There Is No Kill Like Overkill/Quotes
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Overkill is underrated.
—Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith, The a Team
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"If it's worth doing, it's worth over-doing!"
—Adam, Mythbusters
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Kiva: (watching as Coop plants one bad guy with countless targets) Coop, overkill? |
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[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
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If you're gonna do it, overdo it.
—Ani DiFranco, Puddle Dive
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Never do an enemy a small injury.
—Takashi Shimazu, Deva Series, quoting Niccolo Machiavelli
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#6 If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it. —Schlock Mercenary, "The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries"
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Subtlety is a thing for philosophy, not combat. If you're going to kill someone, you might as well kill them a whole lot.
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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
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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! |
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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. |
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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. |
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That is the meaning of victory.
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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. |
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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
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AK-47. The very best there is. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherfucker in the room, accept no substitutes.
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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. |
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Fifth Fleet's missile defenses did their best. |
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Their best was not good enough. |
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Fifth Fleet stopped almost thirty percent of them, which was a truly miraculous total, under the circumstances. But over thirty-seven thousand got through. |
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It was, she decided coldly, a case of overkill.
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Sgt. Zim: If you wanted to teach a baby a lesson, would you cut its head off? —Robert A. Heinlein expressing his disapproval of this trope in Starship Troopers
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A little collateral damage, but what the heck?
—Drew Lansing/Kamen Rider Torque, Kamen Rider Dragon Knight
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Minion: Isn't that overkill? |
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Dr. Wilson: George, if you were making a dinner and wanted to kill a fly, what would you use? —The Gatekeeper: The Gate Contracts
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Infantry weapons never work well against starfighters. The reverse is not true.
—Wedge Antilles, Isard's Revenge
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Fuck this, I'm getting the bazooka!
—D'amico Family Bodyguard, Kick-Ass
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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
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Doctor Girlfriend: You should have replaced his blood with acid after this part. The sharks won't touch him. —The Venture Brothers, "The Trail of the Monarch"
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I am going to kill you and kill you and kill you.
—The Heavy, Team Fortress 2
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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
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Ammand: Shoot him! |
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"When you need it and don't have it, you'll be singing a different tune."
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Leyte: It disappeared. —Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann - The Dai-Gurren Brigade shortly before making one of the biggest overkills ever.
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"When you've helped blow up planets and kill gods, overkill ceases to exist."
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"Tomoe-san, that's overkill. Three quarters of your shots missed. It's effective, but a waste of ammunition."
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"There's Befriending levels of firepower, and then there's "You made me fight my own daughter, you BITCH!" levels of firepower. |
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"If they can still stand, then you gotta keep pulling the trigger till they lie down."
—John "Sleepy" Estes, aka Mad Bull 34
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1. Bring a gun. Preferably, bring at least two guns. Bring all of your friends who have guns. —"Drill Sergeant Joe B. Frick's Rules For A Gunfight"
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"I'm going to kill you so much."
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I took a moment to call Jimmy. —The legend of Old Man Henderson
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