History Main / OverclockingAttack

[[/folder]]

* In ''VideoGame/Grim Dawn,'' Occultists have a spell called "Bloody Pox," which plagues an enemy mob. Its upgrade "Fevered Rage" doubles its damage but buffs attack damage and speed.

* Used by the Big Bad against the hero in ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}'': Vilgax manages to remove the [[ClingymacGuffin Omnitrix]] with a simple overloaded pulse of energy bigger than its feedback pulse.

** Also, in the special episode "The Lost Episode," Beast Boy taunts a [[ThePowerOfRock guitar-shredding]] villain into overloading his guitar amps by turning the volume [[UpToEleven up to ten]].
* ''WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit'': In "WesternAnimation/ACloseShave", Shaun the Sheep tries to shut down the ConveyorBeltODoom by randomly flicking a panel of switches. It doesn't work, but it does turn on a huge neon advertising sign outside so Gromit realises where they are and flies to the rescue.

* As seen on ''LiveActionTelevision/MythBusters'', you can turn a hot water tank into an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bU-I2ZiML0 explosive house-demolishing missile]] by disabling the safety features and then pumping up the pressure, akin to a massive Alka-Selter Rocket.

* In the second season of the anime adaptation of ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'', Protagonist Misaka Mikoto uses her Electromaster power (basically the ability to generate and control electricity freely) to remotely destroy several laboratories from a phone booth using the phone lines by hacking into their networks with her power, then wiping all data and critically overloading all the equipment, blowing them up and confusing the scientists as to why the hell all their stuff started randomly exploding.

* ''Franchise/WallaceAndGromit'': In "WesternAnimation/ACloseShave", Shaun the Sheep tries to shut down the ConveyorBeltODoom by randomly flicking a panel of switches. It doesn't work, but it does turn on a huge neon advertising sign outside so Gromit realises where they are and flies to the rescue.

* The second ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' movie has the characters stopping the main villain on the Internet by redirecting a huge stream of email to the villain's address, causing it to slow down till it's frozen. Clogging a connection by sending massive amounts of data through it is at least a very realistic approach.

* ''VideoGame/{{F-Zero}}'': Black Shadow's doomsday device is overloaded by driving around it in circles. The resulting explosion can be seen from a view of the galaxy.

Not to be confused with {{Overcrank}}ing an [[AdrenalineTime Attack Shot]], a.k.a. "[[ZackSnyder Snyder-vision]]".

** In the prequel series ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', the crew installs "Phase Cannons" (read: clumsily named proto-phasers) when they are beset with an enigmatic and superior alien attacker. In testing, a virus in the system caused the phase cannons to overload, obliterating a mountain used as a test target. When the standard settings of the phase cannons don't work against the alien ship, Archer orders Malcolm to deliberately overload them again and the phase cannons finally give the aliens something to worry about.

* An attack similar to the above example can be performed in ''{{Arcanum}}'' with a Fortifier chemical, which temporarily increases your damage resistance, but the withdrawal takes away a chunk of your health, and overdose cancels the positive effect and causes immediate withdrawal. You can make lots of it and inject several into enemies during a fight, causing significant damage each time. Note: do not give this to your followers or they will attack you.

* In ''Film/IronMan'', [[spoiler: Tony instructs his secretary to overload an Arc Reactor by "opening all the circuits and overriding the safety protocols". This remarkably simple exercise results in a ''massive'' electrical arc that shoots up to the sky.]]

** In one of the sidequests of [[VideoGame/MassEffect1 the first game]], a sentient computer tries detonate itself and kill Shepard in the process. When Shepard points out that there's no way the computer could have smuggled explosives onto the Citadel's Persidium, it replies that it's components will approximate a self destruct when stressed.

* Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'s "Nuclear Pulse" involves him overclocking his own body with radiation and unleashing a shockwave.

** In one of the sidequests of ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'', a sentient computer tries detonate itself and kill Shepard in the process. When Shepard points out that there's no way the computer could have smuggled explosives onto the Citadel's Persidium, it replies that it's components will approximate a self destruct when stressed.

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect'': In one of the sidequests, a sentient computer tries detonate itself and kill Shepard in the process. When Shepard points out that there's no way the computer could have smuggled explosives onto the Citadel's Persidium, it replies that it's components will approximate a self destruct when stressed.

-->-- '''#225 on [[EvilOverlordListCellblockB The Evil Overlord List]]'''

->''"225. I will build machines which simply fail when overloaded, rather than wipe out all nearby henchmen in an explosion or worse yet set off a chain reaction. I will do this by using devices known as 'surge protectors'."''
-->-- '''[[EvilOverlordListCellblockB The Evil Overlord List]]'''

* ''{{Pretear}}'': The huge evil tree in the anime disintegrates when Himeno feeds it a large amount of LifeEnergy. [[spoiler:It's ''her own'' LifeEnergy, and she dies afterwards -- but this is what the TrueLovesKiss is for.]]

* ''AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'': In "The Tale of the Virtual Pets," one girl tries to destroy the invading aliens' computer before they can upload her friends to their spaceship by running too many applications at once. It almost works, but the computer magically reboots.

* ''StaticShock'': Gear stops Brainiac, the living computer brain that has invaded the Justice League's Watch Tower, by linking his computer/robot to it and downloading the same song billions of times -- "just like when my computer crashes when I try to do too many things at once." [[spoiler: It only appears to work, though.]]

** In the Prequel Series ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', the crew installs "Phase Cannons" (read: clumsily named proto-phasers) when they are beset with an enigmatic and superior alien attacker. In testing, a virus in the system caused the phase cannons to overload, obliterating a mountain used as a test target. When the standard settings of the phase cannons don't work against the alien ship, Archer orders Malcolm to deliberately overload them again and the phase cannons finally give the aliens something to worry about.
* In ''{{Smallville}}'', [[EvilCounterpart Bizarro]] is [[spoiler: killed by Clark this way. He gives Bizarro a chunk of Blue Kryptonite. Just as Blue Kryptonite [[KryptoniteFactor nulls Clark's powers]], it overloads Bizarro's powers, causing him to explode.]]

* ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' features a biological version of this being inflicted on a minor villain. He had strength, speed, and size--but as Kenshin kept dodging and tricking him into going faster, he passed the limit of what his joints joints could handle and broke his own leg.

* ''DragonBallZ''

* RurouniKenshin features a biological version of this being inflicted on a minor villain. He had strength, speed, and size--but as Kenshin kept dodging and tricking him into going faster, he passed the limit of what his joints joints could handle and broke his own leg.