As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,000 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 | 94.0 | 131 | Charlie Carson (Downton Abbey) |
| 2 | 90.6 | 10 | John Dutton (Yellowstone) |
| 3 | 90.4 | 46 | William Adama (Battlestar Galactica) |
| 4 | 89.9 | 115 | 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 | 88.6 | 13 | Harold Cooper (The Blacklist) |
| 8 | 88.5 | 19 | Dorota Kishlovsky (Gossip Girl) |
| 9 | 88.5 | 13 | Tuvok (Star Trek: Voyager) |
| 10 | 88.0 | 9 | Rip Wheeler (Yellowstone) |
| 11 | 86.8 | 111 | Leroy Jethro Gibbs (NCIS) |
| 12 | 86.4 | 111 | Elsie Carson (Downton Abbey) |
| 13 | 86.2 | 178 | Lois Wilkerson (Malcolm in the Middle) |
| 14 | 85.8 | 33 | Carla Espinosa (Scrubs) |
| 15 | 85.7 | 11 | Lloyd (Yellowstone) |
| 16 | 85.6 | 5 | The Doctor (Star Trek: Voyager) |
| 17 | 85.6 | 27 | Henry Spencer (Psych) |
| 18 | 85.5 | 17 | Barbara Howard (Abbott Elementary) |
| 19 | 85.5 | 23 | Worf (Star Trek: The Next Generation) |
| 20 | 85.4 | 296 | Miranda Bailey (Grey's Anatomy) |
| 21 | 85.3 | 162 | Red Forman (That 70's Show) |
| 22 | 85.2 | 126 | Beryl Patmore (Downton Abbey) |
| 23 | 85.0 | 14 | C. Carwood Lipton (Band of Brothers) |
| 24 | 84.9 | 12 | Aram Mojtabai (The Blacklist) |
| 25 | 84.8 | 18 | Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation) |
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 87.5 | 15 | Charlie Cale (Poker Face) |
| 2 | 86.5 | 91 | George Wickham (Pride and Prejudice) |
| 3 | 86.4 | 46 | Jessa Johansson (Girls) |
| 4 | 85.7 | 31 | Reginald 'Bubbles' Cousins (The Wire) |
| 5 | 82.6 | 30 | Ilana Wexler (Broad City) |
| 6 | 82.6 | 30 | Frank Abagnale (Catch Me If You Can) |
| 7 | 82.1 | 36 | Ziggy Sobotka (The Wire) |
| 8 | 81.7 | 11 | Mat Cauthon (Wheel of Time) |
| 9 | 81.2 | 5 | Eric O'Bannon (Bloodline) |
| 10 | 81.0 | 30 | Clementine Kruczynski (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) |
| 11 | 81.0 | 94 | Erlich Bachman (Silicon Valley) |
| 12 | 80.8 | 18 | Roman Roy (Succession) |
| 13 | 80.6 | 10 | Ruby Tiffany Sparks (Ruby Sparks) |
| 14 | 80.6 | 244 | Tyler Durden (Fight Club) |
| 15 | 80.5 | 23 | John Willoughby (Sense and Sensibility) |
| 16 | 80.2 | 114 | Lydia Bennet (Pride and Prejudice) |
| 17 | 79.6 | 67 | Lindsay Bluth Funke (Arrested Development) |
| 18 | 79.2 | 192 | Robert California (The Office) |
| 19 | 79.1 | 228 | Marla Singer (Fight Club) |
| 20 | 79.1 | 88 | Ed (Cowboy Bebop) |
| 21 | 79.0 | 182 | Jenny Curran (Forrest Gump) |
| 22 | 78.7 | 29 | Nux (Mad Max: Fury Road) |
| 23 | 78.5 | 33 | Jules Vaughn (Euphoria) |
| 24 | 78.4 | 18 | Vanessa Abrams (Gossip Girl) |
| 25 | 78.1 | 24 | Janice Soprano (The Sopranos) |
The survey has 400 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.