Regina George from Mean Girls
ESTJ
by Rebecca
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Extroverted Thinking (Te)
“I’ve got money and looks. I am, like, drunk with power.”
Regina is undoubtedly a leader with an immense amount of control over the school. She inhabits this role very naturally, and when she is no longer the one on top she does everything she can to return to her position. She is constantly plotting and planning on what to do next, even if she rarely shares her plans with others. Her plans are filled with deep thought and understanding of how the system around her works – and what she can do to manipulate it. The attention and subservience of others is what drives her forward, and she plans only to keep herself entertained in her position.

Introverted Sensing (Si)
“We never really do this, but how would you like to have lunch with us this week?”
Regina, as the leader of the Plastics, has established her own way of doing things and sticks to it no matter what. She and the other Plastics have established certain rules of behavior and dress that they never disobey. When she is no longer on top, she is deeply uncomfortable, doing everything she can to restore her sense of order. She is interested in keeping cycles alive and returning to the way things were before Cady came. She is not actively nostalgic, but it is clear she has a set way of thinking and behaving that she refuses to break away from.

Extroverted Intuition (Ne)
“I wanna watch the world burn and everyone turn mean.”

Regina isn’t interested in chaos or change, unless that chaos and change can serve her plans. She brings Cady into the group just to find that Cady is not acting according to plan and she has to readjust. When Regina is no longer in control, she moves to make the entire school explode through releasing the pages of the Burn Book. She knows the destruction will allow her to regain prominence (Te). She enjoys things spiraling out of control as long as they don’t disturb her and her place, as drama can be excellent entertainment.

Introverted Feeling (Fi)
“Was I too proud with you? Was I too cold and forbidding?”
Regina rarely expresses genuine emotion – she tends to keep everything inside and put on a face to keep control. It is rare to see her expressing her inner feelings as anything other than anger. She is good at pretending to show other emotions, which is part of how she maintains control (Te). For instance, she is able to use emotional appeals when talking to Aaron at the party, even though she doesn’t really care about their personal relationship in terms of feelings. In general, she shows little empathy for others until she is under the influence of pain killers that show a softer side of Regina.

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Miss Adelaide from Guys and Dolls
ESFJ
by Rebecca
requested by anonymous

Extroverted Feeling (Fe)
“When I think of the time gone by, and I think of the way I tried, I could honestly die.”
Adelaide is emotional and charismatic, performing regularly at the Hot Box while trying to sort through her issues with Nathan. She makes it very clear that she is not happy with Nathan for constantly pushing back their wedding, and uses emotional appeals to try and solve that issue. Her reactions tend towards the dramatic, but always appear genuine expressions of how she feels. Her love for Nathan as genuine as her frustration with him – likely because they stem from the same place. She appears to enjoy performing, as being a lead performer comes very naturally for her.

Introverted Sensing (Si)
“In other words, just from waiting around for that plain little band of gold, a person can develop a cold.”
Adelaide has been caught in somewhat of a cycle – she and Nathan have been engaged for years, but still have yet to marry. She is desperate to break out of this and finally get married, but doesn’t seem to know how. She keeps doing the same thing by asking Nathan to go to city hall and get a marriage license. Through the help of her book, she becomes overly aware of her physical responses to her emotional distress, nothing that she has developed illness from not getting married. She craves the sentimental image of married life, even though she is to get married to a man who is tangled up in gambling.

Extroverted Intuition (Ne)
“Marry the man today and change his ways tomorrow!”

Adelaide is more than willing to take a chance and make a change if it means that she can get what she wants. She is fine with the idea of eloping with Nathan because she will finally achieve her goal of getting married. She has been fixated on one single goal for years, however – her visions of the future don’t expand much beyond that one initial idea. She is not interested in the chaos and uncertainty of gambling, and is disturbed when it starts to intrude on her personal relationship with Nathan. His gambling feels like something out of control that could mess with them starting a family, and she is unable to grapple with it.

Introverted Thinking (Ti)
“You can feed her all day with the vitamin A and the Bromo fizz, but the medicine never gets anywhere near where the trouble is.”
Adelaide is very attached to others, to the point that she struggles when she is trying to act and exist on her own. Her job as a performer has her relying on the audience’s response and affection to carry her forwards. Furthermore, her main focus is always on marrying Nathan – she feels that she needs to be with him in order to move forward. Her reasoning all stems from how she feels, both in terms of her emotions (Fe) and inner sensations (Si), even when logically her conclusions don’t make the most sense. For instance, she doesn’t realize that Nathan’s “bachelor party” is actually a cover-up for his gambling.

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The Man in the Chair from The Drowsy Chaperone
ISFJ
by Rebecca

Introverted Sensing (Si)
“Now, let’s visualize. Imagine if you will, it’s November 1928. You’ve just arrived at the doors of the Morosco Theatre in New York. It’s very cold and a heavy grey sleet is falling from the sky but you don’t care because you’re going to see a Broadway show! Listen!”
All of the Man in the Chair’s joy stems from memories of the past, particularly the sentimentality of looking back at a classic Broadway show. He immerses himself in a past life that he never truly experienced, but still knows quite a bit about. He notes that he has listened to the record over and over again, and yet he has never gotten sick of it – and perhaps he never will. He seems to believe the world captured within his record is the way the world should be, even though it is highly idealized. He has a distinct image of what he wants his life to be like, constant and simple, and falters whenever this is challenged.

Extroverted Feeling (Fe)
“And I must confess I always get a little misty when I think of that tiny jacket, lying on that pedestal, its long sleeves dangling on the floor.”
The Man in the Chair is warm and inviting, though he tends to let some of his emotions leak out as he interacts with the audience. He is open about his feelings, particularly his joy surrounding the experience of listening to The Drowsy Chaperone. He appears to be an introverted person, but his enthusiasm guides him to sharing the experience with others. Though he doesn’t explicitly say what has happened to him, it becomes clear that he is suffering from depression and anxiety and is using The Drowsy Chaperone to distract him from real life. His feelings guide everything that he does and says, to the point he doesn’t quite seem to understand what he’s feeling until it is out in the world.

Introverted Thinking (Ti)
“I-I know it’s not a perfect show; the spit take scene is lame and the monkey motif is labored. But it does what a musical is supposed to do: it takes you to another world.”
The Man in the Chair is more than capable of making insights about the world – particularly the world inside The Drowsy Chaperone. He offers some analysis of the classic show at hand, how it fits into trends of the time or may seem a bit off for more modern sensibilities. However, he often then glosses over anything that isn’t consistent, as all he needs is for it to make sense to him and fit into the world he wants it to be. He prizes how something makes him feel – in this case, comfort and happiness – rather than how much sense it makes – in this case, very little. He also seems deeply uncomfortable about his loneliness, wanting to connect with people (Fe) rather than staying so separate and stuck in his thoughts.

Extroverted Intuition (Ne)
“I’m feeling a little blue myself. You know, a little anxious for no particular reason, a little sad that I should feel anxious at this age, you know, a little self-conscious anxiety resulting in non-specific sadness: a state that I call ‘blue.’”
Throughout the show, the Man in the Chair reveals elements of his inner self, including a sense of anxiety and a difficulty engaging with real change. In particular, he mentions issues with anxiety that then move into other emotional problems, with his thoughts and feelings spiraling out of his control. Whenever things go wrong during his playthrough of the record, he gets flustered and irritated, wanting everything to go as smoothly as possible. In particular, when the power goes out in his apartment, he struggles to figure out what is happening and interact with his superintendent. He is not interested in engaging with the outside world when he has the ideal stuck within a memory of the past.

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Carrie Pipperidge from Carousel
ENFJ
by Owen
requested by anonymous

Extroverted Feeling (Fe)
“Did you like it when he talked to you today? When he put you on the carousel that way?”
Carrie is a charming, lively, and bubbly mill girl who genuinely cares about the people around her. She is a devoted friend to Julie, as seen when she can tell that he’s hiding a secret in “You’re a Queer One, Julie Jordan” and when she comforts her after Billy dies. She is excited to tell Julie about her engagement to her new ‘feller’ Enoch, who she loves dearly from the first moment they meet. However, the enjoyment she gets from the attention of other boys sometimes lands her in trouble, such as when Enoch sees her and Jigger together in a compromising position. She grows up to be the warm mother of a loving family.

Introverted Intuition (Ni)
“When I marry Mister Snow, the flowers’ll be buzzing with the hum of bees, the birds’ll make a racket in the church yard trees…”
Carrie is a dreamer, often acting as the optimistic foil to her best friend Julie. Once she is engaged to Enoch, she describes exactly how she wants her wedding to commence in “Mister Snow.” She believes that meeting Enoch was fate, and that life for her afterwards only has one singular path. Being so optimistic, she is prone to idolizing the people around her – Enoch included. When he brings up having many children with Carrie, she panics for a moment because having so many children wasn’t part of her plan. Yet, she still finds happiness in her daydreams and plucky good cheer.

Extroverted Sensing (Se)
“Then we tore away the claws and cracked ’em with our teeth ’cause we weren’t in the mood to putter!”
Carries knows how to live in the moment and take advantage of it; after all, she gets engaged very quickly. She is aware that she is quite beautiful, and often uses it to her advantage with her Fe. This can be seen when she flirts with Enoch, and later when she encounters Jigger. She often has to pull other people into the fun, such as how she enjoys “A Very Nice Clambake” and the carousel itself. Carrie places a lot of importance on her surroundings; in “Mister Snow,” she describes in minute detail how the environment surrounding her will look on her wedding day, as well as describing to Carrie how Enoch smells of fish.

Introverted Thinking (Ti)
“He don’t say much, but what he does say is awful pithy.”
Carrie often gets carried (no pun intended) away by her own emotions and idealism. She is more likely to react based on what she heart tells her instead of using logic, best explored when she marries Enoch quickly after the “Mister Snow” reprise. The plan he describes to her in “When The Children Are Asleep” starts to worry her, as she didn’t think about that possibility. As well, her flirting with Jigger causes Enoch to temporarily leave her, leaving Carrie to feel powerless. Nevertheless, Carrie still displays her own sense of control over what she wants to do with her life and how she goes about it, not listening to other’s judgments.

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Janis Sarkisian from Mean Girls
ISFP
by Rebecca
requested by anonymous

Introverted Feeling (Fi)
“I don’t need their good opinions, I have plenty of opinions. Everybody has opinions but it doesn’t make them true. What’s true is being me.”
Janis has found her true self and learned to embrace it, even if others don’t like her for it. She prizes loyalty and staying true to oneself, and when people break those rules she turns from them. She sometimes struggles to outwardly express her feelings, such as when she says she is fine after Cady skips her art exhibition. Even though she tends to deflect difficult situations with quips, she clearly holds a great deal of emotional depth. Above all else, she wants to stay true to herself, as she explains in “I’d Rather Be Me.”

Extroverted Sensing (Se)
“When someone hurts you, then they attack, and grind your foe into the ground.”
Janis is an artist who has learned to express herself through paintings. Her art is a fundamental part of her personality, as she is described as an “art freak.” She lets her eccentric and unique personality come through in her clothing, hair, and makeup as well. She reacts quickly to her surroundings, using the clues around her to read what is happening. She takes a chance on Cady, and presses her to take some risks when it comes to spying on the Plastics.

Introverted Intuition (Ni)
“Don’t be fooled by the pink, she is not playing dolls.”

Janis has an intuitive way of looking at her surroundings and looking ahead. She realizes early on how entranced Cady is by the Plastics and tries to warn her, seeing ahead to what Regina is capable of. Her predictions about Regina coming around to hurt Cady – and plenty of others in the process – end up coming true. She pushes the idea of looking beyond someone’s outside appearance, as many people are not true to their inner selves. She notices patterns of behavior in North Shore girls, even if she chooses not to participate in them.

Extroverted Thinking (Te)
“I hate Regina’s guts, but here’s what you don’t comprehend: at least she has the guts to not pretend to be my friend.”
For the most part, Janis keeps to herself instead of trying to change the existing structures of North Shore. She and Damian stay on their own rather than joining a defined clique in the social structure. She is one of the few people who actively avoids the Plastics, choosing not to challenge them directly. Instead, she plots to use Cady, taking the Plastics down from the inside. However, this plan ends up backfiring, as Janis fails to stop Cady from becoming a Plastic herself.

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Hello everyone!

It’s Rebecca here! I’m sorry that I haven’t been able to get any typings out these past few weeks, and I regret to say that it doesn’t look like I’m going to have the time to get one out any time soon.

I’ve looked at my current obligations, and I have found that I will not have the time needed to produce content for this blog until May. For this reason, I am going to be taking a soft hiatus until this time. “Soft” means that, should some time pop up, I might make something. But for the time being, I won’t be posting any typings, dynamics, answers to questions, etc.

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– Rebecca

Paulette Bonafonte from Legally Blonde
ESFJ
by Lelah

Extraverted Feeling (Fe)
“You’re lost without your love, your heart is on the floor. I can help you! I’ve been there before.”
Paulette is incredibly in touch with the feelings of others and quick to lend a shoulder to cry on. Immediately understanding the reason behind Elle’s emotionally-motivated “bad hair decision,” she establishes a friendship with her within minutes of their meeting. This is not the only time Paulette quickly sees the subtext behind others’ actions; when Emmett brings Elle a Christmas present, she recognizes their attraction months before even they do. She is happy to involve herself in the lives of others, from letting Elle borrow her Playboy bunny costume the first time they meet to helping Elle study law despite her own lack of understanding. Paulette is also very emotional and unashamed to show it, crying after sharing her dream of an Irish love and struggling to confront her ex-boyfriend Dewey when he mocks her but also unabashedly proclaiming positive emotions: “The new UPS guy is like walking porn!”

Introverted Sensing (Si)
“My grandfather came from Ireland: the land where dreams come true!”
Paulette is deeply rooted in tradition and struggles to believe in change. After her grandfather tells her stories of heroic Irishmen, she decides that she’ll marry one someday. She sticks to that resolve well into her adult life, so unable to break the association that all Irish men are noble that she stays with her Dewey for ten years; and after he leaves her, she expects every romantic possibility to go the same way. Paulette scoffs at the idea that she might learn the “Bend-and-Snap,” insisting that there’s an inherent difference between her and “girls like Elle”; and though she’s attracted to Kyle the UPS Guy the moment she sees him, she’s entranced when she learns that Kyle is Irish, just like all her childhood heroes.

Extraverted Intuition (Ne)
“I think I’ll find my way.”
Although she is capable of thinking forward, Paulette often doubts the merits of new possibilities. Rather than trying to do something new, she feels resigned to live as she always has, as seen when she feels powerless to even try to take back her beloved dog Rufus from Dewey, or when she seems satisfied to admire Kyle from afar rather than pursue him. Nevertheless, Paulette can be excited by new opportunities; she eagerly tells Elle to go to Vivienne’s party, making the connection that Warner will be there and Elle will have the opportunity to “win him back,” and ends up realizing that the Bend-and-Snap really could help her, refusing to give up on Kyle when she accidentally breaks his nose. At the end of the show, she calmly looks to the future, even though the life she has begun to build with Kyle is the traditional life she’s always dreamed of.

Introverted Thinking (Ti)
“In a bar once, I met this guy Dewey, and he bought me, like, fourteen beers, and he told me that he was from Ireland, so I lived with him ten years.”
Paulette lives based off of her emotions and her desire to help and please others, leaving very little consideration for logic. This unintentional disregard of rational thinking leads to her unhealthy relationship with the callous and uncaring Dewey, as well as her helplessness after he leaves her. She tends to rely on her relationships with others to make her happy, lacking much individual independence and latching onto those who show her kindness; and rather than constructing her own plans to win back her dog or attract the affection of Kyle the UPS Guy, she depends upon Elle’s ideas.

Benjamin Barker from Sweeney Todd
INFP
by Owen
requested by anonymous

Introverted Feeling (Fi)
“Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief. For the rest of us, death will be a relief. We all deserve to die.”
Barker is guided solely by his own values, which rarely match with the rest of the world’s. When he arrives back in London after serving his prison time, he changes his name to Sweeney Todd to avoid the opinions of the citizens, and is only recognized at first by Mrs. Lovett. After learning of his wife’s (supposed) demise at the hands of Judge Turpin in “Poor Thing”, he is driven into rage and becomes bent on killing the judge Beadle Bamford to avenge her outcome, and to reunite with Johanna. However, Barker soon comes to the “Epiphany” that everyone should die because of their morals, causing him to start killing citizens for Mrs. Lovett’s pie shop.

Extroverted Intuition (Ne)
“You shall drip rubies, you’ll soon drop precious rubies!”
Barker is a quick and clever thinker, creating plans and metaphors on the spot. This can first be seen in “No Place Like London”, when he shuts down Anthony’s idealism about the city. Once he returns to his shop above Mrs. Lovett’s he finds his knifes and immediately begins to think about killing Judge Turpin. Barker is dicey and often manic, such as how he changes topics and moods on a dime in “Epiphany” and easily keeps up with Mrs. Lovett’s puns in “A Little Priest.” When asked to justify his actions using his beliefs, he has no problem coming up with an excuse to deride accusations – if he doesn’t just kill them, as he does with Pirelli.

Introverted Sensing (Si)
“There was a barber and his wife, and she was beautiful.”
Barker can be seen as being in a Fi-Si loop throughout much of the musical, as he looks back to what happened in the past to go about with his murders. He explains his false imprisonment to Anthony in “The Barber and his Wife”, while hiding that he is talking about himself. Mrs. Lovett is even able to exploit his necessity for closure in “Poor Thing”, as the events of Lucy’s demise enrage him beyond repair. In “Johanna Quartet”, he longs to see his daughter again after she has been kept as Judge Turpin’s Ward, and he uses Anthony to bring her back to him. His entire course of action is based on the grudge that he holds against Judge Turpin.

Extroverted Thinking (Te)
“Ah, these are desperate times, Mrs. Lovett. Desperate measures must be taken.”
Barker is lead by his emotional being, lashing out when forced to use logic. His plan as a whole has to do with exerting control over the world that he finds has treated him and his family unfairly, but his attempts to exercise power have little to no systematic analysis behind them; he simply wants to kill when he can. This is seen best in the “Final Sequence” as he kills the Beggar Woman (not realizing it is his wife, Lucy), Judge Turpin, and then tries to kill Johanna and throws Mrs. Lovett into the oven, blind to the possible consequences of his actions and having delved so far into his insanity that he allows Toby to kill him.

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Janet van de Graaff from The Drowsy Chaperone
ENFJ
by Rebecca
requested by anonymous

Extroverted Feeling (Fe)
“I don’t need anyone! What do I care about the love of one man when I am adored by millions!”
As a celebrity, Janet deeply enjoys the spotlight and the attention it gives her even if she claims she wants to move away from it. Much of her star power comes from her charisma – she naturally draws people to her and her talents. She enjoys living on a pedestal of sorts, knowing that are people who adore her for all of her skills. However, sometimes she requires the help of others in order to know what she is feeling deep within. She has trouble realizing whether or not she is truly in love with Robert, and requires the help of her chaperone and Robert himself to fully understand her emotions.

Introverted Intuition (Ni)
“I’m Janet, Janet Van De Graaff, here to marry Robert Martin, giving up a life of glamour to tie the knot.”
Once Janet decided to marry Robert, she renounced her star role, pursuing a singular future with determined focus. Even though her married life could perhaps coexist with stardom, she decides there is only one way forward. She is prone to idealizing, which she notes when she discusses how she “put a monkey on a pedestal” just for him to drift away. She lives out her dreams to the fullest extent, easily moving beyond what people would think is possible. During her lament in the second act, she breaks away from reality for a few moments due to the intensity of her emotions.

Extroverted Sensing (Se)
“I don’t wanna be cheered no more, praised no more, grabbed no more, touched no more, loved no more: I don’t wanna show off!”
Janet is very much a performer – she enjoys the glamour and the excitement of the moment. “Show Off” demonstrates this side of Janet perfectly, as she performs for the press in a number of dazzling and impressive ways. She lives her life in a heightened manner, able to handle both the attention and the energy it brings. She is prone to making decisions at the drop of a hat, whether it be pretending to be a French girl while talking to a blindfolded Robert or breaking off the wedding because he kissed that “strange French girl.” Her decision to marry Robert in the first place was much in the same vein – they met one another and very quickly fell, deciding to marry in seemingly a matter of hours.

Introverted Thinking (Ti)
“But when you lose control, it touches my soul, so I’m bracing myself for disaster.”
Whether she realizes it or not, Janet is always seeking external support whenever she finds herself in a problem. She struggles to understand situations from a logical standpoint, instead following her more reactive emotions. Her emotions tend towards the extremes in moments, driving her away from thought, such as when she gives in to the moment in “Accident Waiting to Happen” and kisses Robert despite her false persona at that moment. She has wit – one of a number of skills she possesses – but it is more performative than a deep, internal aspect of her self. She is more likely to take a situation and respond to it with outward emotion rather than taking it and quietly considering its truths.

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