The Umbrella Academy: Number 5 (ENTJ)

Te:

“I have some thoughts I wanted to run by you, some suggestions to improve Commission protocol.”

“I’d ask what you’re up to, Klaus, but then it occurred to me… I don’t care.”

Number Five is the embodiment of the rougher aspects of Te that people tend to stereotype all Te dominants to be: blunt, rude, and arrogant. He is not afraid to say exactly what he is thinking, nor does he appear to care about how he may come off to others. He is extremely goal oriented, frequently feeling like anything aside from what he is trying to accomplish is a pointless, waste of time. This is in addition to giving explanations, which will be discussed further in the Ni section. However, as a dominant Te user, he tends to actively berate people for not keeping up with his explanations and will even declare that if they were smarter they would understand. Of course, his need for urgency is somewhat understandable given the time limit he is working with to stop the apocalypse.

Even when younger, Five is shown being very straightforward. One example can be seen when they’re all at the dinner table, and he declares to his father that he is ready to start time traveling. Five argues with him, and when forbidden, storms off, feeling as though he is being held back. He is convinced that he knows better and does it anyway.

Five also displays the efficiency and organizational aspects of high Te as well. In the brief period of time that he works as a Case Manager at the Temps Commission, Five comes up with a proposal on how to complete work more efficiently. This same efficient nature is seen in the methods that he uses when trying to get to the bottom of how the world ends. He is very direct when interrogating people for information and gets frustrated by the decreased effectiveness of this strategy due to his body now being that of a teenager.

Ni:

“In all the time that I’ve been here, I’ve never met anyone quite like you. Hazel and Cha-Cha, for example, are talented certainly, but they can’t see the big picture. Your spunk, your enterprising spirit… Well, it reminds me a great deal of myself.” -The Handler

Five’s Ni manifests in the way that he relays information to others. Even though the world is ending, he can’t even be bothered to give his siblings a halfway decent explanation. He brushes off most of their questions, telling them that what they are asking is irrelevant or simply saying that they are not smart enough to understand. He only shares what he feels is important for them to know and gets frustrated when they ask for more context. He does little in the way of sharing his plans with the others, only pulling them in when absolutely necessary yet still expecting them to just do what he wants without giving them an explanation. When he does try to give an explanation, Five often gets very impatient with the others for failing to keeping up with his fast paced, jumbled, and vague explanations.

He has a one track mind and gets overly fixated on his one lead, glossing over everything else that is going on with the others around him. He focuses in on the prosthetic eye and views it as the key to everything, thoroughly convinced that it is the only way to figure it out what happened. When Hazel and Cha Cha get to the files and burn them before he can get to it, he loses hope and gets drunk, thinking his only shot at saving the future is gone since he can see no other path forward.

A good of his Ni can be seen in the indirect solution to his first case at the Temps Commission. In order to ensure the crash happens, he has the owner of the butcher shop killed which sets off a chain of events that ultimately leads the aircraft to fly into an electrical storm due to time delays.

Se:

Number Five’s Se shows up in his impulsive driven behavior and indulgent nature. He is always on the move, rarely stopping for anyone or anything. One of the most obvious examples of his impulsive Se nature is when he rushes off to time travel in spite of the warnings that his father gives against it. He jumps through time several times and then ends up in the apocalyptic future, stuck and unable to return. When he finally does get back, his very first move is to make himself a sandwich. In another instance, after a time jump, he’s shown immediately snatching a cup of coffee out of his sibling’s hand, chugging it, and casting the cup aside in a semi-violent fashion.

His Te-Se nature is very present in the hands-on way that he goes about hunting down information, threatening violence, and demanding what he wants to know. He frequently teleports to get past obstacles and steals whatever he needs, knowing that he is capable enough to get away with it.

Fi:

“There’s no such thing as good guys or bad guys. There’s just people.”

Number Five’s inferior feeling on a basic level manifests in his general lack of obvious emotions. His family seems shocked when he makes matter-of-fact statements about wanting to save them or when he proves that he cares enough about them to know things about their lives, like the name of Allison’s daughter. His loyalty to his family runs deep in spite of how little he lets on.

However, moving beyond generic inferior feeling evidence, Number 5’s inferior Fi shows up in a couple of different ways. He gets extremely frustrated about being stuck in a kid’s body because people tend to not give him the respect he feels that he deserves. He periodically gets offended as a result, especially when his capabilities are called into question. For instance, when one of his siblings asks if he even knows how to drive, he gets irritated and responds with: “I know how to do everything.”

Lastly, Number 5 is shown to have a fairly undefined sense of morality, which ties into his underdeveloped Fi. As a result, he willingly works as an assassin for the Temps Commissions, but then later blames them for making him a killer rather than accepting responsibility for who he is. He also states at one point that there’s no such thing as good guys or bad guys, just people.