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Most mundane or extraordinary characters

As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,125 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
189.2334Petunia Dursley (Harry Potter)
288.9341Mr. William Collins (Pride and Prejudice)
387.974Pete Hornberger (30 Rock)
486.818Ryan Cooper (Promising Young Woman)
586.6139Matt Donovan (The Vampire Diaries)
686.631Michael Groff (Sex Education)
786.5840Mark Brendanawicz (Parks and Recreation)
885.896Principal Vernon (The Breakfast Club)
985.5215Sam Healy (Orange is the New Black)
1085.221Chet (Fallout)
1185.163Niko Polastri (Killing Eve)
1284.915Gino (Baby Reindeer)
1384.760Frank Burns (M*A*S*H)
1483.917Calvin's dad (Calvin and Hobbes)
1583.821Cyril Figgis (Archer)
1683.7371Principal Skinner (The Simpsons)
1783.67Lenny (After Life)
1883.140Mike McLintock (Veep)
1982.961Peter (The Room)
2082.8237Walter Stratford (10 Things I Hate About You)
2181.9380Milhouse Van Houten (The Simpsons)
2281.926Brad Bellick (Prison Break)
2381.810Ben Scott (Yellowjackets)
2481.5128Tommy (Shameless)
2581.510Lucas Davidowicz (Ctrl+Alt+Del)

Most extraordinary characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
196.258Villanelle (Killing Eve)
295.8271River Tam (Firefly + Serenity)
394.944The Amphibian Man (The Shape of Water)
494.827Neal Caffrey (White Collar)
594.8106the Alien (Alien)
694.735Ender Wiggin (Ender's Game)
794.649Titus Andromedon (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
894.512Beth Dutton (Yellowstone)
994.434Verna (The Fall of the House of Usher)
1094.088Penelope Garcia (Criminal Minds)
1193.8257Stitch (Lilo & Stitch)
1293.8240Ed (Cowboy Bebop)
1393.61064Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock)
1493.6107Omar Little (The Wire)
1593.6337The Joker (The Dark Knight)
1693.5107Dr. Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds)
1793.2111Abby Sciuto (NCIS)
1893.012Chrisjen Avasarala (The Expanse)
1993.0606Gandalf (Lord of the Rings)
2093.083Doc Brown (Back to the Future)
2193.0531Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
2292.926Eric Effiong (Sex Education)
2392.831Michael Scofield (Prison Break)
2492.731James Bond (Tommorrow Never Dies)
2592.617Ava Coleman (Abbott Elementary)

Similar features

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

  1. tiresome (not interesting) (r=0.82)
  2. stereotypical (not boundary breaking) (r=0.75)
  3. uninspiring (not charismatic) (r=0.74)
  4. everyman (not chosen one) (r=0.7)
  5. irrelevant (not important) (r=0.7)
  6. conformist (not maverick) (r=0.69)
  7. repetitive (not varied) (r=0.68)
  8. routine (not innovative) (r=0.67)
  9. weakass (not badass) (r=0.67)
  10. conventional (not creative) (r=0.67)

Notes

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