The Martian INFJ is one of the least INFJesque of INFJs. They wouldn’t often be identified with INFJ MBTI type, but make no mistake they are, so let’s get on it boy.

The Mars look: Not gonna lie, the Mars look is raw, uncouth, unvarnished, plain-featured. Reddish complexion and hair is the true Mars look. Opposite of Venusian prettiness of features.

The Mars temperament: Mean, petty, asshole, irascible, they have bad tempers.

The Mars style: Working class people, the commoners, the labor class, the soldier, the cop, the punk rocker.

Color = RED

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Van Gogh

Here we have a great representation of the Martian INFJ type. Look at his flaming red hair for starters.

A little bit about Mr. Martian INFJ Van Gogh

Cut off his ear in an argument with another famous painter. Extremely prodigious painter. He painted a fuckload of paintings in a short period of time. Was maybe manic-depressive, but at any rate very disturbed and agitated person that couldn’t rest. I think he lived most or all of this life in poverty. And it’s no wonder that such a sensitive and impassioned person would become maddened and ravaged by being brought into the trenches with commoners and peasants. Anyway, that is the impression that I get, however factual all that is or isn’t.

The Red Vineyards

Look at one of his most famous paintings, The Red Vineyards. It looks like Mars. The ghastly colors, the crude strokes, even the subject matter of the poor and lowly workers in the fields.

 

John Lennon

Just look at that face. This is a Mars face. Sharp nose. Thin lips. Coarse eyebrows.

I know most people know the popular image of John as a man of peace and love. Love is all you need, and all that. But actually, Lennon started out life as a Mars type, and after the Beatles, reverted back to that style in his songs and ethos. He was never the psychedelic man of peace that the general public thinks of him as. A lot of his work in the Beatles was influenced by his songwriting partnership with Paul McCartney and producer George Martin, the latter of whom made the Beatles songs into lush layered textures and whatnot. But John was a punk at heart. When left to his own devices, he would just flesh out a song quickly and record as quickly as possible.

Songs like Working Class Hero and Give Me Some Truth.

Even in the Beatles, John said what he’s really good at is DRIVING a song with his rhythm guitar. He was that rock n roll rebel in his youth. Only later did he become that symbol of the 60’s of love and peace.

At any rate, rock music is the Martian musical art form par excellence. And Lennon was one of the greatest of its practitioners.

Dostoevsky

Dostoevsky shares some of this raw red quality with Van Gogh, even though you can’t tell because he wasn’t alive in the time of color pictures. He spent four years in a Siberian prison camp, followed by six years of compulsory military service in exile. He wrote a novel called Poor People. Martian INFJs often have a thing for the lower working class people.

He wrote one of the greatest short novels in the history of novels: Notes From The Underground. Check out these opening lines.

“I am a sick man … I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased…”

And boom! With those opening lines we’re into one of the greatest novellas in history. That opening paragraph concludes with

My liver is bad, well—let it get worse!”

How can you not read the rest after that?? Rock n roll, baby!

Thom Yorke

There’s no getting around the fact that when you watch interviews with Thom Yorke that he was/is an angry spiteful bastard (Like Lennon), but he also wrote and sang some of the most beautiful music in the history of music.

It’s all quite ghastly though. Martian people have a distinct unpleasant quality to all they do. They’re is always something biting and acidic about it no matter how dressed up in pretty garb it is.

But because they are INFJs, the Martian element helps them cut deep and reveal universal truths about humanity. Honest, direct, uncompromising. Git some!

Tim Roth

Plays a cop in the Richard Gere movie Arbitrage, good depiction of a Martian INFJ type. Crude, coarse, unpolished, unsophisticated methods.

I think he played a cop in Quentin Tarantino Reservoir Dogs too, the one who gets shot in the guts early on in the movie.

He played a robber in the famous diner hold up scene that opens the movie Pulp Fiction.

That’s Mars for you. Either a cop or a criminal. Two sides of the same coin.

Anyway, if you just look at his face, this is the face of a Martian type. And he’s INFJ. I didn’t even realize that until someone brought it to my attention. Least likely to be, baby.

Gary Oldman

He plays a bumbling dirty cop in the movie Romeo is Bleeding. Played punk rocker Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy. And he was in a bunch of other ghastly things, but I’ll leave it to your ferreting instincts to dig out more.

And since we have that evocative picture of Mr. Oldman up there, what conversation on the Martian INFJ would be complete without

Die Fuhrer!

Hitler started out a lowly soldier and due to being almost killed in a bunker explosion (but not) he got the idea that he was chosen by god to lead the people out the mess that Germany was in at the time. He was known for his forceful martial rhetoric; angry, impassioned, and violent.

I know a lot of people judge Hitler as the worst person in the history of people, but my concern here is for the sake of science, and to demonstrate the continuums that these Martian INFJ people tend to traverse on.

If things were a little different, Hitler could have been a Dostoevsky or Van Gogh perhaps. He was a painter in his youth, but gave up because he thought he was no good and couldn’t sell anything. It is probaly true that his paintings lacked that Venusian quality, but look at what Van Gogh did lacking that prettiness and polish. He made a style out of it that is recognized by the whole world over today when they fawn over Starry Night.

It’s also true that Van Gogh sold only one of his paintings during his lifetime, which is insane and sad. So you see what happens when an INFJ is a failed artist.

But who the fuck could paint ghastly sunflowers like this?

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This article is part of the series The 10 Types of INFJ. Be sure to check that link to read about the other 9 types of INFJ.

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