As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,125 characters on a 100 point scale from "tautology" to "oxymoron". 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 "tautology" is the same as 100/100 for "oxymoron". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 83.8 | 14 | Richard D. Winters (Band of Brothers) |
| 2 | 78.4 | 8 | Bobbie Draper (The Expanse) |
| 3 | 76.8 | 9 | Patty Hewes (Damages) |
| 4 | 76.7 | 18 | Rupert Giles (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) |
| 5 | 75.8 | 12 | Elsie Carson (Downton Abbey) |
| 6 | 75.0 | 9 | Dominar Rygel XVI (Farscape) |
| 7 | 74.4 | 15 | Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation) |
| 8 | 74.4 | 9 | William Adama (Battlestar Galactica) |
| 9 | 74.3 | 13 | Yu Shu Lien (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) |
| 10 | 73.6 | 37 | Vito Corleone (The Godfather) |
| 11 | 73.6 | 11 | Cora Munro (The Last of the Mohicans) |
| 12 | 72.5 | 13 | Carla Espinosa (Scrubs) |
| 13 | 72.3 | 18 | Charlie Carson (Downton Abbey) |
| 14 | 71.5 | 10 | William Mason (Downton Abbey) |
| 15 | 71.4 | 14 | Frank Reagan (Blue Bloods) |
| 16 | 71.3 | 11 | Abby Whelan (Scandal) |
| 17 | 71.3 | 11 | Beatrice 'Beadie' Russell (The Wire) |
| 18 | 71.3 | 13 | India Wilkes (Gone With the Wind) |
| 19 | 71.2 | 9 | Logan Roy (Succession) |
| 20 | 71.1 | 11 | C. Carwood Lipton (Band of Brothers) |
| 21 | 71.0 | 19 | the Alien (Alien) |
| 22 | 70.8 | 17 | Janet Fraiser (Stargate SG-1) |
| 23 | 70.4 | 11 | Abigail Baker (Blue Bloods) |
| 24 | 70.4 | 11 | Bunk Moreland (The Wire) |
| 25 | 70.2 | 15 | Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation) |
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 86.9 | 7 | John Smith (The Man in the High Castle) |
| 2 | 81.7 | 21 | Officer Slater (Superbad) |
| 3 | 80.6 | 8 | Anthony DiNozzo (NCIS) |
| 4 | 80.5 | 10 | Ragnar Lothbrok (Vikings) |
| 5 | 79.5 | 111 | Tracy Jordan (30 Rock) |
| 6 | 78.9 | 15 | Ryan Cooper (Promising Young Woman) |
| 7 | 78.7 | 11 | Dan Egan (Veep) |
| 8 | 78.7 | 27 | Frank Gallagher (Shameless) |
| 9 | 78.0 | 29 | Zapp Brannigan (Futurama) |
| 10 | 78.0 | 23 | George Oscar 'Gob' Bluth (Arrested Development) |
| 11 | 77.9 | 11 | Jonah Ryan (Veep) |
| 12 | 77.9 | 9 | Sutter Keely (The Spectacular Now) |
| 13 | 76.8 | 10 | Mat Cauthon (Wheel of Time) |
| 14 | 76.5 | 12 | Malvolio (Twelfth Night) |
| 15 | 76.4 | 23 | Buddy Pine (The Incredibles) |
| 16 | 76.1 | 13 | Nelson Bighetti (Silicon Valley) |
| 17 | 75.9 | 28 | Mac (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) |
| 18 | 75.5 | 20 | Theon Greyjoy (Game of Thrones) |
| 19 | 75.3 | 32 | Charlie Kelly (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) |
| 20 | 75.3 | 24 | Britta Perry (Community) |
| 21 | 75.1 | 21 | Glenn Sturgis (Superstore) |
| 22 | 75.0 | 40 | Count Olaf (A Series of Unfortunate Events) |
| 23 | 74.6 | 23 | Ben Chang (Community) |
| 24 | 74.4 | 30 | Merle Dixon (The Walking Dead) |
| 25 | 74.4 | 19 | Denny Crane (Boston Legal) |
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 tautology<--->oxymoron when aggregated at the character level.