Chris Griffin

Christopher Cross "Chris" Griffin is one of the deuteragonists of the franchise. He is a is the middle child of the Griffin family. He is a dimwitted, perverted and unpopular teenage boy who always gets bullied by his classmates (including Connie D'Amico.)
He is voiced by Seth Green who also played Daniel "Oz" Osbourne in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. However, he had not been hired until after the original Pilot Pitch. For that, series creator Seth MacFarlane provided Chris' voice, giving his voice a deeper tone as compared to how Green does it.
== Appearance ==
Chris is an overweight adult boy with long, shaggy blond hair and medium skin. He wears a blue t-shirt, black sweatpants, white sneakers with red stripes and an orange baseball cap with black on the back. His face looks similar his father's, having the same kind of eyes, nose and chin. In the first three seasons, he wore golden hoop earrings.
==Personality==
Chris is a 15-year old boy. He has a lot of trouble in school, both with bullies, and in class. He however still seems to be the nicest member of the Griffin Family, as he is a kind, and caring boy. He is not that intelligent though. However he still has high fighting skills, and physical strength. When he needs alone time, he shuts himself in his room.
His goals varies in each episode, however it often have something to do with his family, as he is very focused around, and seems like the most friendly member of the Griffins.
Though Chris is not the brightest one in the family, he is particularly coherent and makes a good point when talking about movies with Carl. Chris deals with the problems that most pubescent boys face: acne, girls, and school. Chris has been known to feel self-conscious about himself, especially his weight. He was referred to as an "Elephant Child" when he was born. Chris is also willing to do something as drastic as to convert to Judaism order to do better in school, specifically math in "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein". However, in "Family Goy", he would find out that he was already Jewish. He once believed his low grades in mathematics were caused by himself when he tickled his brain by sticking an army man's rifle into his nose and accidentally puncturing a lobe. Chris both enjoys and excels at drawing and once almost managed to become a famous artist in New York, but failed when he refused to estrange his family in "A Picture's Worth a Thousand Bucks".
Chris, like his father, is obese, has a low IQ, and little to no common sense; however in "Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High" Brian refers to Chris' class as intelligent before going to teach remedial English. Also, various story lines such as "Movin' Out (Brian's Song)", give him autistic savant talents, such as artistic ability, and detailed knowledge of film and TV actors. Both he and Peter have also demonstrated proficiency in the use of American Sign Language. Occasionally he exhibits unexpected, uncharacteristic insights, such as when he gives Peter and Lois a detailed and articulate lecture on the effects and disadvantages of marijuana. He has also demonstrated an ability to quickly adapt to new cultural surroundings. For example, when the family moved to London, England in "Patriot Games", Chris was the only member of the family who was able to quickly learn and speak cockney English.
Chris is usually depicted as naive to the point of blamelessness. However, when Peter and Lois were having a fight in "Lethal Weapons", Chris cheered for Peter, telling him to "kick her ass!" Also, in Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, when Lois and Peter are trying to make out, the children mistake it for a fight and Chris says "I don't know what they're fighting about, but I think Dad's winning. Go Dad!"
In a running gag, Chris is regularly tormented by an evil monkey who lives in his closet but they cleared there differences shortly before the monkey moved to Jake Tucker's closet in "Hannah Banana".
In "Emission Impossible", it is revealed that Chris was born as an accident, due to a broken condom. As a result, Peter and Lois filed a lawsuit against the company and bought the house they currently live in. In "Peter's Daughter", Lois revealed that she smoked and drank a lot when she was pregnant with Chris to try and incite a miscarriage, but chickened out halfway through the pregnancy. This may be the explanation for Chris' lack of intelligence and other anomalies. Also, it is known in "And the Wiener is..." that Chris possesses an abnormally large penis.
Chris is generally mild-mannered and friendly, but is often rude to others when angered, such as in "Long John Peter", when he both insulted Joe Swanson for his handicapped status, and hit Brian with a chair just to go back to the vet and see a girl who broke up with him. Another example was in "Movin' Out (Brian's Song)", when Brian just came back after being dumped by Jillian, Chris said, "Welcome home, asshole!".
==Heroic Acts==
*Helped the police catch a dangerous criminal.
* He is by far the most friendly, sympathetic, selfless and playful member of the Griffin Family.
*He once let himself be injured in order to save Meg.
*He and Brian are the only members of the Griffin Family who does respect Meg and enjoys her company (despite Chris' enjoyment to tease Meg from time to time).
==Sexuality==
While possessing incomplete-at-best sexual knowledge. In "Love Thy Trophy", Chris is convinced babies come from the Child Welfare Office.
In several episodes, he demonstrates a compelling interest in girls such as in "To Love and Die in Dixie", Chris shows a romantic interest in a girl named Barbara. Later in the episode when he and his family are exiled to the South, he meets and befriends a person named Sam, who later kisses him despite being a boy. Confused about the kiss, he confronts Sam, who's revealed to be a girl dressed in guy clothes. After talking to Sam, Chris feels opened enough to express his feelings for her. He felt nervous about talking to her, she suggested to him that he should pretend she was a male, and Chris happily agrees to making out. In "You May Now Kiss the... Uh... Guy Who Receives", he is attracted to a student named Alyssa, who is a young Republican. Chris becomes a Young Republican because Alyssa offers to let him touch her breasts. In "Jungle Love", Chris runs away to South America to escape the bullying at school and joins the Peace Corps. He gets the entire tribe, whom he's staying with, to dance. By doing this Chris married the Chief's daughter, Loka although he had to leave her behind at the insistence of his parents and after he reveals himself to be a freshman in high school. In "Long John Peter" Chris falls in love with a vet intern named Anna, who he asks out. Their relationship goes well until Chris follows Peter's advice to put her down on a date to make progress, but Anna breaks up with him instead. At the end of the episode, they kiss and get back together.
He is often harassed by his neighbor, Herbert, an elderly pedohebephile. However, Chris always seems to evade Herbert's advances. In "Play It Again, Brian", Chris finally confronts Herbert by blatantly asking him "Are you a pedophile?"
Chris also comments openly about masturbation in several gags in "Running Mates", "The Fat Guy Strangler" and "Barely Legal". However, in "Holy Crap", grandfather Francis Griffin accuses Chris of masturbating when he was really just defecating by telling him that was he was doing in the bathroom was morally wrong and God can see it. He spends the rest of the episode holding in his waste until Peter lets him "defy" his grandfather.
Connie DiMico, a girl Meg's age, who is the self-described "most popular girl" at James Woods Regional High School, asks Chris out in "Stew-Roids". She does so under the premise that she had already exhausted her dating relationships with all the popular boys and now, left with just the "unpopular" boys, promises to convert him into a suave, popular student. Connie had intended the relationship to be temporary, but she and Chris quickly hit it off and become a serious couple. At a party at the Griffins' house that weekend, Chris breaks off the relationship, having found interest in two other girls he had been kissing and unwittingly teaching Connie a lesson in dating others simply to further her own status.
== Trivia ==
* Chris is 13 in the first three seasons, 14 in the fourth through nineteenth season, and 15 in the twentieth season. He appears to have only aged a year in the course of the show in spite of Meg aging three.
* In The Real Live Griffins, he is replaced by Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Fifteen Minutes of Shame".
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