As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,000 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 | 94.3 | 3 | Melissa Schemmenti (Abbott Elementary) |
| 2 | 92.0 | 64 | Bertram Gilfoyle (Silicon Valley) |
| 3 | 85.4 | 46 | Billy Butcher (The Boys) |
| 4 | 80.3 | 141 | the Alien (Alien) |
| 5 | 79.5 | 21 | Scorpius (Farscape) |
| 6 | 78.7 | 33 | Byron Hadley (The Shawshank Redemption) |
| 7 | 78.5 | 4 | Cheryl David (Curb Your Enthusiasm) |
| 8 | 78.4 | 20 | Roman Roy (Succession) |
| 9 | 78.1 | 19 | Logan Roy (Succession) |
| 10 | 78.0 | 24 | Carol 'Mom' Miller (Futurama) |
| 11 | 77.7 | 7 | Reese Wilkerson (Malcolm in the Middle) |
| 12 | 77.7 | 64 | Dr. Gregory House (House, M.D.) |
| 13 | 77.7 | 242 | Agent Smith (The Matrix) |
| 14 | 77.0 | 592 | April Ludgate (Parks and Recreation) |
| 15 | 77.0 | 22 | Ari Gold (Entourage) |
| 16 | 76.9 | 80 | Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones) |
| 17 | 76.5 | 13 | Cahir (The Witcher) |
| 18 | 76.4 | 55 | Black Noir (The Boys) |
| 19 | 76.4 | 19 | Ryuk (Death Note) |
| 20 | 76.3 | 101 | Logan Delos (Westworld) |
| 21 | 76.2 | 32 | Ziggy Sobotka (The Wire) |
| 22 | 76.1 | 98 | Vicious (Cowboy Bebop) |
| 23 | 76.1 | 25 | Dan Egan (Veep) |
| 24 | 75.4 | 20 | Sherlock Holmes (Elementary) |
| 25 | 75.4 | 33 | Perry Cox (Scrubs) |
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 100.0 | 4 | Ben Stone (Manifest) |
| 2 | 93.3 | 3 | Ahsoka Tano (Ahsoka) |
| 3 | 86.9 | 14 | Prairie Johnson (The OA) |
| 4 | 84.5 | 125 | Derrial Book (Firefly + Serenity) |
| 5 | 84.5 | 13 | Erwin Smith (Attack on Titan) |
| 6 | 84.5 | 19 | Sailor Moon (Sailor Moon) |
| 7 | 82.6 | 102 | Aang (Avatar: The Last Airbender) |
| 8 | 81.9 | 19 | Optimus Prime (Transformers) |
| 9 | 81.9 | 22 | Deanna Troi (Star Trek: The Next Generation) |
| 10 | 81.8 | 99 | Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender) |
| 11 | 81.8 | 19 | Charlie Morningstar (Hazbin Hotel) |
| 12 | 81.6 | 14 | Jim (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) |
| 13 | 81.5 | 17 | Jerry Gergich (Parks and Recreation) |
| 14 | 81.2 | 9 | Sam Obisanya (Ted Lasso) |
| 15 | 81.0 | 68 | Josiah Bartlet (The West Wing) |
| 16 | 81.0 | 25 | Paul Atreides (Dune) |
| 17 | 80.9 | 7 | Jim Holden (The Expanse) |
| 18 | 80.5 | 22 | Hernando Fuentes (Sense8) |
| 19 | 80.3 | 28 | Belle French (Once Upon a Time) |
| 20 | 80.2 | 26 | Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation) |
| 21 | 80.2 | 21 | Kara Danvers (Supergirl) |
| 22 | 80.2 | 6 | Erin Reagan (Blue Bloods) |
| 23 | 79.9 | 25 | Annie Reed (Sleepless in Seattle) |
| 24 | 79.6 | 17 | Marianne Dashwood (Sense and Sensibility) |
| 25 | 79.5 | 45 | Jess Day (New Girl) |
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 nihilist<--->existentialist when aggregated at the character level.