History ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill / LiveActionTV

* ''StargateAtlantis'':
** In one episode, Genii commander Ladon Radim stages a coup d'état against Commander Cowen, who has holed up in a virtual fortress, surrounded by a nigh unopposable force of loyalists. He gets rid of the lot of them by detonating a hidden nuke nearby. He IS the Genii's chief scientific officer, after all; he made it himself.
** Also from SGA: the war against the Asurans. First, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXIdFTwIB0k the Horizon]]. Six 280 '''''gigaton''''' nukes. It wasn't enough, given the Asurans' [[{{Nanomachines}} nature.]] Then they killed them over by turning their planet into an asteroid field.
*** For sake of comparison, that's over 13 ''million'' times the yield of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs, for ''each'' of the Horizon's bombs.
** During the destruction of Asuras, two drones blew an Asuran battlecruiser in half. During the battle of Antarctica in ''StargateSG1'', Anubis took a drone to the [[EnergyBeing sort-of]] face, courtesy of O'Neill.

* ''{{Stargate SG-1}}'':
** The Ancients have built a weapon that can not only wipe out life on an entire planet in a single shot, but do the same for the entire galaxy provided the Stargates are all connected. One of them also built a weapon designed to literally kill gods (or rather [[EnergyBeings ascended beings]]). [[spoiler:It works. Within the confines of a single galaxy, that is.]]
** Also, [[RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun Samantha Carter blew up a fleet with a supernova.]]

** The HumongousMecha [=EngineOh G12=] has [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ_1RYorGf0 way too much overkill]] for its finishers. First, it can shoot [[RobotBuddy [=GoRoader GT=]]] at the opponent, then launch energy attacks of its four component robots[[hottip:*:That is, the four normal ''combined'' robots, made from three individual robots each.]], then ''steamroll the enemy'' which it usually far overshadows. The finale has nearly all of that, ''plus'' G12 turning into a phoenix for a flying attack.

** The two of them had just been shown going "mosquito hunting", which involved firing a ''bazooka'' at the mosquito from a distance, then shooting at it using a machine gun, and finally firing several shots at point blank range using a rifle[[hottip:*:"There's nothing more dangerous than a wounded mosquito."]]. They also "skin" it by using a knife to cut off its wings.

** The Rocket Sled used to pancake a subcompact car: A metal plate attached to a two-stage rocket sled going almost the speed of sound impacted with a car propped up against a 5 inch metal plate and a concrete wall, causing the car to vaporize[[hottip:*:As in, you can see the car reduced to a fine powder billowing around the sled]].

* ''Series/{{Airwolf}}'': Happens a few times.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Includes this scene, when Spike suggests sending the [[MurderInc Order of Tarraka]] after Buffy:

* ''{{CSI}}'': One episode involved a guy shot so many times that you could see straight through him. It turned out to be an accident.

* ''DeadliestWarrior'': Tends to avoid this, with the weapon demonstrating how much it would take to kill someone, and that's all (generally one or two hits from edged weapons and spears). A few times, the experts went all-out.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Has had several examples:

* ''{{Engine Sentai Go-onger}}'': The HumongousMecha [=EngineOh G12=] has [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ_1RYorGf0 way too much overkill]] for its finishers. First, it can shoot [[RobotBuddy [=GoRoader GT=]]] at the opponent, then launch energy attacks of its four component robots[[hottip:*:That is, the four normal ''combined'' robots, made from three individual robots each.]], then ''steamroll the enemy'' which it usually far overshadows. The finale has nearly all of that, ''plus'' G12 turning into a phoenix for a flying attack.

* ''KamenRiderKuuga'': Kuuga gets this with any FinishingMove at the Rising level and above. The first time he used the Rising Mighty Kick caused a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOuDyb9KArY nuclear sized explosion]]. And when he goes Amazing Mighty, he gets even more so. And then there's what [[EarthShatteringKaboom Ultimate Form can do]]...

* ''KamenRiderRyuki'': Good old Kamen Rider Zolda and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RneYJPuWVdw The End of The World]]. It's a collision of MoreDakka, BeamSpam and a MacrossMissileMassacre with no survivors... at least that's the idea. As awesomely destructive as it is, it takes a while to set up and is often dodged, so it never actually takes out ''any'' other Rider. In ''KamenRiderDragonKnight,'' Torque manages to increase the kill count to ''one.''

* ''{{Lexx}}'': In the first season, Mantrid takes a disliking to humanity and decides that it (and the protagonists in particular) have to go. To that end he [[spoiler:uses small self-replicating spaceflight-capable robots called Mantrid Drones to convert over 60% of the entire universe's mass into drones and then has ''all'' of them converge on our heroes, dragging the rest of the universe's mass along via the drones' gravitational attraction and setting off a universe-ending Big Crunch]]. When Kai, in a radio conversation with Mantrid, asks "isn't this overkill?" Mantrid responds: "Overkill? It is my ''style''. I think... big."

* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': Has a sketch spoofing hunting, involving an [[EgomaniacHunter egomaniac]] who hunts "tiny, inoffensive insects" using military hardware.

* ''Series/MythBusters'': The Mantra: "If it's worth doing, it's worth ''overdoing''". So many a myth gets ramped up to somehow include a test done with explosives. Sometimes hundreds of pounds of it. Or if the myth is about firearms, they go [[MoreDakka straight to the]] [[GatlingGood minigun]]. Notable ones:

* ''Series/{{Revolution}}'': As revealed in episode 12, [[spoiler:Randall got the [=DoD=] to knock the power out for the entire world just to stop the war in Afghanistan - see WellIntentionedExtremist]]. It's not indicated whether [[spoiler:Randall intended to]] shut down the whole world, or [[spoiler: just Afghanistan]], and permanently or not.

* ''StargateAtlantis'': In one episode, Genii commander Ladon Radim stages a coup d'état against Commander Cowen, who has holed up in a virtual fortress, surrounded by a nigh unopposable force of loyalists. He gets rid of the lot of them by detonating a hidden nuke nearby. He IS the Genii's chief scientific officer, after all; he made it himself.

* ''{{Stargate SG-1}}'': The Ancients have built a weapon that can not only wipe out life on an entire planet in a single shot, but do the same for the entire galaxy provided the Stargates are all connected. One of them also built a weapon designed to literally kill gods (or rather [[EnergyBeings ascended beings]]). [[spoiler:It works. Within the confines of a single galaxy, that is.]]

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': In order to deal with the Founders, a joint Obsidian Order/Tal Shiar fleet planned to moved in to blow away their home planet's crust and mantle. According the TheOtherWiki, on an Earth-like planet, that constitutes 84% of planet's volume, just to get to a bunch of people that would mostly be on the surface.

* ''WalkerTexasRanger'': Pulls this on a few occasions.

*** Although it later become clear that this is actually an aversion of the trope. The Time Lords had gone completely insane and were fighting the war using EldritchAbominations, and the complete annihilation of everything within the War's Time Lock was the only way to ensure that they could not escape. When the Master begins to open the Lock, the Doctor tells him that the war is ''literally'' Hell, ending with "'''Hell is descending!'''" For the first (and probably last) time, we see the Master afraid, and we see his rage directed at someone other than the Doctor. (An OhCrap moment for Rassilon as his grand plan completely blows up in his face as the Master is finally able to take revenge on the true author of all his suffering.)

* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': In the first season, a character is killed by ''six'' shots from a man he [[DisneyDeath temporarily killed]]. On a recent episode, a character empties an entire clip from his pistol into someone who'd done something to him, then stands there and pulls the trigger a couple more times before being told to stop.
* ''Series/MythBusters'': The Mantra: "If it's worth doing, it's worth ''overdoing''". So many a myth gets ramped up to somehow include a test done with explosives. Sometimes hundreds of pounds of it. Or if the myth is about firearms, they go [[MoreDakka straight to the]] [[GatlingGood minigun]]. Notable ones:
** "Cement Removal," in which they packed a cement mixer they accidentally overfilled with hardened cement with so much explosives that the entire truck essentially ''disappeared''. It had pissed them off. They set up in an abandoned quarry and the FBI had to close a highway that was too close for comfort.
*** And yet, in their shopping special they went to a junkyard where the vehicles they use in the myths that are rendered inoperative are sent to, they showed some of the remains of that first cement mixer's drum with the ''cement still in it.'' Given that in the same special, they mention using ''four'' cement trucks during the course of the episode, and they called the truck they blew up "one last truck", it's almost certain the cement truck they actually blew up wasn't the one they'd overfilled earlier. (That, and they needed room in the truck for 800 pounds of ANFO.)
** "Shooting Fish in a Barrel," - having proven that the shockwave of a handgun shot was enough to kill the fish, bringing in the aforementioned [[GatlingGood minigun]] at that point was superfluous.
** There's an episode where they tested the theory that one could decimate trees with guns. After trying two different guns, they used a ''combat vehicle mounted [[GatlingGood minigun]]''. Not only did it topple the tree, it ''set it on fire''. Awesome.
*** Technically that wasn't overkill as they had already proven that lesser firearms (namely, a Thompson submachine gun and a .223 high-powered rifle) wouldn't be able to cut down a tree.
** Let's also not forget the "Tree Cannon" myth: Six ounces of black powder and a loosely-fitting marble cannonball don't destroy the cannon? How about '''five ''pounds''''' of black powder and a tightly-fitting aluminum plug? (This was probably the most spectacular explosion of the first season.)
** The Rocket Sled used to pancake a subcompact car: A metal plate attached to a two-stage rocket sled going almost the speed of sound impacted with a car propped up against a 5 inch metal plate and a concrete wall, causing the car to vaporize[[hottip:*:As in, you can see the car reduced to a fine powder billowing around the sled]].
** The episode where they're testing "pouring water on grease fires" and the resulting fireballs. As a finale, and a measure of what amount of water ''can'' put out a grease fire, Adam surprises Jamie by introducing a firefighter ''helicopter'' flying over the ridge to dump hundreds of gallons of water.
* ''{{Soap}}'': In the first season of this 70s SitCom, Peter Campbell was shot, stabbed, strangled, suffocated and bludgeoned. So the Chief of Police is certain that [[PlayedForLaughs it wasn't a suicide and that somebody wanted him dead]].
* ''KamenRiderRyuki'': Good old Kamen Rider Zolda and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RneYJPuWVdw The End of The World]]. It's a collision of MoreDakka, BeamSpam and a MacrossMissileMassacre with no survivors... at least that's the idea. As awesomely destructive as it is, it takes a while to set up and is often dodged, so it never actually takes out ''any'' other Rider. In ''KamenRiderDragonKnight,'' Torque manages to increase the kill count to ''one.''
** As his American counterpart [[KamenRiderDragonKnight Kamen Rider Torque]] puts it, "A little collateral damage, but what the heck?"
* ''{{Engine Sentai Go-onger}}'': The HumongousMecha [=EngineOh G12=] has [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ_1RYorGf0 way too much overkill]] for its finishers. First, it can shoot [[RobotBuddy [=GoRoader GT=]]] at the opponent, then launch energy attacks of its four component robots[[hottip:*:That is, the four normal ''combined'' robots, made from three individual robots each.]], then ''steamroll the enemy'' which it usually far overshadows. The finale has nearly all of that, ''plus'' G12 turning into a phoenix for a flying attack.
** It's a robot combined from ''twelve'' sentient cars/trains/aircraft. "Overkill" was about five mecha ago, and is pretty much the ''raison d'être'' for ''all'' of PowerRangers' HumongousMecha finishing moves. Even moreso with the annual Ultrazord "all of them together" formation.
** Surpassed in the final episode of ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'', in which the Gold and Silver Rangers [[spoiler:take out Venjix by dropping the city's ''command center'' on him! And he wasn't even giant sized!]] Not bad for the last monster defeat of the Disney-owned era.
** Overkill was used in ''MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' to destroy the enemy mecha Cyclopsis: ''every'' formation the Zords had was combined and its FinishingMove deployed against it. However, it was also the first of many times the series was intended to ''end.'' The fans were getting to see every Megazord formation one last time. In-universe, it had a good reason: Cyclopsis's computer couldn't adapt to new opponents very quickly, and that many changes in rapid succession caused its computer to freeze, allowing the most powerful form, the Ultrazord, to finish it off.

* ''StargateAtlantis'': In one episode, Genii commander Ladon Radim stages a coup d'état against Commander Cowen, who has holed up in a virtual fortress, surrounded by a nigh unopposable force of loyalists. He gets rid of the lot of them by detonating a hidden nuke nearby. He IS the Genii's chief scientific officer, after all; he made it himself.
** Also from SGA: the war against the Asurans. First, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXIdFTwIB0k the Horizon]]. Six 280 '''''gigaton''''' nukes. It wasn't enough, given the Asurans' [[{{Nanomachines}} nature.]] Then they killed them over by turning their planet into an asteroid field.
*** For sake of comparison, that's over 13 ''million'' times the yield of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs, for ''each'' of the Horizon's bombs.
** During the destruction of Asuras, two drones blew an Asuran battlecruiser in half. During the battle of Antarctica in ''StargateSG1'', Anubis took a drone to the [[EnergyBeing sort-of]] face, courtesy of O'Neill.
*** He survived, though, being half-ascended. It was only his shell that was destroyed.

* ''CriminalMinds'':
** A common characteristic of the more disturbed unsubs.
** Judging from what Morgan says when he bursts in at the climax of "100," [[spoiler: Hotch seems to have done this to Foyet. With his ''bare hands.'']]
** There was one unsub whose MO was clubbing the victim to death with anything he could get his hands on (up to a half-dozen different things) then stabbing them a ridiculous number of times, increasing the stab count with each subsequent victim. [[spoiler: He was a delusional schizophrenic with insomnia. The only way he could sleep and make the voices stop was exhausting himself through the sheer amount of effort it takes to stab someone thirty or forty times]].
* ''{{Stargate SG-1}}'': The Ancients have built a weapon that can not only wipe out life on an entire planet in a single shot, but do the same for the entire galaxy provided the Stargates are all connected. One of them also built a weapon designed to literally kill gods (or rather [[EnergyBeings ascended beings]]). [[spoiler:It works. Within the confines of a single galaxy, that is.]]
** Also, [[RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun Samantha Carter blew up a fleet with a supernova.]]

* ''SledgeHammer!'': This is the everyday philosophy of CowboyCop Sledge Hammer!!, who thinks nothing of stopping a sniper by ''blowing up the building with a rocket launcher.''

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': In order to deal with the Founders, a joint Obsidian Order/Tal Shiar fleet planned to moved in to blow away their home planet's crust and mantle. According the TheOtherWiki, on an Earth-like planet, that constitutes 84% of planet's volume, just to get to a bunch of people that would mostly be on the surface.
** Makes sense in context: the people they were trying to kill were a race of shapeless gelatin-like life-forms who could potentially slip into the cracks underneath the surface. However, the combined fleet did negligible damage to them; but that was because they weren't actually there. Then 100-200 [[FromBadToWorse Jem'Hadar fighters show up...]] Really they underkilled that one.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In the episode ''[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E22SkinOfEvil Skin of Evil]]'', to keep Armus from using a crashed shuttlecraft to escape the planet, they drop a photon torpedo on it... whose explosion can be seen from high orbit.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Has had several examples:
** In "A Good Man Goes to War" the Doctor destroys an entire Cyber-fleet simply to make a point. In fact, not even to make a point; he was simply telling them to do what Rory said.
** One of the major {{backstory}} points since the series was revived in 2005 is that in order to end the Last Great Time War, the Doctor destroyed not only the entire Dalek Empire, but his race the Time Lords, too.
*** Although it later become clear that this is actually an aversion of the trope. The Time Lords had gone completely insane and were fighting the war using EldritchAbominations, and the complete annihilation of everything within the War's Time Lock was the only way to ensure that they could not escape. When the Master begins to open the Lock, the Doctor tells him that the war is ''literally'' Hell, ending with "'''Hell is descending!'''" For the first (and probably last) time, we see the Master afraid, and we see his rage directed at someone other than the Doctor. (An OhCrap moment for Rassilon as his grand plan completely blows up in his face as the Master is finally able to take revenge on the true author of all his suffering.)
** In "The Doctor Dances" he takes credit for vaporizing the weapons factories at Villengard. We're not really sure why.
** And in "Journey's End" the Daleks plan to [[spoiler: destroy the ''entire multiverse''.]]
* ''Series/{{Airwolf}}'': Happens a few times.
** A person witnessing Airwolf's firepower for the first time exclaims "God in Heaven!!!", to which Stringfellow Hawke replies "Yeah..."
** Most notably, in the pilot episode, where String completely empties Airwolf's missile reserves on Moffett.
---> '''Dom:''' "String. It's done."
** The other majorly notable example is when he opens fire on the corrupt sheriff in the episode ''Sweet Britches''.
---> '''Kate:''' "You can't leave! You just blew up ''half the cowboys in town''!"
* ''WalkerTexasRanger'': Pulls this on a few occasions.
** In one episode, Walker is fighting a CurbstompBattle against a genetic superhuman who won't go down. He's survived a full round of bullets to the chest, several beatdowns, and has the might to snap a neck with one punch. How does he die? He's drenched with kerosene, [[KillItWithFire set ablaze]], and then falls through a window into an explosives storage bay.
** The GrandFinale, "The Final Show/Down" has Hayes Cooper pitted against Milos Lavocat, an old enemy who survived a Native American scalping. He believes because of this, he can't die. He takes a hit from Cooper's service revolver, shakes it off, and boasts his claim straight to Cooper's face after kidnapping his wife and child. Cooper proceeds to unload the rest of his bullets on Lavocat, killing him on the spot. He asked for it, didn't he?
** Recurs later in the finale, when Ross Dollarhide is closing in on Gage with a fireman's axe. Gage unloads his gun into Dollarhide, but he just won't go down. Out of bullets, Gage screams at the sight of the falling axe- ''then'' the criminal topples over, stone cold dead.
* ''{{Monk}}'': Has a notable episode titled "Mr. Monk and the Really, Really Dead Guy," in which a killer takes out a victim by hitting him in the back of the head with a crowbar, suffocating him with plastic, poisoning him, stabbing him, shooting him, ''and then'' running over his body with a car. [[spoiler:It turns out this murder was a massive RedHerring to get the authorities entirely focused off a woman he'd also killed so that way they would not perform an autopsy on her, as doing so before the contents were naturally emptied would lead them to discovering evidence that could eventually point back to him]].
* ''TheBorgias'': There's the delightful murder of Giovanni Sforza. Cesare not only stabs him repeatedly--forcing the point of the knife from his chest to his throat while he's still alive--but proceeds to carve from his waistline back to his chest in attempt to find his heart. Then again, Sforza [[MaritalRapeLicense totally deserved it.]] And [[KnightTemplarBigBrother Cesare]] did promise [[DeclarationofProtection Lucrezia]] [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Sforza's heart on a dinner plate.]]

* In the first season of ''Series/{{Lost}}'', a character is killed by ''six'' shots from a man he [[DisneyDeath temporarily killed]]. On a recent episode, a character empties an entire clip from his pistol into someone who'd done something to him, then stands there and pulls the trigger a couple more times before being told to stop.
* The ''Series/MythBusters'' Mantra: "If it's worth doing, it's worth ''overdoing''". So many a myth gets ramped up to somehow include a test done with explosives. Sometimes hundreds of pounds of it. Or if the myth is about firearms, they go [[MoreDakka straight to the]] [[GatlingGood minigun]]. Notable ones:

* In the first season of the 70s SitCom ''{{Soap}}'', Peter Campbell was shot, stabbed, strangled, suffocated and bludgeoned. So the Chief of Police is certain that [[PlayedForLaughs it wasn't a suicide and that somebody wanted him dead]].
* Good old [[KamenRiderRyuki Kamen Rider Zolda]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RneYJPuWVdw The End of The World]]. It's a collision of MoreDakka, BeamSpam and a MacrossMissileMassacre with no survivors... at least that's the idea. As awesomely destructive as it is, it takes a while to set up and is often dodged, so it never actually takes out ''any'' other Rider. In ''KamenRiderDragonKnight,'' Torque manages to increase the kill count to ''one.''

* ''{{Engine Sentai Go-onger}}'''s HumongousMecha [=EngineOh G12=] has [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ_1RYorGf0 way too much overkill]] for its finishers. First, it can shoot [[RobotBuddy [=GoRoader GT=]]] at the opponent, then launch energy attacks of its four component robots[[hottip:*:That is, the four normal ''combined'' robots, made from three individual robots each.]], then ''steamroll the enemy'' which it usually far overshadows. The finale has nearly all of that, ''plus'' G12 turning into a phoenix for a flying attack.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' includes this scene, when Spike suggests sending the [[MurderInc Order of Tarraka]] after Buffy:

* One episode of ''{{CSI}}'' involved a guy shot so many times that you could see straight through him. It turned out to be an accident.

* In one episode of ''StargateAtlantis'', Genii commander Ladon Radim stages a coup d'état against Commander Cowen, who has holed up in a virtual fortress, surrounded by a nigh unopposable force of loyalists. He gets rid of the lot of them by detonating a hidden nuke nearby. He IS the Genii's chief scientific officer, after all; he made it himself.

* ''DeadliestWarrior'' tends to avoid this, with the weapon demonstrating how much it would take to kill someone, and that's all (generally one or two hits from edged weapons and spears). A few times, the experts went all-out.

* ''CriminalMinds:''

* In ''{{Stargate SG-1}}'', the Ancients have built a weapon that can not only wipe out life on an entire planet in a single shot, but do the same for the entire galaxy provided the Stargates are all connected. One of them also built a weapon designed to literally kill gods (or rather [[EnergyBeings ascended beings]]). [[spoiler:It works. Within the confines of a single galaxy, that is.]]

* This is the everyday philosophy of CowboyCop ''SledgeHammer!'', who thinks nothing of stopping a sniper by ''blowing up the building with a rocket launcher.''
* In the first season of ''{{Lexx}}'' Mantrid takes a disliking to humanity and decides that it (and the protagonists in particular) have to go. To that end he [[spoiler:uses small self-replicating spaceflight-capable robots called Mantrid Drones to convert over 60% of the entire universe's mass into drones and then has ''all'' of them converge on our heroes, dragging the rest of the universe's mass along via the drones' gravitational attraction and setting off a universe-ending Big Crunch]]. When Kai, in a radio conversation with Mantrid, asks "isn't this overkill?" Mantrid responds: "Overkill? It is my ''style''. I think... big."

* In ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', in order to deal with the Founders, a joint Obsidian Order/Tal Shiar fleet planned to moved in to blow away their home planet's crust and mantle. According the TheOtherWiki, on an Earth-like planet, that constitutes 84% of planet's volume, just to get to a bunch of people that would mostly be on the surface.

* In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', episode ''[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E22SkinOfEvil Skin of Evil]]'', to keep Armus from using a crashed shuttlecraft to escape the planet, they drop a photon torpedo on it... whose explosion can be seen from high orbit.
* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' has a sketch spoofing hunting, involving an [[EgomaniacHunter egomaniac]] who hunts "tiny, inoffensive insects" using military hardware.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' has had several examples:

* Happens a few times in Series/{{Airwolf}}.

* WalkerTexasRanger pulls this on a few occasions.

* {{Monk}} has a notable episode titled "Mr. Monk and the Really, Really Dead Guy," in which a killer takes out a victim by hitting him in the back of the head with a crowbar, suffocating him with plastic, poisoning him, stabbing him, shooting him, ''and then'' running over his body with a car. [[spoiler:It turns out this murder was a massive RedHerring to get the authorities entirely focused off a woman he'd also killed so that way they would not perform an autopsy on her, as doing so before the contents were naturally emptied would lead them to discovering evidence that could eventually point back to him]].
* There's the delightful murder of Giovanni Sforza on TheBorgias. Cesare not only stabs him repeatedly--forcing the point of the knife from his chest to his throat while he's still alive--but proceeds to carve from his waistline back to his chest in attempt to find his heart. Then again, Sforza [[MaritalRapeLicense totally deserved it.]] And [[KnightTemplarBigBrother Cesare]] did promise [[DeclarationofProtection Lucrezia]] [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Sforza's heart on a dinner plate.]]
* DeletedScene from the pilot of ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'':
-->'''Leslie''': Mayor Havlicek was mayor when I was a kid. He was sort of an old-school character. He died in a small plane accident, when he was thrown out in handcuffs at twenty thousand feet. After being shot in the face.

** "Cement Removal," in which they packed a cement mixer they acidentaly overfilled with hardened cement with so much explosives that the entire truck essentially ''disappeared''. It had pissed them off. They set up in an abandoned quarry and the FBI had to close a highway that was too close for comfort.
*** And yet, in their shopping special they went to a junkyard where the vehicles they use in the myths that are rendered inoperative are sent to, they showed some of the remains of that particular cement mixer's drum with the ''cement still in it.''

*** Technically that wasn't overkill as they had already proven that lesser firearms wouldn't be able to cut down a tree.
** Let's also not forget the "Tree Cannon" myth: Six ounces of black powder and a loosely-fitting marble cannonball don't destroy the cannon? How about '''five ''pounds''''' of black powder and a tightly-fitting aluminum plug?
** The Rocket Sled used to pancake a subcompact car: A metal plate attached to a two-stage rocket sled going almost the speed of sound impacted with a car propped up against a 5 inch metal plate and a concrete wall, causing the car to vaporize[[hottip:* : As in, you can see the cast reduced to a fine powder billowing around the sled]].

* Good old ''[[KamenRiderRyuki Kamen Rider Zolda]]'' and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RneYJPuWVdw The End of The World]]. It's a collision of MoreDakka, BeamSpam and a MacrossMissileMassacre with no survivors... at least that's the idea.

* ''{{Engine Sentai Go-onger}}'''s HumongousMecha [=EngineOh G12=] has [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ_1RYorGf0 way too much overkill]] for its finishers. First, it can shoot [[RobotBuddy [=GoRoader GT=]]] at the opponent, then launch energy attacks of its four component robots, then ''steamroll the enemy'' which it usually far overshadows. The finale has nearly all of that, ''plus'' G12 turning into a phoenix for a flying attack.

** When Lexx was first constructed its purpose was to serve as a terror weapon to subdue a large group of Heretic worlds by blowing up a few examples and forcing the rest to fall into line ala the Death Star. When it came time for His Divine Shadow to select which Heretic worlds to target, however, He declared that the targets would be "all of them." Fortunately the Lexx was stolen before this could be carried out.

** The planet-exploding weapon has also been fired at full strength against small spacecraft with crews of less than a dozen. (Lexx was intended to be a specialized ship accompanied by a supporting warfleet and so has no smaller weapons of its own for such situations)

* In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', episode ''[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E22SkinOfEvil Skin of Evil]]'', to keep The Armus from using a crashed shuttlecraft to escape the planet, they drop a photon torpedo on it... whose explosion can be seen from high orbit.

* There's the delightful murder of Giovanni Sforza on TheBorgias. Cesare not only stabs him repeatedly--forcing the point of the knife from his chest to his throat while he's still alive--but proceeds to carve from his waistline back to his chest in attempt to find his heart. Then again, Sforza [[MaritalRapeLicense totally deserved it.]] And [[KnightTemplarBigBrother Cesare]] did promise [[IWillProtectHer Lucrezia]] [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Sforza's heart on a dinner plate.]]

** Surpassed in the final episode of ''PowerRangersRPM'', in which the Gold and Silver Rangers [[spoiler:take out Venjix by dropping the city's ''command center'' on him! And he wasn't even giant sized!]] Not bad for the last monster defeat of the Disney-owned era.

** Makes sense in contest: the people they were trying to kill were a race of shapeless gelatin-like life-forms who could potentially slip into the cracks underneath the surface. However, the combined fleet did negligible damage to them; but that was because they weren't actually there. Then 100-200 [[ItGotWorse Jem'Hadar fighters show up...]] Really they underkilled that one.
* In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', episode ''[[Recap/{{StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E22SkinOfEvil}} Skin of Evil]]'', to keep The Armus from using a crashed shuttlecraft to escape the planet, they drop a photon torpedo on it... whose explosion can be seen from high orbit.

* ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' includes this scene, when Spike suggests sending the [[MurderInc Order of Tarraka]] after Buffy:

** Makes sense in contest: the people they were trying to kill were a race of shapeless gelatin-like life-forms. Normal phasers are frequently ineffective on them, and the combined fleet did negligible damage to them; but that was because they weren't actually there. Then 100-200 [[ItGotWorse Jem'Hadar fighters show up...]] Really they underkilled that one.

* Happens a few times in {{Airwolf}}.
--> '''Person witnessing Airwolf's firepower for the first time:''' "God in Heaven!!!"
--> '''Stringfellow Hawke:''' "Yeah..."

--> '''Dom:''' "String. It's done."

--> '''Kate:''' "You can't leave! You just blew up ''half the cowboys in town''!"
* WalkerTexasRanger pulls this on a few occasions, but one event takes the cake. Walker is fighting a CurbstompBattle against a genetic superhuman who won't go down. He's survived a full round of bullets to the chest, several beatdowns, and has the might to snap a neck with one punch. How does he die? He's drenched with kerosene, [[KillItWithFire set ablaze]], and then falls through a window into an explosives storage bay.

* There's the delightful murder of CompleteMonster Giovanni Sforza on TheBorgias. Cesare not only stabs him repeatedly--forcing the point of the knife from his chest to his throat while he's still alive--but proceeds to carve from his waistline back to his chest in attempt to find his heart. Then again, Sforza [[MaritalRapeLicense totally deserved it.]] And [[KnightTemplarBigBrother Cesare]] did promise [[IWillProtectHer Lucrezia]] [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Sforza's heart on a dinner plate.]]

* DeletedScene from the pilot ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'':

* There's the delightful murder of CompleteMonster Giovanni Sforza on TheBorgias. Cesare not only stabs him repeatedly--forcing the point of the knife from his chest to his throat while he's still alive--but proceeds to carve from his waistline back to his chest in attempt to find his heart. Then again, Sforza [[MaritalRapeLicense totally deserved it.]] And [[KnightTemplarBigBrother Cesare]] did promise [[IWillProtectHer Lucrezia]] [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Sforza's heart on a dinner plate.]]

* In the first season of ''{{Series/Lost}}'', a character is killed by ''six'' shots from a man he [[DisneyDeath temporarily killed]]. On a recent episode, a character empties an entire clip from his pistol into someone who'd done something to him, then stands there and pulls the trigger a couple more times before being told to stop.
* The ''{{Series/MythBusters}}'' Mantra: "If it's worth doing, it's worth ''overdoing''". So many a myth gets ramped up to somehow include a test done with explosives. Sometimes hundreds of pounds of it. Or if the myth is about firearms, they go [[MoreDakka straight to the]] [[GatlingGood minigun]]. Notable ones:

** It's a robot combined from ''twelve'' sentient cars/trains/aircraft. "Overkill" was about five mecha ago, and is pretty much the ''raison d'être'' for ''all'' of PowerRangers' HumongousMecha finishing moves. Even moreso with the annual Ultrazord "all of them together" formation.

* One episode of ''{{CSI}}'' involved a guy shot so many times that you could see straight through him. It turned out to be an accident.

* ''CriminalMinds:''

* This is the everyday philosophy of CowboyCop ''[[SledgeHammer Sledge Hammer!]]'', who thinks nothing of stopping a sniper by ''blowing up the building with a rocket launcher.''

* ''MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' has a sketch spoofing hunting, involving an [[EgomaniacHunter egomaniac]] who hunts "tiny, inoffensive insects" using military hardware.

'''Roy:''' A lot of people have asked us why we don't use fly spray. Well, where's the sport in that?

** Most notably, in the pilot episode, where String completely empties Airwolf's missile reserves on Moffett.

* WalkerTexasRanger pulls this on a few occasions, but one event takes the cake. Walker is fighting a CurbstompBattle against a genetic superhuman who won't go down. He's survived a full round of bullets to the chest, several beatdowns, and has the might to snap a neck with one punch. How does he die? He's drenched with kerosene, [[KillItWithFire set ablaze]], and then falls through a window into an explosives storage bay.
** The GrandFinale, "The Final Show/Down" has Hayes Cooper pitted against Milos Lavocat, an old enemy who survived a Native American scalping. He believes because of this, he can't die. He takes a hit from Cooper's service revolver, shakes it off, and boasts his claim straight to Cooper's face after kidnapping his wife and child. Cooper proceeds to unload the rest of his bullets on Lavocat, killing him on the spot. He asked for it, didn't he?

* In ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', in order to deal with the Founders, a joint Obsidian Order/Tal Shiar fleet planned to moved in to blow away their home planet's crust and mantle. According the TheOtherWiki, on an Earth-like planet, that constitutes 84% of planet's volume, just to get to a bunch of people that would mostly be on the surface.

* {{Monk}} has a notable episode titled "Mr. Monk and the Really, Really Dead Guy," in which a killer takes out a victim by hitting him in the back of the head with a crowbar, suffocating him with plastic, poisoning him, stabbing him, shooting him, ''and then'' running over his body with a car. [[spoiler:It turns out this murder was a massive RedHerring to get the authorities entirely focused off a woman he'd also killed so that way they would not perform an autopsy on her, as doing so before the contents were naturally emptied would lead them to discovering evidence that could eventually point back to him]].

* During the destruction of Asuras, two drones blew an Asuran battlecruiser in half. During the battle of Antarctica in ''StargateSG1'', Anubis took a drone to the [[EnergyBeing sort-of]] face, courtesy of O'Neill.

** Recurs later in the finale, when Ross Dollarhide is closing in on Gage with a fireman's axe. Gage unloads his gun into Dollarhide, but he just won't go down. Out of bullets, Gage screams at the sight of the falling axe- ''then'' the criminal topples over, stone cold dead.

** Also from SGA: the war against the Asurans. First, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXIdFTwIB0k the Horizon]]. Six 280 ''''gigaton'''' nukes. It wasn't enough, given the Asurans' [[{{Nanomachines}} nature.]] Then they killed them over by turning their planet into an asteroid field.