As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,125 characters on a 100 point scale from "self-sacrificing" to "self-protective". 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 "self-sacrificing" is the same as 100/100 for "self-protective". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 94.7 | 12 | Black Widow (Marvel Cinematic Universe) |
| 2 | 94.4 | 5 | Catelyn Stark (Game of Thrones) |
| 3 | 94.4 | 8 | Leo McGarry (The West Wing) |
| 4 | 94.3 | 9 | Jackson 'Jax' Teller (Sons of Anarchy) |
| 5 | 93.9 | 7 | William Mason (Downton Abbey) |
| 6 | 92.6 | 12 | Mufasa (The Lion King) |
| 7 | 92.2 | 17 | Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender) |
| 8 | 91.7 | 18 | Phil Coulson (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) |
| 9 | 91.7 | 29 | Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) |
| 10 | 91.7 | 7 | Jim Holden (The Expanse) |
| 11 | 91.2 | 9 | Kimmy Schmidt (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) |
| 12 | 90.0 | 23 | Kenneth Parcell (30 Rock) |
| 13 | 90.0 | 90 | Vander (Arcane) |
| 14 | 89.8 | 33 | Clark Kent (Smallville) |
| 15 | 89.6 | 8 | Jack Pearson (This Is Us) |
| 16 | 89.4 | 113 | Jack Dawson (Titanic) |
| 17 | 89.1 | 11 | Oliver Queen (Arrow) |
| 18 | 88.9 | 8 | Daniel Jackson (Stargate SG-1) |
| 19 | 88.9 | 13 | Mayuri Shiina (Steins;Gate) |
| 20 | 88.9 | 16 | Francis Mulcahy (M*A*S*H) |
| 21 | 88.7 | 18 | Lady Sybil Crawley (Downton Abbey) |
| 22 | 88.7 | 18 | Aang (Avatar: The Last Airbender) |
| 23 | 88.5 | 10 | Bobbie Draper (The Expanse) |
| 24 | 88.3 | 7 | Rintarou Okabe (Steins;Gate) |
| 25 | 87.9 | 8 | Moiraine Damodred (Wheel of Time) |
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 97.8 | 4 | Clarence Royce (The Wire) |
| 2 | 97.7 | 15 | Samuel Norton (The Shawshank Redemption) |
| 3 | 96.8 | 18 | Selina Meyer (Veep) |
| 4 | 96.4 | 7 | Steve Hadley (The Cabin in the Woods) |
| 5 | 96.2 | 10 | Sal Maroni (The Dark Knight) |
| 6 | 96.2 | 17 | Cersei Lannister (Game of Thrones) |
| 7 | 95.6 | 15 | Dan Egan (Veep) |
| 8 | 95.1 | 13 | Mark Zuckerberg (The Social Network) |
| 9 | 95.0 | 11 | Gaius Baltar (Battlestar Galactica) |
| 10 | 94.6 | 16 | Darlene Snell (Ozark) |
| 11 | 94.1 | 21 | Sue Sylvester (Glee) |
| 12 | 94.0 | 26 | Jenna Maroney (30 Rock) |
| 13 | 93.7 | 6 | Alexander Conklin (The Bourne Identity) |
| 14 | 93.6 | 22 | Hans (Frozen) |
| 15 | 93.5 | 24 | Azula (Avatar: The Last Airbender) |
| 16 | 93.4 | 17 | Rachel Berry (Glee) |
| 17 | 92.9 | 19 | Ava (Ex Machina) |
| 18 | 92.8 | 9 | Jeremy Armitage (Get Out) |
| 19 | 92.8 | 11 | Homelander (The Boys) |
| 20 | 92.6 | 8 | Petyr Baelish (Game of Thrones) |
| 21 | 92.3 | 8 | Ben Chang (Community) |
| 22 | 92.2 | 5 | Oscar Bluth (Arrested Development) |
| 23 | 92.1 | 8 | Frank Costello (The Departed) |
| 24 | 91.9 | 18 | Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones) |
| 25 | 91.9 | 7 | Hannah Horvath (Girls) |
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 self-sacrificing<--->self-protective when aggregated at the character level.