoped. His intention was that everyone would be too scared to oppose the Empire. (In his own words, "Fear will keep the local systems in line. Fear of this battle station.") Instead he inspired more anger than fear. Lord Vader, being [[TheDarkSide quite the expert in both anger and fear]], probably anticipated this but wasn't particularly bothered by it.
** ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' gives us Starkiller Base, which goes one step further than the Death Star and blows up every damn planet in a given star system at once -- from halfway across the galaxy! The power issues do get addressed here, though: the base is solar-powered, as in it ''absorbs a star'' to fuel its weapon... and if you take a look at the novelization, you find it ''rips its targets down to the subatomic level and scatters them across all the Universe and back''.
** ''Film/RogueOne'' has Tarkin using the [[WaveMotionGun Death Star Superlaser]] to get rid of Krennic. It also qualifies as complete overkill as a measure to deal with the Rebels on Scarif, as there were less than a hundred actually on the planet's atmosphere at the time the weapon was fired while thousands of Imperial personnel were present and most of the Rebels had already been killed by those Imperial troops. The superlaser is literally fired ''directly'' through the antenna deck where the wounded Krennic is lying, and seeing as that was a less than ideal aiming point to wipe out the remaining Rebels (though the sheer size of the shockwave did the job anyway) there's no way this was a coincidence.
** ''Film/TheLastJedi'': [[spoiler: When Luke walks out on the battlefield alone to meet Kylo Ren, [[CombatPragmatist Kylo]] doesn't mess around: he orders the entire First Order army to blast Luke to smithereens.]]
---> [[spoiler: '''General Hux''':]] [[spoiler: [[DeadpanSnarker Do you think we got him?]]]]
*** [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when Luke survives the rain of lasers thanks to the fact that [[AstralProjection he was not technically present]]. When the smoke clears, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny he calmly brushes a bit of dust off his robes.]]]]
* In ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective'', Ratigan tries to dispose of Basil with an overkill-tastic DeathTrap including a mousetrap, a crossbow, an axe, a gun (given that the characters are mice, it's more like a ''cannon''), and a falling anvil, noting that he couldn't decide which method would be best... so he used them all. [[spoiler:Of course, Basil is able to use the various parts of the trap against each other and escape.]]
* ''Film/ErnestScaredStupid''
** Ernest goes to his con-artist friends for help and they sell him an enormous amount of fake anti-troll equipment. [[spoiler:It turns out he only needed milk]], but it's still impressively like overkill.
-->'''Ernest''': (coming down the stairs with what looks like a whole lot of fishing gear, strapped with wires and making whirring sounds.) You see before you the state-of-the-art troll-fighter of tomorrow. This multi-directional unitized high-tech fighting machine is toll-free, mucus-free and comes equipped with fifteenmillion megabytes of double-density wayfer-thin alloy forming a virtual reality of modern troll extermination. (He heaves the large device he's carrying gun-like on his shoulder into his hands in a dramatic pose.) Need I say more? (He glances down at Lady Hackmoore who is decidedly unimpressed).
** Really, for not knowing about [[spoiler:the whole milk thing]], Ernest had overkill coming out the whazzoo. He set up traps in dumpsters for that troll!
--->'''Tom:''' Fourteen cans of troll-away spray nineteen ninety-five apiece. Two Bolivian Army slingshots, nine ninety-five each... troll ninja ninchucks... slime-proof troll gloves... chopped troll bait... fifteen no-troll strips... one trolling motor... for a grand total of...\\
Ernest: Does that include the giant album of every troll love song ever written?
** Also, when they were building the treehouse. They had pizza tossers, dog-food gatling guns and a helicopter bomber.
* The fate of [[spoiler:Cyrus the Virus]] in ''Film/ConAir'': beaten to within an inch of his life, smashed through a bridge on the extended ladder of a moving firetruck, gets electrocuted after he falls off the ladder, dumped on a conveyor belt, and his head smashed by a piledriver (the machine, not the wrestling move). He doesn't get better.
* ''Film/{{District 9}}'' features several varieties of alien weapons. Most result in LudicrousGibs, all work on this principle. And it is ''oh so satisfying.''
* In ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'', [[spoiler:Hitler and Goebbels]] were riddled with bullets, blown up with dynamite, and [[spoiler:the cinema they were in]] was burned to the ground. [[spoiler:Other high-ranking Nazi officers]] suffered similar fates as well, although not as bad.
* Creator/KennethBranagh's version of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''. Hamlet not only stabs Claudius with his fencing sword, he also drops a [[FallingChandelierOfDoom chandelier]] on him and, while Claudius is pinned down by said chandelier, force-feeds him poison.
* The ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' series:
** In ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', Ripley recommends [[NukeEm nuking the site from orbit]] to make absolutely sure that no xenomorphs escape.
** In ''Film/AlienResurrection'', Johner shoots at a little spider with his sidearm.
* In the spoof film ''Film/WrongfullyAccused'', Creator/LeslieNielsen's character is convicted of a murder he didn't commit, and is sentenced to be executed "buffet style": Hanged, lethally-injected, electrocuted, and placed before a firing squad.
* Creator/StevenSeagal is made of this trope. See the climax of ''Film/MarkedForDeath''. Seagal grabs the BigBad, [[EyeScream gouges out his eyes using his thumbs]], throws him through a wall, breaks his back over his knee, and finally sends him down an elevator shaft, where ''he lands on a spike.''
* ''Film/KingDinosaur'' has a group of astronauts exploring a rogue planet that's drifted into the solar system, and discovering a [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever giant iguana]] among its native animals. After being forced to flee from it, one of the astronauts calmy announces "I've brought the atom bomb", and they proceed to ''nuke'' the giant lizard. As stock footage of a mushroom cloud fills the screen, the heroes proudly announce, without a trace of irony, that "we've brought civilization to Nova."
* ''Film/FinalDestination1'': After the cast cheats Death, they begin to die off one by one. Most of these deaths were simple [[spoiler:death by bus, decapitation, etc.]], except for one. [[spoiler:For some reason, Death seems to really hate Ms. Lewton, the teacher. First her computer explodes, which lodges a sharp piece of glass into her throat, then the spark from the explosion causes fire which spreads inside her house. As she staggers, she falls down and manages to get stabbed by her own kitchen knife, then the gas cooker door blows open, spewing out gas. Then to top it all off, thanks to the gas, the entire house explodes.]] Sure you don't want to divert a meteorite to crash into the wreckage just to be absolutely sure, Death?
* ''DerClown - Payday'':
** How do you kill the remaining two villains? [[spoiler:Bomb the two-engined cargo plane they're in with gold bars until it [[StuffBlowingUp explodes]] [[ImpressivePyrotechnics in a huge fireball]]]].
** In the pilot of the series, they're shooting bazookas at people during one shootout.
* In ''Film/GhostbustersII'', we learn that [[BigBad Vigo the Carpathian]] was "poisoned, stabbed, shot, hung, stretched, disemboweled, & drawn and quartered" (replied [[DeadpanSnarker Peter Venkman]] upon hearing this, "[[{{Understatement}} Ouch."]]). After all that, he still managed to say a few words before his head died...basically declaring that even ''this'' wouldn't be enough eventually. [[spoiler:He came darn close.]]
* The SelfDestructMechanism for ''Anime/ResidentEvilDegeneration'' probably counts. In sequence, it consists of: drenching the contaminated areas, up to and including the whole facility, in flammable decontamination fluid, igniting said fluid, dropping the contaminated sections down a 3000ft deep shaft, blowing them up again, and then, if the whole place is contaminated, sealing everything under a steel cover thick and tough enough to withstand a nuclear blast. Admittedly, they are working with some of the most lethal infectious pathogens on the planet, but it's still a little overboard. Considering what has happened in ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' before when these lethal infectious pathogens get out, you can never be too careful.
* ''Film/UndercoverBrother'''s [[spoiler:Mr. Feather is dropped out of a helicopter over the ocean. Just before falling hundreds of feet (the impact alone of which would've killed him instantly) a great white shark leaps out of the water, and eats him.]]
* In ''Film/ThreeHundred'' and ''Film/{{Hero}}'', [[spoiler:Leonidas and Nameless are each killed with a RainOfArrows plentiful enough to fell a whole regiment. Though in Leonidas' case, he was with a regiment. Most of them had died by that point, but still!]]
* The captain of the salvage team in ''Film/EventHorizon'', after having found out that the titular ship [[spoiler:was possessed by infernal forces]], was inclined to fire missiles at it until it's vaporised.
* In ''Film/{{Shooter}}'', a GunNut recounts the story of a sniper who was infamous for his brutality on the battlefield. The opposing side despised him so much that when they corner the sniper in the building, instead of trying to flush him out, they just bombarded it with enough artillery to level an entire city block. This is standard tactics for dealing with snipers, just not usually while they're in urban areas.
* ''Film/LettersFromIwoJima'' is a rare example of overkill being shown from the ''receiving'' end.
** It's [[POVSequel POV Prequel]], ''Film/FlagsOfOurFathers'' shows the business end in detail for around half a minute. Everything from medium caliber AntiAir guns to the largest-caliber 16-inch battleship shells are practically thrown at the island in full force, both before ''and'' during the invasion of Iwo Jima.
* ''Franchise/DieHard'':
** The series has VERY pragmatic "terrorists" (there's always a twist on what they really are in each movie, usually thieves). Even when [=McClane=] was a nobody, and when the bad guys thought it was just a random guy, they took no chances and attempted to kill him several times, prompting John's ProperlyParanoid moments on the walkie talkie.
** Then there's a scene in [[Film/DieHard2 the second movie]] where the bad guys shoot at an airplane cockpit with machine guns, filling it with bullet holes, and then ''throw all their grenades'' just for good measure. When they see him parachuting out of the explosion, they just call him (again pragmatically) "[[NoOneCouldSurviveThat Lucky Bastard]]".
* ''Film/{{Swarmed}}''
** One character goes after a wasp with a double-barreled shotgun after it kills her boss, the mayor. It takes three tries, but she does eventually kill it... after destroying a chandelier, corkboard, and an office chair.
** Later they graduate to flamethrowers, and end up blowing up the swarm with about six propane tanks. Soaked in lighter fluid.
* ''Film/InBruges'': Ray kills [[spoiler:the priest]] with many, many gunshots, even though he was at close range. [[spoiler:A few of those unnecessary shots had gone off-target and ''killed a little kid.'']]
* What does it take to defeat [[Series/KamenRiderBlack Shadow Moon]] in ''[[Series/KamenRiderDecade All Riders vs. Dai Shocker]]''? The All Rider Kick - twenty-six [[FinishingMove Rider Kicks]], performed ''en masse'' by the protagonists of every ''Kamen Rider'' series from the original through ''Decade''. Overkill? Sure. CrowningMomentOfAwesome? You bet your ScarfOfAssKicking it is.
* The death of a revived [[Film/KamenRiderZO Doras]] in the ''Decade'' [[TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised finale movie]] isn't quite as over-the-top, but close. He gets taken out by [[spoiler:no less than twelve Kamen Riders, ten of whom were in their [[SuperMode Super Modes]], hitting him with their respective finishing attacks]].
** A feat nearly equaled in the ''[[Series/KamenRiderDenO Chou Den-O Trilogy]]'', where [[Series/KamenRiderDecade Diend's]] Complete Form summons copies of eight movie-exclusive Riders, with all nine of them performing their finishers ''en masse''. The opponent in question wasn't even nearly as strong as Doras, making this an even bigger case of overkill.
* Subverted, sort of, in ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'':
-->'''ACME Chairman:''' You see, if the Train of Death doesn't kill him, then those crates of TNT will. Not to mention the 2-tonne anvil hanging over his head, and- Oh, look. There's the Pendulum of Doom! What's the Pendulum of Doom doing there?! I did not order the Pendulum of Doom! It's overkill! Get rid of it!
** He's talking to Wile E. Coyote, by the way.
* In the climactic shootout of Creator/JohnWoo's ''Film/ABetterTomorrow II'', one mook gets shot more than ''20'' times.
* In ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop'', drug dealer Victor Maitland gets shot about twenty times by Foley and Bogomil at the climax.
* In ''Film/TheTransporter'', there's an attempt at killing Frank Martin at home. Since he's got a reputation of being badass, it involves [[MoreDakka thousands of machine gun rounds]] and [[MacrossMissileMassacre three missiles]]. He survives by [[spoiler:simply not being there]].
* ''Film/TheMatrix'':
** The helicopter scene is this. Then again, shooting at [[ImplacableMan Agents]] with a [[GatlingGood minigun]] for several seconds straight is [[JustifiedTrope absolutely justified]].
** And the famous lobby scene. You really start to wonder whether the advantages of carrying a loaded and ready gun outweigh the rather more severe disadvantages of having far less ammunition to work with, as well as the sheer amount of weight and bulk that carrying over a dozen guns would impose on the wearer.
* After Harley knocks out Brother Bob with [[HoistByHisOwnPetard his own monster truck]] in ''Film/MonsterMan'', Adam takes the wheel and proceeds to drive over him again and again until he is nothing but [[SquashedFlat bloody paste]].
* Burt Gummer of the ''Tremors'' franchise lives and breathes this trope.
** In the first ''Film/{{Tremors}}'', he and his wife unload multiple machine guns, assault rifles, an elephant gun, and even a flare gun into a Graboid. Then, he makes home made bombs that're powerful enough to make their guts airborne when exploded underground.
** In ''Film/Tremors2Aftershocks'', he kills his first Graboid with 4 pounds of C-4 (which even he admits was excessive). And then kills another with a cluster bomb. Then, he shoots one of the Shriekers with a .50 caliber anti-tank gun with a solid bronze bullet (though that one was justified in that it was the last bullet he had). Then they detonate 4.5 tons of high-explosives and reduce an entire oil refinery to a large crater to kill the remaining Shriekers.
** In ''Film/Tremors3BackToPerfection'', he blows up his entire house to kill a single Ass Blaster. [[spoiler:And then he finds out it was completely unneccessary.]]
** In ''Film/Tremors4TheLegendBegins'', his ancestor buys a 2-inch bore Punt Gun and uses that to kill a Graboid. (For the uninitiated, a Punt Gun is a big...big shotgun. Sort of MoreDakka, but only needing one pull of a trigger. The name come from the fact they were so large, to be used for their intended task they had to be mounted to flat-bottom boats known as 'punts'. Oh, and their purpose? Harvesting entire flocks of ducks....with one shot.)
* ''Film/ThePunisher2004'': Castle just doesn't kill Howard Saint, but also just about everything Saint cares about. [[spoiler:He sabotages Saint's money-laundering operations and then gives the money away. He then causes a rift with Saint's Cuban partners. After following both Saint's wife Livia and his best friend Quentin Glass, he creates the illusion that the two of them are having an affair behind Howard's back (despite the fact that Quentin is gay). When Howard finds out thanks to Mickey (who is Castle's mole), he stabs Quentin to death and then throws Livia over a bridge; she survives the fall but can't get off the train tracks in time and gets run over by a train. After he kills all of Saint's men in the club, he rigs a trip-wire grenade and forces his son John to hold up the grenade, where he eventually tires out and is blown up. An injured Howard tries to run, but Castle ties him to a car and sends it towards a parking lot, where he has rigged several hidden bombs that blow up as the car dragging Howard passes by, which light Howard on fire before that car blows up and we get an overview shot of the flames in the shape of the Punisher's iconic skull]]. Saint's an asshole that had it coming to him, but damn, what an example of overkill. To top it all off, Castle calmly explains it all in detail to Saint before finishing him off.
** Overkill for an Overkill... [[spoiler:the Saints, Glass included, were being Punished for killing his ENTIRE FAMILY, I'm talking at least 3 whole generations, as payback for the accidental death of their son during criminal activity.]]
* MemeticBadass Samuel L. Jackson describes this phenomenon perfectly in ''Film/JackieBrown'':
--> '''Ordell Robbie''': AK-47: the very best there is. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherfucker in the room, accept no substitutes.
* In ''Film/TheRaid'', Jaka kills a mook with three point-blank headshots. When the residents attack the SWAT van, they open up on full-auto and just keep firing.
* The Jericho missile, in ''Film/IronMan''. To elaborate, Tony Stark built a missile that can flatten an entire mountain, ''and it isn't nuclear''. Nope. It's just one large missile that splits into a thousand smaller warheads. The shockwave from the demo blasted off the generals' caps from the horizon.
-->'''Tony Stark''': They say the best weapon is one you never have to fire. I respectfully disagree. I prefer the weapon you only have to fire once.
* The poor {{Mook}} from ''Film/TheExpendables2''. After rounding a corner, he happens to meet up with the entire crew, who have just made mincemeat out of a small army of bad guys. He gets ventilated by every one of them at once.
-->'''Barney:''' Rest in pieces.
* ''Film/TheUsualSuspects'': "He lets the last Hungarian go. He waits until his wife and kids are in the ground and then he goes after the rest of the mob. He kills their kids, he kills their wives, he kills their parents and their parents' friends. He burns down the houses they live in and the stores they work in, he kills people that owe them money. And like that he was gone."
* The opening death scene of the two girls in ''Film/{{Suspiria}}''.
* In ''Film/{{Dredd}}'': [[spoiler:Ma-Ma uses a set of three supercharged ''Gatling guns'' to absolutely ''decimate'' an entire level of the block.]] This actually ends up as a plot point, as Dredd realizes no one would go to such lengths to kill a Judge unless they had something big to protect.
* ''Film/PacificRim'': How do you DoubleTap a {{kaiju}}? You fire your plasma cannon into its chest until most of its torso is a burning skeleton. Granted, Raleigh had a ''very'' good reason for this [[spoiler: his brother Yancy got killed at the beginning of the movie when a {{kaiju}} they thought dead turned out to have a quite a bit more fight left.]]
* ''Film/HardTicketToHawaii'' has an assassin who rides around on a skateboard carrying a gun in one hand and a blowup-doll in the other. The heroes hit him with a truck. While he is flying through the air, they blow him up with a rocket launcher. Then they blow up the doll with another rocket.
* Dieter Von Cunth from ''Film/MacGruber'' after he survives getting his hideout blown up and attacks [=MacGruber=] at his wedding, [=MacGruber=] headbutts him off a cliff, shoots him half a dozen times as he falls, when he lands he hits his head on a rock splitting it open and spilling his brains out, [=MacGruber=] then blows up his corpse with a grenade launcher then pisses on it.
* Virgil's death by interrogation in ''Film/TrueRomance'': Virgil beats up Alabama, trying to find out where Clarence and the drugs he stole from Drexl Spivey are. Throwing her into the shower, she blinds him with shampoo, hits him over the head with the toilet cover, then sprays him with hairspray, stabs him once, and blasts him to hell with a shotgun, and once she's used up all the shells, strikes him with the shotgun barrel for good measure.
* In the first ever animated Disney film, ''Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'', the evil queen is struck by lightning (well, really it strikes the cliff she's standing on). She [[DisneyVillainDeath falls over the cliff]], and the boulder rolls off after her. What's left of her is presumably scavenged by vultures afterwards.
* ''Film/ConanTheDestroyer'': after Conan [[AttackItsWeakPoint rips off Dagoth's horn]], he impales the slain monster's head with his sword, prompting the theme music to swell triumphantly. Malak, the LovableCoward and shameless glory hound, decides to get in on the action and stabs the dead monster with his tiny dagger, causing the triumphant theme music to swell all over again.
* The climax of ''Literature/AllTheKingsMen'': after Willie Starke is shot by Adam Stanton, Starke's bodyguards empty their handguns into Stanton. This isn't enough, as [[TheCavalryArrivesLate several state troopers belatedly arrive]] and fire ''Tommy guns'' into Stanton's body. Since the book and movie were based on Huey Long, it's very much TruthInTelevision.
* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'': unsurprisingly, many, many examples in this series
** Let's start with the [[Film/{{Transformers}} first movie]]:
*** Megatron wakes up after being frozen for years. His first action? Murder ''every human'' that he can.
*** Frenzy vs humans in a small locked room. He has two machine guns built into his arms. They all have shotguns. Then Agent Simmons grabs a '''flamethrower''', and Frenzy [[HoistByHisOwnPetard gets his head torn off by his discus weapon]].
*** Brawl's defeats and eventual death. Arm chopped off by Ratchet. Shot up over and over again by Jazz and humans. A grenade detonated against his chest, knocking him out. Once he gets up, is ''still'' getting shot up by humans, and then gets his spark blown out by Bumblebee's plasma cannon. Lennox puts it best:
----> That thing is definitely dead now.
** ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'':
*** Sideswipe of the Autobots takes on (possible dimension-hopper) Sideways of the Decepticons. Does he shoot him? Does he stab him? Does he cut him in half like a lot of deaths in these movies? How about all ''three''? First he flips into the air and shoots, perforated his car mode bilaterally. Then, he launches his sword down into the other's hood '''while in midair''', hits the ground with both wheels, spins, grabs the sword, and ''bisects this mofo lengthwise''.
----> Damn I'm good.
*** Three Decepticons take on Optimus Prime. They are [[BigBad Megatron]], [[TheStarscream Starscream]], and some other guy we don't care about, [[TheBigGuy but he's huge]]. '''Optimus still almost wins'''. He mutilates Starscream, rips off the Big Guy's face, and brutally beats Megatron. But he's also kicked in the face hard enough to shatter his face-plate. Then shot in the chest with enough force to launch him across the forest. And once the battle is over, Megatron sneaks up and '''stabs him through the chest''' while lifting him in the air. Oh, and the blade is attached to a gun, which Megatron then shoots off. The hole it leaves is big enough to walk through.
*** Epps calls for an airstrike. Cue the B-2 Bombers laying down a carpet of explosives thick enough to block out the sun, followed by a display of ImpressivePyrotechnics that actually set a record for biggest practical explosion in a movie.
*** He doesn't kill Megatron, but at the end Optimus hands him his metal ass pretty good. A straight-up beat down with guns and swords first. Then he twists Megatron's gun/sword arm around and uses it to ''shoot off half his face''. Finally, Optimus uses the jet engines on his back to blast Megatron through a wall. The Decepticon leader is missing one arm, half his face, and various other parts of his body. His response? "''Starrrrschream!''"
** ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'':
*** Megatron's plans. As TheDragon to the Fallen, he started a war on Cybertron to eventually take over the galaxy for his master. The Allspark was key to victory in that war. But in the event it was destroyed, he already had a deal with the Fallen to use the last Star Harvester to get more energon. Except he was playing his master. Really he just wanted Optimus to get the Matrix so the Autobots could bring back Sentinel Prime, which would lead to their own destruction when Sentinel switched sides.
*** Sentinel has a rust gun that causes any metal to dissolve. When he switches sides, he shoots Ironhide with it not once, not twice, but ''three fucking times!'' Immediately before that, he gave a short BreakingSpeech to the Autobots and Humans. Between the second and third shots, he gets in a PreMortemOneLiner.
----> I hereby discharge you from duty.
*** This film does a pretty good job of [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructing]] the idea of an alien invasion. As such, the Invasion of Chicago is ''filled'' with overkill. The Decepticons have [[FlyingAircraftCarrier Flying Aircraft Carriers]], several types of airships, hundreds if not thousands of troops, and a giant metal worm that tears through rock like tissue paper. They unleash it all on Chicago. When they're done, the city resembles the radioactive Chernobyl site from the film's opening. The Decepticons also seem to enjoy shooting at random buildings and small groups of civilians with their fighter-ships.
*** On that note, the Decepticons' weapons are this for humans. While they might do a lot less damage to Cybertronians, the Con's weapons unleash pulses of energy (instead of simple plasma blasts, bullets, or lasers) which ''rip a human's flesh from their bones'', and then ''completely shatter'' most of said bones into fine powder. Without a GoryDiscretionShot by the way.
*** Shockwave's death. First he gets his eye sniped at by humans. Then another group of humans appears in the building right next to him and blasts him with enough machine gun fire to tear off half his armor. Then Optimus Prime comes in and uses some brass-knuckle-like weapon to gouge out his guts. Then the Prime reaches around to behind his neck, grabs the bundle of wires that is like a cross between optic nerve and spinal cord, and ''rips it out''. To add insult to injury, he uses Shockwave's own cannon to shoot down the Space Bridge Pillar.
** ''Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction'':
*** Ratchet's fate. Poor Ratchet. He's hiding in the smokestack of an old steamer ship when its blown up by humans. Then when he tries to get away, he's shot up with missiles and machine guns, forcing him to transform. His leg is blown off. He pleads with the humans to have mercy, because he is, after all, ''just a medic''. Then Lockdown gets involved. Between him and the humans, Ratchet is reduced to little more than a torso with some limb stumps hanging off. Then Lockdown pulls Ratchet's spark out from his chest and crushes it. Oh, and after he's dead? The humans who helped kill him ''sell his parts'' to a company that ''melts them down''. Optimus was '''pissed''' when he found out.
*** Hound seems quite fond of [[InvokedTrope invoking this trope]]. He threatens to splatter Joshua Joice, hits an alien bug thing with a plasma blast that makes it explode (just because it sneezed on him), and kills a ton of KSI Prototypes with more force than reasonably necessary. He also shoots his guns into the air to celebrate Optimus' return, and shouts with joy at the sight of giant (by Autobot standards even) robot dinosaurs ''obliterating'' the Prototypes.
* In ''Film/LifeBlood'', Brooke stabs Warren 87 times; a fact that Rhea does not learn until she hears it on the television, and which seems to discredit Brooke's claim that it was self-defence.
-->'''Alfred:''' We burned the forest down.
* The 2010 LiveActionAdaptation of [[Anime/UchuuSenkanYamato Space Battleship Yamato]] seems to run on this trope. The ship is armed with [[MoreDakka enough gun turrets to throw a wall of bullets in every direction]] and destroys an entire fleet this way. Not to mention the ship's iconic {{BFG}}, the WaveMotionGun is powerful enough to create a massive shockwave that creates a crater when it's fired near the Earth's surface. And that says nothing about the damage it does to the enemy ship on the receiving end. Then there's the powerful tremors felt in the Earth Defense Forces underground base, knocking out nearly all communications.
* As [[Film/TheATeam Hannibal]] so eloquently put it, "overkill is underrated."
* The ''Film/JamesBond'' films are archetypal for their rather messy deaths, although most of them are not caused by Bond himself or are {{Karmic Death}}s. Then ''Film/LicenceToKill'' upped the ante with a DarkerAndEdgier Bond who had no qualms with dispatching enemies in the most violent way possible, culminating with sending the BigBad to Hell via an exploding tanker truck.
** [[ChronicallyCrashedCar Bond's cars]] [[WatchThePaintJob are a special case themselves]] - [[Film/ForYourEyesOnly a self-destructing Lotus]], [[Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough a BMW being sawn in half]], [[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 an Aston Martin that gets rotated 7 times]], [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} a brand-new Lincoln Continental being crushed into a cube]]...
** A prominent example of a villain choosing overkill is [[Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe Karl Stromberg]], who has a table gun in his dining room designed to fire an explosive projectile [[GroinAttack straight into the crotch of whoever's across from him]]. Bond manages to dodge the shot and shoves his PPK into the tube to show him what he thinks of the idea...
** Let's not forget [[Film/{{Moonraker}} Hugo Drax]], who gets shot with a poison dart ''and'' [[ThrownOutTheAirlock ejected into space]], leaving a mystery as to what killed him first - poison or asphyxiation?
** Also, in ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'', Bond just barely talks his way out of being [[ConveyorBeltOfDoom burned in half with a laser]]--[[GroinAttack starting at his crotch]]. Goldfinger, taking no chances the next time, handcuffs him to an [[NukeEm atomic bomb]], which is then locked inside a bank vault, [[ProperlyParanoid just to make sure]].
* ''Film/TheGodfather'':
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJU2cz9ytPQ The death of Sonny Corleone ]] is the straightest example. Ambushed at a toll booth by a dozen [[RareGuns Tommy Gun]]-wielding gangsters, he is 1) shot several dozen times inside his car, 2) then shot some more outside the car, 3) then shot on the ground after he died, then 4) had his face kicked in for good measure. The commentary for the film confirms that this is all a justified trope: they wanted to make sure Sonny ''stayed dead'', given that his elderly father Vito had been repeatedly shot earlier in the film and survived, and that Sonny was known to be a tough bastard. (The generally accepted number of times Sonny had been shot is 147, incidentally.)
** At the end of the movie, [[spoiler:the montage massacre of the heads of the Five Families during the Baptism scene, along with Moe Greene and Tattaglia's mistress who had the misfortune of sharing his bed at the wrong time... and Carlo Rizzi, Michael's brother-in-law, for his role in Sonny's death.]] The body count for the end of Part II is relatively minor compared to Part I [[spoiler:but aside from Hyman Roth's death, there was no real need for Michael to have the other two killed... [[MoralEventHorizon including his own brother Fredo]].]] It would take [[MoreDakka the mob boss massacre orchestrated by Joey Zaza]] in Part III to top the whole trilogy.
** In ''Film/TrainingDay'', [[spoiler:Alonzo Harris is a lesser version of this as a deliberate ShoutOut: first the Russians crash his car, then they shoot him in the car, and after Alonzo leaves the vehicle, battered, he is shot brutally on full-auto.]]
* ''Film/{{Predator}}'' might be a borderline case in that the protagonists are fighting an almost invisible opponent and just happen to have his approximate position known. But then, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ-EOg38t1o the six people are emptying]] two assault rifles, two sub-machine guns, a [[MoreDakka grenade launcher]], and a [[GatlingGood minigun]] at a patch of jungle over the next 40 seconds, all the while reloading and continuing to fire. And they didn't even get a good hit.
** This scene was utterly bizarre for a couple of reasons -1. only one of the characters even saw the creature or even had an idea of where it went. The rest just spend the entire time randomly shooting in the general direction just because Mac was doing so when they arrived. 2. The team was stuck in the jungle with only the resources they were carrying on their back. Considering #1, this seems like a tremendous waste of ammo. However, the very team itself could be considered to be this trope since they seem to be very well armed for what is supposed to be a commando extraction mission on foot. Not only do they have firearms, grenades, etc., they also have a significant amount of claymore mines and other explosives.
* ''Film/RoboCop1987'':
** Just about everything. Giving a security robot ''Gatling guns''? Sure, why not? How about making a new police robot as tall as a auditorium? Sure...
** Given that [=RoboCop=] was [[WeCanRebuildHim rebuilt]] from the remains of a murdered police officer, it was kind of a foregone conclusion that Alex Murphy would die in the line of duty in a very horrific way. When ambushed and taken captive by Clarence Boddicker and his gang in a steel mill, 1) Boddicker shoots Murphy's right hand off with a shotgun at point blank range, 2) Murphy stumbles a bit, clutching the stump with his left hand, 3) Emil Antonowsky shoots Murphy's entire right arm off at the shoulder with another shotgun, 4) Emil and the other gang members - Joe Cox, Steve Minh and Leon Nash - empty their shotguns into Murphy's torso, 5) Murphy is still not dead (probably because he's got a bulletproof vest on), so Boddicker pulls a pistol and puts a bullet in his head at point-blank range (which probably qualifies as a MercyKill at this point).
* Ending of ''Film/BonnieAndClyde'', with the titular characters being ambushed by a posse. Except this is also TruthInTelevision.
* Similarly, most of the hero deaths in ''Film/{{Dillinger}}'' apply, though Pretty Boy Floyd (repeatedly machine gunned as he runs across a field) and Homer Van Meter (shot by a dozen heavily-armed farmers) deserve special mention.
* In ''Film/BigGame'', Hazar seems fond of it.
** He shoots the tour guide with a surface-to-air missile designed to take down passenger planes, blowing up the man and a huge chunk of forest around him.
** The bomb he plants aboard Air Force One vaporizes the entire lake the plane's in -- and it's not like it's a small pond.
* In ''Film/RamboIV'' movie we are introduced to an un-exploded Tallboy bomb as the Mercenaries trek through the jungle toward the massacred Karen village. Later John Rambo sets up a Claymore next to the bomb while Burmese soldiers chase him. The Tallboy was developed by the British in [=WW2=] (more specifically, by Barnes Wallis, he of the Dambusters' Bouncing Bomb) to destroy hardened bunkers and was at the time the single most concentrated repository of High-Explosive in a single weapon. The Claymore by itself is capable of invoking the ChunkySalsaRule on everyone within a dozen yards, when it went off and caused the Tallboy to sympathetically detonate the results were... impressive.
** At one point Rambo commandeers a jeep turret on which sits a Browning A2 ''anti-aircraft'' machine gun. The first thing he does is absolutely ''destroy'' another soldier in the jeep by liberally unloading into him about two dozen rounds, from a gun whose ''each'' bullet will blow a ''big'' hole into a human torso. Sure enough, the soldier's bottom half - and some gore on the gun's shield - are all that's left. Rambo then directs the gun's absurd firepower onto the infantry below, causing LudicrousGibs aplenty.
** During said gunfight Rambo notices a patrol boat and targets it with the machine gun, utterly annihilating the crew and making it wholly inoffensive. The Karen rebels, not quite content with that, blow it sky-high with a rocket launcher.
* ''Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice'': Team America uses machine guns, rocket launchers, and missiles to kill terrorists, even if they are in a crowded city. They wind up destroying all the monuments and destroying the town, but hey, the bad guys are dead!
* In the Robert Rodriguez film adaptation of Creator/FrankMiller's ''Film/SinCity'' the character Hartigan, after knifing one of the primary villains of the piece in the gut and proceeding to [[spoiler:"take his weapons away from him...''[[GroinAttack both]]'' [[GroinAttack of them,]]" graphically and with his bare hands, then begins to brutally beat the bad guy's face in until "After a while all I'm doing is punching wet chips of bone into the floorboards. So I stop."]]
** He ''did'' take Junior's other 'weapon' away once already, ineffectively, some years ago. This time, he was just making sure.
* In ''Film/SukiyakiWesternDjango'', Hiyomuri shoots a boy's father dead in front of him, then shoots him 4 more times once he's hit the ground and his wife is crouching over the body, who he then [[AttemptedRape attempts]] to rape because he likes the look of her bathed in her husband's blood.
* In ''Film/PetSemataryTwo'', after Edward Furlong's father kills the revived corpse of the sheriff, he leaves the house to go to search for his son. But just as he's about to open the door to his pickup, he stops, goes back in the house, empties the clip, ''reloads'', empties the clip ''again'', ''then'' leaves in his pickup! Zombies: Always Make Sure.
* In ''Film/TheGamers'', the protagonists {{backstab}} an old rival with a ballista.
* Mr. Grocer's favorite method of assassination in ''Film/GrossePointeBlank''.
* In ''Film/{{Outlander}}'', Kainan's people do orbital bombardment on a planet just to kill its natural inhabitants. Of course, given the amount of damage a single Moorwen did to the colony, this is perhaps a JustifiedTrope in retrospect.
* ''Film/FreddyVsJason''
** One of Jason's first victims is the {{Jerkass}} Trey, who he impales somewhere around a half-dozen times with his machete. Afterward, noticing Trey's death spasms, Jason sets down his machete, grabs both ends of the bed, and breaks it (and Trey) in half.
** Let's just say it; Jason Voorhees is the patron saint of this trope. Especially when played by Creator/KaneHodder.
** In ''Film/FridayThe13thTheFinalChapter'', Tommy Jarvis hacks Jason Voorhees into little pieces. Then, in ''Part VI'', he comes back, and impales him with a rod. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero That probably wasn't such a good idea.]]
* ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'':
** ''Film/HalloweenTheCurseOfMichaelMyers'' has Michael preparing to kill a bunch of sanitarium employees by overlooking a tray filled with medical tools. At first, it looks like he's going to grab a scalpel, but, having apparently gotten tips from Jason Voorhees, he decides to grab a huge machete (that was there for some reason) instead.
** In Music/RobZombie's ''Film/HalloweenII2009'', Michael stabs a nurse in the back. And then does it again. And again, and again, until after about an entire minute filled with stabbings, he rams the knife into her skull and leaves it stuck there.
* Portrayed in a video game within ''Film/InsideMan''. A young boy makes his alter ego shoot many times at what must be an already dead man's head, and then he puts a grenade in the man's mouth. The lead bank robber, who is chatting with him at the time, is appalled.
* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''
** In ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'', Logan brings down a helicopter and its mutant operator, who is then incapacitated and trapped. He could use his adamantium claws to stab his helpless victim, but decides instead to blow up the entire helicopter in a [[ImpressivePyrotechnics massive display of pyrotechnics]].
** In ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', this seems to be the Future Sentinel’s general philosophy when taking out targets. As such they commit a string of ruthlessly brutal and outright cruel executions during the film, seemingly to ensure their targets are taken out for good. There is some cold justification for this considering how much punishment some mutants can take, though it doesn't make what they do any less horrific.
* ''Film/TheNakedGun''
** In the first movie, [[spoiler:the BigBad falls to his death. Then is run over by a bus. And then crushed by a steamroller. And then trampled by a marching band playing "Louie Louie".]] And Drebin's boss starts to cry, saying "My father went the same way!"
** At the beginning of the same movie, O. J. Simpson's character is shot six times, then hits his head on a pipe, burns his hand on a stove, leans against a freshly painted door, gets his other hand caught in a window, falls face first into a wedding cake, and then steps in a bear trap before finally falling into the harbor. He survives.
** During a rooftop gunfight in the sequel, Nordberg (O. J. Simpson) assembles his weapon: It starts a [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Naked_Gun_2_1/2:_The_Smell_of_Fear_,_The#Desert_Eagle Desert Eagle pistol]], turns into an [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Naked_Gun_2_1/2:_The_Smell_of_Fear_,_The#M60 M60 machine gun]], then a [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Naked_Gun_2_1/2:_The_Smell_of_Fear_,_The#Browning_M1919A4 Browning M1919A4]], and finally a [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Naked_Gun_2_1/2:_The_Smell_of_Fear_,_The#Bofors_40mm_Anti_Aircraft_Gun Bofors 40mm AA gun]]. He fires it once immediately after the gunfight is over, blowing a hole in a building.
* ''Film/StarTrek'':
** The Narada, Nero's ship, is capable of wiping out whole fleets of ''Klingon Warbirds'' and drilling down to a planet's core. (The drill is left over from when it used to be a mining ship.) As soon as he gets his hands on Red Matter, a [[spoiler:substance that can create artificial black holes]], his raging overkill tendencies just get that much worse. [[spoiler:He starts destroying planets with it.]] Just a bit of an OmnicidalManiac.
** At the end of the film, [[spoiler:the ''destruction'' of the Narada is another example. After Spock crashes Spock Prime's ship into the Narada, its payload of Red Matter detonates into a colossal black hole that the Narada is conveniently at the center of. After Nero spits in the face of [[SaveTheVillain Kirk's offer to evacuate his ship]], the Enterprise finishes the job by [[MoreDakka unloading upon the Narada with its entire arsenal]].]]
* ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'': Used multiple times.
** Early in the movie, when the swarm attacks the ''Enterprise,'' thousands of impacts effortlessly overwhelm her shields and systematically strip her of deflectors, phasers, FTL propulsion and impulse drive, forcing her to crash on the planet.
** Kirk gets some payback by [[DroppedABridgeOnHim flipping the entire wrecked saucer on Krall's accomplice responsible for luring the ship to the nebula,]] smashing her like an insignificant bug under the ship's bulk.
** Krall's murder of Ensign Syl using a weapon of mass destruction.
** The even larger swarm attack against Starbase Yorktown
** Kirk finally gets his back when he uses Creator/TheBeastieBoys to [[TitleDrop sabotage]] the swarm with ThePowerOfRock.
** And finally, the same WMD kills off Krall except for the Starfleet emblem that he was wearing on his chest.
* ''Franchise/StarWars''
** ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'': After Aalya Secura is shot by the Clone troopers, they continue to shoot at her dead body afterwards.
** ''Film/ANewHope'' has the [[WaveMotionGun Death Star Superlaser]] The amount of energy required to destroy a planet is some eight - nine orders of magnitude greater than what killed the dinosaurs, and seven - eight more than required to just kill everyone. And the Death Star gives five - six orders of magnitude more than '''that'''. Not to mention, that they could have cracked the surface, or burned away the atmosphere, using a lot less resources (A Hyperdrive with the safety's turned off, for instance).
*** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by the kind of defenses planets in the ''StarWars'' galaxy may have: Alderaan had a planetary shield that survived the Superlaser blast for a tenth of second. The designers ''still'' went overboard, but they had a reason for that.
*** Darth Vader: Don't be too proud of this [[ThatsNoMoon technological terror]] you've created. The ability to [[EarthShatteringKaboom destroy a planet]] is insignificant next to the power of [[SentientCosmicForce the Force.]]
*** Also justified by the fact that it was supposed to be a massively vulgar display of power which would get the attention of anyone even considering revolt. Much of the ExpandedUniverse states that they succeeded, but not quite the way Tarkin had hoped. His intention was that everyone would be too scared to oppose the Empire. (In his own words, "Fear will keep the local systems in line. Fear of this battle station.") Instead he inspired more anger than fear. Lord Vader, being [[TheDarkSide quite the expert in both anger and fear]], probably anticipated this but wasn't particularly bothered by it.
** ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' gives us Starkiller Base, which goes one step further than the Death Star and blows up every damn planet in a given star system at once -- from halfway across the galaxy! The power issues do get addressed here, though: the base is solar-powered, as in it ''absorbs a star'' to fuel its weapon... and if you take a look at the novelization, you find it ''rips its targets down to the subatomic level and scatters them across all the Universe and back''.
** ''Film/RogueOne'' has Tarkin using the [[WaveMotionGun Death Star Superlaser]] to get rid of Krennic. It also qualifies as complete overkill as a measure to deal with the Rebels on Scarif, as there were less than a hundred actually on the planet's atmosphere at the time the weapon was fired while thousands of Imperial personnel were present and most of the Rebels had already been killed by those Imperial troops. The superlaser is literally fired ''directly'' through the antenna deck where the wounded Krennic is lying, and seeing as that was a less than ideal aiming point to wipe out the remaining Rebels (though the sheer size of the shockwave did the job anyway) there's no way this was a coincidence.
** ''Film/TheLastJedi'': [[spoiler: When Luke walks out on the battlefield alone to meet Kylo Ren, [[CombatPragmatist Kylo]] doesn't mess around: he orders the entire First Order army to blast Luke to smithereens.]]
---> [[spoiler: '''General Hux''':]] [[spoiler: [[DeadpanSnarker Do you think we got him?]]]]
*** [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when Luke survives the rain of lasers thanks to the fact that [[AstralProjection he was not technically present]]. When the smoke clears, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny he calmly brushes a bit of dust off his robes.]]]]
* In ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective'', Ratigan tries to dispose of Basil with an overkill-tastic DeathTrap including a mousetrap, a crossbow, an axe, a gun (given that the characters are mice, it's more like a ''cannon''), and a falling anvil, noting that he couldn't decide which method would be best... so he used them all. [[spoiler:Of course, Basil is able to use the various parts of the trap against each other and escape.]]
* ''Film/ErnestScaredStupid''
** Ernest goes to his con-artist friends for help and they sell him an enormous amount of fake anti-troll equipment. [[spoiler:It turns out he only needed milk]], but it's still impressively like overkill.
-->'''Ernest''': (coming down the stairs with what looks like a whole lot of fishing gear, strapped with wires and making whirring sounds.) You see before you the state-of-the-art troll-fighter of tomorrow. This multi-directional unitized high-tech fighting machine is toll-free, mucus-free and comes equipped with fifteenmillion megabytes of double-density wayfer-thin alloy forming a virtual reality of modern troll extermination. (He heaves the large device he's carrying gun-like on his shoulder into his hands in a dramatic pose.) Need I say more? (He glances down at Lady Hackmoore who is decidedly unimpressed).
** Really, for not knowing about [[spoiler:the whole milk thing]], Ernest had overkill coming out the whazzoo. He set up traps in dumpsters for that troll!
--->'''Tom:''' Fourteen cans of troll-away spray nineteen ninety-five apiece. Two Bolivian Army slingshots, nine ninety-five each... troll ninja ninchucks... slime-proof troll gloves... chopped troll bait... fifteen no-troll strips... one trolling motor... for a grand total of...\\
Ernest: Does that include the giant album of every troll love song ever written?
** Also, when they were building the treehouse. They had pizza tossers, dog-food gatling guns and a helicopter bomber.
* The fate of [[spoiler:Cyrus the Virus]] in ''Film/ConAir'': beaten to within an inch of his life, smashed through a bridge on the extended ladder of a moving firetruck, gets electrocuted after he falls off the ladder, dumped on a conveyor belt, and his head smashed by a piledriver (the machine, not the wrestling move). He doesn't get better.
* ''Film/{{District 9}}'' features several varieties of alien weapons. Most result in LudicrousGibs, all work on this principle. And it is ''oh so satisfying.''
* In ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'', [[spoiler:Hitler and Goebbels]] were riddled with bullets, blown up with dynamite, and [[spoiler:the cinema they were in]] was burned to the ground. [[spoiler:Other high-ranking Nazi officers]] suffered similar fates as well, although not as bad.
* Creator/KennethBranagh's version of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''. Hamlet not only stabs Claudius with his fencing sword, he also drops a [[FallingChandelierOfDoom chandelier]] on him and, while Claudius is pinned down by said chandelier, force-feeds him poison.
* The ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' series:
** In ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', Ripley recommends [[NukeEm nuking the site from orbit]] to make absolutely sure that no xenomorphs escape.
** In ''Film/AlienResurrection'', Johner shoots at a little spider with his sidearm.
* In the spoof film ''Film/WrongfullyAccused'', Creator/LeslieNielsen's character is convicted of a murder he didn't commit, and is sentenced to be executed "buffet style": Hanged, lethally-injected, electrocuted, and placed before a firing squad.
* Creator/StevenSeagal is made of this trope. See the climax of ''Film/MarkedForDeath''. Seagal grabs the BigBad, [[EyeScream gouges out his eyes using his thumbs]], throws him through a wall, breaks his back over his knee, and finally sends him down an elevator shaft, where ''he lands on a spike.''
* ''Film/KingDinosaur'' has a group of astronauts exploring a rogue planet that's drifted into the solar system, and discovering a [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever giant iguana]] among its native animals. After being forced to flee from it, one of the astronauts calmy announces "I've brought the atom bomb", and they proceed to ''nuke'' the giant lizard. As stock footage of a mushroom cloud fills the screen, the heroes proudly announce, without a trace of irony, that "we've brought civilization to Nova."
* ''Film/FinalDestination1'': After the cast cheats Death, they begin to die off one by one. Most of these deaths were simple [[spoiler:death by bus, decapitation, etc.]], except for one. [[spoiler:For some reason, Death seems to really hate Ms. Lewton, the teacher. First her computer explodes, which lodges a sharp piece of glass into her throat, then the spark from the explosion causes fire which spreads inside her house. As she staggers, she falls down and manages to get stabbed by her own kitchen knife, then the gas cooker door blows open, spewing out gas. Then to top it all off, thanks to the gas, the entire house explodes.]] Sure you don't want to divert a meteorite to crash into the wreckage just to be absolutely sure, Death?
* ''DerClown - Payday'':
** How do you kill the remaining two villains? [[spoiler:Bomb the two-engined cargo plane they're in with gold bars until it [[StuffBlowingUp explodes]] [[ImpressivePyrotechnics in a huge fireball]]]].
** In the pilot of the series, they're shooting bazookas at people during one shootout.
* In ''Film/GhostbustersII'', we learn that [[BigBad Vigo the Carpathian]] was "poisoned, stabbed, shot, hung, stretched, disemboweled, & drawn and quartered" (replied [[DeadpanSnarker Peter Venkman]] upon hearing this, "[[{{Understatement}} Ouch."]]). After all that, he still managed to say a few words before his head died...basically declaring that even ''this'' wouldn't be enough eventually. [[spoiler:He came darn close.]]
* The SelfDestructMechanism for ''Anime/ResidentEvilDegeneration'' probably counts. In sequence, it consists of: drenching the contaminated areas, up to and including the whole facility, in flammable decontamination fluid, igniting said fluid, dropping the contaminated sections down a 3000ft deep shaft, blowing them up again, and then, if the whole place is contaminated, sealing everything under a steel cover thick and tough enough to withstand a nuclear blast. Admittedly, they are working with some of the most lethal infectious pathogens on the planet, but it's still a little overboard. Considering what has happened in ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' before when these lethal infectious pathogens get out, you can never be too careful.
* ''Film/UndercoverBrother'''s [[spoiler:Mr. Feather is dropped out of a helicopter over the ocean. Just before falling hundreds of feet (the impact alone of which would've killed him instantly) a great white shark leaps out of the water, and eats him.]]
* In ''Film/ThreeHundred'' and ''Film/{{Hero}}'', [[spoiler:Leonidas and Nameless are each killed with a RainOfArrows plentiful enough to fell a whole regiment. Though in Leonidas' case, he was with a regiment. Most of them had died by that point, but still!]]
* The captain of the salvage team in ''Film/EventHorizon'', after having found out that the titular ship [[spoiler:was possessed by infernal forces]], was inclined to fire missiles at it until it's vaporised.
* In ''Film/{{Shooter}}'', a GunNut recounts the story of a sniper who was infamous for his brutality on the battlefield. The opposing side despised him so much that when they corner the sniper in the building, instead of trying to flush him out, they just bombarded it with enough artillery to level an entire city block. This is standard tactics for dealing with snipers, just not usually while they're in urban areas.
* ''Film/LettersFromIwoJima'' is a rare example of overkill being shown from the ''receiving'' end.
** It's [[POVSequel POV Prequel]], ''Film/FlagsOfOurFathers'' shows the business end in detail for around half a minute. Everything from medium caliber AntiAir guns to the largest-caliber 16-inch battleship shells are practically thrown at the island in full force, both before ''and'' during the invasion of Iwo Jima.
* ''Franchise/DieHard'':
** The series has VERY pragmatic "terrorists" (there's always a twist on what they really are in each movie, usually thieves). Even when [=McClane=] was a nobody, and when the bad guys thought it was just a random guy, they took no chances and attempted to kill him several times, prompting John's ProperlyParanoid moments on the walkie talkie.
** Then there's a scene in [[Film/DieHard2 the second movie]] where the bad guys shoot at an airplane cockpit with machine guns, filling it with bullet holes, and then ''throw all their grenades'' just for good measure. When they see him parachuting out of the explosion, they just call him (again pragmatically) "[[NoOneCouldSurviveThat Lucky Bastard]]".
* ''Film/{{Swarmed}}''
** One character goes after a wasp with a double-barreled shotgun after it kills her boss, the mayor. It takes three tries, but she does eventually kill it... after destroying a chandelier, corkboard, and an office chair.
** Later they graduate to flamethrowers, and end up blowing up the swarm with about six propane tanks. Soaked in lighter fluid.
* ''Film/InBruges'': Ray kills [[spoiler:the priest]] with many, many gunshots, even though he was at close range. [[spoiler:A few of those unnecessary shots had gone off-target and ''killed a little kid.'']]
* What does it take to defeat [[Series/KamenRiderBlack Shadow Moon]] in ''[[Series/KamenRiderDecade All Riders vs. Dai Shocker]]''? The All Rider Kick - twenty-six [[FinishingMove Rider Kicks]], performed ''en masse'' by the protagonists of every ''Kamen Rider'' series from the original through ''Decade''. Overkill? Sure. CrowningMomentOfAwesome? You bet your ScarfOfAssKicking it is.
* The death of a revived [[Film/KamenRiderZO Doras]] in the ''Decade'' [[TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised finale movie]] isn't quite as over-the-top, but close. He gets taken out by [[spoiler:no less than twelve Kamen Riders, ten of whom were in their [[SuperMode Super Modes]], hitting him with their respective finishing attacks]].
** A feat nearly equaled in the ''[[Series/KamenRiderDenO Chou Den-O Trilogy]]'', where [[Series/KamenRiderDecade Diend's]] Complete Form summons copies of eight movie-exclusive Riders, with all nine of them performing their finishers ''en masse''. The opponent in question wasn't even nearly as strong as Doras, making this an even bigger case of overkill.
* Subverted, sort of, in ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'':
-->'''ACME Chairman:''' You see, if the Train of Death doesn't kill him, then those crates of TNT will. Not to mention the 2-tonne anvil hanging over his head, and- Oh, look. There's the Pendulum of Doom! What's the Pendulum of Doom doing there?! I did not order the Pendulum of Doom! It's overkill! Get rid of it!
** He's talking to Wile E. Coyote, by the way.
* In the climactic shootout of Creator/JohnWoo's ''Film/ABetterTomorrow II'', one mook gets shot more than ''20'' times.
* In ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop'', drug dealer Victor Maitland gets shot about twenty times by Foley and Bogomil at the climax.
* In ''Film/TheTransporter'', there's an attempt at killing Frank Martin at home. Since he's got a reputation of being badass, it involves [[MoreDakka thousands of machine gun rounds]] and [[MacrossMissileMassacre three missiles]]. He survives by [[spoiler:simply not being there]].
* ''Film/TheMatrix'':
** The helicopter scene is this. Then again, shooting at [[ImplacableMan Agents]] with a [[GatlingGood minigun]] for several seconds straight is [[JustifiedTrope absolutely justified]].
** And the famous lobby scene. You really start to wonder whether the advantages of carrying a loaded and ready gun outweigh the rather more severe disadvantages of having far less ammunition to work with, as well as the sheer amount of weight and bulk that carrying over a dozen guns would impose on the wearer.
* After Harley knocks out Brother Bob with [[HoistByHisOwnPetard his own monster truck]] in ''Film/MonsterMan'', Adam takes the wheel and proceeds to drive over him again and again until he is nothing but [[SquashedFlat bloody paste]].
* Burt Gummer of the ''Tremors'' franchise lives and breathes this trope.
** In the first ''Film/{{Tremors}}'', he and his wife unload multiple machine guns, assault rifles, an elephant gun, and even a flare gun into a Graboid. Then, he makes home made bombs that're powerful enough to make their guts airborne when exploded underground.
** In ''Film/Tremors2Aftershocks'', he kills his first Graboid with 4 pounds of C-4 (which even he admits was excessive). And then kills another with a cluster bomb. Then, he shoots one of the Shriekers with a .50 caliber anti-tank gun with a solid bronze bullet (though that one was justified in that it was the last bullet he had). Then they detonate 4.5 tons of high-explosives and reduce an entire oil refinery to a large crater to kill the remaining Shriekers.
** In ''Film/Tremors3BackToPerfection'', he blows up his entire house to kill a single Ass Blaster. [[spoiler:And then he finds out it was completely unneccessary.]]
** In ''Film/Tremors4TheLegendBegins'', his ancestor buys a 2-inch bore Punt Gun and uses that to kill a Graboid. (For the uninitiated, a Punt Gun is a big...big shotgun. Sort of MoreDakka, but only needing one pull of a trigger. The name come from the fact they were so large, to be used for their intended task they had to be mounted to flat-bottom boats known as 'punts'. Oh, and their purpose? Harvesting entire flocks of ducks....with one shot.)
* ''Film/ThePunisher2004'': Castle just doesn't kill Howard Saint, but also just about everything Saint cares about. [[spoiler:He sabotages Saint's money-laundering operations and then gives the money away. He then causes a rift with Saint's Cuban partners. After following both Saint's wife Livia and his best friend Quentin Glass, he creates the illusion that the two of them are having an affair behind Howard's back (despite the fact that Quentin is gay). When Howard finds out thanks to Mickey (who is Castle's mole), he stabs Quentin to death and then throws Livia over a bridge; she survives the fall but can't get off the train tracks in time and gets run over by a train. After he kills all of Saint's men in the club, he rigs a trip-wire grenade and forces his son John to hold up the grenade, where he eventually tires out and is blown up. An injured Howard tries to run, but Castle ties him to a car and sends it towards a parking lot, where he has rigged several hidden bombs that blow up as the car dragging Howard passes by, which light Howard on fire before that car blows up and we get an overview shot of the flames in the shape of the Punisher's iconic skull]]. Saint's an asshole that had it coming to him, but damn, what an example of overkill. To top it all off, Castle calmly explains it all in detail to Saint before finishing him off.
** Overkill for an Overkill... [[spoiler:the Saints, Glass included, were being Punished for killing his ENTIRE FAMILY, I'm talking at least 3 whole generations, as payback for the accidental death of their son during criminal activity.]]
* MemeticBadass Samuel L. Jackson describes this phenomenon perfectly in ''Film/JackieBrown'':
--> '''Ordell Robbie''': AK-47: the very best there is. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherfucker in the room, accept no substitutes.
* In ''Film/TheRaid'', Jaka kills a mook with three point-blank headshots. When the residents attack the SWAT van, they open up on full-auto and just keep firing.
* The Jericho missile, in ''Film/IronMan''. To elaborate, Tony Stark built a missile that can flatten an entire mountain, ''and it isn't nuclear''. Nope. It's just one large missile that splits into a thousand smaller warheads. The shockwave from the demo blasted off the generals' caps from the horizon.
-->'''Tony Stark''': They say the best weapon is one you never have to fire. I respectfully disagree. I prefer the weapon you only have to fire once.
* The poor {{Mook}} from ''Film/TheExpendables2''. After rounding a corner, he happens to meet up with the entire crew, who have just made mincemeat out of a small army of bad guys. He gets ventilated by every one of them at once.
-->'''Barney:''' Rest in pieces.
* ''Film/TheUsualSuspects'': "He lets the last Hungarian go. He waits until his wife and kids are in the ground and then he goes after the rest of the mob. He kills their kids, he kills their wives, he kills their parents and their parents' friends. He burns down the houses they live in and the stores they work in, he kills people that owe them money. And like that he was gone."
* The opening death scene of the two girls in ''Film/{{Suspiria}}''.
* In ''Film/{{Dredd}}'': [[spoiler:Ma-Ma uses a set of three supercharged ''Gatling guns'' to absolutely ''decimate'' an entire level of the block.]] This actually ends up as a plot point, as Dredd realizes no one would go to such lengths to kill a Judge unless they had something big to protect.
* ''Film/PacificRim'': How do you DoubleTap a {{kaiju}}? You fire your plasma cannon into its chest until most of its torso is a burning skeleton. Granted, Raleigh had a ''very'' good reason for this [[spoiler: his brother Yancy got killed at the beginning of the movie when a {{kaiju}} they thought dead turned out to have a quite a bit more fight left.]]
* ''Film/HardTicketToHawaii'' has an assassin who rides around on a skateboard carrying a gun in one hand and a blowup-doll in the other. The heroes hit him with a truck. While he is flying through the air, they blow him up with a rocket launcher. Then they blow up the doll with another rocket.
* Dieter Von Cunth from ''Film/MacGruber'' after he survives getting his hideout blown up and attacks [=MacGruber=] at his wedding, [=MacGruber=] headbutts him off a cliff, shoots him half a dozen times as he falls, when he lands he hits his head on a rock splitting it open and spilling his brains out, [=MacGruber=] then blows up his corpse with a grenade launcher then pisses on it.
* Virgil's death by interrogation in ''Film/TrueRomance'': Virgil beats up Alabama, trying to find out where Clarence and the drugs he stole from Drexl Spivey are. Throwing her into the shower, she blinds him with shampoo, hits him over the head with the toilet cover, then sprays him with hairspray, stabs him once, and blasts him to hell with a shotgun, and once she's used up all the shells, strikes him with the shotgun barrel for good measure.
* In the first ever animated Disney film, ''Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'', the evil queen is struck by lightning (well, really it strikes the cliff she's standing on). She [[DisneyVillainDeath falls over the cliff]], and the boulder rolls off after her. What's left of her is presumably scavenged by vultures afterwards.
* ''Film/ConanTheDestroyer'': after Conan [[AttackItsWeakPoint rips off Dagoth's horn]], he impales the slain monster's head with his sword, prompting the theme music to swell triumphantly. Malak, the LovableCoward and shameless glory hound, decides to get in on the action and stabs the dead monster with his tiny dagger, causing the triumphant theme music to swell all over again.
* The climax of ''Literature/AllTheKingsMen'': after Willie Starke is shot by Adam Stanton, Starke's bodyguards empty their handguns into Stanton. This isn't enough, as [[TheCavalryArrivesLate several state troopers belatedly arrive]] and fire ''Tommy guns'' into Stanton's body. Since the book and movie were based on Huey Long, it's very much TruthInTelevision.
* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'': unsurprisingly, many, many examples in this series
** Let's start with the [[Film/{{Transformers}} first movie]]:
*** Megatron wakes up after being frozen for years. His first action? Murder ''every human'' that he can.
*** Frenzy vs humans in a small locked room. He has two machine guns built into his arms. They all have shotguns. Then Agent Simmons grabs a '''flamethrower''', and Frenzy [[HoistByHisOwnPetard gets his head torn off by his discus weapon]].
*** Brawl's defeats and eventual death. Arm chopped off by Ratchet. Shot up over and over again by Jazz and humans. A grenade detonated against his chest, knocking him out. Once he gets up, is ''still'' getting shot up by humans, and then gets his spark blown out by Bumblebee's plasma cannon. Lennox puts it best:
----> That thing is definitely dead now.
** ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'':
*** Sideswipe of the Autobots takes on (possible dimension-hopper) Sideways of the Decepticons. Does he shoot him? Does he stab him? Does he cut him in half like a lot of deaths in these movies? How about all ''three''? First he flips into the air and shoots, perforated his car mode bilaterally. Then, he launches his sword down into the other's hood '''while in midair''', hits the ground with both wheels, spins, grabs the sword, and ''bisects this mofo lengthwise''.
----> Damn I'm good.
*** Three Decepticons take on Optimus Prime. They are [[BigBad Megatron]], [[TheStarscream Starscream]], and some other guy we don't care about, [[TheBigGuy but he's huge]]. '''Optimus still almost wins'''. He mutilates Starscream, rips off the Big Guy's face, and brutally beats Megatron. But he's also kicked in the face hard enough to shatter his face-plate. Then shot in the chest with enough force to launch him across the forest. And once the battle is over, Megatron sneaks up and '''stabs him through the chest''' while lifting him in the air. Oh, and the blade is attached to a gun, which Megatron then shoots off. The hole it leaves is big enough to walk through.
*** Epps calls for an airstrike. Cue the B-2 Bombers laying down a carpet of explosives thick enough to block out the sun, followed by a display of ImpressivePyrotechnics that actually set a record for biggest practical explosion in a movie.
*** He doesn't kill Megatron, but at the end Optimus hands him his metal ass pretty good. A straight-up beat down with guns and swords first. Then he twists Megatron's gun/sword arm around and uses it to ''shoot off half his face''. Finally, Optimus uses the jet engines on his back to blast Megatron through a wall. The Decepticon leader is missing one arm, half his face, and various other parts of his body. His response? "''Starrrrschream!''"
** ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'':
*** Megatron's plans. As TheDragon to the Fallen, he started a war on Cybertron to eventually take over the galaxy for his master. The Allspark was key to victory in that war. But in the event it was destroyed, he already had a deal with the Fallen to use the last Star Harvester to get more energon. Except he was playing his master. Really he just wanted Optimus to get the Matrix so the Autobots could bring back Sentinel Prime, which would lead to their own destruction when Sentinel switched sides.
*** Sentinel has a rust gun that causes any metal to dissolve. When he switches sides, he shoots Ironhide with it not once, not twice, but ''three fucking times!'' Immediately before that, he gave a short BreakingSpeech to the Autobots and Humans. Between the second and third shots, he gets in a PreMortemOneLiner.
----> I hereby discharge you from duty.
*** This film does a pretty good job of [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructing]] the idea of an alien invasion. As such, the Invasion of Chicago is ''filled'' with overkill. The Decepticons have [[FlyingAircraftCarrier Flying Aircraft Carriers]], several types of airships, hundreds if not thousands of troops, and a giant metal worm that tears through rock like tissue paper. They unleash it all on Chicago. When they're done, the city resembles the radioactive Chernobyl site from the film's opening. The Decepticons also seem to enjoy shooting at random buildings and small groups of civilians with their fighter-ships.
*** On that note, the Decepticons' weapons are this for humans. While they might do a lot less damage to Cybertronians, the Con's weapons unleash pulses of energy (instead of simple plasma blasts, bullets, or lasers) which ''rip a human's flesh from their bones'', and then ''completely shatter'' most of said bones into fine powder. Without a GoryDiscretionShot by the way.
*** Shockwave's death. First he gets his eye sniped at by humans. Then another group of humans appears in the building right next to him and blasts him with enough machine gun fire to tear off half his armor. Then Optimus Prime comes in and uses some brass-knuckle-like weapon to gouge out his guts. Then the Prime reaches around to behind his neck, grabs the bundle of wires that is like a cross between optic nerve and spinal cord, and ''rips it out''. To add insult to injury, he uses Shockwave's own cannon to shoot down the Space Bridge Pillar.
** ''Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction'':
*** Ratchet's fate. Poor Ratchet. He's hiding in the smokestack of an old steamer ship when its blown up by humans. Then when he tries to get away, he's shot up with missiles and machine guns, forcing him to transform. His leg is blown off. He pleads with the humans to have mercy, because he is, after all, ''just a medic''. Then Lockdown gets involved. Between him and the humans, Ratchet is reduced to little more than a torso with some limb stumps hanging off. Then Lockdown pulls Ratchet's spark out from his chest and crushes it. Oh, and after he's dead? The humans who helped kill him ''sell his parts'' to a company that ''melts them down''. Optimus was '''pissed''' when he found out.
*** Hound seems quite fond of [[InvokedTrope invoking this trope]]. He threatens to splatter Joshua Joice, hits an alien bug thing with a plasma blast that makes it explode (just because it sneezed on him), and kills a ton of KSI Prototypes with more force than reasonably necessary. He also shoots his guns into the air to celebrate Optimus' return, and shouts with joy at the sight of giant (by Autobot standards even) robot dinosaurs ''obliterating'' the Prototypes.
* In ''Film/LifeBlood'', Brooke stabs Warren 87 times; a fact that Rhea does not learn until she hears it on the television, and which seems to discredit Brooke's claim that it was self-defence.
to:
-->'''Alfred:''' We burned the forest down.
* The 2010 LiveActionAdaptation of [[Anime/UchuuSenkanYamato Space Battleship Yamato]] seems to run on this trope. The ship is armed with [[MoreDakka enough gun turrets to throw a wall of bullets in every direction]] and destroys an entire fleet this way. Not to mention the ship's iconic {{BFG}}, the WaveMotionGun is powerful enough to create a massive shockwave that creates a crater when it's fired near the Earth's surface. And that says nothing about the damage it does to the enemy ship on the receiving end. Then there's the powerful tremors felt in the Earth Defense Forces underground base, knocking out nearly all communications.
* As [[Film/TheATeam Hannibal]] so eloquently put it, "overkill is underrated."
* The ''Film/JamesBond'' films are archetypal for their rather messy deaths, although most of them are not caused by Bond himself or are {{Karmic Death}}s. Then ''Film/LicenceToKill'' upped the ante with a DarkerAndEdgier Bond who had no qualms with dispatching enemies in the most violent way possible, culminating with sending the BigBad to Hell via an exploding tanker truck.
** [[ChronicallyCrashedCar Bond's cars]] [[WatchThePaintJob are a special case themselves]] - [[Film/ForYourEyesOnly a self-destructing Lotus]], [[Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough a BMW being sawn in half]], [[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 an Aston Martin that gets rotated 7 times]], [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} a brand-new Lincoln Continental being crushed into a cube]]...
** A prominent example of a villain choosing overkill is [[Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe Karl Stromberg]], who has a table gun in his dining room designed to fire an explosive projectile [[GroinAttack straight into the crotch of whoever's across from him]]. Bond manages to dodge the shot and shoves his PPK into the tube to show him what he thinks of the idea...
** Let's not forget [[Film/{{Moonraker}} Hugo Drax]], who gets shot with a poison dart ''and'' [[ThrownOutTheAirlock ejected into space]], leaving a mystery as to what killed him first - poison or asphyxiation?
** Also, in ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'', Bond just barely talks his way out of being [[ConveyorBeltOfDoom burned in half with a laser]]--[[GroinAttack starting at his crotch]]. Goldfinger, taking no chances the next time, handcuffs him to an [[NukeEm atomic bomb]], which is then locked inside a bank vault, [[ProperlyParanoid just to make sure]].
* ''Film/TheGodfather'':
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJU2cz9ytPQ The death of Sonny Corleone ]] is the straightest example. Ambushed at a toll booth by a dozen [[RareGuns Tommy Gun]]-wielding gangsters, he is 1) shot several dozen times inside his car, 2) then shot some more outside the car, 3) then shot on the ground after he died, then 4) had his face kicked in for good measure. The commentary for the film confirms that this is all a justified trope: they wanted to make sure Sonny ''stayed dead'', given that his elderly father Vito had been repeatedly shot earlier in the film and survived, and that Sonny was known to be a tough bastard. (The generally accepted number of times Sonny had been shot is 147, incidentally.)
** At the end of the movie, [[spoiler:the montage massacre of the heads of the Five Families during the Baptism scene, along with Moe Greene and Tattaglia's mistress who had the misfortune of sharing his bed at the wrong time... and Carlo Rizzi, Michael's brother-in-law, for his role in Sonny's death.]] The body count for the end of Part II is relatively minor compared to Part I [[spoiler:but aside from Hyman Roth's death, there was no real need for Michael to have the other two killed... [[MoralEventHorizon including his own brother Fredo]].]] It would take [[MoreDakka the mob boss massacre orchestrated by Joey Zaza]] in Part III to top the whole trilogy.
** In ''Film/TrainingDay'', [[spoiler:Alonzo Harris is a lesser version of this as a deliberate ShoutOut: first the Russians crash his car, then they shoot him in the car, and after Alonzo leaves the vehicle, battered, he is shot brutally on full-auto.]]
* ''Film/{{Predator}}'' might be a borderline case in that the protagonists are fighting an almost invisible opponent and just happen to have his approximate position known. But then, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ-EOg38t1o the six people are emptying]] two assault rifles, two sub-machine guns, a [[MoreDakka grenade launcher]], and a [[GatlingGood minigun]] at a patch of jungle over the next 40 seconds, all the while reloading and continuing to fire. And they didn't even get a good hit.
** This scene was utterly bizarre for a couple of reasons -1. only one of the characters even saw the creature or even had an idea of where it went. The rest just spend the entire time randomly shooting in the general direction just because Mac was doing so when they arrived. 2. The team was stuck in the jungle with only the resources they were carrying on their back. Considering #1, this seems like a tremendous waste of ammo. However, the very team itself could be considered to be this trope since they seem to be very well armed for what is supposed to be a commando extraction mission on foot. Not only do they have firearms, grenades, etc., they also have a significant amount of claymore mines and other explosives.
* ''Film/RoboCop1987'':
** Just about everything. Giving a security robot ''Gatling guns''? Sure, why not? How about making a new police robot as tall as a auditorium? Sure...
** Given that [=RoboCop=] was [[WeCanRebuildHim rebuilt]] from the remains of a murdered police officer, it was kind of a foregone conclusion that Alex Murphy would die in the line of duty in a very horrific way. When ambushed and taken captive by Clarence Boddicker and his gang in a steel mill, 1) Boddicker shoots Murphy's right hand off with a shotgun at point blank range, 2) Murphy stumbles a bit, clutching the stump with his left hand, 3) Emil Antonowsky shoots Murphy's entire right arm off at the shoulder with another shotgun, 4) Emil and the other gang members - Joe Cox, Steve Minh and Leon Nash - empty their shotguns into Murphy's torso, 5) Murphy is still not dead (probably because he's got a bulletproof vest on), so Boddicker pulls a pistol and puts a bullet in his head at point-blank range (which probably qualifies as a MercyKill at this point).
* Ending of ''Film/BonnieAndClyde'', with the titular characters being ambushed by a posse. Except this is also TruthInTelevision.
* Similarly, most of the hero deaths in ''Film/{{Dillinger}}'' apply, though Pretty Boy Floyd (repeatedly machine gunned as he runs across a field) and Homer Van Meter (shot by a dozen heavily-armed farmers) deserve special mention.
* In ''Film/BigGame'', Hazar seems fond of it.
** He shoots the tour guide with a surface-to-air missile designed to take down passenger planes, blowing up the man and a huge chunk of forest around him.
** The bomb he plants aboard Air Force One vaporizes the entire lake the plane's in -- and it's not like it's a small pond.
* In ''Film/RamboIV'' movie we are introduced to an un-exploded Tallboy bomb as the Mercenaries trek through the jungle toward the massacred Karen village. Later John Rambo sets up a Claymore next to the bomb while Burmese soldiers chase him. The Tallboy was developed by the British in [=WW2=] (more specifically, by Barnes Wallis, he of the Dambusters' Bouncing Bomb) to destroy hardened bunkers and was at the time the single most concentrated repository of High-Explosive in a single weapon. The Claymore by itself is capable of invoking the ChunkySalsaRule on everyone within a dozen yards, when it went off and caused the Tallboy to sympathetically detonate the results were... impressive.
** At one point Rambo commandeers a jeep turret on which sits a Browning A2 ''anti-aircraft'' machine gun. The first thing he does is absolutely ''destroy'' another soldier in the jeep by liberally unloading into him about two dozen rounds, from a gun whose ''each'' bullet will blow a ''big'' hole into a human torso. Sure enough, the soldier's bottom half - and some gore on the gun's shield - are all that's left. Rambo then directs the gun's absurd firepower onto the infantry below, causing LudicrousGibs aplenty.
** During said gunfight Rambo notices a patrol boat and targets it with the machine gun, utterly annihilating the crew and making it wholly inoffensive. The Karen rebels, not quite content with that, blow it sky-high with a rocket launcher.
* ''Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice'': Team America uses machine guns, rocket launchers, and missiles to kill terrorists, even if they are in a crowded city. They wind up destroying all the monuments and destroying the town, but hey, the bad guys are dead!
* In the Robert Rodriguez film adaptation of Creator/FrankMiller's ''Film/SinCity'' the character Hartigan, after knifing one of the primary villains of the piece in the gut and proceeding to [[spoiler:"take his weapons away from him...''[[GroinAttack both]]'' [[GroinAttack of them,]]" graphically and with his bare hands, then begins to brutally beat the bad guy's face in until "After a while all I'm doing is punching wet chips of bone into the floorboards. So I stop."]]
** He ''did'' take Junior's other 'weapon' away once already, ineffectively, some years ago. This time, he was just making sure.
* In ''Film/SukiyakiWesternDjango'', Hiyomuri shoots a boy's father dead in front of him, then shoots him 4 more times once he's hit the ground and his wife is crouching over the body, who he then [[AttemptedRape attempts]] to rape because he likes the look of her bathed in her husband's blood.
* In ''Film/PetSemataryTwo'', after Edward Furlong's father kills the revived corpse of the sheriff, he leaves the house to go to search for his son. But just as he's about to open the door to his pickup, he stops, goes back in the house, empties the clip, ''reloads'', empties the clip ''again'', ''then'' leaves in his pickup! Zombies: Always Make Sure.
* In ''Film/TheGamers'', the protagonists {{backstab}} an old rival with a ballista.
* Mr. Grocer's favorite method of assassination in ''Film/GrossePointeBlank''.
* In ''Film/{{Outlander}}'', Kainan's people do orbital bombardment on a planet just to kill its natural inhabitants. Of course, given the amount of damage a single Moorwen did to the colony, this is perhaps a JustifiedTrope in retrospect.
* ''Film/FreddyVsJason''
** One of Jason's first victims is the {{Jerkass}} Trey, who he impales somewhere around a half-dozen times with his machete. Afterward, noticing Trey's death spasms, Jason sets down his machete, grabs both ends of the bed, and breaks it (and Trey) in half.
** Let's just say it; Jason Voorhees is the patron saint of this trope. Especially when played by Creator/KaneHodder.
** In ''Film/FridayThe13thTheFinalChapter'', Tommy Jarvis hacks Jason Voorhees into little pieces. Then, in ''Part VI'', he comes back, and impales him with a rod. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero That probably wasn't such a good idea.]]
* ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'':
** ''Film/HalloweenTheCurseOfMichaelMyers'' has Michael preparing to kill a bunch of sanitarium employees by overlooking a tray filled with medical tools. At first, it looks like he's going to grab a scalpel, but, having apparently gotten tips from Jason Voorhees, he decides to grab a huge machete (that was there for some reason) instead.
** In Music/RobZombie's ''Film/HalloweenII2009'', Michael stabs a nurse in the back. And then does it again. And again, and again, until after about an entire minute filled with stabbings, he rams the knife into her skull and leaves it stuck there.
* Portrayed in a video game within ''Film/InsideMan''. A young boy makes his alter ego shoot many times at what must be an already dead man's head, and then he puts a grenade in the man's mouth. The lead bank robber, who is chatting with him at the time, is appalled.
* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''
** In ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'', Logan brings down a helicopter and its mutant operator, who is then incapacitated and trapped. He could use his adamantium claws to stab his helpless victim, but decides instead to blow up the entire helicopter in a [[ImpressivePyrotechnics massive display of pyrotechnics]].
** In ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', this seems to be the Future Sentinel’s general philosophy when taking out targets. As such they commit a string of ruthlessly brutal and outright cruel executions during the film, seemingly to ensure their targets are taken out for good. There is some cold justification for this considering how much punishment some mutants can take, though it doesn't make what they do any less horrific.
* ''Film/TheNakedGun''
** In the first movie, [[spoiler:the BigBad falls to his death. Then is run over by a bus. And then crushed by a steamroller. And then trampled by a marching band playing "Louie Louie".]] And Drebin's boss starts to cry, saying "My father went the same way!"
** At the beginning of the same movie, O. J. Simpson's character is shot six times, then hits his head on a pipe, burns his hand on a stove, leans against a freshly painted door, gets his other hand caught in a window, falls face first into a wedding cake, and then steps in a bear trap before finally falling into the harbor. He survives.
** During a rooftop gunfight in the sequel, Nordberg (O. J. Simpson) assembles his weapon: It starts a [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Naked_Gun_2_1/2:_The_Smell_of_Fear_,_The#Desert_Eagle Desert Eagle pistol]], turns into an [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Naked_Gun_2_1/2:_The_Smell_of_Fear_,_The#M60 M60 machine gun]], then a [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Naked_Gun_2_1/2:_The_Smell_of_Fear_,_The#Browning_M1919A4 Browning M1919A4]], and finally a [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Naked_Gun_2_1/2:_The_Smell_of_Fear_,_The#Bofors_40mm_Anti_Aircraft_Gun Bofors 40mm AA gun]]. He fires it once immediately after the gunfight is over, blowing a hole in a building.
* ''Film/StarTrek'':
** The Narada, Nero's ship, is capable of wiping out whole fleets of ''Klingon Warbirds'' and drilling down to a planet's core. (The drill is left over from when it used to be a mining ship.) As soon as he gets his hands on Red Matter, a [[spoiler:substance that can create artificial black holes]], his raging overkill tendencies just get that much worse. [[spoiler:He starts destroying planets with it.]] Just a bit of an OmnicidalManiac.
** At the end of the film, [[spoiler:the ''destruction'' of the Narada is another example. After Spock crashes Spock Prime's ship into the Narada, its payload of Red Matter detonates into a colossal black hole that the Narada is conveniently at the center of. After Nero spits in the face of [[SaveTheVillain Kirk's offer to evacuate his ship]], the Enterprise finishes the job by [[MoreDakka unloading upon the Narada with its entire arsenal]].]]
* ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'': Used multiple times.
** Early in the movie, when the swarm attacks the ''Enterprise,'' thousands of impacts effortlessly overwhelm her shields and systematically strip her of deflectors, phasers, FTL propulsion and impulse drive, forcing her to crash on the planet.
** Kirk gets some payback by [[DroppedABridgeOnHim flipping the entire wrecked saucer on Krall's accomplice responsible for luring the ship to the nebula,]] smashing her like an insignificant bug under the ship's bulk.
** Krall's murder of Ensign Syl using a weapon of mass destruction.
** The even larger swarm attack against Starbase Yorktown
** Kirk finally gets his back when he uses Creator/TheBeastieBoys to [[TitleDrop sabotage]] the swarm with ThePowerOfRock.
** And finally, the same WMD kills off Krall except for the Starfleet emblem that he was wearing on his chest.
* ''Franchise/StarWars''
** ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'': After Aalya Secura is shot by the Clone troopers, they continue to shoot at her dead body afterwards.
** ''Film/ANewHope'' has the [[WaveMotionGun Death Star Superlaser]] The amount of energy required to destroy a planet is some eight - nine orders of magnitude greater than what killed the dinosaurs, and seven - eight more than required to just kill everyone. And the Death Star gives five - six orders of magnitude more than '''that'''. Not to mention, that they could have cracked the surface, or burned away the atmosphere, using a lot less resources (A Hyperdrive with the safety's turned off, for instance).
*** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by the kind of defenses planets in the ''StarWars'' galaxy may have: Alderaan had a planetary shield that survived the Superlaser blast for a tenth of second. The designers ''still'' went overboard, but they had a reason for that.
*** Darth Vader: Don't be too proud of this [[ThatsNoMoon technological terror]] you've created. The ability to [[EarthShatteringKaboom destroy a planet]] is insignificant next to the power of [[SentientCosmicForce the Force.]]
*** Also justified by the fact that it was supposed to be a massively vulgar display of power which would get the attention of anyone even considering revolt. Much of the ExpandedUniverse states that they succeeded, but not quite the way Tarkin had hoped. His intention was that everyone would be too scared to oppose the Empire. (In his own words, "Fear will keep the local systems in line. Fear of this battle station.") Instead he inspired more anger than fear. Lord Vader, being [[TheDarkSide quite the expert in both anger and fear]], probably anticipated this but wasn't particularly bothered by it.
** ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' gives us Starkiller Base, which goes one step further than the Death Star and blows up every damn planet in a given star system at once -- from halfway across the galaxy! The power issues do get addressed here, though: the base is solar-powered, as in it ''absorbs a star'' to fuel its weapon... and if you take a look at the novelization, you find it ''rips its targets down to the subatomic level and scatters them across all the Universe and back''.
** ''Film/RogueOne'' has Tarkin using the [[WaveMotionGun Death Star Superlaser]] to get rid of Krennic. It also qualifies as complete overkill as a measure to deal with the Rebels on Scarif, as there were less than a hundred actually on the planet's atmosphere at the time the weapon was fired while thousands of Imperial personnel were present and most of the Rebels had already been killed by those Imperial troops. The superlaser is literally fired ''directly'' through the antenna deck where the wounded Krennic is lying, and seeing as that was a less than ideal aiming point to wipe out the remaining Rebels (though the sheer size of the shockwave did the job anyway) there's no way this was a coincidence.
** ''Film/TheLastJedi'': [[spoiler: When Luke walks out on the battlefield alone to meet Kylo Ren, [[CombatPragmatist Kylo]] doesn't mess around: he orders the entire First Order army to blast Luke to smithereens.]]
---> [[spoiler: '''General Hux''':]] [[spoiler: [[DeadpanSnarker Do you think we got him?]]]]
*** [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when Luke survives the rain of lasers thanks to the fact that [[AstralProjection he was not technically present]]. When the smoke clears, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny he calmly brushes a bit of dust off his robes.]]]]
* In ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective'', Ratigan tries to dispose of Basil with an overkill-tastic DeathTrap including a mousetrap, a crossbow, an axe, a gun (given that the characters are mice, it's more like a ''cannon''), and a falling anvil, noting that he couldn't decide which method would be best... so he used them all. [[spoiler:Of course, Basil is able to use the various parts of the trap against each other and escape.]]
* ''Film/ErnestScaredStupid''
** Ernest goes to his con-artist friends for help and they sell him an enormous amount of fake anti-troll equipment. [[spoiler:It turns out he only needed milk]], but it's still impressively like overkill.
-->'''Ernest''': (coming down the stairs with what looks like a whole lot of fishing gear, strapped with wires and making whirring sounds.) You see before you the state-of-the-art troll-fighter of tomorrow. This multi-directional unitized high-tech fighting machine is toll-free, mucus-free and comes equipped with fifteenmillion megabytes of double-density wayfer-thin alloy forming a virtual reality of modern troll extermination. (He heaves the large device he's carrying gun-like on his shoulder into his hands in a dramatic pose.) Need I say more? (He glances down at Lady Hackmoore who is decidedly unimpressed).
** Really, for not knowing about [[spoiler:the whole milk thing]], Ernest had overkill coming out the whazzoo. He set up traps in dumpsters for that troll!
--->'''Tom:''' Fourteen cans of troll-away spray nineteen ninety-five apiece. Two Bolivian Army slingshots, nine ninety-five each... troll ninja ninchucks... slime-proof troll gloves... chopped troll bait... fifteen no-troll strips... one trolling motor... for a grand total of...\\
Ernest: Does that include the giant album of every troll love song ever written?
** Also, when they were building the treehouse. They had pizza tossers, dog-food gatling guns and a helicopter bomber.
* The fate of [[spoiler:Cyrus the Virus]] in ''Film/ConAir'': beaten to within an inch of his life, smashed through a bridge on the extended ladder of a moving firetruck, gets electrocuted after he falls off the ladder, dumped on a conveyor belt, and his head smashed by a piledriver (the machine, not the wrestling move). He doesn't get better.
* ''Film/{{District 9}}'' features several varieties of alien weapons. Most result in LudicrousGibs, all work on this principle. And it is ''oh so satisfying.''
* In ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'', [[spoiler:Hitler and Goebbels]] were riddled with bullets, blown up with dynamite, and [[spoiler:the cinema they were in]] was burned to the ground. [[spoiler:Other high-ranking Nazi officers]] suffered similar fates as well, although not as bad.
* Creator/KennethBranagh's version of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''. Hamlet not only stabs Claudius with his fencing sword, he also drops a [[FallingChandelierOfDoom chandelier]] on him and, while Claudius is pinned down by said chandelier, force-feeds him poison.
* The ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' series:
** In ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', Ripley recommends [[NukeEm nuking the site from orbit]] to make absolutely sure that no xenomorphs escape.
** In ''Film/AlienResurrection'', Johner shoots at a little spider with his sidearm.
* In the spoof film ''Film/WrongfullyAccused'', Creator/LeslieNielsen's character is convicted of a murder he didn't commit, and is sentenced to be executed "buffet style": Hanged, lethally-injected, electrocuted, and placed before a firing squad.
* Creator/StevenSeagal is made of this trope. See the climax of ''Film/MarkedForDeath''. Seagal grabs the BigBad, [[EyeScream gouges out his eyes using his thumbs]], throws him through a wall, breaks his back over his knee, and finally sends him down an elevator shaft, where ''he lands on a spike.''
* ''Film/KingDinosaur'' has a group of astronauts exploring a rogue planet that's drifted into the solar system, and discovering a [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever giant iguana]] among its native animals. After being forced to flee from it, one of the astronauts calmy announces "I've brought the atom bomb", and they proceed to ''nuke'' the giant lizard. As stock footage of a mushroom cloud fills the screen, the heroes proudly announce, without a trace of irony, that "we've brought civilization to Nova."
* ''Film/FinalDestination1'': After the cast cheats Death, they begin to die off one by one. Most of these deaths were simple [[spoiler:death by bus, decapitation, etc.]], except for one. [[spoiler:For some reason, Death seems to really hate Ms. Lewton, the teacher. First her computer explodes, which lodges a sharp piece of glass into her throat, then the spark from the explosion causes fire which spreads inside her house. As she staggers, she falls down and manages to get stabbed by her own kitchen knife, then the gas cooker door blows open, spewing out gas. Then to top it all off, thanks to the gas, the entire house explodes.]] Sure you don't want to divert a meteorite to crash into the wreckage just to be absolutely sure, Death?
* ''DerClown - Payday'':
** How do you kill the remaining two villains? [[spoiler:Bomb the two-engined cargo plane they're in with gold bars until it [[StuffBlowingUp explodes]] [[ImpressivePyrotechnics in a huge fireball]]]].
** In the pilot of the series, they're shooting bazookas at people during one shootout.
* In ''Film/GhostbustersII'', we learn that [[BigBad Vigo the Carpathian]] was "poisoned, stabbed, shot, hung, stretched, disemboweled, & drawn and quartered" (replied [[DeadpanSnarker Peter Venkman]] upon hearing this, "[[{{Understatement}} Ouch."]]). After all that, he still managed to say a few words before his head died...basically declaring that even ''this'' wouldn't be enough eventually. [[spoiler:He came darn close.]]
* The SelfDestructMechanism for ''Anime/ResidentEvilDegeneration'' probably counts. In sequence, it consists of: drenching the contaminated areas, up to and including the whole facility, in flammable decontamination fluid, igniting said fluid, dropping the contaminated sections down a 3000ft deep shaft, blowing them up again, and then, if the whole place is contaminated, sealing everything under a steel cover thick and tough enough to withstand a nuclear blast. Admittedly, they are working with some of the most lethal infectious pathogens on the planet, but it's still a little overboard. Considering what has happened in ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' before when these lethal infectious pathogens get out, you can never be too careful.
* ''Film/UndercoverBrother'''s [[spoiler:Mr. Feather is dropped out of a helicopter over the ocean. Just before falling hundreds of feet (the impact alone of which would've killed him instantly) a great white shark leaps out of the water, and eats him.]]
* In ''Film/ThreeHundred'' and ''Film/{{Hero}}'', [[spoiler:Leonidas and Nameless are each killed with a RainOfArrows plentiful enough to fell a whole regiment. Though in Leonidas' case, he was with a regiment. Most of them had died by that point, but still!]]
* The captain of the salvage team in ''Film/EventHorizon'', after having found out that the titular ship [[spoiler:was possessed by infernal forces]], was inclined to fire missiles at it until it's vaporised.
* In ''Film/{{Shooter}}'', a GunNut recounts the story of a sniper who was infamous for his brutality on the battlefield. The opposing side despised him so much that when they corner the sniper in the building, instead of trying to flush him out, they just bombarded it with enough artillery to level an entire city block. This is standard tactics for dealing with snipers, just not usually while they're in urban areas.
* ''Film/LettersFromIwoJima'' is a rare example of overkill being shown from the ''receiving'' end.
** It's [[POVSequel POV Prequel]], ''Film/FlagsOfOurFathers'' shows the business end in detail for around half a minute. Everything from medium caliber AntiAir guns to the largest-caliber 16-inch battleship shells are practically thrown at the island in full force, both before ''and'' during the invasion of Iwo Jima.
* ''Franchise/DieHard'':
** The series has VERY pragmatic "terrorists" (there's always a twist on what they really are in each movie, usually thieves). Even when [=McClane=] was a nobody, and when the bad guys thought it was just a random guy, they took no chances and attempted to kill him several times, prompting John's ProperlyParanoid moments on the walkie talkie.
** Then there's a scene in [[Film/DieHard2 the second movie]] where the bad guys shoot at an airplane cockpit with machine guns, filling it with bullet holes, and then ''throw all their grenades'' just for good measure. When they see him parachuting out of the explosion, they just call him (again pragmatically) "[[NoOneCouldSurviveThat Lucky Bastard]]".
* ''Film/{{Swarmed}}''
** One character goes after a wasp with a double-barreled shotgun after it kills her boss, the mayor. It takes three tries, but she does eventually kill it... after destroying a chandelier, corkboard, and an office chair.
** Later they graduate to flamethrowers, and end up blowing up the swarm with about six propane tanks. Soaked in lighter fluid.
* ''Film/InBruges'': Ray kills [[spoiler:the priest]] with many, many gunshots, even though he was at close range. [[spoiler:A few of those unnecessary shots had gone off-target and ''killed a little kid.'']]
* What does it take to defeat [[Series/KamenRiderBlack Shadow Moon]] in ''[[Series/KamenRiderDecade All Riders vs. Dai Shocker]]''? The All Rider Kick - twenty-six [[FinishingMove Rider Kicks]], performed ''en masse'' by the protagonists of every ''Kamen Rider'' series from the original through ''Decade''. Overkill? Sure. CrowningMomentOfAwesome? You bet your ScarfOfAssKicking it is.
* The death of a revived [[Film/KamenRiderZO Doras]] in the ''Decade'' [[TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised finale movie]] isn't quite as over-the-top, but close. He gets taken out by [[spoiler:no less than twelve Kamen Riders, ten of whom were in their [[SuperMode Super Modes]], hitting him with their respective finishing attacks]].
** A feat nearly equaled in the ''[[Series/KamenRiderDenO Chou Den-O Trilogy]]'', where [[Series/KamenRiderDecade Diend's]] Complete Form summons copies of eight movie-exclusive Riders, with all nine of them performing their finishers ''en masse''. The opponent in question wasn't even nearly as strong as Doras, making this an even bigger case of overkill.
* Subverted, sort of, in ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'':
-->'''ACME Chairman:''' You see, if the Train of Death doesn't kill him, then those crates of TNT will. Not to mention the 2-tonne anvil hanging over his head, and- Oh, look. There's the Pendulum of Doom! What's the Pendulum of Doom doing there?! I did not order the Pendulum of Doom! It's overkill! Get rid of it!
** He's talking to Wile E. Coyote, by the way.
* In the climactic shootout of Creator/JohnWoo's ''Film/ABetterTomorrow II'', one mook gets shot more than ''20'' times.
* In ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop'', drug dealer Victor Maitland gets shot about twenty times by Foley and Bogomil at the climax.
* In ''Film/TheTransporter'', there's an attempt at killing Frank Martin at home. Since he's got a reputation of being badass, it involves [[MoreDakka thousands of machine gun rounds]] and [[MacrossMissileMassacre three missiles]]. He survives by [[spoiler:simply not being there]].
* ''Film/TheMatrix'':
** The helicopter scene is this. Then again, shooting at [[ImplacableMan Agents]] with a [[GatlingGood minigun]] for several seconds straight is [[JustifiedTrope absolutely justified]].
** And the famous lobby scene. You really start to wonder whether the advantages of carrying a loaded and ready gun outweigh the rather more severe disadvantages of having far less ammunition to work with, as well as the sheer amount of weight and bulk that carrying over a dozen guns would impose on the wearer.
* After Harley knocks out Brother Bob with [[HoistByHisOwnPetard his own monster truck]] in ''Film/MonsterMan'', Adam takes the wheel and proceeds to drive over him again and again until he is nothing but [[SquashedFlat bloody paste]].
* Burt Gummer of the ''Tremors'' franchise lives and breathes this trope.
** In the first ''Film/{{Tremors}}'', he and his wife unload multiple machine guns, assault rifles, an elephant gun, and even a flare gun into a Graboid. Then, he makes home made bombs that're powerful enough to make their guts airborne when exploded underground.
** In ''Film/Tremors2Aftershocks'', he kills his first Graboid with 4 pounds of C-4 (which even he admits was excessive). And then kills another with a cluster bomb. Then, he shoots one of the Shriekers with a .50 caliber anti-tank gun with a solid bronze bullet (though that one was justified in that it was the last bullet he had). Then they detonate 4.5 tons of high-explosives and reduce an entire oil refinery to a large crater to kill the remaining Shriekers.
** In ''Film/Tremors3BackToPerfection'', he blows up his entire house to kill a single Ass Blaster. [[spoiler:And then he finds out it was completely unneccessary.]]
** In ''Film/Tremors4TheLegendBegins'', his ancestor buys a 2-inch bore Punt Gun and uses that to kill a Graboid. (For the uninitiated, a Punt Gun is a big...big shotgun. Sort of MoreDakka, but only needing one pull of a trigger. The name come from the fact they were so large, to be used for their intended task they had to be mounted to flat-bottom boats known as 'punts'. Oh, and their purpose? Harvesting entire flocks of ducks....with one shot.)
* ''Film/ThePunisher2004'': Castle just doesn't kill Howard Saint, but also just about everything Saint cares about. [[spoiler:He sabotages Saint's money-laundering operations and then gives the money away. He then causes a rift with Saint's Cuban partners. After following both Saint's wife Livia and his best friend Quentin Glass, he creates the illusion that the two of them are having an affair behind Howard's back (despite the fact that Quentin is gay). When Howard finds out thanks to Mickey (who is Castle's mole), he stabs Quentin to death and then throws Livia over a bridge; she survives the fall but can't get off the train tracks in time and gets run over by a train. After he kills all of Saint's men in the club, he rigs a trip-wire grenade and forces his son John to hold up the grenade, where he eventually tires out and is blown up. An injured Howard tries to run, but Castle ties him to a car and sends it towards a parking lot, where he has rigged several hidden bombs that blow up as the car dragging Howard passes by, which light Howard on fire before that car blows up and we get an overview shot of the flames in the shape of the Punisher's iconic skull]]. Saint's an asshole that had it coming to him, but damn, what an example of overkill. To top it all off, Castle calmly explains it all in detail to Saint before finishing him off.
** Overkill for an Overkill... [[spoiler:the Saints, Glass included, were being Punished for killing his ENTIRE FAMILY, I'm talking at least 3 whole generations, as payback for the accidental death of their son during criminal activity.]]
* MemeticBadass Samuel L. Jackson describes this phenomenon perfectly in ''Film/JackieBrown'':
--> '''Ordell Robbie''': AK-47: the very best there is. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherfucker in the room, accept no substitutes.
* In ''Film/TheRaid'', Jaka kills a mook with three point-blank headshots. When the residents attack the SWAT van, they open up on full-auto and just keep firing.
* The Jericho missile, in ''Film/IronMan''. To elaborate, Tony Stark built a missile that can flatten an entire mountain, ''and it isn't nuclear''. Nope. It's just one large missile that splits into a thousand smaller warheads. The shockwave from the demo blasted off the generals' caps from the horizon.
-->'''Tony Stark''': They say the best weapon is one you never have to fire. I respectfully disagree. I prefer the weapon you only have to fire once.
* The poor {{Mook}} from ''Film/TheExpendables2''. After rounding a corner, he happens to meet up with the entire crew, who have just made mincemeat out of a small army of bad guys. He gets ventilated by every one of them at once.
-->'''Barney:''' Rest in pieces.
* ''Film/TheUsualSuspects'': "He lets the last Hungarian go. He waits until his wife and kids are in the ground and then he goes after the rest of the mob. He kills their kids, he kills their wives, he kills their parents and their parents' friends. He burns down the houses they live in and the stores they work in, he kills people that owe them money. And like that he was gone."
* The opening death scene of the two girls in ''Film/{{Suspiria}}''.
* In ''Film/{{Dredd}}'': [[spoiler:Ma-Ma uses a set of three supercharged ''Gatling guns'' to absolutely ''decimate'' an entire level of the block.]] This actually ends up as a plot point, as Dredd realizes no one would go to such lengths to kill a Judge unless they had something big to protect.
* ''Film/PacificRim'': How do you DoubleTap a {{kaiju}}? You fire your plasma cannon into its chest until most of its torso is a burning skeleton. Granted, Raleigh had a ''very'' good reason for this [[spoiler: his brother Yancy got killed at the beginning of the movie when a {{kaiju}} they thought dead turned out to have a quite a bit more fight left.]]
* ''Film/HardTicketToHawaii'' has an assassin who rides around on a skateboard carrying a gun in one hand and a blowup-doll in the other. The heroes hit him with a truck. While he is flying through the air, they blow him up with a rocket launcher. Then they blow up the doll with another rocket.
* Dieter Von Cunth from ''Film/MacGruber'' after he survives getting his hideout blown up and attacks [=MacGruber=] at his wedding, [=MacGruber=] headbutts him off a cliff, shoots him half a dozen times as he falls, when he lands he hits his head on a rock splitting it open and spilling his brains out, [=MacGruber=] then blows up his corpse with a grenade launcher then pisses on it.
* Virgil's death by interrogation in ''Film/TrueRomance'': Virgil beats up Alabama, trying to find out where Clarence and the drugs he stole from Drexl Spivey are. Throwing her into the shower, she blinds him with shampoo, hits him over the head with the toilet cover, then sprays him with hairspray, stabs him once, and blasts him to hell with a shotgun, and once she's used up all the shells, strikes him with the shotgun barrel for good measure.
* In the first ever animated Disney film, ''Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'', the evil queen is struck by lightning (well, really it strikes the cliff she's standing on). She [[DisneyVillainDeath falls over the cliff]], and the boulder rolls off after her. What's left of her is presumably scavenged by vultures afterwards.
* ''Film/ConanTheDestroyer'': after Conan [[AttackItsWeakPoint rips off Dagoth's horn]], he impales the slain monster's head with his sword, prompting the theme music to swell triumphantly. Malak, the LovableCoward and shameless glory hound, decides to get in on the action and stabs the dead monster with his tiny dagger, causing the triumphant theme music to swell all over again.
* The climax of ''Literature/AllTheKingsMen'': after Willie Starke is shot by Adam Stanton, Starke's bodyguards empty their handguns into Stanton. This isn't enough, as [[TheCavalryArrivesLate several state troopers belatedly arrive]] and fire ''Tommy guns'' into Stanton's body. Since the book and movie were based on Huey Long, it's very much TruthInTelevision.
* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'': unsurprisingly, many, many examples in this series
** Let's start with the [[Film/{{Transformers}} first movie]]:
*** Megatron wakes up after being frozen for years. His first action? Murder ''every human'' that he can.
*** Frenzy vs humans in a small locked room. He has two machine guns built into his arms. They all have shotguns. Then Agent Simmons grabs a '''flamethrower''', and Frenzy [[HoistByHisOwnPetard gets his head torn off by his discus weapon]].
*** Brawl's defeats and eventual death. Arm chopped off by Ratchet. Shot up over and over again by Jazz and humans. A grenade detonated against his chest, knocking him out. Once he gets up, is ''still'' getting shot up by humans, and then gets his spark blown out by Bumblebee's plasma cannon. Lennox puts it best:
----> That thing is definitely dead now.
** ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'':
*** Sideswipe of the Autobots takes on (possible dimension-hopper) Sideways of the Decepticons. Does he shoot him? Does he stab him? Does he cut him in half like a lot of deaths in these movies? How about all ''three''? First he flips into the air and shoots, perforated his car mode bilaterally. Then, he launches his sword down into the other's hood '''while in midair''', hits the ground with both wheels, spins, grabs the sword, and ''bisects this mofo lengthwise''.
----> Damn I'm good.
*** Three Decepticons take on Optimus Prime. They are [[BigBad Megatron]], [[TheStarscream Starscream]], and some other guy we don't care about, [[TheBigGuy but he's huge]]. '''Optimus still almost wins'''. He mutilates Starscream, rips off the Big Guy's face, and brutally beats Megatron. But he's also kicked in the face hard enough to shatter his face-plate. Then shot in the chest with enough force to launch him across the forest. And once the battle is over, Megatron sneaks up and '''stabs him through the chest''' while lifting him in the air. Oh, and the blade is attached to a gun, which Megatron then shoots off. The hole it leaves is big enough to walk through.
*** Epps calls for an airstrike. Cue the B-2 Bombers laying down a carpet of explosives thick enough to block out the sun, followed by a display of ImpressivePyrotechnics that actually set a record for biggest practical explosion in a movie.
*** He doesn't kill Megatron, but at the end Optimus hands him his metal ass pretty good. A straight-up beat down with guns and swords first. Then he twists Megatron's gun/sword arm around and uses it to ''shoot off half his face''. Finally, Optimus uses the jet engines on his back to blast Megatron through a wall. The Decepticon leader is missing one arm, half his face, and various other parts of his body. His response? "''Starrrrschream!''"
** ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'':
*** Megatron's plans. As TheDragon to the Fallen, he started a war on Cybertron to eventually take over the galaxy for his master. The Allspark was key to victory in that war. But in the event it was destroyed, he already had a deal with the Fallen to use the last Star Harvester to get more energon. Except he was playing his master. Really he just wanted Optimus to get the Matrix so the Autobots could bring back Sentinel Prime, which would lead to their own destruction when Sentinel switched sides.
*** Sentinel has a rust gun that causes any metal to dissolve. When he switches sides, he shoots Ironhide with it not once, not twice, but ''three fucking times!'' Immediately before that, he gave a short BreakingSpeech to the Autobots and Humans. Between the second and third shots, he gets in a PreMortemOneLiner.
----> I hereby discharge you from duty.
*** This film does a pretty good job of [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructing]] the idea of an alien invasion. As such, the Invasion of Chicago is ''filled'' with overkill. The Decepticons have [[FlyingAircraftCarrier Flying Aircraft Carriers]], several types of airships, hundreds if not thousands of troops, and a giant metal worm that tears through rock like tissue paper. They unleash it all on Chicago. When they're done, the city resembles the radioactive Chernobyl site from the film's opening. The Decepticons also seem to enjoy shooting at random buildings and small groups of civilians with their fighter-ships.
*** On that note, the Decepticons' weapons are this for humans. While they might do a lot less damage to Cybertronians, the Con's weapons unleash pulses of energy (instead of simple plasma blasts, bullets, or lasers) which ''rip a human's flesh from their bones'', and then ''completely shatter'' most of said bones into fine powder. Without a GoryDiscretionShot by the way.
*** Shockwave's death. First he gets his eye sniped at by humans. Then another group of humans appears in the building right next to him and blasts him with enough machine gun fire to tear off half his armor. Then Optimus Prime comes in and uses some brass-knuckle-like weapon to gouge out his guts. Then the Prime reaches around to behind his neck, grabs the bundle of wires that is like a cross between optic nerve and spinal cord, and ''rips it out''. To add insult to injury, he uses Shockwave's own cannon to shoot down the Space Bridge Pillar.
** ''Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction'':
*** Ratchet's fate. Poor Ratchet. He's hiding in the smokestack of an old steamer ship when its blown up by humans. Then when he tries to get away, he's shot up with missiles and machine guns, forcing him to transform. His leg is blown off. He pleads with the humans to have mercy, because he is, after all, ''just a medic''. Then Lockdown gets involved. Between him and the humans, Ratchet is reduced to little more than a torso with some limb stumps hanging off. Then Lockdown pulls Ratchet's spark out from his chest and crushes it. Oh, and after he's dead? The humans who helped kill him ''sell his parts'' to a company that ''melts them down''. Optimus was '''pissed''' when he found out.
*** Hound seems quite fond of [[InvokedTrope invoking this trope]]. He threatens to splatter Joshua Joice, hits an alien bug thing with a plasma blast that makes it explode (just because it sneezed on him), and kills a ton of KSI Prototypes with more force than reasonably necessary. He also shoots his guns into the air to celebrate Optimus' return, and shouts with joy at the sight of giant (by Autobot standards even) robot dinosaurs ''obliterating'' the Prototypes.
* In ''Film/LifeBlood'', Brooke stabs Warren 87 times; a fact that Rhea does not learn until she hears it on the television, and which seems to discredit Brooke's claim that it was self-defence.
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*** Hound seems quite fond of [[InvokedTrope invoking this trope]]. He threatens to splatter Joshua Joice, hits an alien bug thing with a plasma blast that makes it explode (just because it sneezed on him), and kills a ton of KSI Prototypes with more force than reasonably necessary. He also shoots his guns into the air to celebrate Optimus' return, and shouts with joy at the sight of giant (by Autobot standards even) robot dinosaurs ''obliterating'' the Prototypes.
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*** Hound seems quite fond of [[InvokedTrope invoking this trope]]. He threatens to splatter Joshua Joice, hits an alien bug thing with a plasma blast that makes it explode (just because it sneezed on him), and kills a ton of KSI Prototypes with more force than reasonably necessary. He also shoots his guns into the air to celebrate Optimus' return, and shouts with joy at the sight of giant (by Autobot standards even) robot dinosaurs ''obliterating'' the Prototypes.Prototypes.
* In ''Film/LifeBlood'', Brooke stabs Warren 87 times; a fact that Rhea does not learn until she hears it on the television, and which seems to discredit Brooke's claim that it was self-defence.
* In ''Film/LifeBlood'', Brooke stabs Warren 87 times; a fact that Rhea does not learn until she hears it on the television, and which seems to discredit Brooke's claim that it was self-defence.
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** Given that [=RoboCop=] was [[WeCanRebuildHim rebuilt]] from the remains of a murdered police officer, it was kind of a foregone conclusion that Alex Murphy would die in the line of duty in a very horrific way. When ambushed and taken captive by Clarence Boddicker and his gang in a steel mill, 1) Boddicker shoots Murphy's right hand off with a shotgun at point blank range, 2) Murphy stumbles a bit, clutching the stump with his left hand, 3) Emil Antonowsky shoots Murphy's entire right arm off at the shoulder with another shotgun, 4) Emil and the other gang members - Joe Cox, Steve Minh and Leon Nash - empty their shotguns into Murphy's torso, 5) Murphy is still not dead (probably because he's got a bulletproof vest on), so Boddicker pulls a pistol and puts a bullet in his head at point-blank range.
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** Given that [=RoboCop=] was [[WeCanRebuildHim rebuilt]] from the remains of a murdered police officer, it was kind of a foregone conclusion that Alex Murphy would die in the line of duty in a very horrific way. When ambushed and taken captive by Clarence Boddicker and his gang in a steel mill, 1) Boddicker shoots Murphy's right hand off with a shotgun at point blank range, 2) Murphy stumbles a bit, clutching the stump with his left hand, 3) Emil Antonowsky shoots Murphy's entire right arm off at the shoulder with another shotgun, 4) Emil and the other gang members - Joe Cox, Steve Minh and Leon Nash - empty their shotguns into Murphy's torso, 5) Murphy is still not dead (probably because he's got a bulletproof vest on), so Boddicker pulls a pistol and puts a bullet in his head at point-blank range.range (which probably qualifies as a MercyKill at this point).
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*** [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when Luke survives the rain of lasers thanks to the fact that [[AstralProjection he was not technically present]]. When the smoke clears, [[CrowningMomentofFunny he calmly brushes a bit of dust off his robes.]]]]
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-->Ernest: (coming down the stairs with what looks like a whole lot of fishing gear, strapped with wires and making whirring sounds.) You see before you the state-of-the-art troll-fighter of tomorrow. This multi-directional unitized high-tech fighting machine is toll-free, mucus-free and comes equipped with fifteenmillion megabytes of double-density wayfer-thin alloy forming a virtual reality of modern troll extermination. (He heaves the large device he's carrying gun-like on his shoulder into his hands in a dramatic pose.) Need I say more? (He glances down at Lady Hackmoore who is decidedly unimpressed).
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* Kenneth Branagh's version of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''. Hamlet not only stabs Claudius with his fencing sword, he also drops a [[FallingChandelierOfDoom chandelier]] on him and, while Claudius is pinned down by said chandelier, force-feeds him poison.
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* Kenneth Branagh's Creator/KennethBranagh's version of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''. Hamlet not only stabs Claudius with his fencing sword, he also drops a [[FallingChandelierOfDoom chandelier]] on him and, while Claudius is pinned down by said chandelier, force-feeds him poison.
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* Portrayed in a video game within ''InsideMan''. A young boy makes his alter ego shoot many times at what must be an already dead man's head, and then he puts a grenade in the man's mouth. The lead bank robber, who is chatting with him at the time, is appalled.
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* Portrayed in a video game within ''InsideMan''.''Film/InsideMan''. A young boy makes his alter ego shoot many times at what must be an already dead man's head, and then he puts a grenade in the man's mouth. The lead bank robber, who is chatting with him at the time, is appalled.
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\* It's all the more chilling for its quiet, guilt-tinged delivery when Alfred in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' reveals how his mercenary squad finally caught the RobinHood-style bandit they were hunting after they couldn't find him and realized he didn't care about money:
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* It's all the more chilling for its quiet, guilt-tinged delivery when Alfred in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' reveals how his mercenary squad finally caught the RobinHood-style bandit they were hunting after they couldn't find him and realized he didn't care about money:
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** ''Film/TheLastJedi'': [[spoiler: When Luke walks out on the battlefield alone to meet Kylo Ren, [[CombatPragmatist Kylo]] doesn't mess around: he orders the entire First Order army to blast Luke to smithereens.]]
--> [[spoiler: '''General Hux''':]] [[spoiler: [[DeadpanSnarker Do you think we got him?]]]]
*** [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when Luke survives the rain of lasers thanks to the fact that [[AstralProjection he was not technically present]]. When the smoke clears, [[CrowningMomentofFunny he calmly brushes a bit of dust off his robes.]]]]
--> [[spoiler: '''General Hux''':]] [[spoiler: [[DeadpanSnarker Do you think we got him?]]]]
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** ''Film/RogueOne'' has [[spoiler:Tarkin using the [[WaveMotionGun Death Star Superlaser]] to get rid of Krennic. It also qualifies as complete overkill as a measure to deal with the Rebels on Scarif, as there were less than a hundred actually on the planet's atmosphere at the time the weapon was fired while thousands of Imperial personnel were present and most of the Rebels had already been killed by those Imperial troops. The superlaser is literally fired ''directly'' through the antenna deck where the wounded Krennic is lying, and seeing as that was a less than ideal aiming point to wipe out the remaining Rebels (though the sheer size of the shockwave did the job anyway) there's no way this was a coincidence.]]
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* In ''Film/RamboIV'' movie we are introduced to an un-exploded Tallboy bomb as the Mercenaries trek through the jungle toward the massacred Karen village. Later John Rambo sets up a Claymore next to the bomb while Burmese soldiers chase him. The Tallboy was developed by the British in WW2 (more specifically, by Barnes Wallis, he of the Dambusters' Bouncing Bomb) to destroy hardened bunkers and was at the time the single most concentrated repository of High-Explosive in a single weapon. The Claymore by itself is capable of invoking the ChunkySalsaRule on everyone within a dozen yards, when it went off and caused the Tallboy to sympathetically detonate the results were... impressive.
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* In ''Film/RamboIV'' movie we are introduced to an un-exploded Tallboy bomb as the Mercenaries trek through the jungle toward the massacred Karen village. Later John Rambo sets up a Claymore next to the bomb while Burmese soldiers chase him. The Tallboy was developed by the British in WW2 [=WW2=] (more specifically, by Barnes Wallis, he of the Dambusters' Bouncing Bomb) to destroy hardened bunkers and was at the time the single most concentrated repository of High-Explosive in a single weapon. The Claymore by itself is capable of invoking the ChunkySalsaRule on everyone within a dozen yards, when it went off and caused the Tallboy to sympathetically detonate the results were... impressive.
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* Creator/BertIGordon's 1955 debut monster pic ''King Dinosaur'' has a group of astronauts exploring a rogue planet that's drifted into the solar system, and discovering a [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever giant iguana]] among its native animals. After being forced to flee from it, one of the astronauts calmy announces "I've brought the atom bomb", and they proceed to ''nuke'' the giant lizard. As stock footage of a mushroom cloud fills the screen, the heroes proudly announce, without a trace of irony, that "we've brought civilization to Nova."
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* Creator/BertIGordon's 1955 debut monster pic ''King Dinosaur'' ''Film/KingDinosaur'' has a group of astronauts exploring a rogue planet that's drifted into the solar system, and discovering a [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever giant iguana]] among its native animals. After being forced to flee from it, one of the astronauts calmy announces "I've brought the atom bomb", and they proceed to ''nuke'' the giant lizard. As stock footage of a mushroom cloud fills the screen, the heroes proudly announce, without a trace of irony, that "we've brought civilization to Nova."
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** In ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'', Raoul Silva tries to take out Bond with a runaway train. Although, considering the kind of things Bond is known for surviving, [[spoiler:and the fact that Silva himself is a rogue MI6 agent,]] it can be seen as a case of GenreSavvy on his part. Given that the train fails to kill Bond, it was probably underkill.
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** Also at one point upon stealing a machine gun turret John Rambo empties several rounds into a single soldier in a jeep literally ripping him to pieces.
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** During said gunfight Rambo notices a patrol boat and targets it with the machine gun, utterly annihilating the crew and making it wholly inoffensive. The Karen rebels, not quite content with that, blow it sky-high with a rocket launcher.
** During said gunfight Rambo notices a patrol boat and targets it with the machine gun, utterly annihilating the crew and making it wholly inoffensive. The Karen rebels, not quite content with that, blow it sky-high with a rocket launcher.
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** It's [[POVSequel POV Prequel]], ''Film/FlagsOfOurFathers'' shows the business end in detail for around half a minute. Everything from medium caliber AntiAir guns to the largest-caliber 16-inch battleship shells are practically thrown at the island in full force, both before ''and'' during the invasion of Iwo Jima.
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*** Also justified by the fact that it was supposed to be a massively vulgar display of power which would get the attention of anyone even considering revolt. Much of the ExpandedUniverse states that they succeeded, but not quite the way Tarkin had hoped.
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*** Also justified by the fact that it was supposed to be a massively vulgar display of power which would get the attention of anyone even considering revolt. Much of the ExpandedUniverse states that they succeeded, but not quite the way Tarkin had hoped. His intention was that everyone would be too scared to oppose the Empire. (In his own words, "Fear will keep the local systems in line. Fear of this battle station.") Instead he inspired more anger than fear. Lord Vader, being [[TheDarkSide quite the expert in both anger and fear]], probably anticipated this but wasn't particularly bothered by it.
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* In the spoof film ''WrongfullyAccused'', LeslieNielsen's character is convicted of a murder he didn't commit, and is sentenced to be executed "buffet style": Hanged, lethally-injected, electrocuted, and placed before a firing squad.
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* In the spoof film ''WrongfullyAccused'', LeslieNielsen's ''Film/WrongfullyAccused'', Creator/LeslieNielsen's character is convicted of a murder he didn't commit, and is sentenced to be executed "buffet style": Hanged, lethally-injected, electrocuted, and placed before a firing squad.
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* In the climactic shootout of JohnWoo's ''A Better Tomorrow II'', one mook gets shot more than ''20'' times.
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* In ''Film/TheTransporter'', there's an attempt at killing Frank Martin at home. Since he's got a reputation of being {{badass}}, it involves [[MoreDakka thousands of machine gun rounds]] and [[MacrossMissileMassacre three missiles]]. He survives by [[spoiler:simply not being there]].
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* In ''Film/TheTransporter'', there's an attempt at killing Frank Martin at home. Since he's got a reputation of being {{badass}}, badass, it involves [[MoreDakka thousands of machine gun rounds]] and [[MacrossMissileMassacre three missiles]]. He survives by [[spoiler:simply not being there]].
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* ''Franchise/StarWars''
** ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'': After Aalya Secura is shot by the Clone troopers, they continue to shoot at her dead body afterwards.
** ''Film/ANewHope'' has the [[WaveMotionGun Death Star Superlaser]] The amount of energy required to destroy a planet is some eight - nine orders of magnitude greater than what killed the dinosaurs, and seven - eight more than required to just kill everyone. And the Death Star gives five - six orders of magnitude more than '''that'''. Not to mention, that they could have cracked the surface, or burned away the atmosphere, using a lot less resources (A Hyperdrive with the safety's turned off, for instance).
*** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by the kind of defenses planets in the ''StarWars'' galaxy may have: Alderaan had a planetary shield that survived the Superlaser blast for a tenth of second. The designers ''still'' went overboard, but they had a reason for that.
*** Darth Vader: Don't be too proud of this [[ThatsNoMoon technological terror]] you've created. The ability to [[EarthShatteringKaboom destroy a planet]] is insignificant next to the power of [[SentientCosmicForce the Force.]]
*** Also justified by the fact that it was supposed to be a massively vulgar display of power which would get the attention of anyone even considering revolt. Much of the ExpandedUniverse states that they succeeded, but not quite the way Tarkin had hoped.
** ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' gives us Starkiller Base, which goes one step further than the Death Star and blows up every damn planet in a given star system at once -- from halfway across the galaxy! The power issues do get addressed here, though: the base is solar-powered, as in it ''absorbs a star'' to fuel its weapon... and if you take a look at the novelization, you find it ''rips its targets down to the subatomic level and scatters them across all the Universe and back''.
** ''Film/RogueOne'' has [[spoiler:Tarkin using the [[WaveMotionGun Death Star Superlaser]] to get rid of Krennic. It also qualifies as complete overkill as a measure to deal with the Rebels on Scarif, as there were less than a hundred actually on the planet's atmosphere at the time the weapon was fired while thousands of Imperial personnel were present.]]
** ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'': After Aalya Secura is shot by the Clone troopers, they continue to shoot at her dead body afterwards.
** ''Film/ANewHope'' has the [[WaveMotionGun Death Star Superlaser]] The amount of energy required to destroy a planet is some eight - nine orders of magnitude greater than what killed the dinosaurs, and seven - eight more than required to just kill everyone. And the Death Star gives five - six orders of magnitude more than '''that'''. Not to mention, that they could have cracked the surface, or burned away the atmosphere, using a lot less resources (A Hyperdrive with the safety's turned off, for instance).
*** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by the kind of defenses planets in the ''StarWars'' galaxy may have: Alderaan had a planetary shield that survived the Superlaser blast for a tenth of second. The designers ''still'' went overboard, but they had a reason for that.
*** Darth Vader: Don't be too proud of this [[ThatsNoMoon technological terror]] you've created. The ability to [[EarthShatteringKaboom destroy a planet]] is insignificant next to the power of [[SentientCosmicForce the Force.]]
*** Also justified by the fact that it was supposed to be a massively vulgar display of power which would get the attention of anyone even considering revolt. Much of the ExpandedUniverse states that they succeeded, but not quite the way Tarkin had hoped.
** ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' gives us Starkiller Base, which goes one step further than the Death Star and blows up every damn planet in a given star system at once -- from halfway across the galaxy! The power issues do get addressed here, though: the base is solar-powered, as in it ''absorbs a star'' to fuel its weapon... and if you take a look at the novelization, you find it ''rips its targets down to the subatomic level and scatters them across all the Universe and back''.
** ''Film/RogueOne'' has [[spoiler:Tarkin using the [[WaveMotionGun Death Star Superlaser]] to get rid of Krennic. It also qualifies as complete overkill as a measure to deal with the Rebels on Scarif, as there were less than a hundred actually on the planet's atmosphere at the time the weapon was fired while thousands of Imperial personnel were present.]]
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* ''Film/ANewHope'':
** The amount of energy required to destroy a planet is some eight - nine orders of magnitude greater than what killed the dinosaurs, and seven - eight more than required to just kill everyone. And the Death Star gives five - six orders of magnitude more than '''that'''. Not to mention, that they could have cracked the surface, or burned away the atmosphere, using a lot less resources (A Hyperdrive with the safety's turned off, for instance).
*** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by the kind of defenses planets in the ''StarWars'' galaxy may have: Alderaan had a planetary shield that survived the Superlaser blast for a tenth of second. The designers ''still'' went overboard, but they had a reason for that.
*** Darth Vader: Don't be too proud of this [[ThatsNoMoon technological terror]] you've created. The ability to [[EarthShatteringKaboom destroy a planet]] is insignificant next to the power of [[SentientCosmicForce the Force.]]
*** Also justified by the fact that it was supposed to be a massively vulgar display of power which would get the attention of anyone even considering revolt. Much of the ExpandedUniverse states that they succeeded, but not quite the way Tarkin had hoped.
* ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' gives us Starkiller Base, which goes one step further than the Death Star and blows up every damn planet in a given star system at once -- from halfway across the galaxy! The power issues do get addressed here, though: the base is solar-powered, as in it ''absorbs a star'' to fuel its weapon... and if you take a look at the novelization, you find it ''rips its targets down to the subatomic level and scatters them across all the Universe and back''.
* ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'': After Aalya Secura is shot by the Clone troopers, they continue to shoot at her dead body afterwards.
** The amount of energy required to destroy a planet is some eight - nine orders of magnitude greater than what killed the dinosaurs, and seven - eight more than required to just kill everyone. And the Death Star gives five - six orders of magnitude more than '''that'''. Not to mention, that they could have cracked the surface, or burned away the atmosphere, using a lot less resources (A Hyperdrive with the safety's turned off, for instance).
*** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by the kind of defenses planets in the ''StarWars'' galaxy may have: Alderaan had a planetary shield that survived the Superlaser blast for a tenth of second. The designers ''still'' went overboard, but they had a reason for that.
*** Darth Vader: Don't be too proud of this [[ThatsNoMoon technological terror]] you've created. The ability to [[EarthShatteringKaboom destroy a planet]] is insignificant next to the power of [[SentientCosmicForce the Force.]]
*** Also justified by the fact that it was supposed to be a massively vulgar display of power which would get the attention of anyone even considering revolt. Much of the ExpandedUniverse states that they succeeded, but not quite the way Tarkin had hoped.
* ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' gives us Starkiller Base, which goes one step further than the Death Star and blows up every damn planet in a given star system at once -- from halfway across the galaxy! The power issues do get addressed here, though: the base is solar-powered, as in it ''absorbs a star'' to fuel its weapon... and if you take a look at the novelization, you find it ''rips its targets down to the subatomic level and scatters them across all the Universe and back''.
* ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'': After Aalya Secura is shot by the Clone troopers, they continue to shoot at her dead body afterwards.
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* ''Film/{{Transformers}}'': unsurprisingly, many, many examples in this series
** Let's start with the first movie:
** Let's start with the first movie:
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* ''Film/{{Transformers}}'': ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'': unsurprisingly, many, many examples in this series
** Let's start with the [[Film/{{Transformers}} firstmovie:movie]]:
** Let's start with the [[Film/{{Transformers}} first
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** Revenge of the Fallen
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** Revenge of the Fallen''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'':
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** Dark of the Moon
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** Dark of the Moon''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'':
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** Age of Extinction
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** Age of Extinction''Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction'':
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* Dieter Von Cunth from ''Film/MacGruber'' after he survives getting his hideout blown up and attacks [=MacGruber]= at his wedding, [=MacGruber=] headbutts him off a cliff, shoots him half a dozen times as he falls, when he lands he hits his head on a rock splitting it open and spilling his brains out, [=MacGruber=] then blows up his corpse with a grenade launcher then pisses on it.
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* Dieter Von Cunth from ''Film/MacGruber'' after he survives getting his hideout blown up and attacks [=MacGruber]= [=MacGruber=] at his wedding, [=MacGruber=] headbutts him off a cliff, shoots him half a dozen times as he falls, when he lands he hits his head on a rock splitting it open and spilling his brains out, [=MacGruber=] then blows up his corpse with a grenade launcher then pisses on it.
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** Kirk gets some payback by [[DroppedABridgeOnHim flipping the entire wrecked saucer on Krall's accomplice responsible for luring the ship to the nebula,]] smashing her like an insignificant bug under the ship's bulk.
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* ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'': Used multiple times.
** Early in the movie, when the swarm attacks the ''Enterprise,'' thousands of impacts effortlessly overwhelm her shields and systematically strip her of deflectors, phasers, FTL propulsion and impulse drive, forcing her to crash on the planet.
** Krall's murder of Ensign Syl using a weapon of mass destruction.
** The even larger swarm attack against Starbase Yorktown
** Kirk finally gets his back when he uses Creator/TheBeastieBoys to [[TitleDrop sabotage]] the swarm with ThePowerOfRock.
** And finally, the same WMD kills off Krall except for the Starfleet emblem that he was wearing on his chest.
** Early in the movie, when the swarm attacks the ''Enterprise,'' thousands of impacts effortlessly overwhelm her shields and systematically strip her of deflectors, phasers, FTL propulsion and impulse drive, forcing her to crash on the planet.
** Krall's murder of Ensign Syl using a weapon of mass destruction.
** The even larger swarm attack against Starbase Yorktown
** Kirk finally gets his back when he uses Creator/TheBeastieBoys to [[TitleDrop sabotage]] the swarm with ThePowerOfRock.
** And finally, the same WMD kills off Krall except for the Starfleet emblem that he was wearing on his chest.
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* ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' gives us Starkiller Base, which goes one step further than the Death Star and blows up every damn planet in a given star system at once -- from halfway across the galaxy! The power issues do get addressed here, though: the base is solar-powered, as in it ''absorbs a star'' to fuel its weapon.
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* ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' gives us Starkiller Base, which goes one step further than the Death Star and blows up every damn planet in a given star system at once -- from halfway across the galaxy! The power issues do get addressed here, though: the base is solar-powered, as in it ''absorbs a star'' to fuel its weapon.weapon... and if you take a look at the novelization, you find it ''rips its targets down to the subatomic level and scatters them across all the Universe and back''.
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** In Creator/RobZombie's ''Film/HalloweenII2009'', Michael stabs a nurse in the back. And then does it again. And again, and again, until after about an entire minute filled with stabbings, he rams the knife into her skull and leaves it stuck there.
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** In Creator/RobZombie's Music/RobZombie's ''Film/HalloweenII2009'', Michael stabs a nurse in the back. And then does it again. And again, and again, until after about an entire minute filled with stabbings, he rams the knife into her skull and leaves it stuck there.
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* The Jericho missile, in ''Film/IronMan''.
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* The Jericho missile, in ''Film/IronMan''. To elaborate, Tony Stark built a missile that can flatten an entire mountain, ''and it isn't nuclear''. Nope. It's just one large missile that splits into a thousand smaller warheads. The shockwave from the demo blasted off the generals' caps from the horizon.
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To elaborate, Tony Stark built a missile that can flatten an entire mountain, ''and it isn't nuclear''. Nope. It's just one large missile that splits into a thousand smaller warheads. The shockwave from the demo blasted off the generals' caps from the horizon.
