Rick Grimes MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Rick Grimes? Rick Grimes is an ISTJ personality type in MBTI, 6w5 - sp/so - 612 in Enneagram, RCOAN in Big 5, ESI in Socionics.
Introverted Sensing (Si): Everything Rick has done throughout the series, his entire development from a soft-spoken, trusting, and gentle policeman to a self-confident, suspicious, and aggressive leader is based entirely on past experiences. Rick thought that he could trust his best friend, Shane, through thick and thin, even when the world crashed under everyone with a zombie apocalypse. Then, he found out that Shane was trying to kill him because he was jealous of the fact that Lori ended their affair once she found out that Rick had survived the coma, and had woken up to find his family, so he had to kill his best friend. Ever since Rick realized that he had to kill his best friend to survive, he has been developing a much more suspicious attitude towards other people in the group, particularly those outside of his main group. Additionally, we see Rick’s Si-dom come out to haunt him throughout the deaths of those closest to him in his main group. When Lori dies at the beginning of S3, he is haunted by hallucinations of her ghost for at least the rest of the season. He also spends the entire episode of Lori’s death talking on the phone to the people in his group, who died back on the farm in S2. Extroverted Thinking (Te): Rick has a natural tendency to control everyone and everything around him if he can. His first instinct is not to take control of others, if he sees that someone else can do a better job of it than him, but he will put others in line if he has to when he sees that no one else can, or will do it as well him. In seasons two and three, Rick even got carried away with his controlling attitude over his group for a little while, and flat out told them that “This is not a democracy anymore! This is a dictatorship!” Introverted Feeling (Fi): Rick does feel things deeply, but he often pushes people away from him. He never really could communicate well with Lori, and even before the apocalypse started he told Shane that they were having trouble talking to each other. When Carl shoots a kid from Woodbury in S3, who was surrendering his gun, during the prison shootout, he never really talks to his son about how wrong it was. He pretty much just avoids taking primary responsibility for his group as their leader altogether, and works on farming in S4 until the Governor’s attack on the prison a second time basically forces him to take the role again when Hershel and Michonne get held hostage by him. Rick doles out punishments for his enemies that he sees as equally justified for the crimes they have committed. He has principles. For instance, he mercilessly slaughters the group of cannibals, who try to attack him and his people, even when they surrender and beg him for mercy, because he knows that “they would have done this (eaten) anyone, who crossed their paths.” Additionally, Rick feels personal responsibility for the loss of each person, who dies in his group under his leadership. He thinks of his people as his family, and whenever someone in his group dies, their death weighs heavily on his conscience. Extroverted Intuition (Ne): The best example of Rick’s inferior Ne function that can be seen in his character throughout the series is in season three right after Lori’s death. Rick goes insane with grief after his wife’s death in the prison. He talks to all of the people on the phone, who died in his group back on the farm. He starts getting followed by visual hallucinations of Lori in a white dress. His relationship with Michonne seems to have helped lift him out of whatever loop that he was in because he stopped having hallucinations once they met, and grew close.
Biography
Richard D. Grimes, better known as Rick, is the protagonist and a survivor of the outbreak in AMC's The Walking Dead. He is a former sheriff's deputy who was shot in the line of duty and fell into a coma, only to awaken and find himself in the midst of the apocalypse. He travels to Atlanta, Georgia, in search of his wife, Lori, and his son, Carl, who have traveled to Atlanta with his best friend, Shane Walsh.
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