As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,000 characters on a 100 point scale from "metaphorical" to "literal". This page lists the 25 characters whose average ratings were the farthest to either side. Because the scale is bipolar, it is reversable. For example, a rating of 1/100 for "metaphorical" is the same as 100/100 for "literal". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 91.5 | 24 | Floki (Vikings) |
| 2 | 89.5 | 19 | Angelica Turing (Sense8) |
| 3 | 88.1 | 540 | Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender) |
| 4 | 87.9 | 23 | Yoda (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith) |
| 5 | 87.3 | 17 | Jaskier (The Witcher) |
| 6 | 87.2 | 472 | The Oracle (The Matrix) |
| 7 | 84.7 | 345 | Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter) |
| 8 | 84.5 | 31 | Augustus 'Gus' Waters (The Fault in Our Stars) |
| 9 | 84.4 | 39 | Marty Mikalski (The Cabin in the Woods) |
| 10 | 84.0 | 248 | Melisandre (Game of Thrones) |
| 11 | 84.0 | 25 | Guinan (Star Trek: The Next Generation) |
| 12 | 83.7 | 267 | Robert Ford (Westworld) |
| 13 | 83.2 | 5 | Sydney Carton (A Tale of Two Cities) |
| 14 | 83.2 | 13 | Clarisse McClellan (Fahrenheit 451) |
| 15 | 82.9 | 23 | Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes) |
| 16 | 82.7 | 23 | Prairie Johnson (The OA) |
| 17 | 82.4 | 362 | Albus Dumbledore (Harry Potter) |
| 18 | 81.8 | 40 | Oliver Putnam (Only Murders in the Building) |
| 19 | 81.2 | 27 | Clementine Kruczynski (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) |
| 20 | 81.0 | 9 | Kes (Star Trek: Voyager) |
| 21 | 80.6 | 18 | Alison DiLaurentis (Pretty Little Liars) |
| 22 | 80.6 | 65 | John Michael Dorian (Scrubs) |
| 23 | 80.4 | 254 | John Locke (LOST) |
| 24 | 80.2 | 49 | Jessa Johansson (Girls) |
| 25 | 80.2 | 77 | Patrick Stewart (The Perks of Being a Wallflower) |
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 93.7 | 15 | Tuvok (Star Trek: Voyager) |
| 2 | 93.5 | 21 | Dina Fox (Superstore) |
| 3 | 92.9 | 449 | Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory) |
| 4 | 90.9 | 28 | Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation) |
| 5 | 90.6 | 36 | Carlton Lassiter (Psych) |
| 6 | 90.6 | 44 | Temperance Brennan (Bones) |
| 7 | 90.5 | 16 | Aeryn Sun (Farscape) |
| 8 | 89.8 | 1076 | C-3PO (Star Wars) |
| 9 | 89.7 | 9 | Bobbie Draper (The Expanse) |
| 10 | 89.4 | 57 | Dr. Shaun Murphy (The Good Doctor) |
| 11 | 88.4 | 257 | Jayne Cobb (Firefly + Serenity) |
| 12 | 88.4 | 23 | Michael Groff (Sex Education) |
| 13 | 88.0 | 927 | Ron Swanson (Parks and Recreation) |
| 14 | 88.0 | 549 | Angela Martin (The Office) |
| 15 | 87.3 | 15 | Amos Burton (The Expanse) |
| 16 | 87.1 | 22 | Tasha Yar (Star Trek: The Next Generation) |
| 17 | 86.8 | 162 | Worf (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) |
| 18 | 86.7 | 9 | John Dutton (Yellowstone) |
| 19 | 86.7 | 22 | Cyril Figgis (Archer) |
| 20 | 86.5 | 547 | Cristina Yang (Grey's Anatomy) |
| 21 | 86.2 | 360 | Raymond Holt (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) |
| 22 | 86.1 | 568 | Dwight Schrute (The Office) |
| 23 | 85.7 | 3 | Michael Desiato (Your Honor) |
| 24 | 85.6 | 11 | Lawrence Yee (Succession) |
| 25 | 85.5 | 17 | Gregory Eddie (Abbott Elementary) |
The survey has 400 different descriptive scales that the characters can be rated on. This list is the 10 other scales that that have the highest correlation with metaphorical<--->literal when aggregated at the character level.