Kill Counts

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These totals have been complied by counting the number of kills by each of the protags in solo missions (including Strangers and Freaks and character specific Random Events) and splitting the amount of kills made during play in missions with two or more active characters wherever the story/settings allows for variations on gameplay.

* = optional kills. ** = before switch is available. ~ = variable based on play style.

° 

= speculative.

Michael’s confirmed kill count is a minimum of  189 people.

• Jay Norris (Friend Request)
• At least 1 of the boat thieves (Father and Son)
• 1 pathologist°

  and 21 IAA/security agents at the morgue (Dead Man Walking)

• 4+ at the IAA building, plus 3
  choppers, max 3 people in each (Three’s Company)
• ~18+ cops/N.O.O.S.E (Blitz Play)
  
• 1 alleged terrorist in Chumash (By the Book)
• A minimum of 3 building workers (Mr. Richards)
• Rocco Pelosi and Gianni (The Ballad of Rocco)
• Pilot and passenger of plane (Caida Libre)
• 2 O’Neil brothers (Predator)
• 20+ IAA agents/scientists (Monkey Business)
• 22 Triads (Bury The Hatchet)
• **10 Triads (Fresh Meat)
• **10 FIB agents at
  the Kortz Center (The Wrap Up)
• 3+ Ballas (Lamar Down)
• Molly Schultz (Legal Trouble)
• 22 Merryweather agents (Meltdown)
• Stretch and/or 10 Ballas (The Third Way)
• Dr. Friedlander* (Abandonment Issues)
• Abigail Mathers* (What Lies Beneath)
• Tracey’s stalker* (Doting Dad)
• 12+ Epsilon members* (Unknowing the Truth)

Trevor kills approximately a potential minimum of 426 people.

• Cash depot guard (Prologue)
• Johnny K and 24+ Bikers (Mr. Philips)
• Ortega and 25+ Aztecas (Trevor Philips Industries)
• 30+ Bikers (Nervous Ron)
• 18+ O’Neil brothers (Crystal Maze)
• 5+ bikers in (Friends Reunited)
• ~8+ cops/N.O.O.S.E (Blitz Play)
• 30 Ballas (Hood Safari) [if played solely as Trevor]
• Javier – Madrazo’s Cousin (Caida Libre)
• 10 Merryweather guards (Minor Turbulence)
• 2 train drivers and 15 Merryweather (Derailed)
• Floyd Hebert and Debra (Hang Ten)
• Leon, the former owner of The Vanilla Unicorn (Hang Ten)
• 45+ rednecks, 45+ Vagos, 50+ Ballas, 45 soldiers, & 30+ hipsters (Rampages)
• At least 4 Merryweather (The Wrap Up)
• Steve Haines (The Third Way)
• Al Di Napoli* (The Last Act)
• Joe and Josef from the border patrol* (Minute Man Blues)
• Josh Bernstein* (Breach of Contract)
• 11 Random Event characters who can potentially be delivered to the Altruist Cult
• 15+ Altruist Cult Members*
• 2+ unnamed victims in cut scenes

Franklin only racks up an approximate minimum of 231.

• 14 gang members (Repossession)
• At least 2 boat thieves (Father and Son)
• 4 of Madrazo’s men (Marriage Counseling)
• 25+ Ballas (The Long Stretch)
• **6 IAA agents and one chopper (Three’s Company)
• 28+ in Merryweather Heist (Freighter)
• 18 in Merryweather Heist (Off Shore)
• 30+ Ballas (Hood Safari) [if played solely as Franklin]
• 2 guards, ~18+ cops/N.O.O.S.E (Blitz Play)
• Brett Lowery (Hotel Assassination)
• 4 jury members (Multi Target Assassination)
• 2 in (Vice Assassination)
• Issac Penny (Bus Assassination)
• 13 guards and Enzo Bonelli (Construction Assassination)
• 1 actress (Deep Inside)
• 1 O’Neil (Predator)
• **24+ Triads (Fresh Meat)
• 8 agents (FIB Raid, fire crew) 
• **10+ N.O.O.S.E (The Big Score, obvious approach)
• 10+ Noose Agents, Wei Cheng and 8 Triads (The Third Way)