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

Most positive characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
199.915SpongeBob SquarePants (SpongeBob SquarePants)
298.510Leslie Knope (Parks and Recreation)
397.835Jess Day (New Girl)
497.512Kenneth Parcell (30 Rock)
597.220Sam Obisanya (Ted Lasso)
697.223Naruto Uzumaki (Naruto)
797.115Ed (Cowboy Bebop)
897.124Pinkie Pie (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
997.110Waverly Earp (Wynonna Earp)
1095.916Penny (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
1195.815Penelope Garcia (Criminal Minds)
1295.712Janine Teagues (Abbott Elementary)
1395.617Kaylee Frye (Firefly + Serenity)
1495.429Kimmy Schmidt (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
1595.07Darryl Whitefeather (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
1694.526Emmet Brickowski (The Lego Movie)
1794.36Joey Tribbiani (Friends)
1894.216Lady Sybil Crawley (Downton Abbey)
1993.913Bumblebee (Transformers)
2093.823Mamá Coco (Coco)
2193.614Aang (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
2293.29Keeley Jones (Ted Lasso)
2392.912Maid Marian (Robin Hood)
2492.740Rapunzel (Tangled)
2592.710Pumbaa (The Lion King)

Most negative characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
198.110Dolores Umbridge (Harry Potter)
296.34Chris Partlow (The Wire)
396.214Squidward Tentacles (SpongeBob SquarePants)
495.79Red John (The Mentalist)
595.625Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
695.49Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Dune)
795.05Stormfront (The Boys)
895.012Lord Voldemort (Harry Potter)
994.89Red Forman (That 70's Show)
1094.37Howard Payne (Speed)
1194.212Merle Dixon (The Walking Dead)
1294.116Vicious (Cowboy Bebop)
1393.816Samuel Norton (The Shawshank Redemption)
1492.923Nate Jacobs (Euphoria)
1592.812Scar (The Lion King)
1692.713Uma Heller (Only Murders in the Building)
1792.616Dr. Gregory House (House, M.D.)
1892.411Sue Sylvester (Glee)
1992.413Nurse Mildred Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
2092.114Firelord Ozai (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
2192.09April Ludgate (Parks and Recreation)
2291.617General Hux (Star Wars: The Last Jedi)
2391.56Homelander (The Boys)
2491.26George Bluth, Sr. (Arrested Development)
2591.04Ser Criston Cole (House of the Dragon)

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 positive<--->negative when aggregated at the character level.

  1. optimistic (not pessimistic) (r=0.84)
  2. sweet (not bitter) (r=0.83)
  3. glad (not mad) (r=0.83)
  4. friendly (not unfriendly) (r=0.82)
  5. warm (not cold) (r=0.82)
  6. joyful (not miserable) (r=0.81)
  7. 🙋‍♂️ (not 🙅‍♂️) (r=0.8)
  8. sunny (not gloomy) (r=0.8)
  9. warm (not quarrelsome) (r=0.8)
  10. good-humored (not angry) (r=0.79)

Notes

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