What is the personality type of Mephistopheles? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Mephistopheles from Your Ocs Original Characters and what is the personality traits.
Mephistopheles personality type is ENTP, and the Devil is often thought of as an ENTP, showing this personality type’s desire to be seen as smart and capable. In the Aeneid, Mephistopheles’ partner, the goddess Venus, is also ENTP. In the Inferno, Dante also refers to Mephistopheles as an ENTP: “And the other angel, who had in his hand the souls of those who had been damned, said: ‘Here is one whom you may recognize…He is one of those who are called Enthymemata, Intellects, Enthymemata, Intelligences, which are the devils.’ And he said: ‘I am Mephistophiles, who am sent by Lucifer to deceive the sons of Adam.'” This suggests that ENTPs are more likely to be caught as demons than INFJs or INFPs are.
ENTPs are smart and they can come across as very knowledgeable, but when they forget all their knowledge they may not have any answers, or they may be hard to get along with because of not knowing the right things to say.