As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,000 characters on a 100 point scale from "masochistic" to "pain-avoidant". 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 "masochistic" is the same as 100/100 for "pain-avoidant". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 92.4 | 18 | Jimmy McNulty (The Wire) |
| 2 | 91.1 | 10 | Amos Burton (The Expanse) |
| 3 | 89.7 | 16 | Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace (Battlestar Galactica) |
| 4 | 89.6 | 8 | Ziggy Sobotka (The Wire) |
| 5 | 89.4 | 38 | Stormfront (The Boys) |
| 6 | 88.8 | 20 | Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street) |
| 7 | 88.6 | 11 | Cheryl Tunt (Archer) |
| 8 | 88.5 | 13 | Hiram Lodge (Riverdale) |
| 9 | 87.2 | 37 | Worf (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) |
| 10 | 87.1 | 14 | Beth Dutton (Yellowstone) |
| 11 | 86.8 | 17 | Pamela Poovey (Archer) |
| 12 | 86.6 | 64 | Bellatrix Lestrange (Harry Potter) |
| 13 | 85.3 | 38 | Angel Dust (Hazbin Hotel) |
| 14 | 85.1 | 68 | Marla Singer (Fight Club) |
| 15 | 84.9 | 45 | The Joker (The Dark Knight) |
| 16 | 84.9 | 20 | Paul Spector (The Fall) |
| 17 | 84.8 | 65 | Tyler Durden (Fight Club) |
| 18 | 84.4 | 102 | Worf (Star Trek: The Next Generation) |
| 19 | 84.2 | 37 | Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) |
| 20 | 84.2 | 24 | Ginny Miller (Ginny & Georgia) |
| 21 | 83.9 | 39 | Billy Butcher (The Boys) |
| 22 | 83.9 | 20 | Donny Dunn (Baby Reindeer) |
| 23 | 83.8 | 39 | Kenny McCormick (South Park) |
| 24 | 83.8 | 17 | Martha Scott (Baby Reindeer) |
| 25 | 83.6 | 32 | Scorpius (Farscape) |
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 91.5 | 28 | Dominar Rygel XVI (Farscape) |
| 2 | 85.4 | 15 | Ted Lasso (Ted Lasso) |
| 3 | 85.3 | 23 | Glenn Sturgis (Superstore) |
| 4 | 84.0 | 10 | Ducky (The Land Before Time) |
| 5 | 83.1 | 13 | Neelix (Star Trek: Voyager) |
| 6 | 83.0 | 9 | Linda Montag (Fahrenheit 451) |
| 7 | 82.2 | 9 | Curtis Holt (Arrow) |
| 8 | 81.8 | 13 | Lambert (Alien) |
| 9 | 81.4 | 25 | Pop Tate (Riverdale) |
| 10 | 81.2 | 13 | Norah (Ginny & Georgia) |
| 11 | 80.9 | 8 | Jackie (Yellowjackets) |
| 12 | 80.8 | 40 | Walter 'Radar' O'Reilly (M*A*S*H) |
| 13 | 80.6 | 16 | Mozzie (White Collar) |
| 14 | 80.4 | 146 | Rex (Toy Story) |
| 15 | 80.4 | 12 | Matt Braden (After Life) |
| 16 | 80.2 | 122 | Flounder (The Little Mermaid) |
| 17 | 80.2 | 17 | Chris Washington (Get Out) |
| 18 | 80.0 | 84 | Doc (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) |
| 19 | 80.0 | 32 | Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes (LOST) |
| 20 | 79.8 | 31 | Quark (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) |
| 21 | 79.7 | 273 | Chien-Po (Mulan) |
| 22 | 79.6 | 22 | Dorota Kishlovsky (Gossip Girl) |
| 23 | 79.5 | 131 | The Cowardly Lion (The Wizard of Oz) |
| 24 | 79.5 | 75 | Percy Becker (No Hard Feelings) |
| 25 | 79.1 | 42 | Kelly Erin Hannon (The Office) |
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 masochistic<--->pain-avoidant when aggregated at the character level.