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

Most unassuming characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
193.68Sam Obisanya (Ted Lasso)
293.222Jerry Gergich (Parks and Recreation)
391.7101Kaylee Frye (Firefly + Serenity)
489.976Kenneth Parcell (30 Rock)
589.740Kimmy Schmidt (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
688.218Spike (The Land Before Time)
787.712Mayuri Shiina (Steins;Gate)
887.726Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes (LOST)
987.562Waymond Wang (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
1087.133Nelson Bighetti (Silicon Valley)
1185.735Alphonse Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
1285.619Richard D. Winters (Band of Brothers)
1385.217Ted Lasso (Ted Lasso)
1485.012Leslie Higgins (Ted Lasso)
1584.648'Chief' Bromden (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
1684.557Walter 'Radar' O'Reilly (M*A*S*H)
1784.119C. Carwood Lipton (Band of Brothers)
1884.149Leopold 'Butters' Stotch (South Park)
1983.825Teddy Flood (Westworld)
2083.534Lincoln Rice (Broad City)
2183.4546Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump)
2283.431Philip J. Fry (Futurama)
2383.327Lucy Moran (Twin Peaks)
2483.1258Chien-Po (Mulan)
2583.1362Jason Mendoza (The Good Place)

Most pretentious characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
194.665Lucille Bluth (Arrested Development)
293.857Prince Humperdinck (The Princess Bride)
393.717Chuck McGill (Better Call Saul)
493.617Malory Archer (Archer)
593.552Dan Egan (Veep)
693.416Hiram Lodge (Riverdale)
793.338Selina Meyer (Veep)
893.373Lady Catherine de Bourgh (Pride and Prejudice)
993.246Captain Hammer (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
1093.020Dominar Rygel XVI (Farscape)
1193.022Gaius Baltar (Battlestar Galactica)
1292.213Jamie Dutton (Yellowstone)
1392.011The Doctor (Star Trek: Voyager)
1491.814Ari Gold (Entourage)
1591.763Homelander (The Boys)
1691.432Mark Zuckerberg (The Social Network)
1791.243Godmother (Fleabag)
1891.132Gavin Belson (Silicon Valley)
1991.033Commodus (Gladiator)
2090.614Cahir (The Witcher)
2190.569Dennis Reynolds (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
2290.552Nurse Mildred Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
2390.3120Dolores Umbridge (Harry Potter)
2490.319Connor Roy (Succession)
2590.219General Hux (Star Wars: The Last Jedi)

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 unassuming<--->pretentious when aggregated at the character level.

  1. grateful (not entitled) (r=0.81)
  2. humble (not arrogant) (r=0.8)
  3. accepting (not judgemental) (r=0.77)
  4. demure (not vain) (r=0.76)
  5. cooperative (not competitive) (r=0.74)
  6. supportive (not catty) (r=0.73)
  7. kind (not cruel) (r=0.72)
  8. altruistic (not selfish) (r=0.72)
  9. equitable (not hypocritical) (r=0.72)
  10. democratic (not authoritarian) (r=0.71)

Notes

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