Dead and deader
I: "First Blood" (1982)
II: "Rambo:
First Blood Part II"
(1985)
III: "Rambo III"
(1988)
IV: "Rambo"
(2008)
Number of bad guys killed by Rambo with his shirt on
1
12
33
83
Number of bad guys killed by Rambo with his shirt off
0
46
45
0
Number of bad guys killed by Rambo no matter how attired
1
58
78
83
Number of bad guys killed by accomplices of Rambo acting on their own
0
10
17
40
Number of good guys
killed by bad guys
0
1
37
113
Total number of people killed
1
69
132
236
Number of people killed per minute
0.01
0.72
1.30
2.59
Time at which the first person is killed (mins:secs)
29:31
33:34
41:9
3:22
Number of people killed per minute from that point until the end of the film (not including the ending credits)
0.02
1.18
2.39
3.04
Sequences in which Rambo is shot at without significant result
12
24
38
2
Number of sequences in which good guys are tortured by bad guys
2
5
7
3
Number of sex scenes
0
0
0
0
John Mueller holds the Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies at Ohio State University. Among his books are "The Remnants of War" and "Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them."
