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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'': The conclusion of ''[[Recap/ArcherS11E7CaughtNapping Caught Napping]]'' sees Lana perform a firearms version of this when she empties with two magazines worth of SMG bullets and a clip of Archer's pistol [[spoiler: on Peregrine for [[MamaBear kidnapping AJ]]]]. Archer thinks the whole thing was the definition of [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill overkill]]. Lana thinks it was ''exactly'' the right amount.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Come on, Crystal, he's already got X's in his eyes and everything.]]
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* In the second act of ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'', if the Nightsong was freed by the party, she would eventually join them in the battle against Ketheric Thorm, one of the leaders of the Cult of the Absolute who was responsible for her imprisonment [[spoiler:with the intent of leeching off her immortality]]. Once Ketheric has been killed, the Nightsong would proceed to stomp on his skull numerous times in a fit of pent-up rage for good measure.
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* ''Series/BabylonFive'': In the episode [[Recap/BabylonFiveS04E19BetweenTheDarknessAndTheLight Between the Darkness and the Light]] Garibaldi, Franklin, and Lyta get into a fight with the cell guards holding Sheridan prisoner after they take him out of his cell and try to escort him to safety. During the fight someone drops a PPG, which Sheridan picks up. Sheridan then proceeds to [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill completely empty]] the weapon into one of the cell guards.
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* ''Film/FierceCreatures'': When Vince [=McCain=] finally wakes up to the fact that his hated father Rod is gone for good:
-->'''Vince''': ''[joyfully]'' You're dead, you're dead, YOU'RE DEAD! YOU... ''[[[PunctuatedPounding punch]]]'' BIG... ''[punch]'' FAT... ''[punch]'' BASTARD!

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* Possibly the end of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' episode seven, [[spoiler:where Sayaka repeatedly pummels the Witch Elsa Maria with a sword after decapititating her]], but it's hard to tell given the nature of Witches. Nonetheless, this is pretty shocking behavior for the others who are around her.
* ''[[{{Manga/Hellsing}} Hellsing Ultimate]]'': The Major lists this as one of the many, many things that he loves about war. "It moves me deep within my heart to watch a fresh recruit stabbing over and over into the bloated chest of a long-dead enemy."

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* Possibly the end of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' episode seven, [[spoiler:where Sayaka repeatedly pummels the Witch Elsa Maria with a sword after decapititating her]], but it's hard to tell given the nature of Witches. Nonetheless, this is pretty shocking behavior for the others who are around her.
* ''[[{{Manga/Hellsing}} Hellsing Ultimate]]'': The Major lists this as one of the many, many things that he loves about war. "It moves me deep within my heart to watch a fresh recruit stabbing over and over into the bloated chest of a long-dead enemy."



* In the manga version of ''Ark'' by Music/SoundHorizon, Soror does this to the man who is implied to have been molesting her, with her brother doing the "it's okay, you can stop now" thing.

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* In the manga version Rebecca of ''Ark'' by Music/SoundHorizon, Soror does this to the man who is implied to have been molesting her, with ''Anime/CyberpunkEdgerunners'', after being denied her chance at vengeance against [[spoiler:the cyberpsycho that killed her brother doing the "it's okay, you can stop now" thing.Pilar]], vents her rage by [[spoiler:blowing his severed head apart with multiple blasts from a shotgun]] after [[spoiler:the psycho is killed by David and Maine]].



* Yami Yugi ends up doing the card game equivalent of this to Weevil/Haga in Season 4 of ''Anime/YuGiOh''. His lifepoints are already at 0 and his soul is being sucked away, but Yami just keeps attacking directly with his Berserker Soul because he's angry (justifiably so). It takes Anzu rushing in and doing a CooldownHug to get him to stop.
* Takeo Tsurumaru from ''Manga/ShadowStar'' caves in the face of a thug with his fists. Said thug was the one who raped and murdered his friend Norio.
* Isshinsai Ogata, aka Kensei from ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'', is shown in a flashback beating an opponent to death in a martial arts tournament, and refusing to stop beating the corpse even after he's disqualified.

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* Yami Yugi ends up doing the card game equivalent of ''[[{{Manga/Hellsing}} Hellsing Ultimate]]'': The Major lists this as one of the many, many things that he loves about war. "It moves me deep within my heart to Weevil/Haga in Season 4 of ''Anime/YuGiOh''. His lifepoints are already at 0 watch a fresh recruit stabbing over and his soul is being sucked away, but Yami just keeps attacking directly with his Berserker Soul because he's angry (justifiably so). It takes Anzu rushing in and doing a CooldownHug to get him to stop.
* Takeo Tsurumaru from ''Manga/ShadowStar'' caves in
over into the face bloated chest of a thug with his fists. Said thug was the one who raped and murdered his friend Norio.
* Isshinsai Ogata, aka Kensei from ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'', is shown in a flashback beating an opponent to death in a martial arts tournament, and refusing to stop beating the corpse even after he's disqualified.
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* Isshinsai Ogata, aka Kensei from ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'', is shown in a flashback beating an opponent to death in a martial arts tournament, and refusing to stop beating the corpse even after he's disqualified.
* Possibly the end of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' episode seven, [[spoiler:where Sayaka repeatedly pummels the Witch Elsa Maria with a sword after decapititating her]], but it's hard to tell given the nature of Witches. Nonetheless, this is pretty shocking behavior for the others who are around her.
* Takeo Tsurumaru from ''Manga/ShadowStar'' caves in the face of a thug with his fists. Said thug was the one who raped and murdered his friend Norio.
* In the manga version of ''Ark'' by Music/SoundHorizon, Soror does this to the man who is implied to have been molesting her, with her brother doing the "it's okay, you can stop now" thing.
* Yami Yugi ends up doing the card game equivalent of this to Weevil/Haga in Season 4 of ''Anime/YuGiOh''. His lifepoints are already at 0 and his soul is being sucked away, but Yami just keeps attacking directly with his Berserker Soul because he's angry (justifiably so). It takes Anzu rushing in and doing a CooldownHug to get him to stop.
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In The New ‘’Webcomic/IchikaWhatever’’ Himari does this to the [[FieryRedhead unnamed redhead girl]] Who sexually assaulted Ichika, She stops when she realizes[[ExtremeMeleeRevenge that she’s only punching bits of muscle to the ground]]

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* In The New ‘’Webcomic/IchikaWhatever’’ Himari does this to the [[FieryRedhead unnamed redhead girl]] Who sexually assaulted Ichika, She stops when she realizes[[ExtremeMeleeRevenge that she’s only punching bits of muscle to the ground]]
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* ''Film/ThePatriot'': In the tomahawk fight scene, Martin continues hacking at a British soldier in rage after it is clear that the soldier is already long dead. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge This is right after the commander of the dragoons shot his second oldest son and tried to have his oldest son hanged as a spy]].

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* ''Film/ThePatriot'': ''Film/ThePatriot2000'': In the tomahawk fight scene, Martin continues hacking at a British soldier in rage after it is clear that the soldier is already long dead. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge This is right after the commander of the dragoons shot his second oldest son and tried to have his oldest son hanged as a spy]].

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* VideoGame/MaxPayne delivers the ballistic variant of this on Jack Lupino when he finally takes him down (Lupino has the most health in the game), wanting to make very sure that he stays that way because Lupino was hopped up on Valkyr, revealed to be a [[spoiler:failed SuperSerum prototype that works as a PsychoSerum and greatly increases pain tolerance]]. He only stops when [[spoiler:Mona Sax shows up and tells him "I think he's dead already."]]

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* VideoGame/MaxPayne ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'' delivers the ballistic variant of this on Jack Lupino when he finally takes him down (Lupino has the most health in the game), wanting to make very sure that he stays that way because Lupino was hopped up on Valkyr, revealed to be a [[spoiler:failed SuperSerum prototype that works as a PsychoSerum and greatly increases pain tolerance]]. He only stops when [[spoiler:Mona Sax shows up and tells him "I think he's dead already."]]


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* In the Deal ending route of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'', Niko ends up getting into a gun struggle with an assassin sent to kill him, which ends with the latter dying to a headshot. When Niko realizes a stray shot fired during the struggle hit and killed [[spoiler:his cousin Roman]], he takes the assassin's gun, fires it into his corpse, then resorts to kicking him once the magazine is emptied out.
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* Happens in ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs ''when Ellie kills David with his own machete and keeps hitting him with it.

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* Happens in ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs ''when Ellie kills David with his own machete and keeps hitting him with it. Joel has to pull her off to get her to stop and manages to calm her down.
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--> '''Surge:''' '''That's What you get!''' See what happens when you mess with the best?! Huh?! ''' '''Huh?!'''

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--> '''Surge:''' '''That's What you get!''' See what happens when you mess with the best?! Huh?! ''' '''Huh?!'''
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* From ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW Imposter Syndrome'' 2# Surge makes sure to stomp on a Eggbreaker even after she quickly [[OffWithHisHead finishes it off]] thanks to Kit weaking it and taunts it while doing so; ''justified'' as she was hurt by its mace fist and got healed thanks to the [[spoiler:Metal Virus she was injected with during her creation process for a nice {{Healing Factor}}]]
--> '''Surge:''' '''That's What you get!''' See what happens when you mess with the best?! Huh?! ''' '''Huh?!'''
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->''"She pulls the hatchet out of Creon's chest, letting the gore drip onto her boots...She gives a shriek and the hatchet buries itself in his knee. Then the other. Then his throat. Then his groin. Then his chest, again and again."''
-->-- ''Fanfic/TheVictorsProject''
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* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Jivi slices up the bodies of some Aldish soldiers crying and enraged at them for their part in killing his friends.
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* From ''ComicBook/SinCity'' the death of the completely deserving title character of the story "That Yellow Bastard" at the hands of a pissed-off Hartigan (pictured above for good reason). So brutal was Hartigan's beatdown that Junior didn't even have a ''head left'' when Hartigan was through.

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* From ''ComicBook/SinCity'' the death of the completely deserving title character of the story "That Yellow Bastard" at the hands of a pissed-off Hartigan (pictured above for good reason).Hartigan. So brutal was Hartigan's beatdown that Junior didn't even have a ''head left'' when Hartigan was through.
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* In ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'', Heather Mason kicks [[spoiler: the Order's god]] repeatedly in the face even after it falls dead.

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-->''Moe [[FlashBack thinks back]] to an episode where the Little Rascals are playing marbles. He flicks one away; it bounces into an exhaust pipe'' \\

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** One of Bart's nightmares in the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E5BartTheGeneral Bart The General]]" is that Nelson won't just apply BullyBrutality on him until he dies, but that he will ''beat up his corpse on the funeral parlor''.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', "Apprentice: Part 1", Robin delivers one to an already mangled Slade-bot out of anger after discovering that the warehouse they went to contained neither Slade nor the Chronoton Detonator.

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** One of Bart's nightmares in the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E5BartTheGeneral Bart The the General]]" is that Nelson won't just apply BullyBrutality on him until he dies, but that he will ''beat up his corpse on at the funeral parlor''.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'', "Apprentice: Part 1", Robin delivers one to an already mangled Slade-bot out of anger after discovering that the warehouse they went to contained neither Slade nor the Chronoton Detonator.
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* Many games in the ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom'' series allowed a player to continue attacking a defeated enemy at the end of the match if they pressed the Start button during their victory animation. The game would even give bonus points if the screen was paused on the right animations.
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* ''Fanfic/TheMeaningOfOne'': Like canon, Ron knocks out the troll by levitating its club and hitting it in the head. Unlike canon, [[BigBrotherInstinct his sister is present]], and he ''doesn't stop hitting it'' until it's long dead. He doesn't realise what he did, though, since the teachers quietly dispose of the body and tell the students it was relocated overseas.
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* In the fourth episode of Season 2 of ''Series/TheLastKingdom'', [[spoiler: after finally defeating [[YouKilledMyFather his father's murderer]] Kjartan in a DuelToTheDeath, torturing him and stealing Kjartan's sword to [[FateWorseThanDeath deny him entrance to Valhalla]], Ragnar the Younger [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge hacks Kjartan into pieces with his sword]]...and keeps doing so long after Kjartan is clearly dead, to the point the initially cheering crowd are [[EveryoneHasStandards horrified]] and Uhtred has to pull Ragnar off Kjartan's body and [[CooldownHug hold his adoptive brother until he calms down]].]]

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* After shooting Gary in the head in ''Film/PsychoCopReturns'', Officer Vickers begins "arresting" his body, but when it proves "un-cooperative", Vickers starts kicking and stomping it.
* Michael Bolton in the printer scene in ''Film/OfficeSpace''.

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* After shooting Gary ''Film/TheBigBoss'' ends with Cheng, after killing the BigBad, continuing punching his opponent's face for a whole minute, even though his opponent is clearly dead at this point, to satisfy Cheng's raging desire for revenge for his friends who died in the head in ''Film/PsychoCopReturns'', Officer Vickers begins "arresting" his body, but when it proves "un-cooperative", Vickers starts kicking and stomping it.
* Michael Bolton in the printer scene in ''Film/OfficeSpace''.
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* ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'': Picard rears back to bludgeon a Borg he's just emptied a Thompson submachine gun into (while howling with rage), but Lilly pulls him back ''before'' he does so. "I think you got him!"
* In ''Film/StarshipTroopers'', Sugar Watkins curses continually while repeatedly shooting a dead bug. Even after Dizzy pushes him off he fires a few more rounds into the bug.
* In ''Film/TaxiDriver'', Travis shoots a man attempting to rob a convenience store, so the store clerk does this to cover for Travis.

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* ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'': Picard rears back In the prologue to bludgeon a Borg he's just emptied a Thompson submachine gun into (while howling ''Film/TheButchers'', young Simon whacks his abusive father over the head with rage), but Lilly pulls him back ''before'' he does so. "I think you got him!"
* In ''Film/StarshipTroopers'', Sugar Watkins curses continually while repeatedly shooting
[[GolfClubbing a dead bug. Even after Dizzy pushes him off he fires a few more rounds into golf club]]. He then keeps waling on the bug.
* In ''Film/TaxiDriver'', Travis shoots a man attempting to rob a convenience store, so
body way past the store clerk does this to cover for Travis.point where he must be dead.



* In ''Film/PacificRim'', after downing the Kaiju Leatherback, Raleigh "checks for a pulse" by unloading several rounds into the corpse to the point where its chest cracks open and ''starts disintegrating''.
* ''Film/TheBigBoss'' ends with Cheng, after killing the BigBad, continuing punching his opponent's face for a whole minute, even though his opponent is clearly dead at this point, to satisfy Cheng's raging desire for revenge for his friends who died in the film.



* In the prologue to ''Film/TheButchers'', young Simon whacks his abusive father over the head with [[GolfClubbing a golf club]]. He then keeps waling on the body way past the point where he must be dead.

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* Michael Bolton in the printer scene in ''Film/OfficeSpace''.
* In ''Film/PacificRim'', after downing the prologue to ''Film/TheButchers'', young Simon whacks his abusive father over Kaiju Leatherback, Raleigh "checks for a pulse" by unloading several rounds into the head with [[GolfClubbing a golf club]]. He then keeps waling on the body way past corpse to the point where he must be dead.its chest cracks open and ''starts disintegrating''.


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* After shooting Gary in the head in ''Film/PsychoCopReturns'', Officer Vickers begins "arresting" his body, but when it proves "un-cooperative", Vickers starts kicking and stomping it.
* ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'': Picard rears back to bludgeon a Borg he's just emptied a Thompson submachine gun into (while howling with rage), but Lilly pulls him back ''before'' he does so. "I think you got him!"
* In ''Film/StarshipTroopers'', Sugar Watkins curses continually while repeatedly shooting a dead bug. Even after Dizzy pushes him off he fires a few more rounds into the bug.
* ''Film/StrippersVsWerewolves'': Franklyn has been tasked with destroying a werewolf's dead body so it can't be identified. He eventually manages to work himself up to wailing on it.
* In ''Film/TaxiDriver'', Travis shoots a man attempting to rob a convenience store, so the store clerk does this to cover for Travis.
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* Yami Yugi ends up doing the card game equivalent of this to Weevil/Haga in Season 4 of ''Anime/YuGiOh''. His lifepoints are already at 0 and his soul is being sucked away, but Yami just keeps attacking directly because he's angry (justifiably so). It takes Anzu rushing in and doing a CooldownHug to get Yugi to stop.

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* Yami Yugi ends up doing the card game equivalent of this to Weevil/Haga in Season 4 of ''Anime/YuGiOh''. His lifepoints are already at 0 and his soul is being sucked away, but Yami just keeps attacking directly with his Berserker Soul because he's angry (justifiably so). It takes Anzu rushing in and doing a CooldownHug to get Yugi him to stop.
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* Atem ends up doing the card game equivalent of this to Weevil/Haga in Season 4 of ''Anime/YuGiOh''. His lifepoints are already at 0 and his soul is being sucked away, but Atem just keeps attacking directly because he's angry (justifiably so).

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* Atem Yami Yugi ends up doing the card game equivalent of this to Weevil/Haga in Season 4 of ''Anime/YuGiOh''. His lifepoints are already at 0 and his soul is being sucked away, but Atem Yami just keeps attacking directly because he's angry (justifiably so).so). It takes Anzu rushing in and doing a CooldownHug to get Yugi to stop.
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* ''[[{{Manga/Hellsing}} Hellsing Ultimate]]'': "It moves me deep within my heart to watch a fresh recruit stabbing over and over into the bloated chest of a long-dead enemy."

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* ''[[{{Manga/Hellsing}} Hellsing Ultimate]]'': The Major lists this as one of the many, many things that he loves about war. "It moves me deep within my heart to watch a fresh recruit stabbing over and over into the bloated chest of a long-dead enemy."
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* ''Film/GodOfGamblers Returns'' have Ko Chun discovering his servants and pregnant wife being killed by the main villain, Chau Siu-Chee the "Devil of Gamblers", and for good measure Chau deliberately ripped the foetus out of the wife's belly and left it in a jar to taunt Ko Chun before leaving a number of mooks to ambush him. After Ko Chun and his partner, Lung Wu, killed off all the mooks, Ko Chun furiously punches the last dying mook several times (shot by Lung Wu in a ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind moment) in his rage.

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