As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,000 characters on a 100 point scale from "depressed" to "bright". 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 "depressed" is the same as 100/100 for "bright". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 94.0 | 22 | Squidward Tentacles (SpongeBob SquarePants) |
| 2 | 92.4 | 37 | Rue Bennett (Euphoria) |
| 3 | 91.7 | 23 | Donny Dunn (Baby Reindeer) |
| 4 | 91.3 | 18 | Marcus Baker (Ginny & Georgia) |
| 5 | 91.1 | 30 | Martha Scott (Baby Reindeer) |
| 6 | 90.9 | 27 | Shinji Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion) |
| 7 | 90.7 | 86 | Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto) |
| 8 | 90.1 | 12 | Tony Johnson (After Life) |
| 9 | 90.0 | 39 | Jack Maine (A Star Is Born) |
| 10 | 89.9 | 366 | Moe Szyslak (The Simpsons) |
| 11 | 89.6 | 44 | Violet Harmon (American Horror Story: Season 1) |
| 12 | 89.6 | 22 | Michael Groff (Sex Education) |
| 13 | 89.3 | 553 | The Narrator (Fight Club) |
| 14 | 89.3 | 18 | Levi Ackermann (Attack on Titan) |
| 15 | 89.2 | 11 | Reiner Braun (Attack on Titan) |
| 16 | 88.9 | 19 | Drew Baylor (Elizabethtown) |
| 17 | 88.8 | 363 | Moaning Myrtle (Harry Potter) |
| 18 | 88.6 | 450 | Gollum (Lord of the Rings) |
| 19 | 87.8 | 32 | Elliot Alderson (Mr. Robot) |
| 20 | 87.5 | 17 | Scar (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood) |
| 21 | 87.5 | 32 | Tate Langdon (American Horror Story: Season 1) |
| 22 | 87.5 | 48 | The Deep (The Boys) |
| 23 | 87.2 | 5 | Sydney Carton (A Tale of Two Cities) |
| 24 | 87.0 | 16 | Abby Littman (Ginny & Georgia) |
| 25 | 86.9 | 61 | Pete Hornberger (30 Rock) |
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 95.5 | 26 | Kimmy Schmidt (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) |
| 2 | 93.9 | 15 | Ducky (The Land Before Time) |
| 3 | 93.8 | 22 | SpongeBob SquarePants (SpongeBob SquarePants) |
| 4 | 93.7 | 944 | Leslie Knope (Parks and Recreation) |
| 5 | 93.1 | 28 | Lucy MacLean (Fallout) |
| 6 | 92.3 | 204 | Ed (Cowboy Bebop) |
| 7 | 91.9 | 61 | Pinkie Pie (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic) |
| 8 | 91.3 | 15 | Guinan (Star Trek: The Next Generation) |
| 9 | 91.2 | 275 | Kaylee Frye (Firefly + Serenity) |
| 10 | 91.0 | 434 | Goh Peik Lin (Crazy Rich Asians) |
| 11 | 90.1 | 7 | Miriam Maisel (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) |
| 12 | 89.7 | 6 | Janine Teagues (Abbott Elementary) |
| 13 | 89.6 | 38 | Sookie St. James (Gilmore Girls) |
| 14 | 89.0 | 13 | Keeley Jones (Ted Lasso) |
| 15 | 88.8 | 24 | Ferris Bueller (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) |
| 16 | 88.5 | 19 | Amanita Caplan (Sense8) |
| 17 | 88.0 | 73 | Jess Day (New Girl) |
| 18 | 87.8 | 178 | Olaf (Frozen) |
| 19 | 87.6 | 482 | Aang (Avatar: The Last Airbender) |
| 20 | 87.5 | 82 | Penelope Garcia (Criminal Minds) |
| 21 | 86.8 | 23 | Ava Coleman (Abbott Elementary) |
| 22 | 86.8 | 443 | Ty Lee (Avatar: The Last Airbender) |
| 23 | 86.4 | 27 | Patrick Star (SpongeBob SquarePants) |
| 24 | 86.3 | 34 | Juliet O'Hara (Psych) |
| 25 | 86.3 | 21 | Eric Effiong (Sex Education) |
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 depressed<--->bright when aggregated at the character level.