History YMMV / Profit

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: Profit's closing monologues often outlined the rather psychopathic life lessons that the viewer should take from the episode.

* MagnificentBastard: Jim Profit is an amoral [[TheSociopath sociopath]] whose life's goal is to become [[CorruptCorporateExecutive President of Acquisitions]] at the multinational company Gracen & Gracen Enterprises, thus giving him control over one of the most powerful economic entities in the world. He uses various schemes such as leaking bad stories to the press and blackmailing his predecessor's secretary in an attempt to get him fired before later having him [[FrameUp framed for murder]] to permanently dispose of him. Jim also ingratiates himself with the company elites and their loved ones, zeroing in on their personal demons and shortcomings to use against them and sow discord, such as causing a falling out among the Gracen brothers to maneuver himself into becoming the CEO's right hand man and using his equally manipulative stepmother Bobbi to seduce and further control his boss. When the head of security catches on to his scheming, Jim forces her psychologist to perform hypnosis on her and then presents himself as her rescuer to discredit her claims against him. Jim Profit is an expert manipulator and schemer whose machiavellian plots allow him to get away with murder, extortion, and ruining people's lives multiple times and [[XanatosSpeedChess always has more cards left to play when faced with adversity]].

* MagnificentBastard: Jim Profit is an amoral sociopath whose life's goal is to become President of Acquisitions at the multinational company Gracen & Gracen, thus giving him control over one of the most powerful economic entities in the world. He uses various schemes such as leaking bad stories to the press and blackmailing his predecessor's secretary in an attempt to get him fired before later having him framed for murder to permanently dispose of him. Jim also ingratiates himself with the company elites and their loved ones, zeroing in on their personal demons and shortcomings to play them off against each other, such as causing a falling out among the Gracen brothers to maneuver himself into becoming the CEO's right hand man and using his stepmother Bobbi to seduce and further control his boss. When the head of security catches on to his scheming, Jim forces her psychologist to perform hypnosis on her and then present himself as her rescuer to discredit her claims against him. Jim Profit is an expert manipulator and schemer whose machiavellian plots allow him to get away with murder, extortion, and ruining people's lives multiple times and always has more cards left to play when faced with adversity.

* MagnificentBastard: Jim Profit is a completely amoral sociopath, but you just root for him. His only goal is to become President of Acquisitions at Gracen & Gracen and thereby control one of the most powerful economic blocks in the country. He manages to repeatedly get away with blackmail, murder and even maiming the company to frame others for it and get ahead himself. He expertly manipulates his colleagues, their families and anyone else he deals with. Any attempts to foil him often feed right into his hand, as he always has a backup plan ready and is outsmarted in one of his many plots exactly once in the entire series (and he managed to avert the collateral from that one through another case of [[XanatosSpeedChess improvised planning]]).

* MagnificentBastard: Jim Profit is a completely amoral sociopath, but you just root for him. His only goal is to become President of Acquisitions at Grayson & Grayson and thereby control one of the most powerful economic blocks in the country. He manages to repeatedly get away with blackmail, murder and even maiming the company to frame others for it and get ahead himself. He expertly manipulates his colleagues, their families and anyone else he deals with. Any attempts to foil him often feed right into his hand, as he always has a backup plan ready and is outsmarted in one of his many plots exactly once in the entire series (and he managed to avert the collateral from that one through another case of [[XanatosSpeedChess improvised planning]]).

* MagnificentBastard: Jim Profit is a completely amoral sociopath, but you just root for him. His only goal is to become President of Acquisitions at Grayson & Grayson and thereby control one of the most powerful economic blocks in the country. He manages to repeatedly get away with blackmail, murder and even maiming the company to frame others for it and get ahead himself. He expertly manipulates his colleagues, their families and anyone else he deals with. Any attempts to foil him often feed right into his hand, as he always has a backup plan ready and is outsmarted in one of his many plots exactly once in the entire series.

* MagnificentBastard: Jim Profit is a complete amoral sociopath but you just root for him. His only goal is to become President of Acquisitions at Grayson & Grayson and thereby control one of the most powerful economic blocks in the country. He manages to repeatedly get away with blackmail, murder and even maiming the company to frame others for it and get ahead himself. He expertly manipulates his colleagues, their families and anyone else he deals with. Any attempts to foil him often feed right into his hand, as he always has a backup plan ready and is outsmarted in one of his many plots exactly once in the entire series.

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop

* WarpedAesop: Profit's closing monologues often outlined the rather psychopathic life lessons that the viewer should take from the episode.

* CharacterDevelopment: Oddly, for Jim Profit himself. In the first episode he is single-minded in the pursuit of the coveted “President of Operations” position, to the point of being willing to tear Pete and Chaz apart. In the final episode, he has the opportunity to do so again, but turns it down to reconcile the brothers. He’s put aside his blind ambition in favor of another goal, maintaining his twisted view of family.

* MagnificentBastard: Jim Profit, he's a complete amoral sociopath but you just root for him.

* TooGoodToLast

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