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* It's called "cool alien powers" if they are to his race only they count as a power. Breathing underwater is a cool fish power, that ComicBook/Aquaman has, and we call that a power.

[[WMG: Klaus is going through StockholmSyndrome]]

** The daughter is sexually desirable (despite cracks about her allegedly mannish looks from Roger and, in one episode, Karl Rove), sexually active (though most of the time, she sleeps with men to get weed or money -- In "Helping Handis," she's seen picking through a pile of stems and seeds, then grumbles, "Damn it, Eddie, I slept with you" and in "Failure Is Not a Factory-Installed Option," she slept with a group of sleazy men to pay the bills when Stan had abandoned his family), politically active, married, and is only treated like a ButtMonkey by Stan because of her political views, not because she's the least favorite family member.

* No, that just means he possesses resilience against something. We the viewers aren't one hundred percent sure that his crap has "hypnotising powers" that man could of just been real greedy, and there are also plenty of other organisms that can stand large amounts of pain and damage to the body so that's not a power either. Roger may have a real high mental capacity that enables him to so-called switch personas, just because someone's real smart doesn't mean they have powers, and besides Roger hasn't been shown to perform any supernatural feats so why would he have powers. He just has abilities exclusive to his race not powers. A fish can breath in water but that doesn't mean it has powers.

* She Didn’t seem phased by her kiss with Linda [[spoiler probably due to assuming it was to save her life but still she didn’t need a minute to process.]]
* from “my morning straitjacket” She seemed in no way reluctant to make out with a female security bouncer.[[spoiler as well as said bouncer getting a feel of Francine’s rump, and the implicit 3 way between her, Stan and the Bouncer.]]

Stan either voluntered for a virtual world experiment or was forced into it. In real life, Stan was a pathetic racist jignostic who would blindly let his prejudices get in the way of his life. In virtual world, his dreams could all come true of being a perfect human, in either case not knowing the circumstances of why.

Bullock could be the morally ambigious administraitor of this experiment and have full control over all that happens in it, right down to the non-canon episodes like "Raptures Delight" and every BigLippedAlligatorMoment. In the virtual world, Real!Stan's life is comprised of...

** Steve: Ideal son of him and the brunette woman who Fracine was based upon that real world!Stan loves or loved.

In addition to those, the virtual world adds things like Francine's occasional AxeCrazy moments, Steve's femininity and Haley being his daughter. And the kicker? Klaus is really real world!Stan. You see, as Klaus is the show's ButtMonkey, it acts as a reflection as what the program sees him as and given a german accent to offset his German prejudice. The main Stan is a representation of what real world!Stan wants to be in life. Roger might actually be a relative or friend of real world!Stan that acts as a SpannerInTheWorks to the series, thus being the EnsembleDarkHorse everyone loves since he writes his own material. The really off the rails gags like the Stan and Francine subplot in the Barmitzvah heist episode is Bullock, Roger or some other technician getting bored and doing some crazy crap.

[[WMG: Jack Smith isn't really Stan's father.]]

** Francine isn't a natural blond (in "Star Trek," she let her brownish-red roots grow back after her usual hair stylist quit his job when he discovered that being heterosexual is a choice).

Within two days of doing his first ritual, he has all of three peoples' memories floating around inside of him (including his own), and one or all of the duplicated sets of memories seem to have perfect recall. He starts disguising himself before this, but they only seem to take on lives of their own (and he only forgets which personalities are actually his alternates) after the events of this episode.

[[WMG: The Golden Turd literally affects peoples' minds.]]

* [[spoiler: In the latest episode "Blagsnarst, A Love Story", the woman tells her son she's sorry, and he eventually finds it and soon starts to make a deal with an evil man he didn't want to have any deals with. Plus, before he found it, he saw someone got hurt and a little girl was crying, and he was about to go out and help. But now he just ignored them.]]

** The father figure is a competent and reliable employee that is largely humorless, and, if anything, suffers from an extreme lack of imagination rather than ludicrous ADD.

** Peter works a desk job at a beer factory (though he started out as an assemblyman at a toy factory) while Stan is a field agent in the CIA, allowing for some interesting plots or plot devices.
** Unlike Chris in ''Family Guy'' who's basically an Expy of his dad, Stan & Steve are opposites (though Steve, like Jamie on ''WesternAnimation/WaitTillYourFatherGetsHome'', does look up to his dad and believes what he believes [until Stan gets outed as a hypocrite in some way], i.e., that homosexuals are insidious and planning to indoctrinate heterosexual men as seen in "Lincoln Lover" or that masturbation is a sin as seen in "A Smith in the Hand") which adds for some interesting dynamics in the episodes where they are paired up together.

The crash test dummy story was a ruse. Eventually it's just going to be him impersonating everyone and the Smiths.
** He may have help with that. [[spoiler:Fred Savage has been impersonating a good dozen of people including Rush Limbaugh and Michael Moore for years, who's to say he might not be from the same planet and such]]?

** Their abduction of [[spoiler:Jeff]] was a lucky break, as it allowed them a viable source on human biology. This will allow their next step-creating perfect human avatars which allows them to escape detection from expert alien hunters.

As many of us know, Barry takes "vitamins" to suppress what a [[AxCrazy psycho]] he is. However, it is revealed at many points in the show through his dialog and actions that sometimes these pills probably don't work as well as they should("I wanna kill her with a bottle!" "Let's kill his mom, next!") So what are his parents to do if they can't completely slow him down mentally? Slow him down physically, of course! They feed him an endless stream of junk food and discourage exercise, keeping him fat and complacent. After all, we've seen how dangerous he is off his meds, could you imagine how much that level of danger would be multiplied if he was physically fit?! Unfortunately for Barry, but possibly good for the people of Langley Falls, this horrid diet has caused a large host of health problems (such as type-2 diabetes and renal failure) [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome that are only now starting to get acknowledged by the cast.]] In the future, I can see an episode where Stan, disgusted by Barry's weight, puts him on a diet and exercise regimen to make him physically fit. Barry, during one of his psychotic moments of "clarity", realizes his chance and stops taking his pills or flushes them down the toilet, then starts to really fuck shit up.
* Or, alternatively, the pills have a side-effect of lethargy and a slowed-down metabolism. As someone who has gained a lot of weight from taking paxil as a child, I can tell you right now that such things are possible. If this is the case, rather than my above WMG, it would probably make better social commentary about the American pharmaceutical system. However, it would probably only be mentioned in passing, and would sadly sacrifice the opportunity for an excellent episode showing Barry returning to his true LargeHam ChessMaster self.

about Roger's world, a governement conspirancy, [[NoodleIncident the place were Klaus become king]] or a parody of a movie.

** And it will be in english, or just in japanese and people will think he's saying something heartwarming.

1. He craps hypnotizingly gold, jewel encrusted turds.\\

3. He can move at unreasonably fast speeds, as seen in "Jenny fromdablock" when he impersonated a cousin of Steve's to date Snot. Oh and the horse episode when he said I hope the horse whisperer isn't me this time. He got there and said "oh crap", as the camera moved to the seat we saw Roger all changed into his other costume and then as the camera moved back he was with Stan again and said, " thank goodness I'm just his secratary".\\
4. I would call this a power while most wouldn't, his ability to completly and mentally snap of a personality of his into it's own life, still within himself. As seen in the episode mentioned above with the horse, but more importantly as seen in the episode where he was missing a glove and it turned out to belong to another persnality that he lost when it got married.\\

* I don't think he can move super fast and that "Jenny Fromdabloc" episode could possibly be non-canon. If he could move at light speed wouldn't he be practically invincible? Think of all the times he nearly got caught by threatening pursuerers such as the C.I.A and wouldn't his supposed powers help Steve conduct his scheme to ruin that Jewish guy's barmitsfa easier. I believe that was to just help close the episode easier.

* No, that just means he possess a resillience against something. We the viewers aren't one hundred percent sure that his crap has "hypnotising powers" that man could of just been real greedy, and there are also plenty of other organisms that can stand large amounts of pain and damage to the body so that's not a power either. Roger may have a real high mental capacity that enables him to so called switch personas, just because someone's real smart doesn't mean they have powers, and besides Roger hasn't been shown to perform any supernatrual feats so why would he have powers. He just has abilities exclusive to his race not powers. A fish can breath in water but that doesn't mean it has powers.
* It's called "cool alien powers" if they are to his race only they count as a power. Breathing underwater is a cool fish power, that ComicBook/AquaMan has, and we call that a power.

Despite acting ditzy she has moments of brilliance such as in 'Stan Time'.

The god here and on WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy are different. Their Jesus are two completely separate characters. The crossover in the "Stewie Kills Lois" two parter [[spoiler: was just part of the ep's use of VR]]. There's been no gag of Cleveland taking a bath and being blown out of the house.

* Didn't Stewie mention in "Petergiest" that Jesus was Chinese? Yeah, I'm pretty sure that Quahog's NegativeContinuity means Jesus can be a completely seperate character. God is supposed to be an EldritchAbomination, so He can look different. Not to mention that God isn't even technically God because [[spoiler:Stewie accidentally created the universe via StableTimeLoop.

[[WMG:The characters in "WesternANimation/AmericanDad" are actors who live the same lifes as the characters they play]]
''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' is (in universe) made by the same network. The episodes where family guy is portrayed as a tv show are acted out

* Wow, someone actully sorted out what was going on with the time machine dates in Chap Stewie not matching up to the ones in Back to the Pilot

To add to that I think he had C.I.A. agents plant the shark specificaly for Halie to be taken by.\\

His life on his home planet was ''unspeakably awful''. It explains why it's almost never brought up.

** Or Toshi [[TomatoInTheMirror HIMSELF]] is the alien! When he landed on earth, he landed right smack dab in japan or where his fake parents lived. His ship, or the chance he's a robotic alien, his programming picked up his parent's language of birthplace which explains why he doesn't speak english when the rest of his family can.

[[WMG: Reginald, as a human in an animal body will eventually go insane like Klaus did.]]

** Or maybe he's ''already'' crazy, and is just doing [[StepfordSmiler a ''really'' good job hiding it]]. That puts his interatctions with Hayley in a disturbing new light.

** It's ''because'' Klaus couldn't move around that he became insane. (Think about it, wouldn't you go nuts if you had to spend the rest of your life trapped in a small bowl that you couldn't leave without dieing?)

[[WMG: As an alternate to the above, Reginald will always be happier as a koala.]]

Which is why all his disguises work so well. He's only mildly psychic and that's why people who get close to him (i.e. The Smiths) and see right through his disguises.

As we all know, Deputy Director Bullock is a pretty important guy in the CIA, and apparently knows all the ins and outs of the Government. There is no way he knows nothing about all the aliens they keep, which included Roger. He's also good at getting the truth out of people and sensing the truth from people (Because he's in the CIA, and in this universe, they openly talk about torturing people and using Illegal Surveillance). I believe Bullock knows Stan is keeping Roger hidden, and I believe Bullock can tell who Roger is when he's disguised, but he's testing Stan and Roger. Why? My guess is its to give Stan a promotion and to see if Roger is peaceful (Which Roger is failing at obviously).

* Well it's bound to happen after being "cockblocked" so many times. it's not only to rebel against Stan because he's one of the reasons why it keeps happening, he has no success with ladies, he can't even get a permanant girlfriend, and because he thinks he'd have better success with guys... unless he does have the same lack of success with guys eventually.

*** Hey pal! It also doesn't help that one time Steve planned to exact revenge on a bully by dressing up like a girl and seducing him and Roger replies, "Yeah, let's keep that plan between you, me, and the string of therapists who won't be able to help you."

As shown, Roger has to be a jerk to live. After trying to be a genuinely decent person, Roger almost died in [[BodyHorror in a rather]] [[NightmareFuel nasty way]], and afterwards Roger became terrified of being nice and going through that again, resulting in him developing a total LackOfEmpathy as a sort of defense mechanism. The very rare occasions of PetTheDog are a result of that yearning for people to like him by being a nice guy(Roger has basically abandoned compassion, but he's still theoretically capable of feeling it-he chooses not to). Sidney Huffman is an attempt to make a loophole out of this.

Stan was nerdy like him and he turned out successful. So Steve will be successful too. And he will finally be manly Republican just like he taught him and work in a government agency.

* Or maybe he's ashamed of his family's Americanized lifestyle and decides to full embrace his heritage.

[[WMG: Roger had his memory erased prior to the early episodes]]
In the early episodes Roger has to stay in the house but goes out into the real world after Steve shows him a Rastafarian outfit in "Francince's Flashback." It was retconned that he had multiple lives prior to living with the Smiths, so it's possible he had his mind erased or suffered amnesia for a short time.

Think about it: along with superpowers like crapping hypnotising gold and being really fast, Roger is capable of generating full-fledged alternate lives for himself(Sidney Huffman), and most importantly seems to be able to [[RealityWarper alter the laws of nature]] in order to fufill his disguises(his most recent gambit which involved poisoning himself for his younger persona's benefit being a prime example). This goes beyond the RuleOfFunny into having the ability to ''will the universe to fit his story.'' Roger is an unknowing super-soldier that his race engineered with this power to conquer the universe, but eventually realised one of their own having this power [[EvenEvilHasStandards is something even they don't want to release on the universe]] and cancelled the project, killing him(or so they think). Roger is gradually getting more and more aware of his reality bending powers, and becoming more sociopathic because, quite frankly, it's really hard to resist abusing that kind of power, especially if you were already a dick. The interest in personas was designed as a way of ensuring that, if Roger survived the crash, he'd focus his powers on just playing pretend.

** The creators of the show have sometimes expressed fears that the show would suddenly get cancelled. The season 7 premiere (the one where Stan buys an evil hot tub and it [[spoiler: kills him and Francine in the end]]) was written at a time when the people working on the show feared it would get cancelled, so they wrote it in case they would need it as a series finale. Even if there's no concrete word yet on if the series will end soon, the creators of the show might still be fearing it. After all, ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' usually gets fewer advertisements and is more likely to get shoved around on the time slots, like FOX is still trying to screw it over.

Roger was sent to earth believing he was the decider, when in actuality he was a crash test dummy. This is all fine, until in the most recent episode, Lost in Space, we see that he was the king's lover, and was caught having sex with a human. The king, heartbroken and upset, the king sent Roger out to earth under the pretense of being the decider, but in reality he sent him to earth out of spite, in hopes he would either die on impact or be killed by the inhabitants.

* Perhaps in Francine's body. He might even have sex with Linda Memari. After getting her body back, Francine will be confused when Linda says "you were really great, baby". Francine says to herself, "She really is a weird chick."

Decade created the hurricane, probably with the power of [[Series/KamenRiderWizard Wizard Hurricane Style]] and sent it through the A.R. Worlds where it would end up going through [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Quahog]], [[WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow Stoolbend]] and Langley Falls, to bring the three Creator/SethMacFarlane shows together.

Recent evidence has shown that Roger [[spoiler:royally screwed up his people]], and that his excuse of [[AlwaysChaoticEvil being a jerky race]] is in serious question. Add the fact that [[spoiler:Jeff]] knows that, and has a space-craft to go home to, it's quite possible that he's screwed. It would also fit into Seth [=McFarlane=] taking criticisms to heart: he knows how too much of an imbalance between [[LaughablyEvil the comedically dickish]] and [[KarmaHoudini getting away with massive amounts of said dickery]] can cause people [[TheScrappy to hate the character]]. That, and we all know [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech what happened]] to his last CreatorsPet. Also, [[spoiler:Jeff]] and/or Roger's people coming back would be fuel for an AlienInvasion storyline, and developing both Roger and his people's histories.

In one episode, we find out that Stan was in the airport about to board one of the planes and had an opportunity to stop it from happening. However, being Stan, he not only missed his flight but had no idea anything bad was going on. And so his family will have to help him with yet another of his personal demons.

You've probably heard about what Seth [=MacFarlane=] has done with Brian on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''. It is possible he will do the exact same thing to one of American Dad's main characters to test the audience. Will they know that the character will be revived, or will someone make a petition towards the show like last time?

** As for how or if they bring him back, Klaus will "die" in a freak accident to try and get a better body, with it seeming as if his mind has been wiped. In reality the freak accident jettisoned Klaus out of his bodies, turning him into a disembodied consciousness.

In several episodes, she's seen to have a pretty messed-up dark side and some criminal tendencies. Marrying a CIA agent would be both the perfect way to get information and the perfect cover. Maybe her adoptive parents actually trained her to spy for China or something. Over time, she may have still come to actually care for Stan (and she seems to legitimately care for her kids), but this could just be an extremely elaborate act. Eventually, this might be revealed - after all, when cyborg Stan comes back in time, he says that the last time he saw her, she was in the electric chair.
* This would make a good episode or a fanfic.

In the vacation goo episode, the final holiday the family goes on is meant to be ''outside'' of the simulation Stan used previously. When Francine jumps overboard to prove she won't die (as they can't in the goo), the family then finds her clinging ''to a floating, loose tree branch. '''In the sea.''''' Throw in the inaccuracy of Steve having a girlfriend (as lampshaded by Francine), that the major fall doesn't actually kill Francine, and that the family agrees the goo is for the best -- ''what if it was all a KansasCityShuffle by Stan to get them to accept the goo?''

This is why he always wants to be part of the family, even if it's a small part and the family treats him like crap. This is also why he fell in love with Francine. He's unconsciously trying to normalize his situation of being stuck as a fish in a family that mistreats him.

They did,or at least her father did,in the episode "Family Plan". Her mother was revealed to have killed herself,and her father is a grade-A looney who arranged the death of his entire family in a Hunger Games style battle over excessive phone data usage.

It's presumed that Stan can't or won't learn from his mistakes or experiences. But maybe the issue is that he's not the same him every week. We've already established that the CIA can and does make clones. The first one, Bill, was a beta; he couldn't consistently hit Stan's voice enough to be used anywhere where people would know Prime Stan, but now there's better versions. A copy of Stan's consciousness is on the CIA hard drive, ready to be uploaded into a never-ending line of proto-Stans (Future Stan was a failed cyborg experiment that Bullock sent to convince whatever Stan clone had tagged in to not rip up his cyborg contract, since Bullock still has faith in the technology).

Prime Stan could be dead, embedded in deep cover or may have just wanted to leave his family while not making them go through the pain of a divorce.

For all we know what if his voice sounds like a woman, is incredibly high pitched like the time Stan got a rake to the groin, or he sounds like a child like the bad guy from "Suburban Commando". Then Stan should Lampshade why he never speaks in the event Stelio Kontos ever did speak.

Well that could possibly explain his InsaneTrollLogic, AesopAmnesia, TooDumbToLive moments, the implications he might subconsciously want to kill/hurt his family, and overall frightening behavior!

They have access to brain scrambling technology and are treated as unscrupulous. Originally Stan used to genuinely great at his job, but that only led him to realize how inept the rest of the CIA was. As a result they tinkered with his mind resulting in the above-mentioned InsaneTrollLogic, AesopAmnesia and TooDumbToLive moments. People would question why a CIA man just doing his job vanished or is obviously brainwashed, so they just made him stupid.

While his disguises have always been a thing, initially it was clear he knew he was acting and wasn't using them as often. He was also a lot nicer. Now he's more often a total jerk and uses personas so often that he forgets they're actually him. He has shown to suffer from MPD with Sidney Huffman, so it's possible. Due to having become so dedicated to his craft, [[BecomingTheMask he's lost himself in the act]] and his personas have either become split personalities he's only barely aware of, or are in the process of "splitting off".

Roger's character can flutter from a mere {{Jerkass}}, an AxCrazy HateSink or JerkWithAHeartOfGold on a dime, because the art is driving him insane. The personas/different personalities have begun to bleed into and alter his main personality, resulting in his erratic behavior and [[MoodSwinger mood swings]]. The inability to express his true alien self in public doesn't help, and neither are the Smith family because they don't recognize he's BecomingTheMask; they just think he loves playing dress-up. Some of his bitchiness may also be responsible for never being able to be himself since he first landed on Earth in 1947, and is taking it out on the world.

"The Dentist's Wife" was Roger beginning to become aware that personas have taken over his life, but unfortunately he doesn't realize he should try and stop and suffers AesopAmnesia because of this. Eventually there's going to be an episode where Roger will forget his identity and be lost in his personas, and it will be to the Smith family to snap him out of it. It's possible that if Roger keeps it up he'll completely lose his original personality.

- No matter if there is a "real" or a "punishment" family, Stan himself has a bunch of issues that have come from paternal abandonment and maternal over-reliance (and the fact that a tree was his role model). Stan had to use figures of authority (the government, religion) as a mental crutch in order to stay stable and maintain a sense of self-worth. However, deep down he actually yearns to separate from those values, but both doesn't know how and doesn't completely understand why. This is touched upon in The Missing Kink where Stan goes way over the top in every sexual act known to man and alien. For the most part, Stan's family is a representation of his repressed nature, leading to the love-hate relationship that drives the show. This is why he didn't appreciate his "real" family, if they do exist. He loves the quirks in his family, even if he can't express it.

Roger likes to experiment with different personas. So, when Stan freed him from his CIA containment cell, he decided to create a persona of an alien who couldn't get out of the house and became depressed. We all know Roger has some RealityWarper powers (as suggested in a previous WMG) so he made up the "alien"'s species and characteristics from wholecloth. In the first episode he wore a disguise, he wasn't so much HughMann as a poorly-disguised freak, because he was still "in" the persona - people commented he was deformed in one way or another, while nowadays he can pass as anything he wants, from attractive women to animals.

[[WMG:Everyone in Langley Falls,except for the Smith family,is one of Roger's personas]]

Because not one single person questions why a newborn baby is gray-skinned and weighs far more than it should ("Persona Assistant") or the fact that someone (Dr.Kalgary) can completely gloss over the bizarre anatomy,no matter how shady and questionable their practices are.
* Perhaps this could be used for a "non canon" episode and be played for creepiness and horror, and portray Roger as a sort of evil god playing with a crew of astronauts he found drifting through space to amuse himself.

Part of how he's able to fit so many personas isn't just his SuperSpeed and disguise mastery, but because he's asexually reproduced replicas of himself to fill that role. Rogu is just an immature Roger that'll one day be a full clone of him. We don't see Roger interact with any copy of his [[KillAndReplace because being Roger, they'd curb on his style]]. His {{Flanderization}} could be just a meaner Rogu growing up to the current Roger and icing the one from the early seasons.

The reason why nobody is weirded out by a four-foot man with a huge head, stubby legs and gray skin? Roger has ''so many'' personas around Langley Falls that people have gotten used to them and don't bat an eye at his unusual appearance. It's simply gotten to a point where everyone believes that a small amount of humans naturally look like Roger. The Smiths, of course, are the exception to this rule.

As many of us know, Barry takes "vitamins" to suppress what a [[AxCrazy psycho]] he is. However, it is revealed at many points in the show through his dialog and actions that sometimes these pills probably don't work as well as they should("I wanna kill her with a bottle!" "Let's kill his mom, next!") So what are his parents to do if they can't completely slow him down mentally? Slow him down physically, of course! They feed him an endless stream of junk food and discourage exercise, keeping him fat and complacent. After all, we've seen how dangerous he is off his meds, could you imagine how much that level of danger would be multiplied if he was physically fit?! Unfortunately for Barry, but possibly good for the people of Langley Falls, this horrid diet has caused a large host of health problems (such as type-2 diabetes and renal failure) [[RealityEnsues that are only now starting to get acknowledged by the cast.]] In the future, I can see an episode where Stan, disgusted by Barry's weight, puts him on a diet and exercise regimen to make him physically fit. Barry, during one of his psychotic moments of "clarity", realizes his chance and stops taking his pills or flushes them down the toilet, then starts to really fuck shit up.

* When Peter and Chris went to fat camp on Family Guy, one of the other fat campers was Barry from American Dad.]]

* Didn't Stewie mention in "Petergiest" that Jesus was Chinese? Yeah, I'm pretty sure that Quahog's NegativeContinuity means Jesus can be a completely seperate character. God is supposed to be an EldritchAbomination, so He can look different. Not to mention that God isn't even technically God because [[spoiler:Stewie accidentally created the universe via StableTimeLoop.]]

[[WMG: The series is a virtual world experiment by the CIA onto Stan ala ''Series/ThePrisoner'' [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] ''Film/TheTrumanShow'']]

[[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming And then they genuinely start falling in love]].

[[WMG: American Dad is set 24-25 years after ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland''.]]
* Stan Smith is [[MyFutureSelfAndMe the future version]] of [[WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland Trent]].

* [=LeShawna=] is Lorraine.

Roger's character can flutter from a mere {{Jerkass}}, an AxCrazy HateSink or JerkWithAHeartOfGold on a dime, because the art is driving him insane. The personas/different personalities have begun to bleed into and alter his main personality, resulting in his erratic behavior and [[MoodSwinger mood swings]]. The inability to express his true alien self in public doesn't help, and neither are the Smith family because they don't recognize he's BecomingTheMask. If it keeps up, Roger will likely have his original personality completely dissolved and all that will be left are the personas he created for himself. Or at the very least, there will probably be an episode where he's lost in a persona and the Smith family needs to return him to normal.