What is the personality type of Jerk-to-Nice-Guy Plot? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Jerk-to-Nice-Guy Plot from Tropes and what is the personality traits.
Jerk-to-Nice-Guy Plot personality type is ESTP, i.e. extraverted sensing with a strong dominant in introverted thinking.
In other words, when they have to choose between being themselves and being socially acceptable, ESTP will usually go for being themselves. But this is a purely intellectual choice, based on their sense of what is right and wrong.
When ESTP is in the grip of their Jekyll and Hyde personality, they will use a variety of ploys to convince the world that they are nice people. They may even behave very nicely to friends and family, but will still feel a great internal anger that they are not being true to themselves. This internal anger is a direct result of their inferior function, introverted sensing, which is the source of their self-loathing and self-doubt.
Jerk-to-Nice-Guy Plot Personality Type
Typical Traits
Trouble controlling their anger
Trouble controlling their emotions
Trouble controlling their feelings
Anger Issues
Not necessarily angry all the time, but often angry about the things they do not like (see #3)
Will often be angry for no reason at all (see #4)
A plot where a character starts off as a Jerkass, but events change him into a Nice Guy.