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

Most brave characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
195.6124Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace (Battlestar Galactica)
294.311Rip Wheeler (Yellowstone)
393.677Naruto Uzumaki (Naruto)
492.6515Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
591.916Mikasa Ackermann (Attack on Titan)
691.694Octavia Blake (The 100)
791.632Steven Hiller (Independence Day)
891.340Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)
990.5711Thor (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
1090.526Beowulf (Beowulf)
1190.4264Mulan (Mulan)
1290.459Inigo Montoya (The Princess Bride)
1390.221Don Quijote (Don Quixote)
1490.2262Arya Stark (Game of Thrones)
1589.869Sabrina Spellman (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)
1689.7110Pete Mitchell (Top Gun: Maverick)
1789.720Ka D'Argo (Farscape)
1889.6375Jo March (Little Women)
1989.5153Worf (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
2089.3293Lady Sybil Crawley (Downton Abbey)
2189.3283Ygritte (Game of Thrones)
2289.325Cassie Thomas (Promising Young Woman)
2389.39Natalie (Yellowjackets)
2489.215Tasha Yar (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
2589.210Miriam Maisel (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)

Most careful characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
190.4166Chidi Anagonye (The Good Place)
290.2138Alan Harper (Two and Half Men)
389.7472Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory)
489.0418Milhouse Van Houten (The Simpsons)
589.08Matt Braden (After Life)
688.71115C-3PO (Star Wars)
788.331Emma Pillsbury (Glee)
887.217Petrie (The Land Before Time)
987.028Burton Guster (Psych)
1086.595Percy Becker (No Hard Feelings)
1185.825Chuck McGill (Better Call Saul)
1285.766Stu (The Hangover)
1385.1336Petunia Dursley (Harry Potter)
1484.831Gary Walsh (Veep)
1584.8398Stuart Bloom (The Big Bang Theory)
1684.276George Michael Bluth (Arrested Development)
1784.1599Angela Martin (The Office)
1884.0445Waylon Smithers (The Simpsons)
1983.824Alvy Singer (Annie Hall)
2083.727Dale Harding (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
2183.61228Ross Geller (Friends)
2283.4211Walter Stratford (10 Things I Hate About You)
2383.3316Cornelius Fudge (Harry Potter)
2483.127Count Alexei Karenin (Anna Karenina)
2583.1460Ned Flanders (The Simpsons)

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 brave<--->careful when aggregated at the character level.

  1. adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud) (r=0.75)
  2. spelunker (not claustrophobic) (r=0.68)
  3. badass (not weakass) (r=0.66)
  4. doer (not thinker) (r=0.64)
  5. 😎 (not 🧐) (r=0.64)
  6. maverick (not conformist) (r=0.63)
  7. wild (not tame) (r=0.63)
  8. rebellious (not obedient) (r=0.62)
  9. outdoorsy (not indoorsy) (r=0.61)
  10. 🤺 (not 🏌) (r=0.61)

Notes

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