Jimmy McNulty MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Jimmy McNulty? Jimmy McNulty is an ENTP personality type in MBTI, 8w7 - sx/so - 874 in Enneagram, SLUEI in Big 5, ILE in Socionics.
It seems like the character's creator described the same thing I was getting at ("intellectual vanity") which is clearly an NT trait as well as the "game" of solving something (again something xNTPs are most stimulated by). David Simon, the character's creator, has described his goal of presenting McNulty as ambiguous in his motivations. Based on his experiences of real detectives he feels that most crime dramas present their police characters with the inherent falsehood that they care deeply about the victims in the cases they are investigating. Simon states that in his experience a good detective is usually motivated by the game of solving the crime - he sees the crime as an "insult to his intellectual vanity" and this gives him motivation to solve it.
Biography
The closest thing to a main character in The Wire. A detective in Homicide, he is an alcoholic womanizer, something of a deadbeat, insubordinate toward his supervisors, and known for coming up with creative solutions to hard cases. His disrespect for the chain of command makes him many enemies among his superiors, while his self-destructive behavior alienates his peers and friends.
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