Where are the casualties?

[Red Mask]

Yeah, they're villains. Malice and depravity is kind of a given.

So when they kill it matters how many they kill.

 

[Anubis]

Eh, I guess.

 

[SuperFerret]

Yeah, a bigger body count usually makes them more impressive, but the victims are still nameless fodder.

 

[November Rain]

That's a very desensitized point of view. Many people die from accidents and violent attacks every day and it matters.

this is purely from telling a story.

many people take showers, have breakfasts and take two solid dumps a day as well.

but there's no point showing it if it doesn't help the story progress.

an average film is just two hours, every scene needs to make the required impact to drive the story forward.

why waste on fodder death or fodder fights?

i would happily watch the same two people fghting throughout the entire film leading up to a pinnacle victory or death than countless fodder battles.

take spidey two, all fights involved ock and spidey and that worked because they all counted, no need for fodder as such.

 

[November Rain]

So when they kill it matters how many they kill.

i'd go for quality over quantity personally

a president assasination or let's say, killing the weakest/strongest member of an established group has far more impact than countless fodder.

take jean killing scott or xavier, it had more impact than all the soldiers she killed in alcatraz.

and the only person sentinel prime killed was that autobot which went through three whole movies and that had some resonance (although it was highly underplayed, movie optimus prime doesn't give two hoots about fallen colleagues apparently, just as long as he gets revived, he's happy).

 

[Iron_Stark]

Is it just me or are Nolan's Batman movies the only ones that seem to have civilian casualties with lots of people getting killed and injured? It may sound a bit macabre I seriously think that loss of life grounds these kinds of films and really raises the stakes.

It's a bit unrealistic to see Iron Man being chased by hundreds of drone's and not a single casualty occurs while everything is blowing up. I can understand Superman saving everyone but even there I would have an important side character be killed by the villain.

You'd think the Hulk movies would have a pretty high body-count but even the soldiers are spared. I mean let him start out a monster, then Bruce learns to control him and uses the Hulk as a force of good. Captain America is set during WWII. Does not a single soldier fall while fighting beside Cap? You could have a real good character moment with that.

Surprisingly, the original Spider-Man has quite a few people die at the hands of the goblin which helps to raise the stakes.

Abomination was causing a lot of destruction in Harlem, tossing cars with people in them and killing soldiers and policemen.

The Ten Rings were setting off Jericho missiles in Gulmira and killing civilians in the streets before Iron Man intervened, which he then took them out violently. I agree with the drones at the expo in part 2, that was beyond ridiculous.

I saw plenty of soldiers die in Captain America, especially in the final battle.