History Characters / AmericanDad

* [[Characters/AmericanDadCIA CIA]][[labelnote:Click to Expand]][[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Avery Bullock]], [[NiceGuy Reginald Koala]], [[TooDumbToLive Dick Reynolds]], [[AnythingThatMoves Jackson]], [[OutOfFocus Duper]], John Sanders.[[/labelnote]]

* [[Characters/AmericanDadSmithFamily Smith Family]][[labelnote:Click to Expand]] [[{{Housewife}} Francine Smith]], [[AloofDarkHairedGirl Hayley Smith]], [[ExtravertedNerd Steve Smith]], [[ButtMonkey Klaus Heisler]], [[TheDitz Jeff Fischer]], Rogu.[[/labelnote]]

* [[Characters/AmericanDadPearlBaileyHighSchoolAndOtherStudents Pearl Bailey High School and Other Students]][[labelnote:Click to Expand]][[{{Jerkass}} Principal Brian Lewis]], [[JewishAndNerdy Snot Lonstein]], [[BitchInSheepsClothing Barry Robinson]], [[FunWithForeignLanguages Toshi Yoshida]], [[BigEater Debbie Hyman]], Lindsay Coolidge, Akiko Yoshida.[[/labelnote]]

* [[Characters/AmericanDadPearlBaileyHighSchoolAndOtherTeens Pearl Bailey High School and Other Students]][[labelnote:Click to Expand]][[{{Jerkass}} Principal Brian Lewis]], [[JewishAndNerdy Snot Lonstein]], [[BitchInSheepsClothing Barry Robinson]], [[FunWithForeignLanguages Toshi Yoshida]], [[BigEater Debbie Hyman]], Lindsay Coolidge, Akiko Yoshida.[[/labelnote]]

* [[Characters/AmericanDadPearlBaileyHighSchoolAndOtherStudents Pearl Bailey High School and Other Teens]][[labelnote:Click to Expand]][[{{Jerkass}} Principal Brian Lewis]], [[JewishAndNerdy Snot Lonstein]], [[BitchInSheepsClothing Barry Robinson]], [[FunWithForeignLanguages Toshi Yoshida]], [[BigEater Debbie Hyman]], Lindsay Coolidge, Akiko Yoshida.[[/labelnote]]

* [[Characters/AmericanDadPearlBaileyHighSchoolAndOtherTeens Pearl Bailey High School and Other Teens]][[labelnote:Click to Expand]][[{{Jerkass}} Principal Brian Lewis]], [[JewishAndNerdy Snot Lonstein]], [[BitchInSheepsClothing Barry Robinson]], [[FunWithForeignLanguages Toshi Yoshida]], [[BigEater Debbie Hyman]], Lindsay Coolidge, Akiko Yoshida.[[/labelnote]]

* [[Characters/AmericanDadSmithFamily Smith Family]][[labelnote:Click to Expand]] [[{{Housewife}} Francine Smith]], [[AloofDarkHairedGirl Hayley Smith]], [[ExtravertedNerd Steve Smith]], [[ButtMonkey Klaus Heissler]], [[TheDitz Jeff Fischer]], Rogu.[[/labelnote]]

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* [[Characters/AmericanDadOneTimeCharacters One-time Characters]][[labelnote:Click to Expand]]Charlotte, Ron/Daniel Turlington, Sergei Kruglov, Stelio Kontos.[[/labelnote]]

* [[Characters/AmericanDadSmithFamily Smith Family]][[labelnote:Click to Expand]][[PatrioticFervor Stan Smith]], [[{{Housewife}} Francine Smith]], [[AloofDarkHairedGirl Hayley Smith]], [[ExtravertedNerd Steve Smith]], [[LargeHam Roger Smith]], [[ButtMonkey Klaus Heissler]], [[TheDitz Jeff Fischer]], Rogu.[[/labelnote]]
** [[Characters/AmericanDadRogersPersonas Roger's Personas]]

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[[folder:Roger’s Personas]]
!! 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.
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%%* DeadpanSnarker
%%* HappyMarriageCharade

!! Rashid
A crude but sexy Persian wingman.
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%%* BitchInSheepsClothing
* DomesticAbuse: He enjoys abusing bar whores.
%%* {{Jerkass}}
%%* ManipulativeBastard

!! Horse Renoir
A tough BountyHunter born on the bayou.
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* BountyHunter: His job. He tries to hunt Jeff.
%%* DarkAndTroubledPast
%%* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Obviously modeled after [[Series/DogTheBountyHunter Duane "Dog" Chapman]].
* SonOfAWhore: The "backwoods son of [[ExaggeratedTrope a whore and a prostitute]]".
%%* ThirdPersonPerson

!! Sidney Huffman
A nebbishy NiceGuy that became 'alive' on his own.
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* BecomingTheMask: A SplitPersonality that started as a convoluted charade to steal a pair of gloves.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's a NiceGuy through and through, but when Roger, not knowing of the SplitPersonality, ruins his life and destroys everything he cares about, and vows to continue doing so, Sidney hires an assassin to kill him.
%%* ButtMonkey
%%* ExtremeDoormat
%%* NiceGuy
%%* ThePollyanna
* SplitPersonality: Initially just another of Roger's personas, he became this as a coping mechanism for Roger to deal with the shock of [[LackOfEmpathy actually feeling empathy for a girl who lost her job because of him]].

!! Roy Rogers [=McFreely=]
The powerful and corrupt Chairman of the Homeowners Association.
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%%* CorruptHick
%%* CorruptPolitician
%%* TyrantTakesTheHelm

!! Dr Rafael Penguin
Originally a prison psychologist and later the family psychologist.
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%%* FourEyesZeroSoul
%%* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate

!! Jeannie Gold
An efficient and mysterious wedding planner with links to organised crime. Has two adults sons she's very proud of, and [[spoiler: is Ricky Spanish's sister.]]
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* AntiHero: Or AntiVillain. 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.
* ArchEnemy: Of her brother, [[spoiler: Ricky Spanish]].
* BitchInSheepsClothing: 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.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: 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.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: She's a highly competent wedding planner whose only shortcomings are from her clients wasting their budget.
* CainAndAbel: She's the Abel to [[spoiler: Ricky Spanish's]] Cain.
* CareerVersusMan: She's chosen career.
* CrazyPrepared: 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."
* DoesNotLikeMen: Scoffs at the idea of getting a boyfriend because she's "too set in her ways" at this point in her life.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She cares about her sons Alex and Ron very much, employing them in her agency and they seem to love her very much.
* GoodParents: 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 budge), Jeannie exclaims "I did when I made you!"
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: 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 [[spoiler: Ricky Spanish]].
* ManipulativeBitch: 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''.
* MoralityPet: Her sons.
* TakeOurWordForIt: 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.
* ThrowItIn: In-Universe. When her "breast" (an orange) rolls out of her clothes, she rolls with it, declaring herself a breast cancer survivor.

!! Sweeps [=McCullough=]
A washed-up agent who tries to renew his career.
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:After Francine's sitcom ''White Rice'' gets cancelled over one mildly-offensive joke Sweeps hangs himself, much to Roger's horror.]]
%%* FunctionalAddict
* HookersAndBlow: Immediately offers the other show producers cocaine, then realizes "it's not [[TheEighties like that]] anymore"
%%* JadedWashout
%%* {{Slimeball}}

!! Martin Sugar
The owner of an illegal sweatshop.
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%%* AffablyEvil
%%* BitchInSheepsClothing
%%* TheCharmer
%%* KarmaHoudini
* ManipulativeBastard: 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
A teenage girl and brief girlfriend of Snot.
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%%* GenkiGirl
%%* MeaningfulName
%%* SexEqualsDeath
%%* SmittenTeenageGirl

!! Sgt Pepper
A hard-as-nails soldier responsible for cleaning out portajohns.
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%%* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}
* {{Expy}}: Of Jeremy Renner's character, Lt James, in Film/TheHurtLocker.
%%* InkSuitActor
* PunnyName: Not [[Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand that Sgt. Pepper.]]
%%* ShellShockedVeteran

!! Roland Chang
An Asian young man who is very positive.
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* AsianAirhead: Implied.
%%* {{Determinator}}
* NiceGuy: His entire shtick is that he's eager to help everyone and never has a harsh word to say.
%%* {{Keet}}
* OutOfCharacterMoment: 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.
%%* ThirdPersonPerson

!! Spartacus Vanderhill
A rich snob at the Havercamp Country Club.
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%%* EvilOldFolks
* {{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.
* ILoveTheDead: He admitted to having sex with his wife after he pulled the plug as he was mocking his elderly stepdaughter.
%%* {{Jerkass}}
%% * MayDecemberRomance: His stepdaughter now requires a walker to get around if that's any indication of his wife's age.
%%* [[RichBitch Rich Bastard]]
%%* SmugSnake

!! Ricky Spanish... ''[--[[RunningGag (Ricky Spanish)]]--]''
A psychotic criminal hated by everyone in town. [[spoiler: He's the brother of Jeannie Gold and considers Jeannie his ArchEnemy]].
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* ArchEnemy: To his sister, [[spoiler: Jeannie Gold]].
* AxCrazy: To the point that even ''Roger'' seems scared of him. Case in point: killing Avery Bullock's wife for seemingly no reason.
%%* BeardOfEvil
* CainAndAbel: The Cain to [[spoiler: Jeannie Gold's]] Abel.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: He will betray anyone if he feels like it. [[spoiler:Just ask Steve.]]
%%* DepravedBisexual
* TheCorruption: Implied in the episode "Persona Assistant," [[spoiler: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.]]
* EvilerThanThou: Roger is ''terrified'' of him.
* ForTheEvulz: He's betrayed, backstabbed, and brutalized every person around him for no reason other than he's Ricky Spanish.
* {{Jerkass}}: ''The king.'' Think Roger is bad? Just go see the things he has done.
* ManipulativeBastard: He pretends to go straight as part of one long con that ends with [[spoiler: Steve getting framed for it and put in jail.]]
%%* SmugSnake
* TheSociopath: Has shown to be incredibly cruel and incapable of feeling sorry for anything he's done.

!! Pete Pendelman
An executive for a concrete company.
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%%* NiceGuy
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: He's a stark contrast to Roger's other personas: a lonely widower, a recovering alcoholic, and a diabetic. The only remotely Roger-ish thing he does is pretend to be a superhero.

!!Tom Yabo
A Yoga instructor and Stan's new stepfather.
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%%* BaldOfAwesome
%%* HeroicSacrifice
%%* NiceGuy
%%* PromotionToParent

!!Max Jets
-> Elderly and wealthy prisoner who enjoys showering the family in cash.
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* CoolOldGuy: 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).
%%* UnclePennybags

!!Skyler Montessori and Madeline Carpal-Tunnel
Sisters who run a day care center and a girls' finishing school respectively.
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* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: Skyler makes a career out of watching other peoples' children even though she has to leave her own kids with her "bitch mother."
* RealWomenNeverWearDresses: Inverted with Madeline, who espouses "A literate girl is a lonely girl."

!!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
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.
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%%* CoolOldLady
%%* DirtyOldWoman
* TheEmpath: She recognizes the spirit haunting the Smith household has been created due to Francine's unfulfilled sex life with Stan.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Is rather squicked at the idea that Steve might have been offering to please Francine's needs in place of Stan (he wasn't).
%%* MiniatureSeniorCitizens
* NeverMessWithGranny: 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.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: She's a blatant parody of Zelda Rubinstein and her role in the ''{{Poltergeist}}'' franchise.

!!Dudley Dingleberry

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* CriminalAmnesiac: 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 whats happening while as the puppet).
* PerversePuppet: 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.

!!Dan Ansom Handsome
Roger's most charming persona.

!!Dom Fikowski
Langley's overweight concrete king.

!![[Literature/ToKillAMockingbird Scout Finch]]
The main character and narrator of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

!!Valik
A blond, vaguely Eastern European man who works for Jeannie Gold.
* KnifeNut

!!Demitri Krotchliknioff
A Russian wrestler who goes after Stan's high school wrestling record.
* {{Expy}}: Of Ivan Drago from Film/Rocky.
* HuskyRusskie
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* PunnyName: Not [[MusicSgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand that Sgt. Pepper.]]