This is obviously a very controversial topic, as it always is with typing a fictional character, but being an INFJ myself and a big fan of the Bat, I liked how the two could be linked together. If you don't agree with this typing is okay, I don't really care and neither should you. I'm just posting because I liked it!!
Forgot who I got the text from, or I'd tag them, but I think it came from reddit.
Batman is an INFJ. He’s often confused for an INTJ, but those that believe that either don’t understand INFJs or they don’t understand Batman. Granted there is overlap between INTJs and INFJs, so the confusion is understandable. Also, one must take into consideration the inconsistencies in the depiction of the character throughout his long history. Nonetheless, a well-written Batman is one that has a lot of feelings. INFJ males are the rarest combination in the world. It makes sense; Batman truly is one of a kind.
INFJs feel deeper than other personality types. They don’t heal well. Think about how many superheros have lost their parents. Superman. Barry Allen. The list goes on and on. None react to those deaths the way that Batman reacted to his parents dying. It destroyed him. He never got over it. He felt that pain so deeply in a way that only an INFJ would understand. Batman didn’t become a superhero because he has super powers. He used that pain from his parents’ death as the impetus for becoming a superhero. To be clear, it wasn’t LOGIC that drove him to become the Bat, it was FEELING. And few people are capable of feeling to the depths that INFJs can. INFJs are notorious brooders. So is Batman. You can’t brood if you’re not emotional.
INFJs feel an enormous amount of responsibility for the world’s problems. They suffer from a massive savior complex. Coupled with that complex comes an insane amount of guilt. The guilt and responsibility that Batman feels is overwhelming in his comic book history. Look at his relationship with Harvey Dent/Two Face. The amount of guilt he feels for not being able to save his friend is one of the key themes regarding that character. Batman feels so much guilt for not being able to save his parents, for not being able to save Jason Todd, and countless others. These experiences haunt him. He wants so desperately wants to reform criminals (for example Selina Kyle). Look at the compassion he has offered Mr. Freeze, Clayface, and countless others. He wants to save them. He wants to help them. Read the comics. You will find countless examples of him trying to reform and help the people he fights against. One could write a whole book on that topic alone.
INFJs see the world not as it is but as it could be. And they are crazy enough to do something about it. They are dreamers, but unlike most dreamers, they act.
INFJs are intense. They take on the problems of the world and carry that on their shoulders. They are self-sacrificing; willing to give up everything for the greater good, including relationships and their own life. He’s willing to be the bad guy if need be if it gets the job done. He takes on everyone’s burdens.
INFJs are capable of so much compassion, their ability to feel empathy is a key characteristic. This characteristic people always get wrong about the Batman character. People view him as cold and unfeeling (more about this later), but they’re wrong. Batman has so much compassion. Look at all of the kids he has adopted or taken under his wing: Dick, Jason, Tim, Stephanie, Barbara. The list goes on and on. He’s like the Angelina Jolie of the DC universe! Look at the way he counsels Superman regarding his relationship with Superboy. Again, note how desperately he tries to reform people. He believes that people change. He has faith. He’s an optimist in so many more ways than we give him credit. That being said, INFJs don’t always make the best mentors. They are perfectionists that have insanely high expectations for themselves and anyone they care about. This constant pushing for more can backfire on the INFJ in a mentorship position and make the relationships with their mentees a bit rocky.
When INFJs become stressed they revert to their tertiary function. In many ways they become what looks like an unbalanced ESTP (their opposite). They become very much about the present. This means indulging in sensory type behaviors: sex, food, exercise or physical fighting. I’ve seen some arguments that Batman can’t be an INFJ because he goes around punching people.
But INFJs can be very physical and carnal when angry, stressed, or off balanced. The INFJ that doesn’t adequately deal with the overflow of emotions can be explosive with their anger.
When an INFJ is too overwhelmed with feelings or the weight of their responsibilities, they can actually turn off their compassion or empathy and become very cold, unfeeling, and judgmental. It’s a defense mechanism to deal with the insane amount of feelings trapped in their bodies.
INFJs have a dark side that is terrifying. Google INFJ dark side to understand what I am talking about. INFJs are passionate about their causes, but always have to be careful about going too far; about falling into that abyss. Thus the endless brooding.
INFJs make excellent actors (it’s often a proposed career choice) because of their ability to understand other people. They are adaptable and can play many characters. Bruce Wayne is a good example of this ability. He pretends to be the extrovert, the playboy, the rich brat. But its not who he is; it’s a mask. The Batman is his true form.
INFJs run by their own moral code. They make their decisions ultimately using their powerful intuition or gut feeling. Batman follows his hunches. And he’s usually right. That’s what makes him such a great detective. INFJs love logic. They use it all the time. But unlike INTJs, logic is only a useful tool for INFJs, it’s never the end all factor in making split decisions. They use their gut for that. They are also master manipulators and interrogators because they understand people in a way few others can.
The list goes on and on, but I think I will stop for now. Like I said, Batman has not always been written consistently over the last 80 years of his existence, so there may be versions of the character that you could argue is an INTJ. But the vast majority of representations of the character in the comics and animated series displays a very well developed INFJ.
Final note—I’ve always been fascinated by the relationship between Batman and the Joker. Two sides to the same coin. Truly the inverse of the other. The Joker is indisputably an ESTP. I don’t think anyone argues otherwise (he’s definitely NOT an ESFP). ESTPs love chaos and breaking rules. The idea that Batman and the Joker are mirror opposites of each other is poignant. I feel it describes them so well, all the more reason why a well written Batman is an INFJ.
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Craven Maroons \ Jackass
misinterpret kindness to stir bullshit,
violent, hateful criminals,
abusing all
comprehending honest kindness,
unscornful critique for excellence,
as a threat or insult,
but the Truth is,
without justice and equalness,
you have sold your children
to the slaughter,
because anything they say to help you,
you choose to take as an excuse to hurt them,
as an insult, mistakenly, because of your own insecurities caused by the weakness of neurosis and despair,
Because you are mean, selfish, cruel, jealous, envious, anti-other, competitive, and you harm others, not for play, and not Cooperative,
And you've destroyed the innocent who Are.
You will regret failing to save your daughters,
because you chose to attack the true rather than your own evil.
I have already repented of all my harm. You still refuse to defend the community.
Why? Because you only care about pride, about yourself.
*Spit*. Be destroyed?
Bless your Enemies!
For they showed you what not to do,
Even though they destroyed themselves from Eternity.
There's beauty in that, I spose.
Aeon
And that's why you hate dialogue, discussion, because you're in the wrong, and you only care about using force (violence, implied, covert, or direct) to destroy others.
But, ETERNITY Will Destroy you with Unimpeded and endless Annihilation,
cleansing the earth of your blustering bullshit pride in self,
And not a shred of real selflessness.
You'll learn, in Hell, like I Did,
If you don't clear it yourself.
Jesus Christ
How you hate instruction, and the Father. But there are two sides to the coin of parent.
'The obstacle is the way'. Though it's clear the mind say we learn by going where we are tunneled by the evil of others, I see no reason to thank them,
And they have shown NO reason to be trusted,
BeCause in the end,
ThY only care about themselves.
Thanks for the keys,
And the lag,
And all the Waterboarding,
O Grate Ones.
Your Pride is such Awe!
ALLAH
Irrational selfish crazies.
-✓-
Where is your sight?
Will You barge into Heaven?
Or is it already too late?
Since you, Regretfully, do nothing to defend the children,
Who aren't yours,
But God's,
Just like you,
But if ye are gods,
What fallow beast is Ye.
You could Be,
But are not.
Stand up, or shut up. <What have you done to save all you know from evil, but project it in others?> I don't care about your offense. You should be Offended by your self, proud one of self and against others, against the team.
You're not your self, you are part of the Divine Soul;
Though perhaps lost apart from it now.
Separation is important, even in Union. (&v.v.)
Do right.
Do something.
halp
One shouldn't have to ask for help,
But men tend to band together against God,
So their 'help' isn't help at all.
X
I don't care about pride, because I'm not violently spiteful hateful scornful against others, I only state the truth as I Know it.
1: "Don't speak unless it's epicly wise, or I'll kill you.'
2: *Speaks the most epically awesome truth and beauty evah*
1: Woops I'm a piece of shit how dare someone speak truth and not make me look like the coolest cat in town oy vey. "I Warned you!" *Attack!*
When a good person realizes they're a piece of shit, they feel bad and fix it.
Damn.
Respect isn't denying others the opportunity to speak honestly.
What is it you fear, but your own evils being unveiled?
I Already Told you I forgive them if you repent and make amends by changing your way to stop hurting the future and the now and the all.
But some shades must not wear white.
Or, Rather, there can be no common field for the beast and the worm.
But the Bird, unguiled, guileless honesty, Spirit's truth, remains.
Chirp
~Mystic
#nonjudging
MYSTIQUE
#envy #jealousy #unattractive #violent #hateful #scorn #judgement
When I'm not Free,
TheRe is nothing here I want,
For I Am not me,
Peace & Harmony of all,
And so there shall also there be none for thee.
Respect.
King Christ,
Protector of All
#judgmental #projection #scorn #derision #unbelief #pessimism #doubt #Faith #sorrow #Cheer #JOY #Love #selfishness #assumption #ego #Matthew 25
Scorn in calling others Stupid,
Remember that you don't Know the Unknown,
Or whatever,
Unlearn these lessons of Pride,
Which perpetuated hatred
By scorning others
So we can have some peace.
#The Forever War
Our assumptions ingrained and trained into us,
Are enemies to all.
I gave up my worldview entire.
I only cared about the truth.
It's the only sure thing,
Which one can at least say,
I did honor,
And betrayed none,
Even in sorrow,
For the Hope of . . .
Something that makes sense,
Where there is no Tomorrow of fear,
But sunny holyness Eternal?
Every element of the body is but vestigial,
I will use them for holiness.
The Dark Avenues I Wander
Provide upon which to Ponder
Truth,
The Functioning of honesty,
That I might not offend
to presume above my translation
of the mechanics which run parallel
to the Cosmos.
JJH, Son of Mankind, Lover of Heaven
√(π+1)
:P
🐞
KIndness, defined - Good News
The soft touch of Heaven
You don't wanna hear a peep
As you fill your own water bowl
Despoiling the River.
#FREESPEECH
#Hate #sovereignty #personal sovereignty #violation #boymeetsworld #free will #bullying #repentance #Change
The Sun
Of the Spirit
God's Kingdom
"Will you help those in the desert?"
#selfishness #sin #vanity #guilt
Refusing to face your own crime, you need someone to blame, since you can do no wrong, but are always perfection who should get everything you want at the expense of and without any regard to anyone else or the consequences to others.
Let nothing good come, you say, that hate rules over love and forgiveness.
Do your part. Let others Breathe.
You don't want tO thunK? (Sic: to think)
Mindless
zombies
#witch hunt
#hypocrisy
O Power,
Robbin'
#Robin Hood
More more more more more for you
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🕳️
⭐
🌈
Factory Farm
WASTE
Truth
Honesty is Innocence.
The Just Way of Heaven.
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No sorries for true to Spirit.
the Spirit of Truth in the Moonlight, Yaik
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