On-Screen kills by John McClane

Number of kills in movies

Movie	Kills
Die Hard	10
Die Hard 2	24
Die Hard with a Vengeance	13
Live Free or Die Hard	13
A Good Day to Die Hard	13
Total	73

This is a list of kills made by John McClane that were shown on-screen.

There are a few requirements for a death to be a confirmed kill:

1. McClane must be the one who causes the death.
2. The death must be confirmed with video evidence or via dialogue afterwards.
3. McClane must cause death, not just serious injury.
4. The death must occur in the movies, kills from games and comics are not included.

There are 73 kills in total.

McClane, taking out Simon Gruber's henchmen during a car chase.

Die Hard

Picture	Movie Total	Overall Total	Name	Method
	1	1	Tony Vreski	Broken neck
	McClane holds Tony from behind during a struggle and fell down a flight of stairs, which soon broke Tony's neck.
	2	2	Heinrich	Beretta 92
	Heinrich tried to kill McClane after Marco ducked down in a surprise attack, but McClane managed to fire his pistol quickly, shot Heinrich twice in the chest and torso.
	3	3	Marco	Beretta 92
	Marco cornered McClane at the end of the conference room table, but McClane unloads his magazines through the table, shot Marco around the groin and somewhat the chest.
	4	4	James	C4 explosives blast
	James was getting more missiles to fire at police, but McClane tossed C4 with a makeshift detonator down the elevator shaft, causing the detonator to explode with him and Alexander killed in the explosion.
	5	5	Alexander	C4 explosives blast
	Alexander was waiting for James to reload a missile to fire at police, but was killed by the C4 explosives that McClane tossed down the elevator shaft.
	6	6	Fritz	Heckler & Koch MP5
	Fritz sprang a surprise attack on McClane with Karl and Franco from an elevator, but McClane fires several shots into his chest.
	7	7	Franco	Headfirst fall into glass
	McClane shoots Franco in both his kneecaps, making him land head first on an indoor glass window.
	8	8	Uli	Beretta 92
	McClane fires four rounds into Uli's chest at the entrance of the roof to save the hostages.
	9	9	Eddie	Beretta 92
	McClane fires the last bullet through Eddie's forehead after he feigns surrender with a pistol taped on his back to save Holly.
	10	10	Hans Gruber	Fall from 30 stories
	After McClane wounds him, Hans held on to Holly while dangling from thirty stories, but McClane removes Holly's watch to make Hans let go and fall thirty floors below.

Die Hard 2

Picture	Movie Total	Overall Total	Name	Method
	1	11	Oswald Cochrane	Electrocution
	McClane pins Cochrane in the airport's conveyor belt and he was dragged into a baggage press, electrocuting him.
	2	12	O'Reilly	Beretta 92
	McClane drops the vent grate on O'Reilly and shoots him several times in order the chest to save Leslie Barnes.
	3	13	Sheldon	Working rig
	McClane pushes a titanium-made working rig down, causing Sheldon to fall from the top and crushes him with it.
	4	14	Mulkey	Beretta 92
	After McClane got stuck on the working rig, he was able to activate the annex skywalk to grab his pistol and unloads his entire magazine into Mulkey.
	5	15	Thompson	Beretta 92
	McClane kills Thompson when he, along with Stuart, Garber and Kahn came to extract General Esperanza on the runway.
	6	16	Baker	Icicle
	McClane stabs Baker in the left eye with an icicle.
	7	17	Burke	Beretta 92
	McClane shoots at Burke's snowmobile, causing him to crash into frozen lake.
	8	18	Garber	Beretta 92
	McClane shoots Garber twice in the chest to hijack his snowmobile.
	9	19	Major Grant	Airplane propeller
	McClane kicks Major Grant into the airplane propeller and sucks him into it, eventually shredding him.
	10	20	Ramon Esperanza	Explosion
	McClane uses a lighter to light the plane's jet fuel, allowing the burning fuel to reach the plane and destroyed it, killing Esperanza and everyone onboard.
	11	21	William Stuart	Explosion
	McClane uses a lighter to light the plane's jet fuel, allowing the burning fuel to reach the plane and destroyed it, killing Stuart and everyone onboard.
	12	22	Miller	Explosion
	Miller was among the terrorists onboard the plane that exploded when McClane used the jet's fuel to destroy it.
	13	23	Kahn	Explosion
	Kahn was among the terrorists onboard the plane that exploded when McClane used the jet's fuel to destroy it.
	14	24	Sherman	Explosion
	Lt. Sherman was among the terrorists killed onboard the 747 that McClane exploded using jet fuel.
	15	25	Albertson	Explosion
	Albertson was among the terrorists killed onboard the 747 that McClane exploded using jet fuel.
	16-24	26-34	Major Grant's mercenaries (9)	Explosion
	Those mercenaries was among the terrorists killed onboard the 747 that McClane exploded using jet fuel.

Die Hard with a Vengeance

Picture	Movie Total	Overall Total	Name	Method
	1	35	Karl	Beretta 92
	After McClane finds out that the security guards in the Federal Reserve Bank are imposters, he fires his gun underneath his shirt and shoots Karl.
	2	36	Kurt	Beretta 92
	After McClane discovers the security guards are imposters, he kills Kurt with his pistol through his shirt.
	3	37	Gunther	Head butt
	McClane head butts Gunther from behind a few times in the face until the henchman's face is bloodied from the impact of the head-butting while pointing his pistol at Otto.
	4	38	Otto	Beretta 92
	McClane shoots Otto at close range while keeping Otto's gun away from him.
	5	39	Nils	Beretta 92
	McClane shoot Nils around the abdomen and chest, along with Klaus through the dump truck's door at New York City Water Tunnel No. 3.
	6	40	Klaus	Beretta 92
	McClane shoots Klaus around the abdomen and chest, along with Nils, through the dump truck's door at New York City Water Tunnel No. 3.
	7	41	Erik	Beretta 92
	After Zeus disables the anti-lock break fuse, McClane makes an abrupt U-turn and shoots Erik and his partner Mischa inside the truck.
	8	42	Mischa	Beretta 92
	After the anti-lock break fuse was disabled by Zeus, McClane makes an abrupt U-turn and shoots Mischa, alongside Erik, who was driving the truck.
	9	43	Simon's henchman #1	Truck's cable line
	After McClane and Zeus connect the truck's cable lines to the frieghter and the truck fall off the bridge, the cable lines indirectly cuts that henchman in half on the freighter.
	10	44	Simon's henchman #2	Freighter's steel door
	McClane Break the neck of a henchman several times with the ship's heavy door.
	11	45	Targo's henchman	Beretta 92
	McClane shoots Targo's henchman twice in the ship's cargo hold.
	12	46	Katya	Power Line
	Katya was killed onboard the helicopter with Simon when McClane fires at the power line and destroys the helicopter with it.
	13	47	Simon Gruber	Power Line
	Simon was killed with Katya onboard the helicopter when McClane fires at the power line and destroys the chopper with it.

Live Free or Die Hard

Picture	Movie Total	Overall Total	Name	Method
	1	48	Gabriel's henchman #1	Fire extinguisher
	McClane tosses the fire extinguisher and fires at it, causing it to explode and pushes the henchman through the window and into the hood of a truck.
	2	49	Gabriel's henchman #2	Broken neck
	McClane grabs the henchman through the wall near Farrell's door, pulls him through it and breaks his neck.
	3	50	Gabriel's henchman #3	Blown up by Rand's bomb
	McClane dispatched this henchman by firing, accidentally causing one of Matt Farrell's movie memorabilia to fall upon the rigged computer set to explode, blowing up this henchman in the blast that followed.
	4	51	Del	Fire hydrant
	McClane drives the Homeland Security car into the fire hydrant and a flow of water hits Del, causing him to fall off the helicopter and onto the car trunk.
	5	52	Gabriel's henchman #4	Car crash into helicopter
	McClane drives the Homeland Security car into the helicopter and jumps out, allowing the car to launch from the tool booth and into the helicopter, killing the pilot inside it.
	6	53	Gabriel's henchman #5	Glock 22
	McClane shoots the henchman's foot with his holstered pistol from behind and then shoots him twice into the upper chest with it at the Eastern Power Hub in West Virginia.
	7	54	Mai Linh	Explosion
	McClane rams Mai over with the SUV and crashes down the elevator shaft, killing Mai inside the exploding SUV.
	8	55	Russo	Bashed repeatedly against metal stairway
	McClane knock Russo down the stairs after tossing him and the chair down this ramp. Russo was rather bruised and bloodied up and McClane left him behind after he fired a shot away from him to scare Gabriel on the radio. It is implicitly stated that he died afterwards.
	9	56	Rand	Cooling turbine
	McClane activates the nitrogen, freezing Rand's arms and forcing him to fall into the cooling turbine shredding him.
	10	57	Robinson	Beretta Px4 Storm
	McClane goes to the driver's side of the moving semi-truck and fires his pistol at Robinson through side door in order to hijack the vehicle.
	11	58	Trey	Beretta Px4 Storm
	McClane shoots Trey once in the chest when he was about to exit the warehouse to get the plane ready to go.
	12	59	Gabriel's henchman #6	Beretta Px4 Storm
	McClane fires his gun into the henchman several times when he tried to fight back at the warehouse.
	13	60	Thomas Gabriel	Jericho 941
	When Gabriel uses his pistol on his wounded right shoulder to torture him, McClane grabs the gun with both hands and fires at through his shoulder and into Gabriel's chest, causing Gabriel to fall into the hood of the car.

A Good Day to Die Hard

Picture	Movie Total	Overall Total	Name	Method
	1	61	Alik's henchman #1	M249 SAW Paratrooper
	McClane shoots that henchman out just when he was about to enter the CIA safe house in Moscow.
	2	62	Alik's henchman #2	M249 SAW Paratrooper
	McClane shoots the henchman several times shortly after he kills the first one going in the safe house.
	3	63	Alik's henchman #3	M249 SAW Paratrooper
	McClane shoots that henchman to cover fire for Jack and Komarov at the CIA safe house.
	4	64	Alik's henchman #4	M249 SAW Paratrooper
	McClane shoots that henchman as he was breaching the safehouse.
	5	65	Alik's henchman #5	M249 SAW Paratrooper
	McClane opens fire on the henchman, hitting him several times, while covering for Jack and Komarov at the safe house.
	6	66	Alik's henchman #6	M249 SAW Paratrooper
	McClane takes out that henchman while covering for Jack and Komarov at the safe house.
	7	67	Alik's henchman #7	M249 SAW Paratrooper
	McClane takes out that henchman while covering for Jack and Komarov at the safe house.
	8	68	Alik's henchman #8	M249 SAW Paratrooper
	McClane takes out that henchman while covering for Jack and Komarov at the safe house.
	9	69	Alik's henchman #9	AK-104
	McClane and Jack take out that henchman at the hotel dance floor after taking out the glass ceiling above them.
	10	70	Alik's henchman #10	AK-104
	McClane and Jack shoots that henchman multiple times in the hotel dance floor.
	11	71	Komarov's henchman #1	12 Gauge Double Barreled Shotgun
	McClane shoots that henchman at the warehouse in Chernobyl to get to Komarov.
	12	72	Mako	Explosion
	McClane puts an explosive on the moving forklift and detonates near the leaking hose line, incinerating Mako in the warehouse.
	13	73	Komarov's henchman #2	SIG-Sauer P220
	After McClane jumps onto a Mi-26 helicopter, he wounds that henchman in the foot near the truck loaded with uranium canisters and finishes him off with the pistol.

Trivia

• In Die Hard 2, McClane has the most killcount, which totals 24.
• In Die Hard, McClane has the fewest killcount, which totals 10.
• Of all the terrorists McClane killed, two of them are women, Katya and Mai Linh.
• The Beretta 92 was McClane's most used method of killing.
• This article is the first page to have a featured article.
• The henchman hit repeatedly in the head by McClane in A Good Day to Die Hard didn't appear to be truly fatal and it is believed that this man perished in the building collapse caused by Irina crashing her helicopter.
• None of the car crashes in A Good Day to Die Hard looked fatal nor were confirmed as such; it also is unlikely given the character's nature.

Possible knock-outs and injuries though!

See Also

• Deaths on the Die Hard movies