INTP main characters?

[Taniwha]

Hmm...

I can think of a few;

Harry Mason - Silent Hill (Original released game).
Peter Parker/Spider-man.
Cobb - Inception.
Tintin.
Bruce Banner/Hulk.
Violet Baudelaire - A Series Of Unfortunate Events (The book series).

 

[indigofireflies]

Hmm...
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Cobb - Inception.

Violet Baudelaire - A Series Of Unfortunate Events (The book series).

Thank you! D: I knew Violet was INTP. Along with Cobb.

Prof. McGonagall from HP.
I'm surprised no one has listed him yet. *gestures to avatar* When I think of INTP, I always think of House, first and foremost.
Robert Langdon [from Dan Brown's books] could possibly be INTP, or INFP.

 

[CoryJames]

House is most certainly not an INTP sorry children. He is way too extroverted. An INTP would never be able to shout the things he does about his patients, staff, or Cudi from banisters and in crowded offices. He is WAY too aggressive to be INTP, and this is coming from possibly the most aggressive INTP currently in the forum.

edit:with the exception of Lors and Melkor of course, whose epic battle rages on, shaming any of my feats instantly

 

[Jesse]

I think House could be an INTP. Definitely Introverted, very intuitive, he values logic above all else. I can talk easily about things I know a lot about so I don't think it's unheard of for an INTP to be outspoken. Because his on TV they have to add a bit aggressiveness to his character but his basis is INTP.

 

[CoryJames]

I see where you are coming from. I suppose also, assuming the test is correct about my type, that INTPs may simply...act...over their normal tendencies to fulfill a role, as I often had to do as a football captain those seasons or group/discussion leader, as much as I would have preferred to mind my own business.

It is just difficult to tell; whereas I KNEW I was acting, he is a non INTP, acting like a possible INTP, possibly acting like a non INTP out of necessity. Very convoluted.

 

[JoeJoe]

On 4chan House is always typed as INTJ. Just putting it here, not claiming any truth on it, since I haven't seen one episode as of yet.

 

[CoryJames]

Yea well on 4chan they think I am some sort of part man/part wolf flesh eating sex zombie. Doesn't mean I am, does it? Out of curiosity, what's 4chan?

 

[MacGuffin]

House is ENTP suckers.

 

[dark]

^Agreed House is ENTP, we require others to bounce ideas off of most time, and this is very clearly defined in specific episodes.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

House is most certainly not an INTP sorry children. He is way too extroverted.

Sociability != extroverted

House is not ENTP, nor INTP. He's INTJ.

 

[MacGuffin]

Sociability != extroverted

House is not ENTP, nor INTP. He's INTJ.

Wrong. House is chaos.

 

[Reluctantly]

I see house as either a bastard entp or enfj. More inclined to enfj given how he thrives of Se. Entps don't really enjoy Se that much. But whatever noobs. And FYI house is annoying.

 

[Bird]

Not ENFJ.


Sorry doll.

 

[Reluctantly]

Boooo. Can't I have my way for once?

*engraves swastika in skin*

It's your fault I'm this way! Curse you all. I will rule this world with an iron fist!

 

[CoryJames]

Yo guys. It's not lupus.

 

[kinetickyle]

I can talk easily about things I know a lot about so I don't think it's unheard of for an INTP to be outspoken.

I completely agree with Jesse on this point. Being introverted doesn't make someone a shrinking violet. I've taken the MBTI multiple times and never come out as anything but INTP and I have a reputation for being very blunt and outspoken in person (I think a fraction more about what I'm saying when I write). There's no doubt that House is an introvert because of the way he keeps people at a distance.

And I agree with Cory - It's never lupus.

 

[Aramea]

Gonna go with Neo, Max Cohen from Pi and Ed Norton's character from Fight Club on this one. Neo was late to work, messy and isolated. Constantly seeking knowledge of the Matrix.

Max was brilliant and tormented by seeking patterns in the stock market and had an apartment full of computer shit with bugs crawling on it. The Norton side of Tyler Durden may be a J with the spiffy condo, but his downward fall that put him at the decomposing Paper Street house firing golf balls into the paper plant and seeking answers to profound existential questions screams the type of nihilism I see in INTPs ...

Those three characters are not your average fare in the movie world and made those movies interesting. Oh, and what about Jeff Goldblum's character in The Fly? Has elements of both P/J ...

 

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Bernard Marx from Brave New World.

Winston from 1984.

 

[Aramea]

Bernard Marx from Brave New World.

Winston from 1984.

Hmmm ... Been awhile since I read that. It's hard to say since the 'civilized' characters in that book were genetically engineered and that tended to fuck with my mind a bit (the point, I assume?). They didn't act naturally. Was Huxley an INTP? I would almost think he'd have to be to come up with that book ...

 

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Hmmm ... Been awhile since I read that. It's hard to say since the 'civilized' characters in that book were genetically engineered and that tended to fuck with my mind a bit (the point, I assume?). They didn't act naturally. Was Huxley an INTP? I would almost think he'd have to be to come up with that book ...

Yes, Huxley is often given as an example of an INTP.

It's been a while since I’ve read it too. I could be wrong about him (Bernard Marx) being an INTP. Some aspects fit, others may not. Some examples: He never really fitted in; he did not submit to societal norms (although he longed to); he needed his alone time; he was socially inept; he did not like the sensory stimuli so enjoyed in the society – soma, feelies, casual sex etc; and he often found himself thinking about things of a fairly philosophical nature (although not necessarily in a very sophisticated way - but this may be because of the society).

One thing you could use to argue that he is not INTP is that when he became popular in the second half of the book, he revelled in his new found status and began to enjoy many aspects of society he had previously shunned. At this stage he did not really prove himself to be a very complex thinker. So maybe he was not INTP after all.[/FONT]
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[AureliaSeverina]

Erast Fandorin

I get a sense of INTP-ness from him, although he might be an INTJ. I'm rubbish at spotting my own species. LOL, most people won't know him anyway ....

 

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@dark

I'm surprised you didn't mention L Lawliet.

 

[addictedartist]

Ikari Shinji?

 

[scorpiomover]

Max Cohen from Pi

Max was brilliant and tormented by seeking patterns in the stock market and had an apartment full of computer shit with bugs crawling on it.

I'd agree with that. I remember Pi. You don't have to live in a shitehole to be an INTP. But Max was definitely obsessed with figuring out what the number means, for no purpose for himself, even though everyone else was convinced the number was highly valuable.

A lot of Asimov's characters seem very INTP-ish to me. R. Daneel Olivaw and Hari Seldon.

 

[brandmaus]

Ariel Manto - main character in 'The End of Mr. Y' by Scarlett Thomas (book). I think.
Someone off the main characters in 'Season of the Witch' by Natasha Moster (book). Maybe the writer herself?

 

[Wolf18]

I think I've said some of these before, but I'm not sure:

Bean Delphiki – Ender's Shadow
Petra Arkanian – Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow
Danny – The Chosen (maybe more of a supporting character, but very important)
Sherlock Holmes – Sherlock (BBC)
Paul Atreides – Dune (yes, I concede that he is not ENTP)

SW