American Dad!/Characters

The dramatis personae for Seth MacFarlane's second animated Sitcom, American Dad!, featuring some background information on the characters and tropes they provide examples of.

Smith Family

• Badass Family: When they come together, nothing will stop them. They've survived apocalypses, mass-floods, going to space, time travelling, fighting a Bad Santa and, perhaps most impressively, each other.
• Brilliant but Lazy: They're all quite intelligent and capable in their own right. But aside from Steve, they only want to sit on the couch and watch television.
• The Dreaded: Understandably, most of their neighbors are terrified of how much destruction the Smiths can cause.
• Early Installment Weirdness: They were, for want of a better term, more one-dimensional in the early seasons, fitting more into the Strictly Formula style the show followed back then.
• Everyone Has Standards: While they don't give a damn about other people's lives, even they seem uncomfortable with being Ungrateful Bastards or hurting people who genuinely did not deserve it.
• Heroic Comedic Sociopath
• Idiot Ball: Along with the Jerkass Ball and the Villain Ball, they grab it whenever the plot calls for it.
• Moral Myopia: The Smiths' collective moral code is largely based on what they want.
• Person of Mass Destruction

Stan Smith

The man of the house, a CIA agent later promoted to Deputy-Deputy Director. Although an extreme right-winger to the point of parody with a tendency to forget the lessons he's just learned, he still loves his family. Voiced by Seth MacFarlane.

• Abusive Parents: He's a step up from his own father but he's often talking down and berating his kids while stepping on their dreams.
• Acrofatic: Stan's got a rather large gut, but doesn't stop him from doing handsprings and being a proficient CIA agent.
• Aesop Amnesia: Lampshaded often. In fact, the only lesson he's ever learned is that he doesn't learn lessons.
• Anti-Hero: Type V -> Type IV.
• Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other: He really does love his family at the end of the day.
• Baby Got Back: Several episodes have characters, including Stan himself, note that Stan has a really nice butt.
• Bald of Awesome: "Chimdale" revealed that Stan is completely bald, and has been trying to keep it a secret from everyone. Except everyone, bar Steve, already knew, and none of them cared. He then decided to keep wearing his wig until "Comb Over: A Hair Piece" where he got a hair transplant.
• Alliterative Name
• Beware the Quiet Ones: Stan harming/killing people is a knee-jerk reaction and usually just a sign that he's annoyed. If he's truly angry and allowed time to plan, he'll happily use his CIA connections and/or manipulative skills to ruin someone's life.
• Big Beautiful Man
• Bunny Ears Intelligence Officer: Despite his quirks, he seems to be very good at his job. In "Widow's Pique", he casually kills three thieves with random things found on the counter at a diner.
• Card-Carrying Villain: In the early seasons, when the show was much more of a Take That at conservative policies, Stan expressed pride whenever Hayley called him a fascist for his conservative views.
• Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch: Has voiced a passionate hatred for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine despite admitting that he won't watch it.
• Character Development: Subtle but his ultraconservative worldview has softened over the years, his misadventures having made him far more accepting of non-traditional lifestyles and other people's POV than he was at the start of the show. Though he is still a strong believer in Eagle Land.
• Control Freak: To the point that it takes God himself calling this out. As He lampshades, Stan is holding a gun to God's head. There isn't any metaphor that could even come close to doing justice. It's even implied that he only reason he identifies as a conservative is because left-wing "live and let live" policies don't let him control other people's lives.
• Crazy Prepared
• Cross Dresser: Doesn't hide from his family the fact that he wears panties and if it was socially acceptable, would wear mascara because it makes his eyes "pop like firecrackers".
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: For how goofy and dumb he can be, he is a highly trained CIA Agent with access to world shaking intelligence and an endless supply of weapons.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: He dies at the end of "Hot Water", which was originally written as a Grand Finale. But since the show didn't end, the episode was declared non-canon.
• Depending on the Writer:
  • His competence level varies wildly. Sometimes he can commit assassinations in his sleep, other times he can barely function.
  • Is he bald or not?
  • How rich is he?
  • Is his first name "Staniel", "Stanley", "Stanford" or just "Stan"?
• Driven to Suicide: In "Every Which Way But Lose". After Roger and Steve's football team defeats his, Stan, unable to cope with even the tiniest failure (he may have lost the championship game but he still got the title), tries to kill himself. Thankfully Steve pulls him out of it.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: Frequently asks this considering he's a CIA Agent.
• Eagle Land: Type 2 Incarnate.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • For all his Eagle Land tendencies, he's disgusted by the US Army's practice of recruiting those who have nowhere else to go, outright calling the army recruiters "vultures". Though he does thank them for their service.
  • While Stan is quick to pull out his gun and threaten death, he also has some sense of responsibility about it, opening fire only on those who deserve it. He's horrified in "Killer Vacation" when he accidentally kills a family of dolphins.
  • Stan may do some morally ambiguous things for the greater good, or to benefit himself, but he draws the line at actually being a Dirty Cop. Misusing government resources is fine, but taking bribes from criminals is a step too far.
• Freudian Excuse: Stan was extremely unpopular in his childhood due to his nerdy ways. As a result he bullies Steve for also being nerdy hoping to break him of said habits, in order for Steve to have the life he didn't.
  • Additionally, his father was never around, which didn't exactly teach him good parenting.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: In "Rubberneckers". Yes he's a man and everyone rubbernecks... but the trial was about insurance fraud, which he definitely did commit.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: He was an utter nobody in high school and now frequently manipulates events on the geopolitical stage to alleviate boredom.
• Forgotten First Meeting: First met Roger in the flashback sequence of "100 Years a Solid Fool" before saving his life at Area 51. Until everyone outright tells Stan it was Roger, he didn't make the connection.
• Going Native: Stan has a strong tendency to do this; lampshaded by Francine in "Stan of Arabia".
• Happily Married: To Francine, but they have an equal amount of neglecting and unfaithfulness with love.
• Heteronormative Crusader: He gets better as time goes on.
  • In fact, accepting gay lifestyles is pretty much the only lesson Stan remembers.
• Heroic BSOD: Goes through quite the epic one in "Daesong Heavy Industries" after Steve proves that the Bible is a logical inconsistency, full of contradictions.
• Heroic Comedic Sociopath
• Hilariously Abusive Childhood: His father left him when he was young and his mother forced Stan to fill his role as provider despite being eleven years old. As a result, he is very emotionally stunted and has unrealistic expectations of the people around him.
• Hot Dad: Looks pretty good if you don't mind the gut.
• Hypocrite: Quite a big one but the most prominent is that, despite how much he praises conservatism as a moral beacon, he himself very clearly doesn't believe in it. The very instant that the principles of conservatism go against his desires, he'll abandon them all to get what he wants. Notably, while he parrots the American conservative talking point of being against abortion, he also has a bottle of "abortion juice" in his night drawer for if Francine ever gets pregnant again. If anything, his conservative values seem to just spin-off from his Control Freak tendencies.
  • Several episodes, most notably "A Smith In The Hand", have Stan become addicted to something that he banned others from doing. He also treats his hobbies as akin to religious events or national holidays despite hating on everyone else's.
  • For all that he hates Steve's nerdiness, he's seen every episode of Star Trek, barring Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. And he's passionate enough about it that he clearly has a long thought-out argument about why DS9 is garbage.
  • In "Lincoln Lover" he says that a sign of someone being gay is a love for musicals. The show's Do-It-Yourself Theme Tune is actually canon in the show, it being how Stan wakes up every morning.
• It's All About Me: Forget conservatism, this is Stan's true life principle. If it helps him, it's good and pure. If not, it must be purged from the world.
• Irony: Whenever the topic of politics comes up, it's suggested that his being ultra-conservative is what drove Hayley to being ultra-liberal. Specifically his reactionary mindset inspired Hayley to react to him.
• Jerkass: Most of the time. His Jerk with a Heart of Gold moments are usually overshadowed by some of his crueller acts, such as a scheme to get back at a car salesman that happened to involve abandoning his own family as prerequisite.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Arguably Stan's callousness has been toned down or at least been placed in more well-intentioned light in later seasons. It is a rule for the creative team that, in his own mindset, Stan's actions are for the well being of his family and country.
• Kissing Under the Influence: With Roger during their trip to Atlantic City. They were both drunk, and Stan agreed to the most intimate experiences of Roger's species. Roger ended up knowing all of Stan's memories, but not vice versa — this was especially humiliating for Roger because Stan was actually Roger's first.
• Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Numerous episodes go out of their way to emphasize this, especially The Most Adequate Christmas Ever, where God actually had to tell Stan face-to-face that no, he does not know everything and he can't.
• Lantern Jaw of Justice: Frequently commented one.
• Large Ham
• Manipulative Bastard
• Momma's Boy: In fact, he is a downright (non-romantic) Yandere for her.
• My Eyes Are Leaking: "What's this? Some sort of tear like substance."
• Outliving One's Offspring:
  • "White Rice" implies that Hayley had a twin brother who Stan refused to get vaccinated. While Hayley survived, Bailey did not and Stan unpersoned him.
  • "Enter Stanman" suggests that Stan plans to outlive Steve and Hayley.
• Papa Wolf: He might not agree with Hayley, and he might not have much in common with Steve, but if anyone insults or harms either of them, that person's going to be in pain for a long while.
  • Do not call his daughter a whore. Though he's perfectly okay with pimping out his daughter to get what he wants.
  • For all that he hates Jeff, if it means Hayley will be happy, Stan will pull him out of the fire.
• Patriotic Fervour
• Politically Incorrect Hero: He's a big ol' bigot in many ways, but he generally learns An Aesop about it... for a while.
• Praising Shows You Don't Watch: "Daesong Heavy Industries" reveals that, despite his hardline Christian beliefs, he's never actually read the Bible.
• Psychopathic Manchild: If he's not acting like a three-year-old, he's killing someone.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Manly Man to Steve's Sensitive Guy.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: He's always Dressed to Kill.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Frequently acts narcissistic about his looks and "intelligence". May also apply as Inferiority Superiority Complex when it's found out he wasn't always "the stallion he is today".
• Standard Fifties Father: Tries to be this. Could be considered a deconstruction.
  • In a DVD-exclusive special on the creation of American Dad!, Seth [MacFarlane] describes the show as "What would happen if a 1950s anti-Communism short film announcer had a wife and kids?"
• Stock Scream: Has one of his own.
  • Which is relentlessly parodied in "Finances With Wolves". Stan, when his rocket boot malfunctions, is thrown into a knife shop, a lemon juice fountain, and a cactus farm, among other things, screaming the exact same scream every time.
  • The episode "A Smith In The Hand", where Stan discovers the joys of masturbation, has a different Stock Scream that they use every time Stan sets off the fireworks.
• Stop Helping Me!: "Hurricane!" drastically shows that Stan has got no idea what to do in a crisis situation, and despite Francine's plea to stop helping, Stan doesn't listen and keeps making the situation worse.

Francine (sadly/shocked): You harpooned me. I asked you to go and get help, and you harpooned me.

• Straight Man: He tries to be this, but is really much more of a Large Ham.
• Strawman Political: He's an exaggerated stereotype of hyper-patriotic Republicans. Though much less so as the show went on.
• Strong as They Need to Be: He's a trained CIA agent and a full-on Bunny Ears Lawyer able to easily kill people with random stuff found on the bar of a diner. But if Stelio Kontos shows up, Stan gets easily through around.
• Too Much Alike: Most of his conflict with Hayley stems from this. Despite being a liberal, she's just as passionate and committed to her beliefs as Stan.
• Troubled Sympathetic Bigot
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Has elements of this in his relationship with his father Jack, and this trait is very prominent in his son Steve.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Often the cause of his Jerkass antics.
• Would Hit a Girl: An early episode had him beat the crap out of a bunch of strippers unprovoked. And it was awesome.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He fears seagulls. Or rather he feared them, as he mentions he got over the fear in a later episode where he interacted with them (a Hand Wave, as the plot required said interaction).
  • In "Widowmaker", he bluffs to having a fear of fountains, claiming they cause him to decapitate ducks in a rage.

Francine Smith (née Ling, Dawson)

The matriarch, wife of Stan and mother of Hayley and Steve. A fairly happy housewife, if not a little loopy at times, although she does wish she could do stuff outside the house other than grocery shopping. During her years growing up, she was the adopted daughter of the Chinese Lings after her birth parents, the Dawsons, abandoned her as a baby at an airport since bringing babies to first class wasn't allowed. Prior to hooking up with Stan, she was very promiscuous (currently has the largest rose garden dedicated to the men she had sex with prior to meeting Stan) and wild. Voiced by Wendy Schaal.

• Abusive Parents: Can be considered this or an extreme version of My Beloved Smother to Steve, often manipulating him and sabotaging his growth, such as framing him for drugs or keeping him on breast milk, so that he'll remain dependant on her.
• Berserk Button: Lying to her and appearing ungrateful seem good ways to set her off.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Shifts somewhere between this and an outright Bitch in Sheep's Clothing, Depending on the Writer (much like Lois on Family Guy, though granted she is called out on it). Her personality often tends to come off as unpredictable to say the least.
  • Let's just say, even Stan (who usually has a very low sense of self-preservation) is smart enough to be scared of her when she gets angry. Example? Season 1, episode 4.
  • She nonchalantly admitted to stabbing her college roommate to death while the Smiths were having dinner at a restaurant.
• Bi the Way: Sort of. She has had sex with women before, and seems perfectly willing to make out with a woman to get backstage at a rock concert. But she is primarily straight, compared to Linda Memari.
• Blonde Republican Sex Kitten: Sort of. Compared to Stan, Francine is more liberal but her general laziness means she adheres to a lot of conservative viewpoints about women by default rather than her own mindset. She's generally more apolitical due to a total disinterest in politics.
• Brilliant but Lazy: Francine is smart enough to become the greatest realtor in the USA, decipher ancient texts with absolute accuracy and track down the breeding grounds of a thought to be hypothetical species. But if it was up to her, she'd be drinking wine on the couch.
• Buxom Is Better: Stan even calls her "Big Boobed Blondie" in "Homeland Insecurity".
• Cloudcuckoolander: The brief times her head comes back to earth, she can be very intelligent. The rest of the time... well... remember the box she thought was a TV? Nuff said.
  • The episode "Live and Let Fry" is a rather noteworthy example. In that one, Francine comes off as borderline insane.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Francine was, casually, abandoned by her biological parents at an airport because they couldn't bring babies into first class (just first class, the rest of the plane was fine). She then spent seven years in an Orphanage of Fear before being adopted. In high school, trying to be cool, she emulated her sister's smoking habit only to burn the school down. Between then and meeting Stan, she killed her college roommate and spent an unknown amount of time in prison before Stan rescued her from being a worn-out hoe having breakfast for dinner with an abusive Persian. When challenged to turn a shoe into a weapon, she does it in seconds much to Roger's admiration.
• Dumb Blonde: But not too dumb.
• Ethical Slut: She really got around when she was younger, but all in the name of partying and free love.
  • She claims her first time was with a group of angry construction workers.
• Everyone Has Standards: She largely goes along with Roger's schemes but every now and then, she does put her foot down.
• Expansion Pack Past
• Extreme Doormat: Often for Stan and Roger, though she stands up for herself when pushed too far.
• Former Teen Rebel
• Gasshole: Has been seen belching loudly as a throwaway gag on occasion, usually after drinking something.
• Genius Ditz: For the brief periods of time when she tried to pursue something outside of being a housewife, she is ridiculously good at what she does. To the point where she once became and oceanologist, and published a paper on how she found a thought-to-be-extinct species! Of course, Stan always brings things back to a screaming halt (to the point where he deliberately sabotaged the American economy because that was the only way to stop her career as a real estate agent).
• Housewife
• Happily Adopted: To the point that she didn't care to meet her birth parents until she found out she was being left nothing by her adopted ones (but only because they knew she could survive without an inheritance while her sister Gwen couldn't).
• Happily Married: To Stan.
• Hidden Depths: Is surprisingly well-read on The Epic of Gilgamesh. As Stan lampshades, he's never seen her read a magazine!
• Hot Mom: Even Steve's friends consider her a MILF.
• Mama Bear: Messing with Steve and Hayley is a sure way to get you killed by Francine, whether you're her husband or not. When Jeff seemingly decided to break off his engagement with Hayley for $50,000, Francine was so disgusted she tried to kill Jeff by unloading Stan's gun into his face. If it wasn't for the fact that Stan removed the bullets, Jeff would be dead right now. And when she discovered Stan had been bullying Steve in order to toughen him up, Francine chased him through the school, jumped out a window, and ran after him with glass in her hair until he drove off. She then rammed his car off the road with her's.

Stan: What the hell, Francine! You t-boned me bro!

• Mysterious Past: Francine claims to have been in the thrall of an abusive Persian which Stan rescued her from.
• Parental Abandonment: Her real parents casually left her at an airport after being told they couldn't bring any children in first class. They could have brought her on the flight, just not in first class.
• Pink Means Feminine: Pink is her favorite color.
• Really Gets Around: She has a sex garden (a bush planted for every man she slept with) so big it was on the cover of sex garden magazine.
• Retired Badass: She was once in a fight club and in prison, and if you hit her Berserk Button she becomes a Combat Pragmatist who will do anything short of killing her family members if they cross her (she rammed Stan with a four-wheel-drive!).
• Rooting for the Empire: In-Universe, she admits that she supports the Axis powers.
• Stalker with a Crush: When she was younger she had a crush on her algebra teacher, Mr. Feeny. He didn't take her seriously, and then his wife found her in their closet smelling his clothes and cutting herself. Francine lied to the police about them being lovers, so he was arrested and eventually killed himself in prison.
• Stay in the Kitchen: And most of the time, she's absolutely fine with that.
• Taking the Heat: For Gwen in "Now and Gwen". It was touching enough but Stan called in a favour to have her let off the hook while Gwen was arrested for breaking parole.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Girly Girl to Hayley's Tomboy.
• Too Dumb to Live: As Hayley rages, who smokes in a science lab!?
• Women Are Wiser
  • Not So Above It All: While she is much more sane than Stan, she still engages in zany schemes, like trying to assassinate George Clooney because she felt he upstaged her (see "Tears of a Clooney").
    • Though some episodes avert this by making her more socially-awkward and Stan closer to Earth.
• Yandere: To her son, Steve (non-romantic example).
  • Actually, Francine has moved away from this aspect in the later seasons, and when San starts having issues with Steve growing up Francine's the one who has to set him straight.
• Younger Than They Look: Francine's able to unintentionally pass herself off as a teenager when she's up to it. In the first season, after Stan accidentally erased the last twenty years of her life from her memory, Francine noticed no significant change in her physical appearance (except for pubic hair).

Hayley Dreamsmasher Smith-Fischer

Daughter and the oldest of the two Smith siblings. As a kid, she and her father were close due to sharing the same beliefs, but as she became a young adult, her views became the complete opposite of her dad's, causing the two to butt heads often; for instance, she's in favor of gun control, while he isn't. That's not to say that she doesn't get Aw, Look — They Really Do Love Each Other moments with Stan, and shares more than a few personality traits from her father, both negative and positive. Voiced by Rachael MacFarlane (Seth's sister).

• A Lighter Shade of Black: The Smiths are bad people. But she's probably the best of them. At least consistently.
• The Artifact: Arguably even more than Klaus, who one can argue has never really been a major character. Hayley was the second character created for the show after Stan, when the premise was supposed to be a modern "All in the Family". When politics was phased out in the first two seasons, Hayley's screen time and storylines were dramatically reduced. Averted following Season 9.
• Audio Erotica: Roger falls head over heels in love with her after hearing her sing "Makin Whoopee." In his defense, it is amazing.
• Baby Got Back: It's not brought up nearly as much as Stan's but a few episodes like "Stan Knows Best" and "Blonde Ambition" establish that Hayley has a lot of junk in her trunk.
• Baleful Polymorph: Puts her mind into a goldfish body in "One Fish, Two Fish" to play the part of Klaus' wife and stop him from getting deported.
• Balloon Belly: In "Camp Refoogee".
• Bare Your Midriff: Which lets her show off her navel ring.
• Berserk Button: She does not take breakups well (provided that she is not the one who breaks up).
• Big Sister Bully: Though more emotionally than physically but whenever she and Steve interact, she's generally calling him a nerd.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Stan enrolled her in a program to become a CIA sleeper agent when she was 5. If you say the right combination of words, she becomes a trained killer.
  • Manchurian Agent: The trigger words: "I'm getting fed up with this orgasm."
• Brilliant but Lazy: It's shown several times that, when forced into a new situation, Hayley excels at it in ways not even Steve could. She has the attention span of a humming bird however and really can't be bothered.
  • She claims she always drops out of college before mid-terms.
  • She even outwitted Roger in the realm of disguises and wacky personas!
• Daddy's Girl: In her youth and on occasion.
• Deadpan Snarker: Usually to her father.
• Demoted to Extra: Considering how little scenes and lines she has in recent seasons and that here are fewer episodes and subplots about her she tends to fit this trope.
  • Ascended Extra: After the show moved to TBS however, Hayley has soared to prominence. It's gotten to the point where she rivals Stan and Roger for the most episodes focused on her.
• Electra Complex: Hayley once entered a relationship with Stan's C.I.A. double, Bill... yeah. Though it does show that want Hayley really wants is her father's love.
• Embarrassing Middle Name: Dreamsmasher.
• For Want of a Nail
  • After years of Stan and Steve trying and failing to reform Jack, Hayley does so in under two minutes with Jamaican reggae.
  • Hayley used to be happy and energetic until her 7^th birthday where she saw a man beating a baby seal to death on the news turning her into a dour environmentalist.
• Granola Girl: In deep contrast to Stan.
• Hartman Hips: In Roger's words, Hayley may not have asked for a Diet Coke but her thighs did.
• Hey, It's That Voice!: Hayley is the Supreme Commander, Numbuh 362.
• Hypocrite: A lot of humor tends to revolve around this. In some cases she is incredibly shallow about her own ethics and views, albeit Depending on the Writer.
  • Although she says that she is a feminist, she secretly dresses as a Fifties housewife and bakes pies, entering them in contests under the name "Carlotta Montarrey".
  • She dumps boyfriends, frequently Jeff, coldly and nonchalantly on numerous occasions (perhaps most notably dumping Avery Bollock over phone, mid way through a presentation, on live TV, a second before he was going to promote Stan) and is occasionally outright termed as a "slut". When a boy dumps her however, she goes out and out Ax Crazy (to the point that the police have threatened her to have her put in jail for life if she gets dumped again).
  • In "Camp Refoogee", she pigs out at the UN instead of helping the African refugees (which Stan did with gusto!)
  • In "Meter Made", she claims to Stan that her nudity empowers her. When Roger paints a headless nude portrait of her, her only objective is to get it back, clearly uncomfortable about people lusting over her body. In fairness, one of those people was Steve.
• I Just Want to Be Special: Everyone she went to high school with has made it.
• Iconic Item: Her headband.
• Informed Deformity: It's not as bad as Meg Griffin but some characters, usually Klaus and Roger, have commented on how Hayley is hideous with manish hands.
• Know-Nothing Know-It-All: It's shown several times that Hayley's hot-button dogma far outweighs her knowledge of things.
• Likes Older Men: At least in the realm of brief hookups. She's dated Avery Bullock (who's already bald and grey) and Bill (who's presumably the same age as her father).
• Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: In "The Kidney Stays in the Picture", it's revealed that Francine had sex with a man called Joel Larson three days before her wedding. The episode never reveals whether Stan or Joel is her biological father and there's just enough evidence in either one's favour to leave it ambiguous.
• Mama Bear: In "Season's Beatings", despite denying any maternal instincts, the minute she sees the baby Jeff adopted she starts sobbing uncontrollably with joy over "her baby". To the point that she was willing to kill Stan to protect Nemo, even if he is the Anti-Christ.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Masculine Girl to Steve's Feminine Boy.
• Ms. Fanservice
• Not So Different: Her and Stan. Despite their contrasting views, they still share quite a few personality aspects; they are stubborn, self righteous and politically extreme people who often show a disregard for their partner (when she is with Jeff anyway) and try and force them to conform to their world view. When the family goes on The Amazing Race (or a trademark friendly pastiche), she and Stan work flawlessly together.
• Out of Focus: Since about season 3 onward, compare her screen time and plot/sub-plot focus to Stan, Francine, Steve and Roger. In some episodes, she's lucky to have comparable screen time and lines to Klaus. See The Artifact above. Averted following the show's move to TBS.
• Protagonist-Centered Morality: Often times, the only difference between her and Stan is that the show agrees with Hayley's political views, thinking that the lengths she goes to are justified.
• Real Life Relative: Voiced by Seth MacFarlane's sister Rachael.
• Soapbox Sadie
• Straw Hypocrite: At her very worst. While she does show genuine devotion to her beliefs at times, a lot of her actions seem to be solely to outrage her Control Freak father, and has attempted to bail out a few good times she is made to go through with the consequences of her actions.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Minus the large chin, she's a smaller, feminine version of Stan and Jack. She also bears some resemblance to her mother.
  • A plot point moment in "Stannie Get Your Gun" is where Roger points out how much Hayley looks Stan while Steve looks nothing like him.
• Teens Are Short: Going by the DVD covers, she's barely five feet tall. "Faking Bad" establishes her age as being nineteen.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Surprisingly, averted. In "Roy Rogers McFreely", Hayley points out to Stan that, since Roger's in charge and his views are counter to his, Stan is now part of the counterculture, and therefore on the same side with Hayley. Rather than argue, Stan realizes she's right and the two form a group to undermine Roger's control on the neighbourhood. The episode showed that, if not for their clashing points of view, Stan and Hayley would get along great.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Tomboy to Francine's Girly Girl.
• Too Much Alike: Her main problem with Stan. They're both as driven but on opposite sides of the political spectrum.
• Took a Level In Kindness: Hayley was much snarkier and abrasive in the first three or so seasons before she mellowed out considerably.
• The Unfavorite: Her middle name says most of it, as well as Stan's disdain for her and Francine's blatant favoritism for Steve.
• Unstoppable Rage: If the guy is the one who ends the relationship, she'll go on a destructive rampage.
  • Averted in the episode "American Dream Factory", where illegal Mexican immigrant Paco breaks off a relationship with her, with no adverse effects. Of course, this is likely due to the fact that this episode is almost two years older than Pulling Double Booty, the episode where this trait made its debut.
    • She does however go to desperate lengths to have him prosecuted by the INS. Though the reactions are different throughout the show, Hayley at least consistently handles being dumped in an extremely callous manner, especially considering the number of times she has coldly dumped Jeff.
  • She also was a holy terror during various stages of puberty: when told that she had to wear tampons now that she was on her period, Hayley (who was wearing a skirt) threw the tampon box away and sat on the Smiths' new white couch, she yelled at her parents for not getting bigger boobs, and when Roger cracked a joke about a pimple on her face, she threw Roger through a window and set the living room on fire.
  • She beat up Snot for taking her panties.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Until her sixth birthday, Hayley was the stereotypically happy American girl. Then she saw a man club a baby seal to death, turning her into the dour girl she is now.
• Weirdness Magnet: She always seems to attract questionable men, and being sucked into an environmental cult with a man who planned to be turned into a tree, as well as having dinner with a psychopathic serial killer who just killed his father.
• "Well Done, Daughter" Girl: Several episodes show that all Hayley wants is Stan's approval. It's why she's so eager to date Bill (Stan's body double). What she really wants is the love of her father.
• Woman Scorned: To its most extreme. See above.

Steven "Steve" Anita Smith

The younger of the Smith siblings. A nerdy teenager who has his own circle of nerd buddies and quests for tail. While otherwise unsuccessful at the game of love, he does have an on-again/off-again relationship with heavyset goth Debbie Hyman. Voiced by Scott Grimes.

• Adorkable: At times.
• Alliterative Name: Subverted thanks to his middle name.
• Ambiguously Gay: Snot is frequently featured in his sexual fantasies and several flash forwards have him and Snot being life partners.
• Animals Hate Him: Along with everything else.
• Beware the Nice Ones: He is proving that you should heed this.
• Big No: Periodically belts out a rather humorous one.
• Butt Monkey
• Casanova Wannabe
• The Chew Toy: Poor guy can't seem to catch a break. Especially when it comes to women...
• Chubby Chaser: His only steady girlfriend was a Big Beautiful Woman.
• Control Freak: In "Fantasy Baseball". He starts out by adding some Dungeons and Dragons spice to the game but later ends up replacing baseball with D&D wholesale.
• Depending on the Writer: He's either a sweet Adorkable kid who looks up to his dad, a kid with serious issues, or hormonal and perverted.
• Did Not Get the Girl
• Embarrassing Middle Name: Turns out his sister isn't the only one with one: Anita.
• Extraverted Nerd
• Functional Addict: Averted. Cougar boost ruins his life.
• Geek: To the point where Klaus outright asks if Steve is "allergic to vaginas".
• The Hero: With his friends.
• Hollywood Genetics: It has been explicitly said that Steve has red hair (though on television, it appears brown). His mom has blonde hair and his dad has black hair with blond recessive genes.
  • His mom is not a natural blonde, however; she's shown in one episode to dye it from brown.
  • And seen as a blond when she was a child and baby.
    • Though generally, young children will have blonde hair that darkens with age.
• It's All About Me: The degree depends on the episode and while largely a good person, Steve's world generally begins and ends with him. There's little manipulation he won't inflict upon his friends and family to become popular or get the girl. Even when Stan and/or Francine goes through something traumatizing, Steve's concern is how it will affect him.
• Jerkass Ball: And when he holds it, it's a death grip.
• The Jinx: In both the case of animals and romance. The few he successfully gains the affection of tend to meet a terrible fate. Simon the cat seemed to make the connection.
• Large Ham: Seems to inherit his father's melodramatic tendencies.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Frequently for his many callous treatments of his friends. The most noteworthy is being attacked by a crow. It never sticks.
• Lovable Sex Maniac
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Feminine Boy to Hayley's Masculine Girl.
• Momma's Boy
• Nerds Are Virgins: Majority of his storylines amount to this.
• Not Allowed to Grow Up: He will always be a fourteen-year old high-schooler. This even holds true after his sister graduated college, entered the workforce and got promoted.
• Oedipus Complex: Steve's love for Francine is far more than just a son loving his mother. In "The Sinister Fate!!", he's excited when Klaus declares that every boy will marry a woman like his mother.
• Pinocchio Nose: To quote Stan Smith: "Funny. When you tell the truth you don't need to flush. Your ass has betrayed you."
• Ridiculously Successful Future Self
• Screams Like a Little Girl
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Sensitive Guy to Stan's Manly Man.
• Slap Slap Kiss: Has this in one episode with an underage Indian girl.
• Small Name, Big Ego: He wrote a Saturday Night Live sketch called "Quantum Rape", about a guy in jail for raping Scott Bakula who tries to explain to his cellmate what Quantum Leap is and failing. Steve finds this hilarious. Jon Stewart didn't. Steve comes to the logical conclusion that Stewart was raped as a child which is why he thinks it's so awful.
• Strong as They Need to Be: He's said to be incredibly weak. This can be anything from only being able to pick on those smaller than him or to being unable to run up the stairs or make a fist.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Averted. "Stannie Get Your Gun" hangs on the lampshade on the fact that, unlike Hayley, he looks nothing like Stan.
• Teens Are Short: Though unlike his sister, this is only temporary. "Roots" establishes the "Smith Slump" and that Steve will one day shoot up in size. Indeed flash forwards do show him as towering over Hayley.
• Unstoppable Rage: His "Going Bananas".
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Tries to impress Stan, who is repulsed by his nerdiness and lack of athleticism.

Roger Smith

An 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. Voiced by Seth MacFarlane.

• Alien Among Us: He was the Roswell crash.
• Aliens Are Bastards: At his worst, but he’s usually just a jerk.
• Always Camp
• Anal Probing: On Stan during their trip to Atlantic City. They were both drunk, and Stan agreed to the most intimate experiences of Roger's species. Roger ended up knowing all of Stan's memories, but not vice versa — this was especially humiliating for Roger because Stan was actually Roger's first.
• Anti-Hero: Type V. He would probably be a straight up Villain Protagonist if it were not for his Pet the Dog moments.
• Anything That Moves: And several things that don't.
• Attention Whore
• Becoming the Mask: As he himself says, unless there's something really emotionally shaking, the persona just takes over.
• Beyond the Impossible: He has a persona named Ricky Spanish who's even more of a Jerkass than Roger himself and is hated by every single person in Langley Falls. At the end of that episode, you can add Steve to the list, since "Ricky" framed him for robbery and got him sent to jail.
• Bi the Way: Confirmed as of "You Debt Your Life". After realizing that realizing Andy Dick took his place after he moved out (temporarily), we get this quote:

Roger: Oh my God! Another fey, pansexual, alcoholic nonhuman...I've been replaced!

• • Depraved Bisexual
• Big No: Has had a few of his own, though not as many as Steve.
• Bigger Bad: For his entire species. His cheating on Emperor Zing caused him to renounce love and to kidnap people from across the galaxy to serve as slaves.
• Bizarre Alien Biology: Used to excellent effect. He's 60% electricity, has Super Speed (as in Superman levels), has insanely powerful leg muscles, is fireproof, has a Healing Factor, can bud off homonculi, and is Long Lived to name a few.
• Breakout Character: Hasn't quite supplanted Stan as the main character, but he's come close.
• Bunny Ears Lawyer: Just about 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). And it's shown that, without those personas running through Langley Falls, the city would fall apart.
• Clark Kenting: His disguises. Eventually explained away by the fact that his skin is so featureless, people just assume the outfit's most stereotypical personality.
• Comedic Sociopath
• Dark and Troubled Past: For the large part, the more we learn about Roger's background, the more depraved an individual he seems.
• Depending on the Writer: Sometimes he hates Klaus. Sometimes he and Klaus are Heterosexual Life Partners.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose In Life
• Determinator: If his motives are selfish enough, he can achieve anything. He pursues Haley and Jeff with the money they cheated Stan out of across the entire planet. When he's convinced to kill the Smith family, he's able to escape from an excessively secure underwater prison. Not even leaving the planet is enough to escape him.
• Disappeared Dad: He ate him when he was 15. Apparently this is another of his species' sociopathic tendencies.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Frequently plays this trope to its most extreme. In "Stannie Get Your Gun", he conspires to make Steve's life a living hell after Steve ate his cookie and said: "You snooze, you lose." And that was him going easy on someone.
  • "Weiner of Our Discontent" has Stan calling Roger a selfish fat failure. Roger responds by planning on destroying the planet.
  • In "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".
  • "The Great Space Roaster" had Roger attempting 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.
• Early Installment Weirdness: Originally he was a shy shut-in whom even Hayley and Klaus casually pushed around. Episode 5 even treated his wearing a disguise as a some great invention instead of something he'd been doing for decades.
• Expansion Pack Past: His life since his arrival to Earth during the Roswell incident.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Even he's terrified of Ricky Spanish and Dudley Dingleberry.
  • He's horrified that Francine has kept Steve on breast milk.
  • For all that he can be pissed off at the Smiths and swear death against them, he doesn't appear to actually want them to die.
  • The Nazis were too much even for him.
• Evil Is Petty: In "Stannie Get Your Gun", Steve ate Roger's cookie. In response, Roger gaslit Steve into thinking he'd been kidnapped by Stan and Francine as a baby. And he's only gotten worse from there.
• Faux Affably Evil: Roger when he's in a manipulative mood. He can act nice if he wants to be at times, before stabbing them in the back and/or abandoning them.
• Flanderization: His affinity for costumes and dress up acts, to the point some literally take over his personality. His Jerkass traits also initially just came with 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 he'll actually die without acting consistently cruel).
• For Halloween I Am Going as Myself: Went to a sci-fi convention without a disguise. Oddly enough, this was the one time he avoided interaction with people.
• Forgot About His Powers: Never remembers that he has Super Speed when he needs to get somewhere fast.
• Freudian Excuse:
  • Roger physically needs to be a jerk. If he doesn't let his bitchiness out, it will turn to a bile and poison him.
  • "Fellow Traveler" reveals that the reason his personas are so eccentric with Dark and Troubled Pasts is because the first humans he met were a bunch of eccentric weirdos with Dark and Troubled Pasts.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Discussed in "Frannie 911". Francine will write off anything Roger does because Culture Justifies Anything but Stan argues that Roger has been on Earth long enough to know not to be a Jerkass. Then it's revealed that Roger's actual Freudian Excuse is that if he doesn't be an asshole, his bitchiness will turn into a bile and poison him but even he's clearly taking it to far to the point that Stan beating him up is the only way to balance the scales.
• Good Hurts Evil: He must be an asshole lest his bitchiness turn to bile and poison him from the inside out.
• The Greys: Which is why his costumes work so well. He himself is so featureless.
• The Gump: In his lifetime he's responsible for creating disco in the 1970s (through a time paradox, admittedly), instigating the death of Biggie Smalls, creating Jar Jar Binks, inventing ecstasy in the 1990s, and turning Raven-Symoné into an actress (after he kidnapped her from a park when she was a child).
• Heroic BSOD: In "Wiener of our Discontent", he is put out of action when he finds out he was supposed to be a crash test dummy
• It's All About Me: While pretty much all the family display this trait on occasion, Roger takes it to sociopathic extremes.
• Jerkass: Can shift into a comedic monster on occasion. Depending on the Writer, he's shown to be perfectly willing to exploit or even murder his closest friends for minor offenses or indulgences.
  • In the Blood/Freudian Excuse: It would literally kill Roger to be nice. His species have to let their 'bitchiness' out frequently otherwise it vents out in bile and vomit.
  • Took a Level In Jerkass: Roger was more toned down in early episodes, acting little past an obnoxious Cloudcuckoolander and showing more frequent gestures of 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.
    • In spite of Taken a level of Jerkass he still has moments of clarity
    • Pet the Dog: 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 usual tendencies.
    • Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: On occasion such as in "The Talented Mr. Dingleberry".
• Karma Houdini: Has he ever suffered for his horrible actions? There are even multiple episodes where he's the Big Bad and he gets to come back to the Smith house every night.
  • 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 The Chew Toy is usually when he has done nothing wrong.
  • 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 (tearfully) to sending him to prison.
• Lack of Empathy: To extremes. The first time he felt empathy for someone over himself was such a shock to his mindset that he developed a split personality (one with far more redeeming aspects than his own).
• Large Ham
• Laughably Evil: He shows little, if any thought for his family and friends' well being, and committed all sorts of heartless or outright murderous acts for the most trivial and petty reasons and so it goes without saying he is a fan favorite.
• Logical Weakness: For all his Super Speed, he cannot be in two places at once. Whenever he's Acting for Two, he has to make an excuse to change.
• Manipulative Bastard
• Mysterious Past: He's apparently 1600 years old. Who knew? We also have no idea what his race is called except that their home planet is snowy.
• New Powers as the Plot Demands: 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), and the ability to move "really, really fast."
• Out of Focus: Downplayed but starting around Season 15 or so he's mainly been the star of largely inconsequential B-plots, compared to how much prominence he got when the show was airing on Fox.
• Overprotective Dad: Surprisingly without crossing into abusive territory when he becomes Steve's legal guardian.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: Has a wardrobe full of them.
  • Justifiably in "Stanny Tendergrass", it's revealed that there is at least one persona that a person CANNOT see through, and instead sees Roger actually as that person. For Stan, it is Mr. Vanderhill, Francine, a Korean kid who shoots pool with a giant chopstick, Hayley's is her sandal repair man and Steve's is Elisha Wiltner, who Steve went on 9 dates with.
  • It's later revealed that his status as The Greys lets him get away with this. He's so featureless that the human subconscious fills in the blanks of the personas.
• The Power of Hate: The very entity keeping his species' alive (see above). Naturally The Power of Love is toxic to them as a result.
• Psychopathic Manchild
• Reality Warper: 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 Fred Savage.
• Self-Made Orphan: Claims to have killed his father.
• Strong as They Need to Be: It goes back and forth on whether he'd be able to match Stan in a fight or it's a Curb Stomp Battle in Stan's favour. Though some of it might be psychosomatic as, whatever alien powers Roger has, Stan looks much bigger and stronger than Roger, something that has been shown to terrify the alien.
• Super Speed: Allowed him to fake the death of a persona in Season 6 and it's probably how he gets from place to place in different personas so quickly.
• The Sociopath: Self-confessed, no less. When he becomes a Dirty Cop (after being on the force for 3 hours) he says that

"Plus I'm a sociopath so all this fits me like a glove."

• This Is for Emphasis, Bitch: Tends to say these at least once an episode.
• Truly Single Parent: To Rogu.
• Token Evil Teammate: None of the Smiths are particularly saintly in behaviour, 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.
• The Unfettered: Playing into his Lack of Empathy, 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).
  • The Ubermensch: YMMV, but if it is at all possible to play this trope strictly for laughs, you could make a case for Roger. He is goal oriented, amoral, refuses to accept outside authority, and if he wants something, even something totally impossible, he makes it happen through nothing more than sheer force of will and a complete ignorance of objective reality.
• Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: American Dad! is hardly "Saccharine" but Roger can be quite a dark villain if the show calls for it.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Type 1 with Stan, Steve and at times Klaus.
• Unlimited Wardrobe: In contrast to the rest of the major characters.

Klaus Heissler

An East German athlete trapped in the body of a goldfish thanks to a scheme by the CIA to prevent him from winning the gold at the 1986 Winter Olympics because he was from the "communist East." Stan was assigned to looking over Klaus, and as such the talking fish has become an honorary member of the Smith family. Voiced by Dee Bradley Baker.

• Accent Adaptation: In the German dub, he has a Saxon accent. (Klaus was East German, afterall.)
• All Germans Are Nazis: At the very least, he does seem to sympathize with the Nazis somewhat.
  • The German dub changes this, implying he is a communist and former Stasi member.
  • He once got a horrified reaction when he mentions his grandfather drove the kiddy train at Auschwitz... Zoo, and points out there is more than one thing in that town (which was and is actually Oświęcim, Poland).
  • When he and Roger are at Normandy Beach, they discuss how the soldiers who fought on D-Day were essentially boys and very brave. Though Roger was speaking of the Americans, Klaus admired the bravery of the young Germans fighting off an American invasion.
• The Artifact: His status as a goldfish is arguably this. Starting around Season 5, especially in the TBS seasons, his plots focus more on what a loser he is and his unhinged nature.
• Baleful Polymorph: Kinda.
• Beware the Silly Ones: You wouldn't think so but he can do some serious physical damage.
• Blood Knight: If there's an option involving killing, Klaus will take it.
• Butt Monkey
• Casanova Wannabe
• The Chew Toy: Arguably the largest amongst the similarly luckless Smith family.
• Chivalrous Pervert: Spent most of the early seasons trying to woo Francine. Less prominent later on where he seems to have gained a respect for Stan and lost interest in Francine for the most part.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Occasionally implied.
• Death Seeker: More or less. Pretty much all he can do as a goldfish is sit around and wait for death.
• Depending on the Writer: He can either be a total loser outside the Smith house or one of the most respected people in the city.
• Early Installment Weirdness: Would you believe that he was the one member of the family that everyone respected and wanted to impress in the show's early days?
• Earn Your Happy Ending: A flash forward shows that he's regained a human body and will have at least one grandchild.
• Everyone Has Standards: Klaus may well be a Nazi sympathizer but even he found it appalling that Francine's birth parents just casually abandoned her at an airport so they could go on first class.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: The family member who absorbs the most shit. Though it's shown that he's essential to the family dynamic as, without him, the family's vitriol will turn them against each other.
• For the Evulz: Often does things simply to amuse him as sits around waiting for death.
• Funny Animal
• Funny Foreigner
• Gratuitous German
• The Hedonist: After body-jacking Stan, he goes on to take a lot of drugs and sleep with a lot of women.
• Hey, It's That Voice!: Dee Bradley Baker.
• Hidden Depths: Klaus before being transformed into a fish was highly accomplished; he studied at Viardina European University and may have a doctorate in therapy. He owned a Ferrari and was an Olympic class skier. However, as none of that is relevant to being a goldfish it's frequently overlooked or ignored.
• I Reject Your Reality: This, along with The Mad Hatter, and Cloudcuckoolander. His mental health has obviously deteriorated due to being stuck in the body of a fish, and he's fully aware of it. He has conversations with himself, and has narrated his life and those around him as a DVD commentary, among other instances of insanity.
• Jerkass: Albeit toned down in later episodes, where he's usually too desperate for human interaction.
• The Load: Even Francine is blunt about this:

Klaus: Oh, can I help? Francine: Oh how can you help? You're a fish!

• Mars Needs Women: Lusted after Francine in early episodes.
• My Friends and Zoidberg: A big victim of this.
• Mysterious Past: Much about his human life is unknown.
• Noodle Incident: At some point his mind was, (or will be), placed within two sharks and a monkey.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Most of what he does. Despite being in the body of a goldfish, he can do just about anything an ordinary human can. Special credit goes to "Daesong Heavy Industries II: Return to Innocence" where he managed to survive apocalyptic flooding in Korea and return to Langley Falls all on his own.
• One-Scene Wonder: He usually doesn't appear often, or have much plot relevance most of the time, but when he does appear you can expect a funny line or two.
• Out of Focus: Perhaps unavoidably. As a fish, there's not much that he can contribute to the plot.
• Rooting for the Empire: As said above, he's a Nazi supporter.
• Sanity Slippage: Being stuck inside a goldfish bowl has not done his sanity any favours.
• Status Quo Is God: His mind will always end up in the body of a goldfish.
• Stop Helping Me!: Says as much to Hayley in "One Fish, Two Fish".
• Token Good Teammate: Bastard he might be, he's one of the morally superior Smiths.

Jeff Fischer

Hayley's on again off again stoner boyfriend. They get married in the premiere of season 6. Voiced by Jeff Fischer.

• Adult Child: In "For Whom The Sleigh Bell Tolls" Stan is incensed that Jeff still believes in Santa Claus. He turns out to be real later in the episode.
• Ascended Extra: Hardly an "extra" but after his stint in space, he's been featured much more prominently. In some episodes, he has more focus than Roger.
• Body Backup Drive: In "Holy Shit, Jeff's Back!", Jeff is abducted by a race called the Collectors and dissected only for one of them to consent to Brain Uploading so Jeff can live again in his body. He gets "re-birthed" with a human body in "Roger's Baby".
• Butt Monkey
• Can't Keep a Secret: Whether it be a surprise birthday party and present, the ending to a movie or that Roger's an alien. If Jeff was a doctor, he'd be breaking the Hippocratic oath.
• The Danza
• Dating What Daddy Hates: Arguably what drew him and Hayley together.
• Erudite Stoner
• Extreme Doormat: Usually to Hayley and Stan's abuse (albeit largely due to being The Pollyanna).
• Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: In "Daesong Heavy Industries II: Return to Innocence", the US Navy captain thinks he might be Jeff's father, given Jeff's resemblance to a woman whom the captain had relations with.
• The Millstone: He rivals Stan in his ability to make situations go from bad to worse.
• Noodle Incident: In "100 A.D.", Hayley is pissed and fed up with him trying to win her back, but Jeff tells her something offscreen that apparently causes her to fall in love with him and elope. What he said is never revealed, probably because there's no believable way that they could write something that emotional.
• Nice Hat: It's his whole identity.
• Parental Abandonment: His father framed him for possession of cannabis and frequently expresses embarrassment for him in a highly unfiltered Sarcasm Mode. His mother abandoned him before he was born.
• The Pollyanna: Is quite possible the most cheerful, upbeat guy in the entire show.
• Spear Counterpart: To Hayley's horror, "The Sinister Fate!!" establishes him as one to Francine.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy

Rogu

A homunculus of Roger's that he budded off in "Persona Assistant". Created to ease the workload of Roger's personas, he's largely regarded as Roger's son. Voiced by Dee Bradley Baker

• Ambiguous Innocence: It's unclear how sentient Rogu is. Sometimes he's his own person, but other times he's more an extension of Roger.
• Bizarre Alien Biology: In addition to, presumably, sharing Roger's, eating candy will cause him to cough up clones which he can merge back with to grow to gigantic size.
• Cousin Oliver: Though this is clearly an Intended Audience Reaction.
• Third-Person Person: Speaks like this.

CIA

Avery Bullock

Deputy Director of the CIA and Stan's superior (he's only Deputy-Deputy Director). Also a right-winger, but not to the same level of absurdity as Stan. Notably, despite being married, he has had sex with Hayley. Also has a thing for "plump Asian" chicks. Voiced by Patrick Stewart.

• Actor Allusion: The writers will occasionally have him say something that sounds like a quote by one Jean-Luc Picard.
• Adam Westing: More or less the character's reason for existing. Literally any time the writers can get him to say something that would sound ridiculous coming out of Captain Picard's mouth, they will.
• Ax Crazy: As time passed, he's become more unstable.
• Bald of Awesome: Though considerably less that Stewart himself.
• Berserk Button: Do not touch his sandwich.
• Bi the Way: Hinted at. He had gay experiences in boarding school, gets an erection when Stan sits on him but also has a big crush on Hayley.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
• The Cameo: Appears, alongside Stan, in the Family Guy two-parter "Stewie Kills Lois."
• Chubby Chaser: He "has a thing" for chubby asian chicks. Although it usually helps if they're also skanks.
• Cloudcuckoolander
• Cool Old Guy
• Depending on the Writer: Does Bullock like Stan and consider him a close (if not his best) friend or is he, at best, apathetic towards him?
  • And for that matter, how does Stan feel about Bullock? Does he consider him a good friend or a needy, idiot who can be easily manipulated to either progress in his job or just for amusement?
• Dirty Old Man: Oh so very much.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Stewart has only ever refused to say two things. One was a joke at the expense of an unidentified friend of his, and the other implied Bullock was a pedophile and Stewart convinced everyone that that was taking things too far. "Faking Bad" has him be horrified that he was nearly a sex offender and that he'd hit on an underage girl.
  • As he reminds Stan, he doesn't work for Bullock, he works for the USA. If orders come from high command, Stan is to follow them above Bullock's own.
• The Hedonist
• Hypocrite: Bullock runs the CIA and has zero problem breaking whatever law he wants when the mood strikes him. If one of his agents breaks the law however, he'll pursue them relentlessly.
• Ink Suit Actor: Emphasized by his character model having been recycled when Patrick Stewart guest starred As Himself on Family Guy.
• Large Ham
• Me Love You Long Time: As stated above he likes himself some plump Asian women.
• Misplaced Kindergarten Teacher: Often runs the CIA as either this or a summer camp.
• Murder Is the Best Solution: No matter the problem.
• Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Inverted. Patrick Stewart plays up his British accent when voicing Bullock.
• Playing Against Type
• Psychopathic Manchild
• Serious Business: The more petty the issue, the more time and resources Bullock will devote to it.
• Shout-Out: The occasional Star Trek: The Next Generation reference is made, such as Bullock referring to his immediate subordinate as "Number One".
• Uncanny Family Resemblance: "Fellow Traveler" reveals that he looks just like his father.
• Wild Card

Reginald the Koala

A homeless man whose brain was placed in the body of a koala, and now works for the CIA. Voiced by Donald Fullilove & Erik Durbin.

• Badass Adorable: He's as cute as a button.
• Dance Battler: "It's Capoeira, bitch!"
• Mars Needs Women: Tried to pursue a romance with Hayley.
• Out of Focus: Possibly due to being a borderline scrappy.
• Sassy Black Koala

Dick Reynolds

A recently divorced, miserable co-worker of Stan. Voiced by Stephen Root & David Koecher.

• Butt Monkey
• Walking Techbane: Weaponized in "CIAPOW" where his inability to operate technology shuts down a Thai prison.

Jackson

A "former homosexual" co-worker of Stan's whose ‘sodomy cleared right up’. Voiced by Mike Henry.

• Anything That Moves
• Badass Gay: It's not quite clear if his life partner is a transvestite or a transgender but Jackson is still quite badass.

John Sanders

The fourth member of Stan's group. Voiced by Mike Barker.

• Dropped a Bridge on Him: Casually revealed to have been killed on a body retrieval mission. It's due to Mike Barker leaving the show.
• Forgotten Fallen Friend: "Widow's Pique" established that he died. It's later mentioned that he was one of Stan's closest friends but Stan doesn't display even a hint of emotion towards Sanders' death.
• Spell My Name with a "The": "Sanders" or "Saunders"?

Pearl Bailey High School

Principal Brian Lewis

The principal of Steve’s High School. Voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson.

• Apathetic Teacher: Steve lampshades this by admitting to his face that he can't believe he's an educator. His job's mostly administrative. He outright says that he doesn't give a damn about the school.
• Ascended Extra: Moved from being an incidental character to becoming the focus of the main plot of two consecutive episodes.
• Ax Crazy: Utterly unhinged.
• Badass Teacher: Discovered Steve had just punched an Indian exchange student (a twelve year old girl) in the face, then shattered a hot pot of coffee in Steve's face.
• Based on a True Story: His childhood was an inspiration for Diff'rent Strokes.
• Cloudcuckoolander: A result of Flanderization as his eccentric tendencies gradually became more and more pronounced the more he appeared.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Whatever it entailed, the correct reaction is apparently Stunned Silence that someone could do that to a child. Though as said above, at least part of it inspired Diff'rent Strokes. "The Bicycle Man" really did happen.
• Depraved Bisexual: Was "prison married" for a few years, yet doesn't necessarily admit he's solely heterosexual and has professed fond memories of his time pushing cocaine and being given the pick of "girls, not women, girls" by his boss.
• Fat Bastard: Crosses into this territory from time to time.
• Fat Idiot
• The Gump: His life was the basis for Different Strokes. Stan calls him out for how he left Dudley in the bicycle shop with the pedophile in "The Bicycle Man". Brian mentions the real Dudley is messed up now.
• Ink Suit Actor: Compare with Kevin Michael Richardson.
• Moral Myopia: See Papa Wolf. Said revenge was a case of Disproportionate Retribution, especially since they were no better in the first place, and it was all because of a case of Misplaced Retribution on Steve's part. Steve even explained it was his friends' fault, and they still wanted Steve as well, making it a case of Misplaced Retribution on their part as well.
• Odd Friendship:
  • Steve thinks he has this with Brian after he begins handling his paperwork. Even before then Steve had a tendency to refer to him by his first name. Then Brian sets him straight just before he plans on killing the two of them by explaining Steve was only his accountant. Though several episodes do imply that Steve is Brian's confidant.
  • Has a more traditional version of this with Stan.
• One-Scene Wonder: Though he's been the focus of many an episode, his roles usually amount to this.
• Papa Wolf: Told the PTA to turn a blind eye to his daughter and her friends' revenge on Steve and his friends.
• Where Did We Go Wrong?: Despite going full-on Papa Wolf, he admits to Steve that he's deeply ashamed of his daughter Janet, for "more reasons than you can imagine".

Schmuley "Snot" Lonstein

Steve's best friend and frequent partner in crime. Voiced by Curtis Armstrong.

• Actor Allusion: His nickname, "Snot" alludes to Curtis Armstrong's most famous role, "Booger", in the Revenge of the Nerds film series.
• Ambiguously Gay: Like his best friend.
• Butt Monkey
• Clear My Name: After Steve pins a heist on him in "Bar Mitzvah Hustle".
• Disappeared Dad
• Embarrassing First Name: Why else would be okay with a nickname like "Snot"?
• Flanderization: He went from poorer than Steve to one-step above being homeless.
• Hopeless Suitor: Has had an unrequited crush on Hayley for apparently quite a long time.
• The Lancer: To Steve.
• Noodle Incident: One time, he and Steve encountered a mystery of the disappearance of his bicycle, but they dropped it after the case turned into a double rape homicide.
• Perpetual Poverty: Even if he becomes a billionaire, he'll be back to rags at the end of the episode.
• With Friends Like These...: Snot turns on Steve a lot, like stealing his girlfriend and throwing an apple at him when he had his scoliosis brace on. Snot himself has suffered from some of Steve's schemes in turn.

Barry Robinson

Steve's mentally retarded friend. Voiced by Eddie Kaye Thomas. He's actually a criminal mastermind when off his meds, and his evil side is voiced by Craig Ferguson.

• Ambiguously Gay: Might be crushing on Snot.
• The Big Guy: To Steve.
• Berserk Button: Don't deprive him of his candy. Last person who did it got shot. Then Barry jammed then twisted his finger in the wound for good measure.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Even without his medication, he's okay with mass-swearing, literally twisting a bullet in the wound and opines killing people when not necessary.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Even without his pills, he has some moments.
• The Chessmaster
• The Chick: To Steve.
• Cloudcuckoolander
• Disability Superpower: Barry is shown to be impossibly good with numbers. Possibly a hint of his true nature seeping through.
• Evil Brit: Gains a British accent when he's unmedicated.
• The Evil Genius
• Fat Best Friend
• For the Evulz: Why he does anything when he's unmedicated.
• Gentle Giant: Under his medication, but otherwise...
• Good Is Dumb: Looking into his history, he represents this well. He's also arguably the most docile of Steve and his friends and the dumbest... with his meds anyway. Without them he's an evil genius.
• Hypocrite: Fat people disgust him but he's fine with his body.
• It's All About Me: His untraquilized persona actually takes this to an even more psychotic level than Roger after gaining a bond with Stan, becoming intent on destroying anyone that pulls them apart.
• Manipulative Bastard
• Parental Neglect: Suggested off screen. When they finally show up, it's revealed that they're sex-addicts and don't have too much time for him.
• Token Evil Teammate: Though kept at bay with his medication.

Toshi Yoshida

The fourth of Steve's circle of friends. Speaks only in Japanese, meaning most people in town don't understand him. Voiced by Daisuke Suzuki.

• Arranged Marriage: He briefly mentions he's involved in one.
• Asian and Nerdy
• Badass Bookworm: See Katanas Are Just Better
• Blood Knight: "When the blade is drawn...it must taste blood."
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Inverted. Steve, Barry and Snot like him just fine but he hates them. When future versions of Steve and Snot say that Toshi stopped speaking to the three after high school, Toshi is eager to bring about that future.
  • It is implied however that he's pretty hated around the school.
• Fun with Foreign Languages: Not does he exclusively speak Japanese, he will speak French in the future.
• Fun with Subtitles: The disconnect between what Toshi is saying and what the other characters think he's saying is often played for humor.
• Japanese Ranguage: EAT... MY... BOWLS!
• Katanas Are Just Better: He uses one to cut apart two serial killers in the Halloween episode "Best Little Horror House in Langley Falls".
• Knight Templar Big Brother: Mess with his sister, or even take her out on a date without his permission, and he will quite literally END you.
• Out of Focus: Given his tendency to speak only Japanese, he's never starred in a storyline. Starting in Season 12 or so, he's been increasingly side-lined in favour of Barry.
• Secret Secret Keeper: Knows that Roger is an alien. But since no one can understand him, it's not a huge concern.
• The Smart Guy: To Steve.
• Stop Being Stereotypical: This is the reason he didn't want to wear a samurai Halloween costume.

I will not be a cliche!

• • He has once complimented Steve when they dressed up in Star Trek attire, that he was not the one to play Sulu. That role was given to Barry, who ironically made 'me Chinese' eyes for this purpose.
• Unexplained Accent: Taken Up to Eleven. His family doesn't speak Japanese yet he does.
• The Unintelligible: He only speaks Japanese, but it's subtitled, so the audience can understand even though none of the other characters can. Inexplicably, his mother, father, and sister speak fluent English (and it's very much Depending on the Writer whether or not they speak Japanese).
  • The same episode his mother and sister are introduced brings up that he chooses not to speak English out of national pride.
  • In another episode, it is discovered that he seems to be 'haunted' by Minamoto a 12th century shogun, who he, ironically cannot understand and takes his phrases for something else like his friends do him.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Doesn't seem to like Steve very much (much of his dialogue is insulting remarks toward Steve, which of course Steve can't understand), but continues to hang out with him.
  • It's implied other kids aren't as nice to him.

Debbie Hyman

Steve’s on-again, off-again Goth girlfriend. Voiced by Lizzy Caplan.

• Big Beautiful Woman
• Big Eater
• Dark Is Not Evil: She's pretty nice.
• Demoted to Extra: Hasn't had a major appearance since Season 4.
• Hidden Depths: Is quite knowledgeable about guns.
• Only Sane Man: Out of the entire show Debbie is possibly the most well-adjusted, rational, and emotionally mature character save for her interest in death.
• Perky Goth
• The Sixth Ranger: Well, fifth, to Steve.

Akiko Yoshida

Toshi’s sister, who often acts as a translator. Voiced by Grey DeLisle & Grace Park.

• Big Little Sister
• Early Installment Weirdness: Was a little girl when she first appeared.
• The Other Darrin: Was voiced by Grey DeLisle, until "Best Little Horror House in Langley Falls" where she was replaced by Grace Park.
• Satellite Love Interest: To Steve.

Smith Extended Family

Jack Smith

Stan's father, a jewel thief and con-man. Voiced by Daran Norris.

• Aborted Arc: His stint as Krampus was quickly done away with.
• Abusive Parents: Of the emotional variety. He really ups it in "Ghost Dad".
• And I Must Scream: He ends "Ghost Dad" with his spirit trapped in a museum exhibit, fully aware but unable to escape.
• The Atoner: As Krampus. It doesn't last.
• Badass
• Daddy Didn't Show
• Disappeared Dad: To Stan.
• Eyepatch of Power
• Killed Off for Real: In "Ghost Dad".
• Manipulative Bastard
• Shadow Archetype: To Stan.
• Snap Back: At the end of "Minstrel Krampus", he becomes the new Krampus and promises to atone for his sins. In his next appearance, "Ninety North, Zero West", he's back to his usual selfish self.
• Strong Family Resemblance: To Stan and Hayley.

Betty Smith

Stan's somewhat needy mother. Voiced by Swoosie Kurtz.

• Hot Mom
• My Beloved Smother: Subverted. Betty lives for Stan's attention but she's actually looking for a boyfriend so she can have somebody who'll make her happy. The relationship crosses into disturbing territory at times, but it's Stan that has the unhealthy obsession, not Betty.
  • What do you do when your mom's unhappy? Jerry left her feeling crappy? Sing her a shanty nice and snappy! Wash her in the bathtub!

Bàba Ling

Francine's adoptive father. Voiced by Tzi Ma.

• Asian Rudeness
• Its Pronounced Tropay: It's "Bah-ba" not "Baba", something he has to constantly correct Stan on.
• No Name Given / Bilingual Bonus: Bàba is simply the Chinese word for 'father'.
• Papa Wolf: Well papa-in-law wolf. He saved Stan from a fire.

Māma Ling

Francine's adoptive mother. Voiced by Amy Hill.

• Asian Rudeness
• No Name Given / Bilingual Bonus: Māma is simply the Chinese word for 'mother'.

Gwen Ling

Francine's adopted sister.

• Asian Airhead: And a criminal to boot.
• Buxom Is Better
• Token Evil Teammate: Even by Smith family standards, Gwen is a contemptible bitch.

Neighbours

Greg Corbin and Terry Bates

Homosexual life partners and co-anchors at W-ANG-TV, and neighbors to the Smiths. Francine was a surrogate mother for their daughter Liberty Belle, or "Libby." They're voiced by Seth MacFarlane and Mike Barker respectively.

• Badass Gay: Both Terry and Greg at times, such as when Terry punches Stan in the face for kidnapping their daughter.
• Beta Couple: Arguably the most prominent relationship on the show after Stan and Francine (and maybe Jeff and Hayley).
• Camp Gay: Conspicuously so.
• Gay Conservative: "Lincoln Lover" reveals that Greg is a Log Cabin Republican. Terry furiously calls him out on how little sense this makes, highlighting that Greg voted against his own right to marry.
• Happily Married: Although not technically married, one of the sweetest couples in animation history, with few arguments and a multitude of tender moments between them.
• Hollywood Pudgy: Greg. In his words he's "straight thin, but [he's] gay fat." Greg is indeed noticeably pudgier compared to Terry.
• Kent Brockman News: They tend to squabble and unload their dirty laundry while at work.
• Parental Abandonment: Terry suffered this from his father Tank after Terry revealed to him that he's homosexual and gave him the choice of accepting that or leaving.
• Papa Wolf: After Stan kidnapped their baby, the two managed to rouse up support from numerous gay truckers to stop Stan. After Stan returned Liberty (and the kids he stole from a lesbian couple) Stan expected to be forgiven because he learned a lesson. Terry decked him.

Stan: That wasn't campy at all!

• Put on a Bus: As a result of Mike Barker leaving the series, Terry left to follow 311 on tour.
• Those Two Gays
• With Friends Like These...: Greg and Terry have been known to spend a numerous amount of time with Stan and Francine, but a couple of instances have proven that the two hate the Smiths.

Linda Memari

An Iranian-American neighbour and friend of Francine. Voiced by Megyn Price.

• Bi the Way or Lipstick Lesbian: Made out with Francine in "Not Particularly Desperate Housewives" as a way of saying a goodbye, despite being married to a man. Miraculously, this saves Francine from getting killed by the Lady Bugs, and Francine thanks Linda, thinking the kiss was a plan to save her. Linda, clearly disappointed, just goes along with that and claims she needed to get back home to her husbands that "she loves". Overall, it's suggest that Linda's not truly attracted to her husband and is a closeted lesbian, and it's revealed that her husband is aware of her preferences.
  • "Rough Trade", has her making her bust more noticeable by unbuttoning her shirt when she went to go borrow some sugar from Francine, which really was an attempt to hit on her. However, Linda quickly covers up when Stan comes to the door instead.
• Demoted to Extra: Linda never really appeared in later seasons, along with her husband.
  • Justified, as she never had much of a personality beyond crushing on Francine.
• Dropped a Bridge on Her: "Cheek to Cheek: A Stripper's Story" casually reveals that she died during a year long Time Skip. "Don't You Be My Neighbor" implies that the Cheery Street Neighbor Haters' Club might have had something to do with this.

Buckle

A Disney imaginer turned Mountain Man turned Henpecked Husband. Voiced by Matt Mc Kenna.

• Badass
• Henpecked Husband
• Jewish Complaining
• Jews Love to Argue
• Mountain Man

Sharri Rothberg

A Jewish-American princess and annoying wife of Buckle. Voiced by Lisa Edelstein.

• The Bus Came Back: Everyone thought she died in "Hurricane!" but she showed up in "Stan & Francine & Connie & Ted".
• It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY": "SHA-RI" not "Sherry".
• Jews Love to Argue
• No Accounting for Taste: With Buckle.

Father Donovan

The local pastor. Voiced by Martin Mull.

• Only in It For the Money: Has no interest in the faith at all.

Roger's Personas

Dr Jordan Edilstein

• Bi the Way: Once spent an experimental weekend with Allen Ginsberg.
• Deadpan Snarker

Rashid

• Domestic Abuser
• Jerkass
• Manipulative Bastard

Horse Renoir

• Bounty Hunter
• Dark and Troubled Past
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
• Third Person Person

Sidney Huffman

• Becoming the Mask: Sidney is a proper split personality formed from the trauma of Roger caring for someone else more than he cared for himself.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Who expected a guy like him to hire a hit man?
• Extreme Doormat
• Nice Guy
• The Pollyanna

Roy Rogers Mc Freely

• Corrupt Politician
• Tyrant Takes the Helm

Dr Rafael Penguin

• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Dr. Penguin is quite possibly the least helpful therapist in the world.
• Know-Nothing Know-It-All: As Klaus (who actually has a degree in therapy) says, all of Doctor Penguin's therapeutic advice is absolutely terrible and should be ignored.
• Killed Off for Real: Only to be replaced by his Backup Twin. His backup twin by marriage.

Jeannie Gold

• Arch Enemy: To Ricky Spanish. They're also brother and sister.
• Good Parents: Inexplicably so. Stan even lampshades that it's all but impossible that Jeannie Gold could have two fully grown kids.
• Iron Lady: The only person in the world who can reign in Ricky Spanish.

Martin Sugar

• Affably Evil
• Baby Got Back: Which he uses to charm the female jurors.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
• The Charmer

Jenny Fromdabloc

• Sex Equals Death

Sgt Pepper

• Character Tics: This guy can't form a sentence without mentioning how much he loves Reese Witherspoon.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: Talks like this.

Ricky Spanish

• 0% Approval Rating: A manhunt forms when Roger wears this persona.
• Becoming the Mask: Though all of Roger's personas do this, Ricky takes the cake. His personality even corrupted Stan.
• The Dreaded
• Eviler Than Thou: To Roger. Somehow.

Uncle Roger

• Shapeshifter Default Form: Roger's most consistently used persona for any random occasion. Though whether he's Stan's uncle or Steve's varies.

Other Characters

The Turlington Detectives

A series of Inexplicably Identical Individuals who serve as slow to react, enigmatic detectives whenever the Smiths are engaged in white collar crimes. The first three were voiced by Forest Whitaker before Craig Robinson took over the role.

• Achievements in Ignorance: No Turlington has ever come close to solving their cases. But they freak the Smiths out so much that the family always abandons their crimes.
• Cloudcuckoolander
• Horrible Judge of Character: They always think the Smiths are upstanding citizens.
• Ink Suit Actor: To Forest Whitaker.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Averted. They really are that stupid but they freak out the Smiths into thinking that the Turlingtons are playing this card.

Santa Claus

• Adaptational Villainy: A wannabe A God Am I conqueror who operates a child slave mining operation at the North Pole. Not exactly as kind as most depictions of Santa Claus in media.
• Bad Santa
• Clothes Make the Superman: He has some innate power, but his suit is what truly makes him a threat.
• Deconstruction: The whole point of his portrayal here. Santa gives toys to all children, even the bad ones. As he lampshades, he's the bad guy getting loads of money from toys.
• Take Over the World: That or destroy it. Point is, his ultimate goal will drown the world in apocalyptic levels of blood and fire.

Roger's Species

• Aerith and Bob: They've got names as varied from Zing to Roger and Foster.
• Bizarre Alien Biology:
  • They can remain conscious while being dissected but they need to be put back together quickly.
  • Their pancreas is a feral creature with a taste for peanut butter.
  • When really, really happy, they can make a rainbow out of urine.
  • They're also immune to Laser-Guided Amnesia, fire and electricity (though they can still feel pain from it).
  • Thanks to being 60% electricity, they can generate enough of it to stop and restart a human heart.
  • They can move faster than the human eye can track.
  • They can enter dreams if they're making contact with the dreamer and pull someone else in.
  • They have no bones, their internals being all cartilage.
  • They can survive unaided in both space and underwater.
  • When overstressed, they collapse into a hibernation cycle.
  • Anal probes allow them to share memories.
  • When their stomaches are exposed to extremely spicy food, they poop out solid gold, jewel encrusted turds. Eating okra causes them to pass "off the charts toxic" gas.
• Bizarre Alien Reproduction:
  • The males carry eggs and lactate milk and they only go through puberty at 1601.
  • When overworked, their bodies will bud off a homunculus to help ease the workload.
• City with No Name: All we know about their homeworld is that it's a snowy planet with its home star being visible from Earth. What it (and its star) is called is unknown as Roger just calls it his planet.
• Ditto Aliens: Averted for most but the Elite Guard are all identical to Roger hinting that he may once have been one of them.
• Everyone Has Standards: When they realize the extent of Emperor Zing's manipulations, they join the slaves in overthrowing his regime.
• Galactic Conqueror: They fly around enslaving people to staff their giant starships.
• Glass Cannon: For all their technological might and extra-normal powers, they're very easy to overpower.
• The Greys: Roger was the one who crashed in Roswell in 1947.
• Healing Factor: Going by Roger, they can regrow their bodies, though it seems that there is an upper limit.
• Higher-Tech Species: Not only have they perfected FTL travel, anti-gravs, telepathy and teleportation, they have the technology to remove faces and regrow whole limbs.
• Long Lived: Going by "Little Bonnie Ramirez", their lifespan is somewhere around 12,000 years.
• No Name Given: What they're called is unknown.
• Planet of Hats: They're all compulsive shoppers.
• The Power of Hate: They need to let their bitchiness out, lest it turn to bile and poison them.
• Superior Species: They treat aliens as slaves. "Lost in Space" suggests that they're the galaxy's dominant species.

Emperor Zing

• Bigger Bad: It's not a huge leap to think that he made Roger into a crash test dummy as revenge for the heartbreak.
• Galactic Conqueror: Hinted at.
• It's All About Me: After Roger broke his heart, Zing convinced his species there was no love in the universe and abducted people from across the galaxy, mutilating them if they challenged this belief.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Jeff rallies his flagship to turn on him leaving him defenceless in the midst of a large scale riot.
• Staff of Authority

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