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[[folder:David]]
!!David Brent
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Some people are intimidated when talking to large numbers of people in an entertaining way. Not me."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/RickyGervais

The incompetent General Manager of the Slough offices of Wernham-Hogg. He fancies himself a popular jack-of-all-trades, when in reality he is a needy, lonely and selfish man.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: To his new secretary, highlights include accidentally giving her a black eye by kicking a football at her and drunkenly babbling that she'll "come to love him" at Chasers.
* AccidentalHero: He becomes a hero when he saves a number of redundancies at the Slough branch by not taking a promotion. But it was only by accident - it turned out he wanted the promotion but was ultimately not offered it because he failed the medical due to high blood pressure. He takes the credit anyway.
* AgeInsecurity: David is vague about his age. When anyone asks, he says "I'm thirties". In the second series, Trudy quips "Born in the thirties, you mean".
* AintTooProudToBeg: Begs for his job at the end of Season 2.
* TheAlcoholic: Drinking seems to be his solution to everything. It's implied he's insecure about it when Dawn jokes that he drinks, "every lunchtime", as well.
* TheAllegedBoss: A mixture of types 1 and 2 - he wants to be everyone's friend, and is not particularly good at managing people. He also undermines his own authority when he publicly threatens to take disciplinary action against whoever played that prank which involved superimposing his head on a pornographic image and emailing it to everyone (even the cleaner!) only to back down when the perpetrator is revealed to be Chris Finch.
* AttentionWhore: Watch him ''seethe'' whenever anyone is getting more attention than him, especially Neil.
* BadBoss: Despite trying to act like AFatherToHisMen, he's more than willing to sell his employees out to help himself get a promotion. He also hires someone despite knowing that he's not qualified for the position in question, and hires someone else to be his secretary, despite having been told that he can't do that as there isn't a budget for it; the latter actually leaves another job as a result, only to end up being made redundant.
* BenevolentBoss: He thinks he is, but he's really TheAllegedBoss. He goes into BadBoss territory when he accepts a promotion knowing it will mean most of the staff losing their jobs (although he later [[AccidentalHero saves their jobs]] when he fails the medical).
* TheCameo: Appears in the cold opening for a Season 7 episode of the American ''Office'' where he briefly meets Michael Scott (and they naturally click).
* CannotTellAJoke: Not that it stops him trying. And trying.
* CantTakeCriticism: David is ''extremely'' thin-skinned and becomes very defensive when criticized, typically reacting with insults or sulking.
* CasanovaWannabe: He's a middle-aged, short, pug-nosed, charmless, fat, tragic man, who women (including [[ReallyGetsAround Trudy]]) avoid like the plague. Until the finale. [[spoiler:Although ''Life on the Road'' shows even that didn't last.]]
* CharacterTics: Adjusting his tie.
* CovertPervert: Jennifer catches him checking out her legs just as Finchy makes a comment over the phone about his wandering eyes.
* DeadpanSnarker: He has his moments where he's actually witty whenever he's just being himself instead of performing for the camera.
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: The bulk of the series paints him as a UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist, yet the Series 2 finale and ensuing Christmas specials reveal that he's actually a very lonely and frustrated man.
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Whenever he tries to get out of making an off-color comment, he just says something even more offensive.
* DreadfulMusician: Zigzagged. His guitar playing is actually pretty good but his lyrics make the songs cringe-worthy.
* DirtyCoward:
** It's strongly implied his mateyness towards Finch is out of pure fear. [[spoiler:Although he subverts it in the Series Finale where his date is concerned.]]
** Will ruthlessly sell employees out to save his arse financially, only to beg for his job when Jennifer and Neil sack him.
** Somewhat subverted in the season one finale, where he actually has the balls to fire Alex. Alex accuses him of "passing the buck". While it is true that Alex should never have been hired in the first place due to his not being qualified for the job, his firing id still one of the few times ''we actually see David Brent acting as a manager should''.
* DontExplainTheJoke: One of the reasons he fails so consistently at telling jokes is that when he notices nobody is laughing he feels the need to explain what the joke was about. Because obviously the joke was a gut-buster so they must just not understand it and it's totally nothing to do with being a bad joke or terrible delivery or attempting to joke at entirely inappropriate times or anything like that.
** He ruins the Twenty Questions joke by telegraphing the punchline early in the telling.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In the first episode where he jokes about firing Dawn for stealing Post-it notes, he continues even after [[PrankGoneTooFar Dawn bursts into tears]].
* EveryoneHasStandards: Even 'he' finds Ben's "Wouldn't mind escaping up her tunnel", joke about Donna to be creepily inappropiate telling him to, "Get out".
* EverythingIsRacist: Parodied, with a strong dose of HypocriticalHumour, in the very first episode. David introduces Ricky the temp to Sanj:
-->'''David''': This guy does ''the'' best Ali G impersonation. 'Ay!' ''(laughs)'' I can't do it... Do it.
-->'''Sanj''': I...
-->'''David''': ''Go'' on.
-->'''Sanj''': I don't, I...
-->'''David''': ''Oh'', sorry, no, it's not you. It's the other one.
-->'''Sanj''': The other ... the other what?
-->'''David''': Erm...
-->'''Sanj''': ''(smiling)'' "Paki"? ''(laughs slightly)''
-->'''David''': Ah. That's racist. ''(wags a disapproving finger at Sanj and walks off)''
* FatBastard: He tries unconvincingly to suck in his beer gut when Jude walks in after the motivational speech when changing shirts.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Sanguine - Tries to be an entertainer and is very irresponsible.
* FriendlessBackground: He doesn't seem to have any friends. He considers Finchy his 'best friend' but Finchy sees him more as a lackey and a target for his jokes. Ironically, he [[AlphaBitch treats]] Gareth very similarly to how Finch treats him.
* GetOut: Says so during his attempt at reverse pyschology during the motivational speech.
* HumiliationConga: In the final few episodes he loses his job, then finds out the motivational speakers won't be using his services again. He's reduced to begging Jennifer and Neil not to fire him. It gets even worse in the Christmas specials when he goes on a few disastrous blind dates and is reduced to degrading personal appearances in grubby night clubs. Finally he gets banned from the office and the Christmas dinner. He can't even persuade anyone except Tim to come out for a drink with him.
* HiddenDepths: He's a decent guitar player, even if his song lyrics are naff.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He has no problem mocking Malcolm's bald-patch only to get heat up about the Mr. Toad comments.
* IJustWantToBeLoved: The reason he's an AttentionWhore.
* InstantlyProvenWrong:
** Brent mentions telling jokes about an employee named Eric Hitchmo, but says he never makes fun of his withered hand. A few minutes later, Gareth says "I prefer the stuff you do about his withered hand."
** In preparation for his motivational speech, he invites Gareth to throw some insults at him, to prove that "sticks and stones will never hurt me." Being [[CantTakeCriticism incredibly thin-skinned]], he ''immediately'' takes offense at the things Gareth says.
* {{Jerkass}}: He qualifies despite the more sympathetic aspects of the character. This is the guy who tried to throw his staff under the bus for a promotion and then lied that he turned it down (when in fact he failed a medical) to make them think he was a hero. He's generally crass, insensitive and selfish, Season 2 just highlights this even more painfully.
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** Lack of professionalism aside, he does have a point about Neil sort of 'marking his territory' when he plays games in the main Wernham Hogg office despite telling Dave not to. The {{Jerkass}} part is that Brent is even worse when it comes to this and that it altogether comes down to resenting the fact that Neil just so happens to be 'better' at showing off than David.
** Earlier, when he's still slated to take over Jennifer's job -- letting his branch be folded into Swindon's in return for an excellent personal promotion -- his response to whether he feels he's let his team down is that any one of them would do exactly the same thing in his shoes. Considering the apathy and disinterest in the office, he's probably not far off the mark.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: When Chris makes a disparaging wisecrack about David's date, David decides that [[PrecisionFStrike he's having]] [[ShutUpHannibal none of it]].
* JobMindsetInertia: Implied. He might be an abysmal boss, but he's said to have been a good salesman, has awards to show for his past achievements, and his superiors apparently saw enough merit in him to offer him a promotion over the much more professional Neil (voting 5-2 in his favour, much to Brent's astonishment and insufferable pride). In the Christmas specials, we see that the same sort of behaviour which made him a woefully unfit boss actually serves him quite well in the sales arena.
* KickTheDog:
** He reduced Dawn to tears when he pretends to fire her in the first episode.
** He viciously insults Trudy when she touches a nerve about his age, making fun of her weight and calling her "an embarrassment". ''On her birthday.''
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: He thinks he's a brilliant manager, but it's clear that neither his bosses or employees have any respect for him.
* LaughingMad: He doesn't think it's a sign of insanity but when he laughs during his motivational speech in an attempt to get the audience to join in, it does come across as this trope especially as he starts with a fake laugh and the laughter completely takes him hostage as he continues.
* ManChild: He ''has'' to be the centre of attention, has an immature sense of humour, and never takes responsibility for anything. He reacts to being reprimanded by Neil or Jennifer the way a petulant schoolboy would.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He does this after making Dawn cry when he tells her he's going to fire her. She angrily calls him a "sad little man", and David, who usually will clumsily defend himself when criticised, can only sadly say, "Am I?"
* TheNicknamer: He has a habit of giving often insulting nicknames to people. He calls Malcolm, a bald older employee, "Kojak". But he doesn't take it well when he finds out the staff have nicknamed him "Bluto" and "Mr Toad".
* NoSocialSkills: He's not nearly as witty as he thinks he is, and his attempts at being funny tend to be crushingly embarrassing. Elsewhere, he gives Dawn a serious dose of TooMuchInformation when he confides to her after a bathroom break that he'd just been checking his testicles for lumps.
* OldMaid: A RareMaleExample. David is very insecure about his age, insisting he's "in his 30s" and when Trudy points out he's nearly forty and has let himself go a bit, he lashes out at her and calls her "an embarrassment".
* PetTheDog:
** He sticks up for Gareth when Donna insults him during the end of "New Girl".
** He also seems to feel genuinely bad when he makes Gareth (of all people) cry.
** He appears genuinely happy in Christmas Special part 2 to see [[spoiler: Dawn and Tim leave the office as a couple.]]
* ThePeterPrinciple: He embodies this. There are some hints that he was previously a good sales rep, which presumably led to his promotion to a job for which he was wholly unsuitable.
* PointyHairedBoss: He doesn't sack Chris over the porno prank, hires a secretary even when his branch needs to cut back and he forgets to pay his staff.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: His overt political correctness is usually either a desperate attempt to look progressive or downright offensive in and of itself, but there are two cases were (by happenstance more than conviction) he happens to probably be in the right:
** He sends Ben out for making jokes about "escaping up" Donna's "tunnel"- obviously not appropriate work comments.
** He calls Philip a racist for condemning Nelson Mandela's attacks on public property - anyone who thinks empty post offices are more important that the basic human rights of black people most likely has racist sympathies.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Is deluded about his banter, managerial skills and [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking how young he looks]].
* SucksAtDancing: David, with his cringe-makingly memorable attempt at sexy dance moves at an office party, which boil down to spasmodic and random windmill arm movements, grunting his own tune, and gyrating.
* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Becomes this in the Christmas Special, when he regularly turns up at the office ''several years'' after being fired.
* UnreliableNarrator: He considers himself a victim of this in the Christmas Special, in a drunken rant with his date where he claims the documentary makers "stitched him up" by editing together a cut of the show that deliberately emphasised the bits of his personality and life that make him look like a complete tool and downplaying his redeeming qualities. Interestingly, the Christmas Special ended up making him look a bit better.
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Until the finale and a DeconstructedCharacterArchetype at that. He appears to be your typical, alpha-male wannabe who thinks he's cooler than he is but he's actually a lonely and frustrated man who just doesn't know how to connect with anyone.
* VerbalTic: Especially during interviews, "....yeah?". He also says "fact", a lot to emphasis a point. He also says, "guilty", and "just a bit", when responding to questions.
* WhiteMansBurden: Sees himself as more enlightened than the average Englishman and makes sure everyone notices how politically correct he is.
* WrongGenreSavvy: He thinks he's in a TV show about an effortlessly cool boss who everyone loves, and that he's the boss in question. He's right about the "being in a TV show" bit at least.

!In ''[[Film/DavidBrentLifeOnTheRoad Life on the Road]]''
* AfraidOfBlood: He faints at the sight of it.
* AfraidOfNeedles: He ends up getting very squeamish when he tries to get a tattoo.
* CannotTalkToWomen: Zigzagged. While Brent is comfortable around a few of his female co-workers, he gets very anxious around women he's attempting to pick up.
* CasanovaWannabe: Tries to pick up two average looking middle-aged women who are only after his minibar, not the man himself. He deeply resents his bandmates for being able to hook up with women whilst he doesn't.
* CerebusRetcon: In ''Life On The Road'', Brent admits that he had a nervous breakdown when he was made redundant, went into rehab and has been in therapy ever since. It's also implied that he may suffer from bipolar disorder.
* CharacterDevelopment: Even more so than in the Christmas Special. [[spoiler: Brent learns to accept that he may never be famous and manages to find contentment with his lot in life.]]
* EmbarrassingTattoo: Due to backing out of a tattoo halfway through getting one, Brent now has the word "Berk" tattooed on his arm (he had wanted it to say "Berkshire", that being the county he is from).
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: His new band barely tolerate his presence, with their only interactions being rehearsals and performances. It gets to the point where Brent has to bribe them to come out for a drink with him.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Brent's attempts to show his social consciousness only come off as even more offensive, especially during the songs, "Native American", and "Don't Make Fun of the Disableds".
* TheGamblingAddict: His solution to any setbacks in his tour is to spend more money.
* NeverGrewUp: Lampshaded. He revived his old band, but due to his bandmates all moving on with their lives, Brent has recruited a bunch of 20-somethings. The age difference is glaring.
* NWordPrivileges: He drunkenly called Dom "his nigger" when walking to his hotel room, which Dom tried several times in vain to discourage him from saying.
* SunkCostFallacy: When the band's tour doesn't profit as well as he'd hoped, Brent just takes more and more money from his pension to cover it. His sound engineer finally tells him to just cut his losses and keep things simple.
* TooDumbToLive: Keeps spending money on the tour and calls Dom the N word on camera.
* TokenBlackFriend: [[CoolKidAndLoserFriendship Dom is reluctantly a black friend to Brent]], to the point where his first appearance is so that Brent can convince his HR manager that he's not racist.
* TheTeamBenefactor: Funds his own band and tour, at great expense to himself.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tim]]
!!Tim Canterbury
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I don't talk about my love life for a very good reason, and that reason is I don't have one."'']]

->'''Played By''': Creator/MartinFreeman

A witty sales rep at Wernham-Hogg. He's in love with Dawn and, like her, feels he's wasting his life at Wernham-Hogg.

* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: In the Series 2 finale, he admits his feelings to Dawn, although it is silent due to him turning off his mike. She seems to turn him down but gives a consoling hug.
* AudienceSurrogate: His role is partly this. He's not quite the OnlySaneMan, but he is the one we're supposed to identify with.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In the Christmas special he finally gets Gareth away from his desk, but he then ends up with the even more obnoxious and annoying Anne next to him.
* BerserkButton: Downplayed, but disrepecting Dawn seems to be his. He looks visibly angry when Lee makes crude remarks about her to the warehouse lads and he begins being more snarky towards Finchy when he does the same, when previously he was ignoring him.
* BlatantLies: "If there's one thing I'm not, it's immature."
* ABirthdayNotABreak: He's working on his thirtieth birthday. While most Britons work on their birthday rather than use up a day's holiday, Tim's gets completely ruined at the Pub Quiz when [[SoreLoser Finchy]] decides to steal his shoes and throw them over the roof of the office building after Tim and Ricky beat his team; referee Gareth then accedes to Finchy's demand to be awarded victory in the quiz for the shoe-throwing feat.
* BrilliantButLazy: Well, not so much lazy as just too pessimistic to push himself.
* DeadpanSnarker: "...and I'm boring myself just talking about it."
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Dawn ultimately chooses to be with him and break up with Lee, and is on his way to finding a more fulfilling career]].
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Phlegmatic - Lazy with is work and laid back.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: When [[spoiler: David is made redundant and Tim is offered his job, Tim suggests they give it to Gareth instead, then lists all of Gareth's good qualities, showing that Tim does see him as more than a nuisance.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He recommends Gareth for a promotion to Neil instead of taking it himself, and Gareth subsequently becomes twice as obnoxious.
* InsistentTerminology: Tim keeps trying to insist he did ''not'' ask Dawn out, he only meant it as a friend. Unfortunately for him, [[EveryoneCanSeeIt nobody buys it.]]
* NiceGuy: Although immature, he's more laid back and genuinely friendly than Gareth or David Brent. [[spoiler:Probably why Dawn and Tim end up hooking up in the finale.]]
* TheGadfly: Mainly to Gareth.
* ThePrankster: Typically they involve doing something elaborate to Gareth's belongings. One time he was able to hide all of them at once - including his chair and computer - which baffled Gareth.
* SadClown: Tim has a brilliant sense of humour, but hates himself for being too shy and unambitious to do anything remarkable with his life.
* SweetAndSourGrapes: [[spoiler:Dawn comes around to Tim after he seems to have given up at the end of the Christmas special]].
* TookALevelInJerkass: His pranks on Gareth in Season 2 would border on bullying if this wasn't a cringe comedy show.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Declines a very generous promotion to manager and encourages Neil to give it to Gareth instead; Gareth never learns of this act of selflessness. This is especially meaningful as Tim had only recently iced his own dreams and resolved to pursue stable progression in the company.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: With Dawn. [[spoiler:They do.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Gareth]]
!!Gareth Keenan
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I'm not homophobic, all right? Come round, [[SomeOfMyBestFriendsAreX look at my CDs.]] You'll see Queen, George Michael, Pet Shop Boys. They're all bummers."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/MackenzieCrook

The power-hungry 'team leader' and ambitious NumberTwo to Brent. Delusional and pretentious, he often acts as Tim's nemesis.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: After [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday making a big show of not being up for a threesome containing another guy]], he ends up going home with a (presumably married) couple he met at Chasers (granted, the man might have just wanted to watch his wife having sex with another man, but ''still''). He's also pretty confident in refuting Jennifer's assertion that [[BlackIsBiggerInBed black men having large penises]] is a myth ("I could show you magazines where... literally [makes a foot long gesture with his hands]").
* AssholeVictim: No one can say he doesn't deserve to be on the wrong end of Tim's pranks.
* BettyAndVeronica: In a deleted scene he asks Dawn for help with a dating dilemma. He's met two women at Chasers: one is very attractive but dim ("stupidity puts me off my stroke") while the other is intelligent but obese.
-->'''Gareth''': Can I ask fatty to lose weight?
* ButtMonkey: The butt of Tim, Dawn and Rachel's pranks. Not that he doesn't deserve it due to his attitude.
* CasanovaWannabe: Brags about having loads of office romances. Any time we see him flirt with a female co-worker, this statement becomes a little less convincing. Although he's quite the KavorkaMan in clubs due to the different environment (and the fact that the women in Chasers [[ReallyGetsAround don't exactly have high standards]]).
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Gareth misses the point of every single exercise in the training day episode. When they are given the FoxChickenGrainPuzzle to solve, he offers solutions outside the scope of the puzzle, like the farmer should just drown the fox or get his wife to hold the chicken. He also never works out that his conversations with Tim and Dawn about the military are full of double entendres that make him sound gay.
* ControlFreak: Regularly tries to maintain order in the office, but just comes across as a buzzkill.
* TheComicallySerious: Takes himself, his masculinity and his position (both at work and in the Territorial Army) ''extremely'' seriously, enough so that Tim and Dawn make it a habit of tricking him into admitting doing gay stuff by disguising it as questions about his military service.
* CreepyShadowedUndereyes: He's got prominent dark circles under his eyes, and is a bit of a creep.
* DidIMentionIAmHeterosexualToday: He keeps insisting he has had sex with plenty of women, but doesn't get together with anyone in-series because he doesn't like "sloppy seconds" (ie. dating a woman who has previously dated someone he knows). Needless to say, women don't seem to find this attitude likeable.
* DoesNotLikeSpam: He ''hates'' jelly, because he "doesn't trust the way it moves". Naturally, this leads Tim to encase his stapler in some jelly as a prank.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first thing we see him do is whack Tim across the back of the head with a newspaper and shout "Wazzup!" right in his ear. Gareth then follows this up with a series of unfunny jokes, establishing himself as the most annoying person in the office.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Choleric - Only without the charisma
* HopelessSuitor: To Rachel. It's a mark of his self delusion that he can't understand why a girl like her would prefer Tim.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He's not wrong when he comments that the staff never respected David, though he completely misses that they barely respect ''him'' either.
* InsistentTerminology:
** He constantly refers to himself as the Assistant Regional Manager, in spite of David making it clear that he's actually the "assistant ''to'' the Regional Manager" (making him effectively a glorified secretary).
** Whenever someone mentions that he's in the territorials, he corrects them: territorial ''army''.
* IResembleThatRemark: Gareth's reaction when Tim compares his "team leader" title to a school kid being made milk monitor.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Gareth obviously has no chance with Rachel and is clearly jealous, but he isn't wrong when he complains that Tim already made a fool out of himself when he confessed his feelings to Dawn and he should probably be a bit warier about jumping into another office romance.
* KavorkaMan: Despite his goofy looks and awkward personality Gareth does get with women, albeit the kind he meets at clubs. The very pretty girl with dreads he hooks up with at the end of the first season is acknowledged by several characters to be way out of his league.
* LeanAndMean: More lean ''than'' mean, but he has his moments.
* NoSocialSkills: He's terrible at flirting with women in the office and doesn't notice when Tim is tricking him into admitting to doing gay stuff while talking about the military.
* NumberTwo: To David, which he never fails to mention.
* PetTheDog: He tries to get David a date in the Christmas Special by introducing him to online dating.
* ProfessionalButtKisser: To David. The tone of their relationship changes when Gareth becomes manager and he no longer has to suck up to David.
* SarcasmBlind: Sarcasm is completely lost on him.
-->'''Gareth''': Just got in?
-->'''Donna''': No, I'll be here in about an hour.
-->'''Gareth''': (laughs awkwardly) About an hour. You’re already here.
* TheStarscream: To David. Made more explicit in a deleted scene in which Gareth comes in to commiserate with David for being made redundant, but it's clear he just wants to know if he has a chance of getting David's job. He quickly loses respect for David once he becomes manager — he acknowledges that David was unprofessional, and purposely embarrasses him in the Christmas special, though [[TheDogBitesBack given how undermining David was to Gareth, it's hard to say he doesn't deserve it.]]
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: PlayedForLaughs, then subverted. When talking to Tim after being told that he's going to be the new manager (not knowing that Tim had ''actually recommended'' Gareth for the position after turning it down himself), he implies that he's going to become a MeanBoss -- but nothing comes of it. He turns out to be a more by-the-book manager than David was, and actually comes across as being reasonably competent, albeit in a slightly awkward and pedantic way.
* YouAreInCommandNow: Becomes the new manager after David is fired, and does a surprisingly decent job of it.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dawn]]
!!Dawn Tinsley
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[[caption-width-right:298:''"I'd be lying if I said my life had turned out exactly as I'd expected."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/LucyDavis

The Wernham-Hogg receptionist, she's in love with Tim but is trapped in an unhappy engagement.
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* BeleagueredAssistant: To David, she's the one he turns to when he's feeling down, gives him his mail and he treats her like a glorified secretary.
* BettyAndVeronica: She's the Archie to Lee's Veronica and Tim's Betty. In the second series, she's the Betty to Tim's Archie and Rachel's Veronica.
* BrokenBird: She feels incredibly unsatisfied with her life, but has resigned herself to it.
%%* DeadpanSnarker
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Ultimately chooses to be with Tim, who's supportive of her dream of being an artist.]]
* ExtremeDoormat: She rarely ever stands up for herself, whether that's David putting ridiculous demands on her like expecting her to act like his assistant when he's chosen to be a motivational speaker, continues to put up with Lee's shoddy treatment of her and ends up being a glorified babysitter when she moved to America to live with Lee's sister. Fortunately she finally decides to put her own needs first in the series finale.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Melancholic - She's miserable in her relationship with Lee.
* GreenEyedMonster: Towards Rachel when she and Tim start dating each other, though she's never mean or rude to Rachel herself.
* MeaningfulName: Dawn is a ray of sunshine in Tim's otherwise boring life.
* SexySecretary: Not overt, though quite a lot of people seem enthusiastic to kiss her during Red Nose Day. David Brent is implied to have feelings for her as well.
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Why she sticks with Lee is anyone's guess, though a lot of it may have to with feeling resigned to her lot with him.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: With Tim. [[spoiler:They do.]]
[[/folder]]

!!Recurring

[[folder:Jennifer]]
!!Jennifer Taylor-Clarke
->'''Played By''': Creator/StirlingGallacher

Brent's immediate superior in Series One, nicknamed Camilla Parker Bowles by him, is a serious-minded professional, and Brent's behaviour and comedy-driven style of management are shown to be puerile and ineffectual by contrast.
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* BenevolentBoss: Extremely patient with David and his incompetent behaviour; he appears to be trying her patience in the first series, and at the end of the second, she and Neil only fire him when he (more or less) dares them to.
* CloserToEarth: When it comes to racial and social issues when she tells off David for telling racist jokes about a black man's cock.
* ConsummateProfessional: A serious-minded boss, especially when compared to David. Unlike David (who seems unable to tell one Asian employee from the other), she makes a point of remembering the employees' names despite being senior management, which is why David's lie about firing a non-existent employee gets exposed.
* DemotedToExtra: She only has a single non-speaking appearance during the Christmas specials. Though she and Brent do seem to be more amicable in their brief interaction.
* LegFocus: Finchy doesn't even need to be in the same room to know when Brent's checking out her legs.
* StraightMan: Devoid of any quirks.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Finch]]
!!Chris "Finchy" Finch
->'''Played By''': Creator/RalphIneson

An external sales representative, he is probably the only character in the series who is genuinely mean and nasty. He is brashly confident, openly sexist, rasping-voiced with a natural flair for bullying others with swift, humiliating putdowns, Brent being his usual target. David describes him as his "best friend" but actually acts more like a lackey, laughing at his jokes and attempting to impress him to feel popular.
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* TheAlcoholic: Not as much as David but he does go to Chasers an awful lot.
* TheBigGuy: At 6'3", he towers over almost anyone.
* TheBully: He insults anyone he can. Frequent targets are women, the educated and David.
* CompetitionFreak: He's very competitive and a bad loser if his actions at the pub quiz are anything to go by.
* DeadpanSnarker: DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: His snarkiness earns him no friends except David who laughs with his dirty jokes even though he doesn't get them.
* EvilIsPetty: Losing a pub quiz is a big deal to him.
* EvilSoundsRaspy: He has an aggressively northern, raspy voice which crosses with EvilSoundsDeep.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Everyone, probably dislikes him but he doesn't seem too bothered unlike David.
* TheGadfly: Gervais summed him up as this:
-->Finch is a bully, he's one of those people who comes into a room and takes the piss out of someone else, and you laugh, but really you know it's your turn next.
* HateSink: He's the single most detestable character in the whole series -- a sexist, obnoxious, mean-spirited bully. Creator/RickyGervais has said that he's one of two characters we're not meant to like (Neil is the other one).
* InformedAbility:
** Said to be "bloody good" at his job, although as he doesn't work in the Slough office we never see him actually doing any work. More pertinently, Brent builds him up as a wonderfully charming wag who is constantly coming up with terribly witty remarks and rapid-fire repartee. When he turns up, he's quickly revealed to be a nasty, sexist bully.
** Brent claims Finch has an IQ of 142, but we don't see much evidence for it.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's rude and really mean to pretty much anyone who isn't Neil.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Nasty as he is, he's probably right that [[FatBastard David Brent]] couldn't pull anyone like Music/TheCorrs, given that not even Trudy would kiss him.
* JerkJock: Drunkenly brags about his ability to throw things after getting beat at Trivia Night and is a tall, confident bully.
* KarmaHoudini: His prank on David -- superimposing his head on a pornographic image and emailing it to the whole company -- goes unpunished. As do his derogatory remarks about Jennifer which she hears (by way of a voicemail on David's phone that he lets play in front of her) but seemingly does nothing about.
* KavorkaMan: More repulsive in the personality sense but on-screen he's scored with Lorna and Trudy, possibly due to the confidence thing and being 6'3". Although his other conquests are implied to be exaggerated.
* KickTheDog:
** Makes unprovoked sexist comments to Dawn.
** Humiliates David on camera just because they lost the quiz.
** Calls David's date a dog despite evidence to the contrary.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: He's just an insecure as David around university-educated [[TheSmartGuy Ricky]] and becomes a SpoiledBrat when they lose the quiz.
* NeverMyFault: Blames David for costing them the quiz, even though he blew the tiebreaker question and if David hadn't cheated they would have finished second anyway.
* OopNorth: He's from Yorkshire and supports Leeds United.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Very sexist and makes some homophobic jabs too, particularly at David's expense.
* RhymesOnADime: The x-rated variety.
-->(looking at Dawn) Give me half an hour with her and I'd be up to my nuts in guts.
--> One up the bum, no harm done!
* ShuttingUpNow: Usually an unstoppable snark machine, Chris goes too far when he makes an unpleasant remark in the Christmas special about David's date, and David's [[PrecisionFStrike response]] causes Chris to resort to this.
* SoreLoser: He is filled with indignant fury when he and David Brent come in second place to Tim and Ricky at the annual company Quiz Night since they have previously been winners for several years running. After the quiz ends and everyone is gathered around the pub, Finch says he can beat Tim and Ricky at 'loads of things'. He suggests a throwing contest, in which the winning team must pick something for Finch to throw over the Wernham Hogg building. If Finch does so successfully, Finch and Brent will be declared the "real winners" of the quiz. Even though Tim and Ricky ''do not agree to the challenge'', he nevertheless goes ahead with it anyway and successfully throws one of Tim's shoes over the building, at which point he and Brent take Tim and Ricky's prize (a bottle of champagne) and relish their victory obnoxiously, with Finch telling Ricky to "respect [their] elders," and "do not fuck with the big boys."
* TookALevelInJerkass: While never nice to begin with, he gets nastier when his team lose the quiz, purposely humiliating Brent in front of everyone and calling him a waste of space.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: He brings out the worst in David and Neil. David eventually grows sick of his attitude while Neil knowingly sets Finch up for jokes he knows will be insulting.
* VillainousBreakdown: As mentioned under SoreLoser, after losing the pub quiz he becomes outright nasty.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lee]]
!!Lee
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JoelBeckett

Dawn's fiancé who works in the company's warehouse. She met him in school and they have been together ever since. Whilst not mean, Lee is somewhat dull, humourless and casually critical of her ideas of being an illustrator. His idea of an amorous proposal was a four-word notice in the newspaper — "Lee love Dawn. Marriage?". It is clear from an early stage that she stays with him out of a fear of loneliness rather than real love. Lee is laid-back, loyal, and also more physically imposing than Canterbury, that is the reason Tim finds him intimidating. Lee has a somewhat violent temper, which is shown when he holds Canterbury against a wall, simply for starting to dance with Dawn.
----
* BastardBoyfriend: A quintessential example. Inconsiderate and possessive without a romantic bone in his body.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Very possessive of Dawn.
* DisposableFiance: Finally (and mercifully).
* HairTriggerTemper: He spots Tim getting a bit too close to Dawn and immediately shoves him against the wall. In another scene Lee threatens him for asking Dawn out. It takes Tim a while to realise he's just joking this time.
* HateSink: He's a ''terrible'' boyfriend. He gropes Dawn in front of their co-workers, makes her leave her entire life behind so they can live off his sister in America with no real improvement to their situation and proudly tells the crew that he never buys Dawn a Christmas present because [[TheGrinch he reckons the whole thing is a con]].
* JerkJock: More understated than Finch however.
* KickTheDog: The second series confirms that he's not a good person by showing him [[DisproportionateRetribution manhandle Tim in a moment of paranoia]], then grope Dawn in front of his mates. He also tells Dawn she might as well give up her hopes of being an illustrator because she's not good enough to be one.
* WackyMarriageProposal: Not so much 'wacky' as 'coldly pragmatic' and 'cheap'. He placed an advert in the newspaper for Dawn, but as he was paying by the word, the proposal was phrased as "Lee love Dawn. Marriage?"
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Keith]]
!!Keith "Big Keith" Bishop
->'''Played By:''' Creator/EwanMacintosh

A large, stoical accounts rep.
----
* AscendedExtra: Gervais and Merchant liked the deadpan persona that Ewan [=MacIntosh=] created, so they gave him more lines and used him as MrExposition.
* TheBigGuy: Which the almost as fat David Brent never fails to notice.
* CaptainObvious: His interactions with the other staff are essentially just him saying exactly what they're thinking without realising it.
* DullSurprise: Ewan Macintosh's deadpan delivery of every line is why they made more use of his character throughout the show.
* HiddenDepths: His music career aspirations.
* KavorkaMan: He claims to have no problems getting the ladies and he is actually seen dancing with one of the women in the office at the Christmas Party. Trudy also let him kiss her.
* NiceGuy: He's very inexpressive and very socially awkward, but for the most part he seems to get along well with his colleagues. Notably, unlike Brent or Gareth, when Keith says something tone-deaf nobody gets annoyed because they know he doesn't mean anything by it and he generally tries to give well-meaning if blunt advice, especially to Tim.
* OverlyLongGag: "What're the options?" "Not at all, To some extent, Very much so, Don't know""...dunno."
* ShipperOnDeck: For Tim/Dawn - he gives Tim a (for Keith) pep-talk in the Christmas Special about how Dawn coming back for the Christmas Party is probably his last chance with her.
* TheStoic: Shows absolutely no emotion, even when David outright mocks his size to his face.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Scotch Eggs.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Neil]]
!!Neil Godwin
->'''Played By''': Creator/PatrickBaladi

Brent's counterpart at the Swindon branch, and later his immediate superior. He is young, handsome, charming, professional and energetic, a more competent manager than Brent, and has a better relationship with staff. Brent is hugely resentful and jealous of him, and makes occasional, often childish attempts to either undermine or rival him. He grows increasingly exasperated with Brent's incompetence, poor judgement, and failure to do his job properly.
----
* TheAce: Neil is successful at everything he puts his hand to.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: To David. Although the latter would never admit it, Neil enjoys the social and professional success that Brent craves.
* BenevolentBoss: Although more of a downplayed example than Jennifer, he does appear to look out for his employees' welfare as he is seen to be genuinely surprised when he finds out that David somehow forgot to pay his staff. He also displays little pleasure in sacking David, trying to spin it as a "generous redundancy package", rather than outright stating that he's firing David because he sucks at being a manager. He also recognises Tim's potential.
* DeadpanSnarker: Gets in a few good jabs at David's incompetence, such as the time when he tells the latter that he'd "rather be ''popular'', than steer the ship in the right direction".
* DeconReconSwitch:
** Starts out as a deconstruction of the rival archetype who is usually portrayed as more successful than the protagonist -- not only is Neil a success, he has much better people skills than Brent.
** Then in the Christmas Special we find out that Neil enjoys making crude jokes with Finch, showing that he does have a nasty side, just not a particularly big one.
* DesignatedVillain: To David. And according to WordOfGod, to the surprise of some viewers.
* EvilCounterpart: Maybe not 'evil' so much as 'more successful'.
* {{Foil}}: Unlike David; Neil puts his job first, doesn't force anyone to be his friend or listen to his personal issues and he doesn't chase the spotlight.
* HateSink: According to Gervais, along with Chris Finch, he's the other character the audience is meant to dislike.
-->Neil you shouldn't like, because he doesn't care. He was better than David Brent at his job, but it meant less to him than it did to David Brent.
* HeroAntagonist: It's hard not to see Neil's point of view; he might be an [[DesignatedVillain 'enemy']] to David, but he doesn't want to be and only wants to keep the workplace running which he can't do when Brent is being so blatantly incompetent.
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** Although we as the audience are expected to side with David, most of Neil's points against David are valid, in addition to which ''it's his job'' to make sure that David is running the place correctly.
** Neil is also correct in the Christmas episode when he reminds David that the office is a workplace and he is not an employee, and therefore it is inappropriate for David to just keep showing up unannounced for no good reason.
* KickTheDog: He really lets himself down when he laughs with Chris Finch's inaccurate joke about David Brent's date being a dog.
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: He subtly does this to David a few times in the Christmas episodes. He keeps reminding David that he said he'd be bringing a woman to the party, knowing how slim David's chances are of actually finding a date. Note the StunnedSilence from Neil and Finch when David ''does'' bring along an attractive woman.
* MeaningfulName: 'God' and 'Win' to emphasize his superiority over David.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: He looks after his staff better than David does, but has no problem with Chris Finch's sexist jokes (as painfully revealed during the Christmas Specials).
* SupremeChef: Apparently baked Trudy's birthday cake himself. Oliver says he does it for all of his employees on their birthday.
* TookALevelInJerkass: In the Christmas Specials, he is ''much'' more openly disdainful of David than he ever was before. However, it's worth keeping in mind that by this stage, David is a former employee who left on bad terms and has been consistently dropping in to disrupt the working day ''for three years''. Less understandably, he's friends with (or at least gets on well with) Chris Finch. On the DVD commentary, Creator/StephenMerchant suggests that Finch's nastiness rubbed off on Neil, while Creator/RickyGervais believes that Neil was never all that nice to begin with. Though his nastiness in the Christmas Specials may also be the result of his ''still'' having had to deal with David for three years ''after'' he fired the guy for not doing his job properly.
[[/folder]]

!!Other Slough employees

[[folder:Malcolm]]
!!Malcolm
->'''Played By:''' Creator/RobinHooper
An older employee who has little tolerance for Brent's antics. Nicknamed "Series/{{Kojak}}" by Brent.
----
* ButtMonkey: Often the target of Brent's jokes, like pretending to shine his bald patch.
* {{Callback}}: In series 2, Brent gives a speech claiming that nicknames are hurtful, and someone points out that he used to refer to Malcolm as Kojak.
* OnlySaneMan: He's usually the first to criticise David, while Tim and Dawn are too apathetic to say anything and Gareth is a kiss-up.
* PutOnABus: He didn't return for series 2 having, presumably, been among the redundancies after the merger with the Swindon branch.
* SequelNonEntity: Loses his job in the round of redundancies between the first and second series and so does not appear in the latter. It's implied that Malcolm got made redundant purely because he was Brent's least favourite staff member, although he wasn't the only one to lose his job.
* SitcomArchnemesis: Serves as this for Brent in the first series, after which this role is taken by Neil. He's the only character to confront David for hiring a PA when other employees are being made redundant. He also finds out that David did not actually turn down the promotion, but was not even offered the job as he failed the medical.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Karen]]
!!Karen Roper
->'''Played By:''' Nicola Cotter
David's secretary in the first series, who he hires despite the fact that the company is facing downsizing and redundancies.
----
* ButtMonkey: Gets a football in the face. Also gets made redundant not long after (presumably) quitting her previous job to work at Wernham Hogg.
* SequelNonEntity: Loses her job in the round of redundancies between the first and second series and so does not appear in the latter.
* SexySecretary: Downplayed; it's heavily implied that Brent only hires her because he finds her good-looking.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ricky]]
!!Ricky Howard
->'''Played By:''' Creator/OliverChris
A temp worker at Wernham Hogg in the first series.
----
* FlatCharacter: He's so demure it actually makes him seem a bit dull compared to the larger-than-life main characters.
* OfficeRomance: Has one with Donna.
* SequelNonEntity: Justified, as he's a temp.
* TheSmartGuy: Went to university and has a good general knowledge, as demonstrated at the pub quiz. He also appeared on ''Series/{{Blockbusters}}''.
* StraightMan: Owing to being new to the office and unaccustomed to the weirdness of the workplace.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Donna]]
!!Donna
->'''Played By:''' Creator/SallyBretton
An intern at Wernham Hogg in the first series.
----
%%* DeadpanSnarker:
* DudeMagnet: Gareth tries and fails to impress her, plus Finch is very impressed when he discovers she's lodging temporarily with David.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: She's pretty open with her flirting with Ricky.
* OfficeRomance: Has one with Ricky.
* SequelNonEntity: Justified, as she's an intern.
* ShutUpHannibal: When David tries to interfere with her personal life, she give him TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and tells him he has no right telling her who she can and can't see, adding that he's just insecure and jealous.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Glynn]]
!!Glynn, a.k.a. "Taffy"
->'''Played By:''' Creator/DavidSchaal
The misogynistic warehouse manager (and therefore Lee's supervisor), who is seen as being very slack and has little respect for anyone who works outside of the warehouse, particularly senior management.
----
* BaldOfEvil: Evil is pushing it, but he's bald and not very nice.
* {{Jerkass}}: Is ''very'' old-fashioned about women and disrespectful towards management.
* JerkassHasAPoint: At play when he responds to Anne's criticism of him for smoking near her at the Christmas party.
* KarmaHoudini: He gets away with insulting Jennifer, his boss.
* LowerClassLout: For starters, he enjoys watching videos of dogs having sex during work hours and insults Jennifer when she calls him out on this.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He's incredibly sexist, homophobic and misogynistic.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Alex]]
!!Alex
->'''Played By:''' Creator/NeilFitzmaurice
A new warehouse recruit, despite being underqualified for the job.
----
* BookEnds: He's hired in the very first episode, only to be made redundant at the end of the first series.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He considers it a form of discrimination that he lost his job while a (much) shorter warehouse worker got to keep his. Keep in mind the first episode established that he was ''not qualified for the position he was applying for'', and he only got hired because David took a liking to him.
* OopNorth: Neil Fitzmarice uses his native Scouse accent.
* PutOnABus: Made redundant at the end of series 1.
* SeinfeldianConversation: The iconic [[https://youtu.be/qAnIOCIBFR4 "midgets & dwarves"]] scene.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sheila]]
!!Sheila
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JaneLucas
A Slough employee and shrinking violet.
----
* HasAType: See her WhamLine below.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Late in the series it's revealed that she has a crush on Oliver, but loses him to Trudy.
* ShrinkingViolet: She's very mousy and barely ever speaks, though that might be a good thing, considering her WhamLine below...
* WhamLine: ''"I like blacks"'', with Oliver sitting right next to her.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ben]]
!!Ben
->'''Played By:''' Creator/BenBradshaw

A Slough employee whose sense of humour isn't far from David Brent's.
----
* ButtMonkey: On Red Nose Day, the men in the office pin him down and strip him naked.
* DirtyOldMan: Noticeably older than most of the Wernham Hogg employees, and grabs his dance partner's arse during the Christmas Special.
* DudeNotFunny: When the other guys are making risque jokes revolving about Donna, his "wouldn't mind escaping up her tunnel" line is considered by Brent to just be in bad taste.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Simon]]
!!Simon
->'''Played By:''' Creator/MatthewHolness
The office's IT specialist.
----
* ArmorPiercingResponse: When Tim is making fun of him with Rachel giggling nearby, Simon's response leaves the usually quick-witted Tim stuttering to respond:
-->'''Simon:''' [[EveryoneCanSeeIt Gone off Dawn, have you?]]
* ConspiracyTheorist: Claims Creator/BruceLee faked his own death into order to infiltrate [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs the Triads]].
* InsistentTerminology: He's very particular about Creator/BruceLee movies, noting "Way of the Dragon" should ''not'' be confused with "Enter the Dragon".
* SmugSnake: Talks about bizarre conspiracies and possibly false anecdotes in an arrogant tone.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Anne]]
!!Anne
->'''Played By:''' Creator/ElizabethBerrington
A self-absorbed and obnoxious pregnant woman who shares Tim's desk after Gareth becomes manager.
----
* TheBore: She mostly drones on and on about herself without requiring much input from whoever she's talking at.
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Averted. She ''claims'' she often gets unwanted attention from male co-workers, but can't understand why. Nor can Tim.
* HateSink: She's rude and self-absorbed. And she lied about her son being seriously ill in order to jump the queue at Euro Disney.
* {{Hypocrite}}: She tells Dawn she needs to hurry up and have a baby because "there is nothing worse than an old mum". Going by the age of their actresses alone [[note]]Elizabeth Berrington is three years older than Lucy Davis[[/note]], Anne is clearly older than Dawn and pregnant herself.
* ItsAllAboutMe: She annoys Tim as she speaks continuously about herself and other topics no-one else is interested in.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: She obviously fancies herself as being worldly-wise, but most of Tim's {{Stealth Insult}}s fly over her head entirely.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Glynn (the warehouse foreman) she hectors him for smoking too close to her at the Christmas party.
-->'''Glynn:''' You think we care as much about your baby as you do? Just cos you let some useless tosser [[UnusualEuphemism blow his beans up your muff]]? Well done! [[PrecisionFStrike Merry fucking Christmas]]!
* LittlestCancerPatient: Exploited; Anne ''pretended'' that her son was seriously ill in order to jump the queue at Euro Disney.
* ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife: Not a housewife, but embodies aspects of this trope due to her selfishness and sense of entitlement.
* OneDrinkWillKillTheBaby: A variant of this. She criticises the warehouse guys for smoking near her at the party, which leads to her receiving a brutal put-down from [[JerkassHasAPoint Glynn]].
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: For Gareth. She was specifically introduced to be someone even more annoying than Gareth to sit near Tim.
* TooMuchInformation: Not only does she tell Tim how she and her husband conceived their child, but she then stands up and ''demonstrates'' the exact position. Tim's expression says it all.
[[/folder]]

!!Swindon transfers

[[folder:Rachel]]
!!Rachel
->'''Played By:''' Creator/StaceyRoca
A young lady, transferred from the Swindon branch as of the second series, who Tim and Gareth both take interest in.
----
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Tim's not Bad-bad, but he does delight in pranking both his boss and co-worker, sometimes without provocation.
* BettyAndVeronica: The Veronica to Dawn's Betty.
* DudeMagnet: Tim, Gareth, Keith and even Lee all notice her.
%%* EveryoneLovesBlondes
* TheGentlemanOrTheScoundrel: A subverted trope. Tim's mischievous nature clearly makes him the scoundrel, but he makes a half-decent boyfriend. Gareth tries unsubtly flirting with Rachel and comes across as an arse-kissing creep.
* InformedAttractiveness: Tim, Gareth, Keith and even Lee all think she's drop-dead gorgeous, despite her not really being any more or less attractive than the other female staff.
* LoveTriangle: Is involved in two, both of which also involve Tim.
* PrecisionFStrike: After Tim drops her, Gareth tries swooping in and gets told to "Fuck off".
* PutOnABus: She disappears after Tim dumps her.
* RomanticFalseLead: ''Obviously''
* SatelliteLoveInterest: She's just there so that Dawn can be jealous and Tim can fight with Gareth some more.
* SequelNonEntity: Does not show up in the Christmas Special.
* WhatExactlyIsHisJob: Unless you get paid to flirt with Tim, prank David and rebuff Gareth, we have no way of knowing what she does.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Trudy]]
!!Trudy
->'''Played By:''' Creator/RachelIsaac
Welsh, and loves to party.
----
* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Trudy criticises on Brent for making a black man joke. He counters by saying that if [[TokenMinority Oliver]] didn't take offence then the joke must be objectively inoffensive. Trudy then counters by saying that just because it's not her race being mocked doesn't mean she shouldn't be allowed to be offended.
* EveryoneHasStandards: She flirts with most of the men she works with and ends up having [[MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces sex in the car park]] with Finch, but draws the line at [[CasanovaWannabe Brent]]. He's naturally offended by this. Trudy also finds jokes about race in poor taste.
* GagPenis: At one point she mentions that she wants a man who is "hung like a shire horse".
* InformedAttribute: Claims to have a thing for shy men yet ends up hooking up with Finchy, who's about as far from shy as you can get. Granted, it ''was'' a one-night stand...
* LovableSexManiac: Notorious enough for her co-workers to buy her sex toys for her birthday knowing she won't take offence.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Oliver]]
!!Oliver
->'''Played By:''' Creator/RachelIsaac
The only black man in the office, which gets him a lot of attention from David Brent whenever he's trying to convince everyone that he's not racist.
----
* NiceGuy: Despite Brent's lack of tact, Oliver always takes it in stride.
* ShipTease: With Trudy, whom he hooks up with in the season finale.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Forms a quick friendship with Jamie, mostly to show that the rivalry Brent tries to stoke between the Slough lot and the Swindon lot is utterly non-existent.
* TokenMinority: Only David and Jennifer acknowledge this, the latter doing so purely because she has to discipline the former for making a racist joke.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Brenda]]
!!Brenda
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JulieFernandez
A wheelchair-bound woman who David and Gareth are unsure how to address. Or deal with.
----
* ButtMonkey: During the fire drill, David and Gareth try to carry her down the stairs (being unable to use the lift as they would not be able to do so in the event of an actual fire), but give up halfway through and leave her in a stairwell in her wheelchair, rationalising that it's only a drill.
* InspirationallyDisadvantaged: Averted. Only David sees her disability as worthy of attention.
[[/folder]]

!!Other characters

[[folder:Gareths's friends]]
!!Jimmy the Perv and the Oggmonster
->'''Played By:''' Creator/BruceMackinnon (Jimmy) and Creator/StephenMerchant (Oggy)
Two of Gareth's weirdo friends.
----
* AbhorrentAdmirer: Jimmy tries to steal a kiss from Dawn, then repeatedly pesters her for one on the lips when she only gives him a peck.
* BerserkButton: Oggmonster has no problem with jokes about his height, but calling him goggle-eyed is a step too far.
* CreatorCameo: Oggmonster is played by Stephen Merchant, co-writer of the show.
* DropInCharacter: They turn up at the office even though they don't work there.
* IncomingHam: OGGY-OGGY-OGGY! OINK-OINK-OINK!
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Oggmonster's real name is Nathan, but only Brent calls him this.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Carol]]
!!Carol
->'''Played By:''' Creator/SandyHendrickse
David Brent's blind date in the Christmas Specials.
----
* DowntimeDowngrade: In [[Series/TheOfficeUS the US version]] and [[Film/DavidBrentLifeOnTheRoad the movie]], David mentions that he's currently single, so they clearly didn't last.
* MeaningfulName: Her name's Carol and she appears in the Christmas Special.
* OppositesAttract: Carol's attractive, sensitive and an all-round pleasant person to be with. David Brent, well...
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Her character isn't explored fully, due to appearing in the final episode.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: She gets to see the more likeable side to David and quickly warms up to him. David's "good" quality is justified when he stands up to Finch after he insults her, even though she's not around to see it.
[[/folder]]