As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,125 characters on a 100 point scale from "inspiring" to "cringeworthy". 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 "inspiring" is the same as 100/100 for "cringeworthy". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 95.7 | 12 | Sam Obisanya (Ted Lasso) |
| 2 | 93.7 | 264 | Mulan (Mulan) |
| 3 | 93.0 | 107 | Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender) |
| 4 | 92.9 | 15 | Ted Lasso (Ted Lasso) |
| 5 | 92.2 | 48 | William Adama (Battlestar Galactica) |
| 6 | 92.1 | 192 | Ellen Ripley (Alien) |
| 7 | 91.9 | 20 | Wallace Boden (Chicago Fire) |
| 8 | 91.9 | 132 | Minerva McGonagall (Harry Potter) |
| 9 | 91.7 | 20 | Yu Shu Lien (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) |
| 10 | 91.6 | 44 | June Osborne (The Handmaid's Tale) |
| 11 | 91.4 | 25 | Ragnar Lothbrok (Vikings) |
| 12 | 91.2 | 20 | Littlefoot (The Land Before Time) |
| 13 | 91.1 | 23 | Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation) |
| 14 | 91.0 | 149 | Zoe Washburne (Firefly + Serenity) |
| 15 | 90.9 | 88 | Gandalf (Lord of the Rings) |
| 16 | 90.4 | 9 | Juliana Crain (The Man in the High Castle) |
| 17 | 90.4 | 26 | Yoda (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith) |
| 18 | 90.3 | 18 | Richard D. Winters (Band of Brothers) |
| 19 | 90.2 | 79 | Josiah Bartlet (The West Wing) |
| 20 | 89.9 | 31 | Elisa Esposito (The Shape of Water) |
| 21 | 89.7 | 35 | Maximus (Gladiator) |
| 22 | 89.4 | 19 | Riza Hawkeye (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood) |
| 23 | 89.3 | 25 | Erwin Smith (Attack on Titan) |
| 24 | 89.0 | 44 | Imperator Furiosa (Mad Max: Fury Road) |
| 25 | 89.0 | 1202 | Mufasa (The Lion King) |
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 94.8 | 95 | Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones) |
| 2 | 94.7 | 112 | Dolores Umbridge (Harry Potter) |
| 3 | 93.9 | 39 | Arturo Roman (Money Heist) |
| 4 | 93.8 | 35 | Jonah Ryan (Veep) |
| 5 | 92.7 | 16 | Connor Roy (Succession) |
| 6 | 92.6 | 17 | Cyril Figgis (Archer) |
| 7 | 92.4 | 74 | The Deep (The Boys) |
| 8 | 91.6 | 32 | Zapp Brannigan (Futurama) |
| 9 | 91.4 | 27 | Ziggy Sobotka (The Wire) |
| 10 | 91.2 | 5 | Malvolio (Twelfth Night) |
| 11 | 91.0 | 21 | Ginny Miller (Ginny & Georgia) |
| 12 | 90.7 | 36 | Martha Scott (Baby Reindeer) |
| 13 | 90.2 | 113 | Petunia Dursley (Harry Potter) |
| 14 | 90.1 | 21 | Commodus (Gladiator) |
| 15 | 89.8 | 61 | Principal Vernon (The Breakfast Club) |
| 16 | 89.8 | 141 | Cal Hockley (Titanic) |
| 17 | 89.5 | 205 | Joey Donner (10 Things I Hate About You) |
| 18 | 89.5 | 80 | Denny (The Room) |
| 19 | 89.3 | 175 | Hans (Frozen) |
| 20 | 89.2 | 703 | Sid Phillips (Toy Story) |
| 21 | 89.1 | 341 | Prince John (Robin Hood) |
| 22 | 89.0 | 48 | Brad Bellick (Prison Break) |
| 23 | 88.8 | 51 | Prince Humperdinck (The Princess Bride) |
| 24 | 88.8 | 79 | Pierce Hawthorne (Community) |
| 25 | 88.6 | 77 | Gaston (Beauty and the Beast) |
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 inspiring<--->cringeworthy when aggregated at the character level.