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Most believable or poorly-written 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 "believable" to "poorly-written". 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 "believable" is the same as 100/100 for "poorly-written". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.

Most believable characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
193.1108Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
292.910Tony Johnson (After Life)
392.225Reginald 'Bubbles' Cousins (The Wire)
492.027Sydney Adamu (The Bear)
591.419Janine Teagues (Abbott Elementary)
691.316Richard D. Winters (Band of Brothers)
791.212Chrisjen Avasarala (The Expanse)
890.722Cooper Howard (Fallout)
990.711Danny Reagan (Blue Bloods)
1090.758Minerva McGonagall (Harry Potter)
1190.6101Evelyn Quan Wang (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
1290.620Riza Hawkeye (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
1390.48Philip Jennings (The Americans)
1490.320Alphonse Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
1589.919Yu Shu Lien (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
1689.810Toby Ziegler (The West Wing)
1789.724Chris Washington (Get Out)
1889.612Nicole Haught (Wynonna Earp)
1989.526Tina (The Bear)
2089.318Ellen Ripley (Alien)
2189.151Andy Dufresne (The Shawshank Redemption)
2288.820Ragnar Lothbrok (Vikings)
2388.8115Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
2488.726M (Tommorrow Never Dies)
2588.738Benjamin 'Hawkeye' Pierce (M*A*S*H)

Most poorly-written characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
188.5106Lisa (The Room)
285.6114Johnny (The Room)
384.4118Denny (The Room)
484.2109Michelle (The Room)
582.0101Peter (The Room)
681.918Hunter Chen (Ginny & Georgia)
777.197Mark (The Room)
874.447Rita Skeeter (Harry Potter)
971.116PI Gabriel Cordova (Ginny & Georgia)
1071.048Cho Chang (Harry Potter)
1170.524Fangs Fogarty (Riverdale)
1267.718Cynthia Fuller (Ginny & Georgia)
1367.315Hiram Lodge (Riverdale)
1466.823Reggie Mantle (Riverdale)
1566.355James Hurley (Twin Peaks)
1666.320Ethan Ryan MacManus (Ctrl+Alt+Del)
1765.418Matt Press (Ginny & Georgia)
1864.525Pepper (Mamma Mia!)
1964.494Topper (Outer Banks)
2063.521Rose Tico (Star Wars: The Last Jedi)
2163.464Agatha (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)
2263.334Sam Healy (Orange is the New Black)
2362.4118Matt Donovan (The Vampire Diaries)
2462.319Tom Keller (Riverdale)
2561.813Lilah MacManus (Ctrl+Alt+Del)

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 believable<--->poorly-written when aggregated at the character level.

  1. important (not irrelevant) (r=0.64)
  2. inspiring (not cringeworthy) (r=0.63)
  3. meaningful (not pointless) (r=0.63)
  4. insightful (not generic) (r=0.6)
  5. deep (not shallow) (r=0.58)
  6. competent (not incompetent) (r=0.58)
  7. legit (not scrub) (r=0.57)
  8. knowledgeable (not ignorant) (r=0.57)
  9. interesting (not tiresome) (r=0.56)
  10. wise (not foolish) (r=0.54)

Notes

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