The Big Bad Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of The Big Bad? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for The Big Bad from Tropes and what is the personality traits.
INTJ (8w9)
The Big Bad personality type is INTJ, INTP, ENTJ, ENTP, ENFP, ENFJ, INFJ, INTJ.
Big Bad is an old school name for the new Big Bad Bad Guy.
Big Bad is also the name of a new character in the game World of Warcraft.
Big Bad
The new name for the Big Bad personality type.
Main article: Big Bad
The name was coined by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to refer to the new Big Bad personality type. This refers to a character in an RPG who has a previously established history of being an antagonist, but who has now been flipped to the side of the protagonist. Such a character is often referred to as a "villain", but they are not always villains in the traditional sense.
Origin
The name comes from World of Warcraft, where they introduced an NPC called Big Bad Brannfjord. A little later they introduced another NPC called Big Bad Craglorn. The second instance of the name came up when Blizzard was designing a dungeon called the Maze Engine, where they intended to have a boss named Big Bad Brannfjord.
The cause of (almost) all bad happenings in a story. The Big Bad may either be personally responsible for the events, or the biggest force in opposition of the hero's goals.
A Big Bad could be a character with Evil Plans or it could be a situation, such as a comet heading towards the Earth. The Big Bad can (and often does) exert effect across a number of episodes, and even an entire season.
