Fictional characters tell us about our world, especially about the type of people in it. That’s why fictional characters usually portray different personality types, such as the ENTJ personality type.
Famous examples of fictional characters ENTJ, who meet the criteria of this rare personality type, include: Princess Leia from Star Wars, Cruella de Vil, and Fish Mooney from Gotham.
Because of their charisma, drive, and assertive decision-making powers, we are riveted to our screens as we watch dramas unfold with these unique characters at the center of it. Which fictional character ENTJ is your favorite?
What Is an ENTJ Personality Type?
ENTJ stands for extroverted, intuitive, thinking, and judging, and this is one of the 16 personality types on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). ENTJs are the second rarest personality type, and people with an ENTJ personality are called the commanders.
They are strategic and natural-born leaders, capable of making swift decisions and being ruthlessly rational. ENTJs love accomplishment, challenges, and momentum, and they believe they can achieve anything they set their brilliant minds to.
This makes sense because their dominant function or way they approach life is via extroverted thinking, meaning that ENTJ individuals are ambitious, look at situations objectively, and they have clear goals.
Their auxiliary function is introverted intuition, and this relates to how they analyze information and think. ENTJs trust their gut and process information by looking at impressions, meanings, and possibilities.
An ENTJ’s tertiary function (their playful side) is extroverted sensing, so they like physical activities and adventure that also stimulates their mind.
And their inferior function, which relates to their values and feelings, is introverted feeling. It may seem like ENTJs don’t have feelings because they are rarely emotional.
Here are other key personality traits of ENTJ personality types; they are:
Common weaknesses include that they may come across as arrogant, insensitive, intolerant, pushy, dominant, stubborn, impatient, and aloof.
Because they are so goal-driven and logical, they may lack empathy, have a low emotional intelligence, and have a black and white outlook of life.
Before we dive into fictional ENTJ characters, here are real-life ENTJs:
21 Famous ENTJ Fictional Characters
Here are some of the most famous ENTJ fictional characters:
1. Blair Waldorf, Gossip Girl
One of the first ENTJ fictional characters that came to mind is Gossip Girl’s Blair Waldorf. She is smart, confident, and manipulative because she’ll do anything to get what she wants.
She also comes across as emotionless, but diving deeper into her character reveals that she shares her feelings with those she trusts and cares about. She’s insecure and fears living in her best friend’s shadow.
Blair is highly ambitious and always has a plan, and she believes that the ends justify the means.
Take the example of Blair seeking revenge when Serena cheated with Nate, Blair’s boyfriend in Season 1.
As an ENTJ, Blair is an overachiever who loves being in control and continuously strives for success.
2. Thomas Shelby, Peaky Blinders
The world of gangsters is appealing to ENTJ personality types, and Thomas Shelby is a typical ENTJ personality.
He is driven, goal-oriented, bright, and shines with charisma. As the leader of the Birmingham gang, Tommy is constantly thinking of new and unusual ways to meet his goals, enrich his family, and get ahead in life.
He may seem ruthless and his confidence draws people to his cause, clearly establishing him as the leader of the gang.
His confidence borders on arrogance, and famous sayings like, “I don’t pay for suits. My suits are on the house or the house burns down,” epitomizes his ENTJ characteristics.
3. Patrick Bateman, American Psycho
While ENTJ personalities may lack empathy, in extreme cases, it can turn to narcissistic behavior, such as that of Patrick Bateman, the American Psycho.
Bateman is not only a prominent public figure as the president of a large Wall Street firm, but he also satisfies his sociopathic tendencies as a serial killer.
ENTJ personalities quickly anger, and they may look down on others, which is why they so comfortably manipulate people to meet their ends.
In the movie, Bateman brazenly admits to his crimes, but nobody believes his confessions, and he cleverly outwits being actually caught, flaunting his superior intellect.
4. Miranda Priestly, The Devil Wears Prada
Miranda Priestly, the editor-in-chief of a successful fashion magazine, is a commander with an ENTJ personality. She’s bossy, dominant, strong-willed, ruthless, driven, and arrogant who will do everything in her power to get what she wants and what she feels she deserves. That’s why she sacrificed Nigel to keep her position at Runway.
People with an ENTJ personality have a sharp tongue, and Miranda is no exception. She demands excellence through her harsh and cutting comments, and Andy is often at the receiving end of these.
Miranda also prioritizes work over family, and she’s a goal and results-oriented boss.
5. Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter
The baddie in the Harry Potter books and movies is Lord Voldemort, who is the most evil of wizards. Lord Voldemort commands the Death Eaters and the dark side, and he has a typical (though unhealthy) ENTJ personality.
His main ambition in life is to be immortal and the most powerful, and it’s clear that he doesn’t care about his followers, just his endgame.
Lord Voldemort expects everything to go his way or the highway, and this is apparent in how impatient, stubborn, power-hungry, and ruthless he is. It’s funny when Lord Voldemort refers to himself in the third person (as “Lord Voldemort”) but this only illustrates his belief in his superiority to everything and anything.
The fictional character is also arrogant, believing he doesn’t need love, affection, companionship, or friendship.
6. Frank Underwood, House of Cards
Like gangsterism, politics also appeals to ENTJ personality types, and Frank Underwood is the personification of this. In his quest to become president of America, Underwood will stop at nothing.
He is a natural leader, and he achieves his goals with a combination of charm, manipulation, and ruthlessness.
Underwood does whatever it takes to reach his goals, even killing a dog in the first seconds of the pilot episode.
To further his goals, Underwood is exceptionally cruel, killing anyone, even past lovers, framing others, and abandoning old friends (if they were even his friends to begin with).
7. Tywin Lannister, Game of Thrones
Killing your own children, encouraging them to fight each other, and destroying political opponents are classical behaviors of a character with ENTJ.
Tywin Lannister, the bad guy we all love to hate in Game of Thrones, is an example of an ENTJ personality.
His children know that he would dispatch one of them at the drop of a hat if it helped him reach his plans.
Down to cheating on his son with the son’s (Tyrion Lannister) girlfriend so he could destroy all sense of love the man had and embarrass his unwanted son, Tywin really reaches dramatic lows.
Tywin Lannister operates in the shadows, never aspiring to the crown himself, but manipulating others to do his dark deeds. Even his own children are only pawns.
8. Number Five, The Umbrella Academy
Number Five (or Five Hargreeves) from The Umbrella Academy has quite the ENTJ personality. He is a 13-year-old boy, but has the mind of a 60-year-old.
Five is confident, prideful, pragmatic, arrogant, and highly ambitious. It’s no surprise that he always seems to be one step ahead of his other siblings (or everyone else).
Another ENTJ characteristic Number Five embodies is that he’s a strategic thinker, and he plans analytically and logically to prevent the apocalypse from happening.
He also comes across as quite emotionless, especially when he’s willing to kill innocent people in pursuit of his goals. There are a few moments when the audience sees that Number Five does have feelings.
One example is when he breaks into a department store to find and “save” Delores, a mannequin and his romantic partner in the future.
9. Dana Scully, The X Files
Logic, truth, objectivity, and deductive reasoning are all appealing to ENTJs, and Dana Scully, the co-star of Fox Mulder in the X Files, is a classic case of ENTJ.
She questions everything, and her deductive reasoning and investigative skills are constantly helping her to embrace her own intuitions more and more as the series progresses.
Where she thought her co-star to be a deranged loose cannon, Scully begins to embrace her secondary function or intuition to find out of the box solutions to their investigations.
Her dedication to her job and doing things by the book may not seem to fit into the “do whatever it takes” attitude of ENTJs, but she is driven to professional excellence and career advancement.
10. Anakin Skywalker, Star Wars
ENTJs believe in their own decisions to the point of not being able to question themselves or justify their own logic with reflection. Anakin Skywalker, aka Darth Vader, is a clear example of a fictional character who is also an ENTJ.
He descends further into his own mental instability with the challenges he faces and the decisions he makes.
From being a brilliant general to murdering the Jedi, Skywalker turns to the dark side (literally) and becomes a villain in Darth Vader.
His strong emotions end up being his downfall, and he destroys all he loves because of his quest to be acknowledged and to be the best Jedi.
11. Katsuki Bakugo, My Hero Academia
Katsuki Bakugo from My Hero Academia is quite a piece of work. The manga character is a superhero, and he is an aggressive and arrogant teen. He even used to bully another kid when he was younger.
Bakugo wants to win and will do anything in his power to achieve that. Lucky for him, he is quite smart and often wins honorably.
12. Lex Luthor, Superman
A famous ENTJ supervillain is Lex Luthor. He is an extreme commander, with characteristics that include being confident, determined, dangerously charismatic, arrogant, and smart.
He also sees himself as superior to others and would want nothing more than for others, including the mighty Superman, to agree.
Luthor is driven in his pursuit to beat Superman in a personal, public, and political way. He plans how to take down the superhero, and sometimes almost comes close to winning, but his ego gets in the way. Yet, he never gives up.
13. Princess Leia, Star Wars
Female lead characters often don’t feature strongly in sagas, but Princess Leia or General Leia is a leader in the resistance of the Star Wars Trilogy. She is a natural commander, and when she speaks, others listen.
She’s not afraid to take risks, transporting the stolen Death Star plans on her own, so the rebellion can have a fighting chance. With Leia, she wears many hats, being a senator, mentor, and fierce fighter.
With loads of attitude, Leia triumphs over the Empire, earning her place as a leading ENTJ character.
14. Fish Mooney, Gotham
The character portrayed by Jada Pinkett Smith, Fish Mooney from Gotham, is a furious and terrifying leader. She is conniving, quick to anger, rebellious, and lethal.
Fish, as everyone calls her, will punish anyone who disappoints her, or fails her. While she is the utter villain, she can also be caring and nurturing to those who serve her well. Her plans are big, and
Fish will do dreadful things to achieve them. She even plans to take over the crime family from Carmine Falcone.
When Fish is betrayed by any of her followers, she always takes it personally, and while she instantly exacts revenge, she is heartbroken too.
15. Gale Hawthorne, The Hunger Games
The brooding character of Gale Hawthorne is a characteristic ENTJ personality. His skills and intelligence quickly make him a natural leader and pivotal character.
In fulfilling his role as commander or the responsible one, Hawthorne looks after Katniss’ sister when she has to compete in the Hunger Games.
Hawthorne’s goal of standing against and defeating the Capitol is exemplary of his ENTJ personality, and he quickly becomes a fearless rebel.
His brooding presence reminds us that an ENTJ is someone who is capable of terrifying things to push through opposition and accomplish their aims.
16. Christian Grey, Fifty Shades of Grey
If you’ve read the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy (or watched the movies), it should be no surprise that Christian Grey has an ENTJ personality.
The character is nothing but practical, and he is a successful businessman who is also confident, determined, efficient, domineering, and even aggressive. He is a man in charge and who likes to take charge.
All in all, he is a calculated and strategic man with clear goals and plans to help him achieve his objectives. After all, he had a plan to win Anastasia Steele over, didn’t he?
Christian also comes across as emotionless and only opens up about his past and feelings to Anastasia.
17. Eric Cartman, South Park
Fictional cartoon characters can also display classic (if disturbing) characteristics of ENTJ personalities. Eric Cartman, star of South Park, is an example of a rude, opinionated, and selfish character that finds dark humor in any situation.
He sees other people as lesser beings, and this means he is often racist, a bully, and obsessed with material things.
While he may come across as being confident and utterly unbothered by the lives of others, he is actually insecure, and he uses dark sarcasm and manipulation to hide his softer side.
Initially, viewers may find his character to be utterly offensive, but he soon draws you in with his entertaining attitude and you can’t help but laugh at his crazy schemes, such as entering the disabled Olympics so he can win a $1,000 prize. Ultimately, he wants people to respect his “authoritah.”
18. Princess Carolyn, BoJack Horseman
Princess Carolyn is quite the character in the BoJack Horseman series. She’s a pink Persian cat who is clever, hard-working, ambitious, and a great problem-solver.
She is excellent at separating her work life from her personal life, a quality most ENTJs excel at. However, she does briefly struggle with this in Season 6 when she hasn’t yet named her new porcupine baby.
You may also think that Princess Carolyn doesn’t have emotions because she struggles to be vulnerable in front of others, such as BoJack, the other main character in the series.
Princess Carolyn uses manipulation tactics every now and again to ensure she gets what she wants
19. Klaus Mikaelson, The Vampire Diaries & The Originals
Another unhealthy ENTJ is Klaus Mikaelson from The Vampire Diaries and The Originals. Klaus is a power-hungry vampire-werewolf who believes he is superior to all vampires, werewolves, and humans.
He is impatient, ruthless, and determined to get what he wants – whether or not that puts others in danger.
To help him achieve his goals, Klaus is an expert planner and strategist. He is very perceptive (thanks to his introverted intuition), which helps him effortlessly read people and identify their intentions to manipulate them.
As the original hybrid, he is a strong-willed and charismatic leader, commanding his vampire/werewolf family to follow his lead.
20. Mike Wazowski, Monsters, Inc.
If you are into Pixar movies, then you’ll be pleased to learn that Mike Wazowski from Monsters, Inc. has an ENTJ personality. Mike is a green one-eyed monster and one very multifaceted fictional character.
In true ENTJ fashion, Mike is self-confident, strategic, organized, goal-oriented, productive, frank, and outgoing. Mike is a go-getter, putting in long hours to make sure he achieves his dreams.
He doesn’t like distractions and easily gets upset when Sulley, the giant blue monster, gets in the way.
21. Cruella de Vil, 101 Dalmatians
Just based on her name, you might guess that Cruella de Vil, the villain in 101 Dalmatians and Cruella is an ENTJ fictional character. Cruella is cruel, placing high value on having fashionable fur coats. She isn’t at all worried about the lives of innocent Dalmatian puppies.
Cruella is a strategic businesswoman, and she only looks out for herself. She’s an unhealthy ENTJ, willing to do anything to get what she wants, even if that means not holding on to her morality.
Final Thoughts on Fictional Characters ENTJ
We enjoy watching characters who will stop at nothing, never apologize, and always come out on top due to their Machiavellian plans. The ENTJ personality is characteristic of this, which is why, despite it being quite a rare personality type, it is so popular in fiction.
Curious about the other personality types on the MBTI? Here’s our detailed beginners guide to the Myers-Briggs 16 Personality Types.
And if you're looking for more articles on people and characters with different personalities, be sure to check out these blog posts:
- ESTJ vs. ENTJ: 6 Differences Between These Personality Types
- INTJ VS ENTJ: 13 Differences for These Personality Types
- 41 Famous Fictional Characters with ENFJ Personality
Finally, if you want to identify YOUR personality type, then take one of these 11 personality tests to better understand what makes you tick.
