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

Most leader characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
199.718General Kirigan (Shadow and Bone)
299.515Professor X (X-Men)
399.124Kaz Brekker (Shadow and Bone)
499.011Robert Ford (Westworld)
598.65Frank Reagan (Blue Bloods)
698.629John Dutton (Yellowstone)
798.615Thomas Shelby (Peaky Blinders)
898.614Karen Vick (Psych)
998.512Patty Hewes (Damages)
1098.49Wallace Boden (Chicago Fire)
1198.39Richard D. Winters (Band of Brothers)
1298.210Olivia Pope (Scandal)
1398.110Ramona Vega (Hustlers)
1498.114Ragnar Lothbrok (Vikings)
1598.012Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
1697.846Leroy Jethro Gibbs (NCIS)
1797.716Nick Fury (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
1897.517Cristina Yang (Grey's Anatomy)
1997.414Regina Mills (Once Upon a Time)
2097.212Omar Little (The Wire)
2197.219Regina George (Mean Girls)
2297.110Ron Swanson (Parks and Recreation)
2396.915Eric Taylor (Friday Night Lights)
2496.98George S. Hammond (Stargate SG-1)
2596.822Optimus Prime (Transformers)

Most follower characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
198.115Gary Walsh (Veep)
296.712Denny (The Room)
395.238Leopold 'Butters' Stotch (South Park)
494.412Buster Bluth (Arrested Development)
593.212Linda Montag (Fahrenheit 451)
692.923Milhouse Van Houten (The Simpsons)
792.820Gretchen Wieners (Mean Girls)
892.817Nux (Mad Max: Fury Road)
992.714Lenny (After Life)
1092.311Jerry Gergich (Parks and Recreation)
1191.831Charles Boyle (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
1291.717Denny Brosh (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
1391.614Petrie (The Land Before Time)
1491.621C-3PO (Star Wars)
1591.69Kelly Erin Hannon (The Office)
1691.312Kevin Malone (The Office)
1790.915Mike McLintock (Veep)
1890.916Misa Amane (Death Note)
1990.88Tommy (Shameless)
2090.48The Deep (The Boys)
2190.38Kevin Rayburn (Bloodline)
2290.319Raj Koothrappali (The Big Bang Theory)
2390.114Nick Carraway (The Great Gatsby)
2490.126Flounder (The Little Mermaid)
2590.18Kenneth Parcell (30 Rock)

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 leader<--->follower when aggregated at the character level.

  1. captain (not first-mate) (r=0.87)
  2. alpha (not beta) (r=0.85)
  3. dominant (not submissive) (r=0.81)
  4. assertive (not passive) (r=0.76)
  5. master (not apprentice) (r=0.75)
  6. bossy (not meek) (r=0.75)
  7. lion (not zebra) (r=0.73)
  8. decisive (not hesitant) (r=0.72)
  9. entrepreneur (not employee) (r=0.69)
  10. mighty (not puny) (r=0.68)

Notes

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