Brian Griffin

Brian Edward Griffin is one of the deuteragonists of the franchise.
He is the Griffin family's pet dog and best friend. He also possesses various anthropomorphic qualities, such as the ability to speak intelligently, drive a car, and walk bipedally. He was voiced by Seth MacFarlane who also voiced his best friends Stewie, Peter and other characters on Family Guy and he is the creator of the show.
== Appearance ==
Brian is a white labrador retriever who stands on his hind legs, using his front legs for arms. Like any dog, he is very short, being about twice the size of Stewie. He wears a red collar with a golden, circular tag on it. 
==Overview==
Brian is the Griffin Family's talking pet dog. He is highly intelligent, mature, sophisticated and cultured, but cynical and world-weary Labrador, who serves as the voice of reason to the family, ironically managing to be the most "human" of all of them, at least until the later seasons.
At the start of the series, Brian was a soft-spoken, sophisticated voice of reason that cared about his family. And though he could be very troubled at times, he tried to become a better person through these trials. As the series progressed, Brian massively devolved into a pretentious, insecure, selfish and self-important character who, at times, is treated like a stress relief to some of the other characters possibly due to these traits. He even devolved to the point of selling out others for personal gain.
Despite being anthropomorphic and very human in nature (even more so than many other characters in the show), he still acts like a standard dog. These examples include barking at certain things that a dog in real life would normally do like chasing the mailman, chasing and biting his tail, chasing shadows, playing with dog toys, growling, snarling, and biting at people he sees as a threat.
Despite his current, egotistical nature aside, Brian has performed several heroic acts.
==Heroic Acts==
*He went with Stewie to save the universe from Bertram.
*He and Stewie have saved Christmas.
*In "Leggo my Meg-o", he and Stewie saved Meg by spoofing the events of Taken.
*Chaperone Meg to her Junior Prom and defended her from Connie D'Amico.
*When Brian legalized pot, the crime wave in Quahog went down and productivity went up.
*In "New Kidney in Town", he is willing to give up both his kidneys and therefore, his life so that Peter could undergo a kidney transplant, although he did not have to do it thanks to Dr. Hartman being a match for the donor. 
*In "Back To The Pilot", Brian altered history to prevent 9/11 from happening, saving 3,000 lives. However, 5 years later led to catastrophic results, much to Brian's dismay. Therefore he and Stewie fixed the original timeline, erasing it from existence. 
*He got even with Stewie who brutally beaten him senseless for not paying up on time.
*He helped Stewie find Rupert and saved the two from being incinerated. 
*In E. Peterbus Unum, he stood by for Peter, who declared his property as his own nation, against the United States before suggesting him to negotiate. 
*In Big Man on Hippocampus, Brian warned an amnesiac Peter, who managed to regain his memories, that Quagmire is making a move on Lois. 
*Brian to taught Peter how to be a gentleman. After several attempts through regular methods, Brian resorts to shock therapy. But this led Peter into delusional state, so he snapped him out of it. 
*When Peter combines a trouble, it's always Brian and Lois that remedies it. 
*He prayed to God in promising to help out in a soup kitchen. 
*At times, he makes amends in some of his mistakes.
*He and Stewie tried restoring Peter's heterosexuality after he taken the "Gay Gene" by taking him to a straight camp all for Lois who was deeply saddened when Peter left her for a man.
*He and Stewie have tried to retrieve the cure for cancer by Carter, although they failed. 
*He and Stewie saved a girl in the well.
*He puts out a fire in the living room and in the kitchen stove.
*He searches for his mother, who is now stuff and gave her a proper burial with Stewie's aid.
*He and Stewie destroyed a Surfin' Bird record Peter bought which drove them both crazy. 
*Brian puts ointment on Stewie's sunburned skin after accidentally leaving with him in the tanning machine for too long. After that, he tends to Stewie's dying wishes (believing that he has cancer) before receiving a call from Dr. Hartman saying he doesn't have it and is going to be fine.
*He has often proven himself a father figure to Peter's children, especially Stewie.
*He and Chris are the only members of the Griffin Family who do respect Meg and enjoys her company.
*In 12 and a Half Angry Men, Brian was the only one who found Mayor Adam West not guilty after the latter's aide was murdered and was falsely accused as Brian convinced every other jurors to agree with his statement, clearing the Mayor's good name. 
*He and Stewie have gone back in time with Chris to help him with the school.
*He bought Stewie a new Rupert in order to fix their friendship.
*After Peter continuously flashes his nudity around him, Brian seeks out Stewie for advice and is told that he needs to fight back by shaving off all of his fur. He tricked Peter into coming out to prank him and rubs his hairless body against him. Freaked out, Peter promised in quitting naked shenanigans around Brian.
*Although he continues being a pretentious douchebag, Brian admitted that he hates himself for his own flaws when Stewie's imitation of him began getting on his nerves over time and presented with proof that it is indeed his own habits. Stewie arrives applauding, having made his point that Brian is so boring that no one would want his life story.
*In The Peanut Butter Kid, Brian managed to get through to Stewie and both succeeded of getting out of the commercial business after the latter snagged a starring role only for Peter and Lois to exploit it by abusively putting him through his paces using drugs. 
*In Guy, Robot, after Stewie created a robot friend named Lyle to replace Brian only to be replaced by his creation after Lyle created two more robotic friends, Brian finds him still trying for their approval which ends with being mistreated and hatches a plan to help him take out the robots. As Stewie tries to warn how clever they are, Brian simply destroys them by spraying them with water from a garden hose. 
*In Underage Peter, Brian buys Peter and the others beer after it got illegal for those under 50 only for Peter to get him arrested. But later he was forgiven and the two managed to overturn the law of drinking. 
*In American Gigg-olo, Brian gets a job at Mega Hardware store after learning he's nowhere cover by insurance. But after Stewie got him fired, Brian confronts him and demands that he admit what he did. His attempts on lifting him up ruptures a hernia of his and Stewie is forced to operate. Giving instructions, he does demonstrate working knowledge of tools, which impresses Stewie. 
*He tried to apologies to Quahog residents only to get shunned some more which lead to lashing out on them over that insensitive comment on Twitter was meant to be a joke he posted and said that they are blowing this out of proportion since there are other problems than this Tweet. 
*While he acted like a creep at the time, he did called Quagmire a scumbag for making a move on a married woman/fiancée, who was more than willing to have sex with him. This indicates that despite his negative traits, Brian has never stoop to Quagmire's level of a depraved sex offender throughout the series.
*When Principal Sheperd took left over spaghetti after his wife's departure, Brian was able to save the School $200 after getting his picture in the Newspaper. Thus earning his return home after the Twitter Pariah he accidentally started.
*Despite their ongoing feud, he was there to comfort Quagmire in the hospital when he choked himself and supported his sister, Brenda, when she was getting abused by her fiancée, Jeff in "Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q".
*In Seahorse Seashell Party, Brian given Meg credit for standing up to her family for the constant abuse she endured all her life. But after seeing them turning against each other, Meg feels that perhaps she has a purpose to act as the family lightning rod to work out their frustrations. Brian simply compliments Meg, saying she is the most strongest person around.
*In Better Off Meg, even though he and Stewie weren't in Meg's funeral (despite that she wasn't even dead) but at the arcade, Brian and Lois actually felt very saddened of her 'death' and cried, of course later on they were relieved she was still alive.
*In Yug Ylimaf, when Brian uses Stewie's time machine without Stewie's permission to pick up women, the time machine gets destroyed and the flow of time starts to disrupt. As Stewie was about to be unborn, Brian managed to reverse what he did to break the machine, found out it works and time is restored.
*He renamed James Woods High in honor of the late Mayor Adam West.
*In Boy (Dog) Meets Girl (Dog), he entered in a dog contest in order to win the heart of the show dog named Ellie and won but is unable to perform when he finds out that it will be in front of the entire audience so the honor is given to the runner-up.
*After learning about Pawtucket Pat, town hero and brewery founder, stole the beer recipe from local Native Americans and killed them, Brian takes down the honorable statue of Pawtucket Pat where rolled down into the river and after it was found, given a new place of honor in the local museum where no one will ever see it again.
*After learning that Quagmire wanted to be known for something good instead of just being the town sex maniac by creating a cat café, Brian puts on his emotional support animal vest to go for a walk with him to cheer him up.
*He defended Kyle, the son of Hollie whom he's dating, from bullies thus making a connection with him.
*In a spoofed episode, PeTerminator, he and Stewie amended their friendship by kissing, which prevented Terminator versions of Peter, Lois and other characters created by their future counterparts from killing each other in the present timeline due to a spat.
*In Family Cat, when his family took in a stray cat and named her Pouncey, Brian discovers that this cat has ulterior motives for Meg, but nobody listens to him. Quagmire, who also learned about Pouncey's true nature, advises him that thanks to a parasitic defecation carried by cats allows them to brainwashed Meg and is being prepared to become a crazy cat lady. Brian attempted to save her but failed and Quagmire stepped in and becomes Pouncey and the other felines' 'Cat Lady' in Meg's place. After that, Brian then promises Meg that he'll be a better dog to her.
*In Cootie & The Blowhard, Brian stops Stewie from committing suicide after being diagnosed with cooties, believing it to be fatal, by eating a tainted Play-Doh to convince him to cancel the procedure so that they can deal with their issues together while enjoying life. 
*He jumped in the way of a bullet for Peter in Forget-Me-Not, showing how much he cares for Peter.
*In Christmas Crime, after Mayor Wild West told Brian that he was the one who lost the true meaning of Christmas, the Griffin dog tried to make amends by rebuilding the nativity scene after he accidentally destroyed it in a car crash, but it's too broken to repair.
*In Lawyer Guy, Rupert accidentally goes overboard. He and Stewie dive down to recover him, but when Brian is attacked by a shark, their struggles accidentally send Rupert into a deep, dark crevice. Despite his attempts of convincing Stewie to write Rupert off, Brian rescued the pair.
*In Prescription Heroine, Brian locked Lois in his crate after she hooked up on his prescription painkillers and nearly drowned Stewie.
*In The Stewaway, he helped Quagmire to find Stewie in Paris at the cemetery and cheered him up saying he's the best player in hide-and-seek. 
*In Get Stewie, when Pop Star, Mary Elizabeth Becca Ryan, targets Stewie after taking his comment online as an insult, Brian tries cheering him up on this whole ordeal and at the end of the episode he repaired Rupert who was killed by one of Mary's fans. 
*In The Candidate, he supported Stewie in competing against Doug for the honor of class "snack captain".
*In "White Meg Can't Jump", Brian discovers that Stewie now has multiple personalities after seeing Peter and Lois having sex. After struggling to get through to the real Stewie, he takes him to Bruce, who recommends letting the personalities settle their own differences. When this fails, Brian snaps and tells Stewie another white lie, insisting that he should listen to his parents, which calms him down, although elements of his alternate personalities still remain.
*In Supermarket Pete, Brian helped Joe out to write a novel based on murder stories.
*In "The Former Life of Brian", he tries to have a good father and son bond with his biological son Dylan Flannigan, but his horrible attitude and behavior keeps getting worse. Before Brian could send him out, but they suddenly feel begin to connect, causing them both to feel sorry for each other. When Dylan redeems himself, Brian decides to make a much better young man.
==Death==
In Life of Brian, Stewie destroyed his own time machine and sent it to the junkyard. Brian notices a kid hockey net in good condition and convinces Stewie to take it back home. Before they could play, when Stewie was headed inside the house to get his knee pads, Brian was hit by a fast-moving car, whose driver is still unknown, and had severely extensive injuries. The Griffin family saw him in the veterinarian's operating room, and Brian told them he loved them all before he died.
==Return Back from the Dead==
Before Stewie destroyed his time machine in "Life of Brian", he time traveled ahead to Christmas so he wouldn't wait for the new toys to come out. In "Christmas Guy", two episodes after "Life of Brian", Stewie, who realized he wants Brian back, ran into that Stewie, "borrowed" his time machine return pad and went back in time to the day Brian was killed by the car to save him. Stewie arrives right before when Brian was about to be hit by the car and, upon seeing the car coming towards Brian, Stewie pushed his friend out of the way just in time. Afterwards Stewie gave Brian a hug and told him that the car killed him [Brian] and broke his [Stewie's] heart and he was able to time travel back through on the return to save him. Brian then thanks Stewie for his actions. Afterwards Stewie starts to disappear because his timeline, the one where Brian died, no longer exists. Stewie wishes Brian a Merry Christmas before disappearing completely and afterwards he's gone, The present day Stewie comes outside and asks Brian who he was talking to, to which responds Brian says, "A pretty awesome guy."
== Quotes ==
==Trivia==
*Brian is the only character for which Seth MacFarlane uses his own voice, as opposed to the voice changes for other characters such as Peter Griffin, Glenn Quagmire, and Stewie Griffin.
*Seth MacFarlane has revealed that Brian is his favorite character. He says he feels comfortable while playing the part of Brian, he also has a picture of Brian to the side of his name on his office door.
*Brian is infatuated with Lois and on more than one occasion has tried to have sex with her.
*In "Brian: Portrait of a Dog", it's revealed that Brian became a Griffin during his adulthood, when Peter offered him a home with his family in Quahog, but in "The Man with Two Brians", Brian shows the family videos of him as a puppy, already living in the Griffin's house.
*He drives a 2004 Toyota Prius, as it's seen in "The Juice Is Loose" pulling up on the Griffins' driveway while Stewie was stuck on the roof. The license plate reads "BRI-D0G" and it has a 'Kucinich 04' bumper sticker.
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