Line #26 ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill/WesternAnimation


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9	* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'':
10	** In one episode, Stan kills Principal Lewis' "prison wife" Tracey by shooting him, sending him off a cliff in his car, feeding him to an alligator, and turning said gator into skinned suitcases and clothes... and Tracey '''''comes back unscathed.'''''
11	--->'''Tracey:''' [[InsaneTrollLogic You can't kill this love]].
12	** In "[[Recap/AmericanDadS4E7SurroGate Surro-Gate]]", Francine imagines revealing to Stan that she is pregnant with Greg and Terry's child. He responds by smashing a bottle, only to then come back with a chainsaw, then coming back with a cougar, finally satisfied with a cougar holding a chainsaw.
13	** In "Dreaming of a White Porsche Christmas", after Stan jumps off a bridge to kill himself, Bullock and four agents, some of whom 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.
14	** In "[[Recap/AmericanDadS9E16TheBoringIdentity The Boring Identity]]", Stan and his co-workers break into a [[BlandNameProduct Doug & Buster's]] to capture the real Osama Bin Laden (the one that was killed in 2011 was part of a stunt to make the president look good). When an apathetic night shift worker comes up to Stan, the latter hits him in the chest hard enough to crush his heart, then grabs him by the head while [[EyeScream pushing his eyes into his skull]] in the process, throws him to the ground, and shoots him while walking away for good measure.
15	%%* ''WesternAnimation/BambiMeetsGodzilla''%%ZCE
16	* ''Franchise/Ben10'':
17	** The Omnitrix has a self-destruct device that destroys the ''universe''. Could be because its creator is an OmnicidalManiac (with emphasis on the ''[[{{Pun}} omni]]'') 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.
18	** 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 the Biomnitrix, dual Omnitrix gauntlets that can fuse these two aliens together, forming Atomic-X.
19	* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'': In the episode "[[Recap/TheBoondocksS3E3TheRedBall The Red Ball]]", a referee [[TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch supposedly commits suicide (but is actually murdered)]] by strangling himself, jumping off a bridge and overdosing on amphetamines.
20	* The premise of ''WesternAnimation/TheBotsMaster'' is that an evil [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture near-future]] corporation is gradually upgrading all the millions of service robots in the world in preparation for an eventual robotic coup. In one episode, the hero's BrattyHalfPint sister discovers that they're scheduled to upgrade two lowly lifeguard bots at a nearby beach. Determined to prove herself while her brother's away, she uses their automated base to construct a massive, Normandy-sized ''armada'' of mechas and fighter ships to storm the beach, while the shell-shocked villains are left frantically screaming "It's just two lifeguard bots!"
21	* The ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' episode "[[Recap/CodenameKidsNextDoorS5E5OperationNAUGHTY Operation N.A.U.G.H.T.Y.]]"[[note]]'''N'''innies '''A'''lmost '''U'''ndo '''G'''reatest '''H'''oliday '''T'''his '''Y'''ear[[/note]] gives us the "Twelve Days of Christmas" attack, which involves raining literally everything mentioned as they're mentioned in the titular song on top of someone. And this was used on a ''child''.
22	%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hKSrNmCiy8 This]] from ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether''.%%ZCE
23	* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
24	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKjrr54vKaA Mobsters make sure to finish the job]].
25	** "I'll tell you what's not safe -- going hunting with Dick Cheney."
26	** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS2E6DeathIsABitch Death is a Bitch]]", Stewie tries to kill Lois by [[PianoDrop pushing a piano down the stairs]] into her way, then tossing a hand grenade into the piano to blow it up. The kicker? She survives without so much as a hair out of place, since [[DeathTakesAHoliday Death has taken a holiday]].
27	* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS4E11WhereNoFanHasGoneBefore Where No Fan Has Gone Before]]", Zapp Brannigan cites the legal punishment of 12 concurrent death sentences for traveling to the forbidden planet Omega 3.
28	* A truly hilarious example in ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': Billy's bike is run over by a car, mangling it. Billy says "Well, it still kinda works..." The bike is then crushed by a falling tree, zapped by a UFO's laser cannon, and hit by a meteor...'' which then grinds itself (and the bike) down into the center of the earth.''
29	* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Inhumanoids}}'', the over-the-top fanatical Soviet soldier accompanying the bad guys is asked whether using a particular weapon wouldn't be overkill. He responds, "There is no overkill! There is only kill and no kill!"
30	* Non-fatal example: one episode of ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' has a water balloon fight between the title character and his rival, Dib. While Dib builds a backpack that creates and launches water balloons, Zim created an orbital space station that sucks out all the water from the city, collects it into a balloon that dwarfs satellites, and launches it right onto Dib. The resulting collision causes a tidal wave that devastates the city.
31	* In the ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS1E13TimeWarped The Once and Future Thing: Time, Warped]]", this is how insane time traveler Chronos reacts to subordinate Chucko betraying him and giving key information to the [[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond Terry McGinnis Batman]]. Chronos sends Chucko to what is ground zero of a massive extinction event.
32	-->'''Chronos:''' Do you know what killed the dinosaurs? Well, ''Chucko'' does!
33	* The ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' episode "[[Recap/KimPossibleS2E18HiddenTalent Hidden Talent]]" edges on this for Dr. Drakken's latest DeathTrap; first, he has Kim wrapped up in chains and sealed in a reinforced titanium box, then drops the box into a deep pit, which he proceeds to [[DrowningPit fill up with water]], before releasing [[SharkPool hungry sharks]] and a GiantSquid into the water. To top it all off, he uses a FreezeRay to seal off the pit with a six-foot thick sheet of ice. Thanks to a few {{Contrived Coincidence}}s, Kim manages to escape without a scratch.
34	-->'''Kim:''' [[BadassBoast Which part of "she can do anything" do you not comprehend?]]
35	* From ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'':
36	-->'''Dale:''' I used as much ant killer as I needed, and not one 55-gallon drum more.
37	* The main strategy of ''WesternAnimation/KorgothOfBarbaria''. As long as the enemy still stands and screams, every further attack is acceptable to make him scream further until he ''finally'' chooses to fall over dead.
38	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': In "[[Recap/TheLegendOfKorraS3E12EnterTheVoid Enter the Void]]", combustion bender P'li gets a metal breastplate [[YourHeadAsplode wrapped around her head right as she's about to fire]]. Cue a GoryDiscretionShot and a smoking crater right where she had been.
39	* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
40	** Ralph's final attack against Sam in the ''WesternAnimation/RalphWolfAndSamSheepdog'' short "Woolen Under Where" consists of a guillotine, cannons, missiles, and a [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile crocodile]] [[SharkPool pool]] underneath Sam's ledge. Fortunately, before Ralph can fire the DeathTrap, [[NearVillainVictory the quitting time whistle blows]]. ("Oh, pshaw.")
41	** The climax of ''WesternAnimation/WhatsOperaDoc'' famously has Elmer Fudd be so incensed towards Bugs Bunny that he musters every ounce of power from his magic helmet to "kill the wabbit", via a storm of typhoons, hurricanes, earthquakes [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and smog]]. [[spoiler:He actually succeeds, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone to his chagrin]].]]
42	* ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'': The entire idea of the series was based around overkill. So much so that Jersey City was destroyed in just about every episode. One of the most notorious examples involved Coop sending the planet into a nuclear winter just to defeat the MonsterOfTheWeek.
43	** Several times throughout the series, while fighting another HumongousMecha, Coop would look down at the dashboard of the Megas, which [[PlotSensitiveButton seemed to change from week-to-week, and find hilariously appropriate buttons to push]], such as: three buttons in a row, labeled "Missiles" "More Missiles" and "ALL DA MISSILES"... guess which one he chose? All three.
44	*** Going for his "save the world" button, he found it was out of order, but "Destroy the world", "Smite the world" and "Destroy the world WORSE" were perfectly fine.
45	** 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 ''Yamato'' from ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato''; and the second, in an episode close to the series finale, was the main guns of the SDF-1 Macross from ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross''.
46	** By and away the greatest moment of overkill in the series is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=057Sti3pjMo Coop's imagined destruction of the DMV]]. He stomps the building to pieces, then punches the pieces to bits, then blasts the bits to smithereens, pauses, and then blasts the smithereens into whatever is smaller than smithereens. All while [[EvilLaugh laughing maniacally]].
47	*** Which, of course, has led to people [[TakeThat photoshopping the logos of things they don't like on top]].
48	*** In the episode "Breakout", the bad guy is invisible. How do you hit an invisible foe? Simple. ''Fire off every single weapon you've got in every direction.''
49	** In "Universal Remote", Coop manages to give the MonsterOfTheWeek a shield that will reflect anything he shoots at it. His solution? Hit it with something ''bigger''. Cue Jersey City getting utterly ''nuked''.
50	** Naturally, Coop's affinity for overkilling is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded on more than one occasion]]. One memorable example is when Coop rapidly presses the target button until the MonsterOfTheWeek has nothing but target reticles on it in Megas' on-screen hub.
51	--->'''Kiva:''' Um... Coop? Overkill?\
52	'''Jamie:''' Yeah... [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Do more!]]
53	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'':
54	** 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]].
55	** Ofdensen and Melmord are fighting over the position of Dethklok's manager by a fencing match. Ofdensen wins, stabbing Melmord in the gut and throwing him off a tower, and to ''really'' make sure that he's dead, Melmord gets run over by a train. It's yet another SugarWiki/{{Awesome Moment\|s}} for [[NotSoHarmlessVillain Charles Foster Ofdensen]].
56	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
57	** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E15FeelingPinkieKeen Feeling Pinkie Keen]]", a [[FlowerPotDrop flowerpot]], [[AnvilOnHead an anvil]], a hay cart, and a ''[[PianoDrop piano]]'' fall on Twilight Sparkle's head in quick succession.
58	** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E20GreenIsntYourColor 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.
59	** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero Lesson Zero]]", Rainbow Dash demolishes a barn so hard that it creates [[EverythingMakesAMushroom a rainbow mushroom cloud]].
60	** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E16ReadItAndWeep Read it and Weep]]", Daring Do, the heroine of the book Rainbow Dash is reading, gets caught in a DeathTrap that consists of [[TheWallsAreClosingIn spiky walls of doom]], [[QuicksandSucks quicksand]] [[DrowningPit filling the room]], [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes snakes]], and [[SpidersAreScary spiders]]. On top of all that, she is tied up with ropes that get tighter the harder she resists. Since she is an CaptainErsatz of Franchise/IndianaJones, she escapes anyway.
61	** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E7WonderboltsAcademy Wonderbolts Academy]]", Lightning Dust attempts to 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.]]
62	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePerilsOfPenelopePitstop'' does this with each and every DeathTrap the Hooded Claw uses to attempt to kill Penelope.
63	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'': The episode "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS4EP4 Him Diddle Riddle]]" has Him presenting riddles of various levels of danger or else the Professor will ''[[ExactWords pay]]''. Some could result in death, others could result in ''a missed phone call''. One, however, could result in Ms. Keane being dumped into "this vat of boiling ''sharks''". Him may have been bluffing, because as it turns out, the part about the Professor having to "pay" is a joke: it means "pay full price" for breakfast at a restaurant.
64	%%* ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'': Behold Matrix's [[http://starman-imaging.com/reboot/episodes/daemnrsg/daemnrsg1621wa.jpg bike?]]%%ZCE
65	* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' presents [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SlWegS2sS0 how to kill a werewolf.]] The punchline being the [[RulesLawyer pedantic Game Master]] saying that reducing the werewolf to a ''literal'' pile of shit didn't kill it [[ExactWords because no part of the overkill involved silver weapons]]. [[AndIMustScream Yeah, guess that is comfortable for it...]]
66	* In episode 15 of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'', the villain Maxwell admits that his plan might have been a bit of overkill.
67	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
68	** One episode has Homer grabbing a cigarette, stomping on it until it's flat, and then unloading a whole mag into it.
69	** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E9SaturdaysOfThunder Saturdays of Thunder]]", Homer watches one of the early scenes in the new ''[=McBain=]'' movie at the video store, where the title character's partner, Skowie, is shot 11 times by a hired gunman of Sen. Mendoza; Skowie then gasps out his last words before dying in [=McBain's=] arms. (Homer passes on the movie to pick up another "overkill"-type movie, the more mundane "Football's Greatest Injuries".)
70	** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E9MrPlow Mr. Plow]]", Bart is ambushed and hit repeatedly (taking at least 30 hits) by snowballs, shortly after Homer clears the roads to get to school. The final snowball is to an unconscious Bart by one of Nelson's friends.
71	** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E2YouOnlyMoveTwice You Only Move Twice]]" has a scene in which crimefighter [[Film/JamesBond James Bont]] 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 that 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).
72	** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E11TheTwistedWorldOfMargeSimpson The Twisted World of Marge Simpson]]" gives us this quote:
73	--->''"These are the {{Yakuza}}. They kill you 16 times before you hit the ground!"''
74	** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E20BrakeMyWifePlease Brake My Wife, Please]]", when Judge Harm revokes Homer's driver's license, she chops it in half with a miniature guillotine, feeds the halves to two dogs and orders the bailiff to burn their poop.
75	** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E2AllsFairInOvenWar All's Fair in Oven War]]", special guest Creator/JamesCaan 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 ''Film/TheGodfather'', in which Caan's character, Sonny Corleone, was ambushed and gunned down at a tollbooth.
76	** From "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E11MargeBeNotProud Marge Be Not Proud]]": "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!"
77	** In the "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS17E4TreehouseOfHorrorXVI Treehouse Of Horror XVI]]" segment "Survival Of The Fattest", [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame Mr. Burns is hunting Springfield's men for sport on his property]]. As Burns shoots Krusty, Krusty tries to tell a joke, saying "[[OrphanedSetup Dying is just like golfing, except in golf]]--", [[KilledMidSentence when he's shot some more]]. [[MultipleGunshotDeath Repeatedly]]. And when Burns runs out of ammo for that gun, Smithers hands him another and Burns keeps [[PummelingTheCorpse blasting the corpse]]. Terry Bradshaw, who appears as an analyst for [[ImmoralRealityShow the]] [[BitingTheHandHumor Fox]] [[ImmoralRealityShow reality show that Burns' hunt is being televised on]], remarks "Aw, you hate to see that! That's the kind of showboating that'll turn people off this sport.".
78	* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
79	** This is Jimbo and Ned's preferred hunting method. In "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E3Volcano 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. When they unknowingly hunt Cartman (in disguise as a creature he made up), they use some sort of missile-firing harness thing. In "[[Recap/SouthParkS2E6TheMexicanStaringFrogOfSouthernSriLanka The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka]]", in order to skirt hunting regulations, they claim that 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.
80	** In "[[Recap/SouthParkS10E1TheReturnOfChef The Return of Chef]]", Chef meets his doom like this. He falls off a bridge, is impaled, gets mauled by a mountain lion and a grizzly bear, ''[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and]]'' [[NoDeadBodyPoops craps himself]].
81	* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'': In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS5E10 The Krusty Plate]]", when faced with an extremely stubborn spot on a plate, [=SpongeBob=]'s last proposed method to get it off is to use a ConvergingStreamWeapon that fires a high-pressure water cannon, a laser particle beam, and another laser within a bundle of steel wool. He succeeds, but in the process destroys the Krusty Krab.
82	* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS1E08Veritas Veritas]]", the eel tank also has burners to boil the victims. Mariner complains that it's redundant. It also cooks the eels, defeating the point of having them.
83	* In ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'', when Star is bitten by a mosquito on a camping trip, she prepares to unleash a "Cataclysmic Total Extinction Death Blast" on it before Marco stops her.
84	* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/StrokerAndHoop'', SantaClaus (yes, Santa, and no, he is not BadSanta) shoots the guys who tried to kill him, and Stroker and Hoop have to tell him to stop shooting, as they are dead.
85	%%* Every episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'' has this.%%ZCE
86	* The second half of the ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' series premiere "[[Recap/SupermanTheAnimatedSeriesS1E1To3TheLastSonOfKrypton The Last Son of Krypton]]" 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]].
87	* In ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'', the official method of execution for the country of Thembria is by firing squad. In this case, the firing squad either uses ''cannons'', or ''tanks''. They also hang you after they shoot you, as Becky finds out in "The Time Bandit". At least you get to choose the type of noose they use.
88	* ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'': In the episode "Roll for It", Megatron declares that when he's finished with the Autobots (using the anti-matter energon cubes), he'll "reduce them to dust molecules!".
89	* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' has [[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]].
90	* Brock Samson of ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'' goes through {{Mooks}} like there's no tomorrow, often killing them in inventive and ultimately unnecessary ways. Like Franchise/JamesBond, he has a license to kill, so he can usually get away with it.
91	* In the ''[[WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010 Young Justice: Invasion]]'' episode "Satisfaction", Captain Cold attempts to rob a bank. Unfortunately for him, Rocket was having a bridal shower nearby, with Batgirl, Black Canary, Bumblebee, Miss Martian, Wonder Girl, and Zatanna as her guests. Just one of them would be more than enough to take Cold down, yet ''all 7 of them rush after him!'' Knowing how hopeless the situation is, he doesn't even attempt to fight back:
92	-->'''Captain Cold:''' I'm completely doomed, aren't I?\
93	'''Rocket:''' ''100%''...

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