What Video Game Character Do You Think Has the Highest Kill Count

[Alhazred]

I think Caim from Drakengard is a strong contender. He's an unhinged sociopath whose only outlets for expression are killing people and screaming battle cries, and after he's rendered mute ten minutes in he can't do the latter. To make up for this he gets to ride around a dragon and perform the former with incredible eficiency. Men, children, humans, monsters, there's no-one Caim won't chop into bits with a sword or burn to a crisp with his dragon. And given that the enemies he's fighting are a empire entirely composed of crazy nut-jobs worshipping the local cosmic horror, there's no shortage of dudes for Caim to butcher. And then, depending on what ending you prefer, he either drops the hero front entirely and starts killing dudes indiscriminately in the sequel, or flies his dragon into Tokyo and indirectly causes the apocalypse. What a great guy!

 

[Fappy]

If we count comic book video games Thanos did kill the entire universe once >.>

 

[Fat Hippo]

The first Goomba in Super Mario,

That little bastard has actually gotten me an embarrassing number of times.

 

[Sable Gear]

Anyone who's been going around actively blowing up planets and/or committing government-sanctioned xenocide.
I'm looking at YOU Samus and Master Chief.

 

[triggrhappy94]

RTS's only count if it's one unit or squad that racks up all the kills.
Like how in CoH the US Rangers or the Panzer Elite Assault Grenadiers killed every infantry unit at close range.
Ordered kills don't count if it's an RTS, and it's the non-discript player character.

It seems like Halo and Prototype are strong contendors. That first goomba's a good suggestion. I still like Shepard, because genocide is an option in every game. There's Rakini, Babarians, Collecters (arguable), and Geth and/or Turian.

 

[Codeman90]

Damn near anyone from the Dynasty Warriors or Samurai Warriors series has got to be up there.

 

[SD-Fiend]

kirby in any of his games. tbe worst thing is that most of those waddle dees arent even affiliated with Dedede they're just annoying.

 

[RedDeadFred]

Master Chief probably. He wiped out all of the Flood. I wouldn't be surprised if the spore forms numbered in the billions when he activated the Halo.

Of course there's Shepard too. Considering you can cause the genocide of multiple races I think renegade Shepard probably has near MC like numbers.

 

[Akytalusia]

luther from star ocean 3. he deleted the universe. your kill count really can't go any higher than that unless you know a character that's destroyed multiple universes or realities. >.>

 

[bowserboy26578]

Kratos basically wiped out half the population of the world by raising the ocean level when killing Poseidon. Then there's that whole Atlantis thing, and then the sending his armies out to wipe out thousands, all the gods (which should counts toward, like, a X2 multiplier), and let's not forget his mortal days when he led the most power spartan army. If not the highest, Kratos deserves an honorable mention.

 

[Owen Robertson]

You can choose to not fix the Genophage right? So probably Shep from Mass Effect. Maybe Darth Vader. He IS a character in Force Unleashed and he destroys a planet. Gotta be in the millions, if not billions.

 

[thiosk]

Master of Orion 2 with a fleet of Doomstars all equipped with stellar converters. I have killed billions. seriously.

I was coming in to say that. There will be peace among the stars! Mostly because I'm destroying 2/3 of the planets in the galaxy......

For sheer awesomeness, there is Tholtig Momuzidek Lelumdoren, or "Tholtig Cryptbrain the Waning Diamonds," last queen of Circletower - an elf so badass she rose to become queen of the dwarves. 2341 kills, mostly elves. Dirty filthy tree hugging elves.


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[MagunBFP]

Just throwing it out there... Death, with the whole death and reaping part of his job. If you're talking as a direct result of the gameplay maybe not... if you're happy to allow his back storey to count then he's pretty much got most guys beat.

 

[spartandude]

Id say possibly the Taurus Deamon from Dark Souls. fucker killed me so many times

 

[Somnambulistic]

Anyone from the Dynasty Warriors games. at least 500 per mission. I don't care if they say KO, we all know it's kills xD

 

[Hoa_Binh]

Oh, my take on this would be the Christopher 'Maverick' Blair character from Wing Commander. Not only do you rack up about 1000 destroyed ships during a playthrough of all the games you also personally deploy the "blow up the whole frikking planet" bomb that kills most of the Kilrathi inhabitants of what I think is their home planet.

 

[Louzon]

Didn't read all the others, so I hope I'm not repeating, but I'm pretty sure I'm not.

Any character from a Dynasty/Samurai Warriors game. Just thought of this since I'm playing Warriors Orochi 3 Hyper on the Wii U...and I get at least 1500 kills per level. They have to at least be in the conversation.

 

[FalloutJack]

Well, according to the manual, the Stream Riders of MDK fame grind entire planets down with their Mine Crawlers, so assuming a successful empire...they have been ending civilizations for a longass time.

Even then, I can probably top it with Deus Ex machina from Xenogears. It is a massive galactic destruction weapon system complete with core body and enhancements, a personal attack vessel, armies of mechs, and planet-shattering power. What it was doing prior to being packed up on the Eldridge is up to debate, but it was probably not good. And it didn't help that it killed nearly everyone ON the Eldridge and then proceeded to create and genocide a human-like race for about 10,000 years to generate and create enough living components to repair himself. (This last bit was done IN HIS SLEEP.)