Joker's Body Count

::"No more! All the people I've murdered... by letting you live."
::"I know. I never kept count."
::"I have."
::"I know... and I love ya for it!"
::: --Batman and the Joker, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2
The Joker arguably has the largest single body count of any villain in the DCU. Cheshire, Mongul, Black Adam and the Secret Society of Super Villains have all devastated entire cities, but the Joker probably has killed the most people in single acts. Part of the reason for the Joker's high murder rate is because he is largely indiscriminate in how he kills, ranging from the traditional methods such as knives, guns and explosives, to his signature Joker venom and electric buzzer.
This list excludes the Emperor Joker storyline, though it's worth mentioning that in that storyline, the Joker not only murdered Batman dozens of times over, but also destroyed first the entire planet, and then nearly the cosmos (luckily, it was all undone).
==By Volume==
* - murdered two security guards and two bodyguards: 4
* - murdered Phillip Drum, a scientist who created a designer drug for him: 1
* - 0
* - murdered one Arkham security guards: 1
* - murdered two teenage petty crooks: 2
* - Joker decides to go on a palindrome-themed killing spree after escaping from Arkham. He is holding a list of names in one panel, two of which are ticked off, and is about to kill a third person before being taken down by Batman.
* - murdered one guard (he's also depicted as severing the foot and gouging out the eyes of a couple others): 1
* - 0
* - 0
* - 0
* - 0
* - Murdered 5+ people on a bus and 2+ patients at a hospital - 7+
* - 0
* - murdered Henry Claridge, Jay Wilde, Brute Nelson and Judge Drake in the first story, and Police Chief Chalmers, the owner of a gem, Edgar Martin and six policemen in the second: 13
* - murdered the owner of a diamond: 1
* - murdered two police officers and a man who's medicine he switched with poison: 3
* - murdered two henchmen and three people in a bus crash: 5
* - murdered a theater manager: 1
* - Murdered his former henchmen Philly Jack Barton, Packy White, Alby and Bigger Melvin: 4
* - 0
* - Murdered Dr. Hamish with a poison flower: 1
* - Murdered his Arkham psychiatrist, Dr. Tugwell: 1
* - killed Jerry Randall, a Batman fanatic who had dressed up as Batman and been caught unaware by Joker: 1
* - Killed two police officers with Joker Venom: 2
* - murdered one of his goons for forgetting to laugh at his jokes: 1
* - Killed his henchman "Craps" with a poisonous snake for not showing him proper respect: 1
* - 0
* - Killed Guatemalan Militiamen in an aerial assault by helicopter: 10
* - 0
* - 0
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* - Murdered museum security guards to steal a Diamond Necklace: 3
* - 0
* - Killed 8 Arkham guards, 1 Naval Pilot, 1 Terrorist, 1 of his henchmen: 11
* - Murdered Jason Todd : 1
* - Murdered Sheila Haywood and four of his henchmen: 5
* - murdered 6 ambassadors
* - Curtis Base while impersonating The Joker murdered 4 people. This was not done by the actual Joker, so it does not count: 0
* - 0
* - murdered three Arkham Asylum guards: 3
* - Left the Mayor's personal bodyguards for dead (with the assistance of Scarecrow): 2
* - killed 20 SWAT Team Members in an explosion with a bomb; confirmed by Harvey Bullock in : 20
* - murdered 6 people: a toll booth worker, three transit police officers, one civilian and a tunnel service booth controller: 6
* - Killed 2 Arkham Asylum orderlies with Joker Venom and ate Beelzebub: 3
* - 0
* - 0
* - murdered 16 gang members including some of his own: 16
* - murdered one worker: 1
* - used Pettit's men, disguised them as himself and sent them to be killed by a deranged Pettit Among them was Hendricks. Then he murdered Pettit: 14+
* - Pretends to kill Clayface, who was impersonating Thomas Elliot: 0
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* - 0
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* - 0
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* - Although none were seen on screen, Joker apologizes to the public for on TV the low fatalities he caused this time: 1+
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* - murdered eleven former henchmen with Harley's assistance and at least one Arkham Asylum orderly: 11+
* - murdered 9 people at Arkham Asylum and hundreds more outside: 9+
* - murdered two henchmen: 2
* - murdered The Generalissimo, a member of the the Black Glove: 1
* - snaps the necks of at least nineteen GCPD officers , shoots John Claridge (son of Henry Claridge) in the head, poisons at least eight more GCPD officers with Joker Venom: 28
* - Shown to have personally killed at least 14 innocent civilians over a month during his war with the Riddler.
* - Murders one of his workers with barbed wire and razor blades: 1
* - Planted explosive in van: 1
* - Murdered a husband and wife and one henchman: 3
* - Murders 13+ people as a Dark Judge: 13+
* - Murders 7+ soldiers: 7+
* - Revealed to be responsible for five murders as the "Domino Killer": 5
* - Revealed to have assumed the identity of Oberon Sexton after burying the real Sexton alive with his wife's corpse
* - Kills 12+ members of Professor Pyg's gang, 6+ members of the 99 Fiends and poisons Doctor Hurt with Joker Toxin and then buries him alive: 19+
* - Rigged and detonated a bomb inside an Asian Batman impersonator: 1
* - Eight dead people were found in the Joker's house; probably the number is higher: 8+
* - a prison inmate and a detective's wife: 2
* - murdered one guard: 1
* - murdered 13 children including Maxie Zeus's nephew when he blew up a school.
* - murdered a DJ, 6 nightclub patrons and three henchmen: 10
* - murdered three gang members and one police officer - 4
* - murdered one police officer - 1
* - murdered 2+ party goers: 2+
* - murdered 3 gang members: 3
* - murdered 1 police officer, 7+ pedestrians, a girl's father and 3 hostages: 12+
* - murdered 9+ hostages
* - Kills socialite Mr. Haney and a police inspector using a CD made with cheap plastic and Joker Venom that melts in Haney's CD player, releasing poison gas: 2
* - Blows up a clone of Harvey Dent created by Dr. Double X
* - Five SWAT officers are killed inside Joker's booby-trapped house: 5
* - murdered six henchmen, three businessmen and Angelo Mirti: 10
* - reportedly, he murdered two paramedics and an ambulance driver: 3
* - murdered Bobby Gazzo: 1
* - murdered a pilot, a lawyer, a doctor and a security guard: 4
* - Murdered one security guard: 1
* - Murdered one of The Penguin's henchmen, a dock worker and one of his henchmen: 3
* - murdered the owner of an old theme park: 1
* - murdered Melvin Reipan and two socialites: 3
* - murdered 9+ pedestrians and 3+ people marching in a parade
* - murdered 2 police officers
* : - murdered an Arkham orderly and four of Ra's al Ghul's henchmen - 5
* : - murdered Khalid one of Talia al Ghul's henchmen
* : - murdered 6 of Ra's al Ghul's henchmen and three scientists - 9
* : - killed 2 guards working for Pettit: 2
* - murdered Luca Mareli and two of Falcone's bodyguards: 3
* - murdered a co-pilot, a navigator and a stewardess: 3
* - killed at least two of Carmine Falcone's bodyguards with Joker Venom: 2+
* - Murdered ten test subjects for Joker Venom, one reporter, one cameraman, four hospital orderlies, two security guards and three millionaires. Not counting the two killed by the inmates he released and not mentioned off panel deaths, that's 21 total.
* - murders Gotham's D.A Darla Parisi: 1
* - murders Hector and Maria Gonsales: 2
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* - 0
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* - murders three hostages: 3
* - killed Wax Man: 1
* - killed an unnamed Arkham inmate: 1
* - murders one street punk: 1
* - murders two of his own henchmen: 2
* - murders one of Gizmo's scavengers.
* - murders Whizkid
* - Murdered four members of the Norton family: 4
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* - 0
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* - Murdered two business men and a magician Antonio: 3
* - murdered one of The Penguin's henchmen: 1
* - Murdered Travers Milton aka The Star
* - Murdered his parents, a store clerk, a teenage acquaintance, 3+ gang members and a lawyer.
* - 0
* - 0
* - murdered Harold J. Standish: 1
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* - 0
* - murdered a district attorney
* - murdered two comedians Freddie Banter and Ted Allenby: 3
* - 0
* - 0
* - murdered G. Carl Francis and one of his henchmen
* - murdered Thomas Jackson and his cat Ernest
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* - Murdered toy maker Papetto: 1
* - 0
* - murdered one guerilla soldier working for him: 1
* - 0
* - 0
* - murdered two police security guards: 2
* - 0
* - 0
* - 0
* - 0
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* - Killed one thug and two film writers: 3
* - 0
* - killed 5 of Nicholas Scratch's minions: 5
* - killed one of his henchmen Josh for flirting with Harley Quinn: 1
* - 0
* - murdered Sarah Essen: 1
* - 0
* - 0
* - 0
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* - murdered a husband and wife, six pedestrians and a fast food manager: 9
* - Murdered stage magician Ivar Loxias prior to this story and assumed his identity. Murders an assistant during a show - 2
* - Kills one of Dollmaker's "family members". Later kills at least three police officers with a bomb. It is mentioned by Batman at the beginning of the story that he has killed a total of 114 people by this point.
* - 0
* - 0 
*Doomsday Clock Vol 1 6- Murdered one of his henchmen: 1
* - Keystone police captain, murdered by one of Joker's gang using Joker venom.
* - not yet counted
* - Murders Mayor Daniel Danforth Dickerson III, Superintendent Purnell and a police coroner. - 3
* - not yet counted
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* - Murders Lt.Ronald Probson (New Earth), 8+ police officers and Nate Patton.
* - murdered 6 inmates
* - murdered a husband and wife and two companions. - 4
* - not yet counted
* - murdered a henchman named Martin
* - 0
* - murdered the Royal Flush Gang (4 humans plus one robot)
* - murdered Alexander Luthor
* - 0
* - 0
* - 0
* - 0
* - 0
* - Murdered Harold an associate of Willy The Weeper
* - 0
* - Murdered a man who witnessed him kidnapping Dinah Lance.
* - Murdered a night watchman, the Sheriff's deputy and a museum guard: 3
* - 0
* - Murdered a cameraman
* - Murdered two police officers and one henchmen (Sonny November) - 3
* - Murdered two police officers and Mouth Madigan, a friend of Catwoman - 3
* - Murdered The Flash, Green Arrow, Black Canary, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and Green Lantern, as well as 2 guards and a doctor. The Justice Leaguers were inexplicably "99 and 99/100% dead", leading them to return to life. - 9
* - Kills one pilot and four family members in Belize: 5
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* - Kills 7+ fired GCPD officers, including Tony Rigatoni
* - In the first story he murders 17+ audience members and one of his henchmen Boris, in the second story he kills 31+ psychiatrists who were exposed to his Joker Venom: 41+
* - Kills Multi-Man at least 79 times, which doesn't count since Multi-Man is immortal: 0
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* - In the first story he murders 31+ Gotham and Los Angeles mobsters, and one drug addict in a bathroom. In the second story, he murders his henchman Jack Frost: 33+
* - Murdered one of his henchmen Snuck, 11+ police officers, a news reporter and helicopter pilot: 14+
* - not yet counted
* - 0
* - 0
* - 0
* - Murders two henchmen Jahan and Akbar: 2
* - Murdered Shrike
* - Murders Jade Peabody, Headmaster, Good Shepard, Alley The Cat and Jarvis Poker (New Earth) - 5
* - not yet counted
* - Murdered Felua, an Atlantean Woman
* - not yet counted
* Punisher and Batman: Deadly Knights #1 - Murders one of Jigsaw's thugs
* - murdered a lawyer and two police officers: 3
* - 0
* - 0
* - 0
* - murdered Psimon
* - murdered Iron Cross and Splitshot
* - kills 2+ Parademons
* - not yet counted
* - Murdered 3 police officers and a woman named Charity: 4
* - Murdered 3 henchmen
* - not yet counted
* - murdered nine people inside a bank with a Superman robot: 9
* - murdered two Pentagon security guards: 2
* - 0
* - 0
* - 0
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* - not yet counted
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* - Murdered an attorney Harry Sims - 1
* - Murdered Commissioner O'Hara - 1
* - murdered 17+ hoods who worked for a local mafia boss: 17+
* - murdered 11+ mafia assassins/thugs
* - not yet counted
* Tallied so far: 671+ 
** DCnU: 185+
==References==
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