# The Non-War film with the highest body count

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** movies\
**Created:** [August 11, 2021, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-non-war-film-with-the-highest-body-count/948435 "2021-08-11T09:54:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2021, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-non-war-film-with-the-highest-body-count/948435/41 "2021-08-14T19:18:00Z")

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Wait are they literally only saying Sum of All Fears because Baltimore gets nuked on-screen?

Seems like if that’s the case in Armageddon all of Paris gets annihilated by a meteor on screen.

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**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:** [August 14, 2021, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-non-war-film-with-the-highest-body-count/948435/42 "2021-08-14T21:46:24Z")

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> [@Ranchoth](#):
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> Technically speaking, in [1951’s _Five_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_(1951_film)), half of the enitre human race, all named, dies onscreen.
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> (By the start of the film, the human race has been reduced to six people.)

I wonder how movies about Noah’s Ark would compare…

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**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-non-war-film-with-the-highest-body-count/948435/43 "2021-08-15T02:50:29Z")

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> [@Asuka](#):
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> Wait are they literally only saying Sum of All Fears because Baltimore gets nuked on-screen?
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> Seems like if that’s the case in Armageddon all of Paris gets annihilated by a meteor on screen.

If SoaF counts, then, technically, there’s a [Studio Ghibli film](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_of_the_Fireflies) that outranks Guardians of the Galaxy.

Hey, that’s an interesting topic for a companion thread: comedies, and animated films at some point produced or distributed by Disney with the highest body counts.

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**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-non-war-film-with-the-highest-body-count/948435/44 "2021-08-15T07:24:41Z")

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What about _2012_? Almost all life on Earth was wiped out; what’s left is only about a single continent’s worth of survivors, if that.

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