James Bond’s body count illustrated in the style of Dr. No title sequence

Bond kills graphic Dr No — Brendan Dawes' graphic illustrates James Bond's bodycount in the style of the opening titles from Dr. No, the first film in the Eon series. Click for larger image showing all films. Illustration: Brendan Dawes Photograph: Brendan Dawes/Public Domain

Designer Brendan Dawes has illustrated our data on James Bond's on-screen kills in an homage to the famous title sequence of Dr. No.

The highly stylised sequence, created by Maurice Binder, features circles of different colours jumping across the screen in geometric formations, and was preceded by the now familiar shot of Bond swivelling to pick off a would-be assassin (also created by Binder).

Dawes' graphic uses the same coloured circles to represent Bond's body count. Each red circle represents ten kills, and each blue-green circle a single death.

As you can see, Bond was at his deadliest in Goldeneye, where 47 people met their doom at his hand.

On seven occasions 007 failed to break into double figures, with his least lethal outing coming in The Man with the Golden Gun, where he killed just one - Scaramanga.

The data used in this visualisation comes from our previous post. Body counts for Bond films are, perhaps unsurprisingly, a controversial topic, with exact figures and methodologies differing from one site to the next. We used action film fan-site All Outta Bubble Gum as our source.