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17	->'''Voiced by''': Creator/SethMacFarlane
18	->'''Debut:''' "Pilot"
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20	A very zany space alien who self-describes as effeminate and alcoholic who was taken in by the Smiths after he saved Stan from death by grenade during a lockdown at Area 51. Also a master of disguise out of necessity, to avoid suspicion from the rest of the planet.
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23	!!Roger
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25	[[folder:Tropes A to H]]
26	* AesopAmnesia: He's just as bad about this as Stan, if not worse. It's even lampshaded in the episode "Great Space Roaster," where he reveals that he didn't really feel like a part of the Smith family, which is why he got insulted when they threw a comedy roast for his birthday (at his request). The others actually get indignant because not ''only'' has this issue been dealt with before, but in that episode and others they had repeatedly gone out of their way to please his ever-insane needs and desires. As Hayley pointed out, if he didn't think they cared about him by that point, it was ''his'' problem, not theirs.
27	* TheAlcoholic: He's often seen drinking.
28	* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: He's extremely prone to it. This is actually one of his more positive personality traits.
29	* AlienAmongUs: Has been living on Earth since the mid-20th century, after being abandoned on Earth by his people as a disposable crash test dummy (they told him he was The Decider who would determine if humanity should be destroyed or not).
30	* AlienBlood: ZigZagged. If he's out in public, his blood is red, but whenever he's by himself or with the other Smiths, his blood is instead shown to be an exotic color like yellow, purple, blue, or green.
31	* AliensAreBastards: His race ''needs'' to act like jerks, though it does depend on what person he is portraying with his costumes.
32	* AllTakeAndNoGive: He expects others to bend over 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.
33	* AnAlienNamedBob: An alien named Roger.
34	* AlwaysCamp: Creator/{{LOGO}} declared him the "Gayest Cartoon of All Time."
35	* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: Roger identifies as a man by default, though he is incredibly gender fluid, acting as masculine or as feminine as whatever disguise he's wearing calls for, and he's also able to grow breasts. He also has the ability to impregnate others (both male and female humans) as seen in 'Deacon Stan, Jesus Man' and be impregnated himself as seen in 'Roger's Baby'. It's possible that Roger's species is hermaphroditic and capable of producing both male and female gametes. A season 20 episode has Stan refer to him as non-gendered.
36	* AntiHero: A NominalHero ''at best'' in his better moments.
37	* AnalProbing: Roger can learn all the knowledge and memories of a person by putting a finger up their bum.
38	* AttentionWhore: He's this almost all the time as part of being a PsychopathicManchild.
39	* AxCrazy: At his absolute worst moments, he frequently shows traits of this. Even Stan and Francine at their worst are nothing compared to Roger.
40	* BadActorGoodLiar: Roger is a ManipulativeBastard who can easily deceive others with long-winded scams. Yet whenever he auditions for a professional acting role, he is absolutely terrible at it.
41	* BaldOfEvil: Roger is completely bald and a complete sociopath, although his personas do have wigs for hair.
42	* BarrierMaiden: Roger's personas are more often than not more than just a disguise he decided to wear that day. Most of them have lives that potentially stretch back decades. He has so many of these serious personas running around at once that Roger actually makes up a fair percentage of Langley Falls population by himself. Many of whom are important figures in the city. When Roger is laid up sick and Stan refuses to keep subbing for him, the town literally falls to ruin overnight.
43	* BecomingTheMask: He creates a new identity to seduce a shop-girl and allow him to steal a pair of gloves he likes. Then the stress of actually caring about someone causes Roger's mind to split into two - the persona he created, and himself. Apparently his persona carries on for quite a while before Roger notices extra bills on his credit card, at which point Roger tries to destroy this man's life.
44	* BeenThereShapedHistory: In his lifetime he's responsible for creating disco in the 1970s (through a time paradox, admittedly), instigating the death of Biggie Smalls, creating [[Franchise/StarWars Jar Jar Binks]], inventing ecstasy in the 1990s, and turning Raven-Symone into an actress (after he kidnapped her from a park when she was a child).
45	* BigBad: At times, he's the main villain of a plot.
46	* BigNo: Has had a few of his own, though not as many as Steve.
47	* BizarreAlienBiology: Used to excellent effect. Aside from having a seemingly normal (though very large and shaped like his head) brain, his organs are unrecognizable and some have minds of their own; his pancreas has teeth and once bit Hayley. He occasionally shoots green slime from his armpits. He can pull any of his organs out through his skin without any ill effect to himself. Most impressively though, he can be completely dismembered, disemboweled, skinned, and have his face torn off yet be put back together by simply slapping everything back on (though he does say himself that he will die if he stays in that condition too long).
48	* BigEater: According to Stan he eats all the family's food.
49	* BizarreAlienBiology: It would kill Roger to be nice. His species have to let their 'bitchiness' out frequently otherwise it vents out in bile and vomit.
50	* BlackComedyRape: One of the reasons he doesn't want to return to his own planet is because the sex over there is so boring; it's all consensual.
51	* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Comes with his species, apparently. Fitting his love of acting and disguises, the few morals Roger has seem to be entirely dictated by his emotions; meaning he essentially decides what's right and wrong on a whim. For that matter, his sense of right and wrong is also extremely self-serving/self-excluding, even when he means well. For example, from the episode "You Debt Your Life"; looking for a reason to get Stan to trust him again, he sees nothing wrong with causing Stan to lose both of his legs (via pushing him into a polar bear exhibit) and then refusing to take him to a hospital in order to save him himself.
52	* BreakTheHaughty: In "Wiener of Our Discontent", he claims to be the "decider" of humanity's fate, but then discovers that he was actually sent to Earth as a crash test dummy, much to Stan's amusement.
53	* BreakoutCharacter: Roger originally started out as an alien who lives with the Smith family as well as being forced to stay within the house and didn't have much major importance to the plot. Later in the series, he was more outgoing through the use of disguises and is one of the more prominent characters. He became the second most prominent character after Stan, and is one of the most popular characters on the show.
54	* BrilliantButLazy: Roger is shown to be quite talented with the use of his personas, but he'll usually only show it when he actually feels like it.
55	* BrooklynRage: High pitched nasal [[Creator/PaulLynde Paul Lynde]]-esque New York accent? Check. A [[HeroicComedicSociopath highly sadistic hero]]? Check.
56	* BunnyEarsLawyer: Any of Roger's previously established personas are extremely competent at what they do, the most blatant example being Jeannie Gold, wedding planner (and prostitute).
57	* CannotTellFictionFromReality: His tenuous sanity has shown him taking television and other media as fact, being surprised when it doesn't. Other times he's not sure if something actually happened or was just one of his delusions. In the B-plot of ''May the Best Stan Win'', when he forces himself into Steve's reenactment of ''The Goonies'' as the director, he keeps ruining takes stealing the prop map to One-eyed Willy's treasure, believing it to be real.
58	* CantTakeCriticism: In one episode, he tries to outright ''murder'' the Smiths after they roasted him at his birthday party, something he ''wanted'' them to do.
59	* CardCarryingJerkass: Roger openly takes great delight in messing with others for his own enjoyment, although his antics often go well beyond "Jerkass" and well into some pretty extreme ComedicSociopathy.
60	* CentipedesDilemma: An unusual case; when operating as himself (or as one of his personas), Roger is quite capable of putting on convincing acts to manipulate others. But when it comes to acting in front of a camera, a casting crew, or a studio audience, those skills tend to evaporate, preventing Roger from becoming a professional actor.
61	* ChangingClothesIsAFreeAction: At times, he's capable of changing into a disguise just by walking into his closet and right out again. [[ExaggeratedTrope In some episodes, this is taken to extremes,]] changing disguises in the fraction of a second while a character blinks or while they're maintaining eye contact with him just off-camera.
62	* CharacterizationMarchesOn:
63	** While still having obnoxious moments, Roger was much more of a neurotic pushover in early episodes, usually more on the receiving end of the other Smiths than dishing it out. His swift talent with costumes and personas was also undeveloped, constantly having to hide himself from public or requiring the rest of the family to create forms of disguise for him.
64	** Similarly, in early episodes he was mostly house-bound and unable to go anywhere without the family, for fear that people would discover he was an alien, with the implication he'd been kept by the government since Roswell. This was later dropped with Roger able to come and go as he pleases and having lived on Earth for over 60 years with no-one the wiser.
65	* ClarkKenting: While his disguises are elaborate, they don't actually hide the fact that Roger looks nothing close to human, but no one ever notices this.
66	* ComedicSociopath: By far the most sociopathic and depraved individual in the entire series. Despite this, he is also the most consistently humorous character in the series as well.
67	* ComplexityAddiction:
68	** In season 7's "Toy Whorey," Roger goes through a bunch of elaborate schemes to try to get a bottle of Rain Duck wine from Greg and Terry, including setting up an elaborate RubeGoldbergDevice to cause a blackout in the Smiths' house just to get them to notice and check on the Smiths. Eventually, Francine gets sick of waiting and presents a very simple solution to the problem: she goes straight to Greg and Terry's house, hits them across the faces with a spatula, and just takes the wine and leaves while the two are crying in pain. Of course, it's shown that he planned for this to happen all along, followed by Francine triggering a trap set for her as well, solely so Roger could also have both of the steaks that Francine prepared for them to go with the wine.
69	** In an earlier episode, "Old Stan on the Mountain," he lies to Francine about a dance contest and trains with her for six months, when in reality he merely wanted her to come with her to an ex-wife's funeral; he states that the dance contest story seemed easier than simply asking her to do so. And it only gets crazier from there...
70	** In "The One That Got Away", he created a new persona, Sidney Huffman, to romance a department store worker so he could steal her key to a box containing a pair of gloves he wanted. During the course of the false romance, Roger spent $700 dollars on a necklace for the girl. Sidney points out to Roger that the gloves only cost $10 (which of course meant that Roger could have just ''bought'' them). Roger responds with a BigShutUp.
71	* TheCorrupter: Whenever someone in the Smith Family is about to do something immoral, you can count on Roger to egg them on to behave at their absolute worst. He was even referred to by Klaus as "the little devil on people's shoulders".
72	** This is made a plot point in "300" by proxy of the [[ArtifactOfAttraction Golden Turd]]. When it's destroyed by [[AssShove shoving it back where it came from]], it renders the world a utopia while Roger himself [[LiterallyShatteredLives crumbles to pieces]]. Unfortunately, Roger's still-functional mouth manages to find its way back to the Smiths, and they're all so sick of utopia that they agree to put things back to normal.
73	* DarkAndTroubledPast: For the large part, the more we learn about Roger's background, the more depraved an individual he seems.
74	* DependingOnTheWriter: How people perceive Roger when he's disguised changes each episode sometimes people see him as a completely normal human other times people can tell that he's a weirdly shaped person with gray skin and no nose.
75	* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: This is the possible reason why he has multiple personality disorder and frequently changes professions.
76	* {{Determinator}}: If his motives are selfish enough, he can achieve ANYTHING. He pursues [[spoiler: Hayley and Jeff with the money they cheated Stan out of]] across the entire planet. When he's convinced to kill the Smith family because they roasted him at his birthday party, he's able to escape from Bang Kwang Central Prison. Not even leaving the planet is enough to escape his wrath.
77	** In the episode "Old Stan in the Mountain", Roger tries to explain to Francine about how important it is to stick with something. He says this before a long series of events that reveals [[ComedicSociopath he married a woman just so when she died, he could take her hair for a wig and dump her corpse in a lake]].
78	* DisappearedDad: He ate him when he was 15. Apparently this is another of his species' sociopathic tendencies.
79	* DisproportionateRetribution: Frequently plays this trope to its most extreme.
80	** He once conspired to make Steve's life a living hell and tricked him into thinking he was adopted by the Smiths after Steve ate his cookie and said: "You snooze, you lose." For whatever reason, when Roger reveals what he did, Steve thinks it was an awesome trick rather than cruel.
81	** One episode has Stan calling Roger a selfish fat failure. Roger responds by planning on destroying the planet.
82	** In the episode "Virtual In-Stanity". After starting a chauffeur service and trying to be as polite and respectful as possible, he gets stiffed for twenty dollars by five frat boys. Roger proceeds to hunt each one of them and run them down, in the limo, even when the last one managed to get on a plane. Roger somehow managed to get on the plane's wing, run the guy down by driving through the plane, and kills everyone on board. As he and Klaus are parachuting down, he sees a stewardess parachuting next to them, and unbuckles her for no good reason other than he's "got the blood lust".
83	--->'''Klaus:''' You're really going to kill five people over $20?!\
84	'''Roger:''' You're asking this of the man who just last week killed six people over $19?
85	** 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 and care about each other as family.
86	** In "Roy Rogers [=McFreely=]" Roger conspires to become president of the Homeowners Association and enact all kinds of ridiculous bylaws because Stan refused to buy him grenadine.
87	** 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. Luckily, the plane was getting ready to land anyways, resulting in Roger getting run over by the plane whilst everyone else is okay.
88	** In "The Unincludeds", after Roger and Hayley get food at a restaurant, he goes on to hatch a plan that culminates in him scalping the waitress all because she complimented Hayley's order and not his.
89	* TheDogBitesBack: Many of Roger's [[LaserGuidedKarma comeuppances]] are usually a result of the Smiths getting tired of being victim to his antics and striking back. Whether it be throwing him down a ravine, locking him in a dog crate, conning him out of his goals, or most oftenly [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beating the crap out of him]].
90	* DitzyGenius: He is one of the smartest characters on the show, being a good planner in his schemes and having multiple professions with the help of his personas. He is also incredibly airheaded, gullible, lacking in common sense, and even TooDumbToLive on occasion. He CannotTellFictionFromReality, either.
91	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: He was originally supposed to go back to his home planet eventually in the Pilot, because Stan asked him if he contacted his home planet and he said he was going to.
92	* EntitledBastard: No matter what he does to them, he always expects the Smiths to have his back. Whenever they push him aside for his deeds, he treats it like a great betrayal.
93	* {{Ephebophile}}: He has no qualms about being openly attracted to teenage boys/girls, once having sex with Steve's 14 year old best friend Snot.
94	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
95	** Though it's subject to DependingOnTheWriter, several episodes show that Roger genuinely loves the Smiths despite his [[{{Jerkass}} horrible nature]] and has done unselfish things for each of them. Steve (who's been Roger's closest friend since the start of the series) and Francine (who's one of the few individuals who can curb Roger's selfishness) are the main examples.
96	** Roger sincerely loves his little tumor-spawn Rogu and treats him like a son.
97	* EvenEvilHasStandards:
98	** He cuts all ties with an old woman he bonds with after she outs herself as a terrible racist, raving at the Lincoln monument for his role in abolishing slavery.
99	** Roger is a self-centered, amoral {{Jerkass}} with a serious LackOfEmpathy, but even he thinks his Ricky Spanish persona is simply an awful person, to the point where he actually buried the costume in his closet so he would never assume it again. Unfortunately, he forgot about it and ended up donning the costume without knowing who it was.
100	** He's also incredibly disturbed by Stan giving his mother baths while he himself is in the tub.
101	** When he and Klaus visit the D-Day site and discuss the tragedies of WWII, he mentions how brave the soldiers were, which Klaus agrees with... [[FreudianSlip except Klaus lets it slip he was talking about the Nazis.]] Roger is legitimately disturbed and gives Klaus a ''very'' unsettled look. [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth That's right, even a sociopathic and egotistical bastard like Roger thought the Nazis were awful.]]
102	** He finds Francine breastfeeding Steve (who is at least ''fourteen years old'') highly disturbing, especially when they become creepily co-dependent upon their exile to the basement.
103	* EverythingsBetterWithRainbows: He is capable of creating rainbows with his finger when he's happy... though the rainbows are made of urine...
104	* EvilCannotComprehendGood: As his species is practically MadeOfEvil, Roger is completely unfamiliar with the idea of feeling for anyone other than himself. In fact, in "The One That Got Away," actually feeling guilty for one of his atrocities was such a shock to his mindset that he developed a SplitPersonality just to cope.
105	* EvilIsPetty: He's a self-proclaimed sociopath and as such takes this trope to its most extreme, victimizing or destroying others either for some [[DisproportionateRetribution minor slight]] or [[ItAmusedMe sheer curiosity or boredom]]. He once convinced Steve he was adopted for stealing his cookie for example, going so far as to burn all of Steve's baby pictures, and another point tried to ''blow up the Earth'' because Stan insulted him (which itself was provoked by Roger being his usual apathetic self). There is some slight justification as his species are in fact MadeOfEvil, and if they don't let out their "bitchiness" on a frequent basis it takes the form of a poisonous bile that kills them. Since he has [[LackOfEmpathy little to no problem]] with this behavior however, it still counts.
106	* ExpansionPackPast: His life since his arrival on Earth during the Roswell incident.
107	* ExposedExtraterrestrials: While he obviously needs disguises to go out and about, he's generally naked within the Smith house.
108	* ExtremeOmnisexual: To the extreme. Self-identifying as a "fey, pansexual, alcoholic nonhuman," Roger will perform filthy sex acts with just about any sexually mature ([[{{Ephebophile}} or maturing]]) human on the planet. He's also been shown to have had sex with animals, other aliens, and objects like checkbooks.
109	* FatBastard: Stan constantly reminds him he is out-of-shape, which is mostly attributed to eating all the family's food. Some of his personas are even depicted as obese.
110	* FatSlob: He constantly lays around in the house, eats junk food, drinks alcohol, and takes all sorts of drugs. Stan even refers to him as a "gross bowling pin".
111	* FauxAffablyEvil: Roger when he's in a [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative mood.]] He can act nice if he wants to be at times, before stabbing them in the back and/or abandoning them.
112	* {{Flanderization}}: His affinity for costumes and dress up acts, to the point some [[BecomingTheMask take over]] [[FunnySchizophrenia his personality]]. His JerkAss traits also initially just came with [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} the quirkiness]] of his personality and were much more toned down. As time progressed, his callousness is canonically accepted as his defining trait (to the point [[BizarreAlienBiology he'll actually die]] [[ThePowerOfHate without acting consistently cruel]]).
113	* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: Went to a sci-fi convention without a disguise. Oddly enough, this was the one time he avoided interaction with people.
114	* 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 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 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.
115	* 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 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.
116	* GoodHurtsEvil: The episode "Frannie 911" reveals this to be the reason why Roger is such a {{Jerkass}}: his species has to let their "bitchiness" out regularly, or else it will turn to bile and poison them. In other words, if Roger acts too nice for too long, it will literally kill him.
117	* TheGreys: His appearance heavily invokes them.
118	* HappilyMarried: Supposedly for 35 years.
119	* HartmanHips: RareMaleExample. Roger has very wide hips and huge buttocks, which is even more noticeable when he's not wearing anything or cross-dressing as a "attractive" woman.
120	* HealingFactor: Roger can grow back huge chunks of his body, one episode has him lose his entire lower body and recover, and another episode has him bite an arm off to make the point he can practically grow it back at will. It takes a bit longer than usual, but he has it back in a few minutes.
121	* TheHedonist: The only characters who even come close to Roger's level of depravity are Bullock and Principal Lewis. He's almost never seen with Bullock, most likely because of Stan's fear of Bullock and the rest of the CIA finding out about Roger's true identity, but he and Lewis occasionally join forces.
122	* HeroWorshipper: On the rare occasions that Roger doesn't despise a person and consider them worthless is when he has an unhealthy amount of admiration for them and considers them perfect.
123	* HeroicBSOD: In "Wiener of Our Discontent", he is put out of action when he finds out he was supposed to be a crash test dummy.
124	* HeroicComedicSociopath: Just look at all the examples. Roger's a huge {{Comedic Sociopath\|y}}, even if he's heroic in such a way.
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128	* ILoveTheDead: In "Stanny Tendergrass", one of his personas is stated to have gotten married to an elderly woman on life support [[GoldDigger for her fortune]]. When said woman's also elderly daughter comes at Roger with a crossbow, he unashamedly admits that [[IBangedYourMom he had sex with her mother]] after he pulled the plug.
129	* ImmortalImmaturity: He's over 1600 years old, but often acts like a human child, as shown in such episodes as "Frannie 911" and "One Little Word."
130	* ImmuneToFire: Roger is set on fire in Big Trouble in Little Langley". Though he screams in shock and discomfort, he survives the incident without any injuries other than a slightly darker skin, and is amazed to discover that he is fireproof. A similar event occurs in "Stan's Food Restaurant", when Roger's face is burned by a blowtorch, but he only reacts with mild annoyance.
131	* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Much like Stan, Roger's massive ego is easily punctured, and his sense of self-worth can be diminished by a few choice words from people he's closest to.
132	* InterspeciesRomance: A given since he's an alien and may of his romantic interests are human. He also was in a sexual relationship with Klaus, a former human who's now a goldfish, at one point.
133	* {{Irony}}: In a crisis situation, Roger is quick to abandon others to ensure his own survival, claiming that those others are "dead weight". But Roger himself has very poor survival skills, proving to be of little help to others, and even hindering the group's survival through his poorly thought-out actions. In short, Roger himself often proves to be the "dead weight" in such situations.
134	* ItsAllAboutMe: While all the family display this trait on occasion, Roger takes it to sociopathic extremes.
135	* {{Jerkass}}: Can shift into a [[LaughablyEvil comedic monster]] on occasion. DependingOnTheWriter, he's shown to be perfectly willing to exploit or even murder his closest friends for minor offenses or indulgences.
136	* 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 (though he will still do stuff with him, such as how when the Smith family had to roast each other, Klaus was excluded from the punishment and laughed with Roger).
137	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Granted, he's a {{Jerkass}} in later seasons, but he still has his moments of being a NominalHero [[EvenEvilHasStandards when he has his extents.]] He was this earlier on as well.
138	* KarmaHoudini: He manages to utilize this trope over and over in the series, facing near-zero consequences for enslaving orphans, faking a marriage for the sake of blender, several implied cases of theft and murder, and abusing, manipulating and placing his adoptive family in horrific situations over and over (along with at least once trying to outright kill them). Stan, and to an extent the rest of the Smiths, sometimes lean into this trope as well but are much more likely to see the error of their ways. Not to say that Roger doesn't avoid retribution on some occasions (At the end of "Man in the Moonhouse", Stan punched him out for lengthening his jail sentence at his parole meeting) but yeah, more often then not he usually gets away with antics.
139	** Ironically how much he suffers is usually reverse proportional to his own misdeeds. He can get away with all sorts of horrific and outright murderous schemes but the odd time he plays TheChewToy is usually when he has done nothing wrong.
140	** There are, however, some episodes where he fails to get away with his atrocities. For example in "The People vs. Martin Sugar", Stan had the jury vote him guilty thus leading the judge to (tearfully) send him to prison.
141	*** Played straight in an ultimate sense, however, as by the end of the episode he is off the hook and for good measure is now a juror at Stan's trial.
142	* KarmaHoudiniWarranty:
143	** 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).
144	** He also suffered in "The Hurricane." He spends the first act trying to get rid of his one-night stand, and shows more sadness that his sweater has been ruined when she's fatally impaled. Once the house capsizes, he drowns her, not to mention he decides to save a wig instead of Klaus. At the end of the episode, he gets a ''nasty'' electrical shock thanks to Stan's incompetence.
145	** PlayedForLaughs at the end of "Merlot Down Dirty Shame". After Roger buries Stan alive and runs off, we cut to a fake teaser for the next episode. Cue a dirtied Stan beating the ever-living crap out of Roger.
146	* KissingUnderTheInfluence: With Stan during their trip to Atlantic City. They were both [[KissingUnderTheInfluence drunk]], and Stan agreed to [[AnalProbing the most intimate experiences of Roger's species]]. Roger ended up knowing all of Stan's memories, [[DidTheEarthMoveForYouToo but not vice versa]] -- this was especially humiliating for Roger because Stan was actually Roger's ''[[TheirFirstTime first]]''.
147	* KnightTemplarParent: In the episode where he was the legal guardian of Steve, he killed three teachers who bullied Steve (and whom Steve was mean to first).
148	* LackOfEmpathy: 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]].
149	* LargeHam: He is a very hammy and over-dramatic individual, both as himself and his many disguises.
150	* LaserGuidedKarma: Eventually, his heinous acts will end up becoming his undoing. Most of the time, it’s because Stan gets fed up with him and beats him to near-death. "Merlot Down Dirty Shame" is effectively an entire episode that is building up to Stan delivering a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on Roger for his actions throughout the plot.
151	* LaughablyEvil: He shows little, if any, thought for his family and friends' well-being and has committed all sorts of heartless or outright murderous acts for the [[DisproportionateRetribution most trivial]] [[EvilIsPetty and petty reasons]]. So it goes without saying he is a fan favorite, as he's often considered '''the''' funniest and most popular character in the series.
152	* LazyBum: Roger prefers to drink, eat, do drugs, or watch TV over doing anything productive [[BrilliantButLazy unless he actually feels like it]].
153	* {{Leitmotif}}: In "Great Space Roaster" his presence is marked by the song "The Sign" by Ace of Base.
154	* TheLoad: When Roger gets involved in something, he all too often ends up making things more difficult for others. The ColdOpen of "300" has the Smiths reflecting on how his antics have ruined many of their vacations and day trips.
155	* MadLibsCatchPhrase: He introduces his personas by giving their name and then a brief description.
156	* MadeOfIron: He has survived being shot multiple times, being skinned and dissected, accidentally slicing his own face off, and falling off a cliff multiple times, once in a car which exploded with him in it. He can take a lot more damage than humans. He's also immune to freezing temperatures. One episode establishes him as tough even by his species standards, as he survived an accident where others of his species were sure he died.
157	* ManipulativeBastard: In "The One That Got Away", to get revenge on Sidney Hauffman for using his credit card, he completely ruins every aspect of his life from his job, his garden, his pigeon friends, his fiancee, and his apartment. Only to find out Sidney was one of his personas that had taken on a life of its own.
158	* MasterOfDisguise: Roger has an entire warehouse full of disguises and usually ends up disguised at least once (if not multiple times) per episode. Of course, many of his disguises are [[PaperThinDisguise Paper Thin]], but no one seems to notice, [[LampshadeHanging most of the time]]. This is [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerated]] to hell and back in "Steve, Snot, and the Quest for the Og 4Loko", where his disguises are shown to be so impossibly convincing that, when Steve and Snot borrow a pair, they not only appear to ''be'' those personas to everyone (including people who know them, except Roger himself), but ''show up on video as the characters''.
159	* MoralMyopia: Much more than Stan, comparing his nonchalant abuse and manipulation of every being around him to the insane lengths of retribution he takes towards any minor slight inflicted onto him.
160	* MysteriousPast: He's apparently 1601 years old, yet very little if any of his past is revealed in the series, with only how he was rescued by Stan by the CIA being shown in the ''entire'' series.
161	* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Among which include being flame-retardant, ultra-buoyancy, the ability to learn one's memories by probing them, the ability to change costumes in under a second (usually done off-screen or when Roger throws up a cloud of confetti), the ability to place himself and others into the fictional world inside a book (this one REALLY came out of left field), and [[SuperSpeed the ability to move "really, really fast."]] Oh, and the ability to crap golden, jewel-encrusted turds.
162	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: His voice and mannerisms were initially based on actor Creator/PaulLynde.
163	* NonMammalMammaries: Despite having BizarreAlienBiology, Roger goes through cycles of mating which involve lactation from his chest and he can impregnate anyone via mouth to mouth CPR. Roger can also lactate a lot more if he eats and because Roger's milk apparently tastes delicious (though the people that had it doesn't know what it is), Stan and Francine use Roger's milk as a substitute for mayonnaise in Francine's potato salad for their church and they force feed him so that he can keep producing.
164	* NighInvulnerability: Turns out that his only weakness is [[spoiler:''being nice'']] & that even his superiors were unaware of his durability. To put that into respective, he was once used as ''a crash test dummy''. It does seem, however, that Roger can die from conventional wounds, as one episode shows that Roger is willing to let Stan kill him with a gun to keep the fact that the Smith family has been harboring him a secret from the CIA. In the same episode, Stan strangles him to death to make a point, before subsequently reviving him with [[CPRCleanPrettyReliable CPR]].
165	[[/folder]]
166
167	[[folder:Tropes O to Y]]
168	* OutOfFocus: Around halfway into Season 12, his overall screentime seems to have taken a bit of a hit in favor of giving more screentime to Klaus. While he still has a presence, he's mostly been relegated to B-plots and some episodes will only have him being an incidental character with no actual bearing on the plot other than providing the obligatory uncensored utterance of the word "shit" at least once an episode.
169	* {{Panacea}}: Roger lost a small pouch in Area 51 which contained various things including a tube of cream which if applied to an amputated stump, will gradually regrow the lost limb. Roger breaks back into Area 51 with [[ItMakesSenseInContext Stan after his legs got amputated]] to bring his legs back.
170	* PaperThinDisguise: Has a wardrobe full of them.
171	** Justifiably in "Stanny Tendergrass", it's revealed that there is at least one persona that each member of the Smith family cannot see through, instead actually seeing Roger as that person. For Stan, it is Mr. Vanderhill the country club owner, for Francine, it's a Korean kid who shoots pool with a giant chopstick, for Hayley, it's her sandal repair man and for Steve, it's Alicia Wilkner, who kissed Steve at a Spin-the-Bottle contest and dated him nine times (or, rather, seven times, with Steve doped up on roofies for the last two).
172	** In "Persona Assistant", it's suggested that this is actually a property of Roger's own skin; When Stan is made to stand in for all his personas, Roger gives him a suit made from said skin that will help sell the illusion of the many personas.
173	* PetTheDog:
174	** Risked his life by saving Stan from being blown up by a grenade, and also, when the CIA began tracking him down, was willing to let Stan kill him to keep the Smith family safe.
175	** Despite having little to no sense of empathy the majority of times, he is often shown to genuinely care about Stan. The entire reason he came to be with the Smiths is because he went out of his way to save Stan from a botched CIA attack. Even in later episodes Roger's friendship is sometimes exploited by Stan, which is saying a lot considering the former's [[ManipulativeBastard usual tendencies]].
176	** He helps the Smiths with his disguises ''far'' more often than he antagonizes them (except [[ButtMonkey Klaus]]), though for him the motive seems to be more the chance to dress up than an act of kindness.
177	** After killing his Sidney persona in "The One That Got Away," he decides to take Sidney's girlfriend on a pity date.
178	** When Rogu comes to kill Klaus out of revenge for being left for dead by the latter in "Klaus and Rogu in "Thank God for Loose Rocks": An American Dad! Adventure", Roger, alongside the rest of the family, chooses to protect Klaus.
179	-->'''Roger:''' Klaus, did you really think we hate you so much we'd let you die? [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre You need to work on your self-esteem, man]].
180	* ThePigPen: He is often a FatSlob who couldn't care less about cleaning up after himself.
181	* PingPongNaivete: At times, he can be deeply intelligent, showing a high level of business savvy and even an advanced knowledge of human psychology, but at other times (even within the same episode), he shows total ignorance towards simple concepts. One example is shown in "Stanny Boy and Fran-tastic" where he uses one of Greg and Terry's credit cards in a way that won't be noticed, then allows himself to be duped by Klaus into being put on hold for several days while calling a helpline. He even lampshades it:
182	-->"I have a Masters degree in City Planning. I can tell you where to build a convention center, but I can't tell when a fish is giving me the business."
183	* ThePowerOfHate: The very entity keeping his species alive (see above). Naturally ThePowerOfLove is toxic to them as a result.
184	* PsychopathicManchild: A rare one indeed. He's a hybrid of types B, C, and E, and D too. Roger is an alien with supernatural intellect and physical abilities who uses these for childish purposes. He has childish traits like a sweet tooth and juvenile whining. Despite being knowledgeable about life, Roger has committed heinous deeds throughout his long lifespan. Despite not appearing as much, he is a formidable force to be reckoned with.
185	* RealityWarper: A subtle case. Whenever he comes up with a backstory for one of his personas, logic bends to his will to make those backstories true. This includes being the birth mother of two fully grown men, and also being the teenage birth son of a human family, complete with pictures of him growing up! Roger is perhaps the greatest actor ever! Surpassing even [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Fred Savage]].
186	** Becomes somewhat undeniable in "Steve, Snot, and the Quest for the Og 4Loko", where not only are his disguises so impossibly perfect that ''anyone'' wearing them will appear to be that persona, even to people who know them, but even video footage of them will show the character instead of the real person i.e. Steve appearing on CCTV as a middle-aged Japanese man.
187	* ReallyGetsAround: '''Ooh boy.''' Roger's ''easily'' the most promiscuous of all the Smith family. He's slept with (and done stuff with) so many people (both as male and female personas), it'd be easier to list the people he hasn't had sex with. In fact, he lampshades this when he's about to be the "virginal" sacrifice of a puritan pagan cult.
188	-->'''Cultist:''' Only the blood of a pure maiden will appease the Crow God and ensure a bountiful corn crop!
189	-->'''Roger:''' Whoa, whoa, whoa! "Pure maiden", ''me?!'' I had sex with a guy on the truck ride over here. Who was he? He had a crow mask on... Oh! It was him, brown corduroys.
190	-->'''Cultist:''' Her [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial talented]] mouth tells lies!
191	* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Despite his appearance, Roger is at least 1600.
192	* TheRichWantToBeRicher: In "I Can't Stan You", he and Steve pull a real estate scam to gain $100,000, which they split between themselves. Steve (who had been the ButtMonkey of all their previous jobs) manages to take Roger's half by distracting him with a single dollar bill, which Roger leaps to catch, despite the already considerable earnings literally at hand. The note Steve leaves in its place sums Roger up well:
193	-->"You taught me that everyone's either a sucker, a crook, or just plain greedy. You're all three."
194	* RoswellThatEndsWell: According to "The Best Christmas Story Never Told", Roger claims ''he'' is the alien that crash-landed in Roswell, New Mexico, back in 1947. But, as revealed in "Weiner of Our Discontent", not for the reason he thinks.
195	** As of season 20 premiere "Fellow Traveler," which is set in 1947, it's now canon that Roger is the alien of the Roswell Incident.
196	* RunningGag: In the later seasons, it's become increasingly common for the Smiths to give a [[ThisIsGonnaSuck resigned reaction]] when they realize that someone they're going to see is actually one of Roger's personas.
197	* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: In the episode "Max Jets" he uses his titular persona's financial hold on the Smiths to, among other things, play with Francine and Steve's nipples without their consent.
198	* SmallNameBigEgo: He's convinced he's the greatest actor in the world, and more important than everyone else.
199	* TheSociopath: Self-confessed, no less. When he becomes a DirtyCop (after being on the force for 3 hours) he says that:
200	-->'''Roger:''' Plus I'm a sociopath so all this fits me like a glove.
201	* SpoiledBrat: He always expects things to go his way no matter what, and when he doesn't, he throws massive tantrums. {{Lampshaded\|Trope}} in "One Little Word", where he starts behaving like a spoiled, obnoxious four-year-old.
202	* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: Exactly how capable Roger is depends on the episode and what persona he's taking. In particular, whenever he and Stan fight, it's either a CurbStompBattle on Stan's end or Roger's end with no in-between.
203	* SuperSpeed: Allowed him to fake the death of a persona in "Jenny Fromdabloc". It has become a consistent ability of his that allows his persona shifting.
204	* SweetTooth: He's obsessed with sweets like cookies and snack cakes, which was very prevalent in the pilot.
205	* TerritorialComicRelief:
206	** In "Wife Insurance", he and Steve bicker over which of their detective character duo gets to be the comic relief. Eventually they reach an agreement that Steve can be the wisecracking one, but Roger can have some sarcastic quips.
207	** In "Whole Slotta Love", Roger decides to become a comedic air stewardess. However, his jokes end up falling flat, while another stewardess' jokes get big laughs. This infuriates Roger, to the point where he eventually [[DisproportionateRetribution tries to crash the plane out of spite]].
208	* ThinSkinnedBully: Roger frequently dishes out cruel insults to everyone around him, but if someone even mildly insults him, he doesn't take it well at all, often bursting into tears.
209	* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: Tends to say these at least once an episode.
210	* TokenEvilTeammate: None of the Smiths are particularly saintly in behavior, however Roger is the most consistently malicious of the cast. Less evident in earlier episodes where Roger was more sympathetic with Stan or Klaus usually acting as the more malevolent of the family.
211	* TookALevelInBadass: In the first season, he was primarily house-bound, couldn't leave unless any of the other Smiths helped him build a disguise and was utterly useless in a fight. In later seasons, he's become skilled enough in disguises to make them himself and leave the house freely, and has murdered countless people throughout the series.
212	* TookALevelInJerkass: Roger was more toned down in early episodes, acting little past an obnoxious {{Cloudcuckoolander}} and showing more frequent gestures of [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold genuine care and sympathy to the Smiths]]. As his costumes and outside lifestyle became more active, however, his apathy and psychotic traits became more and more prominent.
213	* TragicVillain: Possibly his sociopathic behavior is because their species has a BlueAndOrangeMorality.
214	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: He loves large amounts of junk food in general, with Chocodile's being his absolutely favorite.
215	* TrulySingleParent: While he is capable of sexual reproduction, he produced Rogu asexually.
216	* {{Ubermensch}}: If it is at all possible to play this trope strictly for laughs, a case could be made for Roger being a Nietzschen superman. He is goal-oriented, defines his own morality, refuses to accept outside authority, and if he wants something, even if it's insane and impossible, he makes it happen through nothing more than sheer force of will and a complete rejection of objective reality.
217	* TheUnfettered: Playing into his LackOfEmpathy, Roger will cheat, abuse or even murder others without a second thought to achieve his goals. Taken to absurd lengths at times since he can find even menial goals and ambitions and rotate their ends around completely callous and deranged schemes (a plan to get a free T shirt involved him manipulating Francine and Hayley to try and kill each other).
218	* UnlimitedWardrobe: In contrast to the rest of the major characters, given that Roger frequently changing disguises as a result of his multiple personality disorder.
219	* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: A self-centered jerk that isn't above backstabbing his family and killing innocent people to get his way.
220	* VillainProtagonist: The most out of anyone else in the family, he goes far beyond the line of a mere UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist into this. Among his many crimes include enslaving orphans, killing numerous innocent people and casually destroying people's lives for very [[EvilIsPetty petty]] and immature reasons. He's even tried to outright kill the Smiths at one point.
221	* VitriolicBestBuds: Type 1 with Stan, Steve and at times Klaus.
222	* 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 nasally and hoarse, likely due to Seth [=MacFarlane=] aging.
223	* VoiceChangeling: Averted. None of Roger's personas sound like anything other than himself -- sometimes with a poorly affected accent, but just as often not -- and while his Stan imitation is near-perfect (especially in comparison to [[StylisticSuck Stan's Roger]]), it's not as deep and still has a faint nasal quality to it.
224	* VoodooShark: Played for laughs. Many of Roger's disguises depend on this.
225	** In "Shallow Vows", Roger is pretending to be a wedding planner, and introduces Stan to his sons -- two college-aged men who act as if Roger is actually their mother:
226	--->'''Stan:''' How is that possible?\
227	'''Roger:''' I know! I look too young to have kids in college.\
228	'''Stan:''' [[FridgeLogic No, that you have children when your persona is completely fabricated]]--\
229	'''Roger:''' [[IceCreamKoan We are the music makers.]] [[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory We are the dreamers of dreams]].\
230	'''Stan:''' [[LampshadeHanging That is an unsatisfying answer]].
231	** An offhand comment about the son of one of his personas in another episode suggests he merely kidnaps and brainwashes people.
232	** In "I Am The Walrus", a high school student persona of his is shown to have human parents, and even a photo of him ''as a baby'' in their house.
233	** In "Roots", one of Roger's personas has a human brother (and a mother who looks just like him).
234	* WholesomeCrossdresser: Downplayed in that he himself is most definitely ''not'' wholesome, but his crossdressing antics are never portrayed in a negative light in and of themselves.
235	* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: He is so evil because his species releases a bile that kills them if they don't "let their evilness out". Made worse when it is revealed the reason he is trapped on Earth is that the others of his species wanted to get rid of him. In addition, there are moments where he really seems to care about his adoptive family. It is implied that Roger only acts that way because he was made to be evil, and not by choice, and if you stop to think about it, it's terrible being him.
236	* WouldHurtAChild: Discussed in "Daddy Queerest".
237	-->'''Roger''': If a girl comes around with a bruise on her cheek talking about this dog is hers, it is; Pepper's stolen.
238	* WrongGenreSavvy: When he got a job as a cars salesman, he thinks it's like a sitcom on TV.
239	* {{Yandere}}: Shown in the season 8 premiere, "Love, AD Style".
240	[[/folder]]
241
242	!!Roger's Personas
243
244	[[folder:Dr. Jordan Edelstein]]
245	!!Dr Jordan Edelstein
246
247	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bbbc0def_fca6_471e_a696_403e902c657d.jpeg]]
248	[[caption-width-right:350:]]
249
250	A Jewish College Professor and Head of Political Science Department at Harvard. This is later established to be false; he is Head of Economics.
251	----
252	* BrutalHonesty: When his wife wonders if it's possible their baby might've lived, Jordan flatly responds "No you left the gate open and she sank like a stone. You're gonna have to live with that for the rest of your life."
253	* DeadpanSnarker: Has a tendency to unleash a string of dry barbs at his wife's alcoholic antics.
254	* HappyMarriageCharade: He appears happily married to Amanda, until Amanda gets drunk and starts ranting about all the guys she should've married. Jordan's also bitter about Amanda having forced him to become Head of Economics, and likes to inform everyone her neglect led to their baby drowning.
255	* OutlivingOnesOffspring: His baby daughter drowned thanks to Amanda not watching her when she wandered into their pool.
256	[[/folder]]
257
258	[[folder:Rashid]]
259	!!Rashid
260
261	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/149bb6f2_fa7d_4607_86e7_3ff333013bcb.jpeg]]
262	[[caption-width-right:350:]]
263
264	A crude but sexy Persian wingman.
265	----
266	%%* BitchInSheepsClothing:
267	* DomesticAbuse: He enjoys abusing bar whores.
268	%%* {{Jerkass}}:
269	%%* ManipulativeBastard
270	[[/folder]]
271
272	[[folder:Horse Renoir]]
273	!!Horse Renoir
274
275	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/020a3d2a_df72_404f_a044_28effc97e33d.jpeg]]
276	[[caption-width-right:350:]]
277
278	A tough BountyHunter born on the bayou.
279	----
280	* BountyHunter: His job. He tries to hunt Jeff.
281	%%* DarkAndTroubledPast
282	%%* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas
283	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Obviously modeled after [[Series/DogTheBountyHunter Duane "Dog" Chapman]].
284	* SonOfAWhore: The "backwoods son of [[ExaggeratedTrope a whore and a prostitute]]".
285	%%* ThirdPersonPerson:
286	[[/folder]]
287
288	[[folder:Sidney Huffman]]
289	!!Sidney Huffman
290	A nebbishy NiceGuy that became 'alive' on his own.
291	----
292	* BecomingTheMask: A SplitPersonality that started as a convoluted charade to steal a pair of gloves.
293	* 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.
294	%%* ButtMonkey
295	%%* ExtremeDoormat
296	%%* NiceGuy
297	%%* ThePollyanna
298	* 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]].
299	[[/folder]]
300
301	[[folder:Roy Rogers [=McFreely=]]]
302	!!Roy Rogers [=McFreely=]
303	The powerful and corrupt Chairman of the Homeowners Association.
304	----
305	* CorruptPolitician: Uses dirty politics to bribe the homeowner association, disbands the neighborhood watch and generally make new ordinances to make Stan's life a living hell.
306	* CreateYourOwnVillain: This persona was made because Roger couldn't take Stan's various rules anymore, with the breaking point being Stan refusing to buy grenadine that Roger needed to make his drink, a [[{{Foreshadowing}} Roy Rogers]]. This in turn causes Stan and Hayley to form a constructive vandalism group to combat him.
307	%%* TyrantTakesTheHelm
308	[[/folder]]
309
310	[[folder:Dr. Rafael Penguin]]
311	!!Dr Rafael Penguin
312	Originally a prison psychologist and later the family psychologist.
313	----
314	%%* FourEyesZeroSoul
315	%%* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate
316	[[/folder]]
317
318	[[folder:Jeannie Gold]]
319	!!Jeannie Gold
320	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.]]
321	----
322	* 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.
323	* ArchEnemy: Of her brother, [[spoiler: Ricky Spanish]].
324	* 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.
325	* 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.
326	* BunnyEarsLawyer: She's a highly competent wedding planner whose only shortcomings are from her clients wasting their budget.
327	* CainAndAbel: She's the Abel to [[spoiler: Ricky Spanish's]] Cain.
328	* CareerVersusMan: She's chosen career.
329	* CrazyPrepared: Her purse comes equipped with [[NoodleImplements 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."
330	* DoesNotLikeMen: Scoffs at the idea of getting a boyfriend because she's "too set in her ways" at this point in her life.
331	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She cares about her sons Alex and Ron very much, employing them in her agency and they seem to love her very much.
332	* 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 budget), Jeannie exclaims "I did when I made you!"
333	* 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]].
334	* 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''.
335	* MoralityPet: Her sons.
336	* PottyFailure: Her second major role states that she's incontinent.
337	* 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.
338	* ThrowItIn: In-Universe. When her "breast" (an orange) rolls out of her clothes, she rolls with it, declaring herself a breast cancer survivor.
339	[[/folder]]
340
341	[[folder:Sweeps [=McCullough=]]]
342	!!Sweeps [=McCullough=]
343	A washed-up agent who tries to renew his career.
344	----
345	* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:After Francine's sitcom ''White Rice'' gets cancelled over one mildly-offensive joke Sweeps hangs himself, much to Roger's horror.]]
346	%%* FunctionalAddict
347	* HookersAndBlow: Immediately offers the other show producers cocaine, then realizes "it's not [[The80s like that]] anymore"
348	%%* JadedWashout
349	%%* {{Slimeball}}
350	[[/folder]]
351
352	[[folder:Caitlin Miracle Smith]]
353	!!Caitlin Miracle Smith
354	The youngest child of the Smith Family, given the middle name "Miracle" for not being stillborn like her deformed twin.
355	----
356	* AngstySurvivingTwin: She was born with a dead twin that "had a second butt where its mouth should've been," and despite her cutesy attitude she needs booze and industrial solvent to get her through the day.
357	* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: She's a hardcore alcoholic and addicted to huffing glue.
358	[[/folder]]
359
360	[[folder:Martin Sugar]]
361	!!Martin Sugar
362	The owner of an illegal sweatshop.
363	----
364	%%* BitchInSheepsClothing
365	%%* TheCharmer
366	* FauxAffablyEvil: Martin acts funny, engaging, and endearing which leads people to forget about what a horrible man he really is. He does all this deliberately to get out of blame for his actions and doesn't actually give a shit about anyone.
367	%%* KarmaHoudini
368	* 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.
369	[[/folder]]
370
371	[[folder:Jenny Fromdabloc]]
372	!!Jenny Fromdabloc
373	A teenage girl and brief girlfriend of Snot.
374	----
375	%%* GenkiGirl
376	* KilledOffForReal: Roger kills off the character by having Jenny gets hit and killed by a bus.
377	%%* MeaningfulName
378	* SmittenTeenageGirl: Acts like this towards Snot.
379	[[/folder]]
380
381	[[folder:Sgt Pepper]]
382	!!Sgt Pepper
383	A hard-as-nails soldier responsible for cleaning out portajohns.
384	----
385	%%* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}
386	%%zce* {{Expy}}: Of Jeremy Renner's character, Lt James, in Film/TheHurtLocker.
387	%%* InkSuitActor
388	* PunnyName: Not [[Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand that Sgt. Pepper.]]
389	%%* ShellShockedVeteran
390	[[/folder]]
391
392	[[folder:Roland Chang]]
393	!!Roland Chang
394	An Asian young man who is very positive.
395	----
396	%%* {{Determinator}}
397	* NiceGuy: His entire shtick is that he's eager to help everyone and never has a harsh word to say.
398	%%* {{Keet}}
399	* 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.
400	%%* ThirdPersonPerson
401	[[/folder]]
402
403	[[folder:Spartacus Vanderhill]]
404	!!Spartacus Vanderhill
405	A rich snob at the Havercamp Country Club. The only one of Roger's persona's that Stan is unaware is Roger.
406	----
407	%%* EvilOldFolks
408	* {{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.
409	* ILoveTheDead: He admitted to having sex with his wife after he pulled the plug as he was mocking his elderly stepdaughter.
410	%%* {{Jerkass}}
411	%% * MayDecemberRomance: His stepdaughter now requires a walker to get around if that's any indication of his wife's age.
412	%%* RichBastard
413	%%* SmugSnake
414	[[/folder]]
415
416	[[folder:Ricky Spanish]]
417	!!Ricky Spanish... ''[--[[RunningGag (Ricky Spanish)]]--]''
418	A psychotic criminal hated by everyone in town. [[spoiler: He's the brother of Jeannie Gold and considers Jeannie his ArchEnemy]].
419	----
420	* ArchEnemy: To his sister, [[spoiler: Jeannie Gold]].
421	* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Once attacked a petting zoo filled with animals with a flamethrower.
422	%%* BeardOfEvil
423	* CainAndAbel: The Cain to [[spoiler: Jeannie Gold's]] Abel.
424	* CantHoldHisLiquor: Admitedly, drinking champagne is what, supposedly, led to him violently [[DiedOnTheirBirthday killing Avery Bullock's wife on her birthday]].
425	* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: He will betray anyone if he feels like it. [[spoiler:Just ask Steve.]]
426	%%* DepravedBisexual
427	* 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.]]
428	* EvilerThanThou: Roger is ''terrified'' of him.
429	* ForTheEvulz: He's betrayed, backstabbed, and brutalized every person around him for no reason other than he's Ricky Spanish.
430	* HatedByAll: ''Everyone'' in Langley Falls that he's interacted with is either afraid of and/or despises him, because he's gone out of their way to hurt them in some way.
431	* {{Jerkass}}: ''The king.'' Think Roger is bad? [[HorrifyingTheHorror Just go see the things he has done]].
432	* 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.]]
433	* 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.
434	* RunningGag: Mentioning his name will trigger a slow-motion flashback of Ricky [[KickTheDog committing some atrocity]] while a woman whispers his name.
435	%%* SmugSnake
436	* TheSociopath: Has shown to be incredibly cruel and incapable of feeling sorry for anything he's done.
437	* WouldHarmASenior: Once [[GroinAttack kicked an old lady in the groin]].
438	[[/folder]]
439
440	[[folder:Pete Pendelman]]
441	!!Pete Pendelman
442	An executive for a concrete company.
443	----
444	* NiceGuy: One of Roger's nicer personas.
445	* TheTeetotaler: Unlike many of Roger's other personas, and even Roger himself, Pete is a recovering alcoholic.
446	[[/folder]]
447
448	[[folder:Tom Yabo]]
449	!!Tom Yabo
450	A Yoga instructor and Stan's new stepfather.
451	----
452	* HeroicSacrifice: Sacrifices himself so Stan can save Betty.
453	* NiceGuy: Easily one of Roger more nicer personas, actually trying to be a good step-dad to Stan and husband to Betty.
454	* PromotionToParent: Becomes Stan's new stepdad.
455	[[/folder]]
456
457	[[folder:Max Jets]]
458	!!Max Jets
459	Elderly and wealthy prisoner who enjoys showering the family in cash.
460	----
461	* 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).
462	%%* UnclePennybags
463	[[/folder]]
464
465	[[folder:Skyler Montessori and Madeline Carpal-Tunnel]]
466	!!Skyler Montessori and Madeline Carpal-Tunnel
467	Sisters who run a day care center and a girls' finishing school respectively.
468	----
469	* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: Skyler makes a career out of watching other peoples' children even though she has to leave her own kids with her "bitch mother."
470	* RealWomenNeverWearDresses: Inverted with Madeline, who espouses "A literate girl is a lonely girl."
471	[[/folder]]
472
473	[[folder:South Dakota Slim]]
474	!!South Dakota Slim
475	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.)
476	----
477	[[/folder]]
478
479	[[folder:Ruby Zeldastein]]
480	!!Ruby Zeldastein
481	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.
482	----
483	%%* CoolOldLady
484	* DirtyOldWoman: Has a bottle of Mexican tar Viagra suppositories on her.
485	* TheEmpath: She recognizes the spirit haunting the Smith household has been created due to Francine's unfulfilled sex life with Stan.
486	* 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).
487	%%* MiniatureSeniorCitizens
488	* 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.
489	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: She's a blatant parody of Zelda Rubinstein and her role in the ''{{Poltergeist}}'' franchise.
490	[[/folder]]
491
492	[[folder:Dudley Dingleberry]]
493	!!Dudley Dingleberry
494	A marionette puppet.
495	----
496	* 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 what's happening while as the puppet).
497	* 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.
498	* SplitPersonality: Much more than normal since Roger is completely unaware of what Dudley does. The chemicals Roger uses to make himself look like a puppet mess with his head cause a genuine alternate personality rather than a new persona to take over.
499	[[/folder]]
500
501	[[folder:Dan Ansom Handsome]]
502	!!Dan Ansom Handsome
503	Roger's most charming persona.
504	----
505	[[/folder]]
506
507	[[folder:Dom Fikowski]]
508	!!Dom Fikowski
509	Langley's overweight concrete king.
510	----
511	[[/folder]]
512
513	[[folder:Scout Finch]]
514	!![[Literature/ToKillAMockingbird Scout Finch]]
515	The main character and narrator of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
516	----
517	[[/folder]]
518
519	[[folder:Valik]]
520	!!Valik
521	A blond, vaguely Eastern European man who works for Jeannie Gold.
522	----
523	* PsychoKnifeNut: He is very stabby, cutting Steve when they first met.
524	[[/folder]]
525
526	[[folder:Demitri Krotchliknioff]]
527	!!Demitri Krotchliknioff
528	A Russian wrestler who goes after Stan's high school wrestling record.
529	----
530	%%zce* {{Expy}}: Of Ivan Drago from ''Film/{{Rocky}}''.
531	%%zce* HuskyRusskie
532	[[/folder]]
533
534	[[folder:H.J. Rimmens]]
535	!!H.J. Rimmens
536	A psychologically abusive professor of clowning.
537	----
538	%%zce* {{Expy}}: Of Creator/JKSimmons in ''Film/{{Whiplash}}''.
539	* LaserGuidedKarma: Unlike many of Roger's other personas, he actually suffers consequences for his actions. Steve complains about him to the governing body of clown academics and Roger gets fired.
540	* MonsterClown: He torments Steve until he's literally bleeding in order to push him to the limit. At the end of the episode, he becomes a sewer clown like [[Literature/{{It}} Pennywise]].
541	[[/folder]]

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