History Characters / AmericanDadRogerSmith

* PokeThePoodle: His actions range from genuinely awful things like pooping in the chest of someone undergoing open-heart surgery and [[DiedOnTheirBirthday killing Bullock's wife with a samurai sword on her birthday to minor, [[EvilIsPetty petty]] things like stealing candy from a little girl and refusing to hold the elevator for someone.

* PokeThePoodle: 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 ([[ABirthdayNotABreak on her birthday]]) to minor, [[EvilIsPetty petty]] things like stealing candy from a little girl and refusing to hold the elevator for someone.

* AsianAirhead: Implied.

* {{Jerkass}}: ''The king.'' Think Roger is bad? Just go see the things he has done.

* PokeThePoodle: 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 ([[ABirthdayNotABreak ''on her birthday'']]) to minor, [[EvilIsPetty petty]] things like stealing candy from a little girl and refusing to hold the elevator for someone.

* PokeThePoodle: 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 ([[ABirthdayNotABreak on her ''birthday'']]) to minor, [[EvilIsPetty petty]] things like stealing candy from a little girl and refusing to hold the elevator for someone.

* PokeThePoodle: His actions range from genuinely awful things like pooping in the chest of someone undergoing open-heart surgery and killing Bullock's wife to minor, petty things like stealing candy from a little girl and refusing to hold the elevator for someone.

* ChangingClothesIsAFreeAction: At times, he's capable of changing into a disguise just by walking into his closet and right out again.

* BareYourMidriff: His shirt doesn't cover his gut all the way.

* PromotionToParent: Becomems Stan new stepdad.

* DirtyOldWoman: Has a bottle of Mexican tar Viagra suppositories on her as mentioned below.

* CreateYourOwnVillain: This persona was made cause Roger couldn't take Stan various rules anymore, with the breaking point being Stan refusing to buy grenadine that Roger needed to make his drink, a [[{{Foreshadowing}} roy rogers]].

%%* HeroicSacrifice
%%* NiceGuy
%%* PromotionToParent

%%* DirtyOldWoman

* CorruptPolitician: Uses dirty politics to bribe the homeowner association, disbands the neighborhood watch and generally make new ordinances to make Stan live a living hell.

* CreateYourOwnVillain: This persona was made cause Roger couldn't take Stan various rules anymore, with the breaking point being Stan refusing to buy Grenadine that Roger needed to make his drink, a [[{{Foreshadowing}} Roy Rogers]].

* CreateYourOwnVillain: This persona was made cause Roger couldn't take Stan various rules anymore, with the breaking point on Stan refusing to buy Grenadine that Roger needed to make his drink, a [[{{Foreshadowing}} Roy Rogers]].

%%* CorruptPolitician

%%* SexEqualsDeath
%%* SmittenTeenageGirl

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Oh yes, he has suffered. 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).

* LackOfEmpathy: To the '''''absolute EXTREME'''''. 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 Scheme}}s was such a shock to him that [[SplitPersonality one of his personas went rogue]].

* TheAlcoholic: He's often seen drinking.

* EntitledBastard: He expects others to bend other 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.

* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: 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 [[TheSociopath 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 [[spoiler:killing Avery Bullock's wife]], all just ForTheEvulz. 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.

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"God! Who do you have to probe around here to get a Chardonnay?"'']]

* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: 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 [[TheSociopath 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 [[spoiler: killing Avery Bullock's wife]], all just ForTheEvulz. 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.
* FunctionalAddict: In addition to being TheAlcoholic, 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 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.

%%* BitchInSheepsClothing

%%* {{Jerkass}}

%%* ThirdPersonPerson

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[[caption-width-right:250:''"God! Who do you have to probe around here to get a Chardonnay?"'']]

* JerkassToOne: 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.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Frequently plays this trope to its most extreme. One notable example being when he conspires to make Steve's life a living hell after Steve ate his cookie and said: "You snooze, you lose."

** 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.

** 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.

* VocalEvolution: When the show started, Roger's voice was slightly more soft spoken and had a more prominent accent, making the Creator/PaulLynde basis more evident. In later seasons, his voice started sounding more hoarse, likely due to Seth [=MacFarlane=] aging.

* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: This is the possible reason why he has multiple personality disorder and frequently

* VocalEvolution: When the show started, Roger's voice was slightly more soft spoken and had a more prominent accent, making the Creator/PaulLynde basis more evident.