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

Most dominant characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
197.743Sharpay Evans (High School Musical)
297.680Miranda Priestly (The Devil Wears Prada)
397.631Paris Geller (Gilmore Girls)
497.313Logan Roy (Succession)
597.387the Alien (Alien)
697.145Billy Butcher (The Boys)
797.1501Firelord Ozai (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
896.745Thomas Shelby (Peaky Blinders)
996.67Elizabeth Jennings (The Americans)
1096.5597Azula (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
1196.532Madeline Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher)
1296.225Ramona Vega (Hustlers)
1396.240Christian Grey (Fifty Shades of Grey)
1496.119Raymond 'Red' Reddington (The Blacklist)
1596.177Jack Donaghy (30 Rock)
1695.824Cooper Howard (Fallout)
1795.6664Thanos (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
1895.617Kathryn Janeway (Star Trek: Voyager)
1995.539Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal)
2095.5728Regina George (Mean Girls)
2195.4362Lord Voldemort (Harry Potter)
2295.327Frank Costello (The Departed)
2395.3290Tywin Lannister (Game of Thrones)
2495.3355Rosa Diaz (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
2595.322Beth Dutton (Yellowstone)

Most submissive characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
198.138Gary Walsh (Veep)
295.1148George Michael Bluth (Arrested Development)
394.976Kenneth Parcell (30 Rock)
494.9433Milhouse Van Houten (The Simpsons)
594.646Leopold 'Butters' Stotch (South Park)
694.670Buster Bluth (Arrested Development)
794.134Jerry Gergich (Parks and Recreation)
893.617Petrie (The Land Before Time)
993.266Tobias Funke (Arrested Development)
1093.2407Waylon Smithers (The Simpsons)
1193.1200Nelson Bighetti (Silicon Valley)
1292.5311Charles Boyle (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
1392.427Emma Pillsbury (Glee)
1492.292Percy Becker (No Hard Feelings)
1591.9133Alan Harper (Two and Half Men)
1691.4144Alfredo Linguini (Ratatouille)
1791.327Anastasia Steele (Fifty Shades of Grey)
1890.5411Stuart Bloom (The Big Bang Theory)
1990.2177Morty Smith (Rick and Morty)
2090.116Darryl Whitefeather (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
2189.6987C-3PO (Star Wars)
2289.129Kif Kroker (Futurama)
2389.126Rei Ayanami (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
2489.0489Raj Koothrappali (The Big Bang Theory)
2588.536Charlie Cheswick (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)

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 dominant<--->submissive when aggregated at the character level.

  1. alpha (not beta) (r=0.93)
  2. assertive (not passive) (r=0.91)
  3. bossy (not meek) (r=0.9)
  4. lion (not zebra) (r=0.86)
  5. decisive (not hesitant) (r=0.85)
  6. armoured (not vulnerable) (r=0.85)
  7. hard (not soft) (r=0.83)
  8. hard (not soft) (r=0.83)
  9. leader (not follower) (r=0.81)
  10. demanding (not unchallenging) (r=0.8)

Notes

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