Tropescilloscope: There Is No Kill Like Overkill

Extreme excessive eradication. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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More Tropes He Who Fights Monsters Men Are the Expendable Gender Green-Eyed Monster Darkest Hour Catch-Phrase Award-Bait Song Fire-Forged Friends Australian Movies Mr. Fanservice Betty and Veronica I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Insistent Terminology Heroes Want Redheads Smoking Is Cool Ironic Echo Curb-Stomp Battle Woman Scorned Black Best Friend Air-Vent Passageway The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Leave the Camera Running Off-into-the-Distance Ending Badass Grandpa Video Credits Skewed Priorities Idiot Ball Obviously Evil Funny Background Event Coming-of-Age Story Bloodless Carnage The Great Depression Our Vampires Are Different Pyrrhic Victory Improbable Weapon User Fanservice Soft Glass Jump Scare Yandere Noodle Incident Recycled IN SPACE! Villain Protagonist Not So Different No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Unresolved Sexual Tension British Films Diabolus ex Machina Red Oni, Blue Oni Badass Normal You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Anachronic Order Fatal Flaw The Faceless Apocalypse How Bond Villain Stupidity Damsel in Distress Double Entendre Broken Bird Drowning My Sorrows Getting Crap Past the Radar Dies Wide Open Demonic Possession An Aesop Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Suspiciously Similar Substitute Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Even Evil Has Standards There Is No Kill Like Overkill Redemption Equals Death All for Nothing Wretched Hive The Mole Bad "Bad Acting" Anguished Declaration of Love Brutal Honesty Jerk with a Heart of Gold Stepford Smiler Meaningful Name Karmic Death Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Jerk Jock Suspiciously Specific Denial Silent Movie Crucified Hero Shot Film Series Revenge The '60s Based on a True Story Taking You with Me Comically Missing the Point Call-Back Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Obstructive Bureaucrat Last-Name Basis Does Not Like Shoes Babies Ever After Evil vs. Evil Loophole Abuse Karma Houdini Vitriolic Best Buds Posthumous Character Casting Gag Heroic BSoD The Quiet One Horror Comedy Random Events Plot Love at First Sight Bound and Gagged My God, What Have I Done? An Axe to Grind Bad Boss Ripped from the Headlines Retcon Up to Eleven Creative Closing Credits Expository Hairstyle Change Action Girl Defrosting Ice Queen Dual Wielding Storming the Castle Artistic License – Law Adaptational Heroism Kubrick Stare Badass Boast Femme Fatale Science Fiction Films Faking the Dead Protagonist Title Product Placement Armor-Piercing Question Lighter and Softer B-Movie Ax-Crazy Corrupt Corporate Executive Adaptational Villainy Made of Explodium The Alleged Car Camera Abuse "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Naked People Are Funny Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Paper-Thin Disguise Vampire Fiction Easily Forgiven Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Dressing as the Enemy I Did What I Had to Do Depraved Bisexual Non-Indicative Name Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Take a Third Option Adapted Out Cold-Blooded Torture Straight Gay Tranquil Fury Cat Scare Manipulative Bastard Interrupted Suicide Disappeared Dad Lock and Load Montage Villain Opening Scene Poor Communication Kills Stock Footage Accidental Misnaming Film Noir Together in Death Hidden Depths Bi the Way Hoist by His Own Petard Disproportionate Retribution Slashed Throat Dark and Troubled Past Shown Their Work Berserk Button Laughing Mad No Ending Rule of Three Major Injury Underreaction Combat Pragmatist Fantasy Films It Can Think A.I. Is a Crapshoot Mood Whiplash Riddle for the Ages Training Montage Death by Adaptation Body Horror Beard of Evil Jitter Cam Determinator aka: The Determinator Exactly What It Says on the Tin Let's Get Dangerous! The Reveal Captain Ersatz Tagline The Vamp All Girls Want Bad Boys Peek-a-Boo Corpse Stalker with a Crush Annoying Younger Sibling Politically Incorrect Villain Jerkass Has a Point Love Triangle Continuity Nod Adaptation Dye-Job Big Bad Advertised Extra Curse Cut Short A Father to His Men Bond One-Liner No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Star-Crossed Lovers Composite Character Bowdlerise BFG Shoot the Shaggy Dog Cain and Abel Black Comedy Double-Meaning Title Arch-Enemy Hero Antagonist Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Match Cut Not What It Looks Like Would Hurt a Child Epic Fail Dark Reprise Friend to All Children You Have Failed Me Department of Redundancy Department Motor Mouth Hypocrite The Remake Fish out of Water Death Glare Eldritch Abomination Destination Defenestration Your Cheating Heart La Résistance Arranged Marriage Bullying a Dragon Those Wacky Nazis Hooker with a Heart of Gold Race Lift Abhorrent Admirer Reckless Gun Usage Despair Event Horizon Age Lift Madness Mantra Red Right Hand Immune to Bullets Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Black Dude Dies First Shell-Shocked Veteran Meet Cute MacGuffin Morality Pet Fate Worse than Death Silence Is Golden Evil Sounds Deep A Minor Kidroduction Intergenerational Friendship Cool Car Anti-Hero Covers Always Lie Animal Title Index Gainax Ending Nice Guy Put on a Bus Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Offscreen Teleportation Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? For Want of a Nail Anyone Can Die Reality Has No Subtitles From Bad to Worse Never Found the Body Older Than They Look Mundane Made Awesome The Big Guy Every Car Is a Pinto Bavarian Fire Drill Public Domain Feature Films Gone Horribly Right Nice Hat Only One Name Contrived Coincidence Accidental Murder Attempted Rape Fun with Acronyms Sanity Slippage The Musical The Dragon Wrong Genre Savvy Once More, with Clarity! Country Matters Tap on the Head Not So Above It All Catapult Nightmare Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Drives Like Crazy Villain Song Mama Bear Dramatic Irony Action Prologue Groin Attack '80s Hair Unusually Uninteresting Sight Music Stories No Antagonist Ambiguous Disorder Our Zombies Are Different One-Man Army Slasher Smile Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds 20 Minutes into the Future Only Sane Man The Dog Bites Back Neck Snap As Himself One-Word Title Pet the Dog Calling the Old Man Out Precision F-Strike Took a Level in Badass Flashback Ship Tease Pragmatic Adaptation Rewatch Bonus Index of Film Westerns Historical Villain Upgrade Henpecked Husband In Name Only Light Is Not Good Parental Incest Gorn Show Within a Show Bunny-Ears Lawyer Ambiguously Gay Truth in Television Romantic False Lead Adaptation Expansion Impaled with Extreme Prejudice My Greatest Failure Ghost Fiction Bring My Brown Pants Serial Killer Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Dropped a Bridge on Him Police are Useless Mighty Whitey Affectionate Parody Victoria's Secret Compartment Face Death with Dignity Evil Counterpart Chiaroscuro Be Careful What You Wish For Enemy Mine Wicked Cultured Alas, Poor Villain Red Shirt Parental Substitute Black Comedy Rape Self-Deprecation Canadian Movies Totally Radical Make It Look Like an Accident Title Drop Anti-Villain As the Good Book Says... Stealth Hi/Bye Insane Troll Logic Humans Are Bastards Works Set in World War II Call-Forward Dogged Nice Guy Mythology Gag Crazy Jealous Guy Genre Shift Naïve Newcomer Actually Pretty Funny It's Personal Blood from the Mouth Hypocritical Humor Mad Scientist The Oner Empathic Environment The Bully Instant Death Bullet N-Word Privileges Genre Throwback Malevolent Masked Men Shipper on Deck Darker and Edgier Amoral Attorney Throwing Your Sword Always Works A God Am I Rated M for Manly Eagleland Creepy Child Facial Horror The Un-Reveal Mercy Kill Spared by the Adaptation It Will Never Catch On Face–Heel Turn Fan Disservice And Starring Took a Level in Jerkass The Lancer German Films Eiffel Tower Effect Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Action Genre Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Heel–Face Turn Downer Ending Beauty Is Never Tarnished Room Full of Crazy Narrator Costume Porn "The Reason You Suck" Speech An Arm and a Leg Asshole Victim Butt-Monkey Sadistic Choice Ambiguous Ending Needs Wiki Magic Love Names to Run Away from Really Fast Death by Sex Those Two Guys Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas The '70s Spiteful Spit Rousing Speech Mugging the Monster Whole Plot Reference Blood Knight Smug Snake Not So Stoic Romantic Comedy Meaningful Echo Take That! Guile Hero Blackmail Slap-Slap-Kiss Book-Ends Five-Man Band Market-Based Title Only in It for the Money Sequel Escalation Dirty Old Man Heel Realization The End... Or Is It? Breaking the Fourth Wall Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Documentary Scary Black Man Artistic License – History Foregone Conclusion My Beloved Smother Unreliable Narrator Chekhov's Gun Spell My Name with an "S" Manly Tears Only Known by Their Nickname The Cameo Historical In-Joke Roaring Rampage of Revenge Demoted to Extra All There in the Script Captain Obvious Villain with Good Publicity Celebrity Paradox All Men Are Perverts Important Haircut Failed a Spot Check Sexy Discretion Shot Black and Gray Morality Evil-Detecting Dog Unusual Euphemism The Stoic Big Applesauce Ominous Latin Chanting Rich Bitch Manchild Chase Scene Villain Ball Artistic License – Geography The Power of Love Big Brother Instinct Martial Arts Movie Your Head A-Splode Bait-and-Switch Artistic License – Military Dark Action Girl Break the Haughty Missing Mom Visual Pun Action Survivor Outrun the Fireball Pretty in Mink Adults Are Useless All There in the Manual Laser-Guided Karma Affably Evil Evil Plan Leitmotif Daylight Horror Sports Stories Trailers Always Spoil Loads and Loads of Characters Cluster F-Bomb Red Eyes, Take Warning Anachronism Stew Properly Paranoid No-Sell Bittersweet Ending Heroic Sacrifice Closed Circle Agony of the Feet Kick the Dog Epic Movie Pragmatic Villainy Fantastic Racism Undying Loyalty Serious Business Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Evil Is Hammy The Casanova Oh, Crap! Not Quite Dead Re-Cut Redshirt Army Shower Scene Never Trust a Trailer Maybe Ever After Big Bad Duumvirate Stuff Blowing Up Suddenly SHOUTING! Final Girl Antagonist Title Superhero Frame-Up Badass Bookworm Married to the Job Rule of Symbolism Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Fatal Family Photo Awesome, but Impractical Greater-Scope Villain Distracted by the Sexy Actor Allusion And the Adventure Continues Vacation Films The Ditz Fake Shemp Say My Name Freeze-Frame Bonus Everyone Has Standards Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Neck Lift Car Fu Half the Man He Used to Be Male Frontal Nudity Drill Sergeant Nasty Aside Glance Unwitting Instigator of Doom World of Ham Dull Surprise True Companions Hollywood Law Broken Aesop Big Damn Heroes Those Two Bad Guys Good Is Not Nice Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Credits Gag Sacrificial Lion Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Evil Brit After the End Shut Up, Hannibal! Bloody Hilarious Knife Nut Guns Akimbo Bare Your Midriff Token Minority Ascended Extra Punch-Clock Villain I'm a Humanitarian Crazy-Prepared Eye Scream Honor Before Reason I Have Your Wife Did Not Get the Girl Translation Convention Punny Name Wounded Gazelle Gambit Hero of Another Story Early-Bird Cameo The Atoner Eyepatch of Power Kill It with Fire Historical Hero Upgrade Death Seeker Eureka Moment Due to the Dead Scenery Gorn Parental Neglect The Smart Guy Parental Abandonment Setting Update Left the Background Music On The Alcoholic Toplessness from the Back More Dakka Papa Wolf Well-Intentioned Extremist Rule of Funny Made of Iron Better to Die than Be Killed Big "NO!" Twist Ending Becoming the Mask The Film of the Book The Chick Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Russian Films Freudian Excuse French Films Hollywood Darkness Jerkass Domestic Abuse Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Overly Long Gag Cat Fight Nothing Is Scarier Canon Foreigner Pre-Asskicking One-Liner How We Got Here As Long as It Sounds Foreign Even Evil Has Loved Ones Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Hope Spot Evil Is Petty Grievous Bottley Harm Gratuitous English Chewing the Scenery Monumental Damage Fat Bastard O.O.C. Is Serious Business Disguised in Drag Brick Joke folderlabel Man on Fire Foreshadowing Here We Go Again! Deconstruction Pay Evil unto Evil timeperiod Artistic License – Gun Safety What the Hell, Hero? Japanese Films Arc Words Foil Have a Gay Old Time Hair-Trigger Temper Developing Doomed Characters Framing Device Bar Brawl Television Movie Index Worthy Opponent Vomit Indiscretion Shot Kids Are Cruel And I Must Scream Hell Is That Noise "Shaggy Dog" Story Back from the Dead Knight Templar Beta Couple The Ace Adaptational Badass No Celebrities Were Harmed Central Theme The Load Dark Is Not Evil The Ghost Overprotective Dad Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Exact Words Running Gag Rasputinian Death "Awesome McCool" Name Mistaken for Gay Reality Ensues The Chessmaster Big-Bad Ensemble Psycho for Hire Cloudcuckoolander Dutch Angle Dramedy Bloodier and Gorier Stylistic Suck Deliberate Values Dissonance Intrepid Reporter The Voiceless Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Plot Hole Super Strength Mystery and Detective Films Adaptation Distillation Mr. Exposition Sir Swears-a-Lot Creator Cameo Taking the Bullet The X of Y Deliberately Monochrome Psychopathic Manchild Bilingual Bonus Determinator Beware the Nice Ones Real Life Corpsing Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Extreme Doormat Same Language Dub Defiant to the End Handicapped Badass Scenery Porn Horror Films The Lost Lenore Author Avatar The Hero Dies Real Life Writes the Plot Killed Mid-Sentence Mind Screw Psychological Thriller Fourth Date Marriage Mexican Standoff Police Brutality Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Sinister Minister Never My Fault Blatant Lies War Is Hell Deadpan Snarker Insult Backfire The '50s Grey and Gray Morality Only a Flesh Wound Hate Sink You Killed My Father Spanner in the Works Word of God Woman in White Happily Married Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Not Even Bothering with the Accent Gory Discretion Shot Zombie Stories Spiritual Successor Italian Films Really Gets Around She's Got Legs What You Are in the Dark He Knows Too Much Fingore Cool Shades Author Appeal Kill 'em All "Well Done, Son!" Guy Retired Badass Adaptation Name Change Cassandra Truth Drugs Are Bad Reasonable Authority Figure The Bad Guy Wins I Need a Freaking Drink Extremely Short Timespan Fanservice Extra Not Using the "Z" Word Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Cruel and Unusual Death Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Brainless Beauty Male Gaze The Dreaded Scare Chord Badass Longcoat Heterosexual Life-Partners Pimped-Out Dress The Smurfette Principle Meaningful Background Event Sci-Fi Horror Pre-Mortem One-Liner Aluminum Christmas Trees All Just a Dream Slasher Movie Would Hit a Girl Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Vomit Discretion Shot Tempting Fate Moment Killer Death by Irony Fainting Offscreen Moment of Awesome Artistic License – Biology Too Dumb to Live This Is Gonna Suck Ms. Fanservice Ass Shove Gilligan Cut Dying Moment of Awesome Decoy Protagonist The Place Historical-Domain Character In the Back Badass in a Nice Suit What Happened to the Mouse? Time Skip Adorkable Faux Affably Evil Pretty Little Headshots Lampshade Hanging Hong Kong Films Dwindling Party Batman Gambit Conspicuous CG Big Eater The Stoner Biopic Character Development The '90s Fiery Redhead Alliterative Name From Nobody to Nightmare Dirty Cop Alpha Bitch Shirtless Scene Bottomless Magazines Sealed Evil in a Can Irony Rape as Drama You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Wham Shot Dramatic Gun Cock Cool Old Guy Improvised Weapon Playing Gertrude Evil Laugh Chekhov's Gunman The Mafia Flipping the Bird Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Film Noir Index Danny Peary Cult Movies List Dumb Blonde It's All About Me Deus ex Machina Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Crapsack World Earn Your Happy Ending Villainous Breakdown Unspoken Plan Guarantee Daddy's Girl Animal Motifs Manic Pixie Dream Girl No OSHA Compliance Logo Joke Disney Death The Stinger Humiliation Conga Stealth Pun Sequel Hook Didn't Think This Through Disney Villain Death Novelization Very Loosely Based on a True Story Broken Pedestal Camp Gay Sassy Black Woman Refuge in Audacity Cowboy Cop Chekhov's Skill Early Installment Weirdness Bolivian Army Ending Artistic License – Physics Four-Temperament Ensemble Cool Old Lady The Sociopath Implacable Man Dissonant Serenity The Hero Ungrateful Bastard Off with His Head! Death of a Child The '80s Christmas Movies Index Famous Last Words Obfuscating Stupidity Line-of-Sight Name Red Herring Break the Cutie Authority Equals Asskicking Driven to Suicide Retirony Funny Foreigner A Date with Rosie Palms Leaning on the Fourth Wall Improbable Aiming Skills Genre Savvy Reality Is Unrealistic Amusing Injuries Imagine Spot Soundtrack Dissonance NO INDOOR VOICE Gold Digger Bald of Evil Get Out! The Starscream Big Fancy House Rule of Cool Thriller Expy Mooks Does This Remind You of Anything? No Name Given Establishing Character Moment Homage Children Are Innocent Cool Guns Boom, Headshot! The Cavalry Auto Erotica Small Name, Big Ego Card-Carrying Villain One Steve Limit May–December Romance Abusive Parents Shout-Out Bury Your Gays Adult Fear Bland-Name Product Adaptational Attractiveness Almost Kiss Informed Ability Race Against the Clock Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Military and Warfare Films For the Evulz Wham Line Sole Survivor In Medias Res Animated Credits Opening Brother–Sister Incest Plucky Comic Relief She Cleans Up Nicely As You Know Deal with the Devil Gender Flip Dirty Coward Kick the Son of a Bitch The Brute Belligerent Sexual Tension Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Large Ham