So a bit over two years ago former content mod Rubenvst calculated some info about 22 main casts, and so I decided to do a version of that over our expanded season count. Now I only counted S8s, nothing beyond it, and I probably missed something, but I counted 50 seasons (a few of them made by the same person), 34 of them counted in the old version, 12 in the new version, and 4 in both. Now its time for more info.
- In our new seasons no one agrees on anything, while in the old seasons they can only agree that Rumple returns.
- The most popular main cast member in the new seasons is Colin O'Donoghue's Hooks, in the old seasons its a tie between Regina, Henry and Alice (the first two tie for second in the old one), and in the composite groups Regina and Henry narrowly squeak a tied first
- In our new seasons there are no same casts, but in the old seasons Winged Pig, Steve993 and Lady Rapunzel could all agree that the main cast should be Regina, Henry, Rogers, Jacinda, Tiana, Alice, Margot and Lucy.
- Rogers, Regina, Henry, Alice and Margot are in more than half the new seasons (Jacinda is in exactly half), those along with Jacinda and Zelena are in more than half of the old seasons, and Rogers, Regina, Henry, Alice, Margot and Jacinda are in more than half of all, with Zelena in half.
- Zelena is a more popular main cast member than Tiana and Lucy.
- Emma is as popular a main cast member as Tiana.
- No cast has no people that is in no one else's main cast.
- Gideon and Ivy, both of whom had never been in the main cast before, are more popular than Snow and David, who have been in 6 seasons, and W!Henry, who's actor was also in six seasons, together these five are the most popular characters not in any of my constructed casts, and together almost half of the main casts include them.
- Across the 50 seasons a Red Queen is included 3 different times, as is a character played by Dove Cameron.
- Across those in newer seasons 6 people include casts without anyone not in other seasons, in older ones there are 14, and composite 20.
Predicted Casts
The average main cast size for our newer seasons is 9.5, for the older 8 and a bit, and 8 and two thirds for our newer ones, to differing degrees these ten people are in 49 main casts, in fact you can use Regina, Henry and Alice alone to cover those 49.
The New One:
- Rogers (14/16)
- Regina (13/16)
- Henry (13/16)
- Alice (10/16)
- Margot (9/16)
- Jacinda (8/16)
- Zelena (7/16)
- Lucy (6.5*/16)
- Tiana (6/16)
- And in something only found here, Emma is in as many seasons as Snow and David, 5
* RedGlasses20 includes Lucy in his main cast but Alison Fernandez does not play her
The casts that most match this belong to Nick Branson and Matheus, each of them including Rogers, Regina, Henry, Alice, Margot and Jacinda, with Lucy being missing from Matheus and Zelena (slightly more popular than Lucy) missing from Nick's. However in Matheus' season he also includes two somewhat popular cast members and a completely unique one, while Nick includes two completely unique characters but a cast size closer to 9.5. The most unique one is Jophiel's who only includes one character found anywhere else here, the Blue Fairy, found in two seasons, theirs and mine.
The Old One:
- Regina (33/38)
- Henry (33/38)
- ALice (33/38)
- Margot (30/38)
- Rogers (28/38)
- Jacinda (23/38)
- Zelena (20/38)
- Lucy or Emma (12/38)
The casts that most match this are the three seasons with the same main cast of Regina, Henry, Alice, Margot, Rogers, Jacinda, Lucy and Tiana, AKA the six most popular ones, the one tied for 8th, and the tenth most popular (Tiana). Worst fit is OUATTheDarkness, who only has two options and two of the most popular ones off the list.
Composite One:
- Regina (42/50)
- Henry (42/50)
- Alice (41/50)
- Margot (38/50)
- Rogers (37/50)
- Jacinda (28/50)
- Zelena (25/50)
- Lucy (16.5/50)
- Emma or Tiana (16/50) or no one
The ones that match this the most are the previous best fits, and the worst fit is Jophiel, who has only two characters found in other seasons, Blue, who is also in my reboot and Ruben's, and Aurora, in theirs and Black Necked-Swan.