Maurice’s MBTI and Enneagram typing is widely discussed among fans of Sir Terry Pratchett’s The Amazing Maurice. Voiced by Hugh Laurie in the animated adaptation, Maurice displays clear characteristics of an ESTP and aligns closely with Enneagram 7w6. As a fast-talking con-artist cat who survives through improvisation, charm, and opportunistic schemes, Maurice embodies the ESTP’s action-first mindset, streetwise intelligence, and ability to adapt instantly to danger. His 7w6 personality adds restless curiosity, pleasure-seeking motivation, humor, and surprising loyalty, making Maurice a standout ESTP 7w6 character whose selfish survival instincts gradually develops into genuine courage and devotion to his friends.
ESTP 7w6 Characters
Why is Maurice from The Amazing Maurice an ESTP 7w6? Continue reading for my argument using cognitive functions! The headers for each section are clickable, so you can easily access more information about the dominant function and the Enneagram type, or discover more characters who share the type.
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Extraverted Sensing
Maurice is the ultimate opportunist who ate a talking rat, learned to talk, discovered other talking rats as a cat… and then recruited them all into a moneymaking scheme, where they invade a town, cause trouble, then the townspeople pay him and his human musician to ‘pied piper’ them out of town. Maurice isn’t too concerned with being in danger by doing this, since he assumes he can streak out of trouble when it arises. And, he is a somewhat predictable cat, mostly concerned with food, pleasure, and rescuing his friends without looking as if he is doing so (because he has a reputation to maintain). Several times in the film, Maurice improvises on the fly and does something unexpected—challenging the Rat King, offering up one of his lives to save Dangerous Beans, and taking a literal bite out of the rats with tied tails.
Introverted Thinking
His reasoning is solid, that they can mislead people and earn money, which can fund his future life of leisure; he sells the rats the idea of living in harmony with humans and other talking animals, without really believing any of it. Many times, Maurice is the voice of reason in the group, saying that the rats don’t know how the “real world” works, or raising a skeptical eyebrow at Malicia’s fantastical thinking; her Ne-dom driven narratives seem absurd and unrealistic to his way of thinking. Maurice thinks he can talk his way out of bad situations, and he isn’t wrong; even when he dies and pops into Death’s realm, he negotiates with Death to save Dangerous Beans, rather than play a moralizing card. Death needs two deaths? Maurice has a couple to spare; everyone walks away happy (in a manner of speaking)… although first, he threatens to EAT the Death of Rats since it can’t talk, just squeak. He also knows that money is what makes things happen, and offers the Rat King a bag of coins if he’ll release Peaches.
Extraverted Feeling
Maurice is charming and likable, but also somewhat… manipulative in a low Fe way. He convinces the rats that they are all in this together, that they all share the same ambitious dream of a future together, when in reality, he intends to scam them and walk away with all the money. But as the story goes on, we see him developing a greater sense of responsibility for his friends; he feels guilty about having eaten the talking rat, but tries to justify his values as him being “only a cat” when it happened (not intelligent), and is happier when he tells the truth to his friends and gains their acceptance; instead of thinking only about himself, he risks his life against the Rat King, and gives away one of his nine lives to save a friend. At the end, he even purrs when hugged by one of his rat friends, implying that he has given up on maintaining his ‘reputation’ and now feels at home with his new furry family.
Introverted Intuition
Maurice has a vague notion that he wants to make off with the money and leave his rat friends in the lurch, but when given several chances to make off with the cash, he gets distracted by the immediate situation and its needs (Se) and sticks around instead. Mauriece eventually reveals to us the happy ending that Peaches dreamed of, and how it has become a reality (Se).
The Enneagram 7
Maurice starts out as a con kitty who is only out to benefit himself. He survives through his cleverness, by staying in constant motion, and looking for opportunities to exploit, but avoids discomfort, being deprived of pleasure (food! When he reaches the town, that’s his first complaint; there’s nothing to eat!), and by asking how he can stay ahead of bad situations. His solution at times is to literally run away, and he justifies this with conversations with himself rationalizing his choice to abandon his friends (he rarely does). He also feels tremendous guilt over how he became a talking cat, but has avoided talking about it, confessing to his “wrongdoing” and always changes the subject whenever anyone wonders about it, because he doesn’t want to linger on feelings of shame.
The 6 Wing
Fortunately, Maurice also has more 6ish tendencies than he might like to admit to having; when his friends are in danger, even though his first instinct is to take his furry butt up the road (with the money)… he also feels loyal to Peaches and Dangerous Beans and always winds up turning around to save the day. He risks his life to rescue his friends multiple times, is willing to give up his “hard-earned” cash for them, and even hands over one of his nine lives (now he’s down to four) so that a “good rat, a smart and kind and peaceful rat” can live.
