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

Most indie characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
195.811Calvin Weir-Fields (Ruby Sparks)
294.020Heather Davis (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
393.747Tate Langdon (American Horror Story: Season 1)
493.117Bertram Gilfoyle (Silicon Valley)
592.788Janis Ian (Mean Girls)
692.359April Ludgate (Parks and Recreation)
792.129Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
890.980Allison Reynolds (The Breakfast Club)
990.821'Chief' Bromden (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
1090.5165Phoebe Buffay (Friends)
1190.422Marty Mikalski (The Cabin in the Woods)
1290.315Omar Little (The Wire)
1390.244Steven Hyde (That 70's Show)
1489.827Sandor Clegane (Game of Thrones)
1589.614Jessa Johansson (Girls)
1689.511Tim Riggins (Friday Night Lights)
1789.425Caleb Rivers (Pretty Little Liars)
1888.937Daryl Dixon (The Walking Dead)
1988.644Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)
2088.638Susie Myerson (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
2188.315Winston Smith (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
2288.365Amélie Poulain (Amélie)
2388.396River Tam (Firefly + Serenity)
2488.112Doc Holliday (Wynonna Earp)
2587.711Murphy MacManus (The Boondock Saints)

Most pop characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
194.230Sharpay Evans (High School Musical)
293.7171Jenna Maroney (30 Rock)
390.793Regina George (Mean Girls)
490.119Ava Coleman (Abbott Elementary)
589.216Jamie Tartt (Ted Lasso)
689.0107June George (Mean Girls)
788.521Cordelia Chase (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
888.338Kelly Kapoor (The Office)
987.674Mercedes Jones (Glee)
1087.533Michael Scott (The Office)
1187.434Donna Meagle (Parks and Recreation)
1287.371Brittany Pierce (Glee)
1386.812Alli Bhandari (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
1486.434Mateo Liwanag (Superstore)
1586.382Rachel Berry (Glee)
1686.245Zapp Brannigan (Futurama)
1785.930Ramona Vega (Hustlers)
1885.634Josh Chan (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
1985.532Angel Dust (Hazbin Hotel)
2085.316Keeley Jones (Ted Lasso)
2184.528Troy Bolton (High School Musical)
2284.210James Taggart (Atlas Shrugged)
2384.010Linda Montag (Fahrenheit 451)
2483.986Gretchen Wieners (Mean Girls)
2583.539Titus Andromedon (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)

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 indie<--->pop when aggregated at the character level.

  1. arcane (not mainstream) (r=0.7)
  2. nonconformist (not social climber) (r=0.63)
  3. reclusive (not social) (r=0.58)
  4. punk rock (not preppy) (r=0.53)
  5. introvert (not extrovert) (r=0.52)
  6. vintage (not trendy) (r=0.51)
  7. wooden (not plastic) (r=0.51)
  8. deep (not shallow) (r=0.5)
  9. 🥾 (not 👟) (r=0.49)
  10. spartan (not glamorous) (r=0.47)

Notes

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