As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,000 characters on a 100 point scale from "self-destructive" to "self-improving". 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 "self-destructive" is the same as 100/100 for "self-improving". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 97.7 | 54 | Gollum (Lord of the Rings) |
| 2 | 95.7 | 21 | Cheryl Tunt (Archer) |
| 3 | 95.7 | 38 | Charlie Kelly (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) |
| 4 | 94.9 | 28 | Martha Scott (Baby Reindeer) |
| 5 | 94.3 | 19 | Ziggy Sobotka (The Wire) |
| 6 | 92.7 | 38 | Tate Langdon (American Horror Story: Season 1) |
| 7 | 92.6 | 39 | Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones) |
| 8 | 92.6 | 37 | Barney Gumble (The Simpsons) |
| 9 | 92.6 | 70 | Leland Palmer (Twin Peaks) |
| 10 | 92.4 | 56 | Rue Bennett (Euphoria) |
| 11 | 92.0 | 94 | Frank Gallagher (Shameless) |
| 12 | 92.0 | 29 | Jonah Ryan (Veep) |
| 13 | 91.7 | 17 | Kendall Roy (Succession) |
| 14 | 91.2 | 50 | Dr. Gregory House (House, M.D.) |
| 15 | 91.2 | 25 | Shinji Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion) |
| 16 | 91.1 | 189 | Sid Phillips (Toy Story) |
| 17 | 91.0 | 26 | Erlich Bachman (Silicon Valley) |
| 18 | 90.8 | 15 | Sterling Archer (Archer) |
| 19 | 90.8 | 41 | Dee Reynolds (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) |
| 20 | 90.7 | 32 | Ben Chang (Community) |
| 21 | 90.6 | 34 | George Costanza (Seinfeld) |
| 22 | 90.4 | 30 | Violet Harmon (American Horror Story: Season 1) |
| 23 | 90.3 | 80 | Krusty the Clown (The Simpsons) |
| 24 | 89.8 | 46 | Pierce Hawthorne (Community) |
| 25 | 89.8 | 26 | George Oscar 'Gob' Bluth (Arrested Development) |
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 92.5 | 15 | Lagertha (Vikings) |
| 2 | 92.5 | 110 | Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender) |
| 3 | 91.3 | 16 | Barbara Howard (Abbott Elementary) |
| 4 | 90.8 | 117 | Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation) |
| 5 | 90.6 | 22 | Sam Obisanya (Ted Lasso) |
| 6 | 89.4 | 22 | Richard D. Winters (Band of Brothers) |
| 7 | 86.7 | 100 | Derrial Book (Firefly + Serenity) |
| 8 | 86.5 | 36 | Professor Oak (Pokémon) |
| 9 | 86.4 | 62 | Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter) |
| 10 | 86.3 | 90 | Guinan (Star Trek: The Next Generation) |
| 11 | 86.3 | 73 | Carlisle Cullen (Twilight) |
| 12 | 85.8 | 25 | Lucy MacLean (Fallout) |
| 13 | 85.6 | 18 | George S. Hammond (Stargate SG-1) |
| 14 | 85.5 | 22 | Charlie Young (The West Wing) |
| 15 | 85.1 | 33 | Francis Mulcahy (M*A*S*H) |
| 16 | 85.1 | 23 | Saitama (One Punch Man) |
| 17 | 85.1 | 59 | Minerva McGonagall (Harry Potter) |
| 18 | 84.9 | 16 | Hernando Fuentes (Sense8) |
| 19 | 84.7 | 6 | Tuvok (Star Trek: Voyager) |
| 20 | 84.7 | 48 | Andy Dufresne (The Shawshank Redemption) |
| 21 | 84.3 | 23 | Marcus (The Bear) |
| 22 | 84.1 | 28 | Q (Tommorrow Never Dies) |
| 23 | 84.1 | 36 | Penny (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog) |
| 24 | 84.0 | 111 | Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation) |
| 25 | 84.0 | 10 | Nicole Haught (Wynonna Earp) |
The survey has 400 different descriptive scales that the characters can be rated on. This list is the 10 other scales that that have the highest correlation with self-destructive<--->self-improving when aggregated at the character level.