Body Count Competition/Quotes

Legolas: Final count: 42. Gimli: You know, that's not bad for a pointy-eared elvish princeling. I myself am sitting pretty on 43... (Legolas shoots the Uruk-corpse Gimli is sitting on) Legolas: 43. Gimli: He was already dead! Legolas: He was twitching. Gimli: He was twitching because he's got my axe embedded in his nervous system! —The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

(Legolas kills an Oliphaunt in spectacular style) Gimli: That still only counts as one! —The Lord of the Rings: Return Of The King

Think about it, but don't worry about it. Why shouldn't it feel good? It must feel good to God — He does it all the time, and are we not made in His image? You may have noticed in the paper yesterday, God dropped a church roof on thirty-four of His worshipers in Texas Wednesday night — just as they were groveling through a hymn. Don't you think that felt good? Thirty-four. He'd let you have Hobbs. He got 160 Filipinos in one plane crash last week — He'll let you have measly Hobbs. He won't begrudge you one measly murder. Two now. That's all right. —Hannibal Lecter, Red Dragon, in a letter to to Will Graham

There was one piece of mail in [Clarice’s] in-tray. It was a questionnaire from The Guinness Book of World Records, which prepared to list her as having killed more criminals than any other female law enforcement officer in United States history. The term criminals was being used advisedly, the publisher explained, as all of the deceased had multiple felony convictions and three had outstanding warrants. The questionnaire went into the trash. —Hannibal

"Hello, Jan." (fiddling with a dismembered hand) "So, how's my favorite big brother doing?" "Oh, you know, just killed a group of guards." "Shit, bro, you, too? What's your kill count at? Nah, don't tell me..." [He looks at a bloody hallway full of bodies.] "...I'm winnin'." —Luke Valentine and Jan Valentine in Hellsing headquarters, Hellsing Ultimate Abridged