Dexter

[Rex]

what tha hell. Dexter a INTJ..

 

[Nocapszy]

Please explain.

Edit -

You don't have to. You've already made your explanations.

now i have to argue with myself!

 

[Avik]

Dexter seems a lot like an INTJ to me.

 

[tommyc]

okay I haven't seen the show, but I just find it frustrating that serial killers and 'evil' people are always typed as INT. I'm pretty sure T function doesn't mean you're more likely to commit crimes, simply that you feel more comfortable with thoughts than emotions. A serial killer is just as likely to be an F as anyone else; his world view is badly twisted and he lacks empathy in certain scenarios, but this is either due to a scarring upbringing or an unusual genetic quirk.

 

[Mohammedini]

ISTJ and anyone saying INTJ don't know wtf they are talking about.

The guy is a slave to his rituals and routines it's not even funny.
His whole life is dedicated to following his fathers code to the point of panicking when he accidently broke it in s3.

He lacks any kind of guilt and conscience yet he wasn't able to kill Sgt Doakes when he found about his secret because it would break his "code".
Also, lets not forget how he always kills and disposes of all of his victims, the same repetitive way.
His "planned" murders consists of stalking his victim until they are alone and vulnerable, then he sedates and abduct them.


Ofc Dexter is a composite character and have traits of many different types.
The closest type to Dexter is ISTJ.

I'll ask anyone who typed Dexter as INTJ, Where is his Ni?
His "planned" murders consists of stalking his victim until they are alone then sedating and abducting them.
He does this with almost all of his victims.
This is one of his "rituals".

Yeah.. very Ni

 

[Riva]

ISTJ and anyone saying INTJ don't know wtf they are talking about.

Okay.

The guy is a slave to his rituals and routines it's not even funny.

His rituals (the way he kills people) is to gather maximum time and thereby satisfaction to clench his blood thirst.

His whole life is dedicated to following his fathers code to the point of panicking when he accidently broke it in s3.

His father wanted him to adhere to a code because he is an psychopath who lacks empathy. He does not see the difference (unline we might) between a pedophile rapist and a victim. There are no differences for him. He is a psychopath. (Atleast that is what the series is trying to portray him as). his code is taught to him by his father to prevent him for becoming a common serial killer who kills without empathy. Psychopaths can't be taught empathy, therefore his clever father gave him a code to live by. And he out of respect for the father and the family respects the code. He is no enslaved by it.

S3 is where he mistakenly tortured killed the wrong person isn't it? You don't have to be an ISTJ (or SJ) to feel disappointed about that. Lolz... What kind of an argument was that?

He lacks any kind of guilt and conscience yet he wasn't able to kill Sgt Doakes when he found about his secret because it would break his "code".

Without the code he is nothing but a blood thirsty serial killer. He promised his father whom he was so close to that he would never break the code. And then there was Doakes, trapped in his cage.

Also, lets not forget how he always kills and disposes of all of his victims, the same repetitive way.

Like I said earlier he kills his victims in a manner which allows his maximum time and satisfaction.

His "planned" murders consists of stalking his victim until they are alone and vulnerable, then he sedates and abduct them.

So only ISTJs are capable of following the most effective way over and over again? He follows that method becuase it is the most efficient. It's police training and it had never let him down. He would probably gladly change it if he believes it does not work anymore. Infact there were instances that he did change his stalking habits.

How would you expect an INTJ to plan their murders? By reading a book, coming up with a unique theory, philosophically analyzing the world around him etc?

If anything INTJs are is that they are extremely pragmatic. If it works they would adhere to it.

Yeah.. very Ni

Indeed.

 

[Stephano]

Dexter - INTJ (structured and organized, he has the spirit of a scientist)
Debrah - ESFP
Harry - ISTJ (duty + Fi)
LaGuerta - xSFJ
Batista - ExFJ
Masuka - INTP
Rita - INFP
Quinn - ISTP
Trinity Killer from s4 - ESTJ
Frank Lundy - IxTJ (maybe even an avoidant extro)
Miguel Prado from s3 - ESTJ
Doakes - ISTJ
Brian Moser, Dex' brother from s1 - INFJ

just watching season 5, maybe I'll change my mind later

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

I want to say he's an INTJ, but maybe he's just a damaged NF.

 

[Stephano]

Since he works as a forensic, NT sounds better for me. The actor is an INFJ as far as I know.

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

i think walt from breaking bad is also an intj. makes sense when you think about it...both characters are rational, introverted types that people underestimate, all the while manipulating events and situations meticulously to produce their desired outcomes.

 

[Riva]

Nice ending I say.

 

[Ivy]

Nice ending I say.

 

[Comeback Girl]

He's a blood spatter analyst, and he's okay,
He sleeps all night and he works all day
He analyses blood spatters, he eats his lunch,
He goes to the lava-try
On Wednesdays 'e goes shoppin'
And has buttered scones for tea
He's a blood spatter analyst, and he's okay,
He sleeps all night and he works all day
He analyses blood spatters, he skips and jumps,
He likes to press wild flowers
He puts on women's clothing
And hangs around.... In bars???????
He's a blood spatter analyst, and he's okay,
He sleeps all night and he works all day
He analyses blood spatters, he wears high heels
Suspendies?? and a .... a Bra????
(spoken, raggedly) What's this? Wants to be a *girlie*? Oh, My!
And I thought you were so rugged! Poofter!
He's a blood spatter analyst, and he's okay,
He sleeps all night and he works all day
He's a blood spatter analyst, and he's okaaaaaaayyy

LOL

Okay, I'm sorry, I get it, it's impolite to laugh at your own jokes, right?

 

[Riva]

I was. Obviously you didn't like the ending. May I know which parts you didn't like? Use a spoiler tag if you do choose to reply. Yes 'her' death was a bit too sad but the critics wouldn't have liked it much if it ended up too happy. Sometimes they do it for the critics.

 

[SensEye]

I was OK with the ending. I could have gone with the happy ending too (i.e. Deb recovers, Dexter & Hanna live happily ever after in Argentina). OTOH, it seems more appropriate to end the way it did.

However, the whole final season lacked intensity (compare and contrast to Breaking Bad) so in that regard Dexter has been a let down.

 

[Ivy]

Yeah, it's not really that I had a problem with any of the over-arching plot points. Certainly an ending in which Deb dies and Dexter ends up in self-imposed exile could have been a fitting ending if done well. Though I liked the ending the original showrunner had in mind from the start- of him waking up on the execution table with all of his past kills looking at him, and the series is revealed to have been his life flashing before his eyes before death by lethal injection. But this whole season, and the last one too, and actually several of the later seasons, were just so poorly done it seemed almost masturbatory. IMO Scott Buck ruined the show when he took over. It has never been as good or as complex or as ambivalent and it has been full of plot holes and ham-fisted execution (heh, pun intended?) ever since. Scott Buck's Dexter is the "Let's Give Dexter Everything His Little Serial Killer Heart Desires At All Times Until The Last Five Minutes Of The Finale" show.

 

[Rasofy]

Just watched the last episode... A big disappointment.

Some thoughts:

Harrison is always giving indirect spoilers... He made a lot of events predictable. Whenever he says something bad might happen, Dexter shrugs off and someone close to him dies (or almost). That happened numerous times.

Saxon somehow escaping from that chair after Dexter decided not to kill him was extremely predictable... it was like he hadn't learned anything with the Trinity episode. That made zero sense.

Deb's death didn't work out well. One moment, it's all good, 5 minutes later, she will be on a vegetative state forever, if lucky. You can't simply do that to the second most important character of a show...

And poor Harrison, the boy never gets to know anything. I really wanted to know whether he'd become a serial killer, just Dexter & Brian. He had seen Rita dying in similar circumstances, so that was expected accodring to she series logic. Maybe a scene of him holding a knife suggestively would do it.

They could make it somewhat open ended and leave the fans wondering for years, just like the producers did with the ending of Inception, but alas, they ended it in a very forgettable way.

Dexter and/or Hannah dying would make much more sense, I think.

 

[SolitaryWalker]

Dexter - INTJ (structured and organized, he has the spirit of a scientist)
Debrah - ESFP
Harry - ISTJ (duty + Fi)
LaGuerta - xSFJ
Batista - ExFJ
Masuka - INTP
Rita - INFP
Quinn - ISTP
Trinity Killer from s4 - ESTJ
Frank Lundy - IxTJ (maybe even an avoidant extro)
Miguel Prado from s3 - ESTJ
Doakes - ISTJ
Brian Moser, Dex' brother from s1 - INFJ

just watching season 5, maybe I'll change my mind later

Boy, we love our typism, don't we! Duty+Fi, what a lovely characterization. I guess if I want to become more dutiful, I just won't be able to do that because I am not an ISTJ.

 

[Stephano]

Boy, we love our typism, don't we! Duty+Fi, what a lovely characterization. I guess if I want to become more dutiful, I just won't be able to do that because I am not an ISTJ.

Ok, it's indeed not the best argument for ISTJ, but hey, prove me wrong.

 

[SensEye]

Boy, we love our typism, don't we! Duty+Fi, what a lovely characterization. I guess if I want to become more dutiful, I just won't be able to do that because I am not an ISTJ.

Probably not. OTOH, you probably won't ever want to become more dutiful, so it's no big deal really.