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If you include the battle scenes, Game of Thrones probably killed off hundreds of times more male than female characters,
Published death-count analyses of Game of Thrones do not support a “hundreds of times” male-to-female death ratio; they suggest men account for ~94% of deaths (about 16:1).
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The post makes a quantitative claim about the ratio of male to female deaths in Game of Thrones: that the show killed off “hundreds of times more” male than female characters.
However, published tallies that explicitly break down deaths by gender report that about 94.2% of characters killed are men (implying 5.8% are women). If men are 94.2% of deaths and women are 5.8% of deaths, then the male-to-female death ratio is approximately:
- 94.2 / 5.8 ≈ 16.2 times
A ~16:1 ratio is nowhere near “hundreds of times” (≥100:1). So the numeric magnitude in the post is contradicted by these published counts.
Notes on interpretation: Even allowing for uncertainty in methodology, a shift from ~16:1 to ≥100:1 would require women to be around 1% (or less) of deaths, which is inconsistent with the cited breakdowns.
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- ‘Game of Thrones’ hasn’t fixed its problem with female characters, says study (Scroll.in)
“A staggering 94.2% of characters killed in the show are men.” (This implies 5.8% are women — about a 16:1 ratio, not ‘hundreds of times’.)
- 'Game of Thrones' Season 7 Had the Least, But Most Equal, Amount of Nudity (Moviefone)
“Broadly's count of onscreen deaths [shows] only 5.8 percent of them have been women.” (That implies ~94.2% men, about 16:1.)