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Most tiresome or interesting 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 "tiresome" to "interesting". 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 "tiresome" is the same as 100/100 for "interesting". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.

Most tiresome characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
191.8333Mr. William Collins (Pride and Prejudice)
290.393Arturo Roman (Money Heist)
389.245Frank Burns (M*A*S*H)
485.8325Petunia Dursley (Harry Potter)
583.177Principal Vernon (The Breakfast Club)
682.8138Cal Hockley (Titanic)
782.661Niko Polastri (Killing Eve)
882.5286Cornelius Fudge (Harry Potter)
982.5327Dolores Umbridge (Harry Potter)
1082.185Matt Donovan (The Vampire Diaries)
1181.844Brad Bellick (Prison Break)
1281.658Prince Humperdinck (The Princess Bride)
1381.313Joel Maisel (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
1480.9230Sam Healy (Orange is the New Black)
1580.373Lisa (The Room)
1680.217Linda Montag (Fahrenheit 451)
1780.1386Mrs. Bennet (Pride and Prejudice)
1879.957Peter (The Room)
1978.9691Tom Buchanan (The Great Gatsby)
2078.923General Hux (Star Wars: The Last Jedi)
2178.659Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)
2278.518Polonius (Hamlet)
2378.326India Wilkes (Gone With the Wind)
2478.2328Principal Skinner (The Simpsons)
2578.030Michael Groff (Sex Education)

Most interesting characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
195.452Villanelle (Killing Eve)
295.19Beth Dutton (Yellowstone)
394.748Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal)
494.219Neal Caffrey (White Collar)
593.89Natalie (Yellowjackets)
693.471Lucifer Morningstar (Lucifer)
792.9123Omar Little (The Wire)
892.837Imperator Furiosa (Mad Max: Fury Road)
992.783Klaus Hargreeves (The Umbrella Academy)
1092.250Patrick Jane (The Mentalist)
1191.9131Abby Sciuto (NCIS)
1291.654Indiana Jones (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
1391.564Westley (The Princess Bride)
1491.37Amos Burton (The Expanse)
1591.2161Dale Cooper (Twin Peaks)
1691.163Michael Scofield (Prison Break)
1790.722Hange Zoe (Attack on Titan)
1890.638Lorelai Gilmore (Gilmore Girls)
1990.5318Tyrion Lannister (Game of Thrones)
2090.418Ekko (Arcane)
2190.429Sun Bak (Sense8)
2290.4270Maeve Millay (Westworld)
2390.2492Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
2490.081Penelope Garcia (Criminal Minds)
2590.079Dr. Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds)

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 tiresome<--->interesting when aggregated at the character level.

  1. mundane (not extraordinary) (r=0.82)
  2. uninspiring (not charismatic) (r=0.78)
  3. cringeworthy (not inspiring) (r=0.75)
  4. repetitive (not varied) (r=0.74)
  5. irrelevant (not important) (r=0.74)
  6. weakass (not badass) (r=0.73)
  7. generic (not insightful) (r=0.72)
  8. stereotypical (not boundary breaking) (r=0.72)
  9. cliché (not original) (r=0.71)
  10. 💩 (not 🌟) (r=0.69)

Notes

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