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Legolas: Final count: 42.
Gimli: 42? Oh, that's not bad for a pointy-eared elvish princeling. I myself am sitting pretty on 43...
(Legolas shoots the Uruk-corpse Gimli is sitting on)
Legolas: 43.
Gimli: He was already dead!
Legolas: He was twitching.
Gimli: He was twitching 'cause he's got my axe EMBEDDED IN HIS NERVOUS SYSTEM!

(Legolas kills an Oliphaunt and every single warrior manning it in spectacular style)
Gimli: That still only counts as one!

General Khrizhan: Hoy! Does dot count? Does killink dem ven dey iz in de air count?
General Zog: Killink you enemies alvays counts.
[...]
General Khrizhan: So....I s'pose hyu tink dot counts too? Using dere own weapons?
General Goomblast: Ov couze! De veapons dun care!
[...]
General Khrizan: And killink dem ven dey is running avay, dis also counts?
General Gargantua: VOT IN DE DUMBOOZLE IZ DE MATTER VIT HYU?
General Khrizhan: Vell... Hy just dun vant hyu guys saying I vas cheating.
General Zog: How so?
General Khrizan: (takes enemy heavy cannon) ... vell, using dey own veapons... (targets enemy airship) Vile dey is in de air— (VOWM VOWM BOOM!) Before dey can gets to der running avay? So all dot counts? Den hy vin.
General Zog: Hmf. Iz still cheating. But in der goot vay!

"Do you keep track of how many darkspawn you kill? We should compete!"

"That's three for me! How many have you got, Hawke?"
Varric, Dragon Age II

"Saul has slain his thousands; David, his tens of thousands!"
— Village folk-song, Books of Samuel

"What, just because I haven't shot someone in fifteen years, I'm not a soldier? You know, the Army doesn't make you drag some bullet-ridden bloody corpse into the Pentagon every five years to renew your soldier's license!"
General Miller, deconstructing both this trope and Armchair Military, In the Loop

617: The forehead is not an appropriate place for a killcount holo-tattoo.

Torbjörn: Reinhardt! Least number of eliminations buys the post-mission drinks?
Reinhardt: Agreed. Let the best man win!

Kerillian: Ennai-noi. One step closer.
Victor: What was that?
Sienna: Sounded like counting to me.
Bardin: You're competing with us, Wutelgi? You should have said.
Kerillian: There is no competition. Just the count.

Gunn Sarr: Twenty-five men lie dead who tried to stand against me. And one, if he's not still falling, is no more than a greasy spot on the rocks, right?
Avon: Impressive.
Gunn Sarr: You killed two men.
Avon: If I'd known we were keeping score, I would have brought more ammunition.
Blake's 7, "Power"

Sam: That's a Santa Marta tattoo. Six tears. The guy's a pro with half a dozen kills.
Larry: 'Pro'? That's kinda generous. Six is a promising start, I guess.
Sam and Larry discussing a dead hitman's kills...dead by Larry's hands, Burn Notice

John: High 50s, low 60s. You?
Jane: 312.
John: ...how?
Jane: Some were two at a time.
John: Are you counting innocent bystanders?
[later when arguing about something else during a mission]
Jane: This isn't my first rodeo, John.
John: I think we've firmly established that already.

"I know I only killed four people this month, but last month I killed at least ten! That's more than Triela even!"
Henrietta, Gunslinger Girl

Zora: I'm driving.
Adelaide: No way.
Gabe: I told her no.
Zora: Dad's leg is messed up, you're handcuffed, it's not safe. I'm driving.
Adelaide: Zora, no.
Zora: I have the highest kill count in the family!
Adelaide: You don't have the highest kill count.
Zora: I killed both twins!
Adelaide: Wrong. I just killed the second one.
Jason: I killed Kitty.
Gabe: So that's one, one, one, and two. I killed two. I killed myself and Josh, so...
Adelaide: It doesn't matter! Zora, get in the back!
Us

Samurai: Taigen has won 24 duels. How many have you won?
(Mizu looks around at the numerous bodies she's left on the floor.)
Mizu: Should I have been counting?
Blue Eye Samurai, "Hammerscale"

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