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Most dramatic or no-nonsense 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 "dramatic" to "no-nonsense". 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 "dramatic" is the same as 100/100 for "no-nonsense". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.

Most dramatic characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
198.487Jenna Maroney (30 Rock)
298.173Rachel Berry (Glee)
397.472Moira Rose (Schitt's Creek)
497.250Rebecca Bunch (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
595.830Shawn Spencer (Psych)
695.749David Rose (Schitt's Creek)
795.612Ethan Ryan MacManus (Ctrl+Alt+Del)
895.3244Kelly Kapoor (The Office)
994.978Tobias Funke (Arrested Development)
1094.6232Michael Scott (The Office)
1194.519Dominar Rygel XVI (Farscape)
1294.417Cheryl Tunt (Archer)
1394.374King George III (Hamilton)
1494.331Dr. Horrible (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
1594.228Mateo Liwanag (Superstore)
1694.218Ava Coleman (Abbott Elementary)
1794.170Johnny (The Room)
1894.138Oliver Putnam (Only Murders in the Building)
1994.0406Tom Haverford (Parks and Recreation)
2093.978Rogelio De La Vega (Jane the Virgin)
2193.926Han Mi-nyeo (Squid Game)
2293.659Tracy Jordan (30 Rock)
2393.552Count Olaf (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
2493.436Cameron Tucker (Modern Family)
2593.122Paul Smecker (The Boondock Saints)

Most no-nonsense characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
196.819Aeryn Sun (Farscape)
294.627Mike Ehrmantraut (Better Call Saul)
394.333Bobbie Draper (The Expanse)
494.0429Ron Swanson (Parks and Recreation)
593.214Dr. Sharon Fieldstone (Ted Lasso)
692.815Tuvok (Star Trek: Voyager)
792.618Watari (Death Note)
892.410Frank Reagan (Blue Bloods)
991.5170Zoe Washburne (Firefly + Serenity)
1091.276Teal'c (Stargate SG-1)
1191.153Cedric Daniels (The Wire)
1290.246Lester Freamon (The Wire)
1390.0109George S. Hammond (Stargate SG-1)
1489.58Wallace Boden (Chicago Fire)
1589.428'Chief' Bromden (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
1689.021Shirley Schmidt (Boston Legal)
1788.921Karen Vick (Psych)
1888.9123Leroy Jethro Gibbs (NCIS)
1988.747William Adama (Battlestar Galactica)
2088.6154Mike Ehrmantraut (Breaking Bad)
2188.025Henry Spencer (Psych)
2288.055Kima Greggs (The Wire)
2388.037Riza Hawkeye (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
2487.843Melinda May (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
2587.346Russell 'Stringer' Bell (The Wire)

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 dramatic<--->no-nonsense when aggregated at the character level.

  1. exaggerating (not factual) (r=0.83)
  2. head@clouds (not down2earth) (r=0.83)
  3. fantasy-prone (not grounded) (r=0.8)
  4. whimsical (not rational) (r=0.79)
  5. fantastical (not realistic) (r=0.77)
  6. juvenile (not mature) (r=0.76)
  7. long-winded (not concise) (r=0.74)
  8. fickle (not steady) (r=0.73)
  9. twitchy (not still) (r=0.73)
  10. gossiping (not confidential) (r=0.72)

Notes

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