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

Most ironic characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
185.829Connor Roy (Succession)
285.628Roman Roy (Succession)
384.722F. Tony Scarapiducci (Space Force)
484.519Ziggy Sobotka (The Wire)
583.856Michael Scott (The Office)
683.141A-Train (The Boys)
782.976Eric Cartman (South Park)
882.831Charlie Harper (Two and Half Men)
982.621Theodore 'T-Bag' Bagwell (Prison Break)
1082.221Han Mi-nyeo (Squid Game)
1182.262Dee Reynolds (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
1282.1193Chandler Bing (Friends)
1381.837George Costanza (Seinfeld)
1481.718Quark (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
1581.716John Willoughby (Sense and Sensibility)
1681.6163Liz Lemon (30 Rock)
1781.517Susie Myerson (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
1881.234Ben Chang (Community)
1981.139Flynn Rider (Tangled)
2081.135Zapp Brannigan (Futurama)
2181.027Sterling Archer (Archer)
2280.235Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
2380.126Evelyn Harper (Two and Half Men)
2480.121Gavin 'Spinner' Mason (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
2580.154Krusty the Clown (The Simpsons)

Most profound characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
191.227Yoda (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith)
289.424Rei Ayanami (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
388.413Li Mu Bai (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
488.2108Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
587.116Sam Obisanya (Ted Lasso)
687.033William Adama (Battlestar Galactica)
786.797Guinan (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
885.26John Galt (Atlas Shrugged)
985.114Lester Freamon (The Wire)
1084.812Omar Little (The Wire)
1184.6117Derrial Book (Firefly + Serenity)
1284.3109Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
1384.322William H. 'Shakespeare' Hill (This Is Us)
1483.718Akecheta (Westworld)
1582.840Professor X (X-Men)
1682.780Teal'c (Stargate SG-1)
1782.229The Amphibian Man (The Shape of Water)
1881.891Vito Corleone (The Godfather)
1981.817Dembe Zuma (The Blacklist)
2081.648Jean Valjean (Les Misérables)
2181.4205Mufasa (The Lion King)
2281.26Michael Desiato (Your Honor)
2381.226Jack Pearson (This Is Us)
2481.016Riley Blue (Sense8)
2581.066Paul Atreides (Dune)

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 ironic<--->profound when aggregated at the character level.

  1. interrupting (not attentive) (r=0.73)
  2. 🤣 (not 😊) (r=0.72)
  3. not introspective (not introspective) (r=0.7)
  4. shallow (not deep) (r=0.7)
  5. lewd (not tasteful) (r=0.69)
  6. juvenile (not mature) (r=0.69)
  7. gossiping (not confidential) (r=0.69)
  8. indiscreet (not tactful) (r=0.68)
  9. inappropriate (not seemly) (r=0.68)
  10. lazy (not diligent) (r=0.67)

Notes

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