clobber

Skipping their origin story keeps things tight while underlining the idea that these are settled-down grown-ups secure in their abilities to lengthen, disappear, ignite and clobber.

It’s a magpie movie that’s happy to give audiences the tinselly things they want — i.e., two robots clobbering the Wi-Fi out of each other.

"Extra investment in public transport must also focus on cutting fares for hard-pressed families being clobbered by a cost of living crisis."

Over the course of the movie, he’s nearly murdered a half-dozen times by bullets, bombs, poison gas and a good old-fashioned clobbering.

Sometimes, you’ve got to hammer that importance into someone — quite literally, in the case of Ethan clobbering a knife-wielding assailant defending the Entity, saying, “You spend too much time on the internet!”