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

Most deep characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
194.2269Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
293.48Dr. Sharon Fieldstone (Ted Lasso)
392.530Yoda (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith)
492.4131Guinan (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
591.339Lester Freamon (The Wire)
690.937Dr. Sean Maguire (Good Will Hunting)
790.6134Gandalf (Lord of the Rings)
890.4114William H. 'Shakespeare' Hill (This Is Us)
990.316Nathaniel 'Hawkeye' Poe (The Last of the Mohicans)
1090.29Prairie Johnson (The OA)
1190.2112Derrial Book (Firefly + Serenity)
1290.170Morpheus (The Matrix)
1390.028Céline (Before Sunrise)
1489.8123Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
1589.726Teal'c (Stargate SG-1)
1689.632Rust Cohle (True Detective)
1789.522Inej Ghafa (Shadow and Bone)
1889.498Olivia Benson (Law & Order: SVU)
1989.321Riley Blue (Sense8)
2088.917Moiraine Damodred (Wheel of Time)
2188.923Obi-Wan Kenobi (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith)
2288.825Alphonse Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
2388.738Verna (The Fall of the House of Usher)
2488.793Dale Cooper (Twin Peaks)
2588.686Abed Nadir (Community)

Most shallow characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
195.332Captain Hammer (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
293.737Zapp Brannigan (Futurama)
393.2126Jenna Maroney (30 Rock)
491.858Eric Cartman (South Park)
591.2134Lisa (The Room)
690.787Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)
790.277Lindsay Bluth Funke (Arrested Development)
890.2150Ernesto de la Cruz (Coco)
990.251King George III (Hamilton)
1089.932Dan Egan (Veep)
1189.917Sterling Archer (Archer)
1289.8251Joey Donner (10 Things I Hate About You)
1389.374George Oscar 'Gob' Bluth (Arrested Development)
1488.6102Prince John (Robin Hood)
1588.513Ethan Ryan MacManus (Ctrl+Alt+Del)
1688.3172Hans (Frozen)
1788.131Dee Reynolds (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
1887.8168Dolores Umbridge (Harry Potter)
1987.560Gavin Belson (Silicon Valley)
2087.5222Tom Buchanan (The Great Gatsby)
2187.537Arturo Roman (Money Heist)
2287.484Lucille Bluth (Arrested Development)
2387.255Prince Humperdinck (The Princess Bride)
2486.914Jamie Dutton (Yellowstone)
2586.8170Rita Skeeter (Harry Potter)

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 deep<--->shallow when aggregated at the character level.

  1. introspective (not not introspective) (r=0.84)
  2. meaningful (not pointless) (r=0.79)
  3. inspiring (not cringeworthy) (r=0.78)
  4. knowledgeable (not ignorant) (r=0.76)
  5. attentive (not interrupting) (r=0.73)
  6. legit (not scrub) (r=0.72)
  7. wise (not foolish) (r=0.72)
  8. equitable (not hypocritical) (r=0.72)
  9. confidential (not gossiping) (r=0.71)
  10. insightful (not generic) (r=0.71)

Notes

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