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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 2,000 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
199.925Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
299.720Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
399.619Don Draper (Mad Men)
499.417Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
599.320Maximus (Gladiator)
699.224James Bond (Tommorrow Never Dies)
799.226Patrick Jane (The Mentalist)
899.011Indiana Jones (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
999.037Thomas Shelby (Peaky Blinders)
1099.027Ender Wiggin (Ender's Game)
1198.922Dr. Gregory House (House, M.D.)
1298.923Olivia Benson (Law & Order: SVU)
1398.68Sutter Keely (The Spectacular Now)
1498.511Jason Bourne (The Bourne Identity)
1598.535Sailor Moon (Sailor Moon)
1698.118Cassie Thomas (Promising Young Woman)
1798.036Michael Scott (The Office)
1897.929Kathryn Janeway (Star Trek: Voyager)
1997.812Jackson 'Jax' Teller (Sons of Anarchy)
2097.811Olivia Pope (Scandal)
2197.718Daenerys Targaryen (Game of Thrones)
2297.796John Wick (John Wick)
2397.612Ted Lasso (Ted Lasso)
2497.414Shawn Spencer (Psych)
2597.312Geralt of Rivia (The Witcher)

Most side character characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
194.718Arturo Roman (Money Heist)
294.624Niko Polastri (Killing Eve)
394.129Moaning Myrtle (Harry Potter)
494.021Sarah O'Brien (Downton Abbey)
593.833Petunia Dursley (Harry Potter)
693.526Denny Brosh (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
792.624Vanessa Abrams (Gossip Girl)
892.45Jim Burns (The Fall)
992.435Tommy (Shameless)
1092.323Granny Lucas (Once Upon a Time)
1191.9104Ashley Barrett (The Boys)
1291.747Chip Dove (Jennifer's Body)
1391.69Nog (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
1491.513Hideki Ide (Death Note)
1591.541Stuart Bloom (The Big Bang Theory)
1691.541Cyndee Pokorny (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
1791.320Paul Kinsey (Mad Men)
1891.225Kif Kroker (Futurama)
1991.023Helen Seinfeld (Seinfeld)
2091.08Lincoln 'L.J.' Burrows, Jr. (Prison Break)
2191.09A.J. Soprano (The Sopranos)
2290.861Matt Donovan (The Vampire Diaries)
2390.828Ian Duncan (Community)
2490.710Sophie (This Is Us)
2590.644Leslie Winkle (The Big Bang Theory)

Similar traits

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

  1. important (not irrelevant) (r=0.73)
  2. chosen one (not everyman) (r=0.67)
  3. extraordinary (not mundane) (r=0.56)
  4. leader (not follower) (r=0.54)
  5. interesting (not tiresome) (r=0.53)
  6. charismatic (not uninspiring) (r=0.52)
  7. captain (not first-mate) (r=0.51)
  8. alpha (not beta) (r=0.48)
  9. boundary breaking (not stereotypical) (r=0.48)
  10. fast (not slow) (r=0.46)

Notes

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