Michael Scott

**Michael Gary Scott** is the main protagonist of NBC's American adaptation of *The Office*, serving as the main protagonist of Seasons 1-7, the unseen overarching protagonist of Season 8, and the overarching protagonist of Season 9. He is a paper salesman who works at Dunder Mifflin as Regional Manager of the Scranton branch. He desperately wants to be liked but his childishness and incompetence often hinders him at this goal.

He is portrayed by Steve Carell.

## His Good Ranking

### His Heroic Deeds

* Consoles Jim after Pam gets engaged to Roy Anderson.
* Tries to assure Kevin he will make it after he mistakenly thinks he has been diagnosed with cancer.
* Gives Dwight his job back after he had resigned to keep his relationship with Angela secret.
* Attends Pam's art show and tells her he's proud of her.
* Secures Pam and Ryan's jobs when negotiating with David Wallace for the Michael Scott Paper Company to be bought out.
* Cheers Erin up after she breaks up with Andy.
* Writes a letter of recommendation for Dwight to replace him as manager.
* Surprises Dwight by coming back to be his best man for his wedding to Angela.

### Why He Doesn't Stand Out?

* Most of his deeds are bog-standard kindness and would only happen for selfish and pragmatic reasons.
* He is an extremely unprofessional and idiotic man-child and has a lot of jerk moments, such as pretending to fire Pam as a "prank" and dumping her mother Helene on her birthday just because she is fifty-eight years old.
* It's implied that, due to his annoying child-like personality, he may be responsible for Angela's rude behavior towards everybody (except Dwight).
* He treats both Dwight and especially Toby in a very awful manner.
	+ With Dwight, Michael openly disrespects him, calls him a "kiss-ass", shows little concern for him when he gets a serious concussion, and tries to manipulate him into taking the blame for his Golden Ticket idea, which could have gotten him fired just to avoid David Wallace's anger, which not only it is an irresponsible act but a cowardly one as well. Even Jim is appalled by this at times despite his rivalry with Dwight.
	+ With Toby, Michael openly resents him just because he is human resources, which Michael dislikes because whenever he comes up with something that is usually unethical and thinks he is doing it for "fun" or to "celebrate" something, Toby prevents him from doing so, causing Michael to abuse him in an extremely immature way. Examples are:
		- When Jan calls Michael that one of his employees used to be a convict and when she asks him who it is, he accuses Toby for a "convicted rapist", much to her and the employees' annoyance.
		- He pushes his food onto the floor when Toby tries to be nice to him by opening up about the time his parents divorced.
		- He gave him a rock labeled "suck on this!" as a going-away gift before Toby would be leaving for Costa Rica. Even Dwight, who sometimes torments Toby, thought this form of mistreatment was excessive.
		- He and Dwight once tried to frame him for drug possession when Toby returned from his Costa Rican vacation.
		- He blamed him for pouring coffee on Holly's Woody doll after finding out that she is still in love with A.J. Even everybody knew that Toby wouldn't do such a thing like that and that Michael would.
		- During his last Dundie Award show before moving to Colorado with Holly after proposing to her, he gave Toby the "Extreme Repulsiveness" Award, which everybody (including the new boss Deangelo Vickers) knew that was hurtful.
* His obsession towards Ryan is very disturbing, as he wants to be like him and finds him as a "cool guy", which everybody (except Kelly) doesn't.
* He also happens to be a very weak and pathetic coward as he's always trying to avoid confrontations and fights or when people get angry at him over his actions.
* When Phyllis got flashed, Michael finds this funny as he wonders why anybody would want to flash Phyllis, due to her weight. He then pretends to be the flasher by putting his finger in his zipper to make it look like a penis, much to the employees' discomfort.
* Even though he ran over Meredith with his car by accident, he tries to extract forgiveness from her instead of apologizing to her.
* He is also an anti-hero as he has done several acts which are simply too corrupting for a PG, NPG, and IA, such as keeping a pizza delivery boy in order for him to give him a discount, which is illegal.
* He tends to makes his employees' lives all about himself, much to their annoyance.
* He frequently and relentlessly makes very inappropriate, uncomfortable, offensive, and racist comments, which has got him into trouble with Toby and corporate numerous times.

## External Links

* Michael Scott on the Heroes Wiki
* Michael Scott on the *The Office* Wiki
* Michael Scott on Wikipedia