Peter Griffin

**Peter Löwenbräu Griffin, Sr.** is the protagonist of the show *Family Guy* and
 title character. He's a man of Irish descent currently residing in
Rhode Island with his wife Lois. He was, however, born in Mexico, where
his mother had tried unsuccessfully to abort him. Peter attended
Providence High School. Together, Peter and Lois have three children,
Chris, Meg, and baby Stewie. In addition, he and Lois had a child named
Peter Griffin Jr..
 who died when Peter shook him too much. Out of pity he also adopted an
intellectual talking dog named Brian who formerly lived on the street as
 a stray, an accepted fact in Brian's two adoption stories.

Peter's best friends are Glenn Quagmire, Joe Swanson, Brian, and
Cleveland prior to his moving to Stoolbend, VA. They enjoy hanging out
at their local bar, The Drunken Clam, drinking and chewing the fat. The
four men (often without Brian, although he has joined them on several
occasions) do many things together. Once the four friends entered and
won a costume contest at an 80s TV convention, dressing up as the
A-Team. On another occasion, their fishing boat was wrecked, and they
were stranded together on a desert island.

Peter's age comes into question in "Baby, You Knock Me Out".
Peter should turn 44 but no age is identified in the episode. In "The
Tan Aquatic with Steve Zissou", Lois says that he's 43. Lois does say
that she is 42 at this time, which would match the age difference stated
 in "Let's Go to the Hop" and ignore their both being 18 in "Meet the
Quagmires". Lois herself would later turn 43 in "Lois Comes Out of Her
Shell".

## Personality

Peter has demonstrated himself to be an avid television fan, with his
 favorite shows consisting of Star Trek, Three's Company and Charles in
Charge.  An I.Q. test in "Petarded" confirms that his low intellect
places him in a category below mentally retarded. He rushes off to
attend Quahog College just to count to three in "3 Acts of God". His
mental shortcomings have resulted in various accidents to other people;
most notably the death of his step-father Francis Griffin, and injuries
on multiple occasions to his wife Lois. His attention span is also
incredibly short. When he discovers his mental retardation in the
episode, he closes his eyes while driving, wishing "it would all be
over" and hitting Tom Tucker with his car instead. Given his short
attention span, as well as his erratic and frequently inappropriate
behavior, it is conceivable that Peter suffers from Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD. In addition, Peter is often seen
getting hurt mostly by his own fault. When trying to impress Chris with
his forward-thinking, Peter claims it is still 1998 in "Baby Got Black".
  Peter also has a habit of proving his masculinity, not wanting Lois to
 fall for another man. He is incredibly jealous of other attractions
Lois has in her life, an attitude that tends to get out of hand in most
cases; in "Stuck Together, Torn Apart", he goes so far as to punch his
reflection in the mirror after Lois comments on it being handsome.

In "Brian Sings and Swings", he tells Lois, "Remember what I
always tell you, if I come home in the middle of the day and catch you
having sex with someone, I'll kill you both" though when he catches her
in bed with Bill Clinton in "Bill and Peter's Bogus Journey", he takes
no hostile actions whatsoever. However, he seems not to mind the fact
that she slept with other men before they met, just so long as she
doesn't do so again; he is particularly proud of the fact that she once
slept with Gene Simmons of Kiss when he discovers this in "Road to
Europe", but forbids any sexual activity between the two now as seen in
"Don't Make Me Over".  Peter seems to find it frustrating that he is
"wrong" while Lois is "right" about issues all the time, and apparently
takes these issues competitively, just waiting for the day she slips up.
 This day finally comes in "PTV" after settling a conflict with Lois
about censorship on television that she appeared sure to win. In an
ironic twist that forces Lois to concede defeat, Peter celebrates by
opening a secret compartment within the ceiling containing balloons,
streamers, confetti, and a banner reading "PETER'S RIGHT!"; Peter then
claims that he set this up 15 years ago, suggesting that this had been a
 pretty major issue for him for quite some time. Curiously, in the
non-canon episode "Da Boom", after Lois admits he was right about the
end of the world and she was wrong, Peter makes no reference to the
compartment, though he had been bragging about his "victory" for two
weeks straight. Maybe the compartment had been damaged in the nuclear
devastation.  Among the members of his family, he tends to treat Meg
with the least respect; in "Peter's Daughter", for example, he
reminisces about the various pranks he played on her, including tripping
 her, flicking her nose with his finger, and even shooting her at one
point. Also, he wipes a boogie on her hat saying "Hey Meg...Proud of
you".

He is known to embarrass her at times and with things that mean
the most to Meg; the entire family once huddled together to read her
diary and continue after Meg catches them. However, later episodes of
the series show Peter developing greater respect and unity between
himself and his daughter such as in "Road to Rupert" and the
aforementioned "Peter's Daughter", though these moments tend not to last
 for very long.  "I Dream of Jesus" reveals that his favorite song is
the Trashmen's "Surfin' Bird", and loves the song to the point of
repeatedly singing it, playing the record of it, and trying to convince
others that "the bird is the word". In "Wasted Talent", a running gag
debuted when someone, usually Peter, will be running and fall and then
hold his shin exclaiming the sound "Ssss Ahhhh" once or multiple times.

## Friends

Peter's best friends are Glenn Quagmire, Joe Swanson, Brian, and Cleveland Brown

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their local bar, The Drunken Clam, drinking and chewing the fat. The
four men (often without Brian, although he has joined them on several
occasions) do many things together. Once the four friends entered and
won a costume contest at an 80s TV convention, dressing up as the
A-Team. On another occasion, their fishing boat was wrecked, and they
were stranded together on a desert island. Peter also has other friends
such as Mort and Muriel Goldman and nudists Dave and Dotty Campbell,
with whom he is seen occasionally. He became friends with Brian's
ex-girlfriend Jillian, which stems from their below average
intelligence; she even asked him to give a speech at her wedding.

## Rivalry with Ernie the Giant Chicken

In a running gag, storylines are interrupted by unexpected fights
between Peter and a giant chicken. These battles feature long strings of
 action film-style sequences, with explosions, high-speed chases, and
excessive collateral damage to both property and innocent bystanders,
ending with Peter the victor leaving the giant chicken for dead, only
for a sudden movement to show that the chicken is still alive.

In "Da Boom", the feud starts over a trivial incident where the
chicken gives Peter an expired coupon at the grocery store. The fight
resumes in "Blind Ambition". In "No Chris Left Behind" the chicken is
identified as "Ernie", and he has a wife named Nicole, also a giant
chicken. Peter is invited to dinner with them after they realize that
their fighting is pointless, but then they argue over who will pay the
bill, and the fighting starts all over again. Ernie makes a brief,
non-fighting appearance in "Meet the Quagmires", in which Peter
unwittingly assaults the giant chicken at an 80s dance, retroactively
providing Ernie with a grudge against Peter. Ernie the chicken appears
in the Star Wars parody episodes Something, Something, Something, Dark
Side and It's A Trap!, as the infamous bounty hunter Boba Fett.

Ernie was also mentioned in "New Kidney in Town". When Peter was
hospitalized due to kidney failure, Brian offered to give Peter his
kidney. In response to the family's shock, Dr. Hartman stated that this
transplant was not the only crazy thing that took place in medical
research, and said that he once attempted to clone a chicken. This
resulted in the original chicken to grow human-sized, violent, and
incredibly hostile. Peter paused at this, and stated "we need to have a
talk later."

Ernie appears in the video game as the final boss.

## Health

Despite being obese, a heavy drinker, and accident-prone, Peter
appears to be in great health. Periodically, in typical cartoon fashion,
 Peter is shown recovering quickly from serious injuries, such as losing
 all the fingers on his right hand while handling M-80 firecrackers. In
spite of the injury, he has no visible scarring on his hand. In some
episodes he displays enormous strength, such as when single handedly
challenging a professional football team in "Patriot Games". According to "The Father, the Son, and the Holy Fonz", Peter played high school football.

Peter asserts that he weighs 293lbs in "Vestigial Peter", the same as he did in grade school. In "Spies Reminiscent of Us", during Peter's "poop montage", he loses over 50 pounds; going from around 330 lbs to 270 lbs.

He underwent a vasectomy in "Sibling Rivalry".

Peter soils himself, prominently featured in "Death Lives" and "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein". After these accidents, he never seems to notice that it was a result of his own behavior.

Episodes like "Mr. Saturday Knight", "Model Misbehavior", "Deep Throats", "Peter's Two Dads" and "April in Quahog"
 show that Peter has used various drugs such as LSD, Meth, "ecstasy",
marijuana, steroids, cocaine, and crack cocaine, but has managed to
avoid incarceration and long-term effects from the use of these drugs.

In "McStroke",
 after eating thirty hamburgers in one sitting, Peter suffered a stroke
that paralyzed the left side of his body. For the next three months he
walked with a limp, his arm and leg hung lifelessly from his body, and
his eye and part of his mouth had slid down his face, giving him a
speech impediment. This damage was reversed completely after a five
minute session at a stem cell research facility.

In "The Fat Guy Strangler",
 Peter's mass causes him to have his own gravitational pull, shown when
Brian threw an apple, a glass of water, a book and a Television, which
immediately started to orbit his body.

In "I Take Thee Quagmire", it is revealed that Peter used to smoke. Peter also smokes during a modern-daycutaway gag break in "Back to the Pilot".

In "Not All Dogs Go To Heaven", Peter reveals as a child he was never immunized for the mumps.

In "New Kidney in Town",
 Peter suffers a kidney failure from a homemade energy drink. Brian
offers do donate his kidneys, which would kill him. Before the surgery,
Dr. Hartman offers to give up one of his kidneys, which he does and
reveals that Brian's kidneys could not of been transferred to Peter's
body.

## Intelligents

Peter is shown generally to be a complete idiot, such as being dumb enough in "Stew-Roids"
 to think that there can be a World War 5 before World Wars 3 and 4
because it would be so intense that it would "Skip right over the other
two.". In "Petarded",
 after winning a game of Trivial Pursuit which Lois rigged with
questions from the Pre-school edition so he could win, he thinks that he
 is a genius, and at Brian's prompting he takes an exam to apply for
the MacArthur Genius Grant, which he fails so awfully that he is found to be mentally retarded. In "Quagmire's Baby", Peter thinks that babies can be aborted whether they're born or not.

Peter has shown some sparks of being smarter than those around him, such as in "Back to the Woods"
 when James Woods returns to get revenge, Peter and Brian get rid of him
 exactly the same way they did the first time, using a box and trail of
candy, he makes a point that next time Woods shows up they should do
that in the beginning as he has already fallen for it twice.

Peter does have ideas he thinks are smart but often back fire, such as in "FOX-y Lady"
 when he got his new drivers license he decided to have the picture
taken when he was drunk, so if a cop pulled him over for DUI when he
looked at his license he would think he was just fine.

Also despite being married to Lois for 20 years, he was unable to realize she was in danger in "And Then There Were Fewer"
 despite her acting very odd. As well as was more interested in
listening to his songs than to pay any real attention. He also firmly
believed that Derek Wilcox was
 a god due to the fact the picture on his phone made him look as if he
was holding up the Hollywood sign, despite Derek clearing explaining to
him it was merely a camera trick.

## Main Weaponry

* Hand-held M134 Minigun "Petey" (M60 foregrip version)
* Serbu-shorty shotgun
* Desert Eagle Mark I