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Most mundane or extraordinary characters

As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,000 characters on a 100 point scale from "mundane" to "extraordinary". 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 "mundane" is the same as 100/100 for "extraordinary". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.

Most mundane characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
189.1332Petunia Dursley (Harry Potter)
288.9340Mr. William Collins (Pride and Prejudice)
388.229Michael Groff (Sex Education)
488.073Pete Hornberger (30 Rock)
587.98Lucas Davidowicz (Ctrl+Alt+Del)
686.5136Matt Donovan (The Vampire Diaries)
786.5840Mark Brendanawicz (Parks and Recreation)
886.517Ryan Cooper (Promising Young Woman)
986.06Lenny (After Life)
1085.896Principal Vernon (The Breakfast Club)
1185.861Niko Polastri (Killing Eve)
1285.5215Sam Healy (Orange is the New Black)
1384.98Ben Scott (Yellowjackets)
1484.515Calvin's dad (Calvin and Hobbes)
1584.157Frank Burns (M*A*S*H)
1683.8366Principal Skinner (The Simpsons)
1782.9232Walter Stratford (10 Things I Hate About You)
1882.660Peter (The Room)
1982.437Mike McLintock (Veep)
2081.9379Milhouse Van Houten (The Simpsons)
2181.9126Tommy (Shameless)
2281.926Brad Bellick (Prison Break)
2381.672Arturo Roman (Money Heist)
2481.418Cyril Figgis (Archer)
2581.175George Michael Bluth (Arrested Development)

Most extraordinary characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
196.257Villanelle (Killing Eve)
295.7269River Tam (Firefly + Serenity)
395.041The Amphibian Man (The Shape of Water)
494.827Neal Caffrey (White Collar)
594.735Ender Wiggin (Ender's Game)
694.710Beth Dutton (Yellowstone)
794.6102the Alien (Alien)
894.347Titus Andromedon (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
993.923Eric Effiong (Sex Education)
1093.9255Stitch (Lilo & Stitch)
1193.885Penelope Garcia (Criminal Minds)
1293.8240Ed (Cowboy Bebop)
1393.61057Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock)
1493.6333The Joker (The Dark Knight)
1593.5105Omar Little (The Wire)
1693.3105Dr. Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds)
1793.2108Abby Sciuto (NCIS)
1893.229James Bond (Tommorrow Never Dies)
1993.120Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
2093.178Doc Brown (Back to the Future)
2193.0604Gandalf (Lord of the Rings)
2293.0531Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
2392.831Michael Scofield (Prison Break)
2492.6139Number Six (Battlestar Galactica)
2592.6331Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)

Similar traits

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 mundane<--->extraordinary when aggregated at the character level.

  1. tiresome (not interesting) (r=0.82)
  2. uninspiring (not charismatic) (r=0.74)
  3. stereotypical (not boundary breaking) (r=0.74)
  4. everyman (not chosen one) (r=0.7)
  5. irrelevant (not important) (r=0.69)
  6. conformist (not maverick) (r=0.68)
  7. repetitive (not varied) (r=0.68)
  8. weakass (not badass) (r=0.67)
  9. routine (not innovative) (r=0.66)
  10. conventional (not creative) (r=0.66)

Notes

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