As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,125 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 | 94.9 | 28 | Squidward Tentacles (SpongeBob SquarePants) |
| 2 | 92.9 | 45 | Rue Bennett (Euphoria) |
| 3 | 92.0 | 21 | Marcus Baker (Ginny & Georgia) |
| 4 | 90.9 | 27 | Shinji Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion) |
| 5 | 90.5 | 26 | Donny Dunn (Baby Reindeer) |
| 6 | 90.5 | 35 | Martha Scott (Baby Reindeer) |
| 7 | 90.1 | 12 | Tony Johnson (After Life) |
| 8 | 90.0 | 86 | Violet Harmon (American Horror Story: Season 1) |
| 9 | 90.0 | 90 | Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto) |
| 10 | 89.9 | 368 | Moe Szyslak (The Simpsons) |
| 11 | 89.8 | 13 | Reiner Braun (Attack on Titan) |
| 12 | 89.7 | 20 | Levi Ackermann (Attack on Titan) |
| 13 | 89.6 | 22 | Michael Groff (Sex Education) |
| 14 | 89.3 | 559 | The Narrator (Fight Club) |
| 15 | 89.0 | 41 | Jack Maine (A Star Is Born) |
| 16 | 88.9 | 366 | Moaning Myrtle (Harry Potter) |
| 17 | 88.7 | 36 | Tate Langdon (American Horror Story: Season 1) |
| 18 | 88.6 | 451 | Gollum (Lord of the Rings) |
| 19 | 87.8 | 32 | Elliot Alderson (Mr. Robot) |
| 20 | 87.6 | 18 | Scar (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood) |
| 21 | 87.5 | 49 | The Deep (The Boys) |
| 22 | 87.3 | 22 | Drew Baylor (Elizabethtown) |
| 23 | 87.0 | 98 | James (The End of the F***ing World) |
| 24 | 86.8 | 18 | Jonas Kahnwald (Dark) |
| 25 | 86.7 | 351 | Stuart Bloom (The Big Bang Theory) |
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 95.5 | 26 | Kimmy Schmidt (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) |
| 2 | 93.7 | 946 | Leslie Knope (Parks and Recreation) |
| 3 | 93.7 | 26 | SpongeBob SquarePants (SpongeBob SquarePants) |
| 4 | 93.0 | 17 | Ducky (The Land Before Time) |
| 5 | 92.8 | 30 | Lucy MacLean (Fallout) |
| 6 | 92.2 | 208 | Ed (Cowboy Bebop) |
| 7 | 91.4 | 8 | Miriam Maisel (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) |
| 8 | 91.4 | 66 | Pinkie Pie (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic) |
| 9 | 91.2 | 276 | Kaylee Frye (Firefly + Serenity) |
| 10 | 91.0 | 434 | Goh Peik Lin (Crazy Rich Asians) |
| 11 | 89.8 | 14 | Keeley Jones (Ted Lasso) |
| 12 | 89.5 | 41 | Sookie St. James (Gilmore Girls) |
| 13 | 89.5 | 20 | Guinan (Star Trek: The Next Generation) |
| 14 | 88.7 | 11 | Janine Teagues (Abbott Elementary) |
| 15 | 88.5 | 19 | Amanita Caplan (Sense8) |
| 16 | 88.3 | 75 | Jess Day (New Girl) |
| 17 | 87.9 | 181 | Olaf (Frozen) |
| 18 | 87.7 | 30 | Patrick Star (SpongeBob SquarePants) |
| 19 | 87.6 | 486 | Aang (Avatar: The Last Airbender) |
| 20 | 87.5 | 27 | Ferris Bueller (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) |
| 21 | 86.8 | 444 | Ty Lee (Avatar: The Last Airbender) |
| 22 | 86.7 | 26 | Taylor McKessie (High School Musical) |
| 23 | 86.6 | 22 | Eric Effiong (Sex Education) |
| 24 | 86.4 | 11 | Mayuri Shiina (Steins;Gate) |
| 25 | 86.3 | 86 | Penelope Garcia (Criminal Minds) |
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 depressed<--->bright when aggregated at the character level.