As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,125 characters on a 100 point scale from "hopeful" to "fearful". 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 "hopeful" is the same as 100/100 for "fearful". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 95.9 | 8 | Kimmy Schmidt (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) |
| 2 | 95.2 | 15 | Lady Sybil Crawley (Downton Abbey) |
| 3 | 95.0 | 12 | Leslie Knope (Parks and Recreation) |
| 4 | 94.3 | 27 | Lucy MacLean (Fallout) |
| 5 | 94.3 | 11 | Sabrina Spellman (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) |
| 6 | 94.2 | 32 | Ash Ketchum (Pokémon) |
| 7 | 94.2 | 12 | Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender) |
| 8 | 94.1 | 69 | Charlie Morningstar (Hazbin Hotel) |
| 9 | 93.8 | 9 | Belle French (Once Upon a Time) |
| 10 | 93.5 | 22 | Janine Teagues (Abbott Elementary) |
| 11 | 92.7 | 10 | Storm (X-Men) |
| 12 | 92.6 | 28 | Princess Ariel (The Little Mermaid) |
| 13 | 92.6 | 22 | Naruto Uzumaki (Naruto) |
| 14 | 92.3 | 10 | Phoebe Buffay (Friends) |
| 15 | 92.2 | 11 | Chien-Po (Mulan) |
| 16 | 92.2 | 15 | Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter) |
| 17 | 92.1 | 15 | Maria (West Side Story) |
| 18 | 91.8 | 31 | Ferris Bueller (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) |
| 19 | 91.3 | 6 | Mayuri Shiina (Steins;Gate) |
| 20 | 91.1 | 10 | Beatrice 'Beadie' Russell (The Wire) |
| 21 | 90.9 | 8 | Mercedes Jones (Glee) |
| 22 | 90.8 | 29 | Pinkie Pie (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic) |
| 23 | 90.7 | 4 | Vincent Chase (Entourage) |
| 24 | 90.4 | 31 | Emmet Brickowski (The Lego Movie) |
| 25 | 90.2 | 9 | Marianne Dashwood (Sense and Sensibility) |
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 89.5 | 10 | Homelander (The Boys) |
| 2 | 89.4 | 18 | Jamie Dutton (Yellowstone) |
| 3 | 89.3 | 15 | Gollum (Lord of the Rings) |
| 4 | 89.3 | 16 | Alvy Singer (Annie Hall) |
| 5 | 88.9 | 10 | Petrie (The Land Before Time) |
| 6 | 88.5 | 28 | C-3PO (Star Wars) |
| 7 | 88.0 | 14 | Sid Phillips (Toy Story) |
| 8 | 87.5 | 10 | Ashley Barrett (The Boys) |
| 9 | 87.3 | 14 | Petunia Dursley (Harry Potter) |
| 10 | 86.9 | 18 | General Hux (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) |
| 11 | 86.7 | 12 | Firelord Ozai (Avatar: The Last Airbender) |
| 12 | 86.1 | 17 | Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones) |
| 13 | 85.4 | 10 | Michael Groff (Sex Education) |
| 14 | 84.6 | 7 | Shannon Rutherford (LOST) |
| 15 | 84.0 | 12 | Sarah O'Brien (Downton Abbey) |
| 16 | 84.0 | 13 | Angela Martin (The Office) |
| 17 | 83.5 | 11 | Gaius Baltar (Battlestar Galactica) |
| 18 | 83.4 | 19 | Shinji Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion) |
| 19 | 83.4 | 17 | Samuel Norton (The Shawshank Redemption) |
| 20 | 83.3 | 10 | Burton Guster (Psych) |
| 21 | 83.0 | 25 | Carmen Berzatto (The Bear) |
| 22 | 82.9 | 7 | Choi Yeon-gyo (Parasite) |
| 23 | 82.8 | 16 | The Cowardly Lion (The Wizard of Oz) |
| 24 | 82.8 | 17 | Commodus (Gladiator) |
| 25 | 82.6 | 9 | Linda Montag (Fahrenheit 451) |
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 hopeful<--->fearful when aggregated at the character level.