As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,125 characters on a 100 point scale from "sad" to "happy". 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 "sad" is the same as 100/100 for "happy". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 93.9 | 16 | Prince Hamlet (Hamlet) |
| 2 | 93.7 | 29 | Fantine (Les Misérables) |
| 3 | 93.6 | 27 | Carmen Berzatto (The Bear) |
| 4 | 93.0 | 18 | Ophelia (Hamlet) |
| 5 | 92.6 | 29 | Shinji Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion) |
| 6 | 92.6 | 88 | Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto) |
| 7 | 92.5 | 39 | Tate Langdon (American Horror Story: Season 1) |
| 8 | 92.2 | 28 | Squidward Tentacles (SpongeBob SquarePants) |
| 9 | 91.7 | 31 | Michael Groff (Sex Education) |
| 10 | 91.5 | 1067 | Darth Vader (Star Wars) |
| 11 | 91.2 | 19 | Scar (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood) |
| 12 | 91.1 | 364 | Moaning Myrtle (Harry Potter) |
| 13 | 90.7 | 15 | Kendall Roy (Succession) |
| 14 | 90.7 | 18 | Levi Ackermann (Attack on Titan) |
| 15 | 90.6 | 15 | Winston Smith (Nineteen Eighty-Four) |
| 16 | 90.5 | 336 | Severus Snape (Harry Potter) |
| 17 | 90.5 | 50 | Elliot Alderson (Mr. Robot) |
| 18 | 90.2 | 23 | Kylo Ren (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) |
| 19 | 89.4 | 262 | Sandor Clegane (Game of Thrones) |
| 20 | 89.4 | 18 | Viktor (Arcane) |
| 21 | 89.3 | 330 | Lord Voldemort (Harry Potter) |
| 22 | 89.3 | 252 | Man in Black (Westworld) |
| 23 | 89.2 | 13 | Linda Montag (Fahrenheit 451) |
| 24 | 89.1 | 55 | Queen Alicent Hightower (House of the Dragon) |
| 25 | 88.9 | 84 | Violet Harmon (American Horror Story: Season 1) |
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 97.5 | 24 | SpongeBob SquarePants (SpongeBob SquarePants) |
| 2 | 95.5 | 90 | Pinkie Pie (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic) |
| 3 | 93.3 | 14 | Sam Obisanya (Ted Lasso) |
| 4 | 92.7 | 195 | Olaf (Frozen) |
| 5 | 92.6 | 405 | Goh Peik Lin (Crazy Rich Asians) |
| 6 | 92.1 | 919 | Leslie Knope (Parks and Recreation) |
| 7 | 91.9 | 77 | Penelope Garcia (Criminal Minds) |
| 8 | 90.7 | 11 | Lisa Johnson (After Life) |
| 9 | 90.6 | 65 | Kenneth Parcell (30 Rock) |
| 10 | 90.6 | 1379 | Pumbaa (The Lion King) |
| 11 | 90.4 | 14 | Ava Coleman (Abbott Elementary) |
| 12 | 90.1 | 28 | Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes) |
| 13 | 90.0 | 16 | Dashiell Parr (The Incredibles) |
| 14 | 89.6 | 40 | Sookie St. James (Gilmore Girls) |
| 15 | 89.5 | 22 | Ducky (The Land Before Time) |
| 16 | 89.5 | 36 | Kimmy Schmidt (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) |
| 17 | 89.5 | 60 | Ash Ketchum (Pokémon) |
| 18 | 89.1 | 1200 | Joey Tribbiani (Friends) |
| 19 | 89.0 | 56 | Linda Belcher (Bob's Burgers) |
| 20 | 88.4 | 310 | Kaylee Frye (Firefly + Serenity) |
| 21 | 88.4 | 25 | Pepper (Mamma Mia!) |
| 22 | 88.3 | 32 | Chris Traeger (Parks and Recreation) |
| 23 | 87.9 | 525 | Kelly Erin Hannon (The Office) |
| 24 | 87.8 | 28 | Patrick Star (SpongeBob SquarePants) |
| 25 | 87.8 | 239 | Ed (Cowboy Bebop) |
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 sad<--->happy when aggregated at the character level.