...is the greatest cartoon character since Daria.
What type is he?
Apparently he was meant to be the animal iteration of Seth MacFarlane, so I'd imagine some ESFj. Sx 7w8 or something?
My inclination is that he's very likely an NT.
I don't think he gets along swimmingly with Stewie(LII), so i'ma lean Gamma. Maybe INTP
Projection is ordinary. Person A projects at person B, hoping tovalidate something about person A by the response of person B. However, person B, not wanting to be an obejct of someone elses ego and guarding against existential terror constructs a personality which protects his ego and maintain a certain sense of a robust and real self that is different and separate from person A. Sadly, this robust and real self, cut off by defenses of character from the rest of the world, is quite vulnerable and fragile given that it is imaginary and propped up through external feed back. Person B is dimly aware of this and defends against it all the more, even desperately projecting his anxieties back onto person A, with the hope of shoring up his ego with salubrious validation. All of this happens without A or B acknowledging it, of course. Because to face up to it consciously is shocking, in that this is all anybody is doing or can do and it seems absurd when you realize how pathetic it is.
For the sake of discussion, I sorta find brian a bit boring, maybe because he's a rational and has a hard time being spontaneous (extremely indecisive to the point of becoming depressed). He can't seem to easily motivate himself to do a lot of things either; he seems generally without passion.
So what is it that you like about him? (I'm just curious because I know you obviously don't find him boring)
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these are all the reasons why i like him, lol. i mean he's so normal and sane compared to the rest of the characters and that adds to the humour. like whenever something outrageous happens he has such a realistic and level-headed reaction that it cracks me up. he's also an extremely pretentious, textbook "liberal" talking DOG. what's not to love?
i think the character itself is supposed to be some delta, te/fi type at least, regardless of the voice actor's type who i think is indeed esfj.
Peter Griffin - LSE
Lois - EII
Son - SEI
Daughter - SEE
Stewie - ILE
Brian - ILI
ILE "Searcher"
Socionics: ENTp
DCNH: Dominant --> perhaps Normalizing
Enneagram: 7w6 "Enthusiast"
MBTI: ENTJ "Field Marshall" or ENTP "Inventor"
Astrological sign: Aquarius
To learn, read. To know, write. To master, teach.
ISTp.
i'm kind of shocked by some of the typings suggested, lol. only radio so far makes any sense.
I think is the thing that most of us agree on.
Projection is ordinary. Person A projects at person B, hoping tovalidate something about person A by the response of person B. However, person B, not wanting to be an obejct of someone elses ego and guarding against existential terror constructs a personality which protects his ego and maintain a certain sense of a robust and real self that is different and separate from person A. Sadly, this robust and real self, cut off by defenses of character from the rest of the world, is quite vulnerable and fragile given that it is imaginary and propped up through external feed back. Person B is dimly aware of this and defends against it all the more, even desperately projecting his anxieties back onto person A, with the hope of shoring up his ego with salubrious validation. All of this happens without A or B acknowledging it, of course. Because to face up to it consciously is shocking, in that this is all anybody is doing or can do and it seems absurd when you realize how pathetic it is.
Brian was always my favorite, but hearing that MacFarlane turned the character into a copy of himself only had me think his identical (i.e. not Te). Without that in mind though, ISTp could make sense.
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
― Anais Nin
Brian is an outgoing intellectual alcoholic. He procrastinates a lot with his writing career. He has established political interests and is a pretty eager debater. His views are usually expressed with "anti-establishment" and rebelling attitude. He also has trouble defining his relations with others.
Somehow the way he does all this is easy to relate to and I type him ILE.
“I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in — and the West in general — into an unbearable hell and a choking life. - Osama bin Laden
I met this dog yesterday and just can't figure out intertype relations between it and me. I want to know whether or not that dog is going to play dead or something like this. What's its type?
Peter Griffin gets on my nerves. Not due to the fact he is typed ILE but I just can't stand that character.