ENTJ
So much tertiary Se it was ridiculous.
Wow, I came into this thread positive that he was an ESTP and I kinda expected this to be an easy one.
He's a classic charmer, into all the finer things in life, fine clothes, womanizer, whatever, clearly indulges his senses often. (And he appears to have excellent taste ).
He improvised a freakin rocket suit. And built it, from scratch, by himself.
He's a mechanical genius, he doesn't care about philosophy or politics, he just wants to build awesome machines and then fine-tune them until they're even more awesome.
How on earth is that more ENTP than ESTP?
Man...I'm coming on this late, but it's great to see a discussion on Iron Man. I was a huge fan back in the day (collected about a decade's worth of books...and I ended up buying the entire collection on CD after the movie).
I think in the comics Tony is played more as an ENTJ, or even ESTP. But the movie works to bring out a human side to him - a more vulnerable side - that works even better. In the movie, I really do think he's played as ENTP, which enhances his character or me. It's as if the character were missing something in the books...and then I realized it: Downey's ENTP Tony made the character far more three dimensional and more personable. And more vulnerable. Perfect set-up for the sequel if they choose to go with his alcoholism.
Where and how much?
I suspect that is exactly where they are going.
All that I found lacking was a good old-fashioned INTP
Vanko's bird was def INTP.
Agree.I'm posting this here because I'm specifically interested in NT opinions on character types. I'm not a big "physics" guy myself nor am I a huge fan of sci-fi but, as I sat and watched, I couldn't help but notice the dominance of NT archetypes.
Stark (Downey, Jr.) seemed ENTP
CEO of Hammer Industries seemed ENTJ
Russian physicist (Mickey Rourke) seemed INTJ
Agree? Disagree?
Yeah, believe it or not, as I watched the movie I thought "people on the forum would totally type this guy as an S except that he is smart and OBVIOUSLY S's can't be smart." I knew he would end up ENTP.
If he wasn't actually shown as being extremely smart what would people type him as? You guys do realize that there have to be maybe a few anomalies to the "anyone who is exceptionally smart is an NT" right? Oh, never mind.