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

Most unlucky characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
195.764Kenny McCormick (South Park)
292.26Eric O'Bannon (Bloodline)
391.511Ben Scott (Yellowjackets)
491.3361Moaning Myrtle (Harry Potter)
590.850Fantine (Les Misérables)
690.712Cyril Figgis (Archer)
790.17Michael Desiato (Your Honor)
889.9525Gollum (Lord of the Rings)
989.465Violet Baudelaire (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
1088.544Charlie Kelly (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
1188.453Klaus Baudelaire (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
1288.318Hester Prynne (The Scarlet Letter)
1388.144Larry Harvey (American Horror Story: Season 1)
1488.132Squidward Tentacles (SpongeBob SquarePants)
1588.1251Theon Greyjoy (Game of Thrones)
1688.114Wynonna Earp (Wynonna Earp)
1787.819Dr. John A. Zoidberg (Futurama)
1887.715Angelica Turing (Sense8)
1987.431Donny Dunn (Baby Reindeer)
2087.330Chris Washington (Get Out)
2187.0448Milhouse Van Houten (The Simpsons)
2286.848Janine Lindo (The Handmaid's Tale)
2386.823Powder (Arcane)
2486.628Prince Hamlet (Hamlet)
2586.641Dee Reynolds (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)

Most fortunate characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
191.445Ferris Bueller (Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
290.4418Nick Young (Crazy Rich Asians)
389.6295Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham (Downton Abbey)
488.4180Jack Donaghy (30 Rock)
587.956Princess Celestia (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
687.817Vincent Chase (Entourage)
787.730Logan Huntzberger (Gilmore Girls)
887.515Ari Gold (Entourage)
987.421Logan Roy (Succession)
1085.6415Goh Peik Lin (Crazy Rich Asians)
1185.4178Tracy Jordan (30 Rock)
1285.1206Nelson Bighetti (Silicon Valley)
1384.526Troy Bolton (High School Musical)
1484.519Sterling Archer (Archer)
1584.2131Robin Hood (Robin Hood)
1684.231Richard Gilmore (Gilmore Girls)
1784.1659Mr. Big (Sex and the City)
1883.840James Bond (Tommorrow Never Dies)
1983.338Gloria Delgado-Pritchett (Modern Family)
2083.238Jay Pritchett (Modern Family)
2183.022Donna Meagle (Parks and Recreation)
2282.9346Charles Bingley (Pride and Prejudice)
2382.860Tami Taylor (Friday Night Lights)
2482.6198Bert Cooper (Mad Men)
2582.419Neal Caffrey (White Collar)

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 unlucky<--->fortunate when aggregated at the character level.

  1. traumatized (not flourishing) (r=0.65)
  2. cursed (not blessed) (r=0.59)
  3. depressed (not bright) (r=0.56)
  4. sad (not happy) (r=0.5)
  5. 😭 (not 😀) (r=0.5)
  6. rejected (not popular) (r=0.5)
  7. desperate (not high standards) (r=0.49)
  8. enslaved (not emancipated) (r=0.49)
  9. insecure (not confident) (r=0.49)
  10. unfulfilled (not fulfilled) (r=0.47)

Notes

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