As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,125 characters on a 100 point scale from "permanent" to "transient". 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 "permanent" is the same as 100/100 for "transient". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 93.8 | 132 | Charlie Carson (Downton Abbey) |
| 2 | 90.5 | 14 | Rip Wheeler (Yellowstone) |
| 3 | 90.4 | 46 | William Adama (Battlestar Galactica) |
| 4 | 89.8 | 116 | Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham (Downton Abbey) |
| 5 | 89.4 | 382 | Ron Swanson (Parks and Recreation) |
| 6 | 89.1 | 99 | Alfred Pennyworth (The Dark Knight) |
| 7 | 88.9 | 14 | John Dutton (Yellowstone) |
| 8 | 88.6 | 13 | Harold Cooper (The Blacklist) |
| 9 | 88.4 | 20 | Dorota Kishlovsky (Gossip Girl) |
| 10 | 88.4 | 15 | Lloyd (Yellowstone) |
| 11 | 86.4 | 112 | Elsie Carson (Downton Abbey) |
| 12 | 86.2 | 182 | Lois Wilkerson (Malcolm in the Middle) |
| 13 | 86.2 | 113 | Leroy Jethro Gibbs (NCIS) |
| 14 | 86.0 | 26 | Worf (Star Trek: The Next Generation) |
| 15 | 86.0 | 29 | Henry Spencer (Psych) |
| 16 | 85.8 | 21 | Barbara Howard (Abbott Elementary) |
| 17 | 85.8 | 33 | Carla Espinosa (Scrubs) |
| 18 | 85.7 | 14 | Ka D'Argo (Farscape) |
| 19 | 85.4 | 165 | Red Forman (That 70's Show) |
| 20 | 85.3 | 298 | Miranda Bailey (Grey's Anatomy) |
| 21 | 85.2 | 127 | Beryl Patmore (Downton Abbey) |
| 22 | 85.0 | 14 | C. Carwood Lipton (Band of Brothers) |
| 23 | 84.9 | 12 | Aram Mojtabai (The Blacklist) |
| 24 | 84.8 | 18 | Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation) |
| 25 | 84.8 | 14 | Tuvok (Star Trek: Voyager) |
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 90.6 | 26 | Charlie Cale (Poker Face) |
| 2 | 86.7 | 47 | Jessa Johansson (Girls) |
| 3 | 86.5 | 91 | George Wickham (Pride and Prejudice) |
| 4 | 85.7 | 31 | Reginald 'Bubbles' Cousins (The Wire) |
| 5 | 82.6 | 30 | Ilana Wexler (Broad City) |
| 6 | 82.1 | 36 | Ziggy Sobotka (The Wire) |
| 7 | 81.7 | 11 | Mat Cauthon (Wheel of Time) |
| 8 | 81.2 | 5 | Eric O'Bannon (Bloodline) |
| 9 | 81.0 | 94 | Erlich Bachman (Silicon Valley) |
| 10 | 80.8 | 18 | Roman Roy (Succession) |
| 11 | 80.7 | 248 | Tyler Durden (Fight Club) |
| 12 | 80.6 | 10 | Ruby Tiffany Sparks (Ruby Sparks) |
| 13 | 80.5 | 23 | John Willoughby (Sense and Sensibility) |
| 14 | 80.2 | 39 | Frank Abagnale (Catch Me If You Can) |
| 15 | 80.1 | 116 | Lydia Bennet (Pride and Prejudice) |
| 16 | 79.8 | 34 | Clementine Kruczynski (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) |
| 17 | 79.4 | 27 | Claire Colburn (Elizabethtown) |
| 18 | 79.3 | 19 | Vanessa Abrams (Gossip Girl) |
| 19 | 79.3 | 195 | Robert California (The Office) |
| 20 | 79.2 | 231 | Marla Singer (Fight Club) |
| 21 | 79.1 | 89 | Ed (Cowboy Bebop) |
| 22 | 79.0 | 182 | Jenny Curran (Forrest Gump) |
| 23 | 78.7 | 69 | Lindsay Bluth Funke (Arrested Development) |
| 24 | 78.1 | 18 | Rita (Mulholland Drive) |
| 25 | 78.0 | 26 | Janice Soprano (The Sopranos) |
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 permanent<--->transient when aggregated at the character level.