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 | 91.4 | 15 | Mike Ehrmantraut (Better Call Saul) |
| 2 | 91.1 | 14 | Q (Tommorrow Never Dies) |
| 3 | 88.2 | 13 | Russell 'Stringer' Bell (The Wire) |
| 4 | 84.9 | 27 | Richard D. Winters (Band of Brothers) |
| 5 | 84.8 | 16 | Lester Freamon (The Wire) |
| 6 | 83.0 | 15 | Joey Lucas (The West Wing) |
| 7 | 81.5 | 13 | Tissaia (The Witcher) |
| 8 | 81.0 | 10 | Henry Rearden (Atlas Shrugged) |
| 9 | 80.3 | 18 | John Galt (Atlas Shrugged) |
| 10 | 80.1 | 14 | Elim Garak (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) |
| 11 | 80.0 | 19 | Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation) |
| 12 | 78.9 | 40 | Hermione Granger (Harry Potter) |
| 13 | 78.8 | 5 | Buck Vu (The OA) |
| 14 | 78.7 | 16 | Elsie Carson (Downton Abbey) |
| 15 | 77.7 | 12 | Liberty Van Zandt (Degrassi: The Next Generation) |
| 16 | 77.7 | 9 | Naomi Nagata (The Expanse) |
| 17 | 77.5 | 19 | Lady Sybil Crawley (Downton Abbey) |
| 18 | 77.5 | 13 | Rowan Pope (Scandal) |
| 19 | 76.6 | 61 | The Operative (Firefly + Serenity) |
| 20 | 76.5 | 80 | Zoe Washburne (Firefly + Serenity) |
| 21 | 76.4 | 37 | Gandalf (Lord of the Rings) |
| 22 | 76.3 | 42 | Leslie Knope (Parks and Recreation) |
| 23 | 76.0 | 20 | Obi-Wan Kenobi (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith) |
| 24 | 75.9 | 58 | Cristina Yang (Grey's Anatomy) |
| 25 | 75.9 | 55 | Atticus Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird) |
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 90.8 | 8 | 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 | 83.8 | 28 | Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones) |
| 11 | 83.4 | 19 | Hannah Horvath (Girls) |
| 12 | 83.4 | 14 | Roman Roy (Succession) |
| 13 | 83.3 | 11 | Jimmy Hurdstrom (Yellowstone) |
| 14 | 83.1 | 17 | Nelson Bighetti (Silicon Valley) |
| 15 | 82.5 | 44 | Jerry Gergich (Parks and Recreation) |
| 16 | 82.4 | 7 | Connor Roy (Succession) |
| 17 | 81.9 | 27 | George Bluth, Sr. (Arrested Development) |
| 18 | 81.9 | 8 | Eric O'Bannon (Bloodline) |
| 19 | 81.6 | 27 | Pierce Hawthorne (Community) |
| 20 | 81.3 | 16 | Ka D'Argo (Farscape) |
| 21 | 81.3 | 9 | Linda Montag (Fahrenheit 451) |
| 22 | 81.1 | 33 | Dee Reynolds (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) |
| 23 | 80.9 | 50 | Rue Bennett (Euphoria) |
| 24 | 80.8 | 10 | Tony Johnson (After Life) |
| 25 | 80.7 | 36 | Crazy Eyes (Orange is the New Black) |
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.