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

Most fearmongering characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
198.912Logan Roy (Succession)
295.925Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
395.143Count Olaf (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
494.952Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
594.05Eric O'Bannon (Bloodline)
693.916Major Arnold Toht (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
793.920Randall Boggs (Monsters, Inc.)
893.546Lucille Bluth (Arrested Development)
993.512Gavin Belson (Silicon Valley)
1092.619Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Dune)
1192.425Oswald Cobblepot (Gotham)
1292.465Firelord Ozai (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
1392.330the Alien (Alien)
1492.046Dolores Umbridge (Harry Potter)
1591.771Sue Sylvester (Glee)
1691.655Eric Cartman (South Park)
1791.310William Rawls (The Wire)
1891.220Jonah Ryan (Veep)
1991.149Lord Voldemort (Harry Potter)
2091.1102Sid Phillips (Toy Story)
2190.629Samuel Norton (The Shawshank Redemption)
2290.155Stormfront (The Boys)
2390.057Homelander (The Boys)
2490.025The Joker (The Dark Knight)
2589.8100Darth Vader (Star Wars)

Most reassuring characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
195.017Ted Lasso (Ted Lasso)
293.38Waverly Earp (Wynonna Earp)
392.642Deanna Troi (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
492.426Alphonse Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
592.312Richard D. Winters (Band of Brothers)
692.213Sam Obisanya (Ted Lasso)
791.534Bumblebee (Transformers)
891.582Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
990.821Elizabeth Burke (White Collar)
1090.673Kaylee Frye (Firefly + Serenity)
1190.410Kathy Selden (Singin' in the Rain)
1289.320Melanie Hamilton (Gone With the Wind)
1389.025Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
1488.634Arthur Weasley (Harry Potter)
1588.482Inara Serra (Firefly + Serenity)
1688.410Jadzia Dax (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
1788.345Hilda Spellman (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)
1888.230Francis Mulcahy (M*A*S*H)
1988.030Debora (Baby Driver)
2088.016Guinan (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
2187.925Beverly Crusher (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
2287.979Eliza Hamilton (Hamilton)
2387.750Juliet O'Hara (Psych)
2487.754Professor Oak (Pokémon)
2587.635Mary Margaret Blanchard (Once Upon a Time)

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 fearmongering<--->reassuring when aggregated at the character level.

  1. poisonous (not nurturing) (r=0.87)
  2. psychopath (not empath) (r=0.87)
  3. cruel (not kind) (r=0.86)
  4. stingy (not generous) (r=0.85)
  5. demonic (not angelic) (r=0.85)
  6. catty (not supportive) (r=0.84)
  7. quarrelsome (not warm) (r=0.84)
  8. insulting (not complimentary) (r=0.84)
  9. selfish (not altruistic) (r=0.84)
  10. villainous (not heroic) (r=0.82)

Notes

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