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INTJs in popular culture

socratically

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How about Temperance Brennan from Bones? She perplexes me. My first instinct was to type her as INTJ but I feel as though she's governed by Ti, not Ni. Perhaps her use of Ti is rooted in her traumatic childhood.
 
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I'm not sure if it's been mentioned yet, but I'm fairly certain that the 12th Doctor from Doctor Who, played by Peter Capaldi, is an INTJ. I am also very convinced that the Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant is an INTJ. Singer St. Vincent is very likely an INTJ. I'm also not totally certain of it's validity, but an INTJ blogger has typed David Tennant as an INTJ (albeit with a high Fi bent): David Tennant: INTJ – The Book Addict's Guide to MBTI: Obviously that's debatable, but in my opinion it makes sense.

I can't really think of anyone else at the moment.
 
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Root and Finch.

Huh. The signature. :D
 

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the only tv intj i can think of off-hand is rick from the walking dead.
 

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I thought he was an ISFJ or TJ. Is Carol an INTJ?

my first premise is that you can only type actors/actresses, not characters. i get intj. underlying principledness, deliberation, and just to me an intj energy.

carol seems like an esfp to me. 7w6 so/sx. her age range is tougher for me, but that's my best guess. big wrinkly affect-creased face (and i mean that in a good way).
 

Yuurei

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Good Lord no I do not wish I were INTJ. I am ENTJ. I am envious only of more successful ENTJ's.


I'd say my favorite INTJ is Sigma from the zero escape series. ( Yah I know someone said "No characters" but the first post was ONLY characters.)
 

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While i would say that Sheldon looks like a textbook INTP and his behaviour indicates that really strong, if he has Asperger Syndrom or is somewhere else on the spectrum he could be INTJ. People with Asperger can somtimes look like TI-User and Si-user even if they aren't.

Finch from POI is an INTJ. Root is not, not at all. I can't decide if she is either ENTP or ENTJ. "Hiw badly did you have to break it to make it care about people so much" sounds a little bit like something an inf. fi would say. Not what an tertiary Fi would say. INTJs aren't as cold as they often appear.

Gandalf is an INFJ. He is quite the INFJ stereotype.

Sauron is an ENTJ. I am not saying that all INTJs are frail, but when a guy smashes a gigantzic hammer in faces of people to send them flying, tertiary se is more likely then inferir se. And he didn't have a plan form the beginning. And I am not saying that INTJs can't be charming, but in his eraly days Sauron was very charismatic and use this to his advantage. This seems more directly out of the ENTJ than the INTJ playbook. I am mean, come on. He is an tyrannical evil overlord in thick armor. That is an ENTJ cliche.

When it comes to INTJs in pop culutre, i think ENTJ and INTJ get mixed up a lot. No, not all Es are unreflective and impulsive. No, not every cool character is an INTJ. When it comes to comes to spotting the differences betwenn NTJs I would focus on Se and Fi, since the first two functions are used whith each other anywas.
 

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Mycroft from Sherlock Holmes is ENTJ.

BBC's Sherlock is without a shadow of doubt, an INTJ. I have never enjoyed a whodunit deduction process as much as Sherlock's intuitive drive, the way he connects the dots between complex patterns, put them in a long term plan prodding at all consequences and probabilities, and concots the final recipe taking into account the smell, the touch, the color, the appearance and a plethora of complex details. You can't surprise/impress him, and if you do, he's almost surprised/impressed, but not quite.
 
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