As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,000 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 | 95.3 | 11 | Sam Obisanya (Ted Lasso) |
| 2 | 93.6 | 261 | Mulan (Mulan) |
| 3 | 93.0 | 107 | Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender) |
| 4 | 92.3 | 41 | June Osborne (The Handmaid's Tale) |
| 5 | 92.2 | 191 | Ellen Ripley (Alien) |
| 6 | 92.2 | 48 | William Adama (Battlestar Galactica) |
| 7 | 92.2 | 20 | Yoda (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith) |
| 8 | 92.0 | 130 | Minerva McGonagall (Harry Potter) |
| 9 | 91.8 | 13 | Ted Lasso (Ted Lasso) |
| 10 | 91.7 | 20 | Yu Shu Lien (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) |
| 11 | 91.4 | 25 | Ragnar Lothbrok (Vikings) |
| 12 | 91.3 | 19 | Don Shirley (Green Book) |
| 13 | 91.3 | 17 | Wallace Boden (Chicago Fire) |
| 14 | 91.2 | 28 | Elisa Esposito (The Shape of Water) |
| 15 | 91.2 | 17 | Richard D. Winters (Band of Brothers) |
| 16 | 91.1 | 144 | Zoe Washburne (Firefly + Serenity) |
| 17 | 90.8 | 87 | Gandalf (Lord of the Rings) |
| 18 | 90.6 | 20 | Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation) |
| 19 | 90.4 | 9 | Juliana Crain (The Man in the High Castle) |
| 20 | 90.2 | 79 | Josiah Bartlet (The West Wing) |
| 21 | 90.0 | 17 | Littlefoot (The Land Before Time) |
| 22 | 89.8 | 28 | Maximus (Gladiator) |
| 23 | 89.4 | 57 | Dale Cooper (Twin Peaks) |
| 24 | 89.1 | 49 | Indiana Jones (Raiders of the Lost Ark) |
| 25 | 89.0 | 41 | Imperator Furiosa (Mad Max: Fury Road) |
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 94.9 | 107 | Dolores Umbridge (Harry Potter) |
| 2 | 94.8 | 94 | Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones) |
| 3 | 94.6 | 34 | Jonah Ryan (Veep) |
| 4 | 93.8 | 38 | Arturo Roman (Money Heist) |
| 5 | 92.7 | 16 | Connor Roy (Succession) |
| 6 | 92.4 | 74 | The Deep (The Boys) |
| 7 | 92.1 | 16 | Cyril Figgis (Archer) |
| 8 | 91.5 | 17 | Commodus (Gladiator) |
| 9 | 91.2 | 5 | Malvolio (Twelfth Night) |
| 10 | 91.1 | 29 | Zapp Brannigan (Futurama) |
| 11 | 91.1 | 26 | Ziggy Sobotka (The Wire) |
| 12 | 90.6 | 17 | Ginny Miller (Ginny & Georgia) |
| 13 | 90.4 | 34 | Martha Scott (Baby Reindeer) |
| 14 | 90.2 | 60 | Principal Vernon (The Breakfast Club) |
| 15 | 90.1 | 110 | Petunia Dursley (Harry Potter) |
| 16 | 90.0 | 7 | Ethan Ryan MacManus (Ctrl+Alt+Del) |
| 17 | 89.7 | 202 | Joey Donner (10 Things I Hate About You) |
| 18 | 89.6 | 135 | Cal Hockley (Titanic) |
| 19 | 89.4 | 79 | Denny (The Room) |
| 20 | 89.3 | 338 | Prince John (Robin Hood) |
| 21 | 89.2 | 695 | Sid Phillips (Toy Story) |
| 22 | 89.2 | 171 | Hans (Frozen) |
| 23 | 88.8 | 47 | Brad Bellick (Prison Break) |
| 24 | 88.8 | 51 | Prince Humperdinck (The Princess Bride) |
| 25 | 88.8 | 44 | Samuel Norton (The Shawshank Redemption) |
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 inspiring<--->cringeworthy when aggregated at the character level.