History Main / GottaKillThemAll

* The entire premise of ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' at the first season; Oliver even has a literal list to work from and cross names off of.

* In ''Series/{{Crisis on Infinite Earths|2019}}'', Lex Luthor steals the Monitor's Book of Destiny and goes on a rampage across TheMultiverse in order to kill every single Superman in existence. [[spoiler:He changes his tactic after meeting and sparing the Clark Kent of [[Series/{{Smallville}} Earth-167]], who has given up his powers to have a family. Instead, he forces the Superman of [[ComicBook/KingdomCome Earth-96]] to fight the Superman of [[Series/{{Supergirl}} Earth-38]]. Except all this was the Monitor's plan in order to help the heroes find that version of Superman.]]

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* The Creator/ShawBrothers classic ''Film/TheAvengingEagle'' revolves around an escaped assassin of the Eagle Clan, who's targeted by his twelve ex-comrades, and in order to survive must kill all twelve of them over the film's entire runtime before confronting his ex-mentor, once he had killed everyone.

* ''WesternAnimation/BlueEyeSamurai''. The title character has suffered HalfBreedDiscrimination all her life, so intends to track down the four white men who were living in Japan when she was born and kill them. She has tattoo on her arm with four spaces, one of them already filled in when the series starts, revealing that she has already killed her first target.

* Arya Stark from ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' has her (in)famous death list, with the names all of people that hurt her, her family, her friends or were just evil (which makes ''a lot'' of names). One of the overarching elements in her plot is the mentioned list and how she crosses the name from it. And, to make it even more creepier, she calls it "a prayer". It becomes a literal prayer after she joins the Faceless Men.

-->“I don’t fault you for not seeing the big picture, Captain. After what was done to me, it took me a while to understand what I needed to do so that I could be whole again. But when I meet the Prophets, they’ll see inside me, just as they did with your Emissary. They’ll understand what I need to get my life back. And I’ll use the Soul Key to find every other [[spoiler: Kira]] that has laid claim to a piece of my soul”.

* ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'': The various Metroid evolutions in ''VideoGame/MetroidIIReturnOfSamus'' and the remake ''VideoGame/MetroidSamusReturns''. An ever-present counter shows how many Metroids are left to kill. This becomes more disconcerting as the Metroids start to mutate, resulting in a mini-boss encounter with each one. At one point, the counter jumps from one to nine (The fourty-seventh and final Metroid is, of course, the dreaded Queen). Ironically, the game concludes with a Metroid hatchling imprinting on Samus; rather than snuff out the dangerous species once and for all, Samus takes allows it to follow her as she begins a peaceful climb back to the surface.

* The are [[NumberOfTheBeast 666]] Dragons in ''VideoGame/SeventhDragon''; the amount listed in the corner of the screen at all times. You don't have to kill every last one but doing so activates the BonusDungeon.

* In ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure 1'', E-102 Gamma's story following his rebellion against Robotnik is to find and "liberate" his fellow E-100 series robots. "Liberate" in quotes because he ''destroys them and frees the captured animal powering them''. [[spoiler:The last one to die is, of course, Gamma himself]].
* The main objective of Arena mode in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', your team's goal is to kill ''everyone'' on the opposing team while they try to do the same to you. Whichever team still has at least one player standing at the end wins. And to a lesser extent, the "Prime Cuts" achievement requires you to use the Classic sniper rifle to score a killing headshot on at least one member of each of the nine classes in the game in one match, leading to most players hunting this achievement to keep a running list of classes to cross off as they get the desired kill. This is no small feat because there is no guarantee you will even ''see'' all the classes in one match.

* The third ''VideoGame/WayOfTheSamurai'' game includes a secret ending, which is achieved by killing every single person in the town. It’s a bit more complex than most examples, owing to the fact that they must be killed in the right order to avoid accidentally triggering a different ending.

* In ''{{VideoGame/XCOM}}'', most missions don't end until every extraterrestrial on the map is dead.

* The horror-action themed gamebook, ''Literature/BloodOfTheZombies'', have you escaping a castle full of zombies, and you ''must'' kill EVERY. SINGLE. ZOMBIE. on your way out - otherwise the moment you escape, the book states that several surviving zombies made their way to the countryside, infects the local populace, and in the next morning, you end up having an army of zombies barging into your inn and killing you on the spot. [[spoiler: There's '''333''' zombies in total]], so happy hunting!

* This is half the plot of ''Film/{{Faster}}'' (The other half being those chasing Driver).
* ''Film/FinalScore1986'': After Richard's wife and son were killed, and he finds out the identities of the killers responsible, he then proceeds to down their names on a sheet of paper - Alfred, Hengky, Markus and Dony - and sets out to hunt them all down, in order, crossing their names each time he killed one of them.

* Because Skynet has little information about Sarah Connor's 1980s whereabouts other than that she lived in Los Angeles at the time, as soon as he arrives Film/TheTerminator simply looks up "Sarah Connor" in the phone book and goes down the list killing anyone with that name - it even gets him labelled the "phone book killer" by the media.

* ''Manga/MariaNoDanzai'': [[KnightTemplarParent Maria's]] main goal is to hunt down [[GangOfBullies Okaya's gang]] one by one and grant each of them a CruelAndUnusualDeath as payback for [[BullyBrutality the death of her son Kiritaka at their hands]].

* Percy, of the Vox Machina campaign from ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'', has a self-made enchanted pepperbox pistol, the barrels of which are engraved with the names of those he intends to kill for revenge. Appropriately, this pistol is named "The List".

* The main objective of Arena mode in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', your team's goal is to kill ''everyone'' on the opposing team while they try to do the same to you. Whichever team still has at least one player standing at the end wins.
** To a lesser extent, the "Prime Cuts" achievement requires you to use the Classic sniper rifle to score a killing headshot on at least one member of each of the nine classes in the game in one match, leading to most players hunting this achievement to keep a running list of classes to cross off as they get the desired kill. This is no small feat because there is no guarantee you will even ''see'' all the classes in one match.

* If you don't kill all ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'', you'd better try to [[GottaCatchThemAll get them all]] next time they come around.

* ''Film/TheManWhoComeBack'': After escaping prison, Paxton returns to Thibodaux determined to kill everyone who was involved in the lynching, his KangarooCourt, and the death of his family.

* Though you don't actually ''kill'' them, the whole point of the main series ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' games is to defeat the Gym Leaders in each city by knocking out their Pokémon, so you can defeat the Elite Four and subsequently, the regional Champion. The Frontier Brains can qualify as [[BonusBoss Bonus Bosses]] in regards to this goal, though.

* In the film ''Shadowzone'', John Doe inflicts this on all but the main character since he wasn't involved in the experiment that unintentionally brought him to our dimension. John Doe also didn't kill any of the test subjects, or Bingo the monkey.

* To some extent, the four sentinels in ''VideoGame/WildARMs5''. They're guarding four towers that have to be destroyed before you can fight the BigBad Volsung.

* ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}''
** The various Metroid evolutions in ''VideoGame/MetroidIIReturnOfSamus'' and the remake ''VideoGame/MetroidSamusReturns''. An ever-present counter shows how many Metroids are left to kill. This becomes more disconcerting as the Metroids start to mutate, resulting in a mini-boss encounter with each one. At one point, the counter jumps from one to nine (The fourty-seventh and final Metroid is, of course, the dreaded Queen). Ironically, the game concludes with a Metroid hatchling imprinting on Samus; rather than snuff out the dangerous species once and for all, Samus takes allows it to follow her as she begins a peaceful climb back to the surface.

* The first half of ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'' has the Slayer hunting down and killing the three Hell Priests who are overseeing the [[HellOnEarth demonic invasion of Earth]], and whose life force is powering it via their Dark Ritual. With each Priest that falls, the demonic consumption of Earth is reduced by a full third, with the deaths of all the Priests needed to stop the invasion. [[spoiler:Then the Khan Maykr, who is also overseeing this invasion, gets pissy at the Slayer killing the Priests and decides to unleash the Icon of Sin upon Earth to complete the consumption, meaning the Slayer now has to kill both her and the Titan]].

* In 1990 ''Film/{{Kid}}'' the eponymous character is killing his parents' murderers. Making it look like accidents. Subverted: he doesn't kill the last one -- the mayor -- he just tells the story to his children and they leave him. Alone in a town that hates him and is no longer afraid.

* The first half of ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'' has the Slayer hunting down and killing the three Hell Priests who are overseeing the [[HellOnEarth demonic invasion of Earth]], and whose life forces are powering it via their Dark Ritual. It's implied that he's also doing this [[spoiler:to avenge his Night Sentinel brethren who they betrayed and sent to die against the demons]].
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':