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.

Heh. See, at first I thought "This is the kind of obsessive thing I do that makes people back away from me slowly," and then I remembered where I was and knew it would be okay.

It's on my work PC, because I did it while goofing off this afternoon and then scribbled down the totals before I came home. I will pass it on in the morning, though. I did start marking good/evil (although as noted, that got tricky) and my vague impression was that it didn't skew things too much. But I'm not sure how thorough I was in sorting by different criteria.

I'm pretty sure Blucas was.

Buffy regulars: Buffy, Xander, Willow, Cordelia, Angel, Giles, Oz, Riley, Spike, Anya, Tara(one credit appearance. Bastards. Sniff.) 95% sure this list is right.

Angel regulars: Angel, Cordy, Doyle, Wesley, Fred, Gunn, Lorne, Harmony, Connor

Buffy Numbers: Two dead regulars (that's it!), Tara and Anya. Both female. so 2/5 girls died and 0/6 boys died (why does it surprise me that there are more male regulars than female regulars in that cast?) Oh, except that Spike died too (sure he came back in Angel, but counting that is totally unfair), so make that 2/5 and 1/6. More girl-death than boy-death, obviously.

Angel Numbers: Five deaths counting Gunn, 3 boys and 2 girls. so 3/6 for guys and 2/3 for girls. Again, female regulars die at a higher rate than male (and both groups die at a higher rate than in Buffy, fittingly.)

These numbers ignore recurring characters of high emotional impact and popularity (Jenny, Joyce, Lindsay, Lilah, Darla, Jasmine, Ben, Warren, Jonathan, Andrew, Harmony-in-Buffy, and so forth) because I'm lazy and Strega will probably give us better numbers tomorrow.

I still say it's all about emotional impact.

Gunn's not dead. Gunn's dying, but he's not dead.

Okay. By ita's rules, 2/6 for boys and 2/3 for girls in Angel. So girl regulars die at twice the rate.

Wasn't Lilah in the credits at one point?