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

Most cheery characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
195.976Pinkie Pie (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
295.910Mayuri Shiina (Steins;Gate)
395.5162Kenneth Parcell (30 Rock)
495.31091Leslie Knope (Parks and Recreation)
594.835Kimmy Schmidt (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
694.3420Goh Peik Lin (Crazy Rich Asians)
793.447Phil Dunphy (Modern Family)
893.1235Ed (Cowboy Bebop)
992.845Charlie Morningstar (Hazbin Hotel)
1092.584Penelope Garcia (Criminal Minds)
1192.218Jesper Fahey (Shadow and Bone)
1292.073Emmet Brickowski (The Lego Movie)
1391.930Patrick Star (SpongeBob SquarePants)
1491.9170Olaf (Frozen)
1591.8560Kelly Erin Hannon (The Office)
1691.8419Kaylee Frye (Firefly + Serenity)
1791.720Sam Obisanya (Ted Lasso)
1891.620Kathy Selden (Singin' in the Rain)
1991.4278Jake Peralta (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
2091.459Hilda Spellman (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)
2191.038Sandy Cheeks (SpongeBob SquarePants)
2290.91234Joey Tribbiani (Friends)
2390.81327Pumbaa (The Lion King)
2490.752Jess Day (New Girl)
2590.625Glenn Sturgis (Superstore)

Most sorrowful characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
193.210Cahir (The Witcher)
293.228Javert (Les Misérables)
393.232Squidward Tentacles (SpongeBob SquarePants)
492.9361Severus Snape (Harry Potter)
592.881Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto)
692.830Prince Hamlet (Hamlet)
792.816Scar (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
892.739Elliot Alderson (Mr. Robot)
992.424Shinji Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
1092.224Kylo Ren (Star Wars: The Last Jedi)
1192.022Silco (Arcane)
1291.720Levi Ackermann (Attack on Titan)
1391.324Michael Groff (Sex Education)
1491.3967Darth Vader (Star Wars)
1591.1363Moaning Myrtle (Harry Potter)
1690.4288Sandor Clegane (Game of Thrones)
1789.9277Rust Cohle (True Detective)
1889.8178Vicious (Cowboy Bebop)
1989.6496Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
2089.4252Man in Black (Westworld)
2189.232Anakin Skywalker (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith)
2288.643Serena Joy Waterford (The Handmaid's Tale)
2388.531Fantine (Les Misérables)
2488.310Philip Jennings (The Americans)
2588.31371Scar (The Lion King)

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 cheery<--->sorrowful when aggregated at the character level.

  1. happy (not sad) (r=0.92)
  2. sunny (not gloomy) (r=0.91)
  3. joyful (not miserable) (r=0.9)
  4. blissful (not haunted) (r=0.84)
  5. cheery (not grumpy) (r=0.83)
  6. 😀 (not 😭) (r=0.82)
  7. bright (not depressed) (r=0.81)
  8. open (not guarded) (r=0.8)
  9. bubbly (not flat) (r=0.79)
  10. euphoric (not resentful) (r=0.78)

Notes

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