History ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill / FanWorks

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14180124/25/Iron-Maiden-Days-of-Future-Past Iron Maiden: Days of Future Past]]'': To prevent the apocalypse thirty years in the future, Clint begs his past self and Natasha to kill Wanda Maximoff. Natasha does so by shooting her in the head, repeatedly stabbing her in the head and chest, burning her body to a skeleton with phosphorous grenades, and incinerating the remains with lye. While Wanda was already dead almost instantly after being shot, future Clint's desperation drove Natasha to be absolutely certain there was no way Wanda would ever come back.

* ''Fanfic/TheMLPLoops'': One loop sees Twilight and Applejack collectively replace Ripley in ''Film/{{Alien}}'', with the Colonial Marines replaced by Seaponies. After being informed of the threats the Xenomorphs pose, Captain Sealight decides to [[NukeEm glass the planet they're on]], follow it up by [[EarthShatteringKaboom turning it into a new asteroid belt]], and finish off by blowing up the nearby sun before leaving, as it's "the only way to be sure" -- all in the most hilariously cheerful way possible.

** In the remastered version, Kyril needs to bring Olga back to the capital alive with Chloe in tow, only to find [[spoiler:Vault, Kin and thirty men]] blocking his way. What does he do? Simply shoot the leader? No. Hack them one by one with his cleaver? No, no. [[spoiler:He ''blows them all up to kingdom come via [[MagicMissileStorm A Call Beyond]]''.]]

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* ''Fanfic/FinishingTheFight'': Much care is taken to describe the effects when "modern" UNSC weaponry is used on ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' baddies.

* ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'': Happens in the remastered version. Kyril needs to bring Olga back to the capital alive with Chloe in tow, only to find Vault, Kin and thirty men blocking his way. What does he do? Shoot him? No. Hack him with the cleaver? No, no. He ''blows them up to kingdom come via [[MagicMissileStorm A Call Beyond]]''.
-->''Sure, someone might have told him that using A Call Beyond to vaporize Vault is a bit over the top but often times there is no kill like overkill.''\\
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''Of course, if Vault had the luck of the gods by his side then he could be alive... And in complete agony.''

* The Witty Phantom's plan to defeat Stan in their rematch in ''[[FanFic/YuGiOhTheThousandYearDoor Yu-Gi-Oh! The Thousand Year Door Redux]]'' is basically this. He summons Dice Reaper and uses his own Deckamster ability to make it unkillable by card effects. He then uses the Dice Reaper's effect to rig his dice rolls by basically getting to choose what number he would roll instead of actually rolling dice. By using Take a Chance's effect to multiply his life points by five by rolling a six, the Phantom's life points go from 6,500 to '''795,000'''. But the overkill part is the Phantom summoning Ancient Sacred Wyvern, who gains Attack Points equal to the difference in Life Points if its controller has more than his opponent, resulting in a monster with '''''780,500 Attack'''''. [[spoiler: It fails due to Stan's facedown, Magic Cylinder.]]

* ''FanFic/DungeonKeeperAmi''
-->''“What is it?” Torian replied, watching Tiger with a worried expression. Not too worried though, since her flaming crown had disappeared the moment she had doubled over in pain.''\\
''“The enemy temple! It's on fire!” the voice shouted.'' \\
''“Huh?” He involuntarily looked down, and then kept looking, his eyes growing wider and wider. Something underneath the waves was burning bright enough to make them shine like the setting sun. “I- I can see that.” He looked up at Tiger, his expression begging for an explanation. “What are they burning?”''\\
''“The temple.”''\\
''“Yes, you already told me that!”''\\
''“You don't understand! The stone is on fire! Underwater!”''\\
''Torian blinked. So did most of the youma.''\\
''“By all the dark gods, it just crashed and now the sand is burning too! Look at it!” another warlock shouted in the background.''\\
''“I think even the water is on fire,” the first one muttered in a voice that bordered on religious rapture.''\\
''“Don't be silly,” Tiger interrupted. “The water is too busy exploding to be on fire!”''\\
''“I... I stand corrected.”''

-->''Sure, someone might have told him that using A Call Beyond to vaporize Vault a bit over the top but often times there is no kill like overkill.''\\

* From ''Fanfic/GodsOfThisNewWorld'': "Meanwhile, [[Manga/DeathNote L]] had been in a harrier jet overhead… He readied a missile to be fired, and unleashed fiery hell on [[spoiler: Mello]]."

* ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'': [[spoiler:So Kyril needs to bring Olga back to the capital alive with Chloe in tow, only to find Vault, Kin and thirty men blocking his way. What does Kyril do? [[MacrossMissileMassacre Blow them up to kingdom come]] [[MagicMissileStorm via A Call Beyond]]. It is when [[OhCrap Olga realised that Kyril could have easily killed her during their duel one chapter earlier]].]]

* Particularly applies to Glory in ''The Faith Chronicles'' (a spin-off of ''Fanfic/AnExtraordinaryJourney''). After Glory has been worn down by a spell from Willow that destroyed her clothes and hair, and taken a beating from Faith, Faith and Sam use a stolen Asgard ship to teleport Glory right in front of the Stargate so that she's caught in the kawoosh as the SGC engage the seventh chevron. While Glory survives due to her being a god, she is left stripped of her skin and screaming in agony before Faith kicks her through the Stargate. Prepared for this part of the plan, General Hammond had already dialed a previously visited planet with a broken DHD, no human life, and binary suns so hot that Glory will quickly die whenever she reverts to her human identity.

* Particularly applies to Glory in ''The Faith Chronicles'' (a spin-off of ''Fanfic/AnExtraordinaryJourney''). After Glory has been worn down by a spell from Willow that destroyed her clothes and hair, and taken a beating from Faith, Faith and Sam use a stolen Asgard ship to teleport Glory right in front of the Stargate so that she's caught in the kawoosh as the SGC engage the seventh chevron. While Glory survives due to her being a god, she is left stripped of her skin and screaming in agony before Faith kicks her through the Stargate. Prepared for this part of the plan, General Hammond had already dialled a previously visited planet with a broken DHD, no human life, and binary suns so hot that Glory will quickly die whenever she reverts to her human identity.

* ''FanFic/BeautifulDestroyerSailorMoon'' is not afraid of using this.
-->'''Mercury:''' You threw a fucking train.\\
'''Moon:''' I wanted to be thorough.

* With access to technology from all over the known worlds of Fiction, there are many examples of this on ''Fanfic/CoreLine''. Still, three [[MegaCorp Mega-Corporations]] make themselves known because they have made this their (unwritten) trademark: Diggers Technologies manufactures up-scaled versions of the ''Anime/VenusWars'' tanks and sell them as ''cheap Literature/{{BOLO}} rip-offs'' and Boom Tech (the company from ''Fanfic/TheUniversiad'') uses as a base ''Franchise/{{HALO}}''-verse Forerunner technology (that usually ends with the target being disintegrated--for comparison's sake, ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}''-verse tech can disintegrate a target when you score a "critical hit" and ''Franchise/StarTrek''-verse tech needs to be specifically set on "disintegrate" to do that kind of damage. Forerunner tech, even their weakest pistols, ''disintegrates as a standard, and only gets worse from there.'' The third MegaCorp... [[Fanfic/NoGodsOnlyGuns Tongue-Urdnot]]. Any and all guns it produces have a standard for ''massive'' amounts of StuffBlowingUp (and TestosteronePoisoning).

* ''FanFic/DungeonKeeperAmi''
-->''“What is it?” Torian replied, watching Tiger with a worried expression. Not too worried though, since her flaming crown had disappeared the moment she had doubled over in pain.''\\
''“The enemy temple! It's on fire!” the voice shouted.'' \\
''“Huh?” He involuntarily looked down, and then kept looking, his eyes growing wider and wider. Something underneath the waves was burning bright enough to make them shine like the setting sun. “I- I can see that.” He looked up at Tiger, his expression begging for an explanation. “What are they burning?”''\\
''“The temple.”''\\
''“Yes, you already told me that!”''\\
''“You don't understand! The stone is on fire! Underwater!”''\\
''Torian blinked. So did most of the youma.''\\
''“By all the dark gods, it just crashed and now the sand is burning too! Look at it!” another warlock shouted in the background.''\\
''“I think even the water is on fire,” the first one muttered in a voice that bordered on religious rapture.''\\
''“Don't be silly,” Tiger interrupted. “The water is too busy exploding to be on fire!”''\\
''“I... I stand corrected.”''

* Invoked in a sense in ''[[Fanfic/ValkyrieOnFire I Am Not a Victim]]'' when Glimmer kills Clove by slitting her throat ''and'' stabbing her in the heart. Glimmer later clarifies that the initial sword-swipe was just meant to make Clove stop her current charge and create an opening for the subsequent thrust, but Clove was so focused on her attack that the obvious threat of the sword didn’t register.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13315211/15/Double-Back Double Back]]'' Harry uses Fiendfyre to destroy the [[SoulJar locket Horcrux]].

* In ''Fanfic/PokemonShadowOfTime'', Agatha apparently shot Madame Boss (Giovanni's predecessor as the head of Team Rocket) repeatedly with a shotgun and then had her ghosts "do their worst" to what was left.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13315211/15/Double-Back Double Back]]'' a time-traveling Harry (who's referred to as James to avoid confusion with his younger self) destroys Voldemort's locket [[SoulJar Horcrux]] with Fiendfyre.
-->'''Sirius:''' You know, actually, I think that counted as overkill.\\
'''James:''' It was a chunk of Voldemort's soul, there's no such thing as overkill, only 'has it been wiped from the face of the Earth yet?'

* In ''FanFic/TheJadedEyesSeries'' when it's Harry's turn to fight the orcs during the Triwizard Tournament. The task is just to "use any means to retrieve the gold pieces" and Harry does just that... by slaughtering them all and picking their corpses.

* In ''[[Fanfic/ThePartsWePlay Spectator]]'', while Katniss anticipated that the Capitol wouldn’t let Tacoma (the District Seven Tribute) live after her stunt in her interview when she demonstrated her strength by lifting Caesar, she considers it excessively cruel that they sent twelve wolf-like Mutts after Tacoma during the Games.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom''/''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'' {{crossover}} story ''FanFic/SayItThrice'', this is the only way to describe Betegeuse's cause of death. Rather than one straight-forward cause, it was a combination of attempted suicide by hanging, alcohol poisoning, internal bleeding from being beaten with a hammer, and possibly drowning from either blood or the bog he was tossed in to die.

* In ''Fanfic/TaraSheppard'', Warren blows up the Sunnydale police station and part of a hotel (with different explosives), killing over twenty innocent people just to kill Jonathan, Andrew and John Sheppard while faking his own death with one of his robots (although John escapes before the blast goes off).

* 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]].
** In another chapter, Rivoche uses a DLT-19D blaster rifle at full power against single Tuskens. For reference, a shot from a DLT-19D can leave a half-meter ''crater'' in any ferrocrete wall... And against people, it ''disintegrates them''. {{Justified|Trope}} in that the whole point was to terrify the Tusken's banthas by exploding the Tuskens and cause a stampede.
*** In the same chapter, A'sharad Hett is first ''set on fire'' and then shot ''three times'' with the DLT-19D. {{Justified|Trope}} in that he was [[MadeOfIron just that tough]] and had supposedly been already killed by an artillery barrage.

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** In another chapter, Rivoche uses a DLT-19D blaster rifle at full power against single Tuskens. For reference, a shot from a DLT-19D can leave a half-meter ''crater'' in any ferrocrete wall... And against people, it ''disintegrates them''. {{Justified}} in that the whole point was to terrify the Tusken's banthas by exploding the Tuskens and cause a stampede.
*** In the same chapter, A'sharad Hett is first ''set on fire'' and then shot ''three times'' with the DLT-19D. {{Justified}} in that he was [[MadeOfIron just that tough]] and had supposedly been already killed by an artillery barrage.

* In a crossover RPG (Fanon or Canon), Ancient Equivalents have invaded a faction on the level of the Ori (Tech, not power), and they have A LOT of drones (SG Fans Look Them Up), the defending forces just fired 'Vortex Beams' (Derived From Vortex Generation off of B5 Jumpgates) from the their ships, there were to many vortexes (700) that went critical resulting in the loss of a planet, two moons, 125 Ancient ships and 700 defensive forces. The vortexes merged and created a anomaly about 3 LS across :( Let's just say the person controlling the Ancients is not happy that they lost 1/3 or their fleet in the blink of an eye. The defending faction has something called a [[http://z8.invisionfree.com/TheShadowWar/index.php?showtopic=1552 Planetary Defensive Grid]] well, you figure it out...

* If it involves VideoGame/XCom, these are their standard operations, with levels of overkill ranging from planet burning to enough to cause a pre-emptive surrender in anybody but those with the idiot ball firmly in two hands... Those two hands tend to become vaporized, along with anyone related to the person whose hands they were within a fairly large radius.

* In ''WebVideo/DeathNoteTheAbridgedSeriesKpts4tv'' Matt gets [[MoreDakka shot up, hit by a barrage of missiles]], and [[NukeEm nuked.]]

* In ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'', [[BigBad Lord Slug]], after blasting Goku literally 2-feet in front of him with a [[BreathWeapon Colossal mouth beam cannon]] recites the exact line.
* ''Webcomic/FateGamersOnly'': Uesugi Artoria prepares to steal the gang's rations. Since those rations include a boxed lunch Rikku made for Mash, [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend Rikku]] orders Oda with a Command Spell to use [[LimitBreak Three Line Formation]]. Artoria is then filled with holes, and the screenshot of the attack used as a comic panel shows that Oda had four ATK Up buffs.

* Mister Cynical's ''Lycanthrope'' series on fanfiction.net (loosely based on ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'') is notorious for this, to the point where the characters in the series actually come to expect it. One notable example is where Shinji is supposed to kill a member of Seele in Paris. Instead of simply shooting him, he decides to blow up the building he's in, along with many others (including the Eiffel Tower). The end result is that Paris is filled with flaming debris which just happens to form a giant smiley face a mile and a half wide.
-->'''Shinji:''' Now those Frenchies have a smile they can be proud of!
* In ''FanFic/MegaManRecut'', Wily decides the best way to deal with a shrunken Mega Man is a submachine gun.
* In ''FanFic/MegaManReawakened'', Robert at one point uses a Program Advance to destroy a breakable wall. There's nothing left of it when he finishes.
* ''Fanfic/MirrorsImage'': Pinkie finds that someone has broken, stomped on and burnt the Pony Polka record she had ready for Cadence's wedding, leading her to ''suspect'' somepony may not like it. It was Princess Luna. Luckily, Pinkie has a copy.
* In ''Fanfic/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku'', the Ultra-Humanite is happy to blast Izuku square in the chest with a powerful laser cannon that rips atoms apart. The resulting knockback throws Izuku off Mt. Fuji and sends him plummeting to his (presumed) death. The Villain then proceeds to lob a powerful high-tech bomb (implied to be a highly-advanced plasma grenade from S.T.A.R. Labs) after him for good measure, watching the explosion go off in the distance. Granted, Izuku's NighInvulnerability and [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands recently gained]] ability [[{{Flight}} to fly]] ensures that he isn't even scratched by any of this, but the intent is still there.

* In ''Fanic/{{Origins}}'', a ''Franchise/MassEffect''[=/=]''Franchise/StarWars''[[spoiler:[=/=]''[=Borderlands=]''[=/=]''[=Halo=]'']] MassiveMultiplayerCrossover, the decontamination process aboard ''Normandy'' has been slightly upgraded--it now consists of an iodine bath, UV light passes, and a snap-freeze to nearly 100 below zero (Celsius). One Flood spore surviving would be bad news.

* In ''Fanfic/PokemonShadowOfTime'', Agatha apparently shot Madame Boss (Giovanni's predecessor as the head of Team Rocket) repeatedly with a shotgun and then had her ghosts "do their worst" to what was left.

* Beelzebub from ''FanFic/SonicXDarkChaos'' decides that there's only one way to finally take out Sonic and end the Metarex war; blow up the entire galaxy with the Galaxy Crusher.
** Hell, the ''Galaxy Crusher'' is pretty much the physical incarnation of this trope - it's the size of a red giant and capable of obliterating ''galaxies''.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9809658/1/Tremble-Mortal Tremble Mortal]]'', the WesternAnimation/TeenTitans Titans capture ComicBook/HarleyQuinn, and Raven heals her brain from the damage caused by ComicBook/TheJoker (leading Harley to a case of MyGodWhatHaveIDone bad enough to leave her catatonic). Then, they capture Joker and leave him tied up in a cell. The next morning, Joker has six thousand stab wounds, and Harley is gone along with his head.

* The Witty Phantom's plan to defeat Stan in their rematch in ''[[FanFic/YuGiOhTheThousandYearDoor Yu-Gi-Oh! The Thousand Year Door Redux]]'' is basically this. He summons Dice Reaper and uses his own Deckamster ability to make it unkillable by card effects. He then uses the Dice Reaper's effect to rig his dice rolls by basically getting to choose what number he would roll instead of actually rolling dice. By using Take a Chance's effect to multiply his life points by five by rolling a six, the Phantom's life points go from 6,500 to '''795,000'''. But the overkill part is the Phantom summoning Ancient Sacred Wyvern, who gains Attack Points equal to the difference in Life Points if its controller has more than his opponent, resulting in a monster with '''''780,500 Attack'''''. [[spoiler: It fails due to Stan's facedown, Magic Cylinder.]]

* ''101 Ways to Kill Jar Jar Binks'' has many times where this happens to [[TheScrappy Jar Jar]], such as being hit with [[Film/ANewHope the Death Star's superlaser]].
* In chapter 15 of ''[[{{Fanfic/AceCombatTheEquestrianWar}} Ace Combat: The Equestrian War]]'', Flare Star reported (having witnessed it firsthand) that Blueberry was beaten to semi consciousness by four griffins before one of them [[{{CruelAndUnusualDeath}} ripped the wings off her body]]... Even after she hit the ground, her killer still smashed her spine to make sure she won't get up again.
* In [[https://fanfiction.net/s/4963075/1/Anything-and-Everything one]] ''{{Manga/Naruto}}'' fic, [[NoodleIncident while the readers aren't told what exactly happened]], after Naruto ([[SealedInAPersonShapedCan really Kyuubi in Naruto's form]]) is sent to Kumo as compensation for killing their head ninja, Kumo is referred to as "The Village Hidden In The Smoking Hole In The Ground". It should be noted that after over a decade, the hole is in fact still smoking.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3524043/2/The-Art-of-the-Deal The Art of the Deal]]'', Naruto deals with Yakuza using his warehouses to smuggle drugs by hiring the [[PersonOfMassDestruction Akatsuki]] with orders to "leave a lasting impression". According to Kakuzu, for the amount they're being paid, he can demand anything he wants.
* In ''Fanfic/AvengerGoddess'', with the upgraded arc reactor available, Tony delivers a full-powered blast that completely disintegrates the upper half of the Iron Monger armor (after Stane's been removed from it).
* In ''Fanfic/AvengerOfSteel'', after Madame Gao manages to use her command of chi to hold her own against Black Widow, Hawkeye, Daredevil ''and'' Jessica Jones at once, she is only defeated after Natasha manages to shock Gao with her Widow's Bite. With Natasha protected from the shock by the Kryptonian battlesuit Clark gave her, Gao is knocked off-balance long enough for Jessica to break Gao's arm with her Thangarian mace, Matt subsequently strangling her until Clint can shoot at Gao with one of his explosive arrows. Once they have confirmed that Gao's battered but breathing after all that, Natasha uses Gao's own sword-cane to cut off her head.
* ''FanFic/BeautifulDestroyerSailorMoon'' is not afraid of using this.
-->'''Mercury:''' You threw a fucking train.\\
'''Moon:''' I wanted to be thorough.

* ''Fanfic/BoldoresandBoomsticks'': Tapu Koko sees nothing wrong with using Guardian of Alola, the signature [[LimitBreak Z-Move]] of the Guardian Deities, on an already-paralyzed and bruised Yang to end their match.

* In the ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' and ''Anime/YuGiOh'' crossover ''Fanfic/DuelingTriggerFinger'', Makoto [[BewareTheNiceOnes of all people]] engages in this. After Noah pushes Makoto's BerserkButton about sibling bonds being precious one too many times, Makoto takes the place of Yugi when he would've normally dueled Noah at the end of the arc. At the end of the duel, Makoto manages to summon Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon and pumps it up in such a way that its attack value is '''13,000'''. Makoto didn't need to get it quite that high as he could've simply put it at 9,000, but Noah had [[TakenForGranite turned Komaru to stone]], [[BigBrotherInstinct which Makoto took exception to]].

* In the ''Series/StargateSG1'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2758266/1/Far-Beyond-Normal Far Beyond Normal]]'', Lt. Colonel Fenton of SG-13 uses "over a hundred people" of whom "even the ambulance drivers and helicopter pilots were Special Forces trained" to capture an unarmed 18-year old human girl loose in Colorado Springs. He reflects that "One of the things he loved about the SGC was that nobody minded if it took a sledge hammer to drive home a nail, so long as the sumbitch got drove." The girl in question turns out to be [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy Summers]], so in hindsight it was just-barely-enough-kill.
* Also, ''Finishing The Fight'' (found on the ''VideoGame/{{Halo}}'' Fanfic Recs page), in which much care is taken to describe the effects when "modern" UNSC weaponry is used on ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' baddies.

* ''FanFic/AGrowingAffection'' has a few examples:
** 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.
** When Hinata kills Madara, to make sure he is absolutely dead, she atomizes him with a black hole/Rasengan hybrid.
* In ''FanFic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'', Voldemort wants to kill Harry [[http://hpmor.com/chapter/113 in this particular fashion]]:
--> 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.]]
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11898648/46/Harry-Potter-and-the-Rune-Stone-Path Harry Potter and the Rune Stone Path]]'':
-->'''Lily:''' I was serious about the overkill though, Harry. I am a huge fan of it. If you're going to do something, might as well make sure you don't have to do it a second time. If you want to secure a home, make it a fortress. If you want to kill someone blow up their house and Fiendfyre the ashes. If your enemy is bringing an army, bring your own five times as large.

* In ''WebVideo/DeathNoteTheAbridgedSeriesKpts4tv'' Matt gets [[MoreDakka shot up, hit by a barrage of missiles]], and [[NukeEm nuked.]]
* in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', the one-line canonical character of Miss Smith-Rhodes makes her first appearance in fanfic as an [[AmoralAfrikaner Rimwards Howondalandian]] freelance Assassin with a lot of anger issues to work off. She goes rogue as a junior Army officer, crosses the border into the neighbouring [[DarkestAfrica Black Howondalandian]] state in pursuit of a warlord who has raided into [[UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica her country]]. the barely-nineteen year old {{Tykebomb}} is rather indiscriminate with the size and placement of the bombs she plants in the warlord's kraal; she gets her man - and the best part of sixty members of his extended family. After this she is exiled to Ankh-Morpork, to prevent her from starting any major wars and she ends up being trained to manage her anger issues and be a little more ''focused'' in any future inhumation contracts under the auspices of the Guild of Assassins - who recognise a late-entry talent when they see one. Read more in the fics of Creator/AAPessimal.
* In ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'', [[BigBad Lord Slug]], after blasting Goku literally 2-feet in front of him with a [[BreathWeapon Colossal mouth beam cannon]] recites the exact line.

* The Franchise/UltraSeries fanfic ''Ultraman Moedari''... well, you'd better see the paragraph yourself:
-->Meanwhile, Yapool fired a fireball. It bounced off. He fired more, but the behemoth turned and reflected them back. Yapool staggered as the now-enraged creature flung a bolt of light. Thousands of sharp spikes materialized out of nowhere, running him through while at the same time a small star surrounded him, while molted rocks bombarded him and crystals burst out of him. Twin daggers of some unheard of metal ran him through and through.
-->All this took place in a matter of seconds. The others looked on in horror: there was no trace of the powerful being.
** Even worse when you consider his companions were cut to shreds in an instant by ''living, growing, creeping, PLANTS'' and Groza was reduced to a puddle despite being immortal.
** One of Lunaram's Regina Finishers is kicking her enemy in the face... with '''an entire moon.''' The other is a blast of light as hot as the exterior of the sun. These destroy planets.
* ''Manga/{{Evangelion 303}}'': In chapter 4, during an OldSchoolDogFight [[FieryRedhead Asuka]] ordered [[LovelyAngels Hikari]] [[http://eva303.smackjeeves.com/comics/960299/062/ doubling the dose of missiles when she shot]] because she WANTED THEM DEAD!. One of her rivals complained that was WAY overkill.

* In ''Fanfic/WhatAboutWitchQueen'', Nexø and Riis do it by accident. They were supposed to stop Weseltonians' charge by blowing them up with the powder charge under Weasels' path. Only they overestimated how much they'd need and ended up... well:
-->''"I thing we overdid it!" Nexø heard the scream like a quietest whisper. He looked at where Riis was pointing and opened his eyes in shock. The wind up there was blowing the smoke off, revealing the wall of the canyon.\\
Or, rather, a lack of it.\\
Well, Nexø thought, it'll be just a bit harder for them to attack us now, seeing how we've just buried the entrance under at least two meters of rock.''
* Mister Cynical's Lycanthrope series on fanfiction.net (loosely based on ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'') is notorious for this, to the point where the characters in the series actually come to expect it. One notable example is where Shinji is supposed to kill a member of Seele in Paris. Instead of simply shooting him, he decides to blow up the building he's in, along with many others (including the Eiffel Tower). The end result is that Paris is filled with flaming debris which just happens to form a giant smiley face a mile and a half wide.
-->'''Shinji:''' Now those Frenchies have a smile they can be proud of!
* Also, ''Finishing The Fight'' (found on the ''VideoGame/{{Halo}}'' Fanfic Recs page), in which much care is taken to describe the effects when "modern" UNSC weaponry is used on ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' baddies..
* ''Fanfic/{{Renegade}}''
** [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSeries GDI]] has stationed twenty ion cannon emplacements - each of which mounts six dreadnought-grade ion cannons - outside the [[Franchise/MassEffect Charon Mass Relay]]. [[BeamSpam That's a lot of "NEEM."]]
** Garrus. Need to question some criminals? Knock down the wall of their warehouse with a cargo hauler and shoot them all in the knees. Turns out [[YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle they're not the ones who have what he needs to know?]] Knock down the ''next'' warehouse's wall with a cargo hauler and kneecap the men inside. Need to question a mercenary boss? Blow up his car with a ''tank''.
** Apparently, Admiral Nick "Havoc" Parker is known for this - according to Shepard, orbital bombardment is his ''first'' resort. The prospect of him and Garrus being in the same room is terrifying.
* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8861606/1/XCOM-Second-Contact XCOM: Second Contact]] has [[VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown X-COM]]'s battle with the Turian patrol at Relay 314. The Turians have one cruiser and five frigates. X-COM brings 400 fighters, 12 cruisers, and 2 dreadnoughts.
* In ''Fanfic/PokemonShadowOfTime'', Agatha apparently shot Madame Boss (Giovanni's predecessor as the head of Team Rocket) repeatedly with a shotgun and then had her ghosts "do their worst" to what was left.
* In a crossover RPG (Fanon or Canon), Ancient Equivalents have invaded a faction on the level of the Ori (Tech, not power), and they have A LOT of drones (SG Fans Look Them Up), the defending forces just fired 'Vortex Beams' (Derived From Vortex Generation off of B5 Jumpgates) from the their ships, there were to many vortexes (700) that went critical resulting in the loss of a planet, two moons, 125 Ancient ships and 700 defensive forces. The vortexes merged and created a anomaly about 3 LS across :( Let's just say the person controlling the Ancients is not happy that they lost 1/3 or their fleet in the blink of an eye. The defending faction has something called a [[http://z8.invisionfree.com/TheShadowWar/index.php?showtopic=1552 Planetary Defensive Grid]] well, you figure it out...

* In chapter 15 of ''[[{{Fanfic/AceCombatTheEquestrianWar}} Ace Combat: The Equestrian War]]'', Flare Star reported (having witnessed it firsthand) that Blueberry was beaten to semi consciousness by four griffins before one of them [[{{CruelAndUnusualDeath}} ripped the wings off her body]]... Even after she hit the ground, her killer still smashed her spine to make sure she won't get up again.
* 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.
* The Witty Phantom's plan to defeat Stan in their rematch in ''[[FanFic/YuGiOhTheThousandYearDoor Yu-Gi-Oh! The Thousand Year Door Redux]]'' is basically this. He summons Dice Reaper and uses his own Deckamster ability to make it unkillable by card effects. He then uses the Dice Reaper's effect to rig his dice rolls by basically getting to choose what number he would roll instead of actually rolling dice. By using Take a Chance's effect to multiply his life points by five by rolling a six, the Phantom's life points go from 6,500 to '''795,000'''. But the overkill part is the Phantom summoning Ancient Sacred Wyvern, who gains Attack Points equal to the difference in Life Points if its controller has more than his opponent, resulting in a monster with '''''780,500 Attack'''''. [[spoiler: It fails due to Stan's facedown, Magic Cylinder.]]
* ''FanFic/BeautifulDestroyerSailorMoon'' is not afraid of using this.
-->'''Mercury:''' You threw a fucking train.\\
'''Moon:''' I wanted to be thorough.

* In [[https://fanfiction.net/s/4963075/1/Anything-and-Everything one]] ''{{Manga/Naruto}}'' fic, [[NoodleIncident while the readers aren't told what exactly happened]], after Naruto ([[SealedInAPersonShapedCan really Kyuubi in Naruto's form]]) is sent to Kumo as compensation for killing their head ninja, Kumo is referred to as "The Village Hidden In The Smoking Hole In The Ground". It should be noted that after over a decade, the hole is in fact still smoking.
* In ''Fanfic/AvengerGoddess'', with the upgraded arc reactor available, Tony delivers a full-powered blast that completely disintegrates the upper half of the Iron Monger armor (after Stane's been removed from it).
* The ''Albacore'' crew in ''Fanfic/TheNowakverse'' has the so-called Darned Nearly Recoilless Rifle. .22 rimfire ammo doesn't sound like overkill until you realize that the Recoilless is used by small rodents for whom .22 is about as large as a 155mm howitzer is for humans. It is shoulder-fired, and it requires a second rodent to reload it from behind. Nevertheless, the Recoilless is used as an ''anti-personnel'' weapon.
* ''FanFic/{{XSGCOM}}'' has this as the X-COM's SOP. Their reaction to most things is to nuke it, or if it's not enough then nuke it with bigger nukes. And if that's not enough, ask Tollans for even bigger ones.
* In the ''Series/StargateSG1'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2758266/1/Far-Beyond-Normal Far Beyond Normal]]'', Lt. Colonel Fenton of SG-13 uses "over a hundred people" of whom "even the ambulance drivers and helicopter pilots were Special Forces trained" to capture an unarmed 18-year old human girl loose in Colorado Springs. He reflects that "One of the things he loved about the SGC was that nobody minded if it took a sledge hammer to drive home a nail, so long as the sumbitch got drove." The girl in question turns out to be [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy Summers]], so in hindsight it was just-barely-enough-kill.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3524043/2/The-Art-of-the-Deal The Art of the Deal]]'', Naruto deals with Yakuza using his warehouses to smuggle drugs by hiring the [[PersonOfMassDestruction Akatsuki]] with orders to "leave a lasting impression". According to Kakuzu, for the amount they're being paid, he can demand anything he wants.
* If it involves VideoGame/XCom, these are their standard operations, with levels of overkill ranging from planet burning to enough to cause a pre-emptive surrender in anybody but those with the idiot ball firmly in two hands... Those two hands tend to become vaporized, along with anyone related to the person whose hands they were within a fairly large radius.
* ''Fanfic/TheInfiniteLoops'' has "Seapony Diplomacy". Their solution to an infestation of [[Film/{{Alien}} Xenomorphs]]? Once they discover that the xenos aren't friendly, they glass the planet. Then they blow up the planet. Then they throw the remains of the planet into the nearest sun. Then they ''blow up the sun''. All while merrily singing and laughing. This is their usual reaction to most problems: throw explosives at it until the problem is dealt with.
* In ''Fanic/{{Origins}}'', a ''Franchise/MassEffect''[=/=]''Franchise/StarWars''[[spoiler:[=/=]''[=Borderlands=]''[=/=]''[=Halo=]'']] MassiveMultiplayerCrossover, the decontamination process aboard ''Normandy'' has been slightly upgraded--it now consists of an iodine bath, UV light passes, and a snap-freeze to nearly 100 below zero (Celsius). One Flood spore surviving would be bad news.
* ''Fanfic/WingsToFly'': Gundams do not die easily, and people know this. This results in such situations as five Gundams being targeted by 288 missiles, and a squadron of Super Leos volley-firing their 203mm shoulder cannons into one, smashing it with nearly 30 rounds of 8" shell that blow both its cockpit and reactor out its back in shreds. Once in close combat the kills actually ''scale down'' in violence because there's not enough time to be so violently thorough.
* In ''[[Fanfic/ThePartsWePlay Spectator]]'', while Katniss anticipated that the Capitol wouldn’t let Tacoma (the District Seven Tribute) live after her stunt in her interview when she demonstrated her strength by lifting Caesar, she considers it excessively cruel that they sent twelve wolf-like Mutts after Tacoma during the Games.
* Invoked in a sense in ''[[Fanfic/ValkyrieOnFire I Am Not a Victim]]'' when Glimmer kills Clove by slitting her throat ''and'' stabbing her in the heart. Glimmer later clarifies that the initial sword-swipe was just meant to make Clove stop her current charge and create an opening for the subsequent thrust, but Clove was so focused on her attack that the obvious threat of the sword didn’t register.

* ''FanFic/AGrowingAffection'' has a few examples:
** 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.
** When Hinata kills Madara, to make sure he is absolutely dead, she atomizes him with a black hole/Rasengan hybrid.

* In ''FanFic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'', Voldemort wants to kill Harry [[http://hpmor.com/chapter/113 in this particular fashion]]:
--> 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.]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom''/''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'' {{crossover}} story ''FanFic/SayItThrice'', this is the only way to describe Betegeuse's cause of death. Rather than one straight-forward cause, it was a combination of attempted suicide by hanging, alcohol poisoning, internal bleeding from being beaten with a hammer, and possibly drowning from either blood or the bog he was tossed in to die.
* ''101 Ways to Kill Jar Jar Binks'' has many times where this happens to [[TheScrappy Jar Jar]], such as being hit with [[Film/ANewHope the Death Star's superlaser]].
* ''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.
* In ''The Sanctuary Telepath'', Janine cuts off Adam Worth's fingers, stabs him in the heart and through the ribs, twists the knives then slits his throat for good measure. [[BerserkButton She was pissed off.]]
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9421918/7/Soldier-of-Zero Soldier of Zero]]'', Louise explains that her sister Cattleya's health problems are because someone tried to poison their mother while she was pregnant. When Saito asks if they ever caught who did it, Louise mentions that her mother "showed her the crater once".
* With access to technology from all over the known worlds of Fiction, there are many examples of this on ''Fanfic/CoreLine''. Still, three [[MegaCorp Mega-Corporations]] make themselves known because they have made this their (unwritten) trademark: Diggers Technologies manufactures up-scaled versions of the ''Anime/VenusWars'' tanks and sell them as ''cheap Literature/{{BOLO}} rip-offs'' and Boom Tech (the company from ''Fanfic/TheUniversiad'') uses as a base ''Franchise/{{HALO}}''-verse Forerunner technology (that usually ends with the target being disintegrated--for comparison's sake, ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}''-verse tech can disintegrate a target when you score a "critical hit" and ''Franchise/StarTrek''-verse tech needs to be specifically set on "disintegrate" to do that kind of damage. Forerunner tech, even their weakest pistols, ''disintegrates as a standard, and only gets worse from there.'' The third MegaCorp... [[Fanfic/NoGodsOnlyGuns Tongue-Urdnot]]. Any and all guns it produces have a standard for ''massive'' amounts of StuffBlowingUp (and TestosteronePoisoning).
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11898648/46/Harry-Potter-and-the-Rune-Stone-Path Harry Potter and the Rune Stone Path]]'':
-->'''Lily:''' I was serious about the overkill though, Harry. I am a huge fan of it. If you're going to do something, might as well make sure you don't have to do it a second time. If you want to secure a home, make it a fortress. If you want to kill someone blow up their house and Fiendfyre the ashes. If your enemy is bringing an army, bring your own five times as large.
* In the ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' and ''Anime/YuGiOh'' crossover ''Fanfic/DuelingTriggerFinger'', Makoto [[BewareTheNiceOnes of all people]] engages in this. After Noah pushes Makoto's BerserkButton about sibling bonds being precious one too many times, Makoto takes the place of Yugi when he would've normally dueled Noah at the end of the arc. At the end of the duel, Makoto manages to summon Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon and pumps it up in such a way that its attack value is '''13,000'''. Makoto didn't need to get it quite that high as he could've simply put it at 9,000, but Noah had [[TakenForGranite turned Komaru to stone]], [[BigBrotherInstinct which Makoto took exception to]].
* In ''Fanfic/EchoesOfEternity'', Rei goes on a rampage when he discovers a scientist trying to rape 7-year old Maria. Rei shoots him repeatedly even after he's already dead, to the point where it's hard to identify the body. [[BloodSplatteredInnocents Maria]] was traumatized for days and Rei was executed because no one believed his reasoning.
* In ''Fanfic/TaraSheppard'', Warren blows up the Sunnydale police station and part of a hotel (with different explosives), killing over twenty innocent people just to kill Jonathan, Andrew and John Sheppard while faking his own death with one of his robots (although John escapes before the blast goes off).
* In ''Fanfic/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku'', the Ultra-Humanite is happy to blast Izuku square in the chest with a powerful laser cannon that rips atoms apart. The resulting knockback throws Izuku off Mt. Fuji and sends him plummeting to his (presumed) death. The Villain then proceeds to lob a powerful high-tech bomb (implied to be a highly-advanced plasma grenade from S.T.A.R. Labs) after him for good measure, watching the explosion go off in the distance. Granted, Izuku's NighInvulnerability and [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands recently gained]] ability [[{{Flight}} to fly]] ensures that he isn't even scratched by any of this, but the intent is still there.
* Attempted in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12201158/2/Darwin Darwin]]'' when Lelouch's men attack V.V., who is immortal. At first, they just put a three round burst into his head. When his body starts twitching, they shoot it with a Knightmare frame's anti-tank gun. When the [[ChunkySalsaRule chunks]] start moving, they lock them all in a small container until a proper prison can be made.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11803928/4/Challenger Challenger]]'', after Ash interferes with Team Rocket operations one time too many, they start pulling out all the stops to kill him. A pair of Admins take on Ash and Gary aboard the S.S. Anne with their real teams, which are ludicrously overpowered, then the pair get caught in the real attack on the ship. A special device forcibly evolves an entire school of Magikarp into Gyarados who start attacking everything nearby. And both Admins are still trying to kill Ash as he attempts to escape. It's only pure luck that allows Ash to escape due to getting caught on a Gyarados while unconscious with said Gyarados accidentally beaching itself.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13315211/15/Double-Back Double Back]]'' a time-traveling Harry (who's referred to as James to avoid confusion with his younger self) destroys Voldemort's locket [[SoulJar Horcrux]] with Fiendfyre.
-->'''Sirius:''' You know, actually, I think that counted as overkill.\\
'''James:''' It was a chunk of Voldemort's soul, there's no such thing as overkill, only 'has it been wiped from the face of the Earth yet?'
* ''Webcomic/FateGamersOnly'': Uesugi Artoria prepares to steal the gang's rations. Since those rations include a boxed lunch Rikku made for Mash, [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend Rikku]] orders Oda with a Command Spell to use [[LimitBreak Three Line Formation]]. Artoria is then filled with holes, and the screenshot of the attack used as a comic panel shows that Oda had four ATK Up buffs.

* ''Fanfic/BoldoresandBoomsticks'': Tapu Koko sees nothing wrong with using Guardian of Alola, the signature [[LimitBreak Z-Move]] of the Guardian Deities, on an already-paralyzed and bruised Yang to end their match.
* In the final battle of ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'', Naruto defeats Madara Uchiha cutting off his head (the only thing that can kill him off). Sasuke then proceeds to incinerate his corpse with Amaterasu to make sure he stays dead, knowing how he cheated death against Hashirama using Izanagi in the past.

** Garrus. Need to question some criminals? Knock down the wall of their warehouse with a cargo hauler and shoot them all in the knees. Turns out [[YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle they're not the ones who have what he needs to know?]] [[spoiler: Knock down the ''next'' warehouse's wall with a cargo hauler and kneecap the men inside.]] Need to question a mercenary boss? [[spoiler: Blow up his car with a ''tank''.]]

* ''Fanfic/MirrorsImage'': Pinkie finds that someone has broken, stomped on and burnt the Pony Polka record she had ready for Cadence's wedding, leading her to ''suspect'' somepony may not like it. [[spoiler:It was Princess Luna.]] Luckily, Pinkie has a copy.

* In chapter 15 of ''[[{{Fanfic/AceCombatTheEquestrianWar}} Ace Combat: The Equestrian War]]'', Flare Star reported (having witnessed it firsthand) that [[spoiler: Blueberry]] was beaten to semi consciousness by four griffins before one of them [[{{CruelAndUnusualDeath}} ripped the wings off her body]]... Even after she hit the ground, her killer still smashed her spine to make sure she won't get up again.

* In ''FanFic/TheJadedEyesSeries'' when it's Harry's turn to fight the [[spoiler: orcs]] during the Triwizard Tournament. The task is just to "use any means to retrieve the gold pieces" and Harry does just that... by slaughtering them all and picking their corpses.

* In ''Fanfic/AvengerGoddess'', [[spoiler:with the upgraded arc reactor available, Tony delivers a full-powered blast that completely disintegrates the upper half of the Iron Monger armor (after Stane's been removed from it)]].

* In ''Fanic/{{Origins}}'', a ''Franchise/MassEffect''[=/=]''Franchise/StarWars''[[spoiler:[=/=]''[=Borderlands=]''[=/=]''[=Halo=]'']] MassiveMultiplayerCrossover, the decontamination process aboard ''Normandy'' has been slightly upgraded--it now consists of an iodine bath, UV light passes, and a snap-freeze to nearly 100 below zero (Celsius). [[spoiler:One Flood spore surviving would be bad news.]]

* In ''Fanfic/WhatAboutWitchQueen'', Nexø and Riis do it by accident. They were supposed to stop Weseltonians' charge by [[spoiler:blowing them up with the powder charge under Weasels' path.]] Only they overestimated how much they'd need and ended up... well:

Well, Nexø thought, it'll be just a bit harder for them to attack us now, seeing how [[spoiler:we've just buried the entrance under at least two meters of rock.]]''

* In ''The Sanctuary Telepath'' Janine cuts off [[spoiler:Adam Worth's]] fingers, stabs him in the heart and through the ribs, twists the knives then slits his throat for good measure. [[BerserkButton She was pissed off.]]

* In ''Fanfic/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku'', [[spoiler:the Ultra-Humanite]] is happy to blast Izuku square in the chest with a powerful laser cannon that rips atoms apart. The resulting knockback throws Izuku off Mt. Fuji and sends him plummeting to his (presumed) death. The Villain then proceeds to lob a powerful high-tech bomb (implied to be a highly-advanced plasma grenade from S.T.A.R. Labs) after him for good measure, watching the explosion go off in the distance. Granted, Izuku's NighInvulnerability and [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands recently gained]] ability [[{{Flight}} to fly]] ensures that he isn't even scratched by any of this, but the intent is still there.