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Most positive or negative characters

As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,125 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
198.611Leslie Knope (Parks and Recreation)
297.937Jess Day (New Girl)
397.627Naruto Uzumaki (Naruto)
497.530Pinkie Pie (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
597.512Kenneth Parcell (30 Rock)
696.619Penelope Garcia (Criminal Minds)
796.511Waverly Earp (Wynonna Earp)
896.318Penny (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
996.218Ed (Cowboy Bebop)
1096.221Lucy MacLean (Fallout)
1195.429Kimmy Schmidt (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
1295.318Kaylee Frye (Firefly + Serenity)
1395.124Sam Obisanya (Ted Lasso)
1494.731Emmet Brickowski (The Lego Movie)
1594.521Janine Teagues (Abbott Elementary)
1694.317Lady Sybil Crawley (Downton Abbey)
1794.053Charlie Morningstar (Hazbin Hotel)
1893.4157SpongeBob SquarePants (SpongeBob SquarePants)
1993.213Christopher Turk (Scrubs)
2093.013Maid Marian (Robin Hood)
2192.826Mamá Coco (Coco)
2292.813George Weasley (Harry Potter)
2392.516Aang (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
2492.56Nelson Bighetti (Silicon Valley)
2592.331Ash Ketchum (Pokémon)

Most negative characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
197.511Dolores Umbridge (Harry Potter)
296.34Chris Partlow (The Wire)
395.86Stormfront (The Boys)
495.79Red John (The Mentalist)
595.714Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Dune)
695.625Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
795.413Lord Voldemort (Harry Potter)
894.89Red Forman (That 70's Show)
994.215Merle Dixon (The Walking Dead)
1093.5149Squidward Tentacles (SpongeBob SquarePants)
1193.421Vicious (Cowboy Bebop)
1293.317Samuel Norton (The Shawshank Redemption)
1393.313Scar (The Lion King)
1492.819Firelord Ozai (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
1591.926Randall Boggs (Monsters, Inc.)
1691.914Mr. Burns (The Simpsons)
1791.819General Hux (Star Wars: The Last Jedi)
1891.819Dr. Gregory House (House, M.D.)
1991.616The Wicked Witch of the West (The Wizard of Oz)
2091.512Father Faustus Blackwood (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)
2191.513Sid Phillips (Toy Story)
2291.312Sue Sylvester (Glee)
2391.29Carol 'Mom' Miller (Futurama)
2490.97George Bluth, Sr. (Arrested Development)
2590.811Scorpius (Farscape)

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

  1. glad (not mad) (r=0.85)
  2. sweet (not bitter) (r=0.85)
  3. optimistic (not pessimistic) (r=0.84)
  4. friendly (not unfriendly) (r=0.84)
  5. warm (not cold) (r=0.83)
  6. joyful (not miserable) (r=0.82)
  7. 🙋‍♂️ (not 🙅‍♂️) (r=0.81)
  8. sunny (not gloomy) (r=0.81)
  9. warm (not quarrelsome) (r=0.81)
  10. good-humored (not angry) (r=0.8)

Notes

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