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

Most badass characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
198.360Daryl Dixon (The Walking Dead)
298.018Cooper Howard (Fallout)
398.034Cassie Thomas (Promising Young Woman)
497.941Mike Ehrmantraut (Better Call Saul)
597.830Sun Bak (Sense8)
697.7122Toph Beifong (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
797.574Teal'c (Stargate SG-1)
897.447Sarah Connor (Terminator 2: Judgement Day)
997.3176Mulan (Mulan)
1097.0107Zoe Washburne (Firefly + Serenity)
1196.917Rebecca Welton (Ted Lasso)
1296.841Jason Bourne (The Bourne Identity)
1396.816Geralt of Rivia (The Witcher)
1496.855T-800 (Terminator 2: Judgement Day)
1596.720the Alien (Alien)
1696.755Westley (The Princess Bride)
1796.785Lagertha (Vikings)
1896.663Lorraine Broughton (Atomic Blonde)
1996.665Imperator Furiosa (Mad Max: Fury Road)
2096.412Seven of Nine (Star Trek: Voyager)
2196.338Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham (Downton Abbey)
2296.212Rip Wheeler (Yellowstone)
2396.2131Mazikeen (Lucifer)
2496.220Bobbie Draper (The Expanse)
2596.0129Ron Swanson (Parks and Recreation)

Most weakass characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
195.030Alan Harper (Two and Half Men)
294.333Tobias Funke (Arrested Development)
393.351Milhouse Van Houten (The Simpsons)
490.943Sam Healy (Orange is the New Black)
590.17Ziggy Sobotka (The Wire)
689.515Jamie Dutton (Yellowstone)
788.919Nathan Shelley (Ted Lasso)
888.89Linda Montag (Fahrenheit 451)
988.449Arturo Roman (Money Heist)
1087.843Mr. William Collins (Pride and Prejudice)
1187.738Cyril Figgis (Archer)
1287.740Ian Duncan (Community)
1387.642George Michael Bluth (Arrested Development)
1487.657Connor Roy (Succession)
1587.460Waylon Smithers (The Simpsons)
1687.232Ryan Cooper (Promising Young Woman)
1786.817Gary Walsh (Veep)
1886.580Percy Becker (No Hard Feelings)
1986.350Dennis Nedry (Jurassic Park)
2086.033Kif Kroker (Futurama)
2185.723Prince John (Robin Hood)
2285.642Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
2384.832Gaius Baltar (Battlestar Galactica)
2484.747The Deep (The Boys)
2584.5181Ross Geller (Friends)

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 badass<--->weakass when aggregated at the character level.

  1. mighty (not puny) (r=0.88)
  2. pro (not noob) (r=0.79)
  3. resourceful (not helpless) (r=0.75)
  4. alpha (not beta) (r=0.75)
  5. independent (not codependent) (r=0.74)
  6. inspiring (not cringeworthy) (r=0.74)
  7. interesting (not tiresome) (r=0.73)
  8. cool (not dorky) (r=0.73)
  9. sharp (not dull) (r=0.71)
  10. sturdy (not flimsy) (r=0.7)

Notes

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