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#1 ·
Fictional ISTJ's

I stole the idea from the ISTP forum. :crazy:

So what are some good fictional ISTJ's? Can you relate to any of em? Post a list of ISTJ's that are fictional, that you know of.
 
#92 ·
No...I hope :D.

But all around this forum it is said ISTJs they give full attention to 'the past' in general, while Si (memory) is reputedly the lesser of ALL 8 functions for INTJs. An INTJ Batman perhaps would have had his horrid past thoroughly removed and gone crazy.

Plus, he is very good with his senses. Sharp. He relies on his body as well as on his tricks.

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please, note that Batman is one of my favourites...I am not discarding him: 'surrender' him to ISTJs is NOT a pleasure but truth is truth XD
 
#93 · (Edited)
Trust me. I always had an affinity for him. I'm 24, but I still think he's pure awesome.

But at the same time, because I'm old enough to appreciate character complexity, I have mixed feelings about the fact that he's very ISTJish. I find way too much in common with him.

Start with the work-related things. He has a set of rules that all must follow without question. His trauma and his awareness of Gotham's corruption give him justification to defy the established order, something that most other ISTJs would have trouble doing without enough motivation. He rarely budges from his rules unless Robin (second) or Nightwing find the occasional reason for him to do so. That's fine. I admit I'm inflexible at times and that I need people to give me strong proof that my way of doing a specific task may not necessarily be the right or best way.

But...when it comes to women...I cringe at how he acted around Wonder Woman. As Bruce Wayne, he's able to act extroverted and charming in public. But when he's himself, he's probably the least romantic guy around. Everything he's said in response to her overtures sounds like something I would say. :blushed:
 
#95 ·
Robert Edward Lee i would consider an ISTJ
Lived from 1808-1870
West Point graduate top of his class not one demerit
Emphasis on duty, religion, and familiy
U.S Army colonel
C.S Army General-In-Chief
In 1861 after the firing on Fort Sumter Colonel Lee was offered command of the entire United States army for the purpose of subuding the "rebellion" that exists in the southern states. Rejecting the offer because his home state of Virginia had went south Robert Edward Lee assumed command of Virginia's citizen army with the rank of Major General. Leader of the failed West Virginia campaign he returned to Richmond with a host of excuses that he could of used but he let his reputation burn and sink to protect others. Sent to assume command of the Atlantic Coast Department of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida he strenghed the defenses so significantly that no further union conquests came on this region until Sherman's March to the Sea and even then the fortifcations almost stopped Sherman. Recalled to Richmond to become military advisor to the President of the Confederate States of America Lee now a full General organized from Richmond Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson's brilliant Sheanodoah Campaign. Assuming command of the Army of Northern Virginia upon the wounding of General Joseph E. Johnston Lee hurled it with a merciless fury in Seven Day's forcing the larger union army under McCllean to retreat. Dividing his army Lee crushed union General John Pope and his Army of Virginia while McCllean and the Army of the Potomac was returning to Washington D.C. Leading the army northward he bravely led his troops many times from the front for twelve long hours at Sharpsburg Ridge. Resting and refitting he was able to the win the battles of Frerdicksburg and Chancsollerive (sorry for spelling) and led his troops northward again this time all the way to Gettysburg. Fighting the union to a draw at that small Pennslyvania town Lee retreated back to Virginia this time for good. He inflicted over a hundred thousand losses on the union during the 1864 Overland Campaign with an added fifty thousand in the subusquent Petersburg Siege. Retreating from the Richmond and Petersburg Trenches Lee is surrounded at Appotomox and is about to order an assualt to break through a weak point when one of his Generals who had survived Petersburg and was one of the excuses Lee could have used during West Virginia barged in and talked with Lee,
"Good morning General Wise I see that you at any rate have not given up because you are in your war paint." General Lee said
"General Lee my poor men are lying on the hill yonder more dead than alive. They have fought for more than a week without food and by God sir they shall not move another step until they have something to eat."
"Come in General they deserve something to eat and shall have it and meanwhile you shall share my breakfast."
General Wise now begins to curse General Bushrod Johnshon in language that is inapporitate for me to type.
"General are you aware that you are liable to court-martial and execution for insubordination and disrespect for your commanding officer."
"Shot! You cannot afford to shoot the men who fight for cussing those who run away. Shot! I wish you would shoot me because if you don't some yankee will within the next twenty four hours."
"What do you think of the situation."
"Situation? There is no situation. Nothing reamins General but to put your poor men on your poor mules and send them home in time for Spring ploughing. The army is hoplesslt whipped... These men have already endured more than i belived flesh and blood could have endured and i say to you sir emphatically that to prolong the struggle is murder and the blood of every man killed from this time forth is on your head General Lee."
"Oh General do not talk so wildly. My burdens are heavy enough. What would the country think of me if i did what you suggest?"
"Country be damned there is no country. There has been no country General for a year or more. You are the country to these men. They have fought for you there are still thousands left who will die for you."
General Wise now left and Lee did order the attack. The attack was a success but he was tired of war and surrendured his army. I could say more about Lee but i am here to reply not write a book about him so you can look him up if you want.
suggested titles
Gray Fox: Robert E. Lee and the Civil War
General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse
The Civil War: A Narrative, From Fort Sumter to Perryville
The Civil War: A Narrative, From Fredricksrubg to Meridan
The Civil War: A Narrative, From Red River to Appotomax
 
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#96 ·
Link is an ISTJ, right?


Edit: I'm not talking about this one >_>
 
#98 ·
I am thinking the Jefferson F. Davis President of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1862 as provisonal president and 1862-1865 as permanet president.
 
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#108 ·
I'm trying to give this thread a breath of fresh air and adding some real world ISTJs to the thread, instead of anime characters and Batman (sorry Zeth). I am positive that there are a lot of very influential ISTJs in the public eye, but I think they are often overlooked or mistyped as extroverts.

I just watched a documentary on Vogue magazine (Yeah, I know. Sound the **** suspicion alarms...), and I'm positive that Anna Wintour, Editor-in-Chief of Vogue is an ISTJ.



From IMDB:

"Like her image, Wintour's daily regime is legendary. Now based in Manhattan, she wakes up at 5:45am every morning, plays tennis for an hour before being professionally made-up, coiffed and chauffeured to the offices of American Vogue. Though one of New York's most prolific party throwers, she never stays at any one event for more than the first ten minutes, preferring to be in bed by 10pm."
From Wikipedia:

"According to biographer Jerry Oppenheimer, her ubiquitous sunglasses are actually corrective lenses, since she suffers from deteriorating vision as her father did. A former colleague he interviewed recalls trying on her Wayfarers in her absence and getting dizzy.[85] "I think at this point they've become, you know, really armor", Wintour herself told 60 Minutes correspondent Morley Safer, explaining that they allow her to keep her reactions to a show private...

Wintour is often described as emotionally distant by those who have come to know her well, even her close friends. "At some stage in her career, Anna Wintour stopped being Anna Wintour and became 'Anna Wintour', at which point, like wings of a stately home, she closed off large sections of her personality to the public", wrote The Guardian. "I think she enjoys not being completely approachable. Just her office is very intimidating. You have to walk about a mile into the office before you get to her desk and I'm sure it's intentional", Coddington says."I don't find her to be accessible to people she doesn't need to be accessible to", agrees Vogue publisher Tom Florio.

She has said she admired her father Charles, known as "Chilly Charlie" for being "inscrutable". Former coworkers told Oppenheimer of a similar aloofness on her part. But she is also known for volatile outbursts of displeasure, and the widely-used "Nuclear Wintour" sobriquet is a result of both. She dislikes it enough to have asked The New York Times not to use it. "There are times I get quite angry", she admitted in The September Issue...

"I think she has been very rude to a lot of people in the past, on her way up — very terse", a friend told the Observer. "She doesn't do small talk. She is never going to be friends with her assistant." A former assistant said, "You definitely did not ride the elevator with her." Unwritten rules imposed by Wintour at the Vogue offices forbid junior staffers from initiating conversation with her; an editor who greeted her on the elevator was reprimanded by one of Wintour's assistants (She calls that an exaggeration). A visiting reporter saw a junior staffer appear visibly panicked when she realized she would have to ride the elevator with Wintour. Once a junior editor saw her trip in the hallway, walked past without offering assistance, and was later told she "did absolutely the right thing..."

Even friends admit to some trepidation in her presence. "Anna happens to be a friend of mine", says Barbara Amiel, "a fact which is of absolutely no help in coping with the cold panic that grips me whenever we meet." "I know when to stop pushing her", says Coddington. "She doesn't know when to stop pushing me"...

She has often been described as a perfectionist who routinely makes impossible, arbitrary demands of subordinates: "kitchen scissors at work", in the words of one commentator. She once made a junior staffer look through a photographer's trash to find a picture he had refused to give her. In a deleted scene from The September Issue she complains about the "horrible white plastic buckets" of ice behind the bars at the CFDA's 7th on Sale AIDS benefit and moves them out of sight. "The notion that Anna would want something done 'now' and not 'shortly' is accurate", Amiel says of The Devil Wears Prada. "Anna wants what she wants right away." A longtime assistant says, "She throws you in the water and you'll either sink or swim."

She is notorious for being a tyrant, but at the same time she turned Vogue into the most profitable magazine of its kind in the world, and is arguably the most influential person in the fashion industry.
 
#114 · (Edited)
Notice that she leaves ten minutes after it starts. She's doing all of the planning and prep and leaving the actual entertaining to others. And I'll bet she thinks it goes with the job.

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I mean, look at her picture...she has that condescending look that says, "let's hurry up and get this picture over with, already." :tongue:

EDIT II:

Ok, there is no doubt. Watch her interact with others on her Barbara Walters interview...very perfunctory. She hasn't changed her hairstyle since she was 15 and doesn't think she can change! The Devil Wears Prada was loosely based on her personality. She is very powerful, has risen to the top--in the business side of the industry she loves. Self described as decisive.



On the Letterman interview...she tells Letterman that he "should" look into a particular designer...she gestures, moves, and jokes like an ISTJ:



 
#115 ·
I say Jefferson F. Davis was an ISTJ.
 
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#119 ·
I'd say both Davis and Abe Lincoln were both ISTJs. Thats probably why both presidents couldn't reach an executive agreement to end the war. :crazy:
 
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#117 ·
going back to star trek a sec, i allways liked vulcans, i see so much the same in common. only have to do personal things or go places when realy need to...
i like going out but i dont like social things, if im happy just to sit on a bench on a high street and watch all the suckers zip here there and worry what they gotta do next
 
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#122 ·
Abe lincoln nah. Maybe an ISFJ or ENTP but not an ISTJ. Several times he got around the constitution and forced the Confederates to fire the first shot of the war through his deception.
 
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#123 ·
Georg von Trapp? At least in the movie, The Sound of Music, he seems like one, I'm not sure about the I though. It's also an example of an xSTJ and ENFP relationship.
 
#130 ·
Pat Buchanan, Jesse Ventura, Steven Seagal all give me an ISTJ vibe.

My father, an ISTJ, recently got hired at a new job. Beforehand, when the possibility of multiple offers was brought up, he suggested that he would wait until he knew which one he wanted before he would commit to anyone. I asked him, "Why don't you just take the first one offered, and quickly tell them goodbye if another one comes up?" "Because I have integrity." "Integrity to who? Corporations don't care about you!" "Integrity to myself!"

In other words, it would ruin his honor. Are you guys sure Worf isn't an ISTJ? Speaking of Star Trek, Q is an ENTP, not an ENTJ. Khan is an ENTJ.

 
#137 ·
I am going ahead and claiming Marcus Tullius Cicero as an ISTJ.
A man with a great sense of duty and honor he spent a lot of time in the realm of his mind and when he released his information it was given with a great eloquence. The last of the great Roman Consuls before the end of the Republic he persisted in resisting Casear and rejoiced over his assissanation. Cicero worked to restore the Republic but he was assissanted when the second triumatiuve came to power.
 
#139 ·
tell me, what do you all think egon is from the ghostbusters? i have a familarity to him/his actions and think he may be an istj? anyone else shed some light on him?
 
#142 ·
I can think of a bunch of characters I think are ISTJs that I like the hell out of. I'd say Spock is (my favorite character of all time). Judge Dredd is (probably number two favorite character- British comics not that crap American movie). How about Aragorn from Lord of the Rings? He gets my vote as an awesome ISTJ. Anyone heard of the British TV show MI-5 (Spooks)? Tom Quinn is definitely an ISTJ and cool as hell.
 
#146 ·
just wondering? how about shrek?
 
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#149 ·
I think whoever invented Hard Tack was an ISTJ.
 
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