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* ItsAllAboutMe: Pretty much all of the bad guys are looking out for their own benefit with little regard for the effect of their surroundings and decisions. [[spoiler: Even Garvin's decision to fire Meredith instead of Tom as planned probably had something to do with this, rather than firing her for the effort of everyone else]].
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: After all his scapegoating and lies about Tom, the reader isn't going to feel bad when Phil Blackburn is fired for leaking the story about Sanders to reporter.]]
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: After all his scapegoating and lies about Tom, the reader isn't going to feel bad when Phil Blackburn is fired for leaking the story about Sanders to a reporter.]]
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*HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Garvin is this to Meredith, who has actually been manipulating and preying on him for quite a few years to advance her career and desires. He is completely blind to her incompetence or any negative publicity or behavior he hears about her and will argue with anyone who tries to criticize her. Ultimately subverted [[spoiler: when he fires Meredith for her mistakes after Tom proves her incompetence, showing that he cared more about the merger more than Meredith herself.]]
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*AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: After all his scapegoating and lies about Tom, the reader isn't going to feel bad when Phil Blackburn is fired for leaking the story about Sanders to reporter.]]
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* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: [[spoiler: Blackburn plays this to truly unsympathetic levels when he accuses Tom of sexually harassing Meredith, when it's later revealed he knew that Tom was telling the truth the whole time and was helping Meredith getting rid of him behind Garvin's back so she could blame him for her incompetence.]]
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Meredith perceives herself as this, though it's just really for attention and validation. Garvin is implied to play this straight as he is more focused on the merger than Meredith herself, and only sides with her only Tom, because losing the merger would leave him to start over and would likely grant him negative publicity from his subordinates, especially during the spin-off. [[spoiler: Phil Blackburn, on the other hand doesn't appear to be this so much. Unlike Garvin, he's completely in on Meredith's plot from the beginning to force Sanders out of the company, and it is implied that he possibly has an ulterior and personal motive for wanting to get rid of him.]]
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Meredith perceives herself as this, though it's just really for attention and validation. Garvin is implied to play this straight as he is more focused on the merger than Meredith herself, and only sides with her only over Tom, because losing the merger would leave him to start over and would likely grant him negative publicity from his subordinates, especially during subordinates for failing in the spin-off. merger.
[[spoiler: Phil Blackburn, on the other hand doesn't appear to be this so much. Unlike Garvin, he's completely in on Meredith's plot from the beginning to force Sanders out of the company, and it is implied that he possibly has an ulterior and personal motive for wanting to get rid of him.]]
[[spoiler: Phil Blackburn, on the other hand doesn't appear to be this so much. Unlike Garvin, he's completely in on Meredith's plot from the beginning to force Sanders out of the company, and it is implied that he possibly has an ulterior and personal motive for wanting to get rid of him.]]
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*WellIntentionedExtremist: Meredith perceives herself as this, though it's just really for attention and validation. Garvin is implied to play this straight as he is more focused on the merger than Meredith herself, and only sides with her only Tom, because losing the merger would leave him to start over and would likely grant him negative publicity from his subordinates, especially during the spin-off. [[spoiler: Phil Blackburn, on the other hand doesn't appear to be this so much. Unlike Garvin, he's completely in on Meredith's plot from the beginning to force Sanders out of the company, and it is implied that he possibly has an ulterior and personal motive for wanting to get rid of him.]]
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* ConsumateLiar: Meredith tries to play the victim card so much that it naturally makes her a very skilled and smooth liar when she is accused of doing something wrong, except [[DidntThinkThisThrough for when she is caught off guard by a detail that surprises her]].
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* ConsumateLiar: ConsummateLiar: Meredith tries to play the victim card so much that it naturally makes her a very skilled and smooth liar when she is accused of doing something wrong, except [[DidntThinkThisThrough for when she is caught off guard by a detail that surprises her]].
