Originally used for Dungeons & Dragons, an alignment chart categorizes characters based on their morals and behaviors. Placed along a left-to-right axis, characters are either lawful, neutral, or chaotic: lawful if they're honest, obedient, and color within the lines, chaotic if they're flexible, rebellious, and free-spirited. Placed along a top-to-bottom axis, characters are either good, neutral, or evil: good if they're compassionate and heroric, evil if they don't play well with others.
It's also a fun meme. And I got 251 people to help me make one:
How I Crowdsourced An Alignment Chart
I picked 82 fictional characters from nine different shows, then had my readers evaluate as many as they were familiar with. Rather than simply group everyone into the conventional alignment chart categories, readers were able to place characters anywhere they wanted along far-reaching scales (from -1,000 to 1,000, to be precise).
I received 251 submissions between 2020 and 2025, for a total of 3,372 character ratings.
And because the world needed a Walter White vs Michael Scott analysis, here are the shows we sampled from:
Who Stands Out?
Here are the highest-ranking characters for each of the four alignment chart traits, on average:
The Most Good & The Most Evil
The Most Lawful & The Most Chaotic
Yet, the alignment chart isn't necessarily about who's the most evil, the most lawful, and so on; rather, to appear on the final chart, a character has to push toward the corners of the grid, maximizing along both dimensions.
The Final Product
Finally, here are the characters who best represent each category, according to my readers:
Lawful Good
Neutral Good
Chaotic Good
Lawful Neutral
True Neutral
Chaotic Neutral
Lawful Evil
Neutral Evil
Chaotic Evil
...yup, that's about as accurate as it gets!
I'll also note that there are close seconds and honorable mentions for each category. For example, although Summer Smith is the closest to True Neutral, Stanley Hudson, Lip Gallagher, and Queen Maeve all also sit near to the chart's center.
Who We Disagreed About The Most
I'll admit generating the alignment chart was always somewhat of a cover for measuring an additional phenomena: disagreement. Evaluating fictional characters is inherently a subjective task and I suspected results would be all over the board for most of the test subjects.
I showed each character's average placement at the very top, but that says nothing of their spread (agreeability, standard deviation, yada yada). For example, the majority of readers placed Andy Bernard of The Office in the 'Chaotic-Good' section, although there's plenty of disagreement on just how “good” he actually is.
Use the dropdown menu below to see the distribution for others.
