Detective Michael Tritter - Personality

Personality

"Tritter himself is essentially House without the sense of humor, but that doesn't make him any less right in his assessment of House as bully."

Alan Sepinwall, The Star-Ledger

The main antagonist of the third season, Tritter is a "stubborn", "vengeful", and extremely determined police detective. According to David Morse, the offensive thermometer incident in "Fools for Love" made it easy for Tritter to stand up to House; as House's equal, Tritter "gets who House is on all levels and can really shake his foundation". Tritter's experiences with drug addicts color his view of House, and he becomes so morbidly obsessed with House that, according to executive producer Katie Jacobs, the story arc turns into "a battle of egos" between them. The character shows a manipulative streak when he forms a plan to coerce each member of House's team to testify separately in "Finding Judas". Robert Bianco of USA Today described Tritter as an initially "legitimately, if belligerently, aggrieved adversary" character who later morphs into "some kind of insane supercop, tearing his way through the hospital and the Constitution at will". In spite of his adversarial and manipulative acts, however, he maintains a very soft-spoken and even-keeled demeanor when dealing with people, especially House, in contrast to House's generally denigrating treatment of others.

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