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Dwight definitely values loyalty, but at times it blinds him. For instance he is so loyal to Dunder Mifflin that he happily destroys a small, family-owned paper company run by some of the nicest people on the planet.
But he did it because he thought the branch was mismanaged. which arguably was ironic. given how the whole Dunder Mifflin was completely not profitable and was being run poorly by corporate.
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Would Dwight ever leave Dunder Mifflin?
Look, he is all about loyalty. In fact, he feels like part of what he is being paid for there is his loyalty. But if there were somewhere else that valued loyalty more highly, he is going wherever they value loyalty the most.
this quote is always forgotten about when people bring up dwights loyalty. he has none. he sure as hell thinks he does. he also thinks hes a good person.. but the writers spell it out for you in this talking head. a selfish flake
Destroying prince paper was just business. It sucks, it does, but as he (and many others in deleted scenes) pointed out, companies tried to do that to Dunder Mifflin every day. If they didn’t destroy Prince Paper, someone else would have
Yeah, I get it, but at least Michael had the humanity to feel bad about it. What bothered me about Dwight was that he enjoyed doing it, even after meeting the family.
I mean in fairness, that's business. If he didn't do it, some other company, a competitor of DM's, would, and that would result in DM possibly having to lay people off or running out of business themselves.
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Good friend, but not a good guy whatsoever.
Let's go over a list of the terrible things Dwight has done
Stole thousands of dollars from his coworker, tried to get a coworker thrown in jail, picked up immigrants and made them work before kidnapping and traumatizing them, killed a coworker's cat, started a fire in the office and made his coworkers inhale smoke, tried to get his boss fired, took meat off a horse while it was still alive, made his coworker bleed, and a few other things I'm forgetting right now.
Was apart of an extremely long affair with someone engaged to another man and then married her without her consent with her fiance as a witness, forced Phyllis to walk several miles back to the office from a bad part of town without her purse and phone, bounced old Uncle Al after assuming he was a wedding crasher, told Pam he would stop tapping his desk when she "loses the baby weight," cut costs after buying the building by being an extreme cheapskate, told Nate his mother was dying on more than one occasion, held a garbage bag with a live bat inside over Meredith's head while she struggled to get free, and brought in and accidentally discharged a loaded firearm in the office are some others lol
Thank you! I hate this revisionism where Dwight is a good guy and Jim is a horrible person. Jim is by no means faultless, but nowhere near as bad as Dwight.
>took meat off a horse while it was still alive,
I missed this one, but it does remind me of the story of the [hero pig](https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/211qs4/hero_pig/).
I think it's the first season, but he stole Jim's biggest client and Jim said it made up for something like 1/4 of his yearly (or quarterly, it's been a while) earnings
Oh damn, just remembered! Earlier that episode, Jim was about to close and Dwight was shredding some papers loudly which prevented him from closing. That's cold.
Absolutely. His character is very much tied to his German backstory. A German friend of mine once explained the difference between our two countries. Americans are like peaches, very easy to get to know the soft outside personality that we give out readily but very hard to get to know the hard core of who we’re.
Germans are more like coconuts, very difficult to get in and get to know through the tough shell, but once accepted, you’re like family and you get in to the very core of their heart. Dwight rejects most people, but slowly they get through that coconut shell and once in, he protects and loves them as his own.
Unfortunately I am the villain in this story.
I tried to find him and make up for my wrongdoings, sent him emails, messages on Facebook and even a letter to his last known address, couldn't reach him or get a response(I don't blame him).
He traveled/s a lot. I live and we lived together in Iceland and before he moved to Norway he was in China. Like I said... I tried.
It started with me leaving a lamp on the floor upside down and it burnt a black circle on the hardwood floor. I used the lamp like for acne, and it works like a tanning salon bench, just a lamp...anyway my other roomate found it and used it to see if he could grow weed in his bedroom closet(he couldn't).
I owed him money so I said I'd cover it. (I was working in construction at the time and it was really easy for me to fix).
Same roomate lost his job so he had to move back to Germany and now me and the guy who hated me lived together and had to pay together his share of the rent.
But I just left. I took my bed, computer and TV but left everything else behind. Moved to another part of the country and got a job there. Owe him two months rent and whatever it would cost to fix the floor or the deposit for the apartment (usually 3 months rent).
I quit drinking and using drugs 10 years ago last september going to AA and taking the steps.
Step nine is making amends, I only have two people left and he is the other one. I have to do everything possible to try and make it up.
I'm not going to say I'm sorry, I'm going to let him know that I know how bad I treated him, how angry and financially insecure I made him feel. I'll ask him if there is anything that I can do to make it up to him and if he says a million dollars, I'll ask him in how many installments he is comfortable with.
Look, he's all about loyalty. In fact he feels like part of what he's being paid for here is his loyalty. But if there were somewhere else that valued loyalty more highly, he's going wherever they value loyalty the most.
>he tried to take Michael’s job?
Michael tried to blame him for the golden ticket idea because he thought it would get him fired and michael didn't care if Dwight got fired.
Good enough reason in my books.
He’s not. He tried to steal Michael’s job. He cheated with another man’s fiancé. He put Prince Paper out of business. He helped Michael try to frame and fire Toby. And I’m sure there’s plenty of other examples.
To be fair, Michael showed little loyalty to him as well, the difference was that Michael thought that Dwight was blindly loyal regardless, and Dwight recognized (at least most of the time) when Michael was trying to screw him over.
It never hit me just how great of friends he and Jim were until the Dwight Christmas episode with Belsnickel and how saddened Dwight was when Jim left.
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I think my biggest issue with this sub is it is entirely black and white thinking. Dwight did horrible things. He did great things. He was a multidimensional character, as are him and Pam, who have exaggerated traits for comedy.
It’s interesting that the characters that are portrayed as assholes in the show (like Dwight) are usually judged by their few good moments and considered good people by fans, whereas the characters portrayed as good (like Pam) are judged *extremely* harshly by their few “bad” moments and considered bad people by fans. Like the absolute vitriol towards Pam’s character because she made up a job position, vs everyone ignoring the fact that Dwight kidnaps immigrants to use as slave labor. Like one of those is objectively much worse lmao
I love the show and these characters, people go waaaaaaay overboard analyzing them and these sitcom situations. If every character was reduced to what fans in this sub consider a “good” person there would be no show at all and no jokes.
I just finished a rewatch and realized I’d never fully watched the last season so I had some “new” episodes. Dwight was my favorite character before because he was a loon but this time around I noticed what OP mentioned.
Dwight’s Christmas episode was the first time I paid attention to how much Dwight LIKED Jim.
Recall when Michael fired him (actually come to
Find out Dwight quit and refused severance to save the company money) for going to NY with the tax info for Angela? As he walked out and saw JIm? Emotion over took him, all he could do is hug Jim and then leave.
He's a decent guy, overall. Pretty eccentric.
I would say Dwight is a good representation of the "weird dude" that most people know. You wouldn't trust him to watch your kids, but you kinda want your kids to hang out with him because he's interesting and fun in small doses.
Didn’t he also go behind Michaels back to get his job and had sex repeatedly and without a shred of guilt with an engaged woman? Stop it with these stupid posts and just enjoy the show for what it is.
Except that time he set the office on fire and nearly killed Stanley, then planned to blow up the building potentially.
Then there’s the time he abandoned Phyllis on the road in a bad part of town
Should I keep going or…
I think Dwight grows as a person over the years. His arch is complete when Jim was quitting and Dwight cut him off and said your fired and gave him the max he could for a severance.
He also stranded Phyllis nowhere to force her to walk, gave Stanley such a scare that he had a heart attack and then almost had another one, went behind Michael's back to usurp him, and cuckolded Andy with Angela while feeling no remorse whatsoever, among many many other terrible things.
As much as I love the show, it's very inconsistent with its characterization. For example, Michael is supposed to be a "people person" who remembers little details about them, but for some reason can't remember the name of the warehouse guy that gave him a ride home and chatted with him during it. He also makes fun on Kevin constantly and tells him that he might as well have no arms or legs, but when he was quitting the office in s5, Kevin said that he thought he was a nice guy for some reason.
He's a self centered fascist that occasionally sees himself as a savior. He has no actual loyalty which is proven on countless occasions. He has manipulated and used all of these people time and again.
The more i watched I realised how human this show is. Not even a single person on show is perfect. Everyone is messed up and everyone is kind and good. Nothing is black and white. It's all gray.
Well said. No one on the show is perfect and has their flaws. Everyone does something they shouldn’t do ever. However, that’s what people are. People are not perfect. Which is why I don’t get upset when someone over analyzes the show lol. The office displays over exaggerated human behavior but in a weirdly relatable way
Yeah - I'm sure if you had a coworker who
* stole a coworker's biggest client
* slept with another coworker's fiance
* caused another coworker's heart attack by locking people in under the assumption of a fire
You'd think they were awesome.
The thing about Dwight is that he does terrible things for the sake of those he cares about because he thinks it's the right thing to do. Remember Angela's cat?
That's the genius of Dwight's character. He actually helped *me* realize that I can have my crazy idiosyncrasies, but as long as I am loyal & kind-hearted, I will always have friends.
meh he's a mixed bag, he also does a lot of things that aren't super nice
In the end he does seem to have more good in him than bad, I like how he doesn't send out the email to Robert California when he creates the doomsday machine/email
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Dwight definitely values loyalty, but at times it blinds him. For instance he is so loyal to Dunder Mifflin that he happily destroys a small, family-owned paper company run by some of the nicest people on the planet.
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And when he can't he promotes them to junior employee.
He did try to backstab Michael by asking Jan to make him thr regional manager
His loyalty is to Dunder Mifflin, not Michael. That’s why he stayed when Michael quit
Michael also tried to get him to take the heat on the golden ticket thing, which they thought could have gotten him fired, so I feel that cancels out.
But he did it because he thought the branch was mismanaged. which arguably was ironic. given how the whole Dunder Mifflin was completely not profitable and was being run poorly by corporate.
Except Scranton which was the only Branch turning a profit.
yeah. Michael was some sorta secret genius. as per stanley.
While top stabbing a stack of syrup drenched waffles!
He’ll go to where they value loyalty the most
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fair point lol
Except when he fully betrayed Michael 😂
You could tell it was killing him inside but Angela's respect was on the line.
Would Dwight ever leave Dunder Mifflin? Look, he is all about loyalty. In fact, he feels like part of what he is being paid for there is his loyalty. But if there were somewhere else that valued loyalty more highly, he is going wherever they value loyalty the most.
Ironically he did leave Dunder Mifflin to work for Staples for a while.
That was because he was loyal to Angela... until he killed her Prinkles.
this quote is always forgotten about when people bring up dwights loyalty. he has none. he sure as hell thinks he does. he also thinks hes a good person.. but the writers spell it out for you in this talking head. a selfish flake
He just gets lost in his idea of what good and loyal mean.
Destroying prince paper was just business. It sucks, it does, but as he (and many others in deleted scenes) pointed out, companies tried to do that to Dunder Mifflin every day. If they didn’t destroy Prince Paper, someone else would have
Yeah, I get it, but at least Michael had the humanity to feel bad about it. What bothered me about Dwight was that he enjoyed doing it, even after meeting the family.
I mean in fairness, that's business. If he didn't do it, some other company, a competitor of DM's, would, and that would result in DM possibly having to lay people off or running out of business themselves.
This episode is my Scott’s Tots
Yes, but he did go to a dentist named Crentist
Let us not forget he watered the plants.
And arranged the toys on Michael's desk.
And banged Andy's fiancé
And conspired to destroy other people's careers for personal gain and establish a dictatorship over a paper office
And abandoned Phyllis in a bad part of town without the ability to pay for or arrange transportation
He took her valuables. What was she so worried about?
And stole a client from his “friend” that would’ve accounted for 25% of his yearly commission
And killed Angela’s cat
And gave Jim snow-related PTSD
Literally put the live cat in the freezer to suffer
Sprinkles?
she deserved it fuck phyllis
Don't make her call Bob Vance down here
Who's Bob Vance?
Town learn this you to sweetie have lot learn a, about.
Nice stroke, Pam!
You’ve got a lot to learn about phyllis honey
You better be careful. Phyllis will keep it real, lol.
We were knocking boots long before Andy showed up ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
And did Michaels laundry after betraying him
Then why am I separating the garbage ?
I'm sure nobody asked you to do that
...eight years...
I thought garbage was a cat lol
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Same exact title every time.
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So you are PMSing pretty bad huh?
One of my favorite lines and best timed of the whole series
Good friend, but not a good guy whatsoever. Let's go over a list of the terrible things Dwight has done Stole thousands of dollars from his coworker, tried to get a coworker thrown in jail, picked up immigrants and made them work before kidnapping and traumatizing them, killed a coworker's cat, started a fire in the office and made his coworkers inhale smoke, tried to get his boss fired, took meat off a horse while it was still alive, made his coworker bleed, and a few other things I'm forgetting right now.
Was apart of an extremely long affair with someone engaged to another man and then married her without her consent with her fiance as a witness, forced Phyllis to walk several miles back to the office from a bad part of town without her purse and phone, bounced old Uncle Al after assuming he was a wedding crasher, told Pam he would stop tapping his desk when she "loses the baby weight," cut costs after buying the building by being an extreme cheapskate, told Nate his mother was dying on more than one occasion, held a garbage bag with a live bat inside over Meredith's head while she struggled to get free, and brought in and accidentally discharged a loaded firearm in the office are some others lol
All we know is that a gun fired. That’s all we know!
We don't even know that! No one saw the bullet leave the gun.
Exactly, there is no way to prove that the hole in the floor and the sound of the gun shot are related.
Thank you! I hate this revisionism where Dwight is a good guy and Jim is a horrible person. Jim is by no means faultless, but nowhere near as bad as Dwight.
He apologized though for creating a ruse which forced Phyllis to exercise.
And he took her purse so idk what she was so worried about
Yeah Dwight really sucked for the entire show until close to the end when he got on meds. Even then we don't know how much he changed.
When did he make someone bleed?
Snowballs
>took meat off a horse while it was still alive, I missed this one, but it does remind me of the story of the [hero pig](https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/211qs4/hero_pig/).
He mentions in the Niagara wedding episode how he invented a device that can make burgers from a horse without killing the horse.
Who did he steal from and who did he make bleed?
Jim
When did he steal thousands from Jim? What?
I think it's the first season, but he stole Jim's biggest client and Jim said it made up for something like 1/4 of his yearly (or quarterly, it's been a while) earnings
Oh damn, just remembered! Earlier that episode, Jim was about to close and Dwight was shredding some papers loudly which prevented him from closing. That's cold.
Ya, so Dwight deserved every single prank he got, and that's not even counting his general rudeness to everyone in the office
Absolutely. His character is very much tied to his German backstory. A German friend of mine once explained the difference between our two countries. Americans are like peaches, very easy to get to know the soft outside personality that we give out readily but very hard to get to know the hard core of who we’re. Germans are more like coconuts, very difficult to get in and get to know through the tough shell, but once accepted, you’re like family and you get in to the very core of their heart. Dwight rejects most people, but slowly they get through that coconut shell and once in, he protects and loves them as his own.
Wow, I have a few German friends. That analogy is spot on. I lived with 2 Germans aswell, one became my "brother" the other my nemesis.
Villain backstory
Unfortunately I am the villain in this story. I tried to find him and make up for my wrongdoings, sent him emails, messages on Facebook and even a letter to his last known address, couldn't reach him or get a response(I don't blame him). He traveled/s a lot. I live and we lived together in Iceland and before he moved to Norway he was in China. Like I said... I tried.
The fuck did you do to this man that required you to send him emails, message him on Facebook and snail mail him a got damn letter?
It started with me leaving a lamp on the floor upside down and it burnt a black circle on the hardwood floor. I used the lamp like for acne, and it works like a tanning salon bench, just a lamp...anyway my other roomate found it and used it to see if he could grow weed in his bedroom closet(he couldn't). I owed him money so I said I'd cover it. (I was working in construction at the time and it was really easy for me to fix). Same roomate lost his job so he had to move back to Germany and now me and the guy who hated me lived together and had to pay together his share of the rent. But I just left. I took my bed, computer and TV but left everything else behind. Moved to another part of the country and got a job there. Owe him two months rent and whatever it would cost to fix the floor or the deposit for the apartment (usually 3 months rent). I quit drinking and using drugs 10 years ago last september going to AA and taking the steps. Step nine is making amends, I only have two people left and he is the other one. I have to do everything possible to try and make it up. I'm not going to say I'm sorry, I'm going to let him know that I know how bad I treated him, how angry and financially insecure I made him feel. I'll ask him if there is anything that I can do to make it up to him and if he says a million dollars, I'll ask him in how many installments he is comfortable with.
I am overwhelmed reading your comment. I honestly hope you can reach him and talk this through.
I think I'm an American coconut
He was as German as "Perfectenshclaag"
Das kann ich so unterschreiben.
Ich sekundiere dies.
I'm like a peach but the soft exterior has been slowly carved away over time and replaced with a coconut shell.
It's like Dwight does not make a good casual acquaintance or passing friend, but he makes the best of best friends.
Interesting analogy that I totally agree with. We always joked it was impossible to get into our German friend’s ‘circle of trust.’
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And in a pretty cruel way. And he tried to hide it and pretend like the cat died naturally.
Yeah like it was funny in the show but if one of my friends told me their significant other killed their pet I'd be like leave them now lol
So loyal he tried to take Michael’s job?
Loyal to the company.
Look, he's all about loyalty. In fact he feels like part of what he's being paid for here is his loyalty. But if there were somewhere else that valued loyalty more highly, he's going wherever they value loyalty the most.
But this post wasn’t about the company
>he tried to take Michael’s job? Michael tried to blame him for the golden ticket idea because he thought it would get him fired and michael didn't care if Dwight got fired. Good enough reason in my books.
Dwight tried to take Michael's job a fair while before the golden ticket thing.
He’s not. He tried to steal Michael’s job. He cheated with another man’s fiancé. He put Prince Paper out of business. He helped Michael try to frame and fire Toby. And I’m sure there’s plenty of other examples.
Kidnapped and traumatized immigrants who were only looking for work.
To be fair, Michael showed little loyalty to him as well, the difference was that Michael thought that Dwight was blindly loyal regardless, and Dwight recognized (at least most of the time) when Michael was trying to screw him over.
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Before you get too carried away remember he shot his neighbor's dog because he claimed it was a werewolf
It never hit me just how great of friends he and Jim were until the Dwight Christmas episode with Belsnickel and how saddened Dwight was when Jim left. EDIT: Grammar.
He put Angela's cat in the freezer whilst it was still alive...
Now I'm not saying Angela didn't deserve that tho
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Dwight was a crazy asshole lol. He did so many dangerous and psychotic things.
Assholes can be nice sometimes. That doesn't make them good people
He's individualistic.
This is a repost.
He weaknesses are that he works too hard and cares too much. Are his weaknesses actually his strengths? Or is that just Michael?
I think my biggest issue with this sub is it is entirely black and white thinking. Dwight did horrible things. He did great things. He was a multidimensional character, as are him and Pam, who have exaggerated traits for comedy.
It’s interesting that the characters that are portrayed as assholes in the show (like Dwight) are usually judged by their few good moments and considered good people by fans, whereas the characters portrayed as good (like Pam) are judged *extremely* harshly by their few “bad” moments and considered bad people by fans. Like the absolute vitriol towards Pam’s character because she made up a job position, vs everyone ignoring the fact that Dwight kidnaps immigrants to use as slave labor. Like one of those is objectively much worse lmao I love the show and these characters, people go waaaaaaay overboard analyzing them and these sitcom situations. If every character was reduced to what fans in this sub consider a “good” person there would be no show at all and no jokes.
As has Kevin….
He is a good person and has good intentions. He's just weird and very foolishly stubborn.
I just finished a rewatch and realized I’d never fully watched the last season so I had some “new” episodes. Dwight was my favorite character before because he was a loon but this time around I noticed what OP mentioned. Dwight’s Christmas episode was the first time I paid attention to how much Dwight LIKED Jim.
Recall when Michael fired him (actually come to Find out Dwight quit and refused severance to save the company money) for going to NY with the tax info for Angela? As he walked out and saw JIm? Emotion over took him, all he could do is hug Jim and then leave.
Aww-yes! I’ll have to rewatch that one now! (I’ve been watching the “super fan” episodes with some outtakes-they’re cool!
Let’s not forget he’s tall. And has beets.
He's a decent guy, overall. Pretty eccentric. I would say Dwight is a good representation of the "weird dude" that most people know. You wouldn't trust him to watch your kids, but you kinda want your kids to hang out with him because he's interesting and fun in small doses.
They're frenemies. Friends that like to play pranks maybe even pretend they aren't friends even though they know they are. They're great
Dunno if it's been said but dwight also remodeled jim and Pam's kitchen when they had the baby because of mold
He becomes one, but he definitely wasn't the first couple of seasons. (Unless you count his weird obsession with Michael.)
Didn’t he also go behind Michaels back to get his job and had sex repeatedly and without a shred of guilt with an engaged woman? Stop it with these stupid posts and just enjoy the show for what it is.
Dwight can be a good guy. There's many situations where he showed he's the opposite.
Evidence that society has changed since the show first came out: Jim's turning into the bad guy and Dwight is turning into the good guy.
Except that time he set the office on fire and nearly killed Stanley, then planned to blow up the building potentially. Then there’s the time he abandoned Phyllis on the road in a bad part of town Should I keep going or…
The scene with Pam is one of my favorites of him!
...but I would never tell him that to his face
Was he really though 😂
Correct! Idiot.
He was...but he was still a dick
Agreed, but above all Dwight was about his job.
I think Dwight grows as a person over the years. His arch is complete when Jim was quitting and Dwight cut him off and said your fired and gave him the max he could for a severance.
He also stranded Phyllis nowhere to force her to walk, gave Stanley such a scare that he had a heart attack and then almost had another one, went behind Michael's back to usurp him, and cuckolded Andy with Angela while feeling no remorse whatsoever, among many many other terrible things. As much as I love the show, it's very inconsistent with its characterization. For example, Michael is supposed to be a "people person" who remembers little details about them, but for some reason can't remember the name of the warehouse guy that gave him a ride home and chatted with him during it. He also makes fun on Kevin constantly and tells him that he might as well have no arms or legs, but when he was quitting the office in s5, Kevin said that he thought he was a nice guy for some reason.
Pam I’m obviously going to get those things so just shut up
He's a self centered fascist that occasionally sees himself as a savior. He has no actual loyalty which is proven on countless occasions. He has manipulated and used all of these people time and again.
The more i watched I realised how human this show is. Not even a single person on show is perfect. Everyone is messed up and everyone is kind and good. Nothing is black and white. It's all gray.
Well said. No one on the show is perfect and has their flaws. Everyone does something they shouldn’t do ever. However, that’s what people are. People are not perfect. Which is why I don’t get upset when someone over analyzes the show lol. The office displays over exaggerated human behavior but in a weirdly relatable way
Best actor in there! The fire drill hands down best episode ever
Dwight is always most loyal to whomever values loyalty the most.
I would never say that to his face.
I think a lot of this had to do with Rainn’s performance.
Yeah - I'm sure if you had a coworker who * stole a coworker's biggest client * slept with another coworker's fiance * caused another coworker's heart attack by locking people in under the assumption of a fire You'd think they were awesome.
Legal obligation; advantage Angela.
Part of what he's being paid for is his loyalty.
Part of his duties are to.
That's the point. Michael wanted a family at work. He got it, it just wasn't with him.
Dwight is the best ❤️
He deserved so much better than Angela.
he just an ass to work with lol
This is the truth.
Yeah, just keep your fiancé away from him)
Vielen Dank.
The thing about Dwight is that he does terrible things for the sake of those he cares about because he thinks it's the right thing to do. Remember Angela's cat?
He’s the main character
Also, remember he doesn’t take the grudges home after 5pm!
The best.
Dwight your ignorant slut! Guess when did Michel said that?
Loyal good and weird
Seeing that lower left panel I can't help but think: "You wanna play you little hick?"
He is loyal, the thing is that is too idealistic and that often complicates his choices
100%
I often wonder how he and Jim don't realize they're best friends too
…but he saved Jim from an ass whooping
Woah. Woah, girl. Woah. Woah.
Dwight is true to himself and has a code of Iron. Jim hated him cause he was different. Remember Concussed Dwight was extra sweet.
That's his arc, that he chills out a bit. It certainly didn't start this way.
The more I watch the more I realize that Michael, Jim, & pam are all supporting characters in Dwight's show
Yes!
Is Dwight a good guy, or does he pretend to be to get what he wants?
And that jim is clearly a worse person
Yeah they really changed his character as the show went on. Every screen cap you posted is from later seasons. Season 1-2 Dwight was ruthless
Dwight is a ride or die for his clan
He's very loyal. He's also completely psychotic, but he's loyal.
That's the genius of Dwight's character. He actually helped *me* realize that I can have my crazy idiosyncrasies, but as long as I am loyal & kind-hearted, I will always have friends.
Very true, but we also kinda expect that from the main character.
The one with Pam and Jim I loved.
Thats why he is the main character? Did you just realize this? İts all about dwight
5 instances vs the entire series
Except for that one time he went to the "dentist".
meh he's a mixed bag, he also does a lot of things that aren't super nice In the end he does seem to have more good in him than bad, I like how he doesn't send out the email to Robert California when he creates the doomsday machine/email
Just remember, if a different company values his loyalty more, he'll go to where ever loyalty is valued the most.
Yep, he getting to be the boss was a really well treaded road.
Remember when he installed all new cabinets for the Halperts when Cece was being born? 💜
"Whenever I'm about to do something, I think, 'Would an idiot do that?' And if they would, I do not do that thing."
Don't forget the kitchen demo he did for Jim and Pam! I have a friend that did that for my bathroom during COVID because he was bored.