The Madam Genius in Fiction

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

Male 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

Male Villains

Victor Frankenstein, Frankenstein

Qyburn, Game of Thrones

Edward Nygma “The Riddler,” Gotham

Smaug, The Hobbit

INTP – The Madam Genius

Intellectualism. Eccentricity. Invention.

Marie Curie

INTP Women of History All-Star Line-up:

Antiquity: Sappho

Medieval: Anna Komnene

Early Modern: Mary Shelley

20th Century: Marie Curie

“I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy”
-Marie Curie

You, madam, are a rare bird in this world, but your mark on history sends aftershocks. You rarely venture out into the sunlight. As a woman of history, the Madam Genius 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. Whether you are laying out the prose of amazing poetry or knocking Nobel prizes in physics and chemistry, you are a woman of high thoughts and brilliance. 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.

Sappho

Historically speaking, your exceptional mind is adept at science and art equally–a natural coder, physicist, chemist, or tactician because you’re logical and orderly in your thinking. But this special set can cause you to articulate the most beautiful of literature and poetry. 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, give history a little time to catch up to you. As a Madam Genius, you might prefer isolation more than most, where you can put your mind to work without having to explain yourself all the time.

Anna Komnene

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 a Madam Genius sees an injustice 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 great action is required. 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.

Mary Shelley

Also, the Madam Genius 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. Although subject to change, women of this personality type are indeed rare. 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 less than 2% of the female population, match you. So, the world is looking for you. History may depend on it.

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

It’s Women’s History Month! I strongly encourage you to read up on these amazing women, especially if you haven’t yet heard of them.