# Who has killed whom the most in movies? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 4, 2013, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-killed-whom-the-most-in-movies/675438 "2013-12-04T04:19:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2013, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-killed-whom-the-most-in-movies/675438/21 "2013-12-04T20:15:02Z")
TV included? How many times has Cartman killed Kenny? ---
**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:** [December 4, 2013, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-killed-whom-the-most-in-movies/675438/22 "2013-12-04T20:29:19Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > Oops, misread. OK then: Arnold Schwarzenegger has killed one of his body building buddies, Sven-Ole Thorson, in several movies: **Conan The Barbarian** , **Conan The Destroyer** , **Red Sonja** , **Raw Deal** , **Predator** , **The Running Man** , **Red Heat** , **Last Action Hero** , **Eraser** , and **End Of Days** IIRC, Ah-nuld doesn’t kill him in **Running Man** ; he’s the big guard who arrives in time to help Richard Dawson, and recalls his employer’s earlier remark about steroids… ---
**Author:** ![txtumbleweed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@txtumbleweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/txtumbleweed)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-killed-whom-the-most-in-movies/675438/23 "2013-12-05T02:11:36Z")
Wow, we did get a drift. Looking more at which actor has killed a particular actor most often in movies. (Or how **bup** phrased it) Not sure Cartman vs Kenny counts as they cartoon, not live actors. Didn’t realize how many times Bogart was killed in film before he became an established leading man. A bit like Ralph Bellamy always losing the girl because he was usually number 3-4 on the cast listing. Schwarzeneggar vs Thorson (9 kills) seems to be the leader. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-killed-whom-the-most-in-movies/675438/24 "2013-12-05T02:59:08Z")
Too bad this is limited to Hollywood. Our (disgraced) former president, Joseph Estrada, as an action star, must have killed his mainstay screen antagonist Max Alvarado more than a dozen times. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-killed-whom-the-most-in-movies/675438/25 "2013-12-05T03:40:38Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Yeah, that’s in the hundreds, isn’t it? Regarding Agent Smith. Did Neo(Keanu Reeves) really kill Agent Smith(Hugo Weaving) all that many separate times? He killed him in the Matrix. He only fought that horde, not killing them, in the sequel. He killed…or triggered their explosions in the finale. Not even pulling the trigger on anyone of them. I think the Oracle helped or something. I haven’t seem them in awhile, though. Am I wrong? ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-killed-whom-the-most-in-movies/675438/26 "2013-12-05T15:01:20Z")
> [@txtumbleweed](#): > > Schwarzeneggar vs Thorson (9 kills) seems to be the leader. You mean other than Neo (Reeve) killing hordes of Agent Smith (Weaving), or say Mace Windu (Samuel Jackson) killing a few thousand clones (Temuera Morrison)? ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-killed-whom-the-most-in-movies/675438/27 "2013-12-05T15:57:04Z")
Yes. I think it’s obviously implicit in the question that it means different characters in different movies. Killing thousands of identical clo9nes counts as one killing of that actor. Basically, there are 9 movies where Arnie killed Thorsen, but only one where Jackson killed Morrison. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-killed-whom-the-most-in-movies/675438/28 "2013-12-05T20:43:12Z")
Well, Dennis Price killed Alec Guinness six times (as six separate, distinct characters) in _Kind Hearts and Coronets_. Not in any other movies, though. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-killed-whom-the-most-in-movies/675438/29 "2013-12-06T00:35:36Z")
I’d guess it would be John Wayne killing an often-used stunt man like Yakima Canutt or Hal Needham, billed as “bandit number 3” or something, in dozens of movies. In movies where the Indians are attacking the wagon train or cavalry troop, he may have killed them several times in the same scene, as we just see an unidentified Indian falling from his horse, or off a boulder. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-killed-whom-the-most-in-movies/675438.md?page=1)