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

Most spirited characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
198.023Penelope Garcia (Criminal Minds)
297.826Jaskier (The Witcher)
397.614Robin Hood (Robin Hood)
497.512Mushu (Mulan)
597.414Keeley Jones (Ted Lasso)
696.512Waverly Earp (Wynonna Earp)
796.411Shawn Spencer (Psych)
896.312Clarisse McClellan (Fahrenheit 451)
996.235Kimmy Schmidt (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
1096.213Don Quijote (Don Quixote)
1196.114Sokka (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
1296.18Chris Traeger (Parks and Recreation)
1396.011Ilana Wexler (Broad City)
1496.020Janine Teagues (Abbott Elementary)
1595.99Donna Meagle (Parks and Recreation)
1695.916Goh Peik Lin (Crazy Rich Asians)
1795.818Rubeus Hagrid (Harry Potter)
1895.610Abby Sciuto (NCIS)
1995.519Ed (Cowboy Bebop)
2095.47Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace (Battlestar Galactica)
2195.335Pinkie Pie (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
2295.217Sookie St. James (Gilmore Girls)
2395.225Linda Belcher (Bob's Burgers)
2494.915Troy Barnes (Community)
2594.916Sailor Moon (Sailor Moon)

Most lifeless characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
189.312Ash (Alien)
288.617Squidward Tentacles (SpongeBob SquarePants)
387.419Nurse Mildred Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
486.515Michael Groff (Sex Education)
586.49Petunia Dursley (Harry Potter)
685.718Rei Ayanami (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
785.714Rose Armitage (Get Out)
885.611Black Noir (The Boys)
983.910Jamie Dutton (Yellowstone)
1082.816Stuart Bloom (The Big Bang Theory)
1182.716Levi Ackermann (Attack on Titan)
1282.412Linda Montag (Fahrenheit 451)
1382.09Pete Hornberger (30 Rock)
1481.915Billy Hargrove (Stranger Things)
1581.811Matt Press (Ginny & Georgia)
1681.67O'Brien (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
1781.17Mark Brendanawicz (Parks and Recreation)
1880.823Mr. Burns (The Simpsons)
1980.77Tony Johnson (After Life)
2080.526Samuel Norton (The Shawshank Redemption)
2180.48Cornelius Fudge (Harry Potter)
2280.111Angela Martin (The Office)
2379.86Jimmy Baxter (Your Honor)
2479.810Major Arnold Toht (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
2579.712Reiner Braun (Attack on Titan)

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 spirited<--->lifeless when aggregated at the character level.

  1. vibrant (not geriatric) (r=0.77)
  2. 🥳 (not 🥴) (r=0.72)
  3. multicolored (not monochrome) (r=0.71)
  4. dynamic (not numb) (r=0.71)
  5. joyful (not miserable) (r=0.7)
  6. charismatic (not uninspiring) (r=0.7)
  7. expressive (not monotone) (r=0.7)
  8. bubbly (not flat) (r=0.69)
  9. 🙋‍♂️ (not 🙅‍♂️) (r=0.67)
  10. sunny (not gloomy) (r=0.67)

Notes

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