Help on the semantics of Highlander killings, please.

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Inspired by the Highlander 2 and 3 continuity threads.

I liked the idea of Highlander 3, and even the TV series had some merit to it; however, Endgame made it seem like it was just some videogame: “You’ll NEVER defeat Joe Evil- he’s got 300-some-odd more kills than you!!!”

What if all Joe Evil did was slice up weaker immortals?

Remember that 200-something-year-old immortal “Billy” in the series who would pretend to be a helpless child and make with the beheadings while his unwitting “protector’s” back was turned? What if he pulled that on a couple of immortals who had killed bunches of other immortals?

Who’s more powerful- an immortal for all of five minutes whose lucky first kill is another immortal who’s killed 1000 of his kind- or a five-hundred-year-old immortal who’s only killed ten or so?

Where are all the superpowers? And if I kill an immortal who’s killed fifty other immortals, do I get fifty superpowers? Because that’d sure help me against Methos, who hasn’t killed too many lately, what with the hiding and all.

Somebody please help me answer these questions.

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I’m honored, I never inspired anyone before.

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Well, in the series, the whole “taking the other guy’s powers” thing was usually ignored, unless they decided to make it a plot point for that episode - f’rinstance, there was a multiepisode story where MacLeod had a so-called “Dark Quickening”. The idea being that if a “good” immortal takes too many “evil” heads, there will finally be one evil head that overwhelms all his goodness and makes him evil.

Other than that, though, the whole concept was pretty much ignored.

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I always assumed it to be the cummulative experience and powers of all the immortals he has killed.

So seeing the number of kills is probably just a rough guide.