War!Fandom Myers-Briggs Personality Typing

An Introduction to Myers-Briggs Personality Typing

Myers-Briggs personality typing splits personalities into sixteen archetypes, based on where a person falls in four categories of preferences. The preferences are:

Extroversion and Introversion (preferring to focus on the outer world of people and things [E] or your inner world of ideas and images [I])
Sensing and Intuition (paying more attention to information that comes through your five senses [S] or paying more attention to the patterns and possibilities you see in information you receive [N])
Thinking and Feeling (do you make decisions more often based on objective principles and impersonal facts [T] or based on personal concerns and the people involved [F])
Judging or Perceiving (do you prefer a more structured and decided lifestyle [J] or a more flexible and adaptable lifestyle [P])

When all four dominant preferences are combined you end up with one of the sixteen types, ie: ESTJ, INFP

( Preferences & Temperaments )

There are many different sites/book/etcs that explore Myers-Briggs in every way possible, and I'm going to use two sites that are my personal favorites for their descriptions of the sixteen types, but if you explore on the net you can find a lot more information out there.

The sites I'm going to be linking to are PersonalityPage.com and MyPersonality.info.

This post also includes Band of Brothers Character Profile click-through links on the names of characters who have had collages made.

The Characters & Their Personality Types

An Important Thing to Note:
Before we get into the sorting of the characters, it's important to realize that these have been sorted based on the characteristics and traits of fictional characters - which, while based on real people, are fictional and thus not always going to fit a type one-hundred percent. (and figuring out the types may definitely include some guesswork/reliance on vague facts, due to the amount of a screen time a character had!) Upbringing and experiences can also affect how much each of someone's preferences have been developed (for example: Snafu best fits the personality type of an ESTP, but either due to his background experiences or the fact that we're seeing him in the middle of a war, his people skills aren't as developed as others' with the same type may be.) so even within each type there can be a lot of variety in a person's personality. Plus, getting a snapshot of a character - especially in an extreme situation such as a war (and even bootcamp!) - will not always lend to a portrayal of their best traits; each personality type has positive and negative traits and behaviors. However, the types are wonderful guidelines to certain aspects of each character, and a nice way to put into words an overview of their attributes and mannerisms.


( The Traditionalists )

( The Experiencers )

( The Conceptualizers )

( The Idealists )

Obviously, personality typing - especially for characters, since we can't ask THEM what they think they are (even those based on real people) can be somewhat subjective, so in the end these characters have been typed by what seems most accurate (and there are many characters that still need to be categorized and will be added over time!) Some may be close on the line with another personality type, and if anyone has any suggestions for characters not yet listed under a type, or reasoning for why a character should be a different type, feel free to share! (: