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

Most main character characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
199.928Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
299.428James Bond (Tommorrow Never Dies)
399.417Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
499.220Don Draper (Mad Men)
599.213Indiana Jones (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
699.124Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
799.025Olivia Benson (Law & Order: SVU)
899.037Thomas Shelby (Peaky Blinders)
999.029Ender Wiggin (Ender's Game)
1098.922Maximus (Gladiator)
1198.929Patrick Jane (The Mentalist)
1298.826Dr. Gregory House (House, M.D.)
1398.68Sutter Keely (The Spectacular Now)
1498.638Sailor Moon (Sailor Moon)
1598.313Jason Bourne (The Bourne Identity)
1698.219Cassie Thomas (Promising Young Woman)
1797.920Daenerys Targaryen (Game of Thrones)
1897.929Kathryn Janeway (Star Trek: Voyager)
1997.812Jackson 'Jax' Teller (Sons of Anarchy)
2097.813Ted Lasso (Ted Lasso)
2197.811Olivia Pope (Scandal)
2297.8109John Wick (John Wick)
2397.637Michael Scott (The Office)
2497.511Rebecca Bunch (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
2597.414Shawn Spencer (Psych)

Most side character characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
195.019Arturo Roman (Money Heist)
294.330Moaning Myrtle (Harry Potter)
394.322Sarah O'Brien (Downton Abbey)
494.225Niko Polastri (Killing Eve)
593.936Petunia Dursley (Harry Potter)
693.526Denny Brosh (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
792.921Matt Press (Ginny & Georgia)
892.515Gino (Baby Reindeer)
992.424Granny Lucas (Once Upon a Time)
1092.433Chet (Fallout)
1191.9104Ashley Barrett (The Boys)
1291.832Greggsy (Baby Reindeer)
1391.724Ser Harrold Westerling (House of the Dragon)
1491.738Tommy (Shameless)
1591.526Kif Kroker (Futurama)
1691.513Hideki Ide (Death Note)
1791.547Stuart Bloom (The Big Bang Theory)
1891.541Cyndee Pokorny (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
1991.47Dale Harding (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
2091.448Chip Dove (Jennifer's Body)
2191.320Paul Kinsey (Mad Men)
2291.247Leslie Winkle (The Big Bang Theory)
2391.264Matt Donovan (The Vampire Diaries)
2491.125Nick Throop (Ginny & Georgia)
2591.129Ian Duncan (Community)

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 main character<--->side character when aggregated at the character level.

  1. important (not irrelevant) (r=0.74)
  2. chosen one (not everyman) (r=0.67)
  3. extraordinary (not mundane) (r=0.57)
  4. leader (not follower) (r=0.55)
  5. interesting (not tiresome) (r=0.53)
  6. charismatic (not uninspiring) (r=0.52)
  7. captain (not first-mate) (r=0.51)
  8. boundary breaking (not stereotypical) (r=0.49)
  9. alpha (not beta) (r=0.48)
  10. sharp (not dull) (r=0.47)

Notes

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