It’s still Getting To Know You Week, so I thought it might be fun to do the ‘fictional character personality test’ Endalia and Bhagpuss have already done with interesting results. Man, I so hope I’ll get a high match with Dale Cooper like Bhag did!
I’ll just do the complete version of the test – should take long enough to answer 121 questions – and except for the top match I’ll only refer to characters from shows and movies that I know well, with a match of at least 60%.
Let’s gooo!
Top match at 76%: Samantha Carter (Stargate SG-1)
I like the movie but never watched the show, so…yeah, no idea. How’s she like, folks? She’s great, isn’t she? Please tell me she’s great!
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
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- 26. Odo: 71%
- 27. Julian Bashir: 71%
- 41. Benjamin Sisko: 70%
- 42. Miles O’Brien: 70%
- 53. Jadzia Dax: 69%
- 54. Worf: 69%
- 115. Kira Nerys: 65%
- 138. Nog: 64%
- 139. Kasidy Yates: 64%
- 202. Elim Garak: 61%
So, Odo, eh? The funny thing is, we’ve just started to watch DS9 from the beginning, so the first half of season one is fresh in my mind. I remembered Odo as a very likeable and respectable character from watching the show many years ago, though at the beginning he’s mainly grumpy and sometimes downright hostile (not just towards Quark either). I really hope the personality this test refers to is based upon that which I remember, not that first impression we get of him.
Other than that my only complaint is that Garak’s so low on the list. Not that I really identify with him, but hey, it’s Garak. One of the coolest characters in any show ever in my opinion.
Game of Thrones
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- 16. Brienne of Tarth: 72%
- 156. Arya Stark: 63%
- 157. Davos Seaworth: 63%
- 158. Asha Greyjoy: 63%
- 179. Jorah Mormont: 62%
- 180. Eddard Stark: 62%
- 181. Olenna Tyrell: 62%
- 198. Jon Snow: 61%
- 199. Sansa Stark: 61%
- 200. Robb Stark: 61%
- 212: Tywin Lannister: 60%
Brienne of Tarth as the highest match and no one else comes even close? I can very much live with that. As with Garak I would have liked to see Tyrion higher on that list of course (he’s at 233 with 59%), but at least there are no blonde Lannisters to be seen anywhere. Phew, dodged that bullet.
Marvel Cinematic Universe
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- 19. Captain Marvel: 72%
- 20. Peggy Carter: 72%
- 28. Nick Fury: 71%
- 55. Black Widow: 69%
- 56. Dr. Strange: 69%
- 71. Captain America: 68%
- 72. Bruce Banner: 68%
- 162. Tony Stark: 63%
I omitted a few this time – there’s just too many of ’em – and I’m also starting to see a trend here. The characters I tend to like the most all appear only around the 60% mark, in this instance Tony Stark. Like the others I mentioned he’s smart and funny, but also kind of a dickhead. I guess I should probably be glad that I don’t match higher with my favourites… Anyway, Carol Danvers is very cool, so I’m not complaining.
The Big Bang Theory
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- 8. Amy Farrah Fowler: 73%
- 30. Sheldon Cooper: 71%
- 31. Bernadette Rostenkowski: 71%
- 143. Leslie Winkle: 64%
- 205. Leonard Hofstadter: 61%
I’m fine with Shamy up there, obviously. What I don’t quite get is Bernadette’s appearance this high on the list. That woman frightens me! Seriously, I hope I’m nothing like her.
Star Wars
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- 73. Princess Leia: 68%
- 140. C-3PO: 64%
- 204. Obi-Wan Kenobi: 61%
Not bad. Who wouldn’t want a high match with our favourite snarky princess? I hope this is Sir Alec Guiness’ Obi-Wan though, not Ewan McGregor’s.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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- 64. Rupert Giles: 69%
- 150. Buffy Summers: 64%
- 175. Willow Rosenberg: 63%
- 228. Angel: 60%
Yes! Unlike Bhagpuss I wanted to see Giles on top here, and I got him. Buffy and Willow are fine too of course. Angel’s matched just low enough for comfort.
Dexter
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- 47. Dexter Morgan: 70%
- 121. James Doakes: 65%
- 122. Maria LaGuerta: 65%
- 168. Debra Morgan: 63%
- 169. Thomas Matthews: 63%
- 190. Harry Morgan: 62%
- 222. Vince Masuka: 60%
Uh…70% match with a mass-murderer, and again a likeable dickhead at 60%. I think I should stop now.

Well, this was quite fun. I got to say though that the survey isn’t easy to answer for non-native speakers, and I’m pretty sure the outcome would have been at least a bit different had I been able to do it in German. Seriously, even with a dictionary’s help I have no idea what ‘debased’ and ‘pure’ are supposed to mean in this context. I just let the slider sit at 50% in these cases (about eight or so). There were others where I knew which direction to pull the slider in, but since I still wasn’t completely sure about the choices’ exact meanings I didn’t go all the way to the left or right. I assume that’s why I don’t have any matches above 76%.
Oh, and now I almost forgot to resolve this: I’ve got a 68% match with Dale Cooper, neat! Aside from him I remember so little about Twin Peaks that it would have been pointless to list more characters though.
Anyway, if you’re a movie- and TV series-fan I highly recommend doing the survey for yourself. There’s many more franchises in there, like Friends, Harry Potter, The Office, LOST, Sherlock (got a 67% match with the high-functioning sociopath, huh), etc. Should be something there for everyone.
Blapril 2020 post count: 8
Given the current news cycle, the headline made me wonder for a moment just how you were like the World Health Organization!
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Oops, didn’t think about that possible association at all. 🙂
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Addendum: I should’ve inspected the list’s bottom earlier. Can be just as interesting/pleasing as the top, no?
My lowest match, at position 540, is Ziggy Sobotka (The Wire) at 36%.
I’m VERY pleased with that result indeed!
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Oh, good point. I didn’t think to look at who I was least like either.
I only had a couple of questions where I really couldn’t see an answer and I also left the slider in the middle for those. You’re English seems pretty much perfect to me so I would suspect the ones you had trouble with are the ones that seem odd to me, too. I wonder if having more answers towards the neutral center leads to a higher number of matches at the same percentages? That’s to say, if you give bland answers to do you get bland results?
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@Bhagpuss – Thank you!
Yeah, I assume that the more neutral answers you choose the more everything inches closer together.
All 540 characters range between 36% and 76% for me while you, Endalia and also some folks in her comments have much higher top matches at least. I suspect their and your lowest matches were also somewhat lower than mine.
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Samantha Carter is a great match — and also; you should 100% watch the show! I imagine you would like it. 🙂
The spin-off SG: Atlantis… Well; it had it’s moments in both directions. I’m mixed on whether or not to recommend that. It started with a series that ran in parallel to events of SG-1 around season…7… or so? Worth looking up if you decide to jump in and find yourself liking it. 🙂
I found this exercise quite interesting too, I regret covering so few of the properties in detail now in retrospect. I’m pretty sure I’d intended to cover Buffy for instance, and then didn’t! I guess at the time thought it was getting a wee bit long.
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@Naithin – I might just do that, I’m on a watching-old-shows spree right now anyway. 🙂
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