Though this newer movie went out of its way to mention that a all the destroyed buildings were abandoned (Superman caused a lot of collateral damage in 2013’s Man of Steel) the murder-quotient for DC superheroes on screen is high again. Superman, Ben Affleck’s new Batman has no problem shooting a ton of people, even if some of it is in a future dream-sequence. In 2012’s The Dark Knight Rises, Christian Bale’s Batman growls decisively at Anne Hathaway’s Catwoman: “NO GUNS! NO KILLING.” There’s a long history of Bats’s opposition to guns to unpack there, but with this year’s Batman V. In the novel version of Moonraker, for example, Bond doesn’t even fire his gun. Fittingly, the number of murders Bond commits in the novels by Fleming are also lower than in the films. Sure, by 2015’s Spectre Bond was back to killing about 32 people per movie, but, he notably doesn’t shoot Blofeld in the film’s finale. As Brosnan, Bond killed 31 people in 2002’s Die Another Day but as Craig in 2006’s Casino Royale he only kills 11. Still, somewhat classily, the Daniel Craig’s initial bond foray, saw a dip in how many people actually bit it. Over the decades, Bond’s body count across his various cinematic incarnations only went alarmingly up, with Pierce Brosnan films being straight-up bloodbaths in terms of how many people we see Bond murder. No, including, of course the titular evil negatory Doctor himself.

And yet, James Bond only kills four people directly in Dr. No, Sean Connery’s portrayal of 007 aggressively laid a template for how action films were made and how spies killed. In 1963, superspy James Bond leapt off the pages of Ian Fleming’s novels and onto the screen in Dr.

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