History ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill / Film

* In the Robert Rodriguez film adaptation of FrankMiller's ''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."]]

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* The fate of [[spoiler: Cyrus the Virus]] in ''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.

* In ''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 fate as well, although not as bad.

* Bert I. Gordon'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."

* The captain of the salvage team in ''EventHorizon'', after having found out that the titular ship [[spoiler: was possessed by infernal forces]], he was inclined to fire missiles at it until it's vaporised.

* CrazySurvivalist Burt Gummer from the ''{{Tremors}}'' series is all about the overkill. In the second movie, his "Grizzly" anti-tank rifle prompts Earl to comment, "Man, Burt, you put a whole new shine on the word 'overkill'." And it's not even the biggest gun he uses in the series...

-->'''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.

* In ''Film/{{Alien}}s'', Ripley recommends [[NukeEm nuking the site from orbit]] to make absolutely sure that no xenomorphs escape.
* In ''Alien:Resurrection'', RonPerlman's character shoots at a little spider with his sidearm.

* In the Robert Rodriguez film adaptation of FrankMiller's ''SinCity'' the character Hartigan, after knifing one of the primary [[CompleteMonster 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."]]

** [[ChronicallyCrashedCar Bond's cars]] [[WatchThePaintJob are a special case themselves]] - [[ForYourEyesOnly a self-destructing Lotus]], [[TheWorldIsNotEnough a BMW being sewn in half]], [[CasinoRoyale an Aston Martin that gets rotated 7 times]]...

* ''Film/{{Halloween}}'':
** ''The Curse of Michael Myers'' 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 RobZombie's ''Halloween II'', 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.

* In ''[[Film/{{X-Men}} X-Men Origins: Wolverine]]'', 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]].

* What does it take to defeat [[KamenRiderBlack Shadow Moon]] in ''[[KamenRiderDecade All Riders vs. Dai Shocker]]''? The All Rider Kick - twenty-six [[FinishingMove Rider Kicks]], performed ''en masse'' by the protagonists of every ''KamenRider'' series from the original through ''Decade''. Overkill? Sure. CrowningMomentOfAwesome? You bet your ScarfOfAssKicking it is.

* In the Robert Rodriguez film adaptation of [[FrankMiller Frank Miller's]] ''SinCity'' the character Hartigan, after knifing one of the primary [[CompleteMonster 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."]]

* In ''{{Ghostbusters}} II'', we learn that [[BigBad Vigo the Carpathian]] was "poisoned, stabbed, shot, hung, stretched, disemboweled & drawn and quartered". After all that, he still managed to say a few words before his head died.

** A feat nearly equaled in the ''[[{{KamenRiderDen-O}} Chou Den-O Trilogy]]'', where [[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.

* ''TheMatrix'':

* ''FreddyVsJason''

** In ''Film/FridayThe13th: The Final Chapter'', 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.]]

* It's all the more chilling for its quiet, guilt-tinged delivery when Alfred in ''{{The Dark Knight|Saga}}'' reveals how his mercenary squad finally caught the RobinHood-style bandit they were hunting after they couldn't find him and he realized didn't care about money:

* 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 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 [[BeyondTheImpossible 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. Not to mention causing powerful tremors felt in the Earth Defense Forces underground base and knock out nearly all communications.

*** Darth Vader: [[AndManGrewProud Don't be too proud]] of this [[ThatsNoMoon technological terror]] you've created. The ability to [[EarthShatteringKaboom destroy a planet]] is [[BeyondTheImpossible insignificant]] next to the power of [[TheForce the Force.]]

* 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 [[BeyondTheImpossible an entire fleet this way]]. Not to mention the ship's iconic {{BFG}}, the {{Wave Motion Gun}} 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. Not to mention causing powerful tremors felt in the Earth Defense Forces underground base and knock out nearly all communications.

* ''{{Film/Robocop}}'':

* ''FreddyVsJason''

* ''Film/{{Halloween}}'':

** In RobZombie's ''Halloween II'', 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.

* ''{{District 9}}'' features several varieties of alien weapons. Most result in LudicrousGibs, all work on this principle. And it is ''oh so satisfying.''

* Kenneth Branagh's version of ''{{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.

* ''DerClown - Payday'':

* The captain of the salvage team in ''EventHorizon'', after having found out that the titular ship [[spoiler: was possessed by infernal forces]], he was inclined to fire missiles at it until it's vaporised.

* ''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.'']]

* StevenSeagal is made of this trope. See the climax of ''MarkedForDeath''. Seagal grabs the BigBad, [[EyeScream gouges out his eyes using his thumbs]], breaks his back over his knee, throws him through a wall and finally sends him down an elevator shaft, where ''he lands on a spike.''

* ''{{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=-pNZ1oypbjo&feature=related 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.

* ''{{Rambo}}'':
** In the fourth 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 [[TheDamBusters 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.

--> '''Ordell Robbie''': AK-47: the very best there is. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherfucker in the room, accept no substitutes.

** Just about everything. Giving a security robot ''Gattling guns''? Sure, why not? How about making a new police robot as tall as a auditorium? Sure...

* 2004 Film/ThePunisher movie: 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.

* The ''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 ''LicenseToKill'' 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.
* ''TheGodfather'':

* Ending of ''Film/BonnieAndClyde''.

* 2004 Punisher movie: 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.

* It's all the more chilling for it's quiet, guilt tinged delivery when Alfred in ''{{The Dark Knight|Saga}}'' reveals how his mercenary squad finally caught the RobinHood-style bandit they were hunting after they couldn't find him and he realized didn't care about money: