As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,125 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 | 90.4 | 16 | Q (Tommorrow Never Dies) |
| 2 | 88.2 | 13 | Russell 'Stringer' Bell (The Wire) |
| 3 | 84.9 | 17 | Lester Freamon (The Wire) |
| 4 | 84.9 | 27 | Richard D. Winters (Band of Brothers) |
| 5 | 83.1 | 13 | Henry Rearden (Atlas Shrugged) |
| 6 | 82.2 | 24 | Madeline Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher) |
| 7 | 81.3 | 19 | John Galt (Atlas Shrugged) |
| 8 | 81.1 | 14 | Tissaia (The Witcher) |
| 9 | 80.7 | 15 | Jack Ryan (Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan) |
| 10 | 80.1 | 14 | Elim Garak (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) |
| 11 | 80.0 | 19 | Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation) |
| 12 | 79.9 | 18 | Joey Lucas (The West Wing) |
| 13 | 79.2 | 21 | Mike Ehrmantraut (Better Call Saul) |
| 14 | 78.8 | 5 | Buck Vu (The OA) |
| 15 | 78.8 | 13 | Liberty Van Zandt (Degrassi: The Next Generation) |
| 16 | 78.6 | 18 | Baylan Skoll (Ahsoka) |
| 17 | 78.6 | 24 | Verna (The Fall of the House of Usher) |
| 18 | 78.3 | 18 | Lady Sybil Crawley (Downton Abbey) |
| 19 | 78.0 | 17 | Janine Teagues (Abbott Elementary) |
| 20 | 77.7 | 42 | Hermione Granger (Harry Potter) |
| 21 | 77.7 | 9 | Naomi Nagata (The Expanse) |
| 22 | 77.5 | 13 | Rowan Pope (Scandal) |
| 23 | 77.4 | 18 | Elsie Carson (Downton Abbey) |
| 24 | 77.1 | 8 | Maxine Roby (CSI: Vegas) |
| 25 | 76.8 | 63 | Atticus Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird) |
| 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 | 85.5 | 28 | Frank Burns (M*A*S*H) |
| 7 | 85.3 | 10 | David Della Rocco (The Boondock Saints) |
| 8 | 85.3 | 6 | Steve Winchell (The OA) |
| 9 | 85.1 | 41 | Charlie Kelly (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) |
| 10 | 84.8 | 16 | Roman Roy (Succession) |
| 11 | 83.8 | 28 | Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones) |
| 12 | 83.4 | 19 | Hannah Horvath (Girls) |
| 13 | 83.3 | 7 | Ethan Ryan MacManus (Ctrl+Alt+Del) |
| 14 | 83.1 | 17 | Nelson Bighetti (Silicon Valley) |
| 15 | 82.7 | 19 | Ginny Miller (Ginny & Georgia) |
| 16 | 82.6 | 28 | George Bluth, Sr. (Arrested Development) |
| 17 | 82.3 | 8 | Connor Roy (Succession) |
| 18 | 81.9 | 8 | Eric O'Bannon (Bloodline) |
| 19 | 81.6 | 27 | Pierce Hawthorne (Community) |
| 20 | 81.5 | 12 | Jamie Tartt (Ted Lasso) |
| 21 | 81.5 | 47 | Jerry Gergich (Parks and Recreation) |
| 22 | 81.3 | 16 | Ka D'Argo (Farscape) |
| 23 | 81.3 | 52 | Rue Bennett (Euphoria) |
| 24 | 81.3 | 9 | Linda Montag (Fahrenheit 451) |
| 25 | 81.0 | 42 | Petunia Dursley (Harry Potter) |
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 proactive<--->reactive when aggregated at the character level.