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Most masochistic or pain-avoidant 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 "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.

Most masochistic characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
192.418Jimmy McNulty (The Wire)
290.311Amos Burton (The Expanse)
389.922Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
489.612Cheryl Tunt (Archer)
589.68Ziggy Sobotka (The Wire)
689.617Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace (Battlestar Galactica)
789.438Stormfront (The Boys)
888.513Hiram Lodge (Riverdale)
987.638Worf (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
1087.318Pamela Poovey (Archer)
1187.267Bellatrix Lestrange (Harry Potter)
1286.715Beth Dutton (Yellowstone)
1385.670Tyler Durden (Fight Club)
1484.971Marla Singer (Fight Club)
1584.945The Joker (The Dark Knight)
1684.920Paul Spector (The Fall)
1784.6103Worf (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
1884.444Kenny McCormick (South Park)
1984.344Angel Dust (Hazbin Hotel)
2084.237Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
2184.121Kylo Ren (Star Wars: The Last Jedi)
2283.632Scorpius (Farscape)
2383.341Billy Butcher (The Boys)
2483.263Eren Jaeger (Attack on Titan)
2582.153Theodore 'T-Bag' Bagwell (Prison Break)

Most pain-avoidant characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
191.329Dominar Rygel XVI (Farscape)
286.218Ted Lasso (Ted Lasso)
385.924Glenn Sturgis (Superstore)
485.511Ducky (The Land Before Time)
584.710Linda Montag (Fahrenheit 451)
683.113Neelix (Star Trek: Voyager)
783.114Lambert (Alien)
882.510Curtis Holt (Arrow)
981.443Walter 'Radar' O'Reilly (M*A*S*H)
1081.226Pop Tate (Riverdale)
1181.115Jackie (Yellowjackets)
1280.734Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes (LOST)
1380.616Mozzie (White Collar)
1480.6127Flounder (The Little Mermaid)
1580.6148Rex (Toy Story)
1680.412Matt Braden (After Life)
1780.2138The Cowardly Lion (The Wizard of Oz)
1880.287Doc (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
1980.178Percy Becker (No Hard Feelings)
2079.831Quark (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
2179.8275Chien-Po (Mulan)
2279.343Kelly Erin Hannon (The Office)
2379.2131C-3PO (Star Wars)
2479.119Chris Washington (Get Out)
2578.561Emmet Brickowski (The Lego Movie)

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 masochistic<--->pain-avoidant when aggregated at the character level.

  1. hunter (not gatherer) (r=0.64)
  2. ferocious (not pacifist) (r=0.64)
  3. extreme (not moderate) (r=0.62)
  4. vengeful (not forgiving) (r=0.62)
  5. intense (not lighthearted) (r=0.61)
  6. haunted (not blissful) (r=0.61)
  7. 🦇 (not 🐿) (r=0.6)
  8. 😈 (not 😇) (r=0.6)
  9. demonic (not angelic) (r=0.6)
  10. naughty (not nice) (r=0.59)

Notes

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