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

Most protagonist characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
197.573Charlie Morningstar (Hazbin Hotel)
297.429Clark Kent (Smallville)
397.325Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
497.183Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
595.571Ash Ketchum (Pokémon)
695.510Ted Lasso (Ted Lasso)
795.39Jim Holden (The Expanse)
895.224Chris Washington (Get Out)
995.029Richard D. Winters (Band of Brothers)
1094.950Janine Teagues (Abbott Elementary)
1194.842Leslie Knope (Parks and Recreation)
1294.724James P.Sullivan (Monsters, Inc.)
1394.782Naruto Uzumaki (Naruto)
1494.699Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump)
1594.230Ellen Ripley (Alien)
1693.5112Mulan (Mulan)
1793.452Barbie (Barbie)
1893.117Jack Ryan (Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan)
1993.142Jamie Fraser (Outlander)
2093.131Baby (Baby Driver)
2192.929Saitama (One Punch Man)
2292.782Miguel (Coco)
2392.640Prairie Johnson (The OA)
2492.634Nathaniel 'Hawkeye' Poe (The Last of the Mohicans)
2592.543Elisa Esposito (The Shape of Water)

Most antagonist characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
196.923Randall Boggs (Monsters, Inc.)
296.330Major Arnold Toht (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
396.062Prince Humperdinck (The Princess Bride)
495.813Dukat (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
595.548Stormfront (The Boys)
693.914Scorpius (Farscape)
793.044Dolores Umbridge (Harry Potter)
892.944Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
992.729Palpatine (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith)
1092.520Dr. Rene Belloq (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
1192.170Firelord Ozai (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
1291.511Gina Baxter (Your Honor)
1391.540Byron Hadley (The Shawshank Redemption)
1491.232Martha Scott (Baby Reindeer)
1591.218Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
1691.024Howard Payne (Speed)
1790.835Arturo Roman (Money Heist)
1890.629Dean Armitage (Get Out)
1990.6115Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)
2090.468Carol 'Mom' Miller (Futurama)
2190.431Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Dune)
2290.346Samuel Norton (The Shawshank Redemption)
2390.121Darlene Snell (Ozark)
2490.038Vicious (Cowboy Bebop)
2589.654Azula (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

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 protagonist<--->antagonist when aggregated at the character level.

  1. heroic (not villainous) (r=0.89)
  2. soulful (not soulless) (r=0.83)
  3. kind (not cruel) (r=0.82)
  4. 🌟 (not 💩) (r=0.82)
  5. loyal (not traitorous) (r=0.81)
  6. treasure (not trash) (r=0.81)
  7. loveable (not punchable) (r=0.81)
  8. nurturing (not poisonous) (r=0.8)
  9. generous (not stingy) (r=0.78)
  10. egalitarian (not racist) (r=0.78)

Notes

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