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

Most empath characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
197.1100Deanna Troi (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
295.7112Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
394.5117Aang (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
493.811Sam Obisanya (Ted Lasso)
593.431Melinda Monroe (Virgin River)
693.1112Penelope Garcia (Criminal Minds)
792.920Alphonse Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
892.954Angela Montenegro (Bones)
992.662Samwise Gamgee (Lord of the Rings)
1092.424Janine Teagues (Abbott Elementary)
1192.293Eliza Hamilton (Hamilton)
1292.135Padme Amidala (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith)
1392.047Glenn Rhee (The Walking Dead)
1491.743Maid Marian (Robin Hood)
1591.738Elisa Esposito (The Shape of Water)
1691.6168Chien-Po (Mulan)
1791.628Rod Williams (Get Out)
1891.612Kes (Star Trek: Voyager)
1991.548Penny (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
2091.531Kala Dandekar (Sense8)
2191.310Buck Vu (The OA)
2291.1100Kaylee Frye (Firefly + Serenity)
2390.935Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes (LOST)
2490.932Samwell Tarly (Game of Thrones)
2590.842Kara Danvers (Supergirl)

Most psychopath characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
199.540Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
298.279Dolores Umbridge (Harry Potter)
398.046Rose Armitage (Get Out)
497.172Bellatrix Lestrange (Harry Potter)
597.035Red John (The Mentalist)
697.08Ethan Ryan MacManus (Ctrl+Alt+Del)
796.945Homelander (The Boys)
896.442Dean Armitage (Get Out)
995.4119Azula (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
1095.137Father Faustus Blackwood (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)
1195.174Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Dune)
1294.825Darlene Snell (Ozark)
1394.769Mr. Burns (The Simpsons)
1494.644Major Arnold Toht (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
1594.543Paul Spector (The Fall)
1694.269Count Olaf (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
1794.182Dennis Reynolds (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
1894.133Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
1993.9182Sid Phillips (Toy Story)
2093.781Dr. Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs)
2193.617Buddy Pine (The Incredibles)
2293.536Lucille Bluth (Arrested Development)
2393.4129Firelord Ozai (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
2493.4296Hans (Frozen)
2593.380Eric Cartman (South Park)

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 empath<--->psychopath when aggregated at the character level.

  1. nurturing (not poisonous) (r=0.93)
  2. kind (not cruel) (r=0.92)
  3. angelic (not demonic) (r=0.92)
  4. 😇 (not 😈) (r=0.88)
  5. wholesome (not salacious) (r=0.88)
  6. not genocidal (not genocidal) (r=0.88)
  7. soulful (not soulless) (r=0.88)
  8. altruistic (not selfish) (r=0.87)
  9. heroic (not villainous) (r=0.87)
  10. reassuring (not fearmongering) (r=0.87)

Notes

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