As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,000 characters on a 100 point scale from "proactive" to "reactive". 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 "proactive" is the same as 100/100 for "reactive". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 91.1 | 14 | Q (Tommorrow Never Dies) |
| 2 | 88.2 | 13 | Russell 'Stringer' Bell (The Wire) |
| 3 | 86.5 | 17 | Mike Ehrmantraut (Better Call Saul) |
| 4 | 84.9 | 17 | Lester Freamon (The Wire) |
| 5 | 84.9 | 27 | Richard D. Winters (Band of Brothers) |
| 6 | 82.6 | 16 | Joey Lucas (The West Wing) |
| 7 | 82.2 | 11 | Henry Rearden (Atlas Shrugged) |
| 8 | 82.2 | 24 | Madeline Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher) |
| 9 | 81.5 | 13 | Tissaia (The Witcher) |
| 10 | 81.3 | 19 | John Galt (Atlas Shrugged) |
| 11 | 80.7 | 15 | Jack Ryan (Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan) |
| 12 | 80.1 | 14 | Elim Garak (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) |
| 13 | 80.0 | 19 | Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation) |
| 14 | 78.8 | 5 | Buck Vu (The OA) |
| 15 | 78.7 | 16 | Elsie Carson (Downton Abbey) |
| 16 | 78.7 | 11 | Harry Morgan (Dexter) |
| 17 | 78.4 | 17 | Baylan Skoll (Ahsoka) |
| 18 | 78.3 | 18 | Lady Sybil Crawley (Downton Abbey) |
| 19 | 78.0 | 17 | Janine Teagues (Abbott Elementary) |
| 20 | 77.8 | 22 | Verna (The Fall of the House of Usher) |
| 21 | 77.7 | 12 | Liberty Van Zandt (Degrassi: The Next Generation) |
| 22 | 77.7 | 9 | Naomi Nagata (The Expanse) |
| 23 | 77.5 | 13 | Rowan Pope (Scandal) |
| 24 | 77.2 | 41 | Hermione Granger (Harry Potter) |
| 25 | 76.6 | 61 | The Operative (Firefly + Serenity) |
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 90.6 | 9 | Charlie Cheswick (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) |
| 2 | 86.9 | 18 | A.J. Soprano (The Sopranos) |
| 3 | 86.9 | 13 | Johnny (The Room) |
| 4 | 86.8 | 5 | Kevin Rayburn (Bloodline) |
| 5 | 86.3 | 34 | Buster Bluth (Arrested Development) |
| 6 | 85.3 | 10 | David Della Rocco (The Boondock Saints) |
| 7 | 85.3 | 6 | Steve Winchell (The OA) |
| 8 | 85.1 | 41 | Charlie Kelly (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) |
| 9 | 84.8 | 25 | Frank Burns (M*A*S*H) |
| 10 | 84.7 | 3 | Josh Folsom (CSI: Vegas) |
| 11 | 83.8 | 28 | Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones) |
| 12 | 83.4 | 14 | Roman Roy (Succession) |
| 13 | 83.4 | 19 | Hannah Horvath (Girls) |
| 14 | 83.3 | 11 | Jaskier (The Witcher) |
| 15 | 83.3 | 11 | Jimmy Hurdstrom (Yellowstone) |
| 16 | 83.1 | 17 | Nelson Bighetti (Silicon Valley) |
| 17 | 82.7 | 19 | Ginny Miller (Ginny & Georgia) |
| 18 | 82.5 | 44 | Jerry Gergich (Parks and Recreation) |
| 19 | 82.4 | 7 | Connor Roy (Succession) |
| 20 | 81.9 | 27 | George Bluth, Sr. (Arrested Development) |
| 21 | 81.9 | 8 | Eric O'Bannon (Bloodline) |
| 22 | 81.6 | 27 | Pierce Hawthorne (Community) |
| 23 | 81.3 | 16 | Ka D'Argo (Farscape) |
| 24 | 81.3 | 9 | Linda Montag (Fahrenheit 451) |
| 25 | 81.1 | 33 | Dee Reynolds (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) |
The survey has 400 different descriptive scales that the characters can be rated on. This list is the 10 other scales that that have the highest correlation with proactive<--->reactive when aggregated at the character level.