Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24894881-20140503034318/@comment-1916997-20150227180411

Eskaver wrote:

CoolDudeAl wrote: I think Rumple probably has the highest body count, just based on how long he has lived. Even if he was only killing one person a year, that's still a minimum of like 200 people. Next highest body count is between Cora and Regina. Cora is more manipulative though, so she may have not killed as many people, but just taken their hearts so she could control them. Regina isn't that sly, so she just killed many people outright. Of course, we only see certain parts of the characters backstory, and since Regina is most important plot wise out of the three, we have seen more of her killings than Cora or Rumple. Nothing says that Rumple kills people per year. Length of life doesn't correlate to how many you killed. Pan lived longer than Rumple yet has killed less. Zelena is older than Regina yet has killed less. Those who are more manipulative than impulsive tend to kill less people, though there are exceptions. Pan, Cora, and Ingrid were mostly manipulative, Rumple is fairly manipulative with bouts of impulsivity, Regina is very impulsive. On screen, it's Regina, then Cora without a doubt, though technically Regina ordered more deaths than she actually did herself. Most of the villains if their plans were completed would have higher body counts, with Ingrid having the most if the Spell of Shattered Sight had actually killed people. While we don't know if Rumple was killing people every year, just based on how he acts in the flashbacks we have seen, we can guess he often kills/tourtures/curses people, who can't live up to the deal they made with him, or tried to defeat him, or tried to steal from him, etc. People aren't calling him The Dark One, A Wizard, An Imp, and A Beast, because he's a nice guy who never does anything bad.