With rom-com TV series like How I Met Your Mother and Sex and the City receiving reboots or spin-offs in 2022, audiences might be thinking about other series in the genre that they hope will one day end up with an extended story. Even a series like Jane the Virgin, which had a satisfactory ending and great character development, could one day end up with a spin-off.
Only time will tell if the characters from Jane the Virgin will ever be welcomed back for a new show. Throughout the series, they all developed and grew to become better people in their own way. Characters like Rafael and Rogelio learned that money and status couldn't solve their problems, while others like Alba and Jane learned to have healthier expectations for loved ones, as well as themselves. While these changes were positive for each character, fans might find that some of their developments created a stronger arc than others, making certain characters rank better overall.
Rose
Rose (and her various personas) serves as the main antagonist of the series. She starts as Rafael and Luisa's stepmother, and Luisa's lover, but she is eventually revealed to be the crime lord Sin Rostro. She tries several times to become a better person for Luisa's sake, but her minimal effort results in no real moral change.
By the end of the series, Rose has murdered, kidnapped, blackmailed, and murdered several times more. She is finally taken out by Luisa herself, publically impaled on a giant ice sculpture (ironically the same way her first victim of the series was killed). Ultimately, Rose was just bad to the bone.
Luisa
Luisa is one of the most intelligent characters in Jane the Virgin but has a tendency to make really horrible decisions. It was her fault that Jane ended up artificially inseminated, to begin with, and most of her decisions after that just got worse and worse. Her family tried to give her several chances, but Luisa struggled to pull herself away from the influence of her crime lord girlfriend.
By the end of the series, Luisa managed to make amends. She helped tried to help the police find Rose, and was ultimately the one who put a stop to Rose's evil deeds. Audiences were happy to see Luisa get a happy ending, but her transformation might have happened too late in the show to rank her higher among the other characters.
Lina
Lina has been Janes's best friend since elementary school, and the two have great contrast. While Jane is structured, organized, and mature, Lina is wild, chaotic, and spontaneous. They manage to balance each other out most of the time, but Lina can at times come across as insensitive to Jane's problems.
The two grew apart after Michael died, with Lina understandably unsure how to support her friend. They were able to talk it out and mend things, but their relationship never quite felt the same to viewers, and Lina fell to the side as a major character.
Alba
Alba is the Villanueva matriarch and the reason for Jane's vow of abstinence. She is a wonderful, loving grandmother, but her old-fashioned ways and judgmental viewpoints can often put her at odds with her daughter and granddaughter.
By the end of Jane the Virgin, Alba learned to open her mind a bit more. She admitted some of her own mistakes to her family and allowed herself to be imperfect. While she may not have grown quite as much as the show's other characters, she still had a wonderful story and arc.
Jane
Jane is the titular character of the show and certainly went through a lot over the seasons. Between getting accidentally artificially inseminated, discovering her father is a telenovela star, becoming a widow, discovering that her husband was still alive, and falling in love with her son's father, it would be impossible for Jane not to have grown a great deal.
Jane came out at the other end of the show as a great person, but she was already a great person in the first episode. While she learned lessons and developed as an individual and mother, she never had the moral revelation that many of the other characters experienced. This meant that while she was a good character, her arc kept her from being the best.
Michael
At the beginning of Jane the Virgin, Michael is a little difficult for audiences to like or trust. He keeps secrets from Jane that hurt her deeply, but he eventually learns his lesson and the two begin a healthy and beautiful relationship until, in one of the best plot twists on TV, Rose decides to fake his death and give him amnesia.
By the time Rose's evil deed is discovered, Jane is in love with Rafael, and Michael has become an entirely different person. Michael reveals that he will always love Jane in a way, but he goes on to fall in love with someone else and start a family. He was a great character who went through a lot of changes, most of them bittersweet.
Xiomara
For most of Jane's life, Jane saw Xiomara as more like a sister than a mom, but the two Jane the Virgin characters still had great mother-daughter moments. Xo has a fiery personality and loves to party, dance, and sing. She often brought out Jane's more adventurous side, but her immaturity also forced Jane to behave older than she really was.
Xo became more grounded and realistic as the series went on while still maintaining the fire that made her unique. She started making better decisions for herself, and as she repaired her own relationship with her mother, she learned that she deserved happiness. This decision to stop self-sabotaging helped her find love with Rogelio, and also made her a great character.
Rafael
Flashbacks of Rafael before the show started reveal that he was not always a very good person. Growing up rich and spoiled did a number on him, and he often saw the world as something that he could buy for his own pleasure. His moral change began when he found out he had cancer, and realized that he wanted more out of his life.
Even after he is introduced in season 1 of Jane the Virgin, he still had to grow a lot before he could become a good person. It would take years before he realized that money couldn't solve his problems, and he ultimately had to lose everything before he could really discover who he was and what he wanted. Most people would falter under that pressure, but Rafael found that he was capable of more than he had ever thought possible.
Rogelio
Rogelio's personality is larger than life, and that can make him difficult to handle at times. He prides himself to be among the best actors in the world and isn't above name-dropping at every possible chance. When Jane meets him, he tries way too hard to buy her affection, but he would eventually learn what it meant to be a good father.
What makes Rogelio such a great character is that he manages to correct the selfish and insecure parts of himself without changing the eccentric person that he is. He knows that he can often be too much for people, but his love for himself ensures that he never dials down his own personality just for the sake of people's opinions. Rogelio learned to put others before himself when it was necessary, but he never compromised who he knew he was.
Petra
Petra started the series as one of the central antagonists but slowly transformed into a member of Jane's family. She did some truly atrocious things, proving that she is a flawed character in many ways. It took her several attempts to become a good person, but she was no stranger to pulling herself up when knocked down, so she eventually succeeded in becoming a character whom viewers were proud of.
While she learned to open her heart to love and family, Petra never stopped being the tough-as-nails businesswoman that she was meant to be. What makes her so interesting as a character is that she used her moral growth to make her stronger, but she never doubted the strength that she was born with.