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

Most democratic characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
192.417Jacob Hill (Abbott Elementary)
289.315Sam Obisanya (Ted Lasso)
389.2267Samwell Tarly (Game of Thrones)
489.124Kala Dandekar (Sense8)
588.5288Lady Sybil Crawley (Downton Abbey)
688.1137Daniel Jackson (Stargate SG-1)
787.612Juliana Crain (The Man in the High Castle)
887.5278Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes (LOST)
987.5290Kaylee Frye (Firefly + Serenity)
1087.3488Aang (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
1186.6304Hoban Washburne (Firefly + Serenity)
1286.6296Charlie Young (The West Wing)
1386.310Mayuri Shiina (Steins;Gate)
1486.224Lucy MacLean (Fallout)
1586.220Janine Teagues (Abbott Elementary)
1686.06Viola (Twelfth Night)
1785.2255Sam Seaborn (The West Wing)
1885.021Padme Amidala (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith)
1984.9358Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)
2084.730Penny (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
2184.216Rose Tico (Star Wars: The Last Jedi)
2284.165Hughie Campbell (The Boys)
2384.1120Reginald 'Bubbles' Cousins (The Wire)
2484.130Seong Gi-hun (Squid Game)
2584.039Kimmy Schmidt (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)

Most authoritarian characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
198.029Commodus (Gladiator)
298.0291Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
395.9530Firelord Ozai (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
495.91058Darth Vader (Star Wars)
595.857Prince Humperdinck (The Princess Bride)
695.813Logan Roy (Succession)
795.68Elizabeth Jennings (The Americans)
895.4213Gavin Belson (Silicon Valley)
995.3297Cersei Lannister (Game of Thrones)
1095.0367Lord Voldemort (Harry Potter)
1194.928Palpatine (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith)
1294.9447Agent Smith (The Matrix)
1394.8224Dukat (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
1494.6479Azula (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
1594.3954Coriolanus Snow (The Hunger Games)
1694.3678Thanos (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
1794.1376Dolores Umbridge (Harry Potter)
1894.013O'Brien (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
1993.720Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Dune)
2093.637Darlene Snell (Ozark)
2193.6422Mr. Burns (The Simpsons)
2293.537Frank Costello (The Departed)
2393.351Hunter Aloysius Percy (The OA)
2492.954Major Arnold Toht (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
2592.816Inspector Kido (The Man in the High Castle)

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 democratic<--->authoritarian when aggregated at the character level.

  1. kind (not cruel) (r=0.84)
  2. sweet (not bitter) (r=0.8)
  3. gentle (not harsh) (r=0.8)
  4. accepting (not judgemental) (r=0.8)
  5. warm (not quarrelsome) (r=0.79)
  6. warm (not cold) (r=0.79)
  7. empath (not psychopath) (r=0.79)
  8. soulful (not soulless) (r=0.78)
  9. friendly (not unfriendly) (r=0.78)
  10. not genocidal (not genocidal) (r=0.78)

Notes

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