There Is No Kill Like Overkill/Quotes

Overkill is underrated.

—Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith, The A-Team

"If it's worth doing, it's worth over-doing!"

—Adam, Mythbusters

Kiva: (watching as Coop plants one bad guy with countless targets) Coop, overkill?

Jamie: Yeah, do more!!!

—Megas XLR

[B]ut if you have to fight, you need to convince your opponents that you're about to bring a level of violence totally out of proportion to the situation.

—Michael Westen, Burn Notice

If you're gonna do it, overdo it.

—Ani DiFranco, Puddle Dive

Never do an enemy a small injury.

—Takashi Shimazu, Deva Series, quoting Niccolo Machiavelli

#6 If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.
#34: If you're leaving scorch marks, you need a bigger gun.

#37: There is no "overkill." There is only "open fire" and "Reload."

—Schlock Mercenary, "The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries"

Subtlety is a thing for philosophy, not combat. If you're going to kill someone, you might as well kill them a whole lot.

—Vulcan Raven, The Last Days of Foxhound

There is no overkill, ever. You may need to reload on ammunition, friends, infrastructure, enemies, political goodwill, the VIP you were supposed to protect, but a kill is not an overkill.

—Unknown

What is victory? Is it to defeat your enemy on the field of battle? Is it to simply repulse his armies and slay his misguided warriors? No, this is only the beginning!
True victory is to crush your foe utterly, to shatter his armoured legions and run down his fleeing troops as they scatter. Pursue them to their lairs and burn them out. Burst into his unholy temples, smash down his icons and topple his foul idols. Burn his heretical works and leave no stone upon stone. Slaughter his followers, their families and their livestock lest any of their taint remain. And when that is done, put the ruins to the torch.
Any that have dealt with them or given them succour must be obliterated, for memory is insidious and though you have crushed their will and their bodies they may yet return. Send warrior scribes to excise the records of their name, expunge their deeds from the annals of history and remove even the memory of your foe's existence. Only then have you truly won.
That is the meaning of victory.

—Warhammer 40,000

I have at my command an entire battle group of the Imperial Guard. Fifty regiments, including specialized drop troops, stealthers, mechanized formations, armored companies, combat engineers and mobile artillery. Over half a million fighting men and thirty thousand tanks and artillery pieces are mine to command. Emperor show mercy to the fool that stands against me, for I shall not.

– at the outset of the Salonika Crusade, 733.M38

—Warhammer 40,000

I'm gonna stomp 'em to dust. I'm gonna grind their bones. I'm gonna burn down dere towns and cities. I'm gonna pile 'em up inna big fire and roast 'em. I'm gonna bash 'eads, break faces, and stomp on da bits dat are left. An' den I'm gonna get really mean.

—Grimgor Ironhide, Black Orc Warboss, Warhammer Fantasy Battle

AK-47. The very best there is. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherfucker in the room, accept no substitutes.

—Samuel L. Jackson in Jackie Brown

Eighth Fleet had deployed almost eight thousand pods. Those pods launched 69,984 missiles. Of that total, 7,776 were Apollo birds. Another 8,000 were electronic warfare platforms. Which meant that 54,208 carried laser heads - laser heads which homed on Genevieve Chin's ships with murderously accurate targeting.
Fifth Fleet's missile defenses did their best.
Their best was not good enough.
Fifth Fleet stopped almost thirty percent of them, which was a truly miraculous total, under the circumstances. But over thirty-seven thousand got through.
It was, she decided coldly, a case of overkill.

—At All Costs

Sgt. Zim: If you wanted to teach a baby a lesson, would you cut its head off?
Ted Hendrick: Why... no sir!
Sgt. Zim: Of course not. You'd paddle it. There can be circumstances when it's just as foolish to hit an enemy city with an H-bomb as it would be to spank a baby with an ax.

—Robert A. Heinlein expressing his disapproval of this trope in Starship Troopers

A little collateral damage, but what the heck?

—Drew Lansing/Kamen Rider Torque, Kamen Rider Dragon Knight

Minion: Isn't that overkill?

Spike: No, it's just the right amount of kill.

—Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Dr. Wilson: George, if you were making a dinner and wanted to kill a fly, what would you use?
George Green: Probably a flyswatter or some spray.
Dr. Wilson: And what would be "overkill?"
George Green: Probably a mallet.
Dr. Wilson: And what would be "extreme overkill?"
George Green: Probably a sledge hammer.

Dr. Wilson: What Dr. Sign did goes way beyond "extreme overkill." It was the equivalent of using nuclear weapons to get rid of flies.

—The Gatekeeper: The Gate Contracts

Infantry weapons never work well against starfighters. The reverse is not true.

—Wedge Antilles, Isard's Revenge

Fuck this, I'm getting the bazooka!

—D'amico Family Bodyguard, Kick-Ass

You don't know what a delightful dilemma it was: trying to decide on the most appropriate method for your demise. I had so many ingenious ideas, I didn't know which to choose. So I decided to use them all!

—Prof. Ratigan, The Great Mouse Detective

Doctor Girlfriend: You should have replaced his blood with acid after this part. The sharks won't touch him.

The Monarch: Thanks, Doctor Girlfriend; now you tell me. Lower the giant hairdryer!

—The Venture Brothers, "The Trail of the Monarch"

I am going to kill you and kill you and kill you.

—The Heavy, Team Fortress 2

First I'm gonna **** him, then I'm gonna kill him, then I'm gonna make a joke, then I'm gonna **** him again.

—The Captain, Nextwave

Slowbeef: That was needless, but whatever...
Diabetus: This is a farce at this point.

Slowbeef: Basically, yeah.

—Slowbeef's Let's Play of Dead to Rights: Retribution

Ammand: Shoot him!
Jocard: Cut out his tongue!

Jack: Shoot him and cut out his tongue, then shoot his tongue. And trim that scraggly beard.

—Pirates of the Caribbean

"When you need it and don't have it, you'll be singing a different tune."

—Burt Gummer

Leyte: It disappeared.
Lordgenome: Be careful. The enemy is using a random Schrödinger warp to approach.
Dayakka: I'm begging you, say that in layman's terms!
Lordgenome: The Multiple Dimension probability fluctuation is controlled by them. While shifting through Space-Time, they will approach and attack.
Dayakka: Like I said, I don't understand!
Attenborough: "It doesn't matter! Let's beat the crap out of them!
Lordgenome: Understood. Prepare for simultaneous decimation of all the weak points in responsive Space-Time. We will trace down the enemies.
Dayakka: The Time-Range is expanding?
Lordgenome: Calculating Space-Time for possibility of enemy existence.
(Cut a half a minute forward)
Random crew member: The gauge is empty... Something about Time Levels...

Leeron: Don't worry about it, just go ahead and lock onto them. It just means we can shoot randomly and it'll still hit them!

—Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann - The Dai-Gurren Brigade shortly before making one of the biggest overkills ever.

"When you've helped blow up planets and kill gods, overkill ceases to exist."

—Alex Mason A Game of Gods: Infinities

"Tomoe-san, that's overkill. Three quarters of your shots missed. It's effective, but a waste of ammunition."

—L, As Time Diverges the Mitakihara Case

"There's Befriending levels of firepower, and then there's "You made me fight my own daughter, you BITCH!" levels of firepower.
And brother, did Quattro -ever- fit into that second category."

"If they can still stand, then you gotta keep pulling the trigger till they lie down."

—John "Sleepy" Estes, aka Mad Bull 34

1. Bring a gun. Preferably, bring at least two guns. Bring all of your friends who have guns.
2. Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice. Ammunition is cheap; life is expensive.
7. In ten years nobody will remember the details of caliber, stance, or tactics. They will only remember who lived.
10. Someday someone may kill you with your own gun, but they should have to beat you to death with it because it is empty.

24. Do not attend a gunfight with a handgun, the caliber of which starts with anything smaller than "4".

—"Drill Sergeant Joe B. Frick's Rules For A Gunfight"

"I'm going to kill you so much."

—The Lone Wanderer,, Fallout 3

I took a moment to call Jimmy.
"Henderson here. Figured out what the nasties are weak against."
"What's that, Mr. Henderson?"
"Point blank annihilation."
'click'

—The legend of Old Man Henderson

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