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

Most repetitive characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
188.818Lieutenant Schrank (West Side Story)
288.436Arturo Roman (Money Heist)
388.022Captain Hammer (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
487.4148Ned Flanders (The Simpsons)
586.891Principal Vernon (The Breakfast Club)
685.851Nurse Mildred Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
785.694Mr. William Collins (Pride and Prejudice)
885.6225Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory)
985.122Taylor Doose (Gilmore Girls)
1085.052Niko Polastri (Killing Eve)
1184.726Jerry Gergich (Parks and Recreation)
1284.6258Angela Martin (The Office)
1384.436Javert (Les Misérables)
1484.3111Charlie Carson (Downton Abbey)
1584.115Calvin Weir-Fields (Ruby Sparks)
1683.9175Petunia Dursley (Harry Potter)
1783.8239Walter Stratford (10 Things I Hate About You)
1883.7118Luther Hargreeves (The Umbrella Academy)
1983.519Zapp Brannigan (Futurama)
2083.221Emma Pillsbury (Glee)
2183.228Martha Scott (Baby Reindeer)
2282.437Clay Davis (The Wire)
2382.2168Dolores Umbridge (Harry Potter)
2482.127Michael Groff (Sex Education)
2582.029Tuvok (Star Trek: Voyager)

Most varied characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
183.1200Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)
283.019Neal Caffrey (White Collar)
382.837Ilana Wexler (Broad City)
482.537Ferris Bueller (Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
582.5130The Joker (The Dark Knight)
682.2153Nymphadora Tonks (Harry Potter)
780.8182Goh Peik Lin (Crazy Rich Asians)
879.819Amanita Caplan (Sense8)
978.919Donna Meagle (Parks and Recreation)
1078.9108Lady Sybil Crawley (Downton Abbey)
1178.721Steven Hiller (Independence Day)
1278.535Randle Patrick McMurphy (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
1378.433Nairobi (Money Heist)
1478.317Cooper Howard (Fallout)
1578.141Mystique (X-Men)
1677.636Frank Abagnale (Catch Me If You Can)
1777.238Shawn Spencer (Psych)
1877.212Miriam Maisel (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
1977.2241Patrick Verona (10 Things I Hate About You)
2077.056Joy Wang (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
2176.930Tiffany Maxwell (Silver Linings Playbook)
2276.565Villanelle (Killing Eve)
2376.3148River Tam (Firefly + Serenity)
2476.325Rosie Mulligan (Mamma Mia!)
2576.376Wyldstyle (The Lego Movie)

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 repetitive<--->varied when aggregated at the character level.

  1. tiresome (not interesting) (r=0.74)
  2. stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous) (r=0.73)
  3. uncreative (not open to new experinces) (r=0.73)
  4. stereotypical (not boundary breaking) (r=0.71)
  5. routine (not innovative) (r=0.71)
  6. conventional (not creative) (r=0.7)
  7. mundane (not extraordinary) (r=0.68)
  8. basic (not hipster) (r=0.68)
  9. uninspiring (not charismatic) (r=0.65)
  10. conformist (not maverick) (r=0.65)

Notes

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