PowerRankings

A named victim, in a named work 288 deaths · 35 reversed

The dead, counted

A death is the most falsifiable thing a ranking can carry — somebody specific, killed by somebody specific, in a work you can go and check. These are all of them. Most name a victim who is ranked nowhere here, so for those this is the only page they appear on.

What the record holds

depicted
215 of 288
reversed
35 taken back
victim ranked
86 of 288

Deaths are the best-evidenced thing on this site: 215 of 288 are shown rather than asserted, against 56% across citations generally. That is not a coincidence — a death is an event, and events get depicted. It is also why only 86 of them carry a matchup page: a pairing earns one only when both parties are ranked on the same ladder, and most of the dead are not ranked at all.

Where death is cheapest

35 of these 288 were later reversed — the body got up, the timeline changed, the publisher reconsidered. They are not spread evenly, and the concentration is the interesting part.

RankingdeathsreversedRate
Pokémon3133%
Marvel491326%
One Punch Man8225%
Solo Leveling39923%
Final Fantasy40410%
Star Wars3837%
Jujutsu Kaisen2514%
Westeros6722%
Digimon5—0%
Warhammer 40,0004—0%

Westeros 67

Marvel 49

Final Fantasy 40

Solo Leveling 39

Star Wars 38

Jujutsu Kaisen 25

One Punch Man 8

Digimon 5

Warhammer 40,000 4

Pokémon 3

Godzilla 2

Naruto 2

Bleach 1

Dark Souls & Demon’s Souls 1

Dungeons & Dragons 1

Dragon Ball 1

Monster Hunter 1

SCP Foundation 1