I always thought the media portrayed the Intuitive as the evil megalomaniac or eccentric crackpot while the hero was an SP or SJ upholding the law. This is especially true of movies in the '70s and '80s. In many of the '80s cop movies, it was often an SJ playing the hero and an SP or NT playing the bad guy. The NF was probably the hero woman.
In a traditional action movie, it's usually an SP trying to foil the NT's evil plans -- a la James Bond -- although the SP hero character is portrayed as the more one-dimensional of the two. In recent times, though, there's a trend of an NF hero pitted against an NT villain, like Spider-Man. And in Tim Burton's and Christopher Nolan's Batman movies, it's an NT against an NT (although Batman is somewhat of a psychopath himself).
But I think the Intuitive will be portrayed as the loony, misunderstood, or stupid character, where the Sensor will be portrayed as the one everybody likes. Extraversion and Introversion do not necessarily have different ways of thinking, and it's often hard to tell who's Extraverted or Introverted. But Sensors and Intuitives do have different ways of thinking -- and since society has a natural bias toward Sensors,
Introverts may not necessarily think of themselves as outsiders and may not even have trouble fitting in with other people, especially when a Sensing preference reinforces it. Intuitives, on the other hand, are lost at sea, since their interests and ways of thinking tend to be more esoteric or less common than the norms. Intuitives, being in worlds of their own most of the time, are less aware of what's appropriate in the here-and-now. And so they're looked down upon much of the time.