Body Count¶
Every named death across the series, by season.
Method. Counts named characters whose deaths are shown or explicitly reported. Excludes unnamed victims and background casualties. Deaths by natural causes are included and marked, because in this show they matter.
Season 1¶
| Victim | Ordered by | Killed by | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emil Kolar | Christopher | Christopher | S1E1 |
| Brendan Filone | Junior | Mikey Palmice | S1E3 |
| Jackie Aprile Sr. | — | cancer | S1E4 |
| Fabian "Febby" Petrulio | — | Tony | S1E5 "College" |
| Mikey Palmice | Tony | Christopher & Paulie | S1E13 |
| Chucky Signore | — | Tony | S1E13 |
| Jimmy Altieri | Tony | Silvio | S1E13 |
Season 2¶
| Victim | Ordered by | Killed by | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philly Parisi | Tony | Gigi Cestone | S2E14 |
| Matthew Bevilaqua | Tony | Tony & Big Pussy | S2E18 |
| Richie Aprile | — | Janice | S2E25 |
| Big Pussy Bonpensiero | Tony | Tony, Silvio & Paulie | S2E26 "Funhouse" |
Season 3¶
| Victim | Ordered by | Killed by | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| Livia Soprano | — | stroke, off-screen | S3E28 |
| Febby's associates / Bryan Spatafore (injured) | — | — | — |
| Tracee | — | Ralph Cifaretto | S3E32 "University" |
| Gigi Cestone | — | heart attack | S3E36 |
| Sunshine & Carlo Renzi | — | Jackie Jr.'s crew | S3E38 |
| Jackie Aprile Jr. | Ralph (sanctioned by Tony) | Vito Spatafore | S3E39 |
Season 4¶
| Victim | Ordered by | Killed by | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carmine's associate / various | — | — | — |
| Pie-O-My (a horse) | Ralph (probably) | stable fire | S4E48 |
| Ralph Cifaretto | — | Tony | S4E48 "Whoever Did This" |
Season four has the lowest body count in the series, which is the point — it's the season about money running out, not about violence.
Season 5¶
| Victim | Ordered by | Killed by | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carmine Lupertazzi Sr. | — | stroke | S5E55 |
| Lorraine Calluzzo & Jason Evanina | Johnny Sack | Phil's men | S5E53–55 |
| Joey Peeps | Little Carmine's faction | Tony Blundetto | S5E60 |
| Billy Leotardo | — | Tony Blundetto | S5E61 |
| Angelo Garepe | Phil Leotardo | Phil's men | S5E61 |
| Adriana La Cerva | Tony | Silvio | S5E64 "Long Term Parking" |
| Tony Blundetto | — | Tony | S5E65 |
Season 6¶
| Victim | Ordered by | Killed by | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eugene Pontecorvo | — | suicide | S6E66 |
| Rusty Millio | Phil Leotardo | Italian hitmen | S6E71 |
| Vito Spatafore | Phil Leotardo | Phil's men | S6E76 |
| Fat Dom Gamiello | — | Silvio & Carlo | S6E75 |
| John "Johnny Sack" Sacrimoni | — | lung cancer, in custody | S6E79 |
| Christopher Moltisanti | — | Tony | S6E83 "Kennedy and Heidi" |
| Bobby Baccalieri | Phil Leotardo | Lupertazzi hitmen | S6E85 "The Blue Comet" |
| Burt Gervasi | — | Silvio | S6E85 |
| Phil Leotardo | Tony (sanctioned by Butch) | Walden Belfiore | S6E86 |
| Tony Soprano | — | — | unresolved |
Silvio Dante is shot in "The Blue Comet" and left comatose, not expected to recover — alive at the end, technically.
The tallies¶
Approximate named-character totals. Counts vary by what you include — the point of the chart is the ratio, not the decimal.
The number that matters: Tony kills eight people personally, and the last one is his nephew. Compare Vito Corleone, whose whole mythology rests on distance from the act. Tony has no such distance and never acquires any, which is the show's most concrete argument that he is not the figure the genre trained you to expect.
The ones people miscount¶
Tony kills more than you remember, with his hands. Febby Petrulio (garrote), Matthew Bevilaqua, Chucky Signore, Ralph Cifaretto (beating), Tony Blundetto (shotgun), Christopher (suffocation). This is not a boss who delegates.
Livia dies off-screen of a stroke, in season three — a necessity after Nancy Marchand's death in June 2000, not a story decision.
Adriana's death is never shown completing. The camera stays outside the car and at a distance. Some viewers hold out for years on this; the show is not ambiguous about it.
Valery the Russian does not die. He walks into the woods in "Pine Barrens" (S3E37) and is never seen again. Chase eventually said Boy Scouts found him and his boss sent him back to Russia — and only said so, in his words, because so many people got pissy about it.
Tony's fate is not a death. It is an absence of information. See The Ending.