Game of Thrones Characters

Abstract

The characters with the highest screentime are dominated by main protagonists.

1 Introduction

In our analysis of the game of thrones dataset, we compare screentime and number of starred episodes for all characters. We then label all characters with a high screentime (top 10) as shown in Figure 1 in Section 2.

2 Results

Figure 1

Figure 2 shows the coat of arms of house Arryn.

Figure 2: The coat of arms of house Arryn

Figure 3 shows the coat of arms of four houses in game of thrones.

(a) Arryn

(b) Baratheon

(c) Baylish

(d) Bolton

Figure 3: A collection of different coats of arms from the book ‘A song of Ice and Fire’, created by dezzzart published on deviantart.com

As shown in Table 1, the characters with the highest screentime are dominated by main protagonists.

Table 1: Top 10 Game of Thrones characters by screentime

name	screentime	episodes
Tyrion Lannister	293.30	54
Jon Snow	268.15	49
Daenerys Targaryen	221.30	49
Cersei Lannister	201.45	52
Sansa Stark	199.30	47
Arya Stark	189.15	47
Jaime Lannister	162.30	43
Theon Greyjoy	123.30	39
Samwell Tarly	121.45	37
Jorah Mormont	117.30	42

Screen time increased during COVID-19 lockdown Suthar and Arts (2020).

References

Suthar, Shruti A, and Uma Arts. 2020. “Increasing Screen Time and Gaming Impact on Children’s Mental Health During the Covid-19 Lockdown.” Res Rev Int Multidisciplin J 6: 8–13.