Boomer MBTI Personality Type
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What personality type is Boomer? Boomer is an ESFP personality type in MBTI, 8w9 - so/sp - 846 in Enneagram, SLUEN in Big 5, SEE in Socionics.
I’m planning to write a more in-depth analysis of him later, but I just wanted to mention that the little banter he and Bubbles engage in in the IDW disco comic seems to be a great example of Fi clashing. Bubbles is adamant that she hates the RRB’s music because it’s loud and scary, and Boomer asserts that her taste in music is weak and girly with equal volition. A moment of high Fi versus high Fi, two stubborn minds with opposing values (and Se-dom versus Se-blind, to boot), in the scuffle between the PPG and RRB. Boomer’s enneagram seems to be 8w9. I think that of the three emotional centers—fear, shame, and anger—Boomer is most fixated on anger. He shares this with his brothers (and actually, I think the PPG and RRB are all anger-center types, but that’s for another time) in that none of the three seem to exhibit fear or shame in anything other than brief intervals. But Boomer is constantly defending himself from his brothers in his attempts to assert his individuality, mostly when he speaks out of turn and Brick hits him. In the PPG comics, we see that Boomer responds to this treatment by overcompensating and trying to best his brothers in evilness. We get a brief glimpse into his mindset when he talks with Bubbles in the IDW 9 disco comic. He rejects all symbols of weakness and dares Bubbles to “bring it on” when she says that she’ll show him weak. Note this description of inferior Te grip in Fi-doms by Jung: “This power is derived from the deeply felt, unconscious images, but consciously she is apt to relate it to the ego, whereupon her influence becomes debased into personal tyranny. Whenever the unconscious subject is identified with the ego, the mysterious power of intensive feeling turns into a banal and arrogant desire to dominate, a vanity, and a petty bossiness. This produces a type of woman most regrettably distinguished by her unscrupulous ambition and mischievous cruelty. But it is a change, however, that also leads to neurosis.” While EXFPs don’t have inferior Te, they do have Te as a lower function, which can manifest in an immature fashion. Even then, Te between the extroverted thinking type and the introverted feeling type (that is, Te at any position in the stack, unless middle axis Te is somehow completely different) do share some characteristics, as Jung says of both Te-using types that they may be perceived as tyrants. You can even see this in Brick, Te-dom, as “a banal and arrogant desire to dominate, a vanity, and a petty bossiness” pretty much sum up his current character. (He also abides by the rigid formula that “girls are weak/lame, which is a characteristic of Te-doms.) But at any rate, Boomer shows this petty ambition when he repeatedly challenges and attacks his brothers in the comics, unprovokedly kicking Butch in “Root of All Cooties” and smacking both of his brothers at the beginning of “Father Knows Worst”to punctuate his declaration that they should start the “evil” challenge. He also demonstrates mischievous cruelty with his goading of Bubbles in IDW 9 mentioned above. (The conquering lust of E8 is evident in Boomer’s dialogue as well, as he dares her to attack him so he might fight her.) Boomer’s response to anger is not to suppress it (E9) or to use it to improve situations (E1), but embrace it as a means of control (E8). I think that his wing is E9 because he’s more fond of exerting complete control—that is, subjugation—than he is of chasing greater and greater challenges to his power. In Father Knows Worst, Boomer stops the initial power squabble between the RRB by slapping both of his brothers aside, insisting on beginning an official challenge. (Also a display of Te—Boomer likes to get straight to the point so he can prove his point, you know? Te being used with comfort; non-inferior Te.) Boomer doesn’t want the fight to go on and on; he wants to quickly establish control and have his brothers recognize him as the biggest, baddest RRB. He also generally shows more E9 than E7 traits—he’s prone to zoning out, as we see in The Boys are Back in Town, and will sometimes back down to Brick, as we see in Bubble Boy.
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