History Characters / FamilyGuyStewieGriffin

* OedipusComplex: Inverted. He wants to kill Lois, and has had some friendlier moments with Peter, including the whole of ''The Courtship of Stewie's Father''. This is made more obvious when it's revealed he thinks Brian is more of a father figure than Peter in "ALotGoingonUpstairs", and most episodes show him lusting for Brian.

* OedipusComplex: Inverted. He wants to kill Lois, and has had some friendlier moments with Peter, including the whole of ''The Courtship of Stewie's Father''.

* AbsenteeActor: The only episodes Stewie doesn't appear in are "Welcome Back, Carter" and "Candy Quahog Marshmallow!"

* BigBrotherInstinct: Inverted. Despite being the youngest, Stewie is very protective of his two older siblings. He rescued Meg when she was kidnapped and he defended Chris from bullies.

* TheSociopath: Although he has become a nicer person over the seasons, [[VillainProtagonist Stewie Griffin]] in the early seasons fit the criteria for antisocial personality disorder very well: he rarely showed any kind of remorse, guilt, or conscience; he possessed a violent demeanor, a penchant for mistreating Brian whenever he could, and constantly enjoyed subduing and threatening others under the facade of being a harmless baby. He was also incredibly self-centered, selfish, and didn't hesitate to kill or torture someone if it brought him closer to his goals. However, over time he softened his maliciousness, and as the years passed he learned empathy towards others. Then there's the fact that he has fought antagonists much worse than him, making him a SociopathicHero.

* TheSociopath: Although he has become a nicer person over the seasons, [[VillainProtagonist Stewie Griffin]] in the early seasons fit the criteria for antisocial personality disorder very well: he rarely showed any kind of remorse, guilt, or conscience; he possessed a violent demeanor, a penchant for mistreating Brian whenever he could, and constantly enjoyed subduing and threatening others under the facade of being a harmless baby. However, over time he softened his maliciousness, and as the years passed he learned empathy towards others. Then there's the fact that he has fought antagonists much worse than him, making him a SociopathicHero.

* TheSociopath: In the early seasons and DependingOnTheWriter. Brian once called him a "freakin psychopath" because he was brutally and savagely assaulting him when Brian owed him money. This was ''before'' he shot Brian on both legs and ''set him on fire'' for still not paying him.

* AxCrazy: Mainly prior to the Revival, but it's still there.

* SissyVillain: Is [[AmbigouslyGay]] and is a serial killer. This is espcially evident in the earlier seasons. No surprise, given that he's largely a parody of various villain tropes.

[[Characters/FamilyGuyTheGriffinFamily The Griffin Family]] ([[Characters/FamilyGuyPeterGriffin Peter Griffin]] | '''Stewie Griffin''' | [[Characters/FamilyGuyBrianGriffin Brian Griffin]]) | [[Characters/FamilyGuyTheNeighbors The Neighbors]] ([[Characters/FamilyGuyGlennQuagmire Glenn Quagmire]]) | [[Characters/FamilyGuyRecurringCharacters Recurring Characters]] ([[Characters/FamilyGuyPawtucketBrewery Pawtucket Brewery]] | [[Characters/FamilyGuyQuahog5News Quahog 5 News]]) | [[Characters/FamilyGuyAntagonists Antagonists]]-]]]]]

* BabyLanguage: Subject to a large amount of NegativeContinuity, but some ground rules have been made: WordOfGod states that Peter and Lois can understand what Stewie says just fine, but they never take him seriously. (This gets lampshaded by Stewie himself in the episode "Dial Meg for Murder", where the whole family pins Stewie as the one who'd talked smack about Meg, causing him to say, "Oh, so ''now'' everyone understands me?") Chris sometimes takes him seriously, while Brian and supporting characters always understand him.

[[Characters/FamilyGuyTheGriffinFamily The Griffin Family]] ([[Characters/FamilyGuyPeterGriffin Peter Griffin]] | '''Stewie Griffin''' | [[Characters/FamilyGuyBrianGriffin Brian Griffin]]) | [[Characters/FamilyGuyTheNeighbors The Neighbors]] ([[Characters/FamilyGuyGlennQuagmire Glenn Quagmire]]) | [[Characters/FamilyGuyRecurringCharacters Recurring Characters]] ([[Characters/FamilyGuyQuahog5News Quahog 5 News]]) | [[Characters/FamilyGuyAntagonists Antagonists]]-]]]]]

* DepravedBisexual: Yeah, he's a toddler, but he's definitely depraved and has shown attraction to several people of both genders (such as Brian). [[spoiler: In "Send in Stewie, Please", he ends up seeing a psychologist; it's revealed he pushed another boy down a staircase because he was into the boy and afraid he didn't like him back.]]

* AmbiguouslyBi: Despite the many, many gags pointing toward an attraction to males, any genuine romance relevant to the plot has always been with females. That being said, many times it's been implied he loves Brian...and his Teddy bear Rupert, whom Stewie has apparently done a lot of scandalous things as a love interest.

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-->Complete name: Stewart Gilligan "Stewie" Griffin
-->Debut: ''[[Recap/FamilyGuyS1E1DeathHasAShadow Death Has a Shadow]]''

Voiced by Creator/SethMacFarlane, who claims that his accent and mannerisms are based off of actor [[Creator/RexHarrison Rex Harrison]].

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: He pronounces words starting with "wh" by emphasizing the "h", like "Cool Hwhip". Oddly, he'll say "whip" normally without the "cool" preceding it. "Love, Blactually" has him complaining that Brian "rueened" (again, he says "ruins" just fine) his plans as dressing up as Snoopy for Halloween by doing the same, and in "The Hand that Rocks the Wheelchair", he decides to get some tools from the "gay-rahj" (garage).

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[[caption-width-right:350:"Thank you. When the world is mine, your death shall be quick and painless."]]

* WithFriendsLikeThese: The things Brian does to him in episodes like "Be Careful What You Fish For", "Brian Writes A Bestseller" and "Herpe, The Love Sore" makes you wonder why these two are still friends. Granted this ''is'' [[InfantTerrible Stewie]], so the toxicity is very two-way, ranging from Stewie making endless petty jabs over Brian's failures as a writer and lover, gaslighting him in many circumstances he stands to make [[ClingyJealousLover any other relationships besides him]], or ''beating him to a pulp'' for handing him gambling fees late.

* WithFriendsLikeThese: The things Brian does to him in episodes like "Be Careful What You Fish For", "Brian Writes A Bestseller" and "Herpe, The Love Sore" makes you wonder why these two are still friends. Granted this ''is'' [[InfanteTerrible Stewie]], so the toxicity is very two-way, ranging from Stewie making endless petty jabs over Brian's failures as a writer and lover, gaslighting him in many circumstances he stands to make [[ClingyJealousGuy any other relationships besides him]], or ''beating him to a pulp'' for handing him gambling fees late.

* WithFriendsLikeThese: The things Brian does to him in episodes like "Be Careful What You Fish For", "Brian Writes A Bestseller" and "Herpe, The Love Sore" makes you wonder why these two are still friends.

* SpotlightStealingSquad: His character has developed much over the course of the series and gets more screentime with Brian than rest of family. The series may as well just be "The Brian and Stewie Show" in later seasons. In fact, said 150th episode was simply called "Brian and Stewie". They are the main characters of the 200th episode. Let's face it, it's all about them now. Not to mention the "Road To..." episodes, which focus on Brian and Stewie entirely.

-->Debut: ''[[Recap/FamilyGuyS1E1DeathHasAShadow "Death Has a Shadow"]]''

* EnfantTerrible: The page image. In Seasons 1-6, he was a sarcastic, ranting evil genius with a homicidal grudge against his mother.

* MatureYoungerSibling: His two older siblings, Chris and Meg, are an [[KiddieKid immature]] DumbassTeenageSon and BrattyTeenageDaughter respectively. Stewie, who's just a ''one-year-old'' baby, is the closest to mature of the three Griffin children, usually bringing up valid points whenever his older siblings are acting up, which they usually ignore since the family normally can't hear him. However, considering that Stewie's a matricidal EnfantTerrible who's committed many heinous acts, insults his family, and [[WithFriendsLikeThese occasionally uses Brian for personal gain]], he's OnlySaneByComparison.

A [[NotAllowedToGrowUp perpetual one-year-old]] with a lust for [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior world domination]], and the matricide of Lois. He used to be a vicious criminal and EnfantTerrible VillainProtagonist in season 1-6, but [[TookALevelInKindness has become a much nicer character]] in the later seasons, with the exception of still being a trash-talking, unfiltered wisecracker.

* CreepyChild: Pre-season 4. He's getting his edge back in season 9. After all, he sniped Diane Simmons, pulled a bazooka on some teenagers who stole his Halloween candy, and traveled all the way to the freaking North Pole to try to assassinate Santa Claus, from whom he'd wanted yellow cake uranium.

* EnfantTerrible: The page image. In seasons 1-6 he was a sarcastic, ranting evil genius with a homicidal grudge against his mother.

** Subverted in the season 9 premiere. [[spoiler:He saves Lois from getting killed by Diane, only because [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou he wants to be the one to kill her]].]]

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