Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Buffy kill count

A couple of years ago, sitting around with some friends, we decided to keep track of how many kills Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Scooby Gang accumulated over the seven seasons of the show. We thought, with a name like Buffy the Vampire Slayer there has to be a high kill count. After a year between seasons, I took it upon myself to finally finish our project and managed to watch the last two in one week. Here is what we got:

Vampires: 120 (includes Dracula and four Turok-Han)
Vampire assists: 68

Demon: 56 (includes 12 baby demons)
Witch: 1
Evil human: 1
Spirit: 1
Assassin: 2
Fairy tale creature: 12
Robot: 1
Bug: 1
Monster: 4
Hellhound: 3
Possessed zookeeper/animal: 1
ADAM: 1
Lizard guy: 1
Mummy hand: 1
Demon minion: 1
Bringers: 14
Preacher with powers of The First: 1
Assists with non-vampires: 49

End of the world saves: 7
Xander end of the world saves: 1
Buffy deaths: 2

Now, our counts did not include all kills. We only kept track of the good guys' kills. And the end of the world saves did - in some cases - include the kill of the baddie who was bringing it about, so those arch-nemeses are included under the "End of the world saves" count. And the final episode had too many kills for me to keep track of, so there are no numbers for that until I can enlist some assistance from the original team to count.

There is probably a margin of error involved in the count. I'm not sure the method was that consistent, and because of the large time gap between seasons it might not be as accurate as we had hoped. We'll say overall, there was a 90% accuracy with the count. Future Buff-athons may include a new count to compare to this one.

And now you may comment on the nerdiness involved in this project or the disturbing fact that we kept a kill count....

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