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

Most transparent characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
187.723Teddy Flood (Westworld)
287.683Kaylee Frye (Firefly + Serenity)
387.223Alphonse Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
487.121Mumen Rider (One Punch Man)
587.08Lisa Johnson (After Life)
686.731Charlie Morningstar (Hazbin Hotel)
786.435George Michael Bluth (Arrested Development)
886.230Walter 'Radar' O'Reilly (M*A*S*H)
985.634Jerry Gergich (Parks and Recreation)
1085.2104Charles Boyle (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
1185.29Cally Henderson (Battlestar Galactica)
1284.717Penny (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
1384.314Thomas 'Herc' Hauk (The Wire)
1484.237Charles Bingley (Pride and Prejudice)
1584.239Sailor Moon (Sailor Moon)
1684.221Lucy Moran (Twin Peaks)
1784.1110Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump)
1883.894Chien-Po (Mulan)
1983.422Nelson Bighetti (Silicon Valley)
2083.3206Dory (Finding Nemo)
2183.337Samwise Gamgee (Lord of the Rings)
2283.111Kes (Star Trek: Voyager)
2382.915Rom (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
2482.934Glenn Sturgis (Superstore)
2582.7135Olaf (Frozen)

Most machiavellian characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
194.419Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal)
294.413John Smith (The Man in the High Castle)
394.112Russell 'Stringer' Bell (The Wire)
493.911Scorpius (Farscape)
593.417Silco (Arcane)
693.426Don Draper (Mad Men)
793.321Number Six (Battlestar Galactica)
893.39Dukat (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
992.820Missy Armitage (Get Out)
1092.713Hunter Aloysius Percy (The OA)
1192.518Kaz Brekker (Shadow and Bone)
1292.429Lord Larys Strong (House of the Dragon)
1392.246Mr. Burns (The Simpsons)
1492.263Stormfront (The Boys)
1591.914Winn Adami (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
1691.753Petyr Baelish (Game of Thrones)
1791.517Palpatine (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith)
1890.828Raymond 'Red' Reddington (The Blacklist)
1990.715Logan Roy (Succession)
2090.120Gaius Baltar (Battlestar Galactica)
2189.923Frank Costello (The Departed)
2289.625Gus Fring (Breaking Bad)
2389.616Colin Sullivan (The Departed)
2489.119Doc (Baby Driver)
2589.118Dexter Morgan (Dexter)

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 transparent<--->machiavellian when aggregated at the character level.

  1. kind (not cruel) (r=0.81)
  2. angelic (not demonic) (r=0.81)
  3. trusting (not suspicious) (r=0.8)
  4. 😇 (not 😈) (r=0.8)
  5. honorable (not cunning) (r=0.79)
  6. nurturing (not poisonous) (r=0.78)
  7. innocent (not jaded) (r=0.78)
  8. wholesome (not salacious) (r=0.78)
  9. forgiving (not vengeful) (r=0.78)
  10. pure (not debased) (r=0.77)

Notes

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