Who Is The Movie Batman With The Highest Kill Count?

Batfleck’s kill count lies somewhere between 10 and 30 people, depending on how many alternate-universe scenes you’re counting and how you feel about ancillary deaths due to explosions. Even the most conservative figure, though, is substantial. At the beginning of «Batman v. Superman,» Zack Snyder’s Dark Knight is a vengeful, wrathful person, far from the symbol of hope he once was. Still, the level of murder in the film drove many fans to anger of their own.

If you’re going to complain about Batfleck’s body count, though, you should be fair and complain about the other live-action Batmen as well. Michael Keaton kills a number of baddies in his films, including a brutal kill on the Joker himself — something any good comic book fan should take major issue with. Val Kilmer, who took over for Keaton, is similarly violent and ends up murdering Two-Face at the end of «Batman Forever.» Christian Bale’s Batman is usually pretty non-kill-y in his melee battles against henchmen, but he still has a kill count — most notably leaving Liam Neeson’s Ra’s al Ghul to die on a dead-end train. Even Adam West’s kooky 1960s Batman has blood on his hands.

Only Robert Pattinson and George Clooney are totally innocent when it comes to Batman’s number-one rule. Neither commits a fatality on screen, though Pattinson still has room to change that with «The Batman 2» on the way.