As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,000 characters on a 100 point scale from "parental" to "childlike". 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 "parental" is the same as 100/100 for "childlike". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 100.0 | 2 | Melinda Monroe (Virgin River) |
| 2 | 99.7 | 16 | Mufasa (The Lion King) |
| 3 | 99.1 | 14 | Barbara Howard (Abbott Elementary) |
| 4 | 98.1 | 10 | Helen Parr (The Incredibles) |
| 5 | 97.9 | 11 | Alba Villanueva (Jane the Virgin) |
| 6 | 97.1 | 10 | Alex Danvers (Supergirl) |
| 7 | 96.8 | 12 | William Adama (Battlestar Galactica) |
| 8 | 96.6 | 12 | Erwin Smith (Attack on Titan) |
| 9 | 96.4 | 13 | Imperator Furiosa (Mad Max: Fury Road) |
| 10 | 96.3 | 9 | Chrisjen Avasarala (The Expanse) |
| 11 | 96.2 | 24 | Red Reznikov (Orange is the New Black) |
| 12 | 96.2 | 14 | Karen Vick (Psych) |
| 13 | 96.1 | 10 | Maeve Millay (Westworld) |
| 14 | 96.1 | 22 | Aaron Hotchner (Criminal Minds) |
| 15 | 96.0 | 5 | Ser Harrold Westerling (House of the Dragon) |
| 16 | 95.9 | 14 | Rick Grimes (The Walking Dead) |
| 17 | 95.8 | 24 | Esme Cullen (Twilight) |
| 18 | 95.8 | 28 | Alfred Pennyworth (The Dark Knight) |
| 19 | 95.7 | 8 | James Greer (Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan) |
| 20 | 95.6 | 14 | Minerva McGonagall (Harry Potter) |
| 21 | 95.3 | 19 | Gus Fring (Breaking Bad) |
| 22 | 95.2 | 8 | Joe West (The Flash) |
| 23 | 95.0 | 13 | George S. Hammond (Stargate SG-1) |
| 24 | 94.8 | 13 | Carol Peletier (The Walking Dead) |
| 25 | 94.8 | 9 | Benjamin Sisko (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) |
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 99.1 | 13 | Shawn Spencer (Psych) |
| 2 | 98.7 | 15 | Ed (Cowboy Bebop) |
| 3 | 98.6 | 5 | Mayuri Shiina (Steins;Gate) |
| 4 | 98.5 | 20 | Patrick Star (SpongeBob SquarePants) |
| 5 | 97.6 | 12 | Michael Kelso (That 70's Show) |
| 6 | 97.5 | 116 | Buster Bluth (Arrested Development) |
| 7 | 96.6 | 15 | Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes) |
| 8 | 96.6 | 12 | Ben Chang (Community) |
| 9 | 96.5 | 8 | Cheryl Tunt (Archer) |
| 10 | 96.3 | 8 | Gaston (Beauty and the Beast) |
| 11 | 96.3 | 16 | Bart Simpson (The Simpsons) |
| 12 | 96.2 | 11 | Gollum (Lord of the Rings) |
| 13 | 95.7 | 16 | SpongeBob SquarePants (SpongeBob SquarePants) |
| 14 | 95.4 | 14 | Lydia Bennet (Pride and Prejudice) |
| 15 | 95.2 | 5 | Klaus Hargreeves (The Umbrella Academy) |
| 16 | 95.1 | 21 | Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones) |
| 17 | 94.9 | 15 | Frank Gallagher (Shameless) |
| 18 | 94.9 | 13 | Reese Wilkerson (Malcolm in the Middle) |
| 19 | 94.8 | 20 | Alan (The Hangover) |
| 20 | 94.6 | 14 | Jonah Ryan (Veep) |
| 21 | 94.6 | 25 | Tracy Jordan (30 Rock) |
| 22 | 94.3 | 18 | Kevin Malone (The Office) |
| 23 | 94.3 | 19 | Misa Amane (Death Note) |
| 24 | 94.3 | 10 | Kimmy Schmidt (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) |
| 25 | 94.2 | 6 | Zapp Brannigan (Futurama) |
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 parental<--->childlike when aggregated at the character level.