Tropescilloscope: There Is No Kill Like Overkill

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

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