While The Office featured many memorable characters, none was quite as uptight, hypocritical, or tiny as Angela Martin. As the head of ing at the Dunder Mifflin Scranton Branch, Angela spent most of her time working with Oscar and Kevin. When she wasn't crunching numbers, she was planning a party alongside Phyllis and Pam or having a little fun with Dwight.
Though Angela had many defining traits, there were also aspects of her that fluctuated throughout the series. It’s time to head back to Scranton and take a closer look at the ways in which Angela changed and stayed the same.
Changed: She Got Married
Angela has multiple relationship changes throughout the show. While she is engaged to Andy for a long period, she ends up dating and eventually marrying Senator Robert Lipton.
Angela and the senator first met each other at Dwight’s hay festival. He asked for her number, and the rest is history. Well… sort of.
Stayed The Same: She Bragged About Her Size
Angela is petite and has no problem reminding the rest of the office about this. According to Angela, she weighs only eighty-two pounds and wears a child’s size ten. She shops for large colonial doll clothing at the American Girl store and stays noticeably small even after she became pregnant.
Though Angela’s size was sometimes a joke among the Scranton staff, she more often chose to embrace her tininess.
Changed: She Became A Mother
Though Angela has always been a cat mom, she hasn’t always been a mother to a human child. In Season 8, it’s revealed that Angela is expecting. Though it looks like she’s having a baby with Senator Robert Lipton, we eventually learn that the baby is Dwight’s.
Though having a child presents many new challenges for Angela, she cares for little Philip well.
Stayed The Same: She Was Sneaky
Angela is a sly one. The ant is good at keeping secrets and staying silent. Her earliest secret is that she is sleeping with Dwight. While her co-workers slowly figure out what’s going on between the pair, they’re good at staying quiet for a long time and find a variety of ways to spend time with one another.
Much later in the series, Angela keeps the identity of the father of her child a secret. She even figured out a way to fake the paternity test.
Changed: She Lost Her Status
Angela consistently thought she was better than her peers. That’s why the writers of The Office chose to knock her off of her high horse more than once.
The first notable time that Angela gets pushed down is when she loses her role as head of the party planning committee. Though there is no distinct transition, one day Angela is running the PPC and the next Phyllis has taken over. Phyllis uses her position (and her knowledge that Dwight and Angela are having an affair) to blackmail Angela into doing her bidding. Later, Angela and the senator separate. This causes her to move into a tiny apartment and forces her to find a way to get her life back together.
Stayed The Same: She Judged Others
Angela is known for being incredibly judgmental of others. Though she rarely holds to the standards she sets for her coworkers, she openly disapproves of Pam and Jim’s relationship, Oscar’s sexual orientation, and any other activity she deems “promiscuous.”
Though Angela has her moments of kindness, the majority of the show has her expressing her dissatisfaction with others.
Changed: She Became Nicer
Yes, she constantly judges people. But also, she manages to before a little kinder by the finale. Angela puts many of her bouts behind her in the final episode. Perhaps love changed her.
Angela decides to invite all her former “enemies” to her wedding including Pam, Oscar, and Phyllis. She’s glowing the entire day and has little time to tear down the people around her.
Stayed The Same: She Loved Cats
Angela is the ultimate cat lady from the start of the series to the end of it. She frequently wore cat clothing and decorated her workspace with cat memorabilia.
She brought her cats to work, set up a nanny cam for them, and even named her son after one of her pets. That’s some serious dedication.
Changed: She Befriended Oscar
At the beginning of the series, Angela and Oscar have an uneven relationship. Though they get along sometimes, they frequently run into conflicts with one another.
In an early episode, Oscar gets angry at Angela for refusing to take down a poster of babies playing instruments. In a later season, Angela gets snippy with Oscar for wearing sandals without socks. These little debates hit their breaking point after Angela discovers Oscar had an affair with her husband. Though Angela at first hires a hitman to attack Oscar, the two miraculously make up. Angela even makes Oscar her son’s godfather.
Stayed The Same: She Wanted Dwight
Though the nature of Dwight and Angela’s relationship changes throughout the series, their attraction to one another remains the same.
Dwight and Angela keep a secret romance going throughout the early seasons of The Office. Even after she gets engaged to someone else (Andy), she continues to meet Dwight in secret. Thankfully, the pair eventually its their true feeling to one another, and in the series finale, they wed. That’s how you end things on a happy note.