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Most bad boy or white knight 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 "bad boy" to "white knight". 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 "bad boy" is the same as 100/100 for "white knight". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.

Most bad boy characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
196.016Frank Costello (The Departed)
295.9109Sid Phillips (Toy Story)
394.89Logan Roy (Succession)
494.354Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
594.139Bellatrix Lestrange (Harry Potter)
693.811Spiros 'Vondas' Vondopoulos (The Wire)
793.727Hiram Lodge (Riverdale)
893.636Megatron (Transformers)
993.449Lord Voldemort (Harry Potter)
1093.024General Kirigan (Shadow and Bone)
1192.524Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
1292.371Count Olaf (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
1392.163Firelord Ozai (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
1492.026Charlie Harper (Two and Half Men)
1591.919Palpatine (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith)
1691.7111Scar (The Lion King)
1791.737Nate Jacobs (Euphoria)
1891.744Bender Bending Rodriguez (Futurama)
1991.619Darlene Snell (Ozark)
2091.620Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Dune)
2191.581Azula (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
2291.366John Bender (The Breakfast Club)
2391.332Merle Dixon (The Walking Dead)
2491.111Beth Dutton (Yellowstone)
2591.091Noah Puckerman (Glee)

Most white knight characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
195.911Gary Walsh (Veep)
295.020Clark Kent (Smallville)
393.930Emma Pillsbury (Glee)
493.914Ted Lasso (Ted Lasso)
593.428Alphonse Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
692.831Jack Shephard (LOST)
792.080George O'Malley (Grey's Anatomy)
891.954Charlie Morningstar (Hazbin Hotel)
991.922Charlie Carson (Downton Abbey)
1091.829Richard D. Winters (Band of Brothers)
1191.454Ned Flanders (The Simpsons)
1290.850Klaus Baudelaire (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
1390.822Mumen Rider (One Punch Man)
1490.719Janine Teagues (Abbott Elementary)
1590.634Alfred Pennyworth (The Dark Knight)
1690.542Eddard Stark (Game of Thrones)
1790.492Princess Celestia (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
1890.134Optimus Prime (Transformers)
1990.0135Vision (WandaVision)
2089.9152Kenneth Parcell (30 Rock)
2189.8186Snow White (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
2289.825Francis Mulcahy (M*A*S*H)
2389.783Chidi Anagonye (The Good Place)
2489.462Barry Allen (The Flash)
2589.178Emmet Brickowski (The Lego Movie)

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 bad boy<--->white knight when aggregated at the character level.

  1. 😈 (not 😇) (r=0.89)
  2. naughty (not nice) (r=0.87)
  3. demonic (not angelic) (r=0.85)
  4. debased (not pure) (r=0.84)
  5. salacious (not wholesome) (r=0.83)
  6. cunning (not honorable) (r=0.83)
  7. mischievous (not well behaved) (r=0.82)
  8. rude (not respectful) (r=0.8)
  9. edgy (not politically correct) (r=0.8)
  10. poisonous (not nurturing) (r=0.8)

Notes

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