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Dennis Reynolds is one of the main protagonists of black comedy It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Dennis is the most intelligent and ruthless member of the gang, frequently coming up with most of the plans and going to lengths that are considered abhorrent even by his friends. He is an extremely vain, egotistical and manipulative narcissist who responds to any perceived slight with a scheme for revenge. He is also implied to be a serial murderer and sex offender which are big reasons he is generally agreed by fans to be the most awful person in the show.
He was portrayed by Glenn Howerton.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Heinous?[]
- He is generally emotionally abusive to Dee as he constantly insults and belittles her.
- He killed four crows in front of Dee during their childhood.
- He casually mentions that he used to sexually assault Rickety Cricket by chasing him down and tea bagging him.
- He has recorded numerous videos of himself having sex with women without their consent.
- He pretended to be close with a woman's dead grandfather so he could have sex with her, to the point of paying homeless people to pretend to be his friends at his funeral.
- He pretends to be crippled to attract female attention.
- He drunkely drives Mac to a strip club which leads to a man being severely injured and having to wear a full body cast.
- After losing their jobs, he and Dee pose as crack addicts to get wellfare.
- He threatens to have sex with the Waitress, knowing how much Charlie likes her just to get out of work.
- He attempts to sleep with both Mac and Charlie's mothers to spite them.
- He and Mac sign Charlie up for for an illegal underground fighting tournament with no thought to their friend's safety. When Mac replaces Charlie, Dennis bets against him and pockets all the money for himself.
- When coaching a kids basketball team he encouraged the kids to be violent against their opposing team.
- After being snubbed by an environmentalist Dennis manipulates him into tying himself to a tree so he can seduce his girlfriend and then trick him into watching a tree get tore down in front of him.
- When Dennis and Dee thought Mac was a serial killer they stalked the Waitress in an attempt to get into his head and Dennis showed a homicidal urge to kill her.
- He is implied to have made Dee cry for an entire month when she got emotional battery by psychologically abusing her for an hour straight.
- Along with Mac, he hunts Cricket for sport.
- In the episode mentioned above, he sexually assaults Mac in his sleep. Furthermore, it's heavily implied that he and Mac raped Cricket offscreen after finally catching him.
- When a woman at the bank denies the gang a loan to buy some gasoline Dennis tries to make a deal to have sex with her if she changes her mind.
- He shows no concern when he walks in on Frank waterboarding Dee and ignores her when she begs him for help.
- In an attempt to improve his own karma he and the rest of the gang kidnap a mexican family and destroy their home.
- He creates the D.E.N.N.I.S. system which is basically a way to get women into bed by emotionally manipulating and abusing them which includes methods like slashing the tyres on their car to make them depend on you.
- In what is probably the most infamous example he explains to Mac that he wants to buy a boat so he can take women out on it and ask them for sex, under the logic that since they would be in the middle of nowhere they would be too afraid of him to refuse.
- He plots with Dee to make Frank think he is being hunted by the ghost of his former business partner just to get him to buy the Christmas presents they want.
- He trapped a group of people he and the Gang were trying to bury the hatchet with inside his and Mac's apartment along with a house fire. The fire managed to burn half of Cricket's face off in particular.
- Along with Frank and Dee his reaction to learning Bill Ponderosa is suicidal is to take out a life insurance policy for him.
- He poisoned Mac with diet pills so he would lose weight.
- It's revealed he started a whole cult just to get Mac to stop eating his thin mint cookies.
- In order to stop it being exposed that Dee was falsely claiming the baby she'd been a surrogate for as a dependant it was Dennis who came up with the idea to stage a dead baby funeral.
- When Frank becomes an amnesiac Dennis plotted with Dee to scam him out of money and then kick him out of the gang.
- He organized a seminar to teach people how to get away with sexual misconduct.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- Since the show is a comedy pretty much everything he does is played for dark laughs.
- There are times where he can show genuine affection for the rest of the gang such as comforting Charlie when he was worried about leaving Philadelphia for the first time or being grateful when Mac buys him an RPG for Valentine's Day.
- He is tragic, suffering from emotional abuse from Frank throughout his childhood and being sexually assaulted by a librarian when he was fifteen, causing him to abandon all emotional bonds in order to recover from the incident.
- He was shown to legitimately care about and be kind to Jack Bauer, the cat he bought at a junkyard.
- He shows standards at times like being disgusted by Frank's story of throwing campaign at a bum, being horrified to learn his grandfather was a Nazi and not being able to bring himself to kill a dog. Additionally, he expresses some distaste towards himself after listening to some of the tapes of him raping various women.
- He developed a genuine bond with Abby, a young con artist he met at a waterpark as he sincerely praises her talent and lectures a woman he believes to be her mother about her treatment of Abby.