Crossover
- 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 Planetary Defensive Grid
well, you figure it out... - Avenger Goddess (Marvel Cinematic Universe & Wonder Woman (2017)): 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).
- Avenger of Steel ((Marvel Cinematic Universe & Man of Steel): 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.
- Avengers: Infinite Wars;
- During the Mandalore crisis, the Confederacy dispatch Durge to assist in response to the threat posed by the Avengers, even though the only Avengers present are Captain America, Black Widow and Daredevil.
- Later, the Death Watch assassins after Duchess Satine are caught by all nine of the active Avengers, even though there were only four assassins.
- During the Battle of Kamino, not only does Rhodey use a powerful explosive missile to take down Durge, but Captain America, Black Panther, Spider-Man and a group of Jedi have to attack Taskmaster all at once to put him down.
- In the Avengers of the Ring sequel Avengers: Methteilien, the allies realise that Morgoth’s final intention is to end existence by triggering the Big Rip, when dark energy becomes stronger than the forces holding it together and everything is ripped apart at the sub-atomic level.
- Boldores and Boomsticks (Pokémon & RWBY): Tapu Koko sees nothing wrong with using Guardian of Alola, the signature Z-Move of the Guardian Deities, on an already-paralyzed and bruised Yang to end their match.
- Child of the Storm has Harry spend most of Book II leaning into this, partly because he's acutely aware that he's a Glass Cannon - his offensive output is significant enough that he can get in a straight slugging match with Physical God level beings, and that's even without going for his Godzilla Threshold which risks turning him into the Dark Phoenix. He's also fast enough to pull a Flash Step on a young Superman and cunning with it. However, his enemies are usually in the same league of power, much more experienced, and much more physically formidable. As a result, he needs to strike hard and with overwhelming force. As time goes on, he rediscovers his precision and becomes better able to take what he's dealing out, but even after, he retains a tendency towards leaving a trail of destruction visible from his space.
- With access to technology from all over the known worlds of Fiction, there are many examples of this on Coreline. Still, three Mega-Corporations make themselves known because they have made this their (unwritten) trademark: Diggers Technologies manufactures up-scaled versions of the Venus Wars tanks and sell them as cheap BOLO rip-offs and Boom Tech (the company from The Universiad) uses as a base HALO-verse Forerunner technology (that usually ends with the target being disintegrated—for comparison's sake, Fallout-verse tech can disintegrate a target when you score a "critical hit" and Star Trek-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... Tongue-Urdnot. Any and all guns it produces have a standard for massive amounts of Stuff Blowing Up (and Testosterone Poisoning).
- The Day of the Broken Fang, a prequel to The Elements of Harmony and the Savior of Worlds that expands on previous Word of God comments regarding COBRA's demise, shows that this is how the pissed off 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.
- Dueling Trigger Finger (Danganronpa & Yu-Gi-Oh!): Makoto of all people engages in this. After Noah pushes Makoto's Berserk Button 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 turned Komaru to stone, which Makoto took exception to.
- In Falling Hope, Rising Threat- the sequel to A Man Like No Other- Anya (the new She-Hulk) not only beats the Abomination into defeat, but once he's down, she borrows Johanna's axe Jarnbjorn (which was originally owned by Thor) and proceeds to cut off Blonsky's head before ramming the axe into his body to ensure he can't grow a new head.
- Particularly applies to Glory in The Faith Chronicles. 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.
- Hybrid Hive: Eat Shard?: Missy gets a special shredder to help deal with her fan mail, with settings ranging from "cut into strips" all the way up to "reduce to dust and then ignite the dust in a contained explosion".Needless to say, she currently had it in that mode, because who wouldn't? Beyond those tired of the thumps of the explosions, anyway.
- The MLP Loops: One loop sees Twilight and Applejack collectively replace Ripley in Alien, with the Colonial Marines replaced by Seaponies. After being informed of the threats the Xenomorphs pose, Captain Sealight decides to glass the planet they're on, follow it up by turning it into a new asteroid belt, asteroids which they proceed to throw into the nearby sun, and finish off by blowing up said sun before leaving, as it's "the only way to be sure" — all in the most hilariously cheerful way possible.
- The Night Unfurls: There are times where Kyril uses more force than necessary to kill something.
- He finishes Beasley off by pinning him down and systematically chopping his body up, instead of killing him in one hit like he usually does to his prey.
- 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? Simply shoot the leader? No. Hack them one by one with his cleaver? No, no. He uses A Call Beyond to blow them all up to kingdom come.
- In Origins, a Mass Effect/Star Wars/Borderlands/Halo Massive Multiplayer Crossover, 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 the Danny Phantom/Beetlejuice crossover story Say It Thrice, 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 The Search for Victory, Thor (of the Avengers) manages to damage an Ori battlecruiser by channelling an entire lightning-storm into a single blast of energy.
- In Tara Sheppard, 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 Death Note: The Abridged Series (kpts4tv) Matt gets shot up, hit by a barrage of missiles, and nuked.
- In Dragon Ball Z Abridged, Lord Slug, after blasting Goku literally 2-feet in front of him with a Colossal mouth beam cannon recites the exact line.
- Fate/Gamers Only: Uesugi Artoria prepares to steal the gang's rations. Since those rations include a boxed lunch Rikku made for Mash, Rikku orders Oda with a Command Spell to use 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.
- Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku! (The DCU & My Hero Academia): 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 Nigh-Invulnerability and recently gained ability to fly ensures that he isn't even scratched by any of this, but the intent is still there.
- Abraxas (Hrodvitnon):
- True to the hints in Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), this trope is a necessity when killing Ghidorah — if anything of its body is left; it'll take time, but Ghidorah will eventually come back From a Single Cell.
- This also applies to the Many, for the same reasons it applies to The Thing: every cell of the Many is an infectious Assimilator, so Godzilla and his allies have to cook or sterilize every last piece of a Many construct even when said construct is inert.
- In Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, Voldemort wants to kill Harry 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.
- 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 Daphne Greengrass and the Boy Who Lived, when Daphne writes to her mother (a famous Quidditch player and coach) regarding Umbridge's attempt to impose a lifetime quidditch ban on Harry and the Weasley twins, Daphne's mother subsequently uses her own authority and quidditch contacts to call an official investigation into Umbridge's ban that is carried out by the International Confederation of Wizards Quidditch Committee, essentially reaching out to the highest quidditch authorities in the country to deal with an issue affecting a pair of students.
- In Princess of the Blacks, if Jen (the female Harry equivalent of this series) is to be believed, the last time Baron Samedi directly involved himself in mortal affairs to deal with someone who angered him, he suppressed all magical and mundane efforts to heal a disease (most likely the Black Plague) that was invading Europe during the fourteenth century. In other words, Death killed as many as 200 million people to kill a single witch who earned his ire.
- In The Jaded Eyes Series 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 Double Back Harry uses Fiendfyre to destroy the locket Horcrux.Sirius: You know, actually, I think that counted as overkill.
Harry: 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 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 the Valkyrie on Fire series when Glimmer kills Clove by slitting her throat and stabbing her in the heart, as just one of those blows would have been fatal. However, Glimmer later clarifies that the initial attack 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.
- 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 melting 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. When he shows up, Clint suggests they dig up the body and bury the head somewhere else.
- In Mega Man Recut, Wily decides the best way to deal with a shrunken Mega Man is a submachine gun.
- In Mega Man Reawakened, Robert at one point uses a Program Advance to destroy a breakable wall. There's nothing left of it when he finishes.
- The Gunslinger Hero: Flintlock:
- Izumi follows this policy to the fullest extent when she can, and is actively frustrated when people advise or prevent her from doing so. She has Gjallarhorn and other large guns for when she needs to truly follow this practice and is upset that the US Government wouldn’t let her have a Fatman launcher. Another example of this is when she is criticized aggressively by Aizawa for using her rocket launcher against villains, thinking she killed them.
- Pony takes any chance she can to use Sweet Business, and has occasionally found herself using it to the degree of running out of ammunition.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Discord's New Business: Queen Novo loves this trope. Sonata Dusk later explains that "The human equivalent [of Seapony Diplomacy] would be carpet bombing. With nuclear weapons."Sonata: Novo and the concept of overkill have had a long, lasting love affair.
- Mirror's Image: 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.
- The Negotiations-verse: This happens to Princess Luna in the Battle of Jerusalem courtesy of an Anti-Magic weapon that nullified her magic and getting riddled with bullets. The humans wanted to be absolutely certain that she was as dead as dead could be, as well as send a message to Equestria that their goddesses were not invincible. What was left of her resembled ground meat with bits of blue fur and feathers. In both Future and Fallen, it's stated that it took Celestia over two weeks to repair Luna's corpse with magic and paying expensive preppers to make it look presentable enough to have a state funeral.
- A Growing Affection 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 know how powerful it was.
- When Hinata kills Madara, to make sure he is absolutely dead, she atomizes him with a black hole/Rasengan hybrid.
- Mister Cynical's Lycanthrope series on fanfiction.net (loosely based on the anime) 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!
- Pokemon: Shadow of Time;
- 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.
- Ash observes that Team Cipher seem to have no concept of 'overkill', considering that they have nuked entire villages to keep certain artifacts secret.
- Blue Sky (Waffles)GLaDOS (to Wheatley) I am going to kill you. I’m going to kill you and I’m going to make [Chell] watch. And then I’m going to bring you back, and I’m going to kill her, and I’m going to make you watch. And after that I’m going to get really creative.
- The Power Rangers: Dino Thunder fic "Always a Ranger" features this for the final battle; after Mesogog abducts Kimberly (now the Pink Dino Thunder Ranger) on the day of her wedding to Tommy, not only does every available past Ranger go into action to save her- the Space team, the Zeo team, and even Wes Collins- but as the final attack Conner channels the power of the Triassic Ranger with the energies of all five of his teammates, Kimberly giving him access to the Pink Gem's energies for the first time and boosting his power to a level where he can tear through a whole army of tyranno-drones with a single blast.
- Beautiful Destroyer Sailor Moon is not afraid of using this.Mercury: You threw a fucking train.
Moon: I wanted to be thorough. - Dungeon Keeper Ami destroys the High Temple of Crowned Death very thoroughly (with immense amounts of chlorine trifluoride)."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."
- Beelzebub from Sonic X: Dark Chaos 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 the Stargate SG-1 fanfic 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 Buffy Summers, so in hindsight it was just-barely-enough-kill.
- 101 Ways to Kill Jar Jar Binks has many times where this happens to Jar Jar, such as being hit with the Death Star's superlaser.
- In "Star Wars: Legends Never Die", when Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade of Star Wars Legends find themselves in the events of The Force Awakens, the Emperor- operating through Snoke- contemplates such retaliatory plans as using Starkiller to destroy planets just based on the rumor that this "new" Luke Skywalker might be on them, willing to decimate entire worlds to eliminate Luke's threat (either he will destroy Luke or tarnish his reputation so that no planet will let him land, and he's even willing to sacrifice the Knights of Ren to eliminate the threat).
- In 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. Even Palpatine found this excessive, if nothing else because 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 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 just that tough and had supposedly been already killed by an artillery barrage.
- 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 Tremble Mortal, the Teen Titans Titans capture Harley Quinn, and Raven heals her brain from the damage caused by The Joker (leading Harley to a case of My God, What Have I Done? 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.
- In the penultimate battle of The Land of What Might-Have-Been alone, the Empress and the Mentor (the alternate Elphaba and Glinda respectively) unleash a mass of magical attacks at each other that only ends when the Empress impales the Mentor with the spire of a building she recently destroyed, and even then the Mentor is still alive even if she clearly needed urgent medical attention if she's going to stay that way.
- A Darker Path: The Dragonslayers' attack on Atropos should have been massive overkill, since she's physically a baseline human and they were firing .50-calibre anti-aircraft rounds. Unfortunately for them, she had already tampered with their target recognition systems; instead of shooting her, they were shooting Lung, for whom bullets are not-enough-kill.
- In Legacy of the Enginseers, Taylor picks this up as part of her modus operandi when it comes to weaponry: as she describes it, Imperial weaponry starts at "See that guy there? Fuck him up and everything around him," and then goes up.
- When she attacks a jet plane carrying Gesellschaft capes across the Atlantic, she sends a warplane to fire on it until it's little more than scrap.
- She destroys the ship blocking the entrance to Brockton Bay's port, and then Ellisburg, with a Titan weapon.
- In order to kill Crawler, she sends a tank-killing murderbot against him.
- Her plan to kill Leviathan is even called Operation Overkill, and consists of using weapons that are even more powerful than the one mentioned above.
- In Taylor Is DOOMED, Taylor, after going through five years of fighting (and dying) through Mars and Hell, is a firm believer of this principle, to the point that the PRT temporarily assigns her the moniker "Overkill". For example, when Victor tries to shoot Danny with a sniper rifle from a nearby abandoned building, Taylor stops the bullet, pulls out a massive rocket launcher and blows the upper half of the building to kingdom come.
- If it involves X-COM, 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.
- The Witty Phantom's plan to defeat Stan in their rematch in Yu-Gi-Oh! The Thousand Year Door Redux is basically this. He summons Dice Reaper and uses his own Deckmaster 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. It fails due to Stan's facedown, Magic Cylinder.
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- In chapter 15 of 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 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 one Naruto fic, while the readers aren't told what exactly happened, after Naruto (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 The Art of the Deal, Naruto deals with Yakuza using his warehouses to smuggle drugs by hiring the 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 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.
- Attempted in 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 chunks start moving, they lock them all in a small container until a proper prison can be made.
- In Echoes of Eternity, 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. Maria was traumatized for days and Rei was executed because no one believed his reasoning.
- Evangelion 303: In chapter 4, during an Old School Dog Fight Asuka ordered Hikari doubling the dose of missiles when she shot because she WANTED THEM DEAD!. One of her rivals complained that was WAY overkill.
- From Gods of This New World: "Meanwhile, L had been in a harrier jet overhead… He readied a missile to be fired, and unleashed fiery hell on Mello."
- The Infinite Loops has "Seapony Diplomacy". Their solution to an infestation of 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.
- The Albacore crew in The Nowakverse 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.
- Renegade
- GDI has stationed twenty ion cannon emplacements - each of which mounts six dreadnought-grade ion cannons - outside the Charon Mass Relay. 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 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.
- 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. She was pissed off.
- In 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".
- In the final battle of Son of the Sannin, 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.
- Turning Point: Dracula has a history of making every Roaring Rampage of Revenge a spectacle that only escalates the problem, this being one of the reasons Adrien offers to do it in Targoviste instead.Adrien/Alucard: That is why we do not need you— you— ugh, appearing in a cloud of flame or raining blood from the sky or tearing apart the entire population and posting them on pikes outside the gates. Mother would never forgive it. It would be more than she can bear, and it will only drive them to further and fiercer witch-hunting.
- The Ultra Series 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.
- In What About Witch Queen?, 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. - Wings to Fly: 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.
- XCOM: Second Contact has 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.
- 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.
- From 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, though it also serves the practical purpose of getting around his invisibility.
- in the Discworld, the one-line canonical character of Miss Smith-Rhodes makes her first appearance in fanfic as an 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 Black Howondalandian state in pursuit of a warlord who has raided into her country. the barely-nineteen year old Tyke-Bomb 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 A.A. Pessimal.
