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

Most mysterious characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
196.323L (Death Note)
294.625Verna (The Fall of the House of Usher)
393.923Alison DiLaurentis (Pretty Little Liars)
492.1377River Tam (Firefly + Serenity)
591.913Neal Caffrey (White Collar)
691.621Ava (Ex Machina)
791.014Raymond 'Red' Reddington (The Blacklist)
891.042Alastor (Hazbin Hotel)
990.625Kang Sae-byeok (Squid Game)
1090.357Black Noir (The Boys)
1190.2308Rosa Diaz (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
1289.816Prairie Johnson (The OA)
1389.739Edward Fairfax Rochester (Jane Eyre)
1489.654Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal)
1589.630Kaz Brekker (Shadow and Bone)
1689.597Allison Reynolds (The Breakfast Club)
1789.225Guinan (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
1889.249Elliot Alderson (Mr. Robot)
1989.023Yoda (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith)
2088.8426Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
2188.656Lorraine Broughton (Atomic Blonde)
2288.658Kimiko Miyashiro (The Boys)
2388.638Berlin (Money Heist)
2488.5260Robert Ford (Westworld)
2588.434'Chief' Bromden (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)

Most unambiguous characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
190.611Sancho Panza (Don Quixote)
289.814Janine Teagues (Abbott Elementary)
388.947Captain Hammer (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
488.331Mike McLintock (Veep)
588.11114C-3PO (Star Wars)
687.727Jerry Gergich (Parks and Recreation)
787.638Glenn Sturgis (Superstore)
887.626Chet (Fallout)
987.511Matt Braden (After Life)
1087.1274Mrs. Bennet (Pride and Prejudice)
1186.815Tom Wambsgans (Succession)
1286.7105Thomas 'Herc' Hauk (The Wire)
1386.139Charlie Morningstar (Hazbin Hotel)
1486.029Seong Gi-hun (Squid Game)
1585.926Zapp Brannigan (Futurama)
1685.8129Alan Harper (Two and Half Men)
1785.533Philip J. Fry (Futurama)
1885.5134Miles O'Brien (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
1984.7378Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)
2084.6600Samwise Gamgee (Lord of the Rings)
2184.4125Liz Lemon (30 Rock)
2284.315Bobbie Draper (The Expanse)
2384.319Tony Lip (Green Book)
2484.287Matt Donovan (The Vampire Diaries)
2584.1394Milhouse Van Houten (The Simpsons)

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 mysterious<--->unambiguous when aggregated at the character level.

  1. secretive (not open-book) (r=0.71)
  2. complicated (not simple) (r=0.67)
  3. 🦇 (not 🐿) (r=0.66)
  4. deviant (not average) (r=0.61)
  5. 👽 (not 🤡) (r=0.57)
  6. arcane (not mainstream) (r=0.56)
  7. alert (not oblivious) (r=0.56)
  8. goth (not flower child) (r=0.56)
  9. machiavellian (not transparent) (r=0.55)
  10. cynical (not gullible) (r=0.55)

Notes

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