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"If I had to, I could clear out my desk in five seconds and no one would even know I was there. And I'd forget, too."

Ryan Bailey Howard, also occasionally known as Fire Guy or Temp, is one of the few anti-villain main protagonists of the American sitcom The Office.

He is an arrogant, toxic, insecure, manipulative, sociopathic, chaotic, timid, threatening, and hostile salesman, former receptionist, and convicted con artist working at Dunder Mifflin. He worked as a temporary employee until he was promoted to Vice President of Sales. However, he was demoted by David Wallace when Dunder Mifflin acquired Michael Scott Paper Company. He also worked at Michael Scott Paper Company until the acquisition. Ryan was convicted of fraud for deceiving Dunder Mifflin shareholders and arrested. However, he was released and forced to perform community service.

Throughout the series, Ryan is an interesting character. For most of the early seasons, Ryan is a rather insecure and sometimes toxic, but well-intentioned person, simply scared by the antics of his slightly eccentric boss. He showed great care for others during seasons 1-6, maintaining a polite demeanor. However, later on, between seasons 6 and 9, Ryan becomes more manipulative, toxic, rude, arrogant, selfish, hot-tempered, and generally horrible. While he still looks out for his friends outside of work, and presumably his parents, Ryan is shown to be primarily concerned only with himself. Even committing acts of public endangerment and fraud just to save his own skin, he is shown to be incredibly selfish and hateful toward those who don't like him or are very different from him, and constantly gossips about his superiority, even keeping a "list" to write down who he will get revenge on after being fired from the company's vice presidency. In a season seven episode, while working for Michael Scott's personal company, Ryan occasionally manipulated Michael into doing what he wanted, usually by lying about something else entirely. He also did this frequently when working for David Wallace as a vice president of Dunder Mifflin, manipulating others who were less intelligent or more gullible than he was. In the end, Ryan remained a chaotic, demented, and criminally terrible person. Later, around season nine, he learns from most of his mistakes, but not many, and while he is still portrayed as an arrogant antihero, he still retains some of his villainous behavior. Aside from the occasional fraud and bullying, Ryan didn't receive much punishment for his immoral acts in the series finale and still maintained his terrible behavior.

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