Which American Office character is Gareth Keenan's counterpart?

Gareth Keenan’s American Office counterpart is Dwight Schrute. Both characters are intensely ambitious, rigidly rule-bound office workers who crave authority and take their minor workplace status far more seriously than their colleagues do.

Gareth works at Wernham Hogg’s Slough branch in the British series, while Dwight works at Dunder Mifflin’s Scranton branch in the American adaptation. Gareth is portrayed by Mackenzie Crook, and Dwight is portrayed by Rainn Wilson. Their personalities are not identical, but Dwight is explicitly based on Gareth.

The two characters share a taste for hierarchy, military or survivalist ideas and displays of procedural knowledge. Gareth boasts about his Territorial Army experience and Team Leader title. Dwight similarly insists on the importance of his assistant-to-the-regional-manager position and repeatedly seeks promotion.

A common mix-up is assigning Michael Scott as Gareth’s counterpart. Michael is closer to David Brent, since both are managers whose attempts to be liked create awkward office situations. Jim Halpert is instead part of Dwight’s recurring prank and rivalry dynamic, paralleling Tim Canterbury’s relationship with Gareth.