Peter Quill personality type: ESFP

The first time we see adult Peter Quill, he is dancing across an abandoned planet to his Walkman, using a small alien creature as a microphone. Minutes earlier, the film showed him as a boy in 1988, unable to take his dying mother’s hand. Everything about Star-Lord sits between those two scenes.

The dance is the Seven talking. Sevens run from pain toward fun, noise and the next adventure, and Peter’s whole personality is a way to avoid sitting with grief. He is a Seven with a Six wing. The jokes, the flirting, the speech about Footloose all keep the sad kid quiet. The Six wing is the loyalty: when his crew is in danger, the fun stops and he shows up.

He is an ESFP, an improviser who lives in the moment and acts on instinct. Faced with Ronan holding the Power Stone, he challenges the villain to a dance-off. It works. Underneath is the private core he protects: his mother, her music and the mixtape he guards like treasure. Peter’s values are personal and fierce, which is why a band of misfits ends up mattering more to him than any payday. When he has to, he is also the scrappy captain who can run a crew.

What he does not see is the long game. He believes Ego’s story about a lost father until Ego admits he put the tumor in Meredith’s head. On Titan, the team is moments from pulling off the gauntlet when Peter learns Gamora is dead and punches Thanos back awake.

His growth lands in Vol. 2, when Yondu dies saving him. Peter finally sees that the man who raised him, badly, was the father he had all along, and he lets himself grieve. In Vol. 3 he goes home to Earth to see his grandfather, which a Seven only does when he is done running.

You could call him an ENFP, a dreamer with a big heart. Fair enough. Still, his gifts are physical and immediate, timing, music, piloting, a dance at the worst possible moment, and his worst decisions are snap reactions to what he feels right now.