Tropescilloscope: There Is No Kill Like Overkill

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

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Amusing Injuries Credits Gag Hypocritical Humor Not Using the "Z" Word Fate Worse than Death Show Within a Show Flipping the Bird Big Eater Pyrrhic Victory Meet Cute Off-into-the-Distance Ending Artistic License – Gun Safety Only One Name Mind Screw Insult Backfire Intrepid Reporter Black Comedy Big Bad Rule of Cool Monumental Damage Four-Temperament Ensemble Gory Discretion Shot Defiant to the End Determinator aka: The Determinator Heterosexual Life-Partners The Faceless 20 Minutes into the Future Villain Ball Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Actor Allusion Police Brutality Adaptation Distillation Disguised in Drag Death Seeker Call-Back Red Herring Blood from the Mouth Gone Horribly Right Japanese Films Instant Death Bullet NO INDOOR VOICE Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Zombie Stories After the End Adaptational Attractiveness Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Alliterative Name Retired Badass Meaningful Echo Guile Hero Adults Are Useless Creative Closing Credits Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Does This Remind You of Anything? Aside Glance He Knows Too Much Heel–Face Turn Race Lift Sassy Black Woman Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Love at First Sight Not Even Bothering with the Accent Precision F-Strike Animal Title Index Pretty Little Headshots Epic Fail Fantasy Films Hypocrite Military and Warfare Films Spiritual Successor Early Installment Weirdness Drill Sergeant Nasty Stealth Pun Big "NO!" 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Deliberately Monochrome Death by Sex Villainous Breakdown Silence Is Golden Parental Substitute One Steve Limit Leave the Camera Running Smug Snake No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Race Against the Clock Shut Up, Hannibal! Worthy Opponent Made of Iron German Films Karmic Death Ominous Latin Chanting Double-Meaning Title Butt-Monkey Groin Attack May–December Romance Evil Counterpart The Power of Love Your Cheating Heart Properly Paranoid Woman Scorned Together in Death Expository Hairstyle Change A Minor Kidroduction Bait-and-Switch Those Two Guys Redemption Equals Death Market-Based Title Insane Troll Logic Room Full of Crazy Bald of Evil Running Gag Hollywood Law Fish out of Water Babies Ever After Off with His Head! Domestic Abuse Let's Get Dangerous! Adaptational Villainy Take That! Took a Level in Badass Sanity Slippage N-Word Privileges La Résistance No Name Given Cloudcuckoolander The Ace Retirony Works Set in World War II Fire-Forged Friends Jerk Jock Malevolent Masked Men All Just a Dream Translation Convention Morality Pet Decoy Protagonist Rule of Funny Car Fu The Quiet One Offscreen Teleportation Sequel Escalation Beard of Evil Up to Eleven An Arm and a Leg Evil Brit Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique The Dragon Covers Always Lie Red Right Hand Fanservice Bullying a Dragon Horror Films Mexican Standoff Curb-Stomp Battle Death by Adaptation Hollywood Darkness Kill 'em All Wham Shot Hooker with a Heart of Gold Fantastic Racism Death Glare Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Re-Cut Meaningful Background Event Cold-Blooded Torture Bond Villain Stupidity Evil Laugh Villain Song I Have Your Wife Obviously Evil Bury Your Gays Framing Device And the Adventure Continues Male Gaze Comically Missing the Point Action Prologue Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Trailers Always Spoil Arch-Enemy Real Life Writes the Plot Brutal Honesty Alpha Bitch Punch-Clock Villain Thriller Dual Wielding And I Must Scream Knife Nut Disproportionate Retribution She Cleans Up Nicely Central Theme Reality Has No Subtitles Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Love Triangle Eagleland Anachronic Order Composite Character Famous Last Words Break the Haughty Bowdlerise Psychopathic Manchild Big Brother Instinct Overprotective Dad Wicked Cultured Non-Indicative Name Call-Forward The '60s Bound and Gagged Dressing as the Enemy Yandere Does Not Like Shoes Implacable Man The Mole Nothing Is Scarier Sacrificial Lion Whole Plot Reference Deliberate Values Dissonance Police are Useless In Name Only Lampshade Hanging Very Loosely Based on a True Story Anachronism Stew Last-Name Basis Jerkass Logo Joke Unspoken Plan Guarantee Back from the Dead Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Crapsack World Rasputinian Death Early-Bird Cameo Genre Savvy Armor-Piercing Question Cool Old Lady In the Back Novelization One-Man Army Naked People Are Funny Anti-Hero The Stinger The '70s The Dog Bites Back '80s Hair Neck Snap Greater-Scope Villain Chekhov's Skill Black Best Friend Self-Deprecation Chiaroscuro I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Obfuscating Stupidity Random Events Plot Fingore Deal with the Devil Roaring Rampage of Revenge Slasher Movie Pretty in Mink Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Gratuitous English It Will Never Catch On Villain with Good Publicity Extreme Doormat Rule of Symbolism Pragmatic Villainy There Is No Kill Like Overkill Stalker with a Crush Pragmatic Adaptation Outrun the Fireball Hair-Trigger Temper Exact Words Politically Incorrect Villain Card-Carrying Villain The Place Stock Footage The Dreaded Catapult Nightmare Drugs Are Bad Science Fiction Films Defrosting Ice Queen The Vamp Better to Die than Be Killed Funny Background Event Say My Name Aluminum Christmas Trees Naïve Newcomer Heroic Sacrifice Sci-Fi Horror Visual Pun Cat Fight Bloodier and Gorier Dramedy Fun with Acronyms Punny Name Kick the Dog Diabolus ex Machina Male Frontal Nudity Taking You with Me timeperiod Gilligan Cut Index of Film Westerns Not So Above It All Historical Hero Upgrade Fainting Homage Alas, Poor Villain Dramatic Irony The Atoner Spell My Name with an "S" Antagonist Title Left the Background Music On Shell-Shocked Veteran Foreshadowing Becoming the Mask Mighty Whitey Bare Your Midriff Fatal Flaw Developing Doomed Characters The Casanova Auto Erotica Distracted by the Sexy Unwitting Instigator of Doom Unresolved Sexual Tension Mythology Gag Fat Bastard Rousing Speech Depraved Bisexual Cluster F-Bomb Bottomless Magazines Berserk Button Leaning on the Fourth Wall Manchild For Want of a Nail Twist Ending Villain Opening Scene Skewed Priorities Interrupted Suicide Bloody Hilarious Ungrateful Bastard Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Catch-Phrase Celebrity Paradox Flashback Missing Mom Canadian Movies Double Entendre Artistic License – History Refuge in Audacity Dirty Coward "Awesome McCool" Name Riddle for the Ages Darker and Edgier Accidental Murder Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Department of Redundancy Department Henpecked Husband Belligerent Sexual Tension What the Hell, Hero? 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Guy Never Trust a Trailer Manipulative Bastard Action Girl The Un-Reveal Dark Action Girl Fourth Date Marriage Gorn Didn't Think This Through Dropped a Bridge on Him Badass in a Nice Suit Vacation Films Spared by the Adaptation Destination Defenestration The Alleged Car The Oner Red Eyes, Take Warning Plucky Comic Relief Handicapped Badass Narrator Mr. Fanservice Lock and Load Montage Rated M for Manly Names to Run Away from Really Fast Eiffel Tower Effect Never My Fault Red Shirt Determinator Badass Grandpa Soft Glass Author Appeal Madness Mantra Heroes Want Redheads Artistic License – Biology Authority Equals Asskicking Drives Like Crazy Dull Surprise One-Word Title Good Is Not Nice Country Matters The Lost Lenore Black Comedy Rape Small Name, Big Ego Only in It for the Money As You Know Sexy Discretion Shot Superhero Shirtless Scene My Beloved Smother Rich Bitch The Chessmaster Ms. Fanservice Annoying Younger Sibling The Cameo Only Sane Man Fan Disservice Eldritch Abomination Cool Old Guy Artistic License – Physics Foregone Conclusion Important Haircut The Lancer Body Horror Frame-Up Anti-Villain Advertised Extra Silent Movie Corrupt Corporate Executive A.I. 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For! Emphasis! 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Demoted to Extra Not So Stoic Kill It with Fire Genre Throwback Would Hurt a Child Karma Houdini Spiteful Spit All for Nothing Artistic License – Military Cool Shades Wham Line Mooks Bavarian Fire Drill Mugging the Monster Chekhov's Gun Mundane Made Awesome "The Reason You Suck" Speech Vomit Indiscretion Shot Historical-Domain Character Arc Words I Did What I Had to Do Reality Ensues Dramatic Gun Cock Psychological Thriller As the Good Book Says... Air-Vent Passageway