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* ''Literature/ChrysalisRinoZ'': Crinis tends to be a bit overprotective of Anthony and excessively vengeful toward his enemies.
--> [Master! Are you well? Are you hurt? I think I can feel a scratch on your carapace. WHO DID IT?! Tell me, and I will rend them into pieces and grind the remains into paste! Then I will dive into the mind of the paste and drive it insane for a thousand years! Death! Deaaaaaaaaaath!]
--> [Master! Are you well? Are you hurt? I think I can feel a scratch on your carapace. WHO DID IT?! Tell me, and I will rend them into pieces and grind the remains into paste! Then I will dive into the mind of the paste and drive it insane for a thousand years! Death! Deaaaaaaaaaath!]
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There is no overkill like the [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill main page]].
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** ''Literature/RevengeOfTheSith'': Unlike the [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith film]], where he only had a single AT-TE walker fire a single shot at Obi-Wan's position, Commander Cody in the novelization employs a whole battalions' worth of firepower to bring Obi-Wan down and even after seeing him fall into Utapau's sinkhole, he still isn't convinced and deploys seeker droids down the hole to confirm the kill.
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** ''Literature/RevengeOfTheSith'': Unlike the [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith film]], where he only had a single AT-TE walker fire a single shot at Obi-Wan's position, Commander Cody in the novelization employs a whole battalions' worth of firepower firepower, including shoulder mounted missile launchers, grenade launchers, walker turrets and artillery, to bring Obi-Wan down and even after seeing him fall into Utapau's sinkhole, he still isn't convinced and deploys seeker droids down the hole to confirm the kill.
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** ''Literature/RevengeOfTheSith'': Unlike the [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith film]], where he only had a single AT-TE walker fire a single shot at Obi-Wan's position, Commander Cody in the novelization employs a whole battalions' worth of firepower to bring Obi-Wan down and even after seeing him fall into Utapau's sinkhole, he still isn't convinced and deploys seeker droids down the hole to confirm the kill.
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* ''Literature/ACourtOfThornsAndRoses'': Once Feyre breaks the curse and Tamlin's powers are fully restored, he pins Amarantha to the ground, stabs her through the head with a sword ''and'' rips her throat out.
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** The novel ''Literature/DeathStar'' describes the superweapon's use as "overkill in the most horrifyingly literal way possible". And indeed, blowing up a pacifistic planet just to KickTheDog is clearly overdoing it.
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** The novel ''Literature/DeathStar'' describes the superweapon's use as "overkill in the most horrifyingly literal way possible". And indeed, blowing up a pacifistic planet just simply to KickTheDog prove a point is clearly overdoing it.
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** Earlier on in the series, the good guys are faced with the problem of how to defeat the enemy fleet. The solution - build hundreds of specialised starships that are either all defence shields (and no weapons or even human crew) or sluggers with all weapons (and no shields) and assemble them into a gigantic cylinder held together by networks of tractor beams and pressors (the opposite of tractors). The cylinder then flies straight down the throat of the enemy fleet's fire, and when the enemy ships enter its mouth a network of pressors drives them into a single file down the axis of the tube, where each faces odds of between eighty and 200 to one when it gets to the sluggers. At the end, A FRACTION OF ONE PER CENT of the non-remote-controlled ships have been lost, while the enemy is too disorganised to continue fighting.
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** Earlier on in the series, the good guys are faced with the problem of how to defeat the enemy fleet. The solution - build hundreds of specialised starships that are either all defence shields (and no weapons or even human crew) or sluggers with all weapons (and no shields) and assemble them into a gigantic cylinder held together by networks of tractor beams and pressors (the opposite of tractors). The cylinder then flies straight down the throat of the enemy fleet's fire, and when the enemy ships enter its mouth a network of pressors drives them into a single file down the axis of the tube, where each faces odds of between eighty and 200 to one when it gets to the sluggers. At the end, A FRACTION OF ONE PER CENT of the non-remote-controlled ships have been lost, while the enemy is too disorganised to continue fighting. To their credit, the Lensmen negotiate a truce at this point.
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* E. E. Smith's earlier Literature/SkylarkSeries ends up with the "Good Guys" [[spoiler:destroying two galaxies by teleporting all the stars from one through hyperspace into collision with matching stars in the other.]]
** "Good Guys" is in quotes for a reason. [[spoiler:Their goal is to destroy all chlorine-breathing life in the universe.]]
** "Good Guys" is in quotes for a reason. [[spoiler:Their goal is to destroy all chlorine-breathing life in the universe.]]
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* E. E. Smith's earlier Literature/SkylarkSeries ends up with the "Good Guys" Good Guys [[spoiler:destroying two galaxies by teleporting all the stars from one through hyperspace into collision with matching stars in the other.]]
** "Good Guys"]] The motivation is in quotes for a reason. [[spoiler:Their goal an enemy who is to destroy bent on the subjugation of all chlorine-breathing other life in to their will, with no negotiation being entertained, and said extermination is regarded by the universe.]]heroes as horrifying but necessary.
** "Good Guys"
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* ''Literature/BlackTideRising'': In general this is the attitude of those clearing the zombies, but in ''Strands of Sorrow'' during one attack against a horde using 40mm grenades fired from Amtracks, at targets within the ArbitraryMinimumRange of the grenades, it's mentioned that there ''is'' such a thing as "overkill".
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* ''Literature/BlackTideRising'': In general this is the attitude of those clearing the zombies, but in ''Strands of Sorrow'' during one attack against a horde using 40mm grenades fired from Amtracks, at targets within the ArbitraryMinimumRange [[ArbitraryWeaponRange minimum range]] of the grenades, it's mentioned that there ''is'' such a thing as "overkill".
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* In ''Literature/MonsterHunterInternational'', this is the Hunters' standard operating procedure for dealing with extremely powerful monsters such as Master vampires, which can regenerate from almost nothing. Forget the shotguns and tommyguns; for Master vampires they bring out ''mortars'' and ''antitank rockets''.
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* In ''To Kill a Mockingbird'', Tom Robinson, a crippled, black man, unjustly convicted of rape, attempts an escape from prison and is shot 17 times - more than enough to kill him, considering his handicap.
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* In ''To Kill a Mockingbird'', ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'', Tom Robinson, a crippled, black man, unjustly convicted of rape, attempts an escape from prison and is shot 17 times - more than enough to kill him, considering his handicap.handicap.
* ''Literature/RemembranceOfEarthsPast'': The races responsible for Dark Forest strikes don’t care about collateral damage or preserving inhabitable planets when they wipe out a race. The basic attack seen twice in the books involves blowing up a star. When that isn’t guaranteed to be effective they escalate to weapons that remove a spatial dimension utterly annihilating everything in the vicinity (and, eventually, the universe).
* ''Literature/RemembranceOfEarthsPast'': The races responsible for Dark Forest strikes don’t care about collateral damage or preserving inhabitable planets when they wipe out a race. The basic attack seen twice in the books involves blowing up a star. When that isn’t guaranteed to be effective they escalate to weapons that remove a spatial dimension utterly annihilating everything in the vicinity (and, eventually, the universe).
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* ''Literature/OurDumbCentury'' used this trope with the article "Russians Continuing to Kill Rasputin". After he was poisoned, stabbed, shot, and thrown into a freezing river, he refused to die, so the Russians continued with more elaborate methods of murder. [[CruelAndUnusualDeath Among other things]], he was run over by [[CarFu a car]] and [[SquashedFlat a train]], BuriedAlive, [[ManOnFire cremated]], [[XRaySparks electrocuted]], [[HollywoodAcid dissolved in acid]], [[OffWithHisHead beheaded]], [[LudicrousGibs chopped into small pieces with swords]] and continually re-poisoned, re-stabbed, and re-shot. [[UpToEleven He still didn't die]].
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* ''Literature/OurDumbCentury'' used this trope with the article "Russians Continuing to Kill Rasputin". After he was poisoned, stabbed, shot, and thrown into a freezing river, he refused to die, so the Russians continued with more elaborate methods of murder. [[CruelAndUnusualDeath Among other things]], he was run over by [[CarFu a car]] and [[SquashedFlat a train]], BuriedAlive, [[ManOnFire cremated]], [[XRaySparks electrocuted]], [[HollywoodAcid dissolved in acid]], [[OffWithHisHead beheaded]], [[LudicrousGibs chopped into small pieces with swords]] and continually re-poisoned, re-stabbed, and re-shot. [[UpToEleven He still didn't die]].die.
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* The Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse novel ''Literature/DeathStar'' describes its use as "overkill in the most horrifyingly literal way possible". And indeed, blowing up a pacifistic planet just to KickTheDog is clearly overdoing it.
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** The ''Literature/JediAcademyTrilogy'' ended with Luke's Jedi students killing the ghostly Sith Lord Exar Kun DeaderThanDead by using the light side of the Force in unison. Just to make absolutely sure, however, in ''Literature/IJedi'', Corran Horn also razes the Sith temple to which Kun's spirit had been bound with his X-Wing, going so far as to liquefy the stones until all that's left is a sheet of volcanic glass in the middle of a shallow lake.
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** Ender himself held to this maxim even as a schoolboy. When a classmate tries to beat him up, Ender goes all out, seriously injuring his attacker and continuing to stomp on him even after he's down. Because he not only had to win that fight "but the next fight and all the ones after that, too".
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* In ''To Kill a Mockingbird'', Tom Robinson, a crippled, black man, unjustly convicted of rape, attempts an escape from prison and is shot 17 times - more than enough to kill him, considering his handicap.
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*In ''Life Expectancy'' by Dean Koontz, Punchinello claims that his grandfather [[spoiler:(later revealed to also be his [[ParentalIncest father]])]] Virgilio Vivacemente would not hesitate to kill him for having "tainted blood".
--->'''Punchinello:''' He would kill me, dismember me, marinate my remains in gasoline, burn them, urinate on the ashes, put the wet ashes in a bucket, take them to a farm, and stir them into the muddy wallow in the corner of a pigpen.
** After Virgilio meets the main character and his wife, he uses this ''exact threat'' against them and their children, stating that he's done it before and that he owns a "lovely farm" to take their ashes to. It seems Punchinello wasn't exaggerating.
--->'''Virgilio:''' [[BadassBoast There is no vengeance equal to the vengeance of Virgilio Vivacemente.]]
--->'''Punchinello:''' He would kill me, dismember me, marinate my remains in gasoline, burn them, urinate on the ashes, put the wet ashes in a bucket, take them to a farm, and stir them into the muddy wallow in the corner of a pigpen.
** After Virgilio meets the main character and his wife, he uses this ''exact threat'' against them and their children, stating that he's done it before and that he owns a "lovely farm" to take their ashes to. It seems Punchinello wasn't exaggerating.
--->'''Virgilio:''' [[BadassBoast There is no vengeance equal to the vengeance of Virgilio Vivacemente.]]
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** The Assassin's Guild has Inhumation with Extreme Prejudice, where the assassin doesn't just 'inhume' their 'client', but also their family, and everyone in their house, and the street. It's to send the message that the target has incurred the wrath of someone who can afford to be indiscriminate in their revenge.
