Clarke Griffin/Trivia

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## Trivia

### Interesting facts

* In an interview, Kass Morgan said her name came from Arthur C. Clarke, who was a British science fiction author, science writer, and futurist.
	+ Raven says one of Arthur C. Clarke's three laws in "Sleeping Giants": "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
* In the TV series her surname was originally going to be "Walters", but it remained "Griffin" just like her book equivalent.
* Clarke is revealed to be bisexual through her romantic relationships with both Finn Collins and Lexa kom Trikru, making her the first lead character on the CW to be LGBTQ+ and the first bisexual lead character on network television.
* Marcus Kane included her in Jake Griffin's treason charges, and she was imprisoned in the Skybox.
	+ Clarke's prisoner number while on the Ark was "319". Clarke was in solitary confinement for 11 months.
* In "Pilot", Clarke stated she still had a month before her 18th birthday. At the end of Season One, the 100 have been on Earth for 29 days. At the end of Season Two, 52 days have passed, making her 18.
* Clarke was the first delinquent to kill another person on the ground, mercy killing Atom.
* Clarke is given the nickname "Princess" by Finn Collins. His first words to her on the ground were "Why so serious, Princess?" and his last words were "Thank you, Princess".
* She is one of four Sky People to kill a delinquent. The other three are Charlotte, Bellamy Blake, and John Murphy.
* In the Mount Weather quarantine zone, her room number was 302-5.
* Clarke is the second LGBTQ+ character to be revealed on *The 100 TV series*, after Lexa kom Trikru.
* When Niylah kom Trikru observed that Clarke does not have any kill tally marks on her back, Clarke responds that there is not enough room. This may be reference to when she and Bellamy irradiated Mount Weather or one of her other mass-kills.
* Clarke becomes a Nightblood by injecting herself with the formula instead of Emori. To create the serum, Abigail Griffin and Eric Jackson used Luna kom Floukru's (who was born a Nightblood) bone marrow.
	+ Clarke is the first Sky Person to become a Nightblood.
	+ After Luna's death, Clarke became the only known Nightblood. In Praimfaya, another Nightblood was revealed, a young girl named Madi Griffin.
* She survived *Praimfaya* without any structure providing her protection from radiation. She and Madi Griffin are the only known ground survivors because they had Nightblood.
	+ However, she appeared to survive the initial wave of radiation and the 42 days afterwards underground, presumably in Becca's lab. She was seen entering the lab as the death wave hit in "Praimfaya" and emerging from underground on the island in "Eden" 42 days later.
* In 2156, Clarke has been living with Madi Griffin for some time and has developed a mother-daughter relationship with her.
* She is one of four Sky People to be in a romantic relationship with a Grounder. The other relationships are Octavia and Lincoln, Octavia and Ilian, Clarke and Lexa, Clarke and Niylah, Murphy and Emori, and Bellamy and Echo.
* She has the fourth-highest known human kill count after A.L.I.E., Diana Sydney, and Bellamy Blake, at approx. 905 kills.
	+ Season Four is the only season that Clarke didn't kill or indirectly kill anyone.
* Clarke is the only main character in Season Five that she appears in every episode.
	+ Although she only appears in flashback in ”Red Queen”.
* At Unity Days 2017, Bob Morley revealed Bellamy was the second best student on The Ark, after Clarke.
* Clarke is left-handed, presumably because the actress Eliza Taylor is left-handed.
* She is one of the few characters who exist in the book series.
* Clarke Griffin, Octavia Blake, John Murphy, and Eric Jackson are the only four named characters from the "Pilot" who are still known to be alive.
	+ Clarke is one of four named delinquents that currently known to be alive. The other three are Octavia Blake, John Murphy, and Nathan Miller.
	+ Clarke is one of three characters that have been main characters since Pilot. The other is Octavia Blake and Bellamy Blake.
* Clarke had the most appearances on the show out of any character until Season Six, where she was surpassed by Bellamy.
* Clarke is the only main character that is seen in the posters for both Season Three and Season Six.
* Season Three, Season Six and Season Seven are the only three seasons where Clarke does not appear in every episode.
	+ However, Season Three and Season Seven are the only seasons to feature an episode where Eliza Taylor does not appear in any capacity; "Terms and Conditions", “The Garden” and "The Flock." In Season Six, Eliza Taylor still appears as Josephine Lightbourne VIII.
* Clarke was at first bilingual, speaking both English and Trigedasleng. After going into Josephine Lightbourne's Mindspace, she now also speaks Mandarin, thus making her trilingual.
* She is one of two major characters in Season Six to die and be revived. The other character was Murphy.
* Clarke has the highest kill count of Primes, having killed five: Josephine Lightbourne, Simone Lightbourne, Jasmine Mason, Caleb Mason, and Miranda Mason. The Primes that Clarke killed were also left permanently dead; her methods of killing them left the Primes irretrievable for future resurrection.

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