How many total characters do you have?

[NickRowler]

I did a quick list for Crow's Worth (which has a hefty cast). If I only count characters who were given names so far, there is about 30. However, about half of them are not really going to be fully developed or will just have a very brief back story. I am also noting that about 10 characters have been cut, either due to being replaced, merged with another character, or being in a story line that was cut.

[AbelDraws]

Around 23 with personalities, names, designs and all that (well, except a couple parents I haven't drawn yet). There's more people that I know exist in my story but I'm not counting them until I know them x'D

All of them exist in the world of my comic, although not all get to actively appear in it. Around 15 of them will appear in the comic (even if it's just in one panel).

I tend to focus way more on develop my characters a lot than in making new ones, I literally don't know how people can keep track of 100+ characters >.>"

[AmazementComics]

It's easier than you would imagine. Also, it takes years to create and polish said number of characters.

[nostalgicroxas]

NTN has a minimum of 10 "core" characters, going up to prob 16? 18? I work in pairs (foils). But total number of characters in my writings HAHAHAHAHAH I'm looking at 100 in the mirror, baby.

[AbelDraws]

I really don't think it's a matter of time tho. I'm not a senior in comic making by any means but I've been working on the same story for around 6 years.

I'd say it's all a matter of your mindset while working on the world. I only add the secondary characters that affect the characters directly (family, an important past friend, etc) and it's most likely because I get super carried away everytime I have to work on a new character x'D I'd probs wouldn't be able to get as involved with that many characters, that's just not the way I work :3c

I know for a fact you can have hundreds of pretty interesting characters, but it just doesn't work for me

[Kelheor]

Hexameron has 2... okay lol, 8 main characters including the Guest + I guess for now it's 3 more important characters like Pavla.

Master of Keys basically has 3 characters.

One sci-fi comic in progress has 2 MC, another one - 4.

School of elements has 8 main characters + around 6 characters I'd consider important.

13 Worthy of Death has (huh!) 13 characters + like 6 more other guys to kick those 13 around.

[Kann]

Honestly, I lost count. In just one comic I have about 30 characters.

I have like three other stories in progress and lot of characters that just are there. I can think of new characters like crazy. I had a friend once and we did rp a lot. I ended up making over 400 characters, but I don't use like 99% of them anymore, so I don't think they count.

[AmazementComics]

So how many characters is that total?

[Kelheor]

53 characters for 6 unrelated universes, +/- a few more

[AmysGames]

A while ago, I counted every notable character I could think of from every story I've written in the past 15 years or so. It ended up being 300+, mostly thanks to a couple of particularly large storyverses I've written/contributed to, haha.

[Kiweevil]

Uhhh are we talking within our comic's canon or just characters we've created period? Because I have like, literally hundreds of those.

[AmazementComics]

Uhhh are we talking within our comic's canon or just characters we've created period? Because I have like, literally hundreds of those.

Again, any and ALL characters. If they show up in one panel of a comic, or if its a crowd, that doesn't count.

[Random_Guy]

Ugh, god, uh...

Totalling up Dark Hope, plus the two WIPs... oh, plus the character vault...

I'm gonna estimate... 25?

Really lowballing it, that's pretty small considering the size of the character vault.
But whatever, it works.

[Bree_Mana]

Lets see here. The main family in the comic has: 11 people (Though they don't get equal attention), there one main antagonist, 12 currently un-named characters , and 6 others that show up very briefly/ have minor roles. theres technically others but those are only names for the sake of family trees and never actually appear. so in short 30 characters that actually appear

for a full list of named characters I've made a post of the Family trees on Tapas:

TLC Extras :: TLC Family Trees | Tapas

its a great way to tease viewers about future events and to keep my own head straight about everyone's relationships

If this interests you at all why not check out the main comic TLC?:

TLC | Tapas

[vothnthorvaldson]

My comic has 4 main characters, 3 other important characters, 3 important dead characters in flashbacks, around 15 other characters with significant 'screen' time, and maybe 50 ish unimportant characters (background characters with no or little reoccurrence).

[surenlicious]

Jade Kingdoms has about 150 characters. Fleshed out too, because I don't fuck around with my characters. XD Everybody gets a background, everybody gets their lore. My novel is important to me, so I want to show every bit and piece of it the love it deserves.

Some of the Jade Kingdoms characters:

Jade Kingdoms | Tapas

[amberberry]

My current novel has 30 characters that have been named name or have appeared more than once, as well as handful of characters that have appeared only once or twice but don't have much importance.

Baby, I Love You | Tapas

[lauragarcia511]

My comic currently has a total of over 30 characters involved in the story.

Knights of Geomora | Tapas

[aqua03]

How many is too many?

[AmazementComics]

Just put a number on it. There IS no such thing as too many characters.