History Main / BodycountCompetition

** ''The Two Towers'' has the beginning of the competition, and featured several exchanges on the theme:

** ''Return of the King'' concludes the gag; after Legolas single-handedly killed a rampaging 60-feet-tall Oliphant, and all its riders, an irate Gimli declares, "That still only counts as ''one''!"

* ''Webcomic/DMOfTheRings'': The player running Legolas tries to start the same competition with Gimli's player at Helm's Deep as occurred in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''. Gimli points out that Legolas has a head start being able to pick off targets at range but will be forced to resort to daggers once he runs out of arrows, at which point Gimli will pwn him.

* ''ComicBook/XWingSeries''

* From the ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' episode "[[Recap/StargateAtlantisS03E04Sateda Sateda]]". Sheppard gives his body count of Wraith, Teyla gives hers, and Sheppard changes his to one more than hers.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E12ANewMan A New Man]]", this serves as a conflict point between Buffy and Riley in that Buffy outscored his season four total by the end of the first season, three years before she even met him. He's somewhere between emasculated and impressed, and [[TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed on top of it now has to learn the plural of Apocalypse]]. The proud way with which Maggie Walsh notes he's ''personally'' taken down a bit less than two dozen [=HSTs=] only serves to underscore the humor.

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* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': In the episode "Pulse", Netossa keeps talking about the number of Horde robots she's destroyed. At the close of the episode, Spinnerella gives her own tally as fourteen, at which point Netossa kisses her and admits defeat. [[ShipTease That Glimmer then immediately suggests she and Adora compare kill totals did not go unnoticed by certain sections of the fandom.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': Anakin and Ahsoka have an ongoing game about who can destroy the most droids. In one episode, [[NotSoAboveItAll Ki-Adi-Mundi]] gets the top score.

'''Anakin:''' My eternal respect.\\

* ''Fanfic/LostToDust'': Ruby Rose and Gray have one while fighting a group of Beowolves. They end up tied at 20.

* ''Manga/GunslingerGirl''. CuteBruiser Henrietta in a combination of CreepyChild and SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E12ANewMan A New Man]]", his serves as a conflict point between Buffy and Riley in that Buffy outscored his season four total by the end of the first season, three years before she even met him. He's somewhere between emasculated and impressed, and [[TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed on top of it now has to learn the plural of Apocalypse]]. The proud way with which Maggie Walsh notes he's ''personally'' taken down a bit less than two dozen [=HSTs=] only serves to underscore the humor.

* [[ColdSniper Snipers]]. Simo Häyhä has the largest body count ever, standing at 705 confirmed kills, all of which he scored in a war that lasted less than a hundred days. The next best, Francis Pegahmagabow, had 378 kills. Which, like aircraft, is more about keeping track of how many enemy forces are left, for the spotter to find out if it is safe to go in yet or not. Snipers keep detailed notes about every kill.
** Ironically, Simo was not actually an example of this trope, despite his high body count, for two reasons: first, [[ArtisticLicenseMilitary he was technically an infantryman, later an officer, rather than a dedicated sniper]] (albeit he ''was'' a supremely skilled marksman) and thus didn't take kill notes; second, he was primarily serving out of a sense of duty and found the idea of counting kills repulsive.

* During the Vietnam War, due to the nebulous nature of the conflict, the US Army resorted to body count of dead Viet Cong soldiers as a measure of its effectiveness. Unfortunately, this led to a great deal of abuse, such as counting limbs as whole bodies.

* ''Fanfic/TheNegotiationsverse'': On the side-story "Useless", Rainbow Dash and Applejack (who had become members of TheRemnant anti-human guerrilla fighters in the aftermath of a standard ''Fanfic/TheConversionBureau'' Equestria-vs.-Earth war and who are about to charge into a LastStand against the human soldiers that found their cell) banter about doing this in order to psych themselves up. [[spoiler:The single soldier that runs into them [[CurbStompBattle machine-guns them dead]] [[DownerEnding without slowing down his stride]].]]

* From ''Series/StargateAtlantis'', episode 3x04: "Sateda". Sheppard gives his body count of Wraith, Teyla gives hers, and Sheppard changes his to one more than hers.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': This serves as a conflict point between Buffy and Riley in that Buffy outscored his season four total by the end of the first season, three years before she even met him. He's somewhere between emasculated and impressed, and [[TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed on top of it now has to learn the plural of Apocalypse]]. The proud way with which Maggie Walsh notes he's ''personally'' taken down a bit less than two dozen [=HSTs=] only serves to underscore the humor.

* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/14997911/chapters/34760702 The Horsewomen Of Las Vegas]]'', Wrestling/BeckyLynch and Wrestling/NikkiCross have a "murder-off" when killing members of the Vegas Irish, in the hopes of getting their new leader, Wrestling/FinnBalor, to surface.

* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/14997911/chapters/34760702 The Horsewomen Of Las Vegas]]'', Wrestling/BeckyLynch and Wrestling/NikkiCross have a "murder-off" when killing members of the Vegas Irish, in the hopes of getting their leader, Finn Balor, to surface.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' episode "Lethe", [[TheCaptain Captain Lorca]] and [[SpaceMarine Lieutenant Tyler]] go through a VirtualTrainingSimulation in which they shoot as many Klingons as possible. Afterwards, Lorca's rifle records 24 kills; Tyler claims he got 22, but Lorca checks his rifle and it reads 36. He then tells Tyler not to apologize for excellence and that he expects his chief of security to be a better shot.

Compare BackToBackBadasses, which may very well happen during the fight. See also KillTally.

Compare BackToBackBadasses, which may very well happen during the fight.

* Spoofed in ''Film/HotShotsPartDeux''. During a shootout, there is a counter running which declared at different numbers to have a bigger body count as other movies. At the end, the counter declares the movie to be the most brutal ever. The numbers are a joke, but the movie's real body count was still a record at the time with 114. Although they only fall down without any visible wounds (even the guy who gets literally splattered over a wall lacks regular injuries), making the "bloodiest" claim a complete lie. Which may have been a subtle joke in itself.