Overkill is the use of force that far exceeds what is necessary to achieve a desired goal. It may be a literal term referring to physical damage, though it is also used in colloquial conversation as a metaphor.

It may also refer to:

Characters

  • Overkill (G.I. Joe), a character in the G.I. Joe universe
  • Overkill (Transformers), a character in the Transformers universe
  • Overkill, a character in the Marvel Comics O-Force team
  • Scarlet Overkill, main antagonist in Minions (2015 film)

Games

  • Overkill (Flying Buffalo), a 1977 role-playing game adventure
  • OverKill (video game), a 1992 vertical scrolling shooter
  • The House of the Dead: Overkill, a 2009 rail shooter gun game
  • Overkill Software, a Swedish video game developer
  • Overkills, finishing moves in the video games Eternal Champions and Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side

Literature

  • Overkill (comic book), a British comics anthology
  • Overkill (novel), a 2007 novel by Vanda Symon
  • Overkill, a 1966 spy novel by William Garner
  • Overkill, a 2001 true crime book by Lyn Riddle about the 1991 murder of Laurie Show

Music

  • Overkill (band), an American thrash metal band from New Jersey
  • Overkill (EP) an EP by the New Jersey band, or the title song
  • Overkill L.A., originally Overkill, an American speed metal/hardcore band from Los Angeles
  • Overkill (Motörhead album), a 1979 album by Motörhead
  • "Overkill" (Motörhead song), 1979
  • Overkill (Savant album), 2013
  • "Overkill" (Men at Work song), 1983
  • "Overkill", a song by Holly Humberstone from Falling Asleep at the Wheel, 2020
  • "Overkill", a song by Kosheen from Damage, 2007
  • "Overkill", a song by MC Cheung from This is MC, 2023
  • Overkiller, a music DVD by Die Ärzte

Science and technology

  • Overkill hypothesis, a proposed cause of Quaternary extinction

Television and film

  • "Overkill" (Murder Most Horrid), a television episode
  • Overkill, a 1987 film directed by Ulli Lommel
  • Overkill, a fictional weapon in Space Patrol Orion

See also

  • Nuclear weapon, weapon with enormous destructive power
  • Overexploitation, depletion of a natural resource through overharvesting
  • Overfishing
  • Superfluous (disambiguation)
  • Surplus killing, when a predator kills more prey than it can eat
  • Third wheel (disambiguation)