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* ''Fanfic/TheNegotiationsVerse'': This happens to Princess Luna in the Battle of Jerusalem courtesy of an AntiMagic weapon that [[BroughtDownToNormal nullified her magic]] and [[MoreDakka getting riddled with bullets]]. The humans wanted to [[MakeSureHesDead be absolutely certain that she was as dead as dead could be]], as well as [[MakeAnExampleOfThem send a message to Equestria that their goddesses were not invincible]]. What was left of her resembled ground meat with bits of blue fur and feathers. In both ''Future'' and ''Fallen'', it's stated that it took Celestia over two weeks to repair Luna's corpse with magic and paying expensive preppers to make it look presentable enough to have a state funeral.

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* ''The Day of the Broken Fang'', a prequel to ''Fanfic/TheElementsOfHarmonyAndTheSaviorOfWorlds'' that expands on previous WordOfGod comments regarding [[Franchise/GIJoe COBRA's]] demise, shows that this is how the pissed off [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Decepticons]] wiped out COBRA -- they assaulted Cobra Island and after killing everyone there, bombed the island so hard they caused its volcano to erupt and sink it. ''Then'' they tracked down and leveled every COBRA facility on the planet.




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* ''The Day of the Broken Fang'', a prequel to ''Fanfic/TheElementsOfHarmonyAndTheSaviorOfWorlds'' that expands on previous WordOfGod comments regarding [[Franchise/GIJoe COBRA's]] demise, shows that this is how the pissed off [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Decepticons]] wiped out COBRA -- they assaulted Cobra Island and after killing everyone there, bombed the island so hard they caused its volcano to erupt and sink it. ''Then'' they tracked down and leveled every COBRA facility on the planet.
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--> First Harry Potter shall be stunned, then his limbs severed and the wounds cauterized. Mr. Friendly and Mr. Honor will examine him for any trace of unusual magics. One of you shall shoot the boy many times with my Muggle weapon, and then as many of you as can shall strike him with the Killing Curse. Only then will Mr. Grim crush his skull and brains with the mundane substance of a tombstone. I shall verify his corpse, then his corpse shall be burned with Fiendfyre, then we will exorcise the surrounding area in case he has left a ghost. I myself will guard this place until six hours have passed, for I do not fully trust the wards I have set against Time's looping; and four of you shall search the surroundings for signs of anything noteworthy. Even after that we must remain vigilant for any sign of Harry Potter's renewed presence, in case Dumbledore has left some unimagined trick in play.]]

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--> First Harry Potter shall be stunned, then his limbs severed and the wounds cauterized. Mr. Friendly and Mr. Honor will examine him for any trace of unusual magics. One of you shall shoot the boy many times with my Muggle weapon, and then as many of you as can shall strike him with the Killing Curse. Only then will Mr. Grim crush his skull and brains with the mundane substance of a tombstone. I shall verify his corpse, then his corpse shall be burned with Fiendfyre, then we will exorcise the surrounding area in case he has left a ghost. I myself will guard this place until six hours have passed, for I do not fully trust the wards I have set against Time's looping; and four of you shall search the surroundings for signs of anything noteworthy. Even after that we must remain vigilant for any sign of Harry Potter's renewed presence, in case Dumbledore has left some unimagined trick in play.]]



** When Naruto wants to make sure an Akatsuki base is destroyed, he turns everything in a 1.2 km radius into molten slag. To be fair, he had been force-fed the jutsu by the Nine-Tails and didn't now how powerful it was.

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** When Naruto wants to make sure an Akatsuki base is destroyed, he turns everything in a 1.2 km radius into molten slag. To be fair, he had been force-fed the jutsu by the Nine-Tails and didn't now know how powerful it was.
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* From [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8204172/1/ Strawhat Theater 2: Our Mrs Monkey]]: Absalom kidnaps and tries to forcibly marry Nami who's married to Luffy. Luffy uses Gear Second to punch him through several walls. And when Absalom turns invisible, Luffy uses Gear Third to punch the entire room through the rest of the castle.

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* From [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8204172/1/ Strawhat Theater 2: Our Mrs Monkey]]: Absalom kidnaps and tries to forcibly marry Nami who's married to Luffy. Luffy uses Gear Second to punch him through several walls. And when Absalom turns invisible, Luffy uses Gear Third to punch the entire room through the rest of the castle.castle, though it also serves the practical purpose of getting around his invisibility.
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* ''Fanfic/DiscordsNewBusiness'': Queen Novo ''loves'' this trope. Sonata Dusk later explains that "The human equivalent [of Seapony Diplomacy] would be carpet bombing. With nuclear weapons."
--> '''Sonata:''' Novo and the concept of overkill have had a long, lasting love affair.
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** This also applies to the Many, for the same reasons it applies to Film/TheThing: every cell of the Many is an infectious [[TheAssimilator Assimilator]], so Godzilla and his allies have to cook or sterilize ''every last piece'' of a Many construct even when said construct is inert.

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** This also applies to the Many, for the same reasons it applies to Film/TheThing: Franchise/TheThing: every cell of the Many is an infectious [[TheAssimilator Assimilator]], so Godzilla and his allies have to cook or sterilize ''every last piece'' of a Many construct even when said construct is inert.
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* ''Fanfic/ADarkerPath'': The Dragonslayers' attack on Atropos ''should'' have been massive overkill, since she's physically a baseline human and they were firing .50-calibre anti-aircraft rounds. Unfortunately for them, [[spoiler:she had already tampered with their target recognition systems; instead of shooting her, they were shooting Lung, for whom bullets are not-enough-kill.]]
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* ''Fanfic/HybridHiveEatShard'': Missy gets a special shredder to help deal with her fan mail, with settings ranging from "cut into strips" all the way up to "reduce to dust and then ignite the dust in a contained explosion".
--> Needless to say, she currently had it in that mode, because who wouldn't? Beyond those tired of the thumps of the explosions, anyway.
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* ''Fanfic/TheGunslingerHeroFlintlock'':
** Izumi follows this policy to the fullest extent when she can, and is actively frustrated when people advise or prevent her from doing so. She has Gjallarhorn and other large guns for when she needs to truly follow this practice and is upset that the US Government wouldn’t let her have a Fatman launcher. Another example of this is when she is criticized aggressively by Aizawa for using her rocket launcher against villains, thinking she killed them.
** Pony takes any chance she can to use [[{{BFG}} Sweet Business]], and has occasionally found herself using it to the degree of running out of ammunition.
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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13545968/7/Wilhuff-Tarkin-Hero-of-the-Rebellion Wilhuff Tarkin, Hero of the Rebellion]]'', the Empire's use of T-7 ion disruptors against the Lasat population is flat-out declared this, as disruptors are "anti-materiel weapons to be used exclusively on vehicles, barricades, and buildings"... And a general ordered them used on ''individual soldiers and unarmed civilians''. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Palpatine found this excessive]], if nothing else because [[PragmaticVillain it's stupidly expensive]].

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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13545968/7/Wilhuff-Tarkin-Hero-of-the-Rebellion Wilhuff Tarkin, Hero of the Rebellion]]'', ''Fanfic/WilhuffTarkinHeroOfTheRebellion'', the Empire's use of T-7 ion disruptors against the Lasat population is flat-out declared this, as disruptors are "anti-materiel weapons to be used exclusively on vehicles, barricades, and buildings"... And a general ordered them used on ''individual soldiers and unarmed civilians''. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Palpatine found this excessive]], if nothing else because [[PragmaticVillain it's stupidly expensive]].
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** When she attacks a jet plane carrying [[ThoseWackyNazis Gesellschaft capes]] across the Atlantic, she sends a warplane to fire on it until it's little more than scrap.
** She destroys the ship blocking the entrance to Brockton Bay's port, and then Ellisburg, with a Titan weapon.
** In order to kill Crawler, she sends a tank-killing murderbot against him.
** Her plan to kill [[spoiler:Leviathan]] is even called [[OperationBlank Operation Overkill]], and consists of using weapons that are even more powerful than the one mentioned above.
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* In ''Fanfic/LegacyOfTheEnginseers'', Taylor picks this up as part of her modus operandi when it comes to weaponry: as she describes it, Imperial weaponry starts at "See that guy there? Fuck him up and everything around him," and then goes up.
* In ''Fanfic/TaylorIsDOOMED'', Taylor, after going through five years of fighting (and [[TheManyDeathsOfYou dying]]) through Mars and Hell, is a firm believer of this principle, to the point that the PRT temporarily assigns her the moniker "Overkill". For example, when Victor tries to shoot Danny with a sniper rifle from a nearby abandoned building, Taylor stops the bullet, pulls out a massive rocket launcher and blows the upper half of the building to kingdom come.
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* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has Harry spend most of Book II leaning into this, partly because he's acutely aware that he's a GlassCannon - his offensive output is significant enough that he can get in a straight slugging match with PhysicalGod level beings, and that's even without going for his GodzillaThreshold which risks turning him into [[spoiler: the Dark Phoenix]]. He's also fast enough to pull a FlashStep on a young Superman and cunning with it. However, his enemies are usually in the same league of power, much more experienced, and much more physically formidable. As a result, he needs to strike hard and with overwhelming force. As time goes on, he rediscovers his precision and becomes better able to take what he's dealing out, but even after, he retains a tendency towards [[DestructiveSaviour leaving a trail of destruction visible from his space]].

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