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

Most harsh characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
199.210Malory Archer (Archer)
299.222Dolores Umbridge (Harry Potter)
398.711Lord Voldemort (Harry Potter)
498.710Logan Roy (Succession)
598.634Eric Cartman (South Park)
698.524Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
798.412Firelord Ozai (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
898.213Vicious (Cowboy Bebop)
997.85Chris Partlow (The Wire)
1097.424Mr. Burns (The Simpsons)
1196.89Ivar Ragnarsson (Vikings)
1296.58the Alien (Alien)
1396.511Sue Sylvester (Glee)
1496.217Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)
1596.220Ari Gold (Entourage)
1695.517Tywin Lannister (Game of Thrones)
1795.411Major Arnold Toht (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
1895.413Azula (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
1995.212Merle Dixon (The Walking Dead)
2095.124Chef Skinner (Ratatouille)
2195.09Bertram Gilfoyle (Silicon Valley)
2294.521The Wicked Witch of the West (The Wizard of Oz)
2394.311Scorpius (Farscape)
2494.226Dr. Gregory House (House, M.D.)
2594.213Nurse Mildred Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)

Most gentle characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
198.88Mayuri Shiina (Steins;Gate)
296.822Alphonse Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
395.614Deanna Troi (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
495.642Snow White (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
595.414Georgiana Darcy (Pride and Prejudice)
695.124Olaf (Frozen)
795.09Kif Kroker (Futurama)
894.519Walter 'Radar' O'Reilly (M*A*S*H)
994.513Rubeus Hagrid (Harry Potter)
1094.520Penny (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
1194.111Sam Obisanya (Ted Lasso)
1294.010Jerry Gergich (Parks and Recreation)
1393.921Ted Mullens (Schitt's Creek)
1493.831Emmet Brickowski (The Lego Movie)
1593.812Hilda Spellman (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)
1693.613Littlefoot (The Land Before Time)
1793.511Kenny Stowton (Killing Eve)
1893.514Spike (The Land Before Time)
1993.34Harry Kim (Star Trek: Voyager)
2093.323Ned Flanders (The Simpsons)
2192.89George Michael Bluth (Arrested Development)
2292.815Aang (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
2392.79Reginald 'Bubbles' Cousins (The Wire)
2492.618Melanie Hamilton (Gone With the Wind)
2592.614Gary Walsh (Veep)

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 harsh<--->gentle when aggregated at the character level.

  1. quarrelsome (not warm) (r=0.9)
  2. bitter (not sweet) (r=0.89)
  3. insulting (not complimentary) (r=0.87)
  4. vengeful (not forgiving) (r=0.86)
  5. savory (not sweet) (r=0.85)
  6. hard (not soft) (r=0.84)
  7. hard (not soft) (r=0.84)
  8. cruel (not kind) (r=0.84)
  9. cold (not warm) (r=0.84)
  10. unfriendly (not friendly) (r=0.84)

Notes

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