The Brilliant Loners

INTP Heroines

Felicity Smoak “Overwatch,” Arrow

Michelle Jones “MJ,” – Spider-man

Liz Lemon, 30 Rock

Alice, Alice in Wonderland

Dr. Helen Cho, The Avengers

Grace Augustine, Avatar

Ryan Stone, Gravity

April Ludgate, Parks and Recreation

Amy Farrah Fowler, The Big Band Theory

Ariadne, Inception

Theresa, The Mazerunner

Violet Baudelaire, A Series of Unfortunate Events

INTP Heroes

Neo, The Matrix Trilogy

Yoda, Star Wars Saga

Bruce Banner “The Hulk,” The Avengers

Lucius Fox, The Dark Knight Trilogy

Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park

Bernard Lowe, Westworld

Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes

Victor Stone “Cyborg,” DC Universe

Egon, Ghostbusters

Doc Brown, The Back to the Future Trilogy

Hank Pym, Ant-Man

Will Hunting, Good Will Hunting

Parzival, Ready Player One

Jon Osterman “Doctor Manhattan,” The Watchmen

Spencer (Bravestone), Jumanji

Stan Marsh, South Park

Data, Star Trek: The Next Generation

Thomas, The Mazerunner

Abe Sapien, Hellboy

INTP Villains

Victor Frankenstein, Frankenstein

Qyburn, Game of Thrones

Edward Nygma “The Riddler,” Gotham

Smaug, The Hobbit

INTP – The Brilliant Loner

In fiction, what do INTP characters all have in common?

Opinion. Eccentricity. Invention.

Take a picture. The Brilliant Loner is a rare bird in this world, and you rarely venture out into the sunlight. As a heroic individual, you’re a bit of a homebody, but that’s because your brain is always at work. You need some privacy to sort through all your big ideas. You’re unique combination of precision and creativity give you the incredible capacity to be a true visionary. You tend to view your masterworks with the same protective love as parents do their children. You’re more scientist than artist, though, a natural coder, physicist, chemist, or tactician because you’re logical and orderly in your thinking. You can process complex mathematical abstractions and still manage to keep track of all the variables. You have big ideas but not everyone understands you or your big ideas. And so, you prefer isolation more than most, where you can put your mind to work and not have to explain yourself all the time.

Another interesting factor to your personality is your willingness to take risks and stay active. Even though you like to be alone, you still have a strong sense of adventure in you. Your logic-driven daring is perhaps the reason you play things close to the vest. You tend to have a set of principles to guide you. When you see injustices in the world, you will often try to devise a solution to the problem, even if your solution is equally dangerous. You dare to grapple with the outside world out of a sense of obligation and personal investment. Your vision or inventions may be at stake, so heroic action is required. In pop culture, these are the shut-in nerd-types who are inspired to command big action sequences. Not all shut-in’s stay shut in and you’re willing to wing it in fight or chase scene. Even though a lot of special attention and publicity isn’t your thing, when it comes to disagreements, you usually speak up. Because you’re quiet most of the time, when you do speak up, you tend to make a splash, possibly spearheading an unpopular position that needs a voice.

Also, the Brilliant Loner spends so much time thinking and defending their visions that this personality type using carries some repressed emotions. If you are a woman, then you are especially unique. There are very few heroines or female villains with this personality in pop culture. Out of all the personality styles I studied, YOU are the rarest, most unique of them all. Only 5% of the male population share your personality type, and even less, only 2% of the female population, match you. So, if you’re a writer, provide the world with examples of yourself! I found no solid examples of female villains who are the Brilliant Loner. But, we know you’re out there.

When Brilliant Loners Become Villains

Luckily, this personality type doesn’t has very few villains in fiction. The few Brilliant Loners who turn to evil are mostly scientific minds whose ambitions exceeds their restraint. They are quiet villains who go about their business in their quiet lair, unlocking secrets and perhaps experimenting with forbidden science. The Brilliant Loner brand of villainy is unlike other malefactors in that they don’t seem to harbor a hatred toward society or the “good.” Brilliant Loner villains seek to further their explorations and satiate their intellectual curiosity without interference, even when the science is taboo or unethical. And this is what puts them at odds with the world. They have strayed. They’ve gone too far and for these villains, there’s no turning back. Whoever comes to confront the nefarious Brilliant Loner will have a hard time. Because INTP’s are reclusive, they’re often difficult to find. They also have the ability to summon their dark sciences as an ally against those who would seek to thwart them. And when the showdown against the Brilliant Loner finally occurs, the forces of good better be prepared to face unknown horrors.

Frequency

According to the “MBTI Manual” published by CPP, The Brilliant Loner accounts for 3.3% of the world population. 4.8% of men and 1.7% of women are INTPs.