Ron Griffin

== General Information ==
Ronald, aka Ronatron "Ron" Harvey Oswald Griffin is the oldest child of Lois and Peter Griffin, and the Brother of Chris and Stewie Griffin. he is currently attending James Woods Regional High School. Ron explains in "A Fistful of Meg" that his father changed his birth certificate to "Megatron" after his mother had already selected Megan. Despite this, he is still commonly called Megan such as by Mr. Berler in "Let's Go to the Hop", Stewie in "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas" and by Quagmire in "No Giggity, No Doubt". In "Meg's Wedding", Bruce gives his middle names as 'Harvey Oswald'.
== Background Information ==
=== Biography ===
When Family Guy debuted in 1999, his age is assumed to be fifteen years old although this is never established. he is later assumed to be sixteen by the events in "I Never Met the Dead Man" when he got his drivers license and remained that age throughout the show's initial run. he officially turned seventeen in "Peter's Two Dads" and eighteen in "Quagmire and Meg". he celebrated an unspecified birthday in "Papa Has A Rollin' Son" and another in "Better Off Meg".
"Better Off Meg" also establishes that his birthday is March 23rd, his height as 5'2", weight as 156 and that he wore dentures early on when his baby teeth never came in.
In court in "Screwed the Pooch", Brian said that his real father is Stan Thompson. Brian does point out his similarities in looks to Peter in "Not All Dogs Go To Heaven".
In "Let's Go to the Hop", it is implied that Meg once had a younger sister but murdered him. However, it is also implied that this is just a dream Chris had, although he says "It seemed so real!".
Meg was originally depicted as the "sweet, teenage son" who typically took the blame for the terrible things done by the other members of his family. However, over the years, the writers stripped Meg down to a desperate teenager who is hardly noticed by his family.
This worsens in later episodes where the family, especially Peter, doesn't care about him or even love him as a part of the family, often harming him physically and emotionally. For example, shoving his ace into his bottom and then farting in it in "The Tan Aquatic with Steve Zissou". This gag is revisited in "Bango Was His Name Oh" when Peter is teaching Meg how to endure a boyfriend's farts and traps henm i the car with his fart, and again in "Call Girl" when Peter's parting gift to Meg is a slow fart in the face.
Meg is also frequently the butt of jokes and various bits of bad luck in episodes, seemingly more so than the rest of the family. The Griffins are shown avoiding his company in "Jungle Love", disparaging him in person and gathering in his bedroom to read his diary for laughs in "Stuck Together, Torn Apart".
Out of all the relationships with the rest of the family, Lois, Brian and Chris seem to treat him the most normally. However, Lois has sometimes been cruel and dismissive towards him daughter. In "Wasted Talent", Lois forced Meg to practice the piano through the use of an ankle bracelet attached to an iron ball and forcibly restrained him when he tried to ask Peter for help. In "Model Misbehavior", when Meg compares Lois' childhood bedroom to his own, Lois notes that they were the same except that his contained many trophies and pictures of friends; Lois nearly dropped Joe to his death during a chase through the sewers in "Breaking Out is Hard to Do" when he asked him to pretend that he is him child, and then quickly directs him away from thinking of Meg after Lois loosens him grip; and after Meg told his mom he loved him during "Peter's Daughter", Lois pointedly did not say anything in response. This also shown when Meg was having a difficult time in "Stew-Roids", it is shown that Meg gets food waste for school lunch i.e. peels, crusts and a taunting picture of Lois eating a turkey leg. in the same episode, Lois simply gave up on him, gave him a pill bottle, a Sylvia Plath book and told him "Whatever happens, happens". Lois also makes a point of washing Stewie's diapers with Meg's clothes and get a sarcastic attitude when Meg asks for advice on asking out Kent Lastname in "Friends Without Benefits". Lois does show a slightly kinder side in "Call Girl" when he refers to Meg by his real name while dismissing Chris and Stewie as "dummy and big-head." he is also genuinely broken up when he believes Meg to have died in "Better Off Meg" and recalls making dong-shaped Christmas cookies with him in the same episode.
Peter is usually the one who bears a great animosity towards him: berating him, hitting him while once on steroids in "The Father, the Son, and the Holy Fonz", even shooting him in "Peter's Daughter". Peter reminds Lois in "Petergeist" that if they could only save two they would leave Meg. When the family tries an anger management technique of writing letters and not sending them, Meg finds Peter's letter to him in "Lethal Weapons" which says "Dear Meg, for the first four years of your life, I thought that you were a housecat." And in Peter's short story of his birth in "Blue Harvest", they had to go back to get him once they realized they grabbed the afterbirth, implying that they could not tell the difference. In "Road to Rupert", Peter is disgusted that Meg has to become his personal driver and he and his friends play several pranks on him like setting his hat on fire while he is driving. In "Stewie Kills Lois" Peter tells guests on a cruise ship about how he and Lois had gone to get an abortion but decided against it when they arrived at the clinic. He then says "3 months later, our daughter Meg was born" indicating that they had not planned his birth. In "8 Simple Rules for Buying My Teenage Daughter", Peter sold him just to pay off his tab at a pharmacy. But despite this he also once was going to say 'I love you' in "Hell Comes to Quahog" and in "Road to Rupert" he stated they were 'secret best friends' before throwing lemonade in his face, saying he would have to continue to treat him badly in public in order to maintain his reputation. Peter also once tried to seduce Luke Perry in order to protect Meg from a libel suit, going so far as to state he "would take a bullet for Meg" in "The Story on Page One".
On Meg's 17th birthday in "Peter's Two Dads", his mother and father both try to hide from Meg that they don't remember his age. Peter openly states that Meg sucks in "PTV", and Chris says the same thing about him in "Long John Peter".
Even though he gets into arguments with him from time to time, Chris usually goes to Meg for advice. Chris, however, seems to have more of a typical brother-sister relationship with Meg, and even once threatened to quit his job in "Movin' Out (Brian's Song)" if his boss didn't re-hire Meg. They tear their hair out in frustration together in "A Shot in the Dark" when Peter's stupid idea causes Lois to start beating him.
Stewie enjoys taunting Meg about several topics of his supposed "ugliness", his virginity, and inability to keep a boyfriend, but he rarely seems to notice his comments, where all the main cast except Brian are not able to hear or interpret Stewie's speech unless at writer's discretion. However, when he is kidnapped in "Leggo My Meg-O", he will go to lengths to rescue his. He also conspires with him in "A Shot in the Dark" to embarrass Brian over his predictable pretentiousness.
Brian does not seem to join in the others' frequent "Meg-bashing," although he is prone to ignoring him and coldly shot down his attempt to congratulate his recent writing award. He insults him quite brutally on occasion. However, in "Dial Meg for Murder", he showed that he really cared for him when he wrote an a very sentimental article on him and helping him come to his senses when he was on a wild streak after being released from prison. However, in "Quagmire's Dad", despite him being the only one to show genuine concern for his trip, he harshly brushes him off, even though only moments ago, he complained that no one cared about his trip.
In "Screwed the Pooch", his grandmother says that he will give Meg a coupon for liposuction in his stocking.
There apparently also exists a double standard against Meg which further underscores the mistreatment he suffers at the hands of the people around him . In "Model Misbehavior", when Lois starts a modeling career, Meg claims that he will pleasure herself to Lois' pictures; even though Chris said exactly the same thing, Peter only snaps at Meg and forces him out of the house. In "Airport '07", Peter then hypocritically threatens to have sex with him that he won't remember until she's forty.
In "Big Man on Hippocampus", Peter loses his memory and has reacquainted himself with the pleasures of sex, Lois tells him that it is inappropriate to have sex with his own children; in response, Meg attempts an incest joke for which he is lambasted by his family then kicked and pushed out of the room by Chris. Later that year in "Partial Terms of Endearment", Lois tells a joke that implies that it was Meg that gave birth to Stewie, and apart from a shocked reaction from the latter, Lois receives no such violent reaction.
The neighbors also openly dislike Meg. Joe encouraged Lois to keep him from falling down a giant sewer pipe in "Breaking Out is Hard to Do" by telling him "pretend I'm your child"; when Lois' grip slips a little, Joe yells "Not Meg! Not Meg!" This may have more to do with Joe's perception that Lois doesn't like Meg than with Joe's feelings about him, since as seen in "The Hand That Rocks the Wheelchair", Joe said that he liked Meg, and felt genuine remorse that he had been injured running in front of his car. Quagmire attempts to act on a sexual attraction to Meg in "Quagmire and Meg" despite being nearly three times his age.
In "Dial Meg for Murder" after returning from prison Meg finally took out his pent up anger for all of the abuse she's took over the years out the family, namely Peter by severely beating him up and proverbially taking his place as head of the household and abusing him in the shower, he also used bits of Lois' shirts as toilet paper for his 'poop bucket', everyone soon became terrified of him, and when he heard Brian calling him a freak, they all passed the blame to Stewie who he made himself and Peter punch him.
In "Seahorse Seashell Party", Meg stands up to the abuse he receives from him family, and harshly criticizes Chris for being a bad brother, and Lois and Peter for being bad parents. This leads to them turning their abusive criticisms on each other. Meg comes to the conclusion that he serves as a "lightning rod" that absorbs the family's dysfunction, and apologizes for him comments. The situation then returns to normal.
=== Hobbies and Talents ===
* he is shown to be remarkable at bird calls in "A Picture's Worth a Thousand Bucks".
* Lisa Simpson gave him a saxophone after he proved to be quite proficient with it. Meg has also demonstrated the ability to play the drums at age one in "Chitty Chitty Death Bang" and the cello in "American Gigg-olo".
* Meg is an avid bowler in "Better Off Meg" and "Meg's Wedding".
=== Appearance ===
Meg is relatively unremarkable in appearance, sporting shoulder-length brown hair, visually short arms, lack of curves and nearly always wearing a beanie-like hat. Most characters on the show always consider him grotesque. he wears the cap under him yellow top hat in the show's opening dance number. he has been seen without him hat on in a handful of episodes for extremely small periods of time. However, in "Untitled Griffin Family History", he is seen without him hat on, as he is in pajamas for most of it. he appears to have inherited the shape of him nose and head from him mother, and him brown hair and myopia from him father.
In "A Picture's Worth a Thousand Bucks", an employee at a carnival guesses him weight as being "a lot". There are several comments aimed at him weight in various episodes, though him girth may be due to him height, as he is the same weight as him mother, making him approximate weight 140 pounds. In "Don't Make Me Over", Stewie has a disturbing thought picturing Meg in low-rider jeans, which shows Meg striking a pose which him belly is exposed up to an inch or two above the belly button, which the fat in him stomach hangs over him waist, resembling a muffin top. Stewie proceeds to beat the thought bubble with a rolling pin. In "Barely Legal", he says he has to buy a new dress to go to the prom with Brian because all him dresses makes him look fat, implying that he is actually fat, not just because of the dresses.
him plain look is often a topic of humor for the show; characters on the show act as though he were horrifically ugly. In "Mr. Griffin Goes to Washington", a very ugly girl is hired to stand next to Meg so he will look better by comparison. In "Don't Make Me Over", two people drench themselves in gasoline, set themselves on fire, and throw themselves out a window screaming in horror after simply looking at Meg. In another episode, a young man fired a nail gun into his own stomach in order to avoid a date with him. Also, in "Barely Legal", Meg's "backup" date, Jimmy, says he has to attend his little brother's funeral after briefly closing his front door and promptly shooting his little brother. him "ugliness" may also be a source of him unpopularity. Meg is often mistaken for a boy such as when he asked Craig Hoffman to go out on a date with him in "Don't Make Me Over". he is mistaken for the star of Malcolm in the Middle in "Breaking Out is Hard to Do". There was also when Meg was held hostage by three burglars who mistook him for a boy in "Untitled Griffin Family History". Later in that episode he asked one of the robbers if they were going to "have their way" with him. They refused, disgusted by him appearance and he got angry, shouting at them to have sex with him and insisting he was 'pretty'. They then filed a sexual harassment suit against him, which went ignored by Peter, who thought he was going to a dance, leading to him arrest. Peter also passed him off as a boy named "Greg" in "Big Man on Hippocampus" to qualify for Family Feud. In "Quagmire's Dad", Ida Quagmire believed that Meg also got a sex change operation to become a girl like he did. In "Prick Up Your Ears", Meg took an abstinence vow with him new boyfriend up until the end of the episode, where after seeing him nude, he dumped him. Another brief boyfriend of hers, nudist Jeff Campbell had no objections to him looks at all. In "Long John Peter", Chris lifts Meg's top up, exposing him bra, as a means to make Brian throw up as an excuse to take him to the vet. Also, him appearance is displayed as ugly in alternate dimensions, where even him sexy version was still considered ugly by the dimensions standards in "Road to the Multiverse".
Meg received a makeover in "Don't Make Me Over", drastically increasing him sexual appeal in the eyes of characters in the show after several people in the episode covered themselves in petrol and burned themselves. It was during this brief period when Meg, a popular singer at the time, lost him virginity to Saturday Night Live comedian Jimmy Fallon as part of an elaborate cold open sketch. In "No Chris Left Behind", he participates with Lois in prostitution in order to pay for Chris' school, Lois gets picked up and Meg is left behind. In "Quagmire and Meg", Meg rarely has eyebrows when he is seen without him glasses.
=== Social life ===
Meg desperately tries to be part of the cool crowd, and is coldly rebuffed. Eager for acceptance, he is shown in two stories unwittingly recruited by a religious cult, and accepting a mistaken invitation to join him school's Lesbian Alliance. It has also been shown that when he actually gets into a dating position, he forms a mentally unstable grasp onto that person. he will also go to great lengths such as kidnapping, forcing sex, and living in denial of break-ups or other activities. he will also try desperately to get sex in some cases; for example in "Untitled Griffin Family History", he asked a group of robbers breaking into the house to rape him, much to their disgust, to the point where they charged him with sexual harassment and got him arrested. However, in some episodes Meg is depicted with him friends in a slumber party, and gossiping about boys; in later episodes these girls are characterized as dateless losers like Meg.
=== Dating ===
Meg is a very unpopular student in high school. However, he is sought by pimply nerd Neil Goldman, and perverted neighbor Quagmire has shown an interest, mostly due to his very broad standards. Despite him unpopularity, in several episodes he is shown dating and participating in sex. he loses him virginity on live television to Saturday Night Live host Jimmy Fallon after having a drastic make over. he believed herself to be pregnant with Michael Milano and Jerome also claims to have had sex with him.
Early in the series he had a crush on Kevin Swanson, who seemed to enjoy him company. In "Da Boom" he asked him to Quagmire's New Year's party, in "Holy Crap" he was mentioned as holding him hand on the walk home from school.
In "From Method to Madness" he dates nudist Jeff Campbell. They become fast friends and start to date each other. At first, Peter and Lois discouraged Meg to date Jeff. They decide to make up by inviting him over while they were nude to help him feel more comfortable.
In "Brian Sings and Swings", he befriended by a girl named Sarah who Meg later discovers is a lesbian. Meg pretends to be a lesbian & Sarah's girlfriend as he enjoys being accepted by Sarah. However him mother knows Meg is only pretending to be one in order to be accepted. he eventually is forced to admit to Sarah that he is not a lesbian.
In other episodes he is portrayed as chronically incapable of finding a boyfriend. For him Junior Prom he accepts a pity date from Brian, the family dog in "Barely Legal". Brian ends up making out with him at this party, but only because he was highly inebriated, and most likely high, as Lois slipped a bit of weed into is jacket pocket. Meg then becomes infatuated with Brian, going so far as to abduct him in order to have sex with him after he rejects him, but he does not seem to be interested in Brian after this episode. To make up for the lack of boyfriends he made one up, in "Bill and Peter's Bogus Journey".
In "Peter's Daughter" Meg falls in love with a med-student named Michael Milano after coming out of a short coma caused by Peter. Meg soon then announces that he is pregnant by Michael and the two get engaged. After finding out that he isn't actually pregnant, Meg tells Michael the truth hoping that he'll stay; however, Michael leaves Meg at the altar.
In "Dial Meg for Murder", she's dating a prisoner named Luke. Luke later escapes, and Meg tries to hide him, but he gets caught and sent to prison too.
In "Go, Stewie, Go!" he dates a boy named Anthony, who is, to the surprise of everybody in Quahog, completely normal. However, Lois seduces him because he feels bad about him aging. A flashback showed Meg once dated a boy with no legs.
he is also shown to be attracted to Connie DiMico. In "Stew-Roids", he asks Connie whether he can think about him in the tub. In "Dial Meg for Murder", he tongue-kisses Connie after knocking him unconscious, although this act was more about dominance and humiliation than any form of romance.
In "Amish Guy" he falls in love with a boy named Eli who falls in love with him only for them to be torn apart by the Amish community.
he was engaged again in "Leggo My Meg-O" to Prince Faisal. At first he thought that his father had bought him to be his sex-slave only for him to reveal that he was bought for his son for marriage. When he romantically proposes he gladly accepted and before they could kiss, he is killed by Stewie.
In "Friends Without Benefits" Meg dates a guy named Kent Lastname only for him to discover that he is gay and attracted to Chris.
In "Valentine's Day in Quahog", Meg spends Valentine's Day with a guy named Toby who he met on the internet. After he knocks him out on their date, he awakes in a motel to find he has harvested one of him kidneys. Despite this, he held him to his original promise of a full day together. After having a wonderful date, Toby gives Meg back him kidney and he places him kidney in a jar on him shelf in him room.
Meg meets and has a mutual attraction with Chad, a member of the crew on a 'Yacht Rock' cruise in "Yacht Rocky". But when he confesses his love for him, the ship is struck by a rogue wave and capsizes, decapitating him. Despite this, he continues to carry his corpse through the ship as him family and their friends try to escape.
=== Dangerous behavior ===
Meg is often shown as emotionally fragile or disturbed, derived from desperation for love and attention. In "Untitled Griffin Family History", Meg is charged for forcing herself upon a group of would-be captors and grows violently obsessed with Brian after a drunken kiss at the Junior Prom in "Barely Legal". In the same episode, Meg threatens to commit suicide when nobody at school would be him date to the prom and he also tells him parents that she's going upstairs to eat a whole bag of peanuts. When him parents stare at him blankly, he cries, "I'm allergic to peanuts!" In "Road to the North Pole" he wishes for "softer voices" in him head.
Meg also speaks of habitually cutting herself and throwing up after meals. Meg's dangerous behavior, however obvious, is rarely noticed by him parents even when stated. Such as in "Sibling Rivalry" after Lois had him fat removed he states to Meg, that eating to solve ones problems is the wrong thing to do, apparently referencing that she's somewhat fat, while complimenting Chris' hat despite him being the one who is overly obese. In this Meg replies, "I don't eat to solve my problems, I cut myself."
Peter also doesn't pay attention when he loses him temper and assaults a man who crashed into the back of the car while driving him, Cleveland, Joe and Quagmire around when they have been drinking in "Road to Rupert". He exclaims that him actions were "awesome" and this leads to him engaging in other erratic behavior to impress him. In "Dial Meg for Murder", Meg was desperate enough to date a criminal. Meg later stated no one cares about him while robbing Mort's Pharmacy and knocking Peter's teeth out and rapidly beating him. In "Go, Stewie, Go!", he rips out one of him teeth to prove that he is tougher than Lois. In "April in Quahog", it's alluded that he strangles stray cats and taught Chris how to poison squirrels during a family vacation mentioned in "Friends Without Benefits". he is also quite eager to take a photo of crushed squirrel bodies when Peter cut down a tree in "Boys & Squirrels".
Meg has exhibited behaviors that closely match the diagnostic criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder, as described by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders:
A pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, as well as marked impulsivity, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:
# Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment, excluding suicidal behaviors.
# A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation.
# Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self. he claims to be a lesbian in "Brian Sings and Swings" to be accepted in their group, easily swayed by religious recruitment.
# Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging, excluding suicidal behaviors.
# Recurrent suicidal gestures, threats, or self-injuring behavior. Meg admits that he cuts herself in "Sibling Rivalry", threatens suicide in "Barely Legal" and "The Kiss Seen Around the World".
# Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood. Flattened affect such as the lamp scene in "Barely Legal".
# Chronic feelings of emptiness.
# Inappropriate anger or difficulty controlling anger. he has frequent outbursts, particularly at him parents in "Peter's Two Dads" and in "Seahorse Seashell Party".
# Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation, delusions, or severe dissociative symptoms. he became deluded into thinking that Brian in "Barely Legal" and Joe in "The Hand That Rocks the Wheelchair" are in love with him.
=== Voice Actresses ===
Meg's voice actress has not always been Mila Kunis. Cree Summer was the first choice to voice Meg, but Seth MacFarlane didn't like the idea of an African-American voicing him.[1] When Seth made the original pilot, his sister Rachael MacFarlane provided him voice for Meg. When the series spawned off, Lacey Chabert was hired to do the role. However, he left after the show's first season, although some aired out of order and became season 2 episodes and due to contract reasons, she could not be credited for him work. Since then, Mila Kunis has voiced Meg, though there have been some substitutes, like Debi Derryberry and Tara Strong, who voices him when he had a singing part. However, Kunis provided him own singing voice in "Road to the North Pole". At 47 years old in "Stu & Stewie's Excellent Adventure", after a sex change made him a man named Ron, he was voiced by John Viener. As such, Meg is the member of the Griffin Family who has been voiced by the largest assortment of voice actors/actresses. Chabert returned to voice Meg for one line in "Yug Ylimaf".
=== Relatives ===
See: List of Griffin and Pewterschmidt ancestors, Griffin Family
== Fun Facts ==
* he/him
* Meg doesn't get any fun facts, screw you meg (I think peter says this or something I don't know I don't watch the show)
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