10 Supervillains With Sickeningly High Kill Counts

The villains who make murder a competitive sport.

Dr Doom Thanos
Marvel

Supervillains like to kill - we all know that. For comic supervillains, this is especially true, as generally the people they kill will be back quicker than you can say "unfortunate evisceration".

But some supervillains like to kill a whole lot more than others. Be it thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions, some villains have kill counts higher than you would believe - especially when they're not the likes of Thanos or Galactus, who we all know could shatter a multiverse with a click of their heels.

Indeed, sometimes the most unsettling villain murderers are the ones who take you by surprise, as simply don't expect them to have slain quite as many people as they have. Similarly, there are plenty of heroes who have killed so many people that you just can't physically process it, aside from being very, very frightened.

While finding out these gory exploits is more than likely to keep you up at night, it's well worth it to see Marvel and DC's worst characters at their absolute best - or, at least, at their very most murderous.

10. Victor Zsasz

Dr Doom Thanos
DC

Unlike the rest of the assorted cast of supervillains with sickeningly high kill counts, Victor Zsasz has absolutely no special powers, no world-destroying plotlines, and little in the way of training or skills other than "stabs well with knife".

And yet, when you think about it, every time you see Zsasz you're confronted with the insane number of people he has killed - because he literally tallies his own skin every time he kills someone, and he has a huge number of said marks. Though this can vary majorly from artist to artist, Zsasz's initial form - as drawn by his creator Norm Breyfogle - has the absolute most, marking Victor's max kill count at tens of thousands.

And even if the less mark-adorned adaptations are to be believed, it's shocking that the villain has even a couple of thousand, given that many superpowered villains have killed far less. This is exactly what works so well to make the character feel so incredibly creepy though, as you know he isn't focused on anything but adding more bodies to his fleshy tally count.

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