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

Most everyman characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
191.016Ryan Cooper (Promising Young Woman)
289.921Frank Sobotka (The Wire)
389.513Thomas 'Herc' Hauk (The Wire)
489.0149Pete Hornberger (30 Rock)
588.915Billy Keikeya (Battlestar Galactica)
687.820Matt Press (Ginny & Georgia)
787.435Tommy (Shameless)
887.343Petunia Dursley (Harry Potter)
986.925Cornelius Fudge (Harry Potter)
1086.936Barney Gumble (The Simpsons)
1186.526Gino (Baby Reindeer)
1286.425Calvin's dad (Calvin and Hobbes)
1386.235Mr. William Collins (Pride and Prejudice)
1485.828Chet (Fallout)
1585.68Norman Wilson (The Wire)
1685.395Hoban Washburne (Firefly + Serenity)
1785.251Mark Brendanawicz (Parks and Recreation)
1885.243Jim Burns (The Fall)
1984.712Leslie Higgins (Ted Lasso)
2084.614Donna Moss (The West Wing)
2184.45Lenny (After Life)
2284.417Gary Walsh (Veep)
2384.334Glenn Sturgis (Superstore)
2483.918Ebraheim (The Bear)
2583.940Dennis Nedry (Jurassic Park)

Most chosen one characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
197.610Prairie Johnson (The OA)
295.627Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
394.134Neo (The Matrix)
493.195River Tam (Firefly + Serenity)
592.027L (Death Note)
691.76Gina Baxter (Your Honor)
789.325Elliot Alderson (Mr. Robot)
889.245Dr. Gregory House (House, M.D.)
988.846Harry Potter (Harry Potter)
1088.5101Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock)
1188.416Ciri (The Witcher)
1288.48Kathryn Janeway (Star Trek: Voyager)
1387.9125Eleven (Stranger Things)
1487.755Queen Elizabeth II (The Crown)
1587.625Alina Starkov (Shadow and Bone)
1687.344Sherlock Holmes (Elementary)
1787.013James Bond (Tommorrow Never Dies)
1886.522Olivia Pope (Scandal)
1986.534Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen (House of the Dragon)
2086.1109Dr. Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds)
2186.022Patty Hewes (Damages)
2285.963Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory)
2385.8171Ellie Williams (The Last of Us)
2485.732Optimus Prime (Transformers)
2585.625Verna (The Fall of the House of Usher)

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 everyman<--->chosen one when aggregated at the character level.

  1. mundane (not extraordinary) (r=0.7)
  2. irrelevant (not important) (r=0.68)
  3. side character (not main character) (r=0.67)
  4. tiresome (not interesting) (r=0.58)
  5. follower (not leader) (r=0.57)
  6. dull (not sharp) (r=0.57)
  7. simple (not complicated) (r=0.56)
  8. employee (not entrepreneur) (r=0.55)
  9. beta (not alpha) (r=0.55)
  10. first-mate (not captain) (r=0.55)

Notes

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