[Analyzation] Choosing Marvel's Most Iconic Female Character

[Captain M]

I've been wanting to do this for some time. No real intention other than to present fun facts.

Basically by looking at these characters' comic book / animation / game / movie / TV show appearances I'm going to end up with a list. Editor Brett White (who is awesome btw) used to do something similiar to this so I definitely got inspired by that.

Here is how I plan to do rank the characters:

First of all, categories don't all award the same amount of points. Movies will affect 50% of the final scores of the characters' and rest of the categories which are;
- TV Shows / Animation (25%)
- Games (20%)
- Comic Books affect 5%

Important Things:

- Every appearance in 616 Universe counts. I'm not going to count alternate universes.
- Playable Appareances in games are worth 3 times the importance than non-playable appearances.
- Cameo type appearances where you don't even hear the character's name won't be counted in the movie category.


These are the characters I plan to focus on:

- Black Widow
- Captain Marvel
- Storm
- Scarlet Witch
- Jean Grey
- Rogue
- Wasp
- Ms. Marvel
- Jubilee
- Squirrel Girl
- Elektra
- Medusa
- Quake
- Mockingbird
- Black Cat
- Invisible Woman
- Sif
- Jessica Jones
- Hellcat
- Misty Knight
- Mystique
- Emma Frost
- Kitty Pryde
- Spider-Woman
- Gamora
- Psylocke
- She-Hulk
- X-23
- Peggy Carter
- Gwen Stacy
- Mary Jane Watson
- White Tiger
- Crystal

FINAL RESULTS:

1. Black Widow - 195.75 Points
2. Storm - 181.95 Points
3. Jean Grey - 148.35 Points
4. Mary Jane Watson - 147.05 Points
5. Invisible Woman - 146.5 Points
6. Scarlet Witch - 134.8 Points
7. Rogue - 115.75 Points
8. Wasp - 108.5 Points
9. Mystique - 96.25 Points
10. Kitty Pryde - 96.15 Points
11. Captain Marvel - 78.2 Points
12. She-Hulk - 76.95 Points
13. Emma Frost - 65.95 Points
14. Psylocke - 61.7 Points
15. Gwen Stacy - 59.5 Points
16. Sif - 50.5 Points
17. Jubilee - 48.25 Points
18. Gamora - 46.15 Points
19. Spider-Woman - 40.15 Points
20. Hellcat - 35 Points
21. Black Cat - 34.15 Points
22. Elektra - 33.85 Points
23. Crystal - 33.6 Points
24. Mockingbird -31.45 Points
25. Medusa - 31.3 Points
26. Quake - 27.05 Points
27. X-23 - 24.75 Points
28. Peggy Carter - 22.45 Points
29. Misty Knight - 21.2 Points
30. Jessica Jones - 19.5 Points
31. White Tiger - 19 Points
32. Squirrel Girl - 14.35Points
33. Ms. Marvel - 12.05 Points

[Captain M]

TV SHOWS / CARTOONS:

Only counted aired episodes of TV Shows and Cartoons these characters appeared in.

1. Storm - 119 Episodes - 29.75 Points
2. Jean Grey - 111 Episodes - 27.75 Points
3. Rogue - 109 Episodes - 27.25 Points
4. Wasp - 106 Episodes - 26.5 Points
5. Invisible Woman - 103 Episodes - 25.75 Points
6. Mary Jane Watson - 91 Episodes - 22.75 Points
7. Scarlet Witch - 74 Episodes - 18.5 Points
8. Black Widow - 71 Episodes - 17.75 Points
9. Quake - 67 Episodes - 16.75 Points
10. Kitty Pryde - 67 Episodes - 16.75 Points
11. Jubilee - 64 Episodes - 16 Points
12. She-Hulk - 53 Episodes - 13.25 Points
13. White Tiger - 52 Episodes - 13 Points
14. Captain Marvel - 49 Episodes - 12.25 Points
15. Mystique - 44 Episodes - 11 Points
16. Mockingbird - 34 Episodes - 8.5 Points
17. Black Cat - 34 Episodes - 8.5 Points
18. Emma Frost - 29 Episodes - 7.25 Points
19. Gwen Stacy - 27 Episodes - 6.75 Points
20. Gamora - 23 Episodes - 5.75 Points
21. Peggy Carter - 20 Episodes - 5 Points
22. Spider-Woman - 16 Episodes - 4 Points
23. Misty Knight - 14 Episodes - 3.5 Points
24. Jessica Jones - 13 Episodes - 3.25 Points
25. Medusa - 12 Episodes - 3 Points
26. Hellcat - 12 Episodes - 3 Points
27. Elektra - 10 Episodes - 2.5 Points
28. Crystal - 9 Episodes - 2.25 Points
29. Squirrel Girl - 7 Episodes - 1.75 Points
30. Sif - 7 Episodes - 1.75 Points
31. X-23 - 7 Episodes - 1.75 Points
32. Psylocke - 5 Episodes - 1.25 Point
33. Ms. Marvel - 1 Episode - 0.25 Points

[Captain M]

COMICS:

- Only 616 appearances of these characters are counted.

1. Invisible Woman - 1878 - 93.9 Points
2. Storm - 1681 - 84.05 Points
3. Mary Jane Watson - 1350 - 67.5 Points
4. Scarlet Witch - 1287 - 63.35 Points
5. Wasp - 1260 - 63 Points
6. Black Widow - 1170 - 58.5 Points
7. Jean Grey - 1152 - 57.6 Points
8. Captain Marvel - 1083 - 54.15 Points
9. She-Hulk - 1034 - 51.7 Points
10. Kitty Pryde - 996 - 49.8 Points
11. Rogue - 936 - 46.8 Points
12. Emma Frost - 904 - 45.2 Points
13. Psylocke - 762 - 38.1 Points
14. Spider-Woman - 583 - 29.15 Points
15. Hellcat - 576 - 28.8 Points
16. Crystal - 559 - 27.95 Points
17. Medusa - 514 - 25.7 Points
18. Gwen Stacy - 491 - 24.55 Points
19. Sif - 444 - 22.2 Points
20. Jubilee - 434 - 21.7 Points
21. Mystique - 431 - 21.55 Points
22. Mockingbird - 411 - 20.55 Points
23. Black Cat - 369 - 18.45 Points
24. X-23 - 344 - 17.2 Points
25. Elektra - 305 - 15.25
26. Gamora - 296 - 14.8 Points
27. Misty Knight - 286 - 14.3 Points
28. Jessica Jones - 253 - 12.65 Points
29. Ms. Marvel - 116 - 5.8 Points
30. Quake - 106 - 5.3 Points
31. Peggy Carter - 105 - 5.25 Points
32. Squirrel Girl - 104 - 5.2 Points
33. White Tiger - 72 - 3.6 Points

[Captain M]

GAMES:

- Every playable game is worth 4 and every nonplayable=1 . Then we take 20% of that.

1. Storm - 22 Playable, 4 Nonplayable - 18.4.4 Points
2. Black Widow - 19 Playable, 6 Nonplayable 16.4 Points
3. Psylocke - 17 Playable, 5 Nonplayable - 14.6 Points
4. Jean Grey - 17 Playable, 4 Nonplayable - 14.4 Points
5. She-Hulk - 14 Playable, 4 Nonplayable - 12 Points
6. Captain Marvel - 14 Playable, 3 Nonplayable - 11.8 Points
7. Rogue - 13 Playable, 5 Nonplayable - 11.4 Points
8. Invisible Woman & Elektra - 12 Playable, 1 Nonplayable - 9.8 Points
10. Scarlet Witch - 12 Playable - 9.6 Points
11. Wasp - 11 Playable, 4 Nonplayable - 9.6 Points
12. Gamora - 11 Playable, 1 Nonplayable - 9 Points
13. Squirrel Girl - 9 Playable, 1 Nonplayable - 7.4 Points
14. Sif - 8 Playable, 4 Nonplayable - 7.2 Points
15. Black Cat - 7 Playable - 8 Nonplayable - 7.2 Points
16. Spider-Woman - 8 Playable, 3 Nonplayable - 7 Points
17. Mystique - 7 Playable, 5 Nonplayable - 6.6 Points
18. Emma Frost & Kitty Pryde - 7 Playable, 3 Nonplayable - 6.2 Points
20. Ms. Marvel - 7 Playable, 2 Nonplayable - 6 Points
21. X-23 - 7 Playable - 1 Nonplayable - 5.8 Points
22. Quake & Gwen Stacy - 6 Playable - 1 Nonplayable - 5 Points
24. Jessica Jones - 4 Playable, 2 Nonplayable - 3.6 Points
25. Misty Knight & Peggy Carter & Crystal - 4 Playable, 1 Nonplayable - 3.4 Points
28. Hellcat - 4 Playable - 3.2 Points
29. Jubilee - 3 Playable, 2 Nonplayable - 2.8 Points
30. White Tiger, Medusa - 3 Playable, 1 Nonplayable - 2.6 Points
32. Mockingbird - 3 Playable - 2.4 Points
33. Mary Jane Watson - 1 Playable, 2 Nonplayable - 1.2 Points (Not counting cameo apperances where she is the damsel in distress)

[Captain M]

MOVIES:

- Counting the domestic Box Office Numbers, counts for 50%
The criteria:
- The character has to be seen in action, in costume with their name used in the movie. Even if it's in deleted scenes. Meaning Jubilee in X-Men APocalypse counts.
- The character has to have either a talking role, or a small role that still affects the movie in a big way.

1. Black Widow - 2.062 Billion - 103.1 Points
2. Mystique - 1.142 Billion - 57.1 Points
3. Mary Jane Watson - 1.113 Billion - 55.65 Points
4. Storm - 995 Million - 49.75 Points
5. Jean Grey - 972 Million - 48.6 Points
6. Scarlet Witch - 867 Million - 43.35 Points
7. Rogue - 606 Million - 30.3 Points
8. Kitty Pryde - 468 Million - 23.4 Points
9. Gwen Stacy - 464 Million - 23.2 Points
10. Sif - 387 Million - 19.35
11. Invisible Woman - 341 Million - 17.05 Points
12. Gamora - 333 Million - 16.65 Points
13. Wasp - 180 Million - 9 Points
14. Peggy Carter - 176 Million - 8.8 Points
15. Psylocke & Jubilee - 155 Million - 7.75 Points
16. Emma Frost - 146 Million - 7.3 Points
17. Elektra - 126 Million - 6.3 Points

[Captain M]

FINAL RESULTS:

1. Black Widow - 195.75 Points
2. Storm - 181.95 Points
3. Jean Grey - 148.35 Points
4. Mary Jane Watson - 147.05 Points
5. Invisible Woman - 146.5 Points
6. Scarlet Witch - 134.8 Points
7. Rogue - 115.75 Points
8. Wasp - 108.5 Points
9. Mystique - 96.25 Points
10. Kitty Pryde - 96.15 Points
11. Captain Marvel - 78.2 Points
12. She-Hulk - 76.95 Points
13. Emma Frost - 65.95 Points
14. Psylocke - 61.7 Points
15. Gwen Stacy - 59.5 Points
16. Sif - 50.5 Points
17. Jubilee - 48.25 Points
18. Gamora - 46.15 Points
19. Spider-Woman - 40.15 Points
20. Hellcat - 35 Points
21. Black Cat - 34.15 Points
22. Elektra - 33.85 Points
23. Crystal - 33.6 Points
24. Mockingbird -31.45 Points
25. Medusa - 31.3 Points
26. Quake - 27.05 Points
27. X-23 - 24.75 Points
28. Peggy Carter - 22.45 Points
29. Misty Knight - 21.2 Points
30. Jessica Jones - 19.5 Points
31. White Tiger - 19 Points
32. Squirrel Girl - 14.35Points
33. Ms. Marvel - 12.05 Points

[Crimz]

Thanks for the hard work Captain M!

5th is great, considering the circumstances.

I wonder how this will change in the next 5 years

[Digifiend]

Something that needs clarifying: in the 1990s Iron Man cartoon, Spider-Woman was a regular character, but it was the Julia Carpenter version. Jessica Drew had previously had her own show. I hope you didn't combine them!

[hedgehogvampire]

FINAL RESULTS:

1. Black Widow - 195.75 Points
2. Storm - 181.95 Points

I'm not surprise at all by this. I was going to guess that Storm and Black Widow was going to be the top 2.

[Captain M]

Something that needs clarifying: in the 1990s Iron Man cartoon, Spider-Woman was a regular character, but it was the Julia Carpenter version. Jessica Drew had previously had her own show. I hope you didn't combine them!

No worries. :P

I only counted stuff with Jessica.

[Xelossik]

Thanks for the hard work Captain M!

[Captain M]

By the way some of the info with cartoons and old games are bound to be wrong. Nothing drastical but I'm sure I missed a thing or 2 here and there.

For example, unfortunately the entire 51 episodes of Marvel Disk Wars: the Avengers haven't aired in the US yet. So I trusted my memory a little. Watched it about a year ago.

Still though, I doubt the rankings would change.

[Digifiend]

Disk Wars won't get a US airing until 2019 at the earliest - it may never get an English dub at all! We already know Avengers Assemble will have a fourth and fifth season (so that's 2017 and 2018 already allocated) and they're not going to have two Avengers cartoons running at the same time (Japan has Ultimate Spider-Man but not Avengers Assemble, as far as I know).

[Digifiend]

Which games did you count for MJ? She's playable in both Spider-Man Unlimited and Avengers Academy, but you've listed her as only having one playable appearance.

[Frontier]

MJ at #4 is pretty awesome, especially for a civilian/love interest, and happy to see a lot of the original leading ladies of the Marvel Universe in the top 10

Disk Wars won't get a US airing until 2019 at the earliest - it may never get an English dub at all! We already know Avengers Assemble will have a fourth and fifth season (so that's 2017 and 2018 already allocated) and they're not going to have two Avengers cartoons running at the same time (Japan has Ultimate Spider-Man but not Avengers Assemble, as far as I know).

Well, we know it does have an English dub, with pretty much the same VA's from Assemble.

It was apparently aired in Disney XD Malaysia, but not here.