History ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill / Film

*** 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 shot him and perforated his car mode bilaterally. Then, he launches his sword down into the other's hood '''while in midair''', flips onto the ground, grabs the sword, and ''bisects this mofo lengthwise''.

*** 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 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.

*** 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!''

*** 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.

*** 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.

* ''Film/Transformers'': unsurprisingly, many, many examples in this series

*** 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 [[HoistedByHisOwnPetard gets his head torn off by his discus weapon]].

----> That thing is definitely dead now.

* 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.

* ''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.

* In ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}} II'', 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.]]

* ''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=-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.

* Similarly, most of the hero deaths in ''Film/{{Dillinger}}'' apply, though Pretty Boy Floyd (repeatedly machine gunned as he runs across a field) deserves special mention.

* 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 several state troopers arrive and fire ''Tommy guns'' into Stanton's body. Since the book and movie were based on Huey Long, it's very much TruthInTelevision.

* ''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.

* 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.''

-->'''ACME Chairman:''' You see, if the Train of Death doesn't kill him, those twenty boxes of TNT will. That, or the 100-pound anvil dangling above him, or- Oh, look. There's the Pendulum of Doom! What's the Pendulum of Doom doing here?! I did not order the Pendulum of Doom! It's overkill! Get rid of it!

* In the fourth ''Film/{{Rambo}}'' 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.

* ''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 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."]]

* Mr. Grocer's favorite method of assassination in ''GrossePointeBlank''.

** In 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.

* ''ErnestScaredStupid''

* 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.

** [[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/CasinoRoyale an Aston Martin that gets rotated 7 times]], [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} a brand-new Lincoln Continental being crushed into a cube]]...

* ''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 LoveableCoward 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.

* ''StarWarsANewHope'':

* ''RevengeOfTheSith'': After Aalya Secura is shot by the Clone troopers, they continue to shoot at her dead body afterwards.

* ''Film/FinalDestination'' In the first movie 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?

* ''FinalDestination'' In the first movie 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?

* Burt Gummer of the {{Tremors}} franchise lives and breathes this trope.
** In the first movie, 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 the second movie, 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 the 3rd movie, he blows up his entire house to kill a single Ass Blaster. [[spoiler:And then he finds out it was completely unneccessary.]]
** In the prequel, 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.)

* In ''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/PetSematary 2'', 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 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.

** 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.