The superhero movie with “the most deaths on screen” is not the one you think. With 83,871 fallen, Guardians of the Galaxy holds the record, although there is debate

Yesterday, while I was looking for curiosities to talk about Dracula, the untold legend, I came across a 2016 study that placed the film starring Luke Evans as the second film with the most deaths shown on screen in history. It may sound logical, considering that we are facing an epic war action story with “vampires.” However, with the first place, Guardians of the Galaxy, I did get a surprise.

Of course, I have seen the film and I am aware of the high level of destruction and battle that we see throughout just over two hours of footage signed by James Gunn, but the publication collected by The Guardian claimed that The film showed on screen a total of 83,871 deaths. An atrocity considering that the silver medal in this ranking was achieved by Dracula, the untold legend with “only” 5,687 deaths and that the first of The Avengers, where, we remember, the heroes save New York from colossal devastation, It also appeared on the list with just over a thousand deaths.

1. Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) – 83,871 on-screen deaths
2. Dracula Untold (2014) – 5,687
3. The Sum of All fears (2002) – 2,922
4. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003) – 2,798
5. 300: Rise of An Empire (2014) – 2,234
6. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) – 1,741
7. The Matrix Revolutions (2003) – 1,647
8. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) – 1,417
9. Braveheart (1995) – 1,297
10. The Avengers (2012) – 1,019

The study justifies the data in the more than 80,000 Nova Corps pilots who perish in one of the final scenes of the film. Whether their deaths should count as “deaths shown on screen” raises my doubts, to be honest – in this video we see how the death counter does not even reach 800 – but the fact is that the organizers of the Guinness Book of Records do not do so. They saw this and used this data to credit Guardians of the Galaxy, at least, as “the superhero movie with the most deaths shown in history.”

In Infinity War 50% of the entire universe dies

We don’t know to what extent this brand is up to date but, of course, the first reaction to reading this “Guinness record” is to blurt out… “In Avengers: Infinity War, half the rock of the entire universe breaks.” But, ignoring the return of all of them due to a new snap in Avengers: Endgame, the truth is that in the first film We only see a few civilians and superheroes “vanish”. Thus, just over 1,150 deaths are actually shown on screen.

The Guinness Book of Records also doesn’t seem to have taken into account all the deaths for the genre that we see in Man of Steel. Like Superman: The Movie, the film starring Henry Cavill opened with the destruction of an entire planet that, no matter how few there were on Krypton, they must have easily surpassed the data provided by Guardians of the Galaxy, not to mention all the subsequent destruction that we later see in Metropolis and Smallville.

Of course, a debatable fact. But until the Guinness Book of Records says otherwise, or we have another thorough study, the truth is that Guardians of the Galaxy can boast of being “the superhero movie with the most deaths shown in history.” By the way, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 also has its own accredited record, that of the largest number of makeup devices created for a single productionsurpassing The Grinch (2000).

By the way, going back to the Guardian study, it was only focused on big Hollywood blockbusters. As always, there may be some more alternative production that aimed to beat that record in a big way. The study also reflected how, over the decades, more and more deaths have been shown on screen since the golden age of cinema.

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