As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,125 characters on a 100 point scale from "nihilist" to "existentialist". 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 "nihilist" is the same as 100/100 for "existentialist". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 92.0 | 64 | Bertram Gilfoyle (Silicon Valley) |
| 2 | 85.4 | 46 | Billy Butcher (The Boys) |
| 3 | 84.5 | 17 | Cooper Howard (Fallout) |
| 4 | 80.4 | 143 | the Alien (Alien) |
| 5 | 80.2 | 23 | Scorpius (Farscape) |
| 6 | 79.9 | 9 | Melissa Schemmenti (Abbott Elementary) |
| 7 | 78.7 | 21 | Ryuk (Death Note) |
| 8 | 78.7 | 26 | Carol 'Mom' Miller (Futurama) |
| 9 | 78.7 | 33 | Byron Hadley (The Shawshank Redemption) |
| 10 | 78.4 | 20 | Roman Roy (Succession) |
| 11 | 78.4 | 33 | Prince Daemon Targaryen (House of the Dragon) |
| 12 | 77.8 | 244 | Agent Smith (The Matrix) |
| 13 | 77.8 | 27 | Shin Hati (Ahsoka) |
| 14 | 77.7 | 66 | Dr. Gregory House (House, M.D.) |
| 15 | 77.2 | 81 | Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones) |
| 16 | 77.0 | 592 | April Ludgate (Parks and Recreation) |
| 17 | 76.9 | 15 | Cahir (The Witcher) |
| 18 | 76.4 | 99 | Vicious (Cowboy Bebop) |
| 19 | 76.3 | 101 | Logan Delos (Westworld) |
| 20 | 76.2 | 32 | Ziggy Sobotka (The Wire) |
| 21 | 76.1 | 25 | Dan Egan (Veep) |
| 22 | 75.9 | 56 | Black Noir (The Boys) |
| 23 | 75.8 | 23 | Ari Gold (Entourage) |
| 24 | 75.7 | 35 | Perry Cox (Scrubs) |
| 25 | 75.4 | 32 | Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Dune) |
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 86.9 | 14 | Prairie Johnson (The OA) |
| 2 | 84.5 | 125 | Derrial Book (Firefly + Serenity) |
| 3 | 84.5 | 13 | Erwin Smith (Attack on Titan) |
| 4 | 83.7 | 22 | Sailor Moon (Sailor Moon) |
| 5 | 82.6 | 103 | Aang (Avatar: The Last Airbender) |
| 6 | 81.9 | 22 | Deanna Troi (Star Trek: The Next Generation) |
| 7 | 81.6 | 20 | Optimus Prime (Transformers) |
| 8 | 81.4 | 18 | Jerry Gergich (Parks and Recreation) |
| 9 | 81.3 | 69 | Josiah Bartlet (The West Wing) |
| 10 | 81.2 | 15 | Jim (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) |
| 11 | 81.2 | 9 | Sam Obisanya (Ted Lasso) |
| 12 | 81.1 | 101 | Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender) |
| 13 | 80.9 | 7 | Jim Holden (The Expanse) |
| 14 | 80.7 | 27 | Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation) |
| 15 | 80.6 | 30 | Belle French (Once Upon a Time) |
| 16 | 80.5 | 22 | Hernando Fuentes (Sense8) |
| 17 | 80.2 | 21 | Kara Danvers (Supergirl) |
| 18 | 80.2 | 6 | Erin Reagan (Blue Bloods) |
| 19 | 79.7 | 46 | Jess Day (New Girl) |
| 20 | 79.6 | 41 | Benjamin Sisko (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) |
| 21 | 79.5 | 26 | Annie Reed (Sleepless in Seattle) |
| 22 | 79.5 | 20 | Lucy MacLean (Fallout) |
| 23 | 79.2 | 40 | Francis Mulcahy (M*A*S*H) |
| 24 | 79.0 | 38 | Barbie (Barbie) |
| 25 | 79.0 | 31 | Charlie Morningstar (Hazbin Hotel) |
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 nihilist<--->existentialist when aggregated at the character level.