INFJ 3w4 Characters

Poirot prefers to solve cases with the intellect (“the little grey cells”) rather than physical exertion, and is often caught off guard when the latter is required. But more on that later. He can often solve a crime before it has been committed, and in a few instances, is just waiting for things to happen as he predicted they would, so he can catch the person responsible. Sometimes he comes up with solutions out of the clear blue, such as when he realizes suddenly that two women share first names (without any real proof, just a hunch that proves to be right). Other times, he pours over the evidence, sits with it a while, and then lays out the entire crime, motives, etc., for others to hear in awe. Poirot a few times warns people that innocuous small events are part of a larger picture, and is sad whenever his warnings go ignored and some fool winds up dead. He has a very charming nature, is polite, and tries to be appropriate to all situations. Poirot sometimes looks in horror at Hastings for being too blunt (Hastings is Fi) and finds a way to re-word or soften what he means to be less offensive to a bystander. He wants to not only understand the crime, but the motivation and the mindset of the person who committed it, utilizing his Ti into problem-solving for a living. His inferior Se shows in the fussiness of his attire, the meticulous nature of his grooming, and in his deep discomfort with walking anywhere, unpleasant nature experiences, and even the beach (where he sits fully clothed in the heat, while everyone else runs around in bathing attire). In one episode, he and Hastings break into a house to burglarize it; when the cops catch them, Hastings dives out the window and runs away to safety, while Poirot just stands there looking shocked. He doesn’t have the ability to react quickly, or even put physical effort into getting away, and spends the night in the clink.

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Poirot is something of an egotist; many times in the series, he is shocked and even offended when people do not know his name and/or mistake him from being from France (he corrects them to proudly say Belgium). He expects everyone to know him by his reputation as the “greatest consulting detective” in the world, and in one episode, even loftily tells Hastings that “see, even the criminals turn to Poirot when they know not what to do next!” He prides himself on using his “little grey cells” and feels good about reaching conclusions Hastings does not (rather like Sherlock Holmes, he sometimes puts Hastings down for being less intelligent than Poirot). He is very good at making people like him, charming them, and in being polite, but doesn’t like to be made fun of or put down; when Japp finds him in the lock-up for burglarizing a blackmailer’s house and teases him about it, Poirot glares at him and tells him this is no way “amusing.” His 4 wing is fussy, pretentious, and elitist in his taste. He has to have everything according to his super high standards, and often looks down on people and places as being trite or undignified.