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

Most lion characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
199.216Scar (The Lion King)
298.622Mufasa (The Lion King)
398.427Annalise Keating (How To Get Away With Murder)
498.213Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal)
598.122Nala (The Lion King)
697.410Logan Roy (Succession)
797.410Rip Wheeler (Yellowstone)
896.714Sue Sylvester (Glee)
996.521Azula (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
1096.37Rowan Pope (Scandal)
1196.023Maximus (Gladiator)
1296.06Ari Gold (Entourage)
1395.416Amos Burton (The Expanse)
1495.212Magneto (X-Men)
1595.217Santana Lopez (Glee)
1695.254Prince Daemon Targaryen (House of the Dragon)
1794.917Gemma Teller Morrow (Sons of Anarchy)
1894.814John Dutton (Yellowstone)
1994.720Wolverine (X-Men)
2094.78Avon Barksdale (The Wire)
2194.710Olivia Pope (Scandal)
2294.77Wynonna Earp (Wynonna Earp)
2394.719Beowulf (Beowulf)
2494.618Lagertha (Vikings)
2594.615Jessica Pearson (Suits)

Most zebra characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
194.912Kif Kroker (Futurama)
294.99Ophelia (Hamlet)
394.49Jerry Gergich (Parks and Recreation)
494.020Milhouse Van Houten (The Simpsons)
593.818Gary Walsh (Veep)
693.612Craig Pelton (Community)
793.010Buster Bluth (Arrested Development)
892.914George Michael Bluth (Arrested Development)
992.730Nelson Bighetti (Silicon Valley)
1092.171Tobias Funke (Arrested Development)
1191.916Waylon Smithers (The Simpsons)
1291.816Ned Flanders (The Simpsons)
1391.711Nathan Shelley (Ted Lasso)
1491.617Glenn Sturgis (Superstore)
1591.537Charles Boyle (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
1691.39Brittany Pierce (Glee)
1791.26Mayuri Shiina (Steins;Gate)
1891.19Alan Harper (Two and Half Men)
1991.025Alfredo Linguini (Ratatouille)
2090.98Cyril Figgis (Archer)
2190.58Emma Pillsbury (Glee)
2290.48Dr. John A. Zoidberg (Futurama)
2390.411Dale Horvath (The Walking Dead)
2490.18Ashley Barrett (The Boys)
2589.932Leopold 'Butters' Stotch (South Park)

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 lion<--->zebra when aggregated at the character level.

  1. alpha (not beta) (r=0.87)
  2. dominant (not submissive) (r=0.86)
  3. assertive (not passive) (r=0.82)
  4. hunter (not gatherer) (r=0.81)
  5. mighty (not puny) (r=0.8)
  6. armoured (not vulnerable) (r=0.78)
  7. bossy (not meek) (r=0.77)
  8. decisive (not hesitant) (r=0.77)
  9. hard (not soft) (r=0.76)
  10. hard (not soft) (r=0.76)

Notes

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