Looking back Jim Halpert was a bit of a dick

You sound soft

Quite the opposite. Jim was soft. Dwight was the real man. His no-nonsense approach is the way to operate.

People seem to judge Jim based on real world ethics while also ignore if that Dwight would be considered a grade a psychopath in the real world and Michael would have been fired episode 1.

Outside the last season which is poorly written to create some kind of drama, Jim isn’t that bad:

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- Pranks were fun and all but he was picking on Dwight all the time
- All smug when he said he got 2 cases of "imported beer" for his party
- Let Michael fall into the Koi Pond
- Broke up with Katy on a boat - at least wait till they are back
- Shitty roommate to Daryl
- basically used Karen (who was the real catch)
- tried to bail on Pam at the dinner party

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i agree 100% with all this. frick jim. Dwight is basically on the spectrum. so jim gets off making fun of disabled people all day while stealing peoples fiances thinking hes smarter and better than everyone. frick that guy. not to mention hes a huge simp and has no real friends outside of whoever he is currently trying to bang

eta: then Roy punches him in the face (deservedly so) and everyone acts like Roy is the insane one lmfao, that pissed me off as well

I think that was kinda the point. His character is suppose to inherently be a dick but not a mean-spirited one. He does not hate dwight or wish ill upon him, he is just teasing the soft target and you can clearly see at the end of the series that a genuine friendship has developed out of that back and forth relationship (and it was back and forth)

I think one episode when you can see jim realizing that perhaps his pranks have been about overboard was in the "conflict resolution" episode when Michael scott begins reading the list of complaints dwight has made about jim over 4 years. At first jim finds it funny but as the list goes on you can see that he gets less impressed with himself.

Dwight rocking him all day with snowballs is one of my favorites. Dwight > Jim, and it was never close. Pam + Jim = WOAT

I never thought he was a douche, just an average guy and a bit of a loser.

Lives in a shitty town, working a generic sales
Job for a shitty company. Only chicks he can land are girls at work. Makes fun of the weird guy at work to make himself feel better.

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- All smug when he said he got 2 cases of "imported beer" for his party

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I feel like every young guy hosting a drinking party has been this guy at least once though. It's super relatable.

ETA: Not disagreeing with the message of OP though, Jim is definitely a douche.

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I think that was kinda the point. His character is suppose to inherently be a dick but not a mean-spirited one. He does not hate dwight or wish ill upon him, he is just teasing the soft target and you can clearly see at the end of the series that a genuine friendship has developed out of that back and forth relationship (and it was back and forth)

I think one episode when you can see jim realizing that perhaps his pranks have been about overboard was in the "conflict resolution" episode when Michael scott begins reading the list of complaints dwight has made about jim over 4 years. At first jim finds it funny but as the list goes on you can see that he gets less impressed with himself.

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And we see Dwight's character evolve over time as well from the absolutely try-hard to a dude that's genuinely not a bad guy at his core. He's just different/quirky.