The War Doctor Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of The War Doctor? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for The War Doctor from Doctor Who 2005 and what is the personality traits.
INFJ (1w2)
The War Doctor personality type is INFJ, but this is probably more to do with the fact that the Doctor is a Doctor, not an INFJ.
In the show’s mythology, the War Doctor is a Time Lord who was the “Doctor” who fought in the Time War. In the show, he has a whole range of conflicting personality traits. On one hand, he’s a very good man who speaks very plainly and is very concerned with justice. On the other hand, he’s a kind of a zealot, a zealot for his cause, and a zealot for a certain kind of justice. I would argue that he is a zealot because he doesn’t have many options. If he refuses to be a zealot, he loses all of his sense of self. But if he refuses to become a zealot, he loses his ability to do anything about it.
Most people have a sense of self, but they don’t have a sense of self that is going to stand up to their zealotry. They just have a sense of self that they will defend no matter what - even if it’s not a very good or healthy or effective way to do so.
The War Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television programme Doctor Who. He was portrayed by the English actor John Hurt. Although he precedes Christopher Eccleston's Ninth Doctor in the show's fictional chronology, his first onscreen appearance came eight years after Eccleston's; the War Doctor was retroactively created by showrunner Steven Moffat for productions celebrating the show's 50th anniversary. Within the programme's narrative, the Doctor is a millennia-old alien, a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey, who travels in time and space in his TARDIS frequently with companions. When the Doctor is critically injured, he can regenerate his body, but in doing so, gains a new physical appearance and with it, a distinct new personality. This plot device has allowed a number of actors to portray different incarnations of the Doctor over the show's long run.
