I've Noticed In Different Character-typing Blogs That If A Ni-dom Is A Villain They Will Betuped INTJ.

I've noticed in different character-typing blogs that if a Ni-dom is a villain they will betuped INTJ. Why must all INFJs be nice, invisible and polite? Is this a stereotype?

Hi anon,

As phrased, this question is ‘when a villain is an Ni-dom, they always seem to be typed as an INTJ; why not an INFJ?’ However, it assumes the Ni-dom typing is accurate, and centers the INFJ in a very strange way, and the problem is more that probably most INTJ typings of villains are wrong in the first place; INFJs probably aren’t underrepresented as villains but rather INTJs are seriously over represented.

There is a character typing blog tendency to make villains INTJs regardless of actual type.This is mainly because of the erroneous assumption that only high Ni users make plans (so yes, a stereotype) and therefore the scheming villain always gets typed as a high Ni user.

There is also a belief that aux Fe is always sweetness and light when in fact high Fe is the best option for a mean girl type of villain, although a lot of those depictions are of Fe-doms and not auxes. I think this comes from the limitations of media; villains tend to be either the charismatic manipulator type (Fe-dom or occasionally aux Fi), the chaotic evil or mad scientist type (high Ne or Se), or the cold, commanding schemer (high Te, usually INTJ or ENTJ with STJ henchmen). An Fe-aux villain would probably be playing the long game and be good with things like whisper campaigns and slowly turning a community against someone, which works as a villain in longer form media (TV, novels) and especially as a mystery/thriller story vs. but is less likely to work well in your standard action/adventure movie with a more obvious, black-and-white morality sort of villain.

So: INFJs are not always quiet and polite, although in my opinion, their peak villainous state is actually outwardly very quiet and polite. Also probably at least half of INTJ-typed villains are actually a different high Te-type, and another quarter are various other types that people just slapped an INTJ type on because they don’t know what they’re doing.