Joe Swanson

Joseph Swanson, also known as Joe Swanson, is one of the main characters from the Family Guy series.
== Charactah Account ==
Joe Swanson is a macho paraplegic police officer in the Quahog Police Department who is at many times subject to intense anger problems. He is married to Bonnie Swanson and has two children; Susie and Kevin.
Joe is the fourth member of the group of buddies along with Peter, Quagmire, and Cleveland who live on Spooner Street. He met Peter when, after just moving into Quahog, the Happy-Go-Lucky Toy Factory needed a final member for their company baseball team. Peter knew that Joe had won many awards for playing baseball in the past; he did not know that Joe was paralyzed below the waist. However, as he does most of the time, Joe proved that this wasn't enough to stop him and he led the team to victory. He lives at 33 Spooner Street with his family.
Joe has severe anger issues which often manifest in explosively violent outburst at random times throughout the show. An example of this is beating his son Kevin in a blind rage to the point Kevin had to live with a foster family, and shooting the left overs of his 16oz steak then turning the gun on his friends after being mocked for not being able to finish it.
== Appearance ==
=== Cartoons ===
* Family Guy
* Family Guy Season 2
* Family Guy Season 3
* Family Guy Season 4
* Family Guy Season 5
* Family Guy Season 6
* Family Guy Season 7
* Family Guy Season 8
* Family Guy Season 9
* Family Guy Season 10
* Family Guy Season 11
* Family Guy Season 12
* Family Guy Season 13
* Family Guy Season 14
* Family Guy Season 15
* Family Guy Season 16
* Family Guy Season 17
* Family Guy Season 18
* Family Guy Season 19
* Family Guy Season 20
* Family Guy Season 21
* Family Guy Season 22
=== Comics ===
* Family Guy
* Family Guy: Big Book o'Crap
* Family Guy: Peter the Great
=== Video Games ===
* Family Guy Video Game!
* Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse
* Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff
== Trivia ==
* Joe actually used his legs by swinging them to kick a kid/midget in "The Thin White Line".
* Joe's legs moved involuntarily in "The Juice Is Loose" during the pillow fight scene.
* In "Three Kings" Joe's legs are damaged three times:
** In Stand By Me, Joe's legs get run over by two trains.
** In Misery, Joe gets shot in the legs and then killed by Stewie.
** In The Shawshank Redemption, Joe's legs were beaten by cops with nightsticks.
* In "Peter's Progress", Joe is said to have been an octopus in a past life, and the octopus had its legs eaten off by a shark.
* In "Petergeist", Joe has a home theater he calls Joe Swanson Theatres, the logo of which is a parody of Tri Star Pictures.
* In "The Hand That Rocks the Wheelchair", Joe is shown to have received many phone calls from Peter insulting him about his disability, though Joe cannot figure out who it is.
* In "Brian the Bachelor", Joe uses his leg to put out some burning excrement in a bag.
* Peter shoots out Joe's eye in "Lottery Fever"; Joe later replaces it with a glass eye.
* Joe dresses as Neptune as part of Peter's plan to reunite Billy Finn with his wife Joanne in "Be Careful What You Fish For".
* To escape Peter and Evelyn at the Drunken Clam in "Mom's the Word", Joe announces that he was saving the very last time he could walk for Susie's wedding day but uses it to leave them instead.
* Bonnie tells Joe that his mother died at the end of "Boy (Dog) Meets Girl (Dog)", although he questions if this is the truth.
* In a 90s flashback in "Peter & Lois' Wedding", Joe tries to hit on Daria Morgendorffer.
* Joe is shown to be a very politically-minded Republican in "Shanksgiving".
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Joe Swanson at Family Guy Wiki
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