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

Most heroic characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
197.142Bumblebee (Transformers)
296.5249Mulan (Mulan)
396.329Padme Amidala (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith)
496.246Charlie Morningstar (Hazbin Hotel)
596.2513Aang (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
695.928Obi-Wan Kenobi (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith)
795.524Alphonse Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
895.314Sam Obisanya (Ted Lasso)
995.39Richard D. Winters (Band of Brothers)
1095.1264Brienne of Tarth (Game of Thrones)
1195.025Sailor Moon (Sailor Moon)
1294.9326Minerva McGonagall (Harry Potter)
1394.8554Samwise Gamgee (Lord of the Rings)
1494.7395Glenn Rhee (The Walking Dead)
1594.7552Aragorn (Lord of the Rings)
1694.715Littlefoot (The Land Before Time)
1794.784Naruto Uzumaki (Naruto)
1894.3371Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
1994.312Janine Teagues (Abbott Elementary)
2093.91084Princess Leia (Star Wars)
2193.81022Leslie Knope (Parks and Recreation)
2293.833Elisa Esposito (The Shape of Water)
2393.8119Barry Allen (The Flash)
2493.7141Samantha Carter (Stargate SG-1)
2593.7356Olivia Benson (Law & Order: SVU)

Most villainous characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
198.0284Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
297.231Palpatine (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith)
397.0371Lord Voldemort (Harry Potter)
496.930Rose Armitage (Get Out)
596.145Major Arnold Toht (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
695.91387Scar (The Lion King)
795.820Hiram Lodge (Riverdale)
895.825Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Dune)
995.6331Dolores Umbridge (Harry Potter)
1095.427Missy Armitage (Get Out)
1195.485Stormfront (The Boys)
1295.3189Hans (Frozen)
1395.1793Sid Phillips (Toy Story)
1494.97Gina Baxter (Your Honor)
1594.9444Mr. Burns (The Simpsons)
1694.821Randall Boggs (Monsters, Inc.)
1794.852Count Olaf (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
1894.7533Firelord Ozai (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
1994.622Hans Gruber (Die Hard)
2094.4150Ursula (The Little Mermaid)
2194.450Samuel Norton (The Shawshank Redemption)
2294.226Dean Armitage (Get Out)
2394.1167Ernesto de la Cruz (Coco)
2493.916Scorpius (Farscape)
2593.923Commodus (Gladiator)

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 heroic<--->villainous when aggregated at the character level.

  1. kind (not cruel) (r=0.9)
  2. nurturing (not poisonous) (r=0.9)
  3. loyal (not traitorous) (r=0.89)
  4. altruistic (not selfish) (r=0.89)
  5. protagonist (not antagonist) (r=0.89)
  6. soulful (not soulless) (r=0.88)
  7. empath (not psychopath) (r=0.87)
  8. honorable (not cunning) (r=0.87)
  9. angelic (not demonic) (r=0.86)
  10. wholesome (not salacious) (r=0.84)

Notes

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