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A named victim, in a named work 148 deaths · 21 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
115 of 148
reversed
21 taken back
victim ranked
22 of 148

Deaths are the best-evidenced thing on this site: 115 of 148 areshown rather than asserted, against 65% across citations generally. That is not a coincidence — a death is an event, and events get depicted. It is also why only 22 of them carry amatchup 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

21 of these 148 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%
Marvel491327%
Final Fantasy40410%
Star Wars3838%
Digimon5—0%
Warhammer 40,0004—0%

Marvel 49

Final Fantasy 40

Star Wars 38

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

SCP Foundation 1