There Is No Kill Like Overkill/Live-Action TV: Difference between revisions

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** "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.''

** 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<ref> As in, you can see the cast reduced to a fine powder billowing around the sled</ref>.

** 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.

* Good old ''[[Kamen Rider Ryuki|Kamen Rider Zolda]]'' and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RneYJPuWVdw The End of The World]. It's a collision of [[More Dakka]], [[Beam Spam]] and a [[Macross Missile Massacre]] with no survivors... at least that's the idea.

** As his American counterpart [[Kamen Rider Dragon Knight|Kamen Rider Torque]] puts it, "A little collateral damage, but what the heck?"

* ''[[Engine Sentai Go-onger]]'''s [[Humongous Mecha]] EngineOh G12 has [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ_1RYorGf0 way too much overkill] for its finishers. First, it can shoot [[Robot Buddy|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.

** Surpassed in the final episode of ''[[Power Rangers RPM]]'', 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.

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' includes this scene, when Spike suggests sending the [[Murder, Inc.|Order of Tarraka]] after Buffy:

'''Spike''': No, I think it's just ''enough'' kill! }}

** The episode ''Innocence'' gives us The Judge, a demon that prophesy said "no weapon forged may kill him." {{spoiler|So Buffy's friends sneak into a military base and steal a ''rocket launcher''.}} Which may not have actually killed him, but it definitely dismembered him again.

* In one episode of ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'', 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.

* ''[[Deadliest Warrior]]'' 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.

** Yakuza vs. Mafia: To test the M1921 Thompson with a 50-round drum against a Sten Mk II with a 32-round magazine, they set up two scenarios: the Mafia shooter would empty the Tommy Gun at five dummies with blood packs and clothing in a mockup of an Italian restaurant, while the Yakuza shooter got a mockup of a Japanese marketplace with four dummies standing around fruit crates. Both targets were gunned down: one dummy took 10 rounds from the Sten, and the Thompson tore the restaurant to shreds. It was a very literal bloodbath. Earlier in the episode, he fired the drum at a standing dummy. The entire front of the dummy fell off.

** Shaolin Monk vs. Maori Warrior: The monk's most powerful weapon, the hook swords, were used in a beautiful demonstration by one of the team's experts on a pig carcass, chopping the pig in half with quick but deadly cuts. When the other expert got his hands on Emei piercers, he took out a gel dummy head with several double stabs to the jaw and temples. He then pulled out the dummy's eyes. Was he done? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2GLjj5yg-I Nope.] He just flipped the piercers to the non-eyed ends and literally turned the head inside-out. The show staff was understandably slightly frightened and disturbed.

** Navy SEAL vs. Israeli Commando: After a fairly vicious demonstration of the commando's knife which was pretty damn impressive in its own right, one of the SEAL experts turned his three-inch blade on the gel dummy and went ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szLlzQWatZU berserk]''. In the space of about fifteen seconds, the dummy was disemboweled, disarmed (literally), decapitated, disemboweled some more, and finally stabbed through the heart via its neck-stump. He used a three-inch knife to do to the gel torso what most people would need a sword to do.

** 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.''}}

** Also, [[Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?|Samantha Carter blew up a fleet with a supernova.]]

* ''[[Kamen Rider Kuuga]]'': Kuuga gets this with any [[Finishing Move]] 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 [[Earthshattering Kaboom|Ultimate Form can do]]...

* 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."

** To a lesser extent (and only lesser with something like ''that'' for comparison), the Lexx itself often employs overkill. For example:

** In an even more restrained example of extreme overkill, Stanley had Lexx dial down its weapon to its absolute minimum power level to assassinate a single person who was at a known location on a planet's surface. Lexx, unused to such finesse, misses its target by a wide margin and instead blows up an entire unrelated city. Lexx's response was something along the lines of "oops."

*** Wasn't he purposely given incorrect coordinates by the [[Magnificent Bastard]] he was trying to kill?

** 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 [[It Got Worse|Jem'Hadar fighters show up...]] Really they underkilled that one.

* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' has a sketch spoofing hunting, involving an [[Egomaniac Hunter|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? }}

** 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<ref>"There's nothing more dangerous than a wounded mosquito."</ref>. They also "skin" it by using a knife to cut off its wings.

*** 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 [[Eldritch Abominations]], 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 [[Oh Crap]] 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.)

* Happens a few times in [[Airwolf]].

'''Stringfellow Hawke:''' "Yeah..." }}

** The other majorly notable example is when he opens fire on the corrupt sheriff in the episode ''Sweet Britches''.

** 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 [[Red Herring]] 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}}.