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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 2,000 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
193.1107Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
292.910Tony Johnson (After Life)
392.225Reginald 'Bubbles' Cousins (The Wire)
492.05Lloyd (Yellowstone)
592.018Janine Teagues (Abbott Elementary)
691.825Sydney Adamu (The Bear)
791.211Nicole Haught (Wynonna Earp)
891.212Chrisjen Avasarala (The Expanse)
990.814Richard D. Winters (Band of Brothers)
1090.711Danny Reagan (Blue Bloods)
1190.557Minerva McGonagall (Harry Potter)
1290.510Michael Desiato (Your Honor)
1390.48Philip Jennings (The Americans)
1490.320Alphonse Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
1590.221Cooper Howard (Fallout)
1690.117Riza Hawkeye (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
1789.825M (Tommorrow Never Dies)
1889.820Misato Katsuragi (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
1989.810Toby Ziegler (The West Wing)
2089.724Chris Washington (Get Out)
2189.670Evelyn Quan Wang (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
2289.418Yu Shu Lien (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
2389.219Ragnar Lothbrok (Vikings)
2489.151Andy Dufresne (The Shawshank Redemption)
2589.117Eugene G. Roe (Band of Brothers)

Most poorly-written characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
188.5106Lisa (The Room)
285.5113Johnny (The Room)
385.315Hunter Chen (Ginny & Georgia)
484.2116Denny (The Room)
584.1108Michelle (The Room)
682.0101Peter (The Room)
777.197Mark (The Room)
875.320Fangs Fogarty (Riverdale)
973.945Rita Skeeter (Harry Potter)
1071.116PI Gabriel Cordova (Ginny & Georgia)
1170.814Hiram Lodge (Riverdale)
1270.746Cho Chang (Harry Potter)
1367.522Reggie Mantle (Riverdale)
1466.254James Hurley (Twin Peaks)
1565.816Cynthia Fuller (Ginny & Georgia)
1663.789Topper (Outer Banks)
1763.623Pepper (Mamma Mia!)
1863.316Ethan Ryan MacManus (Ctrl+Alt+Del)
1963.333Sam Healy (Orange is the New Black)
2063.263Agatha (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)
2163.116Matt Press (Ginny & Georgia)
2262.2111Matt Donovan (The Vampire Diaries)
2361.920Ginny Miller (Ginny & Georgia)
2461.518Tom Keller (Riverdale)
2561.419Rose Tico (Star Wars: The Last Jedi)

Similar traits

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 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=0.61)
  4. insightful (not generic) (r=0.58)
  5. competent (not incompetent) (r=0.58)
  6. deep (not shallow) (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. genius (not dunce) (r=0.54)

Notes

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