Most Arcane Or Mainstream Characters

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

Most arcane characters

Rank	Average rating	Number of raters	Name
1	92.2	195	Bertram Gilfoyle (Silicon Valley)
2	91.8	64	Allison Reynolds (The Breakfast Club)
3	91.7	536	Dwight Schrute (The Office)
4	90.6	313	Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)
5	90.6	28	The Amphibian Man (The Shape of Water)
6	90.0	264	River Tam (Firefly + Serenity)
7	89.8	66	Kimiko Miyashiro (The Boys)
8	89.4	17	Doc Holliday (Wynonna Earp)
9	89.3	25	Tycho Brahe (Penny Arcade)
10	88.7	506	Gollum (Lord of the Rings)
11	88.5	282	Melisandre (Game of Thrones)
12	88.2	308	Bellatrix Lestrange (Harry Potter)
13	87.9	301	The Joker (The Dark Knight)
14	87.6	206	Akecheta (Westworld)
15	87.5	49	Amélie Poulain (Amélie)
16	87.5	42	Elliot Alderson (Mr. Robot)
17	87.3	25	Ilana Wexler (Broad City)
18	87.3	26	Huck (Scandal)
19	87.2	15	Don Shirley (Green Book)
20	87.2	20	Scorpius (Farscape)
21	87.0	31	Lillian Kaushtupper (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
22	86.5	661	Janis Ian (Mean Girls)
23	86.5	24	Kaz Brekker (Shadow and Bone)
24	86.4	963	April Ludgate (Parks and Recreation)
25	86.4	490	Gandalf (Lord of the Rings)

Most mainstream characters

Rank	Average rating	Number of raters	Name
1	88.9	19	Linda Montag (Fahrenheit 451)
2	86.5	17	Jamie Tartt (Ted Lasso)
3	85.7	215	Shannon Rutherford (LOST)
4	85.4	59	Lyla Garrity (Friday Night Lights)
5	85.2	654	Gretchen Wieners (Mean Girls)
6	85.2	487	Cordelia Chase (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
7	84.6	18	Jules Louden (The Cabin in the Woods)
8	84.6	40	Marnie Michaels (Girls)
9	84.4	635	Aaron Samuels (Mean Girls)
10	84.2	195	Bianca Stratford (10 Things I Hate About You)
11	84.2	34	Captain Hammer (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
12	83.6	20	Curt Vaughan (The Cabin in the Woods)
13	82.8	21	Jenna Middleton (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
14	82.5	44	F. Tony Scarapiducci (Space Force)
15	82.3	413	Penny (The Big Bang Theory)
16	82.3	406	Jackie Burkhart (That 70's Show)
17	82.1	59	A-Train (The Boys)
18	82.1	16	Alli Bhandari (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
19	82.0	60	Troy Bolton (High School Musical)
20	81.8	45	Josh Chan (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
21	81.8	480	Kelly Kapoor (The Office)
22	81.6	34	Finn Hudson (Glee)
23	81.6	93	Claire Standish (The Breakfast Club)
24	81.1	1099	Rachel Green (Friends)
25	81.1	24	Cheryl David (Curb Your Enthusiasm)

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 arcanemainstream when aggregated at the character level.

1. indie (not pop) (r=0.7)
2. freak (not normie) (r=0.64)
3. nonconformist (not social climber) (r=0.63)
4. original (not cliché) (r=0.59)
5. conspiracist (not sheeple) (r=0.57)
6. mysterious (not unambiguous) (r=0.56)
7. boundary breaking (not stereotypical) (r=0.56)
8. weird (not normal) (r=0.55)
9. hipster (not basic) (r=0.55)
10. punk rock (not preppy) (r=0.54)

Notes

• The survey data used to construct this ranking can be downloaded from the open data page.

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