Kill'Em All: Difference between revisions

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* [[Metallica]] provides the [[Trope Namer]]: ''Kill 'Em All'' is the name of their first album.

* [[Marilyn Manson|When I'm a god, everyone dies!]]

** An [http://www.spookhouse.net/angelynx/manson/ACS.HTM alternative explanation] is that this didn't mean that everyone would be killed, but rather that instead of eternal paradise or damnation (noted as lies in the previous line), people [[Take a Third Option]] and just... end.

** An [https://web.archive.org/web/20121212171737/http://www.spookhouse.net/angelynx/manson/ACS.HTM alternative explanation] is that this didn't mean that everyone would be killed, but rather that instead of eternal paradise or damnation (noted as lies in the previous line), people [[Take a Third Option]] and just... end.

* [[OFWGKTA|Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All.]] Not only is it in the collective's name, but at the end of the song "Window", Tyler, The Creator kills the main members of the group, minus Earl Sweatshirt.

* [[Porcupine Tree]]'s "Strip The Soul," from the 2002 album ''In Absentia'': "Strip the soul, kill them all.."

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== Newspaper comics ==

* Queen's University campus newspaper [http://goldenwords.ca Golden Words] attempted to [[Torch the Franchise and Run|fake their own demise]] in fall 1984, putting out a "final" edition in which they killed off primary characters in almost all of their original comic strips, or otherwise published a "farewell" to bring each to a conclusion. Undeterred by the ill-will this scheme (and the subsequent [[Retcon]] attempts to put everything back two weeks later) caused, they tried the same scam again in fall 1988 - assuming the original victims would've graduated and forgotten as the undergraduate programme is normally completed in four years.

* Queen's University campus newspaper [https://web.archive.org/web/20210126204236/http://goldenwords.ca/ Golden Words] attempted to [[Torch the Franchise and Run|fake their own demise]] in fall 1984, putting out a "final" edition in which they killed off primary characters in almost all of their original comic strips, or otherwise published a "farewell" to bring each to a conclusion. Undeterred by the ill-will this scheme (and the subsequent [[Retcon]] attempts to put everything back two weeks later) caused, they tried the same scam again in fall 1988 - assuming the original victims would've graduated and forgotten as the undergraduate programme is normally completed in four years.

== Tabletop Games ==