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

Most joyful characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
195.770Pinkie Pie (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
295.635Kimmy Schmidt (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
394.925SpongeBob SquarePants (SpongeBob SquarePants)
494.9168Goh Peik Lin (Crazy Rich Asians)
594.7185Olaf (Frozen)
694.610Ted Lasso (Ted Lasso)
794.318Janine Teagues (Abbott Elementary)
894.020Sam Obisanya (Ted Lasso)
993.9265Leslie Knope (Parks and Recreation)
1093.798Kaylee Frye (Firefly + Serenity)
1193.114Lisa Johnson (After Life)
1293.110Waverly Earp (Wynonna Earp)
1393.042Charlie Morningstar (Hazbin Hotel)
1493.010Mayuri Shiina (Steins;Gate)
1592.918Ducky (The Land Before Time)
1692.872Ed (Cowboy Bebop)
1792.512Jadzia Dax (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
1892.377Penelope Garcia (Criminal Minds)
1991.7552Pumbaa (The Lion King)
2091.771Emmet Brickowski (The Lego Movie)
2191.642Sookie St. James (Gilmore Girls)
2291.471Kenneth Parcell (30 Rock)
2391.315Cosmo Brown (Singin' in the Rain)
2491.264Linda Belcher (Bob's Burgers)
2591.029Angela Montenegro (Bones)

Most miserable characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
195.827Squidward Tentacles (SpongeBob SquarePants)
293.611Cahir (The Witcher)
393.4134Lord Voldemort (Harry Potter)
493.030Chuck McGill (Better Call Saul)
592.945Nate Jacobs (Euphoria)
692.7543Scar (The Lion King)
792.624Kylo Ren (Star Wars: The Last Jedi)
891.7310Darth Vader (Star Wars)
991.131Megatron (Transformers)
1091.114William Rawls (The Wire)
1191.198Petunia Dursley (Harry Potter)
1291.027Man in Black (Westworld)
1390.927Roy Petty (Ozark)
1490.822Prince Hamlet (Hamlet)
1590.820Hiram Lodge (Riverdale)
1690.520Reiner Braun (Attack on Titan)
1790.4173Firelord Ozai (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
1890.027Sarah O'Brien (Downton Abbey)
1989.9388Dr. Gregory House (House, M.D.)
2089.842Javert (Les Misérables)
2189.756Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
2289.5154Father Faustus Blackwood (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)
2389.526Michael Groff (Sex Education)
2489.572Major Arnold Toht (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
2589.540Darlene Snell (Ozark)

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 joyful<--->miserable when aggregated at the character level.

  1. happy (not sad) (r=0.91)
  2. sunny (not gloomy) (r=0.91)
  3. cheery (not sorrowful) (r=0.9)
  4. blissful (not haunted) (r=0.86)
  5. bright (not depressed) (r=0.85)
  6. 😀 (not 😭) (r=0.85)
  7. glad (not mad) (r=0.84)
  8. euphoric (not resentful) (r=0.84)
  9. cheery (not grumpy) (r=0.83)
  10. good-humored (not angry) (r=0.83)

Notes

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