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

Most realistic characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
195.18Seven of Nine (Star Trek: Voyager)
294.76Bobbie Draper (The Expanse)
394.350Alex Dunphy (Modern Family)
493.79Richard D. Winters (Band of Brothers)
593.384Cristina Yang (Grey's Anatomy)
693.165Luke Danes (Gilmore Girls)
792.913Dr. Sharon Fieldstone (Ted Lasso)
892.78Abe Weissman (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
992.476Red Forman (That 70's Show)
1092.114Leo McGarry (The West Wing)
1192.041Mike Ehrmantraut (Better Call Saul)
1291.440Temperance Brennan (Bones)
1391.363George S. Hammond (Stargate SG-1)
1491.2161Raymond Holt (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
1590.8144Ron Swanson (Parks and Recreation)
1690.418Cedric Daniels (The Wire)
1790.219Kerry Weaver (ER)
1889.427Elinor Dashwood (Sense and Sensibility)
1989.441Mike Ehrmantraut (Breaking Bad)
2089.224Elsie Carson (Downton Abbey)
2189.138Kate Beckett (Castle)
2289.058Jay Pritchett (Modern Family)
2388.910Elizabeth Jennings (The Americans)
2488.817Lester Freamon (The Wire)
2588.813PI Gabriel Cordova (Ginny & Georgia)

Most fantastical characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
195.029SpongeBob SquarePants (SpongeBob SquarePants)
294.746Lorna Morello (Orange is the New Black)
394.488Tracy Jordan (30 Rock)
493.944Cosmo Kramer (Seinfeld)
593.724Lily Iglehart (Sex Education)
693.083Brittany Pierce (Glee)
792.5253Willy Wonka (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory)
892.530Tobias Funke (Arrested Development)
992.531Patrick Star (SpongeBob SquarePants)
1092.435Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)
1192.369Charlie Kelly (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
1292.227Connor Roy (Succession)
1392.1145Pinkie Pie (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
1491.970Michael Scott (The Office)
1591.9181Phoebe Buffay (Friends)
1691.240Cheryl Tunt (Archer)
1790.9118Jason Mendoza (The Good Place)
1890.836Shawn Spencer (Psych)
1990.829Lindsay Bluth Funke (Arrested Development)
2090.8404Princess Ariel (The Little Mermaid)
2190.872Kelly Kapoor (The Office)
2290.292Jenna Maroney (30 Rock)
2390.247Craig Pelton (Community)
2490.0338Olaf (Frozen)
2589.970Alan (The Hangover)

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 realistic<--->fantastical when aggregated at the character level.

  1. grounded (not fantasy-prone) (r=0.87)
  2. rational (not whimsical) (r=0.86)
  3. down2earth (not head@clouds) (r=0.85)
  4. practical (not imaginative) (r=0.84)
  5. realist (not idealist) (r=0.82)
  6. no-nonsense (not dramatic) (r=0.77)
  7. concrete (not abstract) (r=0.74)
  8. factual (not exaggerating) (r=0.72)
  9. mature (not juvenile) (r=0.7)
  10. factual (not poetic) (r=0.7)

Notes

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