Characters

Matt Murdock (Daredevil): ISFP

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Guest Post by Emily, INFP

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Dominant Introverted Feeling (Fi): Matt has solid morals based on what he thinks is right rather than laws. He doesn’t want to defend people if he doesn’t think they are innocent, and after he defended someone he didn’t want to, he beat up the guy in the alley after the court hearing was over. He is a devout Catholic but questions “why God put the devil inside him.” He wants to do good rather than work at Lehman and Zack. Despite believing that “sometimes the law isn’t enough” while going after Fisk, Matt never kills people and has Fisk arrested instead. He is emotional, but is usually private about his emotions and can hide them well. He also hides his identity by not saying anything rather than lying.

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L Lawliet – Death Note: INTJ

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Death Note

Dominant Introverted Intuition (Ni): As the number one detective in the world, L uses his Introverted Intuition first and foremost to solve a case, intuitively coming to a conclusion near the outset and afterwards spending time and effort to prove his impressively accurate hunches. In a ploy to determine Kira’s whereabouts, a ploy L is prepared to use worldwide, one zone at a time. L succeeds on his first try. When L states that he is 5% sure that Light is the real Kira, he is actually 100% sure (Ohba, Tsugumi (2008). Death Note 13: How to Read) but he lacks the proof to convince others. In spite of proof to the contrary, L continues to suspect Light when everyone else has moved on. L has a single-minded determination to catch Kira, putting other cases aside and going to extreme lengths to catch him, to the point that he has an entire skyscraper built to serve this single case. In general, his lifestyle is built around solving cases, and his surroundings are often Spartan despite his affluence. He tends to ignore his appearance, as well as the general perception people have of him, but he typically has an explanation for his odd behaviour (he claims his habit of crouching increases his mental faculties, and he continues in that posture even though Japanese culture highly values proper posture).

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Tony Stark (Iron Man): ENTP

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Marvel Cinematic Universe

Dominant Extraverted Intuition (Ne): Tony works for the future of mankind. He is not just focused on one narrow goal but has multiple ambitions for it. For example, he has the idea of being Iron Man and builds machines like B.A.R.F which are completely unrelated to his idea of being Iron Man.

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Burgundy – Pokémon: INFP

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Guest Post by Andrew, ENTJ

Pokémon Anime

Dominant Introverted Feeling (Fi): Burgundy can take criticism way too personally. Her entire motivation for starting a rivalry with Cilan stems from a single honest assessment he made on her relationship with one of her Pokémon – which she found less than flattering – when she was still very young. Even as an adult, she hates seeing Cilan achieve success in his endeavours, and she sulks on the sidelines when her nemesis wins battles and tournaments. Burgundy bases her opinions almost entirely on personal impressions rather than factual evidence, such as when she states that Ash is incompatible with all of his Pokémon. Notwithstanding her childish exterior, however, Burgundy cares deeply about every one of her Pokémon. She also has a friend in Iris’ rival, Georgia, even though the two of them are prone to bickering with each other.

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Inara Serra: ENFJ

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Firefly

Dominant Extraverted Feeling (Fe): Inara is an expert at saying things she doesn’t truly feel in order to keep the peace (“I’m glad you slept with her”). Her own emotions are secondary to her (like how she feels about Mal), but she’s easily aggravated by the crew members. It annoys her when she can’t make The Operative angry in Serenity. She’s great at putting her clients at ease (“Jaynestown”), and she was the one to listen to Zoe and Mal tell stories about Tracy when they thought he was dead.

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Scott Lang (Ant-Man): ENTP

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Guest Post by Emily, INFP

Marvel Universe

Dominant Extraverted Intuition (Ne): When Scott first takes the Ant-Man suit back to his apartment after stealing it, he puts it on and presses the button that causes him to shrink purely out of curiosity. He uses obvious humour during the fight at the airport when he tells Tony that he’s his conscience and that they don’t talk much these days, and when he asks if anyone brought any orange slices. When he meets Steve, he acts kind of hyper about meeting Captain America. He is creative about breaking into places, like when he freezes the safe door.

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Laura Ingalls: ESTJ

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Guest Post by Jessica Prescott, INFJ

Little House on The Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder

Dominant Extroverted Thinking (Te):  Throughout the nine books in the Little House series, Laura Ingalls is distinguished above all by two main character traits: blunt speech and quick action. More than anyone else in her family, she believes in saying what needs to be said and doing what needs to be done. Laura sees little point in sugarcoating the truth to save others’ feelings. For example, at the beginning of These Happy Golden Years, she tells Almanzo Wilder point-blank that she’s not romantically interested in him and that his driving her home every week won’t make any difference in how she feels. Even as a young girl, Laura can pinpoint the most direct solution to any problem and organize others to help her implement that solution. In Banks of Plum Creek when Pa and Ma are gone and a blizzard comes up unexpectedly, Laura is the one to realize that there’s no firewood in the house and the one who rounds up her sisters to go and collect a supply from the woodpile outside (This, despite the fact that Ma had specifically told the girls to “stay inside if it storms”; unlike Mary, who insisted on following their parents’ rules, Laura can make her own rules to alleviate a potentially dangerous situation.) After a slightly rocky start, she can successfully discipline students older than herself when teaching her first school as a fifteen-year-old. Finally, she has a strong work ethic and sets high expectations for both herself and others.

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Vinculus: ENTP

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Guest Post by Kerissa, INFJ

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Suzanna Clarke

Dominant Extraverted Intuition (Ne): Vinculus has no problem bouncing around from place to place, living on the run for over eight years. He can anticipate problems and come up with solutions to them easily, like cutting Norrell’s bell cord and selling Strange spells. He tends to speak metaphorically (“I am the Book” and “[Strange and Norrell] are the spell John Uskglass is doing”). He understands certain things immediately, like that Mr Norrell is a liar and why his skin changed. He sees his new skin as all it could be, and the possibilities thrill him. Who cares what it is, what could it be?

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Grell Sutcliff: ESFP

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Black Butler / Kuroshitsuji

Dominant Extraverted Sensing (Se): Grell is greatly in tune with their senses, though this is not always acted on in an entirely healthy way, making the character seem somewhat insane.
They are fond of the colour red, explaining that it represents “flaming passion.”
Their affinity for the colour is displayed in their clothing and, more extremely, when they explain that they choose to commit murder so they can paint victims with red colour.

Fond of things they find physically attractive, they freely and flamboyantly display their lust towards Sebastian, in an often theatrical way. The sly Sebastian easily manipulates Grell into doing things for him by toying with this deep infatuation. Grell jumps into action immediately, overcome with thrill by Sebastian’s seductive promises.

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Call for Submissions!

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Finally, the cavity in the space-time continuum that some of you have been patiently asking about has been opened. It’s been forever, yes, but I’m getting caught up on the backlog of typing posts in my inbox.

As a result, The Book Addict’s Guide to MBTI is once again accepting guest submissions for publication!

There have been a few changes to the rules, most notably, that submission doesn’t guarantee acceptance. This is mainly to prevent my having to publish mishaps like the (thankfully rare) case of plagiarism by one guest poster in the past and to potentially cut down on editing. I plan to keep the submission portal open until such a time as the space-time continuum should dictate otherwise.

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Dave Strider: ISFP

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Guest Post by leirbag75, INTP

Homestuck

Dominant Introverted Feeling (Fi): Dave hides his emotions behind a poker face and his poker face behind a pair of shades. He saves shows of genuine, non-ironic emotion for special occasions, such as trying to convince John and Rose not to kill themselves, or greeting John on his birthday, or re(?)uniting with the post-scratch version of his deceased Bro. Even though he is disturbed at finding his own corpse from a doomed timeline, he doesn’t show it immediately. Hanging out with Rose and the Trolls on the meteor helps him realize how messed up his Bro’s way of raising him was, but he never says a word about this realization until he meets post-scratch Dirk face to face, at which point he can’t hold it in any longer. Maintaining harmony with the world at large isn’t very high on his priority list; he pays no heed whatsoever to Karkat’s warnings to stay away from Vriska and Terezi, nor does he feel any need to be polite when telling him off (just compare the way Dave treats Karkat with the way John and Jade do). He acts readily on his feelings; when he finds out about Terezi and Gamzee, he wastes no time in breaking up with Terezi quietly because he feels he’s been cheated on, even though he knows that from Terezi’s perspective, she’s done nothing wrong. He is acutely aware of his own faults and so doesn’t feel comfortable being cast in the role of hero, preferring to leave titles like that to John.

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Dale Cooper: INFJ

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Twin Peaks

Dominant Introverted Intuition (Ni): Dale is very single-minded and sees the world through a lens of symbolism. When solving the murder of Laura Palmer he uses odd and non-traditional methods to choose the guilty suspect and he uses a single dream he had to guide what he should do or find in the investigation. He is very good at making unseen connections. He intends to get things down to a single truth or get easy answers to hard questions as he would say.

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