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* ''Manga/GunslingerGirl''. CuteBruiser CreepyChild Henrietta.
-->'''Henrietta:''' I know I only killed four people this month, but last month I killed at least ten! That's more than Triela even!

** A more traditional example from the second game; a soldier has kept a tally of how many zombies he's killed. He's also kept a tally of how many people he's killed.

* [[WereDragon Arashi]] and [[HotBlooded Bakugo]] turn the UA Entrance Exam into one of these with the test-robots, that culminates in them charging the Zero-Pointer at the same time, and saving each other from it. [[spoiler: They actually tie for villain points, but Arashi scored ''one'' rescue point more than him]].

* In ''VideoGame/{{Darksiders}}'', War and Ulthane's brawl is interrupted by a band of angels out for War's blood. Ulthane is miffed that they interfered in the first good fight he's had in a while, so he and War have an impromptu "pigeon plucking" contest. If War has a higher kill count by the end, Ulthane gives him a weapon enhancement as an award.

* ''Anime/MaiOtome'': Haruka declares one of these just before a battle against a swarm of Slaves.

* Bounties in the Cambion Drift in ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'' may send you to meet Garv, a Grineer castaway who will challenge your team to a friendly competition to see who can kill most of the Infested. Two percentage bars will show up, one for Tenno and one for Garv and his fellow survivors, that fill up with every enemy killed. The bounty success depends on your team reaching 100% before the Grineer, preferably before the latter even reach 50%.

* ''[[Videogame/{{DEFCON}} DEFCON Everybody Dies]]'''s particularly descriptive "[[AC:GENOCIDE]]" mode is about racking up the highest body count (in megadeaths) in a game of [[WorldWarThree global thermonuclear war]]. The standard score penalty for losing your own civilians is gone; all that matters is that the commies/bourgeoisie/whatever [[YouNukeEm die in a nuclear fire]].

* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemJugdral Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War'' has Julius and Ishtar have such a competition. The problem is, they're the most powerful units in the game, and they're the enemies. They will not leave until they kill someone, and let's say without the Valkyrie staff, you start to really hate Julius.
* ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}'': There's a random chance while going through the dungeon to meet Thanatos. When that happens, he and Zagreus will try to see who can kill the most enemies. If Zagreus wins, he gets a Centaur Heart for a health bonus.
* ''VideoGame/{{Hellsinker}}'' has a kill counter on the HUD. Interstingly, killing parts of enemies rather than the enemy itself counts as individual kills. You get a special "Breakthrough" extra life at 2,500 kills, or 5,000 if you've already hit the {{S|coringPoints}}pirit Breakthrough. Subverted with the player base, in that those playing seriously generally ignore kill count (for purposes other than Breakthroughs) in favor of Spirits instead. Nonetheless, the fan-operated [[http://www.7-iro.org/hsscoreboard/ hellsinker. scoreboard]] displays kill counts for each entry alongisde Spirit and Token counts, and can even be sorted by kill count.

-->'''Gimli:''' Legolas! Two already!\\

* ThoseTwoBadGuys Shin and Noi have these in ''Manga/{{Dorohedoro}}''.

* From ''Superman/Batman'' #5 at least two of Bruce's (future adopted) kids are enjoying the competition:

* In a similar example, there is an infamous story of how, during their UsefulNotes/WW2 liquidation of Croatia's Jews, Romani, Serbs, non-Catholics, and the like, the Ustaše guards (essentially the Croatian SS, although even the actual SS death camp guards were sickened by their brutality) at Croatia's Jasenovac concentration camp used knives called "Serb Cutters" in sadistic body count competitions to see who could cut the throats of the most newly arrived inmates. One of the guards, Petar Brzica, boasted of cutting the throats of about ''1,360'' new arrivals. Even the lower estimates put his body count at ''at least'' 800 murdered prisoners. Other participants who confessed to participating in the bet included Ante Zrinusic, who killed some 600 inmates, and Mile Friganovic, who gave a detailed and consistent report of the incident and admitted to having killed some 1,100 inmates. Note that the whole story - or at least the "SS Guards being sickened" - is most likely just propaganda by no less homicidal Communists. So-called "Serb-cutter" knife in particular is an agricultural tool, as shown [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3OOq5l_Hzw here]].

** A variant of Strange called Stat Clocks (Based on [=StatTraks=] in VideoGame/CounterStrike Global Offensive) was later added, which actually has a visible counter on the weapon in game.

** A fairly twisted version of this occurs in ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'', in which Prince Arthas must prevent dreadlord Mal'Ganis from turning the sleeping occupants of a human city into an unstoppable army of the undead by ''finding and killing them himself first''. (In his defense, they had already been infected by a plague which caused undead transformation.) A scoreboard at the top of the screen even keeps track of how many each of them has converted or culled while Arthas and his men set fire to their homes and slaughter them in the street. [[spoiler:Is it any wonder that Arthas ends up becoming TheEvilPrince?]]

* [[Manga/OnePiece Luffy and Zoro]] start a competition in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11568253/7/Supernova Supernova]]'' when facing down the hundred bounty hunters at Whiskey Peak, declaring that first to fifty-one wins. Nami promptly joins in and declares it first to thirty-four. Luffy ends up winning because Zoro and Nami were busy taking care of the [[EliteMook Elite Mooks]] while he just crushed all the regular {{Mooks}} and when they complain, he points out that they never declared the big shots were worth more.

* ''Series/KamenRiderKuuga'': The serial killings of the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Grongi]] literally this. Each of them puts a set of rules on themselves when it's their turn as part of their game and are required to kill a certain amount of people. Failing can get their kills voided or boot them out of the game. [[GoodCannotComprehendEvil The police department is]] ''[[GoodCannotComprehendEvil not]]'' [[GoodCannotComprehendEvil happy when they discover this.]]

* ''Series/KamenRiderKuuga'': The serial killings of the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Grongi]] literally this. Each of them puts a set of rules on themselves when it's their turn as part of their game and are required to kill a certain amount of people. Failing to use live up with them can get their kills voided or boot them out of the game. [[GoodCannotComprehendEvil The police department is]] ''[[GoodCannotComprehendEvil not]]'' [[GoodCannotComprehendEvil happy when they discover this.]]

* ''Series/KamenRiderKuuga'': The serial killings of the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Grongi]] literally this. Each of them puts one on themselves when it's their turn as part of their game. Failing to use live up with them can get their kills voided or boot them out of the game. [[GoodCannotComprehendEvil The police department is]] ''[[GoodCannotComprehendEvil not]]'' [[GoodCannotComprehendEvil happy when they discover this.]]

* ''Series/KamenRiderKuuga'': The serial killings of the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Grongi]]. Each of them puts one on themselves when it's their turn as part of their game. Failing to use live up with them can get their kills voided or boot them out of the game. [[GoodCannotComprehendEvil The police department is]] ''[[GoodCannotComprehendEvil not]]'' [[GoodCannotComprehendEvil happy when they discover this.]]

* 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. May be the only body count competition where the scoring includes points for originality.

* In ''Manga/BlackLagoon'', Chaka tries a variant by asking [[DarkActionGirl Revy]] "ever shot anyone?" then [[MuggingTheMonster bragging about his total body-count of about 10]] to lure her in a gunfight[[note]]Revy had 103 total confirmed kills at this point, 13 of which IN EPISODE 1[[/note]].

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': Anakin and Ahsoka have an ongoing game about who can destroy the most droids. In [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E5LandingAtPointRain "Landing at Point Rain"]], [[NotSoAboveItAll Ki-Adi-Mundi]] gets the top score.

* 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. May be the only Body Count Competition where the scoring includes points for originality.

* 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. May be the only BodyCountCompetition where the scoring includes points for originality.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' has this dialogue when Torbjorn and Reinhardt are on the same team:
-->'''Torbjorn:''' Reinhardt. Least number of eliminations buys the post-missions drinks?\\
'''Reinhardt:''' Hahaha...Let's show these kids how it's done.
* ''VideoGame/TheEndTimesVermintide'' is a co-op game where a group of heroes fights against a horde of [[RatMen Skaven]] in the ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' world. One proposes a contest; whoever collects the most rat tails wins. Another character shoots him down on account of how disgusting that would get, as Skaven are notorious for their status of being both [[YouDirtyRat unclean (in more ways than one)]] and [[WeHaveReserves numerous]].
* ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' keeps track of how many enemies each party member killed, and what was the strongest (highest [[ExperiencePoint XP value]]) enemy they killed. By the end of the campaign these numbers will be in the hundreds of not thousands.
* ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}'': There's a random chance while going through the dungeon to meet Thanatos. When that happens, he and Zagreus will try to see who can kill the most enemies. If Zagreus wins, he gets a Centaur Heart for a health bonus.
* In ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'', "[[NonLethalKO KO]] competitions" are one of the mission types present in the adventure maps, mainly the [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Termina]] map. There are two variations: either you compete with the rogue forces to get a higher body count in a set amount of time (usually 7-10 minutes), or you compete to reach a certain score (which could be anywhere from 400 to 1000) before the rogue forces do.

* ''Webcomic/InWilysDefense'''s 200th comic starts off with God demanding that his Angels go down to Earth and get them to convert to him. Somewhere along the line Death and Magdelena, the Angels of Death and Destruction, respectively, turn the trip to Earth into one of these. Death ends up winning by forecasting a hurricane at the last minute.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Nodwick}}'': [[http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/gamespyarchive/index.php?date=2005-03-31 Yeagar and another fighter]] are competing on how many monsters they kill in while DungeonCrawling.
* Done in ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' between Riff, Torg, and Gwenn to see who can kill the most zombies. [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/090206 With a running score count.]]
-->'''Riff:''' New plan. Whoever bags the most wins.
* ''Webcomic/TheZombieHunters'' not only has a competition between characters but a points scale for the [[OurZombiesAreDifferent different types]] of zombies. (NightOfTheLivingMooks are worth a paltry 10.)
* ''Webcomic/DMOfTheRings'': The player running Legolas tries to start the same competition with Gimli's player at Helm's Deep as occurred in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers''. 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.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex'', The Swarm, featured this sort of contest between Rex and his buddy Bobo against an entire horde of BigCreepyCrawlies. Bobo annihilated the most using firearms, but Rex won by a landslide by discovering how to cause the metal-consuming insects to devour each other, making him the winner. Of course, knowing what a SoreLoser Bobo can be, as Rex guessed, the EVO Chimp let the News Channel expose to the entire world Rex's GoofyPrintUnderwear, Bonus points for the News channel mentioning it was a "smell collected from it" that saved the world.

* ''VideoGame/EveOnline'' has entire websites dedicated to tracking exactly who killed who with what where. They are known as killboards.
* One early mission in ''VideoGame/FableI'' has your character and Whisper pitted against each other to see who can kill more goblins. The game won't proceed [[ButThouMust unless you win]]. If the two of you tie, she says that because she got there first, she won. So unfair.
* ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}''
** A fairly twisted version of this occurs in ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'', in which Prince Arthas must prevent dreadlord Mal'Ganis from turning the sleeping occupants of a human city into an unstoppable army of the undead by ''finding and killing them himself first''. (In his defense, they had already been infected by a plague which caused undead transformation.) A scoreboard at the top of the screen even keeps track of how many each of them has converted or culled while Arthas and his men set fire to their homes and slaughter them in the street. [[spoiler:Is it any wonder that Arthas ends up becoming TheEvilPrince?]]
** A quest in Sholazar Basin from "[[VideoGame/WorldofWarcraft Wrath of the Lich King]]". Gets treated this way. The quest has you kill 50 of any beast in the basin in a race against the quest giver. He shows up at certain milestones to taunt you with his kill count, and is ahead of you by a considerable amount, then decides to take a nap, allowing you to surpass him in the meantime.
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemJugdral Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War'' has Julius and Ishtar have such a competition. The problem is, they're the most powerful units in the game, and they're the enemies. They will not leave until they kill someone, and let's say without the Valkyrie staff, you start to really hate Julius.

* ''VideoGame/Left4Dead''
** An amusing BathroomStallGraffiti version in the safe room of [[AbandonedHospital No Mercy]] 4. Each post one-ups the previous, culminating in someone posting their 53,595 kill-count (which itself had several replies calling bullshit on it). Killing that many Infected yourself gets you an achievement, called "Zombie Genocidest". This number is actually a reference to the previous zombie-killing game ''VideoGame/DeadRising'', where the "Zombie Genocider" achievement required 53,594 zombie kills (which is equal to the entire population of the town the game is set in).
** A more traditional example from the second game; a soldier has kept a tally of how many zombies he's killed. He's also kept a tally of how many people he's killed.
* Then comes ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'', which takes it one step further with its "Trail of Corpses" achievement, the amount sitting at 53,59'''6''' infected kills. This is gonna be an industry RunningGag, isn't it?
* Looks like it, and even non-zombie games are in on it too: ''[[VideoGame/RockBand Rock Band 3]]'' has an achievement, "HOPO-cidal maniac" that reads, "Kill ''53,596'' Hammer-ons and Pull-offs."

* Several of the ''VideoGame/WingCommander'' games had a scoreboard on the ship, showing the kills of all the pilots on board. The wingmen would gain kills despite not going on missions (at least, not with you), and some were much better at killing than others. Maniac would sometimes have more kills than you even if you didn't take him with you, ever, in the later games. The manual to ''Prophecy'' mentions he had just hit ''2001'' career kills as the game begins.
* ''VideoGame/StarWarsRepublicCommando'' has Sev and Scorch, two of your commando team, constantly chattering about their kill count. In the novelization, it's revealed that Sev has his heart set on getting 4,982 kills, one for each commando killed on Geonosis.
-->'''Sev:''' Damn, I don't believe it!\\
'''Scorch:''' What's wrong, Sev?\\
'''Sev:''' I've lost count of my kills!
* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''
** The WAR update did this between the Demo and Soldier, seeing who could kill the most of the other class to decide who would be given the privilege of using the Gun Boats. Individual players were given a kill count at the corner of their HUD telling them how many Soldiers they've killed as a Demo, or vise-versa. [[spoiler:The Soldier won]]. Naturally, most of the players cheated.
-->'''The Announcer:''' Now, I have no actual '''proof''' that these men cheated. Lucky for me, then, that I am still in possession of basic common bloody sense. The top Soldier, for example, would have had to kill a Demoman '''every 2.5 seconds for a week straight''', somehow circumventing respawn timers or the need to actually traverse across a map, without once pausing to sleep or go to the bathroom. In other words, he is either cheating, or he is a hallucinating sleep-deprived psychotic with severe constipation and unerringly good aim. In either event, I am confident he is ashamed of himself.
** ''Team Fortress 2'' has also the Strange Weapons introduced in the Über Update, those weapons are just like the normal weapons but with counters, the most common counter is "Players Killed", but with "Strange Parts" you can have more counters like "Buildings Destroyed", "Headshot Kills", "Point-Blank Kills", "Long-Distance Kills" and players of a specific class killed, changing the owner of the weapon reset the counters to 0.
** And also Killstreak Kits, that make your weapon count kills made in a single life.
** A variant of Strange called Stat Clocks (Based on [=StatTraks=] in VideoGame/CounterStrike Global Offensive) was later added, which actually has a visible counter on the weapon in game.
* Bringing both Special Weapons marines in ''VideoGame/AlienSwarm'' will cause competition-specific dialogue.

* Every FPS death match ever.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Darksiders}}'', War and Ulthane's brawl is interrupted by a band of angels out for War's blood. Ulthane is miffed that they interfered in the first good fight he's had in a while, so he and War have an impromptu "pigeon plucking" contest. If War has a higher kill count by the end, Ulthane gives him a weapon enhancement as an award.

-->'''Garrus:''' Shepard. We were making friendly wagers.
-->'''Tali:''' Optimistic wagers, in your case.
-->'''Garrus:''' A turian commando competing with a quarian mechanic, and I'm the optimistic one?
-->'''Tali:''' Remember [[TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon Ilos?]]
-->'''Garrus:''' ...Yes. It was filled with geth, which tilted the odds in your favor.
-->'''Tali:''' Excuses, excuses.
-->'''Garrus:''' I doubt you'll be hacking any synthetics this time.
-->'''Tali:''' I seem to recall killing my fair share in the Collector base.
-->'''Garrus:''' I doubt we'll be in enormous rooms open to long-range fire this time, and...
-->'''Tali:''' I still have the shotgun.
-->'''Garrus:''' I'll be sure to let a few Reaper forces get close enough for you to use it.

* Though the characters don't actually keep count, Silly!Hawke and Varric have dialogue during combat that implies this is going on in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII''.
-->'''Hawke:''' One more for me! We're keeping score, right?\\
'''Varric:''' That's three for me! How many have you got, Hawke?
* ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar: Dark Crusade'' has a mission where you need to kill between seventy to over a hundred bodies before your enemy does to win the favor of a daemon of Khorne. Hilariously easy if you're facing the [[RedshirtArmy Imperial]] [[WeHaveReserves Guard]].
* Pretty much any co-op game of ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'' has the potential to turn into this. And with ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriorsOnline'', It's a game mode! You and 3 other players, or A.I. players, go against 4 enemies to see who can commit mass genocide first, by defeating either 2000 or 3000 [[{{Mook}} helpless soldiers]] between all 4 on that team, and a backup condition, should the main objective of other matches not be met, is also this but with no limit. As with above, they all have an actual incentive to do it even when it's not the game mode, as you will score a little more honor if you've killed more mooks than your team.
* The ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' multiplayer actually subverts this as the winner of the game is more about how well and stealthy your kills are rather than how many. So there are situations where someone could have killed twice as many as you, but will often either win or lose by a few hundred points.
* A competition of the friendly variety occurs in ''VideoGame/StarWarsRepublicCommando'' between squad mates Scorch and Sev. Third squad member Fixer wants none of it.
-->'''Boss:''' This is the door to the bridge. Expect a large welcoming party.\\
'''Sev:''' Now I'm really going to rack up the kills.\\
'''Scorch:''' Not if I get 'em first.\\
'''Fixer:''' Just don't get so caught up in counting that you forget to cover me!

* ''VideoGame/{{Hellsinker}}'' has a kill counter on the HUD. Interstingly, killing parts of enemies rather than the enemy itself counts as individual kills. You get a special "Breakthrough" extra life at 2,500 kills, or 5,000 if you've already hit the {{S|coringPoints}}pirit Breakthrough. Subverted with the player base, in that those playing seriously generally ignore kill count (for purposes other than Breakthroughs) in favor of Spirits instead. Nonetheless, the fan-operated [[http://www.7-iro.org/hsscoreboard/ hellsinker. scoreboard]] displays kill counts for each entry alongisde Spirit and Token counts, and can even be sorted by kill count.
* ''[[Videogame/{{DEFCON}} DEFCON Everybody Dies]]'''s particularly descriptive "[[AC:GENOCIDE]]" mode is about racking up the highest body count (in megadeaths) in a game of [[WorldWarThree global thermonuclear war]]. The standard score penalty for losing your own civilians is gone; all that matters is that the commies/bourgeoisie/whatever [[YouNukeEm die in a nuclear fire]].

-->'''Gimli:''' Legolas! Two already!
-->'''Legolas:''' I'm on seventeen!
-->'''Gimli:''' Argh! I'll have no pointy-ear outscoring me! ''(kills Uruk-Hai berserker)''
-->'''Legolas:'''''(shoots two Uruk-Hai as they come over the battlement)'' Nineteen!
-->''(later in the battle, Gimli stands between two siege ladders and kills an Uruk when it reaches the top, then kills one on the other ladder. As the camera pans away, his cries echoing throughout the battlefield...)''
-->'''Gimli:''' ...Seventeen! Eighteen! Nineteen! Twenty! Twenty-one, twenty-two, and twenty-three!...
-->''(and finally, in the Extended Edition, after the battle)''
-->'''Legolas:''' Final Count: forty-two.
-->'''Gimli:''' ''(chuckles)''Forty-two? Oh that's not bad for a pointy-eared Elvish princeling. I myself am sitting pretty on forty-'''three'''.
-->'''Legolas:''' ''(shoots an Uruk-Hai beneath Gimli)'' Forty-three.
-->'''Gimli:''' He was already dead!
-->'''Legolas:''' He was twitching.
-->'''Gimli:''' He was twitching... ''because he's got my axe embedded in his nervous system!'' ''(shakes axe; Uruk twitches violently)''

* Riddick and Kyra in ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick''.
* The friendly version, between Stelios, and Astinos (Captain's son), in ''Film/ThreeHundred''.
* The 2008 movie ''Pathology'', although it has less to do with quantity and more to do with "quality" (the competitors must try to find out how the others killed their recent victims).
* 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), [[BloodlessCarnage making the "bloodiest" claim a complete lie]]. Which may have been a subtle joke in itself.
* Played straight in ''Hunting Humans'', wherein 2 clinical psychopaths and methodical serial killers find themselves having to one-up each other in body-count (with the main character being more or less blackmailed to do so, ironically enough).
* In ''Film/TheFrighteners'', SerialKiller Johnny Charles Bartlett is obsessed with his own body count and constantly compares it to other legendary serial killers. [[spoiler:This habit continues even after his death.]]

* Gimli and Legolas during the Battle of the Hornburg in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', occasionally asking other characters if they've seen Legolas/Gimli to update the score. [[spoiler: Gimli wins by a point, but Legolas doesn't begrudge it]], [[VitriolicBestBuds because they were each just glad the other was alive]].
* In the Literature/ThursdayNext book ''Lost in a Good Book'', Thursday and Spike escape a zombie infested churchyard while seeing who can kill more of them.
* The opening of Kenneth Oppel's novel ''Literature/{{Silverwing}}'' has a bat named Shade and his friend racing to see who can eat 100 mosquitoes first.

* During the [[BigBadassBattleSequence Battle of Coruscant]] in the {{Novelization}} of ''Literature/RevengeOfTheSith'', Anakin bets Obi-Wan that he can blast twice as many vulture droids.
* In the ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' short story ''The Wrath of Khârn'' by William King it transpires that that [[TheBerserker Khornate Champion Khârn the Betrayer]] has a kill-counter built into the H.U.D. of his helmet, and regularly amuses himself by conducting a body-count competition against his own personal best in every battle and campaign that he takes part in; a tally of 5,000 in a day being merely "quite good" by his own reckoning.

* Ichigo and Uryu in Season 1 of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''. Although Uryu is the only one playing. All Ichigo cares about is saving everyone from the buttload of Hollows that were just summoned, although he does declare himself the winner when he scares off the Menos that appeared.

* ''Anime/MaiOtome'': Haruka declares one of these just before a battle against a swarm of Slaves.
* ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}}'': Sanzo and Gojyo count up their respective kills, and Gojyo argues that Sanzo has an unfair advantage in using a gun, while Gojyo must get a bit closer to his victims.
* ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'': Sophia and Noel were first seen while they were in the middle of doing this.
* In one battle in ''Anime/StrikeWitches'', Gertrude and Erica do this. [[spoiler: Gertrude won, with 20 kills to Erica's 10.]]

* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'':
** He's not competing with anyone, but Amuro Ray has a habit of counting how many enemies he's downed in a battle.
** ''Manga/MobileSuitGundamTheOrigin'' has a scene just before the Battle of Loum where Char suggests that he and the Black Tri-Stars settle their rivalry through such a contest: who can shoot down more Federation battleships? The Black Tri-Stars like the idea and begin discussing who among the four has the best chance... before Char clarifies that he meant a contest between him and ALL THREE of the Tri-Stars combined. (Char won.)
* ''Manga/GunslingerGirl''. CuteBruiser CreepyChild Henrietta.
-->'''Henrietta:''' I know I only killed four people this month, but last month I killed at least ten! That's more than Triela even!
* ThoseTwoBadGuys Shin and Noi have these in ''Manga/{{Dorohedoro}}''.

* In ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', Thomas challenges Eren and the rest of the squad to one during their first battle. Instead, Thomas is the first member of the squad to be EatenAlive and no one manages to score a kill before everything goes horribly wrong.
** While they aren't shown competing with each other for Titan kills, Eren establishes Levi's elite squad's reputation to the audience by mentioning their Titan and assist kills, suggesting they do keep count like real life flying aces or snipers.
* In ''Manga/BlackLagoon'', Chaka tries a variant by asking [[DarkActionGirl Revy]] "ever shot anyone?" then [[MuggingTheMonster bragging about his total body-count of about 10]] to lure her in a gunfight[[note]]Revy had 103 total confirmed kills at this point, 13 of which IN EPISODE 1[[/note]].

* In a slightly less violent vein, the original Hourman and Atom of the ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'' would often keep count of the people they beat up as a contest.

* That specific film was also referenced in the ''Franchise/GIJoe Reloaded'' series, specifically laid out and lampshaded by [[DrillSergeantNasty Beach-Head]]... to [[SilentProtagonist Snake Eyes]].
* The "Cobra Civil War" from the story arc of the same name in [[ComicBook/GIJoeIDW IDW's G.I. Joe]] took the form of one of these, with 9 high ranking Cobra members competing for the position of Cobra Commander by seeing who could kill the most members of G.I. Joe.
* The first time Comicbook/{{Wolverine}} appeared in Comicbook/{{Daredevil}}'s comic he invoked this during a mook brawl.

* Marvel villain Nuke ([[WearingAFlagOnYourHead the guy with an American flag tattooed on his face]]) once carried an assault rifle that was somehow able to keep count of the people it killed. For each mission, he'd try to break his own record.

* ''[[Fanfic/TheCelestiaCode The Luna Cypher]]'' features Applejack getting in on the ground battling horrible monsters. Rainbow is off escorting other scouts, but that doesn't mean AJ's in the clear here ... as ''Rarity'' disputes the totals.
-->"Exercise is boring, dear, so years ago I took up martial arts to keep my figure trim and found I rather enjoyed it. And, I don't mean to be contentious, but I'm sure I actually defeated several more of these unfortunate creatures than you did."

* ''Fanfic/TheNegotiationsverse'': In the third story of this series, "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]].]]
* [[Manga/OnePiece Luffy and Zoro]] start a competition in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11568253/7/Supernova Supernova]]'' when facing down the hundred bounty hunters at Whiskey Peak, declaring that first to fifty-one wins. Nami promptly joins in and declares it first to thirty-four. Luffy ends up winning because Zoro and Nami were busy taking care of the [[EliteMook Elite Mooks]] while he just crushed all the regular {{Mooks}} and when they complain, he points out that they never declared the big shots were worth more.

** Another ''Batman'' Villain, Victor Zsasz, keeps an obsessive count of the number of people he's "liberated", by carving marks into his own flesh. These marks are so important to him that, on one occasion when he thought he'd killed the Bat and made his mark, he went crazier than usual when he found out Batman had survived. Ditto when he made a mark for Alfred.