To be clear, these are parallel serial killers

That "parallel" diagram.... what am I looking at? The voltage is on the left, and presumably the load is on the bottom and that's supposed to be a resistor placeholder. But the wire connects all the way around bypassing the killers, so I guess killers must be some sort of capacitor and this is some sort of killer-driven filter?

Technically speaking, in the bottom circuit, the two groups of two serial killers are not in parallel (or series), because of that pesky little resistor at the bottom.

Parallel Killers would make a sick band name.

The V is for violence.

What? No representation for series-parallel killers?

Series killers? Serial circuit?

Parallel killers: "et tu Brute?"