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Most assertive or passive characters

As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,125 characters on a 100 point scale from "assertive" to "passive". 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 "assertive" is the same as 100/100 for "passive". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.

Most assertive characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
197.626Ari Gold (Entourage)
296.810Chrisjen Avasarala (The Expanse)
396.296the Alien (Alien)
496.1104Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace (Battlestar Galactica)
595.7546Azula (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
695.544Captain Hammer (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
795.2499Firelord Ozai (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
894.915Cera (The Land Before Time)
994.715Lana Kane (Archer)
1094.618Aeryn Sun (Farscape)
1194.327Kathryn Janeway (Star Trek: Voyager)
1294.031Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
1394.091Omar Little (The Wire)
1494.07Richard D. Winters (Band of Brothers)
1593.9540Samantha Jones (Sex and the City)
1693.7240Man in Black (Westworld)
1793.76Erin Reagan (Blue Bloods)
1893.715Sterling Archer (Archer)
1993.717Wynonna Earp (Wynonna Earp)
2093.6165Jack Donaghy (30 Rock)
2193.535Paris Geller (Gilmore Girls)
2293.4241Gavin Belson (Silicon Valley)
2393.3101Number Six (Battlestar Galactica)
2493.235Ilana Wexler (Broad City)
2592.9260Tywin Lannister (Game of Thrones)

Most passive characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
195.023Kif Kroker (Futurama)
294.3207Nelson Bighetti (Silicon Valley)
392.128Gary Walsh (Veep)
492.176George Michael Bluth (Arrested Development)
590.830Jerry Gergich (Parks and Recreation)
690.6380Milhouse Van Houten (The Simpsons)
788.270Buster Bluth (Arrested Development)
887.7319Stuart Bloom (The Big Bang Theory)
987.2356Waylon Smithers (The Simpsons)
1086.320Rei Ayanami (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
1186.269Leopold 'Butters' Stotch (South Park)
1285.419Cyril Figgis (Archer)
1385.020Petrie (The Land Before Time)
1484.416Spike (The Land Before Time)
1584.3148Kenneth Parcell (30 Rock)
1684.2135Alan Harper (Two and Half Men)
1784.133Glenn Sturgis (Superstore)
1884.025Shinji Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
1984.031Billy Bibbit (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
2083.7136Alfredo Linguini (Ratatouille)
2183.511Greg Hirsch (Succession)
2283.410Matt Braden (After Life)
2382.7715Karen Smith (Mean Girls)
2482.783Tobias Funke (Arrested Development)
2582.79Leslie Higgins (Ted Lasso)

Similar features

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 assertive<--->passive when aggregated at the character level.

  1. dominant (not submissive) (r=0.91)
  2. bossy (not meek) (r=0.9)
  3. alpha (not beta) (r=0.87)
  4. decisive (not hesitant) (r=0.85)
  5. demanding (not unchallenging) (r=0.82)
  6. lion (not zebra) (r=0.82)
  7. confrontational (not conflict-avoidant) (r=0.82)
  8. bold (not shy) (r=0.81)
  9. ferocious (not pacifist) (r=0.8)
  10. hard (not soft) (r=0.78)

Notes

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