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

Most traumatized characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
196.726Shinji Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
296.316Rust Cohle (True Detective)
396.022Powder (Arcane)
495.866Gollum (Lord of the Rings)
595.053Elliot Alderson (Mr. Robot)
694.977Tate Langdon (American Horror Story: Season 1)
794.58Kevin Rayburn (Bloodline)
894.438Fantine (Les Misérables)
994.128Scar (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
1093.524Donny Dunn (Baby Reindeer)
1192.97Tony Johnson (After Life)
1292.949Will Graham (Hannibal)
1392.518Cooper Howard (Fallout)
1492.530Ophelia (Hamlet)
1592.247Huck (Scandal)
1692.227Kylo Ren (Star Wars: The Last Jedi)
1792.155Joe Goldberg (You)
1892.038Buster Bluth (Arrested Development)
1992.042Nate Jacobs (Euphoria)
2092.055Abigail Hobbs (Hannibal)
2191.774Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto)
2291.641Billy Butcher (The Boys)
2391.549Arthur Shelby (Peaky Blinders)
2491.455Angel Dust (Hazbin Hotel)
2591.476Eren Jaeger (Attack on Titan)

Most flourishing characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
189.741Goh Peik Lin (Crazy Rich Asians)
287.034Ferris Bueller (Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
386.822Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes)
485.217Barbara Howard (Abbott Elementary)
584.916Sam Obisanya (Ted Lasso)
684.419Elizabeth Burke (White Collar)
784.2119Leslie Knope (Parks and Recreation)
884.063Rarity (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
983.639Donna Meagle (Parks and Recreation)
1082.826Sookie St. James (Gilmore Girls)
1181.925Patrick Star (SpongeBob SquarePants)
1281.218Amanita Caplan (Sense8)
1381.09Joey Lucas (The West Wing)
1480.7161Olaf (Frozen)
1580.547Beth Pearson (This Is Us)
1680.444Samantha Jones (Sex and the City)
1780.317Sam Seaborn (The West Wing)
1879.837Martha Rodgers (Castle)
1979.114Lisa Johnson (After Life)
2078.957Ash Ketchum (Pokémon)
2178.719Sailor Jupiter (Sailor Moon)
2278.4177Bo Peep (Toy Story)
2378.421Sloane Peterson (Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
2478.441Professor Oak (Pokémon)
2578.124Sophie Sheridan (Mamma Mia!)

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 traumatized<--->flourishing when aggregated at the character level.

  1. depressed (not bright) (r=0.8)
  2. sad (not happy) (r=0.79)
  3. haunted (not blissful) (r=0.73)
  4. cursed (not blessed) (r=0.73)
  5. miserable (not joyful) (r=0.72)
  6. 😭 (not 😀) (r=0.72)
  7. sorrowful (not cheery) (r=0.7)
  8. unfulfilled (not fulfilled) (r=0.66)
  9. unlucky (not fortunate) (r=0.65)
  10. gloomy (not sunny) (r=0.64)

Notes

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