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

Most disturbing characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
196.825Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
296.212Gollum (Lord of the Rings)
396.09Dolores Umbridge (Harry Potter)
494.924Martha Scott (Baby Reindeer)
594.714Jeremy Armitage (Get Out)
694.511Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Dune)
794.522Red John (The Mentalist)
893.913Lord Voldemort (Harry Potter)
993.416Sid Phillips (Toy Story)
1093.052Darlene Snell (Ozark)
1193.07Scorpius (Farscape)
1292.717Brad Bellick (Prison Break)
1392.338Count Olaf (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
1492.113Father Faustus Blackwood (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)
1591.834The Joker (The Dark Knight)
1691.610Major Arnold Toht (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
1791.48Robert California (The Office)
1891.414Samuel Norton (The Shawshank Redemption)
1991.323Arturo Roman (Money Heist)
2091.213Jonah Ryan (Veep)
2191.115Merle Dixon (The Walking Dead)
2290.914Pierce Hawthorne (Community)
2390.926Chef Skinner (Ratatouille)
2490.712Nurse Mildred Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
2590.416Vicious (Cowboy Bebop)

Most enchanting characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
194.710Waverly Earp (Wynonna Earp)
294.715Belle (Beauty and the Beast)
394.219Padme Amidala (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith)
494.016Georgiana Darcy (Pride and Prejudice)
593.88Lisa Johnson (After Life)
693.422Neal Caffrey (White Collar)
792.613Christopher Turk (Scrubs)
892.410Kathy Selden (Singin' in the Rain)
992.37Annie January (The Boys)
1091.913Maria (West Side Story)
1191.815Pam Beesly (The Office)
1291.315Vincent Chase (Entourage)
1391.248Barbie (Barbie)
1491.216Jamie Fraser (Outlander)
1591.115Anna Bates (Downton Abbey)
1690.916Mulan (Mulan)
1790.88Kara Danvers (Supergirl)
1890.723Jasmine (Aladdin)
1990.618Debora (Baby Driver)
2090.614Charlotte York (Sex and the City)
2190.424Inara Serra (Firefly + Serenity)
2290.415Robin Hood (Robin Hood)
2390.49Mercedes Jones (Glee)
2490.431Princess Celestia (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
2590.212Nick Young (Crazy Rich Asians)

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 disturbing<--->enchanting when aggregated at the character level.

  1. creepy (not disarming) (r=0.86)
  2. 🙃 (not 🥰) (r=0.82)
  3. fearmongering (not reassuring) (r=0.77)
  4. 💩 (not 🌟) (r=0.77)
  5. punchable (not loveable) (r=0.76)
  6. psychopath (not empath) (r=0.76)
  7. trash (not treasure) (r=0.75)
  8. soulless (not soulful) (r=0.74)
  9. cringing away (not welcoming experience) (r=0.74)
  10. repulsive (not attractive) (r=0.73)

Notes

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