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 | 100.0 | 15 | Patrick Jane (The Mentalist) |
| 2 | 99.9 | 23 | Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood) |
| 3 | 99.8 | 20 | Dr. Gregory House (House, M.D.) |
| 4 | 99.8 | 5 | Sutter Keely (The Spectacular Now) |
| 5 | 99.8 | 9 | Richard Castle (Castle) |
| 6 | 99.7 | 19 | Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation) |
| 7 | 99.6 | 18 | Don Draper (Mad Men) |
| 8 | 99.4 | 20 | Claire Randall (Outlander) |
| 9 | 99.3 | 19 | Maximus (Gladiator) |
| 10 | 99.3 | 15 | Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) |
| 11 | 99.2 | 24 | James Bond (Tommorrow Never Dies) |
| 12 | 98.9 | 10 | Indiana Jones (Raiders of the Lost Ark) |
| 13 | 98.9 | 34 | Thomas Shelby (Peaky Blinders) |
| 14 | 98.9 | 25 | Ender Wiggin (Ender's Game) |
| 15 | 98.8 | 21 | Olivia Benson (Law & Order: SVU) |
| 16 | 98.8 | 29 | Michael Scott (The Office) |
| 17 | 98.5 | 11 | Jason Bourne (The Bourne Identity) |
| 18 | 98.4 | 33 | Sailor Moon (Sailor Moon) |
| 19 | 98.3 | 14 | Daenerys Targaryen (Game of Thrones) |
| 20 | 97.9 | 16 | Cassie Thomas (Promising Young Woman) |
| 21 | 97.9 | 28 | Kathryn Janeway (Star Trek: Voyager) |
| 22 | 97.8 | 11 | Olivia Pope (Scandal) |
| 23 | 97.8 | 91 | John Wick (John Wick) |
| 24 | 97.8 | 18 | Jerry Seinfeld (Seinfeld) |
| 25 | 97.6 | 12 | Ted Lasso (Ted Lasso) |
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 100.0 | 3 | Jim Burns (The Fall) |
| 2 | 97.4 | 5 | Colby (Yellowstone) |
| 3 | 95.8 | 19 | Cyndee Pokorny (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) |
| 4 | 95.5 | 20 | Sarah O'Brien (Downton Abbey) |
| 5 | 95.0 | 9 | David Rosen (Scandal) |
| 6 | 94.7 | 18 | Arturo Roman (Money Heist) |
| 7 | 94.6 | 24 | Niko Polastri (Killing Eve) |
| 8 | 94.1 | 29 | Moaning Myrtle (Harry Potter) |
| 9 | 93.8 | 33 | Petunia Dursley (Harry Potter) |
| 10 | 93.5 | 26 | Denny Brosh (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood) |
| 11 | 93.4 | 5 | Mike McLintock (Veep) |
| 12 | 92.6 | 24 | Vanessa Abrams (Gossip Girl) |
| 13 | 92.4 | 35 | Tommy (Shameless) |
| 14 | 92.3 | 23 | Granny Lucas (Once Upon a Time) |
| 15 | 92.3 | 19 | Paul Kinsey (Mad Men) |
| 16 | 91.9 | 104 | Ashley Barrett (The Boys) |
| 17 | 91.6 | 9 | Nog (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) |
| 18 | 91.6 | 43 | Chip Dove (Jennifer's Body) |
| 19 | 91.5 | 13 | Hideki Ide (Death Note) |
| 20 | 91.5 | 41 | Stuart Bloom (The Big Bang Theory) |
| 21 | 91.2 | 25 | Kif Kroker (Futurama) |
| 22 | 91.2 | 6 | Miguel Rivas (This Is Us) |
| 23 | 91.1 | 15 | Jane Margolis (Breaking Bad) |
| 24 | 91.0 | 23 | Helen Seinfeld (Seinfeld) |
| 25 | 91.0 | 9 | A.J. Soprano (The Sopranos) |
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.