Study reveals Game of Thrones deadliest character - and biggest drinker
Arya Stark is the Game Of Thrones character who has spent the most time committing acts of murder throughout the series, new research shows.
The youngest daughter of the Stark family, played by Maisie Williams, spends more time killing individuals - two minutes and 25 seconds - and mass murdering - one minute - than any other character in the first seven series of the hit show, according to analysis.
Jon Snow, played by Kit Harington, who spends the most screen time committing acts of violence, including 15 seconds murdering, seven minutes and 41 seconds duelling, and four minutes 52 seconds battling. He is followed by Brienne of Tarth, played by Gwendoline Christie, who spends ten minutes and nine seconds over the seven series involved in acts of violence. The show has often come under fire for its levels of both violence and nudity and research shows there has been a significant swing in the proportions of both as the show has gone on.
In the first episodes the amount of on-screen nudity far outweighed the time spent showing scenes of violence but by the third series the balance largely shifted, and throughout the seventh series there was one hour, 16 minutes and 31 seconds of nudity and three hours, nine minutes and 35 seconds of violence.
Figures also show that Tyrion Lannister, played by Peter Dinklage, is the character most likely to be seen drinking or pouring a drink across the seven series.
He drank almost three times more than his wine-loving sister Cersei, played by Lena Headey, downing 100 drinks to her 35.
And there has been a dramatic increase in the appearance of dragons in the later series of the show.
There were just fleeting glimpses of them in the first two series - one roar in series one and two blasts of fire in series two - but by the seventh series they were seen flying 51 times, roaring 42 times and breathing fire 30 times.
The final series of Game Of Thrones begins on Sky Atlantic at 2am on Monday.