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

Most cruel characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
198.6268Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
298.2371Dolores Umbridge (Harry Potter)
397.2365Lord Voldemort (Harry Potter)
496.8337Bellatrix Lestrange (Harry Potter)
596.7504Firelord Ozai (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
696.630Palpatine (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith)
796.574Homelander (The Boys)
896.519Rose Armitage (Get Out)
995.81367Scar (The Lion King)
1095.6396Mr. Burns (The Simpsons)
1195.6852Sid Phillips (Toy Story)
1295.456Count Olaf (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
1395.3476Azula (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
1495.131Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Dune)
1595.136Commodus (Gladiator)
1694.737Nurse Mildred Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
1794.522Howard Payne (Speed)
1894.349Prince Humperdinck (The Princess Bride)
1994.266Father Faustus Blackwood (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)
2093.744Major Arnold Toht (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
2193.7110the Alien (Alien)
2293.627Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
2393.5980Coriolanus Snow (The Hunger Games)
2493.4353Ernesto de la Cruz (Coco)
2593.4120The Queen (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)

Most kind characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
199.211Mayuri Shiina (Steins;Gate)
299.129Pop Tate (Riverdale)
397.7158Olaf (Frozen)
497.510Sam Obisanya (Ted Lasso)
597.4272Samwell Tarly (Game of Thrones)
697.318Littlefoot (The Land Before Time)
796.8407Rubeus Hagrid (Harry Potter)
896.834Alphonse Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
996.4496Aang (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
1096.3401Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)
1196.1190Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump)
1296.172Jess Day (New Girl)
1396.078Penelope Garcia (Criminal Minds)
1495.932Kimmy Schmidt (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
1595.924Lucy MacLean (Fallout)
1695.8120Dory (Finding Nemo)
1795.6349Kaylee Frye (Firefly + Serenity)
1895.552Charlie Morningstar (Hazbin Hotel)
1995.344Penny (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
2095.272Emmet Brickowski (The Lego Movie)
2195.2329Beth March (Little Women)
2295.178Belle (Beauty and the Beast)
2395.046Francis Mulcahy (M*A*S*H)
2495.0301Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes (LOST)
2595.0306Anna Bates (Downton Abbey)

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 cruel<--->kind when aggregated at the character level.

  1. poisonous (not nurturing) (r=0.94)
  2. demonic (not angelic) (r=0.93)
  3. psychopath (not empath) (r=0.92)
  4. soulless (not soulful) (r=0.92)
  5. salacious (not wholesome) (r=0.91)
  6. villainous (not heroic) (r=0.9)
  7. bitter (not sweet) (r=0.89)
  8. 😈 (not 😇) (r=0.89)
  9. stingy (not generous) (r=0.89)
  10. selfish (not altruistic) (r=0.88)

Notes

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