Marvel movie death count: MCU films ranked by biggest number of kills

Death count: 12

Given the heights Tony Stark's kill count will rise to when he joins forces with the Avengers, the 12 on-screen deaths in this second film are a drop in the ocean.

Death count: 12 

Ant-Man ties with Iron Man 2 with its 12 deaths (but only because we're not counting the six flying ants, rest their souls).

Death count: 16

Let's face it, a kill count of 16 is positively restrained for a superhero movie. But we're not counting all the times Dormammu wipes out Benedict Cumberbatch's Doctor Strange before finally deciding it's time to bargain.

Death count: 25

Most of the 25 losses in Edward Norton's Hulk movie are military personnel, as they first try to capture Bruce Banner's alter ego and then wrestle with their own creation, the Abomination.

Death count: 36

Call yourself a Killmonger? This solo outing for the MCU's newest Avenger was witness to only 36 deaths. Wakanda wouldn't be so lucky next time out...

Death count: 76

Shane Black's excellent movie includes 76 kills in total, with 14 chalked up by Tony Stark. Once again it's left to Pepper Potts to personally handle the bad guy, as she goes full Extremis on Aldrich Killian's ass.

Death count: 80

None of the warring superheroes bite the bullet but there are still 80 other deaths to count up as the team fight terrorists and the Winter Soldier's dirty little secret is exposed.

Death count: 85

The first movie in the MCU centres on a weapons manufacturer taken prisoner in Afghanistan, so the count is a fairly sizeable 85 people. A quarter of those occur during Tony Stark's escape in the Iron Man Mark I armour, but it's Pepper Potts who actually despatches main bad guy Obadiah Stane (Jeff Bridges).

Death count: 157

Half of the number of deaths in this second Avengers movie occur in the opening attack on a Hydra base, with the film reaching 157 by the time Ultron is sent to silicon heaven. 

Death count: 177

How is such large-scale destruction accompanied by a death count as low as 177? You can thank the fact it doesn't take many people to pilot a largely automated helicarrier.

Death count: 223

It's impressive that Asgard stood as long as it did, given how many races have a beef with it. As we kick off the God of Thunder's adventures, it's the ice giants knocking at the door and getting Thor's hammer in their face as casualties on both sides reach 223.

Death count: 331

Kicking off with a look back at the war against the dark elves before heading straight into a modern-day skirmish gives the early scenes in this film the kind of body count most MCU outings manage over their entire runtime. An impressive 331 die in the Asgardian's second adventure overall, with those bombs that explode out and squish people as they pull them back in being the most cinematic.

Death count: 346

It was always going to be a struggle to match the deaths from the first film (see later slide) but come on, it's like the sequel wasn't even trying! Still, 346 is pretty high compared to most Marvel films and you can thank Michael Rooker's Yondu Udonta for 209 of those.

Death count: 450

With Goddess of Death Hela on the warpath and the kingdom of Asgard facing utter destruction, the deaths must be in the millions, right? It's thanks to the actions of Thor's Revengers that it's kept to a bare minimum of 450.

Death count: 1,019

A poll of the top 10 deadliest Hollywood movies suggested this first super team-up contained 1,019 deaths. But that figure definitely doesn't include the estimated 75,000 destroyed by Iron Man when he takes out the attacking Chitauri fleet with a nuke.

Death count: 83,871

Before the Thanos snap, this light-hearted outing held the record for the most MCU deaths with 83,871 fatalities overall! That's largely down to the 80,000 Nova Corps pilots who lay down their lives in defence of their planet in the closing scenes.

Death count: Countless billions

There are 1,169 on screen deaths in Avengers: Infinity War – that would technically put it behind Guardians of the Galaxy and Avengers Assemble. But bad man Thanos is responsible for a whole heap more than that, having snapped his fingers and wiped out half of all living things in the galaxy, so it's really an (im)moral for Infinity War.