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.
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 99.9 | 25 | Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood) |
| 2 | 99.7 | 20 | Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation) |
| 3 | 99.6 | 19 | Don Draper (Mad Men) |
| 4 | 99.4 | 17 | Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) |
| 5 | 99.3 | 20 | Maximus (Gladiator) |
| 6 | 99.2 | 24 | James Bond (Tommorrow Never Dies) |
| 7 | 99.2 | 26 | Patrick Jane (The Mentalist) |
| 8 | 99.0 | 11 | Indiana Jones (Raiders of the Lost Ark) |
| 9 | 99.0 | 37 | Thomas Shelby (Peaky Blinders) |
| 10 | 99.0 | 27 | Ender Wiggin (Ender's Game) |
| 11 | 98.9 | 22 | Dr. Gregory House (House, M.D.) |
| 12 | 98.9 | 23 | Olivia Benson (Law & Order: SVU) |
| 13 | 98.6 | 8 | Sutter Keely (The Spectacular Now) |
| 14 | 98.5 | 11 | Jason Bourne (The Bourne Identity) |
| 15 | 98.5 | 34 | Sailor Moon (Sailor Moon) |
| 16 | 98.2 | 45 | Barbie (Barbie) |
| 17 | 98.1 | 18 | Cassie Thomas (Promising Young Woman) |
| 18 | 98.0 | 36 | Michael Scott (The Office) |
| 19 | 97.9 | 29 | Kathryn Janeway (Star Trek: Voyager) |
| 20 | 97.8 | 12 | Jackson 'Jax' Teller (Sons of Anarchy) |
| 21 | 97.8 | 11 | Olivia Pope (Scandal) |
| 22 | 97.7 | 18 | Daenerys Targaryen (Game of Thrones) |
| 23 | 97.7 | 96 | John Wick (John Wick) |
| 24 | 97.6 | 12 | Ted Lasso (Ted Lasso) |
| 25 | 97.4 | 14 | Shawn Spencer (Psych) |
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 95.5 | 17 | Matt Press (Ginny & Georgia) |
| 2 | 94.9 | 15 | Greggsy (Baby Reindeer) |
| 3 | 94.7 | 18 | Arturo Roman (Money Heist) |
| 4 | 94.6 | 24 | Niko Polastri (Killing Eve) |
| 5 | 94.1 | 29 | Moaning Myrtle (Harry Potter) |
| 6 | 94.0 | 21 | Sarah O'Brien (Downton Abbey) |
| 7 | 93.8 | 33 | Petunia Dursley (Harry Potter) |
| 8 | 93.5 | 26 | Denny Brosh (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood) |
| 9 | 92.7 | 22 | Nick Throop (Ginny & Georgia) |
| 10 | 92.7 | 23 | Chet (Fallout) |
| 11 | 92.6 | 24 | Vanessa Abrams (Gossip Girl) |
| 12 | 92.4 | 5 | Jim Burns (The Fall) |
| 13 | 92.4 | 35 | Tommy (Shameless) |
| 14 | 92.3 | 23 | Granny Lucas (Once Upon a Time) |
| 15 | 92.2 | 13 | Gino (Baby Reindeer) |
| 16 | 91.9 | 104 | Ashley Barrett (The Boys) |
| 17 | 91.7 | 47 | Chip Dove (Jennifer's Body) |
| 18 | 91.6 | 9 | Nog (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) |
| 19 | 91.5 | 13 | Hideki Ide (Death Note) |
| 20 | 91.5 | 41 | Stuart Bloom (The Big Bang Theory) |
| 21 | 91.5 | 41 | Cyndee Pokorny (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) |
| 22 | 91.3 | 20 | Paul Kinsey (Mad Men) |
| 23 | 91.2 | 25 | Kif Kroker (Futurama) |
| 24 | 91.0 | 23 | Helen Seinfeld (Seinfeld) |
| 25 | 91.0 | 8 | Lincoln 'L.J.' Burrows, Jr. (Prison Break) |
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.