Oh, what the hell, any excuse to make a spreadsheet...

There were 56 regular or recurring characters on Buffy. At least according to TV Tome's list, which seemed slightly arbitrary, but it's close enough for this. 21 are women, and 11 of them died on the show. I'm counting Buffy (but just once) and I've got no idea if Chao Ann died or not. Of the 35 men listed, at least 18 died; there were a couple minor characters I wasn't sure about. (Personally, I'd make it 19 and count Angel as dying, too, because that was certainly the emotional impact even if he wasn't killed.)

Angel obviously had fewer women in recurring roles, but of 14 women, 5 died. Of 22 men, 15 died. (Wowie.)

I don't think it's that more women die, it's that more of the women are important, and their deaths have more impact on the audience and the other characters. So we remember them. And I agree with NovaChild that there are fewer men whose deaths would have had that same impact. The men are often cannon fodder. Or get killed by Buffy.

Strega, I'm spacing on being able to do it in my head, but do those numbers change when you don't count villians?

Oooo...

As you're going on any excuse for a spreadsheet tonight (and I'm lazy as hell tonight--witness my acute failure to go looking up specific lines), could we get a breakdown into white hats/black hats?

Strega, any chance I could see the raw table on that? Profile address is OK, if you wouldn't mind emailing it to me.

Ms.Esse, you managed to say in seconds what it took me three minutes (okay, some of which were spent trying to find the tab after tabbing away for a moment) to attempt to ask.

Well, and you were direct, where I wanted to look at the data without having to grab it myself.

do those numbers change when you don't count villians?

How do you count that, tho? How about Jonathon? Or Ben?

Ms.Esse, you managed to say in seconds what it took me three minutes (okay, some of which were spent trying to find the tab after tabbing away for a moment) to attempt to ask.

ita "Spike's Bitches 17: Hostile?" Aug 31, 2004 10:15:22 am PDT

Who do we have for regular (main credits) cast?

BtVS, top of my head, we've got Buffy, Willow, Xander, Giles, Angel, Riley (MB was in the credits, right?), Dawn, Tara, Oz, Anya. Who is missing?

Angel, we've got Angel, Cordelia, Doyle, Wesley, Gunn, Fred, Connor, Lorne, Harmony (IIRC, MM was added to the credits, but again, too lazy to look it up.)

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I would count it by last known activity. Ben=bad guy. Jonathan=not bad guy. I figure it would vary, but, on the whole, with additions and subtractions based on personal preference, probably balance out. More or less.

Or, have a grey-hat category.

(IIRC, MM was added to the credits, but again, too lazy to look it up.)

She was. Not sure about Marc Blucas. Possibly.