History ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill / LiveACtionTV

** In the 1998 episode "Warriors", Walker is fighting a CurbStompBattle against a [[SuperSoldier genetic superhuman]] created by a supremacist group bent on world domination who won't go down. He's survived a full round of bullets to the chest, several beatdowns, and has the might to snap a neck with one punch. How does he die? He's drenched with kerosene, [[KillItWithFire set ablaze]], and then falls through a window into an explosives storage bay, where he meets an [[StuffBlowingUp explosive end]].

** In the 1998 episode "Warriors", Walker is fighting a CurbStompBattle against a [[SuperSoldier genetic superhuman]] who won't go down. He's survived a full round of bullets to the chest, several beatdowns, and has the might to snap a neck with one punch. How does he die? He's drenched with kerosene, [[KillItWithFire set ablaze]], and then falls through a window into an explosives storage bay, where he meets an [[StuffBlowingUp explosive end]].

'''Spike''': No, I think it's just ''enough'' kill!

* In the ''Series/{{Angel}}'' episode "Belonging" when Lorne's cousin comes appears from a portal that lead to Lorne's home dimension [[NeverAcceptedInHisHometown (a place where he was well liked).]]
-->'''Landok:''' Your Mother's burden is terrible.
-->'''Lorne:''' Misses her little green boo, does she?
-->'''Landok:''' She rips your images into tiny pieces, feeds them to the swine, butchers the pigs and has their remains scattered for the dogs.
-->'''Lorne:''' Sounds like Ma.

** When Spike suggests sending the [[MurderInc Order of Tarraka]] after Buffy:
--> '''Random Translator Guy''': Isn't that kind of... overkill?
--> '''Spike''': No, I think it's just ''enough'' kill!
** The episode ''Innocence'' gives us The Judge, a demon that prophesy said "no weapon forged may kill him." [[spoiler:So Buffy's friends sneak into a military base and steal a ''rocket launcher''.]] Which may not have actually killed him, but it definitely dismembered him again.

** Judging from what Morgan says when he bursts in at the climax of "100," [[spoiler: Hotch seems to have done this to Foyet. With his ''bare hands.'']]

-->'''Geoff:''' I thought monks were supposed to be passive. You tore that guy's face inside-out.\\

* ''{{Series/Delete}}'': The AI hijacks a US test missile to bomb San Francisco so it can kill one man, an AI researcher that is a threat.

** In "A Good Man Goes to War" the Doctor destroys an entire Cyber-fleet simply to make a point. In fact, not even to make a point; he was simply telling them to answer Rory's question.
** One of the major {{backstory}} points since the series was revived in 2005 is that in order to end the Last Great Time War, the Doctor destroyed not only the entire Dalek Empire, but his race the Time Lords, too.
*** Although it later become clear that this is actually an aversion of the trope. The Time Lords had gone completely insane and were fighting the war using {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, and the complete annihilation of everything within the War's Time Lock was the only way to ensure that they could not escape. When the Master begins to open the Lock, the Doctor tells him that the war is ''literally'' Hell, ending with "'''Hell is descending!'''" For the first (and probably last) time, we see the Master afraid, and we see his rage directed at someone other than the Doctor. (An OhCrap moment for Rassilon as his grand plan completely blows up in his face as the Master is finally able to take revenge on the true author of all his suffering.)
** In "The Doctor Dances" he implicitly takes credit for destroying the weapons factories at Villengard. Apparently the reactor just happened to go critical and vaporised the entire place. And now there's a banana grove where it stood.
** And in "Journey's End" the Daleks plan to [[spoiler: destroy the ''entire multiverse''.]]

* In ''{{Series/Firefly}}'', Mal is being choked by Niska’s torturer in “War Stories”. After he refutes Zoe’s ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself, Zoe, Wash and Jayne proceed to riddle the guy with bullets simultaneously. After that, he tumbles down a shaft and is bisected on the way down.

** When Lexx was first constructed its purpose was to serve as a terror weapon to subdue a large group of Heretic worlds by blowing up a few examples and forcing the rest to fall into line, a la the Death Star. When it came time for His Divine Shadow to select which Heretic worlds to target, however, He declared that the targets would be "all of them." Fortunately the Lexx was stolen before this could be carried out.

* ''Series/{{Monk}}'' has a notable episode titled "[[Recap/MonkS5E15MrMonkAndTheReallyReallyDeadGuy Mr. Monk and the Really, Really Dead Guy]]," in which a killer takes out a victim by hitting him in the back of the head with a crowbar, suffocating him with plastic, poisoning him, stabbing him, shooting him, ''and then'' running over his body with a car. [[spoiler:It turns out this murder was a massive RedHerring to get the authorities entirely focused off a woman he'd also killed so that way they would not perform an autopsy on her, as doing so before the contents were naturally emptied would lead them to discovering evidence that could eventually point back to him]].

--> '''Noisemaker:''' A little much, don't you think?
--> '''Otis:''' It's, uh, kind of a slow day at the office.
* The DeletedScene from the pilot of ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'':
-->'''Leslie''': Mayor Havlicek was mayor when I was a kid. He was sort of an old-school character. He died in a small plane accident, when he was thrown out in handcuffs at twenty thousand feet. After being shot in the face.

* Franchise/StargateVerse

** In order to deal with the Founders, a joint Obsidian Order/Tal Shiar fleet planned to moved in to blow away their home planet's crust and mantle. According to Website/TheOtherWiki, on an Earth-like planet, that constitutes 84% of planet's volume, just to get to a bunch of people that would mostly be on the surface.
** Makes sense in context: the people they were trying to kill were a race of shapeless gelatin-like life-forms who could potentially slip into the cracks underneath the surface. However, the combined fleet did negligible damage to them; but that was because they weren't actually there. Then 100-200 [[FromBadToWorse Jem'Hadar fighters show up...]] Really they underkilled that one.
** in the episode [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E19TiesOfBloodAndWater Ties of Blood and Water]] Dukat sends a bottle of kanar to the defector Ghemor. The bottle is intercepted by station security, and analysis finds that there was enough poison in the bottle to kill 12 Cardassians. It also leads to Dukat asking Weyoun [[YoureInsane if he's insane]] when Weyoun chugs a glass of the poisoned kanar to show just how ineffective poison is against a Vorta "diplomat."
** In the episode Apocalyspe Rising, the crew believes that [[spoiler:Gowron]] is a Changeling impersonator and are sent to his base of operations to expose him. [[spoiler:It turns out that it was his second in command, Martok, who was trying to trick Sisko and company into killing Gowron for him so he could seize power ''and'' make the Federation think the Changeling threat in the Klingon Empire had been eliminated]]. In the ensuing struggle Sisko shoots the Changeling with a disruptor, prompting almost every other Klingon in the room to do the same. The barrage of energy weapons causes the Changeling to explode.
* In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode ''[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E22SkinOfEvil Skin of Evil]]'', to keep Armus from using a crashed shuttlecraft to escape the planet, they drop a photon torpedo on it... whose explosion can be seen from high orbit.
** Subverted in ''Conundrum''. The Satarrans and Lysians had been at war for decades. The Satarrans thought they could end the war by erasing the memories of the Enterprise crew, tricking them into thinking that the Lysians were their enemy, then manipulating them into using their superior weapons to destroy the Lysians. The plan failed because the ''Enterprise'' was [[NoSell so much more powerful]] than the Lysians that the crew couldn't believe they were at war with a people who were almost 100 years behind them in weapons technology and couldn't possibly threaten them.
* Subverted in the ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' episode ''[[Recap/StarTrekDiscoveryS4E07ButToConnect But to Connect]]'' when a group fires 1,600 quantum torpedoes at a Dark Matter Anomaly (DMA) threatening the galaxy, an act that has absolutely no effect on the DMA.

** In one episode, Walker is fighting a CurbstompBattle against a genetic superhuman who won't go down. He's survived a full round of bullets to the chest, several beatdowns, and has the might to snap a neck with one punch. How does he die? He's drenched with kerosene, [[KillItWithFire set ablaze]], and then falls through a window into an explosives storage bay, where he meets an [[StuffBlowingUp explosive end]].

* ''Series/TheWire'': after Omar (a gangster who only steals from drug dealers and other gangsters) and his gang rob a stash house of the fearsome Barksdale criminal empire, the Barksdales respond by quickly tracking down two members of the gang and inflicting some serious overkill on them. In the first case, the body of Omar's accomplice is found surrounded by over 40 spent shell casings, (not one of which was fired by him) and Omar's [[{{Gayngster}} lover Brandon]] gets [[ColdBloodedTorture horrifically tortured to death]]. While the full details of the torture are never revealed, at the very least it involved mutilation, being cut to pieces, burned with cigarettes and having an eye ripped out. [[DeadGuyOnDisplay And then his body is left out in the open]] to send a message to the neighborhood.

* In ''Series/TooOldToDieYoung'', apparently it's not enough to kill a defenseless, trembling, and terrified Janey by shooting her in the eye. She had to be shot in the head/chest three more times for it to really count.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': The traditional way to kill an okami is to stab it seven times with a bamboo dagger blessed by a Shinto priest. Rufus attempts this when hunting one in one episode, but forgets the number and "only" stabs it 5 times. Later, Bobby kills it for real by shoving it into a woodchopper, leading to this exchange:
-->'''Bobby''': It's dead.\\
'''Rufus''': Oh, you just happened to have a bamboo dagger blessed by a Shinto priest lying around?\\
'''Bobby''': Woodchipper.\\
'''Rufus''': Woodchipper. That pretty much trumps... everything.
* In the ''Series/NightGallery'' episode "Lady, Lady, Take My Life", a man is killed by a psychic attack that causes a major artery in his abdomen to rupture. Also a major artery in his lungs. And another one in his chest. All at ''the same time''. Any one of them would've been fatal on its own.
* In ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', after being vastly overpowered by the Samurai Fan Man, Zordon tells them to use their zords to crush the Samurai Fan Man while he's still small. Surprisingly reasonable, as we find out later when he has his way with the individual zords, curb stomps the mighty Dragonzord Battle Mode, isn't even dented by its finisher, forces it to disassemble, nearly blows the Megazord and Dragonzord into a distant dimension (stopped by a lucky mountainside they happened to crash into), and is only killed by the Ultrazord. The overkill is the Rangers saying they won't be able to do it without the Dragonzord, when in reality, the T-Rex zord's foot would have done the job just fine, or any of the dinozords really.
* In ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'', there was the Zeo Megabattlezord, which used projectiles so massive that they'd be equivalent to emptying a battleship into a human-sized target if adjusted for scale.
** Also the Super Zeo Megazord, a behemoth Megazord comprised of huge zords that are like a team of five Megazords in their own right, basically an Ultrazord that towers over twice as tall as a monster. It curbstomped the series BigBad and most other monsters it faced. And then there was the Zeo Ultrazord which stood four times taller than a monster. Nearly every monster was terrified of the Zeo Ultrazord and the certain doom that awaited them.
* Mostly averted in Series/VRTroopers, where weapons used for aircraft were never used on monsters, even when they were getting their asses kicked and their regular weapons just barely got the job done (or in a few cases, didn't do the job but the monster died anyway due to their own stupidity) with one exception. JB's mighty laser lance, which OnceAnEpisode did the job (in many cases with monsters surrendering upon getting impaled with it), but the ultra powerful but clumsy Creator/JerryLewis expy Fanbot was entirely unharmed by JB's laser lance, nearly destroying it and the finishing swipe only doing ScratchDamage before Fanbot tossed him around like a ragdoll and prepared to finish the job. Out comes the VR Technobazooka, usually reserved for aircraft, but in this case was the only thing powerful enough to get the job done.
** However the mostly part comes in when a few times Ryan and JB got so annoyed with Grimlord's {{Mooks}}, the Skugs, that instead of finishing them the normal way, they used their finishers usually reserved for monsters.
* ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'': [[spoiler: After [[BigBad Emperor Akudos Gil]] survived being trapped in the in his flagship the Gigant Horse as it blows up while being pinned to the main console as ''it'' blows up ''and'' getting hit by a Gokai Supernova & Slash, the heroes threw everything they got at him: Akudos got hit with the powers of every single Super Sentai team, all 34 of them, plus a Gokai Legend Crash; an attack by the six Gokaiger all in {{Super Mode}}s; and a brand-new [[FinishingMove Final Wave]], the Gokai Shooting Slash. After realizing that Akudos was ''still'' alive after all that, the team opted to literally shoving the [[{{BFG}} Galleon Buster]] into his gut and [[NoRangeLikePointBlankRange firing it point-blank]], finally finishing him. And Akudos STILL managed to hold on long enough to curse them one last time ("Damn you, space pirates!") before [[DefeatEqualsExplosion going kaboom]]. You can definitely understand why Gokaiders didn't think he was gone at first.]]

** In one episode, Walker is fighting a CurbstompBattle against a genetic superhuman who won't go down. He's survived a full round of bullets to the chest, several beatdowns, and has the might to snap a neck with one punch. How does he die? He's drenched with kerosene, [[KillItWithFire set ablaze]], and then falls through a window into an explosives storage bay.

** In order to deal with the Founders, a joint Obsidian Order/Tal Shiar fleet planned to moved in to blow away their home planet's crust and mantle. According to Wiki/TheOtherWiki, on an Earth-like planet, that constitutes 84% of planet's volume, just to get to a bunch of people that would mostly be on the surface.

* In ''Series/TooOldToDieYoung'', apparently it's not enough to blow the brains out of a defenseless, trembling, and terrified teenage girl by shooting her in the eye. She has to be shot in the head/chest three more times for it to really count!

** Frank is gunned down by a small army of men, a couple of whom are using ''shotguns'', all of whom empty their weapons into him. It's like a Roaring Twenties version of Murphy's death from ''Film/RoboCop1987''.

* ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'': [[spoiler: After [[BigBad Emperor Akudos]] Gil survived being trapped in the in his flagship the Gigant Horse as it blows up while being pinned to the main console as ''it'' blows up ''and'' getting hit by a Gokai Supernova & Slash, the heroes threw everything they got at him: Akudos got hit with the powers of every single Super Sentai team, all 34 of them, plus a Gokai Legend Crash; an attack by the six Gokaiger all in {{Super Mode}}s; and a brand-new Final Wave, the Gokai Shooting Slash. After realizing that Akudos was ''still'' alive after all that, the team opted to literally shoving the [[{{BFG}} Galleon Buster]] into his gut and [[NoRangeLikePoinkBlankRange firing it point-blank]], finally finishing him. And Akudos STILL managed to hold on long enough to curse them one last time ("Damn you, space pirates!") before [[DefeatEqualsExplosion going kaboom]]. You can definitely understand why Gokaiders didn't think he was gone at first.]]

*** During the destruction of Asuras, two drones blew an Asuran battlecruiser in half. During the battle of Antarctica in ''Series/StargateSG1'', Anubis took a drone to the [[EnergyBeing sort-of]] face, courtesy of O'Neill.

** Subverted in ''Conundrum''. The Satarrans and Lysians had been at war for decades. The Satarrans thought they could end the war by erasing the memories of the Enterprise crew, tricking them into thinking that the Lysians were their enemy, then manipulating them into using their superior weapons to destroy the Lysians. The plan failed because the Enterprise was so much more powerful than the Lysians that the crew couldn't believe they were at war with a people who couldn't possibly threaten them.

* ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'': [[spoiler: After [[BigBad Emperor Akudos]] Gil survived being trapped in the in his flagship the Gigant Horse as it blows up while being pinned to the main console as ''it'' blows up ''and'' getting hit by a Gokai Supernova & Slash, the heroes threw everything they got at him: Akudos got hit with the powers of every single Super Sentai team, all 34 of them, plus a Gokai Legend Crash; an attack by the six Gokaiger all in {{Super Mode}}s; and a brand-new Final Wave, the Gokai Shooting Slash. After realizing that Akudos was ''still'' alive after all that, the team opted to literally shoving the [[BFG Galleon Buster] into his gut and [[NoRangeLikePoinkBlankRange firing it point-blank]], finally finishing him. And Akudos STILL managed to hold on long enough to curse them one last time ("Damn you, space pirates!") before [[DefeatEqualsExplosion going kaboom]]. You can definitely understand why Gokaiders didn't think he was gone at first.]]