# Superheroes with a big body count **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 19, 2017, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superheroes-with-a-big-body-count/784780 "2017-04-19T09:50:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superheroes-with-a-big-body-count/784780/21 "2017-04-20T12:11:28Z")
_The Authority_ killed worlds full of people in all sorts of interesting ways. I mean, what they did to poor Italy just to make a point… ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superheroes-with-a-big-body-count/784780/22 "2017-04-20T12:22:57Z")
> [@](#): > > Quoth **mikecurtis** : > > the avengers not only have an impressive kill count, but the general public has taken a beating too. its the main plotline in the movie captain america: civil war, that the world’s govts are fed up with the avengers collateral damage numbers and want to put them on a shorter leash. Most of that you can’t really honestly lay at their feet, though. Most of the collateral damage is from the guys they’re fighting, and their only fault is that they’re not quite good enough at containing it. And let’s not forget, of course, that it was them going off leash that prevented New York from being literally nuked by the guys who were supposed to be holding them in check. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superheroes-with-a-big-body-count/784780/23 "2017-04-20T12:39:46Z")
> [@TYphoonSignal8](#): > > By reference to Lucifer, the OP is designed to discount those with amoral orientations, eg: > > a. Punisher > b. Ozymandias > [@](#): > > Magneto is a lineball call, depending upon when he was written and by who. Defending mutants from genocide by killing those who would commit genocide is a big call but one made on a moral compass. I don’t get why you’d rule out Ozymandias but allow Magneto as “a lineball call” for killing “on a moral compass” when he thinks it’ll save the lives of innocents. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superheroes-with-a-big-body-count/784780/24 "2017-04-20T12:45:07Z")
Oh, and surely the superhero with the highest body count is Triplicate Lass? ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superheroes-with-a-big-body-count/784780/25 "2017-04-20T12:52:15Z")
Is Galactus a hero? He has to eat a planet every month or so, according to my copy of _The Official History of the Marvel Universe_. Not a comic hero, but Richard Seaton kills hundreds of millions of Chlorans (to protect the earth) in _Skylark Duquesne_. They aren’t human, but they are intelligent, although Eeee-vil. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superheroes-with-a-big-body-count/784780/26 "2017-04-20T12:56:50Z")
In Jonathan Hickman’s Secret Avengers run, the Illuminati knowingly and deliberately destroyed dozens of parallel Earths (and possibly their corresponding dimensions). The chickens have not yet come home to roost for that one. But yeah, on the surface, that runs into the hundreds of billions. John Stewart (Green Lantern) failed to prevent the destruction of an Earth-type planet in Cosmic Odyssey. I blame the actual villain, but J’onn J’onzz was trying to rein him in before it happened. Oddly enough, this qualified him to run the Mosaic World, in the Guardians’ eyes. ---
**Author:** ![TYphoonSignal8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e99b99/32.png) [@TYphoonSignal8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TYphoonSignal8)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superheroes-with-a-big-body-count/784780/27 "2017-04-21T02:06:09Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > _The Authority_ killed worlds full of people in all sorts of interesting ways. I mean, what they did to poor Italy just to make a point… Aha. Good example. They did indeed flood an alt-world Italy in order to wipe out the Blue. Chronos: > [@](#): > > Oh, and surely the superhero with the highest body count is Triplicate Lass? Nice. But no Jamie Maddox the Multiple Man gag? ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superheroes-with-a-big-body-count/784780/29 "2017-04-21T06:38:34Z")
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