The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
He dies quite often, in fact.
Keanu Reeves, Vin Diesel, and Halle Berry. All action heroes, can’t think of one they died in.
I can think of three ambigious deaths for Keanu: in the Matrix, of course, but he comes back to life because Trinity lurves him. Also in The Matrix Revolutions. And spoiler alert: Also in the fourth John Wick movie.
Third ambiguous death: he kills himself at the end of The Devil’s Advocate, but Satan just rewinds time to the beginning of the movie.
Sorry, you caught me editing. So four ambigious deaths. This could be its own topic.
Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey ?
Several have been mentioned but I’ll add the first one I thought of, Robin and Marion.
The Other Guys is another.
Sean Bean doesn’t die in evey movie, so the opposite of Sean Bean shouldn’t be someone who never dies in any movie. But then it’s not really a fair comparison, right? Most action movie protagonist are going to live through the end of the movie with any deaths being notable exceptions.
I was really hoping for Valkyrie 2.
Just realized I was ninja’d. I was going to mention The Other Guys.
I can only find one movie (Ghosts of Mars) where Jason Statham dies and stays dead. That’s a pretty good ratio considering how many he’s killed on screen.
Isn’t his murder the one Steve Martin is sleuthing in The Pink Panther?
I must have blocked that out.
He’s uncredited and has no lines in The Pink Panther.
Okay, but:
Charles Lane
If the criterion is how many people your on-screen character has killed compared to number of times your character wound up deceased, it looks like Chuck Norris would be ranked highly (125 victims compared to only 4 times victimized*, according to this site).
Charles Bronson did pretty well too, with his characters accounting for 48 kills but only knocked off himself 3 times.
*in one instance, he was later revived.
Gave himself CPR, right?
Yes he died on screen. His entire cameo is on YouTube. Less than 2 minutes of screen time and no lines. Still counts. So that’s 2 deaths on screen vs 726 humans killed according to this site. Pretty good ratio.
https://listofdeaths.fandom.com/wiki/Jason_Statham
That’s named characters. His actual kill count is much higher.
I would swear he gets shot or blows up in The Fighting Seabees.
What about Sylvester Stallone?