ESTP, the Adventurer, the Dynamo, the Promoter
What makes an Extravert and what makes an Introvert?
Outside MBTI circles, you might say an Introvert is shy and an Extravert talks a lot.
If you’re a little nicer about it, or you’ve just started getting into MBTI, you might say that an Extravert acts first and thinks about the experience afterwards, and an Introvert processes first and then takes action.
If you’ve gone deep and studied your cognitive functions, you might say that an Extravert leads with one of the four Extraverted functions (Te, Fe, Se, or Ne), while an Introvert leads with one of the four Introverted functions (Ti, Fi, Si, or Ni).
So what makes Drax an Extravert as opposed to an Introvert, in this humble blogger’s opinion?
I came really close to typing Drax as another ISTP with Gamora. He’s terse and no nonsense, and when we first see him, he’s hanging out in the background sizing our heroes up. He certainly seemed to be leading with an Introverted function.
At first.
Dominant Function: Extraverted Sensing (Se), “Experience the Experience”
Once the story gets underway, Drax becomes all-action, all the time. He’s constantly on the move, and thrives on physical challenges. He joins the Guardians’ escape solely out of opportunism—so that he can get out of prison and continue his quest for revenge, stay near Gamora to eventually kill her, and because there’s a fight going on, and he clearly enjoys it.
We eventually learn that before we even met him, he was cutting a swath of vengeance through the galaxy after Ronan killed his family.
Once they land at Knowhere, Drax immediately finds his way to the gambling and drinking. When he feels the others are taking too long in their business with the Orb, he contacts Ronan to get the plan jump-started. He simply can’t wait for things to play out the long way—he has to take action now.
See, Extraversion doesn’t mean talking a lot, or even being social. Extraversion simply means that you engage with your outside world first before you engage with your inner world. For Drax, that means engaging in physical activity, usually fights.
In the final fight against Ronan, Drax has a grand old time riding the Milano into a crash landing on Ronan’s ship, while the others are gritting their teeth and hanging on for dear life. Then Nebula confronts them and begins a big villainous monologue, and Drax just shoots her, mid-sentence. Next, he throws himself at Ronan—for the second time in the movie—and gets himself beat up again.
In the final showdown, Drax is ready with the big gun to take advantage of Quill’s distraction and take the final, fatal shot at Ronan. Continue reading
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