History Characters / FamilyGuyTheGriffinFamily

* DoesntKnowTheirOwnChild: On the child end of this trope. Meg Griffin is ignored by her family so often, that there are moments where they don't even understand her. Such as when footage gets out about her kissing somebody, she says shes going to go eat peanuts, which Peter and Lois stare at her in confusion over. She tells them she's allergic. When they don't react, she angrily shouts they don't know anything about her.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Best shown in "Peter's Sister." When Peter's [[BigBrotherBully bullying sister]] Karen comes to visit, Meg relishes the abuse Peter suffers at her hands and considers it LaserGuidedKarma for how he treated her... until Karen gleefully strangles him until he passes out, stutters, and wets himself, upon which she realizes that Peter bullied and abused her all these years because Karen treated him the exact same way and helps him fight back.

* SheCleansUpNicely: The episode "Don't Make Me Over" had her get a makeover that made her look pretty. She reverted to her normal self because it was too much work.

* StockingFiller: In "Halloween on Spooner Street", Meg goes to a costume party as a "slutty cat", wearing an outfit that consists solely of a cheap cat mask, a tube top, a short skirt and fishnets.

* TemporarilyAVillain: She went into this in "Dial Meg for Murder" after she spends time in jail. She even beats up Peter as if she's standing up to him for the abuse he put her through. When Brian encouraged Meg to turn back to normal, Meg felt bad for what she's done and she decided to put the gun down.

* TreatedWorseThanThePet: Poor Meg is one of the most infamous examples of this trope -- never mind that the Griffins' dog, Brian, can talk and is intelligent enough to be treated as human by the rest of the world. She is constantly the butt of the family's jokes, told to shut up, and farted on, on a GOOD day.

* TookALevelInBadass: She became a hardened thug after a bout in prison in "Dial Meg For Murder". While the incident was self contained and she reverted back by the end of the episode, Meg biting back at her abuse has become far more recurrent since then.

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* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Peter's Manly Man to Chris' Sensitive Guy. Both are the Sensitive Guys to Stewie's Manly Man. In the later seasons, Stewie is the Sensitive Guy to Brian's Manly Man. A rare example in where the Sensitive Guy is more capable than the Manly Man.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Lois' WomenAreWiser role in early seasons was completely genuine, to the point of nearing outright meekness, having only substantial moments of weakness or selfishness that she was almost always remorseful about afterwards.
** Originally a genuinely compassionate MamaBear whose occasional bouts of self righteousness and impulsiveness led to moments not unlike her husband's, in later seasons is an extreme BitchInSheepsClothing and is almost as [[{{Jerkass}} callous and self centered]] as Peter. Especially towards Meg, who she seems to outright hate, and sometimes towards Peter. For the most part her ''persona'' is based on RuleOfFunny or DependingOnTheWriter (even more so than the majority of the cast). Whether she is genuinely [[WomenAreWiser wiser]] or a [[{{Jerkass}} female version of Peter]] depends on where the gag takes her.

* OnlySaneByComparison: In later seasons, she is a obnoxiously shrewish and abusive nymphomaniac, though due to her family consisting of her PsychopathicManchild husband Peter, unhinged ButtMonkey Meg, neurotic KiddieKid Chris, precocious and incredibly sociopathic baby Stewie, and pretentious IntellectualAnimal Brian, she still tends to be designated to the WomenAreWiser role in many plots. Deconstructed in "The Most Interesting Man In The World", where Peter undergoes an intelligence boost, and Lois soon wants the old dysfunctionally stupid Peter back. Not because the new Peter is worse, but simply because Peter being well behaved and clever means she is no longer the smart adjusted one by relation.

* PetTheDog: Even after her {{Flanderization}}, she can be a compassionate WomenAreWiser wife, DependingOnTheWriter. She still seems to be established as the caring and intelligent housewife of the family, though depending on the gag, can switch between nurturing and loving her kids endlessly or being as abusive and neglectful to them as Peter. She's also lends a helping hand to Peter's friends when they need it or when a Peter starts treating them like shit.

* WomenAreWiser: Most of the time, anyway. It DEFINITELY applies with respect to intelligence... She is smarter than Peter by leaps and bounds. The moral component of that trope is where the grey area comes in, she's almost as bad as Peter in later seasons.

An average teenager with average teen problems. Probably the only normal one of the family. Although lately, she's so psychologically screwed up that she's basically Walking BlackComedy. Voiced by Creator/LaceyChabert in the first season (However, she was [[Main/UncreditedRole not credited]]), Creator/MilaKunis in the rest, and Creator/RachaelMacFarlane in the unaired pilot.

Chris Griffin is stout like his father, and also has a learning disability. However he is also much more introverted and honest than Peter, as well as having a better grasp on reality. While normally gentle and sensitive, he is prone to emotional outbursts and he tends to believe what he is told. Chris is pure Id, and when it comes to the crunch, there's not a bad bone in his body. Voiced by Creator/SethGreen, and Creator/SethMacFarlane in Unaired pilot.

* DeadpanSnarker: Occasionally and surprisingly in the later episodes, he's prone to snarking at his family, sometimes even when he isn't in the right to do so.

--->'''Quagmire''': Hey, good-looking. How old are you?\\
'''Connie''': Sixteen.\\
'''Quagmire''': Eighteen? [...] I like where this is going!

-->'''Lois''': You bitch! ''(delivers a straight punch at Gloria's face)''

--->'''Joe:''' Pretend I'm your child, Lois!
--->''(Lois starts losing her grip.)''
--->'''Joe:''' NOT MEG! NOT MEG!
--->''(Lois slowly pulls him up to safety.)''

* WackyParentSeriousChild: Downplayed but Yandere tendencies aside, Meg is shown to be much more mature than her father, [[Manchild Peter]].

-->'''Chris:''' You remember that time you called me "Chris Gristle"?
-->'''Hector:''' I think so.
-->'''Chris:''' Well burn for it!

--> I'm not the one who just had to post a video to Instagram that very second. You couldn't even enjoy the moment for one damn minute before desperately groveling for online approval from Aunts you never talk to and past coworkers you don't even like!

* UglyGuyHotWife: Hot Wife to Peter's Ugly Guy with a little LampshadeHanging, as the couple was once described in an in-universe news report as "a fat man inexplicably [[HeroesWantRedheads married to an attractive redhead]]", along with an artist's impression of what they might look like - [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Fred and Wilma Flintstone]]. Lois came from a ridiculously wealthy family and could have hired a different gigolo every night, if she were looking for a hunk. That said, Lois has lost some of her lustre with age. When Peter becomes blind, she stops applying makeup, which makes her noticeably pale and wrinkled.

* EntitledBitch: In "Customer of the Week", she is convinced the titular award should go to her, and goes to absurd lengths to get it.

* MoralMyopia: In "Customer of the Week". She keeps insisting that she's a "good person", despite the literally criminal lengths she's willing to go to in order to win a meaningless award, from poisoning a barista she knows has a peanut allergy (in an attempt to "rescue" her), to kidnapping people to avoid punishment.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: One could argue this is the reason she remains with Peter even after the latter has devolved into a PsychopathicManchild. Which is ironic, since Lois is arguably worse than Peter in a sense that she's more intelligent and aware than Peter yet she does things that are as bad, if not worse, as he has.

* EvilRedhead: Maybe not evil, but definitely a {{Jerkass}}, especially in later seasons. The most notable being "The Peanut Butter Kid".

* FieryRedhead: Downplayed and justified. She has shades of this when her patience with Peter is at her limit, especially in the first Christmas special when she completely loses it and goes on a destructive mini-rampage. Basically, any woman married to Peter would develop a bit of a temper, considering how much of a {{Jerkass}} he is.

* {{Jerkass}}: In later seasons. By the end of season 8, her Jerkassness is comparably worse than Peter's, because although Peter dwells on the edge of ComedicSociopathy, he is obviously too stupid to know any better and can never really grasp any Aesops that are thrown his way for long (although he does have his PetTheDog moments), but Lois obviously knows better and yet acts meanly in more insidious ways.

* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: In later seasons, where she's often as bad as her husband.

* {{Womanchild}}: Not to Peter's extent, but Lois' behavior in later episodes resemble that of a spoiled teenage girl who thinks she can do whatever she wants just because.

* FieryRedhead: Downplayed and justified. She has shades of this when her patience with Peter is at her limit, especially in the first Christmas special when she completely loses it and goes on a destructive mini-rampage. Basically, any woman married to Peter would develop a bit of a temper, considering {{Jerkass the type of person he is}}.

* ButtMonkey: Not as much as her daughter, but she's been: shoved down the stairs by her husband Peter, fallen off the roof of the Griffin house when Peter's rickety balcony breaks, drenched in scalding cooking oil by Peter, etc.

* FieryRedhead: She has shades of this when her patience with Peter is at her limit, especially in the first Christmas special when she completely loses it and goes on a destructive mini-rampage.

* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: Perhaps. Her eyes are usually black pupils but in the Disney universe she has green irises. Noteworthy, since Disney Chris and Stewie are given blue irises.

%% SmallNameBigEgo: Can give Peter a run for the money thanks to her arrogance being amped up over time.

* TeensAreShort: Chris and Meg, whose parents visibly tower over them. While Chris' case can perhaps be justified in that he hasn't left puberty yet, Meg is at an age where she should have realistically stopped growing.

* BornUnlucky: It's uncommon courtesy that the writers would make something go right for Meg just once.
* BorrowedCatchphrase: "Shut up, dad!"
* BrainyBrunette: Apparently, she's very good at anatomy. She even got an internship and saved Peter's life with her skills. It was also mentioned that she gets good grades in school.
* BreakTheCutie: The writers' main goal seems to be to rile her up and destroy every opportunity she has.

* SimplemindedWisdom: It's been shown in a few episodes that he can be rather smart such as when he explains to Peter and Lois the effects of marijuana and when he starts to question that Herbert is a paedophile when he starts babysitting him along with Meg and Stewie.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Tomboy to Meg's Girly Girl. Lois is a temperamental and [[AbusiveParents abusive]] FieryRedhead who wears a green shirt and brown pants while Meg is a teenage girl who wears [[PinkMeansFeminine pink]] and has a girly room.

* HollywoodDateless: Although her supposed ugliness drives most guys away, she is seen having many attractive boyfriends depending on the episode. She manages to hook up with/date at least: Doug (Prick Up Your Ears), the nudist neighbor she liked, Mayor Adam West, Quagmire, Kevin Swanson, Michael, a medical student, Anthony (Go, Stewie, Go) as well as being pursued by Neil Goldman and losing her virginity on live national television to Jimmy Fallon during the opening of Saturday Night Live.

*** Nice: Chris. He has his questionable moments too, but not as much as the rest of his family and is a relatively good person compared to them.
*** Mean: Stewie. In early seasons he was the Token Evil Teammate who wanted to kill his mother. He got nicer in later seasons, especially compared to Peter, Lois, and Brian, but he's still more devious and prone to Comedic Sociopathy than his siblings (and a bit of a jerk to Brian).
*** In-between: Meg. She's usually friendly, but she can bite back very hard when pushed too far due to her Butt-Monkey status.

*** Nice: Meg and Chris. They are easily the most harmless, mainly because they are more Out of Focus than the others.
*** Mean: Peter and Brian. They suffered the worst Flanderization. Also, the former is an extreme example of an Abusive Parent, while the latter is an egotistical, hypocritical Insufferable Genius.
*** In-between: Lois and Stewie. The former is a responsible wife, while the latter became a better person over time, but can still be Ambiguously Evil.

%%* {{Jerkass}}: In later seasons.

* {{Nice Mean And InBetween}}: For the Griffin kids, she is the in-between to Chris' nice and Stewie's mean. As noted above, Despite her Yandere tendencies, she is usually friendly and kind.

* NiceGuy: JerkassBall moments aside, he is the nicest and least corrupt in his family.
* {{Nice Mean And InBetween}}: For the Griffin kids, he is the nice to Stewie's mean and Meg's in-between.

* {{Jerkass}}: In later seasons.

* EvilRedhead: Maybe not evil, but definitely a {{Jerkass}}, especially in later seasons. The most notable being "The Peanut Butter Kid".

* {{Jerkass}}: In later seasons. By the end of season 8, her {{Jerkass}}ness is comparably worse than Peter's, because although Peter dwells on the edge of ComedicSociopathy, he is obviously too stupid to know any better and can never really grasp any Aesops that are thrown his way for long (although he does have his PetTheDog moments), but Lois obviously knows better and yet acts meanly in more insidious ways.

* {{Womanchild}}: Not to Peter's extent, but Lois' behavior in later episodes resemble that of a spoiled teenage girl who thinks she can do whatever she wants just because.

* {{Nice Mean And InBetween}}: For the Griffin kids, she is the nice to Stewie's mean and Chris' in-between. As noted above, Yandere tendencies aside, she is the only Griffin other than Stewie who hasn't been {{flanderiz|ation}}ed into a jerk.

* {{Nice Mean And InBetween}}: For the Griffin kids, he is the in-between to Meg's nice and Stewie's mean.

*** Nice: Meg. She has her questionable moments too, but she's a relatively good person compared to the rest of the family, and the others are jerks to her more often than the other way around.
*** Mean: Stewie. In early seasons he was the TokenEvilTeammate who wanted to kill his mother. He got nicer in later seasons, especially compared to Peter, Lois, and Brian, but he's still more devious and prone to ComedicSociopathy than his siblings ([[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and a bit of a jerk to Brian]]).
*** In-between: Chris. A harmless ditz who is mostly OutOfFocus, but he also can be a jerk, especially to Meg.

*** Nice: Meg and Chris. They are easily the most harmless, mainly because they are more OutOfFocus than the others.
*** Mean: Peter and Lois. They suffer the worst {{Flanderization}} and are AbusiveParents.
*** In-between: Stewie and Brian. The former TookALevelInKindness but is still AmbiguouslyEvil, while the latter can be an egotistical, hypocritical InsufferableGenius but has more moments of clarity than most of the other Griffins.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: His original design has him be barefoot.

* {{Expy}}: Of Marge Simpson from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. Like her, she had a serious and friendly attitude in the early seasons. Interestingly, Lois dressed up as Marge in a [[Recap/FamilyGuyS20E3MustLoveDogs Halloween episode]] ([[RecursiveCanon and this was some time after the]] [[Recap/FamilyGuyS13E1TheSimpsonsGuy crossover episode]]).

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In earlier episodes, while still somewhat luckless, Meg was a far less exaggerated punching bag. She was actually a primary target of concern and affection from her parents, most of her abuse stemming from [[InnocentlyInsensitive their inadvertent and nondiscriminate bumbling]]. This was actually taken to the point of [[SpoiledBrat affecting her demeanor]], often acting like a somewhat self-absorbed and manipulative DaddysGirl.
** In addition to this, she also had a crush on the Swanson's son, Kevin. Though the crush went away after the first two seasons.