History ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill / WesternAnimation

* This is Jimbo and Ned's preferred hunting method in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''; in "Volcano", they say a deer looks to be about a 46-gauge; cut to Jimbo firing a bazooka at it. When they fish (in a boat named ''U.S.S. Fishkiller''), they first throw grenades into the water, before launching some sort of missile down into the lake, killing every fish. And when they unknowingly hunt Cartman (in disguise as a creature he made up), he uses some sort of missile-firing harness thing. Then, in "The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka", in order to skirt hunting regulations, they now claim they always have to "Thin out the numbers" of animals; Ned promptly roasts some deer with a flamethrower, and Jimbo then states that they're gonna use napalm on beavers.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}'': The Omnitrix has a self-destruct device that destroys the ''universe''. Could be because its creator is a misanthrope, or whatever you call someone who dislikes everyone, regardless of species (An [[OmnicidalManiac ''Omni''cidal Maniac,]] perhaps?) Or just wanted to be absolutely sure it stayed out of the wrong hands. However, this depends on how long the timer is set: when Ben sets the Omnitrix to self-destruct in 30 seconds in the GrandFinale of ''[[WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce Alien Force]]'', only the Omnitrix itself is destroyed, but can incapacitate everyone around it; Ben explains that it would only destroy the universe if it charged for days like that first time.
** Speaking of ''[[WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce Alien Force]]'', the sequel series introduces us to Alien X, the DNA sample from a race with the power of ''OMNIPOTENCE''. As if that isn't overkill enough, Omniverse gives us Atomix who, as his name suggests, has the power of Radiokinesis, and is second only to the aforementioned Alien X in terms of raw power. Omniverse's version of Ben 10,000 possesses a version of the Omnitrix that can fuse these two aliens together.

--> '''Kiva:''' ''"Um... Coop? Overkill?"''
--> '''Jamie:''' ''"Yeah... [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Do more!]]"''
* ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe''. At urging, Gru enters the girls he adopted at a shooting gallery, and discovers the main target actually can't be knocked down with the guns provided. Regardless of how much he actually cared about the girls at this point, Gru clearly isn't happy that he got cheated, so his solution? He has a go, and uses a ray gun to level the whole stand. The man who cheated them decides to give Gru the prize after that.

* In ''Disney/{{Mulan}}'', the villain Shan Yu charges his entire army against what is about 30 or 40 soldiers. Naturally, the ConservationOfNinjitsu wasn't on his side.

* The second half of the series premiere for ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' subverts this. The giant mecha slams Superman into a police car, crushes the car into a wad of steel around him, tosses it through the side of a building... then collapses the building on top of him by firing a missile into it... then sets the rubble on fire... then strides through the fire to stomp on top of the rubble pile. Problem is, he's fighting Superman - when Supes breaks out underneath the mecha, [[NighInvulnerability his hair isn't even mussed]].
** give him an "A" for effort though.

* ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Bambi Meets Godzilla]]''

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}''. When Dethklok is given the privilege to choose how a group of criminals would be executed, what is their idea? ''Strap the criminals to missiles, fire said missiles into the sky, then shoot them down with lasers.'' Naturally, [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic they wrote a song about it.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Green Isn't Your Color", Pinkie Pie's method of keeping a secret seems to be as follows: zipping her mouth shut, locking the zipper shut with a key, digging a hole in which she buries the key, building a house on top of the hole, and moving into the house.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hKSrNmCiy8 This]] from ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether''.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' Stan kills Principal Lewis' "prison wife" Tracey by sending him off a cliff in his car, shooting him, feeding him to an alligator and turning said gator into skinned suitcases and clothes. And Tracey '''''came back unscathed.'''''
-->'''Tracey:''' [[InsaneTrollLogic You can't kill this love.]]

** "You know what's not safe? Going hunting with Dick Cheney."

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}'': The Omnitrix has a self-destruct device that destroys the ''universe''. Could be because its creator is a misanthrope, or whatever you call someone who dislikes everyone, regardless of species (An [[OmnicidalManiac ''Omni''cidal Maniac,]] perhaps?) Or just wanted to be absolutely sure it stayed out of the wrong hands. However, this depends on how long the timer is set: when Ben sets the Omnitrix to self-destruct in 30 seconds in the GrandFinale of ''[[WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce Alien Force]]'', only the Omnitrix itself is destroyed; Ben explains that it would only destroy the universe if it charged for days like that first time.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hKSrNmCiy8 This]] from ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether''

** When Ofdensen and Melmord were fighting over the position of Dethklok's manager by a fencing match. Ofdensen won, stabbing Melmord in the gut and throwing him off a tower. And to ''really'' make sure he was dead, Melmord got run over by a train. It was yet another SugarWiki/{{Awesome Moment|s}} for [[{{Badass}} Charles]] [[NotSoHarmlessVillain Foster]] [[PapaWolf Ofdensen]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' has [[spoiler: [[DeadStarWalking Cliffjumper.]]]], who has the unfortunate distinction of being fatally stabbed by Starscream.''[[EstablishingSeriesMoment In the first five minutes of the series.]]'' Evidently there's no respect for the dead in this universe, as he's brought back as a mindless beserker in the next episode for all of twenty seconds before Megatron [[DiagonalCut slices him in half]] and kicks him down a mine shaft. [[TropeCodifier Then Starscream blows the mine up.]]

** In the episode 'Dreaming of a White Porsche Christmas'. After Stan jumps off a bridge to kill himself, Bullock and four agents, some of who are armed with assault rifles open fire on him 'as he's falling to certain death', and continue to shoot him after he's hit the ground.

--> '''Captain Cold:''' I'm completely doomed, aren't I?
--> '''Rocket:''' ''100%''...

** The absurdity of the overkills, however, sometimes went beyond physics, as, on two separate occasions, the Megas opened up its chest, and out came the main gun of an iconic anime spaceship - the first, in the pilot episode, was the main cannon and front hull of the ''Anime/BattlestarYamato'' from the series of the same name; and the second, in an episode close to the series finale, was the main guns of the SDF-1 Macross from ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross''.

** The absurdity of the overkills, however, sometimes went beyond physics, as, on two separate occasions, the Megas opened up its chest, and out came the main gun of an iconic anime spaceship - the first, in the pilot episode, was the main cannon and front hull of the ''Battlestar Yamato'' from the series of the same name; and the second, in an episode close to the series finale, was the main guns of the SDF-1 Macross from ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross''.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' episode The Red Ball, a referee supposedly commits suicide (but is actually murdered) by strangling himself, jumping off a bridge and overdosing on amphetamines.

* RobotChicken presents [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SlWegS2sS0 how to kill a werewolf.]]

* This is Jimbo and Ned's preferred hunting method in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''; in "Volcano", they say a deer looks to be about a 46-gauge; cut to Jimbo firing a bazooka at it. When they fish (in ab boat named ''U.S.S. Fishkiller'', they first throw grenades into the water, before launching some sort of missile down into the lake, killing every fish. And when they unknowingly hunt Cartman (in disguise as a creature he made up), he uses some sort of missile-firing harness thing. Then, in "The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka", in order to skirt hunting regulations, they now claim they always have to "Thin out the numbers" of animals; Ned promptly roasts some deer with a flamethrower, and Jimbo then states that they're gonna use napalm on beavers.

* This is Jimbo and Ned's preferred hunting method in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''; in "Volcano", they say a deer looks to be about a 46-gauge; cut to Jimbo firing a bazooka at it. And when they unknowingly hunt Cartman (in disguise as a creature he made up), he uses some sort of missile-firing harness thing. Then, in "The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka", in order to skirt hunting regulations, they now claim they always have to "Thin out the numbers" of animals; Ned promptly roasts some deer with a flamethrower, and Jimbo then states that they're gonna use napalm on beavers.

--> '''Rocket:''' ''100%''...

** Naturally, Coop's affinity for overkilling was [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded on more than one occasion.]] One memorable example is when Coop rapidly pressed the target button until the MonsterOfTheWeek had nothing by target reticles on it in Mega's on screen hub.

--> "Um... Coop? Overkill?"
--> "Yeah... [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Do more!]]"

** "All's Fair in Oven War," James Caan (that episode's special guest) is shot more than 60 times at a toll booth by a bunch of Cletus Spuckler's hick cousins? Was he involved in international crime? No – he just made the mistake of becoming Brandine's boyfriend! This is a ShoutOut to ''TheGodfather'', where Caan's character, Sonny Corleone, was ambushed and gunned down at a tollbooth.

** "Welcome to Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge. I am Carvallo. Now, choose a club. (beat) You have chosen a 3-wood. May I suggest a putter? (beat) 3-wood. Now enter the force of your swing. I suggest: feather touch. (beat) You have entered: power drive!"

** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E7WonderboltsAcademy Wonderbolts Academy]]" Lightning Dust attempts finish a cloud-clearing exercise by creating a tornado, despite already having a very clear lead on all the other competitors. [[spoiler: Said tornado nearly kills somepony.]]

** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E7WonderboltsAcademy Wondebolts Academy]]" Lightning Dust attempts finish a cloud-clearing exercise by creating a tornado, despite already having a very clear lead on all the other competitors. [[spoiler: Said tornado nearly kills somepony.]]

** "You Only Move Twice," from 1996, has a scene where crimefighter James Bont (a parody of JamesBond) has been captured by the episode's villain, Hank Scorpio, and is restrained to a table where his groin will be cut off by a laser. Bont somehow manages to escape, but then Homer – not realizing Bont was helping organize a government siege on Scorpio's compound – unwittingly tackles Bont to the ground. While Scorpio praises Homer for his "help," the trope kicks in as Bont is surrounded by Scorpio's stooges and shot multiple times (11 when the scene ends, but it is presumed to be far more than that).

** "All's Fair in Oven War," James Caan (that episode's special guest) is shot more than 60 times by a bunch of Cletus Spuckler's hick cousins? Was he involved in international crime? No – he just made the mistake of becoming Brandine's boyfriend!