Tropescilloscope: There Is No Kill Like Overkill

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

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They Really Do Love Each Other Funny Background Event Serious Business Earn Your Happy Ending Better to Die than Be Killed Canadian Movies Only One Name Rule of Three Not Using the "Z" Word Missing Mom Mind Screw Central Theme Children Are Innocent Chewing the Scenery Throwing Your Sword Always Works Mighty Whitey Due to the Dead Gory Discretion Shot Loads and Loads of Characters The Mafia Ass Shove Dirty Cop Hooker with a Heart of Gold Credits Gag For the Evulz Your Cheating Heart Grievous Bottley Harm Daylight Horror Cool Old Lady Hair-Trigger Temper Fate Worse than Death Curb-Stomp Battle The Vamp Needs Wiki Magic Love Evil Is Petty The Stoner Adaptational Badass Funny Foreigner Gainax Ending Ungrateful Bastard From Bad to Worse Tempting Fate Grey and Gray Morality Sports Stories Red Right Hand Cowboy Cop Obfuscating Stupidity Disappeared Dad Bar Brawl Beware the Nice Ones Curse Cut Short An Aesop Hero of Another Story Gold Digger Unwitting Instigator of Doom Aside Glance Ascended Extra Idiot Ball Soundtrack Dissonance The '90s Early-Bird Cameo Lampshade Hanging Self-Deprecation Adorkable Bunny-Ears Lawyer Red Oni, Blue Oni As You Know Beta Couple Jerkass Has a Point Boom, Headshot! 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Pretty Little Headshots Not So Stoic Light Is Not Good Spiteful Spit