What Community Character You’d Be, Based On Your Myers and Briggs Personality Type

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When it first aired, it seemed as if the quirky comedy Community might end after only three seasons. Despite its sharp dialogue and inventive storytelling, the viewer base just wasn’t there. Then the show wormed its way into fans’ hearts and found long-awaited popularity on streaming services. In the end, Community managed to survive for six full seasons (and there’s been talk of a movie).

Part of the appeal is the show’s absolutely stellar cast of characters. Each one is strong and unique, and makes viewers wish we could sit around the study room table and swap banter with this gang of misfit Greendale Community College students. Read on to learn about each character’s Myers-Briggs personality type and which one is the most like you!

Jeff Winger – ENTP, The Visionary

Quick-witted, audacious Jeff Winger is a textbook ENTP. He bends and breaks rules left and right, including when he faked his way into becoming a lawyer despite a lack of a college degree. He loves verbal sparring—particularly with rule-follower Annie—and knows how to win an argument. Jeff has a way with people and often has them eating out of the palm of his hand. When Abed uses cafeteria chicken fingers to control the school, and Jeff loses his hold over their study group, it quickly becomes clear what a spell he cast over them, like how he could silence them with just a simple hand gesture.

People with this type of personality tend to lack sensitivity, and their bluntness can harm their relationships with others. This pops up often in the show when Jeff selfishly disregards the feelings of the group over and over. His laziness can also lead him to let the group down, like when he pretends to be sick to get out of helping Annie move. The fact that Jeff usually comes around in the end to be there for his friends shows his growth over the course of the show and his ability to change.

Annie Edison – ISFJ, The Protector

As an ISFJ, Annie Edison is fiercely loyal to her friends and very detail-oriented. She prefers to work behind the scenes, including when she serves as script supervisor for Dean Pelton’s commercial. She regularly advises Jeff to pay attention to the feelings of others and do the right thing. Annie has a deep sense of responsibility, which we can see when she becomes the driving force behind the Save Greendale Committee. Her care for others is exhibited when she takes care of “wounded soldiers” during the epic pillow fight that takes place on campus.

Like other ISFJs, Annie can be very high-strung and needs her friends to remind her to relax. She is a perfectionist who is a little too obsessed with her grades. She can be something of a control freak as well, like when she forces the group to stay in the study room until her potentially stolen pen is found. Annie can also be stuck in her own way of thinking, believing that she knows best. Out of the study group, she is probably the least willing to accept change. She rats out Señor Chang to the Dean for having a fake high school diploma because she can’t stand the thought of the study group breaking up the next year. Like Jeff, experiences like rooming with goofballs Troy and Abed help her to soften and mature over time.

Abed Nadir – INTP, The Architect

This is another case where the personality type fits the character like a glove. Abed Nadir couldn’t be more of an INTP if he tried. He’s deeply introverted, focused on understanding the theories behind ideas and concepts (usually pop culture-related), led by logic, and a free thinker. He likes to take apart ideas and look at them from different angles, like in his obsessive quest to figure out whether or not Nicolas Cage is a good actor. He’s not great at small talk (as shown in his first interactions with Jeff or when the group pushes him into approaching a girl), but he will talk the ear off a guy at a bar about Farscape.

Abed has trouble relating to others, which he admits to Jeff when his chicken empire topples. He tends not to understand social tact and simply says whatever he is thinking. When they attempt to play in the Dreamatorium, Annie points out that Abed needs to learn to think about how his actions will affect the people around him. His close friendship with Troy helps Abed come out of his shell, though he never stops being the buttered-noodles-eating, Tarantino-loving oddball fan favorite.

Troy Barnes – ENFP, The Champion

Troy Barnes was an effortlessly popular football player in high school, and a clear Extravert. His upbeat, energetic ENFP personality can’t help but make people smile, and he is well-liked within the study group. Troy treasures happiness and silliness, as we can see in how he and Abed can spend hours conjuring up imaginative worlds in their Dreamatorium. Troy may not seem like the sharpest tool in the shed, but viewers can see his emotional intelligence when he helps his friends during his 21st birthday party by giving some of them a frank talking-to and much-needed support to Annie.

Troy is easily bored by the mundane, which shows why he’s so easily drawn into pranks with Abed. This also leads to a lack of focus on his schoolwork, resulting in a 68% on his Spanish final. His zest for life makes him prone to extreme emotions (my emotions, my EMOTIONS!), which we can clearly see in his overreaction to the prospect of meeting his hero, LeVar Burton, since he’s scared that his fantasy won’t match reality. At the end of his character arc, Troy overcomes his fears and continues his pursuit of happiness when he embarks on a world tour with Burton after he inherits Pierce’s boat.

Shirley Bennett – ESFJ, The Provider

“Provider” certainly describes ESFJ Shirley Bennett with the motherly role she takes within the group. She makes her family and friends her top priority and is always trying to offer advice and support. This tendency toward nurturing can be too much for the others, like when they make a pact to stop eating Shirley’s excessive baking, but they generally appreciate her sweet and supportive nature. Her religious beliefs show that she ascribes to a strict moral code. She is a natural leader who has the guts to start her own sandwich shop in the school.

While Shirley’s religion makes her strive for goodness, her interpretation of it is very black and white. She is constantly trying to rope the other members of the group into her way of thinking and comes up with a Halloween story that casts her as an angel and the rest as being damned for all eternity. Shirley can be rather judgmental, and she loves gossiping with Jeff about Britta’s boyfriend, Vaughn. Still, she works to provide comfort and support to her friends throughout the series, like when she creates “Shirley's Island” as a safe haven during Abed’s Hot Lava game.

Pierce Hawthorne – ESTP, The Dynamo

ESTP personality types like Pierce Hawthorne are high-energy thrill-seekers who prefer to live in the moment. We can see this when Pierce demands to be double-bounced on a trampoline with no thought of the potential consequences. He shows little regard for sensitivity when interacting with others, making offensive and racist comments that make them uncomfortable. Despite being by far the oldest member of the group, he is like a spoiled child desperate for attention.

Like other ESTPs, Pierce has a prominent sense of humor and is constantly attempting jokes (though usually unsuccessfully). His boundless energy becomes apparent when he takes over Annie’s anti-drug play. Pierce doesn’t possess a lot of positive qualities, but this starts to make more sense when we meet his terrible, ivory-hairpiece-wearing father. He doesn’t show the same level of growth as the other characters, though he does try to support the group in his own way, like with several pep talks he gives to Jeff, and when he allows Troy to live with him.

Britta Perry – INFP, The Healer

Out of all the members of the study group, Britta Perry undergoes the greatest transformation. She goes from a character meant to be Jeff’s cool, smart love interest to a constant punchline who exemplifies the insincere activist. Through it all, though, she remains an INFP. She is sympathetic toward her friends, especially when she encourages Abed in his dreams to become a filmmaker and even pays for his film class. She is supportive of Troy’s love of dance, and Jeff refers to her as the heart of the group. She’s spontaneous as well and dared to follow her impulsiveness to protests around the world.

Britta wants to be genuine, but regularly comes to the realization that she’s just a big phony. She takes a stand against teacher-turned-security-guard Chang simply because she misses protesting something. She sometimes sees herself as selfish, like when Pierce gives her a check to write out to the charity of her choice, and she must face the fact that she wants to keep the money for herself. She may seem ridiculous and inauthentic at times, but she does have good intentions at heart.

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