The Dark Knight: The Joker [ENTP]
OFFICIAL TYPING by Charity / the Mod
Functional Order: Ne-Ti-Fe-Si
Perceiving Functional Axis:
Extroverted Intuition (Ne) / Introverted Sensing (Si)
The Joker’s entire purpose is to create chaos. He does not want to benefit in any way from his schemes other than to cause disruption and trouble. He’s an expert at reading people. He sizes them up, figures out their weak spots, and pushes them as far as they go until they break apart. He’s intrigued by possibilities – he comes up with plans only to deviate from them when he gets distracted. He’s reckless enough to play a game of chance with his own life. The Joker likes to mess with people and situations for his own amusement. It’s not about any end goal other than fun and chaos. Practicality helps him use facts to his advantage, as well as come up with contingency plans. He bases a lot of his expectations on previous experiences – that Batman will rush to save the girl, and that human nature is so selfish it will seek to preserve its own life at the cost of another’s – but doesn’t mind a shakeup, because his Ne-dom loves the unexpected and is fine with ambiguity.
Judging Functional Axis:
Introverted Thinking (Ti) / Extroverted Feeling (Fe)
He has a good grasp of irony and an analytical mind that lets him take externally gathered information and figure out how to use it. The Joker is curious about people and events – he wants to see what will happen, so he sets things in motion that will cause a chain reaction. But when thwarted, he’s not upset – merely curious. His insight into how people work allows him to manipulate and intimidate them. The Joker is very playful, outgoing, and entertaining. He can mimic those around him and knows exactly how to get them to react. Since he has no real discernable emotions of his own, he not only has no tangible fear of death, he gets a kick out of feeding off the emotional vibes of others.
Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw
House Traits: wit, intelligence, creativity, and wisdom.
The Joker generates chaos and terror for his own amusement, to remind the public of his superior mental powers and to further his own understanding of human nature and how it works as an emotionally-driven machine. He robs banks and then sets fire to the money to make a statement about how little money matters to him. He forces Batman to choose who he will save – the woman he loves or the future of Gotham – just to test him and his loyalties.
Enneagram: 7w8 – social
The Joker is erratic and unstable, quick to abandon one thing and pull off another scheme, willing to change his perspectives and accept whatever comes down the pike; he is forever chasing new ideas and chaos to alleviate his own boredom, and avoid looking at himself. As a warped social subtype, he focuses on what he can do in the outer world, how he can impact it, and how he can “help” Gotham overcome itself to transition into a higher sense of self… or rather, devolve into their baser natures. His 8 wing makes him hedonistic, risk-taking, and excited to be in the thick of things – defiant against authority and prone to laughing when Batman beats the snot out of him.
