Number of Character Speech Bubbles

[Cizak]

853:

Belkar: 2
Durkon: 1
Elan: 3
Haley: 4
Malack: 3
Nale: 1
Roy: 6
Sabine: 1
Tarquin: 2

[martianmister]

Greatest thread ever.

[asphias]

since no bothered to look at the Speeches/Appearances, i decided to go ahead and do it myself.
note that only characters with either more then 30 appearances, *OR* at least 100 speeches have been counted. anything below that and i'd soon have to count 4 times as much characters


oracle 11,2
tarquin 9,4
therkla 8,5
tsukiko 8,3
shojo 8,3
redcloak 7,8
eugene 7,7
celia 7,2
roy 6,6
xykon 6,6
nale 6,2
hinjo 6,2
ian starshine 6,1
ganji 6,0
miko 6,0
qarr 5,3
monster 5,2
elan 5,2
haley 4,9
ochul 4,8
belkar 4,6
malack 4,3
V 4,2
sabine 3,5
daigo 2,9
durkon 2,9
demonroaches 2,9
thog 2,5
lien 2,5
blackwing 1,5
zz'dtri 1,4
mr.scruffy 0,4

its interesting to see that the order of the main characters does not chance, no matter if we look at speeches, Appearances, or speeches/Appearances.

[137beth]

Celia: 511
Tarquin: 512

I think these are suppose to be flipped

[Onyavar]

Asphias, that's a great job with the appearance/speeches table.

its interesting to see that the order of the main characters does not chance, no matter if we look at speeches, Appearances, or speeches/Appearances.

The opposite would have surprised me, in fact. Most fascinating, I wouldn't have suspected the oracle at the top, but Tarquin, Redcloak and Celia.

[Onyavar]

Update of 854:
Malack +12; Tarquin +10; Sabine +3; Qarr +2; Nale +1

Update of 855:
Roy +10; Haley +7; Belkar +5; Elan +3; Durkon +1

[martianmister]

856:
Nale +11; Tarquin +4; Malack +3; Sabine +3; Qarr +2; Kilkil +1

857:
Blackwing +16; Vaarsuvius +12; Nale +1; Sabine +1; Zz'dtri +1

[Tass]

OP. Could you send me the text file? I'll try to whip up some matlab magic to let us graph the activity of the characters at a given time in the comics run, not just the total activity to date.

The opposite would have surprised me, in fact. Most fascinating, I wouldn't have suspected the oracle at the top, but Tarquin, Redcloak and Celia.

It makes sense though. Celia and Tarquin are more often background characters, following the main action (although both talk a lot), the oracle has rarely appeared in a strip that was not completely centered on him. With mane bubbles per appearance as a result.

[Gift Jeraff]

#858:
Haley +2, Kilkil +2, Malack +4, Nale +3, Roy +1, Sabine +5, Tarquin +8

#859:
Durkon +1, Kilkil +1, Malack +3, Nale +7, Qarr +1, Sabine +2, Tarquin +2, Zz'dtri +1

[Onyavar]

OP. Could you send me the text file?

Sent you a PM, the same day even. Could you do anything with that data?

stuff

Thanks, updated.

[irenicObserver]

I think this is the only fandom I know to undertake endeavors such as this

[martianmister]

#860:
Nale +12, Roy +1, Sabine +5, Tarquin +5, Zz'dtri +1, Belkar +4

#861:
Qarr +4, Roy +4, Tarquin +4, Malack +3, Zz'dtri +1, Durkon +1, Haley +1

#858:
Tarquin +8

This should be +9.

[Onyavar]

Ok, I just took the liberty to update the count numbers in my OP, after a long time of absence from this thread. Hope this doesn't count as necromancy, since starting a new thread seemed kinda waste to me.

Also, new statistic regarding the appearance / speech bubble ratio that asphias introduced last year:

9,33 Oracle
7,73 Therkla
7,71 Tarquin
7,28 Tsukiko
6,73 Redcloak
6,55 Eugene Greenhilt
6,06 Shojo
6,02 Celia
5,91 Roy Greenhilt
5,81 Gannji
5,43 Nale
5,34 Xykon
5,23 Monster in the Darkness
5,13 Miko Miyazaki
4,93 Minister Malack
4,92 Ian Starshine
4,79 Hinjo
4,7 Haley Starshine
4,39 Elan
4,06 Qarr
3,87 O-Chul
3,82 Vaarsuvius
3,81 Belkar Bitterleaf
3,25 Sabine
2,59 Daigo Da
2,5 Enor
2,45 Durkon Thundershield
2,42 Demon Roaches (all)
2,16 Lien
2,02 Thog
1,67 Blackwing
1,13 Zz'dtri
0,35 Mr Scruffy

There may be differences in weighting because I added the blue numbers from the multipage count, as well as speech bubbles from Haleys personalities.

Wow, Tarquin really pushed himself into the foreground, he will soon have more bubbles than Nale. I can already see him as the side character of the comic with the most speech bubbles, even more than Reddie. Since Tarquin can't be main villain, this is a nice consolation price.

[Gift Jeraff]

Wow. Were Nale and Tarquin ahead of Xykon last time you updated? Could've sworn it was Xykon>Nale>Tarquin with significant gaps between the 3.

This should be +9.

Oops.

[henrykazuka]

Also, new statistic regarding the appearance / speech bubble ratio that asphias introduced last year:

9,33 Oracle
7,73 Therkla

I thought ninjas were supposed to be silent? and also do a lot of killing?

[Onyavar]

Wow. Were Nale and Tarquin ahead of Xykon last time you updated? Could've sworn it was Xykon>Nale>Tarquin with significant gaps between the 3.

Oh yes. I could have sworn the same. A year of tarquinery can change many things.

I thought ninjas were supposed to be silent? and also do a lot of killing?

In the strips where Therkla appeared, she apparently talked a lot. When she didn't talk, we had no chance to see her... because, you now... ninja? So her ratio went through the roof.

[137beth]

Nice to see that even after all this time, the Polearm Emporium Clerk retains his status of the highest speech bubble to appearance ration

[Onyavar]

Update of 919:
Vaarsuvius +10; Blackwing +1; Roy +4; Belkar +2; Durkon +1

[Zmeoaice]

Needs the little OOTS smilies.

I wonder if someone is patient enough to count the amount of words said by each character.

[Yxylu]

V would rank a lot higher in that one! There would be many other differences as well compared to this list. We need to see this, come on! No, don't, just kidding.

I was sort of waiting until the end of book 5 for the reveal, and I won't go into too much detail here, but this is in-process. To address your specific assumption, Vaarsuvius comes in 5th, with 23,998 words. Roy is the chattiest by far, with 48,356 words.

This includes the on-line archive, all seven books (plus the coloring book), the Kickstarter updates, both reward PDFs, and the cards from the board game.

[Onyavar]

I wonder if someone is patient enough to count the amount of words said by each character.

I was sort of waiting until the end of book 5 for the reveal, ...

You really... you... okay. What we also need is a count of characters in PANELS (yes, eat your hearts out, appearance-per-comic-strip-counters wannabe nerds ()).
I once even started a file attempting such a per-panel count, but then I asked myself - why exactly am I doing this?

I think this is the only fandom I know to undertake endeavors such as this

So. True.

[Yxylu]

You really... you... okay. What we also need is a count of characters in PANELS (yes, eat your hearts out, appearance-per-comic-strip-counters wannabe nerds ()).

You... you're really making me tip my hand here. There's a reason why I was able to identify in the Individual Comic Discussion thread how many Empire of Blood infantry there were either charging down into the depression (654), or surrounding the wall of fire (157).

I'm updating with current comics, and back-filling from the beginning. I'm going slowly, 'cause I'm getting hung up on which bandit is which. There is a surprising number of them.

[Onyavar]

I'm getting hung up on which bandit is which. There is a surprising number of them.

It made my head hurt, too. There is a brownish-red haired one who speaks rather often, but there is another brown-haired and another red haired...
I started at the beginning, once, and if I remember correctly I struggled through the bandit arc and lost motivation soon after. If I had to guesstimate from memory, I'd say there were the ex-leader, Samantha, 12 mook-level bandits with speaking roles and maybe 20 extras, all on-panel. And after being disbanded, the female apprentice bandit sat in the tavern!

You're also going to have a lot of fun with the individualized EoB soldiers (different from the montonous azurite soldiers). There is an arena guard with semibrown skin who talked so much I nearly considered him as recurring character, maybe he had more bubbles than the arena overseer - but maybe he was just a regularly-used pattern, so I stopped tracking him.

[137beth]

Are you still planning on updating this?

[Onyavar]

Are you still planning on updating this?

Of course, thanks for reminding me.
I translated 922 and 923 yesterday, and recounted just now.

[Zmeoaice]

Can you change the link to number of character appearances to this?

http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=276152

[137beth]

For 924, we have:
Miron: +6
Tarquin: +10
Laurin: +5
Kilkil: +1

[Onyavar]

Included update for 925+926.

Laruin and Miron crawl their way to top. Slow but steady.

[Onyavar]

Hello all, the OP post is updated to the finale of book 5; I finally counted the Speech bubbles from 926-946 (automated via the german translation, as before):

Roy+94, Elan+74, Tarquin+67, Haley+46, Julio+42, Vaarsuvius+37, Ian:+33, Laurin+30, Belkar+25, Blackwing+21, Geoff+13, Miron+11, Gannji+7, Hel+7, Amun-Zora+5, Bozzok+2, Enor+1, Jiminy+1

And in the light of the most recent strip, I did the step to separate the two characters of Durkon and Durkula (for lack of a better name, I hate that denomination myself): Durkon loses 36 counts, Durkula now has 59.

[137beth]

And in the light of the most recent strip, I did the step to separate the two characters of Durkon and Durkula (for lack of a better name, I hate that denomination myself): Durkon loses 36 counts, Durkula now has 59.

I suggest "High Priest of Hel", as that is what is given in the comic (and is being used by the other stat tracking threads).