ENTP
“I’m a big tough girl. I tie my own sandals and everything.”
“I thought my heart had learned its lesson. It feels so good when you start out.
My head is screaming get a grip, girl!
Unless you’re dying to cry your heart out…”
I love Megara from Disney’s Hercules. She’s dynamic, clever, well drawn and the closest thing to a Disney princess ENTP girls are ever going to get. Eh, we’re one of the rarest female types so we’ll get over it.* Plus, she’s awesome! So yay.
Meg, in common ENTP fashion, has grown cynical from seeing the potential individuals have, encouraging and opening up to that potential… and then being let down time and time again. She puts on a hard, bombastic front to cover her feelings of hurt and disappointment.
When she meets Hercules, or “Wonderboy” as she sarcastically calls him, she expects him to be just the same as the people who have disappointed her in the past and rolls her eyes at his nobility and innocence… and yet he immediately strikes her as unique in a way she can’t seem to put her finger on.
She watches him over time, prodding at him with a combination of snark, skepticism and flirtation (all part of an ENTP’s essentials kit) and he keeps surprising her with his tenacity, honesty and the fact that he’s just so *good*, something ENTP’s want to be and feel like they never can be. And more than that, he thinks *she’s* good too. And for all her bad actions, she so desperately wants someone to see her good intentions.
Hercules: “You know, wh-when I was a kid, I-I would have given anything to be exactly like everybody else.”
Meg: “You wanted to be petty and dishonest?”
Hercules: “Everybody’s not like that.”
Meg: “Yes, they are.”
Hercules: “You’re not like that.”
Meg: [with longing] “How do you know what I’m like?”
She’s so scared of opening up again–trying to get others to see her for who she is as she so aptly sees them for what they are–and then getting hurt, that she tries desperately not to let in this INFJ that shows her how glowing and strong pureness can be; a pureness she feels so desperately lacking in.
As she starts falling for him, she shows a bit of the warm, genuine, romantic little girl inside her. She’s borderline giddy just thinking about him.
Though she closes up again under scrutiny, this is the point when she starts standing up and trying to protect Hercules’s pureness, as ENTP’s are wont to do of their INFJ’s.
Hades: “Meg, listen. Do you hear that sound? It’s the sound of your freedom, fluttering away, *forever*!”
Meg: “I don’t care, I’m not going to help you hurt him!”
Hades: [sighs] “I can’t believe you’re getting all worked up over some guy.'”
Meg: “This one is different. He’s strong, he’s caring, he would never do anything to hurt me…”
Hades: “He’s a guy!”
Meg: [smugly] “Besides, O Oneness, you *can’t* beat him. He has no weaknesses!”
(Hades goes on to insinuate she is Hercules’s weakness. IJ’s have a hard time making character judgments and it shakes him to the core to be disappointed in her… oh yeah and there is something about losing his physical strength too…)
Though she’s charming to the end, Meg grows to show her genuine, strong, childlike ENTP side and discovers that the “crazy” things she does in following her heart (intuition?) instead of her head maybe aren’t so crazy after all.
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