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Like the original show, Family Guy Fanon has a wide and varied cast of characters throughout the series. Though due to how many blend in, this will mostly be used for characters that have extended roles and big changes.
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Characters from the original with expansions
In General
A majority of the minor characters get upgraded in this adaptation. These characters can be ones that appeared in only a few episodes or even ones that appeared with a mere few minutes under their belt.
- Ascended Extra: Big time. Majority of the characters seen here get way more screentime and show more hidden depths as a result.
- Adaptation Personality Change: A few of the minor characters undergo this due to their increase screentime.
Horace
The original owner and bartender of The Drunken Clam, Hoarce is the long time friend of Peter, Quagmire, Cleveland and - to a lesser extent - Joe. Though he actively strives to be more than their bartender friend, but more their friend friend.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: Appears in Season 1's "Do and Die" compared to the original appearing in Season 2's "E. Peterbus Unum" (which was renamed and moved to Season 5)
- Adaptation Personality Change: Horace is shown to be far more dramatic and emotional than his original counterpart, particuarly when it comes to being a member of the Beer Bar Buddies.
- I Just Want to Have Friends: Boy, oh boy. Horace desperately wants to be a member of the Beer Bar Buddies. Whenever an occasion comes, he tries his best to get the role, which is usually met with negative reception. It's such a big deal to him that he offered to give them free beers if they let him be the fourth member in "Jerome is the New Black". And in an earlier episode "Neighbor Pains", after the Beer Bar Buddies unintentionally crushed Horace's dreams of being the 4th member of the group by telling him he's their bartender friend, Horace felt so emotionally upset and depressed he didn't come to work the next day!
- Serious Business: Being a Beer Bar Buddy to Horace is about as important as life itself.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: Peter actually lets Horace tag along for their beer run in "Power Over Peter" when seeing the latter depressed and alone in his bar.
Francis and Thelma Griffin
Francis and Thelma Griffin
Peter's devout Catholic legal father and gambling addict mother. The pair was originally just seen as guest stars in the original series, but here are more seen on a recurring basis.- Adaptational Explanation: The fanfic does explain where Peter's sister Karen falls into. With her being Francis' daughter from a previous ex-wife of his that divorced and abandoned him with Karen.
- It also expands upon the two's relationship that wasn't truly seen in the original show. With the two being surprising supportive of each other
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Francis leans in this way more. While he does start the same way, a Fundamentalist Jerkass, he does lighten up after his second episode and his devout Catholic and Jerkass nature become toned down by a lot, save for a few episodes, and has many more Pet the Dog moments towards Peter, not to mentioning getting more involved in the famiy's shenanigans.
- Adaptational Jerkass: Downplayed with Thelma. While she is still more loving than Francis, the fanfic does make it to show that she can be just as cold and harsh as Francis to Peter - with her even been noted to been fully aware of Peter's want for approve towards her and Francis and yet fully manipulates his emotions sometimes - , and have her be a complete monster when she doesn't smoke for a good period of time.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Lois and Thelma get one. In the original, they rarely interacted, but when they did they were shown to be on friendly terms. Here, while they both had a bit of a rivalry alongside Peter and Francis early on, they grew to have a friendship and actually respect each other now. Even having episodes like "Chick Cancer" and "The Father, The Son, and The Holy Fonz" have Lois and Thelma ditch Peter and Francis to go on Las Vegas trips together.
- The Ace: Francis when it comes to baseball, as revealed in "Peter Griffin's All-Stars"
- Catchphrase:
- Francis: "Peter, you're a fat stinkin' drunk!"
- Thelma: "I take full responsibility for Petey's behavior."
- Characterization Marches On: In early episodes, Francis talks very well about Peter's sister Karen and seems to hint at him having Parental Favoritism to her. With him mentioning he likes her more than Peter and even playfully teases Peter about her by trying to call her at the end "Between Sanity and Madness" to have her come for a visit, to which Peter tackled Francis to avoid said visit. This comes off as really jarring when Season 14's "Handling Karen
" reveals that Francis kicked her out of the house when she came out as a lesbian, practically disowning her. - Dies Differently in Adaptation: Compared to the original where she died off-screen from a stroke in "Mom's the Word", Thelma dies in "Roads to Vegas" from taking the role of the Unlucky Brian from the original.
- Everyone Has Standards: Despite Francis not really liking his son Peter, he is downright furious at Carter for joking about his "dead" son during his "funeral" in "The Perfect Castaway".
- Grandparent Favoritism: Francis and Thelma reveal can surprisingly get along well with the kids in some episodes. Stewie's always happy to see them and the two bond decently with Chris and Meg respectively in "Between Sanity and Madness". Though Francis bonds with Chris through... interesting ways as seen in that episode.
- Happily Married: Surprisingly, consider this is a marriage between a Fundamentalist and a Gambling Addict, the two had a supportive relationship. While Francis is a more harsher man, they both enjoy their company, are able to communicate effectively, even when they disagree, and support each other though their screw ups. Even when they divorced, they still stayed close.
- Morality Pet: Thelma's this to Francis. While Francis is a very grouchy and hard person to like (Hell, even Peter had his limits for the man), Thelma always brings out the best in him.
- Not So Above It All: Francis shows in this adaption that when under certain circumstances, he can be just as insane and wild as his son.
- In "Long John Peter", he was the one to suggest getting an extra crew for their pirate game.
- Episodes like a "A Star is Born... Kind Of" and "Breadlosers" have him become just as fat as his son, and him being quite open about it.
- Sanity Ball: The two play a back-and-forth with this depending on what type of quirks are happening. Whenever its Francis being his crass, Fundamentalist self, you'll expect Thelma to hold it. But whenever Thelma's off in Las Vegas or smoking off, expect Francis to hold it.
- Temporary Bulk Change: Francis has one in Season 4's "A Star is Born... Kind Of" whe he falls into a vat of lard during a factory tour at the Quahog Lard Factory and becomes as obese as Peter. Peter helps Francis feel better by showing him the joys in being overweight, which makes him like being fat more. But getting stuck in a booth at one of the restaurants he and Peter stop at from eating to much and need to be hoisted out by a cranes gets him to get some liposuction, restoring his original thinness
- Happens again in Season 6's "Breadlosers", when he follows the surge in obesity of town residents when Peter becomes a fat activist and returns to fat appearance from Season 4.
Change for a Buck
Change for a Buck (AKA Buck)
A Native American who used to works at Indian casino, Geronimo's Palace, before the place went out of business and he was relocated to Quahog. With him becoming a semi-friend to Peter.- Adopted to the House: Buck is allowed to live in their house in "Meg for Mercy"
- Catchphrase: "Do you/Anyone have change for a buck?"
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Appeared quite regularly in the first four seasons, but begin to slowly get phased out more to the point he making non-speaking cameos by the eleventh season and goes on long hiatuses of not being seen. Zigzags in that he does come back once in a while.
- Demoted to Extra: By the time the eleventh season came, he made occasional cameos and started to be not seen at all.
- Hidden Depths: "Petergeist" reveals that Buck is a spiritual medium, taking over Bruce's role from the original.
- I Hate Past Me: Implied in "Meg for Mercy", when Buck mentions he wants to work a legitimate and ethical job and dwants to work a legitimate and ethical job. He does however, seems to subvert it when he is shown to run a casino in "Flights of Disaster"
- Magical Native American: As said above in Hidden Depths, Buck is a shaman in "Petergeist" and help The Griffin Family communicate with the ghost of Chief Diamond Phillips.
- Native American Casino: Ends up running one starting in "Flights of Disaster".
Randall Fargus
Randall "Jeremy" Fargus
- A Day in the Limelight: Randall has a few episodes with him as the lead, such as "Good Ol' Fargy Love", "Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High", "A Woman Walks Into a Bar" and "How Farg is Heaven?".
- Age Lift: More of an age reveal in terms of his age, as the adaption makes Randall ninty-six (as the original series had his age vague), though the fanfic does lift the years he worked at Buddy Cianci, with him working there for sixty years compared to the thirty two in the original.
- Beware the Silly Ones: Randall's is shown to be a goofy guy, but does have a cunning nature as seen in "E. Peterbus Fargnum", where he tricked Peter into giving him Petoria.
- Cool Old Guy: An old guy that's a fun-loving guy, has many ways to teach his kids, makes tons of inventions and is completely spry and lively despite being ninety six.
- Family Business: Subverted. Randall opens an attraction called Fargus' Wacky World of Mayhem, but his wife Eliza is not considered a joint owner. This becomes Double Subverted when she takes over running the attraction in Season 8's "Holly Jolly Folly"
- Fired Teacher: "Full Metal Jackass" has him get fired from his teaching job when he's revealed to have lied about him taking his medication. Though Randall doesn't entirely minds as allows him to focus fully on his attraction.
- Graceful Loser: Takes getting fired with this in "Full Metal Jackass" and actually spins this into a positive as a way to make running his Wacky World of Mayhem attraction his new permanent job
- Happily Married: To Eliza in Season 3.
- Killed Off for Real: Dies in "How Farg is Heaven?" from colon cancer.
- Mad Scientist
- Manipulative Bastard: Pulls on in "E. Peterbus Fargnum". From cutting out a property out of the city's map, him tricking Peter to give him control of Petoria, to using his machines to turn the tide against the military and holding everyone in Town Hall at gunpoint. And the reason why he did this? To get the Griffins a tax refund so they can have a pool.
Hennessey O'Callaghan
Hennessey O'Callaghan
The owner of a fisherman company, as well as Peter and Stan Thompson's current boss- Adaptational Job Change: While in the original, he was a rival fisherman to Peter, here he's Peter's boss.
- Adaptational Sexuality: He seemed to be straight in the main series, as well as single, but here, Hennessey became one of Carol's Polyamorous Husbands as in "Another Widow Opens", and is revealed to be bisexual, since he was also in love with every other husband in the marriage.
- Boss's Unfavorite Employee: Is one to Peter. With him actively screwing with him and trying to get him to fail his job.
- Kick the Dog: "Flights of Disaster" has Hennessey gloat in Peter's face that he's fired when his boat is destroyed.
- The Bus Came Back: After a long absence from the series, due to plot irrelevance, Hennessey returned in Season 17's "Another Widow Opens" as one of Carol's twelve husbands.
- Even more starting with the second half of Season 22, when he hired Stan Thompson as a worker for his company and re-hired Peter when he got a new boat in "Return to the Seas"
- Took a Level in Kindness: While he's still open to making fun of Peter anyway he can when Peter returns to his job, compared to earlier appearances, he's way less hostile to him nowadays. In fact, Peter alongside Stan are more of his close friends.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Gains one with Peter and Stan in Season 22.
Anthony Fargus
Anthony Fargus (née Fulton)
A boy who was once just a random boy Meg dated in "Go, Stewie, Go!" is now Eliza's teenage son and Randall's adoptive son. Has a crush on Meg that lead to dating- Adaptational Early Appearance: Appeared all the way back in Season 3 (or Season 2 if you count his non-speaking cameo).
- Betty and Veronica: Male example. Anthony and Neil are the characters who fight for Meg's affection despite Meg already going after Kevin.
- Deadpan Snarker: Openly loves to snark at his father's insane inventions and failings. Best seen in "A Woman Walks Into a Bar" when he watches his father test a jetpack, calling it to be the "future of fast transportation" and ends up crashing into trees, street lights, school buses and and injuring someone:Anthony: Yeah, Dad! Jetpack flyin's truly the way of the future!
- Raised by Grandparents: Subverted. While his mother Eliza and step-dad Randall Fargus are old enough to be his grandparents, they're actually his parents. Lampshaded in "A Cheater Runs Through It"
- Related in the Adaptation: Where in the original Anthony was just a Boy of the Week for Meg in "Go, Stewie, Go!", here he's established much earlier on and is Eliza's son.
- Relationship Upgrade: Meg and him become true boyfriend-girlfriend in Season 20, though it's in secret to avoid harassment
Kimi Quagmire
Kimi Quagmire (née LaFontaine)
Quagmire's underage ex-wife that married Glenn in "Kimi Stupid Love" and divorced him in "The Quagmire Show".- Dumb Blonde: She is a bit empty headed and haves an intelligence level somewhere around that of Jillian's.
- The Hedonist: Like Quagmire, Kimi is a sex-obsessed nymphomanic, who is always looking for a guy to have sex with. She is so horny and always up to have sex with any kind of guy.
- Hidden Depths: While Kimi loves having sex with guys more than anything in the world, it's revealed later on in episodes like "Peter Pan" or "Three's Company" that Kimi does dabble in lesbianism and is a bisexual that enjoys having sex with girls as well.
- I Hate Past Me: "The Quagmire Show" has Kimi resent her past with Quagmire when she notices that her younger sister Kira is doing so much better than her in life and just graduated high school and is now going off to college, having a normal boyfriend and a normal life. This makes her feel bad about being an 18-year-old with an adult husband who just recovered from being a sex addict.
- Related in the Adaptation: Kira, a girl Quagmire had sex with in "Quagmire's Mom" is made to be Kimi's younger sister.
- Younger Than They Look: Kimi's around seventeen, yet looks very grown up for her age that she can easily pass as a full grown adult to strangers. In fact, Quagmire thought for a long time she was an adult until "Quagmire's Mom".
Retep
Retep Niffirg
Peter's evil twin.- Adaptational Villainy: While in the original he was more of a Harmless Villain, aside from committing a murder, he's given more of villainous status and shows a surprising amount of cunning and intelligence against his twin Peter.
- Evil Twin
Roberta Tubbs
Roberta Tubbs
Cleveland's bratty teenage stepdaughter, who now attends James Woods High and is part of the popular clique with Connie- Adaptational Jerkass: In both the original and this version of The Cleveland Show, Roberta was a popular, but polite girl, who had respect for those less fortunate than her. However, when she came to Quahog, she fell victim to the Crapsack World clique at James Woods High set by Connie D'amico and became now a stuck-up bully.
- Everyone Has Standards: While she falls in line with Connie's clique and bully the kids at James Woods High in "He's Bla-ack!", Roberta draws a line when they bully her brother Cleveland Jr., even stop being friends with them and joined Meg's group of ugly girls for a short time. And only when back when Connie's group when they established a "sibling rule" to protect Cleveland Jr. from bullying.
- The Voiceless: Subverted big time! Compared to the original show, Roberta speaks far more often.
Characters exclusive to Family Guy Fanon
Eliza Fargus
Eliza Fargus (née Fulton)
Randall's wife who's currently widowed- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Stopped appearing as often - if at all - when her husband Randall died. The last time she was seen was in Season 16's "Winter in Dumbing".
- Satellite Character: Most of her time on screen involves something with her husband Randall or her teenager son Anthony. It isn't until Season 11's "Road to New York" when she's a primary focus of a
- The Mourning After: Eliza refuses to get back into the dating pool after Randall passed away.
Heather Griffin
Heather Griffin (née Sung)
The girlfriend turn wife of Karen Griffin.- Foil: Heather's this to Karen. While Karen's a stereotypical mannish brute, Heather instead acts like a stereotypical girly girl.
Lance Prueher
Lance Prueher
The boss of the Suicide Hotline, who was Brian's boss, during the time he worked there in the Brian Moves Out story arc.- Boss's Unfavorite Employee: Lance really loves to torment Brian. He constantly makes fun of him in public when he's screw ups.
- Dramatic Irony: Lance, the boss of a Suicide Hotline (which is suppose to talk people out of killing themselves), commits suicide himself when the Suicide Hotline goes down under in "Brian Come Home for Christmas".
- Freudian Excuse: Lance's Jerkass tendencies might be down to him working at a suicide hotline, so when it comes to employees doing their job, (this job being to talk people out of killing themselves), he doesn't really have a lot of room for fucking up.
- Jerkass: Especially towards Brian, who he belittled and snidely humiliates in front of the other workers whenever he messes up.
- Killed Off for Real: In "Brian Come Home for Christmas" when Lance commits suicide off the Suicide Hotline.
- Laser-Guided Karma: After spending Brian's time working at the Suicide Hotline belittling and snidely humiliating him in front of the other workers whenever he messes up, Lance's rudeness toward Brian kind of came back to bite him on the ass in "Brian Come Home for Christmas", where Brian quit his job and the entire suicide hotline went down under because of it, driving Lance to commit suicide of his very own by jumping off the building of his crumbling business.
- Pet the Dog: As much of an asshole as he is, he does have one in "Break a Leg" when he gave Brian time off work on account of his broken leg. However, it's more of a Downplayed example as his dickery still kind of showed through, when he hired a monkey to cover for him in his absence and the monkey ended up doing a better job than he did.
Stan Thompson (SPOILERS)
Stanley Mitch Thompson
- Ascended Extra: More than the rest of the characters on this page. He was a character who was mentioned only once in the original show (Season 3's "Screwed the Pooch") as an one-off joke. In the Fanon timeline, he was only mentioned a few times throughout the first 21 seasons, then made an appearance (albeit in flashback) in "The Truth About Meg" before finally getting a major role in the season's three-parter "Griffin vs. Thompson". By Season 22, he has essentially become a main character.
- Anti-Hero: A very complex character, often prone to arrogance and harsh anger, and making poor life choices like leaving Lois to care for Meg, although his good side of his personality usually outweighs the bad one.
- Butt-Monkey: Just as, if not more, unluckily in life as Meg.
- Character Development: When Stan's first introduces in "How I Met Your Real Father", he was quite cold to Meg at first, and in fact looked at her the same way Peter and Lois did to her: a burden. However, through the ride home, he ends up bonding with her over her understanding the way he feels as a nobody, which makes him gain some understanding of her. By the episode's end, he's fully wanting to come with her to Quahog to see her family, compared to earlier when he wanted her to drive him to a new location to crash at and never be associated with her again.
- His life also got some development. After he got kicked out, he lived in a crappy apartment, effectively throwing away his life aside from working for the Mafia and for Biker gangs. But after Season 21, he sought to fix himself and got an apartment in Spinazola Apartments in Season 22 while he bounced through possible jobs. And by the mid-season finale, he got a stable job and new house with him working as a fisherman on the S.S. Thompson.
- It Runs in the Family: Meg does seem to inherit her father's bad luck
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite being a gruff sarcastic ex-Mafia member and having bad temper issues, alongside starting off cold with Meg, Stan does show to have a soft spot as he gained new love for his daughter Meg and will do anything to protect her.
- Like Parent, Like Child: Stan bares similarities to Meg. Such as similar skin color, nose shape and weird love for wearing beanie hats.
- Loser Son of Loser Dad: More of a "Loser Daughter" example, but Stan does show to be one for Meg. As in his late 40's, the best he can show for his troubles is a crappy apartment he gets evicted from and all his shattered dreams. He does get better though
- Mistaken for Cheating: Stan's accident pregnancy to Lois lead to Stan's wife thinking this and kicked him out of their house without giving him so much of an explanation, effectively divorced him.
- Related in the Adaptation: Stan is made clear to be Meg's biological father.
- The Rival: Becomes one of sorts to Peter.
- This Loser Is You: Stan qualifies in some areas. Lived in a crappy apartment, lost his wife due to an accident and wallows in a lot in life despite having the ability to have way more.
