also worth bearing in mind Steve's time at high school ends with the first AP movie, so his antics and lack-of-growing-up shown in 2 and 3 wouldn't be known by the majority of students who would have graduated with him.
It's a bit of a strange dynamic anyway and unclear how friendly Stifler was with Jim, Finch and Kevin before AP1 starts - I get the impression they're almost "friends-in-law" and only associate with him through Ox. They go to parties at his house but so does the entire school, it seems. And while they tire of him and don't particularly want him around in 2 and 3, some of that is because of the tension between him and Finch after what happened at the end of AP1.
But if AP1 shows us anything, it's that Stifler seems to be far better friends with the other Lacrosse players, and he seems very popular among them. He also gets a job back at the school and seems very well respected by the students he's coaching there in AP3.
That's the problem though with so many sequels (or at least movies set in that universe) with different writers and different ideas/themes - there's a lot of ret-conning going on.It's therefore strange to say "everyone" hates him - if that were the case, he'd hardly be considered a legend and therefore the Stifler name wouldn't be so difficult for Matt and the others in these sequels to live up to.
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