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?
I find that I'm much more prone to, be it TV or comics, get crankier about qualitative stuff regarding deaths than quantitative. Thus the mild displeasure about how AtS handled the girl deaths. They tended to die as victims, and that sits a little ill.
I don't believe so. I don't think they ever put a villain in the credits. In either show, actually. And Lilah was always evil, even when sympathetically so.
I don't believe so. I don't think they ever put a villain in the credits. In either show, actually. And Lilah was always evil, even when sympathetically so.
Harmony. Who was always evil, even when sympathetically so.
