As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,125 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 | 89.8 | 26 | Floki (Vikings) |
| 2 | 89.5 | 19 | Angelica Turing (Sense8) |
| 3 | 88.1 | 542 | Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender) |
| 4 | 87.4 | 18 | Jaskier (The Witcher) |
| 5 | 87.3 | 473 | The Oracle (The Matrix) |
| 6 | 87.1 | 26 | Yoda (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith) |
| 7 | 86.0 | 6 | Sydney Carton (A Tale of Two Cities) |
| 8 | 84.9 | 36 | Augustus 'Gus' Waters (The Fault in Our Stars) |
| 9 | 84.8 | 347 | Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter) |
| 10 | 84.6 | 40 | Marty Mikalski (The Cabin in the Woods) |
| 11 | 84.0 | 248 | Melisandre (Game of Thrones) |
| 12 | 83.7 | 268 | Robert Ford (Westworld) |
| 13 | 83.3 | 25 | Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes) |
| 14 | 82.7 | 26 | Guinan (Star Trek: The Next Generation) |
| 15 | 82.7 | 23 | Prairie Johnson (The OA) |
| 16 | 82.3 | 364 | Albus Dumbledore (Harry Potter) |
| 17 | 82.2 | 34 | Clementine Kruczynski (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) |
| 18 | 81.8 | 15 | Claire Colburn (Elizabethtown) |
| 19 | 81.7 | 42 | Oliver Putnam (Only Murders in the Building) |
| 20 | 81.6 | 17 | Clarisse McClellan (Fahrenheit 451) |
| 21 | 81.2 | 10 | Kes (Star Trek: Voyager) |
| 22 | 80.9 | 66 | John Michael Dorian (Scrubs) |
| 23 | 80.4 | 254 | John Locke (LOST) |
| 24 | 80.1 | 50 | Jessa Johansson (Girls) |
| 25 | 80.0 | 275 | Brandon Stark (Game of Thrones) |
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 93.7 | 15 | Tuvok (Star Trek: Voyager) |
| 2 | 92.8 | 450 | Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory) |
| 3 | 90.9 | 28 | Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation) |
| 4 | 90.8 | 45 | Temperance Brennan (Bones) |
| 5 | 90.7 | 38 | Carlton Lassiter (Psych) |
| 6 | 90.0 | 27 | Dina Fox (Superstore) |
| 7 | 89.8 | 1080 | C-3PO (Star Wars) |
| 8 | 89.7 | 9 | Bobbie Draper (The Expanse) |
| 9 | 89.7 | 59 | Dr. Shaun Murphy (The Good Doctor) |
| 10 | 89.6 | 17 | Aeryn Sun (Farscape) |
| 11 | 89.2 | 25 | Michael Groff (Sex Education) |
| 12 | 88.4 | 257 | Jayne Cobb (Firefly + Serenity) |
| 13 | 88.0 | 10 | John Dutton (Yellowstone) |
| 14 | 88.0 | 927 | Ron Swanson (Parks and Recreation) |
| 15 | 88.0 | 549 | Angela Martin (The Office) |
| 16 | 87.8 | 23 | Gregory Eddie (Abbott Elementary) |
| 17 | 87.7 | 13 | Roy Kent (Ted Lasso) |
| 18 | 87.4 | 24 | Tasha Yar (Star Trek: The Next Generation) |
| 19 | 87.3 | 15 | Amos Burton (The Expanse) |
| 20 | 86.8 | 162 | Worf (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) |
| 21 | 86.7 | 22 | Cyril Figgis (Archer) |
| 22 | 86.6 | 549 | Cristina Yang (Grey's Anatomy) |
| 23 | 86.2 | 364 | Raymond Holt (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) |
| 24 | 86.1 | 568 | Dwight Schrute (The Office) |
| 25 | 85.6 | 18 | Levi Ackermann (Attack on Titan) |
The survey has 525 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.