| 100% | HORATIO | 7 | Only surviving major character in "Hamlet" |
| 95% | HORATIO | 7 | Only major character in Hamlet who survives |
| 53% | DESDEMONA | 9 | Major character in "Othello" |
| 52% | PENNY | 5 | The only major character in "The Big Bang Theory" whose last name was never revealed |
| 48% | MARINE | 6 | Almost any major character in "Sands of Iwo Jima" |
| 48% | AARON | 5 | Politician Burr who's a major character in "Hamilton" |
| 47% | LAERTES | 7 | Character in Greek mythology and Hamlet's killer |
| 46% | PERSEPHONE | 10 | Goddess who serves as a major character in 2019's "Hadestown" |
| 45% | FITTEST | 7 | In Nature, only the __ survive |
| 44% | ASLAN | 5 | Only character in all seven Narnia books |
| 43% | OPHELIA | 7 | Character who went mad in Shakespeare's Hamlet |
| 43% | FSHARP | 6 | Only black key in a G major scale |
| 43% | MIRANDA | 7 | Only female character to appear in The Tempest |
| 43% | GERTRUDE | 8 | Character in "Hamlet" who drinks poison |
| 42% | OPHELIA | 7 | One of the only two female characters in Shakespeare's "Hamlet" |
| 42% | ASLAN | 5 | Only character in all seven Chronicles of Narnia books |
| 42% | ESTRAGON | 8 | Major character in Samuel Beckett's stage play Waiting for Godot; the French name for a common herb |
| 42% | KANGA | 5 | Only female character in "Winnie-the-Pooh" |
| 42% | DANE | 4 | Almost any character in "Hamlet" |
| 41% | ASLAN | 5 | Only character to appear in all of the Narnia chronicles |
| 41% | KANGA | 5 | Only female character in a classic 1926 book |
| 40% | MUNCHKINS | 9 | These characters only wear blue in the Oz books |
| 40% | MIMI | 4 | Only character with the same name in both "Rent" and "La Bohème" |
| 39% | OPHELIA | 7 | Character in the Shakespeare tragedy "Hamlet" who drowns |
| 39% | DOROTHY | 7 | Character who sings with the Scarecrow in "If I Only Had a Brain" |
| 39% | DAVE | 4 | Only character shown in the final 30 minutes of "2001: A Space Odyssey" |
| 39% | POLONIUS | 8 | Character in "Hamlet" who is stabbed while hiding behind a curtain |
| 38% | RODCAREW | 8 | Only major-league player to enter the 3,000-hit club in the 1980s |
| 38% | OSRIC | 5 | Actor Chau whose name is also a character in "Hamlet" |
| 36% | ENA | 3 | Character in "Bambi" |