Take that, Sean Bean!
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Even more than Sean Bean? 😯
Apparently Christopher Lee blows him out of the water. Unless they are counting "living" actors. Even then Lee beat him with 71.
https://collider.com/actors-characters-have-died-the-most-times-on-screen/
I might be wrong but, I'm Danny Trejo has in his contracts that if he's playing a bad character that he has to die
Yes. He was actually in prison. He wants kids to know if you do bad things, bad things happen.
My wife just told me that factoid yesterday, so assuming her source was accurate, you are correct
Very probable
Sean Bean is inconsolable
There’s a movie here somewhere. Something where they both repeatedly die through more and more ridiculous means. Just lean into the fan service, we’ll come..
Edge of Tomorrow 2
Netflix brings back Travellers starring Sean Bean.
He even dies in the video game Def Jam: Fight for NY. Love that subway fight.
/Walks in Sean Bean
I wonder if anyone has ever calculated his on-screen KDR.
Which actor has the most on-screen kills?
does he count?
Thinking way too small.
This guy destroyed several inhabited planets at once, on screen.
Thanos erased 50% of every sentient species in the galaxy with one click of his fingers (it was stupid that he did that, and a terrible way to achieve his stated aim - especially considering the power he had at the time - but he still did it).
Pfft. The va who did anti-monitor erased multiple entire universes, leaving only one in crisis on infinite earths.
But were talking about who died, not caused the most deaths.
Hm... But does it count as 'on screen' if he was mostly CGI?
Plus, there's the additional complication that he didn't quite kill them -- he made them all disappear. And then they came back a few years later. So maybe it's kind of debatable whether those count as 'kills' at all.
I'd say Thanos being cgi doesn't invalidate the kills, but the only ones that count are the ones we see. Bucky fading away? Counts. Inhabitants of helicopter we see crash above Nick Fury? They count.
Deaths that are merely confirmed via census? Do not count for this comparison.
I’d say Thanos being cgi doesn’t invalidate the kills
But we're counting kills per actor, not per character. Was the actor actually even on screen at all?
I mean if we're going that route, than any kill that doesn't specifically show the person dying shouldn't count, cause otherwise you're basically just trying to except certain circumstances that fit certain characters but not others.
Is that Oppenheimer?
yes
If he does, Peter Cushing and Josh Brolin definitely have higher counts.
Josh Brolin?
Billy Crystal
I dunno, there's probably a background stunt guy that has the most on screen deaths
And I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of his movies.
Check out Desperado, it's fantastic
You haven’t seen Breaking Bad?
that's not one of his movies.
that was a show.
:-P
Actually I watched about three episodes and that was enough for me. I forgot to mention that I don’t really like most movies. They just don’t grab my attention.
If you’ve never seen Heat, you should fix that.
He’s generally not the lead so he can be easy to miss or forget seeing. The only films that come to mind where he was lead are Machete and Machete Kills Again. Loosely based on his character from the Spy Kids movies.
He has it in his contract that if he plays a bad guy, they must be killed or I think go to prison, which is likely what this article is going to mention why his on-screen deaths are so high.
Loosely based on his character from the Spy Kids movies.
Or more directly based on the fake movie trailer that's part of Grindhouse (2007).