This article lists the various background character deaths that occur in Sharknado 5: Global Swarming.
- When Fin and Nova remove an artifact from an ancient temple beneath Stonehenge, they set off a booby trap that floods the temple with shark-infested waters.
- Nova stabs a shark that leaps out at her.
- Fin impales a shark with a spear.
- As a result of removing the artifact, the most terrible sharknado of all time is triggered, destroying Stonehenge. One of the Shark Sisters that Nova came with dies when the ground caves in beneath her feet and the second Shark Sister is eaten by a shark that drops from the sky.
- A sharknado begins to tear through London. Inside the NATO lab, Llewelyn and Ms. Moore arm themselves with guns and start shooting any sharks that crash through the windows.
- As Fin's helicopter arrives over London, a shark smashes into the cockpit and kills the pilot.
- April, who had previously been cybernetically enhanced, catches Fin's helicopter as it nears the ground. Once Fin and Nova are safely out, she tosses the helicopter into the Thames where it explodes, killing the shark that was still latched on to it.
- The sharknado passes over London Bridge and a car is picked up by the wind funnel. The driver of the car surely dies.
- A shark is killed after being thrown headfirst against the sign for a pub called The Slaughtered Lamb.
- After losing his leg to a shark, the Prime Minister makes a short yet passionate speech about needing to get the Skyfall case to the Sharknado Defense. His aide tells him that she loves him, but just as they lean in for a kiss, a shark falls out of the sky and crushes her.
- Nova drives a double-decker bus through the streets of London and runs over a shark that falls right in front of her.
- A number of sharks that fall around the bus die immediately upon hitting the ground.
- A shark gets impaled on Bret Michaels' guitar.
- Bret Michaels - Front man of the rock band Poison, portrayed by himself. He wanders out into the middle of the road and gets hit by the bus that Nova is driving. Caught on the front of the bus, he starts playing his guitar as he is carried across town. A short while later, the bus is overturned and Bret is devoured whole by a shark.
- Using the Skyfall device, the Prime Minister remotely launches one of the London Eye's passenger capsules like a rocket into the sharknado, blowing up a cluster of sharks.
- Tom Daley - British Olympic diver, portrayed by himself. When the London Eye is broken off its support frame and begins to roll, Daley decides he'll be safe in the water and jumps into the Thames where he is immediately eaten by a shark.
- A mass of sharks pile up outside the front door to Buckingham Palace.
- As Fin, several British royal guards and multiple civilians charge across the palace courtyard, one of the charging civilians inexplicably falls over dead despite not being hit by a shark or anything else.
- The royal guards start shooting at the falling sharks. Five sharks are shot and killed on-screen.
- Fin's son Gil kills a falling shark by stabbing it with his shark fin helmet.
- Fin rides a shark through a window into Buckingham Palace and beats it as it slides down a staircase, coming to a dead stop in front of the Queen of England.
- Lady Anne stabs a shark with a parasol while her servant Helga throws a fine china plate at another, decapitating it.
- In Switzerland, a female skier is sucked up by a sharknado.
- Fin and Nova use ski poles to skewer two sharks as they ski down the mountain.
- A random skier is picked up by the sharknado and eaten by a flying shark.
- An Olympic ice skater is figure-skating as sharks crash through the roof of a stadium. She slices a shark in half with one of her skates before another shark slides across the ice and eats her.
- After being flung from the vortex into a portal, Fin, April and Nova find themselves off the coast of Australia in shark-infested waters. April uses her built-in arc cannon to zap an incoming shark.
- Off the coast of China, a tanker carrying 10,000 tons of nuclear waste is struck by a sharknado. The first mate dies after a shark bites her in the back and another sailor is eaten by a larger shark.
- The Sydney Opera House transforms into a hi-tech battle station and starts firing lasers into the sharknado, killing many sharks.
- Electra uses a sub-machine gun to shoot a shark that smashes through the roof of her mother's lab.
- A sharknado appears in Rio, Brazil and sharks plummet into the streets, with several dying upon impact.
- Fin uses a sword to cleave a shark in half.
- An irradiated mass of sharks appears in Okinawa and two newlyweds on the beach are engulfed and devoured.
- Using the chainsaw given to him by the Pope, Fin carves up four sharks as he is pulled up into a sharknado.
- Fin presses a button on the Pope's chainsaw and several laser beams shoot out, blasting multiple sharks around him.
- Between being attacked by Nova's sisterhood and being bombed by Japanese fighter jets, the Shark-Zilla mass explodes in downtown Tokyo.
- News reports come in that most of the United States has been destroyed by sharknadoes and other nations are also being torn apart by the unnatural weather phenomena.
- Two news anchors are suddenly killed by sharks live on air just as their broadcast is cut.
- Another news report states that Dusseldorf has been completely wiped off the map by sharknadoes.
- The three hostesses of Good Morning Britain are all killed simultaneously as a shark slams into them and crushes them.
- By the end of the film, the Earth has been reduced to a lifeless wasteland with Fin as the last human being alive... until he meets an older version of Gil from the future.