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| 8 | '''The Griffin Family''' ([[Characters/FamilyGuyPeterGriffin Peter Griffin]] | [[Characters/FamilyGuyStewieGriffin Stewie Griffin]] | [[Characters/FamilyGuyBrianGriffin Brian Griffin]]) | [[Characters/FamilyGuyTheNeighbors The Neighbors]] ([[Characters/FamilyGuyGlennQuagmire Glenn Quagmire]]) | [[Characters/FamilyGuyRecurringCharacters Recurring Characters]] ([[Characters/FamilyGuyPawtucketBrewery Pawtucket Brewery]] | [[Characters/FamilyGuyAdamWestHighSchool Adam West High School]] | [[Characters/FamilyGuyQuahog5News Quahog 5 News]]) | [[Characters/FamilyGuyAntagonists Antagonists]]-]]]]] |
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| 14 | [[caption-width-right:300:Clockwise from left: [[DumbassTeenageSon Chris]], [[ManChild Peter]], [[BitchInSheepsClothing Lois]], [[ButtMonkey Meg]], [[BrainyBaby Stewie]], and [[InsufferableGenius Brian]].]] |
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| 16 | ->''"[[{{Understatement}} We're an unusual family.]]"'' |
| 17 | -->-- '''Stewie Griffin'''[[note]]moments after his father returns home with a mentally-challenged horse who urinates on the floor and then demands the entire family to urinate to make the horse more comfortable[[/note]] |
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| 23 | [[caption-width-right:242:[[BlatantLies One big happy family!]][[note]]...And this is just in the ''pre-cancellation era''. Just wait 'til the post![[/note]]]] |
| 24 | !!Tropes for all of them: |
| 25 | * TheAlcoholic: Almost all of them have at least a little bit of a problem with alcohol, ''including Stewie.'' |
| 26 | * AMistakeIsBorn: Obviously flexble since the show runs on NegativeContinuity, but theres evidence that none of the Griffin children were planned: Meg when Lois' birth control plls were cancelled out by cold medicine, Chris due to a broken condom (the money from the ensuing lawsuit let the Griffins buy their home), and Stewie used time travel to trigger his own conception. |
| 27 | * AntiHero: {{Classical Anti Hero}}es, being an idiotic family prone to dangerous acts. As time goes on, however, a couple in particular (Peter and Lois) evolved into {{Nominal Hero}}es or even {{Villain Protagonist}}s, being only considered "heroes" because they're the main characters, and aren't above hurting others and breaking rules to get their way. Even Chris, Meg and Brian have committed questionable acts. |
| 28 | * AxCrazy: Each family member is shown to be mentally psychotic and/or unstable, a trait particularly seen in Stewie, Peter and Meg. |
| 29 | * AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: They really do care about one another, they just show it rarely or even at times unhealthily. |
| 30 | * BadassFamily: Surviving all sorts of chaos on a weekly basis certainly makes them this. |
| 31 | * BigScrewedUpFamily: They make ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' look like ''Series/TheBradyBunch''. |
| 32 | * ABoyAGirlAndABabyFamily: The family consists of one son (Chris), one daughter (Meg), and one baby (Stewie). Although, Brian is also treated as a normal member of the family despite being their pet. |
| 33 | * BrotherSisterTeam: Occasionally pops up when Chris, Meg, and/or Stewie work together or are paired with one another. |
| 34 | * TheBully: All six members have taken turns abusing or mocking everyone around them [[ItAmusedMe just for the kick of it]]. In traditional fashion, they prove extremely thin-skinned and hypocritical whenever taking it back. It's revealed a key reason they usually pick on [[ExtremeDoormat Meg]] is because they break the moment they harass someone that can dish it back. Meg herself isn't so above it all. |
| 35 | * BullyingTheDisabled: Depending on the episode, they are dismissive of Joe and make fun of his disability. They are also quite abusive towards Chris, who either has an intellectual disability or a learning difficulty. |
| 36 | * CharacterDeath: It was confirmed that one member of the family would die in Season 12 and be replaced by a new character. [[spoiler:If you count his [[DeathIsCheap death that was soon retconned]], Brian is the one to qualify for this.]] |
| 37 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: All of them have had they're far share examples of this, the most pronounced examples are Peter and Lois, but also Brian has had a big change since the uncancellation, as started out more good natured, but then were portrayed as malicious family members. |
| 38 | * TheChewToy: Most of their injuries are PlayedForLaughs. |
| 39 | * ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Mostly in the later seasons, but they will screw each other over at a moment's notice. |
| 40 | * ComedicSociopathy: And not just them. 90% of the show's character humor seems to revolve around this trope really. |
| 41 | * CreepyFamily: They became more violent and prone to committing morally disturbing acts with each subsequent season. |
| 42 | * {{Deconstruction}}: "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS10E2SeahorseSeashellParty Seahorse Seashell Party]]" has proven to probably be the episode where there are more deconstructions than any other. The most prominent is the deconstruction towards Meg's severe bullying in her family, and she readily tells all truths to each family member. |
| 43 | * DependingOnTheWriter: The state of Peter and Lois's marriage varies from episode to episode. In some, they are a loving couple, sharing romantic dances when they have the house to themselves, and enjoying each others' quirks. In others, their partnership is more tenuous, but with an undercurrent of mutual love holding them together. In others still, it's implied the marriage is hanging by a thread, with only the smallest of excuses keeping them from splitting up. |
| 44 | * DirtyCoward: Unlike WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons, who are {{Action Survivor}}s, they are rather cowardly in some situations; in "Dial Meg For Murder", no one tries to help Peter when he gets raped by a bull or when Meg attacked him, in fact the whole family was under Meg's thumb and even shifted the blame to Stewie, ''a baby.'' Nearly all of them bully, abuse and mock each other and everyone around them. They snivel and cower the moment it seems they've passed their victim's breaking point, however. |
| 45 | * DoubleStandard: Lois and Meg are often depicted more sympathetically, even though they are just as abusive and unhinged as the rest of the family. Meg's case is justified as she has to put with the brunt of her families' abuse, therefore any instance of her being abusive is actually her [[WhosLaughingNow snapping]]. |
| 46 | * DysfunctionalFamily: After Season 6, they've become less loving to each other and more psychopathic and at each other's necks. |
| 47 | * FamilyBusiness: Peter and the kids open up "Big Pete's House of Munch" in "No Meals on Wheels". |
| 48 | * {{Flanderization}}: A lot of their negative traits from early seasons are known to been exaggerated over time, with almost ''''none'''' of their good traits. In the early seasons, they were actually sympathetic and their negative traits were balanced out. Now they're negative traits have been so over-exaggerated that they've become a bunch of petty, selfish jerks. Possibly {{justified|Trope}}, in that the flanderization could be a result of their deteriorating mental health. |
| 49 | * FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Meg and Stewie's Responsible to Chris' Foolish. Both of them are noticeably more mature in contrast to him. |
| 50 | * FourTemperamentEnsemble: |
| 51 | ** Choleric -- Peter |
| 52 | ** Melancholic -- Lois and Stewie |
| 53 | ** Sanguine -- Chris |
| 54 | ** Phlegmatic -- Meg and Brian |
| 55 | * ItRunsInTheFamily: All of them share each other's flanderized psychopathy and jerkassery from Season 6 onward. Lois and Brian both have the same level of agenda-driven soapbox approach, Peter and Chris are equally stupid, and Meg and Stewie both serve as a voice of reason whom are always ignored. |
| 56 | * JerkassToOne: They've all been {{flanderiz|ation}}ed into particularly horrible excuses for human beings, but they focus a lot of their vitriol and bullying on Meg. Lampshaded in "Seahorse Seashell Party," when Meg finally has enough of their crap, the whole family starts to have a nervous breakdown due to lacking their usual "lightning rod". |
| 57 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: All of them show at the end of the day that in spite of the trouble they put each other through, deep down they really care for each other. However, this [[DependingOnTheWriter depends on the writer]]. |
| 58 | * JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: In the later seasons, it’s clear when they do something even remotely heroic, it’s, more often than not, for selfish reasons. |
| 59 | * LackOfEmpathy: At their worst, but mostly Stewie and Peter. Lois may fall under this trope in the later seasons. |
| 60 | * LargeHam: Most of the family members are this, other than Brian and Meg. |
| 61 | * LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Depending on the episode, sometimes they'll reference other media or straight up mention how this is all a cartoon. However, they either treat it as an in-universe tv show with characters smoking in between cutaways or acting as if they are working on a set or treat it as an actual cartoon. |
| 62 | * MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Meg is the Masculine Girl to Chris and, to a lesser extent, Stewie's Feminine Boys. Meg has displayed violent, intimidating tendencies and [[DisproportionateRetribution aggravated revenge]] to those who have messed with her--most notably in "Dial Meg for Murder", and surprisingly averts the [[ValleyGirl teenage girl stereotype]] for the most part. Chris, on the other hand, is so sensitive and innocent that he wouldn't hurt a fly (though this becomes deconstructed in the later seasons where he TookALevelInJerkass); Stewie, while an intimidating, precocious, BadassAdorable individual, still has some flamboyant tendencies, such as cross-dressing and getting giddy over opportune prospects, not to mention that he still has some interests of a typical baby/toddler, such as his Teddy bear Rupert. |
| 63 | * MediumAwareness: All of them have directly spoken to the audience at some point, but this especially goes for Peter, who is basically the Deadpool of ''Family Guy''. He not only breaks the fourth wall, but even uses it to help him get places. |
| 64 | * {{Nice Mean And InBetween}}: |
| 65 | ** Out of the three children: |
| 66 | *** Nice: Meg. She has her questionable moments too, but she's a relatively good person compared to the rest of the family, and the others are jerks to her more often than the other way around. |
| 67 | *** Mean: Stewie. In early seasons he was the TokenEvilTeammate who wanted to kill his mother. He got nicer in later seasons, especially compared to Peter, Lois, and Brian, but he's still more devious and prone to ComedicSociopathy than his siblings ([[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and a bit of a jerk to Brian]]). |
| 68 | *** In-between: Chris. A harmless ditz who is mostly OutOfFocus, but he also can be a jerk, especially to Meg. |
| 69 | ** If you want to divide the family into pairs: |
| 70 | *** Nice: Meg and Chris. They are easily the most harmless, mainly because they are more OutOfFocus than the others. |
| 71 | *** Mean: Peter and Lois. They suffer the worst {{Flanderization}} and are AbusiveParents. |
| 72 | *** In-between: Stewie and Brian. The former TookALevelInKindness but is still AmbiguouslyEvil, while the latter can be an egotistical, hypocritical InsufferableGenius but has more moments of clarity than most of the other Griffins. |
| 73 | * ParentalObliviousness: Either they're all really oblivious to Stewie (apart from Brian), or they just don't seem to care, neither option seems very good. WordOfGod states that they notice Stewie saying and doing everything the viewers see, but because he is a baby, they do not take him seriously. |
| 74 | * ParentsAsPeople: Peter and Lois started off as such, trying their best to make their kids happy and give them the good life, only for their zeal or incompetence to make things worse. In later seasons however, they are far less well meaning to say the least. |
| 75 | * PinkGirlBlueBoy: Meg and Chris. Lois and Peter also when they are in their [=PJs=]. |
| 76 | * RedOniBlueOni: Brian's Blue to Stewie and Peter's red. Brian is the rational and responsible one of the trio who tries his best to prevent the latter two's recklessness. |
| 77 | * SadisticChoice: The family had to make the decision to eat a frozen Ben Fishman or less they face a similar fate. Everyone (sans Peter), are extremely reluctant, but go ahead and eat him, seeing no other option. |
| 78 | * SelectiveEnforcement: Several of the Griffins react in shock and disgust when Meg does or says something, even when they themselves have done the same thing: |
| 79 | ** In "Model Misbehavior," when Peter tells Lois that he'll "pleasure himself" to Lois' modeling, both Chris and Meg say they'll do so as well. Though Chris said the same thing, Peter angrily chews out Meg and ''only'' Meg for doing so before [[PunchAWall punching a hole in the wall]] and ordering her out of the house. |
| 80 | ** In "Big Man on Hippocampus," when Lois explains to the amnesiac Peter that he can't have sex with his children, Meg makes an incest joke[[note]]"I wish you'd told him that ''before'' he lost his memory!"[[/note]]; the entire family lambasts her, with Chris literally kicking her out of the room. However, in "Partial Terms of Endearment," Lois tells a joke that implies that Meg gave birth to Stewie, and receives no such violent reaction. |
| 81 | * SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Peter's Manly Man to Chris' Sensitive Guy. Both are the Sensitive Guys to Brain and Stewie's Manly Men. In the later seasons, Stewie is the Sensitive Guy to Brian's Manly Man. A rare example in where the Sensitive Guy is more capable than the Manly Man. |
| 82 | * SexlessMarriage: In the episode when Lois marries Brian, this occurs. They even have separate beds. |
| 83 | * ShortTeensTallAdults: Chris and Meg, whose parents visibly tower over them. While Chris' case can perhaps be justified in that he hasn't left puberty yet, Meg is at an age where she should have realistically stopped growing. |
| 84 | * TheSociopath: If not villainous, most of them have become this after season 6, due to their ego and heartlessness in the later seasons. |
| 85 | * StepfordSmiler: Lonely and love-depraved Meg and self-conscious Brian are Type A, Stewie is possibly Type B. Chris is hard tell, but likely a Type A. |
| 86 | * TheyKilledKennyAgain: All of them have died at least a few times, especially in the {{Cutaway Gag}}s. However, Peter and Meg tend to die the most often. "Dearly Deported" ends with the entire family being killed by mongooses. |
| 87 | * ThinSkinnedBully: Pretty much all of them are tall order {{Comedic Sociopath}}s come the later episodes, though the majority of time are simpering {{Dirty Coward}}s in the face of being abused themselves. Peter in particular, routinely has the disposition of a schoolyard bully, right down to his common reaction to someone aggressing him being blubbering like a wuss. |
| 88 | * TookALevelInJerkass: With the exception of [[TookALevelInKindness Stewie]] and [[ButtMonkey Meg]], all of them have become increasingly nastier after the third season to an unrealistic degree. |
| 89 | * TwoGirlsToATeam: Lois and Meg, the only girls of the immediate family. |
| 90 | * UglyGuyHotWife: Peter and Lois, with a little LampshadeHanging, as the couple was once described in an in-universe news report as "a fat man inexplicably married to an attractive redhead". |
| 91 | * UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Most of the time Peter, obviously, but when another of them gets ADayInTheLimelight, they are usually this as well. |
| 92 | * VocalEvolution: Some more than others, but it comes with the characterization. Peter, for example, is given a slightly higher pitch to coincide with his increasingly [[PsychopathicManchild childish disposition]]. Stewie becomes a lot more casual and less refined after losing any hints of being WickedCultured, and Brian's range is now higher after (more or less) losing his position of being the analytical StraightMan. |
| 93 | * WackyParentSeriousChild: Peter is this to Meg and Stewie, being less in touch with reality than the two. |
| 94 | [[/folder]] |
| 95 | |
| 96 | !!Administrivia/CharacterSpecificPages |
| 97 | * '''[[Characters/FamilyGuyPeterGriffin Peter Griffin]]''' |
| 98 | * '''[[Characters/FamilyGuyStewieGriffin Stewie Griffin]]''' |
| 99 | * '''[[Characters/FamilyGuyBrianGriffin Brian Griffin]]''' |
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| 101 | [[folder:Lois Griffin (née Pewterschmidt)]] |
| 102 | !!Lois Patrice Griffin (née Pewterschmidt) |
| 103 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lois_griffin.png]] |
| 104 | [[caption-width-right:250:"Hey! I could be like UsefulNotes/HillaryClinton--only, you know, without the penis."]] |
| 105 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AlexBorstein |
| 106 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS1E1DeathHasAShadow Death Has a Shadow]]" |
| 107 | |
| 108 | A woman from the richer side of Rhode Island that teaches piano lessons to children. Voiced by Alex Borstein, she had a VocalEvolution since the show was UnCanceled. |
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| 110 | * AbusiveParents: Since Season 7 onwards, she pretty much emotionally abuses Meg (compare with the earlier seasons, when she would have done her best to console Meg whenever she was bullied, from taking her to a spa during spring break or concocting a plan to have Quagmire go after Connie D'Amico), even going so far as to steal her boyfriends and give her Ambien and a Sylvia Plath book so she can commit suicide and not have to worry about her. A CutawayGag had her abandon one of her other children in a theatre. Furthermore, it's become something of a running gag to mention that Meg was entirely unplanned for and was almost aborted. During her second pregnancy (again unplanned for due to a broken condom) Lois apparently drank and smoke a lot in lieu of an abortion but stopped halfway which is why Chris is so stupid. She also used marijuana while pregnant with Stewie. |
| 111 | ** In one episode, when Lois hesitates to rescue Joe as he is about to fall into the sewer, Joe tells her to pretend that she is rescuing one of her children; Lois then nearly lets him go, prompting Joe to shout "Not Meg, ''not Meg''!", implying that Lois wouldn't bother to save Meg's life if she was being endangered. |
| 112 | ** In "Stew-Roids", Lois limits Meg's lunch bag to Chris' sandwich crusts, an orange peel, and a picture of her eating a turkey leg to taunt her. |
| 113 | ** In "Cat Fight", she cruelly mocks Chris's intelligence while he sleeps, then pours on fake compliments when he wakes up. Meg, who saw the whole thing, calls Lois a "[[YouMonster monster]]" for it. |
| 114 | * ActionMom: In "Lethal Weapons." Also, in the episode "Lois Kills Stewie," when she could hold her own in a fight against ''[[EnfantTerrible Stewie.]]'' |
| 115 | * AdaptationDyeJob: Her hair was supposed to be blonde in the pilot. |
| 116 | * AlmightyMom: Becomes this in "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS9E4HalloweenOnSpoonerStreet Halloween On Spooner Street]]" by telling off another mother because her child stole Stewie's candy. |
| 117 | * AllGirlsWantBadBoys: One could argue this is the reason she remains with Peter even after the latter has devolved into a PsychopathicManchild. |
| 118 | * AlphaBitch: Acted like one in high school. Even as an adult, she's selfish, erratic and condescending to her kids to the point that she ends up being abusive and insensitive. |
| 119 | %% * AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Same evolution as Peter albeit to a slightly lesser extent. |
| 120 | * BalloonBelly: She gained massive weight in "Sibling Rivalry", becoming nearly as fat as Peter, if not just as fat or even a bit fatter. |
| 121 | * BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Pound for pound she is the Griffin least likely to suffer from the show’s gruesome violence. |
| 122 | * BerserkButton: |
| 123 | ** Lois does ''not'' respond well to anyone getting in the way of her sex life. Despite being a steadfast supporter of the FFC's censorship in "PTV" initially, all it takes is for them to ban intercourse for her to quickly submit that Peter may have a point against them. In a case where Peter takes abstinence, she outright ''rapes'' him. |
| 124 | ** Someone taking away her grocery shopping: her response to Peter and Chris picking up groceries ''as a favor'' is to beat the hell out of Peter and toss a mason jar at a fleeing Chris. |
| 125 | -->"That's right. ''I'' do groceries." |
| 126 | ** Having breakfast for dinner is apparently anarchy to her. |
| 127 | ** Harry Hamlin is implied to be another one in a cutaway where they invite Bubo from ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|1981}}'' to dinner, and when they can't understand him when Lois asks him about Greece and Peter says only Hamlin can and they should have invited him too, we get this gem from Lois: |
| 128 | --->'''Lois''' ''(through gritted teeth)'': [[PunctuatedForEmphasis I will not. Have Harry Hamlin. In this house.]] |
| 129 | ** Don't you '''ever''' compare her to ''Creator/AnneHathaway'' in any shape or form. |
| 130 | * BrattyTeenageDaughter: In her younger years, she was entitled and dismissive of her father. |
| 131 | * BigBeautifulWoman: "Sibling Rivalry" sees her gain a substantial amount of weight, but remaining just as, if not, becoming even more gorgeous. |
| 132 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: In some episodes. In early episodes, whenever Peter did something to usurp her from a position of authority, such as the run for schoolboard president or as a theatre director, she later shows up to watch the results of his antics, stating it's only because she wants to watch him fail and see the people publicly ''destroy'' him (only to completely lose her cool in public when this failed). Notably, this was lampshaded as early as the second season, when the Griffins appear on a talk show and Lois gets the caption "probably more of a bitch than she lets on". |
| 133 | * ButForMeItWasTuesday: She does this on occasion for her behavior. She has this with Joyce Kinney when the latter confronts the former about what she did to her when they were teenagers. This is, however, understandable, given the fact that what Lois did was over 20 years ago and nobody remembers things like that well. |
| 134 | * ButtMonkey: Not as much as her daughter or even the rest of the family, but she's been shoved down the stairs by her husband Peter, fallen off the roof of the Griffin house when Peter's rickety balcony breaks, drenched in scalding cooking oil by Peter, etc. |
| 135 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: Lois' WomenAreWiser role in early seasons was completely genuine, like other female characters, to the point of nearing outright meekness, having only substantial moments of weakness or selfishness that she was almost always remorseful about afterwards. |
| 136 | ** Originally a genuinely compassionate MamaBear whose occasional bouts of self righteousness and impulsiveness led to moments not unlike her husband's, in later seasons is an extreme BitchInSheepsClothing and is almost as [[{{Jerkass}} callous and self centered]] as Peter. Especially towards Meg, who she seems to outright hate, and sometimes towards Peter. For the most part her ''persona'' is based on RuleOfFunny or DependingOnTheWriter (even more so than the majority of the cast). Whether she is genuinely [[OnlySaneWoman wiser]] or a [[{{Jerkass}} female version of Peter]] depends on where the gag takes her. |
| 137 | ** In early episodes, she was a piano teacher, which partially explains how the family was able to survive on Peter's paycheck. Later episodes exaggerated her being a housewife to the point she's obsessed with shopping for groceries. It's strange the writers forgot she used to have a job given her playing the piano starts off the show. |
| 138 | ** Her temper changed considerably, in early seasons she was much more mellow and laidback, gradually she developed a short fuse (most notably around Meg and Brain) and became more manic as time went on. |
| 139 | * ClingyJealousGirl: She does ''not'' like to see Peter being with another woman, just ask Jennifer Love Hewitt. |
| 140 | * CovertPervert: Has shown to be into BDSM, and seems to be as interested in sex as Peter. |
| 141 | * CruelCheerleader: She was a nasty one in high school. |
| 142 | * CuteButCacophonic: Lois may be attractive, but has a rather annoying nasally voice. |
| 143 | * DatingWhatDaddyHates: Her dad was never fond of Peter. |
| 144 | * DeadpanSnarker: It comes with the [[CharacterizationMarchesOn characterization]]. She can be very snarky towards [[ButtMonkey Brian and Meg]], sometimes [[TooDumbToLive Peter]]. |
| 145 | * DependingOnTheWriter: |
| 146 | ** Some episodes portray Lois as a compassionate MamaBear and the voice of reason to contrast Peter's stupidity. Others have her acting as immaturely as her husband, even having her display malicious delight at Brian or Meg's suffering. |
| 147 | ** Lois' opinion on Meg changes dramatically according to the episode. "Stew-Roids" and "Breaking Out Is Hard to Do" imply that she secretly wishes her daughter was dead; while "Better Off Meg" shows her crying in despair when she is led to believe that Meg has died. |
| 148 | * DistaffCounterpart: Is almost (d)evolving into this in later episodes, a lot of her role consisting of joining Peter in giggling over immature gags or even sharing similar sociopathic tendencies. The extent of this is RuleOfFunny however. |
| 149 | * DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: When she gets too fed up of Peter's shenanigans, she resorts to viciously attacking him. It's mostly PlayedForLaughs. |
| 150 | * DudeMagnet: Not only her own husband finds her hot, but so does Brian, Glenn Quagmire, and many other men. Even [[IncestSubtext her son Chris]] and [[StacysMom his friends]] have shown attraction to her. |
| 151 | * EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: She had blonde hair in the pilot, and her clothes were colored different. |
| 152 | * EnragedByIdiocy: |
| 153 | ** "Petarded" reveals that Lois is deeply aggravated by Peter's idiocy, with her repressed frustration causing a tumor to develop in her brain. |
| 154 | ** In "A Shot in the Dark", Lois snaps when Peter announces he is going to perform in blackface, and repeatedly hits him with a folded magazine while yelling that he is stupid. |
| 155 | ** "Cat Fight" implies that Lois is annoyed by Chris' stupidity, as she says that Meg may not be popular, but at least she is not an idiot like him. |
| 156 | * EntitledBitch: |
| 157 | ** In "Customer of the Week", she is convinced the titular award should go to her, and goes to absurd lengths to get it. |
| 158 | ** In "A Bottle Episode", she is outraged that Dottie hasn't taken down the bad review she gave her on Air [=BnB=], despite the fact that she knowingly stole a bottle of shampoo from Dottie's house, and went to great lengths to justify her actions. |
| 159 | * EvenTheGirlsWantHer: In "Our Idiot Brian", Meg's friend, Ruth, remarks "Your mom is so f*ckin' hot". |
| 160 | * ExtremeDoormat: While she does get angry at Peter's tendencies to embarrass her and other shenanigans he puts the family through, Lois always forgives him at the end of the episode and has never even thought about leaving him. She'll also rarely stand up for Peter whenever her father puts him down. |
| 161 | * FieryRedhead: Downplayed and justified. She shows shades of this when her patience with Peter is at her limit, especially in the first Christmas special when she completely loses it and goes on a destructive mini-rampage. However, any woman married to Peter would develop a bit of a temper, considering how much of a {{Jerkass}} he is. |
| 162 | * {{Flanderization}}: As the series has went on, her arrogance became her main flaw and slowly engulfed her personality, and by season 8, she's a full-on {{Jerkass}}. |
| 163 | * FreudianExcuse: It's implied that her villainous behavior (such as stealing from a mall) originates from her CorruptCorporateExecutive father, Carter Pewterschmidt. |
| 164 | * FriendlessBackground: While she's shown being friends with Bonnie and sometimes Donna (Loretta in the early seasons), some episodes depict her as having no female friends. Usually because of how the women treat each other. |
| 165 | -->"Look, I don't have a lot of friends, it's kind of a problem on the show." |
| 166 | * TheGamblingAddict: In "The Son Also Draws", she has a gambling addiction during a trip and loses her car at an Indian casino. |
| 167 | * {{Gasshole}}: After gaining weight, it was remarked by Peter that she farted badly. |
| 168 | * GenkiGirl: Especially since the revival, she's perky and energetic, as she dropped most of her maturity. |
| 169 | * GoodParents: She used to be a good example of decent parenting in the earliest seasons, where she acted protective and caring towards all three of her children and was always there for them if something went wrong. Then {{Flanderization}} happened, and she TookALevelInJerkass and started being abusive and neglectful towards her kids. |
| 170 | * HardDrinkingPartyGirl: In the InUniverse "premiere" of "Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story", she shows up completely drunk, with Peter having to support her. She also gets completely hosed at Peter's roast, ruining her father Carter's joke. Carter even {{lampshade|Hanging}}s it when he tells the reception staff to stop serving her. |
| 171 | * HiddenDepths: Lois has a bit of a mean streak, first seen when she advises Meg on how to get back at her bullies that crops up every now and again. It's implied that she's where Stewie gets it from. |
| 172 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: She marries an idiotic ManChild, she remains oblivious to the fact that her [[EnfantTerrible baby son wants to kill her]] (even when the drawings of him doing so were seen ''[[FailedASpotCheck right in front of her]]''), she fails to acknowledge the fact that [[spoiler:her brother is a homicidal maniac who strangles fat guys to death]]. That's just a few things. |
| 173 | * {{Housewife}}: She is a stay-at-home mother and housewife who also does some piano lessons from home to supplement the family income. One episode has her defend her choice to be a housewife. |
| 174 | * {{Hypocrite}}: |
| 175 | ** She regularly calls Peter out for being a terrible husband and father. While she is [[HypocriteHasAPoint right about that]], she herself can border on being an {{Abusive Parent|s}} to her children (especially Meg), and has on occasion physically assaulted Peter over minor transgressions, such as when she hit him across the face with a [[FryingPanOfDoom frying pan]] just for tickling her. |
| 176 | ** Her attitude towards the women Brian dates. She mocked Brian for dating the seemingly-stupid Lauren Conrad, but when Lauren was revealed to be a genius, Lois got mad at her for "one-upping" her during dinner. And she relentlessly taunted him for dating the fifty-year-old Rita, leading Brian to point out that she regularly railed against him for dating young bimbos. She also mocked Brian for dating the less than bright Jillian despite the fact that she herself is married to a man who is arguably just as dumb if not dumber. |
| 177 | ** In "Movin' In (Principal Shepherd's Song)", Peter calls Chris "Keith", prompting Lois to correct him and call him an idiot for not remembering the name of their own kid, only to immediately do the same with Meg calling her "Mary". |
| 178 | ** In "Quagmire and Meg," Lois chastises Peter for interfering with Meg's supposedly harmless fling with Quagmire. When she finds out Quagmire intends to have sex with Meg and [[NeverMyFault blames Peter for letting it happen]], Peter is quick to remind Lois that she ''told'' him to stay out of Meg's business in the first place. |
| 179 | ** She gets mad when Peter cheats on her, but has cheated on him herself. |
| 180 | ** In "A Bottle Episode", she gets angry at Meg and Chris when she thinks they stole something, but when it's revealed that ''she'' was the thief, she makes all kinds of excuses for it. |
| 181 | * HypocriteHasAPoint: While Lois is a jerkass and a hypocrite, sometimes her hypocrisy isn't without merit. |
| 182 | * ISurrenderSuckers: Lois is about to be taken in for shoplifting in "Breaking Out is Hard to Do." She goes to get her purse...and makes a vehicular escape. |
| 183 | * IdiotBall: |
| 184 | ** "In Harmony's Way." When ''[[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Chris]]'' is the one to slap some sense into you, you know you're this trope. But if you're not convinced, consider that she tries carving a turkey ''with a vacuum cleaner'' two minutes later into the episode. |
| 185 | ** In "Hot Shots", she not only refused to get Stewie vaccinated, but convinced the rest of the parents in town to do the same. This led to the whole town being quarantined when a measles epidemic struck. Stewie lampshades this instance, stating that he'd expect this kind of foolishness from Peter, but not Lois. |
| 186 | ** In "Throw It Away", Lois becomes obsessed with decluttering, throwing away anything that doesn't "kindle joy". This ultimately leads her to throw out first Peter, then the whole family, leaving her alone in a (literally) empty house. |
| 187 | * {{Jerkass}}: In later seasons. |
| 188 | * JerkassHasAPoint: Lois can be a pain when she reprimands her children, but she does bring some good points. |
| 189 | ** In "Jungle Love", Chris' first day at James Woods High School, he runs away to join the Peace Corps and escape the "Freshman Hunt"...which Lois basically feeds him to. Even then, she wasn't far off when she tells Chris that he shouldn't run away from his problems. Doubles as HypocriteHasAPoint. |
| 190 | ** In "Dial Meg for Murder", she finds out that Meg has been seeing a convict she fell in love with, and forbids her from seeing him again. Though she could have checked things out before jumping to conclusions, there's a chance that the criminal could be manipulating Meg, or otherwise hiding more criminal behavior than we were led to believe. Notably, a three-year sentence for robbery may not sound right if no people were shot or killed. The DVD version expands on this by adding a scene where Lois describes her own unpleasant experiences dating convicts in her youth. This also doubles as HypocriteHasAPoint if you consider Lois' arrest for shoplifting in "Breaking Out Is Hard To Do" to be canon (and even then, she presumably wasn't in prison for THAT long). |
| 191 | ** In "Internal Affairs," she rightly criticizes Peter for giving Joe the idea to cheat on Bonnie. |
| 192 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite being [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]] into a jerk, Lois sometimes still shows genuine care for others, more often so than Peter. In "This Little Piggy", she was horrified when she found out that Meg became a foot-fetish model, and came along with Peter to her rescue. Likewise in the episode "Livin' on a Prayer", she kidnapped a boy who had a treatable form of cancer because his parents were Christian Scientists who refused doctors or medicine, [[WellIntentionedExtremist in order to get him to the hospital for his treatment.]] |
| 193 | * KarmaHoudini: While Flanderization has made her near equally abusive and selfish as Peter, she tends to face consequences for her actions or learn from her mistakes the least out of all the family (which is saying a lot), designated more often into StraightMan role and having her JerkAss tendencies played more for minor comic relief. Still, to critics, she's an unfit mother whose actions would have cost her her children if the show followed reality (which it doesn't). A perfect example would be when she raped Peter and was portrayed in the right. |
| 194 | * KickTheDog: Encouraging her own daughter to commit suicide with pills and a Sylvia Plath book for starters. |
| 195 | * LackOfEmpathy: At her worst, mostly in later seasons, where she shows absolutely no emotion or interest in some very emotional situations. |
| 196 | * TheLadette: Sometimes. At first sight she seems the typical housewife, but she's also sexually aggressive and in some gags she's portrayed as a female Peter. |
| 197 | * LustObject: |
| 198 | ** For Quagmire. He has pictures of Lois in his house, including on the inside of his closet door in "Emission Impossible". He was once arrested for peeping on Lois in the girls' bathroom in "Blind Ambition". |
| 199 | ** For Brian too. Brian developed incontinence from repressing his attraction to Lois, he openly groped her when they were celebrating Francis's death, and he drunkenly hit on her at Martha's Vineyard, leading to a fight with Peter when Brian said he didn't deserve Lois. |
| 200 | * MamaBear: |
| 201 | ** Take into account the HalloweenEpisode, where, after an older kid steals Stewie's candy, she makes him give Stewie his candy back...then makes him give Stewie his own candy, and tells the kid's mother to also give her 80 bucks, and steals their welcome mat for good measure. The fact that Stewie is visibly disturbed by this makes it even more humorous. |
| 202 | ** She threatened Quagmire after he attempted to sleep with Meg now that she was 18, saying she'd cut his penis off and feed it to Brian if he goes near Meg again. |
| 203 | ** When [[AlphaBitch Connie D'Amico]] and her friends humiliated Meg at a school dance, Lois helped Meg plan revenge on them. When Meg backed out of the plan, only to be humiliated when Connie and her friends humiliated Meg again, Lois anticipated this and enlisted Quagmire to "scar them for life." |
| 204 | --->'''Quagmire:''' Hey, good-looking. How old are you?\ |
| 205 | '''Connie:''' Sixteen.\ |
| 206 | '''Quagmire:''' Eighteen? [...] I like where this is going! |
| 207 | ** In the episode "Stewie Loves Lois", when a large dog snatches Rupert in his mouth and runs away, Lois doesn't hesitate to chase him down, tackle him, and pry his jaws open to save Stewie's teddy bear. |
| 208 | * MoralMyopia: |
| 209 | ** In "Customer of the Week". She keeps insisting that she's a "good person", despite the literally criminal lengths she's willing to go to in order to win a meaningless award, from poisoning a barista she knows has a peanut allergy (in an attempt to "rescue" her), to kidnapping people to avoid punishment. |
| 210 | ** In "A Bottle Episode". After threatening Dottie into taking down the negative review, she declares that Dottie has received her "comeuppance". |
| 211 | * MrsRobinson: In the episode "Lois Comes Out of Her Shell", Lois is trying to seduce Music/JustinBieber and she refers to herself as Mrs. Robinson. [[PopCulturalOsmosisFailure Justin misses the reference.]] |
| 212 | * MsFanservice: Some episodes will have her dressing revealingly or in underwear. |
| 213 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Lois's reaction to Meg calling her out in the episode "Seahorse Seashell Party." It even [[TearsofRemorse drives her to tears]]. |
| 214 | -->'''Lois:''' ''(tearfully)'' You're right! You're right, I'm a terrible mother! I'm so sorry! I'm so, so sorry, Meg! Can you ever forgive me? Oh God! ''(continues to cry)'' |
| 215 | * {{Narcissist}}: Lois does have shades of this, such as seeing herself as superior to others (like Peter and Meg), excessive pride in her appearance, puts others down, but she has a hard time accepting criticism. She also has traits of the abusive, narcissistic mother as well. |
| 216 | * NeverMyFault: In "Quagmire and Meg," Quagmire takes advantage of the fact that Meg is 18 and begins to court her. Lois encourages it, believing that nothing will actually happen. She tells Peter that it's just a ploy for attention and she'll rebel if they try to stop her, just as Lois herself did against her father. When Meg later goes up to Quagmire's sex cabin for the weekend, Lois calls Peter out for not stopping her, to which Peter [[DumbassHasAPoint rightfully retorts that Lois]] ''[[DumbassHasAPoint told]]'' [[DumbassHasAPoint him to stay out of Meg's business in the first place]]. Lois concedes he's right, and they immediately go out to stop them from doing the deed. |
| 217 | * NoIndoorVoice: Thanks to VocalEvolution, Lois is as loud as she is rude. |
| 218 | * NotHelpingYourCase: In "Go, Stewie Go", her attempt to apologize to Meg for kissing her boyfriend Anthony is derailed when she smugly claims that she could get him if she really wanted him. |
| 219 | * NotSoAboveItAll: Meg has called her out on the fact that she is generally no better than a drug-addicted whore who has let both Bill Clinton and [[Music/{{KISS}} Gene Simmons]] "go to town on her". |
| 220 | * OnlySaneByComparison: In later seasons, she is a obnoxiously shrewish and abusive nymphomaniac, though due to her family consisting of her PsychopathicManchild husband Peter, unhinged ButtMonkey Meg, neurotic KiddieKid Chris, precocious and incredibly sociopathic baby Stewie, and pretentious IntellectualAnimal Brian, she still tends to be designated to the OnlySaneWoman role in many plots. Deconstructed in "The Most Interesting Man In The World", where Peter undergoes an intelligence boost, and Lois soon wants the old dysfunctionally stupid Peter back. Not because the new Peter is worse, but simply because Peter being well behaved and clever means she is no longer the smart adjusted one by relation. |
| 221 | * OnlySaneWoman: In early seasons, she's often one of the most reasonable characters along with Brian. Less so in later seasons when she's prone to ComedicSociopathy. |
| 222 | * ParentalObliviousness: For not seeing Stewie's attempts and contempt for her life in early seasons. |
| 223 | * ParentingTheHusband: Often a ''literal'' example when Lois and Peter's interactions are more like a mother and her child. Lois has told Peter he can only have one candy bar at the supermarket, yelled at him to get back and clean up the Jello powder he spilled, and told him he can only have one friend over at a time. You barely see Lois nag Meg and Chris the way she nags Peter. |
| 224 | * PetTheDog: Even after her {{Flanderization}}, she can be a compassionate wife, DependingOnTheWriter. She still seems to be established as the caring and intelligent housewife of the family, though depending on the gag, can switch between nurturing and loving her kids endlessly or being as abusive and neglectful to them as Peter. She's also lends a helping hand to Peter's friends when they need it or when a Peter starts treating them like shit. |
| 225 | * PinkIsErotic: In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS16E17SwitchTheFlip Switch the Flip]]", Lois becomes incredibly horny after a sex seminar and strips down to her pink underwear. In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS2E8IAmPeterHearmeRoar I am Peter Hear Me Roar]]", Lois wears a pink dress and gets in a fight with Gloria that arouses Peter so much that he runs home with Lois so they can have sex. |
| 226 | * ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: When was the last time we've seen her give piano lessons? |
| 227 | * PushoverParents: In the earlier seasons, she would barely dish out strict punishment to Stewie for his malicious and homicidal tendencies. Though, it's unclear if she can understand Stewie or was just oblivious to what he is saying or doing. |
| 228 | * RaceFetish: A few later episodes imply that she has a fetish for black men. |
| 229 | * ReallyGetsAround: Implied in her younger days. She was called "Loose Lois" for a reason. |
| 230 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Is given one by her husband. Later she's also given a far more brutal and completely justified one by her daughter Meg, to the point that Lois is driven to tears. |
| 231 | * RebelliousPrincess: Peter is at odds with her tyrannical father in order to gain his approval, which he never does. She marries him, despite her father's insistence that she doesn't really love him or his covert attempts to kill Peter. |
| 232 | * RedheadInGreen: Redhead with, as Peter puts it, “Green shirt, tan pants—that’s refreshing.” |
| 233 | * SelfServingMemory: In "From Russia With Love". She claims that Quagmire's current girlfriend Stephanie bullied her often in the high school, to the point of pushing her into a pool. But it is eventually revealed that Strephanie did nothing of the sort; Lois fell into the pool by tripping on her shoelaces, and Stephanie tried to warn her to be careful. |
| 234 | * SheCleansUpNicely: Without makeup on, Lois is pale and a little wrinkly. |
| 235 | * ShipperOnDeck: Out of all of Brian's relationships, she's most supportive of him and Jillian. |
| 236 | * SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: Probably. Her eyes are usually black pupils but in the Disney universe she has green irises. Noteworthy, since Disney Chris and Stewie are given blue irises. |
| 237 | * SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: In the earlier seasons, Lois loved Peter because he was a funny, sweet guy who and wished he would tell her that he loved her. Later seasons has her {{invert|edTrope}} this trope; after she and Peter {{took a level in jerkass}}, her attraction towards him became more "{{all girls want bad boys}}". |
| 238 | * StacysMom: There is an episode where Lois has an affair with Meg's new boyfriend, except that Lois is the one who instigates the affair. Quagmire frequently makes mention of this, but is in the wrong peer group. |
| 239 | ** Lampshaded by Chris: |
| 240 | -->"All my friends think you're hot. They can't believe I came out of you!" |
| 241 | * StatuesqueStunner: Stands at a rather impressive 5'8, which is quite tall for a woman. She's also noticeably taller than many other female characters in the show. |
| 242 | * SuperStrength: The power she gained during the events of "Super Griffins". |
| 243 | * TakeFive: Earlier episodes had a running gag where Lois would tell Meg to take Stewie to his room whenever he's at risk of seeing something that Lois believes he shouldn't. |
| 244 | * TemporaryBulkChange: After Peter gets a vasectomy and won't have sex, Lois starts eating out of frustration and gains weight. Peter makes fun of her for that at first ([[{{Hypocrite}} despite being fat as well]]), but he changes his mind after a night of sex and likes her being fat, so he decides to make her gain more weight. But Lois ends up having a heart attack and is taken to the hospital, where she gets a liposuction to be thin again. |
| 245 | * TookALevelInJerkass: In the first season, she was a calm mother who always was wiser than Peter. Over the other two pre-revival seasons (actually starting with "The Son Also Draws"), some flaws began to show in her seemingly-perfect persona, yet she was still a nice person to have as a mother. When the show came back, however, she essentially became a female version of Peter. |
| 246 | * TookALevelInKindness: Reverted back to her pre-revival nature around season 14 (at least towards Meg, Chris, and Stewie). |
| 247 | * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Tomboy to Meg's Girly Girl. Lois is a temperamental and rowdy FieryRedhead who wears a green shirt and brown pants while Meg is a demure teenage girl who wears [[PinkMeansFeminine pink]] and has a girly room. |
| 248 | * TranquilFury: After Peter gets feminized, Gloria Ironbox mocks Lois for being a mere housewife instead of being a real woman and blames her for Peter's initial lack of respect towards women. Once she claims Lois' children are completely screwed up, [[MamaBear this pushes Lois over the edge and she proceeds to beat the shit out of Gloria]] without even raising her voice. |
| 249 | -->'''Lois:''' You bitch! ''(delivers a straight punch at Gloria's face)'' |
| 250 | * UglyGuyHotWife: Hot Wife to Peter's Ugly Guy with a little LampshadeHanging, as the couple was once described in an in-universe news report as "a fat man inexplicably married to an attractive redhead", along with an artist's impression of what they might look like - [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Fred and Wilma Flintstone]]. Lois came from a ridiculously wealthy family and could have hired a different gigolo every night, if she were looking for a hunk. That said, Lois has lost some of her lustre with age. When Peter becomes blind, she stops applying makeup, which makes her noticeably pale and wrinkled. |
| 251 | * UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: In later seasons, where she can be almost as bad as her husband. |
| 252 | * UptownGirl: She's from an EXTREMELY rich family but chose to marry low-class yokel Peter for love. |
| 253 | * VillainProtagonist: Starting from Season 17, there have been a few episodes in which Lois starts out with a small goal or hobby that all end with her undergoing SanitySlippage and diving headfirst into this territory. |
| 254 | ** In "Throw It Away", Lois begins to declutter the house to get rid of things that don't spark joy. She ends up throwing out everything and every''one'', to the point that the house is a WhiteVoidRoom and her family are out on the streets. |
| 255 | ** In "Customer of the Week", Lois tries to win a coffee shop award for validation after feeling that her family don't appreciate her. Her attempts to win the award go from her making a nuisance of herself to her poisoning a barista so she can save her life, then tying up another barista who caught her. |
| 256 | ** In "Prescription Heroine", Lois is bored with her life around the same time that Brian receives pills from the vet. She ends up getting hooked on the pills to the point that she's willing to endanger Stewie for the last pill that fell in the toilet. |
| 257 | ** In "A Bottle Episode", Lois is banned from an Airbnb after stealing a bottle of shampoo. After downplaying the bottle's worth, Lois returns it to the owner in hopes of getting the bad review changed. When the owner (understandably) refuses to change it, Lois stalks and blackmails her until she gives in. This episode is the point where her status as this trope becomes fully-fledged; unlike the previous three episodes where she undergoes a ProtagonistJourneyToVillain, this episode reveals that she ''intentionally'' stole from the Airbnb owner out of petty jealousy for her better life and lied about it through the entire episode without remorse. Her rant at the end of the episode confirms she's utterly lost it. |
| 258 | * VocalEvolution: Her voice was noticeably deeper and less nasally in the first three seasons. |
| 259 | * WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency: She falls into this big time in "Customer of the Week". She's convinced she deserves the award by virtue of being a better customer than most, even though (as Stewie points out) she only ever did the bare minimum expected of any customer. At the end of the episode, she goes to another coffee shop and leaves a big tip in the tip jar, then immediately gets annoyed that she wasn't thanked for it (despite the fact that tipping is customary). |
| 260 | * WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Many characters (justifiably) have this reaction to Lois' marriage to Peter. In the episode "Petarded," Brian flat-out asks her, "Have you ever stopped to think, "Wow, I'm married to that guy?" Lois simply states that she represses such thoughts... and as it turns out, she has done so so often that she's developed a brain tumor. Death asks her this question verbatim after Peter asks him to elaborate on his previous sentence, even though he was obviously finished talking. In "Go, Stewie, Go", she jokingly suggests that she just "likes fat guys". |
| 261 | * WomenAreWiser: Most of the time, anyway, like the other female characters. It DEFINITELY applies with respect to intelligence... She is smarter than Peter by leaps and bounds. The moral component of that trope is where the grey area comes in, she's almost as bad as Peter in later seasons. |
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| 264 | |
| 265 | [[folder:Meg Griffin]] |
| 266 | !!Megatron, aka Megan "Meg" Griffin |
| 267 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/220px_meg_griffin.png]] |
| 268 | [[caption-width-right:250:"How come I never get any lines in these things?"]] |
| 269 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RachaelMacFarlane ({{uncredited role}} in unaired pilot), Creator/LaceyChabert (Season 1), and Creator/MilaKunis (Season 2-present) |
| 270 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS1E1DeathHasAShadow Death Has a Shadow]]" |
| 271 | |
| 272 | An average teenager with average teen problems. Probably the only normal one of the family. Although lately, she's so psychologically screwed up that she's basically Walking BlackComedy. Voiced by Creator/LaceyChabert in the first season (however, she was [[UncreditedRole not credited]]), Creator/MilaKunis in the rest, and Creator/RachaelMacFarlane in the unaired pilot. |
| 273 | ---- |
| 274 | * AbhorrentAdmirer: Boys would rather set themselves on fire and kill their siblings than go to a dance with her. She is briefly this also to Brian and Joe in some episodes. She was able to attract some males in the pre-cancellation era, before her "ugliness" was played up, and she has her own recurring abhorrent admirer in the form of Neil Goldman. Strangely enough, Quagmire apparently thought she was at least somewhat attractive, since he kept asking when she turned 18. |
| 275 | * AccidentalMisnaming: Meg's name is "Megatron Griffin" on her birth certificate, but she has also been called Megan, Meg Harvey Oswald Griffin, and Mel by various people. In "Stewie Griffin: An Untold Story" Meg has a sex change and changes her name to Ron, yet she is still mistakenly called Meg. |
| 276 | * TheAce: Some episodes imply she's this but no one pays enough attention to her to notice. In "Meg Goes to College" Peter puts several ridiculous fake skills on her college application and when exposed as fake, she does all of them with barely any time to prepare. Though depending on the gag and the plot, she can be the opposite (in "The Simpsons Guy", she's not good at anything, until she tries the saxophone). |
| 277 | * AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Whenever Meg obtains some form of attractiveness, she becomes a selfish and narcissistic bitch and treats others like crap based on their inferiority. |
| 278 | * {{Acrofatic}}: Although Meg is "[[InformedAttribute overweight]]", she has no problem moving around like a skinny person. In "The D in Apartment 23", she performs a series of nimble, acrobatic moves as she and Chris fight every other student in their school. |
| 279 | * AllegedlyDateless: Although her supposed ugliness drives most guys away, she is seen having many attractive boyfriends depending on the episode. She manages to hook up with/date at least: Doug (Prick Up Your Ears), the nudist neighbor she liked, Mayor Adam West, Quagmire, Kevin Swanson, Michael, a medical student, Anthony (Go, Stewie, Go) as well as being pursued by Neil Goldman and losing her virginity on live national television to Jimmy Fallon during the opening of Saturday Night Live. |
| 280 | * AllLoveIsUnrequited: Virtually every boy she attempts to ask out rejects her, all of them making up wild excuses to get out of having to go out with the homely Meg. The most extreme examples is one boy who gives himself a self-inflicted nail gun wound to the stomach with the excuse that he's going to be in the hospital that day, and another who kills his brother right there just to say that he has to attend his brother's funeral. The one person who is interested in marrying her, ditches her at the altar when she finds out that she wasn't pregnant. |
| 281 | * AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Ignored, neglected, and ridiculed by everyone, including her own family, for no reason other than being "Meg". |
| 282 | * AmbiguouslyBi: She asked Connie if she can think about her in the tub in "Stew-Roids" and tongue-kissed her while she was unconscious in "Dial Meg for Murder". |
| 283 | * AmbiguousGenderIdentity: A cutaway gag in "This Little Piggy" suggests that Meg was born a boy, but Peter cut off her penis instead of the umbilical cord, so she was instead deemed a daughter. Then there's ''Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story'', which depicts her in the future as a man named Ron. Considering how loose continuity is in these shows, these should probably be taken with a grain of salt. |
| 284 | * ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: In "The Griffin Family History", Meg is so distraught when a group of robbers won't rape her that she actually gets arrested for sexually assaulting ''them.'' |
| 285 | * AxCrazy: Shows tendencies of psychopathy. Justified given the abuse she has to put up with in and out of school. |
| 286 | * BarrierMaiden: As she explains, her being the ButtMonkey keeps the Griffin family in-tact. When she explains this to Brian, he's impressed, and amazed. |
| 287 | * BeautifulAllAlong: She is proven to be this in the episode "Don't Make Me Over." |
| 288 | * BeautifulSingingVoice: |
| 289 | ** In "Don't Make Me Over", the family forms a band in which Meg plays the role of lead singer. Her voice and sex appeal greatly contribute to their success and catapult them to stardom. |
| 290 | ** In "Meg Goes to College", Meg sings Music/PatBenatar's "Love is a Battlefield" in Russian as part of her application, earning herself a standing ovation. |
| 291 | * BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: |
| 292 | ** She is very prone to instantly falling for a guy if he treats her well. If the guy in question doesn't reciprocate her feelings (usually because they pity her rather than actually like her), she's likely to turn into a StalkerWithACrush. |
| 293 | ** She doesn't call out Stewie or Brian in "Seahorse Seashell Party" because the former rarely interacts with her and the latter is the most decent to her out of all the Griffins. |
| 294 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Meg Griffin has been described by Brian as "far sweeter and kinder than the typical American girl" and has put up with a lot of abuse these past couple of years. However under the right circumstances, [[TheBerserker Meg]] could unleash [[UnstoppableRage her repressed rage]] on anyone that pisses her off enough or have prison life [[TookALevelInBadass turn her into]] [[TranquilFury a hardened badass]] [[WhosLaughingNow that her whole family]] [[FromNobodyToNightmare is DEATHLY afraid of]]. |
| 295 | * BigWhat: She does this in "Dial Meg For Murder." |
| 296 | * BlindWithoutEm: Stewie breaks Meg's glasses because he hates to be watched while he sleeps. We even see how bad her vision is when Stewie does a vision test and holds an undetermined object (which appears very blurred out). |
| 297 | * BloodKnight: Meg is usually timid and nonviolent, but in the episode "Hot Pocket-Dial", while all the other partygoers are shocked by or trying to break up the fight between Peter and Quagmire, Meg inexplicably shouts "Kill him, Dad! MURDER HIM!" |
| 298 | * BornUnlucky: It's uncommon courtesy that the writers would make something go right for Meg just once. |
| 299 | * BorrowedCatchphrase: "Shut up, dad!" |
| 300 | * BrainyBrunette: Apparently, she's very good at anatomy. She even got an internship and saved Peter's life with her skills. It was also mentioned that she gets good grades in school. |
| 301 | * BreakTheCutie: The writers' main goal seems to be to rile her up and destroy every opportunity she has. |
| 302 | * BriefAccentImitation: In the episode "Crimes and Meg's Demeanor", Meg pokes fun at Lois' thick New England accent: |
| 303 | -->'''Meg:''' I know what you're gonna say, and I know how you're gonna say it.\ |
| 304 | '''Lois:''' Oh, really?\ |
| 305 | '''Meg:''' Yep. ''[imitating Lois]'' "I don't wantcha drinkin' or ya life's gonna go down the crappah." |
| 306 | * BrokenBird: Some episodes depict her being both emotionally fragile and disturbed, derived from a desperation for love and attention. |
| 307 | * BullyMagnet: She gets this at school from the AlphaBitch and other students, and even at home from her own family, for no apparent reason aside from being "ugly" and unpopular. The one episode in which she tries to stop her family's bullying, she ends up having to sit back and take it because unless she's the "lightning rod" to the Griffins' unrelenting horribleness, the family will literally tear itself apart by bullying each other. |
| 308 | * ButtMonkey: One of the most infamous examples in Western Animation. At first she was merely a selfish and whiny and BrattyTeenageDaughter indirectly humiliated by her [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents family's well-intentioned bumbling or quirkiness]]. This [[{{Flanderization}} evolved]] into the entire universe growing a profound hatred of her, with practically everyone--even her own family--showing a casual disregard for her well-being and insulting her for no reason. Even [[WesternAnimation/AmericanDad the Smiths]] hate her. During the ''Simpsons''/''Family Guy'' crossover: |
| 309 | -->'''Lisa:''' Meg, you need to know that you matter.\ |
| 310 | '''Meg:''' Really? No one's ever told me I mattered before.\ |
| 311 | '''Lisa:''' That's why you have to say it. So say it!\ |
| 312 | '''Meg:''' I matter.\ |
| 313 | '''Lisa:''' Louder!\ |
| 314 | '''Meg:''' I matter!\ |
| 315 | '''Peter:''' ''[off-screen]'' [[KicktheDog Shut up, Meg! You don't matter!]] |
| 316 | ** [[SubvertedTrope As of season 14, this has been phased out.]] |
| 317 | * CainAndAbel: Chris remembers Meg killing a sister. Their parents strongly deny this in an almost panicked voice. |
| 318 | * CallingTheOldManOut: Saves her harshest diatribe for Peter in "Seahorse Seashell Party". |
| 319 | * CartwrightCurse: All of Meg's relationships are doomed to fail, some of her suitors will even take ''death'' over dating her. |
| 320 | * CharacterDevelopment: In the early seasons, Meg's low self-esteem led her to be constantly embarrassed by her family's quirks and show deference to the popular kids. By season 19, Meg has matured to the point she no longer bothers to seek approval from her bullies, though she at least acts civil around them. She also stands up for herself more often, even pranking or expressing joy at Peter's suffering on occasion, suggesting she's been desensitized to his antics. She's also shown to fight back against her bullies (albeit rarely) by either raising her voice or taking revenge, a far cry from the girl who would burst into tears and run away when she's embarrassed or humiliated. |
| 321 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: |
| 322 | ** In earlier episodes, while still somewhat luckless, Meg was a far less exaggerated punching bag. She was actually a primary target of concern and affection from her parents, most of her abuse stemming from [[InnocentlyInsensitive their inadvertent and nondiscriminate bumbling]]. This was actually taken to the point of [[SpoiledBrat affecting her demeanor]], often acting like a somewhat self-absorbed and manipulative DaddysGirl. |
| 323 | ** She initially had a crush on the Swanson's son, Kevin. Though the crush went away after the first two seasons. |
| 324 | * TheChewToy: Plenty of fans enjoy Meg's ButtMonkey status; she is a victim of ''tons'' of slapstick like the male characters of the show. |
| 325 | * ChronicSelfDeprecation: Tends to fall into this trope in the latter seasons. Considering her status as TheChewToy, it's not surprising. |
| 326 | * TheConscience: Meg usually acts as the voice of reason to her family whenever Brian isn't doing so. |
| 327 | * CrazyCatLady: She ''almost'' becomes one in "Family Cat", after Pouncy gets her claws into her (figuratively and literally). She is only saved from this fate via Quagmire taking on the role instead. |
| 328 | * DarkActionGirl: In "Dial Meg for Murder" (the one where Meg ends up in jail for harboring a criminal) and "A Fistful Of Meg" (the one where Quagmire teaches her to fight back against a deranged bully). |
| 329 | * DemotedToExtra: Just like with [[WesternAnimation/AmericanDad Hayley]] and [[WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow Roberta]], she was struck by this very hard starting in Season 12 where she barely appears or gets any lines aside from the one or two episodes that focus on her. This is even parodied in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuyPresentsLaughItUpFuzzball'', where she's in a couple of seconds of the special, tops, and as a giant space worm. Played with in later seasons, which seem to give her more side stories and deconstruct her ButtMonkey status. |
| 330 | * DepravedBisexual: She is shown to have a disturbing lust for Connie. This is apparent when she tongue kisses her unconscious body in "Dial Meg for Murder" and in "Stew-roids" when she grumbled that she was still going to masturbate to Connie in the bath even after Connie said no. |
| 331 | * DependingOnTheWriter: |
| 332 | ** Her ButtMonkey status. Sometimes she merely suffers due to other characters' inadvertent bumbling or carelessness. On others she is such a target for misfortune that even [[StraightMan Straight Men]] like Lois and Brian [[BewareTheNiceOnes feel the need to directly make her life hell]]. |
| 333 | ** Her looks also change quite frequently, she's mainly an outcast because of her looks, but her love interest for the episode finds her beautiful. |
| 334 | *** In "A Fistful of Meg" she's shown to be heavily obese and in "Friends Without Benefits" she's said to have a birth defect, but in other episodes, she's shown to have a relatively normal body. |
| 335 | *** In other cases, it's been suggested that Meg is actually a messily-made trans woman, with a cutaway gag explaining that, as a baby, Peter cut off Meg's penis, mistaking it for an umbilical cord. Other characters have mistaken her for a boy and in "Meg Stinks!", she's shown peeing like a man. In "Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story", Future-Meg is revealed to have had a sex change and has now called herself "Ron", after correcting the timeline, Meg is shown appreciating the name "Ron" and seems to be contemplating the idea of a sex change. |
| 336 | * DesperatelyCravesAffection: She pretended to be a lesbian to be accepted, and she falls obsessively in love with any man who treats her nicely. |
| 337 | * DidNotGetTheBoy: Twice with both Joe's son and the nudist boy. She does get Neil, but then drives him away when he proves to be annoying. |
| 338 | * DisappointingOlderSibling: Despite being the oldest child, she is seen by everyone as the loser of the family and is often picked on and belittled not only by her younger siblings (especially Chris) but also by her parents. Ironically, she's probably the most normal of the family. |
| 339 | * DisproportionateRetribution: As part of her ButtMonkey status in the family, Peter once casually shot her in the face with a handgun because she walked past and said "hi, dad." |
| 340 | * DoesntKnowTheirOwnChild: On the child end of this trope. Meg Griffin is ignored by her family so often, that there are moments where they don't even understand her. Such as when footage gets out about her kissing somebody, she says she's going to go eat peanuts, which Peter and Lois stare at her in confusion over. She tells them she's allergic. When they don't react, she angrily shouts they don't know anything about her. |
| 341 | * DudeWheresMyRespect: One episode has her saving Peter using her skills as a doctor after her father [[TooDumbToLive gets mauled by a puma]] and receiving no gratitude for it. |
| 342 | -->'''Meg:''' Isn't anybody gonna thank me?\ |
| 343 | '''Peter:''' [[UngratefulBastard Yeah, I'll have a water if you're getting one.]] |
| 344 | * EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Not only were her clothes colored differently in the pilot, her voice sounded older. |
| 345 | * TheEeyore: It's [[AbusiveParents justified]], [[ButtMonkey though]]. |
| 346 | * EvenNerdsHaveStandards: Neil Goldman is apparently so hideous that not even someone as desperate for attention as Meg would want him. |
| 347 | * EveryoneHasStandards: Best shown in "Peter's Sister." When Peter's [[BigBrotherBully bullying sister]] Karen comes to visit, Meg relishes the abuse Peter suffers at her hands and considers it LaserGuidedKarma for how he treated her...until Karen gleefully strangles him until he passes out, stutters, and wets himself, upon which she realizes that Peter bullied and abused her all these years because Karen treated him the exact same way and helps him fight back. |
| 348 | %%* ExtremeDoormat: Until she TookALevelInBadass. |
| 349 | * FatalAttractor: It doesn't end well for the boys who date Meg, either because they want to avoid her or because they're grossed out by her body. |
| 350 | * FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: She and Stewie are the Responsible to Chris' Foolish. She can be a bit of a Yandere at times but is still smarter than [[DumbassTeenageSon Chris]]. |
| 351 | * FreudianExcuse: Meg's {{Yandere}} tendencies stem from her not being used to people treating her nicely. So when anybody treats her well, she usually seizes any opportunity for a friendship/relationship. |
| 352 | * FriendlessBackground: [[DependingOnTheWriter Depending on the episode]], she's occasionally depicted as having no friends. This becomes downplayed later on in the show, as she is more often than not shown hanging with the nerdy, unpopular clique of girls. |
| 353 | * GivenNameReveal: In the episode "A Fistful of Meg", when someone calls Meg "Megan" she replies "Actually, Meg is short for something else". The scene then changes to just after she was born, Lois gives Meg's birth certificate to Peter, who then changes the name on it to "MEGATRON GRIFFIN", and sings "[[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Robots in Disguise!]]" |
| 354 | * HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook: In the episode "Dial Meg for Murder." |
| 355 | * HatesTheirParent: Meg seems to greatly resent her parents, even giving them a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech verbal dressing down]] in one episode. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] given their [[TheUnfavorite treatment of her]]. |
| 356 | * HearingVoices: One musical Christmas episode shows Meg wishing for "softer voices in my head" for a Christmas present. |
| 357 | * HeroicSacrifice: Of a non-lethal variety. She decides to take the abuse her family dishes out because without it, they would be at each other's throats nonstop (save for Brian). |
| 358 | * HiddenDepths: Several episodes show that Meg has a wide variety of skills, from medical knowledge, to ballet talent, and is even good enough to earn a place in the Winter Olympics as a biathlete. |
| 359 | * HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: Most of the abuse she receives from Peter is PlayedForLaughs for the most part. |
| 360 | * {{Hypocrite}}: In "The Kiss Seen Around the World", Meg states that Neil is unable to be kissed by anyone (even by his own father). This is coming from the girl who is rejected by pretty much any guy she talks to. |
| 361 | -->'''Tom Tucker:''' Thank you Meg. I guess beggars ''can'' be choosers. |
| 362 | * IJustWantToBeSpecial: Meg is often shown as emotionally fragile or disturbed, derived from desperation for love and attention. |
| 363 | * IJustWantToHaveFriends: Depending on the episode. Some episodes does show she has friends. |
| 364 | * InformedDeformity: |
| 365 | ** Meg is seen as being absolutely hideous by every character, save for her AbhorrentAdmirer; it's taken up to eleven in "Don't Make Me Over," where the mere sight of her is enough for two people to be DrivenToSuicide... by setting themselves on fire and [[DestinationDefenestration throwing themselves out the nearest window]]. She's also mistaken for a boy several times, despite being drawn with a clearly female chest. Made even more bizarre when she actually looks exactly like Lois, who is [[InformedAttractiveness considered to be hot by a lot of characters]], with the only difference being that she wears glasses and a hat and is slightly chubbier. Besides that, Meg is the one who gets the most crap for being ugly, even if most of her family members (notably Peter, Chris, and Stewie) are visibly uglier than her. |
| 366 | ** Meg is also seen as unflatteringly pear shaped. With her large bottom being referenced a few times as another thing she's made fun of for. In reality, she is drawn slightly more stout than other females. |
| 367 | ** The few times she's been shown in her underwear have her [[StrongFamilyResemblance looking just like]] [[MsFanservice Lois in her underwear]], only slightly bigger, which makes the comments (often her ''own'') about having a large ass and small breasts very odd. Yet she's made out to be uglier in-universe than Chris or Stewie and both of her brothers have been [[GirlOfTheWeek more successful in romances than her]] even if they [[StatusQuoIsGod didn't last either]]. |
| 368 | * IronButtMonkey: Given how much physical abuse she can withstand. |
| 369 | * JerkassBall: Gets handed this depending on the episode. Meg can be genuinely friendly and caring but she can also be a crazy, obsessive and selfish whiner who's not afraid to be violent towards other people. |
| 370 | * KavorkaMan: A female example. Although guys are normally disgusted by her, she sometimes gets dates like it's nothing. |
| 371 | * ALighterShadeOfBlack: The closest the family has to a decent person, but she’s still a borderline psychopathic stalker. |
| 372 | * LikesOlderMen: Several episodes showcase Meg as being attracted to guys who are much older than her. She notably develops a {{Yandere}} crush on Joe in "The Hand That Rocks the Wheelchair". |
| 373 | * LoserProtagonist: Meg is frequently put on the receiving end of various abuse. |
| 374 | * LoveMakesYouCrazy: Her desire for parental love is what drove her into a rampage in "Dial Meg For Murder". |
| 375 | * MoralityPet: Brian's kindness towards her compared to the other characters (especially when compared to the other Griffins) really brings out the JerkWithAHeartOfGold in him. |
| 376 | * MoreThanMindControl: Even ignoring the obvious SanitySlippage she suffers from living with her abusive family, she's been subjected to this multiple times. Notable examples include "Not All Dogs Go To Heaven", where she becomes a born-again Christian after watching a religion channel while being bedridden with the mumps, and "Dial Meg for Murder", where her time in prison has completely changed her personality, [[HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook and not exactly for the better]]. A more blatant example of this would be in "Family Cat", where she falls under Pouncy's control, but also makes it clear that the abuse and neglect she goes through led to her being a CrazyCatLady. |
| 377 | * NeverBareheaded: She almost always wears her signature pink hat, and its nature has been explored in various offhand gags. When Quagmire hits on her in "Quagmire and Meg", he tries to take her hat off flirtatiously, but a small green hand pokes out from under her hair and pulls it back down. In "Friends Without Benefits", she has a condition where her heart sticks out of her head like a tumor, which she covers up with her hat. The episode "A Shot in the Dark" portrays her and Chris as wearing hats because they pull their own hair out in frustration whenever Peter and Lois fight. |
| 378 | * NiceGirl: Yandere tendencies aside, she is the only Griffin other than Stewie who hasn't been {{flanderiz|ation}}ed into a jerk and her worst qualities are a result of her loneliness and insecurities. |
| 379 | * {{Nice Mean And InBetween}}: For the Griffin kids, she is the nice to Stewie's mean and Chris' in-between. As noted above, Yandere tendencies aside, she is the only Griffin other than Stewie who hasn't been {{flanderiz|ation}}ed into a jerk. |
| 380 | * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Dished one to Peter and the popular kids at her high school in the episode "Dial Meg For Murder." |
| 381 | * NoRespectGuy: She is this or the ButtMonkey {{Yandere}} emo, DependingOnTheWriter. |
| 382 | * NonStandardCharacterDesign: Downplayed, but most characters in Family Guy (and other animated shows created by Creator/SethMacFarlane ) have round eyes, while Meg has oval eyes, which go nicely with her oval shaped glasses. |
| 383 | * NotSoAboveItAll: Meg sometimes makes fun out of other Griffin members when the situation calls for it e.g. Chris being made fun for Lois being in a porno by other schoolkids and Meg joins in. She also salvaged upon a brief moment Brian was "the New Meg". Although it could be her trying to fit into a crowd. |
| 384 | * OutOfFocus: She has been hit with this the most. It's to the point that, even in an episode where Meg is the driving force of the plot, she disappears entirely after the first five minutes, does not reappear until five minutes before the end and spends three of those being entirely silent. |
| 385 | * PhraseCatcher: Multiple characters all get the chance to say "Shut up, Meg" or some variant throughout the series. |
| 386 | * PintsizedPowerhouse: She's able to {{curb stomp|Battle}} people much bigger than her. |
| 387 | * PinkGirlBlueBoy: The Pink Girl to Chris' Blue Boy. She wears a pink beanie and shirt, while Chris wears a blue shirt. |
| 388 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: |
| 389 | ** Meg unleashes a HUGE one on Chris, Lois, and Peter during a hurricane. This is the hurricane three-parter when ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'', ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', and ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' aired back-to-back (the episode name is "Seashell Seahorse Party"). Compared to Cleveland Junior calling out the rest of the Tubbs on ignoring the National Weather Service, and Francine calling out Stan on how he made things infinitely worse with his idiotic actions that nearly killed the family (and yes, everyone in that episode nearly died), Meg has done the longest series of pointing out the hardest flaws out of three characters. |
| 390 | ** She gives a small one to Connie after she asks Meg for help to get back at Chris for dumping her. Meg points out all the horrible things Connie did to her growing up in school (Meg cut herself each time to ease the pain) and promptly tells Connie to go fuck herself for even thinking about asking for help, although she changes her mind when [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Chris throws a javelin at her]]. |
| 391 | * TheScapegoat: The family need "Someone" other than themselves to blame for their flaws, and based on the ensuing fight she's the only member of the family who would take it rather than defending herself. When Meg decides to stop being her family's "Dysfunction Lightning Rod" Chris, Lois and Peter start tearing into each other. |
| 392 | * SecretSecretKeeper: In "Family Cat", she reveals to Brian that she knows about Stewie's time machine (as her room is opposite his, and the machine is ''loud''), yet she never saw fit to tell the rest of the family about it. |
| 393 | * SelfHarm: The most obvious sign of Meg's mental instability is her willingness to damage her own body. It's mentioned in several episodes that she cuts herself when she feels frustrated, and she has also been seen casually swallowing sleeping pills. |
| 394 | * SerialKiller: Although, she has been shown to have AxCrazy tendencies in earlier episodes, she is confirmed to be one in "Trans-Fat". |
| 395 | * SheCleansUpNicely: The episode, "Don't Make Me Over", had her get a makeover that made her look pretty. She reverted to her normal self because it was too much work. |
| 396 | * SlidingScaleOfBeauty: Meg, whose onscreen likeness is likely anywhere from Just Average to at worst Normal Ugly, is depicted as anywhere from Super Ugly to [[EldritchAbomination so ugly that merely being with her is fate worse than death and going to Hell]]. Presumably, her extreme homeliness is a major reason why Peter and Lois abuse her, and often leads to her often desperate attempts to fit in at school. Not to say Meg hasn't tried to upgrade her physical appearance -- in "Don't Make Me Over," she gets a makeover where she becomes (briefly) a World Class beauty. In Season 9's "Road to the Multiverse," Meg is very attractive - though she is still "one of the ugly ones" as everyone is gorgeous in this universe. |
| 397 | * StalkerWithACrush: Meg usually stalks guys who are nice to her. She stalked Brian, Joe, and Kent in separate episodes. However, it came to a point that her stalking wasn't played for laughs and the police had to stop Meg from raping Brian. |
| 398 | %%* StepfordSmiler: Type A. |
| 399 | * StockingFiller: In, "Halloween on Spooner Street", Meg goes to a costume party as a "slutty cat", wearing an outfit that consists solely of a cheap cat mask, a tube top, a short skirt and fishnets. |
| 400 | * StrawLoser: Originally part of her ButtMonkey status, though eventually the rest of the family hit such a low point that it began to get subverted, with Meg depicted as the most lucid and redeemable of a family of sociopathic deadbeats. |
| 401 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: For the most part she looks like Lois but nobody ever points it out. The only real differences are that Meg is a brunette, wears glasses and a hat and is a bit shorter and bigger. |
| 402 | * SupremeChef: When given the chance to cook for the family, she creates a gourmet meal of ahi tostadas, couscous, asparagus, and chocolate lava cake. |
| 403 | * TemporarilyAVillain: She went into this in, "Dial Meg for Murder", after she spends time in jail. She even beats up Peter as if she's standing up to him for the abuse he put her through. When Brian encouraged Meg to turn back to normal, Meg felt bad for what she's done and she decided to put the gun down. |
| 404 | * ThisLoserIsYou: An unpopular social outcast with barely any friends, she's this for the teenage audience. |
| 405 | * ThrowTheDogABone: |
| 406 | ** In several episodes such as "Peter's Daughter", "Quagmire and Meg", "Meg Stinks!", "This Little Piggy" or "Crimes and Meg's Demeanor", Peter and Lois show that they do really care about Meg after all. |
| 407 | ** Season Eight onwards depict Meg getting the occasional retaliation to her abuse, becoming more snarky and temperamental. In "Dial Meg For Murder" after a duration in prison, she comes back embittered and brutally pummels Peter. In "Hefty Shades of Grey", she is the only one who hears Peter calling for help when he is locked in the basement. She chooses to ignore him, smirking as she puts on earphones. "Throw It Away" reveals that she has a VoodooDoll of Lois (and she decides to keep it when she finds out it actually works). |
| 408 | * TookALevelInBadass: She became a hardened thug after a bout in prison in "Dial Meg For Murder". While the incident was self contained and she reverted back by the end of the episode, [[{{Revenge}} Meg biting back at her abuse]] has become far more recurrent since then. |
| 409 | * TookALevelInKindness: Par occasional Yandere traits, Meg has far less bratty or self centered traits than in earlier seasons. |
| 410 | * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Girly Girl to Lois' Tomboy. She's a teenage girl who wears [[PinkMeansFeminine pink]] and has a girly room while Lois is a temperamental and [[AbusiveParents abusive]] FieryRedhead who wears green and brown. |
| 411 | * TreatedWorseThanThePet: Poor Meg is one of the most infamous examples of this tropeーnever mind that the Griffins' dog, Brian, can talk and is intelligent enough to be treated as human by the rest of the world. She is constantly the butt of the family's jokes, told to shut up, and farted on, on a GOOD day. |
| 412 | * {{Tsundere}}: She showed some tendencies of this towards Neil Goldman early on, namely in the episode "The Kiss Seen Around the World". |
| 413 | * TurnToReligion: "Not All Dogs go to Heaven" begins with Meg, suffering from the mumps and ParentalNeglect, discovering UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}}, since someone who DesperatelyCravesAffection like she does would naturally latch onto the belief that {{God}} exists and loves her unconditionally. |
| 414 | * TheUglyGuysHotDaughter: This is usually averted, but it's played straight when Meg gets a makeover in the episode "Don't Make Me Over." Too bad it's only temporarily. |
| 415 | * TheUnfavourite: Part of the ButtMonkey thing above; Peter and Lois even apparently agreed that if they could only save two of their kids in a crisis, Meg is the one who gets screwed over. |
| 416 | ** When Lois has to save Joe from falling to his death: |
| 417 | --->'''Joe:''' Pretend I'm your child, Lois!\ |
| 418 | ''(Lois starts losing her grip.)''\ |
| 419 | '''Joe:''' NOT MEG! NOT MEG!\ |
| 420 | ''(Lois slowly pulls him up to safety.)'' |
| 421 | * UnusualPopCultureName: Meg's full first name is "[[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Megatron]]." Lois was going to name her "Megan," but Peter was in charge of finishing the birth certificate. |
| 422 | * UnwittingPawn: In the episode “Don’t Make Me Over,” Jimmy Fallon only used Meg for comedy by having sex with her on live TV. |
| 423 | * WackyParentSeriousChild: Downplayed but Yandere tendencies aside, Meg is shown to be much more mature than her father, [[ManChild Peter]]. |
| 424 | * WeightWoe: Meg is shown to be an overeater, and makes a habit out of throwing up after meals. She has far more issues than that however. Stewie even tells her one time that she should consider becoming anorexic and bulimic like the female ballerina dancers since it "seems to work out for them". |
| 425 | * WellDoneDaughterGirl: She gains Peter's respect at the end of one episode and he reveals to her that he actually does love her, despite his inexplicable abuse. He tells her that when they're alone, he'll be nice to her, but he'll be a jerk to her whenever anyone else is around. |
| 426 | * WolverineClaws: During the events of "Super Griffins". Actually, her fingernails only grow a few inches. |
| 427 | * WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: In the episode "Dial Meg For Murder," when she returns from prison and gets revenge on everybody who bullied her by dishing two {{No Holds Barred Beatdown}}s to Peter, Connie and the other popular kids at her school (by filling a bag with unopened soda cans and hitting them with it). Brian snaps her out of it by showing her an issue of Teen People Magazine and [[Heartwarming/FamilyGuy describing her as "Far sweeter and kinder than the average teenage girl."]] |
| 428 | * {{Yandere}}: Shows instances of this towards Brian, Joe, and Kent. |
| 429 | [[/folder]] |
| 430 | |
| 431 | [[folder:Chris Griffin]] |
| 432 | !!Christopher Cross "Chris" Griffin |
| 433 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/220px_chris_griffin.png]] |
| 434 | [[caption-width-right:250:"I'm Chris. Sometimes I have to poop for a long time. Now you say something."]] |
| 435 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SethMacFarlane (Unaired pilot only), Creator/SethGreen |
| 436 | ->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS1E1DeathHasAShadow Death Has a Shadow]]" |
| 437 | |
| 438 | Chris Griffin is stout like his father, and also has a learning disability. However he is also much more introverted and honest than Peter, as well as having a better grasp on reality. While normally gentle and sensitive, he is prone to emotional outbursts and he tends to believe what he is told. Chris is pure Id, and when it comes to the crunch, there's not a bad bone in his body. Voiced by Creator/SethGreen, and Creator/SethMacFarlane in the unaired pilot. |
| 439 | ---- |
| 440 | * {{Acrofatic}}: Despite his chubbiness, Chris often pulls off surprisingly acrobatic feats. |
| 441 | * AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: In "Run, Chris, Run", Chris is elected homecoming king (unknown to him, out of sympathy). He quickly starts acting like an ''actual'' king, treating the rest of the family like lowly peasants. |
| 442 | * AdvertisedExtra: Always appears in promotional illustrations, yet gets significantly less screen time than characters like Quagmire. |
| 443 | * AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Far less prominent than Meg, but some episodes that explore his school life showcase Chris as a social outcast among his schoolmates. |
| 444 | * AlliterativeName: His complete name. '''C'''hristopher '''C'''ross "'''C'''hris". |
| 445 | * AnnoyingYoungerSibling: To Meg. He often pulls childish pranks on her, but in the newer seasons he occasionally goes beyond InnocentlyInsensitive territory by joining the rest of the family in abusing her. |
| 446 | * TheArtifact: Back in the test pilot, he got his blond hair from a blonde version of Lois. In the series proper, while Lois was changed to a redhead, he retains his blond hair. |
| 447 | * AuthorAvatar: Occasionally acts as rather blatant avatar for voice actor Creator/SethGreen. Each of the [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuyPresentsLaughItUpFuzzball Star Wars parodies]] ends with him and Peter [[OutOfCharacterMoment breaking character]] to debate over their [=VA=]s' shows. |
| 448 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Chris is usually very friendly and harmless for the most part, but will go completely insane if messed with. |
| 449 | * BewareTheQuietOnes: Usually, Chris is pretty quiet, and a really nice guy. Except when he's removed from his comfort zone, and then he just goes absolutely ''crazy''. |
| 450 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: He's pretty eccentric, but does not take kindly to being pushed around. |
| 451 | * BigBrotherBully: Inverted; he bullies Meg, but she's older. |
| 452 | * BigFun: Chris is likeable whenever he's in-character and not holding the JerkassBall just to be popular. |
| 453 | * BigLittleBrother: He's the biggest Griffin child, but Meg is the oldest. The actual height difference is relatively minor, though he's also quite a bit heftier. |
| 454 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: Comes off as the more level-headed or kind family member, but he can be just as bad as the parents when it comes to Meg. |
| 455 | * BookDumb: Lampshaded in 'When You Wish Upon a Weinstein' when Peter throws a book at him to show he isn't too bright, and Peter tells him the lamp did it. Chris then starts beating up the lamp. |
| 456 | * BrainsAndBrawn: He is the brawn to Stewie's brains. When the two are together Chris is often portrayed as Stewie's mount for the episode. Which shown by Stewie being carried on his back via baby carrier, backpack or piggyback ride. |
| 457 | * BrickJoke: Him being big even at his birth. At first a cutaway gag, it turns out he was so large he ''dragged half of Lois out with him''. Lois required extensive reconstructive surgery and has been told she'll be lucky if she lives past 50. Interestingly, that is the second time it's been implied Lois will die age 50 - the first being Stewie saying that he left a time-bomb in her uterus (his "first act of violence") and then saying "Happy 50th birthday, Lois". Although, it's been shown in TimeTravel episodes that she does indeed live long past 50. |
| 458 | * BrilliantButLazy: Chris's main problem isn't so much a lack of intelligence as much as he was thinking too much about sex. When chemically castrated he was able to focus all the time and energy he spent on himself into his studies and did much better in school. |
| 459 | * CaughtWithYourPantsDown: One episode has Chris drinking a lot of energy drinks, like his dad. We see Peter try to milk a cow at super speed, causing her teats to catch on fire. A few seconds later, we see Chris running downstairs with no pants and his crotch on fire, with the obvious implication. |
| 460 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: |
| 461 | ** In early Season 1, Chris was protrayed more as a [[TheStoner Stoner]]/[[TheSlacker Slacker]] type originally, but evolved to be more innocent/dopey. |
| 462 | ** The earlier seasons portrayed Chris mostly as a hyperactive and childlike DumbassTeenageSon, and an emotionally sensitive NiceGuy who struggles with fitting in at school whenever his character is taken seriously. While he hasn't outgrown these two traits, he's definitely become more bold and cynical in the later seasons, often to intimidating extents. |
| 463 | ** In "The Son Also Draws", revealed that Chris had a talent and passion for art that was constantly shown through the first two seasons. After the show got UnCanceled, his talent stopped being brought up and was completely forgotten. |
| 464 | ** Chris has always been awkward around girls and women, but later seasons depict him as an outright pervert who will spy on women or do other inappropriate things. |
| 465 | * ChildishOlderSibling: He's the childish and immature middle child while his baby brother is WiseBeyondTheirYears. |
| 466 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Chris is very prone to behaving like a hyperactive and kooky oddball. |
| 467 | * TheCutie: As a malice-free, warm-hearted young boy, Chris definitely qualifies for this title. Although, it's downplayed due to his masturbation obsession and {{jerkass}} tendencies he would come to develop. |
| 468 | * DeadpanSnarker: Occasionally and surprisingly in the later episodes, he's prone to snarking at his family, sometimes even when he isn't in the right to do so or whether or not it's really an appropriate time. |
| 469 | -->'''Brian:''' What'd you do with the gun?\ |
| 470 | '''Peter:''' Gun?\ |
| 471 | '''Lois:''' Yeah, my father gave me a gun as a present yesterday.\ |
| 472 | '''Peter:''' Where was that during birthday sex? Maybe I would have finished.\ |
| 473 | '''Lois:''' Unlike you, guns can actually fire.\ |
| 474 | '''Chris:''' ''[dryly]'' I don't think this marriage needs a gun. |
| 475 | * DemotedToExtra: Chris' screentime was significantly decreased after the show started to focus on Peter, Brian and Stewie as the lead characters. Season 18's "Disney's the Reboot" lampshades this by equating him to Joe Swanson and Tricia Takanawa, essentially confirming his status as a supporting character. |
| 476 | * DependingOnTheWriter: |
| 477 | ** Chris' maturity level zigzags between episode. Some episodes portray Chris as a stereotypical HormoneAddledTeenager who's battling through high school and puberty with an impulsive obsession with masturbation, pornography, and girls, while other episodes portray him as a naïve, mentally undeveloped KiddieKid with a childlike enthusiasm and {{keet}}y demeanor. |
| 478 | ** His intelligence also varies from time to time. Sometimes he's able to talk about serious issues; like drugs, sports injuries, and society's obsession with validation from social media. Whereas, in other episodes, he can't comprehend death and is far less articulate. At one point he didn't even understand his own name and in ''Throw It Away'' Chris is shown to be illiterate. |
| 479 | * DisproportionateRetribution: When he gained pyrokinesis during "Super Griffins", he sets a kid on fire ''[[AccidentalMisnaming for calling him by a mocking nickname]]''. |
| 480 | -->'''Chris:''' You remember that time you called me "Chris Gristle"?\ |
| 481 | '''Hector:''' I think so.\ |
| 482 | '''Chris:''' Well burn for it! |
| 483 | * TheDitz: He is said to have an intelligence somewhere between that of a sign post and a bag of moldy French fries. But it's really because he focuses so much on masturbation. |
| 484 | * DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: There have been numerous occasions where Chris snaps necks like Jacobs Crackers. And several times, it's been a complete accident. |
| 485 | * DoubleStandardViolenceChildOnAdult: In "Hannah Banana", Chris creates a booby trap disguised as an offer to win a free hat to lure Peter in for revenge. When Peter falls for it, Chris cuts the rope and ends up smashing his father's head with two logs. |
| 486 | * DumbassHasAPoint: In "The New Adventures of Old Tom", he rightfully calls Brian out for having no honesty or integrity when it comes to women (as proven by his attempt at dating Shelby by pretending to be rich). |
| 487 | * DumbassNoMore: The later seasons portray Chris possessing a more cynical, judgmental personality that contrasts his ditzy tendencies in the earlier seasons. |
| 488 | * DumbassTeenageSon: He is one, but due to lack of focus (and sometimes showing hidden intelligence) the viewers don't see him acting dumb as often as his father. |
| 489 | * DumbBlonde: A male example. He's the dumbest of the Griffin children, and the only blond. |
| 490 | * DumbMuscle: Has occasionally acted as this for Stewie, either voluntarily or through Stewie's mind control devices. |
| 491 | * EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Before the first cancellation, Chris had earrings on his ears that were removed in the third production season |
| 492 | * EverybodyHatesMathematics: He's BookDumb, and especially has low grades in math. |
| 493 | * EveryoneHasStandards: In "Baby Stewie", he immediately alerts Peter and Lois when Brian attempts to share an insult about the family with him. |
| 494 | * {{Fartillery}}: In one episode where he ends up running away from home and moving in with Herbert (ItsALongStory), he inadvertently wards off Herbert's attempt to rape him in his sleep by grossly farting as Herbert is sneaking into his bed. |
| 495 | * FatComicRelief: If obesity jokes aren't being made about Peter, they'll most likely be directed to Chris instead. |
| 496 | * FatIdiot: Like his father, though he doesn't usually cross into PsychopathicManchild or FatBastard as much as his father does and usually comes across as childlike at certain points. |
| 497 | * FatSlob: A few episodes imply that he has ''very'' poor hygiene and smells terrible. |
| 498 | * {{Flanderization}}: Chris's slowness gradually became his defining factor. His chronic obsession with masturbating also became much more played up. |
| 499 | * FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The Foolish to [[ButtMonkey Meg]] and [[ChildProdigy Stewie's]] Responsible. Both of them are noticeably more mature than him. |
| 500 | * FriendlessBackground: DependingOnTheWriter, some episodes portray Chris as lacking a friend circle. |
| 501 | * GagPenis: Since "And the Wiener Is..." Chris is described as having an abnormally large penis. When Peter first saw it, he thought it was his leg. Lois considers it the reason he always slouches, and Brian claimed it was the biggest in the family. |
| 502 | * GeniusDitz: |
| 503 | ** He's apparently very good at drawing, although it's never brought up anymore. |
| 504 | ** Chris is also extremely knowledgeable in the fields of film and popular culture, usually bringing up their overlooked details. |
| 505 | * HatesBeingTouched: |
| 506 | ** In "Lethal Weapons", he starts fighting with Meg after she pushes him, saying "I don't like to be touched!" |
| 507 | ** In "The Peanut Butter Kid", he goes ballistic and beats Peter to a pulp after Peter puts his hand on his son's shoulder in a comforting way. |
| 508 | * HeCleansUpNicely: While still slightly more popular than Meg, Chris is seen by other characters as repulsive and he even stated that a blind girl refused to sit next to him and Mort Goldman after touching their faces. It has been shown, however, that when Chris has enough motivation or is in the right crowd, he really can tidy himself up and look better by gelling his hair into a pompadour and either wearing a suit or wearing a better-fitting t-shirt. As shown in the episodes "Stand by Meg", "Extra Large Medium", and "Stew-Roids". |
| 509 | * HollywoodGenetics: Brunet Peter and redheaded Lois conceived blond Chris. Something doesn't add up here... Out-of-universe, the reason for this is that in the pilot, Chris and Lois both had blond hair, but in the series proper, Lois became a redhead while Chris stayed blond. |
| 510 | * HormoneAddledTeenager: Chris spends a majority of his free time masturbating, thinking about girls, and looking at pornography like an average boy his age. DependingOnTheWriter, he [[ZigZaggingTrope zig-zags]] between this and KiddieKid. |
| 511 | * {{Hypocrite}}: Calls Stewie out for his cynicism in "Foxx in the Men House", when later seasons have had him being just as much of a negative asshole as Stewie is (if not more). |
| 512 | * IdiotSavant: While Chris is a complete dumbass, he does possess savvy drawing skills as well as an extensive knowledge in film. |
| 513 | * IJustWantToBeSpecial: Many episodes that focus on Chris showcase his insecurities and imply that he wants to fit in with the popular kids at his school. |
| 514 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: Most of Chris' misbehaviours and meanness are done out of sheer ignorance. |
| 515 | * InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: He has a large degree of emotional sensitivity, has a very hyperactive and childlike demeanor, and had no qualms over crossdressing at the end of "Stew-Roids". |
| 516 | * JerkassBall: Happens to him in later seasons, where he becomes more cynical and makes snarky remarks at the most unnecessary of times. |
| 517 | * JerkJock: Became one temporarily in "Stew-Roids" when he becomes popular. |
| 518 | * KarmaHoudini: |
| 519 | ** While Meg catches him in the act and blackmails him for it, Chris received no actual punishment for stealing from Lois' purse in "Chris Cross". |
| 520 | ** Received no punishment for locking Stewie in his backpack for ''five days straight'' in "Secondhand Spoke". |
| 521 | ** He also received no punishment for holding Meg captive in "Better Off Meg", so he could continue to enjoy the popularity he received over her "death". |
| 522 | * KavorkaMan: Has dated several attractive girls (one of which [[LikeParentLikeSpouse resembled his mother]]). |
| 523 | * {{Keet}}: Seems to be his main schtick in the later seasons, where he becomes more hyperactive and shouts out random things. |
| 524 | * KiddieKid: To Peter's {{Manchild}}. Chris has a childlike enthusiasm, pranks Meg for his own amusement, and still wants to sit on Santa Claus' lap well into his teenage years. Zigzagged, as he can also be a HormoneAddledTeenager DependingOnTheWriter. |
| 525 | * LikeFatherLikeSon: Just as obese and stupid as his father. |
| 526 | * LikeParentLikeSpouse: At one point, Chris dates a girl, Lindsay, who basically looks like someone stuck Lois' head on a teenager's body. It turns out that he's dating her for this exact reason--he figures that a.) he's the kind of guy who "only his mother could love," and b.) he's hoping to replicate [[ParentingTheHusband the kind of dysfunctional dynamic]] that Lois has with Peter. |
| 527 | * LoserProtagonist: Chris is a geeky, unpopular, typical HormoneAddledTeenager who wastes his free time dwelling in his room masturbating or using the computer. |
| 528 | * LoserSonOfLoserDad: Chris is the geeky, unpopular son of his alcoholic, also-obese-and-slow-witted father Peter. |
| 529 | * NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Grammy-winning rock musician [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Cross Christopher Cross]]. |
| 530 | * {{Nice Mean And InBetween}}: For the Griffin kids, he is the in-between to Meg's nice and Stewie's mean. |
| 531 | * NightmareFuelStationAttendant: It isn't particularly hard for Chris to turn on that "creepy" switch when he wants to. Several episodes point out he even makes a hobby out of killing small animals, which [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuyPresentsLaughItUpFuzzball C-3PO]] notes is the [[TruthInTelevision first pathological sign of a future serial killer]]. |
| 532 | * NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Has no problem getting up close and personal to touch Alana's knee and then smelling her hair, despite her being visibly uncomfortable. |
| 533 | * ObliviousToLove: It's unclear if Chris is or isn't aware of Herbert the pedophile's blatant lust for him. In the episode where he befriends a new old man [[spoiler:who is actually a surviving Nazi]], he complains to Herbert about all the things he's made Chris do for him... because he thinks Herbert just enjoys making him do physical work. |
| 534 | * OddFriendship: He quickly becomes friends with Rallo once Cleveland returns to Quahog. |
| 535 | * OutOfFocus: He has become the least featured character of the Griffin family. To the point where, for a time, Joe seriously thought his name was "Caleb". |
| 536 | * PinkGirlBlueBoy: The Blue Boy to Meg's Pink Girl. Chris wears a blue shirt, while Meg wears a pink beanie and shirt. |
| 537 | * PlayingWithFire: During the events of "Super Griffins". |
| 538 | * PluckyComicRelief: He usually plays this role in the later seasons, where he mostly exists to be funny as a result of being OutOfFocus. |
| 539 | * RiseOfZitboy: The subplot of "Brian the Bachelor" revolves around Chris getting his first pimple, [[ItMakesSenseInContext which can talk]]. |
| 540 | * SimpleMindedWisdom: It's been shown in a few episodes that he can be rather smart such as when he explains to Peter and Lois the effects of marijuana and when he starts to question that Herbert is a paedophile when he starts babysitting him along with Meg and Stewie. |
| 541 | * SimpletonVoice: Although it was slightly different in the earliest episodes. |
| 542 | * SocialMediaIsBad: Discussed; in "Boys & Squirrels" Chris blames Stewie's obsession with social media for the death of their pet squirrel. |
| 543 | -->I'm not the one who just had to post a video to Instagram that very second. You couldn't even enjoy the moment for one damn minute before desperately groveling for online approval from Aunts you never talk to and past coworkers you don't even like! |
| 544 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: His chin and obesity is much like Peter's. |
| 545 | * StoutStrength: Depending on the episode, Chris can be shown fighting adults and other teens without difficulty but is only shown to be one of the weaker members of the Griffin family. In "Stand by Meg", he's shown bench pressing without difficulty. |
| 546 | * ThrowTheDogABone: After 12 seasons of being friendless, Chris has finally found a friend in Neil Goldman. This also has ended Neil's obsessive crush over Meg. He's also being gradually more used by repeatedly putting him in a trio as Stewie's DumbMuscle, since he actually understands him. |
| 547 | * TookALevelInJerkass: Around the 11th season where he's now gained an abrupt cynical edge and will insult anyone for no real reason whatsoever. See "Secondhand Spoke" and "Herpe, the Love Sore" (back-to-back episodes) as shining examples. |
| 548 | * VagueAge: Chris was cited as 14 in "Trading Places", yet celebrates an unspecified birthday in "Save the Money!". Due to the FloatingTimeline of the series, it remains ambiguous as to whether he's 15 now. |
| 549 | * WellDoneSonGuy: In early episodes he wanted his father to be proud of him. |
| 550 | * WouldHurtAChild: Chris' interactions with Stewie often end with him hurting the toddler, either by mistake or as a prank. He unhesitatingly knocks Stewie over the head with a book in a misguided attempt to [[WellIntentionedExtremist cure him from a hallucination]] and gets into a fist fight with his brother for the right to sit in a massage chair, among other instances. |
| 551 | * YoungerThanTheyLook: Chris is only in his early teens and hasn't even left puberty yet, but passes for a young adult due to his height and gigantic weight. |
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