History ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill / LiveActionTV

* In ''{{Series/Firefly}}'', Mal is being choked by Niska’s torturer in “War Stories”. After he refutes Zoe’s ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself, Zoe, Wash and book proceed to riddle the guy with bullets simultaneously. After that, he tumbles down a shaft and is bisected on the way down.

* In ''{{Series/Firefly}}'', Mal is being choked by Niska’s torturer in “War Stories”. After he refutes Zoe’s ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself, Zoe, Wash and book proceed to riddle the guy with bullets simultaneously. After that, he tumbles down a shaft and is bisected on the way down.

* ''Series/TheCleanerUK: The Widow stabbed her husband 38 times in the titular episode. Wicky complains of the mess so many stab wounds make, saying five is plenty to do the job.

* ''Series/AllInTheFamily'': A chilling one off-screen but witnessed full-on by Gloria, Archie, Edith and Barney ... and Mike, who later relates what happened: He and his friend Beverly [=Lasalle=], an anatomical male transsexual who dresses like a female, have been robbed and beaten. When one of the suspects realized who Beverly was, they savagely beat him beyond recognition and Mike was unable to defend him, the crooks fleeing only when they hear a police siren and the protagonists rush to the scene.

** 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.

** 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.

** 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.

** 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 to 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.

** Chad Spaulding (Joe Spano), a ruthless building official who is trying to disgrace the movie's main protagonist, is electrocuted while attempting to escape from the United States Geological Survey's safety bunker beneath city hall ... after which his body is crushed beneath tons of office furniture, which come crashing down as the ceiling collapses.

* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': When [[spoiler: Sara]] is KilledOffForReal in the Season 3 premiere "The Calm", the writers apparently wanted to leave absolutely no doubt that this was the case -- three arrows to the chest, followed by falling off a roof onto their ''head''. Plus a WordOfGod confirmation that yes, [[spoiler: Sara]] really is dead this time.

* ''Series/{{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]].

* In the ''Series/NightGallery'' episode "Lady, Lady, Take My Life", a man is killed by a psychic attack that causes a major artery in his belly to rupture. Also a major artery in his lungs. And one in his chest. All at ''the same time''. Any one of them would've been fatal on its own.

* In the ''Series/NightGallery'' episode "Lady, Lady, Take My Life", a man is killed by a psychic attack that causes a major artery in his brain to rupture. Also a major artery in his lungs. And one in his lower chest. All at ''the same time''. Any one of them would've been fatal on its own.

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

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

* ''Series/CriminalMinds'':
** A common characteristic of the more disturbed unsubs.

** Tends to make this an AvertedTrope, 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:

* ''Series/{{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]].

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

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

* ''Series/{{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]].

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

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': {{Lampshaded}}. The traditional way to kill an okami is to stab it seven times with a bamboo dagger blessed by a Shinto priest. Rufus attempts this when hunting one in one episode, but forgets the number and "only" stabs it 5 times. Later, Bobby kills it for real by shoving it into a woodchopper, leading to this exchange: