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

Most independent characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
196.731Cooper Howard (Fallout)
296.1269Arya Stark (Game of Thrones)
395.71196Ron Swanson (Parks and Recreation)
495.3251Mulan (Mulan)
594.7303Rosa Diaz (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
694.643Melinda May (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
794.212Shirley Schmidt (Boston Legal)
894.0244Kat Stratford (10 Things I Hate About You)
993.921Melissa Schemmenti (Abbott Elementary)
1093.9102Ellen Ripley (Alien)
1193.974Blondie (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)
1293.823Guinan (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
1393.824Sun Bak (Sense8)
1493.719Charlie Cale (Poker Face)
1593.621Geralt of Rivia (The Witcher)
1693.226Sandy Cheeks (SpongeBob SquarePants)
1792.822Vi (Arcane)
1892.767Lorraine Broughton (Atomic Blonde)
1992.721Ahsoka Tano (Ahsoka)
2092.522Scar (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
2192.338Max Rockatansky (Mad Max: Fury Road)
2292.333James Bond (Tommorrow Never Dies)
2392.244Frank Abagnale (Catch Me If You Can)
2492.226Dina Fox (Superstore)
2592.2541Toph Beifong (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Most codependent characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
197.430Gary Walsh (Veep)
296.372Buster Bluth (Arrested Development)
396.132Martha Scott (Baby Reindeer)
492.319Tom Wambsgans (Succession)
591.2909Gretchen Wieners (Mean Girls)
690.4400Milhouse Van Houten (The Simpsons)
790.3358Petunia Dursley (Harry Potter)
889.9228Lorna Morello (Orange is the New Black)
989.3324Charles Boyle (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
1089.280Tobias Funke (Arrested Development)
1189.1409Waylon Smithers (The Simpsons)
1289.114Connor Roy (Succession)
1388.927Charlie Cheswick (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
1488.444Ken (Barbie)
1588.3222Jared Dunn (Silicon Valley)
1688.1864Karen Smith (Mean Girls)
1788.111Joel Maisel (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
1888.122Cyril Figgis (Archer)
1988.039Choi Yeon-gyo (Parasite)
2087.4137Morty Smith (Rick and Morty)
2187.422James Taggart (Atlas Shrugged)
2287.131Kif Kroker (Futurama)
2387.121Shinji Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
2486.924Misa Amane (Death Note)
2586.812Denny Brosh (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)

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 independent<--->codependent when aggregated at the character level.

  1. resourceful (not helpless) (r=0.77)
  2. thick-skinned (not sensitive) (r=0.75)
  3. pro (not noob) (r=0.74)
  4. mighty (not puny) (r=0.74)
  5. badass (not weakass) (r=0.74)
  6. alert (not oblivious) (r=0.74)
  7. alpha (not beta) (r=0.73)
  8. sturdy (not flimsy) (r=0.72)
  9. firm (not shaky) (r=0.72)
  10. dominant (not submissive) (r=0.71)

Notes

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