In 1992, Vuk and “her” other D’Bari allies followed the cosmic power of the Phoenix. As it came near the planet Earth, they saw the power entering Jean Gray in space and converging with the Phoenix Force. Vuk and the D’Bari powers clash with the X-Men and their mutant allies, whom they combat in a bid to get to Jean and the Phoenix.
The Stabilizing Thinker
INTP Tritype® 935
3+9: The Stabilizer
Karkino from Personality Cafe
Double attachment.
Pairing that hides behind an inoffensive and likeable veneer the most.
Enhances the natural line of connection to THREE and NINE.
Probably the least likely of all pairings to display strong emotions or go toward extremes.
Unemotional and dry personality for the most part.
The 9 fix helps the core 3 mellow their ambitious nature and go more with the flow.
The 3 fix helps the core 9 be more assertive, dynamic and goal oriented.
The Origin of Vuk and is she a “he”, “she” or “it”?
Vuk is the leader of a shape-shifting alien race known as the D’Bari. The D’Bari are a humanoid plant species so Vuk might be asexual for this reason.
Humanoid:
Noun: (especially in science fiction) a being resembling a human in its shape.
Google’s English dictionary – Licensed from Oxford University Press
“a three-eyed humanoid”
“She” or “it” is one of the D’Bari who escaped from the annihilation of their planet by the Phoenix Force.
Jessica Chastain who plays Margaret Smith, the woman Vuk impersonates, seeks to capture the Phoenix. She is logic driven, goal-oriented, and an unemotional INTP antagonist to humans and mutants but a protagonist for her race.
How is Vuk a type 9 (gut) – The Peaceful Mediator
Enneagram Type 9: Peaceful Mediator
Peacemaker, Mediator, Naturalist, Accommodator or Abdicator
Vuk: [creates a hologram] What entered you in space was not a solar flare. And it was not an accident. It was drawn to you.
Jean Grey: What… what was it?
Vuk: A pure and unimaginably powerful cosmic force. We saw it enter you in space. We were there, Jean, following that force.
Jean Grey: Why?
Vuk: Because it’s the spark that gave life to the universe… and the flame that consumed my world. What remains of my people searched the stars for that power, to control it, but it destroyed everything it ever came into contact with. Until you.
Jean Grey: Why me?
Vuk: Because you’re stronger than you know. Because you’re special, Jean. With my help, you could control what’s inside you. Harness that power to create whole new worlds… turn dust into water… water into life. It’s your destiny, Jean, to become something greater… to evolve into the greatest force in the galaxy. I told you they could never understand you. And what they don’t understand, they fear. And what they fear…
Jean Grey: …they seek to destroy.
Why is Vuk a type 3 (heart)
Enneagram Type 3: Successful Achiever
Performer, Motivator, Achiever, Producer or Status Seeker
Compare to Magneto who is Type 8 (835-Solution Master), Vuk is secondarily a Type 3 (935-The Thinker) due to her ability to adapt to the expectations of others as Margaret Smith. She expresses her Three with her desire to perform, her ability to achieve her goal, and her natural ability to motivate and charm Jean.
“Because you’re stronger than you know. Because you’re special, Jean.”
Vuk (Jessica Chastain)
“The only person afraid of your power is you”
As opposed to Magneto who is Type 8, Margaret Smith, the woman Vuk impersonates, is not that confrontational. She is the adopted self-image of a Three who is there to charm and “salvage” Jean from a schizophrenic condition she now suffers called “The Phoenix.”
“Feel the power inside you. That power is you.”
Vuk (Jessica Chastain)
“Let’s just say I have friends in high places.”
How is Vuk also a type 5 (head) – The observer?
Enneagram Type 5: Investigative Thinker
Observer, Investigator, Thinker, Sage or Voyeur
She has many of the vices and virtues of a Five. For instance, she was able to observe and track the Phoenix. She then quickly learn the human language and learned to adopt a human persona. She developed expertise in the image of Margaret Smith. She is clearly objective and displays penetrating insight unfettered by emotions as she communicates with others including Jean.
“It’s so much easier to understand your language when you’re not screaming.”
“This is a primitive species.”
Vuk (Jessica Chastain)
Her vices as a Type 5 include being seen as unfeeling, dispassionate, and ‘cool as a cucumber and hard on relationships.
How is Vuk a Thinker and a Stabilizer?
You can’t control it. If you kill me, you’ll kill them all.
Your emotions make you weak.
Vuk to Jean
Once she finds Jean, Vuk explains that the cosmic force she has absorbed had wiped out her planet, consuming everything that stood in its way up until it was drawn to Jean.
Tritype® 359, 395, 539, 593, 935, 953-The Thinker
Katherine Chernick Fauvre
If you are a 359, you are ambitious, knowledgeable, and accepting. You want to be efficient, wise, and peaceful.
Vuk is ambitious and knowledgeable since she seeks to capture The Phoenix which is responsible for the annihilation of her planet. She is efficient and wise as she quickly learns to adapt and speak the human language and impersonates Margaret Smith, an image of acceptance, peace and success in society:
3+9: The Stabilizer
Pairing that hides behind an inoffensive and likeable veneer the most.
Enhances the natural line of connection to THREE and NINE.
Probably the least likely of all pairings to display strong emotions or go toward extremes.Karkino from Personality Cafe
Consequently, there is rarely something offensive, dramatic or controversial about them, at least on surface level.
There is a natural mask of pleasantness when those two enneatypes come together.
According to Wikipedia and as a side note unrelated to the movie: “Margaret Madeline Chase Smith was an American politician with fair hair. A member of the Republican Party, she served as a U.S. representative and a U.S. senator from Maine. She was the first woman to serve in both houses of the United States Congress, and the first woman to represent Maine in either.”
3+9: The Stabilizer
Very consistent behavior, especially in public.
Karkino from Personality Cafe
Want to be seen as reliable and successful without too much arrogance.
She presents Jean with a logical (but not so ideological) proposition offering her to absorb her power in exchange for her salvation and this is her mark as a “stabilizer”. However, Charles Xavier who is a telepath realizes Vuk intends to also use the force to kill them all.
[Jean stops her rampage after seeing into Charles’ mind]Professor Charles Xavier: I knew. I knew you were still in there.
Vuk: He just showed you your past. Follow me… into your future.
Jean Grey: No. I never asked for this, any of it.
Vuk: I traveled to the stars for a gift that you don’t want.
Jean Grey: Then take it, please. Free me.
Vuk: I’ll try.
Professor Charles Xavier: Stop it. You’re going to kill her!
Vuk: Your lives mean nothing. Your world will be ours.
Professor Charles Xavier: You’d kill us all.
Vuk: [smiles] Yes.
3+9: The Stabilizer
Very adaptable and accommodating.
Can agree with people on surface but privately disagree.
Karkino from Personality Cafe
The 9 fix helps the core 3 mellow their ambitious nature and go more with the flow.
The 3 fix helps the core 9 be more assertive, dynamic and goal oriented.
“We can begin again. Here.”- Vuk about Earth
Tritype® 359, 395, 539, 593, 935, 953-The Thinker
Katherine Chernick Fauvre
Intellectual and clever, you find amenable ways to manage difficult situations and relationships.
She is efficient, wise, and goal oriented as she proceeds toward the end, especially facing magneto and other mutants on a train.
3+9: The Stabilizer
Hide their more edgy side with a likeable but somewhat plain exterior.
Karkino from Personality Cafe
Can be a surprisingly tough nut to crack in private, even when they lead with the sexual instinct.
Stick to the role that is assigned to them.
How is Vuk Introverted Thinking dominant (or Feeling inferior) with supported intuition?
Vuk: I have no desire to fight you.
Erik Lehnsherr: I get that a lot.
Vuk: You wanted her dead.
Erik Lehnsherr: I had a change of heart.
Vuk: Your emotions make you weak.
Jean Grey: You’re wrong. My emotions make me strong.
Vuk: [to Jean] You feel like you don’t belong here. You don’t. They can’t begin to comprehend what you are.
Vuk: He just showed you your past. Follow me… into your future.
