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

Most original characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
194.011Miriam Maisel (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
293.118Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)
391.211Floki (Vikings)
490.525Remy (Ratatouille)
590.110Donna Meagle (Parks and Recreation)
689.919Charlie Kelly (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
789.811Indiana Jones (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
889.716Stitch (Lilo & Stitch)
989.521Mulan (Mulan)
1089.517L (Death Note)
1189.421Rust Cohle (True Detective)
1289.19Sue Sylvester (Glee)
1389.08Kimmy Schmidt (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
1488.319Crazy Eyes (Orange is the New Black)
1588.310Villanelle (Killing Eve)
1688.29April Ludgate (Parks and Recreation)
1787.910Raymond 'Red' Reddington (The Blacklist)
1887.816Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal)
1987.39the Alien (Alien)
2087.312Janis Ian (Mean Girls)
2187.119Lady Sybil Crawley (Downton Abbey)
2287.014Temperance Brennan (Bones)
2386.719Penelope Garcia (Criminal Minds)
2486.614Ed (Cowboy Bebop)
2586.614Toph Beifong (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Most cliché characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
193.438Joey Donner (10 Things I Hate About You)
289.813Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)
387.619Hunter Chen (Ginny & Georgia)
487.420Dan Egan (Veep)
587.49George Wickham (Pride and Prejudice)
686.714Donald Thompson (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
786.119Cal Hockley (Titanic)
886.021Lon Hammond, Jr. (The Notebook)
985.97Shannon Rutherford (LOST)
1085.88Logan Delos (Westworld)
1185.710Lieutenant Schrank (West Side Story)
1285.712Pete Campbell (Mad Men)
1385.613Teddy Flood (Westworld)
1485.320Prince Humperdinck (The Princess Bride)
1585.38Homelander (The Boys)
1685.18Choi Yeon-gyo (Parasite)
1784.918Aaron Samuels (Mean Girls)
1884.910Harvey Kinkle (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)
1984.812Lori Grimes (The Walking Dead)
2084.77Josh Chan (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
2184.76Eric O'Bannon (Bloodline)
2284.614Marnie Michaels (Girls)
2384.48Cyril Figgis (Archer)
2484.416Mark Brendanawicz (Parks and Recreation)
2584.37Winn Adami (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)

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 original<--->cliché when aggregated at the character level.

  1. interesting (not tiresome) (r=0.71)
  2. boundary breaking (not stereotypical) (r=0.7)
  3. insightful (not generic) (r=0.67)
  4. extraordinary (not mundane) (r=0.65)
  5. varied (not repetitive) (r=0.61)
  6. arcane (not mainstream) (r=0.59)
  7. quirky (not predictable) (r=0.58)
  8. inspiring (not cringeworthy) (r=0.58)
  9. deep (not shallow) (r=0.57)
  10. hipster (not basic) (r=0.56)

Notes

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