Killed the most characters
Apr. 17th, 2015 11:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackPtc joked that authors kill off an average of three major characters -- most kill none, but one is George Martin :)
Which got me thinking, which author has really killed off the most characters? I want to say "named" rather than "major" so it's more objective. In which case you maybe want two categories: authors who kill off a whole world at the end of a book; and authors who kill off the most named characters -- but still have plot going on afterwards.
Who are the obvious candidates?
ETA: With thanks to Mark for the link and to seekingferrett, the current frontrunner is the Illiad with 254 :)
ETA: Apparently GoT beats it out with 293!
Which got me thinking, which author has really killed off the most characters? I want to say "named" rather than "major" so it's more objective. In which case you maybe want two categories: authors who kill off a whole world at the end of a book; and authors who kill off the most named characters -- but still have plot going on afterwards.
Who are the obvious candidates?
ETA: With thanks to Mark for the link and to seekingferrett, the current frontrunner is the Illiad with 254 :)
ETA: Apparently GoT beats it out with 293!
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Date: 2015-04-21 10:59 am (UTC)I'm going for _Lone Wolf and Cub_; 28 volumes, 8,700 pages, and almost all of it is of the form "Ogami Itto is employed to assassinate some people / some people come to kill him; he shivs them up". Jack, do comics count?