Michael the Gorilla Personality Type, MBTI
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INFP (4w5)
Michael the Gorilla personality type is INFP, a rare fictional character, a fictional character on The Boondocks, an animated comedy series about two black brothers who grow up to be adult men in the late twentieth century. It is based on Aaron McGruder’s comic strip of the same name.
Michael is an Indian American male, depicted as the younger of the two brothers. He has brown skin, black hair, and brown eyes, like his older brother. He also wears glasses, like his older brother. Michael is often shown with his older brother Huey Freeman, but he is never seen without Huey. He is usually depicted as the more intelligent of the two, and sometimes the more naive. Michael is also the more caring of the two. He is also shown to be an extremely dedicated fan of The Boondocks.
Michael's persona is based on the real-life childhood friend of creator McGruder, who was an overweight Indian American named "Gabe." McGruder used this childhood friend as an example of his own childhood, and Michael's personality is based on McGruder's childhood friend.
The character was developed by Aaron McGruder's wife Jeanine Schaefer and Danny Mayblum.
Michael (March 17, 1973, Cameroon – April 19, 2000) was the first male 'talking' gorilla. He had a working vocabulary of over 600 signs in American Sign Language, taught to him by Koko, a female gorilla; Dr. Francine Patterson (to whom the gorillas referred using the sign "penny"); and other staff of Stanford University. Michael, an orphan, spent most of his life in Woodside, California, where he became a local celebrity and well-known painter, creating vividly colorful abstract works.
Michael was a gorilla whose parents were killed while he was still a baby. According to the movie Koko: Conversation with a Gorilla, his handlers felt that using sign language, he was attempting to relate his mother's death at the hands of poachers. At the age of three he was brought to live with Koko at Stanford.
Michael's favorite color was yellow, and his favorite television shows were Sesame Street and Mister Rogers. He enjoyed listening to Luciano Pavarotti and looking at pictures.
