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

Most pointless characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
194.07Ziggy Sobotka (The Wire)
288.120Arturo Roman (Money Heist)
387.713Rita Skeeter (Harry Potter)
487.09Zapp Brannigan (Futurama)
586.811Ryan Howard (The Office)
686.49Robert California (The Office)
786.416Jonah Ryan (Veep)
885.68Jenna Maroney (30 Rock)
985.58Michelle (The Room)
1085.45Hideki Ide (Death Note)
1185.39Linda Montag (Fahrenheit 451)
1285.216Gino (Baby Reindeer)
1385.114Hunter Chen (Ginny & Georgia)
1484.49Meredith Palmer (The Office)
1584.17Ashley Barrett (The Boys)
1684.116Prince Humperdinck (The Princess Bride)
1783.516Commodus (Gladiator)
1883.423Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
1983.19Mr. William Collins (Pride and Prejudice)
2083.19George Wickham (Pride and Prejudice)
2182.913Greggsy (Baby Reindeer)
2282.67James Taggart (Atlas Shrugged)
2382.58Logan Delos (Westworld)
2482.418Sid Phillips (Toy Story)
2582.310Tommy (Shameless)

Most meaningful characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
197.29Josiah Bartlet (The West Wing)
296.911Dagny Taggart (Atlas Shrugged)
396.414Rubeus Hagrid (Harry Potter)
496.110Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
595.819Lester Freamon (The Wire)
695.820Maximus (Gladiator)
795.413Katara (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
894.545Dale Cooper (Twin Peaks)
994.416Li Mu Bai (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
1094.414Nani Pelekai (Lilo & Stitch)
1194.310Richard D. Winters (Band of Brothers)
1293.710Yu Shu Lien (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
1393.56Chrisjen Avasarala (The Expanse)
1493.416Aragorn (Lord of the Rings)
1593.315Derrial Book (Firefly + Serenity)
1693.231El Profesor (Money Heist)
1793.111Jean Valjean (Les Misérables)
1893.19Teal'c (Stargate SG-1)
1993.128Princess Celestia (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
2093.010Eric Taylor (Friday Night Lights)
2192.98Kate Beckett (Castle)
2292.910Waverly Earp (Wynonna Earp)
2392.923Barbara Howard (Abbott Elementary)
2492.939Obi-Wan Kenobi (Star Wars)
2592.818Alphonse Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)

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 pointless<--->meaningful when aggregated at the character level.

  1. shallow (not deep) (r=0.79)
  2. cringeworthy (not inspiring) (r=0.79)
  3. scrub (not legit) (r=0.77)
  4. incompetent (not competent) (r=0.75)
  5. ignorant (not knowledgeable) (r=0.73)
  6. irrelevant (not important) (r=0.71)
  7. trash (not treasure) (r=0.71)
  8. not introspective (not introspective) (r=0.71)
  9. foolish (not wise) (r=0.71)
  10. generic (not insightful) (r=0.7)

Notes

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