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

Most barbaric characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
193.8824Sid Phillips (Toy Story)
293.6286Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
393.433Darlene Snell (Ozark)
493.338Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
592.6522Gollum (Lord of the Rings)
692.229Theodore 'T-Bag' Bagwell (Prison Break)
792.168Frank Gallagher (Shameless)
891.1347Bellatrix Lestrange (Harry Potter)
990.9360Merle Dixon (The Walking Dead)
1090.844Frank Reynolds (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
1190.438Megatron (Transformers)
1290.338Reese Wilkerson (Malcolm in the Middle)
1390.3350The Joker (The Dark Knight)
1490.139Homelander (The Boys)
1590.021David Della Rocco (The Boondock Saints)
1689.720Roman Roy (Succession)
1789.732Bender Bending Rodriguez (Futurama)
1889.277Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)
1989.039Martha Scott (Baby Reindeer)
2088.9425Nelson Muntz (The Simpsons)
2188.943Charlie Kelly (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
2288.752Count Olaf (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
2388.0338Jayne Cobb (Firefly + Serenity)
2487.819Misty (Yellowjackets)
2587.17Amos Burton (The Expanse)

Most civilized characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
197.58Rose Weissman (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
296.69Tuvok (Star Trek: Voyager)
396.212Lucie Manette (A Tale of Two Cities)
495.6360Alfred Pennyworth (The Dark Knight)
595.4293Charlie Carson (Downton Abbey)
695.310Leslie Higgins (Ted Lasso)
795.032Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
894.9978C-3PO (Star Wars)
994.221Beverly Crusher (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
1094.252Gregory Eddie (Abbott Elementary)
1193.819Don Shirley (Green Book)
1293.7329Simon Tam (Firefly + Serenity)
1393.414Abigail Baker (Blue Bloods)
1493.322Joan Watson (Elementary)
1593.3613Charlotte York (Sex and the City)
1693.033Dr. Jennifer Melfi (The Sopranos)
1792.8268Raymond Holt (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
1892.7376Minerva McGonagall (Harry Potter)
1992.7496Rupert Giles (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
2092.713Dr. Sharon Fieldstone (Ted Lasso)
2192.733Penny (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
2292.7412Lisa Simpson (The Simpsons)
2392.431Padme Amidala (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith)
2492.4317Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham (Downton Abbey)
2592.413Sam Obisanya (Ted Lasso)

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 barbaric<--->civilized when aggregated at the character level.

  1. bad-manners (not good-manners) (r=0.84)
  2. animalistic (not human) (r=0.81)
  3. edgy (not politically correct) (r=0.81)
  4. scandalous (not proper) (r=0.81)
  5. mischievous (not well behaved) (r=0.8)
  6. deranged (not reasonable) (r=0.8)
  7. inappropriate (not seemly) (r=0.8)
  8. perverted (not clean) (r=0.77)
  9. crazy (not sane) (r=0.77)
  10. ludicrous (not sensible) (r=0.77)

Notes

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