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 | 91.0 | 2 | Ser Otto Hightower (House of the Dragon) |
| 4 | 90.9 | 27 | Shinji Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion) |
| 5 | 90.7 | 86 | Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto) |
| 6 | 90.1 | 12 | Tony Johnson (After Life) |
| 7 | 90.0 | 39 | Jack Maine (A Star Is Born) |
| 8 | 89.9 | 366 | Moe Szyslak (The Simpsons) |
| 9 | 89.6 | 22 | Michael Groff (Sex Education) |
| 10 | 89.4 | 13 | Violet Harmon (American Horror Story: Season 1) |
| 11 | 89.3 | 553 | The Narrator (Fight Club) |
| 12 | 89.3 | 18 | Levi Ackermann (Attack on Titan) |
| 13 | 89.2 | 11 | Reiner Braun (Attack on Titan) |
| 14 | 88.9 | 19 | Drew Baylor (Elizabethtown) |
| 15 | 88.8 | 363 | Moaning Myrtle (Harry Potter) |
| 16 | 88.6 | 450 | Gollum (Lord of the Rings) |
| 17 | 87.8 | 32 | Elliot Alderson (Mr. Robot) |
| 18 | 87.5 | 17 | Scar (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood) |
| 19 | 87.5 | 48 | The Deep (The Boys) |
| 20 | 87.2 | 5 | Sydney Carton (A Tale of Two Cities) |
| 21 | 86.9 | 61 | Pete Hornberger (30 Rock) |
| 22 | 86.9 | 16 | Jonas Kahnwald (Dark) |
| 23 | 86.8 | 43 | Will Graham (Hannibal) |
| 24 | 86.7 | 280 | Theon Greyjoy (Game of Thrones) |
| 25 | 86.6 | 349 | Stuart Bloom (The Big Bang Theory) |
| 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 | 92.3 | 204 | Ed (Cowboy Bebop) |
| 6 | 91.9 | 61 | Pinkie Pie (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic) |
| 7 | 91.3 | 15 | Guinan (Star Trek: The Next Generation) |
| 8 | 91.2 | 275 | Kaylee Frye (Firefly + Serenity) |
| 9 | 91.0 | 434 | Goh Peik Lin (Crazy Rich Asians) |
| 10 | 90.1 | 7 | Miriam Maisel (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) |
| 11 | 90.0 | 5 | Janine Teagues (Abbott Elementary) |
| 12 | 89.6 | 38 | Sookie St. James (Gilmore Girls) |
| 13 | 89.0 | 13 | Keeley Jones (Ted Lasso) |
| 14 | 88.8 | 24 | Ferris Bueller (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) |
| 15 | 88.5 | 19 | Amanita Caplan (Sense8) |
| 16 | 88.0 | 73 | Jess Day (New Girl) |
| 17 | 87.8 | 15 | Ava Coleman (Abbott Elementary) |
| 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 | 443 | Ty Lee (Avatar: The Last Airbender) |
| 22 | 86.4 | 27 | Patrick Star (SpongeBob SquarePants) |
| 23 | 86.3 | 34 | Juliet O'Hara (Psych) |
| 24 | 86.3 | 21 | Eric Effiong (Sex Education) |
| 25 | 86.2 | 10 | Waverly Earp (Wynonna Earp) |
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.