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Most official or backdoor 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 "official" to "backdoor". 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 "official" is the same as 100/100 for "backdoor". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.

Most official characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
191.926Emily Gilmore (Gilmore Girls)
290.5252Charlie Carson (Downton Abbey)
390.31595Mufasa (The Lion King)
490.2288Raymond Holt (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
588.9277Amy Santiago (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
688.237Optimus Prime (Transformers)
788.029Richard Gilmore (Gilmore Girls)
888.028Carlton Lassiter (Psych)
987.41156Leslie Knope (Parks and Recreation)
1087.297Miranda Priestly (The Devil Wears Prada)
1187.172Princess Celestia (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
1286.8287Robert Crawley, 7th Earl of Grantham (Downton Abbey)
1386.518Erwin Smith (Attack on Titan)
1486.318Kerry Weaver (ER)
1586.1269Annie Edison (Community)
1686.144Randall Pearson (This Is Us)
1785.970George Washington (Hamilton)
1885.9124Odo (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
1985.8442Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory)
2085.414Worf (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
2185.356Camille Saroyan (Bones)
2285.217Wallace Boden (Chicago Fire)
2385.218Tuvok (Star Trek: Voyager)
2485.1139Worf (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
2585.0635Charlotte York (Sex and the City)

Most backdoor characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
193.7143Quark (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
293.2411Jayne Cobb (Firefly + Serenity)
392.520Mozzie (White Collar)
492.4237Jian-Yang (Silicon Valley)
592.179Frank Gallagher (Shameless)
691.2118Reginald 'Bubbles' Cousins (The Wire)
790.9101Ziggy Sobotka (The Wire)
890.832Elliot Alderson (Mr. Robot)
990.5209Bertram Gilfoyle (Silicon Valley)
1090.4223Erlich Bachman (Silicon Valley)
1190.3559Gollum (Lord of the Rings)
1290.287Spiros 'Vondas' Vondopoulos (The Wire)
1390.0452Dennis Nedry (Jurassic Park)
1489.7356Malcolm Reynolds (Firefly + Serenity)
1589.6120Bobby Briggs (Twin Peaks)
1689.633Charlie Kelly (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
1789.544Mr. Robot (Mr. Robot)
1889.4601Meredith Palmer (The Office)
1989.225Shawn Spencer (Psych)
2089.1441Cypher (The Matrix)
2189.0351Barney Gumble (The Simpsons)
2289.01130Han Solo (Star Wars)
2388.9392The Joker (The Dark Knight)
2488.739Frank Reynolds (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
2588.529Ilana Wexler (Broad City)

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 official<--->backdoor when aggregated at the character level.

  1. sheriff (not outlaw) (r=0.81)
  2. prestigious (not disreputable) (r=0.79)
  3. proper (not scandalous) (r=0.76)
  4. orderly (not chaotic) (r=0.75)
  5. politically correct (not edgy) (r=0.75)
  6. valedictorian (not drop out) (r=0.73)
  7. straight edge (not junkie) (r=0.73)
  8. well behaved (not mischievous) (r=0.73)
  9. statist (not anarchist) (r=0.72)
  10. neat (not messy) (r=0.7)

Notes

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