History ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill / LiveActionFilms

* ''Film/JuanOfTheDead'': When Preacher Jones shows up, he instructs the gang to get in his truck. Just as Juan climbs in, [[spoiler:an undead China]]!materializes, grabbing Juan by the ankle. Juan does not just kick that person away; he bludgeons them multiple times with his oar. He justifies it to the others by claiming [[spoiler:China]] was a pain in his ass.

*** ''[[Film/KamenRiderZiOOverQuartzer Kamen Rider Zi-O: Over Quartzer]]'': Taken [[UpToEleven even further]] when Kamen Rider Barlckxs (who had augmented himself with the power of [[Series/KamenRiderBlackRX Bio-Rider]] and [[Film/KamenRiderJ J]] to become an [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever enormous]] [[NighInvulnerability water-based]] threat) is defeated by 21 Kamen Riders, with 19 of them ([[Series/KamenRiderKuuga Kuuga]] - [[Series/KamenRiderBuild Build]]) in their [[SuperMode Final Forms]], Zi-O in his [[EleventhHourSuperpower Oma Form]] and Geiz in his normal form.

** ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'' has the T-850 driving a massive helicopter and have the bottom of it scrape along the metal floor, hitting a pursing T-X. This removes most of her poly-alloy skin, but she breaks out of the wreckage and even detaches her own legs in order to pursue her target. It's only until the T-850 takes out one of his hydrogen fuel cells, which he proceeds to ''jam straight into her mouth'', is when the T-X is finally killed by getting blown up by '''''a miniature nuclear explosion'''''.

** ''Film/JasonGoesToHellTheFinalFriday'' '''starts''' with the FBI siccing a small army on Jason, who absolutely unload on him with pistol and machine gun fire, shotgun blasts, and '''''a goddamn AIRSTRIKE.''''' And even ''THAT'' [[BodySurf doesn't permanently]] [[ResurrectiveImmortality kill him!]]

** ''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).

*** 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]].

*** 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''.

*** 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.

*** 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.

** According to the background material for ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', the missile equipped Hail Fire Droids were used by the Intergalactic Banking Clan for 'debt collection'. Don't pay your bills on time of missiles will blow your house up.

* In ''Film/ThreeHundred'' and ''Film/{{Hero}}'', 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!

** In ''Film/TheTerminator'', the title character seeks out women named Sarah Connor, and shoots one several times, starting with the head shot
*** And in the end Sarah Connor shoots the Terminator, blows him up with a gasoline-laden semi-, and crushes him in an industrial press

* In ''Film/TheTerminator'', the title character seeks out women named Sarah Connor, and shoots one several times, starting with the head shot
** And she shoots the Terminator, blows him up with a gasoline-laden semi-, and crushes him in an industrial press
** In the second movie the T-1000 has his head blown apart, his body frozen and shattered into fragments, and finally melted in a vat of molten metal.

* 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.

** 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 ''The Godfather'' 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.]]

* 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.

* 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."]]

* ''Film/FreddyVsJason''

* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''

* ''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!"

** 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]].]]

* ''Franchise/StarWars''

** ''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 you 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, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments he calmly brushes a bit of dust off his robes.]]]]
* ''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.

** 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!

* 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.

** One of the ''least'' powerful alien guns displayed is a compressed air cannon that can throw a grown man dozens of feet into the air. A Prawn RailGun can blow heads and limbs off with contemptuous ease and reduce military-grade body armour so they may as well just be wearing t-shirts, and [[spoiler:the MiniMecha used by Wikus in the final battle has a {{BFG}} version of this gun as well as a LightningGun and a MacrossMissileMassacre launcher.]] What makes this really terrifying is these alien weapons that real life special forces would kill to get their hands on are implied to be the alien equivalent of [[ImprovisedWeapon jury-rigged prison slingshots]]. Imagine what the aliens' ''actual military'' has.
* 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.

* ''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?

** 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 ''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.]]

* ''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.

* ''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.'']]

* 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.
* ''[[Series/KamenRiderZiO Kamen Rider Zi-O movies]]''
** ''[[Film/KamenRiderHeiseiGenerationsFOREVER Kamen Rider Heisei Generations FOREVER]]'': At the film's climax, [[BigBad Tid]]/[[Series/KamenRiderKuuga Another Ultimate Kuuga]] proceeds to get Rider Kicked by all 20 lead Heisei Riders in their standard forms, after he deemed them to be nothing more than fictional characters.
** ''[[Film/KamenRiderZiOOverQuartzer Kamen Rider Zi-O: Over Quartzer]]'': Taken [[UpToEleven even further]] when Kamen Rider Barlckxs (who had augmented himself with the power of [[Series/KamenRiderBlackRX Bio-Rider]] and [[Film/KamenRiderJ J]] to become an [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever enormous]] [[NighInvulnerability water-based]] threat) is defeated by 21 Kamen Riders, with 19 of them ([[Series/KamenRiderKuuga Kuuga]] - [[Series/KamenRiderBuild Build]]) in their [[SuperMode Final Forms]], Zi-O in his [[EleventhHourSuperpower Oma Form]] and Geiz in his normal form.

* 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]].

** 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.]]

* ''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.]]

--> '''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/{{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.

* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'': unsurprisingly, many, many examples in this series

*** 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.]]"

*** 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.]]

* ''Film/{{Casino}}'': A number of scenes include especially brutal deaths, but none moreso than the climatic scene, where movie protagonist – or was that VillainProtagonist – Nicky Santoro and his brother, Dominick, are lured to a cornfield (under the pretense they are meeting with adversaries to declare a truce), but are brutally clubbed to death by mob bosses working for casino owner Sam "Ace" Rothstein, who had finally lost his patience with Nicky. The upshot here is that the mobsters simply don't beat the Santoro brothers, but they continue striking both of them hundreds of times with full force, long after injuries were serious enough to be life-threatening, let alone send whatever “cease and desist” message they were hoping to send to Nicky. In fact, Dominick – whose beating Nicky was forced to watch before the mob shifts their attention to him – was virtually unconscious (but still breathing) when the mobsters were finished, only to get clubbed a couple more times (including the fatal blow to the skull) when Nicky cried out for mercy on his brother. Nicky, however, is allowed to live after his beating, but is BuriedAlive (and is implied to have eventually died of suffocation from the live burial and choking on his own blood).

** ''Film/JasonGoesToHellTheFInalFriday'' '''starts''' with the FBI siccing a small army on Jason, who absolutely unload on him with machine gun fire, shotgun blasts, and '''''a goddamn AIRSTRIKE.''''' And even ''THAT'' doesn't permanently kill him!

* 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.

* ''Film/{{Casino}}'': A number of scenes include especially brutal deaths, but none moreso than the climatic scene, where movie protagonist – or was that VillainProtagonist – Nicky Santoro and his brother, Dominick, are lured to a cornfield (under the pretense they are meeting with adversaries to declare a truce), but are brutally clubbed to death by mob bosses working for casino owner Sam "Ace" Rothstein, who had finally lost his patience with Nicky. The upshot here is that the mobsters simply don't beat the Santoro brothers, but they continue striking both of them hundreds of times with full force, long after injuries were serious enough to be life-threatening, let alone send whatever “cease and desist” message they were hoping to send to Nicky. In fact, Dominick – whose beating Nicky was forced to watch before the mob shifts their attention to him – was virtually unconscious (but still breathing) when the mobsters were finished, only to get clubbed a couple more times when Nicky cried out for mercy on his brother. Nicky, however, is allowed to live after his beating, but is BuriedAlive (and is implied to have eventually died of suffocation from the live burial and choking on his own blood).

* ''Film/{{Casino}}'': A number of scenes include especially brutal deaths, but none moreso than the climatic scene, where movie protagonist – or was that VillainProtagonist – Nicky Santoro and his brother, Dominick, are lured to a cornfield (under the pretense they are meeting with adversaries to declare a truce), but are brutally clubbed to death by mob bosses working for casino owner Sam "Ace" Rothstein, who had finally lost his patience with Nicky. The upshot here is that the mobsters simply don't beat the Santoro brothers, but they continue striking both of them hundreds of times with full force, long after injuries were serious enough to be life-threatening. In fact, Dominick – whose beating Nicky was forced to watch before his beating – was virtually unconscious (but still breathing) when the mobsters were finished, only to get clubbed a couple more times when Nicky cried out for mercy on his brother. Nicky, however, is allowed to live after his beating, but is BuriedAlive (and is implied to have eventually died of suffocation from the live burial and choking on his own blood).

** In the second movie the Terminator has his head blown apart, his body frozen and shattered into particles, and finally dissolved in a vat of molten metal.

*** 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/Casino'': A number of scenes include especially brutal deaths, but none moreso than the climatic scene, where movie protagonist – or was that VillainProtagonist – Nicky Santoro and his brother, Dominick, are lured to a cornfield (under the pretense they are meeting with adversaries to declare a truce), but are brutally clubbed to death by mob bosses working for casino owner Sam "Ace" Rothstein, who had finally lost his patience with Nicky. The upshot here is that the mobsters simply don't beat the Santoro brothers, but they continue striking both of them hundreds of times with full force, long after injuries were serious enough to be life-threatening. In fact, Dominick – whose beating Nicky was forced to watch before his beating – was virtually unconscious (but still breathing) when the mobsters were finished, only to get clubbed a couple more times when Nicky cried out for mercy on his brother. Nicky, however, is allowed to live after his beating, but is BuriedAlive (and is implied to have eventually died of suffocation from the live burial and choking on his own blood).

* In ''Film/TheTerminator'', the title character seeks out women named Sarah Connor, and shoots one several times, starting with the head shot.