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

Most forgiving characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
197.120Ted Lasso (Ted Lasso)
296.325SpongeBob SquarePants (SpongeBob SquarePants)
395.018Leslie Higgins (Ted Lasso)
494.231Jerry Gergich (Parks and Recreation)
594.1178Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump)
693.716Pop Tate (Riverdale)
793.6559Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
893.5201Olaf (Frozen)
993.331Janine Teagues (Abbott Elementary)
1092.2323Beth March (Little Women)
1192.1435Ned Flanders (The Simpsons)
1292.070Emmet Brickowski (The Lego Movie)
1391.8167Mamá Coco (Coco)
1491.8363Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)
1591.8570Aang (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
1691.814Littlefoot (The Land Before Time)
1791.7135Dory (Finding Nemo)
1891.732Melanie Hamilton (Gone With the Wind)
1991.6110Snow White (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
2091.429Chris Traeger (Parks and Recreation)
2191.354William H. 'Shakespeare' Hill (This Is Us)
2291.3237Chien-Po (Mulan)
2391.3366Jane Bennet (Pride and Prejudice)
2491.312Darryl Whitefeather (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
2591.231Penny (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)

Most vengeful characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
199.524Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
298.556Homelander (The Boys)
398.4261Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
498.1372Lord Voldemort (Harry Potter)
597.98Gina Baxter (Your Honor)
697.5321Dolores Umbridge (Harry Potter)
797.51337Scar (The Lion King)
897.5256Cersei Lannister (Game of Thrones)
996.949Eric Cartman (South Park)
1096.722Malory Archer (Archer)
1196.5539Azula (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
1296.4516Firelord Ozai (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
1396.3432Mr. Burns (The Simpsons)
1496.1370Bellatrix Lestrange (Harry Potter)
1596.130Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Dune)
1696.023Buddy Pine (The Incredibles)
1795.916Light Yagami (Death Note)
1895.7101Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)
1995.563Amy Elliott Dunne (Gone Girl)
2095.4205Gavin Belson (Silicon Valley)
2195.335Darlene Snell (Ozark)
2295.259Prince Aemond Targaryen (House of the Dragon)
2395.027Anakin Skywalker (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith)
2495.025Commodus (Gladiator)
2594.923Beth Dutton (Yellowstone)

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 forgiving<--->vengeful when aggregated at the character level.

  1. warm (not quarrelsome) (r=0.89)
  2. angelic (not demonic) (r=0.88)
  3. kind (not cruel) (r=0.87)
  4. sweet (not bitter) (r=0.87)
  5. 😇 (not 😈) (r=0.86)
  6. nurturing (not poisonous) (r=0.86)
  7. gentle (not harsh) (r=0.86)
  8. trusting (not suspicious) (r=0.85)
  9. wholesome (not salacious) (r=0.85)
  10. empath (not psychopath) (r=0.84)

Notes

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