Smith Family (Stan Smith, Roger Smith) | CIA | Pearl Bailey High School and Other Teens | Smith Extended Family | Neighbors | One-time Characters
"God! Who do you have to probe around here to get a Chardonnay?"
Voiced by: Seth MacFarlane
Debut: "Pilot"
A very zany space alien who self-describes as effeminate and alcoholic who was taken in by the Smiths after he saved Stan from death by grenade during a lockdown at Area 51. Also a master of disguise out of necessity, to avoid suspicion from the rest of the planet.
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Roger
Tropes A to H
- Aesop Amnesia: He's just as bad about this as Stan, if not worse. It's even lampshaded in the episode "Great Space Roaster," where he reveals that he didn't really feel like a part of the Smith family, which is why he got insulted when they threw a comedy roast for his birthday (at his request). The others actually get indignant because not only has this issue been dealt with before, but in that episode and others they had repeatedly gone out of their way to please his ever-insane needs and desires. As Hayley pointed out, if he didn't think they cared about him by that point, it was his problem, not theirs.
- The Alcoholic: He's often seen drinking.
- Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: He's extremely prone to it. This is actually one of his more positive personality traits.
- Alien Among Us: Has been living on Earth since the mid-20th century, after being abandoned on Earth by his people as a disposable crash test dummy (they told him he was The Decider who would determine if humanity should be destroyed or not).
- Alien Blood: Zig-Zagged. If he's out in public, his blood is red, but whenever he's by himself or with the other Smiths, his blood is instead shown to be an exotic color like yellow, purple, blue, or green.
- Aliens Are Bastards: His race needs to act like jerks, though it does depend on what person he is portraying with his costumes.
- All Take and No Give: He expects others to bend over backwards to do things for him, yet he is often unwilling to perform even simple tasks or small favors for them without getting something in return.
- An Alien Named "Bob": An alien named Roger.
- Always Camp: LOGO declared him the "Gayest Cartoon of All Time."
- Ambiguous Gender Identity: Roger identifies as a man by default, though he is incredibly gender fluid, acting as masculine or as feminine as whatever disguise he's wearing calls for, and he's also able to grow breasts. He also has the ability to impregnate others (both male and female humans) as seen in 'Deacon Stan, Jesus Man' and be impregnated himself as seen in 'Roger's Baby'. It's possible that Roger's species is hermaphroditic and capable of producing both male and female gametes. A season 20 episode has Stan refer to him as non-gendered.
- Anti-Hero: A Nominal Hero at best in his better moments.
- Anal Probing: Roger can learn all the knowledge and memories of a person by putting a finger up their bum.
- Attention Whore: He's this almost all the time as part of being a Psychopathic Manchild.
- Ax-Crazy: At his absolute worst moments, he frequently shows traits of this. Even Stan and Francine at their worst are nothing compared to Roger.
- Bad Actor, Good Liar: Roger is a Manipulative Bastard who can easily deceive others with long-winded scams. Yet whenever he auditions for a professional acting role, he is absolutely terrible at it.
- Bald of Evil: Roger is completely bald and a complete sociopath, although his personas do have wigs for hair.
- Barrier Maiden: Roger's personas are more often than not more than just a disguise he decided to wear that day. Most of them have lives that potentially stretch back decades. He has so many of these serious personas running around at once that Roger actually makes up a fair percentage of Langley Falls population by himself. Many of whom are important figures in the city. When Roger is laid up sick and Stan refuses to keep subbing for him, the town literally falls to ruin overnight.
- Becoming the Mask: He creates a new identity to seduce a shop-girl and allow him to steal a pair of gloves he likes. Then the stress of actually caring about someone causes Roger's mind to split into two - the persona he created, and himself. Apparently his persona carries on for quite a while before Roger notices extra bills on his credit card, at which point Roger tries to destroy this man's life.
- Been There, Shaped History: In his lifetime he's responsible for creating disco in the 1970s (through a time paradox, admittedly), instigating the death of Biggie Smalls, creating Jar Jar Binks, inventing ecstasy in the 1990s, and turning Raven-Symone into an actress (after he kidnapped her from a park when she was a child).
- Big Bad: At times, he's the main villain of a plot.
- Big "NO!": Has had a few of his own, though not as many as Steve.
- Bizarre Alien Biology: Used to excellent effect. Aside from having a seemingly normal (though very large and shaped like his head) brain, his organs are unrecognizable and some have minds of their own; his pancreas has teeth and once bit Hayley. He occasionally shoots green slime from his armpits. He can pull any of his organs out through his skin without any ill effect to himself. Most impressively though, he can be completely dismembered, disemboweled, skinned, and have his face torn off yet be put back together by simply slapping everything back on (though he does say himself that he will die if he stays in that condition too long).
- Big Eater: According to Stan he eats all the family's food.
- Bizarre Alien Biology: It would kill Roger to be nice. His species have to let their 'bitchiness' out frequently otherwise it vents out in bile and vomit.
- Black Comedy Rape: One of the reasons he doesn't want to return to his own planet is because the sex over there is so boring; it's all consensual.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Comes with his species, apparently. Fitting his love of acting and disguises, the few morals Roger has seem to be entirely dictated by his emotions; meaning he essentially decides what's right and wrong on a whim. For that matter, his sense of right and wrong is also extremely self-serving/self-excluding, even when he means well. For example, from the episode "You Debt Your Life"; looking for a reason to get Stan to trust him again, he sees nothing wrong with causing Stan to lose both of his legs (via pushing him into a polar bear exhibit) and then refusing to take him to a hospital in order to save him himself.
- Break the Haughty: In "Wiener of Our Discontent", he claims to be the "decider" of humanity's fate, but then discovers that he was actually sent to Earth as a crash test dummy, much to Stan's amusement.
- Breakout Character: Roger originally started out as an alien who lives with the Smith family as well as being forced to stay within the house and didn't have much major importance to the plot. Later in the series, he was more outgoing through the use of disguises and is one of the more prominent characters. He became the second most prominent character after Stan, and is one of the most popular characters on the show.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: Roger is shown to be quite talented with the use of his personas, but he'll usually only show it when he actually feels like it.
- Brooklyn Rage: High pitched nasal Paul Lynde-esque New York accent? Check. A highly sadistic hero? Check.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Any of Roger's previously established personas are extremely competent at what they do, the most blatant example being Jeannie Gold, wedding planner (and prostitute).
- Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality: His tenuous sanity has shown him taking television and other media as fact, being surprised when it doesn't. Other times he's not sure if something actually happened or was just one of his delusions. In the B-plot of May the Best Stan Win, when he forces himself into Steve's reenactment of The Goonies as the director, he keeps ruining takes stealing the prop map to One-eyed Willy's treasure, believing it to be real.
- Can't Take Criticism: In one episode, he tries to outright murder the Smiths after they roasted him at his birthday party, something he wanted them to do.
- Card-Carrying Jerkass: Roger openly takes great delight in messing with others for his own enjoyment, although his antics often go well beyond "Jerkass" and well into some pretty extreme Comedic Sociopathy.
- Centipede's Dilemma: An unusual case; when operating as himself (or as one of his personas), Roger is quite capable of putting on convincing acts to manipulate others. But when it comes to acting in front of a camera, a casting crew, or a studio audience, those skills tend to evaporate, preventing Roger from becoming a professional actor.
- Changing Clothes Is a Free Action: At times, he's capable of changing into a disguise just by walking into his closet and right out again. In some episodes, this is taken to extremes, changing disguises in the fraction of a second while a character blinks or while they're maintaining eye contact with him just off-camera.
- Characterization Marches On:
- While still having obnoxious moments, Roger was much more of a neurotic pushover in early episodes, usually more on the receiving end of the other Smiths than dishing it out. His swift talent with costumes and personas was also undeveloped, constantly having to hide himself from public or requiring the rest of the family to create forms of disguise for him.
- Similarly, in early episodes he was mostly house-bound and unable to go anywhere without the family, for fear that people would discover he was an alien, with the implication he'd been kept by the government since Roswell. This was later dropped with Roger able to come and go as he pleases and having lived on Earth for over 60 years with no-one the wiser.
- Clark Kenting: While his disguises are elaborate, they don't actually hide the fact that Roger looks nothing close to human, but no one ever notices this.
- Comedic Sociopath: By far the most sociopathic and depraved individual in the entire series. Despite this, he is also the most consistently humorous character in the series as well.
- Complexity Addiction:
- In season 7's "Toy Whorey," Roger goes through a bunch of elaborate schemes to try to get a bottle of Rain Duck wine from Greg and Terry, including setting up an elaborate Rube Goldberg Device to cause a blackout in the Smiths' house just to get them to notice and check on the Smiths. Eventually, Francine gets sick of waiting and presents a very simple solution to the problem: she goes straight to Greg and Terry's house, hits them across the faces with a spatula, and just takes the wine and leaves while the two are crying in pain. Of course, it's shown that he planned for this to happen all along, followed by Francine triggering a trap set for her as well, solely so Roger could also have both of the steaks that Francine prepared for them to go with the wine.
- In an earlier episode, "Old Stan on the Mountain," he lies to Francine about a dance contest and trains with her for six months, when in reality he merely wanted her to come with her to an ex-wife's funeral; he states that the dance contest story seemed easier than simply asking her to do so. And it only gets crazier from there...
- In "The One That Got Away", he created a new persona, Sidney Huffman, to romance a department store worker so he could steal her key to a box containing a pair of gloves he wanted. During the course of the false romance, Roger spent $700 dollars on a necklace for the girl. Sidney points out to Roger that the gloves only cost $10 (which of course meant that Roger could have just bought them). Roger responds with a Big "SHUT UP!".
- The Corrupter: Whenever someone in the Smith Family is about to do something immoral, you can count on Roger to egg them on to behave at their absolute worst. He was even referred to by Klaus as "the little devil on people's shoulders".
- This is made a plot point in "300" by proxy of the Golden Turd. When it's destroyed by shoving it back where it came from, it renders the world a utopia while Roger himself crumbles to pieces. Unfortunately, Roger's still-functional mouth manages to find its way back to the Smiths, and they're all so sick of utopia that they agree to put things back to normal.
- Dark and Troubled Past: For the large part, the more we learn about Roger's background, the more depraved an individual he seems.
- Depending on the Writer: How people perceive Roger changes each episode sometimes people see as completely human sometimes people can see him as the oldly proportioned small gray man he is.
- Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: This is the possible reason why he has multiple personality disorder and frequently changes professions.
- Determinator: If his motives are selfish enough, he can achieve ANYTHING. He pursues Hayley and Jeff with the money they cheated Stan out of across the entire planet. When he's convinced to kill the Smith family because they roasted him at his birthday party, he's able to escape from Bang Kwang Central Prison. Not even leaving the planet is enough to escape his wrath.
- In the episode "Old Stan in the Mountain", Roger tries to explain to Francine about how important it is to stick with something. He says this before a long series of events that reveals he married a woman just so when she died, he could take her hair for a wig and dump her corpse in a lake.
- Disappeared Dad: He ate him when he was 15. Apparently this is another of his species' sociopathic tendencies.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Frequently plays this trope to its most extreme.
- He once conspired to make Steve's life a living hell and tricked him into thinking he was adopted by the Smiths after Steve ate his cookie and said: "You snooze, you lose." For whatever reason, when Roger reveals what he did, Steve thinks it was an awesome trick rather than cruel.
- One episode has Stan calling Roger a selfish fat failure. Roger responds by planning on destroying the planet.
- In the episode "Virtual In-Stanity". After starting a chauffeur service and trying to be as polite and respectful as possible, he gets stiffed for twenty dollars by five frat boys. Roger proceeds to hunt each one of them and run them down, in the limo, even when the last one managed to get on a plane. Roger somehow managed to get on the plane's wing, run the guy down by driving through the plane, and kills everyone on board. As he and Klaus are parachuting down, he sees a stewardess parachuting next to them, and unbuckles her for no good reason other than he's "got the blood lust".Klaus: You're really going to kill five people over $20?!
Roger: You're asking this of the man who just last week killed six people over $19? - In "Great Space Roaster", Roger attempts to kill the entire Smith family because they roasted him for his birthday (even though he was sure he wanted it and he had a huge misconception on what a roast is). When he finally gets a hold of everyone, he forces the Smiths to roast each other, but it backfires because they are used to making fun of each other and care about each other as family.
- In "Roy Rogers McFreely" Roger conspires to become president of the Homeowners Association and enact all kinds of ridiculous bylaws because Stan refused to buy him grenadine.
- In "Whole Slotta Love", after all his attempts at being a comedic stewardess fall flat (and another stewardess gets bigger laughs), Roger decides to crash the entire plane out of spite. Luckily, the plane was getting ready to land anyways, resulting in Roger getting run over by the plane whilst everyone else is okay.
- In "The Unincludeds", after Roger and Hayley get food at a restaurant, he goes on to hatch a plan that culminates in him scalping the waitress all because she complimented Hayley's order and not his.
- The Dog Bites Back: Many of Roger's comeuppances are usually a result of the Smiths getting tired of being victim to his antics and striking back. Whether it be throwing him down a ravine, locking him in a dog crate, conning him out of his goals, or most oftenly beating the crap out of him.
- Ditzy Genius: He is one of the smartest characters on the show, being a good planner in his schemes and having multiple professions with the help of his personas. He is also incredibly airheaded, gullible, lacking in common sense, and even Too Dumb to Live on occasion. He Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality, either.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: He was originally supposed to go back to his home planet eventually in the Pilot, because Stan asked him if he contacted his home planet and he said he was going to.
- Entitled Bastard: No matter what he does to them, he always expects the Smiths to have his back. Whenever they push him aside for his deeds, he treats it like a great betrayal.
- Ephebophile: He has no qualms about being openly attracted to teenage boys/girls, once having sex with Steve's 14 year old best friend Snot.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones:
- Though it's subject to Depending on the Writer, several episodes show that Roger genuinely loves the Smiths despite his horrible nature and has done unselfish things for each of them. Steve (who's been Roger's closest friend since the start of the series) and Francine (who's one of the few individuals who can curb Roger's selfishness) are the main examples.
- Roger sincerely loves his little tumor-spawn Rogu and treats him like a son.
- Even Evil Has Standards:
- He cuts all ties with an old woman he bonds with after she outs herself as a terrible racist, raving at the Lincoln monument for his role in abolishing slavery.
- Roger is a self-centered, amoral Jerkass with a serious Lack of Empathy, but even he thinks his Ricky Spanish persona is simply an awful person, to the point where he actually buried the costume in his closet so he would never assume it again. Unfortunately, he forgot about it and ended up donning the costume without knowing who it was.
- He's also incredibly disturbed by Stan giving his mother baths while he himself is in the tub.
- When he and Klaus visit the D-Day site and discuss the tragedies of WWII, he mentions how brave the soldiers were, which Klaus agrees with... except Klaus lets it slip he was talking about the Nazis. Roger is legitimately disturbed and gives Klaus a very unsettled look. That's right, even a sociopathic and egotistical bastard like Roger thought the Nazis were awful.
- He finds Francine breastfeeding Steve (who is at least fourteen years old) highly disturbing, especially when they become creepily co-dependent upon their exile to the basement.
- Everything's Better with Rainbows: He is capable of creating rainbows with his finger when he's happy... though the rainbows are made of urine...
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: As his species is practically Made of Evil, Roger is completely unfamiliar with the idea of feeling for anyone other than himself. In fact, in "The One That Got Away," actually feeling guilty for one of his atrocities was such a shock to his mindset that he developed a Split Personality just to cope.
- Evil Is Petty: He's a self-proclaimed sociopath and as such takes this trope to its most extreme, victimizing or destroying others either for some minor slight or sheer curiosity or boredom. He once convinced Steve he was adopted for stealing his cookie for example, going so far as to burn all of Steve's baby pictures, and another point tried to blow up the Earth because Stan insulted him (which itself was provoked by Roger being his usual apathetic self). There is some slight justification as his species are in fact Made of Evil, and if they don't let out their "bitchiness" on a frequent basis it takes the form of a poisonous bile that kills them. Since he has little to no problem with this behavior however, it still counts.
- Expansion Pack Past: His life since his arrival on Earth during the Roswell incident.
- Exposed Extraterrestrials: While he obviously needs disguises to go out and about, he's generally naked within the Smith house.
- Extreme Omnisexual: To the extreme. Self-identifying as a "fey, pansexual, alcoholic nonhuman," Roger will perform filthy sex acts with just about any sexually mature (or maturing) human on the planet. He's also been shown to have had sex with animals, other aliens, and objects like checkbooks.
- Fat Bastard: Stan constantly reminds him he is out-of-shape, which is mostly attributed to eating all the family's food. Some of his personas are even depicted as obese.
- Fat Slob: He constantly lays around in the house, eats junk food, drinks alcohol, and takes all sorts of drugs. Stan even refers to him as a "gross bowling pin".
- Faux Affably Evil: Roger when he's in a manipulative mood. He can act nice if he wants to be at times, before stabbing them in the back and/or abandoning them.
- Flanderization: His affinity for costumes and dress up acts, to the point some take over his personality. His Jerkass traits also initially just came with the quirkiness of his personality and were much more toned down. As time progressed, his callousness is canonically accepted as his defining trait (to the point he'll actually die without acting consistently cruel).
- For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself: Went to a sci-fi convention without a disguise. Oddly enough, this was the one time he avoided interaction with people.
- Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: As revealed in "Frannie 911", Roger is such a Jerkass because his species needs to be for their own survival; as he explains, he needs to let out his "bitchiness" or it will turn to bile and poison him to death. That being said, the Smiths seem to agree it still doesn't excuse most of his heinous actions and continue to call him out on them after this reveal, with that very episode ending with Stan beating the living shit out of Roger. There's a fine line between being rude and bitchy, and just being an immoral sociopath, and Roger crosses that line more often than not; his "Ricky Spanish" persona alone has done such things as defecating in the chest of a person undergoing open heart surgery to killing Avery Bullock's wife, all just For the Evulz. Additionally, that same episode displays that Roger was willing to die beloved while keeping his need to be mean a secret, only started dying from being excessively nice for a prolonged period of time, and went from his deathbed to full health just by insulting Steve's dancing.
- Functional Addict: In addition to being The Alcoholic, he has an absolutely massive tolerance for drugs and frequently indulges in cocaine, among many other things, without any long-lasting ill effects. This is most likely due to his alien biology; in "School Lies", he and a fellow heavy-using girl do coke, speed, and meth together. She's pink-eyed, twitchy, high for hours, and OD's from the one binge (requiring an adrenaline shot) while Roger sobers up, takes more drugs, and then sobers up again in the same time frame. Even the heaviest human addicts couldn't build up a tolerance like that.
- Good Hurts Evil: The episode "Frannie 911" reveals this to be the reason why Roger is such a Jerkass: his species has to let their "bitchiness" out regularly, or else it will turn to bile and poison them. In other words, if Roger acts too nice for too long, it will literally kill him.
- The Greys: His appearance heavily invokes them.
- Happily Married: Supposedly for 35 years.
- Hartman Hips: Rare Male Example. Roger has very wide hips and huge buttocks, which is even more noticeable when he's not wearing anything or cross-dressing as a "attractive" woman.
- Healing Factor: Roger can grow back huge chunks of his body, one episode has him lose his entire lower body and recover, and another episode has him bite an arm off to make the point he can practically grow it back at will. It takes a bit longer than usual, but he has it back in a few minutes.
- The Hedonist: The only characters who even come close to Roger's level of depravity are Bullock and Principal Lewis. He's almost never seen with Bullock, most likely because of Stan's fear of Bullock and the rest of the CIA finding out about Roger's true identity, but he and Lewis occasionally join forces.
- Hero-Worshipper: On the rare occasions that Roger doesn't despise a person and consider them worthless is when he has an unhealthy amount of admiration for them and considers them perfect.
- Heroic BSoD: In "Wiener of Our Discontent", he is put out of action when he finds out he was supposed to be a crash test dummy.
- Heroic Comedic Sociopath: Just look at all the examples. Roger's a huge Comedic Sociopath, even if he's heroic in such a way.
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- I Love the Dead: In "Stanny Tendergrass", one of his personas is stated to have gotten married to an elderly woman on life support for her fortune. When said woman's also elderly daughter comes at Roger with a crossbow, he unashamedly admits that he had sex with her mother after he pulled the plug.
- Immortal Immaturity: He's over 1600 years old, but often acts like a human child, as shown in such episodes as "Frannie 911" and "One Little Word."
- Immune to Fire: Roger is set on fire in Big Trouble in Little Langley". Though he screams in shock and discomfort, he survives the incident without any injuries other than a slightly darker skin, and is amazed to discover that he is fireproof. A similar event occurs in "Stan's Food Restaurant", when Roger's face is burned by a blowtorch, but he only reacts with mild annoyance.
- Inferiority Superiority Complex: Much like Stan, Roger's massive ego is easily punctured, and his sense of self-worth can be diminished by a few choice words from people he's closest to.
- Interspecies Romance: A given since he's an alien and may of his romantic interests are human. He also was in a sexual relationship with Klaus, a former human who's now a goldfish, at one point.
- Irony: In a crisis situation, Roger is quick to abandon others to ensure his own survival, claiming that those others are "dead weight". But Roger himself has very poor survival skills, proving to be of little help to others, and even hindering the group's survival through his poorly thought-out actions. In short, Roger himself often proves to be the "dead weight" in such situations.
- It's All About Me: While all the family display this trait on occasion, Roger takes it to sociopathic extremes.
- Jerkass: Can shift into a comedic monster on occasion. Depending on the Writer, he's shown to be perfectly willing to exploit or even murder his closest friends for minor offenses or indulgences.
- Jerkass to One: While not particularly nice to anyone most of the time, he goes out of his way to torture Klaus. Granted, all of the Smiths are annoyed by Klaus, but Roger is the only one who outright hates him (though he will still do stuff with him, such as how when the Smith family had to roast each other, Klaus was excluded from the punishment and laughed with Roger).
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Granted, he's a Jerkass in later seasons, but he still has his moments of being a Nominal Hero when he has his extents. He was this earlier on as well.
- Karma Houdini: He manages to utilize this trope over and over in the series, facing near-zero consequences for enslaving orphans, faking a marriage for the sake of blender, several implied cases of theft and murder, and abusing, manipulating and placing his adoptive family in horrific situations over and over (along with at least once trying to outright kill them). Stan, and to an extent the rest of the Smiths, sometimes lean into this trope as well but are much more likely to see the error of their ways. Not to say that Roger doesn't avoid retribution on some occasions (At the end of "Man in the Moonhouse", Stan punched him out for lengthening his jail sentence at his parole meeting) but yeah, more often then not he usually gets away with antics.
- Ironically how much he suffers is usually reverse proportional to his own misdeeds. He can get away with all sorts of horrific and outright murderous schemes but the odd time he plays The Chew Toy is usually when he has done nothing wrong.
- There are, however, some episodes where he fails to get away with his atrocities. For example in "The People vs. Martin Sugar", Stan had the jury vote him guilty thus leading the judge to (tearfully) send him to prison.
- Played straight in an ultimate sense, however, as by the end of the episode he is off the hook and for good measure is now a juror at Stan's trial.
- Karma Houdini Warranty:
- The episode regarding the above-mentioned biological requirement for him to be an asshole ends with Stan (off-screen) beating the ever-loving shit out of him. Also in "News Glance with Genevieve Vavance" Steve exposes his bogus news story about being kidnapped by Hayley (although Steve himself isn't punished for selling out Hayley by going along with it in hopes of having sex with some girls who missed him).
- He also suffered in "The Hurricane." He spends the first act trying to get rid of his one-night stand, and shows more sadness that his sweater has been ruined when she's fatally impaled. Once the house capsizes, he drowns her, not to mention he decides to save a wig instead of Klaus. At the end of the episode, he gets a nasty electrical shock thanks to Stan's incompetence.
- Played for Laughs at the end of "Merlot Down Dirty Shame". After Roger buries Stan alive and runs off, we cut to a fake teaser for the next episode. Cue a dirtied Stan beating the ever-living crap out of Roger.
- Kissing Under the Influence: With Stan during their trip to Atlantic City. They were both drunk, and Stan agreed to the most intimate experiences of Roger's species. Roger ended up knowing all of Stan's memories, but not vice versa — this was especially humiliating for Roger because Stan was actually Roger's first.
- Knight Templar Parent: In the episode where he was the legal guardian of Steve, he killed three teachers who bullied Steve (and whom Steve was mean to first).
- Lack of Empathy: The one time he showed any sort of genuine empathy for someone other than himself, it literally almost killed him; empathy is toxic to his race. On another occasion, feeling empathy for a shopgirl who lost her job because of one of his Zany Schemes was such a shock to him that one of his personas went rogue.
- Large Ham: He is a very hammy and over-dramatic individual, both as himself and his many disguises.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Eventually, his heinous acts will end up becoming his undoing. Most of the time, it’s because Stan gets fed up with him and beats him to near-death. "Merlot Down Dirty Shame" is effectively an entire episode that is building up to Stan delivering a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on Roger for his actions throughout the plot.
- Laughably Evil: He shows little, if any, thought for his family and friends' well-being and has committed all sorts of heartless or outright murderous acts for the most trivial and petty reasons. So it goes without saying he is a fan favorite, as he's often considered the funniest and most popular character in the series.
- Lazy Bum: Roger prefers to drink, eat, do drugs, or watch TV over doing anything productive unless he actually feels like it.
- Leitmotif: In "Great Space Roaster" his presence is marked by the song "The Sign" by Ace of Base.
- The Load: When Roger gets involved in something, he all too often ends up making things more difficult for others. The Cold Open of "300" has the Smiths reflecting on how his antics have ruined many of their vacations and day trips.
- Mad Libs Catch Phrase: He introduces his personas by giving their name and then a brief description.
- Made of Iron: He has survived being shot multiple times, being skinned and dissected, accidentally slicing his own face off, and falling off a cliff multiple times, once in a car which exploded with him in it. He can take a lot more damage than humans. He's also immune to freezing temperatures. One episode establishes him as tough even by his species standards, as he survived an accident where others of his species were sure he died.
- Manipulative Bastard: In "The One That Got Away", to get revenge on Sidney Hauffman for using his credit card, he completely ruins every aspect of his life from his job, his garden, his pigeon friends, his fiancee, and his apartment. Only to find out Sidney was one of his personas that had taken on a life of its own.
- Master of Disguise: Roger has an entire warehouse full of disguises and usually ends up disguised at least once (if not multiple times) per episode. Of course, many of his disguises are Paper Thin, but no one seems to notice, most of the time. This is exaggerated to hell and back in "Steve, Snot, and the Quest for the Og 4Loko", where his disguises are shown to be so impossibly convincing that, when Steve and Snot borrow a pair, they not only appear to be those personas to everyone (including people who know them, except Roger himself), but show up on video as the characters.
- Moral Myopia: Much more than Stan, comparing his nonchalant abuse and manipulation of every being around him to the insane lengths of retribution he takes towards any minor slight inflicted onto him.
- Mysterious Past: He's apparently 1601 years old, yet very little if any of his past is revealed in the series, with only how he was rescued by Stan by the CIA being shown in the entire series.
- New Powers as the Plot Demands: Among which include being flame-retardant, ultra-buoyancy, the ability to learn one's memories by probing them, the ability to change costumes in under a second (usually done off-screen or when Roger throws up a cloud of confetti), the ability to place himself and others into the fictional world inside a book (this one REALLY came out of left field), and the ability to move "really, really fast." Oh, and the ability to crap golden, jewel-encrusted turds.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: His voice and mannerisms were initially based on actor Paul Lynde.
- Non-Mammal Mammaries: Despite having Bizarre Alien Biology, Roger goes through cycles of mating which involve lactation from his chest and he can impregnate anyone via mouth to mouth CPR. Roger can also lactate a lot more if he eats and because Roger's milk apparently tastes delicious (though the people that had it doesn't know what it is), Stan and Francine use Roger's milk as a substitute for mayonnaise in Francine's potato salad for their church and they force feed him so that he can keep producing.
- Nigh-Invulnerability: Turns out that his only weakness is being nice & that even his superiors were unaware of his durability. To put that into respective, he was once used as a crash test dummy. It does seem, however, that Roger can die from conventional wounds, as one episode shows that Roger is willing to let Stan kill him with a gun to keep the fact that the Smith family has been harboring him a secret from the CIA. In the same episode, Stan strangles him to death to make a point, before subsequently reviving him with CPR.
Tropes O to Y
- Out of Focus: Around halfway into Season 12, his overall screentime seems to have taken a bit of a hit in favor of giving more screentime to Klaus. While he still has a presence, he's mostly been relegated to B-plots and some episodes will only have him being an incidental character with no actual bearing on the plot other than providing the obligatory uncensored utterance of the word "shit" at least once an episode.
- Panacea: Roger lost a small pouch in Area 51 which contained various things including a tube of cream which if applied to an amputated stump, will gradually regrow the lost limb. Roger breaks back into Area 51 with Stan after his legs got amputated to bring his legs back.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Has a wardrobe full of them.
- Justifiably in "Stanny Tendergrass", it's revealed that there is at least one persona that each member of the Smith family cannot see through, instead actually seeing Roger as that person. For Stan, it is Mr. Vanderhill the country club owner, for Francine, it's a Korean kid who shoots pool with a giant chopstick, for Hayley, it's her sandal repair man and for Steve, it's Alicia Wilkner, who kissed Steve at a Spin-the-Bottle contest and dated him nine times (or, rather, seven times, with Steve doped up on roofies for the last two).
- In "Persona Assistant", it's suggested that this is actually a property of Roger's own skin; When Stan is made to stand in for all his personas, Roger gives him a suit made from said skin that will help sell the illusion of the many personas.
- Pet the Dog:
- Risked his life by saving Stan from being blown up by a grenade, and also, when the CIA began tracking him down, was willing to let Stan kill him to keep the Smith family safe.
- Despite having little to no sense of empathy the majority of times, he is often shown to genuinely care about Stan. The entire reason he came to be with the Smiths is because he went out of his way to save Stan from a botched CIA attack. Even in later episodes Roger's friendship is sometimes exploited by Stan, which is saying a lot considering the former's usual tendencies.
- He helps the Smiths with his disguises far more often than he antagonizes them (except Klaus), though for him the motive seems to be more the chance to dress up than an act of kindness.
- After killing his Sidney persona in "The One That Got Away," he decides to take Sidney's girlfriend on a pity date.
- When Rogu comes to kill Klaus out of revenge for being left for dead by the latter in "Klaus and Rogu in "Thank God for Loose Rocks": An American Dad! Adventure", Roger, alongside the rest of the family, chooses to protect Klaus.
Roger: Klaus, did you really think we hate you so much we'd let you die? You need to work on your self-esteem, man. - The Pig-Pen: He is often a Fat Slob who couldn't care less about cleaning up after himself.
- Ping Pong Naïveté: At times, he can be deeply intelligent, showing a high level of business savvy and even an advanced knowledge of human psychology, but at other times (even within the same episode), he shows total ignorance towards simple concepts. One example is shown in "Stanny Boy and Fran-tastic" where he uses one of Greg and Terry's credit cards in a way that won't be noticed, then allows himself to be duped by Klaus into being put on hold for several days while calling a helpline. He even lampshades it:"I have a Masters degree in City Planning. I can tell you where to build a convention center, but I can't tell when a fish is giving me the business."
- The Power of Hate: The very entity keeping his species alive (see above). Naturally The Power of Love is toxic to them as a result.
- Psychopathic Manchild: A rare one indeed. He's a hybrid of types B, C, and E, and D too. Roger is an alien with supernatural intellect and physical abilities who uses these for childish purposes. He has childish traits like a sweet tooth and juvenile whining. Despite being knowledgeable about life, Roger has committed heinous deeds throughout his long lifespan. Despite not appearing as much, he is a formidable force to be reckoned with.
- Reality Warper: A subtle case. Whenever he comes up with a backstory for one of his personas, logic bends to his will to make those backstories true. This includes being the birth mother of two fully grown men, and also being the teenage birth son of a human family, complete with pictures of him growing up! Roger is perhaps the greatest actor ever! Surpassing even Fred Savage.
- Becomes somewhat undeniable in "Steve, Snot, and the Quest for the Og 4Loko", where not only are his disguises so impossibly perfect that anyone wearing them will appear to be that persona, even to people who know them, but even video footage of them will show the character instead of the real person i.e. Steve appearing on CCTV as a middle-aged Japanese man.
- Really Gets Around: Ooh boy. Roger's easily the most promiscuous of all the Smith family. He's slept with (and done stuff with) so many people (both as male and female personas), it'd be easier to list the people he hasn't had sex with. In fact, he lampshades this when he's about to be the "virginal" sacrifice of a puritan pagan cult.Cultist: Only the blood of a pure maiden will appease the Crow God and ensure a bountiful corn crop!Roger: Whoa, whoa, whoa! "Pure maiden", me?! I had sex with a guy on the truck ride over here. Who was he? He had a crow mask on... Oh! It was him, brown corduroys.Cultist: Her talented mouth tells lies!
- Really 700 Years Old: Despite his appearance, Roger is at least 1600.
- The Rich Want to Be Richer: In "I Can't Stan You", he and Steve pull a real estate scam to gain $100,000, which they split between themselves. Steve (who had been the Butt-Monkey of all their previous jobs) manages to take Roger's half by distracting him with a single dollar bill, which Roger leaps to catch, despite the already considerable earnings literally at hand. The note Steve leaves in its place sums Roger up well:"You taught me that everyone's either a sucker, a crook, or just plain greedy. You're all three."
- Roswell That Ends Well: According to "The Best Christmas Story Never Told", Roger claims he is the alien that crash-landed in Roswell, New Mexico, back in 1947. But, as revealed in "Weiner of Our Discontent", not for the reason he thinks.
- As of season 20 premiere "Fellow Traveler," which is set in 1947, it's now canon that Roger is the alien of the Roswell Incident.
- Running Gag: In the later seasons, it's become increasingly common for the Smiths to give a resigned reaction when they realize that someone they're going to see is actually one of Roger's personas.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: In the episode "Max Jets" he uses his titular persona's financial hold on the Smiths to, among other things, play with Francine and Steve's nipples without their consent.
- Small Name, Big Ego: He's convinced he's the greatest actor in the world, and more important than everyone else.
- The Sociopath: Self-confessed, no less. When he becomes a Dirty Cop (after being on the force for 3 hours) he says that:Roger: Plus I'm a sociopath so all this fits me like a glove.
- Spoiled Brat: He always expects things to go his way no matter what, and when he doesn't, he throws massive tantrums. Lampshaded in "One Little Word", where he starts behaving like a spoiled, obnoxious four-year-old.
- Strong as They Need to Be: Exactly how capable Roger is depends on the episode and what persona he's taking. In particular, whenever he and Stan fight, it's either a Curb-Stomp Battle on Stan's end or Roger's end with no in-between.
- Super-Speed: Allowed him to fake the death of a persona in "Jenny Fromdabloc". It has become a consistent ability of his that allows his persona shifting.
- Sweet Tooth: He's obsessed with sweets like cookies and snack cakes, which was very prevalent in the pilot.
- Territorial Comic Relief:
- In "Wife Insurance", he and Steve bicker over which of their detective character duo gets to be the comic relief. Eventually they reach an agreement that Steve can be the wisecracking one, but Roger can have some sarcastic quips.
- In "Whole Slotta Love", Roger decides to become a comedic air stewardess. However, his jokes end up falling flat, while another stewardess' jokes get big laughs. This infuriates Roger, to the point where he eventually tries to crash the plane out of spite.
- Thin-Skinned Bully: Roger frequently dishes out cruel insults to everyone around him, but if someone even mildly insults him, he doesn't take it well at all, often bursting into tears.
- This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: Tends to say these at least once an episode.
- Token Evil Teammate: None of the Smiths are particularly saintly in behavior, however Roger is the most consistently malicious of the cast. Less evident in earlier episodes where Roger was more sympathetic with Stan or Klaus usually acting as the more malevolent of the family.
- Took a Level in Badass: In the first season, he was primarily house-bound, couldn't leave unless any of the other Smiths helped him build a disguise and was utterly useless in a fight. In later seasons, he's become skilled enough in disguises to make them himself and leave the house freely, and has murdered countless people throughout the series.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Roger was more toned down in early episodes, acting little past an obnoxious Cloudcuckoolander and showing more frequent gestures of genuine care and sympathy to the Smiths. As his costumes and outside lifestyle became more active, however, his apathy and psychotic traits became more and more prominent.
- Tragic Villain: Possibly his sociopathic behavior is because their species has a Blue-and-Orange Morality.
- Trademark Favorite Food: He loves large amounts of junk food in general, with Chocodile's being his absolutely favorite.
- Truly Single Parent: While he is capable of sexual reproduction, he produced Rogu asexually.
- Übermensch: If it is at all possible to play this trope strictly for laughs, a case could be made for Roger being a Nietzschen superman. He is goal-oriented, defines his own morality, refuses to accept outside authority, and if he wants something, even if it's insane and impossible, he makes it happen through nothing more than sheer force of will and a complete rejection of objective reality.
- The Unfettered: Playing into his Lack of Empathy, Roger will cheat, abuse or even murder others without a second thought to achieve his goals. Taken to absurd lengths at times since he can find even menial goals and ambitions and rotate their ends around completely callous and deranged schemes (a plan to get a free T shirt involved him manipulating Francine and Hayley to try and kill each other).
- Unlimited Wardrobe: In contrast to the rest of the major characters, given that Roger frequently changing disguises as a result of his multiple personality disorder.
- Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: A self-centered jerk that isn't above backstabbing his family and killing innocent people to get his way.
- Villain Protagonist: The most out of anyone else in the family, he goes far beyond the line of a mere Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist into this. Among his many crimes include enslaving orphans, killing numerous innocent people and casually destroying people's lives for very petty and immature reasons. He's even tried to outright kill the Smiths at one point.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Type 1 with Stan, Steve and at times Klaus.
- Vocal Evolution: When the show started, Roger's voice was slightly more soft spoken and had a more prominent accent, making the Paul Lynde basis more evident. In later seasons, his voice started sounding more nasally and hoarse, likely due to Seth MacFarlane aging.
- Voice Changeling: Averted. None of Roger's personas sound like anything other than himself — sometimes with a poorly affected accent, but just as often not — and while his Stan imitation is near-perfect (especially in comparison to Stan's Roger), it's not as deep and still has a faint nasal quality to it.
- Voodoo Shark: Played for laughs. Many of Roger's disguises depend on this.
- In "Shallow Vows", Roger is pretending to be a wedding planner, and introduces Stan to his sons — two college-aged men who act as if Roger is actually their mother:Stan: How is that possible?
Roger: I know! I look too young to have kids in college.
Stan:
No, that you have children when your persona is completely fabricated—
Roger: We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of dreams.
Stan: That is an unsatisfying answer. - An offhand comment about the son of one of his personas in another episode suggests he merely kidnaps and brainwashes people.
- In "I Am The Walrus", a high school student persona of his is shown to have human parents, and even a photo of him as a baby in their house.
- In "Roots", one of Roger's personas has a human brother (and a mother who looks just like him).
- In "Shallow Vows", Roger is pretending to be a wedding planner, and introduces Stan to his sons — two college-aged men who act as if Roger is actually their mother:
- Wholesome Crossdresser: Downplayed in that he himself is most definitely not wholesome, but his crossdressing antics are never portrayed in a negative light in and of themselves.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: He is so evil because his species releases a bile that kills them if they don't "let their evilness out". Made worse when it is revealed the reason he is trapped on Earth is that the others of his species wanted to get rid of him. In addition, there are moments where he really seems to care about his adoptive family. It is implied that Roger only acts that way because he was made to be evil, and not by choice, and if you stop to think about it, it's terrible being him.
- Would Hurt a Child: Discussed in "Daddy Queerest".Roger: If a girl comes around with a bruise on her cheek talking about this dog is hers, it is; Pepper's stolen.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: When he got a job as a cars salesman, he thinks it's like a sitcom on TV.
- Yandere: Shown in the season 8 premiere, "Love, AD Style".
Roger's Personas
Dr. Jordan Edelstein
Dr Jordan Edelstein
A Jewish College Professor and Head of Political Science Department at Harvard. This is later established to be false; he is Head of Economics.
- Brutal Honesty: When his wife wonders if it's possible their baby might've lived, Jordan flatly responds "No you left the gate open and she sank like a stone. You're gonna have to live with that for the rest of your life."
- Deadpan Snarker: Has a tendency to unleash a string of dry barbs at his wife's alcoholic antics.
- Happy Marriage Charade: He appears happily married to Amanda, until Amanda gets drunk and starts ranting about all the guys she should've married. Jordan's also bitter about Amanda having forced him to become Head of Economics, and likes to inform everyone her neglect led to their baby drowning.
- Outliving One's Offspring: His baby daughter drowned thanks to Amanda not watching her when she wandered into their pool.
Rashid
Horse Renoir
Horse Renoir
A tough Bounty Hunter born on the bayou.
- Bounty Hunter: His job. He tries to hunt Jeff.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Obviously modeled after Duane "Dog" Chapman.
- Son of a Whore: The "backwoods son of a whore and a prostitute".
Sidney Huffman
Sidney Huffman
A nebbishy Nice Guy that became 'alive' on his own.- Becoming the Mask: A Split Personality that started as a convoluted charade to steal a pair of gloves.
- Beware the Nice Ones: He's a Nice Guy through and through, but when Roger, not knowing of the Split Personality, ruins his life and destroys everything he cares about, and vows to continue doing so, Sidney hires an assassin to kill him.
- Split Personality: Initially just another of Roger's personas, he became this as a coping mechanism for Roger to deal with the shock of actually feeling empathy for a girl who lost her job because of him.
Roy Rogers McFreely
Roy Rogers McFreely
The powerful and corrupt Chairman of the Homeowners Association.- Corrupt Politician: Uses dirty politics to bribe the homeowner association, disbands the neighborhood watch and generally make new ordinances to make Stan's life a living hell.
- Create Your Own Villain: This persona was made because Roger couldn't take Stan's various rules anymore, with the breaking point being Stan refusing to buy grenadine that Roger needed to make his drink, a Roy Rogers. This in turn causes Stan and Hayley to form a constructive vandalism group to combat him.
Dr. Rafael Penguin
Dr Rafael Penguin
Originally a prison psychologist and later the family psychologist. Jeannie Gold
Jeannie Gold
An efficient and mysterious wedding planner with links to organised crime. Has two adults sons she's very proud of, and is Ricky Spanish's sister.- Anti-Hero: Or Anti-Villain. Her actions all stem from wanting to pull off the perfect wedding so in a way she's simply giving her clients exactly what they want regardless of her questionable ethics in pulling it off.
- Arch-Enemy: Of her brother, Ricky Spanish.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She's efficient, eager, and a competent wedding planner who also has no problem using physical violence and hired muscle to get what she wants done.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Jeannie's goal is to pull off the best wedding her clients can imagine, ethics be damned! Anything 'good' or 'evil' she does is all in the name of giving her clients the perfect wedding.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: She's a highly competent wedding planner whose only shortcomings are from her clients wasting their budget.
- Cain and Abel: She's the Abel to Ricky Spanish's Cain.
- Career Versus Man: She's chosen career.
- Crazy-Prepared: Her purse comes equipped with a crossbow, fake hymens, and surgical gear. After Steve gets his chest slashed open by Valik, Jeannie immediately has the wound sewn up, bandaged, and disinfected in the space of a minute before casually telling Steve "Don't go into shock, today's not about you."
- Does Not Like Men: Scoffs at the idea of getting a boyfriend because she's "too set in her ways" at this point in her life.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She cares about her sons Alex and Ron very much, employing them in her agency and they seem to love her very much.
- Good Parents: She loves her sons Alex and Ron very much and supports their careers in film school while also hiring them to help with her wedding planning. They in return are very respectful and polite towards Jeannie. When one of them says she did a fantastic job on her third gig with Stan and Francine (despite having nearly no budget), Jeannie exclaims "I did when I made you!"
- A Lighter Shade of Black: She's done some shady things up to and including ethering Francine and hiring Valik to terrorize Steve and Hayley, but she's downright saintly compared to her brother Ricky Spanish.
- Manipulative Bitch: She does some questionable things to give her clients what they want, like employing a sadistic thug to frighten the family members of those who employ her to go along with her demands. Or else.
- Morality Pet: Her sons.
- Potty Failure: Her second major role states that she's incontinent.
- Take Our Word for It: The "sexy barnyard stuff" she has on her website which she explicitly tells Stan that he could not be too cautious in scrubbing his hard drive down if he saw it, clearly stating they'd both go to jail.
- Throw It In!: In-Universe. When her "breast" (an orange) rolls out of her clothes, she rolls with it, declaring herself a breast cancer survivor.
Sweeps McCullough
Sweeps McCullough
A washed-up agent who tries to renew his career.- Driven to Suicide: After Francine's sitcom White Rice gets cancelled over one mildly-offensive joke Sweeps hangs himself, much to Roger's horror.
- Hookers and Blow: Immediately offers the other show producers cocaine, then realizes "it's not like that anymore"
Caitlin Miracle Smith
Caitlin Miracle Smith
The youngest child of the Smith Family, given the middle name "Miracle" for not being stillborn like her deformed twin.- Angsty Surviving Twin: She was born with a dead twin that "had a second butt where its mouth should've been," and despite her cutesy attitude she needs booze and industrial solvent to get her through the day.
- Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: She's a hardcore alcoholic and addicted to huffing glue.
Martin Sugar
Martin Sugar
The owner of an illegal sweatshop.- Faux Affably Evil: Martin acts funny, engaging, and endearing which leads people to forget about what a horrible man he really is. He does all this deliberately to get out of blame for his actions and doesn't actually give a shit about anyone.
- Manipulative Bastard: He runs a sweatshop and treats his workers like garbage, up to and including using an overturned fridge filled with kitty litter as a "Daycare center." He gets away with it by being charming, funny, and seemingly benevolent by remembering his workers' birthdays and distracting people with sentimental stories. The only person his routine doesn't work on is Stan, since he knows who Martin really is and insists on having him brought to justice.
Jenny Fromdabloc
Jenny Fromdabloc
A teenage girl and brief girlfriend of Snot.- Killed Off for Real: Roger kills off the character by having Jenny gets hit and killed by a bus.
- Smitten Teenage Girl: Acts like this towards Snot.
Sgt Pepper
Sgt Pepper
A hard-as-nails soldier responsible for cleaning out portajohns. Roland Chang
Roland Chang
An Asian young man who is very positive.- Nice Guy: His entire shtick is that he's eager to help everyone and never has a harsh word to say.
- Out-of-Character Moment: When he holds down Nemo, Stan tries stabbing the child, but ends up stabbing Roger, he screams at him, calling him an idiot, before realizing that's not who Roland is.
Spartacus Vanderhill
Spartacus Vanderhill
A rich snob at the Havercamp Country Club. The only one of Roger's persona's that Stan is unaware is Roger.- Golddigger: He got rich by marrying an incredibly wealthy and incredibly old woman whom he got rid of by pulling the plug on her life support.
- I Love the Dead: He admitted to having sex with his wife after he pulled the plug as he was mocking his elderly stepdaughter.
Ricky Spanish
Ricky Spanish... (Ricky Spanish)
A psychotic criminal hated by everyone in town. He's the brother of Jeannie Gold and considers Jeannie his Arch-Enemy.- Arch-Enemy: To his sister, Jeannie Gold.
- Bad People Abuse Animals: Once attacked a petting zoo filled with animals with a flamethrower.
- Cain and Abel: The Cain to Jeannie Gold's Abel.
- Can't Hold His Liquor: Admitedly, drinking champagne is what, supposedly, led to him violently killing Avery Bullock's wife on her birthday.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: He will betray anyone if he feels like it. Just ask Steve.
- The Corruption: Implied in the episode "Persona Assistant," as Stan immediately goes crazy with power and unleashes chaos on the town when he wears the Ricky Spanish costume, suggesting that the persona itself is so evil that anyone who wears it, not just Roger, becomes an unrepentant, immoral, sociopathic asshole. The only possible exception to this is Rogu, who wears a Ricky Spanish costume but still saves Roger/Jeannie Gold, but even then he still slices open Ricky!Stan's "throat" with a knife.
- Eviler than Thou: Roger is terrified of him.
- For the Evulz: He's betrayed, backstabbed, and brutalized every person around him for no reason other than he's Ricky Spanish.
- Hated by All: Everyone in Langley Falls that he's interacted with is either afraid of and/or despises him, because he's gone out of their way to hurt them in some way.
- Jerkass: The king. Think Roger is bad? Just go see the things he has done.
- Manipulative Bastard: He pretends to go straight as part of one long con that ends with Steve getting framed for it and put in jail.
- Poke the Poodle: His actions range from genuinely awful things like pooping in the chest of someone undergoing open-heart surgery and killing Bullock's wife with a samurai sword on her birthday to minor, petty things like stealing candy from a little girl and refusing to hold the elevator for someone.
- Running Gag: Mentioning his name will trigger a slow-motion flashback of Ricky committing some atrocity while a woman whispers his name.
- The Sociopath: Has shown to be incredibly cruel and incapable of feeling sorry for anything he's done.
- Would Harm a Senior: Once kicked an old lady in the groin.
Pete Pendelman
Pete Pendelman
An executive for a concrete company.- Nice Guy: One of Roger's nicer personas.
- The Teetotaler: Unlike many of Roger's other personas, and even Roger himself, Pete is a recovering alcoholic.
Tom Yabo
Tom Yabo
A Yoga instructor and Stan's new stepfather.- Heroic Sacrifice: Sacrifices himself so Stan can save Betty.
- Nice Guy: Easily one of Roger more nicer personas, actually trying to be a good step-dad to Stan and husband to Betty.
- Promotion to Parent: Becomes Stan's new stepdad.
Max Jets
Max Jets
Elderly and wealthy prisoner who enjoys showering the family in cash.- Cool Old Guy: Lavishes the Smiths with money and gifts whenever he's around and is generally a fun guy they enjoy spending time wit (though admittedly it's for his money).
Skyler Montessori and Madeline Carpal-Tunnel
Skyler Montessori and Madeline Carpal-Tunnel
Sisters who run a day care center and a girls' finishing school respectively.- The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: Skyler makes a career out of watching other peoples' children even though she has to leave her own kids with her "bitch mother."
- Real Women Never Wear Dresses: Inverted with Madeline, who espouses "A literate girl is a lonely girl."
South Dakota Slim
South Dakota Slim
A teenage boy and bumper pool champion. Real name Justin Delanoe Hemingway. Has a father who has been on a "business trip" for three years (and is also Roger.) Ruby Zeldastein
Ruby Zeldastein
An elderly medium who frequently deals with copyright infringement lawsuits and disperses advice on sex. Is called in to handle the personification of Francine's repressed sexual needs when it manifests as a bloodthirsty ghost.- Dirty Old Woman: Has a bottle of Mexican tar Viagra suppositories on her.
- The Empath: She recognizes the spirit haunting the Smith household has been created due to Francine's unfulfilled sex life with Stan.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Is rather squicked at the idea that Steve might have been offering to please Francine's needs in place of Stan (he wasn't).
- Never Mess with Granny: When it looks like they're about to die because Stan has yet to fully pleasure Francine, Ruby (or more likely Roger breaking out of character) forces a bottle of Mexican tar Viagra suppositories down Stan's throat and orders him to get back in bed.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: She's a blatant parody of Zelda Rubinstein and her role in the Poltergeist franchise.
Dudley Dingleberry
Dudley Dingleberry
A marionette puppet.- Criminal Amnesiac: Subverted. Roger is not a saint, far from it, but he's still less insane than the puppet persona (especially since he has no memory of what's happening while as the puppet).
- Perverse Puppet: He's even more psychotic than the regular Roger due to the fact that the makeup used to simulate his wooden appearance is causing psychosis.
- Split Personality: Much more than normal since Roger is completely unaware of what Dudley does. The chemicals Roger uses to make himself look like a puppet mess with his head cause a genuine alternate personality rather than a new persona to take over.
Dan Ansom Handsome
Dan Ansom Handsome
Roger's most charming persona. Dom Fikowski
Dom Fikowski
Langley's overweight concrete king. Scout Finch
Scout Finch
The main character and narrator of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Valik
Valik
A blond, vaguely Eastern European man who works for Jeannie Gold.- Psycho Knife Nut: He is very stabby, cutting Steve when they first met.
Demitri Krotchliknioff
Demitri Krotchliknioff
A Russian wrestler who goes after Stan's high school wrestling record. H.J. Rimmens
H.J. Rimmens
A psychologically abusive professor of clowning.- Laser-Guided Karma: Unlike many of Roger's other personas, he actually suffers consequences for his actions. Steve complains about him to the governing body of clown academics and Roger gets fired.
- Monster Clown: He torments Steve until he's literally bleeding in order to push him to the limit. At the end of the episode, he becomes a sewer clown like Pennywise.
