As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,000 characters on a 100 point scale from "arcane" to "mainstream". 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 "arcane" is the same as 100/100 for "mainstream". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 92.1 | 194 | Bertram Gilfoyle (Silicon Valley) |
| 2 | 91.8 | 532 | Dwight Schrute (The Office) |
| 3 | 91.6 | 62 | Allison Reynolds (The Breakfast Club) |
| 4 | 90.6 | 312 | Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter) |
| 5 | 90.5 | 24 | The Amphibian Man (The Shape of Water) |
| 6 | 90.1 | 18 | Tycho Brahe (Penny Arcade) |
| 7 | 89.8 | 65 | Kimiko Miyashiro (The Boys) |
| 8 | 89.8 | 260 | River Tam (Firefly + Serenity) |
| 9 | 89.4 | 17 | Doc Holliday (Wynonna Earp) |
| 10 | 88.8 | 504 | Gollum (Lord of the Rings) |
| 11 | 88.4 | 280 | Melisandre (Game of Thrones) |
| 12 | 88.1 | 307 | Bellatrix Lestrange (Harry Potter) |
| 13 | 88.0 | 300 | The Joker (The Dark Knight) |
| 14 | 87.6 | 14 | Don Shirley (Green Book) |
| 15 | 87.6 | 206 | Akecheta (Westworld) |
| 16 | 87.6 | 19 | Scorpius (Farscape) |
| 17 | 87.6 | 48 | Charlie Kelly (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) |
| 18 | 87.5 | 41 | Elliot Alderson (Mr. Robot) |
| 19 | 87.3 | 25 | Ilana Wexler (Broad City) |
| 20 | 87.3 | 44 | Amélie Poulain (Amélie) |
| 21 | 87.3 | 26 | Huck (Scandal) |
| 22 | 87.1 | 46 | Lily Iglehart (Sex Education) |
| 23 | 87.0 | 31 | Lillian Kaushtupper (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) |
| 24 | 86.8 | 29 | Norman Bates (Psycho) |
| 25 | 86.5 | 660 | Janis Ian (Mean Girls) |
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 88.9 | 19 | Linda Montag (Fahrenheit 451) |
| 2 | 87.6 | 17 | Jules Louden (The Cabin in the Woods) |
| 3 | 87.5 | 20 | Jackie (Yellowjackets) |
| 4 | 86.5 | 2 | Allie Rajan (CSI: Vegas) |
| 5 | 86.5 | 17 | Jamie Tartt (Ted Lasso) |
| 6 | 85.7 | 215 | Shannon Rutherford (LOST) |
| 7 | 85.2 | 57 | Lyla Garrity (Friday Night Lights) |
| 8 | 85.2 | 654 | Gretchen Wieners (Mean Girls) |
| 9 | 85.2 | 486 | Cordelia Chase (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) |
| 10 | 84.6 | 40 | Marnie Michaels (Girls) |
| 11 | 84.3 | 634 | Aaron Samuels (Mean Girls) |
| 12 | 84.2 | 195 | Bianca Stratford (10 Things I Hate About You) |
| 13 | 84.0 | 20 | Jenna Middleton (Degrassi: The Next Generation) |
| 14 | 83.7 | 33 | Captain Hammer (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog) |
| 15 | 83.2 | 19 | Ava Coleman (Abbott Elementary) |
| 16 | 82.9 | 55 | Troy Bolton (High School Musical) |
| 17 | 82.6 | 43 | F. Tony Scarapiducci (Space Force) |
| 18 | 82.3 | 34 | Park Dong-ik (Parasite) |
| 19 | 82.3 | 405 | Jackie Burkhart (That 70's Show) |
| 20 | 82.2 | 411 | Penny (The Big Bang Theory) |
| 21 | 82.1 | 91 | Claire Standish (The Breakfast Club) |
| 22 | 82.1 | 59 | A-Train (The Boys) |
| 23 | 82.1 | 16 | Alli Bhandari (Degrassi: The Next Generation) |
| 24 | 82.0 | 5 | Lilah MacManus (Ctrl+Alt+Del) |
| 25 | 81.8 | 45 | Josh Chan (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) |
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 arcane<--->mainstream when aggregated at the character level.